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and punishing criminals goes a long way to making crime rates drop. I know it's shocking. Bethany Mandel joins us in hour to get her perspective on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's very public egg freezing habit. And then in our third hour, we've got the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, Brian Christine, about a big announcement yesterday having to do with your federal tax dollars going to pay. fraudulently for children to get sex change operations and the Trump administration putting an end to that. That's all coming up later in the program. I have a simple question for you right now, though. Who should be the next press secretary for the White House? I've waited a day or two to chime in on this, but we know that Karoline Leavitt has announced that she's going to take some time off. I think she's coming back to the White House personally. I think part of this is so Karoline Leavitt can be used on the campaign trail for these midterm elections. She's going to be a great surrogate. But at the same time, I take her word that it's a grind and she would like to spend time with her newborn baby. I get it. I would want to as well. So there's a lot of speculation about who might be the next White House press secretary. And, well, I want the people to decide. The fact is the White House Communications Office guaranteed right now listening to this program. We are their morning show in Washington, D.C. And so they'll take your opinion into account. 855-784-4-255-855-8-584-4-2-55. Who would you like to see behind that podium every day giving the briefing to the White House press corps and communicating to the American people directly? Over the heads of the White House press corps, who's going to be that effective communicator that you demand at the White House? 855784-845. Now, there's some rumors that I want to address. because it was a big hot story yesterday that one of the people that the president is considering and has made the short list is one Scott Jennings. You know, Scott Jennings, of course, as an analyst on CNN, he's a pretty good defender of the president's policies and even better. He's great at smacking down the criticisms, most of them. with bad faith criticisms of the president from the Democrats, from the left, from members of the media. Scott Jennings has also heard on this Salem Radio network that many of you are listening to right now. He has a two-hour radio program in the middle of the day. And now suddenly people are saying Scott Jennings might drop all of that, leave CNN, leave his nationally syndicated radio show, and head over to the White House to be the press secretary. Would you like to see that? See, here's the problem with all of these things. The second you think, oh, that guy that I really like seeing on TV all the time, that's the guy that I would like to see as the press secretary, well, you don't get him on TV anymore. How valuable is Scott Jennings to the White House effort right now and to Republicans and to the president? How valuable is he to be having that seat at the panel on CNN to be the voice of reason pushing back on all the lunatics out there?

who have their bad faith, histrionic, fake scandal of the day outrage against Donald Trump or against Republicans in the House and the Senate, where Scott Jennings is the reasonable, sane, logical voice of reason pushing back on them. You won't have him anymore there. Sure, Ben Ferguson could replace him. Maybe Jason Rants. Maybe maybe me. But you wouldn't have Scott Jennings. Scott Jennings is brilliant at it. That's why you like him. Suddenly you don't get him there anymore. Suddenly you don't get him from noon to two Eastern Time on the Salem Radio Network on your favorite talk radio station. Suddenly his voice won't be heard on talk radio either. Suddenly he's now an employee of the White House and his job is very different. See what I'm getting at? You have to really think these things through. And sometimes I think that political commentators who show up on cable news and show up on talk radio, they're there for a reason. And that's actually where they best serve the conservative cause in America. I'm also told that Sidney Sweeney is in the running. I don't think that's real. Although it would be...

enjoyable to observe. I'm told that the betting odds right now, you know these polymarket things and, you know, Colchie and all these other things for wagering about who it might be. Odds are that it's going to be a woman and she will be attractive. I think that's a safe pet. Scott Jennings is neither of those things. I mean, he's attractive. Hold on. That came out wrong. He is, what I mean is he is not an attractive woman. That's what I meant. He's actually a really, really horrible-looking woman. He's one of the ugliest women I've ever seen. But he's a very attractive gentleman. I'm going to get in trouble for that. 8557, 844-4-255. Here's my theory. Here's what I think they should do. They should have a White House press secretary.

basically is somebody you've never heard of, one of the deputies who's sort of been doing the job or helping Karoline Leavitt do the job. And then once a week or maybe twice a week rotate in various special, you know, here's our press secretary for the day. They did this when Karoline Leavitt was on maternity, where once a week they had a cabinet secretary doing it. Scott Bessent was great. JD Vance was great. Marco Rubio was great. You know, have them rotate in. And then they can also take up the theme of the day. You know, today it's Sean Duffy is going to be handling the press conference. So we're going to be focusing on transportation issues, that sort of thing. Maybe also bring in some special White House press. And maybe Scott Jennings can do it for a day. My friend John And Drosick of Fifer Fighting said, let's bring Dennis Miller in and have him do it just for a day, you know. That could be fun. That could be. That could be effective too. I think that's what they should do. And I really do think that whoever it is, they should leave that space open. So after the election, after Karoline Leavitt has been out there as a surrogate, working for campaigns, doing a lot of stuff that she can't do right now because she's a government employee, then they can say, you know, well, listen, do you miss the job? You want to come back, finish up? Let's do it. 8557-8-84-4-2-55. How about Radoo in Potomac, Maryland, listening on the Mighty WMAL? Good morning, Radoo. Who would you like to see behind the program? Good morning. How are you? I'm great. Well, the only person I don't want to be Scott Jennings. I love Scott Jennings on television. I like when he argues with people on the late night shows during the daytime. I like him too much. And he would get fired within a year. So I don't want him. I don't care who else is going to be, but I just don't want him. Wait, why do you think he'd get fired? Well, look, I voted for Trump three times. I'm a huge Trump supporter, but Trump fires everybody. I mean, very few people last a whole four years with him. I don't know. This time it's been pretty good. But you're right. Just so you know, Roddo, thank you for the call. All right. So Roder is with me. See, he, Roddo gets it. As much as you like Scott Jennings right now, you like him because he's exactly where we need him to be. You don't want to lose him in that spot. And I'm with him. I'm with him. I also don't want my new bosses at the Salem Radio Network to have to pull their hair out. Think about the Salem Radio Network for a second. And the talent that they've had. First, we had the tragic home accident of Dennis Prager. Dennis Prager is one of the anchor talents for Salem Media. Suddenly, he's not on the air anymore. Then we had Sebastian Gorka, who was the afternoon drive host on the network. He gets a job from the White House. He goes, then who came in and sort of filled the slot of Dennis Prager with Charlie Kirk. And then, of course, Charlie Kirk tragically gets assassinated.

Then Chris DeGall was the morning show host for Salem. He decides to retire early from radio and run for Congress. Now he's heading to the House of Representatives. Michelle Tofoya was on the Salem Podcast Network. Now she's the nominee in Minnesota for the network. And now Scott Jennings, who's on the network, is going to get a job of the White House. This is insane. How many people working here for this network are going to leave because of... Various reasons. 8557-844-2-55. Who do you want to get the job? 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. I still want Chris Plant. Chris Plant, who comes on, he's nationally syndicated talk radio host. He's on right after this program on WMAL, 9 a.m. to noon Eastern and a very good friend. I... Would love to see Chris Plant take that podium, even if it's just right. Here's the thing. Chris Plant does not want to do it. But he'd be amazing. Karoline Leavitt has been great. The president has been blessed with very good White House press secretaries. He will find a great replacement. I'm told, according to The Daily Beast, it's Scott Jennings is one of the options. Kari Lake, which is an interesting thought, is one of the options. And Spencer Pratt. Spencer Pratt, who apparently the president really gets along with ever since his run for mayor of Los Angeles and, you know, they took it away in the dark of night right before your very eyes, cheated fair and square like Democrats always do. He's been in the White House quite a bit meeting with the president. Apparently Spencer Pratt is on the short list. He is not an attractive woman. He is married to an attractive woman, so they might be able to work something out there. But who do you think? Who do you think should be the White House Press Secretary? Who would you like to see take on that job? Let's go to Chris in California, who's up very early or in the middle of the night with me in California, but listening on the WMAL app, which I think is fascinating. Hello, Chris. Thanks for calling it in. Hey, good morning, Larry. It's a pleasure to speak with you and on the great thing of your show. I'd like to see about nominating Sean Spicer again. You want to bring the Spice Man back? You know, he's got a great relationship with the White House and with the president. You know what? At full disclosure, he's a personal friend. I'd love to see Spicer go back into that job. I don't know if he would love to see it. Why would you like Sean back in? I just, you know, he just, he's very analytical in his mind, his logic. He seems to know what's going on. He seems to be.

