The Bill Martinez Show 02 12 26

0:00 Are you ready? Yeah, Okay, let's do it. Ill Martina's Live a program about current events, our culture, our values, our politics, and our future. And now Bill Martinez. Hey, six minutes after the top of they are right now, we've got Mike o'ne on, the assistant general counsel at Landmark Legal. Hey, Mike, good morning. How are you good. Bill? Good to be with you, always great. To be here. Let's pick up where we left off last week, and that is the Save Act. I mean it's right there. I mean it's it's really in uh, you know, Congress's prey view. I mean, they're the ones that have to make this happen. And it's it's the Republicans, not the Democrats.

0:45 You know, you got Chuck Schumer yelling and screaming, Oh Jim Crow two point zero, when you got an incredible majority of Americans. I don't care, black, white, pink, any color pick believe that you know, voter ID is essential. It is a key step to securing our free and fair elections. Right absolutely. I mean you put in so you eloquently stated all the issues there. How important this is. I think that let's start with the public support for this. This is save America Act. This sets a floor baseline measures from the federal government of common sense security measures to ensure the integrity of the vote. And it does three things. Mainly, Number one mandates that you show identification to vote. Overwhelmingly supported, as you just said, eighty four percent of Americans believe that you should show identification to vote.

1:36 Seventy one percent of Democrats think you should show identification to vote. Seventy four percent of African Americans believe you should show identification to vote. So that kind of undercuts the arguments from the Chuck Schumers of the world that this is somehow Jim Crow two point zero, which is absolute nonsense. Right, So we know that, and then oftentimes lawyers will get sophisticated on you and say something the extent, well, it's a constitutional right. You shouldn't have to show identification to exercise to your constitutional rights. Well, I reply to that as simple, Well, I have to show identification if I want to buy a firearm, right right, If I want to go buy if you're telling me I have to go buy a handgun right now in Virginia, I have to show identification. So okay, So we know that identification isn't necessarily a block to exercising your constitutional rights?

2:19 And are you trying to say that the Second Amendment is somehow more important than the right to vote. We're talking about constitutional rights here. So anybody who says to you, well, it's exercising your constitutional rights, simply come back with them and say, well, what about my Second Amendment rights? If I want to assert those, don't I have to show identification. So that's crap too. Next, the other argument that conservatives and Republicans will put out, and you hear this from the Lisa Murkowski's of the World where sometimes you heard it a little bit from Chuck Grassley Mike Pence. Chuck Grassley kind of backed off this position, but Mike Pence still has wet into it. Apparently that these sorts of laws from Congress will nationalize elections. Well, that's not true at all. This isn't like HR one, the John Lewis Act, which was proposed under the Biden administration, which really would elections right a broad purview of it.

3:03 Right, this again, this sets a floor. Right, this sets a floor for common sense measures to ensure election integrity. Again, identification to vote, establish that you're a citizenship citizen when you register and then obligate state officials to remove non citizens from their royal rules. Yeah, pretty good. How does how does that nationalize elections? Exactly? When you when you basically what you're doing. I mean, look at we have the Constitution that says, here's the rules of play, right right, Okay, this is and to me, the Save Act is a clarification. I mean it's it's an addendum and not so much an addendum, but a clarification of Okay, here's here's the rules of play. I mean that's like all of a sudden, you're going to go and play the Super Bowl and say one team is going to go. Well, you know, I just I think having four downs is a little inconvenient. I'm going to choose five.

3:55 Yeah. And there's there's a there's a conservative constitutional argument in favor of this, as we talked about last week on your on the show. There's the provision, the provision that sets that empower states to set time, place, and manner for regulating elections. All you have to do is continue on in that exact clause in the Constitution, and it carves out a role for Congress to play to come in and talk about this, and I did a little after talking to you last week. We did a little digger deeping into into that provision of the Constitution. And you see in the in the federalist papers, Alexander Hamilton, no less an authority than Alexander Hamilton talks about this and warrants of the problems of vesting all of this power solely with the states, and it says states who want to do this? And you can look.

4:36 Across and it's kind of prophetic because you look at what happens in California or what's happening in other states, and you see that when a state removes all reasonable protections, it becomes tyrannical. It becomes a party state with no opposition and no effective opposition, and you have the you have the majority or whatever I shouldn't say majority, the party in power that's conceding that there's a majority in California, but the party in power making it a super majority, one party state that can impose all kinds of tyrannical measures on the minority. And that's what's happened in California. And Hamilton and our framers warned about this and understood this that's why they had an outlet, and they're so great. What's amazing with our constitution is there's always a release valve.

5:18 Right you say, well, okay, here's our set, and it's all the context of separation of powers. States do not have sole authority to regulate time, place, and manner of the elections. Congress has a role to do this, and this is exercising that constitutional role for Congress to address exactly what the Framers warned us against, the tyranny of the majorities. So people who are on our side quote unquote our side, I don't understand this because they're consigning there, they're they're undermining any future of a Republican party because if these measures don't go in in place, you're going to have it's just a migration into California of the rest of the country. Of course, they're ignoring the empirical evidence of what happened in twenty two twenty yep, right, I mean, I mean it's got come on, really, I mean because even California, I mean, they discovered what over three million bogus names on the rolls, and they went and adjudicated it, and they could only convince them to remove fifteen what one point five million of the three million, and even then there's no verification that in fact they did that.

6:25 Yeah, exactly exactly. And what this is an interesting nugget that I don't think a lot of people talk about about the citizenship verification and why it's important to really from from a perspective of individuals who are who are not citizens, who might be on If you're not a citizen and your name is on a voter list, that's you don't want that. From your perspective, say this, say Micha O'Neil's not a citizen and I'm a resident of Virginia, or I'm a resident, Let's let's hypothetical, Like, let's hypothesize I'm in California. So I live in California, I'm not a citizen. I got my driver's license, I didn't check the box to say that I'm not a citizen. So I automatically registered to vote. So my name is on the voter rolls. Well, in California, every single name on the voter rules gets a mail bout, whether you ask for it or not. So I go down to my mailbox one day and there's my mail ball.

7:09 Keep in mind I'm not a citizen, right, and I have my mail bollot. I said, well, they sent me a mail ballot. Well, they obviously know that, you know, somebody knows that I can vote. They wouldn't have sent me a mail ballot if I can't vote. So I fill out that mail ballot. I vote because I'm just a normal person. I don't know all the nuances of the law and everything. I just figure I get something in the mail as the ballot. They wouldn't have sent it to me if it wasn't legal. I fill it out, drop it in the mailbox. Guess what, I just committed a felony, so I don't and now I faced criminal exposure and prosecution. I don't know why the left doesn't want to protect non citizens in this country who might be inadvertently named on the voter rolls so that they don't cast ballots and expose themselves to criminal liability. This is this is beyond crazy.

7:50 So that hypothetical I just played out to you, I can't say definitively right, But is it too much of a stretch to think that that happens in California? I certainly don't want. Well say what I'll tell you what happens in California is that the Democrats they have the addresses of all these illegal immigrants who received ballots. So then they knock, knock, knock on the door and say, hey, did you get a We know you got a ballot. Yeah, but I'm not a citizen. I'm not supposed to. Don't worry. We'll take that ballot for you and we'll take care of it for you. Don't worry. So but there's no there's no culpability for these uh, these ballot harvesters.

8:31 Mike right, absolutely, And that's that's that's the next step here. And I think I think what we saw with the Boss decision earlier this year from the Supreme Court is that is excuse me, is that candidates now have standing. Remember we talked about the notion of standing and how hard it is to establish the legal doctor of standing in order to challenge a lot of these laws. From an elections perspective. But with this Supreme Court decision in Boss versus State of Illinois Board of Elections, you see now that if you're a candidate in one of these states. Again, I look forward to this and hopefully this is going to We're going to see this on the horizon. Is candidates now start to challenge those sorts of laws and again laws that allow battle harvesting because it undermines the fundamental fairness of the electoral process.

