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In our last show of 2023, it's Ari's predictions for 2024, both nationally and locally; More illegal immigrants have crossed the border in December than in any month — EVER // Seattle fire operating in 'Emergency Staffing Mode' for New Year's Eve due to staff shortages and Pro Hamas supporters are planning to target the New Year's Eve celebration at the Seattle Space Needle // Ramaswamy campaign stops TV ad spending // Ibram X. Kendi demands Supreme Court remove Trump from 2024 presidential ballots or else the Confederacy wins // Ari breaks down the new Washington state laws in 2024: minimum wage, firearm sales, employee cannabis use and more // Rogue wave blows through crowd in California injuring 8 // Homicides in U.S. dropped by record numbers in 2023, but it was the opposite in the city of Seattle. Mike Solan, Seattle Police Union president joins Ari to discuss how that can be // The best of Fake News Friday for 2023 // Rep. Sam Low joins Ari to talk about good things coming from the GOP in 2024 // Mike and Ari's favorite movies of 2024

* NY Times publishes lengthy and graphic story about Hamas weaponizing sexual assault * former NIH director gets candid about "mistakes" of singular focus on COVID response * "free" versus "subsidized" * Seattle appears to have a repeat offender tree cutter * GUEST: KC Councilman, Reagan Dunn, addresses the failures of the KC Prosecutor's Office juvenile division particularly regarding accused sex offenders * a Metro bus driver attacked in Bellevue and suspect is still at large * Ron DeSantis criticizes Nikki Haley for her answer about the cause of the US Civil War * was Nikki Haley running for chair of an Ivy League history department or running for US President? * GUEST: executive director of CIS, Mark Krikorian, tells KVI 3.5 million illegal immigrants entered the US in 2023 * compared to Trump years with illegal immigration its roughly a 10X increase * why Biden's DHS Secretary should be impeached * new polling shows a lot of college age Americans think Osama bin Laden is a positive figure * GUEST: economist Steve Moore * warning: graphic descriptions published by NY Times about Hamas weaponizing sexual assault with the October 7th unprovoked attack on Israeli (and American) citizens *

Haley’s Civil War remarks stir backlash at crucial moment for campaign as Colorado to include Trump on 2024 primary ballot as state GOP appeals to Supreme Court // In middle of the night, Seattle city officials came and removed the CHAZ-BLM Garden which was built in 2020 during the Antifa occupation // Lauren Boebert Swapping Districts For 2024 Re-Election Bid // Beer sales plunge to lowest levels in 24 years — thanks to Bud Light’s disastrous Dylan Mulvaney campaign // Proposed Washington bill aims to criminalize public fentanyl and meth smoke exposure // Methamphetamine, fentanyl drive record homeless deaths in Portland, Oregon, annual report finds // Is the local GOP poised to win elections next year? KCGOP Chairman, Mathew Patrick Thomas joins Ari to discuss the details // A message from Councilmember Amy Cruver // BREAKING: Maine bars Trump from ballot as US Supreme Court weighs state authority to block former president // Let’s Go Washington turns in over 2.6 million signatures for all six landmark initiatives. Brian Heywood joins Ari to discuss the details

* extra political Christmas gifts for WA voters are about to arrive * the latest illegal border crossing stats and yesterday's US Mexico border security meeting * Russell Wilson  benched * Nikki Haley asked a bit of a "gotcha" question about the cause of the Civil War and her answer is doesn't help her campaign * an unexpected twist in King Co. court when mom of a car theft suspect asks judge to grant home detention instead of a $500,000 bail * GUEST: LetsGoWA.com founder Brian Heywood is dropping off signatures for the last of 6 initiatives at WA Sec. of State's office * the inability of WA Democrats to operate a reasonable transportation infrastructure * AG Bob Ferguson fails a 2nd time in legal case involving Tacoma Police for allegedly violating the rights of two men under criminal suspicion, GUEST: attorney Anne Bremner, explains how her client TPD officer Timothy Rankine (along with two other TPD officers were) acquitted by a jury GUEST: former Pierce Co. Prosecutor, now in private practice, Mark Lindquist felt the Manny Ellis prosecution didn't offer enough evidence to clinch a murder verdict by jury and the jury ruled as he predicted, Lindquist talks about the merits of reforming trial accountability for police, "the system worked the way its supposed to" says Lindquist, Dolly Parton's surprise phone call to a life long fan fighting cancer.

