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Quin Hillyer - Mobile Mornings - Tuesday 9-17-24
News. Sports. Weather from Dr. Bill Williams. Traffic info from Kane. And one of the Gulf Coast's most familiar voices. It's mobile mornings with Dan Brennan and Dalton R. Wig. Good morning for Dan Dalton FM Talk 10065, six minutes after eight o'clock on mobile mornings with Quinn Hillier from Quinn Hillier dot com and the Washington Examiner. There's a number of things we can get to this morning, Quinn, including the fact that it is Constitution Day. Today is Constitution Day, Milton. 237 years. Is that right, Quinn? That is right. Happy Constitution Day, everybody. You know, people should be as happy with Constitution Day as they are with the Fourth of July. In fact, I would rather just get rid of Labor Day and make Constitution Day the holiday. Wow. Okay. So I endorse that. I like that. What is this actually? What is it? This was the day that the Constitution final draft or what? This is when the Constitutional Convention, which was just a miraculous, you know, it was a miraculous meeting that that overcame unbelievable obstacles when the Constitutional Convention decided that, yes, this was the document they wanted to put before the States and 39 of the delegates, all but three of them signed it and said we are going to send it to the people to ratify this new government. Wow. And, you know, over those 237 years, Constitution, unfortunately, has grown of less and less importance to a pretty wide swath of American citizens. I mean, they come up with stats every year on one of these more recent ones. I can't remember the number, but I know Dan and I looked at each other when it ran on the news yesterday and they said, like 10% of college graduates can't name all three branches of the federal government or it might have been something even more damning than that. They said and it was a portion of the people that took the survey that thought that Judge Judy was on the Supreme Court. That's right. Yeah. Judge Judy on the Supreme Court. I mean, colleges, these people go into debt. Well, these people years truly and can't even tell you the first thing about the founding of America or our Constitution or anything. It's a real problem. It's a very big problem, and I will go so far as to say this. Look, nobody expects, you know, most Americans to be able to give you chapter and verse and granular detail of the Constitution. But if you don't, if you can't at least get the basics about it, if you don't understand the basics and can't talk about them, your bad sets. And that just, I just probably made myself unpopular with a lot of listeners, that you are not a good citizen if you don't take the time, and it doesn't take long to learn at least the basics about how this Constitution... Yeah, there's nothing wrong. There's nothing wrong with calling people bad citizens good. They don't know. That's all right. In your professional opinion, Quinn, who was the last president who's been the most, I guess, constitutionalist of the presidents over the last few decades? I don't know if you have to go further back than that. And is it possible for a candidate to run on basically abiding by the Constitution as closely as it was written and actually have a successful campaign? Is that even possible these days, or they have to promise the moon and the stars to everyone? Oh, it's definitely possible. And look, I think for the most part, W, abided by the Constitution. He was nowhere near my favorite president, but he abided by the Constitution, I think. And clearly Reagan did. Everybody is going to have some issues at the margin that are controversial or that did this or did this not strictly comport with the Constitution. But for the most part, American presidents, well, not recently, but over the years have more done so than not have more fallen at than not. Now you go back to Woodrow Wilson and he trampled all over it, but that's a hundred years ago. Yeah. So I've read an article from you, Quinn, about the about issues. We talk about this a lot, Dalton, too. Gotta give ourselves a little props, but more to you than really even me or the listeners, there's so many things that are being ignored in these debates or minimized in these debates as being major issues. Yeah, right. And you know, there's the obvious ones, like I still can't believe fentanyl wasn't mentioned once during the debate on last Tuesday, although there was a lot of talk about immigration, which is kind of tied into that. But there's other issues that maybe aren't so sexy that the candidates don't want to bring up for obvious reasons. But Quinn, you wrote about some issues that are being ignored by both campaigns. Well, the first one, and this was a repeat of a couple of weeks before, is deficits and the federal debt, which, and I outlined a two-step process that, you know, that can at least manage the debt if not get rid of it. And neither candidate, not only is neither candidate talking about the