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This is Nebraska's morning news. I'm Scott Voorhees. Jim Rose is here. Craig Evans back from Vegas, which is a miracle in and of itself. Lucy Chapman is here. which is a miracle in and of itself as well. Can confirm. Just not the fact that you're here. You're always here. It's just you're a miracle. Was I supposed to unhook my hoses and cover my plants this weekend? I guess it got cold. I didn't get that message. Was I supposed to do that? So let's see here. Let's just check out the water in your basement and you're going to know. Oh, okay. Thank you. So it got cold. And we got ice and snow in areas of the country that traditionally never, almost never get ice and snow. There was a phenomenon known as exploding trees that was kind of making the rounds on social media. I would love to see a video of that actually happening and not AI. I'd probably enjoy an AI video of it anyway. We had... The Super Bowl set, and we've got Nebraska basketball ready to go for arguably the biggest game in Nebraska basketball history tomorrow night. Now, it doesn't necessarily mean anything about how the rest of the season can go, but when you've got a top five matchup between Nebraska and Michigan here tomorrow night. This is the game. This is so exciting. This is the toughest game of the season so far. We'll see where Braden Frager's ankle is. It'll be fine. It's in the wishing boot right now. It'll be fine. I don't know if it's going to be okay for tomorrow night. Yeah, this is it. There's a big ESPN game. This used to be the big ESPN game. You know, everybody would gather around the tube to watch in fraternity houses and dorm rooms to watch the big ESPN game. I think it's a BTN game tomorrow. Is it really? I'm not sure. I'll check to see. Because ESPN doesn't have a contract with the Big Ten, so it won't be on ESPN. But it's going to be on somewhere. And it'll be on all over the state of Nebraska for sure. But this is an exciting time. And Nebraska is in first place in the Big Ten conference by a game over Illinois, Michigan, and Michigan State. They have the tiebreaker against two of those, but we still have 12 games to go, including tomorrow night. And we've got the biggest news in the country. And this is going to sound familiar to you. ICE and a protester. Got into what ended up being a violent altercation in Minneapolis over the weekend. All right, what are our thoughts here this morning? I'm sure that everyone's had a chance to review 17 different angles of this video. They have heard the assessment of those who want ICE out of Minneapolis. They've heard the assessment of the Department of Homeland Security. You've seen with your own eyes these videos. How are we feeling about this this morning, Jim? Well, a couple of things. There are multiple issues sort of in the air. The first one is, of course, that any violence that's coming from the protests, honestly,

She needs to go. This guy went there with the intent to mask her agents. Obviously, we don't know that for sure. Why would a guy, though, go there with a semi-automatic pistol and a couple of magazines, no identification, and go in there for the purpose of following around ICE? He shouldn't have been there with a gun. There's no doubt about it. You show up at a protest with a gun, especially with a tender box. that we have in Minneapolis right now, you're looking for trouble and somebody might wind up getting shot. So that is another side issue. What was that guy doing at a protest with a gun instead of a sign or a whistle or a snow shovel or whatever the hell they're using these days? Right. But that doesn't explain the behavior of the ice agents. And nobody is a bigger fan of ice than me and nobody is a bigger fan of law enforcement than me. But the guy was on his hands and knees. Why was it necessary to shoot the guy seven times when he didn't have the gun anymore and he was on his hands and knees? That's one issue. The second one is, the Secretary of Homeland Security should not be making these declarative statements. And she did the same thing after the issue with the lady who was killed by running her car into an ice agent. Why can't these people just say, until we have all of the evidence, until we have reviewed the tape. And until we can conclude something for you, we're not saying anything. Fair point. What I've seen on the video is to your point, number one. Why'd they have to shoot him as he was down there in his hands and knees? He wasn't. He had one officer who... That's a video that I saw. One officer who disarmed him. He's still fighting other officers who can't see who did what. And he's trying still to get up. He shouldn't have done that. He reaches for his holster. He's got something in his hand. I don't know if it was a magazine, a phone, or whatever. There are some evidence that suggests that the gun that was taken from him had discharged. And now in that chaotic scene, officers in a split-second decision who didn't have the opportunity to think about it for a while, they all fire their weapons. So look, this is all, I think. started by a fact that a guy goes there and don't let's not start calling this like ice killed a protest no he wasn't killed because he was protesting correct he was killed because he was impeding in operation and he had a gun and he wasn't even killed because he had a gun well but he had one which is not that was not That was unhelpful. You shouldn't be taken loaded weapons to a protest, especially in Minneapolis, Minnesota these days. But again, I ask you, why would he bring a semi-automatic pistol in two magazines and no identification? I both agree and disagree with Jim Rose. I agree with you when you said that Kristi Noem. spoke too forcefully and automatically assumed the intent of the guy who went out there with a loaded weapon, with a couple of magazines, with the intent of obstructing ICE operations. And then she added that little bit, like he went out there to commit mass murder as a domestic terrorist or however it was she phrased that. By the way, President Trump has not taken a strongest stance. He just says, look, it's a tragic thing.

