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Speaker 1:
[00:00] Now, on 105.9 FM and streaming worldwide on the WMAL app, O'Connor & Company.

Speaker 2:
[00:12] And we made it, it's 5.07, it's O'Connor & Company, and yes, it's Friday, we're in love. Thanks for tuning in to this here Morgan show known as O'Connor & Company. That's right, good Morgan. Coming up at 6.35, Carol Harris, Travis Mannion Foundation, DC Chapter, you know this Saturday is the 11th annual Travis Mannion, Mannion WOD, that's workout day. We got to, everybody got workout, workout.

Speaker 3:
[00:38] I mean, some of us workout lots of other dates too, but.

Speaker 2:
[00:41] Yeah, you know, you know the thing.

Speaker 3:
[00:42] This is a good one.

Speaker 2:
[00:43] And it's a very public showing, they're gonna do a, they're gonna do a crossfit right around, surrounding the hillside where the Iwo Jima Memorial is in Arlington.

Speaker 3:
[00:53] Oh, that's gonna be stunning.

Speaker 2:
[00:54] That's gonna be very cool and very Semper Fi. That's very Marine Corps. They don't just work out. All right, let's all go do it as a group. We'll do it outside so everyone can see us. And we'll do it at Iwo Jima. Coming up at 7.35, Sean Spicer. The Semper Fi there, it's Semper C. He's a captain in the US Navy and we'll discuss the latest out of Iran and also get his perspective on the White House Correspondence Dinner tomorrow night here in DC. It's getting a lot of buzz. It's like the White House Correspondence Dinner is back to the glamour days, back when it was so glitzy and hot. And I'm not happy about that. I wanted this thing to die a slow, miserable, lonely death. And now because President Trump has agreed to participate again, it's like, oh, no, we'll get Sean's perspective.

Speaker 3:
[01:44] Well, you know what it is. It's like when the nerds get in charge of the prom and now finally we got the prom. So it's this ping pong between one group of kids versus another over the prom. And this is purely just media prom.

Speaker 2:
[02:00] Maybe Patrice. I know they call White House correspondent student nerd prom, but that's not fair, is it?

Speaker 3:
[02:07] I mean, it's not fair to nerds.

Speaker 2:
[02:10] I mean, it's not fair to nerds because nerds are wonderful people. Nerds are smart. Nerds are happy.

Speaker 3:
[02:18] They're kind, usually.

Speaker 2:
[02:20] And now you're associating nerds with White House reporters. That's terrible for nerds.

Speaker 3:
[02:26] Well, but you know, you want smart people to be reporting on happenings, you know, at the White House.

Speaker 2:
[02:32] That's what we want, but I don't think we have that.

Speaker 3:
[02:37] We don't always have that in every outlet. That is true.

Speaker 2:
[02:41] By the way, we're just diving right in. Larry O'Connor, that right there this Friday is Patrice Onwuka. Good morning, Patrice.

Speaker 3:
[02:48] Good morning, Larry. Happy Friday, everybody.

Speaker 2:
[02:51] Okay. We've got that out of the way. Yesterday, we had Ken Cuccinelli on the program. Of course, former Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia. He worked very hard to try to push against this referendum to amend the Constitution that would allow the redistricting that we're now seeing play out here with, well, basically, the robbing of four congressional districts out of Republican hands into Democrats' hands. And there's been a lot of analysis in the 24 hours about this court decision that blocked this. Oh, by the way, I'm sorry. We had Ken Cuccinelli on on Wednesday. So he let us know the day after the referendum, this ain't going anywhere. The courts are going to stop it. Thursday, that's what happened. Late Wednesday, that's what happened. The court came in, put a temporary restraining order, and will not allow the referendum to move forward. Now it's going to go to the state Supreme Court. Jake Tapper, obviously, he has people who listen to this show. He said, that Ken Cuccinelli guy I heard on O'Connor's show, that was a good interview. Let's get him on my show. And well, here's what Ken Cuccinelli said. It's pretty good. Take a listen, because there's a whole lot of analysis yesterday about what this judge did and what's really going on in Virginia with regard to the legal battle over this referendum. And by the way, I want to admit, I was kind of, I was ranting about it's like, if there wasn't even a question whether this thing is constitutional or not, why did they let the vote go forward? Why spend all of that money? Why get us all angst ridden and now have the courts come in? I was like annoyed about that. But Cuccinelli here explains, and I want everyone to hear, that that's actually the process. That had to happen. Here, listen.

