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Because what could go wrong? Where are we going to start? Immigration agency leaders face sharp questioning in Congress following the fatal shootings of two US citizens by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis, with lawmakers from both parties criticizing enforcement tactics and calling for investigations. The hearings highlighted bipartisan concerns about roving patrolers, patrols, officer training, oversight, and the limited use of body cameras, even as broader immigration policy debates remained deeply partisan. Super irritating hearings to listen to. I listened to it, so you don't have to listen to it. But the Republicans were like, you guys are heroes and the guys on the panel who ran these agencies were like, I can't answer any of your questions because everything you want to ask about is an ongoing investigation in the Democrats where you're the Gestapo. I'll admit it, I'm a little biased. I think the Democrats are right. I think they are the Gestapo, I think, as Dan Goldman, Congressman from New York said during the hearings, if they don't like being compared to the Gestapo, they shouldn't act like the Gestapo. But they do. And even here a day later, you have one of the dumbest Congressman out there, Mark Wayne Mullin, saying that he thinks it's fine that people should be stopped in the street and asked for their papers like it was Nazi Germany. He said, after all, everybody's got an ID, right? And you can't get on a train without an ID, right? There is a divide here. And while I think hearings like this need to take place, they need to take place in some kind of way that people are compelled to respond. And I think, again, Congress has the power of the purse. And Congress should withhold money from agencies that don't answer their questions and don't participate in oversight. Not that we do that. We talked a little bit yesterday, by the way, I need to know, which will go public later today. It was on our sub-stack yesterday for the past 24 hours with Simon Rosenberg and Taram-Migal and whether or not democratic strategies to force change at DHS were likely to work. We even had among ourselves a couple of different perspectives. I really encourage you to go and listen to that discussion, whether you go get it right now on the sub-stack or wait till it's on all of our feeds later today, Riley. The FDA has issued a rare refuse to file letter for Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine rejecting the application because the clinical trial, which enrolled 41,000 participants, compared the shot to a product the agency no longer considers the best available standard of care. This decision comes with a broader policy shift under Health Secretary Jr., who has criticized mRNA technology and cut hundreds of millions in research funding. But Dernelieter's expressed surprise at the move noting that the agency had previously signaled support for the study design, which was backed by a $750 million investment from Blackstone. I mean, every day, every day, you know, I stop and go, you know, we've put the worst possible people in charge of the health care system in the United States. It's not just that they're idiots, although they're idiots. It's not just that they're partisan, although they are partisan. It's that they are both of those things and they believe in the most insane theories. They're anti-science. They're not just anti the mRNA science of, you know, 2026. They're anti the vaccine science of the middle of the 18th century. These guys are going to kill people one way or another. And if they don't do it on their own, maybe they'll do it when we start putting thousands and thousands more people into the concentration camps we're building across the country, having them sleep on the floor next to each other within adequate medical care, because we've already seen outbreaks of things like measles and tuberculosis in these concentration camps. But to go back to HHS, you know, RFK Jr. is a lunatic. He's a lunatic. Nobody with any kind of scientific credibility believes a word that comes out of his mouth. And nobody in the Congress should either because he said, oh, I'm not going to let my views towards vaccines influence our behavior because it has because he lied. So the things he's not wrong about, he's lying about. That's where we are in health care. I beg you folks, when you need health care, get a doctor you trust and ask them for their advice and don't go by the guidance of the HHS or the other parts of this government because they're going to kill people. And we've already seen it with spiking rates of diseases that are absolutely controllable and plummeting vaccine levels in this country. It's one of the most pernicious, most dangerous things being done by an administration that seems to have two things on its mind, being pernicious and being dangerous. So beware, beware, get good health care, and as soon as there is a shift in control of the house, bio means impeach these guys, RFK Jr. Dr. Oz, oh my god, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, putting murderers in charge of the police force. That's where we are. Nine people were killed in a shooting at Tumblr Ridge secondary school in British Columbia and added nearby residents and the suspected gunman was found dead from a self-inflicted injury. Several others were seriously hurt and about two dozen people were treated for minor injuries. Authorities lifted a temporary lockdown, closed local schools for the week, and provincial leaders pledged support to the small community. Yeah, I mean, folks, this happened in Canada. This is one of the worst tragedies of its kind to happen in Canada. But, you know, once again, it's the guns. You know, other societies realize that giving lethal weapons to people, allowing them to keep them in their homes, allowing them to keep them and use them however they would like, does not serve a useful social purpose. It is actually dangerous for society. The notion that somehow you need a gun to go hunting is absurd. Nobody needs to go hunting. The notion that somehow you're going to use a gun to defend yourself is absurd. More people are injured by the use of firearms by people who say they're trying to defend themselves, than by the use of firearms or other kinds of weapons by criminals. All the evidence said this is loony. And that's why, you know, in Japan, if you want to own a gun, they'll let you do it, but you have to keep it at the police station and go and explain why you're going to use it. In other countries, you're not allowed to do it, or they're superheavily regulated, or people are superheavily trained in how to use it, and there are grave limits on how they can use it. We have the most wide open system here in the United States. Canada is better than we are at this, but we should take this incident as yet another reminder, as we should take all these incidents as reminders, that 90% of Americans, and I'm not speaking to the situation in Canada, but 90% of Americans want common sense gun controls. 