He wishes that people would cooperate with ICE, but there's a full investigation. Now, that was too forceful and that assumed intent. Now, she's not judge and jury in this one, a very prominent and an influential voice. She probably shouldn't have said that. But let me also disagree with you and try and crawl into the head. of someone who has been divorced for the last couple of years. His wife and him used to go out there and engage in protest. These guys were George Floyd protesters, but she said, you know, he never, like, brought a gun or did anything like that. In fact, she says... I didn't like his gun. He wasn't allowed to have his gun around me, which also speaks to another layer to this conversation, which is here we have a straight white guy with a gun. The left really, really doesn't like that characterization. They don't like that particular box checked. A straight white guy with a gun. Bad news. Well, he's welcome to have one. It was licensed to carry it in the state of Minnesota. The left really doesn't like guns. They don't like a straight white guy with a gun. So this guy goes there. I'm not even like straight white guys. He's got a semi-automatic pistol, two magazines. He does not have identification. He told his parents, I'm going out there to protest. They may be sensing that there was stuff going on in this guy's life expressly told him, don't do anything stupid. You can start to get a picture painted of a guy who potentially left his apartment that day knowing he wasn't coming home. Oh. I don't know. You know, he was an emergency room nurse at the Veterans Administration. He had a good job. That's a tough, tough job. But he had a stable, he had a stable professional life by all indications. He had a stable family life by all indications. I mean, everybody's got something, but I mean, by the general assumption and the general look of things, he didn't have a lifeless life, if you will. So, you know, that's assigning all sorts of possibilities to, which is what we do here. I'm not opposed to that. What I don't like is this. This is causing trouble for ICE. These kinds of episodes are causing trouble for the giant effort that the people of this country voted for in 2024. We want people who aren't supposed to be here out of here. And we want people who've committed crimes to be dropped off in the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. So that's just the nature of what the American people desire. They didn't desire this. Now, it's not ICE's responsibility.

that they are being harassed, abused, and in many cases threatened by protesters up there whose brains have frozen. And it's not ICE's problem that the mayor up there got dropped on his head as an infant and the governor is a buffoon. That's not the problem for ICE. That's what they have to deal with. But it seems to me the president of the United States right now, who has been very clear, we're getting them out of there, and we don't care what happens in the process, would do well to have a conversation with the American people about this. And it would probably help out if he had a conversation. Granted, when you're dealing with idiots, it can be very counterproductive. But he should have a conversation with the governor and the mayor in Minnesota and just say, all right, guys. Guys. Let's stop yelling at each other for a minute and I'll be the first one to stop yelling at you because he posted on social media stuff he probably shouldn't have posted. I don't know if he wrote it, but it came out on Donald Trump's true social account. He always writes it. He probably always writes it. And that is, okay. Here's what's going to happen, Governor Walls and Mayor Fry. We're going to continue to do what we're doing, and I got more firepower than you do. So let's not have one of those size contests here. How about this? You turn over all of the really bad guys in your state, and we will take them out of there, and then we'll start pulling people out of Minnesota, ice folks out of Minnesota. We're going to get the 1,300 baddies that you won't let us have access to. These are the rapists and the pedophiles and the murderers and the thugs that we really don't, and I don't think the people of Minnesota want them there either, and you don't want them on your dime. So why don't you give us access to them? We're going to haul them out of there and you don't have to worry about them anymore. And in the process, we will draw down the ICE agents in Minnesota for the next six months. That's what he's been saying. Well, he didn't expressly give a time's line. But, you know, they're up there in this case. ICE is up there trying to get an illegal immigrant from Ecuador with the criminal history, domestic insult involving intentional bodily harm, disorderly conduct, driving without a license, putting everyone in jeopardy. And by the way, he got away because of the people up there agitating and obstructing. I don't disagree. But when you hear the rhetoric coming out of... of Kristi Noem, and you hear the rhetoric coming out of Kash Patel, the FBI director, and you hear the rhetoric coming out of Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary, who is on the Sunday morning talk shows, and you see the entries into Donald Trump's true social account. It says just the opposite. It says, we're going to have a size contest here, and mine's bigger than yours. That's not helpful when people are getting shot, because if you reach out to Minnesota and say, how do we make this work to where we get the really bad guy? out of Minnesota. We need your police officers to help ICE. We need your National Guardsmen and State Patrol to help ICE. But you can't just keep yelling at each other and telling each other that you're the problem. You're committing atrocities, Mr. Trump. You're an idiot. Mayor...

