Montana AG Austin Knudsen Sues Harris-Biden Administration 56 Times and Matthew Foldi on the Afghanistan Disaster and the fact the U.S. still DOESN'T HAVE a policy to evacuate U.S. citizens overseas
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and businessmen from around the world. And leading off this episode, friend of the program, someone we have enjoyed having on here before, Attorney General Austin Knudson of Montana. He is not only a friend of the program, he's made combating the drug pandemic and supporting law enforcement a main focus. And Chuck, he's also sued the Biden administration 56 times, which we very much appreciate. Attorney General Knudson, welcome back to the program.

Hey, guys. Thanks for having me on. 56 times I have a friend that says, if your hands aren't busy, you're not happy. So apparently you're keeping your hands busy. You know, we are God's hands. Lots going on. So you have a race coming up here against a gentleman named Ben Alkey. He says, you know, besides the word salad on his website, he says two things he's going to do is stop the flow of drugs like fentanyl and combat human trafficking.

How's he going to do that? Why would he be better at that than you?

He wouldn't be, and we don't know. I mean, he's really light on any kind of policy. Look, this is a guy who's a nobody. He's a political newcomer. He's never been around Montana politics at all. This is an extreme left trial lawyer. This is a guy who literally has worked for Planned Parenthood and the ACLU and every left-wing organization in the country. He's literally been their lawyer here in the state of Montana.

So he's long on rhetoric. He's really short on substance. He's never been a prosecutor. He's never worked with law enforcement. I mean, these are just relationships...

and experience that he just doesn't have. So he seems to just kind of be running his mouth and talking a lot about, you know, I'm too partisan. And that's fine. I am partisan. I make no bones about that. Well, I mean, when you go and you're running as a candidate for a party, you are carrying their ideology, right? I mean, that's what you're doing. If not, you're running as an unaffiliated or independent, correct? Yeah.

Well, yeah, that's right. And we have to look at what the Democrat Party in Montana has done about the fentanyl problem, about the human trafficking problem, about the 15-year increase in violent crime in the state, which is absolutely nothing. But on the other hand, they know this is an issue for them. I mean, these are issues that pull high with Montanans. They care about public safety. Right.

We've had a number of public safety mill levies pass in communities that historically don't pass those things. I mean, this is what Montanans are concerned about. And this is why the Democrat Party is just getting decimated in Montana. I actually, Attorney General Knudsen, I want to push back on you calling what you do, you know, or your opponents calling what you do too partisan because it's

Tell me if I'm wrong, but looking from the outside right now, the role of Republican attorney generals like yourself is defending the law, whereas Democrats are using it as a vehicle for activism and applying it very unevenly. Republicans are still looking at the written word, the language of the law and defending it. And that's what's getting called partisan more than anything else.

No, I think that's a great point. I mean, I'm using air quotes when I say partisan, but I think as far as the Democrats are concerned, because I'm so strident pushing back against the Biden administration, and it's not just me. I mean, you make a great point. I've got a pile of great colleagues across the country that are working with me in my office every day. But when you've got an administration in D.C.,

that is just shoving everything they can through by rule as fast as they can. I mean, we have to work together, we have to pay attention, and we have to push back. And so, yeah, if that makes me a partisan, great, I'm a partisan. That's fantastic. Before we get more into some of your battles with the Biden-Harris administration, Senator Tester has been uncovered, is offering college athletes NIL cash in exchange for endorsing him.

Has there been much coverage on this in Montana? How are people reacting to this pay-for-play? There's been some coverage. I've actually had a number of my friends that are kind of into the college sports scene

Text me, call me about it. Like, wow, what is this? What's going on? I mean, I think this just shows you how desperate Jon Tester is. This is a guy who within the last month has fired his entire campaign staff, started from scratch again here with, you know, basically two months left in the race.

I don't think they took Tim Sheehy seriously. I think Chester thought he was going to skate into this thing on Chuck Schumer money, and that's not working out for him. The polls consistently have Sheehy ahead now, and I think John's panicking. And so this definitely doesn't look good. When you have to pay college athletes to say nice things about you, that's not a great look. No. So let me ask you this. As Attorney General,

Has Senator Tester's office been helpful on these lawsuits you've pursued with the Biden-Harris administration and overreach? Or have they been simply giving you the old, you know, the old forearm and shuck in football? What have they done?

No, there's been no help from them. The one thing I will say that's really frustrating is he seems to be kind of riding my coattails. And here's what I mean by that. I mean, we noticed this a couple years ago. He was traveling around eastern Montana telling everybody that he's funding the Law Enforcement Academy in Montana.

That's just patently false. I mean, that's under my purview. That's under the State Department of Justice. That's got nothing to do with federal dollars. He's put nothing towards that. I have no idea what he's talking about. But I had people calling me, and he was getting some headlines in Montana telling people he was funding the Law Enforcement Academy. And again, I think that just shows you

They know this is an issue, and I think John knows he's on the wrong side of it. His party's on the wrong side of it. This is the party of defund the police, and thankfully that just hasn't taken hold here in Montana, and we still very much back the blue, and I think he's trying to cash in on that.

Yeah.

Others are. Are those do you think that type of campaign is going to be effective in Montana or are people digging more and going, no, I want to see some some meat in these plans that Democrats are talking about?

I think Montanans are paying much more attention. I think that's kind of indicative of what's happened in our state in the last five, six, seven years. We've seen a big shift to the right. Montana has gone from being a purple state. I mean, even just 10 years ago, we had a lot statewide elected Democrats. Tester is the only one right now. I mean, we've had just a complete sea change. So, yeah, the idea that you're just going to run on platitudes, you know, I'm going to stop Sentinel.

Well, how do you do that? Your party is the ones that are throwing the southern border wide open and letting all these drugs come in. So what exactly are you talking about? And they don't have any substance there. So, yeah, I think Montanans, especially the new Montanans that have moved here,

strong Republican roots. These are people who have fled liberal policies in blue states, political refugees that have come here to Montana, and they're looking for substance, not just platitudes. Let's talk briefly here. You've launched curriculum to educate students on human trafficking and online exploitation. We've got a couple of minutes left in this segment. Can you talk a little bit about what you've done and what the curriculum is and how this is helping students identify this problem?

Yeah, absolutely. So this is a passion project of mine. Human trafficking is a huge issue in Montana. You might not think it, but we really do have a problem with it here. So my office, we've been really aggressive on this. We championed and wrote new legislation, put new criminal code on the books, stiffer penalties, just because Montana really hadn't caught up with the times when it came to human trafficking. So what we're focusing on... Sorry, go ahead. Oh, no. And you have, for people who aren't aware...

A lot of human trafficking comes out of China. A lot of it comes into ports and where they're landing in the Pacific Northwest. So that I-80 corridor, which runs through Montana, is a critical trafficking corridor.

