July 7, 2025 • 46 mins
American Sunrise Early Edition on Real America's Voice
Segment 1: ELON'S NEW PARTY PLAN
Segment 2: CROCKETT FULL OF FOOLISHNESS
Segment 3: WILL THE RALLY CONTINUE?
Segment 4: SPEAKING WITH THE ENEMY
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Ahead an American Sunrise early edition. The gut wrenching scenes
of devastation and sorrow just kept coming out of Texas
over the weekend, as massive and freakish floods swept so
many lives and property away. At least eighty two people
are now confirmed dead, twenty eight of them children. But
as it is with every tragedy, there are those who
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insist on trying to use this flood for political gain
without much evidence. Opportunists immediately are throwing blame around, even
as rescue and search crews are still battling the odds.
Later today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nitanyaha will visit President
Trump at the White House. What's their next move? As
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hopes for the end to the war in Gaza hang
in the balance, Elon Musk makes it official he's filed
to begin a new Centrist America Party. He's got the
cash to build it up. But will he get any votes?
And could Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman try to do almost
the same thing. Fetterman's July fourth post about patriotism and
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the Democrats raises questions about whether he's up for transforming
his own party. American Sunrise Early Edition begins now.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
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American Sunrise Early Edition with your host Jake Novak starts now.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Welcome everyone. I hope you had a great July fourth weekend.
On Jake Novak. This is a Monday edition of American
Sunrise Early Edition. Some tough, tough stories coming out of
Texas all weekend, and most of us have been following
that with compassion and with concern. And one of the
people doing that along with all of us is David Pollock.
He's going to join us now. He's the state director
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of the Florida Conservative Caucus. And David, I I know
you join me in praying for the victims of the
Texas floods. And you know, it's just it's worth reminding
everyone that these students and young people you know there there.
It's it's it's got to be our first concern as
we look at this, and I you know, again, it's
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also interesting to see President Trump immediately jumping in and
talking about first of all, he's going to visit the
scene on Friday. As you know, President doesn't like to
go in the day is when all the stuff is
still going on. He'll only be a distraction and a
drain on the resources. But there's already been a pledge
by the Trump administration to fix some of these problems
that caused this. What's your initial thoughts about this? I mean,
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is this a question of changing the way the government
deals with this or was it a freakish flood that's
only going to happen once every several hundred years and
we just have to do our best for surge and rescue.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well let's start right at the very top.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
It didn't take much time for Democrats and their friends
and the fake news media to run out there and
find some sort of nexus to President Trump. I mean,
they looked at how are we going to blame this
on Trump? They said, And then what do they do?
They said, Well, let's try to tie DOGE cuts scheduled
DOGE cuts on satellites and global warming research and somehow
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tie that to this flood, and then from there they started,
of course, leaving out key facts and making it seem
as if any of these cuts to the National Weather
Service somehow led to prediction failures and forecast issues that
allowed these people to become victims of this horrific flood.
When the reality is and at this point, if you
do any simple research, people will know that the warnings
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did go out early, the flag flood alert, the high
alert came out on time. People were made aware the
forecast only literally. The only thing that you can try
to find faulted is that they thought less rain would fall,
but to predict a storm stalling in the manner that
it did over the vulnerable place that it did, and
the resulting tragedy. And we saw something similar to this
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in North Carolina when Biden was president, and dose cuts
did have anything to do with people in the mountains
not knowing the amount of rainfall that would come down
in the remnants of that storm.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
There.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
So the idea that Trump doze cuts somehow had anything
to do with people not being aware that this flood
was coming is complete nonsense. The warnings came in the
middle of the night, people were sleeping, the real question here, Jake,
is what are we going to do about people living
in places next to rivers that historically crest. Yes, it's
once every few hundred years, but guess what's happened over
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the last hundred years. People have literally moved everywhere, even
in the undesirable places that haven't been developed for a
very long time. As people move into these places that
historically have flooded, that have not been developed until recently,
these things occur. We saw this in New Orleans with Katrina.