debt, both of them are advocating things that would make our debt crisis into a catastrophe. And it's totally unacceptable, really. I mean, they are playing with fire because we are right at the verge, statistically, and otherwise, of having a massive financial panic and crisis catastrophe, not just crisis. But they're also not talking about how to reorganize government. But the reason people hate government is it's too big and too invasive and too, you know, bossy tries to tell us how to run our lives, but then it's completely unresponsive. So when you've got something that's like a heavy boot on you, but it's also completely unresponsive to what you're doing as it's boot is on you, you've got a problem. And they need to take this seriously. There should be a commission to look at the Administrative Procedures Act, the Civil Service Laws, and completely reorganize how government works. That's number two. Number three, common defense. We're in trouble. China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, terrorists, and our defense is nowhere near strong enough to handle all that if a crisis breaks out. But we also waste a ton of money because we've got a terrible procurement system and we need to fix that. So, you know, those are the three big ones. And then there's an umbrella of a lot of other things that I could get into too, but those are the three big ones. Yeah. And as far as the debt, and you said playing with fire, you know, with our debt issues, it's kind of like playing with fire when you're already in hell, right? I mean, we're already in such dire straits as far as the national debt is concerned, but neither of these candidates are fiscal conservatives in the slightest. And Trump, you know, for his part, and I know there's a lot of people who take issue with his insistence that Elon Musk kind of lead this program to cut bureaucratic waste. But let's just say you take the spark plug Musk out of the picture. Trump's proposal to kind of put together this commission to look at waste in government. What were your thoughts on that? Well, it's actually not a bad idea. I gather it's sort of like the Grace Commission that Reagan appointed and that had some success. It's nowhere near big enough to reorganize government the way I'm talking about doing it. But, you know, it would certainly help at the margins to find, you know, the typical waste fraud and abuse that everybody's always talking about, but the numbers aren't huge. But, you know, good for him if he wants to do that. It won't do any good though if he won't touch entitlement reform. If he won't do any better than he did the first term on domestic discretionary spending where Trump was absolutely so god awful, it was almost criminal. And, of course, Biden has been even worse. So there's a lot of things that need to be done. And if you go back and read my last couple of pieces, I outlined some steps to start to handle it. Remember, you know, if in one bite at a time and that's that sort of approach that I take is here, here's each bite. And, of course, you know, anytime if you're on the campaign trail and you start talking about cutting entitlements, you're just chopping off. I didn't say cut. I said reform. Reforming entitlements. Well, you know, you're cutting off portions of your voting blocks that you're hoping will turn out to vote for you. What were some of the steps you said you'd take to reform? What entitlements would you try to reform first? Well, I mean, the two big entitlements are Social Security and Medicare. And they have to be reformed because they are they are going insolvent. Medicare actually will be insolvent in about five years and and Social Security will be insolvent in nine years. You know what that means? Take Social Security and actually it's in yet nine years. The 2033, if nothing is done, all of a sudden everybody's benefits by law will be cut by 21% because Social Security will have spent down its trust fund and will only be taking in 79% of what it needs to to fully fund everybody's, you know, what what they're supposed to get. So unless you want to hit 2033 and suddenly have a more than one fifth cut in your Social Security take, you got to get serious about it now. And neither candidate is doing it and and they just go, Oh, well, I guess we'll worry about that when it comes. Well, you know what, when it comes and you got a whole bunch of people getting 79% of what they expect, you're going to have a lot of angry people. Yeah, that would be a political problem. And I can't imagine living like you've done Quinn living in Washington, D.C. where the debt is kind of like in your face. It's like all the people walking around you. They're part of the debt. They're part of the problem. All these all, you know, draining the swamp or whatever. But all these government workers, I don't know where the cuts begin. If you were to start to make a cut with department, do you just eliminate entire departments? Or would that be too much? Well, I outlined this. And