tomorrow night. former u.s. trade representative robert lite -- lighthizer is going to be among our guests to clarify the bind's tough china policy. see you then. i'm larry kudlow. kennedy: welcome to the start of a great week any way you slice it, the situation on our southern border is a mess, but with thousands of migrants pouring across the border every day since biden took office, who is to blame? according to nancy pelosi, it is all a donald trump's fault. >> this is a humanitarian challenge to all of us. what the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border, and they are working to correct that in the children's interest. kennedy: nancy, i hate to break it to you, dear, but the people coming across the border aren't wearing shirts that i say, trump, please let us in.

they say, biden, please let us in. love him or hate him, this isn't the former president's fault. it's messaging from the current president. and house minority leader kevin mccarthy says it's joe biden's job to fix it. >> pride opinion, i sent -- president biden, i sent him a letter a week ago, let's sit down and talk about this. look what has happened on what he has created. change it. illegal gration is never right at any time. but border security is number one. kennedy: i am all for legal immigration. we have a broken system in this country. we need immigration reform, but there's no way to sugar don't what is happening now. it is a crisis. so whose fault is it, and how do you fix it? we've got the host of the guy benson news radio, the one and only guy benson. and we've got reason editor large and cohost of the fifth column podcast, it's mat welch.

and also the host of the aggressive progressive podcast, former aide to senator chuck schumer, christopher hahn is back. he looks menacing and delighted. so let's talk about this a little bit, guy benson. obviously, anytime a new president comes in, whenever there are faults, you want to blame the last person who was in the white house. that is natural. but it's also, it's very crass to do that without addressing what's happening to these children. >> right. so there's a few things to think about here. it is the true that this president is inheriting a broken immigration system. that is true of every president in recent decades. it's been a mess. joe biden, i would argue, has been in washington for, what, 170 years, so maybe he shoulders a bit more blame than other new presidents when it comes to internal enforcement and the whole scenario involving immigration reform. here's what bothers me about

this attempted blame game pointing backwards at the trump administration. there was a crisis at the border including among unaccompanied minors during the trump administration. they actually had a success in organizing and negotiating four bilateral agreements with mexico and three other central american countries to help mitigate that crisis and to sort of mitigate some of the strain and relieve some of the strain off of our system and our personnel. biden came in and wiped all of that away with no plan are to replace it with anything viable and, therefore, with that plus all the incentives from their rhetoric to their policy, of course there's another magnet that's been turned on like hyperpower to attract people to cross the border unlawfully. and to cap it all off, it's a neat little two-step, they deny the crisis that exists because they created it themselves. and they deserve a lot of pressure and scrutiny on this. kennedy: absolutely.

and, matt, when nancy moses says it's a humanitarian challenge -- nancy pelosi, no, that's giving the wrong order of turkey sand wishes to a refugee camp. when you have children sleeping on floors, who have been detained illegally now, two-thirds of them, and you have a 729% overcapacity rate at the facility in donna, texas, now they're looking for other federal facilities including air force bases in places like arizona and california. but it's not getting any better, and they don't seem to have a plan to address the why and the how. what do you hear? >> i can't believe -- actually, i can believe, that's the problem, you know, the house majority leader and the minority leader both stand up and say, darn it, that president, he's really got to do something. there is this thing called the legislative branch. kennedy: amen. >> they come up with laws about stuff. those laws determine things like

what do you do with asylum seekers, refugees who want to come in? the they actually pass laws, i would argue that donald trump flouted those laws, and i don't think -- to guy's point, i'm not sure just stopping the asylum, just gutting it, we don't have refugees anymore. refugees went away? that's not much of a plan either. so you're seeing a combination of both those things. we can, congress, pass a law about legal immigration. the l stuff, the stuff that we really, really like. they can and should to that, expanding that, correcting some of the, i would say, errors that donald trump made but also correcting generations of errors. they can do that. they're not. they'd rather demagogue this and make it all about presidentsment meanwhile, joe biden, he's got to have something besides a plan of saying i'm not going to deport anybody anymore, and i'm going to be welcoming. but there isn't any legislation to back it. of course you're going to see this. this pent-up demand of people

