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Sudden violent death on Houston's East Side was the fatal shooting of an immigrant husband and father in any way justified or just the latest homicidal act of a rogue agency with little regard for life in the race for U. S. Senate Republican Ken Paxton once again under fire. Did our state's top cop actually break the election law he sworn to enforce and pulling back the curtain on a monster grift as the number of Texans cheating on their homestead exemption continues to mount. I'm Greg Grogan and welcome to watch your point where our panelists call it like they see it. Let's greet them. Starting us off, bob price, associate editor of Breitbart texas. Next up, Fox 26 legal and political analyst chris Tritico in the three spot longtime super neighborhood leader tomorrow bell batting cleanup this morning, writer and public policy advisor charles Blaine and closing us out education and public safety advocate paul Castro. Let's begin. I recognize him immediately, not from his appearance, but from his voice crying for help as he lay on the street bleeding out the heart rending words of Ronaldo Salgado, son of Lorenzo Salgado Arrujo, the 52 year old undocumented husband and father who was shot and killed Tuesday morning on the east side. By now, all of you know the fundamental facts. The van driven by the longtime construction worker carrying three members of his crew was chased by two unmarked units apparently without lights or sirens. Ice claims Salgado weaponized his vehicle and attempted to ram agents, a claim which has thus far failed every attempt at confirmation given the complete absence of collision damage on any of the vehicles and video, which strongly indicates the unmarked ice SUV actually cut in front of Salgado's van. Thursday, Fox 26 was the first to report that it was not Salgado who was targeted for arrest. It was one of his passengers, one of three survivors of this botched operation currently in custody at the federal detention center in Conroe panel as material witnesses to this homicide. Their testimony is critical because inexplicably after the fatal shootings in Minnesota and elsewhere, none of the federal agents involved were equipped with body cams. Fortunately, this morning we have criminal defense attorney Chris Tritico here. I really want to get your assessment of the facts as we know them. So to me, this is more of the same from from ice. The the fact that they don't have body cams in by policy of the government and they continue every time they kill somebody to say it's the victim who did this. He weaponized his car. He attacked the officer. All of these claims have been refuted every time it's happened. And so, uh, what I'm waiting to see is if Tom Holman will come through with what he's promising, and that's a fair investigation. But they're shutting out the Harris County D. A. Who is an independent investigator here. If the government clears these agents without allowing the Harris County district attorney to come in and do an independent investigation, I don't know what's gonna happen because the city's done a great job of protesting without violence. But when when the government continues to do what they're doing, I'm afraid that that we may we may end up somewhere else. The attorney representing the three men in Conroe says they say the agents were never in front of the vehicle. I don't know. What are you hearing, Bob? Because you have deep sources within ice. Well, ice is being very tight lipped about this at the moment. There's a lot to unpack in this story and investigations being done not by the Department of Homeland Security, but by the FBI and the Department of Justice. The new U. S. Attorney who will talk about later in the show will be involved in this. I think it should be a very open and transparent investigation, and I think Director Holman will will do that. Borders are home and we'll do that. As far as the body camera issue, that funding for those body cameras was held up by the Democrats on the issue of the funding of ice. They withheld the funds for that. Now it's been approved, and they are in the process of working that through and getting the training and getting the equipment, getting it installed in people's, uh, on their on their bodies and on their dash cams. So that will be changing. The facts of this case remain very unclear. At this point, there's a lot of contradictions. The three individuals who were inside the vehicle who are making statements have a lot of reason to not necessarily be truthful about this. They're eligible for victim status visas now as part of this process, and so they would probably have a good reason to make their story work for that. Um, what we do know is Mr Salgado entered the country illegally 21 years ago, never applied for legal status here. This year he applied for a work permit, which would not give him legal status, and he did not stop when he was trying to be stopped by the ice agents. Okay, I want to go to Paul Castro. This is deeply impacted our community. Yeah, so