Speaker 4:
[04:29] Cuccinelli, he's a Republican. Ken, Ken, good to see you. So first, I guess, let's get to the breaking news. This judge in Southern Virginia ordered results to not be certifi-

Speaker 2:
[04:40] Hold on. By the way, this is Jake Tapper doing this story yesterday afternoon, saying it's breaking news that the judge did it. Well, it actually happened 24 hours before. It happened late in the day on Wednesday. Here's the afternoon Thursday. Jake Tapper's calling it breaking news. No, we had this story, you know, yesterday morning, 10 hours before Jake Tapper went on there. This is what they do in cable news, Patrice. Oh, this is breaking.

Speaker 3:
[05:05] And can we also underscore the fact that Ken Cuccinelli is not just some Republican from Virginia. He was a former Virginia Attorney General. Thank you very much. This man knows what he's talking about.

Speaker 2:
[05:14] And Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security.

Speaker 3:
[05:18] That's right.

Speaker 2:
[05:19] But that's it. Let's bring in this guy. He's a Republican. Yeah, thank you. That's Jake Tapper. That's CNN. All right. I won't interrupt again.

Speaker 4:
[05:27] The judge called the ballot language flagrantly misleading. What's your reaction?

Speaker 5:
[05:32] Well, it certainly was flagrantly misleading, but my basic reaction is that I appreciate lower court wins, but the Virginia Supreme Court is going to decide this. And to Terry's point about, well, hey, if they didn't decide it before, there's a reason the Supreme Court held off until after the vote. Over 100 years of Virginia legal precedent says that the vote by in a referendum is part of the legislative process. It's analogous to a governor signing a bill. You don't sue on a bill that hasn't passed yet. So what they've done here in terms of timing is very much in keeping with the Virginia legal history. What isn't in keeping with Virginia legal history is how this General Assembly has so blatantly ignored the requirements of the Constitution to amend the Constitution. So I think it's highly likely that this will be overturned probably in May.

Speaker 4:
[06:30] So CNN's Manu Raju pressed Speaker Johnson today about some of the criticism from Republicans that the party...

Speaker 2:
[06:38] All right. Now they get into... Now they get out of the legal question and they say, well, how come Republicans didn't spend more money? Which is a fair enough question, but to engage in it here at this point in terms of Jake Tapper doing it is just to really tweak and say, well, you guys stink, you're Republicans. But there you go, there he is predicting that by May, so in other words, within the next four weeks, the court is probably going to overturn this. There is a temporary restraining order because of this judge's decision, Patrice, that will stop the implementation of this thing. Meanwhile, you've got Democrats in these new districts raising money, campaigning, they want to have a primary. They're all fighting each other to win because they know that if they get in these new drawn districts, they're congressmen for life. Yeah, so this is quite a process here. There's more analysis that Cuccinelli brings us, but go ahead on this.

Speaker 3:
[07:29] You know, I so appreciate what Ken Cuccinelli laid out, the fact that, you know, you had to go through with this vote, and sorry, the referendum vote had to happen, so that you're suing based on something, based on a vote that actually occurred.

Speaker 5:
[07:45] Four constitutional challenges.

Speaker 3:
[07:47] Yep, yeah, exactly, four constitutional challenges. And by the way, he, no problem, on Wednesday morning, he really laid out the four arguments for dismantling why the vote should be invalidated and it was illegal. You know, I think from the Democrats' perspective, they're going to view this as a win either way. If it gets overturned, this still gives them a talking point, a messaging point to say, well, the will of the people has been overturned. Those Republicans again, as you said, a lot of these legislators or wannabes are raising money. They're trying to build their repertoire, they build their voter base. And Larry, this is something that I think unique to Democratic voters, less Republican voters. This is an opportunity, this whole exercise was an opportunity to get Northern Virginia members of, you know, government workers, former government workers, non-profit leaders who are now unemployed, you know, this whole cottage industry of people who are really ticked off with President Trump for cutting the the graft and the pork out of Washington and out of these agencies. You harnessed all of that negative energy, you amped them up again, get them out to vote. And now you can run this tells you, oh, we can get them to vote again and again in Virginia politics.

