A (4:18)

How cool is it to be here today?

B (4:20)

President. And nobody cared he was there. The president who got 81 million votes. Sure he did. Yeah. Yeah, he got 81 million votes. And of course, Nancy Pelosi said, should go on Mount Rushmore on. I mean, actually she said Mount Rushmore. I said, no, we should make another mountain, call it Mount Rushmore on and put his face on it, because he was the worst president ever. So there's that. Here's another bit of good news before we dive into all the other stuff that's happening. Two weeks ago, a man named Philip Rivers was coaching at St. Michael's Catholic High School. Their football team in the state semifinals this weekend. This is what Grandpa did. Third down and four Rivers. And he's got a man. Touchdown. Josh Downs. And that's Philip Rivers with a touchdown pass. The 422nd touchdown pass of his career. Comes out of retirement. He's a grandpa. He's 44 years old. Throws a TD for the Colts. Fantastic story, Fanta. It reminds me of the rookie with Kevin Costner. Came out a few years ago about a baseball player who'd been coaching baseball in a small team. And the kids said, will you, will you try out for the major again if we win the state championship? And they did. And he did. And he played. It was amazing. I wanted to share those stories with you this weekend. I. I was out and about and I was taking it all in, doing my level best to be joyous. And I went to Annapolis this weekend. I saw the Classic Theater of Maryland production of A Christmas Carol. It was magnificent. A small cast. Not a high budget production, but a magnificent show. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Afterwards, I. I bought pizza for the cast members and went backstage and met them all. It was absolutely wonderful. Went up to the Reynolds Tavern. I didn't drink. I went up to the Reynolds Tavern, which is owned by the same lady who owns the Classic Theater. And I watched the cast members, several of them, sing Christmas carols outside. And there was joy, and there was joy and there was beauty and it was cold and we all sang along and it was amazing. And then also I went out to what? To witness Wreaths Across America. On Saturday, I went to the cemetery here in Old Town Alexandria and saw thousands of people, thousands of people bringing these wreaths, laying wreaths on the graves of Civil War Soldiers, black people and white people and Asian people, and presumably straight people and gay people. Nobody cared. And I saw the same thing when I was in Annapolis at the veterans cemetery there. And it was glorious. It was beautiful. And I think about this, and I said this online, I said, they gave us everything. They have nothing to give because they gave us everything. And I could think of no greater tribute other than Memorial Day than that Americans would come together to lay wreaths on the graves. Millions across the country did this over the weekend on Saturday. And it was something else. It was something to behold. And I gotta tell you guys, you know, one of the things that I really try to do, and sometimes it's really damn hard, but I try to say that we have to overwhelm the left with joy and patriotism because we're in it knee deep. We're knee deep in a fight right now for the survival of America and for the survival of the civilized world. And we're going to win. We are going to win. We are stronger in numbers. We are stronger in will. We are stronger intellectually and morally. We are stronger not only physically, but also intellectually as well. Meaning that we have the ability to take on all comers. And they're coming at us, by the way. They are coming at us. Here is a story breaking out of Los Angeles today. Breaking news 10 minutes past the hour. This news happening out of Los Angeles. The FBI now reports that it's disrupted a planned New Year's Eve terror attack in Los Angeles. Four suspects in custody.

A (8:39)

The FBI identifying them as members of a pro Palestine extremist group.

B (8:44)

They're suspected of planning. They're radical Islamists. Coordinated IED attacks targeting five different locations in Los Angeles. But this on the heels of another thwarted attack in Michigan about a month and a half, two months ago. Based on the reporting now that plot has been foiled. We will wait for more out of LA or out of Washington D.C. if we're at the FBI. And imagine what would have happened if Kamala Harris would have become the President of the United States. Imagine what would have happened if Kamala Harris became the President of the United States. We would have an open southern border. We would have an FBI still pursuing the enemies of the state. We would have jihadis coming in from all over the world, nobody holding them accountable. We would have. They told us we had a sealed border. Do you remember this?

A (9:31)

It is my testimony that the border is secure. The President have worked very hard to.

B (9:36)

Implement a strategy when it comes to.

A (9:38)

The border that is humane, safe, and has orderly enforcement. Things are going at the border, sir.

B (9:45)

Much better than you all expected.

A (9:48)

We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation.