Yeah, what we know about these traffickers is they're almost always multi-state rings, regional, kind of western U.S., and they'll run all the way down to the southern border, all the way over to Seattle, like you said. But yeah, I mean, they're very mobile, which makes these cases very difficult to investigate and prosecute.

and prosecute. But what we're focusing on now is just getting the word out to people, and especially young people. Everybody, these kids are all online, they're all using social media. That is a huge, huge risk. That is the number one way these traffickers get their hooks in the young people is by identifying them online and

and targeting them. Social media is a real, real gateway that we have to be very careful about as parents. So what we've done is come up with a curriculum. It's on our state website. And we're going around. We're educating kids in schools. We're doing assemblies. We're talking to parents, just trying to get the word out about just how big of issue this is and that you really got to educate your kids. Where can they find that on the website? What's the link to that?

It's DOJMT.gov forward slash human trafficking.

Fantastic. That'll take you right to the website. It's easy to find off our homepage, too, but there's several good videos there, really good curriculum. We've partnered with some great nonprofits that put these videos together for us, and they're really good. And how is the – we have just about a minute and a half left in this segment. We're going to be bringing Montana Attorney General Austin Knudson back on for the next segment also.

How is the reception of that program been with school officials and administrators? Are they throwing the doors open and saying, boy, kids need this? Or is there some resistance because it's coming from a Republican?

No, we haven't seen resistance. I mean, schools have been great. Administrators have been great. School boards have been great. I think this is information. I mean, this stuff and fentanyl. I mean, these are the things we go around and we talk to kids about. And by and large, the reception from schools has been overwhelmingly positive. You know, they want these kids to get educated about these issues. And I think people are finally recognizing that.

Human trafficking is happening in Montana. You know, it's not just a it's not just a coast problem with we have just about 30 seconds. But our kids now waking up to the dangers of fentanyl laced drugs that are, you know, other types of drugs, whether they're ecstasy or other similar drugs that are being laced with fentanyl. Are they now aware of that danger?

God, I hope so, because we are seeing so much of it, guys. Montana is being flooded with fentanyl, and we're finding it laced into literally everything. This is what the cartels are pushing. So any chance I get to get in front of a group of high schoolers or middle schoolers, and it amazes me the number of kids who are aware of it and have been around it. That's probably been the most scary part. Wow.

Okay. Fantastic. Thank you, Attorney General Austin Knudsen. He's going to be coming back with more here on Breaking Battlegrounds in just a moment.

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OK, getting back to the program here. We are continuing on with Montana Attorney General Austin Knudson. We're talking a little bit about education when we went to the break. One of the suits that you have, Attorney General, is a suit or call, at least, for the removal of Biden's education secretary for violating federal law. Can you tell us what that's about?

Yeah, I absolutely can. So this is over the Secretary of Education. His name is Miguel Cardona. This is a guy who has pretty flagrantly violated the Hatch Act. Hatch Act is federal law. It deals with federal officials, federal government officials. They can't conduct campaigning on the taxpayers' dime. I mean, that's really what this comes down to.

So here's why I've called for his removal. This is a guy who is on multiple occasions using his official position, using his official letterhead, using their website, basically openly campaigning for the Biden-Harris administration's student loan canceling.

It's illegal student loan canceling policies. Yeah, right. I mean, the thing that Congress didn't pass. Yeah, that thing. But using his office to publicly engage and pretty flagrantly engage in overtly political activity. I mean, calling out Republicans, reaching out to their entire mailing list of student loan holders.

And telling them, well, these evil Republicans are the ones – we're trying to cancel your student loan debt. We're great. You should vote for us. And we're going to keep fighting these crazy Republicans who are trying to block this. So, I mean, that is just overt political activity. Have you thought about filing an FEC complaint, a campaign finance complaint on this? Go ahead.

I was going to say, yeah, we absolutely have looked at that, are looking at that. I mean, there's a number of states. I mean, Kansas and I are really leading this one. But that's definitely something that we've talked about. I'm not sure where we are in that process. I think that might be a little longer process. But, yeah, we definitely have discussed it.

Astounding how much they politicized this administration in every capacity. All right. I want to change subjects a little bit here. Talking with Montana Attorney General Austin Knutson. Austin, right now you have an investigation into an investment firm for anti-Israel actions. This is part of the BDS movement, boycott, divest, sanction Israel actions.

Tell us what's going on with that, because right now everything going on with Israel might be, you know, that and Ukraine are the two most important geopolitical things happening right now. Certainly. I mean, Israel is our number one strategic ally currently.

Certainly in the Middle East, and I think an argument could be made from a strategic standpoint probably in the world. You can talk about Taiwan, and that's certainly an important one. But, I mean, Israel is one of our longest-term allies, and you've got this movement now –

tied into a lot of these investment firms. This is kind of ESG stuff, but we launched an investigation into an investment firm called Morningstar because they're engaging in pretty overt BDS activity. BDS is the Boycott, Divestiture, and Sanctions of Israel movement. Basically, we want to pressure companies to stop doing business with Israel.

Which is insane. I mean, this is the only functional democracy in the Middle East, and we want to stop doing business with them? What kills me is you see from Israeli Arabs over and over, they'll put out posts like, hey, I have full rights. I have a much better life than Arab citizens in the rest of the Middle East. And yet the left continues to act like Israel is an apartheid state and to treat it in the same way they treated South Africa prior to Mandela.

It's shameful. So, I mean, guys, a couple of years ago when I was the speaker of our state house of representatives, I actually carried an anti BDS bill, um,

I knew it was going to be controversial, but I did a lot of homework, and I was shocked. I don't think most people really understand how few rights Jews have in any country in the Middle East outside of Israel. Most of those Arab countries, Jews aren't even allowed to own property. They're a third-class citizen. They're a third-class citizen. Their name's second. It's shocking. But this is stuff that Democrats don't want to talk about. It's stuff that most liberals don't even want to think about. But...

Vice versa, Arab citizens, Muslims have full citizen rights in Israel. I mean, it is truly a functioning democracy in the middle of tyranny, but they're surrounded by countries that want to shove them into the sea, that want to kill them all every day. We've seen this since October 7th of last year. I don't understand this other than it's just open evil, right?

But look, you can tell I get passionate about this one. But when you've got companies engaging in this kind of garbage in the States, it's

I'm going to push back. I mean, I think it's a violation of our Montana Unfair Trade Practices Act. This is a company whose job it is to make sure that their investors and shareholders make money. It's not to be overtly political and try to go after one of our closest Democratic allies. I would say beyond overly political, Chuck, that that's being overly anti-Semitic, quite frankly. Yes.

I want to move on. We have just about two and a half minutes left here. I want to touch on one last thing is you're taking on the Biden-Harris administration's unlawful voter registration scheme. They're using federal offices all across the country to register people, including illegal aliens, to vote. Tell us what you got going on there. Yeah. So it comes down to this. Congress has made very clear and the U.S. Constitution makes very clear that the state's

do election administration. Montana, we run our own elections. That's not the job of the federal government. It never has been. So what are Biden and Harris up to here? And let's just call a spade a spade here. I mean, we're talking about what's Kamala Harris up to here. They have ordered federal offices, federal agencies to engage in voter registration drives.