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14:12 Nutrition for Patriots. Hey, we're back with your Bill Martinez here with Lendmark Legals, Mike O'Neill. Mike. As we were talking about, as we continue to focus on the say back, this is so critical that this get passed before before the midterms, and this is why the Democrats, because it really brings legitimacy back to the process, doesn't it. Yeah, it begins, Yeah, it puts us on the road to legitimacy. I mean, there's a long way to go with ensuring the faith in the electoral system. I think this is another one that really important. You touch on a really important point there, Bill, is that a large portion of Americans have lost faith in the integrity of the system. Right, you know, your listeners, folks on our folks who support president the magabase, if you will, really doesn't have a lot of faith in the electoral system. And even this is actually kind of interesting. I said this in an editorial is twenty sixteen. The Democrats, it was one of their main talking points that Russian interference led to, you know, the election of Donald Trump, so purportedly they didn't have faith in the outcome. Hillary Clinton didn't have faith in the outcome of the electoral system in twenty sixteen. So you know, nobody has a monopoly in loss of faith in the electoral system. So we see that on both sides of the line.

15:27 But you bring up with let me, you bring up a great point here. See the Democrats and Hillary Clinton and everything, I mean, are intelligence industrial complex. Barack Obama, president of the United States, really dumped into the body politic, this doubt of legitimate elections. You're exactly right, and I'm glad you brought that out. And it's like here, they create this mess, and who's been trying to clean it up ever since? The onus has been more on the Republicans and the Democrats just used it as a talking. Point exactly and so and. Fundraising, I should say, so. What I lament loss of faith in our institutions. We lose faith when we see this two tiered system of criminal justice when we see you know, people getting off clearly because of wealth or influence or power or race or whatever. You see people getting off from crimes they probably have committed. So we've lost the past ten twenty years, we've seen a loss of faith in our criminal justice system.

16:25 We've also seen the loss of faith in our electoral system. Well, it's a very dangerous thing when a portion, a dispositive portion of the American populace loses faith in the electoral system, because then they lose the belief that they can effectuate necessary change via the ballot box. And it really matters, right if I'm mad about the direction of my county or my neighborhood, or my state or my country. I can go in and I can vote for the guy who's going to do the change that I wanted to vote. And if I lose far and square, okay, that's an American tradition. I thought the good fight. I lost far and square. But if I feel like the system is rigged against me and I lose faith in the validity of my vote, I get frustrated and I say, well, there's no point voting anymore. So guess what that's really dangerous because the radical elements in our country are then emboldened to say, well, it doesn't matter. You can't change anything, So you have to do things that we'd rather not talk about. To effectuate these sorts of change, it begins to germinate and take hold and take root, and then violence and awful things come about. So we need to as a country, and I think this is why you see such support for it, eighty four percent of it.

17:34 We need to begin to restore faith in the electoral system if we are to thrive as a nation going forward and until we be and this is a necessary first step to begin to restore that faith. When you have a supermajority, I would say that supports this why can't Why doesn't Senator Thune, the leader of the Senate, you know, you say, look at we've got to get the past, regardless Philibuster, whatever it takes, we've got to do this. But he just is reluctant to go along with this. And I mean it's almost like here we are. I mean, the Republicans can get right up there, just like in coming up with some solutions for Obamacare, for example, they get right to the point of victory and they go, Nope, we just can't. We can't do it. But yet, if the tables were turned and it was the Democrats, Katie bar the door.

18:29 Yeah, a couple of things that I gave immense respect to the ability of the Democrats in the left to organize and effectuate their agenda. I mean, they don't waste any time. They got locks. They're in lockstep, falling behind. You're not gonna have well, maybe you off Fedterman, maybe Fetterman and maybe the other senator from Pennsylvania would break ranks on it. But those are certainly the exceptions. Back to your original point on Senate Republicans, I just I have no idea if I cannot I listened to the Senate majority leaders speak and quivocate and say that there's other important things that they need to do that they have a lot of on their agenda, and there's a lot in there, a lot on their plate. And he throws out all these other ideas, and I said, look, you have to first start with the basics here. How often are you throwing a softball over the middle of the plate. Eighty four percent of the population agrees with something and.

19:18 You can't do it. What is the point of you occupying the space in the Senate if you can't follow the will of eighty four percent of the American populace and do this. And by the way, it's smart politics. Your base is going to support you for it. I don't see, I mean, other than just uniparty swamp crap. It just it just drives me absolutely insane. Bill, how they can't get their act together up there to get this on the ballot, get this on the docket, and get a vote asap. And again here, well we're nervous about the filibuster. And I say, okay, well, just Mike Lee has a solution to this. We'll just just invokee the traditional filibuster, make make Dick Durban, make Chuck Schumer, make the opponents get in the well of the Senate and pontificate about why they disagree with something that eighty four percent of the American people agree with. Go ahead, good luck, see how that how far that gets you?

20:04 Politically? It's a win on every level. And yet these fools up there don't see it well. And the thing is amazing is how many show votes do they have? Right, They have show votes routinely so that they can, you know, demonstrate to the constituents where these people stand. Well, if you've got to do the zombie you know, filibuster, and you you you're going to be like Spartacus and go have your your hours of time, well, then yes, go ahead and justify you know why you support a ten percent issue that ninety percent of the country is for. Right Absolutely, It's just it checks all the boxes. It's a win on so many different levels. It's constitutional, it's conservative, it makes sense politically, the American people agree with it.

20:46 I just don't see any downsides of this. And again it's just it's it's it's beyond the pale. How how this how we've had to go over the hoops were jumping through. This should have been done six eight months, ten a year. I don't understand this should who I was saying a year ago, this should be Agenda one, item one on the on Congress when they when they took when they came into session last year. And yep, here we. Are, uh, you know, February, middle of February twenty twenty six months away from a midterm and that we're still talking about it. But right exactly, we're going to get to a head in a climax on this and we'll see some sort of vote in the next week or so. Well, Michael, you know the left is saying that, you know, the Save Act with disenfranchise millions of citizens. How how would that? How is that the case? I mean to me, that's just, uh, you know, it's hyperbolic. There's no substance.

21:37 There's really no substance to support that headline that I'm aware of. Yeah, let me. They love the disenfranchisement. And what they'll do is that they're their tactic is this is the same and it's repeated over and over again. It's find the one sympathetic victim who's adversely affected by any given regulation or law, make them the face of it and say that this is happening everywhere and it's inify it over and over again. So I think that all you have to do is ensure that states have provisions that Okay, I haven't sufficiently established my my citizenship. Okay, you cast a provisional ballot, then go and establish your citizenship, and then your ballance count it. It's just there's so many there's so many ways you can do to ensure that there's no disenfranchisement that happens here.

22:22 And I understand. I guess if you're gonna scream in yell that this is gonna invote widespread disenfranchisement, well, there's safeguards that you can that states. The states are good enough to do this. Provisional balloting is an example of something. So when we're talking something that maybe is like a one or two percent issue, right, if. That absolutely yeah, and that's what they'll say, they'll say, you have to protect the rights of the dozens to you know, in other words, the dozens out of millions, Yeah, to invalidate whatever law. And so you're you're gonna they'll do this. They'll I mean, when the lawsuits are coming in the lawsuit will be filed the second the minute this law is and acted, if it's ever acted, they will toout out all of these sob stories of all these individuals who are going to be disenfranchised if this laws, and if this law is applied to the states, and that you know such and such person can't get an ID because they're home bound and they they're ninety six years old, and blah blah blah, it'll be this, It'll be this unending sob story. And yet I guarantee you, because you see this over and over again in these litigations that states bend over backwards to ensure people aren't disenfranchised. They give them every opportunity, They allow them to have persisional balots.

23:28 They will say, here are identification, Here are procedures to attend and identification. Here are procedures to attain your citizenship. States will bend over backwards to ensure that people are not disenfranchised. But of course it won't be enough for the left. But I am relatively confident that this would survive scrutiny at the Supreme Court. The law is its courieration. Well, that's good to hear, because the thing is that happens is in their attempt to block any kind of disenfranchisement in a way, they end up invalidating the legitimate vote right exactly. And it is funny and I always use this, And you know, devaluing, as you said, legitimate votes. If you have a thousand illegitimate votes cast in a pool of one hundred thousand, you have a one percent, you know you've devalued those votes, those legitimately cast votes by by a one percent, So you're disenfranchising the legitimate voters.

24:18 Right well, to be continued. I appreciate you, Thank you so much. He's the General Council Assistant General counsel of Landmark Legal. Mike O'Neil. Thank you, Mike, take care, gots me. He'll see next. You got it. You're still grooving, still connecting, still loving, still turning up, still thriving. You still got it. But your immune system it weakens as you age. That's where vaccines come in. They help train and strengthen your immune response to fight off respiratory illnesses like blue neumococo, pneumonia, RSB, or COVID nineteen. Ask your doctor, a pharmacist which vaccines you need. Book in minutes at vaxissist dot com sponsored by Visor.