God family country. So he is being defined as an illegal migrant. First, he was a Christian. He was a Catholic first family. He was a father raised three young men who became citizens who were citizens by birthright and who are contributing to their communities. Um, and and then community. He's a Houstonians lived here for 35 years. He built homes across our entire city. That is the person who we lost this past week. That's the person who was murdered, and that's what it was ruled was a homicide. He was murdered. He was. He was killed. Okay, well, you also made other right accusations that are incorrect. So just hold. Um, what we lost was we lost a contributing member of our society without a true and clear understanding. Now, what the family has asked for, which I think is outstanding is a vast for justice. They're not asking for people to protest in the streets to go wild to turn over trash cans, burn things. What they're asking for is for our community to turn to itself in the mirror, look in the mirror and say, Is this who we are? And so as many of you get ready for services this morning, what I need you to be asking yourself is, are we going to justify the murder of one of our community members and say, Well, he should have stopped. He should have obeyed the law. And if that's the standard that we're accepting as a community, then that's on us. And then we need to tell the family. Yes, we're okay with the murder and the killing of your dad because he should have obeyed. All right, still to come. Missiles flying in the Middle East as any semblance of peace with Iran deteriorates. Question now is extreme force the only path forward. But up next, more on the taking of a life in our city by federal agents. Can truth and accountability be secured for an outraged community? We've seen the habits of ice. They have lost the trust of the American people. And as a member of the House Oversight Committee, let me tell you, when Democrats take the house back ice, you better buckle up because we will be investigating you day after day after day until this lawlessness and this militarism stops. We are better than this. We can be a country of the rule of law and a country that respects everybody's rights, everybody's humanity and everybody's dignity. Congressman Christian Menifee and Harris County Commissioner Leslie Briones expressing what many Houstonians are feeling this week. I also spoke one on one with the lawmaker leading the quest for transparency and answers. Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia. It's still an out of control, rogue ice, and we cannot let them go to our cities and do whatever they want. Control the scene, control the evidence, control the investigation after they've shot someone here in our country. Panel Harris County District Attorney Sean Teer said Friday his office is conducting a parallel investigation and state Representative Christina Morales has requested that the Texas Rangers launch a probe. All right, Charles, you have watched this unfold. Uh, you know, what's your take? Yeah, I mean, watching the press conferences and all the strongly worded letters fly back and forth is great. But what frustrates me with this is that we have the local elected officials, state and federal, who all hold these levers of power that could do different things on both sides of this that that come after the fact, right? So when we talk about accountability, you know, a couple months ago, there were Michigan congresswoman running up and down the street yelling that ice was in the neighborhood and getting people like to drive away. And there were activists hiding people in their homes. I'm not suggesting that they should be doing that because it's not on the side of the argument that I'm on. But if they are genuinely in belief of what they're saying, why are you guys not doing? We have sitting congressmen and women who definitely knew or could have known that ice was active in their community and alerted and alerted people to be aware of it. Um, and they didn't. Then on the flip side of this, though, we often have a lot of Republicans who come into the back end and say, um, it puts pressure on law enforcement, puts them at risk, which it does. But at the same time, we we take don't donations and work with and engage economically with industries, especially in this region that purely benefit off of illegal immigrant labor. And so if you're going to continue to do that, then you can't come in and say that it's a problem. So it's like this both sides thing and nobody wants to fix it because they both benefit from it. And I do believe they are genuinely concerned about this issue. But it's frustrating to see everyone always coming on the back end. I want to say for the record, I am frustrated as a citizen that this this country cannot provide cameras and dash cams. We can get them on Amazon overnight, but we didn't have them on federal agents tomorrow. You've gone and spent time with folks at these vigils. Look, I went to the visual yesterday and, um, the community really showed up. But let me