So every time there's a touch at a federal agency, and so let's talk Montana. Montana, we're an agriculture state. You come into the Farm Service Agency to sign up for some crop insurance or talk about whatever kind of possible farm program might be out there. Oh, by the way, as long as you're in here, are you aware that you could be registered to vote right here? Again, overtly political activity, but even more importantly, guys,

If Congress wanted these federal agencies to have that authority, Congress has got to authorize that. They haven't done it here. This is just another flagrant overreach by this administration trying to give power to agencies that they don't have. So, yeah, we're pushing back on that one. We've sued over that. And, you know, I'm confident we're going to win again. But just another overreach from the Biden-Harris administration.

Something they have done masterfully since they got into office. They know no legal bounds. And thank you, Attorney General Austin Knudson of Montana. He and many other Republican attorney generals around the country have been pushing back and playing a key role in this. Austin, how do people follow you and support your campaign for reelection?

You can go to austinformontana.com. That's all spelled out, F-O-R, Austin for Montana. Yeah, I'm up for reelection right now, and any help I can get would be great. Absolutely, folks. Chuck, we've got to have these AGs in there. They are the last line of defense against federal overreach.

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When your family says they're at a function or they're with friends and they say, what's Matt up to? And they go, oh, he's an investigative reporter. Does that get oohs and aahs? Does that, you know, I mean, does it spark a conversation?

It depends on if I'm talking with liberals or conservatives. It's usually one of the worst things you can call someone, and I have to clarify, no, no, it's okay. I'm actually basically the only Republican journalist in America, and then if it's with a bunch of liberals, then it's much easier. They just assume that I'm one of them, which actually tells you a lot of what you need to know about the problems with trust in media is that the left...

We'll just assume that I'm on their side when I could not be more not on their side. I mean, look, if someone gives me a 95% probability of something, I'm putting my money down on the bet. Yeah.

I live in a no unfortunately no one will blame you may have complete control of journalism programs I think that actually one of the biggest disqualifiers in being a journalist is majoring in journalism and the only thing worse than that is getting an advanced degree like a master's degree in journalism when all you're doing is wasting a lot of money to go catch coffee for people at CNN what would you what would be a good let's say I'm a budding on I'm a young student in college what does it agree that

that you think an aspiring journalist should get at university? What would you recommend? Basically anything but journalism. I think that if you – and listen, full disclosure, I got a political science degree, which is neither politics nor science, and I turned out somewhat okay. But I think if you can – if you want to do journalism, differentiate yourself. Study –

a hard science economic images uh... unfortunately higher ed is still behind on the time you don't even really have classes for newer industries like crypto uh... but anyway that you can differentiate yourself in any field that you're interested and i think is always better than being the same as everyone else right if you're hiring manager anne p_s_ seventeen journalism degrees from the jihadist encampments of america

You know, you're going to eventually yawn. But if you see someone who has a degree in computer science or something like that, it will at least, I think, guarantee a second look at your application. All right. So I was just saying, just to back up his point yesterday morning reading the New York Post, I was saying they've got to stop hiring kids from J school. Yeah. Yeah. You can't do it. They're not going to be fair. We've got about two minutes left in this segment. Then we want to dive deep into your writings on Afghanistan. But are you just –

amazed how the New York Times has spent more time investigating this staff dispute at Arlington with Trump versus the fact that Biden or Harris have never even called the Gold Star families and about the failed withdrawal of Afghanistan. You could probably add up all their coverage of the Biden administration's failure on this. Are you just surprised how much time they're spending on this this week versus that Biden and Harris have never even bothered calling these people?

So let's obviously delve a lot into that into the second segment. And it's not I think it's important to remember the last time Biden saw any of these families was on the tarmac at Dover Air Base, where all he did was stare at his watch and then talked about how his son, Biden, died of cancer after these people were getting their loved ones back from a combat zone and their loved ones died because of the policy decisions.

that by the made when it comes to leaving at dennison comera has never spoken to any of these families and just to remind people because unfortunately this is something that has been completely glossed over i think far too much the reason why biden and harris she was the last person

in the room for the division wanted to leave afghanistan in twenty twenty one was so they could get a photo op for nine eleven two thousand twenty twenty one on the twentieth anniversary of nine eleven but along the way they ignored common sense they ignored their advisers because they wanted to press ahead

with this political decision alerting at the taliban which last i checked is a terrorist organization uh... we were at war with to when we were going to leave one of the things you never want to do in a situation like this it tell your enemy hey we have a hard deadline after which

You can do anything that you want whatsoever. But after this week's events at Arlington, am I surprised to see that the media that has given Biden a free pass on this decided to then attack Donald Trump? Of course, I'm not surprised. This happens, unfortunately, all the time. The bias of the media in covering everything about this administration now, I mean, it's literally do not believe what you see with your own eyes.

It has gone beyond gaslighting into something that is absolutely worthy of Stalinist Russia. Folks, we're going to be coming back with more here from Matthew Foldy in just a moment. Stay tuned because he's got a lot of good work on this topic.

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The State Department still doesn't have evacuation protocols for American citizens overseas. And before I have you talk more about the article, how many Americans or green card holders are still in Afghanistan?

saying that one of the ways that media bias manifests is not only what is covered, but also what isn't covered. And we'll get to the American citizen stranded in one second. Remember that tomorrow is the three-year anniversary of basically our complete surrender in Afghanistan. The Taliban now run the country. They recently this week banned women from basically appearing in public space.

speaking in public singing in public banning men from not from from being clean shaven uh... you know this is a country that is reverting back to the middle ages on a good day uh... before our very eyes and one of the failures uh... of that withdrawal in addition to giving the country to the taliban and leaving them a first-word met world military what the event that led up to the suicide attack

that leads us to Trump's visit to Arlington this week. Remember that the Biden administration, for reasons no one has ever understood, decided to abandon Bagram Air Base, where if you were going to conduct this evacuation, it would logically make sense to have it take place from this air base. And they gave it to the Taliban.

And the Taliban freed every prisoner that was in this airbase, including the suicide attacker who killed 13 American service members and well over 100 Afghans. Wait a minute. So I got to stop you right there because I don't think I've ever heard that reported anywhere else that the guy who committed this suicide attack was literally a prisoner of U.S. forces. Yes.

before this happened and he was released essentially by the Biden Harris administration so he could go strap a suicide vest on and kill American soldiers. Uh,

In essence, that's exactly what happened. Now, there was a little bit of reporting on this. I'm not going to pretend this is something that has seeped into the public consciousness, though, because that's, I think, where you get to the media bias that leads to the events of this week. Now, how many Americans are still stranded there? It's impossible to say and certainly can't get honest numbers from the Biden administration. Remember, they were lying to us from the podium. John Kirby saying he doesn't see chaos.

uh... jen sake and others saying that oh there's no real problem with americans who are stranded in afghanistan by now there are fewer americans who are stranded there no thanks to the biden administration though this is thanks to people like congressman corey mills who

flew to Afghanistan and other war zones to get Americans out of there. This is thanks to people like Congressman Darrell Issa, whose staff literally, and I put this in the article, inverted their sleep schedules because Afghanistan is around 12 hours ahead of the California-based district that he represents, so that they could be awake during daytime hours in Afghanistan answering calls from the people who we were abandoning

because of the biden administration's incompetence uh... but that's exactly the problem though continues right biden has set a record in a very bad way number of americans who have been forced to evacuate embassies across the world right if you think about it right now the biden administration left americans stranded to the taliban uh... in afghanistan

continues to leave Americans held hostage by savage Palestinian terrorist cavemen. And we even have Americans stranded in outer space, who the Biden administration seems completely unwilling to want to partner with Elon Musk to rescue. So it's a bad time really to leave the country if you're an American wanting to go to vacation spots like Afghanistan and Ukraine and Iraq.

