ON TODAYS SHOW 7-17-26

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Hey, I'm Chris Van Fleet. Go behind the scenes and beyond the headlines with the biggest names in pro wrestling and beyond. Mr. Sandman. All I ever wanted to be was a pro wrestler. So I got to live my life and make people really happy. The heartbreak kid himself, Sean Michaels. Do you think there's anybody better than you were? I think I was great at what I did. And I think other people were great at what they did as well. Greatness is more of mindset, I think, than anything else. Mindset, motivation, insight with Chris Van Fleet. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. So I was just thinking about this and I'm like, I wonder how many people actually watched Trump's speech last night. If you didn't, well, I mean, that's okay. That's why I am here. You just wait for me to recap it for you, just like I do most of the news items. I do have to say I was a little frustrated because. You know, I go to Google and I just, I just want to get general news on it or whatever, explanations. And I go to Google and I search the news of Trump's speech. And like all of the stories are not information on the actual speech. All of the stories are like the spin around it. Why cakeaways, why Trump's speech was wrong. Only Fox News had just a generic story that I was looking for that just explains. what the speech was actually about and what was found and what he was talking about. I shouldn't be surprised, but that's how it is. How many networks did not run that? Let's see. I think ABC and NBC, I know for sure, did not run it. So Trump actually called them out during the speech, said we should remove their licenses. Probably not the best idea on that. So. So, but, but yeah, the propaganda press, you know, I call them the propaganda press, and it's like they constantly try to prove me right. It's a disgrace when they won't carry the presidential speeches. Yeah, they say, they say it's because it's misinformation. I do want to be a voice of reason on the whole issue of election integrity. Well, he gets a little carried away sometimes, but we all know they've cheated. Well, and that's, that's what I want to talk about because. Everyone gets carried away like you said. Yeah. That's why you have me. I will be the voice of reason on it. I will go through it. I will go through the history and tell you what we really should be focusing on. when it comes to election integrity. So we'll do that and much more. You are listening to Yeffi Live. This is the show where you can count on the latest news, the best guests and the best live and local talk all for a midday commute right here on the talk monster. Also coming up on the show, I'll have those Tennessee bullet points. The bottom of the hour, we'll speak with Matt Murphy, who is a talk show host out of Nashville. We talk to him every Friday. He might be getting... I don't know what's going to happen. Maybe his windshield wiper fluid is getting changed. I have no idea. I'll see what happens during the show with him. I'll tell him when my head. Quake will join us for a sports monster segment of the day. And the next I will speak with the legendary Will Hampson. Get his reaction to the speech. He's the official DC insider of the show. If we have time, I do also want to talk about the Northgate Mall.

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Because they're trying to figure out what to do with it. It's kind of your neck of the woods. I told them today what they need to do. Dale was talking about that. Tear it down, build a buckies. That'd be awesome. Not really. See, buckies they usually put on the highway. Yeah. You know, they're kind of random places. Yeah, they're not going to build a bucky. It doesn't really make sense there, but. It would draw a crowd. I'd go. Do it would draw a crowd. I love buckets. I would go. Yeah, well. But I actually visited the North Game Mall for the first time, like, of last week. So he wanted to talk about that. We also have to talk about the latest in Iran. And we always take your text messages on the text monster. 423-267-1023. One person just weighed in on the text monster and said, I definitely watched it. Oh, so there was one person. Cool. In the audience who watched it. By the way, Captain Max is here as well producing as you heard. Max, how are you today? I'm doing very well today. Yesterday, I was beat. Really? I got to the house who walked straight to the bedroom, took an hour and a half nap. Man, that sounds lovely. Yes. I want to do that. I want to go home and take an hour and a half nap. Oh, you've got to, you know, get rid of the kids. I was about to say. What about for adoption? I was about to say, I don't get to do that anymore. I don't know. We have... Izzy, who is just four months old, little Isaiah, he's rolling around all over the place already. He's already rolling over. He'll be up crawling and walking. I mean, he wants to crawl. So what happens, though, is he's on his back and he's like, all happy. And then he rolls over. And then he realizes he doesn't want to be rolled over anymore. And we're like, Easy, just roll back over. And now he has to cry about it and be upset. So we roll him back over and then he looks in, he smiles, and then he rolls back over and we just start this process. This is all true story. And I cannot sit in my living room without either a two-year-old Evie or my cat jumping on my lap. And then Evie wants to draw on my phone because I have one of those phones that's a little stylish. She wants to draw on my phone. So I don't even get to use my phone. So yeah, I don't get these naps. Actually, it sounds like a great life. I'm actually very blessed. Well, I just heard that. Why do you think I look so old? From the kids? The kids. If you wouldn't have children, we'd be young forever. Right, right. By the way. I'm really mad at myself because I kept telling myself I was going to close the studio door every time I come in. Yeah. So if you're hearing noises in the background, I left it open. I left it open. Sometimes I have parties out there. Seriously. The other day they had like guitar players in the green room. Yeah. And they're just playing away while we're on the air. So I'm like, I shut my door. Yeah, I should have. If I were to listen to KZ, I'd change channels. All right. So let's go over. Trump's speech, what it was about, according to Fox News here, says Trump releases declassified election intelligence, says it reveals shocking vulnerabilities. So Trump releases trove of information related to ballot counting vulnerabilities, China interference, Michigan voter registration investigation, and non-citizens on voter rolls.

