Best of the Program | Guests: Sheriff Bill Waybourn & AG Dave Yost | 3/21/25

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Speaker 1 Well, the unions are going nuts over President Trump's executive order to cut the DOE funding.

Speaker 1 But why are our children so far behind in reading and math to the point that Harvard is having to add remedial math?

Speaker 1 That system doesn't work. What are they really fighting for? Also, we have Dave Yost on.
He's talking about new technology. He's the Attorney General in Ohio.

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Speaker 2 the best of the Glenbeck program. Well, hello, Stu.

Speaker 1 How are you? I'm wonderful, Glenn Beck. You said it's Friday.
It is Friday. That's good news.

Speaker 2 It is.

Speaker 1 Oof, I don't know how people just do it, you know, because I hear some people work more than 15 hours a week. Not at difficult jobs like ours.

Speaker 2 Right. Right.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay. Thank you for putting it into perspective.

Speaker 2 Let's make sure we're known as the heroes here.

Speaker 1 No, come on. We do work longer than 15 hours a week, sometimes 17.
Anyway, here's the thing that

Speaker 1 I want to talk about. I want to talk about the DOE, the Department of Education,

Speaker 1 and what happened yesterday and

Speaker 1 how good it is. By the way, Karen Bass,

Speaker 1 she announced yesterday that they have a budget deficit that predated the Palisades fire, and it's all in education. Now, this is Los Angeles.
Los Angeles,

Speaker 1 they had just a short

Speaker 1 $1 billion shortfall for the education budget in Los Angeles. $1

Speaker 1 billion.

Speaker 1 And they're not the only city that that is going through this massive shortfall for education in in Colorado now what jump to mind to me are aren't those those sanctuary cities where they're just piling in new

Speaker 1 new citizens that just need to be protected and screwing everybody else so yesterday Donald Trump thank you thank you President Trump signed an executive order to pretty much start to dismantle the Department of Education.

Speaker 1 And everybody is going mad. They're going crazy.
They're just going to leave poor children behind.

Speaker 1 Behind?

Speaker 1 How can they fall farther behind? How could they fall farther behind? They can't read. Well,

Speaker 1 I shouldn't say that. Some graduates of high school and college can read at a third grade level.
So I don't mean to besmirch the educational system in our country.

Speaker 1 How could you possibly leave them further behind? You can't. Since the Department of Education got involved, we have degraded our educational system

Speaker 1 year after year after year. It has gotten worse and worse and worse.
And look,

Speaker 1 do you hear me complain about

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 Department of Defense? Okay, yeah,

Speaker 1 don't answer that. Yes, you do.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right. You don't need to rub it.
Here, let me rephrase that.

Speaker 1 Here's what I say about the Department of Defense. There is waste like crazy in the Department of Defense.
There is also,

Speaker 1 I am sure, dirty things going on with these, you know, in the

Speaker 1 industrial complex, the defense industrial complex. I know there's deals being made.
There's things that are so far over budget that don't even work. We all know that.

Speaker 1 But you have not heard me say,

Speaker 1 we just got to shut this thing down. Now, why? Because I love war? No, because it's, I think, the only thing our federal government does that we're still number one at.

Speaker 1 Okay. I look at the Department of Defense and go,

Speaker 1 well, A, I don't want, I don't want this in private hands, okay, because I don't want private armies. I think that's a really bad idea.

Speaker 1 So that's one reason. Two, when you look at the Department of Defense, we are the best in the world.
Yes, we are spending way too much money, but at least we're the best in the world.

Speaker 1 Look at our Department of Education. We're one of the worst in the world, and yet we're spending like we're the best in the world.

Speaker 1 So show me the evidence that this is doing anything but crippling our children. And, you know, and they say, well, you know, it's all local control.
It is all local control. And I guess you're right.

Speaker 1 I mean, you know, COVID, those were all local decisions pushed by the teachers' unions and the Department of Education. And what did the Department of Education? You make your own decisions.

Speaker 1 Of course, you're not going to get any money if you do that. So that's not letting the states and the local communities decide.
That is saying, oh, you do

Speaker 1 whatever you want, whatever you want. Yeah,

Speaker 1 I love their combination argument here, which is like, oh, well, the local and states are doing all the decision-making here, but Donald Trump is gutting education. Yeah.
Well, wait a minute.