Speaker 2:
[09:10] Well, yes and no, except for the fact that Abigail Spanberger won by double digits and this thing barely passed by just two points. If anything, you could take this away and say, despite all that money and despite all that anti-Trump rhetoric and despite all of the efforts to rally all of those disgruntled, you know, out of work USAID employees, they barely won. And that was with Republicans being outspent five to one or six to one. So a little bit more on this analysis and that whole thing about what you just said. Oh, well, this is a good... Now we've got the court, they're going to overrule the will of the people. I told you this was going to happen. And that's exactly what they're saying right now, but we'll unpack the reality of what's happening here with the courts and what could very well be a solid win for justice and for the Constitution and a spanking of the Democrats trying to jam this through and do an end around the Constitution of Virginia. We'll give you further analysis on that in a moment.

Speaker 5:
[10:06] Well, there's no question that the three or four-to-one spending difference was the margin. When all the votes are counted, this will be about a two or three-point win for the yes side. That is, it's hard to say that money didn't make that difference. But now they have to win four constitutional challenges, state constitutional to clarify challenges. And they have to win all four of them to hold on to this referendum. I just don't think they can do it. There's some very basic processes in the Constitution for amending the Constitution that they ignored. And now they're gonna say, just like Terry did, well, three million people voted and you can't ignore the will of the people. Well, they were ignoring the will of the people and now they brought this forward. And now we're gonna have it decided by the Virginia Supreme Court. I wouldn't be surprised to see a 7-0 ruling throwing this out.

Speaker 2:
[11:08] Wow, a unanimous ruling there predicted. Well, he said he wouldn't be surprised, but he's not going so far as to predict it. But he is predicting it will be overturned on one of those four constitutional challenges, that's former Attorney General of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli. And two things that I want to point out. First of all, yes, that's the talking point that the left is repeating over and over and over again. And I told you the day after, as now the legal challenge begins, that this is the only thing they've got to hang their hat on. A judge came down and made a ruling here, putting a temporary halt on implementing this referendum. And he gave four reasons that were argued by plaintiffs representing Republicans and the people of Virginia in the court. He gave those four legal reasons, Patrice. And the response across the board from Democrat activists and from politicians has not been to address those four constitutional issues. They ignore those four constitutional issues. They say, yesterday 2.5 million Virginians voted. They passed a redistricting amendment, 51% to 49%. And now, a single judge is going to overturn the will of the people. That's all they've got. They're going to hang their hand on that. And the reason is because we've seen historically judges do exactly that. They will actually say, well, the legal challenges were correct. And there was a violation of procedure. And they didn't do this right. And they didn't do, but the people have spoken. And we are so hesitant to overturn the will of the people. This is what Democrats are trying to do. And they're trying to appeal to those seven justices and say, I don't care what the law says. You can't overturn a vote. And they may win with that argument. But just be clear, that seems to be their only argument.

Speaker 3:
[13:02] Well, I think the point that Ken Cuccinelli made, though, is that they would have to win on all four of the challenges. And that's a pretty high hurdle to meet. And for the judges to say, well, they fail on all four hurdles. But the will of the people, the will of the people, the will of the people. I also want to point out that I have heard some Democrats. I forget which interview I heard, who it was. But they're talking about how, can you imagine an activist judge interceding? Right.

Speaker 2:
[13:33] That's pretty rich coming from the left, Patrice.