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So President Donald Trump addressed the nation Thursday evening on free and fair elections announcing the declassification of critical intelligence that reveals, as he said, shocking vulnerabilities related to hacking, exploitation, and foreign interference. Trump did not claim China changed votes or altered election results. Instead, he argued Beijing engaged in an influence campaign aimed at shaping U.S. public perceptions. And documents were posted to the White House website during the president's speech. Here's a little bit of a montage of what Trump said when it comes to China. trying to influence our elections. Here it is. Today, I'm asking the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA to investigate how and why such crucial information was hidden, to fire those involved in the cover-up and to file criminal charges, if appropriate. The third set of documents, we are releasing proves that for many years, Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of... our election infrastructure, including electronic voting machines and ballot counting systems, dishonest almost all. We're publishing a series of previously classified U.S. intelligence community assessments and other reports proving that our government has long known these machines are extremely exposed to attack. As one assessment states, we judge that... The United States adversaries, including at a minimum Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, as well as non-state groups, have the capability to compromise U.S. election infrastructure. Tonight, I'm announcing. So there was a little bit of what he said in terms of China trying to influence our elections. Here is my take when it comes to election integrity, election security, and this issue. The unfortunate thing is nobody is focusing on the real problem here. What Donald Trump said in his speech is the focus. That is the real problem. But the issue we have now is the messenger. Unfortunately, when Trump goes up and says a speech like this, half the country isn't going to believe him. Now, why is that? Well, all of this started really in 2015, maybe a little bit before that. But you had 2015 and 2016 and after Trump was elected, you had Russia obviously trying to meddle in our elections. Now, the reason they did it was to create chaos. They want to sow distrust. They want to mess with our system. It wasn't really about who won. But the Democrat Party and the propaganda press made it all about Russian collusion. They were trying to help Trump win, and that's why Trump won, and Trump was colluding with them, which ended up being a bunch of BS. So that started it. But then you go to the other side of it. You have 2020. Obviously in 2020, there were problems. We completely changed how we did things in many states because of COVID, dumped in a bunch of mail-in ballots. When people went to bed, Trump was winning. When they woke up, he lost. That creates distrust.

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But Trump decided immediately from day one to say, up, the election was stolen. And then leading up to January 6th, he said, Mike Pence should reject electors. Remember all that? He took it too far. So you had Democrats take it too far. Then you had Republicans take it too far. And you notice what we're not talking about? So when Trump does this, they're like, oh, this is just him complaining. And then the other side says, well, what about the Russia thing? And, you know, my general take is, I guess China and Russia were successful. Their whole goal was to meddle in our elections to create problems in our country. And we have allowed them to succeed. We have become useful idiots for them. They have sown distrust. They have created these problems. Instead of focusing on that, which is the real issue, and there's actual national intelligence to back it up here that they've declassified. No, instead we're, it's the same back and forth that we've been hearing since Trump was elected. You know, what bothers me more than I don't give a damn what Russia does. But why can't we pass the Save America Act so that we can show IDs when we vote? Right, right. And Trump brought that up. So let's actually, let me get to that cut because you're right. Trump brought that up, told Congress to do it because they pointed out, beyond the China stuff, pointed out that illegal immigrants are on the voter rolls. We don't even know if they are in certain states because they didn't have the data because the states don't keep up with the data. And I keep telling people, look. Let's say there are no illegal immigrants voting. I mean, of course they are, but let's say they're not. The fact is when you have a system like they have in California, people are not going to trust it. Even if technically it was fine, you're an outsider and you're like, this doesn't look right. This doesn't make any sense. So here's what Trump said. According to the DHS review, state voter rolls and public records. They identified approximately 278,000 non-citizens who are registered to vote in federal elections. Hundreds of millions of U.S. voter files are in the hands of foreign governments. Our machines and ballot counting systems are exposed to hacking and manipulation and corruption. Hundreds of thousands of non-citizens and dead people are listed and active on the voter rolls, and yet we still have elections with no voter ID, no proof of citizenship, and tens of millions of ballots floating aimlessly through the mail. California's recent election for mayor of L.A. and governor was held on June 2nd, a long time ago, but it was just completed. A few days ago in July 10th, think of that much more than one month. Took a month to count the votes. I wonder what they were doing. Addressing this crisis of election security demands that Congress must pass the Save America Act. There you go. Talking about what you were saying. Unfortunately, it's not going to pass. They just don't have the votes right now in the Senate. It doesn't really matter what he says. I don't think it's going to be done.

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before the midterms. If you want to react to any of this, we have the text monster, as always, 423-267-102-3. It's sponsored by Warner Griffin. Chattanooga's the largest injury law firm reminding you to never text and drive. Well, get Matt Murphy's reaction to this at the bottom of the hour. First, though, we'll have those Tennessee bullet points as well. You're listening to Yafi Live. Hey, I'm Chris Van Fleet. Go behind the scenes and beyond the headlines with the biggest names in pro wrestling and beyond. Jeff Jarrett, great to see you. In this business, the story behind the scenes, so much more entertaining than what you see on camera. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Paul Heyman. Mr. Heyman. You are a master at the little things. That's how you turn good into great. What does it take to achieve greatness? Whatever it takes I'm willing to do. That's an Emmy winning performance. How about it? Insight with Chris Van Fleet. Follow and listen on your favorite. platform.