Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Ron Johnson | U.S. Senator from Wisconsin | 04-27-26
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Ron Johnson, great senator from the state of Wisconsin. You
- 0:03Speaker 1: know Ron, I remember I didn't know you, and I
- 0:05Speaker 1: certainly didn't know your state. I went to Milwaukee for
- 0:08Speaker 1: the very first time in my life a couple of
- 0:11Speaker 1: years ago to go to the RNC Republican National Convention.
- 0:15Speaker 1: President Trump was nominated that Thursday night as our official nominee,
- 0:22Speaker 1: and of course, thank god, he went on to win
- 0:23Speaker 1: the presidency. But people I have forgotten he arrived Ron,
- 0:27Speaker 1: in your town, Milwaukee, Sunday. I got there Saturday, four
- 0:32Speaker 1: days before he was nominated, wearing a big white patch
- 0:35Speaker 1: on his ear, because the day before, as I watched
- 0:39Speaker 1: in horror from my hotel in Milwaukee, a would be
- 0:44Speaker 1: assassin didn't kill Trump, killed somebody else tried to kill him.
- 0:48Speaker 1: So he was in your town with you, Ron Johnson,
- 0:52Speaker 1: literally the first time they tried to kill him.
- 0:56Speaker 2: So you may remember the side note to that. I'd
- 0:58Speaker 2: given President Trump the chart on April second, of the
- 1:01Speaker 2: twenty twenty four that same year immigration chart that he
- 1:05Speaker 2: started using immediately in the campaign. It was that chart
- 1:08Speaker 2: he looked at that the credits were saving his life.
- 1:11Speaker 2: So there's a little bit of serendipity there. But you know,
- 1:14Speaker 2: based on of what happened again in another act of violence,
- 1:20Speaker 2: without a doubt, stirred up by the radical left. I mean,
- 1:26Speaker 2: this is not coming from both sides. You know. I
- 1:30Speaker 2: sprang from the Tea Party. We had a lot of
- 1:33Speaker 2: big rallies in two thousand and nine twenty ten, but
- 1:36Speaker 2: the Tea Party rallies were famous for nobody leaving litter behind,
- 1:41Speaker 2: so there was no violence. Fast forward to four years
- 1:45Speaker 2: the Summer of Love, the DLM, the Antifa Peace for protests,
- 1:50Speaker 2: where a couple dozen people lost their lives, two thousand
- 1:54Speaker 2: police officers were injured. You had about two billion dollars
- 1:57Speaker 2: with property damage, and media just overlooks that. But if
- 2:04Speaker 2: I really again, I entered politics in twenty ten because
- 2:07Speaker 2: that Tea Party movement. If I really think back in
- 2:11Speaker 2: just you know, think about how this has all BEng
- 2:15Speaker 2: ginned up. I go back to October thirty to two
- 2:18Speaker 2: thousand and eight, when then presidential Canada Barack Obama stated
- 2:23Speaker 2: we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United
- 2:27Speaker 2: States of America. And that wasn't just frivolous rhetoric. He
- 2:32Speaker 2: was deadly serious about that. And that's pretty much what
- 2:36Speaker 2: he and his disciples, his fellow Travelers community organizes him
- 2:41Speaker 2: doing since two thousand and nine, and they've been laying
- 2:44Speaker 2: the groundwork. They have all these shadow groups.
- 2:46Speaker 3: I mean, who organized all those VLM antifa riots who
- 2:52Speaker 3: paid for training thirty thousand activists to obstruct justice, substruct
- 2:58Speaker 3: ice and then encourage those activists to put themselves into
- 3:01Speaker 3: harms way knowing they could get hurt. And of course
- 3:04Speaker 3: two of them became martyrs to their cause. Because the
- 3:07Speaker 3: Left doesn't express any sympthy whatsoever for the hundreds thousands
- 3:12Speaker 3: of victims of crime created by the illegal imbress they
- 3:16Speaker 3: allowed into this country unvetted, But all they talk about
- 3:21Speaker 3: are the two martyrs that they encouraged put themselves in
- 3:24Speaker 3: the harms. They know the left is sick.