Speaker 3:
[13:35] Thank you. When we consider all of the activism, the judicial activism at lower level courts against the Trump administration's every move, frankly. So, you know, the left, the only thing they're consistent with is hypocrisy and their naked desire for power. You know, I'm looking forward to seeing this slap down, but I also recognize that very often, sometimes the win is just the messaging point that you can rally people behind and throw on your list of other things, because it's a nice distraction from the fact that you have a governor who was elected in Virginia, who has turned out to be, she's like on Scooby Doo, those characters who get unmasked. And it's, you know, you're thinking it's one person and it's really just somebody else. And so Virginia has a Scooby Doo governor who's pushing forward a lot of radical agenda items. And this is a way for her to redeem herself, or at least to cover up for the time being, you know, the fact that she's doing that.

Speaker 2:
[14:34] Yeah, I know Abigail Spanberger should be looking around saying, this is not going well for me. But just understand, this is the argument they're going to have and they're going to keep pressing it and it's all you're going to hear for the next several weeks. So I want you to be prepared for it because they're going to say every single voter, those two and a half minutes, their votes were counted. They won and now a single judge is overruling the will of the people. That's not what democracy is all about. We need to honor democracy. And here's the next talking point. If one judge in Virginia is willing to do that on this referendum, what do you think will happen in November when the control of Congress is at stake? This is Republicans will never let go of power. Donald Trump will fight the election in November and he will try to find judges who will overturn the rule of the people. And this is the fear mongering they're doing. But just understand, the fatal flaw in this system happened when Democrats decided to violate the law and violate the Constitution in the first place. And that is not a technicality. That is a procedure that should have been honored, should have been respected. It was dumped on. And this is why courts exist. So let's let that system play out and we will keep watching it. It's 524.

Speaker 1:
[15:55] Now on 105.9 FM and streaming worldwide on the WMAL app, O'Connor & Company.

Speaker 2:
[16:05] It is 537. Good morning, O'Connor & Company here, right where it belongs and right where you belong. Thanks for letting us ride along with you on your morning routine. Coming up at 635, Carol Harris, Travis Mannion Foundation. We love those guys. There's going to be a mass workout tomorrow because it's Mannion WOD workout day. If you want to do some crossfit, you can at the Iwo Jima Memorial. 7th day, are you going to do that, Patrice? Are you one of those crossfit people? Crossfit people are insane. You know that, right?

Speaker 3:
[16:35] I am not.

Speaker 2:
[16:35] Yeah, don't crossfit.

Speaker 3:
[16:36] I'm not. I would have abs at this point if I did.

Speaker 2:
[16:40] Friends and old friends do crossfit. At 7.35, Sean Spicer, former White House Press Secretary will join us. And then at 8.35, Ali Triolo, RNC Election Communications Director. We're going to talk about election integrity efforts right now. In light of this week's referendum in Virginia and looking forward to the primaries and to the general election. Get into all that later. I'm Larry O'Connor with Patrice Onwuka this morning. Good morning, Patrice.

Speaker 3:
[17:08] Good morning, Larry.

Speaker 2:
[17:10] Dare I say we've grown accustomed to telling just Looney Tunes insane stories of what goes on in Loudoun County, Virginia's school system. I mean, you think about the stories over the years that we've talked about that end up getting national exposure.

Speaker 3:
[17:25] That's right. Yes.

Speaker 2:
[17:28] The latest outrage really, I guess would go back to the boys who were suspended from school because they complained that a girl was in their locker room. By the way, that girl also illegally made video footage of them with a smartphone in the men's locker room. That girl who was in the men's locker room pretending to be a boy was not disciplined in any way whatsoever for her behavior. But the boys were suspended. Of course, there were lawsuits. They ended up settling. The boys have been restored. But here, dare I say, of all the stories we've had in Loudoun County school system over the years, this next one that Nick Minock of WJLA is reporting here in DC, might be the most bizarre. Here's how it begins. Loudoun County Sheriff's Office arrested a Loudoun County Public Schools substitute teacher. According to the Sheriff's Office, Hadyn Dollery, 19. Hold on. How is a 19-year-old qualified to be a substitute teacher?

Speaker 3:
[18:29] There are probably some 19-year-old illegal immigrants, students who are in the school system right now.