fry and all the rest, which is what we've had here. And I got to tell you, I can't believe that ICE, and I saw some reporting by Bill Maluchin of Fox News over the weekend, I can't believe that everybody in immigration and customs enforcement is happy with what's going on. Because everywhere in the country now, these ICE agents are being even more targeted than before because of what's happening in Minnesota. Love to hear your thoughts. Scott at KFAB.com via the Zonkers Custom Woods inbox. That's Jim Rose. He's back with Sports Brief after traffic weather and a news update next. We solve problems here at 1110 KFAB. See, if everybody would just listen to us, no problems. Scott at KFAB.com. All right. What do you think here? We've got emails from Tom sent to the aforementioned Scott at KFAB.com and the Zonkers custom was inbox. Tom says Jim Rose is delusional. Make a deal with Tim Walz. He's a Democrat under investigation for fraud. Tim's not having it. Ron emails and says, I think what happened was this is the situation where you've got... A chaotic scene. Guys on the ground. A gun has been removed. He's still fighting. He's reaching. And Ron says one officer saw the gun in his waistband, removed the gun. Another officer saw the gun, but was not able to see who was holding it and yelled gun. Another officer heard gun and then shot the guy. Someone else heard the gunshots, fired more gunshots. It's a mass confusion situation. And then Ron decides to end that email with Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes. That's from Ron listening to us via our free IHeart Radio app and the beautiful lake of the Ozarks. Ron, thank you for the email. Dave says, concealed carry does not mean carrying one singular gun. I carry two peacekeepers. So when your life has been threatened over the last few months for just doing your job and some moron with a gun is going nuts, it doesn't mean he doesn't have a second weapon. He wouldn't have been shot if he was making his macaroni and cheese in the kitchen. Patrick emails the same assessment, says, you know what would have kept this guy alive 100%? Staying home. Look, you have a right to go out there if you want to stay on the sidewalk protests and all that. But, Jim, when you say, you know, no one wants these criminal illegal immigrants in our community, I think it's very clear there are people who want, for example, this Ecuadorian illegal immigrant with domestic violence assault records going back. And someone who should be removed from our community, ICE is trying to get him. These guys are disrupting the ICE operation. in the middle of the street getting in the way of ICE agents. And this guy brings a firearm in a couple of magazines there. Why would they do this if not for wanting ICE not?

to get this criminal into custody? No, I don't think that's the case. I don't think anybody with functioning gray matter in the state of Minnesota, albeit people do freeze their brains up there this time of year, and there are a few Boo Radley's out walking around. I get that. But I would say 95% of Minnesotans are not protesting ICE getting rid of bad guys. They're protesting ICE's behavior. They're protesting the idea, and some of it is... founded by no evidence. It's just been circulated through social media and reverberated by people like Jacob Frey, the mayor up there, who probably should be locked up for some of the things he said. These people don't want criminals walking the streets of Minnesota. Nobody's sane does. What they're saying is, okay, yeah, we want the bad guys out, but before we get the bad guys out, we want ICE to stop behaving this way. What do you mean? behaving like what? That's the fundamental question. This is about playing to the base of people who have... bleeding hearts for somebody who they believe is underserved. And that's okay. Our country is a generous nation. It's an empathetic nation. It's a nation of people who care about others. That's fine. But the misinformation up there is what's stirring all of this. The misinformation about a five-year-old boy who was... detained by ICE? No, that never happened. That wasn't the case. Nobody kidnapped a five-year-old. What they did was they protected a five-year-old and kept him with his family so he wouldn't be standing out there on the street alone. Yeah, including his father who ditched him as ICE was trying to bring him in custody. And who told his mother, don't open the door to let these people put our son back in our house. Okay, that's all the information that has been... badly mangled by everybody from the mayor to the governor. It doesn't help when Kristi Noem, who probably needs to go, Kristi Noem can't be making declarative statements representing the Department of Homeland Security like that. She is the leader of this organization, and you can't be reckless like that. It's just, this is, it's all part of the brew that's causing trouble. Send your declarative statements to Scott at KFAB.com. Doug says Kristi Noem should be done this week. She isn't qualified for the job. All this BS will mean something come midterm time. Yeah. And Monica says, please tell Jim to stop lecturing us on a Monday morning. That's what I've been doing for 25 years. Monica, which. Welcome to the party. Which morning is okay for Jim to lecture you. We don't lecture here. We just fire stuff off and let you consume it. We are talking about what's happening in the news. Kind of what we do here. Kind of what we do here. Adam says.

