Stigall vs. Willet Heats Up, Trump Speech Tonight, Plus KS and MO Can Learn from Jamie Dimon | 4-1-26

I've said it many times, if I could live anywhere in the Kansas City Metro, I'd be up in the Northland. I just kind of like 10 minute commutes to work at four o'clock in the morning. It's really that simple, but it was fantastic to be up in the Northland yesterday and be at the kickoff event for Nathan Willett, who of course is running for now Missouri's open seat in the sixth congressional district where he will take on Chris DeGaulle in a primary coming up here in a few short months. So I was there last night on behalf of Nathan Willett to MC the event. It was not some endorsement. That's not what it was intended to be. And in fact, when I was first asked to do this, it was when he was running for state Senate. And then he switches, of course, to running for Congress. And I said, sure, I'll do it for you. I mean, I do these things when I can when we find a deal that works out for everybody. And I was happy to be there last night and be a part of it and see all the support that Nathan Willett does have in the Northland for this congressional run. But you know, it was never an endorsement despite the Kansas City Star reporter last night who was there. Nice guy. But he's asking me, Hey, are you endorsing Nathan because you got beef with the other radio guy? I'm like, no, can you believe that mark? I'm like, no, the other radio guys are friend of mine. Yeah, we're teammates, basically. I mean, there's a yes, there's a radio brotherhood that is really, really thick and runs deep. So no, no Kansas City Star reporter. I'm sorry that you don't have a big piece about how radio guy endorses non radio guy because he's got beef with the other radio guy or something like that. No, no. So I quickly put that one to bed very quickly. But it was a big showing last night and I'm telling you for an election cycle that did not have a lot of juice on the Missouri side, I had been saying this for months, whether it was on the show or elsewhere around Kansas City at different events. I was like, well, you know, kind of a ho hum here on the Missouri side. It's going to be all about Kansas and all about the governor's race and that's probably going to be the big focus and it still will be, I would say the biggest political focus in Kansas City over the next five, six months. But this thing up North is it's going to have juice. And I don't think that's what the voters want. Like just hearing from grassroots people last night, they obviously were there to support Nathan Willett. They like Nathan Willett, the Kansas City Councilman. They believe he'd be a great member of Congress on their behalf, obviously, and this district that Sam Graves represented, I mean, it's a monster district, right? It's, you know, Clay Platt, Yukannan, Ray, all the way up to Atchison and then all the way east to the Illinois state line. It's enormous. The voters, the grassroots folks are not going to want it to be ugly, but it's politics. It's a primary for a solid Republican seat and there's a lot of internal beef that has gone on between both camps that is going to, I believe, unfortunately, make it ugly. There's just, I don't see any other way that this thing does not have some ugliness to it ahead of the primary in August. I just, I don't see it because how we got here to kind of take you a little bit behind the scenes on how we got here and some of you that are, you know, deep in the political weeds in Missouri politics will know this, but you know, most people aren't and that's fine. You shouldn't be. You got a life to live. You can be punching around right now, sports, music, but you're here on KCMO. We appreciate that. So we'll take you behind that curtain. You have a monster mega political consultant named Jeff Rowe who runs Axiom Strategies, which is one of the largest Republican consulting firms in the country. And Jeff started his career right here in Missouri. He's been friends with Chris forever. Chris is working with Jeff and Axiom on this campaign and Nathan was working with them on a state Senate campaign, but when he wanted to run for Congress, obviously that was something that the Axiom folks did not want to see happen. Nathan wanted to run for Congress. He thought that his time was now to launch this congressional bid and try to replace Sam Graves. He has every right to do it. It's a free country. You can run for whatever you want, but obviously it was not going to be with the Axiom folks. So they go ahead with Chris. Nathan is using obviously now a different firm and a different company for this congressional bid, but there was a lot of beef there behind the scenes that obviously led to both guys ending up filing to run for Congress. And part of this too is that in Republican political circles, it's well known that President Trump is not a fan of Axiom. They ran Ted Cruz's 2016 campaign and then helped Ron DeSantis in 24 as he was obviously running for president and needless to say the current president is not a fan of that and has not been a fan of that. So he has done a lot to try to make sure that certain Axiom candidates do not win. Now I'd like to think that between congressional Democrats and Iran, the president of the United States would have bigger fish to fry than Jeff Rose Consulting firm, but hey, what do I know? I just sit here with a microphone. Either way, that's the inside baseball of all this. So if you're Axiom and you want a good candidate that you think Trump might leave alone, well Chris the gall would make sense, right? Chris knows the president. He's interviewed him a bunch of times. He's been at the White House, been invited there, has good relationships. So from their perspective, it makes sense for a guy like Chris to be that candidate for them because their hope is that, yeah, you know, fine, Chris may be working with this guy that the president doesn't like, but you know, we like Chris. So it's all