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27:04 Hey, welcome back Bill Martinez here. Good to have you with us. We've got Dennis Neil back with us. He's the best selling author, acclaimed journalist, the author of Forthcoming ore Gonners. Previously anchored at CNBC and Fox Business, after senior roles at the Wall Street Journal and Forbes. And now he's here in the free country of Florida, and we welcome you, Dennis Neil. How you been. It's great to see you, Bill. And I'm here now two weeks having just moved down from forty three years in Brooklyn back to South Florida, where I started my career and where I grew up, you know. And I left New York and Mom, Donnie, so I can come down here and help take care of mom. Yeah, and will be good, You're.

27:44 Told this month eight minutes from her. Oh very cool. Well, good for you being a good son and all. And that's it. Well, prayers and hugs to mom. Okay, yeah, there you go. You got it. Well, let me ask you the Blue States, thinking of New York of course your book or Gunners, it seems like the Blue States are they starting to sing the blues? You know. I don't think the Blue States. They're like an addict that hasn't hit bottom yet and they can't fix what ails them until they really go all the way to the bottom. But in Portland, which is why I'm working on this next book, they are the Canary and the coal mine for what's happening to blue cities.

28:25 Although Mom Donnie comes in there, and I'll. Tell you Bill, he sure is working hard to put New York City out in front of even Portland in terms of how bad it's gonna get. I cannot believe what this guy is doing, just in the opening days exactly softly. He could have. Taken it easy, and instead he's made it worse. He's accelerated it. He's now bearing his claws and showing everyone what he really wants. Right, totally do a lot of what he really wants. And it's like you said, it's it's interesting, you know what's going on here, and you know the people must be just absolutely as you described them, addicts, because what did they expect to happen with Mom Donnie, look at look at what's going on in Virginia. The same thing with Spamberger. Right, she paraded around as a moderate and she comes in and all of a sudden it's like, oh, I mean, the whole Uni party pandemic has gone to her head.

29:23 In Seattle. You know they're out there and there's a gap. I've learned in Oregon and a lot of people have told me about it. There there's a gap between how the people really feel and they're elected leaders. Where in Oregon they've had a super majority Democrat for ten years, they've had mainly Democratic majority for twenty years. They elected the Republican governor was I think nineteen eighty two. Or something like that. And when you have a UNI party and Sivich domination that you don't need any Republican vote at all. And then the unions, the SEIU, the organ Education Association, teacher. Union ask for me and they have a grip on state government there like you wouldn't believe. I've been shocked by it.

30:07 And suddenly you have no feedback loop from even your own to try to fix what fails, and instead the only thing that counts is do you keep getting re elected? Yes? And then there's no accountability. And this is a place that is failing utterly. But there's hope. Now there's an uprising. Well we'll see, I mean, who knows, maybe Oregon will be the next Iran. What do you think? I mean, you know, I'm hoping that people will wake up. They just had a big shocker. You know, the government calls a special legislation session. We need to pass this emergency Department of Transportation bill. Otherwise we're not going to be clearing the roads and highways in winter where we're going to have to lay off.

30:51 Five hundred people. It's an emergency. And they pass that thing, and then suddenly opponents raised not the seventy eight thousand signatures required, challenge it on the ballot. They weighed two hundred and fifty thousand signatures. And it's going to show up on the same November election with the reelection of Governor co Tech Tina herself who pushed this thing through. This tax, that's two hundred and fifty people one thousand people resent, and so she then pulls a quick one, never mind the emergency law, let's repeal it. Calls for the legislature to repeal it because this might take it off the ballot and therefore my name, Tina Kotik won't show up right next to this hated tax, and I won't lose votes. And yet now they've been told legally that no, even if you do that, the voters want to vote on this, and this is coming up and they're going to vote. That'll bring up people who don't usually bother to vote because they hate this tax and they're going to vote.

31:44 For Tina when they're doing that, no way, So she's a danger. Right exactly. Well, you know, like you said, maybe there's hope there, Dennis, And we'll have to see how this plays out. I mean in California. I was born in in California, and I still have children and grandchildren in California, so I still keep an eye on the craziness that Newsom in the uniparty state of California and how they've destroyed the Golden State there. It's just unbelievable. But you know, here Newsom has been able to dodge a recall of his own and you know, and he just keeps on doing all these goofy things. Meanwhile, he's kind of Mia and he's so interested in running for president that he's abandoning his own state.

32:28 And what happened to the rebuilding of the Palisades, Oh my god. Or they would be accelerating permits, letting people rebuild, and instead they just want to put public housing there. And they're just screwing the people again and again. And the one thing that's missing from twenty years ago, I think is an independent watchdog press media showing the failures, and they're not doing that because they're so anti Trump. They're so afraid that if you report on the problems in Portland, the problems in other cities in Ore, you know, Eugene and Bend, they have addiction problems at homeless problems very similar to those of Portland. And you know, there just isn't a recognition there yet in the media and among the leadership that hey, we're in trouble right among the people. A recent poll taken by this group Save Our City show that sixty seven percent of voters say we're headed in the quote seriously wrong direction economically.

33:28 So people are getting. Fed up, you know, And will they push back, and will they push back in other places New York I mean, okay, first of all, let's just admit it. I think New York is so big that nothing can destroy New York City. Okay, you can just at the very extremes, make it worse or make it better. You can be arrows up or arrows down. He's gonna make it arrows down. It's already gonna happen. Well, And companies, businesses, and investment are going to flee to elsewhere and Steve has this great column on foxnews dot com my former boss, you know, I worked in Forbest for almost a decade, talking about how Mamdanie is already just blowing it terribly and assaulting business.

34:12 They held a press conference to claim. Falsely that businesses like Uber Eats and door dash had diverted half a billion dollars from earners because they raised the wage to twenty one dollars an hour. That's one of the highest of the nations, and now they want to take it. He sent this campaign thirty and the other day he said thirty five dollars an hour, which, of course what the business does to adapt is, oh, let's change the pay to make it most very little on that and mostly tips that aren't taxed by these guys at that. And so they're claiming that this diversion into tips diverted half a billion dollars when actually those people, those delivery guys, they earned one point two billion dollars last year in tips. Okay, so shut up about it.

34:59 It's just that you want to tax delivery people. I mean, they were supposed to be the you know, the masses. You're going to tax only the rich. But it's never only the rich. And now he's also assaulting my favorite network, Newsmax. I'm on Newsmax three times a week or so, and he doesn't want them playing the taxis what are you afraid of? Mom, Dannie? You kindie? I mean, how about you air on the side of more free speech and more sources of information rather than fewer and shutting down Newsmax's you know, I get. And the guy he's operating with impunity. He hires a black woman advisor who hates white people. He hires a guy who used to rob taxi drivers and serve time in prison as a justice advisor. He just he doesn't fear any kind of pushback, any kind of media backlash, so he's just out there showing his real self.

35:59 Thank you for doing that. Zor right right? Well, yeah, well, like you said, there's no accountability, and uh, you know, the media is all in for everything that has to do with the left and anything that has to do with with anti Trump movement, right. And you know what, that's the thing, Bill, isn't it. It's not that they the media suddenly are communists or socialist and yeah, it's just anything anti Trump, anything against Trump, anyone that sides against Trump take that side and it makes it ends up making them in the Democrat leadership look kind of knee jerk and rather stupid. I mean Trump doesn't. He keep forcing them almost into opposing incredibly rational principles and stances. Trump wants to deport violent criminal illegal aliens. Were against it. Trump wants to support Abrego Garcia.

36:51 He's a Maryland dad. We don't want that right exactly. We got to go to quick break. We got to go to a quick break. We'll pick it up on the other side. More from Dennis after this stay with us. Why do I go to the doctor? Working on the farm, my heart kept skipping a beat. I didn't think much of it, but my daughters made me get checked out. Turns out I have atrial fibrillation, which increases the risk of stroke about five times. Symptoms like a regular heartbeat, heart racing, chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, or light headedness can come and go, but if it's a FIB, the risk of stroke remains. If you have symptoms, contact a doctor. I'm so glad I did visit No Time to Wait dot com sponsored by Bristol Myers, Squib and Pfizer. Do you owe the IRS ten thousand dollars or more in back taxes? Are you being audited or investigated? Has the IRS sent you a letter demanding payment? You may not owe what they claim. Make this free call to the tax doctor now let them negotiate with the IRS on your behalf.