B (9:55)

And now all of the things that we predicted would happen are coming to fruition. The fruits of the open border of Joe Biden and whoever was pulling his strings are ripe now. And we fortunately have a president in the White House who can help us stop it before it does so much damage. They lied to us. They lied to us about the southern border and they opened our country to the dregs of the world, including terrorists. They say as many as 2,000 followers of the Taliban from Afghanistan alone. We are chock full of terrorists right now in our country because of the Democrat Party and Joe Biden. And we all have to come together to beat this. We've talked about World War 3 for a very long time. Welcome to it. Welcome to is civilization versus radical Islam. We are going to win. But you have to realize the severity and seriousness of this threat because it reared its ugly head in Australia, it reared its ugly head in America. And we are in the end for the fight of our lives. We're going to win, but we have to come together. Doesn't matter what race you are, what color you are, what gender you are, what sex you are. We've got to come together, homeboys, hillbillies and Hebrews. And we're going to get her done. We are going to get it done. Welcome to a Monday edition of the Rob Carson Show. Well, let's take a break and come back. Don't go anywhere. The Rob Parson show podcast is everywhere.

A (11:38)

Go to Newsmax.com listen for details.

B (11:44)

So we warned the loss of three great patriots in Syria. You know how it happened? It was an ambush. Terrible. We also have three wounded. They seem to be doing pretty well, but we mourn the loss. These are great, three great people and.

A (12:02)

Just a terrible thing.

B (12:04)

Two American soldiers were killed in Syria. Also an interpreter. An ISIS attack in Syria. Donald Trump told reporters that Syria's president, Ahmed Al Shara was devastated by what happened and stressed that Syria was fighting alongside US Troops. Trump, in his post, said that Al Sharah was extremely angry and disturbed by the attack. Joni Ernst of Iowa said the soldiers were member of the Iowa National Guard. My home state, our Iowa National Guard family is hurting as we mourn the loss of these two of our own. Pray for the recovery of the three wounded soldiers. Of course. Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot, one killed here in Washington, D.C. just about three weeks ago. This is all part of the the intifada that that they want to globalize and Zoran Mandami won't condemn that he won't condemn the expression globalize the intifada and he's the new mayor of New York City. So there you go. Unbelievable. Bondi beach shooting in in Australia 15 people were killed after a shooting during a Hanukkah event. They were two radical Islamists. Don't let your don't fool yourself. They know who it is. They know why they did it. 50 year old man and his 24 year old son. The son is being hospitalized. The the old man is dead. The the woke Prime Minister of of Australia said the government is going to tighten already laws and is blaming this not only on anti Semitism but right wing extremism which is the same load of crap that they try to foist upon conservatives in this country. Ella Cook, a churchgoer and a VP of the Brown University Republican Club, identified as a deadly the shooting in a deadly or the victim in a deadly shooting at Brown university. She was 19. She's been identified as one of the victims in the shooting at Brown University. They had a person in custody then released them. They're still the shooter is at large. Ella was a member of the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Billingham, Alabama. The Catholic Church has been under attack in this country. You may recall a few months ago a Catholic church daycare center was shot up and two children killed in Minneapolis a while back vice president of Brown University's Republican Club. She was by the way, a total of two people were killed and nine injured on Saturday's mass shooting at Brown University. Again, law enforcement had a person in custody and they released them. Alex Shea, a former Brown University student, knew Ella through the Republican Club. Was devastated, this person said. I'm still in shock on the news from Brown where I was a student until a few months ago and my heart broke my heart to learn that Ella Cook, a sophomore, was no longer with us. I knew Ella through Brown Republicans where she was vice president. Being a conservative at Brown isn't always the easiest, but Ella was never afraid to share her beliefs on an overwhelmingly liberal campus and supporters support others in doing doing so. Last spring, while I was under disciplinary investigation for reporting on Brown's administration for the conservative student paper, almost nobody wanted to associate with me. Ella was one of the few who are willing to stand with me in public and hand out newspapers in front of the dining hall where I live right now. Conservatives speak in hush tones. I know artists who are Jewish who don't make a big deal out of October 7th because they're afraid of the people in the nearby booths, in the, in the facility where they keep their wares. They're afraid to admit that they're conservatives. I'm not going to live this way. I'm not going to live this way. Jewish people are not going to have to live this way. We are going to end this. We are going to end this. But here is the, the Democrat Party. Oh, my God. This is Chuck Schumer as he gets ready to address the mass shooting at Bondi beach in, in Australia. Listen to the lack of sensitivity of this man.

