Now, on 105.9 FM and streaming worldwide on the WMAL app, O'Connor & Company. 7.07 now on this Friday edition of O'Connor & Company, 27th day of February. Thanks for tuning in here to our little extravaganza. This is our last show of February as we are entering March like a lion. Coming up at 8.05, Susan Fraccio of The Washington Times on Hillary Clinton's testimony about Jeffrey Epstein yesterday. 835 John Menadakis. He is the CEO of Jimmy's Famous Seafood, who has just absolutely blown up the Internet by telling the Huffington Post, who had put together a article validating people's refusal to celebrate our Olympic team and wave the American flag. Their social media responded to the Huffington Post with three little words. Go F yourself. and suddenly we are all lining up for Jimmy's famous seafood crab cakes and maybe even some fried shrimp maybe some shrimp gumbo oh that sounds good oh let's go it's Larry O'Connor with Patrice on Wuka good morning Patrice good morning and happy Friday we made it we made it yesterday at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center just down the street from her lovely home Hillary Clinton, testified before the House Oversight Committee. This was the result of a negotiation. First, they did not want to testify. They were about to be held in contempt of Congress with many Democrats joining that vote. And then they decided, OK, OK, fine, we'll testify, but only under certain conditions. And the conditions included Congress going to them instead of them coming to Congress. That's fine. Because they're that important. Also importantly, and as I mentioned, Susan Fritchio, who was watching this story, will join us at 8.05 and talk about it. But there was one other condition that I thought very telling, that Hillary go first. Their lawyers made that a make or break here in the negotiation. Fine, fine, fine. We're going to testify, but Hillary has to go first. Now, why do we think that is? Why was that important? If their stories are consistent, if the stories are the same, if they're telling the truth, then it shouldn't matter who goes first, right? Well, either she's going first to set the narrative or going second to do cleanup. And maybe, I guess, setting the narrative was more important than cleanup. Well, I don't know how cleanup works because if Bill goes first and says things, then if Hillary contradicts them, that's perjury. So somebody has perjured themselves. So cleanup, there is no cleanup, right? There should be no cleanup. Maybe political cleanup, but not legal cleanup, which is really the more important thing here. Excuse me. So I could be wrong, but my hunch is that Hillary is setting the agenda here on this thing. Let's face it. Well, yeah. And so she is going to go in. She's going to set the table. She's going to lay down what the testimony is. And then she gets to go back and she spent all night last night with the lawyers saying, Bill, here's what we said. And here's what you have to say. Don't be good. Don't be going in there and tell him the truth. You need to be consistent. You need to say the exact same thing. It's OK for him to perjure himself, just not for her. Well, it's only perjury if you can prove it. so uh here and by the way you really think that they're going to prosecute a former president for perjury if they're not donald trump of course well and the precedent has already been set yes okay yeah so uh this was behind closed doors it was not live but it was caught on video is our understanding and so we might see this video at some point but it was there was a news blackout Except Lauren Boebert, for some reason, texted a picture of Hillary Clinton's testimony while she was just a still photo to Benny Johnson. Benny put it out on X and suddenly the Hillary Clinton team saw it and stopped everything and said, we're not going to continue here because somebody has leaked out a picture. It's just a circus. It was a silly thing to do. But the news story now is really about the photo being sent out to a right wing blogger. I've seen that line used so many times rather than the fact that Hillary Clinton is in there to begin with. To be fair, he's a right-wing streamer and podcaster. I don't think Benny blogs anymore. It's been years since he has blogged. That's what they call him, but yes, I agree with you. They use the word blog to diminish somebody. It's to put them in a little dehumanized corner, I promise. They did the same thing to Andrew Breitbart in the Anthony Weiner story. The man was an entrepreneur, CEO of a burgeoning media empire, which we now know as Breitbart News. But when he had the goods on Anthony Weiner, he was a right-wing blogger. I see this all the time. I'm sorry. The mid-2000s are calling. They want their talking points back. All right. So here's Hillary. Afterwards, she went before the cameras, and she did what Hillary does. Cut 23, please. Hello, everybody. Hello. Good evening. Well, I have