- 3:27Speaker 2: I'm glad I heard earlier Alan Durschwitz has has finally
- 3:29Speaker 2: seen the light. Yeah, and eected. He's rejected the Democrat
- 3:34Speaker 2: that's probably you know, he may not be fully republican,
- 3:37Speaker 2: but he has rejected the Democrats. We need Americans across
- 3:40Speaker 2: the board to reject that vile ideology of the radical left. Yeah.
- 3:45Speaker 1: I've actually made it my business to do that with people.
- 3:48Speaker 1: I think I've also turned Michael Rappaport into republican other
- 3:53Speaker 1: lesser known people in New York. That's been my job
- 3:55Speaker 1: the last couple of years. And I'm glad you said
- 3:57Speaker 1: the left, And I said, with all respect, Senator Johnson,
- 4:01Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about the radical left. I don't.
- 4:03Speaker 1: I'm sorry. A lot of people at my station and
- 4:05Speaker 1: my business do that. As far as I'm concerned, the left,
- 4:09Speaker 1: that's it. What radical left. You know, the guys that
- 4:11Speaker 1: were the most moderate the last twenty years, even the
- 4:14Speaker 1: new guys on the scene, Hakim Jeffries, would you consider
- 4:18Speaker 1: him radical left? No, you wouldn't, but you know what,
- 4:20Speaker 1: He's encouraged violence. Chuck Schulmer, So, I actually get offended
- 4:25Speaker 1: when I hear people mention the radical left. Do me
- 4:27Speaker 1: a favor on this show. Just call him the left
- 4:30Speaker 1: because at this point I can't tell the difference.
- 4:32Speaker 2: Now, just call him democrats. I mean, it's it's a
- 4:35Speaker 2: changeable term. I have no trouble with you point that
- 4:39Speaker 2: out at all. No Democrats have become the radical left.
- 4:42Speaker 2: It's there. They were won the same part. Again, That's
- 4:44Speaker 2: what I'm pointing on. President Obama was their standard bear.
- 4:48Speaker 2: He is he is the guy who's I think, you know,
- 4:52Speaker 2: largely responsible for the division and the hate we're seeing
- 4:56Speaker 2: in the in the country day now. He was he
- 4:58Speaker 2: was well spoken, you know, he's a you know, articulate guy.
- 5:03Speaker 2: But what he you know, his his again, his disciples,
- 5:06Speaker 2: people like Eric Holder, his supporters, you know, his funders
- 5:09Speaker 2: like George Soross. I mean, they're the ones that funded
- 5:11Speaker 2: all these radical left Democrat DA's that he refused prosecute crime.
- 5:18Speaker 2: You know, he's the one that issued the deferred action
- 5:21Speaker 2: on child's Arrival order, which was the catalyst for all
- 5:24Speaker 2: this future mass illegal immigration. That was Obama. That was
- 5:29Speaker 2: that was his idea. He's he's the one that has
- 5:32Speaker 2: done such harm to a healthcare system by trying to
- 5:35Speaker 2: turn into the single pair of system, and Obamacare has
- 5:38Speaker 2: done although it didn't go that far, it's any great
- 5:40Speaker 2: deal of fartmas stillan didn't reduce across the healthcare.
- 5:43Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, no no. He also under
- 5:46Speaker 1: his presidency, the first black man he was going to
- 5:48Speaker 1: save us BLM was born under Obama. Yeah, had the
- 5:52Speaker 1: Ferguson Missouri with that guy Michael Brown, who was a
- 5:55Speaker 1: terrible person. You had here in New York on Staten Island,
- 5:59Speaker 1: you had Eric go On, you had Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 6:02Speaker 1: All that was under Barack Obama. But I want to
- 6:05Speaker 1: move to Secret Service Ron because I specifically remember talking
- 6:09Speaker 1: to you that week in Wisconsin, and you are very,
- 6:12Speaker 1: very upset, and you talked about it in Congress for
- 6:16Speaker 1: a long time about what you thought was a terrible
- 6:19Speaker 1: job by the Secret Service protecting President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
- 6:24Speaker 1: We still have questions. A guy was murdered that day.