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41:03 Hey, welcome back right now, bout fourteen minutes before the top of the hour. Bill Martinez s Dennis Steel, he's with us, the best selling author, acclaimed journalist. Also, you know he owns his own show with three times a week on news Max. HM. Well they just just going on as a guest. Yeah, oh you going as a guest? Okay, yeah, yeah, well. Well good for you. That's great. And also his forthcoming book, Ori Ganners is now. You can pre order it right. No, it's not out there yet because I haven't finished writing it yet. But oh yeah, later this year, I swear it. I mean, it's all the news. News is breaking there every day. My Trump in the fall, all hell broke with how dare he want to send two hundred National Guard troops to the Ice Sight that's been under siege by a couple dozen Antifa folks late at night every night for over one hundred nights. The governor came out against it, The Mayor of Portland is against it.

41:56 The entire Congressional delegation, both US senators. This is terrible. Well now look it's months later. Court stopped him from doing it. He hasn't been able to get him in there, and the place still is under siege once again, and they've had violent outbreaks there only in the past week or two after these shootings. I mean, there was a. Shooting in Portland involving two gang members of the Venezuelan Trendia Ragua gang Okay by Border Patrol, which is not a part of ICE at all, and they rioted at ICE. I mean, it's just so crazy, and the local police most times are told to stand down and do nothing about it. They can clear them out when they want to, they did the night before it appeals court hearing on Trump's order some months ago, and yet they've let them come right back up. They're in geos that receive tens of millions of dollars in government money, that have rented space near the ICE site where Antifa protesters, some of whom are on m GEO payroll, I'm told exactly, or their stuff, their shields and they're you know, I mean, they use lasers trying to shine in the eyes of helicopter pilots that land at the Ice Building, they you know, assault conservative journalists and anyone who's an anti protester. I mean, it's awful that they've been allowed to set up camp there and haven't been basically wiped out and told get out of here.

43:26 Well, you know, Trump is pretty much setting this up in such a way to where you know, he's got to start, you know, holding back on federal funds on some of these cities that I mean are illegal on the face Denis, I mean, I don't know. I look in the Constitution. I've looked at it many times. I don't find sanctuary cities in the constitution, do you. No, I don't. In Oregon was apparently the first state in the nation to go with sanctuary state, and Portland one of the first cities in the country to do it, and they brought in a lot of illegals. Twenty twenty, they were whipsawed by the George Floyd riots. More that I think it's more than one hundred nights in a row.

44:06 Okay, people upset about the killing of a black thug who died in police custody two thousand miles or something away in this state. That's two point five percent black organ is. It's one of the whitest states in the country, and it's all these white people protesting the death of this you know, convicted felon who was not a good guy. I mean, it was just bizarre. And then they you know, they burned, you know, dozens of buildings and cossed millions and millions of damage and they're still. Recovery across the across the country estimated four billion dollars in damage. Dennis, right, And I mean there hasn't been a reckoning, except you know, the reelection of Donald Trump has forced some sort of a reckoning. And you know when you see in Minneapolis, you know, billing goes from a million dollars to one hundred million in a year by a particular program, you know that's fraud instantly exactly.

45:04 Well, and look at Palate, I mean it's almost palace to cash that's going through the airport there right right, and even TSA is going Hey, we've reported millions of dollars going through and nobody ever said a word about it, no one ever protested and pushed back, not even the freaking Republican Party, because all of the feet at the same trough some of the money round trips into the campaigns of those very same people who approved it. And only Donald Trump and Elon Musk with Doge began to raise some of these questions at all, so that a twenty three year old citizen journalist named Nick Shirley could go into Mindieapolis and turn the world upside down just by visiting a few bogus childcare centers and knocking on empty doors. That enough to suddenly set fire one hundred million views on x while the mainstream media utterly ignored it.

45:57 Well, and don't you think that because of that exposure that is adding fuel to the fire to distract from it with the attack on ice. That's such a good connector that I haven't talked about or haven't thought of until. It's mentioned to me. But I shall steal that bill and use it in my next interview. Yeah, I think you're absolutely right about that. And where I mean, are there really that many thousands of people in Minneapolis and some zero degree cold temperatures who are that upset about criminal, illegal aliens they don't even know getting rounded up that they're going to march in winter. They're going to march out there at night.

46:41 I'm telling you, man, someone's paying them. Well, of course they are. The signs, the equipment that they have with them. I mean, it's not like they're going to a local target or you know, a sports outlet to you know, pick up some gas masks and you know, I mean they have some good clients. Now they're funded and they're organized and organestrated. We still don't know that, haven't gotten to the real bottom of it. And you know, I guess you. You can't investigate a government criminally if there are no criminal allegations of criminal activity. You'd have to build a reco case to show that this does amount to criminal activity. If these people are committing violence and it's actually organized and encouraged and compensated. Uh, you know, but that takes a while, and so.

47:27 It didn't take them a lot. It didn't take them a long time. On January the sixth, right, right. They went after that like crazy. I mean, just imbalance and injustice, I mean. And one reason that it's able to happen is because the media have kind of abandoned their watchdog role, would become Democrat lap dogs. When you got ninety six Trump. According to MRC Dannis ninety six percent of what the mainstream media is reporting on Trump is purposely. I mean it has to be purposely. Now it's ninety six percent. And here's my worry, Bill America doesn't know what's really happening in the economy right now. The fact is this is extraordinary. What's going on. Twenty twenty six is going to be a great year. It's going to clinch the title of the Roaring twenties for this decade. Okay, you have just amazing things happening. Literally trillions of dollars in new investment coming to our country. Okay, You've got you know, GDP growth in the fourth quarter over five percent, exactly four percent or so in the third quarter on top of I think it's three percent and all of that. Understand, our economy is luck You go two percent two and a half percent over the last ten to twenty years overall.

48:42 On average, I think. And so that's just incredible. You've got three hundred billion plus a year coming in in a terriff yea. And those legally reportsmen saying that's been you know, going into prices being paid by US companies. Well, okay, but the liberal cybe is complaining that youse companies aren't paying enough tax, so they're willing to pay the tax and it's coming in. It will help reduce the annual overspend the deficit. Can't we be happy about that? Usually you'd be happy for that, but they just aren't telling the story. Now. One good thing is gas. I just drove six seven states doff from New York City down to South Florida, and gas was down at two point fifty two forty two thirty two dollars.

49:22 And eleven cents a gallon all the way down. It's a three point fifty here. But you know, that is a pulse point that people feel instantly, and that money is instantly freed up because you have to spend on gas to get to work, and so it instantly frees up money to do better things and more fun things with. Okay, eggs. Prices have dropped really sharply. Okay, that's good. The overall problem, though, is prices don't usually go back down after they go up. Their rate of rise from there might go down. That's what's happening. Was going at nine percent in a peek under Biden announced you know, two point three percent. But it's on top of this high high price, and so you know, the only we have a real deflation is when you know, an economic collapse, and it would be nice to go avoid that if we could, right, But look, stock markets in your all time highs, the deficits down, The trade deficits, how much more we buy from other countries versus them buying for us is way down. I mean, good things are happening on a big high level and on a micro level. These new Trump accounts where you're.

50:24 That awesome, I think it's great. I think combined, I tell you what, the new Trump accounts thousand dollars for newborns and this cold weather, we're going to have a second baby boom generation. Well you know what that's Elon Musk would would like that so much because and Oregon has this problem there. They've got more deaths than births, and their in migration is going down because taxes are so high there. So and yet your economy cannot grow, business cannot grow if the population is declining, exactly, and that's why Muscus fathered fourteen children accounting. Yes, yeah, well I'm not going to go there, but yes, good for him. And you know, we'll see if any of the children qualify for that thousand dollars you know Trump Investment Fund.