How many embassies have the under Biden and Harris? How many embassies have we abandoned? Is it 12 or 13 now?

So we've fully and or partially closed around a dozen. Some have then subsequently been reopened. But one of the points that I think is incredibly important for people to understand is that these problems continue, and the State Department has made no reforms to the policies that it has in place to warn Americans that it's time to go, to help Americans, to evacuate these countries. If you're an American right now in a country where

Listen, at this point, we're overdue for another embassy evacuation under Biden. But if you're an American in whatever country that may be, it's probably Lebanon, if I had to guess. You're basically going to be in deep trouble because the State Department, while it's not a travel agency, has not really expressed any...

level of competence to evacuations. And I don't know what to what the explanation for their utter indifference to our fellow Americans who are stranded overseas. But two possibilities that, you know, I've sort of drawn out in the course of doing reporting on this is one, their union work hours basically don't exist. So you can't really

expect these people to be working 40 hour work weeks and also just basic incompetence and indifference that comes with any sort of sprawling bureaucracy like we obviously have across the administration. So what do you think they mean? Look, it seems like they could even just delegate this to some any MBA class across the country to set new protocols. I mean, what are what are three or four things that they've got to do better?

Well, I think the top one that, as you see, particularly with Afghanistan, is you have to have the Department of Defense be far more involved than it was, especially in the surrender of Afghanistan. There is no reason why the diplomatic arm of the U.S. government should be the one trying to ensure that Americans are safely evacuated from Afghanistan.

literal war zones. That's, I think, the top line. I don't know the solution to it, but what I can tell you right now is that the status quo obviously is insufficient because leaving hundreds of Americans at the mercy of the Taliban is not something that we can have happen again. Well, I mean, I want to make one point and then ask a follow-up question here, Chuck.

If you gave a contract for these situations to I forget what they renamed it since. But Eric Prince's Blackwater, the right, the logistics group, if you gave them a contract and a 30 day notice, they'd get everyone out. Accountability there, whereas you have to remember, literally no one has been fired from the Biden administration for Afghanistan withdrawal, for example. And in fact, many people have actually just been outright promoted.

after the withdrawal concluded. I think you can easily tie this into the assassination attempt against President Trump, where the Secret Service director, whose incompetence was as bright as the day is long in the summer, she wasn't fired. She was allowed to resign. And you can look at...

You know, we've learned with rural broadband, one of the Biden administration's signature programs has connected literally zero people to rural broadband. The Biden administration's electric vehicle charging infrastructure has established eight charging stations across the country. You know, these are things that in the private sector or in a well-run government,

are laughable non-starters and yet this is a theme i think you can look at from any department of this administration you're going to see problems like this with zero measure of accountability and think about for example to that and when pete budaj vanished on paternity leave there are entire news outlets that have transportation department verticals and they never told us

that he was gone i don't think it doesn't matter whether it's good or bad he was on paternity leave you would think that they should say hey isn't it weird we've heard nothing from the secretary of transportation for weeks on end but no obviously that's the problem is that these people are in the tank to allow we really haven't seen uh... for this administration and i think that this is going to be in the final two and a half months of the presidential campaign

a huge problem that donald trump is going to have to overcome is again he thought last night but the c_n_n_ fake interview uh...

The Democrats really can do no wrong in the eyes of these people. That's why it's important, I think, for shows like yours to exist so that there can be some accounting of this of the problems throughout this administration, because it's not like there aren't any. Right. Well, you know, the ex chatter is who knows if it's true or not, that the interview is actually over 40 minutes long. An hour and a half, actually, is what I've heard from several sources. Well, let's just say 40 minutes. Right. Because it was 18. And eventually, let's say they cut out 12 minutes of it.

And the Harris campaign objected to that being shown. If that's true – I mean it's sort of like this. Republicans needed to demand the audio of the Herr interview being released and they needed to demand – everybody. They just need to demand that the Harris campaign release the full interview.

I mean, I think the interview, the Democrats don't want the transcripts released for the same reason with both her interview and the CNN interview, because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris both can't speak in complete English sentences. And she doesn't have the excuse of being in her 80s. Matthew, before we wrap up, we got just about two and a half minutes left here. I wanted to bring up one other point with our withdrawals. It's not just the American citizens. It's the people who helped us, the translators, the

the contractors, the people that took a risk to back us up, who got left behind also. Now, doesn't that have a long-term negative effect on the United States when we go into other countries and we need help? Who wants to stand up and do it when they know they're going to be abandoned at the end?

It's such a great point because the failures that took place will continue to echo regardless of who's president even 10 years from now, right? I mean, you can draw a direct through line between us surrendering Afghanistan and Putin invading Ukraine. And the number of people who we abandoned who are not American citizens, that's tens of thousands, if not more. And Biden administration officials like Victoria Nuland, who is an undersecretary of state,

about right wide to congress saying that there's no evidence of the taliban systematically executing the people who they know to have cooperated with united states america that happens still happening and i mean how on earth can be credibly states people in another country we need your help on the ground uh... when

We made really no serious effort. The Biden administration will tout that this was the largest airlift of all time as we were surrendering Afghanistan in terms of the numbers. But the fact of the matter is we do not know who a lot of the people who we evacuated are. And a lot of the people who we should have evacuated were stranded. You know, they they put their lives on the line for us. And what did we give them to show for it?

basically a wave goodbye as they fell out of airplanes. There's no way you can tell me that that's not going to echo throughout, you know, the next several decades. Stab them in the back. One last question here before we end this segment. So what do you think the next embassy is at Falls?

At this point, it's the next country that's probably going to have at least a steps leading up to an embassy shuttering. Looks like it's going to be Lebanon based on Hezbollah running the country as an Iranian proxy and Israel now continuing to strike at targets in Lebanon. That would be my guess. But given what we've seen, we've seen embassies fully or partially evacuated in Haiti, in Africa, in Ukraine, in the Middle East.

It could be anywhere. I'll throw another one out there that I would not be surprised if I woke up tomorrow and learned had gone totally south overnight now is Iraq. Yeah. Yeah. No, no. I can see that 100 parlor game, but one that, you know, unfortunately, there's enough reason to be able to make into a game.

