Hour 2 on NMN: Hans von Spakovsky + Dan Brings the Interviews

606 on Super Talk 997, WTN. Welcome on in to Nashville's morning news, and President Trump giving a big time speech last night. This was part of his focus on China. First, they show that over a period of years, starting during the 2020 election cycle, the People's Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history. resulting in China's illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files. That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data that would be needed to register to vote and engage in other nefarious activities, which is exactly what was happening. This data loss presents an unprecedented election security nightmare. 607 on Nashville's morning news. And I believe that the president is right. Hans von Spikovsky is joining us and senior legal fellow at advancing American freedom. And Hans, always great to have you on. You have literally... written a book on election integrity and these kinds of things. And so let's talk about, first of all, that's one of the main focuses on what was new last night is China hacking into the databases, stealing the information of 220 million people. So what could China do with that information? Well, that's the kind of information that could be used to generate, for example, fake requests for absentee ballots and fraudulent absentee ballots. And you'll recall that at one point, a couple of years ago, news came out that the FBI had seized tens of thousands of fake. state driver's licenses, which they tracked back to having been produced in China. And that's the kind of thing that can happen with that. Now, look. Those who are skeptical about this, they shouldn't be. Remember, during the Obama administration, they announced that the Chinese had hacked into OPM's database. OPM is the Office of Personal Management. Remember, that's like the Human Resources Department of the federal government. And the Obama administration at that time said this was the largest hack into... the federal government ever and that the Chinese had stolen the personnel files of 22 million current and former federal employees. So this is something that China has been doing for quite a while. I actually think, Dan, one of the most interesting pieces of information to come out last night was that 10 states.

including Tennessee, have taken advantage of the access that the Trump administration has given to DHS, Department of Homeland Security databases, and have found not only that there are 400,000 people who are dead, who are still registered in those 10 states, but they found 30,000 aliens registered to vote in those states. And, I mean, these are states who volunteered. The president also said that four states who refused to use the SAVE system, apparently the government got hold of their statewide databases, I think by purchasing it, and those states, New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania, Nevada, they found a quarter of a million. aliens register to vote in those states. I have no doubt the largest number of those are probably in California, because California basically encourages aliens to register there. Well, the scary part, Hans von Spakovsky is joining us. The scary part is that, you know, Tennessee, we're very conservative, and we still have our issues. Can you imagine what it is like in a place like Illinois, a place like California, state of Washington, and so forth? You know, a lot of this stuff, and you touched on it. Previously, Hans, a lot of these things that the president was talking about, they are familiar themes. Chuck Grassley, for example, has been talking about this for a long time. Do you think that that's one of the attack points that the media is using is saying, well, you know, this is all Donald Trump regurgitating the same things. But I think there is enough new here to garner our attention heading into the midterm elections. Any media person who tells you that clearly has not looked at what is being released by the White House. They started last night today, which is all of this is not just claims being made up by the president. It's all based on intelligence reports by the FBI, the CIA, and other intelligence agencies, all of which has been declassified. and is being released to the public. Like I said, last night and today. And look, you know, the second most shocking thing last night was the president saying, those intelligence agencies have known about this for years, and they covered it up. They, specifically, he said, for example, they have emails in which intelligence people said, we're not going to put this in the daily briefing for the president. They kept this information hidden. And that in itself also is just outrageous. And the president last night called for DOJ to investigate this. And those people, they ought to be prosecuted for that. Well, let me ask, why would they not tell the president? Why this, you know, big shroud of secrecy? I mean, you would think that they would understand that the president needs to know.

