Rick Green [00:00:07] This is the intersection of faith and culture. It's the WallBuilders Show. Taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical and constitutional perspective. More can be found at wallbuilders.com and wallbuilders.show. Dot show for the radio program. If you missed any programs last week or the last couple of weeks, you can catch those at wallbuilders.show and then wallbuilders.com for everything else, including the tools you need to be a part of the 250th and a part of the answer. Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton and guys, quite a weekend. Some, some special elections in Texas that made the headlines. Definitely need to talk about those. And then it looks like President Trump is closing the Kennedy center for a couple of years for renovations and kind of revamping things there. That's going to be pretty interesting. So, some interesting announcements over the weekend. And then of course, things still going on in Minneapolis. Probably get to that as well, but what's at the top of y'all's list for this Monday morning? 

David Barton [00:01:00] I think the one going on with Texas ought to be hit first with Sylvester Turner's old seat. He passed away in office. And so, it's been a seat open for about 10 months now. They went through 16 Democrat candidates in the primaries. And so, Democrats have won that. And so the headlines are how, how much it shrinks the Republican majority that Mike Johnson has to work with. And, you know, just kind of put it all in perspective. Look, that seat with Sylvester Turner has been Democrat since George Washington was president. Or somewhere back in that vicinity. I mean, this has been a perpetual Democrat seat in Texas and they're counting it like national news. Like it's a big turnover and here, here's what really got me. And I, you know, guys, I go back obviously several decades. And I remember when we had something called new math, Rick was, was new math gone? Was it old by the time you got there? Do you remember new math? 

Rick Green [00:01:51] Yeah. Yeah. No, I remember, you know, it was, it was to make kids feel better, you know, and, and you just kind of whatever answer you, whatever answer you come up with is okay.

David Barton [00:02:01] It's kind of like gender; just choose anything you want. There's, there's no real concrete answer to it. So, here's what the Democrat National Committee has said that since Trump won the presidency, the Democrats have now won 240 out of 269 races in the nation. So, Republicans have only, according to them, won 29 races. And of course they have defined it in such a way that said, well, means we want it or that we did better than we expected or better than you expected. It's not a win. And so, it's just, the media has picked up. Well, even I've seen some of the conservative media seems to be kind of on the fear monger side of this thing. Oh, this, this could be a real turn. It's a turn. It is nothing significant. And by the way, Sylvester Turner's seat actually might become a Republican seat. When later the summer we expect to hear from the Supreme court. That they're not going to maintain these minority seats since the 1965 Voting Rights Act, that they have been maintained in such a way that actually violates what the Voting Rights Act was trying to do. And so they're going to go back to original intent and everybody being equal, regardless of race, et cetera. So it's kind of a fun thing to see everybody panic over. But it's just, you know, from where I'm sitting, it doesn't look like that big a deal, quite frankly. 

Rick Green [00:03:24] Well, and don't you think too, David, they were trying to confuse people with that state Senate race, which was a little bit of a shocker with the low turnout, a Democrat won it is it's somewhat irrelevant because unless we have a special, this guy that won the seat in this special election, unless we had a special legislative session, he's never going to get to really do anything because in November, I would guess Republicans actually take that seat back when you have the regular turnout, you know, it was special election and for, you're frozen tundra of Fort Worth and all that. And, but, but that was a shocker that, you know, our, our friend Lee did not win that in the special, I believe she'll win in November, but. That people were talking about, and I understand, but that's because they don't know what the weather was and the turnout and, and that it was a special and all of that, but the congressional seat is what they tried to, I guess what I'm trying to say is they tried to make you people feel like, oh, we're going to lose Congress. I think the headline I saw was GOP majority even smaller now. And I was thinking, wait. how was our.... But what they meant was the seat was empty. So, there was no one there to vote in that seat. And somehow that, but they tried to give the impression that the Republicans had lost another seat in Congress. Anyway, I probably just made it muddier than I needed to, but I think that was kind of their goal was to mix the headlines with the congressional seat. That's always been Democrat with the state Senate seat that has actually kind of gone back and forth over the decades, but had been Republican and probably will be Republican again in November. Does that make sense guys? Clear as mud? 