By the way, when your sources in Afghanistan, how many translators that we had embedded with our troops? Do you believe a guesstimate? Obviously, we're left in Afghanistan still there if they're alive or not.

I mean, in the immediate aftermath, thousands, thousands and thousands and thousands. Now, some have been evacuated to third party countries. But the fact is, we had zero plans in place to evacuate these people who the Taliban are who we thought they are. Yes. Savage, barbaric terrorists. And the fact that we didn't have any.

consideration given to these translators who are every bit as heroic as you can be is a complete disgrace. I don't know the specific number, but I do know there continue to be WhatsApp messages sent all the time from Afghanistan to America about how the Taliban continue to hunt these people down. They have they have the list of a lot of the people who cooperate. They have our data. Yeah, they have the human resource list.

I mean, like human resources, they got the list. I don't know the number who are left, but the fact that the number is more than one should be a stain on the careers of every single person in the United States who was involved in this. And it's worth noting that Donald Trump recently said that he will have the resignation letters of every single person involved in this calamity on the day he takes office if he wins in November.

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Welcome to the podcast portion of Breaking Battlegrounds with your host Chuck Warren. I'm Sam Stone. We're going to move on with the rest of what is a very good and hefty podcast. But we were talking in the last segment with Matthew Foldy, investigative reporter at The Spectator. He's been doing a lot of work around Afghanistan, the withdrawal there, all the aftermath now, everything that's going on with the Gold Star families. And he's been doing a lot of work around Afghanistan, the withdrawal there, all the aftermath now, everything that's going on with the Gold Star families.

We were going to let him go, but we're bringing him back for a little bit more here because as we were heading into break and towards the segment, Matt, you brought up that there's a lot going on right now that people don't know. So and you're going to have some more breaking news on this coming up. So tell us all what's going on with that, because I think there's a lot of consternation right now, a sort of fake outrage on the left about Trump at Arlington and

You know, Biden's Harris's absolute disdain for these gold star families, which has been on display for years. There's a lot coming to a head there. So tell us a little bit about what's going on there and what you've uncovered also.

I know that we wanted that to actually be one of our jumping off points with this, but I think that everything else we were just talking about with Afghanistan is an important sort of table setting for why what happened this week happened, I think, the way that it did. The Biden administration understands that what it did is indefensible. Jen Psaki and her memoir that I hope no one reads initially had lied and said that Joe Biden was not checking his watch on the tarmac as the dignified transfer was happening, even though we all saw that.

So you're seeing a full-blown desire to rewrite what happened three years ago this week. And I think that makes sense with what you saw happen this week. Now, I think a couple of things worth noting right off the bat. Unlike anyone from NPR, I was at Arlington for this ceremony that Donald Trump was at. It was a wonderful ceremony. I don't think NPR even covered it.

the ceremony, but they did want to cover some fake scandals after. Now, in the run-up to the ceremony... And they weren't there. I want you... Sorry, Matt. I'm going to stop you there one second. Repeat that. That NPR, which has been driving this story against Donald Trump, they weren't there? They were not there. No. I know they weren't there, and then I tried to find on their website any coverage of the ceremony itself. Um...

But then it was all sort of taken over by their absurd story about an altercation in Section 60. But they did not go to the ceremony. I don't know if they covered it on the radio. I wouldn't know. I don't listen to NPR. But that's important. They were not at Arlington. There were nine other journalists. I'm sure NPR could have gone if they cared about this. Right.

but getting to the details of what happened in a run-up to the ceremony arlington itself was throwing up a lot of hurdles that is obviously a hallowed institution but they were throwing up a lot of hurdles to the gold star families having this ceremony they did not want donald trump

to lay the third wreath. There were three wreath layings that honored all 13 service members who were killed by the suicide bomber who was released by the Taliban after the Biden administration gave Bagram Air Base where the attacker was being held to the Taliban. They did not want Donald Trump to lay the third wreath. And they also wanted to restrict access. It's unclear exactly what that means to me right now. They wanted to restrict access for the Section 60 visit,

which is where service members killed uh... in recent wars in iraq and afghanistan are buried now one of the i think heroes of this whole saga was speaker mike johnson who got on the phone with the people at arlington and said what what the heck and i don't think he curses i don't think you know it's very hard

what i had to be going on here uh... this is uh... out absolutely outrageous thing and i think you don't need that much of a tinfoil hat on to think that as soon as arlington which you know was ultimately responsible the secretary of the army is a political pointy the body ministration uh... once they got wind of donald trump showing up uh... they got a little squirrely it's worth also remembering or body remembering people that i thought it was

people start families who were there there were two families they extended an invitation to president biden to meet with them that day not at arlington because he's been nothing but disrespectful to them but they have to take a meet with him while they traveled to washington d_c_ that meeting not only fell on deaf ears go by it was on vacation at the beach that day comela harris i think that is your own campaign event that entire day

And we're supposed to be angry at Donald Trump for being invited by these families, for having his photographer okayed in advance by these families, and for doing the bare minimum. This is the first time a commander-in-chief has meaningfully honored their kids who were given an impossible task by the Biden administration. That's, I think, sort of what went down on Monday. And I think everything else that we were talking about

perhaps helps explain the indifference that the Biden administration has to these families. Well, you know, I heard one of the gold star mothers the other day in a TV interview say that

The Biden administration, Biden Harris administration murdered my son. Now, I was hesitant when I heard that because he's an officer, you know, he is a soldier in uniform. But when you talk about releasing the suicide bomber from Bagram. Correct. Now, suddenly, I don't disagree necessarily with her assessment of that.

So not only have Biden and Harris ignored them, but they very callously created this. Well, it's the same argument about illegal aliens that come in and commit crimes. Right. Now, look, do they commit more crime than normal? I don't know. But the problem is they could be prevented because they shouldn't be here. Right. That's the whole point. So the point is they released a suicide bomber who went and –

killed their killed their children yeah by the way in that suicide attack matt how many people died overall well there's 13 soldiers service members how many people died overall in that

Yeah, so it's 13 service members, 11 Marines and two others, and then well over 100 Afghans. And we don't actually know any of those. I mean, there's so much we don't know about this. We don't know how many of those Afghans were actually U.S. passport holders as well, because there's been so little transparency with this. And I think your comparison on the illegal immigration point is apt, because even if we were going to leave Afghanistan, we're

The series of policy decisions that the Biden administration did in this surrender are completely – that's what's indefensible. Giving up Bagram Air Base, partnering with the Taliban as we were withdrawing from the country, announcing our end date. All of these things are things that you don't need an international relations PhD. No. In fact, you probably should never want to get that to understand what the heck are you thinking? Well.

for these to be your policy decisions. So everything that went down was because Biden wanted a photo op, and he ignored common sense and his own advisors when he said, no, I want everyone out by August 31st. Once you set that end date, chaos will ensue. Well, he ignores all that. So my understanding always was the military said, no, we need to leave 2,000, 3,000 behind. Why are we getting rid of the Air Force Base? It's the same thing he did with the pier in Gaza.