Well, I think this is evidence of the partisanship that unfortunately permeates. Many of our intelligence agencies, we've seen that of the CIA, we've seen that FBI, and they didn't want to give this to the president because they believed, oh, this would give legitimacy. to the claims that he had been publicly making about, you know, prior elections, vulnerabilities, that the election had been stolen from him. And that's why they didn't want him to know about it. You know, he talked about the fact that the FBI did a massive investigation. of an organization in Michigan. Michigan was one of the states, you know, that the president contended. And the FBI agents were shocked and discovered that this voter registration operation by this left-wing nonprofit was submitting all these fraudulent voter registrations. And who killed that potential prosecution? Why, the Biden Justice Department? So two-part question, I guess. Number one is you talked about people being put in handcuffs. Do you think that's actually going to happen? That's number one. And number two, okay, now that we know all this, what do we do with this information? What are the action items that we can do to secure our elections? And I know that that's going to dovetail into the Save Act. Hans, hold on for 15 seconds. Got to check the roads on Super Talk, 997, WTN. All right, it is 615, Super Talk 997. WTN, Dan Mandis here along with Hans von Spikovsky. So now that we know this information, Hans, do you believe you mentioned this earlier? What would you do if your online store converted 36% more shoppers? You could take 36% more vacation. Another Pinacolada? Yes, please. Open a new retail location. With 36% more square feet. Fantastic. Hire 36% more help. You're hired and you're hired. Shopify has the world's best converting checkout, up to 36% better than other e-commerce platforms. What you do with those extra sales is up to you. Switch to Shopify today at Shopify.com slash listen and get a $1 trial, Shopify.com slash listen. And I'm kind of with you on this. We hear, and you and I've been talking about this, and I've been covering this topic for years, do you think that somebody, anybody, will actually end up in handcuffs for the cover-up? Yeah, that may be tough to do. The one thing I can tell you is that this Justice Department is willing to criminally prosecute people if they can find enough evidence to do it. The minimum that needs to happen is any intelligence analysts, supervisors, and others who they discover from these declassified documents covered this up.

they all need to be immediately terminated. No one like that should be working for the federal government. The other key thing with all of this, and the president said they're doing this, is every state whose statewide voter registration database was successfully hacked into by the Chinese. They've got to be notified by the Department of Homeland Security. They have to be given all information on how this was done so they can fix the vulnerabilities that obviously exists in the system to make sure this doesn't happen again and doesn't happen in future elections. And the people who were aliens? and who are dead, they need to be taken off the voter rolls immediately so that no one can use that false information on the voter rolls to cast fraudulent ballots into our upcoming election. One of the things that the media is using to try to discredit what the president said last night is that they're saying, well, it was a political speech because he wants to get the Save America Act passed. You know, as I said earlier in the broadcast, well, two things can be true. He wants the Save America Act passed. And the reason why we want the Save America Act passed is because we want free and fair and credible elections. So I guess the big question is, okay, so within the Save America Act, is there anything that would prevent hacking to this scale?

It won't prevent hacking. That's a matter of cybersecurity with computer systems. But remember, the president has said that almost 300,000 aliens were found registered to vote in 14 states requiring proof of citizenship before allowing somebody to register to vote would have ensured that almost all of those aliens, unless they faked their proof. had not gotten registered to vote. Well, and Hans, it's all about, you know, with China you talked earlier about when I asked you, okay, so what could they do, the 220 or so million people where they stole their election data, their information, what could China do with that? And of course, it all comes back to mail-in balloting. And so that's a big part of the Save America Act is restricting the mail-in balloting, understand that there's state regulations, and that's going to be a big battle. It continues to be. a big battle. But, you know, for me, as I'm listening to all of this, it does seem like if we just stop the bail-in balloting with the exception of people in the military and people that have medical conditions and so forth, that would alleviate a lot of these problems. Would it not? Yeah, it certainly would. And remember, A lot of the people in the past might have needed to use early, sorry, absentee balloting because they were simply briefly out of town on election date. Those reasons have pretty much gone away. Why? Because the vast majority of states now have early voting. Yep. You know, we no longer have just one day to vote. I mean, whatever you think of early voting. I mean, in Virginia, for example, early voting starts 45 days prior to election day. Yeah. members of the military who are overseas, they're going to be gone that entire 45 days, so are maybe American civilians stationed abroad, like people work for the State Department. But how many other Americans who actually live here are going to be out of town, like for business reasons, for that entire 45-day period? Very few. All right, so now I guess the question is, number one, are we going to be able to stop China from hacking? That's number one. We've also got Russia in the mix as well and Iran. And you also can talk about or ask the question, are we doing the same thing to China? Not that they have free and fair elections, but I think you get what I mean. Yeah, I'm not aware that we're doing this at all to China. People should realize that we have long known that the The People's Liberation Army, that's the Communist Army in China, talk to anyone in the cybersecurity, and they'll tell you that we've known that for many years.