Still in touch with what's going on with the White House, still very close with the president. I just, I kind of missed when he left the first time around, but I do understand that it's a very hard job. Oh, it is. It's hard. It's hard on his family. But you're right. I think his podcast, The Sean Spicer Show, reluctantly, I'll say it. And please don't tell him I said this. It's actually one of the smartest political analysis shows that you can get out there. It really is. And he knows his stuff. Always has been one of the smartest political minds for Republicans in Washington for decades now. All right, that'd be fun. All right. There's a vote for Sean Spicer to make a return. How about... Hilliard Digger in Southwest Virginia. Hilliard Digger. Digger? What side of your mind, brother? Hogan Gidley. Another throwback to the first term. You like Hogan? I like Hogan, but Spicer, I don't think, is available. He's probably, you know, these podcasts sort of ties them to the podcast because it's their bread and butter. Well, you know, listen, everybody who has been named so far, including Scott Jennings, they all have gigs. I don't know, Spencer Pratt has a gig. But, you know, you can, listen, if you're doing a podcast or you're doing a radio show and you suspend it, it's easier to suspend a podcast than it is to suspend a radio show. When you're on a radio show, you've got a lot of people who are relying on you in that time slot, especially if it's network and you've got a lot of other stations. People aren't going to just put it on hold. and leave it open. But, you know, Dan Bongino. Dan Bongino is a perfect example. He put his podcast on hold. Vince Colonais, our buddy, our friend and colleague, filled in for him. He went and was the deputy director of the FBI. His time was done there after about 10 months. And then he came right back to his podcast. It's easier to do that. So for Spicer, it's easier to do that. All right, Digger. Thanks for the thoughts. Sam and Philly. Who would you like to see fill the slot there at the podium for press secretary? Larry, you know, when Trump won, my first thought, I sat there and I said it should be Tommy Lauren. This girl speaks very clear and concise, very knowledgeable, very sharp and quick on her feet and very attractive. It's a grand slam. It's an easy choice for me. You'd be okay losing her as a Fox News analyst right now. Heck yeah. She'd be much better serving us at that podium. Can I throw congratulations out there, Larry, real quick, bud. Yeah, absolutely, Sam. Chris DeGall, sir. Congratulations, buddy. We're proud of you, and you're going to get in Congress. It'll be a great voice for American Patriots, and Philly's got your back still, sir.

That's right. Amos, you forgive him for rooting for the Chiefs now? Yeah, of course. Yeah, football's football. Actually, I used to listen to his show on podcast in Philly, on our affiliate there, The Answer, and he made no secret of the fact that, sure, I'm here for the Eagles, except when they're playing the Chiefs. But his heart has always been in Northwest Missouri. Sam, thank you for that. I'll pass it on to Chris as well. Thanks. All right, well, listen, we'll see who the next press secretary is. But watch that space. They should make an announcement soon. Hey, guys, I want to tell you about my friends at Relief Factor. Look, I've got it right here on the desk because I haven't taken my Relief Factor yet this morning. But my relief factor is fantastic. I love it because it helps me with my daily aches and pains. You know, you reach a certain age. And even just waking up in the morning and getting out of bed, it's not like you're in pain, but you feel stuff you didn't used to feel. Relief Factor will get to that. It's inflammation. Relief Factor gets to the root of inflammation. helps give you relief from that inflammation, and it takes away the pain. That's why it's relief factor. And it also gets you back to your life, life that you put on hold before that pain. Doug took Relief Factor for nearly a year. Then he convinced his wife she was a special needs teacher that she should try it. She'd been using assistance to get down the hallway at work at school. Well, now she's back on her feet every day and she never had to leave that job that she loves. Try Relief Factor. Your three-week quick start is only $17.76. Call 800, the number four, relief. You'll connect with the friendly local team. They'll do everything they can to help. That's 800 for relief or relieffactor.com. Relief factor. 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 save. Hold on, hold on. One more name has just entered the mix for consideration for White House press secretary. Good morning. Larry O'Connor O'Connor and company here for the Relief Factor Studios. You know, I have been fortunate enough to inherit the production team from Christagall, of course, for the Christigal show, but also prior to that, the team, Alex and Guy and Paul, were the same production team that did Sebastian Gorka's radio program here.

Of course, Dr. G is now working for the White House, but the vote amongst those who work on this program has just been heard. They want Gorka as the press secretary, even if just, again, just for a day. Just for a day. Let him have the podium for a day. I would love. I would love for that to have it. Joining us right now on the program is Cully Stimson. He's the acting director for the Legal Policy Center and Senior Legal Fellow at the Center for National Security at the Heritage Foundation and a good friend of the program. Good morning, Cully. Always going to talk with you. Good morning. I would love to have Sebastian up there with his deep voice just for a day. It'd be great. Exactly. Although here, and then you know how they have the new media seat where they rotate in, you know, various people for new media. The day gork is there. They got to let Jim Acosta back in in the new media seat. Yeah, that'd be great. All right. Now, listeners of this program know that Khali Stimson wrote the seminal book about the rising violent crime in America linked right back to the rogue prosecutors. These are those Soros-backed prosecutors that have become DA, state's attorney, commonwealth, whatever they're called, where you live. Their job is to put the bad guys behind bars after they've been arrested. And, of course, they do the opposite. His book is called Rogue Prosecutors, How Radical Soros Lawyers are destroying America. Colie, we've got new numbers in, and there has been a significant drop in violent crime in those very jurisdictions or many of those jurisdictions that you focused on in your book. So what happened here? Well, the interesting thing about the Council and Criminal Justice's report, which looked at 13 cities, is that some of the fellows there are Soros fellows. So it must have been very, very hard for them. to acknowledge reality that putting people in jail and prosecuting people and holding criminals accountable and funding the police actually lowers crime rates. But the juiciest part of the report is that they say, the co-authors say, we can't really point to any specific policies that cause this dramatic drop in homicides across the country. Really? Of course. Right. So it is simple as that. You know, enforce the law. prosecute criminals, get them off the street, put them behind bars, crime rates go down. Right. And we know, because we've talked about this before, half of murders in this country don't see a day in prison, and 90-plus percent of rapist armed armed aggravated assaulters don't see any time in prison. So we don't have a mass incarceration problem. We have an under-incarceration problem if you think these tier one offenders should go to prison. But here in this district, we have 67 murders this year. Now, that's 67 too many. I agree. But it was 100 last year at this time. And it was 32% down the year before that. And so carjackings, armed carjackings, which are mostly in D.C., 14, 15, and 16-year-olds are down 53% year over year. And that's because Janine Piro is taking some juvenile offenders and prosecuting those adults, taking felons in possession, and taking the federal district court, which is where they should have been done the whole time.

Matt Graves, who was a disgrace as the U.S. during D.C., he had a 67% declined to prosecute rate. Janine has a 5%. That's the secret sauce. It's secret to the CC counsel on criminal justice. It's not a secret to anyone else. We're speaking with Cully Stimson. His book is rogue prosecutors, and he's focused on this issue in particular and how not prosecuting criminals actually, believe it or not, ends up with higher crime rates. In these 13 jurisdictions that you're describing, the district attorneys have not changed. So what has changed? Has there been political pressure? Or did they read your book and actually started to figure it out? Look, I think a law and order attitude starts at the local level, because remember, there's 2,300 elected DAs in 3,1,44 counties. And so what happens in terms of who you vote for for DA matters? And yes, some of these jurisdictions did lose their Soros Road prosecutors and got a regular prosecutor. Some of them realized the defunding the police thing doesn't work out for them. Homicides are geographically and demographically concentrated in inner cities. They're in blue cities, sometimes in red states, but a law and order attitude from the governor, from the mayor, from the DA matters. So you've got to pay attention to who your DA is. Well, it's disconcerting, though, because you just mentioned a lot of policy initiatives that lead to higher crime rates. And those are ripped right out of the platform for the DSA, the Democrat Socialist of America. And the things you hear from a lot of these people, like Zohran Mamdani and other politicians who are running and winning, like the mayor in Seattle, these are policies that they're embracing. So this could turn on a dime and go right down the bad path again, right? 100%. And that's why in our first chapter of her book, we sort of lay out the origins, playbook, and belief of this movement, which goes back to the prison abolitionist movement. Angela Davis is our prisons obsolete. But that's sort of a limb of this Marxist, anti-capist, anti-American. cancer that has always been sort of sub rosa, sort of in the left, left, left, fringes of the left, but now they're out in the open, open kimono. So their policies don't work. They're just trying to dress it up as if we need to try something new. Well, they've tried it, and it doesn't work. You mentioned the District of Columbia and the quirky nature of this very, very, very blue Democrat-run city, but the prosecutions are handled by the U.S. attorney because this is a federal district. So the Republican president, as he is at this moment, ends up having an influence on how crimes are handled and punished in the district. The president ran on this issue.