- 6:27Speaker 1: Now fast forward to this Saturday, and folks are asking,
- 6:30Speaker 1: how does a guy end up even close to the
- 6:33Speaker 1: door of a ballroom with a shotgun, a handgun and
- 6:38Speaker 1: two knives. Now, President Trump texted me yesterday morning. He said,
- 6:42Speaker 1: thank you for checking INSTID, I'm okay, and he credited
- 6:45Speaker 1: his Secret Service. But as was pointing out on this show,
- 6:49Speaker 1: he's always quick outside of Butler to credit the people
- 6:52Speaker 1: that protect him outside of Trump. I'm hearing a lot
- 6:55Speaker 1: more people this morning criticizing what they saw on Saturday night.
- 7:00Speaker 1: What about you, Senator Johnson.
- 7:03Speaker 2: Well, again, the criticism I have is, first of all,
- 7:05Speaker 2: you assembled so many of our top leaders, the president,
- 7:09Speaker 2: vice president, so many of this cabinet officers. We shouldn't
- 7:12Speaker 2: do that at a heightened level of risk in this country.
- 7:15Speaker 2: That's that'd be my probably my main criticism there, Plus
- 7:19Speaker 2: the second one, you can't do anything about until we
- 7:21Speaker 2: have a much larger ballroom at the White House where
- 7:25Speaker 2: you can actually have secure I mean, as long as
- 7:28Speaker 2: we don't have a venue like that, and you have
- 7:31Speaker 2: to hold them in places where you have what a
- 7:33Speaker 2: thousand room hotel that again, you're not going to body
- 7:37Speaker 2: search everybody that checks in that hotel for the three
- 7:39Speaker 2: weeks prior to that. So they set up, you know
- 7:43Speaker 2: what ended up being successful security perimeter, and God blessed
- 7:47Speaker 2: the Secret Service and federal law enforcement who put their
- 7:50Speaker 2: lives in danger to keep us and the presence safe.
- 7:54Speaker 2: That's the group, by the way, that Democrats have defunded
- 7:57Speaker 2: that they refuse to pass a bill that would fund
- 8:02Speaker 2: all of DHS. Again, that is the radical left Democrat party,
- 8:08Speaker 2: that is what they're doing.
- 8:09Speaker 1: So no, I'm glad of well, hold on, I'm gonna
- 8:11Speaker 1: stop you right there, because today happens to be day
- 8:14Speaker 1: seventy two where a Secret Service is not being paid
- 8:18Speaker 1: seventy two days to your point, Ron Johnson. So with
- 8:22Speaker 1: that said, and with what we saw on Saturday night,
- 8:24Speaker 1: do you believe what happens Saturday will bring the Democrats
- 8:30Speaker 1: to the table and maybe speed up this DHS process.
- 8:36Speaker 2: Well, what I called for yesterday on Sunday's shows is
- 8:40Speaker 2: we're through not a holded vote right away on the
- 8:43Speaker 2: full DHS funding. Build the House is passed. We could
- 8:47Speaker 2: do this literally in one vote to Senate funded all
- 8:50Speaker 2: and you should do that. And if Democrats rejected after
- 8:53Speaker 2: what happened on Saturday night, this is the moment to
- 8:57Speaker 2: end this hillbuster. Right now, we do not have the
- 9:01Speaker 2: votes to end the Philbuster, but we did not have
- 9:04Speaker 2: the votes to basically nuke the Philbuster when it came
- 9:07Speaker 2: to nominees when it was so when the Democrats were
- 9:11Speaker 2: so obnoxially obnoxious and obstructionists. Okay, on President Trump's nominee
- 9:18Speaker 2: he wasn't even going to get five hundred nominees in
- 9:20Speaker 2: his first Congress when normally the average is about eleven hundred.
- 9:23Speaker 2: The Democrats were not allowing him to staff the administration,
- 9:27Speaker 2: so we didn't have the votes to nuke the philibuster's
- 9:30Speaker 2: nomination process. Tell, Democrats were so obnoxious that we did
- 9:33Speaker 2: have the votes, So again, Democrats provide the votes, and
- 9:38Speaker 2: we won't have the votes on the philibuster if they
- 9:39Speaker 2: don't provide the votes. I think Republicans who had refused
- 9:43Speaker 2: to end the philibuster at this point in time, who
- 9:45Speaker 2: refused to acknowledge the fact that when the Democrats had
- 9:48Speaker 2: the chance, they will end the philibuster. I have no
- 9:50Speaker 2: doubt about that. I have a lot of colleagues who do.