The PLA has had two dedicated units inside the Army that are their hackers. And they are the ones who hack into our government's websites. They hack into the websites of aerospace and defense companies in order to steal. as much data as they can. Those are the units that are responsible apparently for having hacked into the personnel records of the federal government back during the Obama administration. So they do this all the time. So how vulnerable will we be heading into the midterm elections? I don't think the Save America Act is going to pass. Is there anything else that Congress can do? Is there anything else, you know, the average Tennessean can do to tell our lawmakers, look, you need to pass the Save America Act? I think everybody knows, certainly on this radio station, that we want this piece of legislation passed. I just don't think it's going to. Well, I'm afraid that, yeah, chances of passing are small. However, the recommendation that I make to states is that state legislatures ought to pass their own state version of the SAVE Act. case law. They can't apply the proof of citizenship requirement to anyone who uses a federal voter registration form and wants to vote in a federal election, but they can apply it to anyone who wants to vote in state elections. And while that doesn't solve the entire problem, it certainly would solve part of the problem. Arizona has done exactly that. If you provide proof of citizenship, you can vote in both the state and federal elections in this state. If you don't provide proof of citizenship, you can only vote in the federal election, not the state election. So state legislatures ought to do that. Let me ask you, Hans, we were talking about this earlier. President Trump, and this is the last question. President Trump said last night that there were documents found in burn bags, I guess, like from previous administration. So I keep hearing documents found in old burn bags. Like, what am I missing? Do these burn bags not work? No, apparently, this is not a news story. There were been prior stories. The FBI, for example, when Kash Patel came in, they discovered that burn bag had been put into one particular room. uh at the fbi building but which by the way is right next door to my office building in washington uh and the intent was that those burn bags would be taken out of that office uh and destroyed and apparently through some red tape sloppiness

they were left in that room. They never were taken out and destroyed. And those are the bags that cash intelligence people discovered basically in a hidden room when they got into the FBI building. So that was just the kind of incompetence you see in the federal government. Hans, is there anything that I've missed in this story that we need to talk about? No, I think the most important thing for people to keep in mind is don't listen to liberal media sources who just want to dismiss this as nothing because the declassified intelligence reports back up what the president has said. Hans, always great to have you on, and where can people find you on social media? at H. von Spakovsky. All right, and we'll talk to again soon, and always appreciate the insight, Hans von Spakovsky. On Super Talk, 997, Joan has the news coming up at 630, Joan.

638, Super Talk 997. WTN, good morning to your friends. Hope you are doing well and welcome on in to Nashville's morning news. Supertext line is open. 615737-97-9986. 615737. WWTN. Coming up, I've got some of the audio bites from our gubernatorial candidates when they appeared on my show about a number of different issues. I'm going to start that coming up here in a couple of minutes. But first, I've got to talk about, Joan. What the entire internet is talking about this morning. Blowing up over it. Oh, my goodness gracious. So if you're watching us on Super Talk TV, then you will see there are four people that are, I guess, running for Senate in Maine. These are the people who want to replace Graham Platner on the ballot for U.S. Senate in Maine. On the Democrat side, in the primary. Yes, yes, in the primary. Okay. So now, if you're looking at the picture, there are three people who are. But it's two men and a woman. And then there's a guy at the end of the stage who's bigger than everybody else on the stage, like taller and bigger than everybody else on stage wearing a dress. And he's asked in this why he's qualified to be senator. All right, so listen to this. Actually, what qualifications do you have to serve in the U.S. Senate? Oh, I ran for office several times. Didn't win, but he didn't run. And then... Oh, my goodness gracious. So, I mean, he's ugly, whether it's a dude or a female. Yeah. Whatever. Wearing a dress. The floral pattern, by the way, certainly does not help. Oh, no. And somehow he's up on the stage with three other people. And, I mean... Even the look on his face just screams. Why am I here? Yeah. I'm a songwriter, and then I write my own books, and then I expose my transparency. I wouldn't lie to the people, and I wouldn't deceive the people. Like, we're being deceived right now. Okay, can I ask this question? And I don't know this, and so I may be treading into some very, like, touchy territory. First of all, his name is Ashley Webb. Yeah. Is he like special? It would appear to me that he is. Okay. I want to be sensitive. Yeah. But I just, it seems like. there's something going on there. And he's, yeah. I don't think he's, I don't think he's aware that, that he's special. Oh, okay. I don't think he, he is. Okay. Go on. Smoke and mirrors, like, what's going on with ice. Pretending like these victims did something wrong. Like, that's unacceptable. Um.