The president has put a lot of policies in place that he can at the federal level through the Justice Department and through the FBI to try to make a difference. Has that had an influence on these cities that don't have the same relationship with the federal government? Hard to tell, probably not as much because at least here in the district, he's brought the National Guard in. Look, when you speed in your car, I'm not saying you do, Larry, you're an angel. When you speed in your car and you see a cop on the side of the road, you slow down. So when you see National Guardsmen, usually in groups of three or four around the city, and we've seen them all the time, it's less likely that you're going to commit a crime in front of them. And so that has helped. But Janine Piro's, you know, actually... prosecuting people and holding people accountable and then bringing some juveniles who are eligible, 16 and 17-year-olds only, and try them as adults. Most of the armed carjacks in this city are done by 14, 15, and 16-year-old. She can take the 16- and 17-year-olds, but look, let's not be naive here. The D.C. City Council tried to pass a massive, massive, pro-criminal reform of the criminal justice system, eliminating all mandatory minimums, every single one except for first-degree premeditated murder. Just disgusting. And remember, the House and Senate vetoed it, and President Biden signed the veto of it. That's how crazy it was. So they are still the way they are. And the D.C. Appeals Court, the Court of Appeals for D.C. not the D.C. Circuit. They have ruled in some very troubling cases that... officers didn't have reasonable articulable suspicion to make a Fourth Amendment stop, and the Supreme Court just overturned them in a case this year, and hopefully they're going to take more of those cases and get them on the right path. So there's still systemic problems in D.C., but you're right. Janine Piro, National Guard, prosecuting more people, helps drive down the crime. The numbers speak for themselves. Kelly Stimson's our guest, his book, Rogue Prosecutors, How Radical Soros Lawyers are destroying America's communities, really a must read so you can understand this trend that seems to hopefully be getting better now based on shining a light on it the way Cully has done with his team there at Heritage Foundation. Cully, you've been cranking out some great work over there at Heritage, and I'd love to ask you about some of the other articles you've written recently. One about Anthony Fauci. You know, we've got more revelations about Anthony Fauci this week that it appeared as though they had a lot of information that suggested at the very least some red flags and maybe some cautions should have been raised for pregnant women who were contemplated getting a COVID vaccine. We had Dr. J. Bata Chari on. He's now the Director of National Institute of Health. He said that based on the information they had, they actually should not have recommended that pregnant women in their first trimester have this shot.

With those revelations and the other things, right now, how do you assess the attempt to hold Anthony Fauci accountable for what he did? And we know he's got his pardon, but what else does accountability look like? Well, there's the legal accountability on the criminal contempt that the Senate went through. Of course, they understand the statute only. authorizes a maximum possible penalty of a year in jail and a thousand dollar fine. So that's what Congress thinks of criminal contempt. And most people don't get that or even get close to that because there's often an off-ramp for people held in criminal contempt or threatened with it. But then there's the broader concept of held accountable. And I don't think anyone's going to be satisfied at the end of this, because Anthony Fauci has that pardon from Biden. He can't be federally charged for anything he did between 2014 and the Biden administration. Whether the states have any there, there, and there's criminal investigations, I don't know. But look, in the eyes of the Lord, in the eyes of the rest of us, his diary and his texts, which are leaking out now, are being put out there. tell you everything you need to know about Anthony Fauci. And he is a modern-day narcissus. And he looked in the mirror every morning and said, that is just, ah, I love that guy right there. I love that guy. And his ego got in the way of being forthright honest and direct with the American people and saying, look, we don't know, but the data is all over. He could have, if he had done that, Larry, he'd said, you know, this information we're getting about the vaccine and pregnant women. It's really disturbing, and I would cautious against, cautiously against it. We wouldn't even be talking about Anthony Fauci now, but he didn't do that, and that's the problem. Cully Simpsons, our guest. Cully, by the way, a 30-year veteran of the United States Navy retired as a captain. You were with the Judge Advocate General's Corps. I know I'm not going to have enough time to give this topic enough. But you wrote a very interesting piece about just war theory in light of some statements from the Vatican and just sort of how our leaders. contemplate what compels us to go to war. I know you focus on national security issues. I know this is still an ongoing conversation, but can you sort of give us the brief one-minute summary of sort of where things stand here with just war theory and whether it needs to be re-examined? The Pope wrote his first papal encyclical on AI. And one section of that dealt with just war theory, which is... started in the Christian and then the Catholic tradition and then became the law alarm conflict. And he says it's outdated. And I respectfully disagree as a practicing Roman Catholic with His Holiness. And I talk about how there needs to be a human in the loop in all these decision making, because if we offload these decisions to AI, we lose personal accountability and it makes war more possible. And so it's the piece I've written in the last five years that I've been the most proud of because it forced me to read Groch's since.

St. Augustine again and all the rest of it. And I think people should really start thinking about it because AI is a concern for everybody, and you don't want AI deciding who to target, whether to go to war, who's, you know, that sort of thing. And so I encourage people to at least read the op-ed or the longer. I do, too. Everyone, take a look at it. It's great stuff. And we'll have you back to talk about it. I'll give it more time. Thank you, Cully. Hey, whether you're preparing for exams, juggling family and career, or you're just looking to stay sharp as you age. Think Factor. is here to help. It's created by the same company that makes Relief Factor. Think Factor supports sharper focus, stronger recall, and clearer thinking. It's a natural way to give your brain the daily nutrients it needs for memory, attention, even vibrant vision. I take Think Factor every day now, been doing so for over two months. And boy, oh boy, do I notice the difference, especially in the afternoon when you start to feel a little foggy, maybe? Not anymore. Not with Think Factor. If you want to stay focused during demanding tests and keep your memories strong, you might want to try Think Factor. It's for you. And the good news is your first bottle, a one-month supply, is only $19.95. Call 8004 Relief, 8004 Relief, or ReliefFactor.com for ThinkFactor. Think clearer. Perform better. Daily. 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. safe. Tell you what. Good morning. Larry O'Connor and Company coming up in our hour number two, we're going to have a great conversation with Bethany Mandel about a whole host of things. She, of course, is the proprietrix of the Mom Wars podcast and Mom Wars Substack. I love having the conversation with Bethany, taking back the culture here, one family at a time. I've heard a lot of commentary yesterday about how the... midterms are shaping up here and how Democrats, all they're going to do is talk about Trump, affordability, Trump, affordability, Trump, maybe around war in there as well. Republicans are going to talk about socialism. They're going to talk about the great things that they've already done with the big beautiful bill and the tax cuts and getting money in your pocket and the numbers are there and also energy independence, things like that. But they're also going to point out,

the radical nature that Democrats hold as part of their doctrine when it comes to our children and when it comes to the transgender issue. When it comes to boys and girls' sports, we have Michelle Tafoya, who's going to be running, is running for Senate in a very, very left-wing state, Minnesota. And her number two issue, after corruption and fraud, her number two issue is protecting girls, protecting our children. from these radical procedures. And I've seen Democrat analysts, you know, teleprompter readers in their air condition studios saying, well, good luck with that, Republicans. If you want to go back to that well and you want to talk about that, that's it. Trump did that in 24. Yeah, Trump did that in 24. And you guys are still at it. You won't let go of it. You won't leave our children alone. So if Democrats welcome the idea of having this debate for this midterm election about protecting our kids from this radical agenda to mutilate them under the guise of your newfound religion that has nothing to do with God. then yes, I think that's a debate worth having. And yesterday, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., along with the deputy or excuse me, Assistant Secretary Brian Christine, who will join us on this program in our third hour. They made a very important announcement in this regard that connects this gender mutilation of our children to fraud, government, corruption, and fraud. Take a listen to this. Parents bring their children to doctors because they trust them. They trust doctors to tell them the truth, and they trust hospitals to put their children ahead of ideology and profit. But when that trust gets violated, parents deserve to have a government that will stand up for them and for their kids and do something about it. Today, the Trump administration is proud to announce we're doing exactly that. Today, HHS released Wolves and White Coats, a report examining pediatric gender medicine and insurance building across America. The findings raise serious questions about what families were told, what insurers were told, and how these procedures were built. Today, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and I refer hospitals and clinics identified by this review to the Department of Justice and the HHS Inspector General for possible violations of federal law. These allegations are crazy, and they demand investigation. When children may have been harmed and families misled, it's on those of us in power to find the truth and to seek justice for kids who are harmed by these doctors. Under the previous administration, my predecessor, Richard Levine, promoted what he called gender affirming care for minors, and there's nothing caring about that. These are sex-rejecting, mutilating, transgender procedures promoted by the Biden administration, and thanks to President Trump's leadership.

