On today's Firebrand, we have a special guest on the show to talk about the border crisis and why it's time to shut down the government. We also have a story about a Georgia woman who is facing criminal charges for cheating on her husband, and her husband's cheating on his wife. And we have an update on the impeachment of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her possible impeachment. Finally, we wrap up the show with our Hotline Call of the Day, where we discuss the latest in the case of a Florida woman who has been charged with fraud and embezzlement. Firebrand is a production of the Firebrand Podcast Network. If you like what you hear here, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your friends and family! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - Matt Gaetz's heroics in D.C. 7:30 - Alex Jones' take on the uniparty 11:00 12:15 - President Trump's border plan 17:40 - What's next? 19:20 - The border crisis? 21:00 | What do you think of the border wall? 26:30 27:10 - What is the best way to secure the border? 31:30 | What would you like to see the government do? 32:15 | What are your thoughts on the border bill? 33:30 // 34:15 36: What's going to happen next? 39:30 -- What's the best thing? 45:00 -- What do we should do with the border deal? 40:00-- Is there a solution? 47:00 // 45:40 -- What should we do to keep the border situation? 46:00 + 47:10 -- Is the border problem? 50:00 & 47:40 51:00 And so much more? Theme song by Jeffree Starz Theme music by Ian Dorsch Music by Jeff Perla Theme Song by Ian McElroy & Jon Forecast Music by Haley & Jon Mccartell & the Crew Download MP3 by The Good Vellum Subscribe to our new album "Good Morning America" by Haley and the Good Morning America Music: "The Good Morning Nation" by Sully
00:05:34.000I want to remind the public that Donald Trump and House Republicans also have their own ideas for the Board of So let's review the majority's border ideas that they've actually presented.
00:06:00.000Another idea that Donald Trump has promoted is he actually wants to electrify the border fence and maybe even put some spikes on the border.
00:06:08.000That's another Donald Trump and MAGA majority border idea.
00:06:12.000Another idea, which I'm not sure how well it would go, is he wants to actually bomb northern Mexico with missiles.
00:06:21.000And finally, I think one of the ones that I think is the most grotesque is suggestions that instead we should maybe just shoot migrants in the legs as they cross the border.
00:06:32.000So once again, the Donald Trump and MAGA plan is alligator moats bombing northern Mexico, shooting migrants in the legs, and electrifying the fence and putting spikes on them.
00:06:51.000California Congressman Robert Garcia laying out what he perceives as the MAGA plan to secure a border that's wide open.
00:06:58.000electrified fences, alligators, ensuring that we bomb the places where they are producing the fentanyl that's killing over 100,000 Americans, and maybe even a little hot lead for the traffickers themselves that, in fact, harm the migrants and harm our country and destabilize what ought harm the migrants and harm our country and destabilize what ought to be a place of prosperity along the U.S.-Mexico border, but instead is full of bandits and hoodlums and So, I was already supportive of that agenda.
00:07:27.000I I didn't even need Robert Garcia to lay it out for me, but he did in Technicolor.
00:07:31.000And the bottom line is you cannot continue to allow 300,000 people every month to come across illegally.
00:07:36.000We have seen a huge increase in those on the terror watch list that are apprehended and released, and 6 million of the 8 million that we've paroled into the country.
00:07:45.000Well, we don't know who they are and where they are.
00:07:47.000So the impeachment of Mayorkas is coming.
00:07:50.000I'm going to be voting for that impeachment, supporting that impeachment.
00:07:53.000You've seen some of the debate in the House Homeland Security Committee.
00:07:56.000But impeachment is necessary but not sufficient as a posture for House Republicans.
00:08:03.000We have to be demanding that the border be closed in order to continue extending funding for the government agencies that have long been turned against the people during the Biden administration.
00:08:13.000So it's got to be shut down the border.
00:08:44.000I want to get now to our top story of the day.
00:08:47.000Even more cheating, even more trouble going on in Fulton County.
00:08:51.000You'll remember Fulton County is where the DA, the Soros-backed DA, Fannie Willis, brought an action for RICO.
00:08:59.000RICO is the stuff that Rudy Giuliani used to go get the mob in New York, but instead now it's being used against Rudy Giuliani.
00:09:07.000Fannie Willis has a long history of misusing the statute.
