Presidents' Day

With Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Jim Rose. I'm Scott Voorhees. Great to have you with us here on this Monday morning. This is Nebraska's morning news on this president's day. Do we need to do the standard who's the best worst president? Do you have a favorite and least favorite president? I think the worst president of all time is outside the boundaries of my lifetime. I was not born yet to revel in the Great Society Days launched by President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who due to the welfare state he put up, he erected in this country that still... thrives today. I think LBJ is the worst president of all time. My favorite president of all time is the one I grew up with President Ronald W. Reagan. Jim? Well, I think you kind of probably have to separate them based on eras. I think Abraham Lincoln is the greatest president of all time because he was president during the Civil War. It was a little bit of a dust up that cost about 800,000 lives and nearly destroyed the country. Thank you, Ilhan Omar, who described 9-11 as some people did something. You just described the Civil War as, quote, a little bit of a dust-up, unquote. That little dust-up was quite a... Quite a news event of the day. Yeah. We talked about it here on KFAB. So for my money, Abraham Lincoln is number one. Some would say it was got to be George Washington because it wasn't for George Washington, we would have had Abraham Lincoln. Today is his birthday. If you look at pure accomplishments. Things that mattered in the country and that have made a difference in the country. Again, Lincoln, he was president when the slaves were freed. At the same time, it was not a good deal for him. Yeah, okay, you're free now, but your life is about to get a lot worse. Yeah, now what do you do? And he made that clear. He said, this frees them, but this is not going to make their lives any better. In fact, probably going to make it worse. And it was for another 100 years. But if you look at pure accomplishments, Scott, LBJ is one of them. Yes, social programs are very arguable today, but he was also the president when the civil rights legislation was passed. And we laugh at people like Chuck Schumer today who talk about Jim Crow 2.0 and Chuck Schumer doesn't know what he's talking about or Chuck Schumer's doing it just to appeal to his base. But there really were serious Jim Crow laws in this country that prohibited black people from voting. They did not have a voice in government. They were victimized by it, but they had no voice in it. So he was certainly president, Richard Nixon. Yeah, President LBJ, though. He signed it. It was started by JFK. It was started by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but it was stuck in the Senate. It was Johnson who got it done. LBJ. Well, he didn't want that. Well, he was part of that old guard, that old guard Democrat party, which is where the KKK came from. There's some argument for that.

But you've got to read a lot of history. And I don't think he did it because he necessarily loved black people. I think he did it to get votes for the Democrat Party. He knew that for the next 100 years, if we did this, black folks in this country will be locked up by the Democrats. And largely they have been. And I'm not sure why, because if it hadn't been for Republicans, like Henry Stinson, this bill never would have passed. Richard Nixon. for his time in office was extremely impactful. Now, a lot of people say, yeah, but he was a bad guy. Yeah, and he probably was. And if you listen to the White House tapes, he was a rotten guy. But he got the Environmental Protection Agency. passed. He got Title IX passed. He ended the draft. There was a lot of stuff that he got done. Teddy Roosevelt got a lot of stuff done. So, you know, you look at it. You just check off a list of things that they were able to do in their time there. FDR, Social Security. Although I would tell you that his policies actually prolonged the depression because of his approach to the money supply and he tried to pack the Supreme Court and a few other things. But. You go back and look at Andrew Jackson. He was the last president to oversee a balanced budget. Andrew Jackson. That's one of the greatest presidents of all time right there. He wrote a check. He wrote a check to pay off the government's debt. So we were out of debt when Andrew Jackson was president. He's the last one. If not for President Andrew Jackson, we go right back to being a colony. Yeah, no doubt. He won the Battle of New Orleans, which was the turning point in the War of 1812. That guy. My favorite president, based on history, and I was born when John F. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was president. I guess I should be loyal to him. My favorite president was Harry Truman. What Harry Truman inherited and what Harry Truman did as president to me is really one of the great statesman-like behaviors in the history of the White House to say nothing of his accomplishments. The war in Korea, you know, he stood up for the blocking of the advance of communism, but he integrated the United States Army, which was... Pretty balsy back in those days. And, of course, he ended World War II with a momentous decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan. I think Harry Truman...