Speaker 1 Well, that's going to shut everything down. How is he gutting education if you guys are the ones doing everything?

Speaker 1 I don't understand. How does he have any power to do that?

Speaker 1 Of course, he does have tons of power to do that because the Department of Education does have massive influence on these decisions, massive structures. Massive influence.
You know,

Speaker 1 I read to you one of the founding documents, Section 103, Stu. Of course, course, you know Section 103.
Section, yeah.

Speaker 1 Of the federal state relationship with the Department of Education, Section 103, as outlined in the Department of Education Organization Act that was passed by Congress.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I know. Why are you

Speaker 1 just, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 You're saying that for other people. I was talking down to people who don't spend a full 12 hours a week

Speaker 1 worrying about this stuff.

Speaker 2 So in that,

Speaker 1 it says the intention of the Congress in the establishment of the Department.

Speaker 1 Now, this is the law that established the Department of Education.

Speaker 1 The intention of the Congress in establishment of the Department of Education is to protect the rights of state and local governments and public and private educational institutions in the areas of educational policies and administration of programs and to strengthen and improve the control of such governments and institutions over their own educational programs and policies.

Speaker 1 That's just the first half.

Speaker 1 Is that what our Department of Education is doing? Because that's the stated intent of Congress.

Speaker 1 If they were doing that, I don't think I'd have a problem with it. I mean, I still wouldn't want the feds involved in it, but if you were saying, no, no, no, no,

Speaker 1 hands off, this is a local decision. Stay away.
They'll make the decision. I wouldn't have a problem with it.
But that's not what they're doing. No.
Okay.

Speaker 1 The second part of it is the establishment of the Department of Education shall not. Do you remember we've been lectured between

Speaker 1 shall not and

Speaker 1 may not. Shall not is legal for never, ever, ever, ever.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 1 The establishment of the Department of Education shall not increase the authority of the federal government over education or diminish the responsibility for education, which is reserved to the states and the local school systems and to other instrumentalities of the states.

Speaker 1 That's not what our Department of Education does. They are so far off their original charter as passed by Congress.

Speaker 1 I am not an attorney.

Speaker 1 I would suggest that we take it to court and just shut the whole damn thing down.

Speaker 2 Take it to the Supreme Court.

Speaker 1 They're not doing any of that. They're not doing that.

Speaker 1 And by the way, every liberal, I mean, ask Elizabeth Warren if you just passed a bill right now and said, you know what, we're going to reform the Department of Education instead.

Speaker 1 We're going to have it do these.

Speaker 1 And you'd give that description.

Speaker 2 None of them would do it. None of them would vote for it.

Speaker 1 But if you said, okay, we're not going to abolish it, we're going to just reform. We're still going to spend all the money.

Speaker 1 They would be all for it because they would see it as an opportunity to dig their claws in even deeper on the local and state level. That's why they're freaking out.
Did you, by the way, see the

Speaker 1 rally

Speaker 1 that was held in

Speaker 1 Tempe, Arizona yesterday with Bernie Sanders and AOC?

Speaker 1 11,000 people show up

Speaker 2 for those two?

Speaker 1 I did hear they were on tour. Is this...

Speaker 1 Yeah, the

Speaker 1 fight oligarchy tour.

Speaker 1 11,000 people took time out of their day to go see Bernie Sanders and AOC. Now, that says something to you.

Speaker 1 That means every communist in Arizona was in one place last night. Okay.
That's what that means.

Speaker 3 Or

Speaker 1 this is all astroturf.

Speaker 1 This is what they always do.

Speaker 1 This is what they always do. They take the money that they raised for their last election.

Speaker 1 I don't know because of Doge, but it would have been every organization that was being paid by the government for NGO stuff, that money would have been funneled into this tour, et cetera, et cetera, because they have no problem with tours, and they have no problem organizing things.

Speaker 1 The union was involved. UAW was involved in this.
Now, there is nothing yet that will show us that this was

Speaker 1 an AstroTurf thing.

Speaker 1 But when was the last time you saw 11,000,

Speaker 1 not in an election year, not even in an off-election year, but in a year where there is no election,

Speaker 1 11,500 people in one town decided to get together and listen to

Speaker 1 the,

Speaker 1 well, the father time and a bartender.