who are going to come to this country if they have no door to get into, they're going to dig around the door. there's no way they're not going to do it. kennedy: and, you know, it's such a toxic pendulum that goes back and forth between administrations. but to matt's point, chris, it's okay to look back and say immigration has been broken for a long time. what have we tried to do, what has failed, what has worked. even if you have to go back to the '50s and '60s to look at agreements that we've had with mexico, what we're doing now finish and i think we can all agree that immigration by fiat in terms of executive order that's been challenged and overturned in the courts is a bad policy. >> yeah. and i agree with everything mat just said. i think i've been reading his columns too much, so i'm standard -- starting to take after mat a lot. >> that'd be an improvement. [laughter] >> there was a bill that passed in 2013 in the united states senate. it was a comprehensive

immigration and border security bill. it passed with bipartisan support. it was never taken up in the house of representatives by john boehner. nancy pelosi could take it up in the house right now and send it back to the senate and to joe biden's desk. we can't keep governing by fiat or in the many other fields that congress has ceded its authority to the executive. those days should be over at this point, and we need to work together to get those bills passed. look, i agree with what's being said here. there are problems at the border. humanitarian issues with these people living down there, i don't like it. i want to see people living well, i want to see humanitarian relief to these people, but we can't just wish it away -- kennedy: no, and you can't just come up with a new word and pretend that their issues and their pain doesn't exist right now. that's lame too. but in a different realm, california students are struggling with depression, isolation and huge learning gaps

like other kids across the country. their teachers appear to be living the california dream. leaked documents show multiple california school districts have discussed dispersing teacher bonuses. teachers joking about using the money to go on vacation to hawaii. this is money that's supposed to go to reopening schools. i say lock it up or give it to the unemployed parents who have been unable to work because they're caring for their kids. what do you see here, guys? >> i would love a bonus for not showing up to work. that sounds amazing, but it's not life ought to work. i've been reading the proposed agreement that the los angeles teachers union has hammered out in southern california, and it's wild. the elementary school students would not be in full time. they'd go back in april, late april and early may would be middle and high school students, and this is the plan, they would come in two days a week for

in-person learning where they would all sit at desks with headphones on a laptop learning from teachers elsewhere while there's a teacher in front of them teaching can -- kennedy: not their teach everybody, yes. and it is not their teacher. >> this is madness. this is completely, like, lunacy. and yet this could actually be the new policy in one of the largest school districts in the country. and i have to imagine -- i'm not a parent yet, but there have to be people at their tipping point because this is so disgraceful. kennedy: they are, that's why -- >> it almost feels like abuse. kennedy: and that's why the recall petition for gavin newsom needed 1.5 million signatures, they're over 2 million. they still have a couple days left to gather those signatures. mat, i talk about this on my show a lot, the teens are the forgotten group of kids because no one talked about getting high schoolers back in school. they really just talk about k-8, but we haven't talked a lot

about the moms and the unemployment that's affecting women who have been shut out of the work force for years. >> it's amazing. the female work force participating rate is the lowest we've seen since 1988. we are not just going backwards, we're sprinting backwards. and it's a gendered recession. like, almost entirely. almost all of the jobs. kamala harris wrote a piece about this in "the washington post" on february, i think it was 12th, and i remember that date because she's lamenting we need to do something about it. the american rescue plan is going to be the thing. she almost didn't even mention schools and school reopening. where is it that schools are not reopening? look at a map. compare it to coronavirus figures. it has everything to do with did you like trump or did you hate trump, and i wish it wasn't that crass. that's the brookings stews, that's everybody who's looked at this. big cities have kept their schools closed. i don't want to say they

