Congress Shutdown Threat & Explosive Senate Hearing Clash What’s Really Happening
Tensions are rising in Washington as a potential government shutdown looms and heated congressional hearings expose deep political divisions. Senators Tom Cotton and Ron Johnson pressed Keith Ellison during a fiery exchange that highlights growing concerns over immigration policy, government accountability, and alleged corruption.
Meanwhile, lawmakers warn that a shutdown could impact the Department of Homeland Security, potentially disrupting disaster recovery and border operations. With political hostility intensifying and public trust at stake, many are asking: Is the system breaking down — and what happens next?
In this video, we break down:
• The looming shutdown and what it means
• The tense Senate hearing confrontation
• Immigration funding and fraud concerns
• Growing frustration with Washington politics
Stay informed and understand the issues shaping America’s political future.
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Now, let me see. Something sweet,
something mellow. I like to listen to
Jean Valentino.
Yeah, there you go. There you go. It is
hammer time. Let me tell you, it is
hammer time. And Jean Valentino is with
us. He’s holding up Ted. You can’t see
it cuz you’re you’re not on Zoom with
us, but he’s holding up his uh his
little thing that he made that has him
holding a hammer, a big sledgehammer,
and it says it’s hammer time. Good
morning, Jean.
Good morning, gentlemen. No, this was
made by one of our favorite listeners
who was who actually came up with the
name,
right?
He sent me that and I sent it to you.
That’s right.
You did.
That’s That’s right. That’s our buddy D.
Our buddy David. uh did that.
Oh wow.
Well, we’d love to have him back
sometime, talk to him about some of the
issues. He, like many, have been loyal
listeners for de and many years we’ve
been on the air here.
Yeah. Well, we’ve been on the air, Ted
and I have been on the air over a
decade, but uh you and I for about five
years, I think we’ve been doing
Yeah, just over five years now.
Yeah, that’s a that’s a long time. Uh
so, you know, there’s a lot of things
going on. We’ve got an imminent
shutdown. I I talked to one of our
congressmen last night. In fact, we’re
having after you today, we’re having
Congressman Guest on from the uh third
district and uh pretty much uh going to
be a shutdown, but it’s only going to
affect DHS, which is unfortunate because
uh DHS also has FEMA and FEMA is in the
middle of a terrible ice storm recovery.
And so, you know, that could impact
folks here in the United States,
throughout the entire eastern part of
the United States who went through all
of this, you know, a few weeks ago. But
in any case, that’s uh that’s going to
happen probably. And I don’t know what’s
going to break the uh the vote in the
Senate to get uh to get folks to to you
know, fund DHS, but otherwise the
government will be functioning uh
properly because all of the other
agencies have been funded. But in any
case, there were some uh I think you
wanted to talk about some of the
hearings yesterday in uh in Congress and
why don’t you just go ahead and start
out with that?
Well, yeah. When Congressman Guest comes
on, I’m sure he’ll add more of the same.
But boy, it really makes me feel sad
that when your parents and grandparents
suggested you run for office that it was
an honor and a privilege. Now it’s a
bloodbath of bad behavior and
discontent.
Uh you you leave the job looking grayer
and older, not because you worked hard,
but because your anxiety went through
the roof for four to six years, whatever
you were in for, uh to try to uh
accomplish something that you promised
the citizens. Um instead um you know
there’s messaging out there that uh
Republicans
uh have or Democrats have been
mismanaging our government with layers
of corruption. Um partisan attacks
emanating out of the Democrats more than
the Republicans are showing their ugly
side now. I mean, Tom Cotton, a a
dimminitive kind of guy with a
softspoken manner, uh, and a polite
manner along with Senator Ron Johnson.
Both of them, uh, taking on the
adversary costic um, uh,
vitriol of a guy by the name of Attorney
General Keith Ellison. Um, they think
they can get away with murder. They come
into these hearings, the if the
representative or the senator has, let’s
say, a five minute slot to get his time
out. If he’s an adversary in a
wrongdoing, he’ll tie up the full five
minutes with accusations and never allow
you to answer a question. He’ll come at
you to disparrage you and to make you
feel small and hurtful. He’ll try to
send you back home to your hometown,
wherever you came from, and make you
feel like um you’re a convicted felon
for crying out loud. And on the other
hand, if you’ve got something important
to say, you may not have the chance to
say it. So, here’s Tom Cotton, and
here’s uh Ron Johnson grilling Keith
Ellison, attorney general in Minnesota,
asking a simple question. Did you take
money from people who came into your
office complaining about the nature of
ICE and the way here um the
investigations were going up there? Are
you part and parcel of a scheme involved
in the illegal immigrants uh that are
now finding their way to through a
funding mechanism, a conspiracy of of
funding that u frankly they don’t want
revealed the through the tax base of the
state or the nation or both. And as a
result, you find that the very hearing
itself is a sideshow for the six o’clock
news and is not what it’s supposed to
be. A precursor to create background
information for legislation or a
precursor to take it over to the DOJ,
the Attorney General’s office, and get
um get charges filed against the alleged
wrongdoer.
In the case of Keith Ellison, he did
receive money. He did re protect
wrongdoing. And now he is flaunting with
a dis costic attitude on his face, which
is why you heard John Ron Johnson say in
the news, “Yeah, go ahead. Sit there.