- 9:53Speaker 2: But this may just be the catalyst that will allow
- 9:58Speaker 2: the Senate to become functional again. I can't how much
- 10:02Speaker 2: more broken can the US Senate get? You know? That's
- 10:05Speaker 2: bestly I know we can't. We can't break this. You know,
- 10:08Speaker 2: this revered institution by any the silbuster, we didn't even
- 10:11Speaker 2: have the filbuster tell the early nineteen hundreds, right, we'll
- 10:14Speaker 2: survive two more?
- 10:16Speaker 1: Will let you run? I thought a silly conversation on
- 10:19Speaker 1: the Sunday shows yesterday. I thought you were great with Maria.
- 10:22Speaker 1: I love that show. It's my favorite show. Was a
- 10:24Speaker 1: lot of the hosts for asking, do you think now
- 10:27Speaker 1: Saturday night We're going to turn the corner and Democrats
- 10:31Speaker 1: are going to realize the ill of their ways and
- 10:34Speaker 1: there'll be more people united? Could we stop that nonsense?
- 10:37Speaker 1: I heard the same thing after Butler Pennsylvania. Remember Joe
- 10:41Speaker 1: Biden call President Trump, I'm glad you're okay. I keep
- 10:44Speaker 1: hearing the same thing over and over again, and it
- 10:47Speaker 1: takes these Democrats, whether it's the media or politicians or
- 10:50Speaker 1: idiots in the street, one day, maybe two days, to
- 10:53Speaker 1: go right back to who they are. Why do we
- 10:57Speaker 1: keep asking time and time again. If that's the point,
- 11:00Speaker 1: let's just see it the way it is, which is
- 11:02Speaker 1: they hate us, they hate Ron Johnson, they hate sid Rosenberg,
- 11:06Speaker 1: they hate President Trump.
- 11:08Speaker 2: Felm.
- 11:08Speaker 1: We don't need them. Let's move forward with this country
- 11:11Speaker 1: and try to save ourselves without always worrying, like if
- 11:14Speaker 1: I have one more time that this ret Maria Periz
- 11:17Speaker 1: in California actually said, can we stop trying to kill
- 11:20Speaker 1: the president? Good for her. They found one person, one Democrat,
- 11:24Speaker 1: in twenty four hours that actually said that I'm tired
- 11:27Speaker 1: of hearing it. Ron, It's not gonna happen.
- 11:29Speaker 2: Well, I guess hope sprang Eternal. You know, I did
- 11:32Speaker 2: point out, you know, some of these Democrats run as
- 11:35Speaker 2: modest right that you almost think they're the Republican candidate
- 11:37Speaker 2: and then begin into office, you know, like the new
- 11:40Speaker 2: mayor of Virginia, and they again they govern as a
- 11:43Speaker 2: radical leftists. So they're not going to change your stripes,
- 11:46Speaker 2: not at all. So I pointed out repeatedly as I've
- 11:48Speaker 2: called for any of the filbuster in our conference. I'm
- 11:51Speaker 2: not popular for doing that, by the way, but as
- 11:53Speaker 2: I've done that, I've tried to remind my concert or
- 11:55Speaker 2: point out to them, you do realize the Democrat parties
- 11:58Speaker 2: at war with us because they're just not a political opposition.
- 12:02Speaker 2: They want to wipe us out as a political opposition
- 12:06Speaker 2: because their goal, their overall goal, is to turn America
- 12:09Speaker 2: into one party nation. That's why they flooded millions of
- 12:12Speaker 2: unvetted immigrants into this country into their sanctuary season of states,
- 12:17Speaker 2: plus up the census, increased numbers members of Congress. When
- 12:20Speaker 2: they do, you know, and again resist all election integrity laws.
- 12:25Speaker 2: When they do get the chance, they'll end the Filibus
- 12:28Speaker 2: to turn DC, Puerto Rico into states, former Democrat senators,
- 12:31Speaker 2: pat Supreme Court, nationalized elections, automatic registration mail bouts. That's
- 12:36Speaker 2: their game plan. That's why they will never vote for
- 12:40Speaker 2: election integrity measures because that is existential to that overall
- 12:43Speaker 2: game plan. So no, they're they're not going to change us.
- 12:46Speaker 2: They are at war with us, and unfortunately to many
- 12:48Speaker 2: of my publican colleges, just they just they don't want
- 12:51Speaker 2: to believe it. Okay, if they're not.