begin with this. You tell people that you want them to bring you any video that they have or anything you think they're gonna do that in the neighborhood and they saw you all had a unmarked car. Now I know who watched this show. I know you ought to watch the show. Ain't no way in hell you're gonna let an unmarked car with no lights just run you off the road. You will start shooting first before they get to shoot you. How the hell was he supposed to know they ice? He know they're a mind reader. The car, the windows were all blacked out. They had police on the back of the car on the rear by the license plates. How the hell was he supposed to know? This is unjustified as hell. I don't care what they say. And you want to say that people have a reason to lie. Everybody in them damn vans and the suburbans have a reason to lie and to lie on these people. This is something that needs to stop. I'm not kidding. Because in Houston, road rage is epidemic. So who the hell gonna stop for this? And what I want to say more than anything, pray for this family. They are hurting. They are devastated. Their dad was a hard worker. And just like Charles said, corporations built these people for profit. They want to tell me get the hell out the country. That's a B. S. And y'all know it. Chris and I worked on a story that became legislation, which was cameras and special needs classrooms. And the argument was that the cameras would protect the teachers from false allegations as well. That's why law enforcement has to have them. If this was a righteous, a righteous operation, the cameras would have proved it. But they don't have that proof. And that's a problem. Up next, the political ramifications of the Salgado killing in a midterm election where Tejano voters were already drifting back to Team Blue. It is unacceptable. It is un American to use lethal force against a human being. Then lock away the evidence, hide the video, silence the record and expect his family, the people of Houston and the American public to simply not and say, we believe you because we don't. They call for accountability from Lulac National President Ramon Palomares, one of many Tejano and Latino voices outraged by the killing on Canal Street panel. The political ramifications of this homicide could well prove profound in the state of Texas, where no fewer than four of 10 residents are Hispanic voters who were already breaking Democrat ahead of the midterm, a pendulum swing driven by the unrealized economic prosperity promised by the president and a deportation policy many view as draconian, heavy handed and a far cry from the surgical removal of criminals they fully supported in 2024. That sound right, Paul? Yeah. So, um, Lorenzo did not have illegal immigrant tattooed on his face. He was brown. That was it. Uh, I also killed. Border Patrol killed a person on South Padre Island who was a U. S. Born San Antonio born 23 year old young man, I think, and he was getting away at five miles an hour and they shot him through a car door. So this is a recurring theme that's occurring and what happens and this is odd. So Pew Research recently released a report that showed that Hispanics identify as Americans, especially by second and third generation. They don't identify as Latinos or Latin X or whatever the stupid other words they identify as Americans. Republicans have not had an opportunity. They lost it. They lost it because what they basically did is they looked at the Hispanic community and they said, All y'all are brown and you're all are all the same vote for us because of abortion. But just obey, be quiet and listen. And I think that was a tragic, unnecessary loss of an entire group of people who are wanting to be part of the American dream or saying, give us opportunities, give us financial opportunities that the Republicans were promising. And now they've woken up and said, Okay, none of that was true in the first place. This is really all just based on, you know, immigration enforcement and hammering people and tariffs. And they're saying this doesn't make any sense. So they flip back. So this is really on the Republican Party for missing it. And no Republican has spoken out against this. So you're either okay with this or you don't have the courage to speak up, Bob. So first I want to say my condolences to the Salgado family. The sons and the family have done a very responsible and reasonable, um, presentation of who this man was and and they're seeking justice for what happened and not calling for other types of activities. Um, the men and women of ice in Houston are doing a very valuable job for this community. In the month of May alone, they removed 768 criminal illegal aliens, many of whom had committed violent homicides, child predators, rape, sexual assaults, other violent crimes against people in the in this community, many people in the Hispanic community. And they're out there doing this job every day. None of them go out on the streets going. Let's go find somebody to shoot today. They're demonized with premature allegations of murder. They are