consciously used that as a hostage situation to get a $200 billion giveaway from the feds with no strings attached and where 80% of which is going to personnel, but that's what just happened. it is absolutely, and guy is right, not only are people at their wits end, one hour before i started this, who was i talking to? the new private school -- i've never gone to private school in my life. kennedy: [inaudible] one of the two. chris, can you hear me? i can hear you, cheryl -- cheryl see. i hear voices now. it's a man panel. i interjected someone else. injected. or someone else. that's exciting. chris, mat is right, the teachers union held parents and kids hostage, and now they've gotten a huge payday. really sucks. >> so, you know, that's

nonsense. teachers unions negotiate. and mayors and school boards work out a deal. it is their job to get the best deal they can for their members, and they should continue to do that. i know they make a convenient bogeyman to right-wing conservatives who wallet to bash something because -- who want to bash something because they can't bash biden because his programs are very popular, so that'll try to bash teachers unions from some negotiation memo they put out which never comes to fruition. as for schools reopening, i'm all for it. they've been open out in the suburbs of new york, they should be open everywhere now that we have the money to open them through this bill that biden9 and the democrats passed through congress. there's going to be plenty of opportunity to open every single school in this country. kennedy: teachers unions themselves, the devil. the teachers union in cleveland demanded vaccination, got it and then said, no, you know what? we're not going to go back to

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♪♪ if. kennedy: all right. should new york governor andrew cuomo resign? yes. the white house still in disagreement with a ton of democrats who say he absolutely should, and their approach is looking worse by the day. the county leader in new york state, they filed a complaint saying cuomo's vaccine czar had been making calls across the state to gauge loyalty. it could impact access to covid vaccines. new york city mayor bill de blasio calling the shakedown, quote, the definition of corruption. this comes as investigators spent four hours on a zoom call today with 25-year-old accuser charlotte bennett. she says her creepy former boss loves helling staffers -- telling staffers what his large hand size indicated. big gloves, apparently. why are joe biden and kamala

harris still largely silent? joining me now, republican congresswoman claudia tenney. >> thank you, it is great to be back on. kennedy: what does it say about you when the people who know you best want you to go? >> i can'ting emphasize enough how long i've been calling for the resignation andrew cuomo. my first time was 2014 when he created an anti-corruption commission that got too close to him, and he shut it down. there's numerous other what i consider abuses of power in the past, but now here we are with this nursing home scandal, a bad policy followed by a cover-up, falsification of records, now we have sexual harassment charges that look like they're turning now, some of them, are sexual assault charges. and now we have, like the old best friend, larry schwartz who's out there bullying county executives about the vaccines

and the rollout and asking for the team, basically, or they're not going to get their vaccines if this is what ends up being true. it's reprehending bl, and i continue to renew my call for him to resign. kennedy: that's disgusting, and it's scary, you know, the thought that someone is brave enough to stand up to the governor that their part of the state isn't going to get vaccines. and that means front-line workers and older vulnerable citizens, they're not going to get their vaccines because of this bully tactic which has, obviously, been employed for a long time. so you see these deep personality flaws that are very publicly manifesting now. my biggest concern is that the nursing home death scannal, that gets overshadowed by some of these claims of sexual harassment and sexual assault. >> i agree with those concerns, but you also brought up another interesting point on the vaccine rollout.

remember, it was the governor who went in and disrupted the decades-long plan that all the counties had in place to deal with a pandemic. his control freak nature, he got in and had to unravel it, and now he brought in his friend larry schwartz who's bullying everyone. i had a run-in with larry. >> red carpet warts -- schwartz a long time ago. i had remington arms back in my district in those days, and i walked into the governor's mansion for breakfast, and larry schwartz threatened me to take my hat off or i was going to be kicked off the governor's mansion because i was wearing a pink hat. they're petty, they're bullies. this is how governor cuomo has operated for years, and now it's reached a criminal point, you know, possibly leveraging that could be criminal activity. again, falsifying records, now sexual harassment that's turned to sexual assault potentially. it's time to resign or face impeachment, and i don't think he wants to be the impeached.