- 12:52Speaker 1: Again, well I believe it. So I believe it, and
- 12:57Speaker 1: I'm not willing to back down. So something a couple
- 13:00Speaker 1: of nights ago. Wrap it up with this. There's a
- 13:02Speaker 1: guy he's running against Corey Booker for that Congress seat,
- 13:07Speaker 1: the Senate seat in New Jersey. I should say his
- 13:09Speaker 1: name is Alex Sadan. I like him. I actually spoke
- 13:12Speaker 1: at his event that Trump National and Coltchneck New Jersey
- 13:15Speaker 1: last week. He's all about medical freedom, he's all about
- 13:18Speaker 1: parental choice. And because of him and the people in
- 13:21Speaker 1: and around him, which include Bobby Kennedy, Aaron Siri, some
- 13:25Speaker 1: local people as well, I'm starting to get really well
- 13:28Speaker 1: versed on just how much misinformation was told to the
- 13:33Speaker 1: American people over the years, whether it's vaccinations when you're
- 13:37Speaker 1: a child, the COVID vaccination, you know, given the choice
- 13:41Speaker 1: to parents to put what they want in their children's bodies,
- 13:44Speaker 1: I'm becoming one of these people. Ron that is basically
- 13:47Speaker 1: ready to work for Bobby Kennedy. So Wednesday's a big
- 13:50Speaker 1: day for you. How Biden helped officials purposely turned a
- 13:54Speaker 1: blind eye toward the COVID nineteen vaccine safety signals. We
- 14:00Speaker 1: got some big people stomping by. Tell me more about Wednesday.
- 14:04Speaker 2: Well, again, because of Bobby Kennedy's commitment to radical transparency,
- 14:08Speaker 2: we ended up getting eight to eleven million pages, and
- 14:11Speaker 2: it takes a long time to sift through that, but
- 14:13Speaker 2: we found that they not only hit the signal on myochroditis,
- 14:17Speaker 2: but they also saw a signal in late twenty twenty
- 14:19Speaker 2: two on the schemic stroke and people over sixty five
- 14:23Speaker 2: week after week, they hid that as well. But the
- 14:25Speaker 2: bigger revelation is they were warned that they're an analytical
- 14:29Speaker 2: system on veyers. This is in Marsha twenty twenty one,
- 14:32Speaker 2: just a couple months after the mergency use authorization. They
- 14:34Speaker 2: were told by the inventors of the analytics system that
- 14:38Speaker 2: that system was going to mask serious safety signals. And
- 14:45Speaker 2: then little more than a little less than a month later,
- 14:48Speaker 2: they were showing the analysis of the system that unmasked
- 14:51Speaker 2: that where there were forty nine cases of extreme masking
- 14:54Speaker 2: twenty five safety signals, and those people were told to
- 14:57Speaker 2: basically go away ceased into SI. We gotta be consistent.
- 15:01Speaker 2: We're gonna use the old system. Even though they knew
- 15:04Speaker 2: Peter Marks, the head deceiver knew that their analytic system
- 15:09Speaker 2: on Bears was hiding serious safety signals sun cardiac death,
- 15:13Speaker 2: a scheme or you know that type of thing, and
- 15:16Speaker 2: they buried it. They hit it. And that's what the
- 15:18Speaker 2: hearings about on Wednesday.
- 15:20Speaker 1: That is an amazing cause. I know. I speak to
- 15:23Speaker 1: a lot of ladies, moms for liberty for example, and
- 15:27Speaker 1: ladies that held that great rally in Jersey back in
- 15:30Speaker 1: twenty twenty for parental and freedom, religious freedom and all
- 15:36Speaker 1: those medical freedoms, and Ron, you're a hero to them.
- 15:39Speaker 1: They love you as I do. So continued success. You're
- 15:42Speaker 1: a great senator and a great brand. And we'll talk
- 15:45Speaker 1: again very very soon. Ron Johnson, thank you so much.
- 15:48Speaker 2: Every day. Stay well you.
- 15:49Speaker 1: Two, buddy, Ron Johnson right there, the terrific senator from
- 15:52Speaker 1: the state of Wisconsin, who now that me and the
- 15:56Speaker 1: senator from Wisconsin we ended up being good friends, but
- 15:59Speaker 1: we are.
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