KVI's John Carlson: WA police pursuit reform law drama brings unexpected twist on cut-off day in Legislature, the version that was approved is still watered down when it comes to giving police more discretion, yesterday's Olympia rally on police pursuit law did seem to push Senate Democrats to keep a reform bill alive, Seattle Sonic icon arrested for a shooting in Tacoma and one Seattle news anchor says Kemp was tracking stolen property that belonged to him, the King Co. Health Department has a social worker defending smokng fentanyl on Metro buses, WA House Democrats pass assault weapons ban which should summarily end gun violence across the state based on their rhetoric.

6am hour -- American news media are consumed with South Carolina murder conviction of Alex Murdaugh, GUEST: gun rights "go to guy" Dave Workman (writing at TheGunMag.com) examines WA Legislature bill that would allow gun manufacturers to be sued as a response to (ahem, attempt to) curb gun violence in WA, "the legislation to hold the firearms industry responsible is going to run head long into...federal statute...that clearly makes a junk lawsuit illegal", this agenda to sue gun manufacturers is 40 years old, the rather astonishing promotion of Women's History Month (March) by Hershey's chocolate bar company.

7am hour -- is it time for the US to go to war in Mexico?, a former US Attorney General writes that Mexican drug cartels are more dangerous (to the US) than ISIS/al-Qaeda, consider how the Mexican government responded after capturing the son of notorious drug cartel king pin El Chapo, 58,000 US military were killed during the 13 years of Vietnam and in 2022 over 100,000 Americans died from drug over-doses (i.e. fentanyl), GUEST: economist Steve Moore joins the debate about US using military force in Mexico to stop drug cartels, global greenhouse gas emissions are at an all time high despite US and other nations pledging to cut back, "crisis of happiness" in America,

8am hour -- KVI callers sound off on the strategy of US military going to battle in Mexico with drug cartels to stop the flow of drugs into the US, the bizarre legal odyssey of a Tacoma woman refusing to get treated for her tuberuclosis infection and how that squares with local judges who are letting violent criminals get favorably bail deals before going to trial, GUEST: ShiftWA.org's Randy Pepple highlights two WA Legislative bills that KVI listeners should be supporting to their elected officials, SB 5536 on toughening the state's lenient drug possession law, "our jails were never filled with only simply drug possession cases but now our parks and sidewalks are", HB 1363 on the police pursuit law would go back to the original version, Manka Dhingra says she'll grant a hearing to the House bill if it passes the House, KVI listener says Mexico produces too many products US consumers use which could be interrupted if drug cartels are attacked by US military, compare how Bellevue vs. Seattle handles spray paint graffiti taggers.

KVI's John Carlson evaluates a new op-ed from former US Attorney General Bill Barr who suggests that the US deploy military force in Mexico to dismantle narcotic drug cartels.

GUEST: ShiftWA.org's Randy Pepple highlights two WA Legislative bills that KVI listeners should be supporting to their elected officials,

SB 5536 on toughening the state's lenient drug possession law, Pepple quotes recent Legislative testimony saying, "our jails were never filled with only simply drug possession cases but now our parks and sidewalks are", HB 1363 on the police pursuit law would go back to the original version, State Sen. Manka Dhingra essentially contradicts herself and says she'll grant a hearing to the House bill if it passes the House.

6am hour -- an other example of Gov. Jay Inslee's restrictive police pursuit law that turns into a fatal crash killing two children and injuring another (I-82 wrong way driver), Congressional Republicans announce first hearing to investigate COVID-19 origin, a LTC tax update and when will WA voters have a chance to vote on the LTC tax?, bitter reaction from Chicago's mayor--Lori Lightfoot--after losing her re-election bid yesterday, what happens next after proposed sex-offender half-way house plan was abandoned by private operator,

7am hour -- GUEST: Richland WA medical clinic owner and Yakima ER doctor, Raul Garcia M.D., joins the show in-studio to talk about COVID hits and misses as well as transgender medical issues vis-a-vis socio-political issues.

