the six oh seven as we charge through this Monday morning's news cycle. Thanks for tuning into a connering company coming up at seven oh five, Joe DeGeneva will be our guest 735 brings us Tom Jones retired astronaut talk about the successful Artemis to get Lauren Arakhan and then at 835 Steve Moore talk about what's going to happen with oil prices trade a Hormuz and other aspects of the economy. That's all coming up its Larry O'Connor with Bethany Mandel good morning Bethany Mandel good morning Larry O'Connor appreciate that staccato repetition of my bizarre delivery. All right Eric Swalwell we mentioned this last week I've been talking about it a little bit on the program for weeks that there's a lot of people that are working on it. It's one of those open secrets don't you love the open secrets in DC Bethany. There's a lot of them there are and what the definition of an open secret in Washington is something that everybody knows is true but it would probably damage a Democrat or the mainstream sort of narrative in this town and so it's not reported. That makes it open and well frankly not a secret but it doesn't have a lot of information about it. But I think it's a very important thing to understand is that there's a lot of mainstream media outlets and that was that Eric Swalwell made his way through his congressional staff. Young women left Eric Swalwell's congressional staff in many respects having had romantic entanglements let's call it with the congressman and of course Eric Swalwell running for governor of California right now in a polling numbers in that race. The primary is in June and because it's a jungle primary whoever gets the the two top vote getters in the primary end up making it to the general election regardless of party affiliation because there are so many Democrats in the field and Eric Swalwell was leading the poll after poll after poll consistently showed the two top vote getters as Republicans Steve Hilton and and oh gosh I'm blanking on his name but the the sheriff of Riverside County both Republicans and so the general election would have been two Republicans so something had to be done and within the Democrat party and just understand this was a Democrat operation this was completely executed by Democrats on behalf of Democrats against Chad Chad Bianco is the sheriff of Riverside County there the name just came to me. They're trying to clear the field and Democrats know better than anyone else who Eric Swalwell is and what a joke this guy is and they decided that they don't need Eric Swalwell anymore to understand he was the pit bull he was the tip of the spear they loved him when he they didn't care that he was had an afforn entanglement with a Chinese spy in fact Nancy Pelosi upon learning about that put him on the Intelligence Committee because his job was to take down Trump and they owned him because they had information on him so they used him and now they don't need him anymore so between Friday and last night over 50 women came forward with stories about Eric Swalwell a video of him making out with a woman who was identified as a prostitute was released story after story some of these stories by the way involved not just sexual dalliances but accusations of sexual assault and it all led to last night around 8 p.m. Eric Swalwell announcing quote I am suspending my campaign for governor to my family staff friends and supporters I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I have made in my past I will fight the serious false allegations that have been made but that's my fight not a campaign so Eric Swalwell has now been dispensed and he will not be running for governor what's interesting Bethany is that all of the congressman who came out and withdrew their support for Eric Swalwell and urged him to get out of the race none of them suggested that he should resign from Congress because you know we need the votes that that reminds me of when Biden took himself out of the running for the White House because he was cognitively impaired that's right actually explained why he just maybe it's for the best that we need to step down he can't run for president but he's literally the president right now that that is that is okay but running for president now he's incapable no he is he is too he's he's too much of a sexual predator to be in the governor's mansion in California but he's just enough of a sexual predator to work in Washington which that's fair well it's funny I tweeted out last night how many more Eric Swalwells are there on Capitol Hill and let's face it they're open secret everybody knows but as long as you're useful and you you know serve your purpose then fine and let's just be clear they did not remove Eric Swalwell because they were they they didn't think he was worthy to sit in the governor's mansion that is not why this happened they removed Eric Swalwell because they were afraid he would lose in a general election when all of this came out then see that that's why I want to keep reminding you because because Swalwell continues to say oh Trump hates me that's this is mega this is no no no no it Republicans are not that dumb and Republicans knew about this too but they were going to wait until the general general it was all going to come out after the primary trust me there's no reason to get rid of Eric Swalwell from Republicans perspective right now so that the the Democrats got rid of Eric Swalwell