90%. Why can't you get them? Why can't you get something 90% of Americans want? The arithmetic of democracy would suggest that would make sense, right? Except the Congress has been paid off, and this happens in other places as well. Anyway, condolences to the victims, condolences to the people of Canada. We hope they tighten their regulations. 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Rail fairs have been frozen across England until March 2027 on standard class tickets, including off-peak, anytime, and season tickets. For more information, visit nationalrail.co.uk-flash-fares-for-ease. Season season exclusions apply. US Commerce Secretary Howard Letnick recently confirmed during Capitol Hill testimony that he visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island for a family lunch in 2012. Hey kids, let's go over and visit Uncle Jeffrey. He's got great guy brings his kids. He brings his nannies. They go to an island. Wait a minute. It was 2012. You mean it was seven years after Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of being a child molester and trafficker? That's who Letnick is bringing his kids to go visit? My parents never brought me to visit. Child molesters and traffickers thankfully. Sorry, I interrupted you, Riley. Go right in. A revelation that contradicts his previous assertions of severing ties with Epstein in 2005, while Letnick maintains that he had no professional relationship with the financier and has not been accused of any wrongdoing. The 2012 visit occurred a four years after Epstein's conviction for soliciting a minor. The disclosure, stemming from over 3.5 million Department of Justice documents, has sparked a bipartisan calls for Letnick's resignation, though the White House has affirmed that he retains the president's full support. Yeah, well of course he does. Trump said yesterday this is the best cabinet in history and I can only think well it certainly stands out among cabinets in history, RFK Jr. Christianoam, Howard Lutnik, Pam Bondi, Pete Hague says, these are stars. Not a cabinet, they'd be stars of circus because their clowns, except it would be a kind of dark car show clown thing because these are dangerous, awful people. And you know, they're liars and let me, you know, we got caught in a lie. Oh, I would never have anything to do with the guy. He lived next store to him. Next store, that was his next store neighbor. He participated in a business with him. He participated in philanthropic undertakings with him. He went to visit him. And when he was asked about this a year ago, he said, I never participated in any kinds of things like that with this guy. He lied. And you know, should he be held accountable? Yes, will he? No, because this administration values lying. I think the other reports, however, that are coming out from people who've seen the unredacted files. And remember, the 3.5 million released are half of the files. There's another app we haven't seen. But in the 3.5 million that have been released, according to representative Jamie Raskin, a man who does not lie, who tells the truth about these things and has been deeply engaged. Donald Trump's name comes up one million times. You know, as people pointed out as Tara McGowan pointed out on our podcast yesterday, that's more times than Jesus is mentioned in the Bible. That's more times than Harry Potter is mentioned in the 7 Harry Potter books. These should not be called the Epstein files. They should be called the Trump files, or they should be called the Trump Epstein files, or they should be called the Trumpstein files. But I will tell you something. This story is not going away because every single day, somebody dives a little deeper and finds somebody else who is involved in this disgusting enterprise. And as we always say, first things first, let's take care of the victims, give them the accountability that they deserve, give them justice being delivered as they deserve. But at some point, we also need to stop and say, who buried this? Who made this go away? Who obstructed justice? Why did they obstruct justice? And all fingers in that regard, it's not just Donald Trump. Make no mistake. The Biden administration could have done more about this. The Bush administration could have done more about this. The Obama administration could have done more about this. But the important, you know, the heavy lifting of abarrying this occurred under Donald Trump. And there's a reason for that. He is involved up to his very tippy top of his head, you know, the part where they're, I don't know whether it's a two-page, I don't know, it could be a rare fungus that's growing on his head. But whatever it is, he's involved to the top of his head. It's the illusion of hair. The illusion of hair. That's a product. Hi, by Trump's illusion of hair. The latest product to go with Trump's steaks and Trump watches, all those other great Trump products that you can get. Did you ever get your Trump watch, Riley? No, no, I didn't. I wonder, they're still for sale, right? Let me Google this in real time. Yeah, no, they could be. You never know. They sure are. They still are. And I know you love it. I know you love a nice watch. I do. I can't afford them. But, well, these he might be able to afford. I could get Trump's red beauty for $500, which seems like a steal. Yeah, somebody stealing something there. I don't think it's a steal on the part of the consumer. Anyway, I'm sure even if you get your Trump phone, you'll never actually receive your, or not your Trump phone. Sorry, Trump watch. Well, you won't receive a Trump phone either. We know that. You won't receive the watch either. Yeah, no, he's pretty good at destroying things. You know, another story that's in the news this morning is that you know, getting ready to fire almost everybody at the Kennedy Center. So that turned into a big flop. Will that ever get rebuilt on time? I doubt it. And he did release some new pictures of the ballroom, the greatest ballroom ever built in the world. Not that that's something that anybody tracks. But he did. That was another of his high priority actions. He yesterday. All right. Well, you know, we've got to go get into our day. We've got a deep state radio podcast coming on the destruction of man's mind. We've got another need to know podcasts coming up later today. All our other podcasts coming up later in this week. And we're creeping up. Riley, you said me something yesterday, but sometimes this month, next month, the month after we're going to get to about two million downloads a month on all of our products, aren't we? Yeah, our YouTube is growing really fast. So if you're not already watching on there, you can see our smiling faces every morning while we deliver bad news. Yeah, exactly. It'll just make it easier for you. And we've got, you know, some new stuff coming. So standby, there'd be some new podcast coming. All right, everybody. Thanks very much. Thanks, minute. Thanks, Riley. Bye-bye.