good, right? So they're going to stay out of it. There was a belief that a state rep up in northern Missouri, Maisie Christensen, who does have ties to the White House may have been the person to jump into the race against Will it and Stigal and then get the White House endorsement and then they both lose. But she put out a video yesterday announcing that she was not going to run for Congress and was actually not going to file to run for her state seat, her state rep seat, because she's pregnant. So she's out. So it really I know there's going to be a couple other people in the race, but you know, the reality is it's going to be Chris the gall versus Nathan well. And Nathan, he's got a good grassroots operation in the Northland and the reality is this clay and Platt County are between 30 and 35% of all the votes in that district that goes state line to state line, all of northern Missouri, but a bulk of it is going to be battled right here in our backyard and clay and plat and Buchanan, Clinton Ray. I mean, that's going to be the hub of it in many respects, not that the out state part doesn't matter. I'm just saying from a population perspective, this is where it's largely going to take place. So that's that's how we got here. I think we have two really good guys, two people who I consider friends who have very different backgrounds and very different experiences. And I think that's what it's going to come down to. You know, it's going to come down to which individuals life experiences do you believe makes them better suited for this moment in American politics to represent you up in the Northland. And I'm I'm not going to sit here and I never have sat here in a primary going back, you know, almost 10 years now doing the show and tell you what to do. Tomorrow is going to be the start of year nine for this show. I can't believe it. Now, when guys have good moments and bad moments, I'll talk about that. That was great. That was not so great. Like we'll have all those conversations, but I will not be getting in the middle of this one, but I will be watching it very closely as I know many of you in the Northland will be as well. I told the story last night, you know, anytime I do these events, people always come up and they're like, Oh man, you wake up so early. Thanks for coming out. Can't believe you're doing these things. And I'm like, guys, you know, my wife's home with a seven year old, a five year old and a two year old. I'm sitting here eating some chips and queso from Margaritas and shaking hands. This is a walk in the park. All right. I'm going to be okay. Please don't don't worry about me. Worry about Kate at home. You know, there are days when you got to go to work and get away from that's exactly right, John. So I mean, please, you know, I know everyone's being nice, but I always just joke about it. It's like this is I could I could be home bathing little kids right now, changing diapers like this is a vacation. Come on. This is great. So I was I was happy to be there and just kind of see how this is all going to play out in in the months to come. It's going to be very interesting, but you got you got two good guys up there in the Northland and it's going to be a very fascinating few months ahead to see how that plays out. Now, as John noted top of the hour news, Eric Zahn, Platte County prosecutor at the last minute yesterday, pulled his name out to run for reelection for Platte County prosecutor. He's been there 24 years longest running prosecutor in Platte County. And he was there last night. So I guess he filed to not run or unfiled. And then he decided to go hang out with Nathan Willett, who he has supported. And his assistant Mark Gibson is going to be the guy who's now is going to most likely replace him. And then the other big news in Jackson County was Phil LaVota, the interim County executive filing at the last minute to run for a county executive. Some people are going to be bothered by this because he signed this declaration saying if he's the guy to replace Frank White on an interim basis, he won't run in 26. He's decided to do it. Doesn't bother me one bit. Jackson County has been such a joke of an operation for so long. We finally have someone halfway competent who is not hyper partisan who's just doing the job of county government, which really shouldn't be much and is doing it pretty well. Cares about the issues that the people care about. Yeah, he's got a D next to his name. It's Jackson County. You can't win without a D next to your name. And I don't think he's not a, you know, diehard Democrat or a hyper partisan Democrat by any stretch. He's focused on property taxes. He's got a business background. He wants to make sure that the Royals hopefully stay in Jackson County. He did his best with the chiefs, even though he came in at the 11th hour. It wasn't his fault. They went to Kansas. I mean, Kansas got totally ripped off and there was nothing Phil LaVota was going to do about that. So this is all something I think sets up very well for Jackson County that Phil LaVota wants to do this, that he's going to give it a run. And I'm not bothered by a pledge that he signed, you know, a few months ago because guess what? Things change. If you asked the goal a few months ago, if he was going to run for Congress, he probably would have said no, but things change in life. And he's done a solid job. And if I was a Jackson County voter, Republican or Democrat, I'd look at that track record and say, you know what? That's a pretty good track record. And he's calmed things down in the county and he's had the pulse of the people. Well, and as far as we know, he serves no instructional role with any professional franchise here in town. So he's got plenty of time on his hands. Exactly right. Yes. He's not coaching first base for an independent league team in Kansas. You know, tap and pushes down the first baseline traveling to Fargo and Bismarck and where else? Where else do the monarchs play