00:09:10.000She used it against teachers when that was widely panned as an overcharging of that particular crime and set of facts.
00:09:19.000But Fannie Willis herself Maybe in a little trouble.
00:09:22.000We've covered extensively how she jacked up billing opportunities for her married boyfriend, Nathan Wade.
00:09:31.000And Nathan Wade charged like $650,000 to this matter, whereas the other more qualified outside attorneys were only charging like $100,000 back of the napkin math.
00:09:47.000Normally, you would have a grand jury that would evaluate the matter and that would then make a charging decision or not.
00:09:55.000And it always was odd to me that there were two separate grand juries.
00:09:59.000And then I start to think to myself, well, maybe the reason there were two is so that Nathan Wade could double bill, double charge, and then...
00:10:08.000Thanks to Nathan Wade's estranged wife, we now have all the evidence of the trips he took and how he took the money from Fonny Willis and then spent it on Fonny Willis.
00:10:20.000Well, there's even more to this story and even more to the mismanagement.
00:10:25.000Someone from Fannie Willis' office gets an audio recording, really a whistleblower here, is trying to say that there are grants that are being misused for personal emoluments, for trips, for laptops.
00:10:40.000Take a listen from inside the Fulton County DA's office.
00:10:46.000If you had to give me a sentence, what is the sentence being?
00:10:51.000Once, I told him about his, respectfully in an email, about his lack of leadership and the fact that he wanted to do things with grants that were impossible.
00:11:02.000And I kept telling him, like, we can't do that and questioning stuff.
00:11:06.000He would take me off projects, tell people I wasn't doing what I was supposed to because I questioned him.
00:11:15.000He told everybody in front of Crystal, Deontay, everybody, we're going to get Macbooks, we're going to get swag, we're going to use it for travel.
00:12:57.000And if you listen closely to this interaction between clearly a distraught whistleblower who is talking about having written the very grants that are being abused, Fannie Willis tries to make it personal.
00:13:10.000She tries to get away from The misuse of money, any accountability, any crime that may have occurred by making a misrepresentation about how funds were being used or planned to be used.
00:13:22.000Instead, what you get from Fannie Willis is, well, it just sounds like you and this particular individual didn't get along.
00:13:30.000And that's a tell, because it shows you that the construct for how Fonnie Willis views the work of the office is through the lens of personal relationships.
00:13:39.000You see, this particular grant writer didn't get along with a supervisor, so that's really the problem.
00:13:46.000And then on Nathan Wade, well, you see Fonnie Willis getting along with Mr. Wade real well in the receipts that are produced by Nathan Wade's wife, but since the relationship was strong between Willis and Wade, The financial malpractice and malfeasance was acceptable.
00:14:05.000I am calling on the House Judiciary Committee to immediately hold hearings on the misuse of federal grants by Fannie Willis.
00:14:13.000That whistleblower should be allowed to tell her story to the United States Congress.
00:14:17.000Fonnie Willis should have to answer for any misuse of federal grants for personal lavish experiences.
00:14:24.000And if there are other funds co-mingled with those federal funds that allow Fonnie Willis to go hire her married boyfriend, give him $650,000 and enjoy trips as a consequence, we need answers.
00:14:37.000The House Judiciary Committee would be derelict in not bringing Fonnie Willis before us for a hearing following the release of this explosive whistleblower transcript.
00:15:48.000The basic science behind that is that when people are searching for something that is problematic, it's often helpful to, rather than just blocking it, to help direct them towards something that could be helpful for getting them to get help.
00:16:30.000I don't know the answer to that off the top of my head.
00:16:32.000You know what, Mr. Zuckerberg, it's interesting you say you don't know it off the top of your head because I asked it in June of 2023 in an oversight letter and your company refused to answer.
00:16:44.000Will you commit right now to within five days answering this question for this committee?
00:17:06.000How many times did an Instagram user who got this warning that you're seeing images of child sexual abuse, how many times did that user click on see results anyway?
00:17:18.000Senator, I'm not sure if we stored that, but I'll personally look into this and we'll follow up after.
00:17:25.000Ted Cruz clearly did not have decaf on the morning of this questioning, and Zuckerberg is quite deft and quite charming in these deflections and in his unwillingness to commit to get information that Senator Cruz has been asking for for years.
