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Bundle up a little bit if you're heading out, but uh otherwise it's pretty good. We will check the WPRI TV12 forecast coming up as part of the 1:00 news. So stick around for all of that. All right. Holly Robishad is with us on this Thursday, national political consultant and correspondent and uh we welcome her to the program. Holly, how are you today? >> Great. How are you? >> I'm well. I I I don't know whether to start with Larry Summers or um um Jazelle Bird because well maybe it's you know a week before Thanksgiving maybe we can get the bird in the oven, right? I mean, um, >> yeah, [laughter] >> Jazelle Bird, um, I I'm speechless. Um, for those who maybe don't know who Jazelle Bird is, I wrote a piece all about Jazelle Bird. It's a she's posted on or he's posted on, um, wbsm.com and our social media stuff today. You can go take a look at the beautiful picture of Jazelle Bird. Uh Jazelle Bird is a trans identifying male um who has been appointed by Governor Healey to the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, an advisory panel affecting women and girls. And um there's no women available. I mean, they couldn't have asked you, Holly, or or you know, a real woman. They had to I don't understand what's going on. I I this we women have fought for equal rights, have fought for, you know, being able to get the same amount of support for our sports and and by doing this, appointing somebody like this to the women's council completely undermines every effort that women have worked to get equal footing. I mean, it's just it's outrageous. I mean, I I I She couldn't find a woman to to go on the council, and the best woman to be on the council is a man. >> Yeah. >> Crazy. >> Megan Kelly posted on social media on X. She said, quote, "Men make the best women." We all know that. Um and and it's true. I mean, there's not a woman, but you know, she covers two bingo spots with this one, right? she gets a um she gets a minority and she gets somebody from the LGBTQ++ community. So uh um and that's those are the people that Mora Healey is um looking to please and and that's her base. Right. >> Right. I mean she cares more about the the special interest groups than the taxpayers than women. I I just uh the craziness is uh is overwhelming in in this state right now. Just absolutely nuts. This is insulting to women and young girls in my view. >> It is. It is. It's totally insulting. Um and it all I mean it undermines everything that women have been fighting for for equal rights, equal footing, you know, equal treatment on sports. I mean every and she just completely undermines it. It's done by a woman, right? I mean she did it to us. So, so the next time we have a male governor, uh, you know, hey, you know, let's just appoint, you know, they don't have to be transgender. Uh, they can just be anybody, you know, let's appoint anybody we want to the woman's council. >> My dog. My dog. Why not? Right. [laughter] >> Right. >> Let's get a walkie or something. I don't know. But all right. Larry Summers, former president, former president of Harvard, right? and the first one really to be scorched um in the in the Epstein files. Even before they came out, he kind of put his hand up and confessed to doing something. We don't know what yet, but I I guess we're about to find out. And um now it's revealed Axios has a list today of all of the Massachusetts politicians that Larry Summers gave money to. And wouldn't you know that top on the list of beneficiaries is Mora Healey. She got four grand from Larry Summers. Wow. >> 3500 actually. >> 3500. >> 4500. Okay. Uh 4,500. So she was she she hit yatsi. She got the biggest contribution from this guy. >> Yeah. She Yeah, she's doing I mean she's doing pretty well. She says she's going to donate it to charity. We'll see. I mean that's what they all say. And then the the money never seems to to be donated any place. So, um, but yeah, she she took the money. So, um, I find I find it kind of funny that the Democrats are kind of like they wanted they wanted the Epstein files out. So, good luck to you. >> Yeah, good luck. Absolutely. And, um, >> she's not the only one. Um, Congressman Molton um $2,500 um, two donations to his um, home. Congressman, Democrat, uh Jake Oenclaus, uh what 1,500 uh I guess amounting totaling the two of them total $1,500. That's what it was. Okay. Um >> I'm sure Mark will be calling, "Hey, why didn't you give to me?" >> Yeah. Where's my money? He got money. He got 500 bucks, >> right? Where's my money? [laughter] >> He got the lowest amount out of everybody. But uh Joe Kennedy III got a grand from Summers for his Senate bid. >> Yeah. And Mark, actually Marky got I I I inflated it. He got 250 bucks from summers. But >> wow, that's that's a snubb in, huh? >> Yeah. Right. So, you know, I mean, not for nothing. It's not illegal to take campaign contributions from summers. It looks bad. It stinks and all that kind of stuff. Perception is, you know, 99% of reality. Mora Hilly says, "Oh, I'm gonna give the money to charity." And so and so forth. What about these other guy? Oh, Liz Warren. We left Liz Warren out, too. She got some money. Oh yeah. >> Yeah. What did I I just had Liz Warren >> Warren TP. >> Yeah. He go Liz Warren got $1,000. Okay. $1,000. So um you know what does all this mean? Does it does it mean anything? Um the fact that now >> I mean look at look at Healey. Uh she took all that money from Steuart Hospital. Yeah. >> And uh and she is not she has not donated any of it to charity or anything like that. And what