on the road? Peoria? They play in Gary. Yeah, that's right. South Korea. Don't you know? That's right. Thank you for that, John. So he actually is focused on the job instead of treating the Jackson County executive position like the backup job to be in the first base coach for the freaking monarchs in KCK. So if nothing else, he's looking a heck of a lot better than Frank White did over his tenure in office as Jackson County executive. So you also have just some of the other names running. Duran McGee, who's on the legislature, Bill Baird, who is the Lee's summit mayor right now. I mean, nothing really knocks your socks off. So I think Phil Devote is in a good spot. There is one Republican, Alan Rolthing, but as somebody told me last night, who was at Nathan Willett's event, who's involved with the Jackson County GOP, they're like, well, we got a guy. I was the best. I mean, I'm just being honest. That's what they said. There's an R on the ballot. Yeah. There's an R on there. I don't like having a lefty in the bullpen. We got one. Yeah. Even if his ERA is 8.2, you know, that's what we've got. There is technically a lefty in the bullpen for whatever that's worth. Oh my goodness. The president of the United States is going to be giving a speech tonight and update eight o'clock our time. He will address the nation with an update on the war in Iran. But I thought that his secretary of state put out a fantastic video yesterday highlighting all of this and what it really means and what's really gone on here the last month or so. Tonight, eight o'clock, the president of the United States is going to address the nation and give an update on Operation Epic Fury. Now, I think that Pete Hegset, the secretary of war, has done a really good job in these, I would average twice a week press conferences he's been doing. They're, you know, 10 minutes. He keeps it tight. There's no fluff. It's right to the point. Here's what's going on. I mean, yeah, obviously he's doing it through the lens of here's why everything's going really well. Like we get it. That's what he's going to do. But they've been tight to the point and informative. We'll see what the president has in store tonight. If I'm totally speculating and guessing, it may be some kind of announcement of a wind down. That's just where I would guess this is going to go because he has not done one of these, obviously, during the first four weeks of the war. So I don't know why else he would feel compelled to go this route considering his secretary of wars is doing this a couple of times a week. So that's just where my head goes. But you tell me at 913-408-7957 what you want to hear, what you want to see tonight. But with that being the case, last night, Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, put up a two minute video really dialing in on why we elected to make this move with Operation Epic Fury. And I thought it was outstanding because, first off, it's less than two minutes. Okay. I know that attention spans are toast in 2026. But if you can't give Marco Rubio a minute and 52 seconds, then you really don't want to know. You just want to be uninformed, which is your prerogative. But don't tell me that there's not someone out there who's going to break this down simplistically. I shared it on X last night at Pete Mundo. You can see it there. But here's Marco Rubio. And by the way, I lied when I said a minute 52. It's a minute 48 of Marco Rubio explaining why we did what we did in Iran and why we've done this over the last month. Many Americans are asking, why did the United States have to attack Iran now? Well, let me explain. Iran wants to have nuclear weapons. Of that, there is zero doubt. If what they truly wanted, which is what they claim, is nuclear energy, well, they could have nuclear energy, like all the other countries in the world have it. And that is you import the fuel and you build reactors above ground. That's not what Iran has done. They build the reactors and their facilities deep in mountains away from the public glare. And they want to enrich that material, the same equipment that they could use to enrich material for energy, they could use to quickly enrich it to weapons grade. So it is clear that they've been offered every opportunity to have a nuclear program that allows them to have energy, not weapons, and every single time they have turned it down. But why the attack now? Well, what was Iran trying to do? Iran was trying to build a conventional shield in essence, have so many missiles, have so many drones that no one could attack them and they were well on their way. We were on the verge of an Iran that had so many missiles and so many drones that no one could do anything about their nuclear weapons program in the future. That was an intolerable risk. Under no circumstances can a country run by radical Shia clerics with an apocalyptic vision of the future ever possess nuclear weapons. And under no circumstances can they be allowed to hide and protect that program and their ambitions behind a shield of missiles and drones that no one can do anything about. This was our last best chance to eliminate that conventional threat, that conventional shield that they were trying to build. And the president made the right decision to wipe it out now. That is the goal of this operation, to destroy their conventional missiles and their drone program so they can't hide behind it and finally have to deal with the world seriously about never ever having nuclear weapons. No matter what you think of the decision by the White House, the reality is this, there has been very little political upside for them in any of this. Democrats are always going to use it as Republican warmonger, George W. Bush 2.0. And some Republicans are going to be like, you know, this is not what we voted for. This is not my populist guy. And to do it six months, seven months before a midterm, there was no political upside to doing. Which tells you the president realized, along with Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth and others, that they had no choice given the circumstances that their intelligence had shared with them in Iran. If they could have waited, you would have waited until after the midterms. That would have been the obvious thing to do and ride these $2 gas prices, $2 a gallon gas prices, into hopefully holding on to the House and the Senate. The fact that they didn't do that tells you how serious the situation was. And that's a perspective on this that I do think gets lost. News coming up in a minute on KCMO Talk Radio, when we are back, a take from a major CEO that impacts Kansas and Missouri. 