were changing course. The Wolves and White Coats report issued by my office at HHS examines a medical system that subjected children to profound interventions while serious questions remained about evidence, about informed consent, and about financial incentives. The report found more than 225 hospitals and health systems established pediatric gender programs nationwide, where they preyed on vulnerable children and told families that their kids needed... life-altering medical treatments when what they really needed was compassion and counseling. So many of these people got rich, not by doing what was good for the patient, but by actually mutilating these kids, it was disgraceful. And if someone broke the law, we are going to hold them accountable. If the medical establishment failed children, we will confront that failure and restore the sacred duty to do no harm. And if our public health institutions lost the trust of American families, we're going to earn it back with truth, with transparency, and with gold standard science together. We're going to protect our children. And importantly, we're going to restore trust in public health. When you walk into the doctor's office, you have to know that they're going to do the best by yourselves, by your children, by your family. And we will hold accountable anyone who would betray that trust. We've got so many great doctors. We can't have a few bad doctors tarnish the whole lot. So this is huge. And I love that they're not holding back. I love that Admiral Christine, the assistant secretary who will be joining us in our number three, referred to his predecessor as Richard Levine. You, of course, know if you're plugged into what goes on here, that that person went by Rachel Levine and pretended to be a woman. He kind of had his own personal agenda there when it came to. indoctrinating your children and medicating your children physically and chemically altering your children and you may say oh well you can have a disagreement about this but that shouldn't be criminal and i guess it wasn't at the time in some states it is criminal but what is criminal is falsely billing the federal government for those procedures and claiming it was for a medical condition that the child didn't have they did that and some people might go to jail It's a great Friday morning here, Otto Cotter and Company, as we're rolling into hour two here. It's, of course, our flagship station, WMAL, in the nation's capital, the Relief Factory Studios. And I am in San Diego still one more day here and still no baby. In fact, we got a lot. Here's the thing. I'm out here. I'm cooling my heels. I'm waiting for my daughter to have her first baby. I'm getting a little impatient. This little granddaughter of mine is already annoying me. She's already, you know, getting on my nerves because she's, she's, well, it's true. She's making me wait. She's screwing up my schedule.

It's like, you know, it's like, hey, kid, let's go. We've got to get to church. I don't want to miss. Let's go. You're making us late, right? That kind of thing, because that's what's going to be. When she's five years old and she's staying with grandpapa, that's what it's going to be like. She's going to, like, make me wait all the time. So that's already a problem. And then we've got Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shooting herself with hormones and harvesting her eggs so she can freeze them and have a baby later. All this stuff is going on. And here I am. I'm a Christian, conservative, white. middle-aged dude, I am not allowed to express an opinion about any of this. But that's why I have my good friend Bethany Mandel here. She, of course, the proprietrix and hostess and producerate of the Mom Wars podcast and the Mom Wars Substack, a frequent and semi-frequent co-host on this programming guest, and she joins us now. Because, Bethany, let's face it, when it comes to pregnancy, you're a little bit of an expert. You've done it several times. Several times. Do you know how many times? This is always the pop quiz I give you. How many children do I have Larry O'Connor? Six. There you go. You did it. I died at this. You did it. It's six. And by the way, before we get into all the things that we want to talk about, that sixth one, I remember I was one of the first ones to know you were expecting because you were in studio with me and you were like showing down animal crackers all the time. And this was during the COVID era. So I have not. taken your temperature on the revelations from Anthony Fauci and the concerns that he had that he never shared with you, an expectant mother, about the vaccine and the result would appear to be some pretty drastic results. What's your reaction to that news? So I actually got the vaccine when I was pregnant. I had a good friend who ended up pregnant on a ventilator for 12 days, and I was very scared by it. And I didn't trust that, I didn't trust Anthony Fauci at the time when he said that it was safe, but I trusted everyone around him. Because I didn't think that they would put something fundamentally unsafe on the market. Bless your heart, in retrospect. That's what everyone is saying to their radio right now. Yeah. The data isn't so clear on how many miscarriages were likely caused by this shot. But there was fear on the part of Anthony Fauci and Rochelle Lewinsky that it could create a... significant number of miscarriages, especially in the first trimester. And as usual, we're seeing the man behind the curtain. We, during all of COVID, they told us that we were conspiratorial, that we were being crazy to ever think XYZ that the virus originated in a lab. And all of a sudden, now we're seeing behind the curtain when we see the text messages and we realize, oh, they shared the same fears, but they acted like they were the science in capital letters.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. And you and another friend of ours, Lindsay, Pfefeld, I believe she was also expecting during the pandemic, and she also had had this shot. And I know that I remember having conversations with you about it. And here's the interesting thing about all of that. It seems to me most of the pregnant women that I know that I've had in my life, you really do sort of take into account the kind of things that you put into your body and the things that you do with your lifestyle at the time. Some are more drastic than others, but it all has to do with the very real knowledge that... the old cliche, you're eating for two, you're drinking for two, everything you're doing affects another human being. So at the very least, all I would think you would want is facts, information so you can reach your own informed consent. Yeah. And it's horrible because at the time I put off getting the shot until I reached the end of my second trimester because I knew so many women anecdotally who had miscarried in their first trimester after getting the shot. And so it's especially frustrating seeing all of this, having that anecdotal information that, you know, women talk. And so I just had heard, you know, seven friends got it and then had a miscarriage two or three days later. That's weird. And so I put off getting it. By the way, and I would never say something so unequivocal, but I will say this, every single woman in my life, every single woman in my life that I had the kind of relationship where they would share this kind of information with me, every single one of them said that the vaccine affected their cycle. Yes, and you and I have that relationship and you know that happened to me. Yep, yep. Yep. So you can't tell me that there's nothing there. All right, let's move on to ovulation of a different sort that has to do with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and this very weird and I think uncomfortable public display of daily hormone injections put on her Instagram, all with the intention of harvesting her eggs to freeze them for a later date. I'm not allowed to comment on it. I did, by the way, and I got in trouble and yelled at by women who told me that I didn't get it and I had no business talking about it. So go ahead, Bethany. React for me.

So I think it's funny, one of my favorite tweets that I saw about this, I think it's funny that the socialist congresswoman is standing for the biggest private equity scam out there. Big fertility is an absolute scam. The data is clear and shocking. Of all the women who decide to freeze their eggs, only 7% decide to actually use those eggs. And of that 7%, only 29% of those women achieve a successful live birth. Those are not great odds. And so she's walking around saying, I'm empowered and the Republicans feel threatened by my choices. No, I think that you're selling women a pack of lies. And you're doing it under the guise of empowerment. But the reality is you're going to deny them the most profound and beautiful experience of human existence and being a mother. You know what? Let's let everybody know because the latest video really does sort of speak to what Bethany just mentioned. Go to six, please, if we could. Clip six. Listen to this. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez yesterday in what appears to be her D.C. kitchen, by the way. What is she doing in D.C. Congress is on recess. She should be back home with her family and dealing with her constituents. That's another story, though. Go ahead. Listen to this. What I want people to feel is.

that they have information that is often hidden from us because we're all kind of almost taught to pursue a lot of this in private. And when we have information, this is the part that they don't like. When you have information, when you know what this is like, you are able to make a decision for yourself, free from fear. People don't like that because fear is a big thing that can, it's a big tool for control. There you go. So when commentators see this process playing out on social media and on these videos and we say, you know, maybe this isn't, you know, this public display is not the best thing. We're really just trying to scare women and control them, Bethany. Why do you do that? It's so sad because she is almost certainly going to end up like almost all women who do this. She's going to be left at 40, 45 without anything. Without, I mean, I don't think she's going to become president. And that's why she's doing this because she's trying to put off motherhood so that she can pursue her career. But you can't have your cake and eat it too. It's just not how it works. And, you know, it's funny for these people who walk around saying, I am the science in this house. I believe in science. There's so much science they don't believe in. And the science on fertility is very clear. Yeah. By the way, also, you know, we should be able to have all the information and these things shouldn't be secret. Has she commented on the secrets that Anthony Fauci and the team kept from women about the vaccine? I don't think she has. You also said, and if you could, could you stay with us for one more segment? Because I really want to talk about your very interesting and frankly inspiring interview with John Fetterman. But real fast, there's something else here. What about her fiancé? What about this guy that she dated for 15 years? She was engaged in for five years. We now learn, as all this is rolling out publicly, that they've broken off their engagement. They're no longer together. What's going through that poor guy's mind as he sees this all play out? Yeah, I mean, I think this is a direct reaction to that breakup. There's, yeah, I think that this is all kind of a slap in his face. But this is, I say this up and left and right. This is the biggest mistake that women of my generation make, because she's only four years younger than me, do not stay with a guy. There's a very crass saying, but like, stay on the pot or get off the pot. She stayed on the pot for way, way, way, way, way too long. And now this is this is the result. She's 36 years old and trying to freeze her eggs. You got you got to do it. Put a ring on it or move on.