because they were convinced he would lose the election this has nothing to do with whether he's capable of being governor otherwise Gavin Newsom would have suffered the same fate yeah no I my favorite was all of the reporters doing this like bizarro victory lap on Twitter where they said like well we knew all along that's right and one of my favorite now we can be told yes and one of my favorite replies was do you realize what you're admitting here right right yeah I do want to get into that part of it because there's a couple of reporters who who sort of did this bizarre kind of flex here about this saying yes we well I've been reporting about this for quite some no you haven't no you haven't that there's oblique references to a California congressman who is facing accusations but it was all behind closed doors and it does sort of open up the question about Congress and how they go about their business because and this is a very democratic and Republican problem oftentimes it's been noted and it needs to be repeated that there is a slush fund there is a slush fund of tax dollars that go to victims or accusers who claim inappropriate sexual behavior including much of the incidence that are detailed in the Eric Swalwell story and they are paid off they are paid off with your tax dollars and multiple times a small core of righteous congressmen who have moral integrity who recognize that this is frankly evil at worst and corrupt at best have said let's make this transparent if tax dollars are being paid to people it shouldn't be you know silenced and under the shout of secrecy and consistently the majority of congressmen Republican and Democrat vote no on that the same people by the way who will stand up and demand that the Epstein files are released without any kind of context or any kind of serious details backing up the Epstein allegations there's something very very ugly going on in this town Bethany and maybe this will begin that conversation perhaps I I sort of see this as an op though this is this is democratic operatives taking him down a lot of the a lot of the stories that came out in in my mind you know these were things that all that everyone knew and held on to for a very long time and the fact that it all came out at once so coordinated this is an op and and I think it behooves people to recognize an op when it's happening even if they like the op which I do I like it very much yeah let's talk through some of these allegations actually now that they're in the media and let's talk about what the media's responsibility has been on the Eric Swalwell saga and let's also remind everybody who Eric Swalwell was and the outrageous despicable disgusting allegations he's been making about Donald Trump and Republicans in general for over a decade now we'll get into all that in a moment first though at 615 hey there I'm Paula Pan I help people make the smartest money decisions possible show you know what's been great about being a saver for money to make and that money over the past couple of years has made a pretty good yield pre pandemic money was making zero now it's actually making something but that's starting to go down down down I love how we can play the fact that inflation has been really high as a positive but if you're a saver you know what that means to change so overlining Joe so overlining afford anything follow and listen on your favorite platform former staffer described harrowing details on the night she was allegedly sexually assaulted telling CNN of the 2020 24 incident 2024 I was pushing him off of me saying no he didn't stop she claimed the episode forced her to obtain tests for pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases and said she had sent text to her friend about the alleged attack in a separate account published in the San Francisco Chronicle staffer also gave a vivid account it's not clear if it's the same woman she claimed she woke up next to him feeling disoriented with bleeding from certain parts of her body and bruising the woman claimed she began working for his 2019 presidential campaign after graduating from college she was later hired into his Castro Valley district office the Chronicle reported within weeks she claims while we began messaging her explicit photos and requesting nude images which she said she provided in part out of concern about upsetting her boss during a car ride after a donor event in San Francisco she claims while I tried to kiss her and suggested their online exchanges had been leading to that moment and of another instance weeks later she allegedly exposed himself in her car and asked for oral sex which she began to perform in a parking lot before stopping out of fear of being seen another woman who was considering working in politics allegedly began messaging with Swalwell online last year after she commented on one of his Instagram stories she said she was shocked when Swalwell took an interest in her they met for dinner and drinks at a steakhouse which she initially thought was a professional conversation they continued hadn't the evening at a bar when Swalwell allegedly began making more aggressive physical contact with her including kissing her in the middle of the bar as she began to feel fuzzy CNN reported again open secret in other words people have seen this reporters have seen this and have not reported it he was sitting against me and so I was kind I kind of moved away from him