8am hour -- according to John Carlson one thing is going right in Seattle and KVI listeners are invited to guess what it is, an innovative piece of Northwest sports history is being honored this weekend in Kent, grocery store security and the requisite complaint about carceral replication, a suspected fatal hit-n-run driver in Seattle is still on the loose and family of the two cousins who were killed are urging the killer to turn her or himself in to police, WSDOT finally says they'll cite homeless for trespass in the notorious spot under I-5 at the Ship Canal Bridge if they refuse shelter offer.

GUEST: Richland WA clinic owner and Yakima ER doctor, Raul Garcia M.D., joins the show in-studio to talk about COVID hits and misses, transgender medical issues vis-a-vis socio-political issues.

KVI's John Carlson examines the connection between WA's current police pursuit laws and the fatal wrong-way crash on I-82 near Sunnyside in the Yakima Valley that killed 2 children and badly injured a third who had to be airlifted to Seattle's Harborview Hospital.

6am hour -- Chicago's mayor is getting voted out, the first incumbent in over 40 years to lose in re-election bid, about 30 activists are at the heart of a protest effort to close down the King County jail, GUEST: ShiftWA.org's Randy Pepple lists the 3 Worst Bills left remaining in the WA Legislative session, "in the name of public safety" HB 1333 would allow the AG ( Bob Ferguson) to be the "minister of truth", HB1110 is the housing bill that would take away local zoning control from cities and take it over by state bureaucrats, SB5599 allows for protection of sex-assignment surgery for minors and its supporters are lying about what the bill will do,

7am hour -- Jon Stewart's 2021 assertion that he believes COVID originated in a Wuhan (China) lab leak takes on broader significance with this week's WSJ report about DOE conclusion that lab leak is most likely source of global pandemic, Stewart this week reflects on how he was targeted by the "intolerant Left" for his 2021 comments,

8am hour -- listen to the most idiotic defense of Pres. Biden's student tuition debt loan forgiveness plan, a Seattle Congresswoman makes an equally idiotic claim to keep Biden's student loan debt transfer in place, a King Co. jail protest exposes how small the activist group is pushing this "non-sensical" closure, the political left is at war with personal responsibility, Tenino residents cheer the cancellation of plan to open sex-offender half-way housing site near their homes.

KVI's John Carlson observes the 50th anniversary of the release of Pink Floyd's landmark LP "Dark Side of the Moon", examines this week's protest event to close down the King County jail in downtown Seattle and concludes the segment with the update that a sex-offender half-way house planned for Tenino, WA (Thurston County) will not open after numerous complaints and objections by neighbors.

6am hour -- Seattle Public Schools now facing same dilemma as Bellevue schools after COVID lockdowns and woke agendas, PNW drug ring ranging along the I-5 corridor from Tacoma to Oregon (including tourist hotspot Seaside, OR) tied to suspect who had previously been...wait for it...deported,

why WA Democrats are pushing a flawed 'pay per mile' tax to replace the gas tax and why it will gut dedicated funding for roads, another loopy UBI plan to pay homeless people emerges in Oregon,

7am hour -- SCOTUS hearing today on the student loan debt forgiveness plan by Pres. Biden, evaluating the Constitutionality of Biden's exec. order on student loan forgiveness, 40 years ago today the TV series finale of M*A*S*H, new studies show physical activity is the best way to boost mental health and address depression,

8am hour -- new list of 10 myths told by COVID 'experts' in the US, the list comes from Johns Hopkins M.D. Marty Makaray, Makary says public health officials were wrong because they refused to change their answers based on new evidence that emerged from COVID, Oregon socialism for homeless/possible drug addicts, two astonishing stories of WA defendants charged with violent gun crimes both receiving no and low bail while awaiting trial, a WA Legislative bill to give illegal aliens unemployment checks has thankfully died in committee.