6.34, good morning, happy Wednesday. Quick note, Beto Lopez will be here in one hour. He's running for mayor of Lee's Summit, Patrick 2-8-8-30, and then Phil Levota, the Jackson County executive who's now running for election coming up this fall will be here at 9.05 this morning. Yesterday, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was on a Fox and Friends, and it was a fantastic interview. But Jamie Dimon said something that I think leaders in Kansas and Missouri need to hear. He wasn't talking about our two states, he was talking about New York and California, but it really applies to every state in the country. And that it's that people ultimately will vote with their feet, especially people of means who can vote with their feet will vote with their feet. Here's what he had to say. Washington state today announced we have a millionaire's tax. They are putting a referendum in California, billionaire's tax. What's the reaction been, Jamie? People are going, okay, I got the message. I'm out of here. You have more people now in Dallas than you have in New York City. There's a reason for that. I tell Phil, everyone's got to compete, including cities. And for a city to compete, of course, it's quality of life. It's your subways, it's your hospitals, but it's also individual taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, and it drives people out. So all you have to do is look at California versus Nevada, New York versus Florida, and there's a huge exit that's taking place. It's not good for the city. And people just make a mistake. I'll just tax these people, but that's the outcome. And very often people think they're being moral by doing that, but they're not. What they're doing is they're hurting your own city and, you know, unfortunate people vote with their feet. Well, I would say the only thing Jamie Diamond got wrong there is he said, unfortunately, people vote with their feet. That's only unfortunate if you're a politician who wants to rip people off and take every last dollar you can from them. It's not unfortunate when people vote with their feet. Not at all, not for a second. But specifically for Kansas, which has seen net outflow migration in recent years, I mean, the people in Topeka have got to get their act together. They're going to fail again. This session, it looks like with property tax reform, it does not look like that's going to go anywhere. And they're not going to get that done now for a second straight year. They obviously have this chiefs deal hanging over their heads. That's an absolute nightmare of a financial deal for the state of Kansas. Where they're going to be sucking up sales taxes from the most valuable parts of the state in Johnson and Wyandotte County to pay off a multi-billion dollar stadium when that money is otherwise would have gone into the coffers of the state of Kansas. Their budget is a mess running a deficit, which we talked about earlier this week with Michael Austin. It's basically a mirror image of what Laura Kelly wanted. So the so-called conservative leadership just gave Laura Kelly what she wanted on a silver platter as they get set to run another deficit in the state of Kansas. So what do they have going for them right now? What's that big? Oh, wait, what? Maybe eight, nine football games a year? Coming up in 2031? That's your crown jewel. That's what you're hanging your hat on for the state's economy? What is it? It's not income tax reform. Missouri's figuring out a way to phase out the income tax now. Kansas is not even talking about that. They have some of the highest income taxes in the region as is. What are you doing? How are you staying competitive? The only way Kansas has figured out how to stay competitive apparently is to play the subsidy game, which is not competition. Offering subsidies against Oklahoma or Missouri for Panasonic or for a chief stadium, that's not competition. That's buying business with taxpayer money. Competition is going out there and saying, we're going to have the best tax climate and the best business environment possible, and you're going to be crawling here. You want to be here so bad because we've got a good workforce and we have a great tax and business environment. Kansas could do that, especially when you look at the northeast part of the state with the workforce and the education levels and things like that. They don't need to be playing the subsidy game, but this is the game that they've elected to play. That's their idea of growing the state. That's their idea of business development. It's exhausting because it hasn't worked. It hasn't worked for decades now. Apparently, the only people that don't realize that are the politicians in charge. Go figure. When I heard Jamie Dimon say that yesterday, I was like, man, get this guy to Topeka. Get him to Topeka as quickly as possible to explain this to the politicians who can't grasp the concept. Less so. I mean, Jeff City mostly has that figured out. They understand what's going on. That's why they're trying to phase out the income tax. Now, I still think that they've got a spending problem down there in Jeff City. When you've blown the budget up, 2x of where it was 10 years ago from like 25 billion to 50 billion, you've got a problem on your hands in Jeff City. You've got to figure out how