attacked every single day. And the fact that the city of Houston and other cities all across this community don't cooperate with ice and allow put mark patrol units to work with them to help with traffic stops like they would any other federal agency enforcing federal law sets up situations where this can happen. This was an administrative warrant. We don't know what the target, but we haven't heard of any criminal activity other than the fact that, uh, he wasn't supposed to be. I don't think he was accused of any crimes. Okay, when we come back a scandal that keeps getting bigger. How have so many Texans gotten away? Scott free with cheating on the Homestead exemption tax evasion on a truly gargantuan scale happening here in Texas. Our own Charles Blaine not only uncovered widespread cheating on the so called Homestead exemption, he's sounding the alarm with a call for legislative and prosecutorial action. I think people are really frustrated because they know that they have to pay this. It's like a contract we all sign, right? That you this is a part of being in society, and yet people are gaming the system while they continue to pay for the resources that we all have. As we've been reporting, Charles identified two major categories of cheaters. The so called double dippers claiming homesteads on multiple homes, often in different counties and also corporate scammers claiming the tax break on their entire inventory of short term rentals and houses they hope to flip. Charles, this just keeps getting worse. What's the latest? Yeah, so this past week, Tarrant County and Travis County kind of review some of the samples I gave them and agreed that theirs were a little bit of a best to. There's some interesting ones in there like a rental called San Trope rental. It's a multimillion dollar house on the Colorado River. Beautiful home, you know, boat dock all this. It had a five year homestead exemption. It was being rented for about $8500 a month, and they also get the tax 10% cap on their exemption. So the property was valued at something like 1.7, but the market value was closer to three. And so they were saving a lot. You see a lot of these big outsize ones all over Harris County. There's a couple multimillion dollar ones that people own, and I mean, it's a mess. And it's and you know, when you juxtapose it against the story we just talked about, you have people who kind of afraid of existing in their communities, and then you have this other side of spectrum people stealing and in broad daylight and have no concern over it. So I really do hope we see some enforcement and some stronger teeth to it. And and at least if nobody else just focus on the LLC residents, there could be some ambiguity there. Are they confused? This that but the LLC's clearly know that they're doing wrong. Chris, what would you tell a client who came in and said, Hey, I think they just caught me cheating on the homestead exemption. Write me a check. First thing I'd say, you know, this is this is gonna get bigger and bigger and bigger from what Charles and good job on this day. What he did in I think that Charles is right. The LLC's are going to be the ones that are probably going to get indicted first because it's gonna be hard for a corporation to say, I didn't know I wasn't entitled to a homestead exemption on 40 houses. That's that's gonna be a difficult day for them. The individuals are gonna be harder to prosecute. But if you've got two homes in two counties and you're claiming a homestead exemption on both of them, you knew you were wrong. Yeah. Tomorrow. Is there really any excuse for this? I mean, some people inherit their their their parents house, which had a 65 year old exemption and then just keep paying the homestead at that level. There's all kind of ways to Jimmy the system, especially if the appraisal districts aren't looking exactly. And this is really literally stealing from the Children is stealing from the schools because when you don't pay this and you want to complain about how the schools are so raggedy and all of this hell is because you're stealing. Now, don't be listening to Captain Save a hole. That would be Ken Paxton, who does this all the time. Every time he get a new hole, he get a new homestead exemption. That does not make it right. It is wrong. And this goes back. Bill King used to be a line marker back before. Oh, wait, this has been going back. He offered to stop this in the early two thousands, and he heard crickets from the county leadership back then. Crickets. Okay, so I am so proud of Charles for narrowing in on this. The newly elected, uh, appraisal district. They were blown away. They had no idea. So I'm really hoping that they absolutely bring this to a halt and collect that money. Charles, we're hitching our wagon to this. Yes. All right. When we come back, peace deal with Iran in full collapse. President Trump warning that the path forward will be painful for the renegade regime appears to be a new memorandum of understanding in the Middle East, the kind that comes at the business end of a