One thing lost in the shooting this past Saturday in Minneapolis is the totality of the past year and all the violence from the left, from burning Tesla dealerships to shooting conservatives. It all serves to weaken Americans' attention span. We're tired of the crying, storming of churches, keying of cars, violence against cops, etc. We understand the crazy leftists are few, but man, they cry loud. Bring on the midterms. That's from Adam. I think a lot of people feel like it's no Republicans going to get reelected in November right now because the media keeps telling you that even Trump supporters look at what's going on, for example, in Minneapolis and say we've had enough of this. One thing to consider, and then I'll turn the floor over to you because I can see you jumping. There are ice operations going on. All over the country. Yes. They're happening in Omaha. Democrat cities. They're happening in Texas. They've been happening in Chicago, Los Angeles. We don't see the same things that we've been seeing in Minneapolis. Why is Minneapolis ground zero for people to think is perfectly fine for them to go up there and get in the face of these ICE operators, infringe upon their operations, taking bad criminals into custody? Try and smash the windows of the hotels where they're staying at night. Why is this happening in Minneapolis? And if you guys wanted to stop, let these guys do their job, take the criminals off the streets, and then you can destroy the streets on your own after ICE isn't there. It's your community. Do what you've got to do. Continues to boggle my mind, Scott, that a mayor like Jacob Frey, again, who I believe has some sort of an impairment. and Tim Walz, the governor, who's proven that he has multiple impairments, why they will allow these people to destroy property in their own communities. The spray painting on the walls of buildings, the breaking of doors and windows, the damage that is done in the city of Minneapolis, by Minneapolis, folks, by Minnesotans, people who live there. Where is local law enforcement protecting private property? owned by Minnesotans who may be sympathetic to the cause. They just let this happen. It was like George Floyd burned down a whole big chunk of Minneapolis, Minnesota, just because we can. Where are these people protecting Minnesotans? That's a weird dynamic. They're there. They're kind of there. And the protesters who hated them a few years ago in the George Floyd deal. now seem to love local law enforcement. They've got local law enforcement wearing like hunting vest. So, hey, we're not Homeland Security. We're your local cops. Where are your good guys? And the same protesters, the same ilk who hated these guys and wanted them defunded and dead a few years ago. Now look at them as heroes because they're not Trump's Gestapo. Yeah. That's a weird dynamic. Look at some of the damage up there. It's minus 15 degrees in Minnesota. And yet they have broken out windows on businesses, doors, sliding glass doors that you go through to enter a building, whether it's an office building or a hotel or a restaurant. How are you going to function in a restaurant if there is 15-degree windshield coming through your front door? This is the thing that blows my mind. In what world is this allowed by people you elect to enforce the peace?

That's not getting discussed. This is all about the jack boot thuggery of ice, which of course is a misnomer. But the challenge, and I think this is maybe one of the most salient remarks that I heard over the weekend. This erosion of trust may never, ever be rebuilt. The news media up there is getting it wrong. The national news media is getting it wrong. The elected officials are making things up. The elected officials in front of microphones are saying things that are simply not true just to appeal to a political base. There is a coordinated, agitated attempt by outsiders to influence this. It's too organized for it not to be. You have food for them. You have weapons for them. You have instructions for them. You have information that is provided to these protesters by somebody or something. that probably doesn't even live in Minnesota. It's tragic because of the people who live up there. And I said this before, whether you know, you're a Republican or a Democrat, most Minnesotans don't like what's going on in their communities. And it's not the ice that they don't like. They don't like the destruction. They don't like the chaos. They don't like the crime being committed. Aaron says, Jim says, 95% of the Minnesotans think correctly. Well, that still leaves about 200,000 psychos. And I think most of them are in Minneapolis. There's something weird going on in that city. Yeah, it certainly seems that way. Aaron, I appreciate the email. Jim and I were talking off the air here and amongst the conversation, some of these high school. Transfer is coming to Miller South by way of the University of Nebraska before they even play a snap for the Huskers. I should tell you that one funny thing happening on social media amongst the current high school crowd are all of the, whether they're athletes or non-athletes, mostly non-athletes. or posting on their social media, committed. And it shows them, like, saying, we're all transferring to Millard South to play football. It's pretty funny. My son was showing his buddies all talking about, hey, I just real proud to be a part of the Patriot Program. Can't wait to get started. So it looks like there's a million different athletes here in the Omaha area, all transferring to Millard South. My favorite was Nebraska alternate uniforms. It was Millard South. That's so good. Tim email says, I want to thank you guys for telling us about the Frank Caliando show at the Funny Bone. I went to the Saturday night 6 o'clock show. Tim, I was at the Saturday night 6 o'clock show. Sorry I didn't see you there. Yeah, and Frank didn't like you signing autographs on stage like that. Well, I thought he had some dead time there. And so Tim says he's even more amazing than on TV or the radio. I wouldn't have known about it if not for KFAB. Yeah, that Calliando show.

