Tom Homan Responds To Assault On Newark ICE Facility

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Do you ever remember anybody saying, but Adam Schiff, where's the evidence? Where was I? Oh, yeah. So Kanye is married to Kim Kardashian, who seemed to me like, I mean, the perfect wife, right? Demure and modest in comparison. That goes belly up. That goes, you know. all pear-shaped, as the Brits like to say. And so then Kanye says, well, I've got four kids, and I need to have a stepmother in my life for them, for when I've got my visitation, when the kids come over, there needs to be a mother figure. So he marries this woman, who, by the way, I don't believe has a name. I believe she is, in fact, she legally changed your name to Kanye West's wife, Kanye's wife, Mrs. Yeh, I think it is. She doesn't wear any clothes anywhere. And now she's going viral in a video for sitting and milking a cow. And then what does she do? She like, she drinks the milk straight from the utter or she feeds the milk to yay or she feeds the milk back to the cow. I don't know. I'm confused by it all. I got lost when I saw her in lingerie and wondering why is she so overdressed? Because she walks around wearing nothing usually. And I'm thinking to myself, here's yay. Here's yay getting his second wife and the second wife walks around wearing no clothes. doing crazy things on video. Me, my second wife, because I was in the same place. I had four kids. I got divorced. A woman, apparently is about the same modesty as Kim Kardashian. I get divorced. I'm looking for a second wife. Where's my second wife, my beautiful Meredith? Is she out there wearing lingerie, milk, and a cow? No. She's at the Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando. voting against women clergy. I did not go the Kanye route. And I'm very happy about that. Let nobody misunderstand me. I think I chose wisely. Anyway, we're not going to talk about any of that. We're going to talk about the ICE Detainment Center at the center of all of these fights we're seeing in New Jersey. As you know, Antifa has taken their show on the road. They've moved it now from Minneapolis to Newark because, you know, no more out-of-town tryout. Sure, we got two dead bodies in the street and we have chaos in Minneapolis. But until you're in the number one media market in the country, you really haven't done anything, right? If you can make it in Newark, you can make it anywhere. Somebody said once. So they bring the Antifa agitators and domestic terrorists from Minneapolis and Portland and wherever else they've been wreaking havoc. They bring them in front of the Delaney detention center. This is a detention center that was open under Barack Obama. It's been in operation. It just got its license renewed, so you know it's gone through multiple inspections to make sure that it's up to snuff. And oh, by the way, we need this detention center because Joe Biden let tens of millions of illegal criminals into the country. So if you're in the Delaney Detention Center, not only you're in the country illegally, but you've probably broken several other laws as well, and you are now awaiting your deportation. Well, word got out, and I don't know how that word got out, that some of the detainees decided to go on a hunger strike, which I find to be hilarious.

Because they're in the country illegally. They come here from Guatemala wherever to try to have a better life or to try to bring their gang warfare to our shores. They get detained after a year's worth of having the ability to leave voluntarily on their own with a free airline ticket and $2,600 cash in their pocket because of the generosity and grace and... tolerance of the American people. They refuse that generous offer, so they get arrested, they get put in the detention center, and they decide to go on a hunger strike. And so Antifa shows up to start protesting. And of course, as usual, as Antifa comes into protest, it means smoke bombs and riot gear and standing in front of cars and getting run over. And violence this time, though, it also included Democrat elected officials. Senator Kim of New Jersey got pepper sprayed good. All the elected officials decided they were going to join the melee. These are federal law enforcement agents enforcing federal law legally, constitutionally, and you've got chaos. Well, when you've got chaos, who do you bring in to bring order to the storm? You bring in Tom Homan. That's exactly what he did yesterday on Fox News, explaining what is going on at the Laney Hall. I went through the bathrooms. I went through the detention area. I went to indoor and outdoor recreation. As a matter of fact, outdoor recreation has kind of a state-of-the-art exercise equipment, which kind of shocked me. And I went into, you know, I heard a lot of complaining about the food. I went there unannounced the following day. Unannounced, I went there and had lunch. I sat in a cafeteria with detainees. Had the same meal they had. I had my security detail with me, of course. But I had the same tray of food they had, because I looked around the room and saw they had the same tray. It was spaghetti and meat sauce. It was green beans. It was charled beans. It was rose and butter. It was a food drink. It was dessert. I ate it. Now, is it a five-star cuisine? No. But was a well-established meal? Yes, it was. As a matter of fact, I didn't even finish it all, and I'm not a little guy. So according to the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, some of the people were complaining because the food was not ethnically or religiously to their liking. which, of course, the only response is, oh, you want food from your home country? Great. We've got an idea. Go back to your home country. And as I mentioned, up until the moment they got arrested and detained and put in the center, they could have done that on our dime with $2,600 in their pocket. There, there's your ethnically and religiously appropriate food. You're welcome. And by the way, you can come back if you do it legally. There's Tom Homan saying, I inspected the place. I came back for a surprise inspection. And the food was fine. Everything was fine. Is it the Ritz? No, it's a detention center. You don't want to get into a detention center? Don't break our laws. So what about the rioters? What about the protesters? What about Antifa wreaking havoc on our agents and our society out in front? Well, Tom Homan had some opinions about them too. Here it is. Well, the ones we're charging with crimes, the one that they go from protesting to criminal activity insulting our officers in damaging government property, most of them from out of state. Look, these are paid protesters. We got facial recognition of people from Portland that are at Portland riots and many from the Minnesota. This is a well-planned, established thing they're doing. This isn't homegrown. There's a lot of local people there to protest peacefully, and they certainly can do that.

But the violence, majority of violence, not all the majority is coming from out of town people. And that is against the law. UC Antifa has now been designated as a terrorist organization. That is domestic terrorism. It is homegrown. It is people crossing state lines with the intent to commit violent acts. It's time to arrest these people. It's time to make them face justice. And it's time to follow the money to figure out what organizations are funding these domestic terrorists. That's what you do with terrorists. You get to the root of the funding and you arrest them too. Will that happen? Well, I sure hope so. Coming up in a moment, the governor of New Jersey, Mickey Sheryl, now she's got a different story about that detention center. We'll let you hear what she had to say. And also the response from Jonathan Fahey, former acting director of ICE regular guests on this program. There's more to come. The truth about these protests next. For nearly 3,000 years, Homer's The Odyssey has shaped Western imagination. It tells the story of Odysseus as he faces monsters, shipwrecks, false comforts, and impossible choices on his long journey home. As one of the foundational works of Western literature, Homer's epic is more than mythology. It explores permanent questions about courage, duty, loyalty, family, leadership, temptation, and the search for home. In one of the epic's defining moments, Odysseus rejects the offer of immortality from the goddess Calypso, choosing instead the long and difficult journey home. His decision reveals one of the central themes of the Odyssey that a life of duty, family, and home, is greater than a life devoted to comfort or glory. Achilles chose glory. Odysseus chose home. That's why Hillsdale College has released its newest free online course, the Odyssey. Taught by Professor Benedict Wayland, the course reveals why Homer's masterpiece remains one of the greatest works of Western literature. Find this free course at Hillsdale.edu forward slash start now. The Odyssey from Hillsdale College, go to hillsdale.edu forward slash start now. So you heard Tom Homan yesterday talking about his inspection of this Delaney Hall, this detention center where we're told there's a hunger strike because there were worms in the food. No evidence, by the way. I do love this. Again, I just want to keep going back to this where you hear from Kristen Welker and anybody else in the media. Where's your evidence of any crazy behavior with... with ballots in California. Where's the evidence that they're sealing the election? Where's the evidence that this flood of late votes that came in after election day that all end up going to the third party, the third place candidate knocking Spencer Pratt out of the running for the general election? Where's your evidence that that's against the law? Where's your evidence that that's fraudulent behavior?