to cut some of the spending. If not, you're never going to get to that 0% income tax, but they also realize you can't just do a Kansas to 10 years ago under Brownback and decide to drop the income tax rate to zero and then just hope it all works out because it takes time for businesses to pick up and move. A business in Tulsa doesn't just sit there and say, whoa, Kansas, drop the income tax to zero. We're going to go there next year. They've got employees that live there. They've got rents. They've got properties. It's a process to move a business or even an individual to pick up and move. It doesn't happen that easily. But now we sit here and we realize that we've got to be able to admit that leadership, especially on the Kansas side, is not thinking pro-growth. They only think pro-subsidy. That's it. And it's going to continue to bite them in the butt and it's going to continue to be a failure in Kansas until they wake up and realize it. Mike's in Kansas City. Hey, Mike, good morning. Yeah, I hope everybody remembers everything you said in the next election. And everybody also remembers how Gomer Pyle subsidized my Laura Kelly split the Republican vote. If it wasn't for Gomer Pyle, we wouldn't be here. We wouldn't have Laura Kelly. She would be a footnote in the history books. Was Gomer? I don't remember Gomer also known as, what's his real name? Dennis. Dennis. I say it disparagingly. Well, yeah, I think we kicked that off the Gomer nickname courtesy of a listener. Maybe it was you, Mike. But anyway, I don't want to get in the weeds. I don't know if Gomer was subsidized by Laura Kelly or if he was just subsidized by his over-inflated and bruised ego. But either way, yes, Derek Schmitz, probably the governor, if not for Gomer Pyle. Well, okay. The $300,000 infusion that he got late in his campaign supposedly came from Democrat sources. Oh, okay. And the third party is the way they split it. They did the same thing in Missouri to keep what's her name in there. Claire McCaskill in the past, if it's the Democrat trick. It doesn't matter who you're going to get. And when the Democrats tell you they're moderate, just look over to Virginia and Schwungleberger. And what she's done over there, the taxation. Now she's disenfranchising the people with the unbelievable gerrymandering and everything else. There is no such thing in this day and age with the puppet masters of the Democrat party of anything even resembling a moderate Democrat. Well, I would say there are a couple of pockets on the very local level. Like I think Phil LaVota running Jackson County is a moderate Democrat. But with any ties to the national level, you're right. I mean, in Virginia's case in point, the idea of a moderate really does not exist. Yeah. And it's going to Virginia is going, you know, to hell with handbasket. Yeah. They're going to be New York and California, no time at all, unless the people over there making enough of a massive rebellion to control it. I mean, I got friends in Virginia, they're telling us you don't have a half of what she's doing over there. Yeah, it's not good. The campaign is a moderate. Yeah, exactly. No, there's going to be more of that. Thank you, Mike. There's going to be a lot more of that. But to bring it back here, to bring it back to Kansas and Missouri, which is where the conversation, I think, needs to be for us. Ethan Corson is Laura Kelly's pick for governor. He's a state center from Fairway. And he looks like, who does it look like? I always, Ned from School of Rock, right? Right, Mark? That's who we figured. Ned from School of Rock. That's it. Yeah. That's right. Ned Schlebley or something like that from the old School of Rock movie going back 20 years. That's who he looks like to me. And that's fine. It's just I can't look at the guy without seeing Ned from School of Rock. So anyway, he looks very harmless. I'm sure he will campaign as a moderate. He had a picture of himself up for the Royals game the other day and opening down social media, just a man of the people. But, you know, Laura Kelly did that very well, that middle of the road brand that obviously won her two elections in the state of Kansas. Can they do it a third time? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, that's the thing. It's like when you look at how Kansas Democrats have had success in the state of Kansas, when it comes to governors, what they've done very well with that specific model is run women. Whether it's Laura Kelly, whether it's Sibelius, Finney, I mean, that's kind of been their blueprint. They haven't really done it with a dude. So we'll see how this guy, Ethan Corson, most likely the nominee ends up going in a general election. But a lot of that's also going to depend on what the Republicans do and what that fight looks like in the months to come. Because we're in the calm before the storm on the Kansas side of the state line. So what would you do, ladies, if you found out your husband was a cross dresser, especially if you were a fairly public figure? Well, that is what Kristi Noem is dealing with right now. The former head of DHS after a report surfaced yesterday from the Daily Mail. And there are pictures of her husband online, allegedly wearing women's clothing and wearing pieces of plastic that make him more feminine, shall we say. I'm going to let the newsman, Brett Baer, report this because I don't feel like I can do it justice, and I might get myself in trouble. So let's go to Brett Baer here on KCMO Talk Radio. And then we'll hear from the ladies at 913-408-7957. Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is asking for privacy and prayers tonight. She's said to be devastated by a report alleging her husband has been what is being called a cross dressing double life. Senior national correspondent Rich Edson has details tonight. Good evening, Rich. Good evening, Brett. Well, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and now President Trump are responding to a report regarding Noem's husband's alleged online activities. A spokesperson tells the Daily Mail that she's devastated and that, quote, the family was blindsided by this, and they ask for privacy and prayers at the top. All right, hold on. Can you pause it right there, Mark? Does anyone think that Kristi Noem was blindsided by this? Because I don't. I don't believe that. Not for a second. I think it is better for her if she says she was blindsided by this, because if she wasn't blindsided by this, that's not a good look. If you knew this might be going on with your husband and you know, you were going around with Corey Lewandowski and doing whatever, like I don't think that there was any blindsiding going on here. That's just, that's my read on it. Let's continue with Brett Baer's report last night on Fox News. The outlet he knew nothing about it adding, wow, I feel badly for the family if that's the case, that's too bad. The Daily Mail alleges it obtained hundreds of messages between Brian Noem and three women involved in a site where men cross-dress. The Mail posted several of these photos and writes Brian Noem allegedly sent women in the community $25,000 in virtual payments. The publication says Brian Noem did not deny the explicit conversations, but says he never put national security at risk while his wife was secretary setting up a potential blackmail situation. Quote, yeah, I made no comments like that. That would lead to that. Brian Noem operates Crop Insurance Agency. He and Christie Noem married in 1992. They have three adult-aged children. Earlier this month, President Trump ousted secretary Noem from her role leading the Homeland Security Department after congressional hearings where she had difficulty answering whether she was having an affair with top aide Corey Lewandowski. With her husband seated behind her, she also faced questions about more than $200 million in DHS ad campaigns that featured Noem. Democrats are investigating that business that received money on that contract. The president named Noem as special envoy to the shield of the Americas, Brett. Okay, there you go. That's the report last night on special report from Fox News' Brett Bear, which I got to give credit. Whoever writes the Chiron's, that's like the lower third graphics that you see on television. There was a Chiron last night on Fox News, and it was a picture of Christie Noem and her husband, and it read, Get it off your chest. Noem reacts to husband cross dressing report. Oh, geez. Give that guy your galleries. Give him a promotion at Fox News. All right, get him up the food chain. That is a fantastic Chiron on Fox News last night. As Brett Bear is reading this thing with a straight face, I don't know how he did it. He reads this with a straight face with the Chiron below him that says, Get it off your chest. When the photos yesterday of Christie Noem's husband circulating, I mean, he's got, I don't know what you'd call it, a bust that he's wearing on the text line, 913-408-7957. Pete, you've got to have a pretty big house to be able to hide those jugs from your wife. Oh, geez. Oh my gosh, that's too, come on on the text line. Let's hear from the ladies on the text line, 913-408-7957. Pete, if I found out my husband was a cross dresser, I'd leave him immediately. What I've learned from Twitter X account, Trans Widows and others is that cross dressing comes in pairs. This definitely would not be his only potential problem. Okay. Yeah, probably right. Pete, sometimes a guy just wants to feel pretty. That's no, no, no, no. He puts on women's clothing and hangs around in bars. He's a lumberjack and he's okay. He's a soul knight and he works all day. Oh my goodness. In the reporting, here's how this all got outed with Corey Lewin, or with Corey Lewin-Deskey with Christie Noem's husband, who is allegedly a cross dresser according to the Daily Mail and a report that came out. So Brian's name, what happened is he was going by the fake name Jason and one of the models that I guess he was talking to online claimed that she butt dialed Jason, but Jason had a voicemail that said, no insurance, leave a message. So when she Googled no insurance, she found pictures of Brian and Christie on the website. So this guy thought he was getting away with like this fake name allegedly. And then it turns out that his voicemail gave out his real name and his business. Let's have a little bit of common sense here, fella. Come on. You really thought you were going to get away with this when you had your last name on your voicemail? And you thought nobody was going to put two and two together and realize, gosh, there is no Jason. And this is the husband of the DHS secretary, who's one of the most controversial figures or was one of the most controversial figures in the entire government, as if this wasn't going to get out. So when this model confronted Brian about it, he reportedly told her that he did not care. Well, I guess he was just done. Maybe embarrassing Christie was part of the goal here. That's the only thing I could figure in part. 913408 7957 is our text line and our studio line here on KCMO talk radio. Pete, I think Christie and her husband both have a slew of problems. Yeah, you know, are we sure that Cricket didn't just off himself? I mean, is it possible that the dog just said I'm done here? And I know Christie's taking credit for it in the book, but it wouldn't shock me if Cricket saw some stuff and he's like, I can't do it anymore. Cricket is seen. I always understand what dogs are saying, but he's in come get me. Cricket just, I can't imagine what he saw on that farm up there with the gnomes between Christie and Brian and all the plastic he was putting on himself and the selfies he was taking in the mirror. I think Cricket might have just checked out and said, I'm out of here. Dog saw the crack in the door and said, Nope, I'm not going in. No way. No, how I'm done. I'm done on the text line. Pete lucky for Brian. He wasn't