was packed at the new Funny Bone location. Been there for a while, but it's the first time I've been there back in the old vicinity on Lower Dodge near 114th, just north of Dodge. They've also got an arcade with beer that's under the same roof of the Funny Bones. You can see the show and then go over there or you can go over there and go see the show. I felt bad for the people waiting for the 830 show. The line was way down the whole strip ball and it was... gold on Saturday night. Did he do any, did he do any imitations of Greg McDermott? No, he didn't do McDermott, but he did all the rest of them. As far as, you know, it's cold here, but they're talking about, let's see, 800, 20,000 people without power. Right now, that's about 250,000 in Tennessee. Alone. More than 12,000 flights were canceled yesterday. We're looking at 3,500 cancellations thus far today. At least nine deaths blamed on this monster of a winter storm. And I know some people here in Omaha like, this isn't a winter storm. Omaha is one of the best places to be, period, and one of the best places to be, you know, that's not Scottsdale or San Diego, you know, here across the Midwest and points, you know, even southeast of here. And we got lucky on the weather. We got real lucky here. It snowed a little bit out west on Friday night and Saturday morning, but. we've had our share of ice storms and seven to eight inch dumps. And we've had our power outages. Thankfully, none this time. But, yeah, you've got to feel for those folks, especially, you know, where it's really cold. Okay. I mean, it's colder. We have, what, 20 degrees in Houston. I mean, it's just a lot colder than it's ever been anywhere else. But then when you don't have power, those people are just not equipped for it. Right. Well, there'll be some people. able to go back to work and school today, and they're saying this might put more of a strain on the power grid than over the weekend as people try and get back to their lives. And today could be a bad day for power outages, hopefully not across the southwest power pool, including Omaha. This email from B, then that's not B like B-E-A, but just the initial B from Lincoln. Says these ICE officers are basically shake and bake with a training pipeline that's only 47 days long. Police spend about a year before graduating, then six months training with a field officer before patrolling on their own and being fully certified. I realize the mission is different. But many of these ICE agents seem like untrained, undisciplined goobers. An ice officer who was all of 200 pounds. shoves a 100-pound woman 10 feet to the curb. Why? No reason for that, which only escalated thing. This seems to me like a bunch of roided up losers with low self-esteem and anger issues are put through a lame 47 days training course and given a gun an absolute immunity, and this is what you get. No, they don't have absolute immunity. And if you don't want to be shoved from the street to the curb, stay out of the street.

where ICE is engaging in operations to take a criminal into custody. And look, we can all argue about the tactics and all that stuff. I personally would not like to see this woman shoved into the street. And the way that you do that is not be in the middle of the street when ICE is doing operations and then shouting at them and putting a camera in their face. You can do that in the sidewalk. You can't do that in the street. So if you get nudged to the street... And then pepper sprayed, and then here comes this guy coming in there with his firearm, which he didn't draw, to his credit. But you're fighting with the officers and then reaching for the gun. It just creates a very chaotic situation where things can go terribly wrong. President Trump... has yet to issue definitive judgment on the ICE official who fatally shot this guy in Minneapolis, saying that his administration is reviewing everything about the case. He continues to say that the officials in Minnesota, whether it's the mayor or the governor, that Jim Rose has had some pretty pointed comments about, are a big problem. I just use facts. Well, you continue to say factually that, that is it the mayor of Minneapolis was dropped on his head at birth? There can be no other explanation for his behavior. We don't know for sure whether he was dribbled like a basketball at birth. But you stated that as a fact. I'm not arguing. Well, you're right. I sort of make it sound like it's true. And by all indicators it is, but we don't actually have a medical report of him being dropped on his head as an infant. But. When you just look at him walking, talking, saying things, you get the impression that's exactly what happened. We all know about Tim Walz. We watched him during the 2024 campaign. Here's the quote from Governor Walls, Nebraska Native. He says, which side do you want to be on? The side of an all-powerful federal government that could kill, injure, menace, and kidnap its citizens off the streets, or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such government? That is such a... gross misrepresentation of what happened here. This guy had a laudable resume. I wish that he would have taken the opportunity over the weekend if he didn't have to go to work to rest, recuperate, and be ready for work today. He didn't do that. He did not get killed for bearing witness to a government that can kill, injure, menace, and kidnap its citizens off the streets. Governor Wals. But that's what he said. Now we've got President Trump issuing more restraint than Governor Wals. That's the America you've woken to this morning. Glad to have you with us here, Nebraska's morning news. Well, I think we can be thankful that we don't have this here. And you brought up the point last hour, Scott, which is, again, is somehow lost on the national narrative.