first of all, let me say, when I was in Washington in the 90s, obviously, I'm not there now. I'm down here. When I was there in the 90s, I worked on the Appropriations Committee. We were the committee that actually cut not just increases projected increases in spending. We actually cut domestic discretionary spending. We paved the way for four straight balance budgets. The last, that was the first time that we've been done in 30 years or 25 years. And it's the last time it's been done since then. So I know what I'm talking about here. I was on the committee to did it. We balanced the budget. To answer the question, the debt is now so bad and the annual deficit is so bad. You cannot just handle it all at once. The first thing you got to do is stop it from getting worse. And then you stop it from getting worse. And I outlined a number of steps to do that. Then you start chipping away at the size of it compared to GDP. And you do it with a whole bunch of tiny little things. At first, not one great big thing. And again, if you Google Quinn, who you're Washington examiner, Deb, you'll probably find my ideas. And you know, Quinn, you talked about, I guess kind of how you mentioned the boot on the neck of American citizens, the federal boot. And you know, our constitution, speaking of Constitution Day, it's, it has certain checks and balances that certainly kind of slow the actions and many good ways of the federal government. And we're not like, you know, we don't have communist dictator Jin Ping who can just snap his fingers and they start working on one thing. But then when you add in the bureaucracy, and then the courts, it takes so long to do anything through the federal government. And maybe some of the cutting out of that bureaucracy would help move things along. But that ties into so many things you're mentioning here, especially national security. And you have so many different portions of the country who get jobs from certain programs and bring tons of money into their areas when maybe, you know, certain military equipment isn't as useful anymore. But Congress just keeps voting to send that money back there because it's a losing political battle in that district. Yeah, that's why it's so important to have a commission on reorganization of government. And again, I keep saying the two key things and it's not sexy. Nobody talks about it. It's complicated. But the civil service laws, some of which go back to 1873, literally 1873. And the Administrative Procedures Act, there's a guy named Philip K. Howard, you've heard of his books, Tri-Common Sense, The Death of Common Sense, et cetera, et cetera. If you take some of his ideas about how to reorganize government, and again, you've got to do it by completely reforming those two, the sets of civil service laws in the 1946 Administrative Procedures Act, maybe '47, that's how you start handling all of the process of that bad procurement in the military, about overarching government, about over expensive government, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. All right, Quinn, we're going to take a quick break right now and get right back with you on the other side of this break, all right. Quinn Hillier, Quinn Hillier.com, Washington Examiner. You can check them out there and shoot us a text, 2-5-1-3-4-3-0-1-0-6, Mobile Morning's continues right after this. Good morning from Dan Brennan, Dalton Norway, Giff, and talk with us at 1-0-6-5 back with Quinn Hillier in just a moment. Remember, tomorrow, Wednesday, time to get real with Shannon Hesse, qualifying broker at Wise Living Real Estate in Fair Hope. Always a lot of good, timely tips for you. Things in that world change daily, weekly, really, and trends change, and so you just want to make sure you're up on it. You can check out all the podcasts, too, at our podcast page. Time to get real with Shannon Hesse, and you can find out more about Shannon at MyBaldwinAgent.com. Yeah, Federal Reserve might be making some of those changes here in these next couple of days. 826, Quinn Hillier joining us, because it's Tuesday morning, and Quinn joins us on Tuesday mornings. Quinn, one of those things you mentioned that is, yeah, I guess it's being ignored in many ways in this campaign, is culture issues, and how divisive things are on both sides of the fence. We've seen the culmination in that in a couple of different instances with attempts on Trump's life over the last few months. But even now, even right after an assassination attempt, you see people continuing to ramp things up. Nobody can agree on any even minutes after news comes out. What are your thoughts on, is this fixable? Does it need to be fixed, or does it just need to be toned down? Well, it needs to be toned down. What I say about culture is we've got to stop nationalizing it in terms of government. So many of these issues, if the federal government will just stay the heck out of it, that itself will lower the stakes. I'm sorry, but when the federal government under Biden, and before that