was one of the really great presidents of our time, maybe of all time. And went right back to Missouri and just basically went back to his life, you know, that's it. If you've not visited the Truman Library and Independence, Missouri, Kansas City suburb, it is very, very cool. Lucy, you've often said your favorite president of all time is Jimmy Carter. Why is that? Well, it was until just putting words in her mouth. No, it wasn't. Carter or Biden, who's your favorite president? Carter or Biden? I'm not even, no. Well, I think the most uncommon. Hang on, let Lucy answer a question. She doesn't want to engage in this discussion. Yeah, she does. You have a favorite president? Yeah, this is a very easy answer. No hands down. The greatest president. Jed Bartlett. You know what? From the West Wing. He was perfect. Fictional presidents? Everything he touched. I agree with you. Yeah, he was the best fictional president. Absolutely. That's Martin Sheen. The most uncommonly decent president we ever had was Jerry Ford. His vice president, that was Tim Matheson, mostly. I think that switched up a little bit. But yeah, President Jed Bartlett, West Wing. Best fictional president of all time. No doubt. I agree. Oh, was that not real? And he gave great speeches that were written by Sam Seaborne, better known as Rob Loe. Hot. He is hot. Sorry. The hot speech is. Still. Still is? Here's a good question for you. Is President Bartlett from the West Wing? Is he a Democrat who gets elected with today's Democratic Party? No. No. Yeah. All right, quick, quick answer. Had a few people email and say, Dave. This is the guy who wasn't supposed to be president. I've never seen that movie. I probably need to see that. That's Kevin Klein. Love that movie. I've heard it's pretty good. You know, there are a lot of movies in that vein of someone who just kind of ends up president. I think John Goodman and Robin Williams did one. But yeah, an American president. That was Michael Douglas. Michael Douglas. That was pretty good. I've seen that one. And Greg e-mails says, come on, no contest. It's President James Marshall. He's kicking butt on Air Force One. Get off my plane. Harrison Ford. Harrison Ford in that one. Washington has fallen or something like that? Oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Well. Well, Morgan Freeman played the president in one movie. Well, but the one that Lucy's referencing, that's Jamie Fox with, I don't remember the name of the movie. I don't either. But I only saw that here in the last couple of years and thought, this is really good. That's Jamie Fox and Channing Tatum is the guy kind of guarding the president. Yeah, weren't they like Secret Service agents or something? Channing Tatum was, yeah. Well, and Morgan Freeman played the president in the sum of all fears. White House down. White House down. Yeah. I was thinking, you know, I'd like to have Morgan Freeman be president. Absolutely. He was president when a nuclear bomb went off in a Coke machine in Baltimore. That tests you. That was a bad day for America. Yeah, it was. President, what's his face from Independence Day, Bill Pullman?

He gave maybe one of the best speeches of any president, fictional or real. Today we celebrate our Independence Day. Pretty good impersonation of Bill Pullman. I didn't think he made a great president. It's hard to play. Hey, we beat the aliens. Of course, that wasn't due to him. That was Randy Quaid. Sure. The drunken crop duster. But still, he gets to be president and we beat back the aliens. So that's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, it's hard playing the president. But nobody touched it like Martin Sheen. I mean, every day people just wanted, we wanted Jed Bartlett to be president. Couldn't we get him to be president now? That was an old guard Democrat wet dream. Yeah, it was. You know, Martin Sheen in there. And when that show started, that was supposed to be a Rob Lowe show. It was kind of surrounding his character, everyone else kind of coming in and out of his life. And Martin Sheen was going to be a very, very small part of that show, West Wing. And then all the other characters suddenly got... more interesting. Bradley Whitford, Josh Lyman, especially. And it was just such a, such a good show. Well, it was brilliantly written. Yeah, they did more and more for President Bartlett and the rest of those characters. I did a lot for the presidency. Local passing of note here in Omaha. Jim, you're a man about town. Tell me about Mike Yanny. Well, he was probably one of Omaha's leading citizens, if not one of Nebraska's most really respected and honored philanthropists. From Carney, Nebraska, self-made guy, did very, very well in real estate and banking and investment banking, and then committed most of the last third of his life to philanthropy, big philanthropy. And if you look at the development of the University of Nebraska Medical Center and UMC and the entire university medical structure, It's largely the result of Mike Annie. He not only donated a sizable amount, but he accessed big, big money by other like-minded philanthropists. He just passed away. Yeah, just passed away here at the age of either 92 or 93, depending which TV station reporting, you believe. But the guy started what ended up being Burlington Capital. This is a big investment firm. Everything from... residence halls and apartment complexes for especially like students, low income and military throughout the country. That's just one of the things that Burlington Capitol was a part of. He was, if there's something happening somewhere. on the globe. Chances are Burlington Capital probably had a hand in it. But it was a company first called America First Companies, and it was founded by Mr. Yanny. And it was designed to promote capitalism, and especially in the emerging post-communist Russia. So, yeah, he was all over the world. He was respected by heads of state in many countries. When he would travel, the United States Department of State was aware of it. He met with president.

