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Everybody, welcome to Vince on a Tuesday. It's great to have you with us. As always, the best audience anywhere. We've got a massive show for you today. You ready for an ecological disaster of epic proportions that the media are all but ignoring entirely that the president of the United States just forced right into the spotlight overnight? We'll talk about that. Also, updates on the SAVE act and yet another horrific shooting at the hands of a transgender lunatic. When are we going to have the big national conversation on mental health that we so desperately need? It's all ahead on this edition of VINCE is always great to have you with us. Hey, are you worried by any chance about upcoming credit card bills? Any credit card bills, anything? Did you accrue some debt during the holidays, for instance, that has you worried? 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All right, so the pooptomic disaster continues in Washington, D.C. for those of you familiar with the Potomac river, which I think most Americans know, the Potomac river is right there up against the nation's capital. It flows to the southeast. The river flows to the southeast. And so just to the northwest of the District of Columbia in January, if you go back to January 19th, to be exact, a six foot wide pipeline burst open, dumping nearly at this point, 300 million gallons of raw sewage directly into the Potomac River. And where does it go? Well, right by the nation's capital, the swamp just got a lot swampier over the last month. And we're talking about a lot of raw sewage. It's disgusting. Look at this. Here's local news coverage as the public is being warned to stay away from the contaminated Potomac river after this historic raw sewage spill. Take a look at this. Come 1. A sewage pipeline collapsed pouring E. Coli and staff into the Potomac River. It's a big concern, certainly not great for tourism or for anybody wanting to do stuff on the water. It's horrifying. Yeah. And are there any safe levels for those for anybody? No. To this point it is estimated nearly 250 million gallons of sewage have contaminated the river. D.C. maryland and most recently Virginia health and environmental agencies are warning people and pets to stay away from the water. The EPA and public health recommendation is that swimming is not recommended when E. Coli levels are above 410. The levels near the drainage channel continue to exceed that. By how much? D.C. water sampling says almost 2,000 times higher than safe levels. At times super dangerous. You know, bacteria that can cause infection or prevent treatment for infection. 2000 times higher than safe levels. It's crazy what has happened as, as all this raw sewage pours right into the river again that flows past the nation's capital and, and the President of the United States last night has finally brought this to not just a local story, but to the nation's attention because he jumped in with a post on Truth Social saying that it is out of control what the Democrats who run this area have done. Now, remember, Democrats control. Through Muriel Bowser, Washington, D.C. democrats now control Virginia in the form of that awful Abigail Spanberger and where this colossal ecological disaster occurred. It's the state that's controlled by Democrat Governor Wes Moore. Wes Moore. We've got a lot to say about Wes Moore today. Wes Moore, you're in the hot seat. We've got you ahead. But look at this. Donald Trump saying last night that it is long past time for somebody to do something about this. Here he is saying there's a massive ecological disaster unfolding in the Potomac river as a result of the gross mismanagement of. Of local Democrat leaders, particularly Governor West Moore of Maryland. A sewer line in Maryland has caused millions of gallons of raw sewage. Hundreds of millions. Hundreds of millions is the point. This is. Let me, let me just emphasize something here as I interrupt the President's Truth Social post. We are looking at 300 million gallons of raw sewage in the Potomac River. You want some comparisons? My friend Katie Pavlich made this comparison. This is a great one, an unfortunate one. 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster spilled 10 million gallons of oil. 10 million. This is 300 million gallons of raw human waste. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster spilled 210 million gallons of oil. This is 300 million gallons of Raw sewage. The scale of this is historic. It is awful. The President saying a lot of this, all this raw sewage has been dumped directly into the Potomac River. It's a result of incompetent local and state management of essential waste management systems. This is the same governor who cannot rebuild a bridge. He says, of course, you remember the Francis Scott Key Bridge and its collapse and the disaster, and not only its fall, but the failure to rebuild it with any speed. It is clear local authorities cannot adequately handle this calamity. Therefore, I am directing federal authorities to immediately provide all necessary management, direction and coordination to protect the Potomac, the water supply in the capital region, and our treasured national resources in our nation's capital city. While state and local authorities have failed to request needed emergency help, I cannot allow incompetent local leadership to turn the river in the heart of Washington into a disaster zone. As we saw in the Palisades, the Democrat war on merit has real consequences. The federal government has no choice but to step in. Fema, which is currently