kennedy: again, i don't understand what he does because he's the kind of person, he's such a malignant narcissist. [laughter] he looks at this whole thing as a storm that he just has to weather, it's just going to be temporary, and people are going to forget about it. he'll be reelected to a fourth term, and then he's going to run for president. i imagine that's what's going on in his mind, and that's a sickness. because that means you are able to discount the pain of these women and the environment that you created and the death, the needless death of thousands and thousands of older and infirm new yorkers. >> yeah. a real tragedy. and, you know, when you step on people on your way up, they're not going to be there when you fall, and that's what governor cuomo's experiencing right now. these nursing home deaths are really tragic. they're happening all over the state. the policy was a disaster. but i think the democrats are concerned about this potentially happening, that's why they're focusing on the sexual harassment which is serious, now, it's reached a serious

point. but i agree, we should not be overshadowing this when you looked at governor whitmer, governor murphy and governor wolf. the democrats don't want this guy out there muddying the waters and making them look bad, but they're afraid to pull the trigger. and if he goes to an impeachment, i think that's going to be the ultimate -- kennedy: yeah, that's going to be a huges distraction for democrats and for the biden -- which makes it all the more surprising that the president or vice president haven't been a little bit more forceful in their calls for his resignation. congresswoman tenny, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you, appreciate it. kennedy: all right. florida governor ron desantis, he's gotten a lot of heat for his state's lax covid restrictions, but now some liberal newspapers are asking if his oasis of freedom is the place to be. more freedom should always prevail. my memo all right that's a fifth-floor problem... ok.

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♪♪ kennedy: florida man is winning the pandemic. no, not the guy who a made sweet love to a hot pocket in the walmart women's room, but the actual governor of florida. the l.a. times went all jelly bean for ron desantis as they have to admit ron's relaxed approach has been a better one. floridians returned to indoor dining certainly quicker than states with farrest lockdowns like california and new york, and kids returned to school in the fall. can you imagine? rounding out the trifecta, masks in florida have always been optional. so what does this say about different styles of governance when you have a rosier view of human nature if, you're going to be more trusting and suggest people adopt certain behaviors. florida easellerly population is 21% of the state, so masks are a

kind way to keep them around and can be worn without the threat of fines or incarceration. california and other states have had a mask mandate which is a forceful edict because they don't trust you to make the right decisions. there's been a tremendous psychological cost to this pandemic, because when you're forced to stay home, mask up and work remotely, you feel con fined and then hopeless and depressed. floridians feel better, and now publications like "the new york times" are starting to take notice maybe because the governors of new york and california are about to pay for pandemic damage with their political lives. the unemployment rate in california, 93%. it's 8.7% in new york, and in florida an impressive 5.3%. 5.1%. is there still time for desantis to screw up? absolutely. so far trusting his gut and his constituents has been a better prescription than killing jobs and harming the psyches of bored

kids who will continue to suffer digitally through the rest of the pandemic. it's not just covid they're fighting. unicef has labeled the collateral damage a shadow pandemic that includes violence against women and kids who aren't receiving treatment like they should. a british journalist points out the cost of lives in terms of suicides, cancer and heart disease rates, job losses and bankruptcies as a result of these power-rungly lockdowns -- hungry lockdowns which have proven to be far more devastating than the virus itself. that'll be a cold day. whenoff gow got this much power and money from the federal teat, you never go back to trusting the little people. and that's the memo. governor desantis isn't the only one giving power to people, kristi noem and mike parsons, they are also not enforcing mask mandates, and their states

reportedly have simple covid outcomes to locked down states like and connecticut. is this more proof that government should get the hell out of the way? the man panel is back to talk about it. guy bicepson, mat welch and chris hahn. so, guy, let us begin. have you ever talked to your friends in florida, have you talked to them in the last year, and how are their lives different from people in places like washington, and new jersey. >> well, many of my friends living in florida were living in new york a year ago. that tells you basically everything you need to know. kennedy: good point. >> one of my friends it wasn't going to be a move, it was a vacation, it was a longer vacation, and then she bought a house. there have been predictions from much of the media that ron desantis was going to ruin his state. ron death santis, it always trends on twitter and all this stuff. and then reality plays out, and