and kings and sultans and sheiks all over the world. And it was to promote not only Nebraska, but to promote capitalism. And so he was a great American in that way. But he was truly an icon. And he was truly a leader and a mentor for the philanthropic movement. And Buffett has been very, very out. word in his approach to philanthropy. He believes philanthropy should have a capitalist tinge to it. In other words, give money to generate jobs, generate economic development. And Mike Yanny really wrapped his arms around that. But he was also very engaged in Metropolitan Community College. He was supportive of at-risk youth. He really believed that the state should work hard to assist in the development of young people. So it's a huge loss. I got to know Mr. Yanny very well. I saw him probably once or twice every month or two with a visit to his office downtown, and it was a great experience for me. And I found that to be a very, very rare and wonderful privilege that so many didn't have a chance to have. So, but. I've always believed this about philanthropy, Scott, and I think great philanthropists like Walter Scott and Dick Holland and Buffett and others here in Omaha would say the same thing. It only works if the next generation buys in. And Mike Yanny, with Walter and with Bruce Lawrence and some others, really worked hard. Tal Anderson really worked hard to teach the next generation about the value of big philanthropy, accessing great wealth, some of it yours, some of it, somebody else's, to make an impact in the community. And he was a great mentor to the next generation of philanthropists. So if we have success in the next... generation of umahans who do big projects like the previous generation has it's because of mike annie and he had the ear of influential nebraska politicians among those celebrating his life governor pillen former governor now senator pitts as well mike annie gone at the age of 92 uh one of the people i just mentioned is in the news today governor Jim Pillon says this is woke garbage and we need to shut it down. He's talking about. This guy has no filter anymore. Well, you imagine what his last term is going to be like? He's, well, some people think maybe he's in his last term. He is softening his language from what we heard from him recently. So this is woke garbage. What is it? You talk about a $44,000 a year job in the Lincoln Public Schools. LPS is hiring an LGBT. plus advocate. This is basically a counselor who only, I guess, works with students who go wandering in. I'm not exactly sure how this works. And pardon me if I'm being overly glib here. But are you sitting there in social studies and fourth period? And you think, yeah, I felt it coming on for a while now. And let's just go be sure. And you go down to the LGBTQ counselor and say,

I've been wondering, but I think I might be gay, kind of gay, at least. Is there a blood test or how does this work now? Or if you already know you're gay, what do you do? Like in seventh period, you're like, I need a little break. Got to go see the gay advocate. You go in there and go, I just, I can't focus on my math. I'm... I'm pretty gay today. And so I don't know, like what? I'm pretty gay. I'll be less gay tomorrow, but today I'm pretty homosexual. Pretty gay today. And you have a counselor going, well, and then let's talk about it. What I'm saying here is that are the other counselors not qualified to deal with that which any student on... Amongst the 87 genders and various shades of homosexuality we have today are the other counselors not qualified to deal with that. I'm being bullied. I have problems at home. I'm having a hard time focusing on my schoolwork. I think the teacher hates me. I mean, whatever those issues are, I forgot my locker combination. Are there other people within Lincoln public schools at each of the schools there in Lincoln, not qualified? to handle these issues? We need someone who's specifically attuned till the LGBTQ plus experience because, well, you could go in there and have some issue about, you know, I, I'm just feeling a little down today because I'm having problems at home. My parents are getting a divorce and I just need someone to talk to. And then the counselor is like, well, I could help you, but you're gay. So you're going to have to go next door and see that counselor. What in the world is different about that experience in school that we need someone who's sitting right there with a... rainbow flag out front to let you know which counselor you're going to see who's only going to talk to students about this issue. To some people, that sounds like perhaps, perhaps, depending on the issue, sounds like perhaps some either grooming or... The kind of thing where someone says like, yeah, someone was picking on me because I had this shirt on and they said it was, quote, gay, unquote. And the teachers like, the counselor is like, maybe you are gay. Let's talk about this. Let's try and get you out the closet there, bow. Look, I don't have little kids anymore. And to you folks out there who are parents of young children today that are in public schools today, man, that is a roller coaster ride every day. But the thing that worries me, just as an outsider looking in, is if we continue to promote these kinds of positions and we legitimize this kind of behavior in children, okay? We're not talking about consenting adults. We're talking children, grade school kids, middle school kids. To me, this is the social contagion that is at the root of the LGBTQ movement in this country. To suggest to a 7-year-old...