Speaker 2:
[18:34] Exactly. We know that's true in Fairfax. All right. Hold on to that for a moment. 19-year-old Hadyn Dollery of Chantilly arrested and charged with threats of bodily injury after the Sheriff's Office received information through the Safe2Talk app, indicating that Dollery made statements threatening violence at John Champ High School on an online platform. The Dollery was taken into custody off school grounds and is currently being held with outbound at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center. And then there was a picture of this person. And it looks like a dude who was reliving his 70s, bad hair, heavy metal age.

Speaker 3:
[19:12] Yeah. He's much older than 19 for sure.

Speaker 2:
[19:15] But you know, he's got sort of a heavy metal, sort of long hair, wavy do going on with the bad dye job that shows the dark roots and the light, you know, it's fine.

Speaker 3:
[19:24] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[19:25] And it's also one of those sort of really sort of eerie, smirky looking headshots. Like people who smile for their mugshot, I never know what's going on there exactly.

Speaker 3:
[19:40] It's like maniacal mastermind or just crazy murderer.

Speaker 2:
[19:47] Maybe, maybe. But there's definitely something off, right? All right, so then a little while later, Nick Minock tweets some further information about said Hadyn Dollery, 19 year old, now arrested for making violent online threats and threatening violence at a local high school who was also a substitute teacher in the Loudoun County school system. The 19 year old Loudoun County public school substitute teacher is a biological male who identifies as a woman.

Speaker 3:
[20:16] Oh, that's a big piece of information.

Speaker 2:
[20:18] Confirmed that Hadyn Dollery is booked as a male in the adult detention center. So color me shocked that we've got another example of violence being threatened by someone who identifies as transgender. But this is a 19 year old male identifying as a female who has violent tendencies and was a substitute teacher in the Loudoun County school system. Who is in charge of this school system? That this person is assigned as a teacher in a classroom.

Speaker 3:
[20:50] Well, not just a teacher in a classroom. Apparently this person has also been a camp counselor. So again, among young people in the past is as early as just last summer. And other probably student or young person facing interactions. You know, thank goodness for technology being developed and used by law enforcement to uncover the creeps that are out there. And these creeps are hiding in our schools. The question is now, what's going on? I mean, obviously there's a criminal investigation going with Hadyn Dullery. I kind of think that's even a made up name.

Speaker 2:
[21:27] Hadyn with a Y.

Speaker 3:
[21:29] Hadyn with a Y. Yes, with a Y. The school system should be looking at themselves wondering, okay, how are we not finding out about the people that we're hiring and what they're up to in their after hours time? Because Hadyn could have brought a gun to school.

Speaker 2:
[21:46] Is there no screening process?

Speaker 3:
[21:48] Hadyn could have brought a gun to school and enacted out his fantasies and killing other students. There's got to be some introspection here. And also, you got to think about just generally, why such a young age? Why are they allowing substitutes at such a young age? I don't know, there are a lot of questions here.

Speaker 2:
[22:10] We searched for answers to those things. Another local television station, not WJLA, wrote this up as well and answered some of that. Dollery was a non-licensed substitute teacher during the 25-26 school year. Non-licensed substitute must be at least 18, have a high school diploma or equivalency. Hold on. So you don't even have to have a high school diploma to be a teacher in the system and be approved by the Virginia Department of Education according to LCPS. By the way, one other quick thing here about Hadyn, who apparently, Hadyn be hatin out there with his violent threats against the high school. Listen to how reporting stories like this end up warping the English language when your style book respects people's pronoun selection. Listen to this paragraph. Deputies located Dollery off school grounds and arrested them without incident, according to police. They have been charged with threats of bodily injury. So hold on, so there's more than one person involved in this?

Speaker 3:
[23:02] That's what that sounds like to me.

Speaker 2:
[23:04] What do you mean arrested them? Who else was arrested? Oh, that's right. They, them pronouns. Terrific. Again, a teacher in Loudoun County Public Schools, who not only is transgender violence, or accused of transgender violent threats against students and against the school, but also apparently is now forcing non-English grammar conditions onto the students in the Loudoun County school system. Doing great LCPS, you're doing great. It's 544. No, Fairfax, Virginia, we haven't forgotten you. We're not gonna let Loudoun County have all of the insane fun with their transgender violence and 19-year-old substitute teachers and they thems. No, no, no. You just keep doing your thing, Fairfax. Fairfax always tells Loudoun County to hold their beer. Oh, you get a 19-year-old transgender substitute teacher making violent threats in the school system.