Speaker 1 It's interesting. It's an interesting point.
I can't think of any examples, so I don't have a great piece of evidence to push back on you, but I do feel like

Speaker 1 this is

Speaker 1 the place where the energy is on the left, right? It is the far left is, I think, energized. This is who the left,

Speaker 1 you know, right. That's why I said every communist in the area was in that.

Speaker 1 I think it's bigger than just, you know, we would joke about 11,000 communists. I think this is really who they are.
I mean, remember, they're still, they're winning 47, 48% of the vote.

Speaker 1 And I think a good chunk of that vote

Speaker 1 really adores this approach from AOC. They want socialism.

Speaker 3 Burning, yeah, and

Speaker 1 burning Teslas in the streets and all of that.

Speaker 1 That's the worst news I've heard.

Speaker 2 That's the worst news I've heard. I hope you're right.

Speaker 1 Because, I mean, an astroturf effort is, those things always exist.

Speaker 2 Always exist.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 if this is who they are and you are this upset at the destruction, not even a destruction, the cutting in half the size of the Department of Education

Speaker 1 when there is no evidence that this

Speaker 1 Give me the evidence that it works. Give me any evidence that this works.
It doesn't. They complain about it all the time.
All the time. We have to pour more money into it.
Here's an idea.

Speaker 1 Let's stop with this bad idea and try something new.

Speaker 1 Because you've been saying that my entire

Speaker 1 life.

Speaker 1 Since I was in grade school, you've been saying, you know, the education system just doesn't work. We need to pour more federal money into it.

Speaker 1 And now we pay more for each student than anyone in the world by far. And we've gone from the top five to, what are we, 49th now in the world?

Speaker 1 Did you hear that Harvard,

Speaker 1 Harvard is now offering remedial math?

Speaker 1 Harvard. I swear to you, at this point,

Speaker 1 I could have gone to Harvard and halfway through my first freshman year, they would have said, professor, here, you just take the chalk. Go ahead.

Speaker 1 I don't even get it. I mean, that's how low the standards are to get into Harvard.

Speaker 1 Remedial math.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 It seems to be working.

Speaker 1 And if anybody cares about your kids and your grandkids, and everybody does, everybody does. Everybody was worried about what about the kids? What about the kids? What about the kids? Yes.

Speaker 1 Tell me about the kids. Show me the evidence that this has worked at all.

Speaker 1 Show me the evidence that as the teachers' unions have grown in strength, that it has helped our children. I know it has helped the teachers' unions.

Speaker 1 I don't even know if it has helped the actual teachers, but it hasn't helped our kids. As you grow the size of the federal government, we spend more and more and more money on each pupil.

Speaker 1 Show me where it has gotten better. I mean, other than the beautiful palaces that we're building called schools today.
My God,

Speaker 1 Saddam Hussein would come and go, I'm embarrassed at that building. I couldn't send my kids to that.
That's like a palace.

Speaker 1 And the education system, they're coming out and they're not able to read. They don't know anything about history.

Speaker 1 They are getting remedial math at Harvard.

Speaker 1 Come on.

Speaker 1 You're just living a lie. If you don't want that examined, cut back, and say, we got to try something new,

Speaker 1 congratulations. Welcome to North Korea.
I mean, without the starvation and the actual communism.

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Coming up in a minute, I'm going to talk to you about this

Speaker 2 oligarch

Speaker 2 rally

Speaker 1 that AOC and Bernie Sanders did in Tempe, Arizona.

Speaker 1 It's interesting that they're now talking about oligarchs because

Speaker 1 right after

Speaker 1 Joe Biden took the oath of office, we did a show that you have to watch. And I'll give you more on this in a little while, but I just want to give you the open

Speaker 1 of that particular story.

Speaker 1 I will always level with you.

Speaker 6 I will defend the Constitution.

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Speaker 1 I'll defend America.

Speaker 6 Thinking not of power, but of possibilities.

Speaker 6 Not of personal interest, but the public good. And together,

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Speaker 1 of hope, not fear.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't buy it.

Speaker 1 The Biden administration has already been busy creating a lot of possibilities, but they're all motivated by power.