Sit there and keep on smirking. You You
know what?” And he he he was saying that
right on national TV. and and and
there’s this attorney general for the
state of Minnesota acting like a
snutnose kid that thinking he just
bullied someone on the basketball court
and got away with it. I mean, what the
hell is going on with the elected
officials of this nation? Ask Mr. Guest
that question, please. I wished I could
because every day he must be dealing
with crap like this that compromises his
ability to get things done for you and
me. It’s not what the system was
designed to be. It was not what he was
elected to do. And I feel bad for Mr.
guess in particular because he’s a great
guy and uh and and I’m hope he does have
a longer longer um career in in politics
coming out of Mississippi. But it’s all
over the place. It’s not just
Mississippi. Uh it Michael, it we have
to do something immediate and radical.
I’ve said it once. I’ve said it a
thousand times and I hate having to do
it because I don’t like it. It’s a
constitutional amendment. I hate even
bringing it up because you get all the
objections to it. But there’s no other
remedy unless you initiate another era
of civil war to take these people out
physically with arms. That’s why you
hear the crazies talking about rising up
uh pull your arms out of the closet and
let’s take these people down. Well,
that’s crazy talk. We should be able to
re remedy the situation through a system
that was designed with remedies built
into it. And that’s where I that’s where
I have a problem with what’s going on
right now.
Well, you know, Keith Ellison has got
his own worries. And of course, they are
investigating him for uh taking money
and you know, a quid pro crow quot I
guess is basically what uh what is going
on there. I’ll I’ll not investigate
anything to do with you if I get the
votes that I need to get in office. And
they provided the votes for him. And
obviously, we know that he got campaign
contributions.
Oh, yeah.
Or if I get or if I get a campaign
contribution from from you for the next
my next reelection. Yeah. Um we’ll find
a way of looking the other way.
Well, we know in in Minnesota, for
example, that there has been a epic
amount of fraud that has happened. You
saw the uh Larrying Center, you know,
they couldn’t even they couldn’t even
spell learning and it looks like Larry
and and yet, you know, he has the
kahunas to go to Congress and act like
he’s done nothing wrong. Yeah, it it it
makes it difficult for good, honorable
people. I didn’t want to believe it when
I first heard it when you hear
congressman saying that’s it. I’ve had
enough enough of this. I’m getting out.
Going back to my private life.
And there are a lot that are, by the
way.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, before you say why,
go stand in his shoes for a day or two
and you’ll know quickly. Hey, I’m
reading a book right now. I’ll share
with you. uh Peter Schwitzer,
best-selling New York Times author,
writing the book The Invisible Coup. The
Invisible Coup. You can see five
prominent figures on it. Uh he’s saying
uh our debates
about immigration
revolve around what happens with
immigrants once they arrive. We need to
start talking about who is sending them
to us and why.
For decades, establishment elites sold
us the story of immigration as a
compassionate renewal of the American
dream within a harmonious melting pot.
But the story goes much deeper. The
invisible coup is here. The names, the
money, the machine, all exposed for the
first time. He talks about Mexico’s
election plot unmasked. Uh uh Mexico’s
50 plus consulate consulates running
shadow campaigns to sway US elections.
One country 50 consulates in the United
States. He talks about the the Chinese
Communist Party spy dollars spigot
exposed the US visa program designed by
Chinese spy that lets Beijing pour uh
tens of millions of dollars into the
elections. I bring this to your
attention because the third uh topic in
this is the president of the United
States foreign voter trick revealed how
three American presidents minted
unvetted instant citizens including
criminals to stack the voter roles.
We have an a cancer from within that’s
being perpetrated against us uh at
several from several different sides at
the same time. We can talk about Trump
and all the things going on nationwide,
his six or seven parallel paths he’s
been on the last uh 13 months, but um
one that sticks out is the disruption of
the Constitution from within the United
States. the ability for these foreign
adversaries to manipulate and crumble
the things that you and I learned in the
beauty of our of our uh social studies
class and history class back in um
junior high or middle school. We learned
about so many beautiful things about our
constitution, its meaning, and what it
stood for, only to find current actors
doing everything from within to take it
down. The issue yesterday with Tom
Cotton, Senator Cotton and Ron Johnson
is but a tip of the iceberg of hostility
uh of anger that they field feel toward
the hostility for coming out of the
Democrat left adversaries like this
Keith Ellison.
You know, you talk about the uh the
consulates. I mean 51 or two consulates
in the United States. And what you
didn’t mention is I think in that same
book because I saw Peter Schwitzer the
other night on one of the news shows and
I think also that there are
representatives
for the Mexican government that actually
live in the United States. I’m talking
about voting members of the Mexican
Congress or whatever they call it that
that live in the United States and
represent people who live in the United
States. Mexicans who live in the United
States. What in the hell is going on?
So, let’s make Mexico the 51st state.
Well, that that means they can stay
right where they are in Mexico, pay
their American taxes like you and me,
enjoy the privileges America has to
offer without invading the country. We
get to pick who’s a good guy and who’s a
bad guy and arrest them more regularly
because we have law enforcement in that
51st state
and crush the cartels
and crush those guys the way the Jay
Edgar Hoover folks did against uh the
mafia and the cartels in New York at the
time.
All right, Jean, we’re out of time.
Thank you so much for joining us. See
you next week.
Take care. Relationships matter because
people buy people. And that’s why I buy
Eddie Xarin Insurance of the Xarin
Insurance Agency in Pensacola, Florida.
A family-owned business with over 50
years in the business. And they treat
people the right way. From homeowners
insurance to contractor’s insurance,
condo insurance, commercial insurance,
all the different coverages that are out
there, and of course, auto insurance.
They’ve got you covered. They worry
about you first. You’re more than a
policy number. You’re a person who
they’re watching out for, not when the
sun is shining, but after the hurricane
has left. If you want real service with
real savings, contact Eddie Zuran at the
Eddie Xarin Insurance Agency. www.zarins
insurance.com.
Give them a call today. You’ll be glad
you did when you do.