a nightmare. and how many people lost their jobs over it and it you know it damaged our health care system and uh nothing's happened on that. So no I don't think there'll be anything to come on the Larry Summers donations. >> Yeah. Um sorry. >> So the the files I guess are are being they're in the process of releasing them. Trump signed the bill last night. I don't know if you heard Kala Harris's rant yesterday. RELEASE THE FILES. JUST RELEASE. She's yelling and screaming and dude the president just signed it. being released. Not a big deal. Calm down a little bit. But um so anyway, the uh the files are coming out, everything that's in there. Um I don't know what to expect. U I'm I'm not sure. I I you know, we've been told by by people um [snorts] uh Dersuitz that there is no actual list, no black book, nothing like that. And I guess so I I don't know what to expect. I mean, is there going to be a detailed report in there? uh this underage girl said uh this Democrat did that to her or whatever. Are we actually going to find any damaging information in there, do you think? Or is it going to be like Heraldo Rivera's safe empty? >> Uh a little bit in between. >> Okay. >> I don't think it's going to be earthshattering as as they expect it to be. Uh you know, they're going to look for every kind of Trump connection. Um if Trump was in that, it would have been already released as as you well know. uh the Democrats would not have, you know, kept anything secret on on him. They would have done anything, thrown anybody under the bus on this. Um so overall, it's not going to be the, you know, the the all, you know, it's not going to be that big a deal. >> Well, by the same token, if there was anything damaging to any important Democrats, um the Democrats wouldn't have been out there demanding the release of the documents, too, right? I mean, there's collateral damage. >> There's there's collateral damage like Larry Summers. They're not the smartest bunch. >> Yeah. Toughest tools in the >> You know what's going to be hilarious? If the files come out, Larry Summer's name isn't even mentioned in there. [laughter] >> That would be hilarious. That would be that would be amazing. But um so the legislature just uh recessed for six weeks. Nice holiday break. The Massachusetts legislature. So much they've done this year, right? >> Right. Well, they they went out for 6 weeks and uh they've left energy prices high. Um they passed a supplemental budget which was a whopper. Um and I loved in the supplemental budget they go after the the the sheriffs, but they're still funding the prisoner phone calls, right? And as we've learned, right, that these prisoners can be on the phone for for 16 hours per day, right? They spent $20 million of our money. I mean, I look at our our cell phone bill every month. And I'm like, "Oh, yeah, that's that's pretty high." And we we try to watch our cell phone bill. Uh the they're allowing these prisoners just to run it up. There's no oversight at all. They can make international calls. >> Uh why not? >> And they and Right. I mean, and this is in the the supplemental budget that they just passed. I mean, um the one thing that they just don't do up there at the state house is the lookout for the taxpayers. It's absolutely outrageous. Um another $20 million. I you who can afford I mean I I know our our cell phone bill can be anywhere from $200 to $300 a month. And it's it's a it's a big chunk. >> But you work you pay for it. You're not asking the citizens to pay for it, >> right? Now I'm paying for, you know, I'm paying for somebody that, you know, prisoner 1125, right? [laughter] >> Yeah. Right. >> I mean, so Michael Norton wrote this morning on um um Yeah, I just checking my source here. It was Michael Norton on State House News Service this morning wrote, and I quote, "Beacon Hill has passed 66 new laws so far this year, but the vast majority of those are local bills or affect one person. major bills still on the move address data privacy and violence against transit workers and work on those bills and many others may not continue during an informal session um or it may continue during the informal session which runs into early 2026. 66 bills in all that have passed, but most of the legislation that they've dealt with were budgetary bills, right? Filling >> right, >> you know, filling holes that they they created for money, >> right? Uh well, I mean, they've also had to deal with like the the part of the supplemental budget was a lot of money for mass health and that's for the illegal immigrants. Yeah. Um so that's one of the things, but I mean look, you know, they there's so many things that they could be doing. Um, one I would say affordability, right? They've done nothing on that issue. Um, they they didn't go back and hold more, you know, get rid of more Heely's cable tax, right? They're not dealing with the electrical bills, uh, the utility bills, right? And they say they're going on vacation for another for six weeks. Um, you know, we're going to be in the height of winter and people's bills are going to be through the roof. And you know what? What are we going to do? get another $50 credit from Mora Healey for our $500 bills. It just it's it's nuts. >> So, what happens while they're on uh while they're on six weeks vacation? I mean, informal sessions. What does that mean exactly? >> Informal sessions is for when they pass a sick leave bill, um technical things, home rule petitions, things like that. And they do it, you know, like Tuesdays and Thursdays. Um and so um you know one there's usually one member from the Republican party and one member from the Democratic party. And if um if they're trying to sna uh pass something sneaky then the Republican party can call for a quorum and that stops all stops all of the bills from from moving forward. >> So they can actually pass legislation without a quorum unless somebody objects. >> Wow. >> Yes. Yep. So most of the time it's occasionally they try to sneak something through. 