being defunded by the Democrats, being defunded as we speak, will play a key role in coordinating the response. Thank you for your attention. Thank you to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. So the president's all over it, calling out this, this again, ecological disaster. And where are we on this now? Of course, this happened on January 19th. This is a six foot wide concrete pipeline. It collapsed right near I495 in the Clara Barton Parkway, began pouring all of this sewage into the Potomac in the intervening days. The EPA went in immediately. So I know the president here is deploying fema, he's deploying other federal resources, but the EPA went in immediately. How do we know that? Well, that's because right after the disaster, the Associated Press put out information saying that a woman by the name of Kelly Offner, a US EPA spokeswoman for the Mid Atlantic region, said the agency was coordinating with DC Water to get all over this thing. The Maryland Department of the Environment and let me see, let me pull that, pull this up for you. Here it is. Kelly Oftener, U.S. environmental Protection Agency spokeswoman for the Mid Atlantic region, said the agency is coordinating with DC Water, the Maryland Department of the Environment, and other federal, state and local authorities to assess the impact on the environment from the Potomac Interceptor sanitary sewer overflow. The federal agency oversees D.C. waters sewer operations under a 2015 federal consent decree. She said D.C. water has provided daily updates since the Overflow was discovered January 19th and has been coordinating efforts to contain it, monitor environmental impacts and communicate with the public. And what have they done since then? Well, they've been pumping the sewage away from the Potomac into a nearby canal as a bypass to system and then pumping it back into the. The. The currently working portion of the pipeline. That's how they've been handling it since then. So the federal government has intervened and now is going to intervene at an even greater level now to clean up this colossal mess. So the President puts this out, and of course, you see that he takes a clear shot at Governor West Moore, who's been an utter failure on all of this. Wes Moore, what is. What has he tweeted about any of this? What has he had to say about any of this? What kind of statements has he made? Well, here we go. Here's a. Here's an answer to that question. Nothing. He hasn't tweeted anything about it up until yesterday, responding to the president. But first, here's what he was tweeting about. This was yesterday, February 16th. Earlier in the day, he wrote, climate change is a threat to all of us in Maryland and worldwide. This reversal in environmental regulations. He's talking about the EPA getting rid of the endangerment finding, the insane endangerment finding. President Trump did the right thing. He's saving America by doing that. This reversal will put us all in danger. We must continue to uphold regulations previously made by the EPA in order to protect our planet, says Westmore. So Wes Moore is tweeting all about the, quote, environment, when he thinks he can control the weather by stealing money from you, but he hasn't said a thing about the Potomac being polluted by raw sewage from his state, over 300 million gallons of it. He said nothing about it at all. Monday evening was the first time. Last night was the first time we got any statement whatsoever from Roy Moore. Excuse me, Not Roy Moore, Westmore. Roy Moore is from a much earlier news cycle, years ago, from Westmore. Here's what Westmore said. Finally, he attacks the President. The President has his facts wrong. Since the last century, the federal government's been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor, which is the origin of the sewage leak. For the last four weeks, the Trump administration has failed to act. I just told you, they have not. The EPA was on it immediately, shirking its responsibility and putting people's health at risk. Notably, the president's own. EPA explicitly refused to Participate in the major legislative hearing about the cleanup last Friday. So the EPA didn't participate in a Democrat run hearing last Friday. Where were you, Wes Moore? Why are you passing the buck to everybody else here? Where is the governor of the state with this gigantic disaster? Why isn't he standing next to the river demonstrating that he's on top of the issue? This is the first time he's ever mentioned any of this. In fact, if you want some proof that this is the first time he's ever mentioned any of this, I asked Grok about it. I said, hey, Grok, what other statements has Westmore himself made about the Potomac spill since it occurred in Maryland on January 19th? You ready for this? Grock says this to me. Based on searches across all news sources, acts and official sites, I found no direct public statements from Governor West Moore on the Potomac sewage spill since January 19th. None. Not a single one. Wes Moore doesn't have time for the people who are suffering in his own state as a result of an open sewage leak spill in his own state. That's who Wes Moore is. Wes Moore is a liar. He's a fabulist, to use a fancy word. Look it up. AOC Wes Moore is a ridiculous human being. And now we have a colossal disaster going on in the nation's capital, which. Have you noticed that the media has not really discussed this at all? Clearly it affects the people around the national capital region directly. But just think about the scale of this. 300 million gallons of raw sewage. And look, I get it. Like there's a lot of