00:17:39.000Another of our great Senate firebrands also got all over Mr. Zuckerberg.
00:17:48.000With so much of our lives spent on mobile devices and social media, it's important to look into the effects on teen mental health and well-being.
00:17:58.000Mental health is a complex issue, and the existing body of scientific work has not shown a causal link between using social media and young people having worse mental health outcomes.
00:18:09.000Did I hear you say in your opening statement that there's no link between mental health and social media use?
00:18:17.000Senator, what I said is I think it's important to look at the science.
00:18:20.000I know people widely talk about this as if that is something that's already been proven, and I think that the bulk of the scientific evidence does not support that.
00:18:28.000Well, really, let me just remind you of some of the science from your own company.
00:18:33.000Instagram studied the effect Of your platform on teenagers.
00:18:38.000Let me just read you some quotes from the Wall Street Journal's report on this.
00:18:41.000Company researchers found that Instagram is harmful for a sizable percentage of teenagers, most notably teenage girls.
00:20:15.000You've got families from across the nation whose children are either severely harmed or gone, and you don't think it's appropriate to talk about steps that you took?
00:20:26.000The fact that you didn't fire a single person?
00:20:56.000Senator, our job and what we take seriously is making sure that we build industry-leading tools to find harmful content, take it off the services, and to build tools that empower parents.
00:22:06.000Section 230 allows entities that are technology platforms to avoid the liability thresholds that would exist if they were a publisher.
00:22:15.000So there's this big debate going on, is Facebook just an aggregator or indeed are they a publisher?
00:22:21.000and the more you see them engage in censorship and the more the algorithm tries to shape how people think, the more we really get to the point that there is no just blanket tech platform that makes information available that is operated by MENA.
00:22:36.000And so we wanted to repeal Section 230, and we had Republicans and Democrats, certainly not Senator Hawley and Senator Cruz, but Republicans and Democrats who stood in the way of that effort.
00:22:47.000So the very harm that you saw Senator Hawley and Senator Cruz express concern over is allowed to occur with a full liability shield for MENA.
00:23:07.000That's why Section 230 should be repealed.
00:23:11.000I now want to talk about something going on in Iowa.
00:23:14.000Former Mississippi congressional candidate and American hero Michael Cassidy was just charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief, a misdemeanor in Iowa, for beheading that statue of the blasphemy that was placed on display at the state capitol in Iowa.
00:23:31.000He had this satanic symbol, and this veteran goes and beheads the weird idol thing.
00:23:39.000But unfortunately for Michael, who did what was right, another demon has reared its ugly head.
00:23:45.000That demon is the Soros-funded county attorney Kimberly Graham, who has decided to charge Michael with a felony hate crime.
00:23:54.000Any same country would give Michael a medal, but while Michael may have earned himself another jewel in his crown of heaven, here he has earned himself official condemnation and enhanced felony charges.
00:24:09.000Now, county attorney Kimberly Graham is most known for taking over $300,000 from the George Soros Justice and Public Safety Political Action Committee.
00:24:20.000And I've spent some time in Iowa recently.
00:24:22.000$300,000 from a PAC for a county attorney.
00:24:27.000Prosecutor position is a lot of money.
00:24:32.000And if it's not enough to make your skin crawl, she claimed in the past that she was inspired to run for county attorney by Rachel Collins, the famous progressive DA in Boston, who publicly released a list of 15 crimes that her office would refuse to prosecute, like trespassing, shoplifting, larceny, disorderly conduct, receiving stolen property, Driving on a suspended license, breaking and entering with property damage, wanton and malicious destruction of property, threats, and more.
00:25:00.000And we talk a lot about Soros prosecutors and their commitment to the destruction of the rule of law and really the mockery of natural law.
00:25:08.000But one feature of anarcho-tyranny that gets less attention is that of unequal enforcement of the law.
00:25:20.000If Michael Cassidy destroyed a statue of George Washington or Thomas Jefferson or virtually any ancestral American deemed problematic by today's mores, well, he wouldn't have been prosecuted.
00:25:33.000He probably would have received millions of dollars in settlements like the BLM rioters in Seattle.
00:25:38.000But Michael is being prosecuted because he stands out.