Tim Barton [00:04:51] Well, I think it does overall, but I do think, you know, one of the things that I think probably two things are true at once, we've talked about it before, President Trump has a major challenge with having a House and Senate on his side in the midterm, a Senate probably more likely than the House. Just because of what historically has happened. Historically, the president who whatever political party has the presidency, usually loses the house in the midterm election. That is just historically what normally happens. So, it's possible that the house goes Democrat in the midterm, but I don't know that this is to your point. I don't t know this is a really good indicator that we now have a really good prediction of where it's going because of these. And as you mentioned, like with the Texas Senate race in Tarrant County, Fort Worth, that President Trump won significantly. There was over 400,000 people that voted in that Senate district in the presidential election. And this time there was 90 something thousand people that voted. It's really not a good indicator of exactly what's going on. The fact that there were, I think 50 something thousand Democrats that voted and 47,000 Republicans that voted, and President Trump, when he won that district, he won it with 230,000, Kamala Harris got 160,000 and I think ultimately what happened is either the Democrats voted at a time when there wasn't ice on the ground, or I think what's also super likely right now is that the Trump hate is stronger among a percentage of Democrats than the excitement is for the same number of Republicans. This is not at all a slight on Lee. I think it's, who is that republican Senate candidate. I think she's a great candidate. I think very much she's gonna win in the election, probably this fall, because this was a special election, just fill in the gap for a little bit. But what I do think is, that probably there are a lot of Republicans that thought, you know what, this isn't gonna be close. I'm not worried about it. I think there was a lot Republicans that thought they're not really excited about what's going on. And on the left, there are some radical lunatic Trump haters, MAGA haters that are very motivated. And I think they were just more motivated people on the Democrat side than on the Republican side. But I don't know that that's going to be the accurate reflection when it comes to elections this fall, especially not in Tarrant County. Again, it doesn't mean that I necessarily think that Trump for sure is going to maintain, Republicans maintain the House in the fall. I just don't think this is quite the canary in the coalmine that people or at least that leftist media is pretending like it is. 

David Barton [00:07:43] You know, the thing I would add to it, I may have a little different perspective here and it may be too much inside baseball, but Tarrant County, Tim, where you're talking about the Senate race, that's right where WallBuilders is. Now we're adjoining Parker County, but the Tarrant County Metroplex, this is, that's the media market. This is the DFW media market, everybody in that four, five, six, seven counties that are there, this is in our backyard. And I've got to say, that I literally, until I saw the news, I did not know there was a special election going in Tarrant County. The news has not covered it, the media has not covered it and I'll point out, I don't think the Republican Party of Texas covered it. And I put as much on them as anything else. Democrats were able to get their people out in Tarrant County by plus 10,000, Republicans didn't. And so, I didn't see any money spent, maybe they spent some. But man, if they did, they never even penetrated my media market, my social media market, anything else that I saw. I never even knew an election was going on until I read that we'd lost that special election. So, I don't, I don't so much put this on Trump or Trump haters either side. I put this more on a failure of the infrastructure of the party to do what it needs to do. And if they're going to act like this in the other States, we're going to have a tough midterm. Although we did cover Good News Friday last week, that actually right now, the polling is way ahead of where it should be for Republicans to, it's still hard for Republicans, to maintain, but they're not looking like they're losing 27 seats right now which is what the party typically loses in the off-year election. So, we'll see, but I kind of look at this and say this was also a state political failure, possibly Tarrant County Republican Party political failure. I don't know. But I do know that living right there in that media market and having no word there was even an election going on is not good for trying to get turn-out up. 

Rick Green [00:09:42] Yeah. And I could tell you, man, it was, we went up and knocked on doors for Lee. One, one of the days, I think, two weeks ago or so. And almost no one we knocked on their door knew there was an election, right? There was, there was a few that said, oh yeah, yeah. And then they thought it was the March 3rd primary. They didn't realize it was a special coming up in 10 days, which is why we were there knocking on doors was to make sure that they knew, you know, to turn out for the special, not just March 3rd. So yeah, it was difficult, difficult thing, but I was shocked it at the 20,000 less Republican voters, whereas the Dems had roughly the same. I think they had 2,000 less, and the Republicans had 22,000, 22,000 less that showed up. 