A (16:01)

And of course, I'm going to say a few words about the terrible shooting in Sydney, Australia.

B (16:05)

O so.

A (16:07)

And first, of course, as I always say, no matter what go Bills, they beat the Patriots today. It's a big deal.

B (16:21)

This is Democrat Chris Murphy blaming the Brown shooting on Donald Trump.

A (16:26)

Not shocking because over the last year, President Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country.

B (16:34)

Here, hold on a second. I don't think that Donald Trump has been doing that. I think your party has.

A (16:40)

I, I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country. Maybe there will be. People need to start taking to the streets.

B (16:47)

This is a dictator, you know.

A (16:49)

There needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there's unrest in our lives.

B (16:53)

Enemies of the state.

A (16:55)

Show me where it says that protests.

B (16:56)

Are supposed to be polite and peaceful. Do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless.

A (17:03)

When they go low, we kick. How do you resist the temptation to run up and wring her neck? Biggest terror threat in this country is.

B (17:11)

White men, most of them. The war of the Democrat party on conservatism and civilization has been going on for a decade. And there's a body count. 30 in the summer of 2020. And there's a price. $20 billion. And now at least one soldier has been killed on our soil. In Washington, D.C. here's Chris Murphy.

A (17:32)

He's restoring gun rights to felons and people who have lost their ability to buy guns.

B (17:38)

At least he's not releasing felons en masse in cities like New York and in states like Illinois.

A (17:43)

Eliminated the White House Office of Gun Violence Protection. And he has stopped funding mental health grants and community anti gun violence grants that Republicans and Democrats because the money.

B (17:56)

Never fixes anything because it's usually handed off to the friends of the Democrats supported in that nothing ever gets fixed. The graft and corruption are ridiculous.

A (18:07)

2022 bill. So he has been engaged in a pretty deliberate campaign to try to make violence more likely in this.

B (18:14)

Not one bit at all. In fact, he was nearly murdered twice because of the language of Democrats. Charlie Kirk was murdered and they even scrutin described the words that you've been using against Donald Trump and conservatives on the spent shell casing that blew his neck open country.

A (18:33)

And I think you're unfortunately going to see the results of that on the streets of America.

B (18:37)

We have been for 10 years.

A (18:38)

That's a pretty big statement. He's in a campaign to make violence.

B (18:42)

More likely, of course.

A (18:43)

I mean, he's, he's knowingly, this is.

B (18:46)

Gaslighting in its purest form and gun.

A (18:48)

Rights to dangerous people. He is cutting off grants that has, that have bipartisan support.

B (18:55)

I wonder, I wonder if Democrats are going to call this an unfortunate accident, what happened in Syria and what happened at Brown University. I wonder if Benny Thompson is going to call it an unfortunate accident like he did the shootings of two National Guardsmen. We've got to come together. 80% of us believe the country was going in the wrong direction when Joe Biden was president. 80% of us came together to save the country. And now we have to come together to end this nonsense and violence. General Blaine Holt joins us next to talk about all of this and more. Don't go anywhere. My nightly ritual now is a little ice, a little vanilla yogurt, banana, a little milk and a scoop of chocolate brownie beans. Dream powder in the blender. A little while later, I hit the sack and I sleep until sunrise. It's amazing. These days everything moves so fast and it certainly can mess with your sleep schedule. That's why I'm here to tell you about Beam's Dream Powder. It's a healthy nighttime blend packed with science backed ingredients shown to improve sleep so you can wake up refreshed and ready to take on the day. Dream is made with a powerful blend of all natural ingredients including Reishi, magnesium, L theanine, apigenin and melatonin. I've been using Beam's Dream Powder for a year now and I can honestly say I feel sharper, calmer and more focused. And I'm not alone. Beam has improved over 28 million nights of sleep for people across the country. So if you've been waiting for the right time to try Dream, this is it. Go to shopbeam.com newsmax use code newsmax and take advantage of my exclusive offer for 40% off you can get their best selling dream powder for just $39. So seriously, think about it. Go to shopbeam.com newsmax today.

A (20:58)

Yeah, again, look at the kind of language and look at, look at the races, you know, for the Senate in 2026 cycle. You know, one of the signature issues is being anti Israel and saying these incredibly anti erasal kinds of views on Israel and it's super, super critical. And now people that were just recently elected like in New York as well too, that's call it what it is.