And yet how many of these same news anchors have you heard claim without evidence that there was worms in the food of the ICE detainees at Delaney Hall? They all say it like it's gospel truth. Well, you know, there's a hunger strike because of the horrid conditions there in Delaney Hall, including worms and their food. Where's the evidence? There is not. But that doesn't stop the media from reporting things that they just believe. We've seen it our entire adult lifetimes. But now apparently the standard is different when you watch before your very eyes a statistical impossibility with the California ballots. And if you dare speak up and say, hey, that doesn't seem right. Where's your evidence? All right. So fine. So you've seen Tom Homan saying, okay, here's your evidence. I went there. I ate the food. I did a snap inspection. The place is fine. Mikie Sherrill, the governor in New Jersey, also went. They talked about it yesterday on Fox with Jonathan Fahey, who you hear on this program a lot, former ICE director. Here, take a listen. The lunch was great. And then Mikie Sherrill, the governor of New Jersey, was finally allowed into the Delaney facility. Here was her observation. After being denied access for weeks, I was finally allowed into Delaney Hall. But what I received was a closely controlled and limited tour of the facility. That is unacceptable. I was not allowed to meet or speak directly with the detainees, which continues to raise serious questions about the real conditions of the facility and the treatment of those held there. It's a completely contradictory view from what Holman said. went there and had lunch with the detainees. Right. And she, again, doesn't really contradict what he says. She just says, I didn't get to see it, so it must have been bad. But again, they let her in. She's the governor of New Jersey. She doesn't have a right to go in there. And she's really been using this facility to fan the flames of this anti-ice narrative, anti-Iace rhetoric. And she's done a lot of it herself by comparing ICE agents, you know, comparing them to terrorists by saying they terrorized communities, making them less safe. If she would take a step back and be responsible, I think... The main thing is people are being kept safely there. If she's for open borders like Mondamia, she should just say it, but she doesn't seem to have at least whose political courage on that issue. You know, I read quite a shocking article on Delaney Hall that was written by Corrine Shannon, who's an attorney for Human Rights First. who wrote this about Delaney Hall. These people are not criminals. They are not incarcerated due to convictions for violent crimes or drug smuggling or the like. Instead, they've committed the civil infraction of seeking to enter the United States without authorization. Delaney Hall is essentially a prison. Detainees wear jail-like uniforms. The drab hallways are patrolled by guards. You might notice that the date on that article was November 12, 2014, during the Obama administration. Yeah, where were the protests? Yeah, exactly. Where were the outcry? Where was the outcry from people like Zohran Mamdani to what was going on there? Right, exactly. And you really, if you take a serious look at this, the Democrats' position on this isn't that they have an issue with Delaney Hall or anything else. They have an issue with deportations of illegal aliens. And this is just another tactic along this overall subversion campaign to prevent immigration law from being enforced. But it's really unfortunate because you're putting people in danger like these ICE agents.

by pushing this false narrative. It was interesting, I caught you by surprise. I was like that. So here, this last observation, this is from Congressman Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey. Lefties called Delaney Hall a dungeon, but inmates enjoy yoga, aroma therapy and other amenities. Inmates are not only well fed and have use of computers and state-of-the-art gym facilities, which Holman also mentioned. They also could do yoga sessions complete with lavender-scented aromatherapy. When they're not striking downward dog poses, detainees also have access to full soccer fields at an excellent gym, according to representation. I said to Jeff Van Drew who tore the facility this week. Listen, I understand the laugh line there, but let me just be clear here. You know, people who call it a dungeon are saying it because they think people are being tortured there. And learning that they have yoga classes does not alleviate any concerns about torture. Have you been to a yoga class? It is torture. Absolute torture. That's the truth about what's going on in Delaney Hall. The one other aspect of this that needs to be pointed out is that all of those scenes of chaos and police having to wrestle people to the ground and arrest them and the riots and the smoke bombs, it's all part of the playbook. It's how they tried to win the election in 2020. So chaos in the streets make people angry. And you'll win an election. That's what the left does worldwide. And they're doing it right here. And it's all a lie. You know, there's a moment nobody talks about with weight loss. It's the moment it stops working. The diet that worked before doesn't. The workouts don't hit the same. The scale is not responding even though you're eating less. Why? Well, it's not random. It's your body protecting itself. Because when your body thinks it's under stress, it slows your metabolism. It holds on to fat and it fights you every step of the way. That's the irony. It's why quick fixes eventually fail. Even the popular GOP 1 shots, they suppress appetite, but they don't fix what caused the problem. I want to tell you about PhD weight loss. They focus on restoring your metabolism so your body stops fighting you. That's when real change happens. Right now, when you call and mention Larry, they'll give you two free weeks and they'll pay for the cost of your food. That's a $1,500 hour value. And in those two weeks, you can lose up to 10 pounds or more, guys. Call 864-644-1900. 864-644-1900. Use the code Larry or go to my PhD weightloss.com. Don't forget Larry. We are in the Relief Factory Studios. You bet you we are. It's O'Connor and Company here from your nation's capital. Good morning. We've got a preview of today's primaries, including that all-important, all-eyes-on-main primary that will be happening today. And some new revelations about Graham Platner, of course. That's coming up at first. I am excited to give you a quick reminder that I need you to help some really great kids, have some fresh air, fun, and learn about Jesus this summer by sending a boy or girl with a mom or dad in prison to Angel Tree Camp. Just go to Larry O'Sho.com and consider making a generous donation to my Angel Tree campaign. A prison fellowship provides kids.

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Some Democrats actually think that they have a chance of winning against Lindsey Graham. I don't think so. I think if they want to flip the Senate, they should look at some other states, although, you know, Maine was one that they really thought was vulnerable until they decided that they were going to nominate a sociopath, a narcissist, a habitual liar. I think Susan Collins is in a better place right now, but anything can happen. And frankly, I'll be honest with you. A lot of my conservative and Republican colleagues are like, hey, you guys should lay off Graham Platner. We want him to win that primary. We want him to be the nominee. I don't. I don't want him anywhere near the United States Senate. It's less important about Susan Collins having an easy opponent to defeat than it is about integrity. The genuine fear I have of Graham Platner gaining any level of power in the United States Senate, I tremble for the women in his Senate staff. If he gets away with all of this and is empowered and believes that he is, you know, Mr. Teflon, that they can't touch him, they threw everything they could at him and they didn't take him out, do you realize what kind of monster he'll be on the job? Not to mention the fact that it's clearly open season on any woman who works on Capitol Hill, who's a Republican, because he knows he can abuse them, torment them, harass them. And if they come forward and tell their story, well, they won't be believed. Because after all, they're Republicans. Is that really the lesson we want Graham Platner to learn? South Carolina will be an interesting race for governor, though, as Nancy Mace, the former congresswoman, has gone all in on this campaign. And she's facing a formidable opponent who has the Trump endorsement. You would think that that means that the Trump endorsed candidate will win the primary, considering his track record. I think only one Trump endorsed Republican has not won a primary so far this season. But Nancy Mace is a formidable political. figure and well we'll see what happens we'll be watching south carolina uh back to main though we do have a development in the Graham Platner saga a former top staffer dropped a bombshell op ed yesterday in the washington post says she quit because she learned things that make Graham Platner unfit for the Senate. She says he kept promising no more skeletons, no more skeletons, and then more kept coming, including fresh accusations from ex-girlfriends. Does this sound familiar? She said in the op-ed, and I'm quoting now, I know firsthand why Graham Platner shouldn't be a U.S. Senator. That's the title and the core message from one Genevieve McDonald, former Maine State Representative, who was the political director for Graham Platner's campaign.

For those of you who don't realize the impact of this, let me just say that working in Washington, D.C., you hear from staffers a lot. These are people who work on the staffs of representatives, senators. These are people who work on the staffs of cabinet secretaries or in the administration at various levels, or they've worked on political campaigns. And I've got to tell you something. They all have stories. They see their principle at their work. If they're one of 435 representatives or one of 100 senators or beyond, they see them Kevin Warsh and all. And there's almost like a priest-like confessional that sort of enshrouds Washington, D.C. Is that a word in shroud? I'm going to use it. where there's this professional responsibility that they all feel like they're obligated to hold on to, where they never tell those stories. And it's not out of integrity, and it's not out of respect for the office, and it's not out of some misguided professional responsibility. It's for career survival. You see, when you're like Genevieve McDonald, who is a political director and worked on Graham Platner's campaign, and you quit a year ago, and you quit because you learned tawdry, tawdry, horrible things about your client, when you're in that position in this town, you keep your mouth shut because you'll never work in this town again. What politician wants to hire someone like Genevieve McDonald knowing that they're going to cast some kind of moral judgment against you for your behavior? And then, worst of all, you're going to come clean and tell the media. This, my friends, never happens. And yet here it is. The day of the main primary. And it has happened. Now, the Graham Platner people will slime and defend and attack. The Graham Platner people will say that she's just spurned and she's bitter because she got fired from the campaign, which is not true. And they'll say that she's just trying to seek revenge against Graham Platner. That's all this is. But I'm here to tell you that that makes no sense. Because if that were standard behavior for somebody who was fired from a campaign, we'd hear these stories all the time. There's a reason why Congress has a slush fund to pay off staffers for sexual harassment and worse allegations. Oh, yeah, Congress protects themselves all the time. And linked to that slush fund account to pay off all the victims of members of Congress for their misdeeds is hush money, non-disclosure agreements. They're never violated because that's how the game is played. But yesterday it changed for Genevieve McDonald, who came forward, risked her career. And yeah, she probably won't ever work in this town again.

