This is an IHeart podcast.

It's that time.

Lock and load.

The Michael Vary show is on the air Michael Quinn Sullivan is the

publisher at Texas

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but he does not sit in his ivory tower.

He goes into the halls of the legislature.

He goes into meetings.

He reports on things from a first person perspective.

He was on the ground at the protests of the terrorists last week and was filming and reporting as he did so

Michael how was that terrorist activity different than you expected it to be going in well it was

different than what certainly what we'd seen in other parts of the country

where the weak police presence, driven by the politicians' dictates,

meant that people were doing very untoward things.

You certainly saw in Austin, in Houston, in Dallas, you saw individuals who

showed up hoping that they could replicate the vibe of L.A., hoping they could cause mayhem,

but yet the, between the local law enforcement, Texas Department Public Safety and the National Guard,

those folks quickly got the message that simply wasn't going to be tolerated in the Lone Star State.

I was in, I was in Austin for those protests, and I just have to say I never thought I would sing the praises of the Austin Police Department,

the way I found myself talking to my colleagues on the ground and then with friends later, just the professionalism

displayed by the men and women of the Austin PD and the Texas Department of Public Safety

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