B (21:28)

And I can't imagine why that's becoming.

A (21:30)

More and more part of my party's platform.

B (21:33)

Yeah, I don't either. But it is, it is beginning to bear fruit. The open border, the anti Israel sentiment, the Democrat party, what they've done to our country. We had massive plot, terror plot foiled in Michigan a couple weeks ago, a couple months ago, I should say. And then we find out today that there was a massive plot involving four radical Islamists for New Year's in Los Angeles. Joining us to talk about that is Lt. No, he is Brigadier General Blaine Holt. Welcome to the show, my friend. How are you today day?

A (22:09)

It's good to be with you. Please don't demote me. It's almost happened several times.

B (22:13)

I did not want to demote you. I would, I would never do that to a Brigadier general. But, but welcome to the show. You also host this great podcast called Dangerous Intellectuals and you're rocking that very well. But General, you had a foiled attack in Los Angeles. You had a foiled attack in, in Michigan. US intelligence warns that more than 2,000 Afghan residents may have allegiance to the Tal. Hundreds of thousands of Afghanis were allowed to come in the country. And then of course, the southern border was open. Unvetted, millions unvetted for, for terror, for disease, for criminality. And it looks like the our worst nightmares are, are coming true.

A (23:00)

Yeah, we don't have to go to Afghanistan anymore. The enemy's here and they live amongst us and they live in numbers that far exceed anything we've ever faced in Afghanistan.

B (23:08)

Yeah.

A (23:09)

So what we're seeing after the four years of open borders, and it's not just all the terror groups on the planet, it's actors like the People's Liberation army with cells here. There's cells all across the place. And as you see the President's campaign against the cartels, the pressure ratchet up, hitting, knocking over these rice bowls that lead to all the money laundering, all the illicit activities on the planet, then you better understand that These terror cells are absolutely arm in arm with these cartels and could be activated. And I believe this global intifada we see playing out right now from Bondi beach all the way to, you know, Los Angeles. Yes, it's all related. It's all related. And it's here. And they're normalizing violent language. The Dems are normalizing violent language. Kamala Harris, yesterday at a speech was talking about how they're ready to break things. Are you kidding me? And. And then you've got imams all across our country calling for eliminating or dealing with non Muslims. It's a very dangerous time right now.

B (24:13)

It is a very dangerous time. But I think Americans are waking up. I really, really do, because we're moving past this fear of offending people and we are recognizing the real threat here. And we're also, I'll just go ahead and say it, pretty damn pissed about it. This all started with George W. Bush after the towers fell, saying that we need to understand why they did it, why they're mad at us. And I say, no, if you choose of attacking someone, you don't deserve that. You deserve none of that. Nothing that we did precipitated or is an excuse for what they did to us. And it's gotten worse. It's festered. And now, unbelievably, our country is infested with.

A (25:01)

Is. And you know, you go back to 9, 11, we could not have taken a worse turn strategically than our response to what we did with that war. You know, everything looked like it was on track when we just went and got with a bunch of Northern alliance guys in Afghanistan on horseback and showed them the power of a B52. But what we should have done is stayed light, lean, agile, and inexpensive as we took on our enemies very aggressively and violently and definitively in a very short order and then come home and husband our resources. Instead, W. Bush told us to go shop, lit up the national credit card for trillions and trillions of dollars and a lot of loss of life and treasure and good minds. To what end? And so now we have a Taliban that's better armed, has our weapons. Now they're here with us because the idiots over at Langley said, well, we vetted them. No, they didn't. And now they're here. And now we're going to have to come together as communities and understand you may be standing alongside of your first response.

B (26:02)

Helping. Yeah, yeah. I, like I said homeboys, hillbillies, and Hebrews. I said that last year because of the violent and threatening Anti Israel protests that were happening in New York, which by the way, have gotten much worse since Zoran Mandami has been elected as the mayor. They've become very violent, very threatening. The radical Islamists are becoming more vocal, more visible, more brazen in our country. And sooner or later, we're going to have to kick radical Islam's ass. You know, we always talk about World War Three, General, we always talk about World War Three. We're in it. This is it. It's radical Islam versus civilization. And we're seeing this battle in places like Australia and France.