under Obama, when the federal government suddenly starts changing the interpretations of laws that have stood for 30 years in order to interject some radical new understanding of gender or whatever. But basically, you've had laws that have been there for 30 years, and they, for their social issue reasons, want to change things administratively out of the blue. That nationalizes and politicizes so many different things in ways that get people really riled up. If the federal government wouldn't do that, you get to start to turn them attention, handle things more at a local level, and that's the first step. And of course, there are a lot more steps that need to be done, but just stop nationalizing everything, please. Well, you know, maybe when we get done with you, we'll talk. Well, we've got to talk about a number of things here, including Louisiana had a weird thing happen on our way to work this morning. Not that you need to worry about that, but the first gender neutral sub has been gender neutral sub, like submarine, I guess, or like Jersey Mike's. Well, it's funny you say that because it's happening in New Jersey, but the commissioning in new submarine Saturday, the first vessel in its fleet designed to fully integrate male and female sailors. And that's the kind of thing that, I don't know, that sounds to me like part of what you're talking about, Quinn. Oh, I thought you were, I thought they were going to name that sub submarine Bruce Jenner. The USS Jenner, yeah. But Quinn, thanks for coming on with us this morning. By the way, I know we've been doing this a lot these last couple of weeks, but congratulations, your New Orleans Saints seem to be the highest team in the league. Who that they're going to beat them saying. Thanks, guys. Folks want to read what you're writing? How can they do so? My website newsletter is back working again, so you can get a Quinn Hillyer dot com. It gets updated once a week. It'll start getting updated this week, or you can just Google for most of stuff. Quinn Hillyer and Washington Examiner dot com. Right. Remember to fly your copy of the Constitution today on the front porch. And it is Constitution Day. It's 830 on FM chalk 106, how were just about? Yes, and plenty to get to in this next half hour, more on this attempted assassination of Trump with Ralph Herr Ruth. We've heard of both ways also. Your texts and calls 2513430106 join us. [MUSIC] Ultimately, a great point about this submarine that was built for both men and women seem like a good idea at the time, didn't it, Dalton? Yeah, back, what, 14 years ago? 2010 is when they first, they had a retrofit submarines to allow women to be on the submarines with men. And so they, you know, the accommodations that happen to do with rock washrooms, sleeping arrangements, that kind of thing. Yeah, retrofit it. Sounds like, I mean, how many changes would they have to make? It sounds like a feel good press release more than anything. I mean, well, to make a female friendly. So, but that's only two genders they're accounting for there. That's the problem. Hang on to that. That's very interesting. So the US, here's the change. This was from the outset, this submarine was engineered and built with the in mind that the women would be on there, along with the guys. So it was designed for two genders from the outset. That didn't seem like a problem 14 years ago, but now it's almost obsolete. Yeah, what do you mean, only two? Only two? What? Vice Admiral Robert Galtcher, commander of the submarine forces Atlantic, told North Jersey.com, love to read that website. And here's more. There's more mafia hits for you like a scoreboard. Access to top bunks and overhead valves were also designed with height, reach and strength of women in mind. So that's part of it too. You know, a few of the things there that we they would both have to have operational control over. Okay. Is that right? Yeah, I don't know. So they you don't have to be as strong to. So that's part of it too. But you're right now. They're they're making this feel good press releases. You called it. And actually it is it's obsolete. It's obsolete. It's it's offensive. Yeah, call me when they have the first furry filled submarine. Exactly. It's a bunch of furries on board. So somebody is not going to be happy with this press release some bodies. And so again, 14 years ago, they thought they were doing a great thing by allowing women on the subs and now building this submarine that is designed with both men and women in mind. And as it turns out, they're a little bit late. They're behind the curve on just two genders being represented in the in the making of the sub. Yeah, it's that's hilarious. Go to the text line here in a minute. 