attention right now on the Search for Nancy Guthrie, for instance. A horrible story, easy to get your head around. Horrible to see somebody's mother taken in this way. It's a huge mystery that people are trying to solve. It's kind of like a forensic mystery. And the American public is totally captivated by forensic mysteries, which is why there's so many television shows that have been huge hits on those subjects. So obvious that a lot of people are paying attention to that. But the media has devoted a tremendous amount of time to that story. How come we haven't had immense coverage of a 300 million gallon spill of raw sewage into the Potomac River? Why is it that that story's been suppressed? You know the answer to this? It's because Wes Moore is a Democrat. That's why. It's because D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser is a Democrat. It's because Virginia Governor Abigail Spamberger is a Democrat. The last thing they want to do is call attention to a disaster where Democrats are, are called to lead us out of it, and they're failing to do that. So now President Trump has to do the job. President Trump is stepping up now. Don't doubt what happens next. Of course, they're going to accuse President Trump of being responsible. Wes Moore just attempted to do it. It's your fault. It's your fault. And then the media is going to dutifully carry his water in an effort to turn this in some sort of political cudgel against Trump. Because this is always the way these things go. But, but yeah, no, this is, this is yet another dramatic crisis, kind of like the East Palestine fire, actually, where the Biden administration was setting chemicals on fire and an entire community was desperately hoping for some sort of answers as people were becoming sick due to all of this. And they got no answers. They were basically ignored, especially because they were Trump voters in that case. And it took the Trump administration finally coming into office for any, any wrongs to be righted in East Palestine. And here we are yet again. This time, Democrats have all sorts of culpability and the media are working overtime to cover it up. So we won't, we'll just tell you exactly what's going on. Now, I got more on Wes Moore because I mentioned he's a fabulous, the guy's a ridiculous human being. He's, he's lied a lot. And there's been some very good coverage of this. And in fact, he was just asked this weekend about what an incredible liar he is by CBS of all places. Now, of course, cbs, they threw up a huge softball as they asked the question, but nonetheless, Wes Moore had to try and bat it down. Kind of fascinating. I've got the details on it ahead on the guy who really Democrats, there's a lot of Democrats who think this guy has presidential timber, that he's the next Barack Obama, that he's going to be the, the great hope for their party, really. All right. So we'll take a look. Who is this guy? More ahead on this edition of Vince. Let me talk about other things I've been watching closely. Every other things I've been watching. First of all, I've been watching a lot of the Olympics, the Winter Olympics. I like the Olympics. I like, I like speed skating. I thought speed skating is great, especially when you get a lot of speed skaters on the ice on the short track and they're all just slamming into each other and running into the mats. And it's, it's actually really cool. I love the chaos of it. But another thing I've been watching has been Olympic hockey, Olympic hockey, men's hockey. Like our team destroyed the Germans the other day, which is really great and satisfying. And we're moving forward here. A couple of big games this week, but the big question on the minds of so many is truly the two big teams to watch are the United States and Canada. Who's going to win? Who's to going. Who's going to win the gold? Will it be the United States or Canada? Well, great question on Cowshi. This question's being assessed right now. And at the moment, most people on Kalshee think Canada wins for, for the men's ice hockey gold. 55% say that. Meanwhile, 34% have the United States winning and then 7% have Finland winning. And my assumption is all of those people are Finns. But meanwhile the United States, that's, that's where I think the good money should be. The United States should win this thing. I'm, I'm rooting on America as always and love to see these guys compete. At any rate, Cal, she's an awesome place to take a look at all of this and see what people think is actually going to happen. It's not just politics, economics, it's sports. They've got markets on everything. Inflation, numbers, pop culture. I like looking at Kalshee to see what the odds are, see what people are betting on. It's like getting a pulse on what the world thinks is going to happen. You can go to kalsheet.comvince and get a free $10 credit when you trade 100 bucks. That's cowsheet.comvince once again, kalshee.comvince. you have to be 21 and the purchaser must be present in the state where the trade is placed. See important disclosures@calshe.com cow she is subject to US regulatory oversight by the CFTC and we are grateful to have couch. She is a sponsor of our program. Thank you, Cowshi, for supporting us. Okay, so Wes Moore. Wes Moore is a big fat liar. It's unreal. Let me take you through the record first before we get to the game tape of him being asked about all this. Wes Moore has told a number of very tall tales about his life in his rise in American politics. He's now the governor of Maryland. He hopes to one day be the President of the United States is crystal clear. And there was a