But it was more important to tell the truth about Graham Platner. She joined the campaign in August of 2025. She left a good job because she believed in him. She believed they shared goals for fighting for Maine's working class. She explains in her op-ed why she quit. It was October of 2025, and she resigned after discovering troubling information about Graham Platner's past comments and behavior. She was disturbed. She's the only one, apparently. She was disturbed by the volume and nature of his old online posts, including controversial remarks about sexual assault. Made as an adult, by the way, not a kid. She said these statements were not known to me when I agreed to join the campaign, and they are not words or values I can stand behind. She then details a pattern of scandals and dishonesty. These series of revelations that keep hitting starting last fall, Graham Platner repeatedly assured voters and the party, no more skeletons in the closet, but more kept emerging anyway, including this latest round of reports of serious accusations from former girlfriends, including physical assault. She highlights a clear pattern of dishonest behavior that she says is impossible to ignore. And yet apparently it is, if you ask Elizabeth Warren or Ro Khanna or apparently the majority of voters, Democrats in Maine. She worried in her article about the damage Graham Platner could do to the Democratic Party and their prospects in Maine. And she felt compelled to speak out publicly so voters understand what she witnessed from inside the campaign. The bottom line here is Graham Platner is not fit to serve in the U.S. Senate. That's from a woman who worked closely with him as his political director less than a year ago. It's coming from someone who was all in on his campaign until red flags began. to emerge until those red flags became too big to ignore. And yet this evening, Graham Platner will probably emerge victorious. And he'll have a mandate. And then more stories will emerge. And I'm waiting for just one, just one prominent Democrat, prominent elected official. Chuck Schumer, I'm not holding my breath. Hakeem Jeffries, give me a break. But just one, other than John Fetterman, think about that. John Fetterman's the only one. Will any of them step forward and show courage, moral fortitude? It's funny, I remember when Roy Moore was embroiled in an alleged pedophilia scandal when he was running for Senate in Alabama. And you know what I remember? I remember a lot of Republicans. disengaging with him, disavowing him, saying it's not important to win this Senate seat. There are more important things. I remember that. Do you? Yeah. We are not the same. Our two parties are not the same.

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Did you know about this stuff? They claim they didn't know about it. But here, take a listen to their nerdy little, giggly little responses to these questions as if they really don't care. At this point, you hadn't vetted Graham Platner. You hadn't done a full scrub of who he is. How did you go about vetting him? And why did you... We paid a, yeah, we paid a nice firm, a whole chunk of money and got some stuff back, some of what you've seen on the news we got back, other stuff we didn't. Did the vetting process turn up the tattoo that became so controversial? No. The Reddit posts, did that turn up in the vetting process? The firm sent us a thing, and it had some of the posts, but it didn't have all of them. And what did you think about that? How did you think your way through the fact that he had posted these things on social media? I said none of this will or should stop him from becoming a U.S. Senator. And what was your thinking there? I think if what the voters wanted were people who were grown in bats and had never done or said anything that they might regret their entire lives, we'd have a very different country. Part of our thesis here is that people do not want their candidates grown in vats. They want people. who are real human beings, and they want people who do not look and sound like the background people who've been leading this country off the cliff for the last century. And that was Graham. Just days after this interview, more details about Plattenor's past emerged. That's a podcast with The Wall Street Journal, and it was discovered and brought to light yesterday by... Washington Free Beacon, our friends over at Washington Free Beacon. That's Daniel Morath and Leanne Fan, activist consultants. They're a couple. And they discovered and recruited Graham Platner. And you heard the stirring pronouncement there. That's who's shaping the Democrat Party right now. That's who's shaping America's future. Be afraid. Meanwhile, in California, good news. Steve Hilton, the Republican candidate, was declared Victor coming out of the primary. He will face off against Xavier Becerra in the general election. And that's, well, it is. It's good news. California certainly have a clear choice now. Hilton sat with Billy Bush on his podcast and revealed something that we all need to know about how they count votes in California. Why is it chaotic? Well, take a listen to this. There's one thing that is just extraordinary to anyone watching, which is this mail-in ballot seven days after the election. The argument is, well, we want maximum participation. So if someone wants to vote on election day, we're going to treat sending in a mail ballot the same as if you were voting. That's why we're going to give seven days for the ballot to arrive. But there's a line in the law.

that says that actually the proof that you mailed your ballot on or just before election day, even if it arrives after election day, it's not just the postmark. You can write it. You can handwrite the date. Wow. And that counts. I was talking about this. At the last elections, I had a whistleblower from the Postal Service explaining this. So just to be really clear of what that means, you can backdate your ballot. By hand. By hand. And it will be counted. That's how insane this system is. Yeah. That's right. And Steve Hilton just came in second place despite that system. And you saw all of those late ballots in California surging for the third place finisher Tom Steyer. The difference is Steve Hilton had built up such a lead. In fact, on election night, he was in first place that it was insurmountable. As Hugh Hewitt wrote in a book many years ago, if it's not close, they can't cheat. And in L.A., well, it was that close. And, well, they didn't cheat. They followed the law. Which is exactly the problem. This is O'Connor and Company. Did you know there's an investment account that's been around since 1888, and most people have never heard about it until recently. It's not stocks, it's not crypto. It's a trust that was created over a century ago, and it's been averaging 29% returns for the past 25 years. To put that into perspective, it beat Apple, it beat Amazon, it beat Microsoft over that same period. BlackRock has over $2 billion sparked here. JP Morgan, Bank of America, some of the... Biggest banks in the world have been quietly using this for decades, and they've never mentioned it to regular people. There are no commercials, no billboards, nothing, and literally anyone can start. You just need a few hundred dollars. There's a free video that explains exactly what it is and how to access it, and it's 100% worth your time. Go to My Account29.com to check it out. That's My Account 29.com.

We're in your nation's capital. In 706 Eastern Time, launching into our second hour here from the Relief Factor Studios on our flagship station, WMAL. I'm Larry O'Connor. It's O'Connor and Company. In this hour, we're going to talk about the violence in the streets of Manhattan because the Knicks lost a basketball game. Not that New Yorkers need an excuse to riot. But that's today's excuse. Also coming up in our third hour, next hour, we'll speak with Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, and we'll speak with Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. A lot to get to. But let's bring in Tom Fitton, friend of the program, friend of truth, justice in American way. He is the president of Judicial Watch. Tom, good morning. Thanks for joining us today, as always. You're welcome. Thanks for having me. You know, you see what's going on in California right now. And I keep hearing people in the media saying, well, there's no evidence of wrongdoing. There's no evidence of a violation of law. Well, last I check, it is federal law going all the way back to the motor voter bill that states are obligated legally, federally, to keep their voter rolls clean and free of people who aren't eligible to vote. Tom, I haven't lived in Los Angeles County for 14 years. And I still get emails saying, hey, we sent you your ballot. You haven't voted yet. They're violating the law just by their voter rolls, and you know better than anyone at Judicial Watch. Yeah, we just sued them two weeks ago or so to clean up 873,000 names at least. It's disappointing you're still getting ballots out of L.A. because a prior lawsuit resulted in L.A. supposedly cleaning up 1.2 million names from the rolls that are dirty and shouldn't be there. You know, the challenge in California is that when you've got those names that have been on the rolls and haven't voted and should have been removed under federal law for, you know, close to a decade for a good number of them, you can presume that there are ballots that are being mailed out to hundreds of thousands of people who shouldn't be getting them because they're either moved away or died. Yeah. And that's a pool from which fraudsters can draw. You know, and you don't need to prove fraud in a sense that so-and-so voted in someone else's name. You've got the structure in place to invite fraud. I tell you, if a bank were running its operations. the way California was running its elections, the bank would be shut down. Because no one would trust that they're handling the numbers properly. If I can thank you. In other words, the system itself is evidence that... fraud can easily happen. That is the problem because those of us participating in the democratic process to choose our representatives in this Constitutional Republic, we should have faith in the system that's been put in place that there isn't fraud happening. So that's the original sin here, if I may use that phrase. You're right. And there's no voter ID. There's