A (26:51)

It's the Western world has been under siege. And the globalists, the World Economic Forum kids, the City of London kids, they want this population replacement. It's the guy who I have on my podcast today, Sasha Kreiner, he's got the perfect metaphor for, he said the globalists, you can't see, basically put red ants in a jar and black ants in a jar. They close a jar, they shake it, everybody's killing each other, but nobody asked who closed the jar. And this is what a fifth generation warfare, World War 3 battle space looks like. Everybody, the darkest of us all, are using these groups, hitting them to create these wars because they're trying to outrun their next big global financial crisis. They need to blame it on somebody. So there's your top level. But that, that puts us into a very dangerous battle space here at home. And if you, if you need a crystal ball, go look at Europe, because it's happening right now to them. And Australia.

B (27:44)

You are a soldier. You spent your entire career as a soldier. How do we win this? Where do we start? What do we do? How do we take this on?

A (27:55)

Okay, start local. Get with your communities. Visit with your sheriff. Go to your local city council. Hold them accountable. Tell them they're on account that you have great expectations about your security and that you expect to have police blotters and information transparently shared with your local community. Go to your state, hold your representatives accountable, ask them what kind of legislation they're doing that's politically correct legislation to help the invaders, who should be deported. The anti ice legislation that you see being crafted. Go to the federal switchboard, prepare, get some food, get some bacon, beans, bullets. Have yourself in a position where if something happens in your community, you do not have to go downtown, that going for a bag of beans is not going to cost you your life. Stay up on the news, Go get your own news. Go cultivate your own sources that you trust. And then be very, very watchful because we are going into a dangerous period of time. We'll get through this. We always do.

B (28:51)

Yes, we will.

A (28:51)

And then don't succumb to any of this politically correct, correct nonsense. Don't I go to Bondi Beach. You had an Arab man, Ahmed Al Fatih Ahmed from Idlib, Syria, who saw the killing. He didn't ask what's the nationality, what are the politicization, who's what religion. He just went and dove for that gun, unarmed, no training, turned the gun on the guy and he still got shot.

B (29:17)

That's.

A (29:17)

That's the type of citizen heroism now.

B (29:20)

100%, brother. Well, Blaine Hole, if you can hold on through the rake, I would appreciate it. There's much more I want to talk to you about this if it's fine with you.

A (29:28)

Perfect.

B (29:29)

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A (31:36)

We'd be in such deep trouble, I swear to God. Talking about the end of the Republic right now and maybe Balkanization of the states, I could easily see where solidly red states would say, we're out of here. We're not doing this. Because. Because if you need to know what that would have looked like, go look at Keir Starmer in the UK or Ireland, or go look at Macron in France. That. That is the country that you'd have before you right now. And you wouldn't have now. Four years of unchecked immigration. You'd have six already under your belt.

B (32:07)

I can't even imagine how much. How. It would have gotten worse. It would have gotten worse. Nobody's being held accountable for 350,000 children being lost in traffic, for sex and for labor or women being. Being sentenced to life of rapes at the hands of. Of the cartels. My God. Nobody's been held accountable. Blaine. What do you think needs to happen? What do you think needs to happen to Alexander Mayorkas?

A (32:36)

Oh, he needs jail or worse.

B (32:39)

Yeah, he needs worse.

A (32:41)

The level of criminality and what he's done to the fabric of our nation, its culture. It's he. And they knew exactly what they're doing. This is all premeditated, of course, so.

B (32:51)

And.

A (32:51)

And it's all Central Command Authority crap. So it all is in line with this globalist nonsense that all of them are doing. Hey, look, when. When they're all doing the exact same policies at the exact same time, it's no longer a conspiracy theory, kids. You can take your tinfoil hats off and you can just go, oh, it's the bad people up above them. And that's where this would have gone. And now what we've got to do is push it back. It back. But there are people being held accountable, just the wrong ones. So if you're in the UK and you've been raped brutally by four men, and then you call them pigs, you're the one going to jail.

B (33:21)

Yeah. It is insane. It's upside down. I mentioned with Donald. What now? I'm sorry.

A (33:28)

So why are we in NATO then? If we exactly values. They're not going to work on prosperity and security, then what are we doing?

B (33:35)

100%. 100%. I mentioned last year, in the last couple of years, when, if and when Donald Trump became the president, that a wave of freedom and now faith. With the murder of Charlie Kirk is going to spread around the world. Chile has been made great again. Pro Trump conservative Jose Antonio Cast won in Chile's presidential election, defeating his communist appointed 58 to 42. The communists are protesting and they're shooting him with water cannons. That made me smile today. It made me smile today, today. But, but it looks like south and Central America coming around and it looks like Venezuela could be next. When do you think that's going to happen?