99% of the time it's non-controversial stuff. >> Yeah. >> Like for example, the city of Taton is trying to >> um increase the age uh you know for the police chief, you know, for how long he can serve. So that that could be come up during informal session. It doesn't affect any other communities. It's really it's more of a formality thing. So they can do that. So, what does more Healey do for the next six weeks? Uh, does she go back to Disney or what's she going to do? [laughter] >> I'm sure. Well, she's she's on this tour right now going out and speaking at different things going, I did not raise, you know, I did not stop those natural gas pipelines. It wasn't me. Yeah, but you said you did. >> Well, that's wasn't me. That's not what I did. Right. I mean, your utility bills, those are not my fault. Right. So, um, that's what she's doing. I just got a response in from DPU. I was requesting information on Mass program. They told me it was going to take them 5,000 hours to do the the public records request and cost $143,000 [laughter] to get the information. So, >> yeah. Now, now more Healy's blaming uh tariffs uh in the Trump administration. Yeah. All >> has nothing to do with the problems, right? The delivery charges, the delivery fees. Those aren't her fault. No, no, those aren't her fault. Yeah. Unreal. >> Um, all right, Holly, I know you need to exit real quickly here, so we're going to let you go and, uh, next week is Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving. >> Yeah. So, we'll pick it up in a couple of weeks down the road. >> All right. >> All right. Happy Thanksgiving, Holly. >> Have a good one. >> All right. Holly Robashad got a quick exit today. She got something to do. I'm not quite sure. Um, got to get the turkey ready, I guess. I'm not sure, you know. Um, all right. In any event, let me do this. I'm going to take the break and we're going to come right back. I got a lot of stuff to talk about today, including some of the stuff we just went over, but I got even more. Where do you find out how much the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is paying in SNAP? Well, you not the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Commonwealth of Massachusetts doesn't have a job. Takes your money from you and spends your money. Um, how much how many millions and millions of dollars in SNAP benefits in this country are being spent for fast food meals and how much of that money is being spent right here in Massachusetts. 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And I imagine a lot of women must be just about sick and tired of this stuff, too. Why are we replacing women everywhere? And and where is the I, you know, I asked this a million times. I I I've gotten tired of asking the the National Organization for Women. Why are these women's groups not pissed and and and out there raising hell over this? We are cancelling women. We don't need women anymore because we have men who want to be women and they're getting all the good jobs on magazine covers and uh you know swimsuit editions and uh you know roles on stage and screen and government a man who dresses up as a woman to the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, a board that advises the state, the entire state, on policies affecting women and girls. Hello. Was there not a woman available to select for him? In a quote unquote letter to the community, Bird wrote, quote, "I am black transgender woman from the American South advocating for change. Some folks in this community will view me as the witch and they will try to blame me for much. I know the truth. We all know the truth." Megan Kelly wrote on X, "Men make the best women." We all know that. Wow. Got to go to wbsm.com. Take a look. Take a look for yourself. And you know, I I I am not I you know, I know I can just hear all the hate and the rage in the emails and my boss will get a thousand calls later today that you know, I'm insensitive to the LGBTQ++ community and that has nothing to do with it. That isn't it at all. All that's a smoke screen. It's a front. Um my outrage has to do with uh why are we canceling women? Why are we saying that women cannot play on women's sports? We're going to put men in there instead. or women cannot be on the Sports Illustrated women's swimsuit edition. We got to we got to have a man instead. We got to have a man dress up as a woman to be on Bud Light and so on and so forth and down the road here down the line. And this keeps happening over and over and over and over again. Maybe Megan Kelly is right. I don't know. Maybe men do make the best women. So, former Harvard President Larry Summers, the only one so far other than Prince Andrew, I guess, to um I was going to say to be incriminated in the Ebstein files, at least to this moment. And he really selfinccriminated himself. He he incriminated himself. He came out a couple of days before the files were released and said, "Okay, fine. Yep. Uh, all right. Yep. I'm going to resign everything I'm involved in. I'm going to, you know, bury my head in the sand for a while and um, you know, I'm so sorry I embarrassed everybody." And we we don't even know what