But there are ICE operations in most every major city in this country right now, including some that are run by Democrats, particularly Memphis, Tennessee, New Orleans, Louisiana. We don't have the problems there. And the reason we don't have the problems there is that the mayors of Memphis and New Orleans and the governor of Tennessee and the governor of Louisiana, they are not actively circumventing. the efforts of immigration and customs enforcement by, you know, going on television and going on the Internet and telling people to do stupid stuff. John Ewing released a statement yesterday as a bunch of people began protesting near 72nd of Dodge because they don't like ICE and they didn't like what happened with the shooting of a guy up in Minneapolis. Here's the statement from Mayor Ewing. As we grapple with recent events, there's anger and confusion. This is no doubt a tenuous time. If you decide to protest, as is our shared constitutional right, please do so peacefully. The Omaha Police Department will work to keep all safe. I ask all to practice restraint and care. I would ask all of us in Omaha to hold each other, friends and strangers alike, in our hearts. I would ask us to deepen our commitments to one another as human beings. regardless of circumstance so that all who live here feel included, welcomed, and safe. That's the statement from Mayor Ewing. Well, I think that's an unfortunate statement because that doesn't speak to law enforcement. That doesn't speak to the rule of law. He says all. That speaks to, okay, if you're here illegally, you get slack. That's not a good message. God bless John Ewing. He's a nice man. He wants everybody to hold hands and get along, and that's noble. But this has to be about enforcing the law. And what I would hope that the mayoral policy is, even if it's not public, is that Omaha police, law enforcement in this community will not impede federal... actions will not get in the way and will actually assist in crowd control or protests if they break out. Now, we've had a little bit here and there. We've had 100 people here, 75 people there. We have not had large scale protests. In fact, I would offer that the accuracy in the reporting of the crowd protesting crowds in Minneapolis has been inflated. I don't think that's very big either. It looks bigger than it is. They're saying up to 500 at 70 second and Dodge yesterday. Well, I don't believe there were 500 people at 72nd in Dodge. But the truth is that, well, yeah, but you can't trust him, Scott. I mean, you cannot trust, I'm sorry, but you cannot trust the local media here to report on this story fairly and objectively. The local media in this community has been on the side of... the protesters and illegal immigrants here. Consistently.

That's Jim Rose. Well, it has. Sorry. Lucy, what am I describing? People had their eyes glued to the TV over the weekend wondering how I was going to go. They felt anxious and very nervous about it. Am I talking about that guy climbing the skyscraper in Japan or just the news? The news in general. Yeah, and now we have the added anxiety of wondering whether the government is going to shut down again. Sounds like that could be imminent. We welcome on here, News Radio 1110 KFAB, White House correspondent John Decker, back to the program. John, do we have a government shutdown on the horizon? Yeah, it's possible. You know, if you ask me that question on Friday, I give you a different answer than the answer I'm giving you today. And the reason has to do is that fatal shooting that happened on Saturday morning in Minneapolis. That has changed the dynamics of the situation. Democrats now say they will not support funding the Department of Homeland Security as long as their procedures for dealing with protests. on the ground in Minneapolis remain in place. And so that's the issue. And we have four days, four days until that deadline for reaching an agreement to keep the government open. Yeah, partial government shut down. January 30th is the funding deadline. I mean, there's no way that Democrats are going, enough of them are going to come over with the Republicans and do this. So what happens after? This deadline passes later this week. Well, just that, a partial government shutdown. You know, there are some parts of the government that are indeed funded because of funding bills that will likely be passed. between now and that deadline that you mentioned. But as it relates to the DHS, that's the department that has oversight over ICE, for instance, that would not be funded. So we'll see. We'll see if there are any meetings of the minds that take place between now and that January 30th deadline to avoid that partial government shutdown. And we'll see if that changes the way in which... the entities, the federal agents that work for the Department of Homeland Security deal with those protests on the ground in Minneapolis. Well, we just went through a 43-day shutdown, I think probably about 43 days ago, maybe a little more than that. Yeah. Is this shutdown, when you talk about a partial government shutdown, does this next one here potentially after Friday look like the last one with military members not getting paid and all the rest of this? No, it doesn't. And that's the reason why we call it a partial government shutdown because there are certain departments that have gotten their legislation approved, their appropriations approved by Congress. And so that kind of situation that we saw happen in November with the government shutdown would not exist with this potential government shutdown, which would happen at the end of this week. Got it. John Decker, thank you so much for the reporting, as always.

Thank you. Keith emails and says, I can't seem to remember when Republicans ever had a real good protest, a protest just to protest something that won't change a thing. I think what he's talking about is standing out there in the street holding signs encouraging people to honk and wave and so forth. It doesn't exactly seem to be. Republicans thing, not to say that conservatives don't gather. As the wind chills were below zero and snow was bearing down on the East Coast, the media probably mostly neglected to tell you that the March for Life was held over the weekend in Washington, D.C., and there were thousands and thousands. Hundreds of thousands. And hundreds of thousands, billions and billions. Well, not billions. Millions and millions. There were a lot of people out there. A lot more people there than protesting in Minneapolis. Right. Is that a protest? Well, no, it's just, it's a gathering. Nobody got shot. Nobody's building got spray painted. Nobody's windows were punched out. As far as here in Omaha. I had to laugh when Jim Rose, without evidence, said, I don't believe the local news when they tell you four to 500 people were out there at 70 second and Dodge yesterday. Now, you weren't out there. You weren't out there. I just looked at the video. Crowd estimating. Well, J.D. emails and says his wife, Jenny. Jenney happened to be driving at 72nd of Dodge yesterday, and she was going to go to the Target there at that intersection, but ended up not going because of how many people were there and in the area. She didn't give me an estimate, but she said there were a ton of people there. So there was 2,000 pounds of people, according to her estimate. But you wonder. That would be 20 people. How many people were going to go to Target? We're going to go to Raisin Cains. Maybe even, I mean, we did go down in that area. I didn't notice the protesters yesterday because we approached. 72nd and then took that jog over on Rose Blumpkin because I wanted to go look at her refrigerator. Sure. So we, I didn't see any of that protest, but for people who went through that intersection, you wonder how many people are like, I just got to run into target for something and then thought, eh, maybe not today. I can't imagine those business owners are real pleased about all this. No, they never are. And there are also a number of people who are patronizing those businesses. There are a lot of businesses on that corner going to be more when the library opens. A lot of people down there are going to go to the library. I certainly would. It's a pretty cool building. I'm not a big library goer myself, but I might pop into that. Well, you should learn to read. Well, I read other things rather than go into a physical library. That's a separate conversation. But, yeah, there's a lot of stuff. There are drive-through coffee places on that corner. Target is a popular destination.