Speaker 3:
[24:03] Let me show you what I got.

Speaker 2:
[24:04] I'll show you. I'll see that and raise it one further. How about another illegal immigrant, violent criminal released instead of handed over to ICE? Well, we got one for you. Homeland Security announces the arrest of a criminal, illegal child predator.

Speaker 3:
[24:21] Oh, goodness.

Speaker 2:
[24:22] Ronnie Menendez Escobar, illegal alien from Guatemala, previously arrested in October for 15 felony counts of possession of obscene material and two felony counts of possession of child porn with intent to distribute. And he was released because of Virginia's sanctuary policies. So Virginia arrests a guy, 15 counts of possession of obscene material and two felony counts of possession of child porn with intent to distribute. Virginia arrests him, Fairfax arrests him, finds out he's in the country illegally. There's a detainer. If they hand him over to ICE, he'll get deported. So instead, they say, you know what? The humane thing to do, the best thing to do in respecting law and order, civil rights and the safety of the people of Virginia is to let this guy back out on the street rather than have him deported because that's the compassionate thing to do. And he was let go. ICE did find him, pursue him, arrested him. And if Abigail Spanberger has her way, ICE would not be able to do that in this state either. Just another example of what these sanctuary policies bring you.

Speaker 3:
[25:37] The sad part is Larry, you can tell this to Steve Descano. I mean, he knows about it. He certainly signed off on it. You could tell it to the Sheriff County, the Sheriff Stacey Kincaid. She knows that this is wrong. They don't care. You could tell this story to your liberal friends. They don't care because to them it is all stop Trump, stop mass removal of illegal immigrants, particularly the violent ones. They don't care. It's all about the politics and the partisanship. And the sad part is the victims are the children who are trafficked over and over again for the lusts of men like this Ronnie Mendez Escobar and the people that he has probably traded child porn with. Those are the victims and they will never get their chance for true justice until people who are willing to actually meet out justice do it instead of pursuing politics and partisanship.

Speaker 2:
[26:35] And it goes even further than that, Patrice, because all you've heard from Democrats at the national level for the last year has been Epstein files, Epstein files, Epstein files. We're just trying to protect the young girls and trying to find the... And listen, Epstein was a predator. Elaine Maxwell is a predator, was a predator. There were girls who were harmed by those two. There were obviously a mountain of crimes perpetrated against young girls. The grandstanding from Democrats about the Epstein files are all focused in one direction because they think, erroneously, based on every shred of evidence that I've seen, that in some way Donald Trump was involved in that. And they see it as a political weapon against Donald Trump to peddle innuendos that somehow Donald Trump is soft on Epstein and soft on child predators and soft on pedophilia and all these things, even though there's absolutely no evidence. In fact, the only evidence that we've got is that Donald Trump was one of the few people in 2019 who actually, excuse me, 2009, who blew the whistle on Epstein and cooperated with police in Palm Beach to get this guy under control. So they claim that all they care about is protecting children. And here you've got it on the granular level. Fairfax District Attorney Steve Descano, this is from our friend Mr. Kennedy of Virginians for Safe Communities. Fairfax DA Steve Descano let illegal alien child predator Ronnie Mendez Escobar out on no bail, no bail, mind you. Just let him out without having to pay a penny bail. Three days after his arrest on October 23rd, 25, before he was arrested again for child porn on November 6th, so two weeks later he was arrested again. And this week, Descano dropped all charges against this guy.

Speaker 3:
[28:22] This is sick. So sick.

Speaker 2:
[28:23] Just prior to ICE finally arresting him and now putting him in the pond. So while they tell you that all they care about is the Epstein files and the Epstein files and who was thinking of the children, who's protecting the children, Steve Descano and his party, the Democrats, are just fine with this policy that puts this peddler of child porn on the street again to stalk your daughter, to stalk your son. That's who they are. And don't forget, we won't let you forget it because these stories are daily right now. It's 553.