mass mail and ballots that is that is really uncontrolled i just checked the numbers before we went on air 1.7 million ballots have yet to be counted in that state 1.7 million ballots and of course they accept ballots that arrive late uh which we're suing about right supreme court could rule in our case any day now, maybe as soon as Thursday, that counting ballots that arrive late after election day is contrary to federal law, certainly at the general election where we have the federal election day set. And California, they allow ballots to arrive late and still be counted for seven days. I think in Washington State it's 21 days. Illinois, we have another lawsuit. 14 days. Here in D.C., Seven days. Maryland, I think it's 11 days. This, by the way, after allowing weeks and weeks of early voting as well. That's right. So we have an election that begins, in some cases, what, 45 days early? And extends, you know, they're talking well over a month before they figure out what the final count is. And I'm sorry. You have a right and an expectation that your votes counted on election day. Forget about the late counting, the ballots that come in late and they get counted. They're not supposed to be counted. If we don't know who won on election day, we should presume the election is compromised. That's a fair analysis. You've kind of set up yourself. for really ruining confidence in the outcome of election this process has. That's right. And I think it's our elected officials' responsibility, not just to put a safe and secure system in place, but to have that system be so transparent and so reliable that voters walk away knowing, listen, whether my candidate wins or loses, at least I know it was handled in a fair and square manner. That's the opposite of what we got in California. When you look at these late ballots, let's hone in on this. The counting of late arriving ballots. When you look at the process we've just witnessed in Los Angeles where the distant third place candidate had a surge, almost just statistically impossible surge, all focused on those late arriving ballots. What red flags do you see Tom Fitt in knowing their system as well as you do? Well, to me, whether they're lawful or not is going to be a debate because it's the primary. It's not the election day statute that the federal law requires. I think even under state law counting ballots that arrive late like that forever in a day is improper. Last election, there were two California Democrats who won because of ballots that came in late that were counted. And I told the House repeatedly, why are you not raising an issue here? There's a legal issue with that given federal election day. Nothing's been done. So Spencer Pratt is on the outside looking in. It looks like that will be, he'll continue to be that way. I just checked the numbers. L.A. County isn't even tracking the late county, the late votes yet. I haven't seen any that come in late in California, even though they have.

by 200,000 or so in the rest of the state. So to me, it's an unclear picture, at least in L.A. County. But there's 1.7 million votes uncounted. Of the votes that were received, at least well over 200,000 got there late. And I think you're whistling past your graveyard if you think that doesn't impact elections. The argument you'll hear, Tom, is, listen, they want to include every ballot and make sure every ballot counts. And just because through no fault of the voter, a ballot arrives late, it should still count just because the post office screwed up or what have you. Just because a ballot arrives late, does that mean that there's some sort of nefarious activity going on here? No, but it provides opportunities for nefarious activity that voters reject. Right? And yes, it is sometimes the fault of the voter if you choose to vote on election day and drop it in the mail. You can be sure it's going to get there late, if at all. And so that's the problem, is that there's a reasonable expectation by voters that the election results be determined on election day. You don't count ballots that arrive late. There's basic voter ID and the other strictures in place that are quite reasonable. We're not asking. for, you know, the FBI to be examining every voter before they walk in the door. We're just asking that they walk in the door on Election Day and their votes be counted as such, you know, in a timely way. And I'm sorry, if your vote isn't counted on Election Day, man, I think your civil rights are being violated. Yeah, and you should take it up with your leadership. Why isn't the mood in California more outraged at the rest of it? Because we look at other states. I mean, Florida famously, after the 2000 hanging Chad craziness, they decided we're not going to be the butt of everybody's joke about an election ever again. And they put systems in place. Florida is remarkable. And, you know, they're the number three largest population in our countries. California can't claim, oh, it's because we have so many people. Florida figured it out. Why isn't there more outrage within California about this? The political class in Florida is controlled by the left, and the media class in Florida is similarly left. California, you mean? Yes, in California. Yeah. And the, so those who are upset don't have the voice represented either at the state or local level. and certainly not in the media there. California's don't like this, but the political class like it because the system is set up in a way that allows them to seal elections if necessary.

Tom, one quick question, because I know you sued California a couple of times for their voter rolls and you've settled. Have they admitted, has the state of California, Secretary of State anybody admitted that because of their voter rolls, there are untold numbers of non-citizens that are currently registered to vote? Yeah, I mean, that comes up less directly on this issue. The debate is whether they should be removing ineligible ballots, right? And sometimes people who are registered are alerted to their ineligibility, you know, in an informal way, and they stop voting. But they still may still be getting ballots because of California's refusal to clean up the rolls in a sensible way. Listen, I say it all the time. The real oversight committee in Washington, regardless of who holds the majority, is Judicial Watch. They continue to look under every rock, and they use all of the legal tools at their disposal to expose what's happening. Help them out at JudicialWatch.org. Tom Fitton, my friend, always great to talk with you. Thanks for joining us. Thank you, Larry. Coming up, James Talarico tries to be normal and fails. Next. Oh, oh, and I need to let everybody back at the studio know that we're going to talk about our friends at Angel Tree Camp. I forgot. We just set up everything we were going to talk about. And then I remembered, wait, though, first, a quick reminder that I need you to help some really great kids, have some fresh air, fun, and learn about the gospel, learn about the saving grace of Jesus Christ. all at the same time. You're going to send a boy or a girl with a mom or dad in prison to Angel Tree Camp. Imagine that. Just go to Larry O'sho.com and consider making a generous donation to my Angel Tree campaign. We've been at this for 10 days. And so far, your generosity, your unbelievable generosity, has sent 125 kids to camp. These are kids who will have a week away from drugs and gangs and despair. unsafe conditions, let's say. And it's all thanks to you and the great people at prison fellowship. They provide kids with an incarcerated parent a week away from bad neighborhoods and the dangers of drugs and gangs. And as Angel Tree volunteer, Myra tells us, a week in the fresh air of Angel Tree Camp, it literally transforms their lives. Angel Tree is not only about getting a gift. Angie Tree is about building lives, building relationships, nurturing families, opening the door for that family that actually needs that support. Angel Tree is heaven sent. Who wouldn't want that? Who indeed? And listen, at the end of the day today, before your head hits the pillow, you're going to be able to look up at heaven and say, I did at least one thing good today.

Because the most important part of our angel tree campaign is you. If you can afford $200, that's another kid sent to camp. If you can't, it's cool. God bless you. Whatever you can afford. Five bucks. Just go to lariosho.com. Click on that banner at the top of the page. You'll see it. Can't miss it. And it'll show you exactly where we are right now. We're very close to our goal. And we've... We've only been doing this 10 days. Incredible. Larry O'Sho.com, click that angel tree banner, make your secure online donation. And thank you for whatever you're able to do to help. James Talarico is a Democrat. In fact, he's the Democrat. He's the poster child for the Democrats this year. And I'm told that he is the man to finally turn Texas blue again. Just to remind you, this is something James Talarico said in a podcast interview about his affection for transgender children, minors, you know, little kids. Here, listen. Something that you love that's not family or friends. I love, I'm just saying this because it's on my mind, the trans children. That's weird. It's very weird. Now that he's running in Texas statewide to be a senator against Ken Paxton, I know you're going to find this shocking, but it seems like he's changing his position on that, or at least pretending to. Here's James Talarico now on a podcast talking about the transgender agenda, the transgender. Well, just on that particular accusation, I oppose gender reassignment surgeries for minors. I think what's happening is the people that are in power know that there's a backlash to the extremism and the corruption in our government. And so they're going to use a tried and true playbook to get out of this. Distraction and division. That is how corrupt public officials stay in power. They divide us by party, by race, by gender, by religion, by culture. So that we don't notice that they're picking up. Yeah, we know who's dividing people in this country, just so you know. And distraction, here's the problem. When we're not focusing on stuff like this, when we're worried about, you know, fighting wars or making sure the economy is sound or just letting people live their everyday lives, when we are distracted by just, you know, being good Christians and good parents and good citizens and keeping our head down and minding our own business, when we're distracted.