Tim Barton [00:10:21] And the election was on a Saturday, which is a weird day for an election as well. So, so there was a lot of, I mean, Dad, to echo your sentiment, there wasn't good recognition, there wasn't a good media, although Rick, obviously kudos for you bringing the team up and helping knock on doors and great job for the Patriot Academy, the leader’s program, all you guys are doing. But this was, it was weird for a lot of reasons again, which was why I don't think. It's a good, this is not a good canary in the coal mine indicator because of how weird this was in so many ways. Now it's not good. It is an indictment on Dad, again, to your point, maybe not that we are personally calling out the Tarrant County GOP or the Fort Worth GOP necessarily, but like, clearly, it's an indictment on the Republicans in that area on the Christians and conservatives in that are who did not show up. But I don't know that this is reflective of. What the nation is going to do when there is a known election, when there are known candidates, when the date is clear. At that point, it's going to look very different. Again, it doesn't mean, I think necessarily that Trump necessarily is going to have support in the House and Republicans maintain or pick up seats. I think it's possible and there's a long way to go before that election gets here. There's going to be a lot of probably that kind of October surprise moments. Maybe some September and summer surprise moments, but certainly this was a very unique scenario. 

Rick Green [00:11:57] Yeah, so I don't think there were any other specials that I'm aware of over the weekend, but that pretty well covers the Texas elections. What else you guys see in the news over the weekend? 

David Barton [00:12:07] What I thought was really significant is some stuff going on up in Minneapolis with some judicial decisions. You know, we've all seen what's going up there. It's the national news. Now what is it? 30,000, they've arrested, I think in Minnesota on the ice being up there and all the protests and now there's a couple of deaths from the result of the protests that are there. But what's really, what got my attention first off was seeing that a federal judge said it is okay for ice to be up there It's okay for federal troops to come in and help enforce that. And coming out of Minnesota, I did not expect a federal judge to say that because at this point, we've been seeing the federal judges in these very blue states, very blue cities saying, no, no, you can't have the federal government here. You can't to have law enforcement and get them out. And so, as I read further, there were some really significant stuff. I thought that judge did a really good job of pointing out and pointed out that, look, If the state is going to refuse to enforce federal law, it's okay to bring in enforcement people that will do it. Now, if the state wants to start enforcing federal law there's no reason for the feds to be there. And that's what Trump's been saying. And significant to this is Tom Homan came in last week and sat down with everybody. And I think one of the key things here that I don't see covered really anywhere in the news is the detainer request. And all of this hinges on what's called detainer request. So, what happens, the Minneapolis police, they arrest somebody, they run background, they run checks, whatever, and they're arresting illegals, they're arresting citizens, they're arrested anybody that commits a crime. And so, when they do and run the check, they say, oh, this is an illegal immigrant who has already been convicted of a crime and has a conviction. Now, if you're going to stay a citizen of the United States, you can't have crime convictions. You can lose your you can be deported and lose your citizenship. So what happens is, at that point, the local police is supposed to notify the ICE people, the federal immigration people, that hey, we have someone here in jail who's committed a crime, they're illegally here, or perhaps they're a naturalized citizen, but they've committed this crime, and then they're supposed to hold them for 48 hours to let the federal officers get there and take them, take them into custody and prosecute them on federal crimes. You know, what's happening is in these big cities, whether it has been New York City or San Francisco or all of California, well not all of the California, but the blue part of California, Minnesota, they refuse to notify the federal government on detainers. And so that's why Trump has gone in and he's started picking up illegals that have been accused and convicted of crimes. And I saw part of the list here last week and it is abominable. I mean, there are so many pedophiles that have been arrested and the city released them back, never even notified. There’s so many, so many illegals that committed sodomy with young children, just unbelievable stuff. You don't want those people in the United States. And so that's why Trump brought the forces in is like, let's get the illegal guys out of here that are committing crimes, breaking the law. And so really all boiled down to this detainer kind of a thing that these, these blue cities have not been giving detainers and Homan said, look, if you want us gone, start following the federal law, start doing exactly what you're supposed to, and we won't need to be here. And actually, they agreed to that. And so, the judge pointed that out in the ruling says, hey, look looks like they've come to an agreement on upholding federal law. But if they're not going to uphold federal law it's okay for federal law enforcement to be there. And it's okay for these forces to be here. So, I thought that was a really significant breakthrough. That you had a federal judge in a very blue city say, hey, you're supposed to be upholding the law. And if the city and state's not going to uphold the law, somebody's gotta uphold it. And if it's gonna be the feds, then it's really on the blame of the city and the state that the Feds are even there. Because if they would uphold the laws, if Waltz would uphold law, if they wouldn't have even checked all the Somalian stuff with the fraud, there's no reason for the Feds to come in. And so, we're seeing now that, you know, kind of attention is looking for anywhere there's a big Somalian community. And there's really big communities over in Ohio and so attention is there, except it turns out the Republican governor over there has already been investigating that fraud, even before all the Somalia stuff came out and Minneapolis with Waltz. So, attention is now on it, but you've got governors that are trying to help and do the right thing and you've got governors who aren't. And so, I think that that's really a big story, even though the story itself is big. I think the big story is that the federal court said, yeah, somebody's got to enforce the law and if it's not going to be the state and local guys, the Feds can do it. And I think that's a really big step. And if the Democrats don't like ICE being in town, just uphold the laws. Just, just enforce the laws you swore to uphold. It's really simple. That's all there is to it. Now I doubt that that media message will get out. I think of, and I don't know, maybe we were talking last week, guys. Maybe you guys think it's getting out. We're seeing now the numbers, even in the mainstream media left sides that the overwhelming majority of Americans want all immigrants out of America. So maybe that message is getting out there, except the blue elected officials who are not getting the message. But again, I thought that was good news coming out of Minneapolis. 