We saw this in North Carolina and Appalachia. Now the
Appalachia is a little bit different of a situation, but
now we have another tragedy in Texas.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And so I think Trump is right to go down to.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Texas because one to dispute the claims that somehow cuts
led to this tragedy, because the family deserved better and
they need to know that this wasn't preventable necessarily with warnings.
And two, it's important that Trump put out the information
that he's there to help to give people some peace,
to provide support, and to lay out the plan to
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prevent tragedies like this from happening again.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Because we need to do better with flood warning.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
As a nation, we do a lot of advanced warnings
with hurricanes and tornadoes. Now even we're getting better at
predicting these floods flash floods, we need to come up
with some early warning systems, whether it be sirens or whatever.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So I think this trip is very important. Yeah, and
I think it'd be interesting. I'd love to hear some
of the new technology. There's always somebody who has a
technol logical, not a complete solution, but there's probably some
new technology as well that can protect some of these communities. Now, David,
this is the time for what I am about to do,
which is to recognize and say a name everyone American
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should be talking about. Instead of talking doing the political
blame game, America and the news media should be spending
all of that energy talking about a major, major number
of heroes in this entire story, especially the Coastguard rescue
swimmer and petty officer who has now been credited with
saving get this, one hundred and sixty five lives. Everyone
agrees this has got to be a record. His name
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is Scott Ruskin. He's from New Jersey, so from this
general area generally, I'm going to take a little bit
of credit and I'm just kidding, but I'm rooting for him.
You know, this is an issue in the news media, David.
It's not just that there's political bias. There's also bias
in favor of doom and gloom and a belief in
every newsroom in America, and I've worked in a lot
of them that the only way the American people will
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watch your product is if you have something frightening, horrible
and her rific to show them. That's not true. Teach
people in your newsrooms, teach people in your journalism schools
how to do stories about heroes, because I don't think
they know how to do this. And while I saw
on social media a lot of stuff about Scott Ruskin,
I didn't see any specific, long portrayal of him on
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the establishment media. So again, I mean, we have to
talk about heroes when they do come around, and in
these incidents I'm not talking about wars here. In these incidents,
there always are a lot of heroes.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Aren't there.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Well, Yeah, and of course the media doesn't want to
report that because a positive story out of this, they
can't spin and use that outrage to somehow hurt Trump.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
And that's how sick they've become.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
You're exactly right, though, and it's an excellent point about
the news coverage being negative.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I don't even let my kids watch the news.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
They haven't in a very long time because every other
story is about terrible things. And when you go when
you can go to other countries, you go to Europe,
you go to South America or Central America, you turn
on their news just people dancing.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
There's stories of markets and festivals.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
And that was one of the things that struck most the
first time I traveled overseas when I was younger. But
I turned on the news and I'm like, wow, there's
nothing bad happening. And then you turn on CNN International
or whatever you were watching, and it just like made
the look in the United States look like it was crumbling.
I don't know what the obsession is with the bad
and the good that's coming out of this tragedy. Of course,
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is always inspiring in every tragedy, there's always these good,
inspiring stories.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
But yes, you're right, the media wants to ignore it.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
They want to paint this dark picture, and then somehow
they find a way to politicize it and make it
seem like Donald Trump or whatever Republican is in charge.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
They did this with George Bush after Katrina.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Remember, somehow George Bush was responsible for one of the
worst hurricanes to ever hit New Orleans. Rather than the
inspiring stories of all the people that rescued those folks
that became victims too, really a failure in engineering and
bad community planning policies.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And this is constantly the theme.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
And we do need to be more responsible to do
a better job with reporting on the good because people
need good things in their lives.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
They need to.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Hear the positive because this country is a great unt
and a lot of great stories like this one do
come out every day.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, all right, let's get into the politics, because the
big political story over the weekend is that Elon Musk
has filed to start the America Party. It's his third
party plans. And you know, there's a lot of discussion
about this, whether this is a personal issue that Musk
has or anything of the sort. But to me, this
is really the result of a bad reading of history.