And do you think I framed this properly? Or am I overstating what's going on with the Democrats right now just because a couple of outliers are getting all of the attention? No, not at all. I mean, this is the direction that the party is going in. And you can see that when party leadership are silent because they have ample opportunity to come forward and say, we, the Democratic Party, do not believe in socialism. We believe that the state of Israel has a right to exist, all of these things. There used to be so many Democratic politicians who would chomp at the bit to go to events like this one and to go to APEC and all these things. And now they're terrified. They're terrified of going in front of all of these organizations, these Jewish organizations, who, you know, just have the crazy idea that Jews have a right to exist in their ancestral homeland. Suddenly that's controversial. And so you have these radicals, but then you have a large portion of American politicians on the left who are afraid to just, you know, call a spade a spade. Yeah. And I'm just curious because I think the nation of Israel and those who support Israel, they obviously have a PR problem, whether it's justified or not, whether the conversation is tinged with historic Jew hatred and anti-Semitism or not. It doesn't, I mean, it matters. But the bottom line is there is an issue here. There is a political issue here. How do you think they can best address it? The Israelis, do you mean? Yeah, or American Jews or non-Jews who support the state of Israel, who don't like the fact that this is even a valid conversation to have right now. They want to be able to make the case. But there's clearly some political issues going on in America domestically with regard to our support for Israel. Yeah, I mean, I think Israelis have issues with how they interface with Western individuals. It's very much a clash of cultures. And you can sort of see that frustration play out in the way that JD Vance especially talks about Israel because he's like complaining that they're pushy. I'm like, have you met Jews? Have you met Israelis? Yes, they're pushy and annoying. I'm sorry. This is just the people that you're dealing with. But, you know, I think that Israelis... need to and they're they're somewhat good at this come from a position of strength and so you know if you're choosing images to put out there and they're starting to be strategic about this but you know when terror when they've taken out terrorists gloat about that gloat about the strength don't go around on a pity party and say oh well you know we're victims like no one thinks that Israelis are victims because they do have a stronger military so go forth and talk about why that military is necessary. Yeah. Go check out the Mom Wars podcast, Bethany Mandel. Always great to talk with you. I was hoping that screaming child would run into the room and join the conversation, but alas, not so lucky. Go take care of that kid. Thanks, Bethany.

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but not quite as cool and retro-looking, and not sassy like Rosie was. Rosie was pretty sassy. And these humanoid robots who walk and move and have four limbs can be in your house and do your chores for you. And yes, they use AI, and yes, you've got to teach them, but once they learn, it's done. They'll do your house cleaning for you. Are you cool with that? They cost about $20,000. Do you want a robot around your house to do your daily chores? And what chores would you offload to them? Which chores would you just want to do yourself? As much as Meredith, and by the way, before this sounds too misogynistic and, you know, Handmaid's Tale, Meredith does all the laundry in our house because she wants to do the laundry in our house. Okay? I don't make her do the lawn. By the way, I do all the cooking in our house, and it's because I like doing the cooking. She likes doing the laundry. But she hates doing the laundry, right? Do you have one of those? It's like when she does it, she likes it. But she'd prefer not to. I don't know if she would ever offload this to a robot, though. By the way, I don't think she would offload laundry to a human. That's the other factor here. You're spending $20,000 for a robot to come in and do these chores. You know, we talk about, you know, jobs Americans don't want to do anymore. Isn't it better for our society, for our culture, for our economy, where if you could hire a human being to do that job, shouldn't you be doing that instead? Isn't human dignity important? I mean, I don't know. Maybe you don't want a stranger in your house. Is there also something sort of culturally more acceptable to use technology and a robot to do that job instead of, you know, well, let me put it this way. If I hire people to come and mow my lawn, I feel like I'm being lazy. I feel like that's a job I can do. If I'm hiring someone to come and cut my grass, I'm only doing that because I'm not taking the initiative and doing it sure that I should do. I'm capable. I'm physically, you know, able to do it. I have the time. I'm choosing to stay in my air-conditioned house and watch television or play a video game instead of going out there and getting off my lazy butt, getting off the couch, and mowing my own lawn. So I'm not going to hire someone to mow my grass. But if I pay a ton of money for a robot to do it, somehow that's better. Somehow that's okay. Somehow you're not lazy anymore. You know what I mean? It's like there's also sort of a social stigma. It's like, oh, oh, you have maids who come in and cook for you. Oh, aren't you fancy? What are you? What are you? One percenter. You've got help. Oh, you've hired help. And why is it more socially acceptable to spend a ton of money for a robot to cook and clean for you and do your laundry and cut your grass?

over hiring a human being and providing that human being with the dignity of work and the dignity of a job. But I totally can understand that mindset. On paper, it makes more moral and ethical sense to give the job to a person so that person can have the dignity of work, make money, pay for their own lifestyle, raise a family. jobs provide for a person. And if you're hiring a robot to do that job, it just means that that's a human being that you're not hiring to do that job. And in some way, it's easier to rationalize that. 855-7-8-8-4-2-55. Are you down with the idea that within five years, we could all have robots doing basic household chores for us? And what chore would you want to offset first? Let us know at 855-784-4-2-55. I'm actually living this life right now because, for those who don't know, both of our cars in our household, both Meredith and I, we each have a car, and they're both Teslas. And by that, before you jumped on my throat and call me a fake conservative, we did not buy Teslas because we... believe in climate change or greenhouse gases or, you know, carbon emissions or it had nothing to do with saving the environment. Teslas are really well-engineered cars. We love their cars. They're American-made cars. We're big fans of Elon Musk. We're big fans of the technology. We bought Tesla's because they're good cars. They really are good cars. And it pains me that whenever I drive my Tesla, I'm not spewing carbon emissions into our atmosphere. I feel guilty about the fact that I'm not doing my part. in making the planet warmer. So to offset it, when I come home from work after driving the Tesla, I go into the backyard. I've got a stack of old tires back there. And I throw a tire into the fire pit and I burn it so that there's just nothing but trashy black smoke being spewed into the atmosphere. That's my carbon offset. I'm doing my part, I promise. So it balances out. But I got the fully self-driving supervised module for my Tesla. I don't drive my car anymore. It's $100 a month, and I have a chauffeur. And it's great. Now, I'm not going to hire a chauffeur to drive me around. That would be ridiculous. And by the way, it would cost a lot more than $100 a month. So I think that's also part of the factor here. As soon as you find that sort of that delta of it being affordable and being effective and being convenient.

And I'll be honest with you, when you have to drive around in traffic in a big city like Washington and you have to go long distances and, you know, if I'm working in Washington, D.C. and I have to drive home, if it's early in the morning and I'm driving into the studio to do this show, I'm driving in at like, you know, 4.30 in the morning. It's an easy drive. I love it. There's no one else on the road. If it's the middle of rush hour and I'm driving in or out of Washington, D.C., sometimes if I'm working in our studios during the day in Washington, Northern Virginia, and I've got to get home to the Annapolis area of Maryland, sometimes it can take two hours to make that drive because of traffic. If I can push a button on my car, and my car will drive me and I don't have to worry about it. I'm doing that in an instant. And it only costs me $100 a month. You betcha. So basically, technically, I have a robotic, invisible robotic chauffeur right now that drives me around. And I love it. Would I then move on and extrapolate that to having somebody cook for me and clean for me and do my laundry? See that? I don't know. Also, I'm creeped out about the robot in my house because I know how this story ends. I've seen the Twilight Zone. It's not pretty. I've seen The Matrix. It's really ugly. Paul in Leesburg, Virginia, Paul, what job, what chore would you gladly hand off to a robot in your house? Or do you have moral and ethical qualms about this? You know, good morning, I've been listening to you for years. I would like the robot that when I come in at night from work and I ask my wife, Howard Daywin, the robot can sit there for an hour to half and listen to Howard Daywin so I can go do my chores. Wait. Wait, hold on, Paul. You're turning this upside down. The robot's supposed to do your manual labor around the house, your menial tasks. So you have time to sit and look into your beautiful wife's eyes, gaze at them attentively while she tells you about all the things that happened to her during the day. I've been married almost 40 years. So when I come in the door and say, hey, hon, how is your day? It's going to take at least 45 minutes for her to explain to me. what her friends did and what she didn't do and why I shouldn't be doing that. It shows up all the time that I can't do the job that she's given me. So you want the robot to sit there and listen to your wife on your behalf? I want the robot sit there and smile and nod its head and say, wow, that's great. That sounds like a lot of fun. You know, we've had a lot of misogynistic moments on this program in the decade and a half, but this may be the pinnacle, Paul. You may have raised the bar on the man talk here, Otto Cotter and Company. By the way, would your wife be okay with that? Does the robot have to look like you? Are you trying to fool your wife here? I think she might catch on.