On the weekends, that's a popular target because it covers a lot of territory in Midtown. There are also apartment complexes over there just off 72nd. A lot of people coming and going. So how many protesters were there? Good question. But, I mean, I've watched estimates from people in the local media of crowds in the past that have absolutely not been accurate. Right. Well, the media loves to show if there are three people out there holding a sign. Now, protesters gathered it. It sounds like there were a lot more than that. However many that was, I don't know. For me. But there was no damage, which is near that we can tell. Unlike maybe some of the marches from the George Floyd summer. It was peaceful. That is awesome. For me, I'm still boycotting the area. of 72nd and Dodge until they bring back Fuddruckers. Building's still there. I think the logo is still on the building. Let's go. I want Fuddruckers. I want that back immediately. And Family Fun Center. Jim, are you not going to do the news about how Nebraska has made history in the world of sports? In sports brief, we have now given a Division I power flag football offer to McKenna Cook. from California to play flag football for the Huskers. She got an offer. Matt Ruhle was part of the little video conference with her to say, hey, you're going to play here. Is she going to go to Millard South? She's going to go to Millard South. Yeah. She's going to go to Miller. Well, she's going to transfer. Every day she's going to commute to Miller South via California. And then she's going to play a varsity flag football for the Nebraska Cornhusker flag football team. Well, they don't have flag football at Millard South unless it's an intramural sport. So unless they add girls flag football, she'll be forced to play on the boys' team, which could gin up a big controversy in. Yeah. Boys and girls and boys sports. This is Nebraska's morning news. Jim respond to New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She says senators need to vote no on the spending bill. She doesn't want them to fund the Department of Homeland Security because that funds ICE. She says we need to shut this down because the Department of Homeland Security, quote, just shot a man in broad daylight two weeks after they shot a mother. in the face without consequence, unquote. That's why we're going to have a government shutdown after Friday, apparently. Well, that's what she'd like. She's a member of the House, so she doesn't get to decide. There will be an ongoing discussion about funding homeland security and immigration and customs enforcement. The president is sending Tom Homan to Minneapolis to meet with the folks there. Specifically, I think the mayor and the governor in St. Paul, hopefully these guys can... And I think Tom Homan has enough credibility because you remember he was appointed originally by Barack Obama and was kept around during the Obama administration. Went really heavily for President Trump in 2016 when he was running against Hillary Clinton. But Holman does have some horsepower that I think.

can't appeal to the right. He doesn't throw a lot of bombs out there when he does his public appearances. Now, he's very pointed and very direct, and he's obviously very, very passionate about illegal immigration in this country and what we need to do to stop it. He's been the architect of that border policy that has essentially shut that border down in record time. Nobody is coming across illegally anymore. So maybe he'll make some progress with these guys. And maybe we can give Christy a vacation to the Virgin Islands for a week or two so she doesn't make any public and press appearances representing the Department of Homeland Security. Maybe that'll help tone things down. Well, Jane Kleb is responding. She's the head of the Nebraska Democratic Party. She didn't like what Kristi Noem said. She never likes anything, Kristi Noem. Or anyone from this administration says. They didn't like anything right. Republican says. But Jane also says that this guy who was shot was a nurse who cared for veterans. He showed up not to provoke violence, but to help his neighbors as they exercise their constitutional rights. Well, she doesn't know that. That's her speculation. And just as Christine. he known speculation was that he showed up to massacre ice agents. Yeah, he showed up with no intent to provoke violence. He had a gun and two magazines and no identification and told his parents, I'm going in. They said, hey, don't do anything stupid. He also comes from the George Floyd protests. And it says to me, that either he forgot his ID or potentially was someone who went there with a loaded gun, no ID, told his parents maybe some form of goodbye and didn't intend to go home. I don't know. Jane doesn't know. Christy doesn't know. I don't know. We don't get a chance to ask this guy. If he'd stayed home, he'd still be a VA nurse. If he had shown up with a sign, not a gun, he would have reported to the Veterans Administration Hospital this morning for his shift. why he approached the most volatile public position in the country with a loaded weapon is a great question. And it's unfortunate, but when you go into that scenario with all of the tensions at the place where they were, a loaded gun can get you killed. And it did. So did he deserve it? Well, let the investigation play out and we'll know. But these declarative statements by people like Jane Cleb, who doesn't know her rear end from third base about it, Or Kristi Noem, who is the director of Homeland Security and should know better and should keep her lip buttoned until she has the facts. If these people would just stop making declarative statements in front of live microphones, we'd probably make some progress. If we could keep that buffoon governor of Minnesota.