cruise and air to ground missile. The Iranians firing back amid the extended funeral demonstrations for their slain supreme leader, while, according to the Israelis, simultaneously plotting an assassination attempt on President Trump. I'm number one on the kill list for Iran. There's something wrong with the so called ceasefire, that is, and so panel the conflict originally advertised as a couple of weeks moves into its fifth month with no bloodless end in sight. On the contrary, many analysts are predicting an escalation. Paul, you would be at the top of that list because you said this was gonna happen. Yes, unfortunately. Um, so we're expecting a horrifically abusive totalitarian regime to respond in a way that the West would. They're not the West. This is a group of murderous people who kill their own people. They don't care about the pain that we're inflicting upon them and their people. What they do care about is the money that flows in when they were able to exert power and how they exert power is at the Strait of Hormuz. They declared the Strait of Hormuz was closed yet again, and it's gonna be up to the shippers to decide whether the risk is worth it to push their ships through that space. And right now they're saying they're not going to do that. They're they're relying on us to guarantee safety, and we haven't been able to do that yet because drones are way harder to knock out of the air than anything else. So we're in a position where we're having to kowtow to a group of murderous barber, barbaric people on where we're knee deep in the muck, and there's nothing we can do about it from what we can see so far. Our friend Bill King alluded to what he seems to think is a growing coalition against the Iranians in the region. Are you hearing anything about that, Bob? Well, they are. The fact that Iran is bombing these people in their neighbors is certainly aiding that coalition development and is going to change the geopolitical nature of the Middle East for decades to come. I think I've said continuously that these people cannot and should not be negotiated with. They need to be eliminated. They need to be taken off the face of the earth. That's the only way we can reestablish a new government in there that will behave and act as a responsible government leadership. We have total air superiority over the entire nation of Iran. We can bomb anything that moves that comes out of a military facility, an IRGC facility. We can track where drones were launched from and destroy those facilities. We can destroy the buildings where they make these drones, etcetera. And we need to just we can start taking out their power plants and we need to seize all the Iranian oil that we can get our hands on and take Karg Island and start pumping that oil out of there. It's been said on this show and others that air superiority air war alone has never concluded an entire conflict and that boots on the ground are necessity. Does our country have the appetite? I disagree with that and it doesn't have to be our boots on the ground. We we can decimate the Iranian military infrastructure and let other people come in. Go ahead, Chris. I agree with the assessment that you can't just win a war in the air. Uh, and we never have. If you remember, hang on. If you remember the, um, the invasion in Kuwait, um, we bombed them for days and days and days and then sent troops in and ended it. And that's unfortunately when the president started this without talking to any of our any of our allies and in and then settled it before the fourth of july so he could have a press conference with a memorandum of understanding that did not shore up the critical issues that needed to be short up. We're left in this position and now the president's back to threatening them and he's proven himself a paper tiger with respect to these threats. He makes a threat and then and then extends the time to negotiate it. Iran is not that stupid and they know that he's not going to do what he's saying he's going to do. And so until he gets ready to do what needs to be done because he started this, we're gonna have to go in and finish it. It's not going to go away on its own. Go tomorrow. This is only for historical clarity. We damn sure can stop wars with air. They dropped the damn bomb on Japan as was done before that. Japan came to Pearl Harbor and beat the hell out of us. And if they had kept coming, we probably would have lost the war. But they were in the air. They were not no groups of troops on the ground. Now this situation is different because technology has changed. Okay. Drones have literally changed the game. I'm not kidding. They've changed the game. But if we don't stop being taco, okay, don't keep your word on a damn thing. This is going to be what the young people call a forever war. Get it over. All right, we're gonna leave it there. Still to come. Attacking the affordability challenges with rebated state dollars. Democrat Gina Hinojosa says that's her pledge of elected governor. But up next, high profile division among Texas Democrats going public in