2513430106. This attempted Trump shooter. So I guess the biggest news from the last 24 hours is that he camped there on that sixth hole at the Trump golf course. He was there for they believe 11 and a half to 12 hours. That's how they pinged Ruth's Ryan Ruth's cell phone. He was there for about 12 hours. Of course, the Secret Service agent saw according to the reports saw the gun hanging out from the bushes. I'd love to see how that went down. So they said Secret Service started firing shots in his direction as soon as they saw the muzzle hanging out there. I'd like to know exactly how that went down. By the way, imagine the, I mean, do you just start just start opening up if you're the Secret Service member or you like wait a second. Is that is that what I think it is? But anyway, it scared us dude off to where he left everything on on the premises hopped into his SUV and was able to make it pretty far. You got like 40 miles away, right? Yeah. And they get him. I think you've all seen the body cam footage of the arrest being made. And then they said once he had his first court appearance yesterday, he was smiling in in that quarter parents. That was her. Yeah, that was like when that that time we got off the air, he was making a court appearance in the pictures were coming out of him smirking or whatever you want to call it. And he'd been arrested at least eight times previously. One of the charges that everyone keeps looking at and saying what it was back in '02 where he was charged with possessing a weapon of mass destruction. And I have noticed a lot of the news articles don't kind of delve into that and just leave it hanging there. Yeah. So back in 2002, he was, he had this roofing business. He was in North Carolina, I believe he was in, let's see, he was in Greensboro, North Carolina. And he was, he was pulled over, had a standoff with police where he ended up barricading himself inside of his roofing business. They said he had a, let's see, now retired Greensboro cop who arrested Ruth back then Tracy Fulk said the man was on cops radar when she spotted him driving with a revoked license and pulled him over. When I got just about to the driver's door, I saw him reach into the center of the car. Of course, I shine my flashlight and looked and he opened a duffle bag and there was a gun in it. He never picked it up. He just kind of held his hand over the duffle bag. So I backed up and issued commands. He decided to put it in drive and drove. He drove to his offices, barricaded himself from police and was also in possession of a binary explosive fitted with a tenants detonation cord and a blasting cabin. Fulk said she was wary of the man. So she called for backup while taking cover behind her vehicle. Said, uh, thinks they were out there for a couple of hours. I could see him inside pacing back and forth. This is back in 2002, by the way, could see him pacing, pacing back and forth and every once in a while, he would look out the window. Once they got him to surrender, that was it. Now he never spent other than maybe a night in Metro or a couple nights before paying bond. He was just given for that a sentence of good, no time, basically probation, delayed sentence. Yes, for barricading himself with a bomb and he ran from police in the first place, right, had possession of a weapon and ran from police. He may have had that might have been a weapon that he had legally, but he did a lot of things to not get any time at all. Let's have a damn good lawyer. And I think from at least the reports that are coming out, pretty clear motive if these reports are to be completely believed. And I know we, as a society have a lot of reason to not believe initial reports. We've been burned by those over the years. And a lot of people, just like the first assassination attempt, um, are wondering if there were other players involved in this assassination attempt. But if you just take the news articles on at face value, to me, the motive seems pretty clear. Um, this guy was looking for a purpose in his life. He may have found that when Russia invaded Ukraine, found it temporarily. And, uh, you know, he was saying that when he was in Ukraine, and again, after Ukraine, basically according to reports, kind of said enough, dude, retired of your crap, like moving along, he kind of moved on to Taiwan. Mm hmm. Was what I was reading yesterday and focus on them. But his thing was, he was saying he had 6,000 X members of the Taliban, uh, who he could bring over to fight on behalf of the Ukraine. And he had like a list of these, uh, Taliban soldiers names. People are like, well, where did he get that? Was it accurate? Were these real people that he actually was able to move, uh, to fight in Ukraine if they were called on him to do so? But he, he seemed to take particular interest in Ukraine. And then he wrote this book, you know, anyone could self publish a book these days. And, uh, the book was called the unwinnable war in Ukraine. And in that book, I mean, he calls for the assassination of not just Putin, but the assassination of Trump and, uh, basically gives his blessing to anyone who's reading the book to assassinate Trump. Uh, when they, um, raided his house Sunday night, he had a, uh, Biden hair sticker on the back of his truck, I guess. And, uh, now