and every time that I would move away from him he would get closer to me the woman claimed she ended up in Swalwell's hotel with little memory of what occurred leaving at 540 in the morning and later sending him a long text message reading all you did was harm me I won't bother you again Swalwell allegedly responded sorry this is just a small sampling of the kind of allegations we heard unfold over the weekend Bethany what do you make of the well what appears to be a pattern of behavior of young staffers so I think that he's gross I'm going to preface this by saying he's he's not a good man and by the way I think it's an important detail he's a married man yes he is with young children yep he is not a good person that being said the headlines that I'm seeing involve descriptions of rape and sexual assault and the descriptions that you just read don't sound like rape or sexual assault to me they sound like a woman who doesn't understand that she can set boundaries and that she has agency and that she did not exercise free will a man wanted to use her for his own gratification and she allowed him to do so and I think that there's a lot wrong with you know what we're teaching young women now about about their personal boundaries for example if you don't feel comfortable with a man in your dressing room that doesn't make you a bigot you're allowed to set that personal boundary and unfortunately this woman has come to believe that in order to be a working woman in America in 2026 you have to sleep with your your boss and you have to engage in these relations because he wants you to but I don't I don't see this as as evidence of you know his being an aggressive violent predator I just see this as evidence of the fact that he's a bad person and that that should be that should be disqualifying on its own it is noteworthy that all of the allegations leading up to Saturday night Sunday morning had to do with sexual dalliances and in office affairs with interns and young staffers which again the power dynamic equation here of the congressman and the intern shouldn't be overlooked that is that is an issue and again a pattern of behavior with multiple women it wasn't until those allegations rose to the level of assault where there was some suggestion as I just read that that that either a bill Cosby situation was here or review a lot of these women said we were drinking at a bar I went to the restroom I came back and I don't remember anything else suggesting that he had slipped something into their drink and taken advantage of them against their will these women apparently had contemporaneous text messages with friends saying that that had happened that's what sort of was the downfall the dalliances the affairs the taking advantage of women and young women in your office that seemed to be tolerated until it reached the level of sexual assault and I think that your challenge of what a definition of sexual assault is I think is a worthy conversation to have because the term is being used pretty aggressively here in these headlines and in these articles. Yeah I mean and that's why I feel like it's an op because it obviously wasn't landing saying that he's a predator and he's he's gross so they had they had to raise the and they did they bring it up a notch that's right. Yeah. Yeah. But you know I think it's a worthy conversation in on its own because women need to understand what is and is not sexual assault. And I think during the Me Too era that definition became very blurred and very broad. And that's that's not fair to any woman it's not fair to women who are denied you know agency but it's also not fair to women who have experienced true sexual assault and from what I've read of you know what people are saying they experienced at his hands. I don't I don't think it reaches that threshold. I'm glad he's out but yeah. There's a 2017 article in CNN just about Congress in general. More than 50 people describe sexual harassment on Capitol Hill reads the headline from CNN and within it says this line more than half a dozen interviews independently named one California congressman for pursuing female staffers. Somebody tweeted that out and said now that this is out of the bag I want you to see this is like what what what do you mean out of the bag. Why was it in the bag. Why did CNN not pursue that little line about dozens naming one California Congress and well that was 2017 and Eric Swalwell had a job to do and that job was to destroy Donald Trump. And so that's why it wasn't pursued much by CNN. There's another article here or there's another journalist from the Bay Area. Stephen Tavares who says I've covered Eric Swalwell since he was a member of the Dublin City Council shortly after being elected to Congress in 2013. His behavior towards women was known by all levels of our local government and the Alameda County Democrat Party. So and he's in some way trying to get credit for sort of you know knowing this but he's literally a reporter who covers this area and now he's trying to flex saying yeah we all knew about this. It's almost like there's a double standard there Bethany. Thank God we have this this party though that defends the rights of women. Oh. I'm not sure what. Yeah well. Or the babies that really is all that matters. Funny you should say that because listen to this exchange Eric Swalwell with his buddy Jimmy Kimmel who's got his own skeletons in 2024 talking