wearing a dog costume. Oh, show some R ESPIC team. You guys are killing me. You're, that's, oh my goodness. That hurts. On a serious note on the text line, Pete got a wonder about the vetting process for her DHS job. That's an excellent point. All the people in government that do all the background checks and no one was able to dig this up with the last administration. Think about it here. Dr. Rachel and yeah, that's the guy stealing the luggage. Oh yeah. Right. I mean, they had offices. This is the husband of someone in office. That's a very good point. That's a very good point. That's true. They still got to figure out who had the cocaine in the West Wing, right? They haven't gotten there yet. So this might be a bridge too far figuring out, you know, some background checks to make sure that Christine Ohm's husband was not a cross dresser. I don't think that probably was on the front of anyone's mind when they were going through the vetting process of these people for these positions depending on the administration. I'll see that could have been a plus that could box to check on the other hand. Well, that's a good point as well. Are Democrats going to now be clamoring for Christine Ohm to come back to the White House? Wouldn't that be the proper thing for them to do since that's kind of their deal? I mean, I think they might have a whole new outlook on Christine Ohm as far as I can tell now that her husband is allegedly a cross dresser. She comes now in a whole new light to him. Reinstate Christine Ohm. Reinstate Christine Ohm. Oh my goodness. 913-408-7957. That's how you join us on KCMO. Your texts are killing me. I can't read all these texts, guys. Come on. I got an FCC license here. I got to maintain. Can't be doing that to anything on there about no Queens. No. Nothing about that. Nothing at all. Maybe that's next week. Yeah, that's probably next week. All right. Dave's in St. Joe. Dave, what's up, my man? Good morning. Dave, I appreciate your repeat. I appreciate you taking the call. I wanted to make it quick. You know, you talk about the national politics sometimes in local level, not being the what you would think it is. And here in St. Joseph, you know, we've got a school district that's basically forgotten the students and the parents. And they're in a battle between two completely different ideological ideas and politics that are national level based. And it's truly unfortunate because the kids and the students, the kids and the parents and the teachers, they just want things like Wi-Fi and power outlets in the classrooms. I mean, it's completely forgotten. That's an excellent but disappointing reminder there, Dave, is what it is. Thank you for making it. You know, it's you're right. I think that school boards can get drawn to the national politics more than like city councils can. But I look at, listen, I think a lot of these suburban communities are being overdeveloped with apartments. Olathe, Overland Park, Lee's Summit, that's what I believe. That's my opinion on what's happening. And to me, whether you agree or disagree with my statement is not related to whether or not you agree or disagree with me based on what I believe when it comes to national politics. Like I've not seen a consistency there. There's a lot of so-called Republicans in charge in a lot of these city councils who are all about, given the developer, whatever they want. Same thing at the state level. I mean, look at the beef I've had with a lot of the leadership in Kansas on this boondoggle of a chief steel. Republicans, a lot of them seem to love it in Topeka. Now, they love it because they'll be in the suite. And when, you know, the chicken comes home the roost, so to speak, they'll be long gone and they'll have gotten what they wanted out of it. And the rest of us will be left to foot the bill. So that's part of it too. My point is a lot of these things are not based on, you know, being a Republican or a Democrat. Now, speaking of that, not being a Republican or Democrat, how about Harvey Levin and the team at TMZ? They are going after members of Congress. And they're doing some of their best journalism in the process because these members of Congress are obviously on their little spring break. Some of them are in Hawaii. Lindsey Graham is for some reason in Disney World. I mean, just some weird stuff. Have you seen that? I haven't, but I keep reading things that Disneyland are closed like they shut down the monorail. So I guess he's walking if he's out there. Well, yeah, maybe that's why. Maybe it's closed because Lindsey showed up maybe. Oh my gosh. Okay. So Lindsey Graham's at Disney World and Harvey Levin spoke yesterday about why they're outing these members of Congress right now at a time when things are such a mess. And here's what he had to say. But we've got everybody. I mean, we got Republicans and Democrats, Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz. We got Marsha Blackburn at the airport kind of hiding herself from the camera. And we got other congressmen and senators as well. And we are soliciting more. Now is the time that some of them probably had scheduled vacations. So maybe they're on a cruise somewhere or in Hawaii or some other great place. We want those with those pictures. And the point of this is to show how fat up the American people are because we are. And this, it's so insulting that they are, you know, the Republicans blame the Democrats. Lindsey Graham was quick to say it's the Democrats fault. No, it's both your faults because two sides have to come together to compromise. They are unable to do it. And yeah, one can blame the other. But the bottom line is you've got to figure out how to do it in order to run government and they haven't done it. And not only have they not done it, they just threw up their hands and said, we're leaving. I mean, we have a vacation schedule spring break. And that's what they did. And notice that we're not saying Democrats so and so or Republicans so