just finished testifying. I answered every one of their questions as fully as I could based on what I knew. And what I knew is what I said in my statement this morning. I never met Jeffrey Epstein, never had any connection or communication with him. I knew Ghislaine Maxwell casually as an acquaintance. But whatever they asked me, I did my very best to respond. It's interesting that she knew Ghislaine Maxwell casually because Ghislaine Maxwell was a guest at her daughter's very exclusive wedding with a seat on the aisle. And by the way, that attendance at the wedding came after Jeffrey Epstein had pled guilty to criminal activity with minor girls. And of course, Ghislaine Maxwell was procuring those minor girls, as we now know. Yeah, I think Ghislaine Maxwell didn't just stumble into the wedding, by the way. Every person seated there was vetted. So let's not pretend and play games here. Thank you. She was asked about that, and she said, well, Ghislaine Maxwell was somebody else's plus one. Excuse me. If you're going to the wedding of a former president where the Secret Service is involved, everyone is vetted. Of course. Everyone is vetted. Of course. It's not like, what is she doing here? It's like a wedding crash? No, no, you're not a comedian who stumbles into the wedding. This was not Vince Vaughn showing up and making balloon animals for the kids. All right, cut to 24, a little bit more from Hillary yesterday. The fact it was going to be a closed hearing at their demand, and one of the members violated that rule, which was very upsetting because it suggested that they might violate other of our agreements. So we had to cease the hearing for a period of time until we could get assurances, that no rules would be broken going forward. There you go. And that's referring to the Betty Johnson photo from Lauren Boebert. Cut 25 here. Hillary claims that she was asked questions about UFOs and Pizzagate. We returned to answer questions repetitively, literally over and over again. I don't know how many times I had to say I did not know Jeffrey Epstein. I never went to his island I never went to his home I never went to his offices so it on the record numerous times It then got at the end quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate one of the most vile, bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the Internet. that was serving as the basis of a member's questions to me. There you go. That's Hillary Clinton's characterization of what happened behind closed doors. What do you make of all this? Oh, you know what? I'm going to give you a minute to think about what you make of this. Yes, we're going to check in on our traffic first, and then we'll hear from Patrice and her analysis of what may have gone on there behind closed doors. First, though, it's 7.15. All right. And we're trying to sort of sort out. This is one of these stories that drives me nuts because it's a huge story. Everybody's talking about it. And yet we literally really don't know anything. We don't know anything about what went on behind closed doors. We only know what Hillary Clinton has spun and decided to characterize what happened behind closed doors. So I guess that's the story. But again, it's like, well, what do you think? I don't know what to think about Hillary Clinton's testimony about Jeffrey Epstein. I mean, the fact that it's a closed-door deposition, that is the point, to allow her the freedom to speak, which I don't think anyone really expected her to say anything other than she didn't know him and disavow him. She complained about having to answer the same question time and time again. But I would think the point of asking the same question in different ways, certainly getting it from different angles and viewpoints, is still meant to see if she would veer off and say something incriminating. That didn't happen. She's a bright woman. She's a very smart woman. Whether or not we like her politics, we have to give her that. You know, to the point about the line of questioning, she said, devolved into Pizzagate and and and other, you know, lines of argument that didn't have anything to do with the actual UFO stuff. stuff. I mean, I understand a zealous member of Congress's desire to say, you know what, we've got Hillary Clinton here. When are we ever going to get her again in a hot seat? Let's just see what we can extract. I probably wouldn't have gone with the UFOs, but maybe the Pizzagate. Okay, we'll see if she has anything to say about that. It did become a little bit of a distraction. But really the big takeaway here is that she she kind of owned everything yes she showed up yes she was there to be deposed and they got to ask her questions but the fact that she controlled the narrative on the that she controlled the media spin afterwards she controlled the narrative of what she was going to say and as you well said is setting her husband up for what he's going to say i mean she really