from putting on a stocking cap, reaching over the fence of his walled mansion, and telling people to take videos so that we can document the atrocities, which is a reference to Nazi concentration camps, we probably make some progress. I would love to see the face-to-face conversation between you and Secretary Kristi Noem, where you tell her, why don't you keep your lip buttoned? Yeah. And I would. What decade is this? I just say, Secretary Kristi Noem, first of all, I'm a big fan. I think she's one of the great conservatives in the American body politic today. But she has a tendency to say the wrong thing. And that's not healthy when you are the director. You're the Secretary of Homeland Security. Now, if you're just some hockey puck walking up and down the street like the rest of you, you can say anything you want. But when you're the Secretary of Homeland Security, and it's your job to manage this stuff, you can't say stupid things like that. Why don't you keep your lip button? Keep that lip button. Keep that yap closed until you get all the information. I have a statement, and this talks about whether some Republicans are changing their vote that is leading up to this potential government shutdown, I think presumed government shutdown later this week, partial government shutdown. It comes from Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska. He says the nation witnessed a horrifying situation this weekend. My prayers are with the family of Alex Freddie. That is the guy who was shot. My support for funding ICE remains the same. Enforcing our immigration laws makes our streets safer. It also protects our national security. But we also maintain our core values as a nation, including the right to protest and assemble. I expect to prioritize transparent investigation into this incident, which is going to be tough to do since two people see the same video and they see wildly different things, whether it was the woman in the car or the guy in the street. You got a statement here from Dan Osborne. He's the independent, Democrat, independent, running against Pete Ricketts. And he says, yeah, our polling shows that it's neck and neck. We're essentially tied here before the November election. Do you believe that Dan Osborne and Pete Ricketts are tied right now? I believe it's closer than people think. And the reason for that is that Dan Osborne has not yet seen the wrath of Pete Ricketts' negative ads. We are still sort of looking at Dan Osborne through the lens of the 2024 election when he gave Deb Fisher a long run because Deb frankly slept on that race until the last two months. So we haven't seen the full weight of what the Pete Ricketts campaign will do with negative ads detailing his behavior, detailing his activities, detailing probably some very, very personal things about his life and his family. But the truth is, Nebraska is a populist state. Now, it's not a populist state conservative. It's just populist, which means that we tell the government get the out from time to time. And Dan Osborne represents that. I think he's a Democrat. I think he's a socialist. I think he subscribes to the liberal orthodoxy. But you can't argue that populism pops up now and then in Nebraska. And the established Republicans.

The conservative Republicans and the country club Republicans in the state need to remember that once in a while folks say, I've had enough. You've screwed this up. We're going to get somebody new. Whether that's a good idea or not is irrelevant. It happens all the time. No statement from Dan Osborne on the ICE situation, the budget issue. He needs to be asked. He's not going to issue a statement about it. Anything. He needs to be asked. And if he's asked, tell us what your view. If you'd been a United States senator, would you vote to shut off funding for ICE, Mr. Osborne? I'd love to have him back on the program. I'm sure we will soon. The president said, I'm not supposed to tell you guys this. And then started talking about the discombobulator. That's not a reference to himself, though it would be an excellent... I wonder, is that the Secret Service nickname for President Trump, The Discombobulator? He started talking about how we used a secret weapon, the discombobulator, to disable equipment in Venezuela when the U.S. brought into custody, wanted fugitive and illegitimate former leader of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro. He said, he says, the disconvobulator, I'm not allowed to talk about it. And then talked about it. He said the weapon made Venezuelan equipment, quote, not work, unquote. He said they never got their rockets off. They had Russian and Chinese rockets, but they never got one off. We came in, they pressed buttons, nothing worked. They were all set for us. And then he says the U.S. turned off almost all of the lights in Caracas didn't detail how exactly that was done. And they said, what more can you tell us? He's like, yeah, I'm not allowed to talk about it. And then what about all the oil aboard these seven oil tankers connected to Venezuela that the United States has seized but won't reveal where the ships are because I'm not allowed to tell you that either. But let's put it this way, they don't have any oil. We take the oil. That's the comments from the discombobulator, aka President Trump.