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First of all, the very very recent history. Elon Musk, remember,
poured a ton of money into that Wisconsin State Supreme
Court election. He even showed up a bunch of times
that didn't work. Also, in the history of this country,
if you really want to get tremendous results and you're
not liking where the parties are, you have much more
history showing that reforming your party within your party is
the way to go. I think the most recent person
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to really pull that off was Bill Clinton in the
Democratic Party in nineteen ninety two, pulling it more to
the center. You could argue that Donald Trump did that
with the Republican Party, but I don't think he set
out to change the Republican Party. Think he went to
the nation first and maybe his party second. Bill Clinton
successfully moved the Democratic Party to the center until Obama
pushed it way over to the left.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Again.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
That's where Elon Musk should be spending his money and
his efforts if he knows his history. But I don't
think he does.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yeah, this topic has just been so fascinating over the weekend,
so many different conversations and takes, and the initial gut
reaction from most people was that if Elon starts this party,
this is bad for Republicans.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I had the same theory.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I thought about it a lot, and to your point,
you're right, Donald Trump didn't set out to change the
Republican Party. But what he did when he came down
an escalator in twenty fifteen was he gave a lot
of frustrated Republicans all new home in the Republican Party
because for the longest time, the Republicans didn't feel really
like their voice was being heard.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I was one of them.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
And then you heard Donald Trump come down an escalator
and start saying the things that we were so frustrated
about for so long. And it wasn't just Republicans. It
was Centrists and Independents and Democrats and all kinds of people.
Libertarians who and especially you saw this in twenty twenty four,
who rallied around this idea that America belongs to its people,
not to Democrats, not to Republicans, but to us. And
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you heard that in his inaugural address in twenty sixteen.
But here's the deal. I'm not worried about Elon Musk
starting a third party. And here's why. First of all,
it takes all of the third parties have been started
by people who had some kind of political cloud or
some sort of organization in plays, whether it be former
presidents or former presidential candidates, Elon Musk, and I respect
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him tremendously. He's done amazing things for our country. I
think he's frustrated. I understand that he's frustrated. A lot
of us are. But the idea that he's going to
start this third party and somehow even get ballot access
in a hurry and to affect the twenty twenty six
midterm elections, I think he's in for a much bigger
project than he's realizing. I think if Elon Musk wants
to make a difference, and I understand this frustration, I
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really do local elections. Take some of your billions of dollars, Elon,
and get involved in local elections. Because when you change
your city councils, and your school boards, and your county commissions,
even your state House races, you start to change the
culture of the Republican Party. But you can't change the
culture of the Republican Party at the very very top,
at the tippy top in Washington, DC. If you don't
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like the way Republicans vote, you have to stop the
mechanism of putting those types of Republicans in Washington. And
the way to do that is get involved locally, strengthen
your local gops. Give the magabase of the Republican Party
who's constantly fighting Republicans, give them a voice with your
bank account. So I think Elon's efforts are going to
be way better spent getting involved in Republican politics, because
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if you look at the two parties, the only America
party right now is the Republican Party. The other party
doesn't want to see America survive. So Elon, if you
want to say of America, what you have to do
is help MAGA Republicans take back the Republican Party, and
then I think you'd be a lot happier with it.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, I only have about twenty seconds left, but I
actually think of more compelling and potentially really interesting story
over the next year or so. He is going on
in the Democrats side, because I keep seeing Senator John
Fetterman do posts like this. He had a post just
going into the July fourth weekend decrying that poll that
a lot of us talked about in the news media
last week about how Democrats are much less likely to
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be patriotic than Republicans. It's a really low number and
Fetterman is very upset about this. Now. I don't know
if he has higher aspirations. I don't know the status
of his health condition all that much, but when I
see him posting things like this and again, as I
draw back on the history of people like Bill Clinton
in nineteen ninety two, I'm saying to myself that if
someone wants to reform a party in America, John Fetterman
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could do it if he wants to. I actually think
there's enough people who sort of are still registered Democrat
or who would rather see the party get more centrist,
and I think he could really really ride that successfully
if he wants to. Don't know if he wants to.
And the only reason why I'm interested in that is
I would rather see a less radical party in America.