and so because we don't think it matters. It's all of Congress. This might be the most important thing that Harvey Levin's done since he found out Michael Jackson was dead and was the first guy to do that. And I like how he's not doing this based on R versus D. He's just saying they're all letting us down. They're all failing miserably. And yeah, I mean, I have a belief that this is obviously more of a Democrat shutdown based on how this process has gone the last couple of months. There's no doubt about it. But Republicans don't look good when they're sitting there on their spring breaks, going on their vacations, and Lindsey Graham's hanging out in Disney World. Like that. There is very little self-awareness here by any of these people. And they just say, well, I'm going on my vacation because it's the Democrats fault. Like I don't think that's endearing to even base Republican voters. I don't think that's like, oh, well, you know, all right, fine, go have a good time. Tell Hawaii. I said, hello. I you can't have that while you're in this partial shutdown and you've got government employees not getting paid. And yeah, things are getting better now at the airport this week. But still, you guys, they all just look pathetic. And nobody wants to hear the belly aching. Nobody wants to hear the moaning and the finger pointing. It's just people are over it, man. They are over it. And TMZ is doing some very solid work on this front over the last few days or so. So President Trump is doing something that a sitting president has never done before. And that is hearing oral arguments at the Supreme Court right now on the birthright citizenship case. So what happened is, what was it? His first or second day in office, the president signed an executive order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. And this has obviously been working its way through the courts. And right now you have the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments on the birthright citizenship issue. He is the first president to attend oral arguments at the nation's highest court. And you have a big crowd of people outside of the Supreme Court right now, obviously, on both sides of the issue. And what's interesting is like, this seems so obvious to us, right, here in the United States, or at least to many of us, it seems fairly obvious, that our birthright citizenship law is interestingly lighter and softer than most parts of Europe and Africa. I mean, you go around, there's no birthright citizenship in China, in Russia, in, you know, most of the Middle East, Iran doesn't have birthright citizenship. You know who else doesn't? Ukraine, most of Eastern Europe doesn't have it. Hungary, Slovakia, Italy does not have birthright citizenship. They don't have it. Sweden doesn't have it. Norway doesn't have it. They do not have birthright citizenship in any of those countries, John. So a nation that's just going to be 250 years old probably needed to have people who were British at the time become naturalized citizens. And it's just now that we're saying, you know what, maybe we should go ahead and revisit that now on our 250th anniversary while these other nations are what, thousands of years older? Correct, hundreds at least, right? So what this, the issue here, though, is the 14th Amendment. Because that obviously was intended to ensure that Black people and former slaves had citizenship and that their children had citizenship. So that's the sticky part of this for the United States. But it has nothing to do with where the country is today. But it's one of the reasons that we've kind of been in this weird place as a country with birthright citizenship, and it goes back 160 years at this point. But it's not relevant to today's world and today's country. But even in Western Europe, you look at the map in Western Europe, Spain, France, Germany, they do not have unconditional birthright citizenship. They have citizenship with conditions in most of those countries, same thing with the UK and Ireland. But it's unconditional at birth in the United States and Mexico and Canada. And then a lot of South America also has unconditional at birth laws when it comes to birthright citizenship. But it's just fascinating because like most of Africa doesn't have this. But then you go to North America and South America, and it's more common and more prevalent. So the Supreme Court's hearing this right now. The president is there. Do you think he's there just to give like Neil Gorsuch a nasty look? You think that's what's going on? It does feel a little mob boss-ish with Trump sitting there, just staring at these guys and gals on the Supreme Court as they hear his birthright citizenship executive order. I just, I would love, I hope there were adult diapers there at the Supreme Court today because something tells me Trump's going to give them a look. Okay. Remember who appointed you to that Supreme Court? That's what's going to happen. If I'm a betting man right now, I know you can't bet on this stuff. But if I were a betting man right now, I do not believe they're going to hold up the executive order. If you just ask me what they're going to do, they're, this Supreme Court is not going to hold it up. Already, John Roberts is kind of waffling on this thing from what I'm seeing and hearing from some of the transcripts I've seen so far this morning. And you can't get it done without John Roberts. Seems like a no brainer. You're going to have to change the amendment. You're going to need some amendment to the Constitution. Yeah, I agree. That's what's going to have to happen here because it's even debatable as to whether or not Congress could pass a law ending birthright citizenship because of how it ties into the 14th Amendment. That is, that is all, you know, I'll leave that to the constitutional attorneys, but that's the 30,000 foot view of where we're at right now. Hey there, I'm Paula Pan. 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