Pro-Palestinian protesters block both JFK and LAX airports // Seattle ranks among the most unsafe cities in the US // Slacker in chief comes back to DC just to go on vacation again // Media ignores race attack in NY because it doesn’t fit the narrative // Russell Wilson benched by Broncos, setting up huge questions for important offseason and Washington is #1 in the US for slacker kids // Diseases from human waste increase in Portland // The Washington Legislature is finally addressing level 3 sex offenders. Rep Travis Couture joins Ari to discuss the details // Obama Privately Came Out For Gay At Harvard Amid Anti-Semitism Scandal // From the floor of TPUSA's AmericaFest 2023, Ari talks to the woman who is taking on sex trafficking on pornhub

'12 Days of a Ceasefire Choir' to target politicians, Christians and Jews to demand end to fighting in Gaza // 5 injured in drive-by shooting in Seattle's Pioneer Square area on Christmas Eve and why the new movie 'The Boys in the Boat' was not filmed in Seattle // Biden scolds media for negative coverage of economy // The Delta employee who isn't having the pronoun war and a woman claims she's in love with...a tree?! // The Washington Education Association partners with advocacy groups to condemn anti-tax ballot initiatives // California Pizza Hut operators laying off all delivery drivers // GUEST: Ami Horowitz talks about interviewing people who would pay money to kill Jews // Ari reviews Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom // From Ari's trip to Turing Point USA's AmericaFest 2023 - Ari talks to Avi Abelow, who just retuned from Gaza to talk about what it's really like over there

Illegal immigrants being flown on commercial airlines are not subject to security screening like other passengers // UW hit with $16 million verdict over racism, discrimination within police force //Chris Christie lacks enough signatures to get on Maine 2024 ballot // Satanic statue erected in front of Michigan Capitol, Democrat staffer poses with it, calls it 'sexy' // Community members, officials react to verdict in trial of 3 Tacoma officers charged in Manuel Ellis' death and Bob Ferguson wants to be the next governor of Washington, but he has remained silent on the dozens of anti-Semitic attacks and targeting of Jewish institutions in Washington since Oct. 7 // Another California city passes proclamation supporting ceasefire in Gaza // From the floor of TPUSA's AmericaFest 2023, Ari talks to Paige Roux and then Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith // Lars Unleashed // Heart, Sir Mix-a-Lot to headline NHL Winter Classic in Seattle

Hamas rejects Israeli offer for 7-day truce, release of 40 hostages // BREAKING: Jury finds 3 Tacoma police officers not guilty for all charges in the Manny Ellis case; Man fatally stabbed in Seattle's Bitter Lake neighborhood - the deadly assault marked the 72nd homicide investigation in the city so far this year, which broke the previous record of 71 homicides in the city set in 1994 // There Was Another Gay Congressional Sex Tape Leak Last Year, apparently // Biden's DHS requires border agents to use 'preferred pronouns' of illegal immigrants // Washington Democratic Secretary of State Steve Hobbs says he's looking into "Donald Trump’s eligibility for the ballot for potential applicability to Washington.” // It's poop again! California’s ‘toilet-to-tap’ approved — treated sewage coming back into homes // King County Prosecutor's Office accused of overlooking juvenile sexual assaults // From the floor of TPUSA's AmericaFest 2023, Ari talks a person who is fighting for parental rights // BREAKING: Anger in the streets in Tacoma where protesters at 11th and MLK have been angrily voicing their displeasure with the acquittal of three Tacoma Police Officers who were charged in the death of Manny Ellis // GUEST: Joe Kent weighs in on his opponent taking campaign money from the Hamas Caucus

Producer, Phil Vandervort, sits in for John Carlson who is out sick. GUEST: initiative sponsor, Brian Heywood, tells KVI he's dropping off two more collections of initiative signatures to the WA Secretary of State's office today. How all six of Heywood's initiatives are a check and balance on the power and scope of government. Heywood points to recent WA elections to make a prediction about how the public will react to his six initiatives if all of them are approved by the Secretary of State's office. By December 31st, Washington voters should know if the first submitted initiative by Heywood will be approved to the Legislature. Also, a Republican U.S. Senator delivers a spectacular response to an Associated Press reporter asking for a comment about something Donald Trump recently said at a campaign event regarding illegal immigrants crossing into the United States.

Colorado Supreme Court DISQUALIFIES President Trump from ballot, citing 'insurrectionist' rule // Seattle Department of Transportation wants you to clean the leaves off your sidewalk, but they won't even clean up the needles and addicts from those same sidewalks // Lincoln Memorial steps vandalized with ‘Free Gaza’ graffiti, red paint // University of Washington steeped in controversy over transgender volleyball player // A woman crossed out a page of voter signatures at the Issaquah Costco - amid Democrat-backed efforts to harass and intimidate Let’s Go WA signature gatherers // 'A mass exodus': Why so many LA restaurants are closing // House Republican budget leader Chris Corry issues statement on governor’s proposed 2024 supplemental budget // From the floor of TPUSA's AmericaFest 2023, Ari interviews a priest and you might be surprised that he thinks there might be no future for the UK // Poor awareness, rise in antisemitism necessitates more education about Holocaust. Senator John Braun joins Ari to discuss the details // Transformers' Peter Cullen Receives Emmys Lifetime Achievement Award