I don't care if they're called the Democrats, the socialists,
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or the monkeys. I don't really care what you call them.
I just want to see or the Beatles, or whatever
a group you want to call them. I want to
see less radicalism in America. I'd love for him to
try to do this. What do you think could he
possibly do it? I'm sorry, I only have a couple
of seconds left.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
No, you're fine. I think he'll try.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
The Democrats will eat him up, just like they did RFK,
just like they did Toulsy Gabbard. And then you'll see
him shifting to an independent like you tend to do
with centrists like him, because the Democrats have no tolerance,
no tolerance for anybody who disagrees with them.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah, it's a shame, but again, I don't think i'd
ever vote for him, but I'd love to see him
move the party a little bit more to the mill.
All Right, David Pollack, thank you so much for joining us.
Have a great rest of your week. Thanks for having me.
It's always pleasure coming up. This is probably one of
those Democrats that John Fetterman should talk to first if
he really means what he says. You'll hear the latest
foolishness from Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Get yourself ready for that.
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And the experts have been studying all the data. And
which big city do you think came in as the
number one most dangerous area to drive in America? Take
your guesses and I'll have the answer just a little
bit later on this program because American Sunrise Early Edition continues.
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So here's what I like about the new flag poles
at the White Houst. Besides the fact that in the
old before those flag holes, he didn't see an American
flag that clearly. It now gives us a little bit
of a weather forecast as well. And as you can see,
the flags are barely fluttering, which means it's another really
hot and humid day in our nation's capital. I'm Jake Novak.
Welcome back to American Sunrise early edition. Thank you especially
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to those of you in the Getter and Rumble chat.
It is very hot and heavy going right now. In
the Getter chat, a lot of people jumping in right
away and talking and getting into it.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I don't like a passive audience. I like everyone making
comments and I get a chance to check them out.
There are four new poles out there, by the way,
in the last few days about illegal immigration, and not
one of them is from a so called conservative or
Republican pollster. So that's why this is really interesting. All
of them show a clear majority of Americans support deporting
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all that's right, all illegal immigrants. The numbers go from
fifty five percent in the New York Times to sixty
four percent in the Marquette poll. This is really really extraordinary.
You would think that with all the efforts to mainstream
media and the Democrats and other people on social media
have been pushing into making deportation of illegal aliens into
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some kind of new Nazi agenda that you would think
that those poll numbers would be much lover. Remember the
opposite numbers in those polls. These are not zero sum
game polls. In other words, there's number of people who
are undecided. So even in that New York Times poll
where it's fifty five percent are in favor of deporting
all illegal aliens, it isn't forty five percent against. And
even then it would be a pretty nice majority in
today's America, But it's more like in the thirties and
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the high twenties. These are This is a very very
clear issue in America right now. Politicians who support illegal
aliens are do so at their own peril. And again,
I think this adds to my theory that the people
who are doing this, it's not that they're stupid. They
can read polls just like you and I. They absolutely
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must be getting funding to do this. They must be
getting really big campaign donations to make these suicidal politically positions.
It's the only explanation I've been working on it I've
been talking to people who investigate this, and I'm gonna
hope to have some real hard numbers to back me
up in the coming months. But that seems to be
the only explanation. All right, Well, that kind of support
for illegal aliens. You can be sure the smart politicians
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from both parties would either not talk about opposing deportations
or simply see it the way the majority of Americans do.
Maybe come over, maybe if you can't be and us
join us. Well, spoiler alert, Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is
not one of the smart ones. Listen to this.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
As far as I'm concern, you randomly kidnapping folk and
you're throwing them out of the country, against their civil rights,
against their constitutional rights. And frankly, how would they feel
if some other country decided that they were going to
just start throwing people randomly in our country like that?
Is absolutely insane. So yes, all I gotta say is,
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you'll need to get these.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Fools out of here, Jasmine, That's exactly what happened. People
have been randomly throwing people into this country for decades.
That's the whole point. But you know, maybe she's crazy
like a fox. I know, I think that some politicians
who are aggressively and supporting illegal aliens are obviously say
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it and do it a lot smarter than she does.