the doom and gloom doesn't come to fruition. the story that you were referencing, the lead of the story was incredible. they contrasted what california has done, very harsh clampdown. florida, much more open and free, and the line said despite those differences, this was the key part, their covid health outcomes have been, quote, almost identical. kennedy: that is true. >> so i think that should at least serve as a moment for people who have passionately and confidently predicted wrong things about florida for a year to maybe reassess their talking points and their mentality. kennedy: they're not going to. but, mat, doesn't it boil down to your view of human nature? you've got governors in different places doing the same cost benefit analysis. how do they come up with very different equations for how to deal with the pandemicsome. >> i recently looked to see how all the states compared to each oh in pandemic job loss, right? from february last year until

now, the latest we have numbers for, and i was shocked to discover the following: the 18 states that have the highest rate of job loss, all 18 voted for joe biden. i didn't go looking for that, it just came out that way. the 18 that were in the other direction, that had the lowest rate of job loss -- utah even gained some jobs over that time -- all 18 -- kennedy: they have so many kids, am i right? >> a lot of kids. they all have republican governors and legislatures, all of them. that's crazy to me. and it doesn't depend on the level of coronavirus. hawaii lost the most jobs, hawaii has the best rates or the lowest rates of mortality because coronavirus, new york, a lot of jobs, a9 lot of deaths, utah9 hasn't had many deaths at all. so at the state and local level we get distracted with it all the time, at the state and local level there are actual differences in philosophy on how you govern the economy. and what we're going to see right now that we're beginning to finally admit that maybe it's

not government policy that dictates how the coronavirus affects lives. maybe it affects, like life and death, it affects lives that are lived much more. >> so lost the most jobs because a good percentage of its economy was based on tourism, and people weren't traveling. bottom line is this, if we had real national leadership, we wouldn't have stripped and different lockdowns in different states, we would have one policy. we're getting that now from joe biden -- >> no. kennedy: no, joe biden talked about stopping tourism to florida, actually. >> joe biden is going to open this country up fully by the summer. [laughter] >> chris. >> the former guy could not lead this cup, could not encourage people to social distance and wear a mask. what's going on in florida right now is people are traveling to florida. they will then bring that covid-19 if they catch it in a

bar on spring break back to their home state. that happened in florida for people who might have a home in florida and a home in new york. look it up. that's the truth. i don't trust his numbers. i don't trust his policy, but all of this could have been avoided -- kennedy: no, but these are not his numbers, these are -- >> -- and listen to the science which he did not do. >> these are johns hopkins numbers, they're not florida's numbers. the florida number fudging thing is a conspiracy theory that needs to die. >> it's not a lie. knox. >> these are the numbers they get if florida. so just keep that in mind. >> it's a lie. kennedy: yes. well, it's mat and guy are saying it, i'd marry one of 'em. i believe that's true. [laugher] all right. man panel's going to stick around because we've got a lot of yellow and green ties working in our favor. while the economic future may be bright after covid, president biden might manage to dampen it

permanently. the is now shopping for new tax hikes. biden is likely to target the wealthy and corporations which would undo the trump tax cuts that ignited a period of record growth and low unemployment. so is the white house going to drop the ball just as we restart the game? here with me now, senior editor at the federalist, mollie hemingway. let's talk taxes, i love it. >> well, usually we talk about the democratic party being a tax and spend party. they raise taxes, and they spend them, what we have now is this unbelievable $1.9 trillion in spending after we already passed some pretty significant spending bills in the last year all under the claim that we needed to do this for covid relief. this last one has little covid relief but till that same shockingly high spending bill, so now they're trying to figure out how to pay for it, and they

are coming up with various tax proposals without thinking through how those are going to affect the economy. kennedy: or how they're going to affect rich people who will find ways to not pay new taxes including elizabeth warren's ultra-millionaires' tax which she wants to impose a 2.5% net worth tax which is actually unconstitutional, ask you better believe there will be individuals in states who will challenge that, and it will make it way all the way to the supreme court where i imagine it will prevail that you cannot just take money based on an arbitrary number. >> it's not just unethical or unconstitutional, it actually hurts middle and, middle classes and poorer classes. what we saw during this last administration was this massive tax reform and tax cut. yes, wealthy people got a tax cut, but so did other people. and when the wealthy people got tax cuts and invested more, that also led to increases in wages,