51:12 Right, Yes, Well, the great thing is you start something like that with government. Four kids born between starting on July fourth, twenty twenty six are susquin tint, susquine continue whatever that word is, two hundred and fiftieth year. Also, then then comes Michael Dell of Dell Computer, like I'm actually Facebook friends with, although it's not like we talk, but he comes in and he says, look, I'm gonna give like this six hundred dollars or something to every kid already born up to ten years old, and you can match that and have your employer match that. Well, then there's some other big companies said, yeah, what he said, We're going to do that. So it spreads, and it is the entire conversation from the woman did the kids just aren't going to have as much of a future Now, nobody's saving, they're destroying, you know, blah blah blah. Only twenty five percent of Americans believe that my kids can have a better life than I have. That is bulld Instead build, and it changes the conversation to building wealth and compounding of interest and the stock market, right, now I think it's thirty eight percent of the country is not in the stock market at all. This gives a mistake in something if you're.

52:22 Shouted down, Oh no, it's going to be it's going to be huge. And the thing is is that maybe we can get beyond the perception and get to reality, because no matter what, you're going to have the naysayers and the people who are pessimistic about everything. As Donald Trump said, I could cure cancer and people would complain, you know, and the Democrats would sit down and not applaud. So you know, they continue to stay in there, uh right, And they're fixed, you know, they're fixed silos. But you know, God bless them, you know. But for the rest of us, Dennis, that have ice to see, we're going to celebrate the golden age of America and we're going to be able to tell our grandchildren we were here when when it all be right. It's going to be fascinating to watch the media and the Democrat Party as Trump is celebrating America and our two hundred and fiftieth year together, and how they're going to have to be rooting for America but be refusing to support a man that they have vilified as a Nazi, a racist, a sexist, a xenophobe for fifteen years, is it or ten years?

53:29 Ten years at least? Yeah, how are they. Going to walk that line? And shame on all of you. It's time to get on the side of America and be happy for President Trump. If he can help make us a success. Well maybe we'll just maybe we'll just go buy him a ticket to see Millennia. Okay, to see the movie. Now, you see the coverage of thatnatomy every liberal outlet, you know, Vanity Fair and the Atlantic Method. And they just trash the thing. And meanwhile it has one of the biggest openings for a documentary film in ten years or something that's terrific. Well, you know, it's the Trump effect, no doubt about it. Dennis Neil, best selling author, acclaimed journalist, author of the forthcoming Ora Gonners. He promises it's going to be out, so stay tuned for more details. Dennis is always appreciate the time, take care of my friend.

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56:51 Bill. It has been way too long and I'm thrilled to be with you today. Well, a lot to catch up on, of course. The big focus right now is Iran. Let's break it down I mean, we could probably spend days breaking that down because of what's going on. I mean, what I have been saying general is that on the strains of Iran right now, it's like they're experiencing their Patrick Henry moment. You know, give me, give me liberty, or give me death. I mean, the thousands of people that are dying at the hands of the regime, the IATOLA and the IRGC is incomprehensible. Bill, You're right, and I think we're striking a milestone in those protests next week because the primary onslaught against those protesters happened on the seventh and the eighth of January, and there's a forty day morning period that ends next week, and I think all of that surge of energy that's died down for the last couple of weeks is going to bubble back up. And I really hope that we have both the capability and the will to support those protesters and see that Patrick Henry moment come to fruition in Iran.

57:59 Well, what's your assessment with Navy ships moving into the region. Bill, We have had now almost a month since the President said that help is on the way to reposture our forces in the Middle East, and I firmly believe that now we have the offensive capability that we need, and we've rayed our defensive capability alongside of our allies and partners, so that we are now fully ready in a way that we were not when those protests were surging back in the beginning of January. And I now think, based on the meeting with the President and Prime Minister Netanyahu today, that they're not just talking strategy, but they're talking operational details about how we're going to work together to finally strike an end to Iran.

58:46 You know, general, many Americans are bewildered because they said, we thought we really newtered Iran with what we did with the B two's and taking out their nuclear ambitions. But to hear the Ayatola and the spokespeople of irantag so of course you'd expect them to do. So they're beating their chests and act like there's still all that in a bag of chips. You're right, and I don't think they have anything more than words to make themselves feel strong, and they're just hoping to deter the United States from taking actions that may be decisive against the regime. They don't have a nuclear program anymore. That was taken care of by seven B twos in June turned to rubble a half a trillion dollars of Iranian investment. But they still do have about a thousand ballistic missiles that they could strike against targets around the Middle East, and they do have a waning proxy network that.

59:37 Could do harm to people in the Middle East as well. But they're not very strong and they don't have air defenses, which means they're basically a target gallery if we make the decision to attack, and I hope that we will and support of the protesters next week. Well, speaking of their proxies, they seem to be noticeably quiet. Either they're gearing up for something or they're quiet because they don't have the support because Iran's run out of money, haven't. They they have And I think all of those proxies Hamas has Belah, the who Thi's, the Shia militia groups in Iraq, I think what they saw in June during the Twelve day war totally destroyed their trust and confidence and their. Sponsor in Iran.

1:00:18 Iran doesn't have the money to support them, but they don't have what is a Middle Eastern term the wata or the strength to support them. And so I think they're on their own and they're not going to make any move to support Iran because they didn't back in June, and now Iran is noticeably weaker than they were even seven months ago. You know, general, it seems like we're dealing with a basic common sense principle here. When law in order comes to town, the criminals go quiet. You know, you look at what happened in New York when you had six hundred plain closed officers go in New York, all of a sudden, the guns went back into the apartments and in the Chester drawers, you take the playing close officers off of the fill to play, and all of a sudden they come out and they're shooting up the city. Right, I mean, it just seems to be a common sensical kind of experience here. Am I wrong?

1:01:13 No, you're right. And that word that we use a lot de terrence, or stopping your adversary from doing the things you don't want them to do. It applies in international affairs, it applies in police work, and it applies as being a parent that you deter when your adversary or your opponent believes you have both strength of capability to stop them and strength of will to stop them. And I believe Iran and a lot of others see our strength of capability and will, and I no doubt believe that they are nervous about what may come in the near future against them. Well, I mean time in again, I mean, this is the difference a president and a proactive president can make on the international scene. And what Donald Trump's been able to affect here in a little over a year, It's just been absolutely incredible. What we got eight eight countries that were at war and now at peace. The abraham of Courts could be revived again if Iran or I shouldn't even say if. I think it's a matter of when Iran, you know, converts. I mean, because they've got an organic movement John that are you know there? You know their mantra is they want to advance a non nuclear, secular and democratic republic in Iran. Who doesn't want that?

1:02:33 No, we certainly do. And we the people in the Middle East and the people of Iran have faced the Iatola and their regime for the last forty seven years and it has ruined Iran. That is a country that should be a member of the G twenty and is now in shambles. And you're right about President Trump. But here's something that's important, Bill, that he made those commitments to the protesters now about five weeks ago, and his the president's credibility is on the line, and if he doesn't follow through, then all of those things that he's done in the last year could fall apart without credibility, which is another reason why I firmly believe that he's going to take decisive action in the next week or so.

1:03:15 Right, I would agree with you and your assessment here, because he doesn't believe in an Obama red line, does he? No? I mean if you don't enforce, if you don't enforce it, then there is none and there will never be one in the future. Your credibility is always on the line in international affairs, and you've got to back up your word. And right now the President needs to back up his word. And I think this is part of the challenge in the West that we don't understand the psychology of the Middle East. You know, they know force, that's what they've been raced with, right, They're compelled to do things. They don't necessarily do things in their best interest, even though Donald Trump is offering them, you know, the carrots and sticks option and saying, hey, could you imagine a peaceful country here that's not warring and as you lie, using their citizens for good and not for evil.

1:04:04 You're right, and rogue regimes respect one thing, and that is strength, strength of capability. And will I was the nation senior defense official to a rock during the changeover from the Biden sorry to the Trump to the Biden administration. Trump won to Biden and the Iranian aligned groups there were salivating at the idea of American weakness under Biden. They saw it for those four years. But they do respect strength, and we need to continue to display and demonstrate in tangible ways strength to keep them at day, but also all of those other regime, rogue and malign regimes that could do us harm by showing them consistent strength of the United States of America in general.

1:04:45 You saw this quite clearly that if there was any you know, chink in our armor and if we you know, projected any kind of weakness whatsoever, the Taliban was going to take full advantage. And look at the cost. Now, you are right, and they are looking to exploit any little sliver of weakness. It's almost like somebody that scales a rock face. All they need is a little undulation or a little crack and they can own that mountain or own that sheer face. And that's the way adversaries look is if they see a little crack or a little undulation or a little demonstration of weakness, then they're going to take advantage and own us.