a big way as Jasmine Crockett blames her loss in the Senate primary on racism. Looks like the process of mending broken fences in the Democratic Party is going to need some more time. Exhibit A Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett throwing out the R word squarely at her primary opponent's campaign. People keep trying to say, well, Jasmine has to go and hold his hand. No, I don't. You see, a lot of haters got a lot of things to say about me and my race and how I ran it. But the reality is that there was a lot of races, not a lot. It was racist. It was a racist race. It is what it is. Meantime, Tallarico hammering away at Republican Ken Paxton's weak spots as in his decision to allow an admitted child rapist to skate with a misdemeanor plea and less than a month of jail time. Adam Hoffman was a well connected lawyer who abused an eight year old boy. He should be spending his life in prison. But instead, Ken Paxton gave him a sweetheart deal, letting him out of panel. While Team Tallarico is focused on their opponent, they have to be worried about Crockett, giving their guy the Heisman stiff arm. You know, I mean, they're gonna need all those african american votes if they're going to prevail in the fall tomorrow. Absolutely. And I will be very honest with you all. I have reached out to some elected leadership who has engaged to him and I asked him what is he doing? He had a representative come down and meet with a bunch of Democrats, precinct chairs. And when they asked him about, you know, are y'all gonna be doing any work or hiring down here? He said, no, we're looking for volunteers. And they asked him as your as a volunteer. Well, then he left the room. Then when he went to the Harris County black area Democrats, same guy didn't do anything to say anything. They decided not to endorse him. Now, do I think he needs Jasmine Crockett herself? No, I'm not gonna say that at all, but he absolutely has to do a better thing because Beto O'Rourke came to this black pastors event and I remember speaking to his assistant and I was like, okay, so how are you all gonna do? Oh, we're not putting any money in the black communities. You're a fool. If you do that, they're gonna vote anyway. I said, his ass is gonna lose. Okay, because I know what Obama did in the black communities in places where they have very low voter turnout to help get the people. I said, I know what Republican people do. Come on now. You can do that to him. I'm just saying, don't don't don't don't do me. That's okay. All right. Tallarico Tallarico. Can he is this gonna be transactional? Is Crockett just waiting for to make a deal? I mean, I'm cynical about the process. I don't know what I don't know what's going on with Jasmine Crockett's team and why she's doing this when when you lose a race and you have to turn around and do the right thing. And and I would hope that if Tallarico had lost, he would have immediately supported Jasmine Crockett. What Jasmine Crockett's doing is burning down the house because she lost is not helping the party that that she claims she supports. And it's a mistake on her part to be this upset about losing a race. And I think it's a mistake on Tallarico's part for not sitting down with her directly and saying, let's mend this fence. Paul, could the same be said for John Cornyn? Jumping on board with Ken Paxton. That's a good one. I mean, he keeps quoting Bible verses and stuff. So it's he's been an interesting other side of the election piece. The thing I heard recently from a friend who's pretty plugged in in DFW on Tallarico is the same complaints are being held there, which is the Tallarico team and much less Tallarico himself. They're not sitting down and listening to the black community. And what they're doing is they've placed their bets that whites, uh, independent whites and Hispanics are going to make that make up the difference. I think that is absolutely stupid and tactically wrong. All right, we'll be watching it up next rules for the but not for me. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton under fire for possible voter fraud. Lots of chatter this week about this video of Ken Paxton spotted with his current romantic partner on the streets of jolly old London, apparently celebrating the 250th anniversary of independence from England, actually in England and not at one of hundreds of 4th of July parades in the state he hopes to represent in the U. S. Senate. Also, plenty of chatter about accusations of election fraud lodged against our state's top cop, who voted six times over the past two years using an address where he does not live and hasn't lived for years now. All right, panel. At the very least, that's pretty dang sloppy. At worst, it's breaking a law he is sworn to enforce. Charles, what's your take here? What do you want me to say about this Bridgerton video of them walking around in London? It looks like it's out of some talk about the election. It's all of that. It's all of that. I mean, but it also just reminded me that the story of when he was served the indictment