he did. He didn't tell us, but he must be expecting to be um, named in that that thing from cover to cover. I don't know. Um, and as I mentioned, Holly, wouldn't it be a hoot if he's not even in there, right, after he outed himself? But anyway, good old Larry Summers made some big campaign contributions here in Massachusetts. Over $20,000 to support Massachusetts political candidates between 2012 and 2022. That includes donations to Governor Mora Healey, Congressman Seth Molton, and Senator Elizabeth Warren. Summers made over a dozen contributions to boost Massachusetts candidates over roughly a decade. According to the state office of campaign and political finance and the federal election commission reports Axios this morning, Healey received the most support among individual candidates. Uh Axios reported 4,000. Um, Holly said the figure is actually 4,500. Covering her time as attorney general, but not her campaign for governor. Former state senator Eric Leser collected 2500 when he ran for Lieutenant Governor. State Senator Lydia Edwards, also a former Boston city counselor. $1,500. Security expert Juliet Cam, a Harvard Kennedy school senior lecturer, received $1,000 during her gubanatorial bid in 2014. Didn't even know she ran for governor. Um, all of Summer's donations to support Massachusetts politicians went to Democrat candidates, most of them with close ties to Harvard. Healey's office says she will donate all of Summer's contributions to My Life, My Choice, a Boston nonprofit that supports survivors of human trafficking. According to a spokesman from Healey's political committee, Summers also gave to um Elizabeth Warren 1,000 bucks, who by the way this week called on Harvard to cut ties with Summers. How about Elizabeth Warren cut ties with Summers money? Liz Warren is said to be a a big old cheapkate. Um, you might want to check that out. I just wrote about that this week. WBSM.com. You can find it. Elizabeth Warren Cheapskate. Um, Congressman Nolton 2500. Two donations to Congressman Jake Aenclaus amounting to $1,500. Joe Kennedy III got a grand from Summers when he ran for US Senate against Marky. Marky's Senate campaign got 25, make that $250 from Summers. Speaking about his ties to Webstein this week, Summer said in a statement, "I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused. I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein. Maybe Liz Warren could take that thousand dollars and donate it to the Cherokee um relief fund or something like that. Maybe buy up I don't know how many how many uh copies of uh Pow Wow Chow you can buy with a thousand bucks, but maybe she can uh buy a bunch of Pow Wow Chow cookbooks and hand them out to the illegal immigrants that we have just resettled into apartments here on your nickel in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. the People's Republic of Mora Healey. So, the legislature just um bang the gavl and poof, they're gone for six weeks. When was the last time you got a six week vacation? Making the money that these people make, right? They they do nothing. They do nothing. Six weeks vacation just like that. How about that? He's Karen Spilka, Mariano, Tony Cabraw, Chris Marky, Chris Hendris, Alan Sylvia, Carol Fiola. I'm just trying to think of everybody off the top of my head. All gone for six weeks. Six weeks. Paid vacation. Life is good in the People's Republic of Massachusetts, right? especially if you're connected. Lawmakers um completed a string of spending bills this year and while the branches gestured toward major policy changes, they embarked on a six-w week holiday session or a holiday season recess with lots of unfinished business, writes Michael P. Norton for the state house news service. The House Senate and Governor Mory Healey spent much of this year backfilling accounts. They underfunded in last year's annual budget. One spending bill after another move through the branches. They also agreed in August to a law to expand reproductive health care protections. Beacon Hill has passed 66 new laws so far this year, but the vast majority of those are local bills or affect one person. Major bills still on the move address data privacy and violence against transit workers. The Senate this year has approved bills dealing with access to library books, an expansion of the move over road safety law, protections against abuse of people with disabilities, fairness and debt collection practices, and an attempt to curb cell phone use by students while in school. But those bills are sitting on the table waiting for the House to take them up. But the House isn't in. The House is closed for six weeks. Similarly, the House is hoping the Senate will take up bills that have cleared the House and tackle topics like investment in public higher education, campus infrastructure, the licensing of home care workers, reforms through early literacy instruction, child welfare reforms, and changes to help retired teachers access pension benefits. But the Senate can't touch those for at least six weeks either. So if you're one of the people involved in any of these causes and you're just kind of like hanging on waiting and waiting and waiting to see what's going to happen next. take heart knowing that your general court, the members of your general court, the legislature up on Bacon Hill, well, they're on vacation for 6 weeks starting today and on and on and on it goes. US taxpayers affording nearly $250 million a year in SNAP benefits spent on fast food meals across nine states. Nine states. $250 [snorts] million in fast food meals being paid for