Speaker 5 And tonight, I'll show you how.

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Speaker 1 No longer will our most powerful leaders in government be beholden to you, the voter, but instead be beholden to a group of elite businesses, corporations, and international interests in a way from which we may never recover.

Speaker 1 Welcome to your new stakeholder government.

Speaker 1 Biden's cabinets, advisors, and closest allies now all sit on this country's board of directors, and they'll make decisions regardless of what you, the American citizen, desires.

Speaker 1 So what was that joke?

Speaker 6 Not a personal interest, but the public good.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Still not buying it. And after this episode, you won't either.
Tonight, the Biden Oligarchs secretly running America. Okay,

Speaker 1 that was an episode in the first month that he was in office, and we had the goods on it. And I'd actually like to,

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Speaker 1 the Democrats say they have.

Speaker 1 They don't have the evidence. This is stakeholder capitalism, which was a country run by oligarchs.
We'll give you more on that coming up.

Speaker 1 I am thrilled to have the Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost on with us. He served as the auditor of Ohio for a long time, like eight years.

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 1 he became Attorney General.

Speaker 1 I think he won with more votes than anybody else in the history of Ohio has. And he is

Speaker 1 defending and fighting for something called Clearview. Now, I like Dave, but I am against Clearview.
And maybe he knows something that I don't know.

Speaker 1 So I want to have a conversation with him about what is happening in Ohio and what's being heard now in the courts. Dave, welcome to the program.

Speaker 4 It's good to hear your voice.

Speaker 1 Thank you, sir. Thank you.
Thanks for it. By the way, thanks for everything that you've done.
You're really making a difference.

Speaker 4 You're very kind. Thank you.

Speaker 1 Talk to me about

Speaker 1 the case now

Speaker 1 of Clearview, which is an AI facial recognition. And it is a great tool for law enforcement, but it frightens me a great deal.
Talk to me about the case.

Speaker 4 Sure. So let's start with the facts of the crime.

Speaker 4 A fellow's walking down the street, minding his own business. And mind you, this guy's got got no criminal background.
I mean, he's just, he's a good guy, pays his taxes, goes to work.

Speaker 4 He's walking down the street on February 14th,

Speaker 4 Valentine's Day, de Love.

Speaker 4 And the bad guy, I'm not going to use his name, comes up behind him, robs him on the street, shoots him twice in the back, and runs off. Now,

Speaker 4 some surveillance cameras

Speaker 4 see him that are just on the street,

Speaker 4 see him going into a particular apartment. Well, fast forward a week, police doing their investigation, trying to figure out what happened.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 4 he goes to a convenience store, and the surveillance camera there over the cash register picks up his face, and he goes back

Speaker 4 the same kind of route to the same apartment. And so they go, hmm.

Speaker 4 Wonder who lives there? And they run the probation website or the parole website from the Department of Corrections. Lo and behold, there's a felon there.

Speaker 4 Then they run

Speaker 4 that guy against the,

Speaker 4 excuse me, they grab a facial freeze frame off of the convenience store footage and run it through Clearview AI. And it's a match.
So they say, aha, they go in and get a search warrant from the judge.

Speaker 4 During the search, they come up with the gun,

Speaker 4 the murder weapon, and so they arrest the guy. They've got a pretty good case at that point.
The guy goes to court and complains and says, hey, that facial recognition stuff is not reliable.

Speaker 4 They say right on there that you can't rely on it and don't use it in court.

Speaker 4 And the judge tosses the results of the search, which means this guy's going to walk if we don't have the murder weapon for evidence.

Speaker 1 And he tosses that because the clear view evidence is what got you the warrant. So anything is fruit of a poison tree, correct?

Speaker 4 Well, that's what the argument is.

Speaker 2 Right, right, right, right.

Speaker 4 But the law says that there's a long-standing, decades-long, good faith exception.

Speaker 4 And you're only supposed to use the fruit of the poisonous tree if

Speaker 4 there's bad faith and there's no other option to do it. There was no bad faith here.
And in fact, there's other useful evidence, provative evidence, including seeing the guy going into that apartment

Speaker 4 that is useful and supporting the probable cause for the search warrant.