Jamie James Talarico and his pals, they're the ones over there, having our kindergartners being read to by drag queens, and having children coerced by public school teachers to change their names, change their clothes, change the bathrooms they go to. That's what happens when we're distracted. No, no, no, we're not trying to distract anybody. We're actually finally focusing on the garbage that they've done. And by the way, This is why this guy will never go on a show like this, because if he tried that garbage with me, oh, I oppose gender reassignment surgeries for minors. You don't let it stand there and make it seem like he's changed his position. What about pharmaceuticals? What about hormone blockers? What about changing pronouns? What about allowing children to change their names and their identities behind their parents back? What about that, Jimmy? Yeah, what about that indeed? Oh, hello, it's O'Connor and Company. Larry O'Connor here from the Relief Actors Studios in Washington, D.C. By the way, I'd be remiss if I didn't let you know what was happening on this program. Coming up in the 8 o'clock hour, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. I got a lot of Wisconsin this week. We had... Well, we had Scott Walker last week, but we did quit a lot of Wisconsin in this show. It's a disturbing amount of Wisconsin. And then also in our 8 o'clock hour, Senator Marsha Blackburn, we're always very supportive of gingers doing good in our world. You know, ginger's get a bad rap. And there's a lot of gingers out there that you should be suspicious of. But Marsha Blackburn seems to be okay. And we'll speak with both of those senators coming up. in the program. Also, I don't remind you enough that this show not only is heard nationally now across the country, by the way, in some pretty big cities. Hello, Philadelphia. Hello, Atlanta. Hello, Dallas. I could go on and on, but the rest of them are all asleep. So we are heard pretty early in the morning out in Los Angeles and San Francisco, but they're there. They're working. They're out there. All those workers are counting the ballots, you know, listening to us and their earbuds. I'm sure. Good morning, West Coast. But not only we heard coast to coast now from Washington, D.C., but we're also simulcast on video. If you ever wanted to know, well, let's just out. Spoiler alert, I have a face for radio. It was a heavy lift to get me on camera. But we do simulcast everything. A lot of our guests are appearing on video as well. So you can see the interaction. And a lot of our audio bites that we play also have video associated to it. So if you're ever at home and not listening in the car, please don't watch this video simulcast in the car. That's not a good idea. That's how accidents happen. And then, you know, we got to pile up. And then we got more traffic. And then more people are stuck in traffic. And it takes them longer to get to work. And that means they're listening to the radio longer and listening to our show longer. Ooh, wait a second. I think we're on to something here. Hold on. Everybody start watching the video stream in the car. Put your seatbelt on, though.

I don't want there to be an accident. What I'm saying is if there is an accident and there's more traffic and that takes it longer for you to get to work, that actually helps the radio show. I'm just going to leave that alone. But you can watch the cyborgast of the video of our program for Salem News Channel. It's on Roku, very popular on Roku, very popular on Samsung TV, Amazon Prime, all of those places. You can just download the app, too, on your own device and just watch Salem News Channel and watch the program in the morning when you're not driving. That would be wrong to do it while you're driving. I don't mention that enough, and I've been reminded to mention it, so considerate mentioned. Last night in New York City, the Knickerbockers. who have now made it to the NBA finals, the championships for the first time in several decades, took their 2-0 series lead after the first two road wins in San Antonio. Brought it to Madison Square Garden, the world's most famous arena, I'll have you know. And, well, it was a party-like atmosphere. It was like there was no tension in the air because the knickerbockers are so sure that they're going to win this thing now. And their fans, shockingly, New York sports fans acting kind of cocky. I know. Really against brand, isn't it? And going into the game, it seemed like the biggest controversy had to do with a person in attendance, most specifically the president of the United States, lifelong Knicks fan and former New Yorker Donald John Trump. Now, we've got a lot of reactions about the president attending the game last night. The first reactions beforehand starts with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Also, I'm told, a New Yorker who did not go to the game, by the by. But she met up with a TMZ reporter in D.C. And, well, then this happened. My mere Muslim. My bagel Jewish. My Christian Dior makes it. I saw people doing it on Twitter. Pause there for a second. If I could. I have no idea what just happened. Something about a Muslim and Jewish. bagels and what that seems racist it seems it's it's it's Christian Dior Nixon for I do understand Nixon for so in other words these are Knicks fans celebrating and getting all cocky and arrogant again not really in keeping with the brand for a New York sports fan when are New York sports fans ever cocky and arrogant weird right I know Nixon for, and they're celebrating. This is a TMZ photo video journalist, by the way. I know TMZ came to D.C. with great fanfare explaining how they're going to bring a new kind of journalism to Washington. Can I just say, when you're behind the camera for TMZ and you're yucking it up and having a party with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you're not bringing anything new. This is what Democrats in the media have been doing for decades in this town. That's not new. That said, let's let Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continue with this gibberish.

You know, a lot of people are thinking, what is Trump's reception going to be like tonight at Madison Square Garden? I know it's easy to say, oh, he's going to get booed. But, like, I mean, Haynes not as liberal as people think. So what do you think? It's not just that. It's also that these tickets were going for like $42,000 a piece. And so... You know, when you have a stadium full of people paying 42 grand, these are all the people that are getting, you know, if you can afford to impulse buy a $42,000 ticket at MSG, you're probably in the tax bracket that he cut in order to, you know, that he cut those taxes and cut everyone's health care that's stuck outside of the stadium in order to afford that. And so I don't know what the reception is going to be. See there, eat the rich. See, if you can afford to go to the game, then you'll probably cheer Trump because you're one of the one percent. They really do have the most moronic worldview. By the way, socialist, Marxist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-type Zohran Mamdani was there, too. Who bought his ticket, Darling?

Some animals are more equal than others, I guess, is what we're seeing play out here. Because trust me, there are plenty. If you truly believe that it's the multi-millionaires in New York City who are the conservative Republicans, you just aren't paying attention in any way whatsoever. That said, Stephen A. Smith, sports and political commentator, he had a take of his own about President Trump going to Madison Square Garden. Here's what he had to say before the game. Anything that disrupts it. If it causes the New York Knicks to win to lose tonight, I'm blaming him. I'm blaming the President of the United States. I'm going to stay on that. I'm going to stay on that. And damn it, I hope the GOP lose votes because of it if we lose tonight. I'm going to be against them. All of them. I'm telling you that right now. We better not lose the night's game. We better not lose the night's game. You understand what I'm saying? I've been fair-minded down the middle as an independent for the long time. Hell hath no fury like Stephen A scorned if the New York Knicks lose tonight. I'm going to be in their ass like backpocket. Like white on rice. I'm telling you that right now. This is political commentary on a sports network. I think we need to have a sports show so we can do the same thing because we'll be just as intelligent about sports, especially with the World Cup coming up. I want to host a sports show right here on the station you're listening to right now during 2026 just so I can deliberately never mention soccer. during any of the episodes. That's my little political message to all y'all. I actually don't want anyone to believe that we care about this thing, that everyone else in the world cares about. But anyway, that's sports talk on ESPN. Stephen A. Smith, if the Knicks lose, I'mma blame Trump. He threw down a couple of IMAs there. And he also said that he hopes Republicans lose votes because of it. Because, you know, all those Knicks fans who vote Republican, Kamala Harris got 68% of the vote in New York City in the last election. Spoiler alert, the Knicks lost. And you'll see videos of President Trump getting booed during the national anthem and leave it to New Yorkers to boo our national anthem. My guess is they didn't boo him because of his politics or his immigration policy or his taxation policy or because of the military strikes in Iran or anything of that. You see, to be read in on those topics means you have to read any section other than the back sports page of the New York Post and Daily News, which I don't think those people did. No. You know why they booed Donald Trump yesterday at Madison Square Garden? Because they had to wait for three hours out on 34th Street. in 7th Avenue and 8th Avenue to get into Madison Square Garden because of the Secret Service. Let me just say something. I'm a big supporter of the present. Voted for him every chance I had. If I had to stand outside in the urine-infested drudgery of Manhattan for hours on end waiting to go through Secret Service to see...

the Knicks after paying $10,000 for my ticket, I'd probably boo the guy. That said, President Trump leaving and Air Force One was asked about Stephen A. Smith saying, hey, he's going to blame you for this loss. He blames you. What do you think, President Trump? Which, by the way, is proof positive. Considering we've got a war going on right now, we've got elections going on, we've got fights over FISA in the Congress and in the Senate, we've got a reconciliation bill, we've got disruptions over ICE funding. And the question to the president is, how do you respond to Stephen A. Smith for blaming you for the Knicks loss? We have reached the point of oversaturation, and the president needs to stop doing interviews. If this is where we are right now, but this is where we are right now. So here's the president's response. It was, I think, mostly cheers. It was loud and it was very enthusiastic. Mr. President, ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith was talking about running for president. He said he would blame you if the Knicks lost the game. How do you respond to that? I think he's a nice guy. But you need a certain aptitude to run for president. You need a high IQ. I'm not sure that Stephen has that. I don't think he does, actually. That'll leave a mark. Yeah, it was mostly tears when the Knicks lost. Did I mention the Knicks lost? The Knicks lost. I don't care about the San Antonio Spurs. In fact, I don't like Papadopoulos or whoever their former coach is. He's a mouthy, left-ring liberal jerk. And I never liked the Spurs because I grew up in Lakers fans until they brought LeBron in. I don't care. I don't care. But I do like seeing the Knicks lose just because of their fans. Because did I mention New York sports fans are arrogant and cocky and act like they invented the sport? Until they lose, by the way. Not a whole lot of arrogance or cockiness on the streets of Manhattan after the loss. For viewers on the video stream, you're seeing what happened outside of Madison Square Garden after the loss. It was a riot. It was mayhem. It was like, wait, I don't understand. Look at all of the people fighting with each other. And look at all the people getting thrown to the ground. And look at the fisticuffs and the vandalism and the destruction. And I don't see an ice agent anywhere. There's no masked ice agents. There's no detentions. There's no deportations. It's just New York being New York, man. Nick's lost. Let's riot. Nix won last riot. It's like the left just likes to riot. It's who they are. It's who they are. Did I mention the Knicks lost last night? It wasn't even close. Oh, it just makes me happy. It brings great joy to my life. Again, not rooting for the Spurs. I guess I was rooting for the Oklahoma City Thunder. Thunder up. I'm married to a woman from Oklahoma, so it's the law.