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1:10:04 Welcome back Bill Martinez here with General John Tiger. The general is a recently retired US Air Force General national security expert assistant was the Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force. Well, John, I think the prospects for America and I think for the world right now. I mean we've got the World Peace board. America is hot, as Donald Trump is saying we've got trillions of dollars coming into the country, GDP overperforming even Donald Trump made the announcement we could be looking at fifteen percent GDP. We haven't seen anything like that since what I think the Eisenhower era. You know, we have to go back a number of decades. No, and Bill, I think you look at some of the key elements of the current administration's policies, which is sealing the border, initiating pro growth policies, finding our way back to energy independence, and then demonstrating strength on the world stage. That's the right mix of four primary policies, and we are seeing steps or great steps towards each of those ends and have for the last thirteen months or so.

1:11:09 John, speaking of domestic enemies, I mean they have bound I mean we're seeing a bit of a microcosm, you know, on national TV and what's coming out of Minnesota. You know, the demonstrations there, the impact of people who are coming into our country that are not interested in assimilating. They seem to be more interested in taking over our country. I mean, they're in Minnesota. We've got what eighty thousand immigrants who have come into the country that have you know, have affected just an incredible amount of fraud now. And Bill, I live in the state of Maryland, and you see when the government doesn't have pro citizen policies and instead has pro criminal policies, how it destroys education and public safety and the economy. And I think that we the United States, needs to demonstrate deterrence within our borders by properly using our law enforcement and supporting our law enforcement so that we are creating sound laws, we are enforcing those laws.

1:12:18 And when you do those things with. The right type of police force, then now you are deterring the criminals. And you know, it just bamboozles me as I talk to sheriffs around the state of Maryland. No doubt this is the case all around the country that there are still negative lingering effects from the mantra of defund The police that, like the military used to be, police are undermanned because they can't recruit and they can't retain primarily because of that mantra. From twenty twenty. And it's a shame and it's affecting every community in our country. And we need to get back to law in order with the right policies and enforcing those policies for the benefit of the citizens, not the criminals.

1:12:59 We're what we talked about earlier, John, about law and order. I mean, you have law and order, and then the criminals, you know, they back off. You don't employ law and order, and then you've got this demonstration of whistle blowing, you know, angry, hate filled citizens that are just misguided. I mean some are misguided, some clearly are being bought and paid for. And you know, but again, you know, we need to reinforce and not be not be afraid to support those values and traditions that made America great. And you're right, and those heroes that are on the front line of public safety in every community around this country.

1:13:40 They are heroes that they're standing between the bad guys and us, those that would seek to do us harm and the average citizen. We need to make sure that we focus on those people that support our citizens and make sure that we deter criminals by demonstrating just like we talked about in the previous segment, deter which is strength of capability and will in the mind of an adversary. Well, as you say, it's it's a wholesale consideration and a holistic consideration to stop and have some discretion or at least some discernment to say, is this is this particular action, Is it helping or hurting our constitution? Is the movement of you know, suddenly you get fifty mosque being built up in an area and Sharia law taking over the rule of law in specific communities, sanctuary cities.

1:14:36 How is that helping and advancing the cause of the American traditional dream? Well, Bill, I think about how this is our nation's two hundred and fifty at the anniversary our semini Quin centennial. It's my new favorite word. I love it, And I think about. How it is our founding values that have given us strength for the last two hundred and fifty years. It's what makes us similar. And those are the values that we're enshrined in our declaration and in our Constitution and in our Bill of Rights. And we've got to get back in education and in families, in communities, in elevating our fundamental values that make us the same, instead of lingering on those things that would otherwise tear us apart. Because our only hope for the future is marching forward together underneath those amazing principles and values that we were founded on two hundred and fifty years ago.

1:15:27 You know, General, I've been insisting with our audience that, you know, we need to step away from this political vibe that is bringing us down and bringing contention to the debate. Here. We have to think of it in terms of it's and this is where I see the battle that's taking place in our country to day. It's either America or it's anti American. It's not Republican or Democrat. It's either American or anti American. Because that anti American movement is clear, and it's hiding. It's trying to hide under constitutional principles and emotions and all this, but it really has no substance. The America that I believe in is was born out of what we've had over a million men and women who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. As you say two hundred and fifty years, I mean, nobody's claiming perfection. We're humanoids. We made mistakes.

1:16:25 But Dog Gunnett, we've got a lot right done here in our history, haven't we. Well, you are right, and in fact, one of my American heroes is a guy named Frederick Douglas. He escaped when he was in slavery in Maryland up to New York, and he talks about in speeches and pamphlets that he published, in speeches that he gave about how our Constitution is a glorious liberty document. He called our founders great men. He called our founders brave men. He said that they were worthy of being heroes for all of humanity. Here's a guy that suffered under slavery, but he understood that it wasn't a principal problem. It was an application of those principles that was the problem. And we need to get back to those principles and striving the best we can as we form a more perfect union, to be the type of country that embodies those principles that have been so good since our founding.

1:17:21 And those principles are what brought us to the solution. John, That's what people need to understand. If we didn't have the Constitution, we didn't have the principles, we'd still be fighting the civil War now. And we need to roll up our sleeves and solve real problems. I'm tired of partisan politics. I think that they're onto something there about how we need to focus on things that are good for America. For our people, for our citizens. And I don't care if you're an R or a D or an I. I want you to solve real problems with respect to national security, the economy, public safety, education, those are the big four. And I'm tired about squadubbling and i just want to see solutions come out of our government at all levels.

1:18:03 Well, your career has been solution based. I mean in the military and everything. And you know, people can debate process, but even in the military, you know what hill you've got to capture. How you go about to do that. Okay, we can talk about different strategies now, but we're still going to take the hill. The problem that we have in politics right now is it you know, it's not about the process. It's ideology that is dividing us, isn't it. No, you're right, and that example of taking the hill. In the military, we are mission focused, that there is a mission and we find the right plan to accomplish the mission. I'm tired of the squabbles.

1:18:44 I want us to say, we've got problems with the economy, Let's roll up our sleeves, that's the mission and fix it. Or education or public safety and national security Let's be mission focused and demand that our elected leaders are focused not on their party, not on ideology, on accomplishing the mission for the United States of America, and. Not on fundraising and their treasure their own personal treasuries. A minute left here, John, Let's talk real quick, Russia Ukraine. Yeah, so it goes back a little bit to what we've been talking about that Putin has been stringing us along because he promises that he's going to make deals when the reality is he started the war, he's maintaining the war. He's the only one that can stop the war.

1:19:27 Some of our sanctions are really starting to bite into the Russian economy, and he's not going to stop until he realizes it's more painful to continue than to stop. And I think we need to continue to support Ukraine in a sustainable way with European money while enacting sanctions that hurt the Russian economy, because that's eventually going to get Putin's attention. Well, General, thank you so much for coming on and enlightening our audience. You're always welcome here. The light is always on for you, sir. Now, he's the US Air Force General National Security expert for I'm Assistant Deputy under Secretary of the Air Force John. Thank you so much. God's speed, take care. God speed you. Do you have Medicare and do you use a SEAPAP machine.

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1:24:33 In twenty twenty six, this year, the National Women's Soccer League will become the first professional sports league where all players, coaches, and staff are trained in hands only CPR through a new partnership with the American Heart Association. Savvie King, herself an NCAA survivor, will serve as the face of the groundbreaking initiative here with us also to talk about it is NFL great. Damar Hamlin, as we mentioned, his cardiac or rest brought so much attention to this and so you know, I want to thank you also Nancy Brown, who's the CEO of the American Heart Association. All three of you welcome to the show. Great to have you with us to talk about this groundbreaking news. Jamar, you know for you, you know all that you went through.

1:25:18 I remember watching I was watching TV when this happened, and not only did the players on the field, but people at home across the country took a knee and were praying for you. Yes, indeed, man, you know, to be at the center of you know, so many powerful things, love, prayer, just blessings. Man. I think the world has so many things. I try to pull us apart and individualize us. But to be at the center of people coming together for something so powerful truly inspire me to continue to spread love and continue to just spread the mission that we're here to talk to you about today.