Speaker 1 It also reminds me a little bit of the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit, the use of DNA evidence during O.J. Simpson.
Everybody said the same thing. That's unreliable.

Speaker 1 We don't even know what that is. You know, it could be one out of every hundred have the same kind of DNA.
They made all kinds of crazy things.

Speaker 1 And so that was tossed out because people didn't understand how accurate that was.

Speaker 1 So I don't, I don't disagree with you at all. This is a great thing to get the bad guys.

Speaker 1 However, Clearview, what they have done is they have scraped billions of images without anybody's consent

Speaker 1 off of the internet. And I believe it is very, very accurate.
And the argument would be, well, I'm not doing anything bad or wrong, so I don't have to worry about it.

Speaker 1 But I don't, you know, in a time where we're headed towards AI the way we are and what's happening in China, this is exactly the kind of technology that is used for governments to track everybody.

Speaker 1 How do you balance that

Speaker 1 the crazy world that we live in to make sure it doesn't become a tool like China?

Speaker 4 Well, you know, Glenn, I worry about that too.

Speaker 4 And I think that the solution is the regulation of the use of the thing. For example,

Speaker 4 we do not permit here in Ohio

Speaker 4 the use of facial recognition without anymore to support an arrest warrant.

Speaker 4 It can only be used as a lead. Then you have to go out and do the shoe leather to actually prove that the guy you think it is actually is the guy you're looking for.

Speaker 1 Which is what you did, right? You used that, and you didn't arrest him because we had the AI. You arrested him because you had that, got you a warrant.
You got in, you found the gun.

Speaker 4 Right? Yeah, well, it was a search warrant that got crashed. Right, right.

Speaker 1 But what I mean is that what you're saying you want it to be used like is exactly what you did. You didn't go get the guy because he was on Clearview.

Speaker 4 Exactly right. And I think that here's the rubric.
I know you're a fact guy, but you love how do we think about this?

Speaker 4 We have public spaces everywhere. So a cop can stand on the corner and observe all day long.
I mean, they can sit there for an eight-hour shift and just watch. And anything he sees is fair game.

Speaker 4 They're allowed to react right there. And that's not improper surveillance because it's a public place.

Speaker 4 When it does it stop becoming a public place or a proper, when it becomes a private place, if it's your home, if it's in some circumstances, your business, you've got to have probable cause and get a judge to sign off on that.

Speaker 4 I think when we're talking about these technological things, the question is, what is the government allowed to do with it? And what

Speaker 4 and did it occur in public or in private? When we're talking about Facebook, you know, I'm sorry, it's electronic, but that's kind of a public place.

Speaker 4 That's more like the cop standing on the street corner. On the other hand, a cop stand

Speaker 4 outside. We just just had a Supreme Court case about this a couple of years ago, a cop standing on the street but using sensitive ultraviolet thermal imaging to look for marijuana grows,

Speaker 4 they're looking at what's going on inside your private residence. Yeah, they are.

Speaker 4 That's a Fourth Amendment violation. So I think that this principle of public versus private spheres goes a long way.
to helping us think through this.

Speaker 1 So Dave, I want you to know, I mean, I hope this hasn't felt like a hostile interview, but I want you to know that I'm a fan of yours, but I am very, very concerned of this slippery, almost straight down slope to the cage that AI could build for people.

Speaker 1 And we can have all of the best intentions, but it falls into the wrong hands. We have, you know,

Speaker 1 we lose several elections in a row.

Speaker 1 It could be, I mean, it'll be a prison. It'll be a panopticon, like it is in China.
And so that's why I'm concerned about it. So this is in front of the Supreme Court.

Speaker 1 Oral argument, I mean, closing arguments haven't happened yet.

Speaker 1 How do you think this is ⁇ the court's going to look at this, and what do you think is going to happen?

Speaker 4 Well, it's a case of first impression, right? I mean,

Speaker 4 we haven't had a lot of cases challenging the intersection of the Fourth Amendment protecting our privacy in our homes and papers and

Speaker 4 this new technology.

Speaker 4 So, we're arguing for a narrow reading of it,

Speaker 4 but that it should be possible, that it should be

Speaker 4 an available tool.

Speaker 4 To your point earlier, I couldn't agree with you more. It scares me what the government can do about this.