00:25:42.000For the values that the regime opposes, that this Soros-funded regime stands against.
00:25:52.000In 2019, Adolfo Martinez was sentenced to 15 years for the hate crime of burning a rainbow flag flying on the side of a church in central Iowa.
00:26:02.000What happened to victimless crimes and restorative justice?
00:26:05.000No, that's just for the left, and it's all a show.
00:26:17.000And the current system of laws throughout this country criminalizes the behavior of those that the regime hates, and it overlooks the behavior of those supported by the regime.
00:26:30.000And then you see people like Michael, like Daniel Penny, pay the consequence For that unequal enforcement of the law.
00:26:38.000So make no mistake, the regime has a state religion complete with its own blasphemy laws.
00:26:43.000And if you offend the rainbow satanic empire, the powers that be will throw you in the lion's den.
00:26:50.000That's what happened to Michael Cassidy.
00:26:52.000It's what will happen to you if we do not take back control of the justice system and kick these Soros prosecutors out of office.
00:27:04.000Speaking of damage here in Congress, we get another report from Quiver Quantitative regarding the trading that goes on with members of Congress.
00:27:12.000So before I go over this specific post, I do not believe that members of Congress should be able to trade individual stocks.
00:27:21.000Even if the action is not nefarious, it undermines our trust in the system, and oftentimes it is nefarious.
00:27:29.000We don't let referees bet on the game, and we shouldn't let congressmen trade on individual stocks.
00:27:34.000I highly recommend Quiver Quantitative as a follow at Q-U-I-V-E-R-Q-U-A-N-T. They've built a system that tracks these congressional trades, and one of them caught our eye.
00:27:47.000Senator Mark Wayne Mullen just disclosed The EPA recently passed a mandate requiring utilities to upgrade to new automated water meters.
00:28:07.000Senator Mullen sits on the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works.
00:28:13.000Tulsa, Oklahoma just announced that they will be spending $94 million to upgrade their meters.
00:28:20.000Senator Mark Wayne Mullen represents the state of Oklahoma.
00:28:24.000We'll keep an eye out to see how much federal money goes to Badger Meter.
00:28:28.000Thank you for that report from Quiver Quantitative.
00:28:33.000In New York City, mobs of migrants are attacking people and hurting them.
00:29:04.000The brawl started when two officers were trying to break up a rowdy crowd near a Migrant shelter around 42nd Street while arresting one of the men.
00:29:12.000The others jumped in, as you're seeing, kicking and punching the officers.
00:29:27.000Remember that that Manhattan DA is Alvin Bragg, who has turned the streets over to the thugs and criminals while he's engaged in some novel stitching of federal election law to local reporting requirements in order to prosecute President Trump because he has failed to protect the people of Manhattan.
00:29:46.000So I guess to the folks in New York, when are you going to get tired of it?
00:29:50.000When are you going to get tired of the fact that When are you going to get tired of the fact that they're throwing your kids out of the schools to house migrants?
00:30:01.000This sanctuary city that you live in appears more like a hellhole to me, not a sanctuary that I would ever want to be a part of.
00:30:07.000And maybe that's the reason that so many New Yorkers are taking their sanctuary in the Sunshine State.
00:30:14.000And we welcome them so long as they remember why they're leaving, what they're coming to, and to preserve the greatness of the quality of life that we're able to lead in Florida that looks nothing like what you just saw with that New York City migrant mob.
00:30:29.000There's a final update I want to give you regarding a matter in Northwest Florida.
00:30:32.000We are very proud of our training mission and our testing mission, particularly at NAS Pensacola and Whiting Field.
00:30:39.000We are able to have the best aviators in the Navy come through and Learn and prepare for their mission ahead and I'm very proud that in our congressional work we were able to secure additional updated newer flight training assets,
00:30:55.000particularly new helicopter systems and new hangar systems to hold those helicopters at Whiting Field and there was recently an accident where two of our Flight students were in air taxi and were hospitalized after an incident where their helicopter during that taxi rolled over onto its side.
00:31:14.000We've gotten reports now that there are no serious injuries.
00:31:17.000Those flight students will be fine, but I will be following up on this matter to ensure that we've got the very best aviators, that we've got the very best equipment, and that we're prepared to project force anywhere in the world if necessary and certainly defend the homeland.