Most of the decisions on where these go are going to be local zoning decisions. And communities that want them are going to recruit them. Communities that don't want them are not going to recruit them. And she also, by the way, said that she was against the data center next to the zoo. John Rose, and by the way, some of these, unfortunately, they were really long answers, and so I've had to, you know, edit them for time, try to edit them into more concise answers. But this is Congressman John Rose on data centers. What I would say is that I think data centers are not all created equal. and they're not meant for every place. And so I think there's a very significant local factor here, like you see happening next to the zoo, of this may not be the appropriate place. And I think we want to let local leaders have a big say in determining what happens. So some data centers are good, probably things we should welcome in our state, some are bad. Let me give you kind of a contrast from what I've seen. A data center up on the plateau in, you know, eastern part of the state is the number two user of electricity in that area. The number one user of electricity is the manufacturing facility that has over a thousand jobs. The data center creates eight jobs. That's probably a case that the local community and leaders in that area and the energy. you know, in terms of assessing whether it makes sense to devote that much electric capacity to that one data center. I think that makes that probably a pretty clear call that maybe that wasn't the best choice. But then we might compare that to Colossus 1 in Memphis, Elon Musk's supercomputer. which has created two or three thousand jobs in not only the creation, but the operation of that. So basically John Rose saying that not all data centers are created equal. Both he and Marsha Blackburn, of course, saying that a lot of this is under local control. And so that is... one place where it seems like those two generally agree. There's always going to be nuances, which is why I would say check out the entire interview or you can always check out their websites as well. How does Monty Fritz feel about data centers? That's straight ahead. It is 646 on Super Talk 997, WTN. Good Friday morning. Hey, good Friday morning. That's in the recording. It's not me. We're not blaming RJ. We're having so many technical issues this morning. It's all good and well. We're going to get through it. It's all fine. So how does Moni Fritz feel about data centers? This is what he said. We are seeing communities taking a pause on these data centers because it's just developing too fast. And so Moni has concerns with the technology and that we're going to lose the ability.

to think for to think for ourselves this is part of what moni fritz had to say i think a couple things first uh this governor will spend zero tennessee dollars in recruiting them to come in because it's corporate welfare and i think we've already talked about the deficiency of kilowatts that we have in the state. And to bring in a high energy user is going to make your residential and commercial rates go up because it's the whole supply and demand thing. Even if they bring in the power, which we passed a bill this year for some of the data centers, they'd have to bring in some of their own electricity, which could be a good thing, then you have the water issue. If we close loop the water and we can guarantee in their... authorization basis that they're not going to be a constant drain or pollution source. We still don't understand, I think, the frequency field that a storage of that kind of data is going to generate. I don't think we understand that. And that's, you know, as I said, communities are taking a pause because we don't understand. And that was part of the regulatory issues that we had in Nashville. We're seeing this all across the country where you have this rapidly expanding technology. And there's a lot of folks, including local lawmakers and people who just... They don't understand the technology and they don't understand the risks. And perhaps they don't understand everything that is involved with these data centers. Also not helping matters any is that there's different kinds of data centers too. So that is also part of the discussion. I really liked what Moni said about this, where he says that we here in America and across the world, we could lose the ability to think for ourselves with all of this AI. I think it's good for us to pause. I know that... Like the Knoxville mayor, who I don't agree with on many things, but she's talking about doing a one-year moratorium. I'm fully supportive of the counties doing that and saying we don't want them in our counties. I think that autonomy amongst our communities is important in their decision-making to come together. Many people have lots of concerns about it. I don't think we know what it's going to do to not only our wildlife and our zoos and our farmland. What's it going to do to us? All right, so that is Moni Fritz. really liked his answer. And by the way, we did a Daily Dan poll earlier this morning asking people not who they're voting for, but the Daily Dan poll was actually here on the first day of early voting. Do you know? Who you're voting for. Have you made up your mind? I have not. And so I think I'm getting a little closer, but I have not done it yet. I've still got some research to do. I have not done all of my research to decide who I'm going to vote for in the Republican primary for governor for the state of Tennessee. But you said, RJ, is it 78% have now said that they know who they're going to vote for? Yep. The poll closed with 78% saying yes, they know who they're voting for.