at his home back in the day that he ran. Remember, I don't you guys remember they they served him and he like ran to the SUV or something. That was a big story there. Uh, this is just a mess. I mean, you look at the local elections. These are decided very often by slim, slim, slim number of voters we had in Houston. I remember Carlos's narrows her elections, 32 voters in a city where a district represents 250,000 people. So if I was a local elected official or a losing candidate, preferably in that district, I would kind of see if that played any role. I'm gonna give Bob a quick quick chance and I'm gonna go right down. Yeah, this is a race that's really gonna not be about politicians as much as it's gonna be about parties because people, I think on both sides don't want to support their candidate per se. They just want to get their party either keep it in power or get it in power. And the under vote on this election is probably going to be in the 15 10 to 15, maybe even 20% range when people on both sides are not going to want to vote for their candidate. Okay, Chris, you know, Ken Paxton has blinders on. He's running. He's running for Senate and at the 250th anniversary of the founding of our country, he's paying homage to the king. I don't understand what he's thinking. And and then Donald Trump's been looking for voter fraud for what? 10 years now. And it was right here. We all we had to do was talk to our own attorney general. It's right here. I don't get it. Go ahead tomorrow. Have to save a whole trying to love to show ain't easy to do. You don't know which house you voted in. You haven't been doing this and you want to talk about voter proud boy, please. All right, paul. I mean, you know, you can't write this. No, the the Tallarico team, which is a very intelligent team, should be sharpening their spear and make it really simple. This is about corruption and corruption carries and covers this idea of voter fraud and the hypocrisy that's behind it because he's prosecuting people for the very thing that he's doing. And they should be focusing on $6 million whistleblower settlement that created the entire impetus behind the impeachment trial. So if he keeps it simple, I think he's got to win. But right now what's happening is they're driving down voters on both sides. I think this will be an undervote issue and I think that he needs to drive down Paxton's further. Hypothetically speaking, if somebody filed a criminal complaint on this, who would that complaint be with? Uh, the district attorney, the attorney general, I want you to prosecute yourself. It would be in the local have to be the local D. A. Would have to take it on because it is the attorney general. And so the only one to prosecute would be the local D. A. In the community where the fraudulent vote was cast in the state would remove the rogue D. A. Returning cash from where it came. Democrat for Governor Gina Hinojosa pledging to write every family in Texas a four figure check if they choose her to leave the state. My plan is to put $1500 in your pocket because if you cannot afford to live and thrive in Texas and the American dream is out of reach. Democrat for Governor Gina Hinojosa stumping around Texas this week with her proposal to rebate families proceeds from our state's rainy day fund. Does this sound familiar? It should. If elected governor, do you think some of that money should be shifted back to the taxpayers who put it there to begin with? Yeah, absolutely. Greg Abbott is hoarding our taxpayer dollars and has been doing it for a long time now. That is our money. Texans are struggling mightily. Just for the record, that was back in May panel. Good idea or just another short sighted democratic redistribution of wealth. What do you think tomorrow? You know, when she says this about the $1500 going back to people, um, that's not gonna sit well with a lot of people because she said each and every household and you're gonna have people saying, well, do that mean undocumented people get it? Does that mean people with blue hair get it? Does that mean people with black hair get it? So you're gonna have a fight on your hand. And if you do this with the, uh, massive infrastructure issues that we have in the state of Texas not being addressed wherever any day fund will be dried up real soon. Paul, uh, when we discussed this before, you thought it might be a good populist. Oh, politically, it's it's genius. Politically, is that the right thing to do? Absolutely not. But politically, if you're saying 15 for you. But here's the other thing. Leave it to a Democrat to not have this framed as a bumper sticker. Instead, it's a paragraph. What they should do is come up with something super simple. So Trump did this beautifully. Well, he took the $600 that was the rebate check during Cove it and turned it into 2000. 600 doesn't mean anything. 