1:25:59 And of course your new situation are you position now with the American Heart Association. You've now become the national ambassador for a nation of life savers, right, tell us about that. Yeah, So, like you said, I am the national ambassador of the Nation of Life Savers. And shortly after I left it, I left the hospital in Buffalo, I met my best friend here, Nancy, who you know, it didn't take long for us to see that we shared the same heart that you know, we wanted to make sure that everybody across the world had the same opportunity as me to be able to, you know, if having to go through Southern cardiac arrests, to be able to have the right people in place to make sure that you know, I could see more and more tomorrow's and be able to use my story and my platform to inspire others to take the initiative to learn AZ on the CPO.

1:26:51 Well, I got to imagine that your survival touched you in a whole new way and inspired you to take this message to save right. Yeah, yes, indeed, And you know, I'm just I'm thankful that I made the choice to you know, use the most vulnerable moments of my life to, you know, make sure that the world knows the importance of CPR. And you know, I'm sitting next to Savvy and just meeting her, I'm able to, you know, learn more about myself as well, just about you know, just the initiative that I took, because you know, she's inspiring so many young women, so many people across the world to just not allow fear to control your life, you know, to continue to you know, chase your dreams and whatever you want to do in life.

1:27:36 Don't allow anything to stop you. And then on top of that, use your story and the things you go to to inspire others. You know, I think that will leave a legacy long beyond me and her playing days. Well, Savvy, what was it like for you surviving a cardiac arrest. Yeah, it's been an incredible experience, honestly, to see how much how many lives I've been able to touch through it. Every time that I especially go back to the stadium, I'm just greeted with so much love and prayer, And every time I open my phone, honestly, it's amazing to see how many people reach out all the time and talking about themselves or a family member that they had. Throughout this entire experience, I've been able to inspire so many people, especially in going through my cardiac rehab.

1:28:18 After my open heart surgery. I was with a lot of individuals and just seeing me and seeing how I was progressing and how I was running, because to get back onto playing at a really high level as an elite athlete, it took a lot of strength to get to that point. And so I feel like through that and through people seeing everything that I've been able to do since everything that happened has really inspired a lot of people. And I've been able to send a lot of personal messages to a lot of girls that have experienced similar things that are going through heart surgery, or in adults as well that have experienced the same thing, just to see that you know there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that there's so much life to live after surviving something like that and. You can still continue to go on with your.

1:29:00 Life and do so much with it. I'm only twenty years old, so there's a lot left in my career that I want and there's so many things that I want to accomplish in my life, and this is just one added thing to the list that I'm super passionate about. And I'm hoping that, you know, through all this initiative and starting my nonprofit, Theavocate of Hearts and partnering with the American Heart Association and THENWSL will continue to spread so much awareness to a cause that is so important and I'm super passionate about. And just like seeing Damar as well and being able to be here with him and see how amazing that he's doing and every amazing thing that he has done is so incredible, And for us to be able to do something so powerful is just a blessing. And you know, I thank God every day for the opportunity to keep doing what I'm doing and pursuing it to the best of my ability and through that inspiring others to continue to do the same.

1:29:46 Well, I was going to say, both of you are great inspirations, no doubt, and also at the same time, it's tough for people to look at you two. Here. You are, both of you elite athletes, You're twenty years old, You're going you had you had cardiac you were dealing with cardiac arrest. How could that possibly be? Right? I mean exactly, you never expect that to happen, especially as a twenty year old, very healthy female, it was crazy. And I think that, you know, for athletic trainers and our medical staff to know exactly what to do in that moment, to be prepared because it's not something that you ever expect, and they were readily able to do CPR, and it saved my life. And you know, I owe so much to them, and there's never enough ways that I'll be able to say thank you. But every time I set back out on the field and I put on my cleats, it's for them and for everyone that has given so much love and support throughout this entire process.

1:30:38 But I think it just further proves the point that just knowing CPR is just so important because it can save a life. And seeing me be here and be able to talk to you is doing so much more as well with that too, So it's just an amazing thing to know, and I think that everybody. Should know it. Well, both of you are approving there's life after cardiac orar rest. Nancy Brown, who's the chief executive officer for the American Heart Association, is also with us. Nancy, let me ask you tell us about the prevalence of cardiac arrests on and off the field. Yeah, well, you know, three hundred and fifty thousand people on three and fifty three hundred and fifty thousand people a year have an out of hospital sudden cardiac arrest, and fewer than ten percent of them survive. The reason for that is there are not enough people in our country that know how to do CPR. So at the American Heart Association, through our Nation of Life Saver's campaign, we're making it easy for you to learn hands only CPR.

1:31:36 It could save the life of someone you know. And all you need to do is press hard and fast in the center of the chest to a song like Staying Alive, and you can learn how to save someone's life. I will say about Damar and Savvy, these are two incredible individuals. They each of them had a choice to make after their incident, and they both chose to help save the lives of other people, and I'm indebted to them forever. Jamar and I are connected at the hip. He is truly my bestie and I'm just getting to know Savvy, but I have a feeling the three of us will be doing a lot of. Work together well. You know, again, I so appreciate all of you coming on in Nancy about CPR. Like you said, it's so easy and for people that might be a little nervous and saying, well, I'm not sure what to do, well you should be sure. You need to, you know, make that commitment. And this is a message that we've shared on this radio show many times. So you know, I'm glad that you're here to talk about it and remind everybody to get involved because the life you save could very well be a family member. And in many cases that is the case, right.

1:32:45 It's absolutely the case. HARDIAC arrest happened in the home, they happen in the workplace, they happen in sporting events, they happen in our places of worship, and so knowing CPR, most likely you will save the life of someone you know. And as you're starting CPR, a really important thing to do is to make sure to nominate someone to call nine one one. You over there in the blue shirt, you call nine one one while the other person immediately starts chess compressions. Every second counts in saving someone's life. Now, what role did the AHA play in these changes that we're talking about? Now well, we've played a lot of roles in helping to raise awareness about the importance of CPR through our Nation of Life Savers campaign. We are spreading the word far and wide through with all of the sporting teams.

1:33:37 You know, we started with the NFL after Damar's incident. Every single team wanted to make sure not only their medical staff of course, who by law have to be trained in knowing how to do CPR, but their office staff and you know, the trainers and everybody making sure that the entire team and organization new CPR. The National Women's Soccer League has made a commit meant that every single player, every single coach, every single administrator in the National Women's Soccer League will learn right. And we have an important story and Damar told it a little bit earlier today. Shortly after Damar's incident, we trained a bunch of teams. At that time, of the Los Angeles Raiders, Rahie Morris was an assistant coach. He learned He then of course went on to be a head coach at the Atlanta Falcons. He learned CPR from the AHA a few weeks after Damar's incident, and he saved the life of a young boy in Las Vegas and that's due for this event. It's an amazing well.

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1:39:03 Hey, welcome back Bill Martinez here. Great to have you with us. Also, great to have my good friend Craig Rucker, the CEA Fact founder and president. Mister Craig, how we doing. I'm doing great, Bill, It's a great day to be an American. Well, I'll tell you we've got a lot of things changing here. I mean, Donald Trump has been a force of nature for nature as opposed to the Biden administration and some of these Democrats that want to resist nature and embrace ninety ten eighty ten issues that are more hurtful than helpful. Right. Oh, yes, As a matter of fact, just every day you wake up and you read the newspaper, and unlike in the last four years under Biden, where every day it kind of raised my blood pressure. I'm just giddy.

1:39:47 Right now, What's going to happen within the next twenty four hours of today is that the Trump administration is going to remove the Endangerment Finding. Now, people may say, what in the world's the Endangerment Finding? Well, this was a law that was put in back in two thousand and nine by the Obama administration, and it was deliberately put in in order to regulate greenhouse gas emissions on vehicles and power plants. And they claimed at the time, the Obama administration, that the courts mandated they must That was not correct. Actually, the courts gave them latitude to do it, but they didn't tell them they had to.

1:40:28 But they chose to do it, of course, because they're climate worrywarts. Anyway, this law has been used for a lot of various and sordid things that liberals want. The biggest one that would touch your listeners is you may have noticed there was this big push to get everybody in electric vehicles exactly, and Biden wanted to do that where basically almost three out of four cars would have been electric by the year twenty thirty two, and got the major auto manufacturers there. That was to fight climate change. Well, that rule was not properly vetted. They bypassed a lot of things in order to get it through. It's now a day of reckoning. EPA administrator Lee's Elden announced last fall that he was going to roll this back and put it under review. And this week it'll be under review and will be free from that sort of climate tyranny.