But she's probably on the payroll too. However, if you
are one of the people who's funding Jasmine Crockett to
support illegal aliens and to oppose deportations, maybe give her
a script next time, because she really is becoming a
human laugh track.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
All right.
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the political types like us are arguing about CBS News
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and its parent company, Paramount's issues with the truth and
their political bias, the folks with real skin in the
game look at CBS and see something else entirely. I'll
have that and more money news and also the answer
to the question about what's the most dangerous city in
America to drive what American Sunrise Early Edition roars right back.
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You know I'm getting on this program early this morning.
At the beginning of the program talking about how the
news media has a bias in favor of gloom and doom,
and then the control room gives me this gloomy and
doomy shot of New York. Come on, guys, now, just kidding.
That is an interesting shot. It's definitely artistic. That's New
York Harbor and you can barely see the top of
the buildings through the fog. We are expected to have
rain like every day for the next ten days in
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New York. I was looking at my weather stuff. Hopefully
that won't be true. Let's take a look where the
markets are going to begin today as we begin this
next segment here on American Sunrise Early Edition. The markets
have been on a nice, nice winning streak, as you know,
and it looks like they're going to open slightly lower
today as I'm taking a look. You're nothing serious, although
the nasdack almost a half a percent percent point down,
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Gold is down a little bit, Crude oil is flat.
Sixty six really almost exactly sixty seven dollars a barrow.
Let's take a look at bitcoin, and I think bitcoin
is again. If you've been watching this program, you know
we've been stuck between one hundred and one hundred and
ten thousand for weeks and weeks and weeks. We still are,
although we are now at the upper end of that.
So again we'll see if the rally continues a lot
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of days this last few weeks, we've had lower opens
only to see the market close pretty clearly higher. And
let's see if that happens again today. Well, President Trump
keeps changing the terms, or at least the public terms.
I think he's playing this game pretty well. But maybe not.
But maybe he isn't you listen to, folks, I think
this is interesting. He keeps changing the terms of the
tariff and when the dates are going to go into effect.
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He did it again yesterday now saying that the new
tariffs will go into effect on August first instead of
this Wednesday. Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, also joining in
in that explanation. One of the things that again this
is something that most of the news media doesn't understand,
is it's not up to us in the news media
to dictate the terms and to let everyone know about
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what's going on. And basically our private negotiations should they
be completely public? Well maybe yes, maybe no. I don't
have a problem if that's always the case, especially if
they're not discussing some secret matters. But as we found
out with the EU, there are some things that probably
shouldn't be public knowledge. For example, in our EU negotiations.
We've been talking about the EU buying some of our
sensitive weapons systems, our defense systems. So again, not all
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this can be above board. But for those of us
who think, hey, we deserve to have every single detail
about when the terists are going to go into an
effect and when they're not, relax take it easy. This
is where negotiations go. For those of you who are
sports fans, you know that we don't always know what's
going on when the big ballplayers get major contracts either.
Let's see how this splashes out the markets. They've been
starting to guess it right, just a little bit better.
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The markets were freaking out just a couple of months
every time there was a change. Now they seem to
be taking it much more in stride. As you saw,
the futures are not terribly in the red right now
this morning, and who knows, we might finish up again
at the end of the day. All Right, it begins.
Some of the five point three million Americans who have
delink went student loan debt have now begun to see
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smaller paychecks as part of the wage garnishment policy that
Trump administration put into effect in April. We talked about
this in April on this program, letting everyone know that
wage garnishments would begin. They have now begun in the
last couple of weeks. People looking at their paychecks again.
I'm hoping that this will start a movement in America,
not against the young kids or the people in their
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early thirties who are working at Starbucks. They're not the
ones who are the problem. Although they are responsible, I'm
not exonerating them of any responsibility, but ultimately this is
something that the universities themselves are responsible for. They have
taken advantage of the law. They've taken advantage of the
student loans structure to gouge the public and all of
us who get angry at gas prices, or drug prices
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or grocery prices. I don't understand why there isn't a
popular movement in America to talk about tuition prices, which
dwarf all those combined. And I'd love to see the
colleges be forced to lower their prices and stop getting
tax breaks and incentives to charge the highest sticker price possible.