about the upcoming presidential. The consequences for everyone else like women and their bodies kids in their safety at school you know seniors in their health care like to him it's just it's me me me. Democrats sometimes we stand too much on virtue and like modesty. And we think everything is a Harvard Law School moot court competition. Yeah. But we just need to talk about this like it's a gut check. Yeah. To the regular folks. Eric Swalwell there lamenting the fact that Democrats is too often stand on virtue. That's that's Eric Swalwell with Jimmy Kimmel warning about how it's going to be dangerous for women's bodies for Trump to be elected. I just want women to understand that a man who is so vocally pro choice is a red flag. Just time. Just going to put that out there. Big time. 625. Now on one oh five point nine FM and streaming worldwide on the WMA L app O'Connor and Company. It's 637. Good morning. It's a company here on one oh five point nine WMA. Good morning. Thanks for tuning in here. Sometimes Bethany Baddow will say something right before the out of your light. And you know that I do it on purpose. You knock you knock me off. You knock me off my game a little bit. Yes. It's a it's a sort of thing that I do for myself for my own personal amusement that I wanted to see if I can get you to laugh. We should not keep secrets from the audience. That's not fair. So I will let you know that I was we were testing out some lighting here in the studio and I had three choices of different colors. I asked which one she liked and she said she told me which one she said the first one looked like porn and the second one looked evil. Yes. So that's the purple behind you look like you were in a porn shoot. And the red it looked like you were you were about to announce that you were invading Greenland. It was just for pleasure. It was not for any geopolitical purposes. It was meant to evoke a sunrise. It was meant to look like a morning like a sunrise in the morning. But yes you're right with evil evil porn or you know what are we going for here on this show. Now you know coming up at seven. It's not five a.m. so So did Jennifer will be our guest. Seventy five astronaut Tom Jones at eight oh five Lauren Eriken. Marilyn Delecote will talk about the sanctuary bill right now and then we'll bring on the delegate at eight oh five and then at eight thirty five Steve Moore what's going to happen with oil prices gas prices trade of hormones and all that jazz all that's coming up. So Bethany Mandel that's Bethany Mandel trying to make me laugh. Here is Marilyn Delegate Lauren Eriken talking about what can only be described as a sanctuary bill. It is it is it will create a sanctuary state. Forget about what city you're in forget about what I'm OK. I'm in Frederick County and I've got a sheriff Chuck Jenkins and I'm going to be covered. Nope. Nope. Not not if your governor Westmore and the Democrats in Annapolis have anything to say about it listen to cut seven with the delegate and then we'll discuss. Let's say we caught him. Let's say we caught him before he murdered Rachel before he brutally smashed her in her face and all over her body with rocks in the middle of the day on a hiking trail. Let's say we caught him before that happened. Guess what under this bill. He's going free. She's right. Sorry I thought that there was more to that but there is a second video of her that she put forth on her social media. We can get to that later but this is what they're calling and again the outrageous subterfuge that Democrats engage in. This is called the Community Trust Act. The Community Trust Act is targeted to as they put it rain in immigration enforcement and it will be going to the governor's desk. The reigning in immigration enforcement means that criminals murderers, kidnappers, rapists will be set free and not handed over for deportation throughout the entire state no matter who your sheriff is. No matter who your county counsel is. No matter what. Here we are, you know, across the river from the nation's capital in Washington DC and right across the river in Maryland, right across the border in Bethesda or in Prince George's County, you will have illegal immigrant rapists and murderers who will be arrested not handed over for deportation and they will be completely protected in the state of Maryland. I wish I had better news for you, Maryland, but that's what the Democrats plan is. Yeah. And it will I I want to know where they come up with the names for all of these dystopian creepy. Community Trust Act. Yes. What do they call the disenfranchisement gerrymandering bill in Virginia? I feel like something about fair elections restore fairness to elections. Yeah. It's just basically whatever the the opposite of whatever Democrats call these bills. Yes, yes. But it is it is playing to the worst. I guess impulses of of Democrats that they they want. They want fairness. They want this everyone to be home, but they don't they don't totally understand that when people come here illegally, they're generally comfortable with doing other illegal things that might make you uncomfortable like murder, like rape. And so this is why they're opening schools to 19 year old violent offenders. One of our friends, a friend of the program, Emily Borkholder tweeted, I think yesterday, that she was at at a kid's program in Loudoun County and one of the coaches said that they were having issues