Here's the deal. Today's the 9th day of June. It's O'Connor and Company. I'm Larry O'Connor here from your nation's capital. And I want to give you an update on the reflecting pool, the Lincoln Memorial, reflecting pool, which is that stretch of water between the Lincoln Memorial, and then it ends, terminates at the World War II Memorial, and then the Washington Monument is across the street there. 14th Street, if I remember right. And of course, from the angle of the Lincoln Memorial, you see the Washington Monument reflected beautifully in the reflecting pool. And if you're over by the Washington Monument, up on the mound there, it's up on a hill overlooking the reflecting pool in the World War II Memorial. If you're up there, you see a beautiful reflection of the sky and the Lincoln Memorial. And it's just a great feature. It's beautiful. That spot, by the way, right there on the hill by the Washington Monument, looking at the reflecting pool and looking at the Lincoln Memorial and the Potomac River and across to Arlington and northern Virginia, that's where I bent down on one knee and asked my wife, Meredith, to marry me. How about that? That's the spot. There's a great story that goes with that engagement, but we'll leave it for another time. For the life of me, I do not understand liberals in this town, Democrats, Trump haters, who are fixated on the renovation to the reflecting pool. Well, let me give you a quick update on the renovation, by the way. As you know, the bottom surface has been sealed. It's been done. We've been engaged now for the last five days in filling the reflecting pool, which does not happen overnight. This is a large body of water. And they're doing it in a very deliberate and judicious way to make sure that they're not getting seepage and to make sure that it's being done in an orderly fashion. It is scheduled now for the water to reach the edge of the reflecting pool today. It was nearly full yesterday. The water level was rising. It's 2,028 feet in length, right? It's big. It's big. It is anticipated to be full. The deadline is tomorrow for this project to be complete, and it looks as though it will be completed one day early as of today, I believe. That's the latest I heard from people on the scene reporting. Emily Miller, independent journalist, has been doing yeoman's work, giving daily updates on this entire project, going all the way back to when they first drained it and scraped the bottom of the pool of the layers and layers and layers of goose poop. living there. Then they had to seal up all the cracks that had formed over the course of the last hundred years, and then they sealed it. And of course, everyone got angry over the tinted blue color in the sealant that they were using, this commercial-grade sealer. But the idea was, and they keep calling it American flag blue, but it looks even darker than that. I would call it a dark navy blue, but maybe that's just the effect of the water that makes it look darker, perhaps, and the reflection.

But either way, it is sharp looking. It truly is beautiful, especially compared to what it used to look like. And for the life of me, I'll go back to my original statement. I cannot understand the opposition to this. I understand they hate Trump. And I guess the only way to explain their opposition to this is to shoot it through the lens of they hate Trump. It's often said Trump can cure cancer. And suddenly you'll see Democrats in this town rallying in support of cancer. And this is hardly cancer, but they're decrying an obvious beautification and improvement project. And one of many around Washington, D.C. So now here's the latest video of a D.C. I think it's a D.C. resident. I doubt this as a tourist, complaining about the improvement, the objectively speaking by any one standard improvement. to the famed reflecting pool in the National Mall. Here's the viral video now. I would have preferred to keep it like it was. It's an incredibly stupid idea. I'm delighted that it's still reflecting. I think it's horrible. The color I've seen on the news is disgusting to me as opposed to how it was in the past. Okay, that last one there, the color is disgusting. By the way, the first voice on that montage, that dude was wearing a Minnesota Golden Gophers hat. He ain't no local. Even people from Minnesota who moved to Washington, D.C., don't keep wearing a University of Minnesota hat unless they just want the whole world to know they're losers. We're not heard of Minneapolis, aren't we? I don't think we are. But come on. When is one of the Golden Gophers ever won anything? But that last woman, the color is disgusting. She said, have you seen what the reflecting pool looked like before? The pictures are out there. In fact, people are doing side-by-side comparisons right now. You can see for yourself before the color was algae green. Do you know why it was algae green? Because it was full of algae. And the aforementioned goose poop. And it smelled. It stanked the high heaven. You can criticize President Trump on things. That's your right. In fact, frankly, I would say it's your duty for every American to criticize the president if they disagree with them. But do not stand there and tell me that you hate the new color because you miss algae green that smells like poop. When you say that, you have lost all credibility, and you've revealed yourself as a Democrat. You know, our founders believed that freedom wasn't just a word. It was a way of life. The freedom to move forward, the freedom to pursue what matters most, the freedom to live fully. But pain has a way of taking those freedoms away. That's why relief factor exists. Relief factor is a 100% drug-free research-based supplement designed to help support a healthy inflammatory response addressing pain at its source, not just covering it up.

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But now we know that as of March 1st of 2021, Peter Marks, who heads up the division in FDA that approves vaccines and then supposed to surveillance safety systems was warned that their algorithm they used to analyze various, the vaccine adverse gun reporting system, that algorithm was going to mask the safety signals because you had two similar injections, Moderna and Pfizer, and you compare one to the other. equally safe, equally dangerous. And so those things are masked 26 days later, using an up-to-date algorithm. They were shown 25 safety signals, including sudden cardiac death, pulmonary infarction, bells, palsy, different types of strokes. Three successive months, Dr. Sharston, she's the data mining experts who was warning them, continued to do data runs, showed more very serious adverse events, and they blew her off. They told her to cease to desist. Let me add, the CDC used a different technique for data mining. It called the proportional reporting show. And a bunch of us in 2022 were asking to see that data, the results of it. Finally, they released the Epoch Times showing all the PRR was showing all kinds of safety signals, and they just blew it off. And what they told us, well, this is this is too noisy. It's simply not working. We're going to use the FDA's empirical Bayesian data mining. The exact, that is the algorithm. That is the system that they knew was hiding and masking safety signals. So this is, to me, to my mind, the biggest government scandal in my lifetime because Americans creditors is the globe. deserved accurate information. These folks were supposed to be looking for minute safety signals to warn doctors, at least, not the public. Instead, they were shown the safety signals. They denied them. They ignored them. They lied the American public. And what they demanded before they showed any, you know, informing the public at all is definitive proof. which in this case, you just don't get definitive proof. I mean, you can always say, well, people die. People have heart attacks. People have strokes. You can't prove the vaccine caused this. I'll give you one proof. 39,000 deaths. I right now reported worldwide on the VAIR system. 39,000. 24% of those deaths occur either on the day of vaccination within one or two days. I know VAEAS doesn't prove causation. That's a correlation that's been concerning me since, oh, I don't know about March, April, 2021 when I started looking at VAIRS. Senator Ron Johnson's our guest from Wisconsin. This is astounding, astounding results in this report on the politics behind the COVID vaccine. And I just...