That's what's going on here in America. Yes, those kids
should have been more responsible, and believe me, they're paying
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for it, and I have a problem with them paying
for it, but I'd like to see the colleges change
their policy. Okay, if you think the big settlement CBS
News Paramount Global just made with President Trump is hurting
the future of the news division, you may be making
assumptions that ignore the obvious. Who cares about the news division?
If you've got big money and you're buying CBS like
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start like this private equity group that is buying this organization.
They are buying it not for the News, not for
Walter Cronkite, who's been dead, not for decades, not for
Dan Rather, who's really almost on his last legs. They're
not buying it for sixty minutes. They're buying it for
the NFL. The NFL, as an entertainment property in America,
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is the most successful entertainment property. It is America's addiction.
It's one of the few entertainment properties, if not the only,
entertainment property that's just as popular with white people as
it is with black people, poor people, as it is
with rich people, and everything down the line. CBS is
a major NFL contract. That's where their biggest value is,
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and those private equity folks Larry Ellison's son. They are
interested in accentuating their NFL. Look for CBS to be
all about the NFL even more than it already is
once that sale goes through, and much less about news.
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T for ten percent off your first order. Well, it's Monday,
so we might as well get the inevitable weekly bad
news about Nissan out of the way now. Nissan is
recalling almost four hundred and fifty thousand models of Ultimo's
Rose and Infinity QX fifties and QX fifty five's for
their VC turbo engines that could possibly fail. Now the
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recall affects model the years twenty nineteen through twenty twenty four,
but the years vary on those models. So contact your
dealer or make sure you're looking for your emails or
your phone calls. Make sure that you're looking for them.
Make sure that your car is or isn't under recall.
But that's a big one. Four hundred and fifty thousand.
Now remember that drive through damage assessor from Hurtz that
(27:35):
I first showed you last month. Believe me, no other
news station bothered to show that to you, at least
not a national one. That's where you drive through a
special AI power drive through machine with when you first
take your car out, it hurts, so when you bring
it back and it decides whether or not you have
any damage. Here's the problem. This thing seems to be very,
very nitpicky, including one guy who says that a smudge
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on the car turned into a one hundred and ninety
five dollars charge from Hertz just a few hours after
he returned his car. Now, if this news gets out,
and I think it should, people may not want to
rent from Hurts anymore. Maybe they shouldn't have touted this
thing as much as they thought. They thought they were
telling customers, Hey, this will get you in and out
really faster. We won't do the inspection. You will be
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able to get to your flight. But if that AI
machine is starting to charge people two hundred bucks per
smudges and scratches as you can't even see, this is
not gonna be good for hurts. So I think they
need to fine tune that machine just a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Valet parking is a big deal for people with fancy
cars and in fancy places where they take them, so naturally,
smart thieves are interested in valet parking too, at the
right places. In Plato textas though those thieves went a
little bit too far, A gang of car thieves stole
a five hundred thousand dollars twenty twenty four Rolls Royce
specter on June six from a valet parking spot. Now
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that triggered a multi agency effort to get the crooks.
What happens when you get a big score like that,
And it indeed brought the heat, so Cob said, a
few days later, they traced the crooks to an address
where they found that specter another Rolls Royce, this time
at Rolls Royce Cullenen, a Cadillac Escalade V, a Maserati Levante,
and Audi RS seven. The total value nearly one and
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a half million dollars. Now, these guys were not amateurs technically.
Police say the suspects were seen on surveillance cameras dismantling
a part of a car's trunk, which disabled the GPS trackers.
But they weren't too smart about getting rid of the evidence.
But anyway, listen, if you're gonna make big scores like this,
you got to make the big score and then get
out of town. They didn't learn that lesson. Okay, a
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little while ago, I asked you all the guests, which
American city is the most dangerous for drivers. The answer Boston, Massachusetts.