Speaker 4 If you think about back to the Biden administration and social media and what they were doing,

Speaker 4 you multiply that, make that geometrically larger, and that's the potential. We've got to be vigilant.

Speaker 1 What is the difference between this and, like, for instance, in Texas,

Speaker 1 you can't clock me speeding with a camera.

Speaker 1 A cop has to be there to stop me. And even though they can take a picture of me driving the car, et cetera, et cetera, they cannot ticket me for speeding.
It has to be a physical police officer.

Speaker 1 What is the difference between this, do you think?

Speaker 4 Well, and

Speaker 4 that's the same law we have in Ohio. And that's a great example of how the government can restrain technology to prevent it from going too far.

Speaker 4 That's not a constitutional issue. That's a statute that the General Assembly passed and said,

Speaker 4 we're not going to let you do this.

Speaker 4 Yes, you've got the technology. We're not going to let you do it.

Speaker 4 That's just too far.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Dave,

Speaker 1 I mean, I appreciate that at least you and others are thinking deeply about this because we're on the verge of a whole brave new world.

Speaker 1 And I honestly don't know what the right answer is. I mean, the law, you know, law-abiding citizen is in me is like, the guy clearly, you got the gun in his house.
He clearly did it. But the

Speaker 1 person that is concerned about this new technology and things like China,

Speaker 1 I just don't know how to balance it yet. But I appreciate the conversation.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 Thanks for having me on. You bet.

Speaker 1 That's Dave Yost. He's the Ohio Attorney General, and that is happening in Ohio right now.

Speaker 1 If you have any doubt on

Speaker 1 which side in the country is dangerous, both sides could be dangerous, but there is one side of the political debate that has an actual active revolutionary army, and that is the left.

Speaker 1 And we are seeing it. Earlier, I played in the podcast the words of

Speaker 1 Chuck Schumer, who I guess he's trying to prove that he's manly or something, but he is talking about we are targeting Republicans in their own areas, which goes to some, he might just mean like Sarah Palin meant, we're targeting, you know, through political process, but there's too many people on the left that are actually targeting.

Speaker 1 And let me give you this, a website called DogeQuest has published the personal information of Tesla owners nationwide in an apparent bid to shame and also intimidate them because they're saying you're a supporter of Doge and

Speaker 1 because you bought a car, maybe you bought it because

Speaker 2 you believed in global warming.

Speaker 1 I don't think you were probably on the Trump train, but okay.

Speaker 1 The site called DogeQuest reveals all of this information.

Speaker 1 The operators, who also posted the exact locations of Tesla dealerships, said they will remove identifying information about Tesla drivers only if they provide proof that they sold their electric vehicles.

Speaker 1 Now, I don't know about you, but that sounds like the very definition of terrorism.

Speaker 1 People have been doxxed, and there's something else that is happening,

Speaker 1 and that is people sending in SWAT teams. It's called swatting.

Speaker 1 Let me just show you a montage here of some of the people that are being swatted. Look.

Speaker 7 Swatting against conservatives. We told you yesterday about Texas radio host Joe Pags being swatted.

Speaker 8 This morning, a growing number of conservative influencers are getting targeted by swatters.

Speaker 1 They were so urgent in getting the police to break down my door and possibly kill me in my doorway. They told them, I heard this on the scanner traffic, that he's bleeding out upstairs.

Speaker 1 Please hurry and get inside.

Speaker 9 But when I walked up to the door, he was pointing a gun at me, you know?

Speaker 10 We did just get swatted. The officers said they received a phone call that

Speaker 10 somebody murdered somebody in the house and was planning a suicide by cop.

Speaker 7 Conservative podcaster Nick Sorter also posted, both my dad and my sister were swatted tonight, a dozen cops attempting to kick my dad's door in at gunpoint.

Speaker 1 We were seeing phone call here.

Speaker 1 Yes, sir. Just a few hours ago, InfoWars reporter and anchor Owen Schroyer was swatted at his home.

Speaker 7 And then most recently, Juanita Broderick posted, well, I just got swatted. About 10 police and SWAT teams showed up.

Speaker 7 They said the caller said there were two masked men and people inside that had been shot.