1:41:19 And I think it'll extend to other things people use as well as just cars. Yeah, good God, almighty free at last. I mean, how ridiculous this whole situation. And you think of it, Craig, what do you think? How much this cost what Obama and Biden supported, how much it costs by way of GDP and just the everyday American. Well, according to the EPA, Lee's Elden, it's over This will be the biggest regulatory action in history. I forget how many trillion, but it's well over a trillion a year would be actually saved by removing this law. And it's law long overdue. I think it'll unshackle our economy.

1:42:03 It certainly will give more consumer choice. Nobody's taking away. By the way, the Trump administration is not taking away if you want to buy an electric vehicle, heck, you could buy a bicycle, yeah, knock yourself out. Yeah you got your option, but it's not going to mandate that you have to. And these companies were creating these vehicles, they were being left on the lot because no. You know, there's a few people. That want them. I think they're what seven percent of auto vehicle sold. You come somewhere, yeah, six, six to eight percent. It got to a high of eight percent at one time. And that was with government subsidies, where you know, the government said, okay, we're going to give everybody that buys you know, thank you very much, Joe Biden, We're gonna give you seven thousand dollars. And what did the manufacturer do, go, oh, we got seven thousand dollars, so they took a lot of that, a lot of that money, and uh and raise the sticker price in order to absorb that money.

1:42:51 So it was it was just such a slight of hand and such a joke, you know, the way that was executed. It was And I would say that one of the things they of course Obama and Biden, they say they work for the working class and stuff like that. Well, this EV stuff was all for the rich and hoity toity, generally speaking, the people that could afford the sticker price of these things and be inconvenienced by having to go to all these refueling stations that don't exist if they went on a trip with an electric vehicle. They're the wealthy. They're the people that have bucks, and they were using these kind of evs generally speaking, not exclusive. There's people that actually bought into it, but for the most part, a lot of this is from which people that just wanted a second car for local travel or someplace. They didn't have to go very far because I mean, you can only got a range of about two hundred miles three hundred miles, and if you go to a recharging station you'd have to wait sometimes twenty if it was a supercharge, or maybe as much as forty five minutes.

1:43:50 And who has that sort of time when you're going on a really long trip to afford that. And that's assuming you're first in line when you get there and that excation works. Or are you're the secretary of energy like Grant Home and you knock people out of the line, say, but I am the secretary, get out of the line. I'm going to go up in first position. Remember when she hit she did her cross country tour. What a joke that was. Yeah, actually kicked a woman that had a young child in there and their car could have overheated, overheated and caused some serious trouble. But you know, the important thing was is that she was able to get the publicity on this ride. Tell everybody evs are awesome, and you know, then go back to driving a Limo that's gas powered.

1:44:34 Have we dealt enough with this absurdity, Craig to wear the American people, I mean in mass are waking up to you know, these leftist policies that clearly are you know, they're in a minority position time and time again. I mean there's so many things that Trump has brought out that are eighty twenty issues, ninety ten issues. And the thing that's consistent about the left, guess what, They're always on the short end of the stick. I don't know that there's one eighty twenty issue that they're at eighty percent for. They're always against, They're always on the fractional part of the proposition. Quite often they are. I don't know. I mean, they might have had a majority people watch Bad Bunny in the super Bowl last weekend, but you know, compared to the alternative, which I thought was quite good that USA put out. But for the most part, no, I mean, they generally don't. And people may sometimes not fully understand what the other side's saying, so they may get kind of a faux belief. Like if you went to an average person said is climate change real? They'll say, yeah, Well, that doesn't mean they want to get in electric vehicles, it doesn't mean they want to have utility rates three times for And in fact, if they're just given a few facts, all of a sudden, they go like, well maybe it isn't real. It's like a mile wide and inch deeap.

1:45:53 Support on their issue, even where they have a majority. Well, and that's why I say, who told you it was real? You know exactly, I ask, I mean, that's what it is. Because the media, you know, has pigpiled on this issue, you know, probably the same amount of percentage as it is anti Trump about you know, ninety five ninety six percent. Our educational institutions have been hijacked to put this faux science across and teach our kids. And you know, test scores are predicated upon, you know, this faux science. And I mean at some point you would think they'd have some shame and embarrassment.

1:46:36 You would, I honestly, And I know everybody probably has some family members that are liberal and whatnot. But if you just engage them a little bit, eventually, if they're really committed to liberalism, they'll start calling you names. But if your open minded, a lot of times you can just clear up some of their misconceptions. I'm often called a climate denialist. I said, I've never met one who's a climate denial So, well, what do you mean, I said, Well, the bottom line is, I don't think anybody on my side of the position doesn't believe that the weather changes, that climate changes over time. Everybody I know believes that maybe there was an ice age, maybe there was a cooling part, certainly when the Vikings were here. By the way, this all predated our cars and SUVs that could have impacted the climate. There's been wild swings in climate throughout time.

1:47:21 The question is is man the primary driver of this sort of climate change or are these things within natural variation. Our argument is that we're seeing nothing today that is outside the scope of what has not been in the historic past. Whether it's hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, you extreme weather in any sort of way, or record temperatures. No, none of this stuff in it. By the way, it's not even an emotional thing. You can look at raw data and when people say it's never been hotter, I just simply show them charts from the nineteen thirties that show that the temperatures were way hotter, and they say it's bad, never had more hurricanes. I say, well that I got that, but you weren't around in the nineteen fifties when there were tremendous numbers of hurricanes. Here, here's the data from the government. So it's objectively true. It's not something that we just feel.

1:48:15 Right, Yeah, perception versus reality. Once again, if you're interested, you know, otherwise you just you're an eight second you know, SoundBite echoing misinformation. And then you're going along with all these impositions that are costly and look at if nothing else, I mean, you would think, you know, over the decades, here the trillions of dollars, as you said, that have been spent. I know, twenty twenty five trillion dollars, pick a number that we've spent. Is there anything that we can say, Hey man, that was the best investment. Look at the return that we got on all these trillions of dollars that we invested. Is there anything we can say about it? Well?

1:48:57 Yeah, you know, you might hear the other side make a claim that we've saved some species because we've removed them from the Endangered Species Act, unless you burrow down and understand why that happened. Generally, it happens because there was mistakes even putting them on the list. They discovered populations of them that they didn't know existed, so they removed them. In other cases, they were removed because they actually went extinct. So there's no reason keeping a species on. It's a failure of the Act, and there were a number of them that were put on even though the numbers were rebounding well before they were put on the Endangered Species Act. Things like you know, bald eagles, they were rebounding since the forties we put them on and you know, seventies or whatever in the Bald Eagle Protection Act.

1:49:38 And yeah, their numbers continued at the same rate of increases they always have. So, as I said, I'm not entirely sure. Same with air quality. If you looked at pictures of Pittsburgh or any of these cities back at the turn of the nineteen hundreds, you would have seen you couldn't even see the skyline and or much less. It was very bad by the nineteen fifties, and it improved quite a bit, and by the seventies, even though it was still bad in many case, it was improving from there as well. Because of technology. Today we see a lot cleaner air, and a lot of the liberals are quick to say, oh, that had to do with the Clean Air Act or the EPA. Eh, it didn't, it didn't. A lot of this was getting cleaner before then. I think they're they're getting a lot of credit. They probably shouldn't have that. Our capitalist, free market system, through the courts and other things, has been correcting for a long time. So I think, actually, we have the cleanest air, cleanest water of anywhere in the world. And it has to do with our wealth and the fact that we're a free market economy and rich nations can clean their environment.

1:50:37 It's a luxury good. Poor nations are just worried about feeding their people and they don't care about the environment. And so I think it has to do America as a model of the world for taking care of the planet. Well, and I like that. I like, you know, the idea of you know, beneficial capitalism, you know, and that's that's what's happened, common sense capitalism. Let's put it that way. I think, you know, to your point. Craig Rucker, he's the founder and president of c Fact. Craig, how can they be in touch. What's the website they can go to for more information? Yeah, we'd encourage everybody to come over to our website at CFaCT dot org. That's CFaCT CFaCT dot org. You can sign up for a free newsletter and we'll give you all the facts you need to on these and many more issues that we've been discussing today.

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