You know, you might not be a little boy. Right. Okay, come on. Now, that's what we're talking. That's the kind of thing that social media is doing to kids who are lonesome, who go on these chat rooms, who get discussed with stuff that they shouldn't be talked about. And who's regulating these people? What are they saying to kids? Are there issues that if you have a kid who has questions about this, you'd like to have a counselor who's specifically interested in those issues? Yes, you can do that on your own outside of school time. That's what worries me about it. Who's regulating these people? 1110 KFAB certified transmission sports brief. Here's Jim Rose. Very good, Scott. Good morning, everybody. Basketball. Huskers open the week with a tough one. Tomorrow night at Iowa, Hawks are not bad. Big 10 yesterday. Illinois beats Indiana. Husker Women play Iowa in Lincoln today at 11 a.m. Must figure the President's Day crowd will show. Husker fans got a disappointing email from the athletic department. Season ticket holders, most of them anyway, will not have access to NCAA basketball tournament tickets through Nebraska. Usually, if you have season tickets, you move to the front of the line. But not for NCAA tournament games. You'll have to go through the venue or a ticket broker. There will be an opening at Kansas State. The university fired Jerome Tang yesterday. They say it's because he was way off base blasting his own guys after the loss to Cincinnati last week. Remember this? This was embarrassing. These dudes do not deserve to wear this uniform. There will be very few of them in it next year. How about this one? It means something to wear a K-State uniform, means something to put on this purple, man. Everything this university is about and all that it's been about, why I love this place, man. Like, they don't love this place, so they don't deserve to be here. Very refreshing for the fans, but it loaded the gun for his bosses who then used the remarks as, quote, damaging to the university's reputation, unquote. Please. They fired him because they have one Big 12 win this year, but this allows them to screw Tang out of the 19 million they owe him on his contract. Bad night for the supernovas, got swept by Orlando, hit just 063 with just seven blocks. That's too bad. 11,000 on pinkout night to raise awareness for breast cancer. ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith, who spends every waking minute of his days inside the five-yard line. wants to get into presidential politics. He thinks he'll run as a Democrat in 2028. He knows he can't win. He just wants on the debate stage to drive up his social media followers. Baseball games down in Arizona. Nebraska looked really good on the first weekend of the season. The Huskers scored 28 runs, wrapped out 44 hits and goes three for three, at least three for the first three beat Grand Canyon U-9-1-ne-Y yesterday. We'll play Stanford at 2 o'clock today.

to try to complete the tournament 4-0. Craig and Blue Jays go 2-1 at St. Mary's out in California. U&O was swept at Arizona State. Sports is news on Nebraska's News Weather and Traffic Station. With Lucy Chapman, Craig Evans, Jim Rose. I am Scott Voorhees. Are you guys getting caught up in the hype surrounding these athletes that two weeks ago we had never heard of? when it comes to the Olympics. Sorry, I've never heard of them. No, it's, here's how it works. Two weeks ago, you're living your life, you're going to work, you're punching a time card, you're trying to get your kids to whatever practice is going on, and you're confused about where you're supposed to be. I thought today was Tuesday, and it's, you know, that's your entire life. And then, here go the commercials, and you're like, all right, I'll aimlessly kind of stare at the Olympics. And then you catch someone's story. This Olympic athlete out of America was born with his spleen on the outside of his body. His parents didn't have any money for any kind of medical abilities, so they looked online and said, how do you put someone's spleen back in their body? And their father armed with only a pin knife and a dream, managed to put his spleen back and get him stitched up. And then they put some ice skates on him. And then this guy turned into the greatest athlete of all time, and you kind of get... caught up in the story about these guys. You get caught up in the story if you want to. We were just talking about this last night. This is what ruined AGT. America's Got Talent and maybe a little bit of American Idol. This is what ruined it. We don't want the backstory. I love that stuff. And, well... Another show that does that, and you don't always know if it's going to end well or not, is American Ninja Warrior. Every once in a while, they'll say like, here's a T-LIN. That's still on. Yeah, I love American Ninja Warriors. It's one of the few shows you can watch with your kids. Yeah. And so our family enjoyed watching that once in a while. We didn't watch it every single week. It's all the same plot. You've got an obstacle course and people trying to complete the course. But once in a while, they say, Now, here's a young woman who, and you get the whole backstory, you know, who walked to school both ways, uphill, 10 feet of snow and all that stuff with only breadbags over her feet. Oh, wait, that's Joni Ernst. Anyway, here's this person's story, and you get all caught up in it. And that either means that this person's about to complete the obstacle course in record time and be surrounded by crying family and friends like, you did it, you did such a wonderful job. Or they're going to flame out on the very first obstacle and fall right in the water. Same thing with the Olympics. You get all caught up in someone's life story and hype and all that. Well, this person must be the greatest ice skater of all time. After all, they call him the quad god. And then you sit there and watch this stuff. I can't tell the difference between technically what this ice skater is doing and how many turns and twirls that ice skater is doing. It all looks exactly the same to me. Sounds like the French judge. And then the person loses and you're like, how is that possible? They gave him a nickname.