2000. That's real money, right? So go ahead and just say it's $2000. Did I do something but come up and they were called the Trump economic checks or whatever? And that was a genius political move, right? What the Democrats could should do is make this a populist issue. And instead again, it's paragraphs of things that people have to parse and decide and instead just say, Hey, this is your money. We're giving it back to you. The rebate fund is actually the economic stabilization fund. And Chris Tritico, you've lived through your fair share of hurricanes, right? And getting a governor to to release any money out of the rainy day fund, you'd have to have a nuclear war before they use it. I don't know how many times the people have asked Governor Abbott to and in the governor before him to release funds out of the rainy day fund for a natural disaster, which is exactly what rainy day fund means. And they say, no, it's not time to use it. And it just builds and builds and builds. I think that I agree with Paul. This is a great political move if they if they play it right. Isn't that because first we wait and see what we get from the feds and then we'll fill in the gaps. Has that been the thinking? I don't know what the thinking is on it, but we need to give some money back. But we need to use it for the what the rainy day issues are. And those are infrastructure capitalization that used to happen and the non rainy days that are going on down in Corpus Christi where they're about to run out of water and figure out a way to get water from up here where we have lots of it and get it down there where they have none of it. Should we be bailing out Corpus Christi, Charles? That's a bailout on support. But if we answered all the other requests that they asked, we wouldn't have the $1500 to give people. So you don't have any money now, I think. But no, I think she she could throw out any number and be in benefit from the fact that, you know, everyone is assuming because it's Texas that their problems gonna win. So they're not really gonna investigate her numbers too much. She could say 5000 for as much as she wants, and it'll be fine. All right, we're gonna leave it there. Up next, a new crime fighter coming to the southern district of Texas, and he's promising to put a whole lot of bad guys out of business, bringing the heat and bringing the hammer to the enemies of law, order, justice and the Constitution here in Texas. In case you don't recall, that was Aaron writes, who ran a hard charging campaign for Texas Attorney General as a Republican. The fight in Texas Aggie, former combat marine, top lieutenant to Ken Paxton and former chief of staff for Senator Ted Cruz, has been named U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, one of the most consequential law enforcement jobs in the country, given the huge volume of drug smuggling, human trafficking, fraud and, frankly, unfettered political corruption in need of serious policing. Penal rights pledges to be relentless adding things are about to, quote, get real bad for criminals in the southern district. Charles, you know, Aaron. Yeah, we were to follow some together. I think Aaron's a great guy. I'm excited about this because it's gonna be bringing aggressiveness of the office that we haven't seen. There's a lot of public corruption that we all document and talk about that never gets actually prosecuting. So I'm excited to see this, and I'm hoping that we can start seeing things all over and all these agencies from H I C to Metro everywhere else looking into what's going on there. Yeah, folks in your world are watching Aaron writes closely. Well, absolutely. And this is a very important position. This southern district of Texas is the most active U. S. Prosecutorial district in the country, and they've got a lot of work to do. We've got to get him approved. And with the death of Senator Lindsey Graham this morning, that process could get delayed, unfortunately, and I pray for his family. But we need him in office and doing the job and the Salgado killing could end up on his desk right away. Chris, you practice in federal courthouse. I do. And I don't know, Aaron, but the southern district of Texas, under both Trump administrations, has focused almost exclusively on immigration issues, and they spent all their time down at the border. Uh, and that's why I think you're hearing like Charles said. We've got all these other issues that they haven't paid attention to, and they have not been indicting those issues for during both Trump administrations. If Aaron is, if Aaron is telling the truth that he's going to change the culture for the southern district of Texas, it would be looking at greater issues than just immigration. Yeah. First, it's Paul Castro on this show and then now writes as U. S. It's a Aggie hegemony. Yeah. So, um, you know, David's killer was also prosecuted for wire fraud in federal court. And so there are a lot of laws that fall within that and a lot of corruption that's embedded. And so, you know, I think crime victims would wish him nothing but the best upon being confirmed and hoping that he succeeds. Yeah. And get after the corruption. Thanks to this week's panel and thank you for joining us. 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