neighbors are speaking out and saying he was weird, his family was weird. I think one said he kept a horse in his house, a live horse. I don't know if that's been corroborated or not. Well, like you say, uh, dead horse would be actually weird. Yeah. But, uh, he had a horse and then I saw the sun come out to talk about, you know, that's my, call him a martyr. Yeah, that's my dad. I love my dad. He's a really good guy. And it's like, well, maybe in your world, he is, but, uh, nobody else is looking at him that way. Yeah. Uh, he was rejected by an entire country at war. Yeah. He was. If you believe the reports, I've read a wall street journal, uh, notification to you earlier suspected Trump, gunman Ryan Ruth acted so erratically in Ukraine that his behavior was flagged to us authorities. Uh, he was actually in a video. Um, I believe it was there in Kiev and, uh, the Azov battalion who, um, remember 10 years ago, there were big reports coming out, Azov battalion, chock full of Nazis and Nazi sympathizers. And these are bad dudes. Well now we're all, uh, America is backing the Azov battalion. They've lost a lot of Ben. They've been fighting Russia throughout this entire thing, but they had like this, I guess you could call it a promotional video or like a hype video where they were showing the support that they were receiving from within Ukraine. And, uh, this Ryan Ruth was there and he was in this video wearing, uh, either an American flag shirt or bandana or he had some kind of American flag, you know, thing wrapped around his shoulders. So he ends up in this video from Ukraine, uh, basically boosting the morale of the Azov battalion. And Azov came out yesterday and said, look, we're totally not associated with this guy in, in any form or fashion. When you have that battalion coming out with a press release saying he's not one of us. Right. I mean, that's says a whole lot. It does. And then for him to assert that he's got that he can snap his fingers and have six thousand members of the Taliban, the Taliban ready to go. He's got, uh, he's got a nice cream cone for a brain. I mean, this maybe, I mean, maybe you had a lot more going on than we thought there than we know, the Taliban. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe, uh, maybe I can, would you like to make a wager? No, no, definitely not. But I'm just saying, uh, there's a lot coming out about him and we'll probably hopefully continue to see reports that delve further into this, but he seemed to have some pretty high aspirations and was making some promises and we don't know whether he was able to follow through on those or not. We didn't apparently know Ukraine didn't want him anywhere near them after he spent some time there that he was a little too erratic. But what I'm saying is the motive, if you believe these reports pretty clear, Trump has talked about ending the war in Ukraine. Uh, Democrats have made Trump, uh, look like as much of a Putin sympathizer as possible. Um, right. And saying that, uh, many think, you know, they'll say that Trump is in on this with Putin. He's just going to give him the, uh, the moon and the stars. And this guy was obviously pro Ukraine to the max. Uh, in that book, he, he was encouraging the U S to strike first. Go ahead and just nuke the hell out of Russia and get it over with. That's what his kind of thought process is in this book. You can see why he would want to eliminate Trump. If he feels that Trump is going to, uh, um, bring an end to the war, uh, to the detriment of the Ukrainian people. How big is the book? Do you do you see? I mean, like it was hundreds of pages. Really? At least 200. I might need to double check that. Okay. I think you're given a guy too much credit. Now, just me. I'm not saying he had the Taliban lined up. I'm just saying it's odd that if he had 6,000 names of Taliban soldiers and he said, Hey, I can get these, you know, how much was he BSing, which I think probably a lot, if not everything, but, uh, gotta look into it. I mean, who just goes over to, and I know there were a bunch of Americans, even Alabamians that left to go fight on behalf of Ukraine. Um, but what a, what a strange story coming from this guy. And then going from Carolina to Hawaii back to Carolina, he finds himself down there at the golf course with Trump there. Uh, and that wasn't announced way ahead of time, but then again, Trump's at the golf course, you know, once every week or so. So, um, like, uh, Jerry Carl said yesterday, uh, in many ways, Trump is a man of habit. And, uh, if you're trying to avoid being shot nation attempts, uh, being habitual can sometimes get you into trouble, uh, to the phone lines. Who do we have here? Oh, this is James. Hey, y'all doing this morning. We are good. What do you want to talk about this morning? Well, uh, you know, basically everything you've been talking about including security, you know, uh, uh, yep, I got that mini Taliban on the problem is my favorite check won't pay for every one of them. I mean, that