This is like 1992, the Reebok campaign with the greatest athlete rivalry. Dan and Dave. This was going to be the two great Americans competing against each other to see who the best athlete in the world was. Well, one of them didn't even qualify for the Olympic team. The other one got bronze. Jim, since I don't think you're going to have this in the sports, I hope you'll grant me the grace to tell you what got someone disqualified during the Olympic ski jump. here just the other day. I thought you're going to talk about the curling, but please, yeah, fill us in on the ski. Well, the curling, big, big controversy with the curling. Tom Brady was inflating the stones and there's a problem there. No, this is the Austrian ski jumper, Daniel Scholfi-Nig. Yeah, that's how you say his name. I think so. I don't know. So he got kicked out of the men's large hill ski jumping individual event after someone said, hey, Check his boots. And they checked his boots, and they found out that his boots were exactly four millimeters bigger than regulations allow. Four millimeters. You would think that that would be a problem, that it'd be a heavier load. You would think, I'm not sure exactly the load of four millimeters worth of boot. But he said, hey, rules are rules. Now, what if he's just got big feet? What if he, what if Shaquille O'Neal is going down there in his size 20s or whatever the guy has? And who wouldn't want to watch Shaq go down the downhill? Here we go. That'd be fun. So, yeah, he got disqualified, four millimeters. Wow. And ladies, he's single. All right. Now, our news radio 1110 KFAB White House correspondent, John Decker joins us now. The question which has been there for a long time is, can the president actually do this? Can any president do this? This is an executive order. If Congress doesn't do what President Trump wants, Trump says he'll do it before the midterms. John, what are we talking about here this morning? Well, we're talking about the president suggesting that he'd sign an executive order that would contain essentially the same legislative language contained in legislation that is languished in the U.S. Senate. The problem is that the Constitution has essentially supremacy over everything. An executive order cannot overrule the U.S. Constitution. And the Constitution says Article 1, Section 4, Clause 1 of the... of the Constitution indicates that it's the states that decide, the time, the place, the matter of elections. The president has no role in this whatsoever. So if the president goes ahead, signs that executive order, it will most certainly be challenged in federal court. If it works its way all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, now I'm putting my lawyer hat on, the Supreme Court, even those conservative justices, will say, no, you cannot do that as president. This is something that the states could do. Why isn't, I wonder why the president's not leaning on state legislators to get this done. But I mean, he, I'm sure someone near the president is telling him what you just said. Like, Mr. President, this is something you can't do. I mean, it's constitutionally impossible. Do you imagine that he knows that and he's just going to force the issue anyway just to put Democrats on the defensive?