Speaker 1 This is terrorism. And those people who are making these calls should go to prison for a very, very, very long time.

Speaker 1 Luckily, I know my sheriff in Fort Worth County.

Speaker 1 I know

Speaker 1 the guy who is protecting me and my neighbors. I know who he is and he knows who I am, which Sheriff

Speaker 1 Wayborne, welcome to the program. That is the first key, is it not?

Speaker 2 That is the first key. Relationships are always very, very helpful in these situations.
So

Speaker 1 as we are sitting here,

Speaker 1 I didn't mean Fort Worth, Tarrant County,

Speaker 1 when we are sitting here and you're seeing things like this happening,

Speaker 1 what does that mean to you and how you have to behave and what you're walking into?

Speaker 2 Right. Is that, you know, when they get these urgent calls, they have got to respond.
They got to be ready to go as far as law enforcement in case it is real.

Speaker 2 Now, I will tell you that, especially in the Greater Fort Worth area and the surrounding suburbs, we're very well aware of it. There's been several of these.

Speaker 2 In this area? In this area. Over the last year, there's probably been 15 or 16 cases.
You're kidding me. No.

Speaker 2 And I will tell you, they all turned out good, you know, as far as law enforcement's in a reaction. Nothing went wrong or somebody got hurt because I think we've got some great law enforcement.

Speaker 2 But when they're rolling toward that, I mean, the intel starts at the moment that the 911 phone is listening and the dispatchers are trained to listen for different clues about what might be going on there, and they're passing it on.

Speaker 2 And then we have other intelligence, which I won't make public,

Speaker 2 but

Speaker 2 we're trying to do that. Now,

Speaker 2 you know, there's some preventative things that we need help from the homeowner.

Speaker 2 Okay, like well, one is let's hide your information because a lot of this is coming over the gaming systems is really big.

Speaker 2 That's like 95% of the gaming systems where you don't know who you're gaming with, but they know who you are.

Speaker 2 So, we've got to protect your identity, we've got to protect your privacy and try to block all things that show who you are.

Speaker 2 And maybe some

Speaker 2 double

Speaker 2 stuff where you have code words or stuff so you know who you're dealing with.

Speaker 1 I tell you,

Speaker 1 the gaming systems are terrifying. My son,

Speaker 1 he was being groomed for this pedophile, and luckily we found out about it.

Speaker 1 And the FBI came into the house and they took the gaming system and they said, it's all happening through the gaming system. That's right.

Speaker 1 Luckily, the gaming system has a record and so it's recording everything.

Speaker 1 Have you found or can we find these people? How come we can't find if does it does it triangulate the phone if you're on a cell phone and you're someplace and you're calling it into 911?

Speaker 1 Can we find these people?

Speaker 2 Sometimes we can find these people. We're finding some of these people are overseas.
They're not even here in the United States.

Speaker 2 But we go after them, if you'll pardon the term, with the gust of a hound dog, using all resources, both federal, state, and local resources, to try to locate them and find out who they are.

Speaker 2 And when we get our hands on them, we're going to prosecute them for the felony that they've committed.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 what are you hearing from Pam Bondi and the federal?

Speaker 2 Well, ironically, I talked to her this morning, but

Speaker 2 we didn't get to discuss this, but she is absolutely on board of prosecuting people federally, if at all possible. That's just the temperament of...
who our attorney general is.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I want to ask you, because I don't know Pam. I mean, I've met Pam, but I don't know her.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I'm a little concerned that,

Speaker 1 you know, like the Epstein thing, I'm hoping, and maybe you can help me on this, I'm hoping that she said, wait, we're not releasing these things right now because we have internal cleanup to do and we're also building cases against these people and we want to release it when we can say and we're prosecuting.

Speaker 1 Do you think that's her approach?

Speaker 2 I think that's absolutely probably her approach. She is a very, very smart woman and a great prosecutor.
And so she's doing the cleanup, as you say.

Speaker 2 And I think that she is watching very carefully what she can and can't do.

Speaker 1 What is the difference between the last administration and this administration? Well, in your position.

Speaker 2 In my position is that the cartel is being shut down. And,

Speaker 2 you know, I visited with the director of DPS last week, and they're averaging a little less than 200 crossings a day on the entire Texas border.