I honestly don't know if she didn't even pick that button. As long as the robot and others, everyone smiled and said, yeah, wow, cool, honey. Right. I think I'd be all right. Or, oh, wow, Susie said that. I can't believe it. Yeah. Excellent, Paul. All right, well, good luck with that. Listen, I have no doubt that there will be some sort of robotic solution for you. I love that Paul at Leesberg would rather clean the toilets than sit there and listen to how his wife's day went. All right, 855784, 4255. We'll continue. If you think you can top that one, please give us a call. Listen, the fact of the matter is as your day goes on, you come back from a hard day's work, you've been maxed out, that long drive and commute home that I just talked about. Some of us experience afternoon brain fog. Some of us have trouble sort of recalling things, keeping energy, keeping an edge. It happens, right? And it's because you need some help sometimes, especially as you age, staying sharp and focused and clear-headed. with the kind of stressful days that we have. That's why the makers of relief factor have come up with a solution. It's called Think Factor, and it uses studied ingredients that actually do make a difference in your mind. It clears up that brain fog. It does give you... renewed focus, even clearer vision. I've been taking Think Factor for a couple of months now every single day, and I've noticed the difference. You will too. With Think Factor, brain power and performance finally meet for lasting daily results. Supercharge your memory and mental sharpness because your brain is your most valuable asset powering. Your creativity, focus, and daily performance. You don't want to feel mentally foggy when the chips are down. So try Think Factor. Your first bottle, one month's worth, just 1995. Go to Relieffactor.com. Call 800 for relief. Think Factor, think clearer, perform better daily. By the way, I mentioned specifically autonomous cars. And, you know, we've got cities now that have autonomous taxis, Waymo. There's certain cities that have already approved this where you can get a ride from point A to point B in that city, and there's no driver in the car. It's fully automated. It's robotic, basically AI-driven. I know all of you are screaming back. It's unsafe. It's unsafe. Actually, quite the opposite. According to the 2006 Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Analysis and the insurance companies, they have no vested interest in this. Okay? The insurance companies, if there are more accidents, you know, that's part of their business model. 85% fewer single vehicle crashes with autonomous cars. 81% fewer injury crashes with autonomous cars. There's 1.28 crash per million miles for Waymo.

compared to 4.06 crashes for humans driving per million miles driven. They're safer. Most of the problems on the road today are human error, either drunk driving, intoxicated, what have you. And it's just the fact. I know you don't like it. And I didn't like it when I first learned about it, but I love it now. I love it now. And I would think that there are probably other great chores around your house that you hate doing that have to get done that you can now have a robot do for you. That's where we are. In fact, here's a report from a television station, KTLA in Los Angeles. Here, take a listen. What looks like typical household chores is actually building a robotic future. Put the camera on there, where you're phone on there, and you start recording that way. Salvador Arciga is among a growing number of task workers getting paid to collect training data for AI-powered robots. Most people just take it as like, oh, I already had to do it. I was going to get paid for doing it. So far, he's folded laundry, washed dishes, and mopped floors. Everything he does is recorded using a head-mounted camera. so the footage can be analyzed and used to train robotic systems. This is something that anybody can go do, and we're excited about this new category of jobs. Samir Magani is co-founder and CEO of InstaWork, an app that connects companies with temporary workers based on their skills. Now, as a human... Yeah, temporary is right, because basically you can get a job right now and get paid $50 an hour to do chores. And it's all being recorded by a computer. So eventually no human will have to do those chores anymore because your tasks in performing them will then be uploaded and replicated by a robot. So there is a human element at the beginning. But then eventually, yeah, there will be no humans doing these jobs. And there is a moral aspect of that that's a problem. and I'm still wrestling with it. Jim in Manassas, Virginia, listening on WMA. Hey, Jim, thanks for calling into O'Connor and Company. What do you think of the move toward robotics to taking over chores in our daily life? Hi, Larry. Love your show. I think there's a, I think there's a whole industry begging for this, and that's long-term care. I just went through this with assisted living with two of my parents. It's very expensive per month. And I think having a robot in the house to take care of a senior citizen, there's a lot of them that are by themselves. I think it's very economical. And I think if you look at the care you get, it's very unreliable. And the people that they hire are uneducated. Exactly. Yeah, I'll tell you, we went through this with my dad when he needed care at the end. And you start looking at some of the people that you're going to get in your home. And I was worried about theft. I was worried about, you know, abuse. You hear horror stories about that because it's really untrustworthy. Some of the law. And again, I don't mean to paint with a broad brush. I know there are angels who were doing that kind of work. But there's also some bad eggs there. Not a problem with automation. And also, you talk about benefits for senior citizens. Think of how many seniors.

are homebound because they can't drive anymore because they've gotten too old. They've lost their vision. Maybe they have dementia. Autonomous driving can solve that problem as well. Some of this technology can be just such a gift from God for our elderly brothers and sisters. Jim, thanks for sharing that. You're absolutely right. Thank you. Roy, Dallas, Texas, Roy, if you could hire a robot to take care of something around the house, what would you have them do? I would have them answer my phone and for all those automated telemarketing calls and all those survey calls that receive and let the robot take care of those calls and also at the same time place a virus on their data bank automated robocall centers and destroy them. Roy, something tells me Roy does not like the telemarketers that call and the spammers that call. But how about when it's an election season? You're in Dallas. You're getting a lot of calls from James Talarico telling you to vote for him? I get him even for the one that's running against Texas Governor Greg Abbott, you know. Yeah. You know, I feel like I'm being invaded sometimes. So I'll tell you this, Roy, and you may not know about this, but on my phone, I've got a Google pixel phone, Android. And... I can, it has a call screening. I actually did. When a call comes in on my cell phone and I don't recognize the number, I click a button and Google actually answers the phone. It's like having a secretary and it'll screen the call for me and I'll be able to see the response from the person who's calling me. So in a way, you've already got it. You can get a robot right now in your smartphone. That's great. That'll work. All right. And while you're at it, switch to consumer cellular. Go to consumercellular.com slash Larry. Get your new phone there. Use Larry 50 to get $50 off. Bing, bang, boom, taking care of for you. And by the way, while you're switching to consumer cellular, you should also order your relief factor to take away the aches and pains that you're feeling every single morning because it's real. I remember my dad used to get out of bed or we'd be sitting in his chair, we'd watch him a football game. He'd get up to go to the refrigerator and get another beer. And as soon as he got up, he's like, oh, just standing up, right? And I know, what's that all about? It happens. I'm in my 50s now. You get those aches and pains. Then you take relief factor.

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These pharmaceuticals were developed to address a very specific but rare condition. That condition is referred to as precocious puberty. Precocious puberty is, you know, if an eight-year-old girl starts to develop breasts. If an eight-year-old boy starts to grow pubic hair and develop way before puberty is supposed to begin, that can not be good for your body, certainly not be good socially, if you think about an elementary school, you know, third grader going through that. So these pharmaceuticals, when employed properly, can have a very beneficial effect for children who have that condition. And that's why those drugs were created, developed, tested, and prescribed. Now those pharmaceuticals are being used to stop healthy children from developing puberty the way God intended them to develop. They don't have precocious puberty, but they're given those drugs. So instead of developing from a boy to a young man, they just stay a boy. And then in some cases, they'll be given hormones that would help them develop erroneously and fictitiously as a girl. Of course, they can't fully develop ever. But in a way, you know, they are certainly hooked on those pharmaceuticals and the drug companies seem to do just fine. The reason I raise all of this is because the announcement yesterday, about putting an end to these procedures. Well, a part of this also had a fraud aspect to it. The Vice President and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, along with Admiral Christine, they sent a report to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation because, and I'm going to read from the report now, $11 million in claims to the federal government for reimbursement. on these medical procedures because see if it was done through the Affordable Care Act, through Obamacare, which of course pays for this stuff because, of course, it does, or through Medicaid, because these are people who qualify for state Medicaid benefits funded by the federal government, $11 million in claims for patients aged 13 to 17 were billed using a diagnosis code. When doctors bill... through insurance companies or through the government to get reimbursed for their care, they have to code, they put a code into the computer system that triggers that payment based on whatever the diagnosis is for the patient. The diagnosis code used was precocious puberty. It's the code E301. The findings in the reports say, that this insurance code that was used for reimbursement was fraudulent because these children did not have precocious puberty. In other words, they were billing and getting reimbursed for services with a fraudulent code assigned to the diagnosis for the child. And that's $11 million worth. That's fraud.