none of this makes any sense. We have people to go over their ex military that, uh, for whatever reason, maybe they went through the wars, they got out and then they said, well, I ain't got a life. I'm just going to go in and become a soldier of fortune. And they go over and do help fight these, uh, battles. Of course, you also have special ops that are what semi-retired black ops that are semi-retired and also go there supporting a lot of technical stuff, but they're also trained everybody's trained on the ground. Well, that's why that's what that's what doesn't make so much sense to me is that if he's suddenly the soldier, most soldiers of fortune were at one time actual soldiers. Is that fair? No, this is, this is where I'm going with this that, you know, here he is. And then have you ever seen a target downrange 300 yards? Well, they don't know. And I had to wear glasses and do it. I'm going to tell you because I was near sighted at the time. And I can tell you this right now. I just have the hardest time believing the guy I spotted. He might have spotted him after he got up. Maybe the guy got spooked and decided not to shoot, which is kind of unusual. And then he got him started running to any thought and maybe shot some fire rounds off, which alerts everybody around my protection on this level. And I've always said this, we use less of what we really need is dogs. You put four dogs out there where he goes outdoors. Now this is, this is the next. If I made the next attempt, what would I do? If I'm a bad boy, what would be the next way of getting a shot at Donald Trump? And that would be in an elevated position where he goes. At this point, I'd be looking for something in an elevated position. Y'all watch and see what happens if he has another attempt. Well, thank you, James, Jerry, Carl mentioned you should be using drones out there, but they were not. But he was, he was on the sixth hole. By the time they found him, he was five, 600 yards away from Trump. Right. He said secret service member was walking ahead, or maybe he was in a cart ahead. So he was much closer to the shooter than Trump was once he fired off those rounds to let people know he was there. But he's got another outdoor event coming up. Trump does. Yeah. Okay. So we'll see there. I think it may be in, it may be in Georgia. Makes sense. You know, swing state as texture. Any 50 plus year old man that dies his hair blue should have been on some kind of watch list. I mean, if this guy wasn't on a watch list with everything he was spouting off about in Ukraine and his previous, you know, arrests and things of that nature. Not a sea gardener. What would have happened if he didn't have the barrel sticking through the fence? Good question. Maybe the unthinkable. And this last text here. Hey, guys, I'm unable to listen right now. Okay. It's a pick them question. I'll take care of that off the air. Okay. 851 Dan and Dalton FM talk 106 five and mobile mornings. FM talk one oh six five. The Gulf Coast weather authority and Dr Bill Williams. The Gulf Coast going to make mostly sunny skies today with scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. My temperatures will be in the mid eighties tonight. Harvey cloudy with a few showers and thunderstorms close around 70. And then tomorrow mostly sunny with just isolated afternoon showers and thunderstorms and highs in the upper eighties. It's a meteorologist Dr Bill Williams for FM talk one oh six five. 1819 news. A lawsuit has been launched against the Alabama Secretary of State for his efforts to stop non US citizens from registering to vote and voting in elections. 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It was a light silver van, many van and so I started to think about it and I called the MPD and asked them about it and pulled off in park somewhere else and I guess the officer was in my area came by and the van took off. He flashed his lights in a way so his yellow and white lights? Yes. You thought it was too alert you needed to pull over. It was in the grill like an unmarked car. So you pulled over and he pulls up behind you. Yes. Wow. Does the person get out of the vehicle? He opened the door but he didn't get out and so I was just curious and that once I started to think about it I realized maybe I should check with law enforcement to find out if it was like real. Now they told you they would get back with you but they haven't yet right? No I haven't heard back yet I'm hoping to hear back. So that was about seven o'clock this morning so you know again describe that vehicle one more time. It was a silver van. I believe it was a Dodge. It had white and yellow lights in the front grill of it and so. We'll see if they can keep an eye out. Yeah they could be a story we see come up on ALA or we're laying the app for it later on. Oh we've seen it before impersonating a officer of the law. That's kind of scary you think about it. It is. Glad you're safe. Thank you. Check four in studio on the way next on FM talk 106-5.