Speaker 2 And, you know, we're last year at this time, you know, we were talking 15,000 a day.

Speaker 2 So that's absolutely the first thing that I would say is that is happening. But also, that the administration is coming alongside of us in some other areas, like

Speaker 2 THC, the THC products that are such a threat to our kids these days, is they're coming alongside of us as Texas is trying to pass laws and we're trying to absolutely curb that issue.

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 1 I look at what's happening in Mexico with these cartels, and

Speaker 1 I would think, putting myself in the shoes of a Mexican, I would think to myself, I can't say anything about these cartels.

Speaker 1 I know people who have run against and said they're going to clean it up, and they're dead, and their family is dead. I want this to happen, but I can't really say anything.

Speaker 1 And my government is in bed with it.

Speaker 1 I think the Mexican people, the average Mexican person, if we go in and say, okay, Mexico, you didn't do anything about it, and we're killing them all,

Speaker 1 I think they will

Speaker 1 turn and say, you know what, let's go concentrate on some other market, not in America, because they're serious about it. And I think the Mexican people would be happy.
I know I would be. Absolutely.

Speaker 2 Thrilled.

Speaker 1 Is that your take?

Speaker 2 That is absolutely my take. And I know just last week, unfortunately, they lost five Mexican National Guardsmen who were ambushed and killed by the cartel just a few days ago.

Speaker 2 So they're fighting back.

Speaker 2 And they're trying to do some things. But as we know, that government, you know,

Speaker 2 I've said this publicly, is I don't trust them.

Speaker 1 I'd like them.

Speaker 2 You know, we need to see what they're trying to do. And hopefully they'll stand up because the cartel has done so much damage to this country.

Speaker 1 Are they capable? Every time somebody stands up, they're dead. They're dead.
So are they capable of standing up

Speaker 1 as

Speaker 1 politicians or even a group of politicians? Because that's a death sentence for them.

Speaker 2 It is a death sentence.

Speaker 2 I agree with you is that I've said over a year ago, says, what would you like to happen when a conservative president comes in?

Speaker 2 And I said, on about day 15 or 20, that the cartel's woken up by the 82nd Airborne. And I think that we go in and clean them out would be best for everybody.

Speaker 1 You think that's coming?

Speaker 2 I don't know because our president is unpredictable. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 But he has labeled them terrorists, so they're on notice. And I think anything is possible.
And if I was a cartel leader, I might say, okay, guys, we're closing shop and we're moving.

Speaker 2 And where are we going?

Speaker 2 That's what.

Speaker 1 I think, you know,

Speaker 1 the pushback on sending somebody in is that, well, they're just going to retaliate in our cities. You retaliate in our cities, and then it gets much worse for you.

Speaker 1 I think if we just take out a few families, the kingpins,

Speaker 1 and it all happens overnight so fast

Speaker 1 everybody wakes up and goes, oh my gosh, I really do think they won't retaliate. They will turn their attention someplace else.
Why risk that? Absolutely. America's serious.
Yeah,

Speaker 2 I agree with you 100% because Cartel isn't in the business to be at war with America. Right.
They're in business to sell things. Right.
And if it's not working out, you go to a different place.

Speaker 2 So I agree with you. I think that if we hit, you know, took out a few of the kingpins, few of the leadership, I think that would do it.

Speaker 1 Are you concerned? We were just talking about swatting. Are you concerned about, have we had any Tesla attacks or anything?

Speaker 2 We haven't had none that I know of in Tarrant County.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, that's the, I mean, used to be the conservative county in Texas, but it certainly isn't anymore. Boy, we are on a razor's edge.

Speaker 1 I'm really, truly worried, especially with Hollywood coming in. I'm very worried that we could lose Texas.

Speaker 1 People in Texas who grew up here in Texas, spent their whole life in Texas, and are not paying attention. They think Texas will always be Texas.

Speaker 1 It's on a knife's edge.

Speaker 2 We need to always be on our game. We need to always be working and spreading our conservative values and educating the public as best we can.

Speaker 1 Sheriff, always good to see you. It's good to see you, Michael.
Best to your family. Thank you.

Speaker 2 Thank you.

Speaker 1 You bet. Sheriff Bill Wayborne.
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