By the way, there was approximately $50 million in insurance claims for puberty blockers billed using another diagnostic code. This was an endocrine disorder diagnostic code. That's E34.9. They were claiming that the child had a hormonal disorder. And that's why they needed the pharmaceutical. But the child did not have a hormonal disorder. The child was, in fact, perfectly healthy. That's the point. These procedures are employed to negatively affect a perfectly healthy child that is developing exactly the way they were intended to. Joining us right now, as promised, is the Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, Admiral Brian Christine. Sir, thank you so much for taking up this issue and for exposing what's going on here. You heard me describe the fraudulent aspect of this. Go ahead and tell us exactly what the new policy is and what you and the Secretary and the Vice President announced yesterday. Larry, thank you for having me on this morning. Number one, it is a privilege to serve as President Trump's Assistant Secretary for Health. It is a privilege to be in the position that in the prior administration had a man, Rachel Levine, Richard Levine, who was advocating for removing any kind of age restrictions on these terrible procedures and castrating chemicals on these children. I'm glad I'm in this role. It is a privilege. And our report, as you were indicating, highlights so much. This report, Wolves in White Coats, shows how there was a systematic push to drive these vulnerable children into what we call sex rejecting procedures, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, mutilating surgeries, as opposed to treating these children with compassionate, competent mental health care, which is what we know works for these children. There was a relentless... drive to push them towards sex-rejecting procedures. And our report highlights a financial incentive. Our report talks about the ideology of the prior administration driving this forward. Our report talks about medical societies, the Endocrine Society, W-Path, the World Professional Association for Transgender Healthy, American Psychological Association. ideologues within those medical associations driving this forward. And of course, the report talks about the stories of these precious children and how they were harmed. It's an important report. I am so happy that Vice President JD Vance has seen, read the report, has referred to Attorney General Todd Blanche, how Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has referred to March Bell, our Inspector General within HHS. This is incredibly important to do. Oh, it is. And thank God. We're grateful that you're there doing this job and the entire team and the president leading the way. And, Admiral, I know that we were a little late connecting with you. Hopefully you can stay with us for another segment. If not, I understand. But I must ask, parents are getting advice from doctors and pediatricians still.

They're hearing from these pediatricians, listen, you got to go through with these procedures. You got to alter your child. If not, your child will probably commit suicide. It is horribly manipulative. Are we getting to the root of that because parents are lost and they want to just help their child? And Larry, I'll stay on with you as long as we need this morning. No worries there. Oh, thank you. Absolutely. But, yes, that's one of the things, a common theme that you see in this report talking to the minors who were, quote, transitioned and their families, that part of the report. A common theme is that these parents and their families were told, if they had a son, they'd say, do you want a live daughter or a dead son? They use that ploy on them to almost threaten them and to coerce them. That was so common. We see that as a running theme. And one of the other running themes we see are that these children who some of them had suffered, you know, they were hurting psychologically because remember, gender dysphoria is a mental health psychological condition. These children who were hurting, it seems that they were never offered this compassionate, competent counseling. They were pushed right toward these sex-rejecting procedures. Their parents were frightened by these individuals who had financial gain and ideological gain. It's a tragic story, and we believe that, yes, we are going to win this war on this gender ideology. We've seen such a change in the administration of President Trump, how people are looking at this, but we have to keep our foot on the accelerator. The minute we back away from evangelizing about this, from educating about this, the gender ideologues on the left will come back with a vengeance. We know that's going to happen, and we are not going to back down. I'm certainly not going to back down. I know our president. and our vice president, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., we're not going to back down. All right. We're going to continue gratefully with Admiral Brian Christine, more about this new initiative, this report, and this criminal referral with the Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Admiral Christine, keep it right here. This is so important, and I am so grateful that we've gotten to this point now. Stay with us. What a difference in election makes. In the last administration, the Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wore the same uniform that Admiral Brian Christine wears today. That gentleman named Richard Levine pretended to be a woman and pushed the ideology, this warped ideology of transgenderism.

For God knows what reason. And when you look at the report now that was just released by the Admiral alongside Vice President JD Vance and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called Wolves and White Coats, you learn stunning numbers. And, Admiral, if I could, 225 hospitals and health systems had pediatric gender programs nationwide. This goes well beyond just this ideology that sort of sprang out of nowhere in the last decade. What I'm seeing here, Emerald, is greed. I'm seeing a huge monetary factor pushing this. Am I misreading it? No, I think that's a really important point, a really important aspect of our report, Larry, is that there was truly financial incentive. If you can take these children, these children with gender dysphoria, these minors, and you can put them on a pathway. that brings them back again and again and again by giving them cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers by performing these radical mutilating surgeries then you've got what we call a captive patient you have a patient who has to come back again and again for visits and and laboratory testing and heaven forbid if they have complications after these surgeries because there can be true complications you've got a patient for life. And so we do see, we do believe there was a financial incentive here. You were talking previously about the coding aspect of this, and that's a part of this report as well. Because, again, coding, I'm a urologic surgeon by training for 35 years, practice as a urologist, and you've got to use codes that describe what's going on accurately with the patient. for proper reimbursement. That's just the way things are done properly. And what we see in this report are these codes that were used for these children that were very nebulous on some of them that didn't describe what was going on, but we're clearly being used to gain reimbursement because if the true codes had been used, they probably would not have been reimbursed. And then, of course, the segment, that $11 million were a code called precocious puberty, which means early onset of puberty, which for little girls is generally below age eight, little boys below age nine. They use this code to code for puberty blocking drugs for kids who were 13 to 17 years old. That cannot be precocious puberty. False coding. I know you're not a lawyer, but that sounds like fraud. That sounds like insurance fraud. That's a crime. Well, I think what we see, that's why we're seeing the Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. referring this to our Inspector General at HHS, and of course, Vice President JD Vance referring this to the Department of Justice to our amazing new Attorney General, Todd Blanche, who I personally know, who is a great man, a great American, a wonderful husband and father, an amazing lawyer. That's why these are being referred to DOJ, to look at that. Admiral Christine, you talk about how parents are deceived in all of this. Our country was deceived as well because I remember when this mania started and it was rolled out and we kept being assured by the experts and the scientists that these puberty blockers were temporary.

they were, and they did not have long-term effects. Basically, you can just put your puberty on hold, and then you can go right back to it. That was just a lie, wasn't it? There are long-term effects, including sterility for children who stay on this, right? There absolutely can be long-term effects. You mentioned potential effect on fertility for the rest of these individuals' lives, bone health, muscle health, again, potential complications from surgery. Yes, there can be long-term effects. And again, a theme that we see speaking to the families and to these detransitioners is that they were not properly informed. There wasn't proper informed consent. And one of the things we point out in this report, Larry, is that when these individuals, these minors who had been led down this pathway of deceit, that when they said, you know, this isn't right for me, I want to stop treatment, I want to detransition, they were abandoned. The very people in clinics and doctors and nurses who took them down this pathway, abandoned them. And that's a really common theme that we see as well. Thank you for following through on this. I know this was important to the president, the vice president, and the secretary, and you as well, Admiral. And I'm glad that you took a good year to really get all the facts in line so that it can't be attacked your report, this great report, Wolfe's in white jackets, white coats. Keep on it, please, and continue to pursue this. It's so important to so many parents out there who want accountability for it. I so appreciate you joining us this morning. No, thank you, Larry. It's a privilege to be here. I'd always be happy to come back. God bless you. God bless our president and our republic. And God bless these detransitioners, these young men and women, these young boys and girls who we need to love them, support them, and help them heal. Thank you, sir. Well said. You know, just two weeks before his tragic assassination on September 10th, 2025, our friend, our colleague, conservative leader Charlie Kirk, sat down for one of his final interviews to wrestle with a timeless question. Does God still speak today? And that conversation became the foundation of a powerful and provocative new documentary. It's called Can You Hear Me Now? I've watched this. And it really is thought-provoking, guys. Director Matthew Thayer investigated and examined the evidence weighing today's most prominent prophetic voices, people who believe that God is speaking to them and that they are prophets. Wade that testimony against scripture, history, political, and scientific scrutiny. It's really, as I said, thought-provoking. I want you to be able to see this film, and you can. You can pre-order the film right now. Can you hear me now? Get a free DVD at SalemNow.com. SalemNow.com. A really disturbing story out of Washington, D.C. yesterday. As the World War II Memorial, one of the most beloved memorials on the National Mall, and one of the most visited spots in our nation's capital, was vandalized.