I think that may be part of it, you know, and I don't know whether or not the White House counsel is, you know, informing the president, this is something you cannot do. The president, as you know, has signed executive orders before that have been challenged in the federal courts. In fact, you may recall the president signed an executive order related to birthright citizenship, and that executive order is being challenged. The Supreme Court actually will hear. oral arguments concerning that on April the 1st. So just a few months away, I think that's what the president is hoping, that this case does work its way through the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court rules on his side. I don't think that the court will. And I also don't think that the changes that the president has in mind would actually... be able to occur before the midterm elections just because it will be tied up in the federal court. Great reporting as always. John, thank you very much for the time on this president's day. That's John Decker. That's KFAB White House correspondent and attorney John Decker here on news radio 1110 KFAB. Jim, did you note that at the Munich Security Conference, we had leaders from both parties go there and talk to our European allies, and they all said very different things. state Marco Rubio said, yeah, here's what the president's doing. As you know, he's very transparent and what he wants to do, not just in terms of tariffs, but also trying to have peace in the Middle East and get Russia out of Ukraine and tell Iran stop doing that and all the rest of this stuff. And then Governor Gavin Newsom showed up. Not sure why the, I mean, California is obviously influential state here in America, but to have Gavin Newsom. go to this worldwide conference and tell our European allies, quote, Donald Trump is temporary. He'll be gone in three years, unquote. That's actually factually true. It is factually true. But when we're trying to, we have our Secretary of State working with our allies to get some important things done here. Russia, Iran, the Middle East. And then Gavin Newsom's like, don't listen to these guys. Hey, there's a chance I might be in charge here in a few years. Don't listen to these guys. It's not treasonous, but it's dancing towards that line. And that's what he was doing. Who invited this guy? He has no power over this. What was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doing? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has no more capacity to be there than she should be running a brassiere store above a shoe store in Brickland. Look, this is the bottom line. These people feel like this is a chance for them to get some video. that they can turn into a campaign pledge ask. They can look like they are really, truly the assertive, dominant, powerful leader of the future. So see what I did in front of all of these European leaders. Now, give me money so I can run for president. That's what it's all about, or run for Congress, or run for re-election, whatever it may be. These people are doing things as a matter of political fact.

Get me some material that I can use in a campaign ask. And I don't know whether Gavin Newsom is going to be the next president of the United States. I don't think so because I think there are better Democrats out there that have a much better chance to win over independence and moderate Republicans. I don't. Whether it's Josh Shapiro or Andy Beshear, but this guy right here is a closet, almost certifiable narcissist. And this is what you get. And now what Marco Rubio had to say, I would encourage. And Trump's not. Love him or hate him? We're not talking about Trump. We're talking about what happened at the Munich Security Company. If you really want to know what a statesman sounds like, you need to go back and watch Marco Rubio's speech. I love Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio speech was one of, and I was trying to put it into context. I don't recall hearing a non-president make a speech of that caliber in my lifetime. before an important collection of people who want to know, is the U.S. with us or against us? And what Marco Rubio said is, we're with you if you're with us. President Trump, the people that Trump has surrounded himself with in this term, so much better than round one from JD Vance to Marco Rubio. Since you mentioned it, this is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, congressman from New York. She's such a sophomore. She's such a sophomore. Talking about what are we going to do with China? Should we need to defend Taiwan? This ought to be good. The U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move. You know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that. This is a this is of course a very long-standing policy of the United States and I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point and we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise. China wants her in power so bad. And we made fun of Sarah Palin and we made fun of Kamala Harris. That is right out of the Kamala Harris how to handle a question without knowing anything playbook. Sure. I don't mind someone taking a pause for a moment to get their thoughts in order, especially on a big issue to be able to answer it. She'd never conceived of the notion of standing up to China. She'd never conceived of what we would do in terms of an alliance with Taiwan. And she starts babbling about our economic research. What does that mean? China doesn't care.

about anything she just said and they want someone like her in power so badly. The answer that she gives is, you know, I'm a member of Congress and I'm very familiar with the president's policy on China, and I'm very familiar with our policy toward Taiwan. It would be inappropriate for me to discuss a military confrontation with another country as a member of the United States Congress. If articles of war come to us, we'll vote for them on the merit. But in the meantime, it's inappropriate for anyone other than the President of the United States to talk about foreign policy in a setting such as this. Now, if you want to come to Congress and visit with a committee, our Foreign Relations Committee, or our National Security Committee, then we can have a more substantive conversation. But that's how you answer that question if you're Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But she's a sophomore. She doesn't know anything. She's been embarrassed by Tom Homan on camera. when she talks about letting people into the country. She doesn't know the basic laws of the country. That's not her point. Her point is not to know the laws. Her point is to be... what she is, which is an undercapable gen wire. That's what she is. My son is a sophomore, and I think he would answer that question better by saying, Taiwan, no, they make all my basketball stuff. We have to protect them. And this is where our commander-in-chief gets in trouble by when asked that question. He says, look, we don't want to have to go into China, but if we have to commit nukes and ground troops, we'll do it to tell China, knock that stuff off. And people are like, he just threatened China. Now, he gave them something to think about. he's crazy enough just to do it. Think the Chinese. And I'm not saying they're wrong. That's the kind of answer that they understand. Well, Reagan, the Russians weren't sure if Ronald Reagan was ready to drop nukes on them. Sometimes the threat of what the United States will do is enough. It's the old Teddy Roosevelt, walk softly but carry a big stick. Yeah. And Trump says, my stick is the biggest one. We've had.