I'm going to pause for a quick second here because you're mentioning masking. Masking, and again, I've read through this report, and the masking part of the data mining is a big, big, big sort of pivot point on all of this. Can you just for a moment here explain what masking is and why it's so critical to the results of this report? So the reason they need sophisticated algorithms is because in general, you're looking for small signals and a bunch of data. On average, since Vayers began, they report about 280 deaths per year associated with some kind of vaccine, anaphylactic shock or whatever. So they have to have sophisticated algorithm. Is there something else going on here? Well, with the advent of the COVID injections, we went from an average of 280 deaths per year reported. 21,000 deaths reported on VAIRs associated with the COVID injection. Now, I didn't need a sophisticated algorithm to say that's the safety signal screening at you. But because you're using this algorithm, they compared, so you have two similar injections. And these are close figures. The deaths reported associated with Pfizer around 10,000. Then you had about 10,000 associated with Moderna. So using this algorithm, you're comparing 10,000 deaths with Pfizer. to 10,280 of Moderna and the other vaccines. Then you look at Moderna and you go, 10,000 deaths of Moderna compared to Pfizer's 10,000 plus 280. Again, equally safe, equally dangerous. It's just massing it. By the way, they're still using that same algorithm. Yeah. To mine. They're still using the same algorithm. So. So, Dr. Zarfman, is that how you pronounce her name? Dr. Anna Zarfman, senior FDA medical officer, she flagged all this. She saw this coming. She alerted the top dogs there during the Biden presidency. And you just said they blew her off. Do we know why they, have they given any explanation as to that? Because it sure seems like it was politics. Well, again, they'll say, no, they had to keep that old algorithm because they'd be consistent. They couldn't change their method in the midst of a pandemic. No, here's what happened. These are the people that gave the emergency use authorization. They then are watching. adverse events delusing the VAIR system. They had the contract that inputs, VAIR reports, had to hire 290 additional workers just to input all the, so again, they approve this. Now they're coming, now they're seeing people dying and being permanently disabled. They're freaking out. But then they're shown the reason they're not seeing safety signals in their algorithm is because it's going to mask it. And they're going, oh, God, did we lock out? We can stick to this algorithm. It'll continue to hide in mass safety signals. And we can go live, bold-faced American public saying,

We're just not seeing safety signals. Yeah, but people are still dying, Senator. But people are still dying. I know. But again, everybody was complicit. This is unbelievable. Public health officials work. The news media, members of Congress say all were pushing that jab doctors, nobody wants to admit what they're pushing. We're killing people or permanently disabling them. There was something else that stuck out to me in this report, Senator. In around July of 22, suddenly the FDA stopped sharing reports with the CDC. What's the explanation there? Because that sounds like the beginning of a cover-up. Well, again, in that July of 2022, that's when people like me and ICANN and Epoch Times are doing FOIA request to get the PRR data. That's where it was going to be proportional reporting ratio according to CDC. I mean, CDC is kind of the one that monitors this, right? But also FDA is supposed to as well. They used two different methods. So they were already seeing in PRR. That's why they wouldn't release the PRR data. When they finally released it. there were literally about 140 different safety signals now what they explained once they finally released is this is junk it's it's worthless this is just noise ignore it work you know, we're going to rely on the FDA's empirical Bayesian analysis. Of course, they probably knew, again, we don't have documents of this, but they have to be talking to each other, right? They go, hey, guys, don't worry about it. Blow off the PRR. Remember, they were touting their VSAFE network beforehand, but once they saw the adverse events explode, they were looking for any port and a storm, and they had one. in this algorithm. Remember, it took ICANN two lawsuits in about a year and a half to get the VSAFE data, which was set up real-time. 10 million people volunteered, and 7.8% of those people reported they had to seek medical care if the injection, almost 25% lost work or couldn't continue their daily activity. But all this was hidden. They didn't, and by way, we didn't get this information until Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came in and forced HHS to give us 11 million pages. And, of course, we had to find these needles in the Haste Act to issue this. And it's just a preliminary report. This is just the preliminary report. More hearings to come. Elections matter. You're right. Thank God we have the administration in right now that we have. And hopefully somebody's going to pay some price for all of this. It's tragic. Senator Johnson, thank you for continuing to pursue this. You're a bulldog on this. And God bless you for it. Thank you, sir. Thanks for covering it because the major networks are not. Oh, we're going to send this around. We're going to blow this up. It is time for our critter news segment. I don't know why I'm laughing. This is a terrifying critter news story. We'd sort of...

Sort of shoehorns into our segment we just did with Senator Ron Johnson and that absolute outrage over what happened with the CDC and the FDA and but appears to be a cover up over the results of testing of the COVID vaccine shot that wasn't a vaccine and the dangers that came along with it. We're going to be pushing that video out all over the dang place. If you see it on your social media, please share it. because it needs to be heard everywhere. It needs to be seen everywhere. That said, this is also kind of a public health issue that goes along with critter news. It has to do with maggots, I think. These are maggots? It's, I mean, it's a, it's a worm-like larva, a screw worm that eats flesh. And eventually they grow into flies. So it's a maggot, right? That's the definition of maggot. I'm looking for help from our team here. Wouldn't you call it a maggot? It's a maggot. They're calling it a screw worm, which I thought was a CS Lewis play. End story. It's not. That's the script tape letters, which is a good read. I suggest you partake in the screw tape letters. Do not partake in the screwing worm. Here's what happens with the screw worm. It's a devastating parasite threatening to upend the beef industry in America. But if you're politico, now let's just be clear. This is a flesh-eating larva of a fly maggot. which is now apparently this invasive, horrible parasite that can eat away at the flesh of bovine in the American cattle industry. This is horrible for our food supply and certainly horrible for ranchers. and for the continued access to beef in this country, considering we've got some shortages right now, and ranchers are feeling it big time, and you are feeling it at the grocery store because of prices. That's the story. If you're politico, this is how you start the story. A devastating parasite is threatening to upend President Donald Trump's efforts to lower beef prices ahead of the midterms. Seriously? That's the most important. I mean, listen, I guess if all you care about is electoral politics, if all you care about is if your side wins or loses, then sure, the devastation that could come as a result of an invasive parasite maggot known as the screw worm, I guess. You shoot it all through the lens of how it's going to affect Donald Trump, beef prices, and the midterm elections. That said, I think we've got bigger problems here with this critter. The New World Screw Worm, which often kills untreated livestock, has been discovered in two calves near the Mexican border. Is it calves or calves? I think it's calves.

near the Mexican border in South Texas in the past week. The pest's reemergence in the U.S. is alarming agriculture officials, ranchers, and beef industry leaders who have spent months attempting to prepare for its anticipated arrival is ground beef and steaks fetch record high sums. Administration officials insist the screwworms return does not threaten the country's food supply and is not a hazard to public health. That, of course, buried in paragraph five of Politico article because, honestly, all they care about is the election and harming Donald Trump. It's a serious problem. And for everyone in the ranch and cattle industry, our heart goes out to you, please, please treat your livestock. And let's not let this thing take off. They're super gross, and I think we need to stop showing the B-roll of the maggots. Let's move on to another cow-related critter news story, and that is Kanye and his wife, milking a cow and then drinking the milk. It's a viral video going out. Is this connected to Ye's new song? Is that what this is? It's like a music video. She's sitting wearing lingerie, milking a white cow with black spots out near, it looks like the Alps, or I guess it could be the Rockies. And the new music video, it's directed by his wife, and she milks a giant cow wearing lingerie in a mountain field. Then he walks in and feeds her the milk. Let me just repeat. Kanye has a new music video directed by his wife where she milks a giant cow in lingerie in a mountain field. Then he walks in and feeds her the milk. I don't have a punchline to this critter news story. That's it. That's the entirety of it. Thank you for your attention to this matter. For 250 years, Americans have believed in one powerful idea that we were meant to live free, free to work hard, free to move, free to enjoy life without being held back. God bless America for letting us do all that. But here's the problem. If everyday aches and pains are slowing you down, it might be time to declare your independence from pain. Relief factor is a 100% drug-free research-based formula designed to help your body... fight inflammation, one of the root causes of pain. It's not a quick fix or a temporary mask. It... It works from the inside out, at the source. Relief Factor was created so people could get back to living life on their terms, walking, working, exercising, enjoying the moments that matter. This year, as we celebrate 250 years of American independence, take a stand for your own freedom from pain. We're offering a special patriotic price, just 1776, so you can declare your independence and take control. $17.76. Go to Relieffactor.com or call 800 for relief.