For those of you who live in the Northeast, you're
probably not surprised, but this is what surprised me. The
statistics are really bad. Bostonians drive an average just three
point one years between accidents. That's it. That's compared to
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a ten and a half year rich for the rest
of the country. Every three years they get into an accident. Brownsville, Texas,
by the way, has the best safety average. They're at
fourteen point one years between accidents and they drive a
lot in Texas, so that's impressive. This was an all
state survey, a survey by the insurance company looking at
other insurers as well. If you've ever driven in Boston,
they are incredibly aggressive there. Please be careful if you
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drive through there, Baby, take public transportation or an uber,
although I guess if you're an uber you could get
into a crash. To Boston drivers, they're out of their minds.
They always have been, Okay, coming up the latest on
the terrible floods down in Texas and the misplaced priorities
so many people have when they're commenting on this tragedy,
and why in the world would you interview the president
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of Iran? And on the fourth of July too. He's
not even the guy in charge over there, by the way,
nor is he ever going to say anything truthful. American
Sunrise Early edition will be right back. It's Monday, July seventh.
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Hero this morning's top stories. The gut wrenching scenes of
devastation and sorrow just keep coming out of Texas after
that massive and freakish flood swept so many lives and
property away. At least eighty two people are now confirmed dead,
twenty eight of them children. Later today, Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Nintanyahu will visit President Trump at the White House.
(31:35):
What's their next move? As hopes for the end to
the war in Gaza hang in the balance, Elon Musk
makes it official he's filed to begin a new Centrist
America Party. Well, he's got the cash to build it up.
But will it get any votes? And why on Earth
would Tucker Carlson or anyone waste their time interviewing the
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president of Iran. Don't we have enough people bash America
and trying to make us feel bad right here inside
our own borders. American Sunrise Early Edition continues now. Welcome
back to American Sunrise Early Edition. I'm Jake Novak Special.
Welcome to those of you in the Getter and the
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rumble Chats. You're already off and running after that long weekend.
You guys got a lot of rest, clearly over the
weekend because you were going strong. Joining me now is
Sierra Claire. She's a professor and published writer on all
things political and cultural. So Sierra, let's start with something
that's political and cultural. The obsession by the mainstream media
and many other people as well, to immediately look at
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this Texas flooding disaster and find a way to blame
it on President Trump. Now, they've been pulling this kind
of stuff at least since Hurricane Katrina, when they blame
that on George W. Bush. It's had diminishing success since then.
I'm sorry to say that was a very successful smear
campaign twenty years ago now, if you can believe it.
But they're trying it again, despite the National Weather Service
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putting this out, the National Service showing Weather Service showing
that they added extra staffers, and the APE reported this.
They looked into it. They added extra staffers for this
storm event. So this whole discussion of the gutted federal
of bureaucracy is really erroneous. Here, Sarah, please make this
make sense. Why do people need to blame? Is this
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like going back to ancient times when they would blame
somebody in the community for the bad weather and then
sacrifice them to the gods. I think this is what
this is.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Yeah, I mean, it's definitely baffling. You know, eighty people
wor confirmed dead and including twenty eight children, and we've
seen a myriad of approaches from conservatives. You know, some
people like President Trump wanted to leave right into action.
Other people sent their condolences or focused on the amazing
search and rescue efforts.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
You know.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
So there's been a lot of different ways people have
responding to this, But it's only the Democrats that immediately
we're talking about politics, they jump to this wild speculation,
as you pointed out, that's been debunked by the National
Weather Service, the federal government, the Texas state government. And
you know, I really thought they couldn't get any lower
after the whole Abrego Garcia disaster. But you know, I
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guess this is what the Democratic Party stands for now,
which is politicizing the deaths of children and having margarita's
with foreign gang members.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Yeah. I mean, listen, maybe they'll find a way to
do that and get some margarita's going. It is Texas
after all. But it's really it's really amazing to me.