I mean, I read it right in the middle of the Washington Post article on it. The Navy said they get high waves there. And our standard is you can't put a pier with those type of inconsistent waves. Anything more than two feet. I mean, he just simply ignores things because he's such a jackass.

There are two things I think to take away from this, both of which came from Christy Shamblin, who's the mother-in-law of Nicole G., who was the incredible Marine who posted a photo of her holding the baby saying, I love my job. She said two things to me. One, the first time she met me, she said that if, she said, our kids and our loved ones knew what they were signing up for. If they heard from God the morning of what was going to happen,

they would go out and do it anyway. And that I think is a reminder of the heroism, not only of these service members, but also of their families who have been put through the grinder by both the Biden administration and the media in the past three years. But the other thing is that she also said to me, she was talking about the pier in Gaza with me recently. And she said, this is so obviously insane,

but this is the problem when you do not have an accurate accounting of our failures in afghanistan we have not learned how to avoid obviously calamitous decisions appear in gaza of course with a handout to the hamas vote in america which is sickening in and of itself but the fact that we still have not reformed

how to evacuate americans right because that would mean setting up that there was a problem it's something that it doesn't matter what your political party is needs to concern you to think that our government

is not interested in learning from its mistakes. I mean, this is the greatest foreign policy failure in America since the Vietnam War. How on earth are we not learning how to avoid doing this again? How are we not learning how to avoid the spillover effects that this created with Russia invading Ukraine? It's very easy, Matt. You have the Washington Post with their tagline, Democracy Dies in Darkness.

They are simply the biggest cover-up rag in America right now. And the problem is you're not going to learn anything when you have the fourth estate basically –

The Washington Post is a blackout group.

But they don't care because they're on one team and one team only. And so therefore, Washington Post, democracy is dying because you're a dark hole. There's a great line that journalism is about covering important stories with a pillow until they stop breathing. And unfortunately, that is far too much of what we see now. I'm not saying any of this is state run media, but it is worth asking if this were state run media, what would they be doing differently? Right.

I miss those crusty old assholes who hated everybody for all the newspapers. And tweed jackets. Matt, thank you so much for joining us. You've been fantastic, and we want to have you on again soon. Keep us up to date on all your writing. We'll put it on our social media. You got it. Have a great day, guys. Thank you. Well, that was some fascinating— I'm glad we carried him on. I am, too. I still want to have him back, though, for radio listeners to hear a lot of that stuff he was just talking about. Kylie, thank you for setting that up. So, Kylie, before we get into our other—

Thanks today. Why don't you tell us what's in Kylie corners this week? Big, big things happening. So the Sandra Birchmore case I talked about a few weeks back right after the Karen Reed case because they're a bit connected. So for those that don't know, Sandra Birchmore was a 14 year old female who entered this police explorers program at Canton Police Station.

Which Canton Police Station is the same police station where the entire corruption is, or not, I don't know, occurring in the Karen Reid trial. Allegedly. Allegedly. Keep yourself out of legal issue. Yeah. If you don't know what the Karen Reid trial is, we covered it in June. It's also happening at the same police station. So just keep that in mind during the story. What we learned during Karen Reid, just to leave aside the particulars of that case, was that...

That police station and that department are a bloody nightmare. They are a mess. They cannot keep their house clean. It's a bad Hollywood movie. It's a direct-to-video movie. It's that bad.

No, no, no. This is a whole movie series at this point. Sylvester Stallone made that. It was called Copland. It was awful. But he almost got an Oscar. Continue anyway. This will get someone an Oscar. So Sandra meets Officer Matthew Farewell. At the time when she was 14, he was 27. And basically this is –

He helps her study and they start this relationship of inappropriate relationship. And at 15 year old, 15 years old, he takes her virginity. And how old was he? He's 28 and she was 15. There was so there's a he was arrested this week. That's why I'm discussing this by the FBI, not by the state. So the FBI indicted him.

And I read the 45-page affidavit. It's extremely long. Matthew is an extremely disturbed and sick human being. In his cloud storage, he would have extreme violence memes towards women. One being an example. They're really gross. They're really disturbing. One is an example of the female would say, I'm having trouble sleeping. And the guy chokes her to death and then says, good night, bitch.

So he had those types of means saved to his phone. Oh, he sounds like a delight. Yeah. He had 32,000 text messages that were in this affidavit. And I want to point out Nicholas Garino. So they originally, the reason the FBI is involved is because the state had ruled this a suicide. They ruled Sandra's death a suicide. And she was found in a seated position hung from a door, from the door handle. Good grief.

By the way, for those who have missed it, that is an episode of The Wire. Oh, is it really? Yeah. That is literally – they took that murder set up from an episode of The Wire when the drug dealer's younger brother goes to prison and he has him killed to keep him from talking. Really? Yeah.

And actually the show demonstrated how pretty well you pretty much cannot kill yourself there in that way. Maybe he didn't then. Maybe he didn't see that episode then. Otherwise, he would have chose a different way. So the guy that originally from Canton Police that looked into his phone found no text messages between him and Sandra. So he missed 32,000 text messages. Small discrepancy.

Yes, this is the same officer that didn't find any deleted text messages or phone calls from all of the witnesses in the John O'Keefe and Karen Reed case. So just keep that in mind. But they started this relationship at 14. They would study, took her virginity. He took her virginity. How old does he get? How old does he get when she took her virginity? She was 15. He was 28. He had texted her and said, I wish you were 14. Yeah.

He then... This was also one month before he got married. This happened one month before he got married. I'm hoping he's divorced now and his wife is not dead. No, his wife is very much alive with three children. But there's so much sick stuff in this. I can't even talk about it. But okay, so when...

when sandra found out that matthew's wife became pregnant with their third child this is when she got mad she got mad and demanded that she be pregnant as well so that's when he agreed he got her pregnant um during this is when i think he then flipped a switch because she would send him texts like i used to listen better back then and i think he started to feel like he was losing control because they started within their text messages getting in a lot of fights

She started demanding more. She wanted more. And so I think this is when he started to switch. She then would text her friends being like anytime he'd come over, he would start looking in closets. He would look behind doors. He was being really weird. They had this relationship spanning over almost seven years. He had never asked for a key to her house or the door code to her apartment.

he asked for those things all of this is in text messages too which is just insane um so he asked for all that stuff when he asked for the code to her apartment he said is this a code that's unit specific or apartment specific um

not very smart to do on his part. Um, he would also text her things like, I want you to know what it feels like to die. Can I choke you out tonight? And then like the next day they would be, she would be like, you know, I thought this was the time I was going to go. So I think he was prepping her to not know when he was going to kill her. Like she wouldn't know if they were, you know, engaging in sexual acts or if he was killing her. Um,

The day after he killed her, his wife gave birth to their third child. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. I mean, I don't think you can make this up. You cannot make this up. And you know what the state has still not done? The state has not brought murder charges. And the only reason the FBI can make these murder charges is they had to get really creative. So they he's being charged with the murder of a witness of a federal crime of a federal

the witness in a federal case. And they did this because they figured out that he was having sex on the clock,

So which is theft of wages. So then he got they got looking into his wages and found out that his wages were going to another state before coming back to his bank account. So they got him on wire fraud. It's always amazing. It's the old gal Capone. You could have given for all the murders he did, but we're getting for tax evasion. It's always amazing how it comes back to accounting. You know, you know what? My favorite not to get us totally off track, but the Capone story.

was the year in which they busted him for. He paid more taxes than any other American alive. But it's always, they always are able to get him on these technicalities. That's absolutely incredible. So that's the thing right now. It's just a single murder charge. I asked if it was double homicide. It is not. But the state can charge for double homicide. So we'll see if they do. You really should go get your private investigative license.