All right, 78% said yes, we know. Okay, now what I'd like to do, let's go ahead, Joan. Let's try this. Who are you going to vote for? You got your Blackburn, you got your Rose, you got your Monty Fritz. So that's what I want to know. So let's do that on the Daily Dan poll. Joan, this is what we call a non-scientific poll. Oh, well, clearly. But that's okay, because even though it's non-scientific, I can already tell you who's going to win. I know. Moni's going to win. I'm going to go vote. You're going to go vote on YouTube? Yeah, so if you want to, here's what you do. This is, again, me trying to build my online numbers. So if you would like to support your candidate, whether it is Marsha Blackburn or John Rose or Monty Fritz, go take the poll. On YouTube, watch us on Super Talk, 997WTNR channel there, and you can vote in the poll. You can watch the radio show and all of its train wreckery this morning. And hopefully... You know, you just had a little bit of a bias there in what you just did. What did I do? What you've been doing all morning? Which is? Marsha Blackburn, John Rose, Monty Fritz. Why don't you mention Monty Fritz first? Oh, my Lord, have mercy. Are you kidding me? Why don't you mention Marsha Blackburn last? Just saying. I'm just saying. I made up for it, Joan. I put Fritz first on the poll. Thank you. Oh, look at the... Okay, so now Joan is laughing because now she's okay with your bias, RJ. Well, it's just been the other way around for so long that I think that, you know, we're rectifying. We're making a right here. Okay, you know, the reason I'm saying... Blackburn, Rose, and then Fritz is the only reason is because that's how I have it written down in front of me. So just to appease you, Joan Jay Jones, I will go ahead and I'll change the order in which I say the names. Okay. Okay, good. Thanks, John. It is... 653, Joan, has the news coming up at 7, Joan. Yeah, they used to be called United Airlines. Now you might want to call them TDS Airline. We're going to tell you why coming up at 7 on Super Talk 997 WTN. 658, Nashville's morning news on Super Talk 997 WTN. I know you'll be shocked, Joan, to know that in the Daily Dan poll on YouTube. Monty Fritz has what? You said 86, 87% RJ? Yeah, currently leading at 87. Rose has 6%. Blackburn has 7. Yeah.

Listen, I called it. You know what, Joan, despite my clear bias in how I was the order in which I was saying their names with Blackburn first and then Rose and then Monty Fritz. Yes. But you know what? In all honesty, you could say that I was saying Monty Fritz's name last because that's the name that would stick in people's minds because it was last. Just like in a lot of commercials. Oftentimes you say the website last because... That's what's going to stick into the mind of the people that you're communicating with. I'm not buying it, Dan. Not buying it. Listen, whatever. It's all good. It's all fine, well, and good. I mean. This is such a pro Monty Fritz audience. And I love that. Oh, yeah. Monty Fritz is tapping into the frustration of a lot of people across Middle Tennessee regarding what's been going on either in Washington, D.C., here in the state of Tennessee. Bottom line, though, for me is go watch the interviews. All three of them are posted on my Facebook page, on the station YouTube page as well. Got a lot more straight ahead. It is Super Talk, 997, WTN.