job growth, and this was something that resulted in a real blue collar boom for the whole country right up until last year around this time when things all came to a grinding halt or worse. and so when you think about deregulation, tax reform, tax cuts led to these historic gains for black women, black men, you know, people who historically in recent years hadn't done as well as the upper classes in, you know, with this, like, elite, few people, it's done through deregulation, tax reform, tax cuts and allowing the economy to thrive. that doesn't happen when you have a really strict increase in taxes and you have that return to all the regulation that we've already seen even this early on in the biden administration. kennedy: you know who doesn't want to see their corporate tax rate go up from 21% to 28%? business owners in places like arizona and west virginia, and they half top two moderate -- to have two moderate senators who

are very much on the fence. so kirsten cinema and joe manchin, they might be the last line of defense since they lost those two freaking seats in georgia. >> having said that, we do need to pay for all of this spending. when they did the $2 trillion bill last year, they said it has to be this big because that way we won't have to do another one. now this $3.9 trillion, and -- 1.9 trillion, and it's without any thought about how this affects our national security when we are carrying this much debt with, like, no plan -- >> kennedy: there's no plan. republicans and democrats. bunch of dingbats. mollie, i'm so glad you were here. i love talking taxes. >> thank you. kennedy: but i hate when they go up. nebraska's republican governor going full reefer madness. he says legalizing medical marijuana will kill your kids. we'll shove through his anti-freedom propaganda. the man panel returns in moments. moments. ♪

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kennedy: if you legalize marijuana, you'e going to kill your kids. that's a disproven claim courtesy of nebraska's republican governor, pete ricketts, who apparently caught the reefer madness the same day he endorsed a bill to perm permanently allow restaurants to serve alcohol with takeout orderses. let's get back to the map panel. chris, i will start with you. he says it's dangerous to go around the established process to determine which drugs are safe. but the established process for marijuana completely sucks. it's still scheduled wrong.

>> i mean, this guy's got to get off the '40s and welcome into the new millenium here. i mean, marijuana has been safely used across this country all over the place. it's being legalized all over the place, and we're not seeing any of the impacts that were foretold back in the '40s, '50s and '60s. in fact, we're seeing lower impacts, happier people, good economic activity as a result of this. i don't understand. you know, he's supposed to love freedom out there. he doesn't love freedom. he doesn't love technology. he probably doesn't even have cable if this is what he believes is going to happen in his state. kennedy: he's supposed to be a cornhusker, he should be a hemp husker, mat. >> and thank god for the chris chris -- the thing chris was pooh-poohing earlier, we got to experiment on a state and local level beginning with medical marijuana in the 1990s, and then going to it's like 2012

when california, washington and colorado started the recreational legalization. we could see what happens. and the thing, the scare mongers say it's going to happen, it doesn't. and you remove prohibition, and you remove so much of the crime, so much of the black market, the nastiness and so much of police interacting with people for things they should not be interacting with people on causing all kinds of problems. legalize the stuff, man, come on. kennedy: it's interesting, because the governor is saying, one of his arguments that marijuana is a gateway drug. it's actually an exit drug. there are a lot of places where recreational marijuana is legal, guy, and people stop using things like heroin and opiates. >> as soon as i saw the headline about this quote came across my twitter feed, i said, you know, i think twitter might cover this. of. [laughter] and part of me as a conservative here, i almost want to just cede my time back to mat and kennedy to let the libertarians go to

town on this old time claim about marijuana because it's their favorite thing in the world. and i think that's probably a nice gesture. so if there's time left in the segment, feel free. swat down the strawman. go for it, guys, i love you. [laughter] kennedy: it's not a straw man, fors a -- it's a hemp man. >> it's only a gateway drug because you've got to go to a criminal to get it. when you go to 7/eleven to get it, it's the gateway to the slurpee. kennedy: ora.m./p.m., two hot dogs for 99 cents. >> never forget. >> what a plug. kennedy: never forget. [laughter] somehow related, i would imagine -- ken kennel well, that's the thing about freedom. it interacts. >> makes you hungry. makes you -- [laughter] kennedy: it does. hungry for more freedom. freedom begets freedom. and what's the most beautiful thing in life, guy benson? >> my freedom.