ended up controlling everything which is probably why she and her lawyers decided to go ahead and stop pussyfooting around and holding off and stalling as long as possible because at this point they figure, okay, we know what we can do and we know what we can deliver. It's never going to be enough to satiate the rest of us regular Americans who don't buy the argument that she didn't know Jeffrey Epstein, that they didn't have a good cozy relationship. But I guess it placates enough of those on the left who have been wanting to see the Epstein files released and want to see accountability, it'll make them feel good that at least Hillary Clinton skates by unscathed. We'll see. I mean, listen, I don't think anybody ever thought that Hillary Clinton was on the Lolita Express or went to the island or anything like that. Although it's interesting when she said, I was never on the plane, I was never at the island. She didn't say whether or not she was ever at the New Mexico ranch, which I found an interesting omission there in that statement, but it could have just been an oversight. I'm sure she was never at the New Mexico ranch, I'm sure. But one thing that Hillary Clinton does have a connection to with regard to Jeffrey Epstein is the money, the money, money, money, money, money. There was a lot of money that flew into the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, which we know, of course, is kind of a political slush fund. And it was used as a guise for people to have access to Hillary Clinton when she was about to become Secretary of State or was Secretary of State. And we knew at that time when all that money was funneling into their so-called global initiative or foundation, Bill Clinton was being very, very chummy with Jeffrey Epstein. In fact, so chummy that there are a whole lot of pictures of the former president while his wife is toiling away as secretary of state, waging war on Libya and overseeing the Muslim street eruptions, the Arab street eruptions, I should say, and resetting our relationship with Russia just long enough for them to cash in on that deal. While she was doing that, Bill Clinton was posing with a lot of very young, nubile women sitting on his lap, giving him back rubs, sitting in hot tubs and swimming pools with them. And she was asked about that yesterday. Cut 26. Secretary, Secretary, have you spoken your opening remarks about how heartbroken you have been for the Epstein survivors as these files have come out? Can you talk to us a little bit about how you have processed and reacted to the fact that the former president, your husband, Bill Clinton, is referenced in the Epstein files numerous times, including in some photos featuring women? And how have you been personally preparing for the deposition that is coming tomorrow? Are you 100 percent confident that there isn't anything that the former president knows about Epstein's crimes? I am, and I think the chronology of the connection that he had with Epstein ended years, several years, before anything about Epstein's criminal activities came to light and that he was charged and sadly given a sweetheart deal, which, as I said in my statement, had that not happened, perhaps his predatory behavior could have been stopped earlier. But I think it is fair to say that the vast majority of people who had contact with him before his criminal pleas in 08 were like most people. They did not know what he was doing. And I think that that is exactly what my husband will testify to tomorrow. OK, did you? That is she is so slick. She is. You know, her husband got the name Slick Willie, but boy, that was slicker than anything. But she was the brains. I mean, he's smart, but. Nowhere in there. What she said was, my husband's interactions with Jeffrey Epstein came before any of his criminal behavior came to light. And I think most people who had interactions with Jeffrey Epstein before his criminal activity came to light would say that they did not know about any of the criminal activity. and I have no doubt that's what my husband will say tomorrow. That's an interesting way of saying what she said. What she didn't say was, my husband did not know. That's what she did. What she said was, people will say that they didn't know. But that doesn't mean she never equivocally, unequivocally, or in any way said, my husband had no idea that Jeffrey Epstein was engaged in criminal behavior. Also, one thing she never said was what her husband did with those young women. Because if Jeffrey Epstein was guilty, if those girls, if those young women, and by the way, I want to be clear here. You don't have to be underage to be a victim of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. There were women who were over 18 who were trafficked, who were roped into prostitution and were exploited and they were bullied into prostitution. And for all of those overage women to engage in prostitution you have to have a man to