like seriously vandalized. Good morning, O'Connor and Company here from our Relief Factor Studios. I'm Larry O'Connor, and I'm joined now by a local reporter from WJLA, ABC 7 here in D.C. Christian Flores, who covered this story. And Christian, this is, listen, a lot of times we see vandalism in Washington, D.C., at various areas. These memorials are so sacrosanct that you very rarely see this sort of thing. Tell me about the extent of this vandalism. You're right. It's very rare. For a couple of reasons, they're sacred, especially when you have memorials honoring veterans of various wars, especially war like World War II. But there's also a lot of visitors, a lot of cameras. So to carry out something like this is pretty bold. So one of the reasons is rare is just because it's probably pretty easy to get caught at that point. But as far as the extent of this vandalism, someone sprayed or poured some sort of red paint. If anyone's familiar with the World War II Memorial, there are two sort of pavilion areas that represent the Atlantic and the Pacific. So in the Atlantic Pavilion, someone had dumped or sprayed red paint with some graffiti spelling out clean hands, dirty dollar sign, presumably dirty dollar sign, shorthand for dirty money. And they also poured some sort of substance, a soap-like substance, to cause the fountain to create some bubbles. So those were the two main things, and the focus of the investigation from U.S. Park Police was right there at the Atlantic Pavilion. You know, with something like this, and we've seen it a handful of times, I believe the last time I remember seeing any sort of vandalism at a monument, it was actually the Washington Monument. And in both cases, both that and the World War II Memorial, we saw crews immediately closed down the scene, put police tape all around, get a cleaning crew out there. So by the end of the night, it almost looked like nothing had happened. I mean, the bubbles were gone, and the red paint was totally power washed off. In a situation like this, of course, you're going to have the Department of the Interior coming with some pretty strong language in their statement. You know, calling this a disgusting act as an utter disgrace. They also assured the public that whoever did this would get caught. We're still waiting on any sort of updated. There have been any sort of arrest. But as I mentioned, I mean, there's a pretty heavily foot traffic area with a lot of cameras, typically a lot of police, not super far away either. The graffiti involved here, did it appear that it was of a political nature?

You know, it's hard to sell. It's hard to say just because we're still waiting on any sort of update on if there's been an arrest and what the motivation might be. But when you see something like clean hands dirty, dollar sign dirty money, there has to be some sort of political statement. And to that point, you know, we also, we didn't just get a statement from the Department of the Interior. We also got one from the Friends of the National World War II Memorial Organization. They said, look, there's a country where the First Amendment is absolutely something that we all have that right to express our views. But it did point out that it's not a great place. You know, there's time and place in the World War II Memorial where folks are paying their respects to, you know, the people who really paid the ultimate sacrifice. That's not the place to make anything. And I would say this isn't, I don't think any. It's also not First Amendment activity. To face it, private property or public property for that matter, defacing and vandalizing at all is not First Amendment protected, as far as I know, as far as I'm concerned. Have we, we don't have any leads yet from the Park Police end up being the jurisdiction here. There's so many overlapping jurisdictions in Washington, D.C. But the National Mall is part of the Department of Interior. That means it's the Park Police who will be doing the investigation. That's correct. And when we were out there, it was the park police out secured the scene. We even reached out to MPD, the local police department in D.C. to ask if they've made any arrest or if they have any updates on the investigation. They said, look, this is actually not our jurisdiction. So it's the U.S. Park Police that's in charge of this. So that's what we're waiting for. And when we reached out to the U.S. Park Police originally to get confirmation of this vandalism. We actually got a statement from the Department of the Interior, obviously, under the same umbrella. So, you know, that's something that we're going to keep our eye on as the day goes on. Still early in the morning, so maybe, you know, start of the business day. Maybe we get an update. But that's something that we've been pushing just for answers. You know, not only if there's been an arrest, but what could the possible motivation be? I mean, when you have a message like that, you presume it's political in nature, but... Again, that's a lot of questions that not only us, but even just talking with the folks who were there visiting, disappointed that it was closed down. A lot of them had those questions asking, hey, what's the deal here and why would someone do this? Christian Floress is a guest, WJLA reporter here in Washington, D.C. Yeah, I don't want to just focus on the negative here. I saw your report, Christian, and obviously it's a disgrace, it's horrible, it's just, I think, disgusting that anybody would reach the point where they want to vandalize a memorial for our greatest generation and those who have fallen in fighting in World War II, the last great global conflict. The upside here is the reaction you got. When you talk to the tourists, when you talk to people who were visiting the memorial, it was unequivocal. And I think that there is some upside. Anybody who wants to do something like this, they are such a small, narrow minority in this country because the vast majority of people you talk to or everyone you talked to were absolutely outraged.

Yeah, I mean, this is a very popular memorial, but it would almost be underselling to call it a tourist destination because it's more than just tourists, as people who have these ties to the military. I know I spoke with one young man who had a great-grandfather who had served during World War II, another man who had a son and a daughter and sons-in-law who served in the military. And when you have something like this, Of course they're upset about not being able to, you know, visit the memorial. A lot of them coming from a long way, one of them coming from Minnesota, you know, planning your trip around visiting the memorials. But when you have something like this, they were obviously upset because it's not just a crime, but a crime against people, again, who really gave. the ultimate sacrifice. And when you visit the memorial, it's not just so much visiting and taking pictures, although there's plenty of that. You also have people ultimately just paying their respects to, you know, those fallen soldiers. So, yeah, I mean, it was a pretty consensus reaction we were getting from folks who were not just frustrated, but very, very upset by whoever did this. And really the unanimous message being, you know, we hope this person gets caught and is held accountable. Christian Flores, WJLA, a great team of reporters over there at ABC 7 doing wonderful work here in the greater Washington area. I appreciate you joining us today. Thanks for bringing us this report. Thank you for having me. You bet. That's Christian Flores, ABC 7 here in Washington. A quick pivot now over to this Michigan Senate rates. I got to tell you, I think this Michigan Senate race between Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat in name only, I know he says he's not a socialist, but I mean, if you walk like a duck and you quack like a duck and you lay rotten eggs like a duck, your duck. And I don't see any daylight between his policies, his positions, and his approach to politics compared to the Democrat socialists who are, you know, card-carrying members of the party. This race between that guy. And Mike Rogers, a former FBI agent, former congressman, now running for Senate as a Republican nominee, I think not only is going to be the most important race, maybe even one of the most expensive races this midterm election season, not only is it going to be so pivotal where if the Republican candidate wins, Chuck Schumer could just kiss his chances goodbye of having any hopes of winning a majority for the Democrats in the Senate. But I also think this really is. an important race with regard to the future of our country, certainly the future of the Republican Party, or the Democratic Party. The best way, you know, we keep saying, when are the Normies in the Democratic Party going to stand up and say, no, we're not socialists. We don't want these socialists in our tent. We don't know that. None of them are. The John Fetterman's the only one.

The rest of them are all, oh, no, we're a big time. We've got room for these people because all they care about is winning. All they care about is power. And that's the secret sauce here. When will the Democrats finally step up and say, oh, God, let's get rid of these people. You're not us. You want to run for office, run on your own party, the DSA party, but get the hell out of our party. The only time that happens is when they lose. because all the Democrats care about right now is winning. They think this is the path. And if nominating people like Abdul El-Sayed, and you saw them throw Francesca Hong under the bus in Wisconsin, because they knew ahead of time they didn't want to get stuck with another one there in the Midwest. that's what's going to bring them back to sanity. That's what's going to bring them back from the brink of, you know, outwardly hating our country and outwardly wanting to shred our Constitution. So let's look at Abdul El-Sayed and this race. By the way, we have our first poll one week after the primaries, and it is a stunner. Mike Rogers, the Republican, in a state that is not elected a Republican to the U.S. Senate. In 20 years, Mike Rogers is now leading Abdul El-Sayed, 51 to 47%. That's enormous. That is an earthquake in Michigan, and Democrats are going to start panicking. Also, you remember, one of the things that did Francesca Hong in in Wisconsin. was not just her crazy socialist policies, not just her very erratic behavior and appearance in television interviews where she looked like she was bouncing between bipolar disorder and lithium doses, but also her very public pronouncement that she hates Thanksgiving. The fact that in the final days of the election, Democrats were grappling with the fact that they were about to nominate a woman to be governor of Wisconsin, the cranberry capital of this nation, supplying more cranberries to the rest of this country and the world than any other region on the planet, that they were about to nominate a woman who hates Thanksgiving. That was the bottom line. That was the end of it. You don't win elections in America if the last week of the election you're defending your statements about hating Thanksgiving. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I regret to inform you that Abdul El-Sayed also hates Thanksgiving. Here is his tweet from November 28th, 2019. Oh, look at that. It was right there in the Thanksgiving season. He tweeted it from Bloomfield Township, Michigan, a very wealthy suburb of Detroit. Where did he get all that money for a socialist? He said, just a reminder of this Thanksgiving, this country was built on the systematic annihilation of indigenous peoples whose ancestors suffer some of the highest rates of homelessness, joblessness, and mortality today. We owe so much more than thanks. Time for reparations. Enjoy your stuffing in Turkey, everybody.

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