Rick Green [00:17:37] Well, as we're going to break, I'm going to, I'm gonna feed one of your lines back to you, David, where, when we'll say something that makes a lot of sense and you'll say, yeah, but your problem is you're using common sense. Yes, you're exactly right. The rule of law makes sense. And it is really, it's great that we got the ruling from a judge supporting that rather than what we've been seeing where they try to undercut the Trump administration. So very good stuff. All right, quick break guys. We'll be right back here listening to the WallBuilders Show. 

Rick Green [00:19:10] Welcome back to the WallBuilders show. Thanks for staying with us. It's Monday and we're kind of treating almost like a mix of Good News Friday and Foundations of Freedom Thursday. This is a lot of kids, a lot to catch up on. We did this one-day last week and we did, I think we got one subject down guys last week and we use the whole program for it. So, catching up on some of those news items out there that we hadn't had a chance to chat about. Tim, what you got, bud?

Tim Barton [00:19:30] Guys, I saw over the weekend, Nick Shirley, the guy who exposed the fraud in the first place up in Minnesota, the YouTuber who just went and asked some questions, right? The Quality Learing Center, you know, just so many silly things that he found and really brought attention to so much of what was going on in Minnesota. Well, he's now in California and there've been some teasers for video, I think this week. In fact, it could be coming, some of those could be out today. Over the weekend, Amy Reichardt, that's who this is. She was on Jesse Waters and she was talking about how she had teamed up to some extent with Nick Shirley, but she is a licensed private detective in California. She had looked into what she called "ghost" daycares, where they would identify, just like in Minnesota, they identified that so many kids that were there, but you show up on any given day and there's no kids. There are these empty buildings and empty rooms and yet they're getting paid billions of dollars. And so, this is something that will be coming out what guys one of the things that we talked about, there’s a lot of good that comes from bringing sunlight to these fraudulent, illegal, corrupt things that are going on. We've often used the adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant. But what's also, one of the positives we think that's going to happen in Minnesota is not only has there been indication that some of this fraud has not just in the Somali day cares been funneling back to people overseas in Somali or wherever some family and friends might be, but it seems like Democrats have benefited in a lot of their campaigns. Some of these statewide elected officials have gained from this fraud coming in. So almost like a little bit of a funnel, maybe not money laundering exactly, but certainly a lot of very dishonest things. And we talked about in Minnesota that if you stop this pipeline, not just of these fraudulent businesses that's taking away taxpayer money. But also, you're shutting down these businesses that are getting money, not just to benefit themselves, but then are funneling that money into Democrat campaigns and to Democrat politicians. When you shut that off and then you deport so many of these immigrants who not only are doing fraudulent things and helping fund political campaigns, but also, they are changing the population, the voting population. So, they are able to continue to elect some of these people who probably wouldn't be elected if it wasn't from some of these individuals that to say the least have questionable voting status in some of the states. Well, California might be the, the most prime example where you can certainly identify they have millions of migrants living there and probably not, not legal migrants, legal immigrants, illegal immigrants living in California. This was one of the strategies that we talked about probably some last year. When you look at some of the census data, the fact that some of these states are welcoming and encouraging illegal immigrants to come move in their state because it increases the population of their state, which then increases how many Congress seats