participate in that prostitution And never once was she asked by reporters at least whether she knew if her husband did engage in any prostitution with those women And I wonder if her husband will answer to that today. Well, let's see how well their study session last night went. Probably the probably the last time they've been in the room for so many hours together with, you know, after hours. But, you know, I said it, you know, and you said it. Hillary Clinton is a very smart woman and she's controlling this. She's controlling the narrative. She's controlling how this is going to be presented. She's controlling everything for what she says and probably what her husband is going to say, because Hillary Clinton is not done yet. And she does not want her legacy to be Jeffrey Epstein. She does not want her future political aspirations. Maybe she has some. Maybe she doesn't. Oh, wait a minute. Are you telling me she's running again? I wouldn't count her out. This is a bright woman. I would not underestimate Hillary Clinton whatsoever. Now on 105.9 FM and streaming worldwide on the WMAL app, O'Connor and Company. Good morning. It's the 27th day of February. This Friday in your nation's capital coming up at 805. Susan Freit Show will expand on what we were just discussing, the testimony of Hillary Clinton yesterday about Jeffrey Epstein and, well, the potentially corroborating testimony this morning of Bill Clinton on the same matter. Then at 835, John Minodakis, who has become a national treasure because he's the CEO of Jimmy's Famous Seafood. And they famously told Huffington Boats to go F themselves on social media. This is pretty fabulous. So we'll get into that with Jimmy's Famous Seafood and hopefully sell a few crab cakes. It's Larry O'Connor with Patrice on WUCA. Good morning, everybody. Let's turn our sights to Gotham, shall we? As the Marxist mayor continues to wreak havoc on all things New York and freedom-loving, including, you'll remember, this attack on New York City police officers. I want to remind you, these are the men who, when a terror attack happens, they charge toward the danger. They run toward the fire. They are prepared to take bullets, literally, and give their life on behalf of New Yorkers to keep them safe. And so we were all shocked on Monday when we saw the video of people in Washington Square Park throwing snowballs and chunks of ice at cops in uniform when they were trying to do their job. Here's cut 30. This is what it sounded like. okay now uh earlier this week's around mom donnie was asked about that and he downplayed this you heard what it sounded like there and i just want to be clear the police officers did not then reach down into the snow make a ball of their own and throw it back at people that would be a friendly fun-loving snowball fight, right? The cops were getting pelted continuously. Assaulted? Can you use the word assaulted? Well, let me just say that if you brush up against a Capitol Police officer while entering the Capitol building on January 6th, yes, assault would have been the word and you would have been arrested and you would have been prosecuted and thrown away for 10 years. So yes, I think we can use the word assaulted in this case. Cut 31, the mayor downplaying the entire incident. From the videos that I've seen, it looks like a snowball fight. I think that there were two officers who were facing lacerations on their face. All for prosecution of those who felt it done? Look, I've seen the videos of this snowball fight. I think that it was a snowball fight. Yeah, no, a snowball fight means that both sides are engaged in it. Yeah, are having fun laughing and joking. Those police officers were not smiling. Yeah, nobody walks away with lacerations either. That's not from snow. That's from chunks of ice. So the next day, a reporter pointed that out to the mayor. Cut 32. I've said that what I saw was a snowball fight. It should be treated accordingly. It was one that got out of hand, but that's what it was. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Yeah. So, Mr. Mayor, are you willing to revise your statement regarding the snowball fight, given that this was not exactly a friendly back-and-forth snowball fight The police that were there were not throwing any snowballs. They were getting pelted themselves. And number two, have you considered or would you consider banning these crowdsourcing events because they can and sometimes do get out of hand? I'm not going to be banning snowball fights or organized snowball fights. It's kind of a stupid question, actually, though, to tell you the truth. But the results of this so-called snowball fight was that one person, Gusmane Kalabali, 27 years old, was arrested and charged with assault on a police officer and obstruction of governmental administration and disorderly conduct because, again, it was not a snowball fight. It was an absolute free-for-all open season on police, and there was an image on the video of this person in particular with a giant chunk of, again, ice. Not snow, not fluffy white stuff, a chunk of ice. And by the way, Mondani originally said, yeah, I saw these kids engage in kids. He called them kids. He's 27 years old, this guy. Yeah, that's not a kid, a teenager. He was arrested, and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, you know, the same office that prosecuted Donald Trump on made-up charges, charges that have never been levied before against anybody, let alone a former president. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office declined to pursue any charges and dropped the charges during his arraignment. So the message has been sent, open season on cops. And now there are videos after videos after videos since this statement from the mayor and since the district attorney dropped the charges. Go and look at them. They're all going viral of people taking to the streets of New York and pelting police officers and their cars with snow, with snowballs and with chunks of ice. And the message has been sent. It's open season. Go ahead. You can do that. Nothing will happen to you. So if it's snow and ice during the winter, what is it during the springtime in the summer? Is it dirt? Is it opening fire hoses or fire vitrins, some water bottles, water balloons? When does it become the point where the mayor of New York City needs to stand up and actually stand for the NYPD rather than standing aside while they get targeted? It seems simple, but it's not. I think that's what the takeaway here is. Patrick Hendry, president of the Police Benevolent Association in New York, said that the purported playful snowball fight was in fact an attack on the uniform that the police officers wear every day. And I'll be honest with you, if you're a cop in New York right now, you're looking for sunnier climates and a better gig right now, unless you're absolutely in love with that city and you want to save it from this mayor. Meanwhile, there's a video that's going viral right now of like 16 people wearing safety vests with snow shovels, moving snow around on a corner in New York City. They're getting paid $45 an hour. These, of course, people that showed two forms of ID to ensure that they're U.S. citizens. so $720 an hour as this snow gets moved around in one corner on a street in New York because the city has set up this program here it not about snow removal it a jobs program this is how we going to get people paid Just show up put on this vest bring your own shovel and you get paid $45 an hour. And they're not actually accomplishing anything. But there you go. That's the warm glow of collectivism rearing its head in New York. You know, it's funny because in Boston growing up, you had these similar shovel projects where, You know, it's a very small issue that could be taken care of by one person with maybe a real snow removal tool. But you get a bunch of people, pay them because those are votes. Those are supporters. Those are people you can put in your social media videos come election season to prove that, hey, I'm giving the people what they want, which is work. At 45 bucks an hour, I would probably be out there, too, with a snow shovel. I mean, really? You know what? I got to tell you, though, Mom Donnie, he's thinking too small. It's like everyone, this is 16 people and they all had snow shovels. You could have 160 people, but just give them spoons. Now you're talking a jobs program. Now you're getting, that's massive numbers, my friend. See, it's not about, you know, getting rid of the snow. It's about getting government money in the hands of voters. So just give them spoons. And make it look like they're doing something. Maximize the jobs program, 744. I don't know if I've ever been this excited about a guest coming up at 835, the CEO of Jimmy's Famous Seafood from Baltimore, partly because I'm a big fan of crab cakes and crab dip and crab in general. You're a Marylander, Larry. I mean, of course. I live on the Chesapeake Bay. Let's go. But also because the Jimmy's Famous Seafood social media account is pretty famous. Actually, I've been following them for years now. They're very active. They're very pro-American. They love this country. They love sports. Comment on it quite a bit. And they've got quite a little snarky personality. But that personality really, really came to full circle here after the USA hockey team won the gold medal and the Olympics ended this week. Huffington Post put out an article on February 21st. first. And the post on social media said, if waving the American flag or chanting USA turns you off right now, you're not alone. And the headline of the article is, there's a reason you feel yucky watching the Olympics right now. And the whole thing was basically empowering people to root against America, right? And Jimmy's famous seafood replied to that post with three simple words, go bleep yourself. But they didn't