story. The Washington Free Beacon has a team of reporters. First of all, it's one of my absolute favorite news outlets. The Washington Free Beacon is One of my absolute favorite news outlets. They do real productive, conservative American journalism every day. And they have some of the best reporters imaginable working for them, and including a great guy called Andrew Kerr. Andrew Kerr, who is a super talented reporter. I've had the pleasure of working with him in the past. And Andrew Kerr produced a piece of reporting in the beginning of February, February 4th, with the headline, Wes Moore says the KKK chased his great grandfather out of South Carolina. Historical records tell a different story. And so, okay, so this is a big origin story about Westmore's family. What do we learn from this? Well, this is the reason I love this reporting is because it took digging into historic records and actually producing receipts about West Moore's ancestors. And so this is datelined in Charleston, South Carolina, which means that Andrew Kerr went to Charleston, South Carolina. That's what a date line means at the top. And he investigated all of this. Maryland Governor Wes Moore, who is widely expected to seek the 2028 Democrat presidential nomination, has a very powerful family story of racial injustice. He repeatedly tells it during public speeches. His grandfather, as a small boy, fled 1920s Charleston with his family in the dead of night after his father, a prominent black minister, and Moore's great grandfather angered the Ku Klux Klan with sermons condemning racism. Narrowly escaping a lynching, the family took refuge in Jamaica. But Moore's grandfather, just 6 years old at the time, vowed to return to America, where he eventually raised a grandson who made history in 2022 by becoming Maryland's first black governor. It's a story straight out of Hollywood, and it was a central feature of Moore's 2022 campaign stump speech, in which he described a version of American patriotism wherein loving your country does not mean lying about its history. He's been telling this story since his 2014 memoir. He was retold it countless times as he's seeking to reclaim patriotism for the Democrat Party and to contextualize his own unlikely rise to power. But there's a problem with Moore's story. It's flatly contradicted by historical records, and it's almost certainly false. Almost certainly false. Andrew goes on to say the following. He says Moore's great grandfather, the Reverend Josiah Johnson Thomas, did preach, in fact, in the 1920s at a church in Pineville, South Carolina, 65 miles north of Charleston. But historical records housed at the archives of the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Diocese of South Carolina, undercut the three main elements of his story. That Thomas suddenly fled the country in secret, that he was targeted by the Ku Klux Klan and that he was a prominent preacher who spoke from the pulpit against racism. The piece goes on to basically detail how the church kept extensive records about its clergy, including the dates at which they arrived, the dates they left, the circumstances of their departure. All of these things are all contained in historic church records that are still preserved in South Carolina. Andrew Kerr went and consulted them. And what did he find? His grandfather didn't flee because of the Ku Klux Klan. His grandfather was a Jamaican who went back to Jamaica to become the head pastor at a church where the pastor had just died. The pastor died, he was notified and he immediately left the United States to go back to Jamaica to run that church. All of the historic records line up for the, for that true recitation of facts rather than the nonsense that Wes Moore is now running on. He's campaigning with, oh, the Ku Klux Klan and all this stuff. And so how is West Moore responding to all of this? Well, the same way you'd expect him to respond. He's accusing the Washington Free Beacon of being racist and not appreciating the threat of the Ku Klux Klan and all these other things. By the way, if your message is that the Ku Klux Klan served as a grave threat to your family, that a group of extremist Democrats were a threat to your family, such a threat that they ran your whole family out of the country, why today would you be a Democrat and run for governor of Maryland and then subsequently try and go on to run for president as a Democrat if it was that party who was a threat to you? The whole thing makes no sense whatsoever. Andrew Kerr's reporting is airtight. It is incredible. It is so good. And Wes Moore is a ridiculous human being. So Wes Moore was asked about this by CBS over the weekend. Nora o' Donnell had a town hall with Westmore and watch as she asks in the, in the most gentle way possible. And there's a reason she does it this way. Look, she knows that the Free Beacon has this guy dead to rights. She knows that it would be the craziest thing ever if she didn't even ask about this. So she checks the box and she asks it in. Not. Not. She's not like trying to cross examine the guy. She, she's not trying to dig for details. She's not skeptical of his recitation of the facts. She's just like, go ahead, attack the Free Beacon if you want. Here's Norah o' Donnell and Wes Moore, Wash. They are also raising questions and I want to give you the opportunity to respond to it. It's something you wrote about in your book. You talk about on the campaign stump that your great grandfather was run out of South Carolina in the 1920s by the KKK. The free beacon is casting doubt on that with church records. Can you address that?