or congressional seats, congressmen and congresswomen they have. All of this has been going on in California. And I think Trump even on Truth Social, maybe it was last week, could have been the week before, but he talked about Minnesota it wasn't the only place. It's also going on and he mentioned California and said that California is probably the biggest of them all. The reason I'm trying to connect all these dots is because Nick Shirley, the young man that exposed so much of the fraud in Minnesota, he's been in California and they've been prepping those videos and those are supposed to come out this week. So, it will be quite interesting to see what all is exposed and just like what happened for Tim Waltz. And ultimately, I think as they continue the investigation that there's people now saying that Amy Klobuchar, even though she's running for governor, that she's guilty of this. Keith Ellison, a lot of these very noted names have been guilty of knowing and maybe arguably participating to some extent in the fraud of Minnesota. There's a lot claims already coming out that Gavin Newsom knew about this and kept quiet intentionally because of the benefits that whether it was him personally or his party we're getting, he stayed quiet on this. So it will be interesting not just to see how much fraud there was, not just to see the good things that are done by helping shut down the fraud, but also what political leaders or elected officials this could impact and maybe change the trajectory of them being elected in the future. 

Rick Green [00:24:18] Yeah. It could, it could be a huge factor going forward and then just pile on top of that one, Tim also, you got a couple of these high up lieutenant governors and governors actually calling on, you know, the, the involvement in stopping ICE. So, they're literally colluding with people to stop the rule of law from being implemented, as we were saying earlier should be. So, who knows if charges get filed against them as well. Now that's not Newsom himself or Waltz himself, but it's some of those high ups in the Democrat party. So yeah, this could have a huge impact on some of those big campaigns. David, what's your final story of the day? 

David Barton [00:24:52] You know, this one kind of goes back to kind of enjoyable stuff in the sense that with the collection we have between American Journey Experience and WallBuilders we've got a lot of stuff from space. We got Gemini stuff and Mercury stuff and Apollo stuff and really cool. And so now NASA is on its way back to the moon with what they're calling part of Artemis 2. And so, they're gonna be landing individuals on the moon again, like we did back in the 60s. So, you know, here we are nearly 70 years later, doing some cool technological stuff. Trump is wanting us back to get on the cutting-edge technology. And what we did in space opened so many things for the way we live our lives. So many inventions we have on a daily basis came out of the technology on those space programs. But now NASA just announced they're going to send manned mission to Mars. And I think that is absolutely fascinating. And what's cool is they're now upping their rockets to nuclear rockets, not just the rockets they've had. And so, whereas a trip to Mars, the last Voyager they put up on Mars, I think took seven months to get there one way. But now they're looking at only 45 days to get to Mars with this new technology and new nuclear science. So that's just one that's kind of fun. Just keep your eyes on. America on the cutting edge of scientific leadership again and having a manned mission to Mars. Moons is gonna be really fun. Lots of stuff to talk about, but going to Mars that's a new one. That's great.  

Rick Green [00:26:21] Yeah, good stuff being driven even, you know, sometimes from the private sector with Elon on that kind of stuff to, finally, President Trump getting some good people in over at NASA to kind of revitalize the desire to be leaders once again in that arena. So anyway, kind of a Good News Monday guys, a little bit different from our normal routine, but had a lot of interesting items to cover and catch up on. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. You've been listening to the WallBuilders Show.