For those who can't see it, Kylie just got excited and put her finger up. I got the female index finger like, shut up for a minute. I'm going to tell you what I'm doing. So tell us what you're doing. No, no, no. I'm not doing anything. But I had something else to add. When he was arrested, there was two state troopers that went to oversee the arrest. And it was the same two troopers that are involved in the Karen Reap case.

I mean, I would not feel safe living in that community. No, no. I am telling you, I look and it's really sad because I'm extremely pro police. I am right. We all bet we all back back the blue. We want to pay him more. I have family in law enforcement. So I am. But I in Massachusetts, I look at a officer kind of sideways now. I'm like, well, that's why you have movies like The Departed and stuff. They're just not that far from the truth, apparently.

This is wild. I mean, this is all coming out of one very small department. Which is easier to corrupt, though. Which is easier to corrupt, though. Yes.

But that was that one small department. But the state troopers still being involved in the same case, these two same cases, it's still odd because that's a whole nother. Yeah. Well, so partially it's odd, partially because they have regional barracks. It may just be a regional thing. Right. But I mean, you'd think if you're the state's, you would reassign those guys on the other side of the state from this township.

Yes, especially because this arrest happened to or not today, but this week. So it's not we already all of this corruption has already been exposed. So to keep, you know. Yeah. I mean, just I mean, just for like excess of caution, just move them to the barracks in Springfield or something. Yeah. That's crazy stuff. Yeah.

Is that it for today or do we have more murder and mayhem fun? No, no, that is all. That was a lot. Before we get to the sunshine moment, we're going to have a larger segment coming out on this. But Chuck, I wanted to highlight three clips from interviewing people out at the Trump rally in Glendale. Now,

For the record, because there's been some media contention, the event was packed. It was packed to the rafters. Every single seat was full. There were no buses out there. Nobody was bussed in. Unlike the Democrats. Unlike the Democrats. When Kamala Harris was here, there was a field of buses outside the arena. And despite media claims, they had the top area bused.

The upper deck completely blocked off. So the arena holds 15,000 and change at full capacity. I would bet Kamala Harris had 9,000 ish, 10,000. A lot of those bust in. Trump had it packed with thousands of people being turned away by the end. So we went out to interview some people in line. And Jeremy, can you play the first clip we put up on that one?

So what do you think people need to do? If you could tell somebody out there they've got to do one thing to help Donald Trump get over this hump, win this election, what is that they need to do? Get out there and vote. Bring 10 people. Get 10 people to go with you to vote. And I think 10, 10, and 10. Can I stop? Jeremy, stop it right there for one second. Chuck, you and I talk about this all the time, ladies. That's the perfect answer.

And he's the only one that gave the answer, probably. Wait, wait, there's more to this clip. I'm going to get to this. That first part of it was the right answer. I'm not trying to embarrass this guy. We cut his name out of it. Jeremy, continue that clip. And have you gone and knocked on any doors or made any calls or tried to talk to your neighbors and tried to push them? Because I know that's tough, but we need people to go do that. No, I haven't, but I've made a lot of...

you know, Facebook posts and stuff like that. I just hammer it like as much as I can. So it's all his posse to begin with. So let's stop this clip there. Look, folks, when you're on Facebook, you're talking to people who already agree with you, who already know you. And if they're not shadow blocking you because you're posting so much political stuff.

I mean, when you post political stuff, you shadowbob. I mean, like for my personal account, I'm just not really posting much political anymore because they shadowbanned me. I'm in the same boat. I get 10 times or more the interaction on a nonpolitical post. And if I stop posting politics on Facebook, it goes way up. Well, that's why we have to boost many of our postings on Facebook, which we have good engagement. But if we didn't boost it, they just – I mean, Kylie, there's just no traffic, right? Unless we boost it.

Yeah, no, we had to boost. I mean, we have a good, we have a good falling on there. We have, we have six,

High six-digit, seven-digit engagement a month. Right. But if we post something and we don't boost it, I mean, the only thing sometimes that seems to get by it, if you have a real funny meme that's political and that sort of gets shared. Yes. But if there's – we post a lot of articles. We put a couple paragraphs so you can see exactly what it is, and that stuff just gets banned. So that's people who are sharing it who are not shadow banned. Then it's getting the distribution from them, but it's not getting the distribution from us. But the problem is, it's like you said, he knows what he's supposed to do. Yes. Yes.

But it is easier to sit down in an air-conditioned room or at night while you're watching TV and just post something and get excited because...

10 to 30 people liked it. Right. Who are already voting the way you want to vote anyway. You're not convincing anybody. No. And what's hard to do is to make a phone call to someone you don't know or to knock on a door or to have a conversation with a neighbor that might be uncomfortable. But here's the point. They don't even – I mean the problem is they can touch people they're familiar with. Right. I mean that's the whole point, right? And this guy led off with knowing –

The right thing to do to win this election. Okay, so now, Jeremy, let's go to clip two. Okay.

Do Republicans need to get better at digital marketing and reaching out to younger audiences? Yes, by a mile. By a mile. By a mile. By a mile. How much better would you say Democrats are at doing that? They're whooping our A. I'll keep it very... I can put it on the podcast segment. That's okay. Yeah, they're whooping our ass when it comes to that. All right, there. So that was a 19-year-old with three friends who were all about his age who were out there talking about this.

And I want to highlight another disconnect. I'm sorry to pick on this first guy in this clip. I'm really not meaning to, but he gave actually the kind of perfect sequence of answers for the point. Chuck, I know, drives you crazy, drives me crazy. Facebook, I didn't continue, but if you continue that clip, I ask him if he's on Facebook. The answer is no. Jeremy, do I have that on the rest of the clip? I didn't even remember. No. Okay. I cut it off too soon. But the kid says he's not on Facebook.

So here we have a guy who says, I'm putting up Facebook posts. This is how we do it. Now, we all know that the demographic that we need to get out the message the most to is younger American voters.

And here we have a kid who says, hey, I'm not on that platform, nor none of my friends. We're on Instagram. We're on TikTok. We're on all these other things, Snap even. But a lot of those, it's TikTok and Insta are the two biggies. We're not there. We're not communicating with them. And Democrats are whooping our tails at it. They have for a long time. I mean, Kamala Harris' digital team has 157 people.