There's a lot to unpack here. This is the Election Security Partnership Act. And let's go back one step because you're right. We need to pass the Save America Act. It looks like it's not going to happen. And part of that has to do with the parliamentarians saying that it can't be included. Is that what I'm in there? Well, what is the problem? Why can't this thing get passed? I know there are Democrats standing in the way, but it seems like there's some Republicans who are not thrilled with this idea as well. And you're right. The Democrats are standing in the way because they have worked overtime making illegal, legal, opening the border, shutting down DHS. This is all part of their game. Abolish ICE, which is one of their goals, defund federal law enforcement, another of their goals. And when you look at the bill... You've got the votes for showing an ID. You've got the votes for being a citizen. There is support for my election security partnership. But the other provisions of no mail-in ballots and stopping the transgender surgeries, no men and women's sports. Those are things. It's hard to get all the votes together for that. You know, I'm first in line. So you think breaking it apart is going to make it easier to get those passed? Is that what I'm understanding? We're trying everything to get it passed. And if we can't do it as one, let's break it apart and do it a piece at a time. So let me ask you about this, this idea of incentivizing the states to comply with Homeland Security to make sure that the voter rolls are vetted. When they passed motor voter, back in the 90s. And the idea is we want to make it easier for people to register to vote. So when they go get their license or the registration, whatever, we'll let them register to vote there at the DMV. Wasn't it part of the law that states are required to keep their voter rolls in compliance and not full of people who shouldn't be voting? I mean, that's already the law. Why do they need to be incentivized to follow the law? Because they are not checking against that safe system. And we're saying, all right, 26 states are doing this. So we will give you a plus up in your grants of up to 10% if you will utilize this system. And it is frustrating. to have to incentivize people to do the right thing. Right. Well, not just do the right thing, but to comply with federal law. Somebody from your state in Tennessee is saying, hey, we're already doing this. Why are we incentivizing those dirt bags when it's already the law? Because we want to make certain we guarantee one person, one vote, and that we protect this right that we have as citizens to vote. It is a precious right. And it should not be cheapened by people that are coming into the country. They're here illegally. They get a driver's license. They register to vote and they go vote. Let's make certain states clean up these voter rolls and that the citizen.

is guaranteed the right to vote, not people that are On vacation or on visas or illegally in the country, they have no right to vote. By the way, of course, Tennesseans would never refer to a fellow American in another state of dirtbag. That was me being flamboyant with my rhetoric. I apologize for suggesting such a thing. Are there legs for this? Are we going to see some of your fellow senators rallying around this idea? Your colleagues on the other side of the aisle have got to be embarrassed by what's transpiring right now in California. They should be embarrassed because you see that the election results have changed long after the polls had closed. And those election day votes were counted. And what we're doing, if we can find the 51 votes for different provisions and push it across the finish line so that we are solidifying election integrity in this country, that is what we're going to do. I love to ask, you know, today's primary day in a lot of states. And this guy, Graham Platner, is, it looks like he's going to win his primary and be the Democrat nominee. He could be, you know. He could be sworn into the United States Senate if he defeats Susan Collins. And I'm sure you've been up on some of the horrific things we've learned about his past. I'd love for your impression of this, that this guy could be a United States senator. And Chuck Schumer and the other Democrats, Elizabeth Warren, they seem to be rallying around him because it's more important to get the majority than it is to actually have some of integrity that you can trust in the Senate. You know, Larry, they are so power hungry. And to them, it is all about power and control. And so, yes, they are rallying around this candidate, and Governor Mills had suspended her campaign. I understand she's still on the ballot. Susan Collins has represented Maineers well and consistently, and I do not think they're going to be able to defeat Susan Collins in Maine. You know, you disagree with your colleague from Maine, Senator Susan Collins, on certain issues, but of course you agree on enough that you both caucus with the Republicans and the majority. She is a Republican, just not exactly a Marsha Blackburn-style Republican. But boy, what a lesson it is to your fellow Republicans, that here's Susan Collins, the most centrist of all the people in the United States Senate, and they're still trying to destroy her with this guy, of all people.

Because they want the majority. They want control. They are consumed with Trump derangement syndrome. And anything that President Trump supports is something that they are going to fight against. And it is a sad state of affairs for them. It's not about what is good for the country. It is about what is good for their control. and their power. And you see the Democrat Party has tilted so far left. You look at people like Graham Platner. You look at people that identify as being socialist and socialist ideologies. And I think as so many Tennesseans will say to me, this is not the Democrat Party that they knew when they grew up or maybe that their parents belonged to. When you look at our nation and the fact that we've been free and we're celebrating 250 years, you know, Larry, the way we've kept that is by having robust, respectful, bipartisan debate and agreeing that a decision on what is going to be good for America is the decision that we're going to make and that is what is going to stand. I would like to see the Democrat Party return to that type footing. I would like to see them show support for our federal law enforcement. I would like to see them support the rule of law and enforcing the rule of law. And as we were talking about election integrity and looking at what is so important here, you have to make certain its citizens. that vote that you are supporting every one of these immigration laws and laws we have on the books have been passed by a congress they have been signed by a president either a democrat or a republican but instead of saying let's support the rule of law they're saying well let's just ignore laws that we And they feel justified because they think it helps them with where they want to go, which is power and control. And I think you're going to see Republicans win the midterms and hold the House and the Senate. And we're looking forward to continuing to pass President Trump's agenda, get it to his desk so he can sign it into law. Amen to that. Great talking with you, as always, Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. Thank you for joining us this morning. Thank you. That's the great Senator Marshall Blackmer. She is great. And listen, she's very good at conveying a conservative message and also playing nicely with others. I'm sure you saw, I tried to get her to maybe criticize some of the leaders there in her party who don't seem to be as robust and zealous about the Save America Act. And she's, you know, listen. And I don't falter for that. You have to play nice with others. That's part of being in the Senate. I don't have to play nice with others. I just want to remind you all. It is the law that only citizens can register to vote. It is the law that states need to clean their voter rolls. The fact that we've now reached the point where we have to incentivize states to actually follow the law tells you just how down the rabbit hole we are, thanks to the Democrats. I'm Larry O'Connor.

We're less than an hour away from the market's opening. I can tell you, though, that oil has now dropped below $90 per barrel, I think, for the first time since the military actions in Iran. National average gas price is now at $4.16. That's 40 cents from last month. And the futures on the market are on the rise this morning. Far cry from where it was Friday, where if you watched your 401k, you were panicking, but don't panic. It's all going to be fine. We've got some more updates here about the beautification of Washington, D.C., a disturbing video released by the Department of the Interior. I don't think they meant it to be disturbing, but we'll explain the reopening of the George Washington Parkway. Also, I want to take a couple of your calls. I am reminded, and I keep getting emails from listeners who are like, hey, you're national now. You should take more calls. You're right. You're right. I should. I apologize. 8557-8-8-4-4255. I'll be honest with you. It's because there's so much to talk about and so much to get to in our three-hour morning extravaganza here that sometimes it's hard to fit calls into the mix. But we're going to take a few calls for people who have been holding all morning long coming up in just a moment. First, though, a quick reminder. I need you to help some really great kids, have some fresh air and fun, and learn about Jesus. by sending a boy or girl with a mom or dad in prison to Angel Tree Camp. Just go to Larry O's Show.com and consider making a generous donation to my Angel Tree campaign. You'll see a banner at the top of the page. Prison Fellowship provides kids with an incarcerated parent a week away from bad neighborhoods and the dangers of drugs and gangs. And as Angel Tree Volunteer, Myra tells us, a week in the fresh air of Angel Tree Camp can literally transform their lives. Angel Tree is not only about getting a gift. Angie Tree is about building lives, building relationships, nurturing families, opening the door for that family that actually needs that support. Angel Tree is heaven sent. Who wouldn't want that? Amen to that. And I would just love for you to end your day today knowing that you did at least one good thing. I know you're going to do more than that. But here's one you can just check off the list. Because the most important part of our angel tree campaign is you. Your donation of anything you can afford. Listen, if you can afford $200, that's it. That's what it takes to send a kid to camp. But whatever you give over at larryosho.com provides campers impacted by incarceration with a week of community, water activities, horseback riding, other adventures. And again, it's all woven through a Christ-centered focus for many of these kids.

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And I said, you know, maybe we've reached the point of saturation. Maybe he doesn't have to do any more interviews. If these are the questions he's being asked, that was my point. It was really more a commentary on the media than it was on the president. Russ, thank you for that. Yesterday, in Washington, the George Washington Parkway was reopened after a major campaign to get rid of the potholes and make it drivable again. And the Department of Interior released a video celebrating it. Here we go. Do you hear that? No bumps. No cracks. Just seven and a half miles of pure, smooth peace. The historic George Washington Memorial Parkway is finally restored, making our drive into D.C. beautiful. That is some really, really sexy asphalt. if you know what I mean. You're going to drive the George Washington Parkway with her talking to you. You'll need a cigarette afterwards. Thanks for that. In 2025, Americans lost more than $21 billion to fraud and identity theft. That's why so many people are turning to Aura. Aura helps protect your identity with fraud alerts, dark web monitoring, and up to $5 million in identity theft protection. And if you become a victim, Aura's 24-7 U.S.-based support team is there to help. Don't wait until your identity is stolen. Start your free trial today at Aura.com slash safe. That's Aura.com slash safe.