say bleep. Can I tell you that that has gotten now, are these the latest numbers or is this, oh no. It's hundreds of thousands of likes on social media. Tens of thousands of retweets, way more so than the original Huffington Post article ever came out. And by the way, the Baltimore Sun now, has put out an article chiming in three days later about Jimmy's Seafood, saying they shouldn't use crude language like that. And Jimmy's famous Seafood replied to the Baltimore Sun with the exact same sentiment. By the way, where's the Baltimore Sun writing an article about how Rashida Tlaib should not have a pin at the State of the Union that says F ice? Right? Oh, they're nowhere to be found on that. It's okay for Congress people to use that kind of language in the chamber of the House of Representatives, but God forbid a seafood restaurant say it on a social media platform. The double standard is amazing. You know, yeah, there's a double standard, but that takes away from the larger point here, which is really we want to love America. And loving America right now during the Olympics, when the Olympic hockey team and so many of our Olympians absolutely crushed it. We should be able to be happy. We're not feeling icky about it. The only people feeling icky and yucky about that are the Huffington Post ninnies who hate America and whose absolute pessimism, whose nihilism, whose hatred for America through the pages of their newspaper and the screens have led to the decline in support and love for America among Democrats, among independents. You know, they are responsible. That whole media empire, the media ecosphere that has simply just amplified the message that America is horrible, it's racist, it's terrible. That is the reason why so many people have fallen for that narrative. But God bless any business standing up and saying, we love America. We love our Olympians. We love our people so much that we don't care about red and white. We don't care about red and blue. We care about red, white, and blue. And that is really the big takeaway here. Well said. And listen, if you feel that strongly about it, then you should go buy yourself a T-shirt that Jimmy's Famous Seafood is now making available. With all proceeds, by the way, going to Folds of Honor, the great charitable organization that helps families of loved ones in the military, especially those Gold Star families. The shirt has a very simple message on it. It's the same message that Jimmy's Famous Seafood has made famous on social media. It says GFY. Technically, it says go bleep yourself. But the U in that middle word is replaced by the head of a screaming bald eagle. So it's not technically profanity, Patrice. You are fired up about this, and I would like you to wear this shirt. If I get it for you, will you wear it? It's not my brand. I mean, the red, white, and blue is my brand. Absolutely. The eagle is my brand, but that's a step too far. That said, I am happy to go and buy a crab cakes at Jimmy's. Maybe I will take my husband on a date there for his birthday this weekend. Happy birthday in advance, my love, by the way. You know, oh, happy birthday to Mr. Unwuka. Yeah, I'm with you. I probably won't wear the shirt, although I will be excited to see people wearing the shirt. By the way, I've described what the U is replaced with the bald eagle head. The O in yourself is actually replaced by the round Jimmy's famous seafood logo. Oh, I see it. So they are all in on this, and I love it. Listen, they've defined this sort of pro-America. I don't care about your politics, but let's at least agree on this. And if you don't like that we're patriotic, GFY. I think that works for me. And I think that it works for Jimmy's famous seafood, too. I'm joining you. Meredith and I are heading up there. It's not either this weekend or possibly because we have a pretty busy weekend ahead of us. But maybe next weekend we're going to head up there as well. It's a beautiful location, too, in the Inner Harbor. Oh, terrific. And they've got their fabulous seafood. And that's one of the great things about living in Maryland and in the Chesapeake Bay. You get to enjoy the great crab cakes and crab dip and crabs of all kinds. So we'll be heading up there, too. And most importantly, oh, look, they have a non-profane shirt. Hold on. They've got a T-shirt celebrating the hockey team. It's got a bald eagle carrying a hockey stick, and it says Free Bird USA Hockey. So there, you can get that shirt for Jimmy's Famous Seafood. Okay, I love it. And not offend all of the moms in the elementary school when you go visit your kids during a soccer game. John Minadakis, the great, and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. Otherwise, he'll tell me to GFY. John, the CEO of Jimmy's Famous Seafood, the mastermind behind this social media campaign and the patriotism that we are celebrating right now. He'll be joining us on this program at 835. Right now, it's 754.