A (34:16)

Very soon, Very soon. But I think that the way we get at that is a little precision strike here, A little precision strike here. Because it's not just about Venezuela. It's about pulling out that bottom block of the entire illicit activity around the world. All of the money laundering, all of the human trafficking, all of the shadow private banking people who call themselves upstanding members of society and financial genius geniuses. They need to, they need to be perp walked. And this is what so, so as President Trump is, is showing some success here, you will look for reactions that we may see, well, playing out here on Main Street.

B (34:51)

Well, I'm just so grateful that Donald Trump is the president. We went through so much to, to get him here. He went through so much for us and he help.

A (35:03)

He needs a Congress that stops its enmity for President Trump and gets on board with him. He needs a leader and the speaker of the House that will follow that agenda because this is what America voted for. It's not what they want. Who cares? They need to represent the people because we are a representative government. And then he needs a staff around him and an admin around him that understands the boss's vision and intent and acts accordingly. And if they don't, they need to go.

B (35:26)

Did you watch the Army Navy game this weekend? Did you watch the, the unimaginable a few years ago Patriot happening there when the president was announced to flip the coin and then the national anthem. And to think that Democrats are saying disobey orders. How many people did you suppose in that stadium would disobey Donald Trump's orders, saying they're illegal?

A (35:48)

Yeah, no, nobody would. But I'll tell you, I saw those patriotic parts. And then as an Air Force airman, I casually watched the rest of the game.

B (35:59)

All right, my brother, I thank you. Thank you so much. And if I don't talk to you before Christmas, Christmas, Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. God bless you. I consider it an enormous blessing to not only have you as a contributor on this radio program, but also as a friend.

A (36:13)

The blessing is all mine, my friend, and thank you and Merry Christmas to you.

B (36:17)

All right, let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. Last night at midnight, I got a call from my son. I'll let him sing first here. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Everywhere you go. Don't let the left steal your joy. We have many things to be sad about today. We also have many things to be happy about today. Today, we are in the middle of a battle, but we are joyful warriors. I remember Rush used to say that I'm a joyful warrior. I'm a joyful warrior. I. I'm. I'm so disgustingly joyful. You want to smack me upside the head? I mean, I was. I was having a blast. I was singing with the Christmas carolers in Annapolis last night. I went and saw A Christmas Carol at Maryland Classic Theater in Annapolis. I would encourage you to go. It's a small theater, you know, I mean, just a delightful performance. And Tamara and Elise Jones from Amelia, Virginia, drove all the way to D.C. to hang out in the theater with me. They drove a couple of hours in traffic, and they came to see that show and meet me. And I want to say thank you to them. And Tamara, or Tamara, I should say, lost her husband this year. Her husband of 30 years, he died this year. And I embraced her and I hugged both of them. And I shared the words of my sister's best friend who lost her husband last year on Christmas Eve. Said, we all got stuff. We all got stuff. And as much as we hate to see people fade into the past, we have to realize that the most important thing in the world is right now. Is right now. Yeah. Tamara and Elise, it was something else. Really neat to meet you. I haven't talked much about Rob Reiner. My son called me last night at midnight to tell me. It shocked me out of a sound sleep to tell me it is a horrific tragedy. It is an absolutely horrific tragedy. It's all I'm really going to say about, is shocking to the system and the soul that a man and his wife would be murdered, presumably by their own son, who is clearly mentally ill. The one thing I haven't heard today from conservatives is giddiness or happiness or any sort of celebratory mood, because that's what happened with the left when Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I only have, indeed, sincerest of sincere thoughts and prayers for Rob Robert Reiner, who was on the opposite side of the political spectrum for me. But I. I hope God will bless him and welcome him and his wife into paradise. I really, really do. It is a tragedy, regardless of politics. He was a very talented man. He did some of my favorite movies of all time. He did a great show that I grew up with called all in the Family. And, and so I am grateful for him for, for that. And I am so sorry that his life had to end this way. I really, really am. And that's all I'm going to say about that today. That's all I'm going to say about it today. No speculation, nothing. Let's take a break and come back. We've got Liz Collins from Minneapolis. She's hot on the trail of the fraud investigation. Next hour. Don't go anywhere.

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