ken it's freedom. that's exactly right. you can spark it up, you can eat it, you can do whatever you want with freedom, but as long as you have more of it, i will be happy. i want to thank the monday man panel. guy, mat and chris, i will officiate anyone's wedding. thank you. topical storm is next. ♪ ♪ ♪ over 10 years ago, we made a promise to redefine everything a truck can be. ♪ and while we've made good on that promise by winning back to back to back motor trend truck of the year awards, the work is never done. ♪

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♪♪ kennedy: the dating app tinder will soon allow users to run a criminal background check on their matches, but most users agree the worst thing you can find in a tinder background is a baby. this is the topical storm. topic number one, it is mug shot monday, and tonight we'll meet a father who got carried away when he carried away a 400-pound slide from the city playground and mounted it to his kids' bunk bed what a dadded! yeah, big deal. 30-year-old dustin bushnell, there he is, looks very responsible. he's being investigated for stealing car parts when a detective found a stolen playground slide in his kids' room in their mobile home. and that's when he found himself in a playground game of cops and robbers. police say the slide had been

sawed off from a city playground months earlier and repainted to disguise its origins. that way no one would be suspicious when they walk into a mobile home and found an industrial-sized, giant playground slide. the slide was recovered by the parks and recreation department, and dustin was charged with possession of stolen property. now he's stuck in a long timeout behind the jailhouse monkey bars. i still it's great. topic number two. don't steal. that's wrong. and now, a views city mg nugget of -- mcnugget of a romance. a lover is claiming she was dumped by her boyfriend for taking secret trips to mcdonald's. i won't say how he found out, but i did hear a little birdie told him. according to a viral post, the mcsneak was dating a vegan and had agreed to try his lifestyle

but found herself dreaming of meat. get in line, sister. she said she started sneaking out of their home, and she did it so much that her boyfriend thought she was cheating. and she was, but only on her diet. unfortunately, her boyfriend didn't believe the explanation and broke off the relationship. his exact words were i'm not loven it anymore. i can't help but think be more trusting if only he was super-sized. joke's on him though. now she's off forking and porking with every meat lover in town, and he's just sitting home alone playing with his impossible meat. topic number three. a new report claims meghan markle is considering running for president of these united states. so if you think prince harry is whipped now -- [laughter] just wait until she controls the military. the duchess is said to have had her eye on the presidency since fall 2020, that's when she

realized it could be a valuable steppingstone for her voiceover acting career are. of course, now, that's not the only reason meghan wants to be president. she also wants to hold state dinners with all the royals of dinners and then not let kate middleton come. insiders say meghan is currently networking with democrats to replace joe biden in 2024 to become the country's first female president, not to mention the first president who once held a suitcase on deal or no deal. joe biden says he's a longtime fan of meghan's and would be happy to discuss a job with her, in fact, he's already invited her to the white house so he can smell her all about it. pretty hair. topic number four. world renowned cellist yo-yo ma surprised people waiting at a coronavirus vaccination center with an impromptu concert. watch. ♪

♪ kennedy: that is the 18-time grammy award winning artist performing in berkshire community college in massachusetts, in other words, his career is following in the same trajectory as carrot top's. ave maria, even though the most requested song of the day was come on, irene. the 15-minute concert included pieces by bach and schubert. classical music fans will never forget moderna in g minor. [laughter] those who don't like classical felt as though they got stuck twice that day. actually, this was an extra special performance because it's the last concert he ever played with his original mrna. the older audience members loved it, but the younger ones said they were confused as to high such a talented musician wasn't grinding his private parts against another cello player's crotch.

huh. thanks, grammy awards. that was filthy. we

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