with kids being dehydrated because they were afraid to drink water during the day because they didn't want to use the restroom in their public school in Loudoun County. Yeah. That's a kid's understand in a way that Democrats don't. What is rational and and it's not it's not doing this. And I'm glad we're having Lauren on. She is such a gift to the state of Maryland. But it's it's scary out there. I don't want us to be fair effected now that you've turned fair facts into a word. Yeah. And just so you know, this is this is there. This is what Westmore is going to claim. Westmore is going to claim that oh, we're not we're not prohibiting cooperation with ICE. We're just we're just laying out the criteria. First of all, there are other states who actually mandate cooperation with ICE. There are other states where these kind of crimes don't happen because the governor and the state legislatures say if you get an illegal immigrant and they've been arrested for this kind of criminal behavior and there is a detainer for their deportation, you let ICE know that you've got this guy. OK, understands that there's already a detainer out there for their deportation. You arrest him for, you know, exposing themselves at a park. You don't wait for the trial because there's already a pending federal detain detainer order. You go ahead and let him know. All right. Not so in Maryland. Here are the criteria in Maryland. And by the way, this is a mandatory. Let me just understand the person who would be detained in a local or state correctional facility can be notified by ICE. Can be not must be. Can be only under these provisions. Number one, they've been convicted of a felony in the United States. Number two, there were registered sex offender. Number three, they've served between 12 to 18 months in a state prison or committed an offense in another state and served at least five years in prison. And and completed at least five years of incarceration for that sentence. Then and only then can local authorities call ICE and respect that detainer. This is insanity. And yes, at 805 will speak with Maryland delegate Lauren Erickson, who was very fired up about it. It's 644 Full send golf. You guys know how much I really, really love golf. And I think every week would be dope to folks on the golf channel want to get a lot of guests on here. So we'm going to take leave. I'm down to be in it. It's not really work to play golf. Join the party on the golf course. I was like, let's go to the range. So what are we putting on? We said 10 K, right? 10 K. All right. We probably bet more than all the other golf channels. Right. 10 K. Nine holes. Those guys bet for like cookies. So I'm going to thank you. This guy's been trading like a Navy SEAL when it comes to golf. I'm very, very excited. Excited. Yeah. Full send golf. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. Amazing moment on Friday night as Artemis two made a beautiful, perfect splashdown. And the NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, was on site for it. He was on the ship waiting for the capsule to be retrieved all four astronauts in great shape. Hey, take a listen to the administrator cut nine. John P. Murther right now. Yeah, look at the behind us. Got everybody. What do you guys think? We just brought some astronauts back from the moon, huh? Unbelievable. Thank you. Yeah, so grateful to the Navy, the sailors that are here, the NASA teams. I mean, this is a joint effort that's on their way right now. These recovery forces are getting out to our joint effort. Yeah, but it was a Navy forward effort, by the way, the commander and the pilot of the Artemis two were both Navy veterans. Sorry, I just want to make sure everybody be disclosing why you're why you're doing my daughters in the Navy. Yeah, my son and law graduated from the Naval Academy along with her. So everybody knows that I love the Navy. Donating. I just think it's worth repeating. It's not unrelated. Here is Victor Glover, one of the aforementioned Navy pilots upon his return. They checked them all out. They're all in great health. And so they met the crew in Houston at Mission Control. Take a listen. This started on April 3rd. I wanted to thank God in public and I want to thank God again because even bigger than my challenge trying to describe what we went through, the gratitude of seeing what we saw doing what we did and being with who I was with. It's too big to just be in one body. This man, Victor Glover, has been wearing his faith so openly throughout this entire mission, and he is inspirational to say the least incredible Artemis two mission and next stop, well, we'll land on the moon and start setting up that base Bethany. How exciting is that? One of your children, Odds are, will be in outer space someday. I don't think so. They're too scared. We've had long conversations about it. In fact, I have a question for you about this mission. Do you think that it would have happened and do you think he would have been talking so freely about his faith were Donald Trump, not the president of the United States? No, I do not. Do you? No. There you go. We're saying. Coming up at 735, Dr. Tom Jones, the retired astronaut himself will get his reflections on this mission and what's next. It's 653. Hi, I'm Joe Salci. I host of the stacking Benjamin's podcast. You know what? A lot of us get taxes wrong. 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