by SNAP benefits, most of which are blue states. In fact, all but one. According to Republican Iowa Senator Joanie Ernst, nine states, including Massachusetts, Arizona, California, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Rhode Island, and Virginia, all of which are Democrat run states except Virginia, are opted into a SNAP program called Restaurant Meals Program, RMP, which has spent nearly $250 million a year on hot meals, including fast food. nine states, $250 million. The modern-day SNAP program was established in 1964 under the food stamps act to provide basic food needs such as meats and fruits and veggies. Hot foods or foods ready for immediate consumption were not eligible for purchase under the program as its main mission was to provide staple foods to be prepared at home. A 1977 loophole, however, allowed states to opt into a program called the Restaurant Meals Program, RMP, which was established to allow homeless individuals who don't have a kitchen to purchase prepared meals using SNAP benefits. Nine states are opted into this program, including Massachusetts. Restaurants have participated in the program were historically a small group, but have since expanded, most notably in California during the Biden era. California expanded its program statewide, for example, in 2021 that allowed restaurants to accept Cal Fresh benefits via SNAP at a swath of top fast food chains stretching from McDonald's to Domino's Pizza to Jack in the Box. Ernstto has found that from June 23 to May 25, more than $475 million in taxpayer dollars funded restaurant meals programs meals at fast food establishments during that same period. $524 million in taxpayer funds were spent through the restaurant meals program overall. Meaning California accounted for more than 90% of the nation's total restaurant meals program funds from June of 2023 to May of 2025 according to the office. So think about that. You with your local tax money paying for some um SNAP recipient out in California to get a Big Mac. The N in SNAP stands for nutrition, not nuggets with a side of fries, Erns told Fox News Digital. I wish I was Mick ribbing you, but $250 million per year at the drive-thru is no joke and a serious waste of tax dollars. I hate to be the one to say, Mick, excuse me, but something needs to be done because taxpayers are not loving it. The data found that between June of 2023 and May of 2025, 41.4 million uh dollars in funds went through restaurant meals programs in Arizona, 3.6 6 million in New York, $1.3 million in Michigan, $995,900 in Rhode Island, $649,000 in Massachusetts, 479,000 in Illinois, 38,500 in Virginia, and $8,600 in Maryland. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Hey, if you're looking to buy, sell, or rent, make it happen with Leforce Realy and Swift's Beach Real Estate. Leforce Realy offers a free market analysis and a triage list to help you get the most value out of your property. 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Carefree Homes, trusted, local, family, we'll [music] be ready for you. We'll get a shot on the floor. We'll evenileve [music] [singing] a break today. So come on in the McDonald's [music] today. You deserve a great lunch. >> All right, welcome back. It is 12:27. You deserve it. You deserve a break today at McDonald's and let the taxpayers pay for it, right? My goodness, what is going on in this world of ours. I'm not quite sure, but uh um $250 million in nine states SNAP benefits, including Massachusetts, where about $700,000 is being spent annually um for people who want to use their SNAP benefits at McDonald's and other fast food restaurants, qualifying participating fast food restaurants. I mean that is absurd and obscene you know as the um Senator Erns said you know back in the day food stamps were designed for nutrition that's why it's nutrition snap nutrition supplemental nutrition good stuff you know some broccoli and some uh some milk and and and and fish and maybe some meat you know, good stuff to bring home and prepare for your family. But we've gone way off the plantation on this one. Nine states, including Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Ah, use your SNAP benefits at a at a McDonald's. Go ahead. I tell this story every time we talk about SNAP benefits, but what about the older woman I told you about the widow? I've told you this before at Market Basket. She's a widow and she's looking to feed herself and she gets a rotisserie chicken and she carries it up to the counter and she says, "This rotisserie chicken is going to feed me for several days." And she puts it down on the counter and the girl says, "Sorry, you can't buy that with your SNAP benefits. If you want to come back tomorrow when it's cold, I'll sell it to you, but I can't sell you that hot chicken. E my god, if she had said, point me to the golden arches, she would have been all set. She could have, but I wonder what that would have cost out of her monthly allotment. And she would have only had one meal unless she, you know, divvied up the French fries and three French fries tonight, three for tomorrow, three for the day after that, maybe. I don't know. That woman could have taken that chicken and had a meal with maybe mashed potatoes and gravy and then maybe the next day had some soup and then maybe the next day had a chicken sandwich or whatever. Nope. Can't do that. That would be too much common sense. And in the People's Republic of Massachusetts, we don't. [music] >> It's never too early for Lowe's Black Friday deals. 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