That's just Kamala Harris. That's not talking about all the progressive groups that are paying people. I am guessing Kamala Harris just paid her and her allies, probably has about 4,000 full-time people on digital this election cycle.

I would not be surprised at all. And that is – I'm guessing, and they would probably describe it, but if I had a FOIA request, I would see it. But just Kamala Harris, the official campaign, no super PACs, no committee arms, nothing, 157 people full-time. And by the way, 157 people who are very good at their job. It doesn't mean they have any brains when it comes to politics, but they're very good at this digital stuff.

Right. They're good at building audiences and communicating with audiences. It is what it is. All right, Jeremy, let's move on. Get the third clip in there. His body language, the way he speaks to people who. What'd you say? He's a leader. There you go. He's a leader. Exactly. Just like he said. Yeah. Is that a pretty big contrast with the Democrat nominee? Definitely say so. I don't see leadership qualities. I would say Kamala is definitely better than Biden. However, that's not going to be a shock. There you go.

So I brought that clip into it because there is part of the messaging that I believe our side is missing, is leadership. Correct. And we just touched on the Afghanistan stuff. I wanted to include that clip specifically because we were having Matthew Foley on because we've talked about this on this program before.

One of the big differences between the Trump and Biden-Harris administrations was what they told the generals and the military leadership and how to respond. Same thing, Obama, Biden-Harris have all put very top-down controls on the military, and it's one disaster after another. And most people do not realize that maybe the single greatest example of leadership in the Trump administration was his administration.

telling the generals and his top people, just go get it done. Right. He wasn't being a helicopter parent. Right. And because of that, the world was a safer place. ISIS was almost decimated. Professionals were able to do their job. Which you pay them to do. Where is that messaging in this campaign?

I don't understand the message of anything on our side on this campaign. It's insane to me that we're missing every area where we should be dominating the conversation. We're not even engaging in it. No, we're not even talking about it. That is a failure. And you pointed it out. I think someone, was it you or someone else shared in our group text, Chuck, a piece that showed Kamala Harris and the Biden-Harris campaign, whatever you want to call it, are outspending the Trump campaign on digital media by 10 to 1. Yes.

Yes. With a consistent message. Yeah. Ours is a lot of grievance. Yeah. It's just ridiculous. Ours is a lot of you're walking on my lawn. Folks, and I pick those three clips again for a reason. I want to tie that back to number one, Chuck, because you and I talk about this all the time. Jenna, Kylie, all of our people in our circle.

The only way we're going to win this is if people take responsibility to win it for Donald Trump and for these other folks. You're going to have to go have that conversation. You're going to have to make that phone call. You're going to have to knock that door or we will lose and lose everything. I agree. I agree. Well, let's get some sunshine. So what have we learned today? We've learned that Massachusetts has a very corrupt police organization. We have learned that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris absolutely abandoned politics.

America friends, allies, troops in Afghanistan. We have learned that the Montana AG has filed 56 lawsuits against the Biden and Harris administration because they're always trying to overreach and don't really believe in the rule of law. So with all this, can you give us a little sunshine?

Well, one thing that we can learn also is like how to do random acts of kindness every day, how to share while we're sharing our political beliefs. We can also share some good with the world. So I have a story about a guy named Gary King who ran around St. Petersburg, Florida, putting up signs, these big red square signs that just say happiness.

And it sounds silly, but he says he's doing subliminal messaging and he put up 602 giant red signs that say happiness. Kylie, doesn't that sound like our mutual friend would do something like that and think that's just the best idea that ever happened? Absolutely.

Yeah. So I was thinking about it and I'm like, if you, if you, uh, it's, it's silly cause they're, they're just these big, big red signs. But, but when I thought about it, you know, when I see a big red stop sign, I stop like I, I, well normally, but I pay. Have we been running red lights lately? Allegedly. Um, but I, I, it, it,

you and pulls you out of yourself a little bit when you see something that's alarming that jolts you. You know, why not put up photos of a puppy or, you know, smiley faces? And I was thinking about it and that's kind of the thing that you need to do in order to

be step back step out of the like daily miasma step out of the the daily drags to um to check in with yourself be happy and check in with others and step back and look out um and say like hey how can i help other people how can i do a random act of kindness or whatever so i think um i think

It's something that, like, you know, there are a lot of people who said, you know, they really enjoyed seeing these signs around. But I think it's something that we can remember to just take a second and stop and pay attention to what's around us for just a split second, walking into a cafe, whatever. Well, it's paying attention to people. So, Kyle, you remember we had a young man that worked at us at the office in Scottsdale. He made Aaron always grumpy, and I'll tell you his name later. Wait, wait, wait.

How do you not make Aaron grumpy? Well, yeah. I've worked with Aaron. I still haven't paid him that out. He always was. But anyway, so we let him go, but we gave him a nice severance. And I told him, I said, you need to do these steps. And I kept up with him. And, you know, the past six months, we haven't talked. Seemed to be doing well. And I got an email from him yesterday. I'm going to lunch with him Thursday. And he's a successful promoter for all these DJs. Nice. Because he buckled down. And he just said, I want to thank you because...

This would not have happened unless you had taken the time with me and made me believe that there was more to what my current situation was. And I think there's this kind word that we don't do enough for people, you know, and and you can't you can't do it over social media. You have to see him in person. You have to talk to him. It's not a text message.

It's not an email. It is a simply, you know, Jenna, what can I do? Or just listen. Just be there. And I love this idea. Kip and I will get our friend, give her that idea so she can go do it all around Scottsdale. What do you think about that, Kip? I love that idea. I might need to do that over here in Massachusetts. I'm going to get that idea.

Yeah, but they'll probably arrest you and then you'll be on the Jenna podcast. Well, folks, we thanks a million. It was a great show today. Sam, great work at the Trump rally. Appreciate that. It was hotter than you can believe. Boy, we have people drop it. I will. I need to throw in one shout out to the Fraternal Order of Police.

Because their union guys came out. People were literally dropping in that line because there was no water. It was about a two-mile line to get into the facility. It was taking a long time with security. People were dropping. And hold it. And the turning point who ran this didn't have water for people? No. It was ridiculous, quite frankly. But thank you, God, for the fraternal order of police. Yes.

In Arizona, not Massachusetts. No, yes. They came out.

Using their own money. They were running to the store, filling coolers, bringing them back, filling them with ice, getting people cooled down, helping paramedics get people into shade. Kudos to them. Kudos to them. Big time kudos to the Fraternal Order of Police, Arizona Lodge. You guys were fantastic. Thank you for pointing it out. So, folks, we hope you enjoyed today's show. We ask you to visit us at BreakingBattlegrounds.vote. Subscribe to our sub stack. We have a lot of great articles coming out this week.

And on behalf of Kylie, Jenna, Sam, and myself, have a fantastic weekend. We'll see you next week.