And I'm going to talk a little bit more about
the positive stories about this a little later on. I
guess all the folks in the US and abroad who
are obsessed with trying to pretend President Trump and Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamintennia, who should break up, will be sad
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this evening because it will be this evening that Prime
Minister Nantennia will be back at the White House. Look,
we know what they're going to talk about. It's not
just going to be about patting themselves on the back
about the successful strike on Iran. They are now really
trying to create some kind of hardcore timeline to end
the war in Gaza, get the hostages back, and then
to move on to a future for Gaza. What are
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you hoping for and expecting out of this meeting?
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Yeah, I mean, I think the meeting should be very interesting.
As you pointed out, a lot of focus on the hostages.
I know the administration has been talking about that a
lot in recent days and their efforts to support Israel
and getting those hostages returned, which I think is what
a lot of the future will hinge on as well.
So that's very important and I'm glad that they're focusing
on that. And I also think it's good for the
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world to see that President Trump and net and Yaho
have a close working relationship. You know, they had a
little bit of a riff during the ceasefire discussions and
President Trump expressed his displeasure with Aroan and Israel at
that time. But these you know, Trump and and Yah,
who are both great statesmen, and they are able to
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put their differences aside and focus on what really important,
which is what we need from leaders in the Middle
East right now. So I just think it's really good
for people to see that and see them working together.
And I'm excited to see what comes out of it.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, And I want everyone who's watching who's a little
bit worried and thinking, Boy, if the US gets so
friendly and so strong and shows that public friendship with
Israel so much as it is exemplified between President Trump
and nintaniaho won't that lead to trouble? And the answer is,
historically it actually leads to more peace. In nineteen seventy three,
when President Nixon stood strong with Israel, resupplied the military
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when they were losing a lot of their weapons and
their machinery, the our world learned, Hey, you know what,
We're never going to break these two people up. The
Soviet Union figured that out too, and we started on
that path towards the Israel Egypt Peace Treaty. Same thing
after the First Golf War when Israel stood with the
United States, accepted the scud missile attacks from Saddama, saying
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didn't get involved in the war against Iraq, as President
Bush hw Bush urged them to. Within a year or
so after the Gulf War, Jordan signed a peace treaty
with Israel, and on and on down the line. When
the world sees of the US and Israel are friendly
and are strong in their partnership, it leads to peace,
not war. Yes, there might be some terrorists or upset
about it, but that's another story. I'm talking about overall
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nations and overall outlook, it has led to peace every time,
So don't be nervous about that. Now, let's look at
the other side, the enemy nations. Why on Earth, Sierra
would anyone interview the president of Iran, especially on July
fourth weekend when we want to feel good about America.
That's what Tucker Carlson did over the weekend. Now here
are two beefs I have with this. First, the first thing,
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I said, you know, you're not going to get any
truth out of this guy. He's going to say terrible
things about America. He's not. And even Carlson himself admitted, oh,
I couldn't ask him the hard questions because he won't
answer them truthfully, which is a good reason not to
do the interview in the first place. But here's my
second beef with this, Sierra. The president of Iran has
no functional power. He is a figurehead. It's like interviewing
Prince William anything other than talking about the ribbon cuttings
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he does and the suits that he and Kate Middleton
and the clothes they wear. This guy is a figurehead.
There's no point in talking to him. He's just a
math beat. You might as well talk to someone on
social media who rips into the United States, like Syrian Girl,
that woman who gets all that money to bash America.
I don't understand this. Please make it make sense, Sierra.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Yeah, I mean it was. The timing was horrible. I definitely.
You know, I agree with you on the for the
July thing. That doesn't make any sense at all. And
you know, as far as Tucker Carlson's argument that the
American people might get something out of this, the Trump
administration has been very transparent about their interactions with Iran
and the diplomatic negotiations that they were pursuing with Iran.
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And how Iran has responded, which is by not talking
to the US, you know, insisting on using back channels
and third parties. So for me, as an American, I
feel very comfortable. I know how Iran feels about America.
I don't need to hear from as you said, the figurehead.
And then Tucker also mentioned something about that we were
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at war with Iran and we could be again, and
so that's why he wanted to do this, But I
think that is also there's a lot of debate about
that statement. I don't know that we were at war
with Iran, and I think President Trump has made it
clear he's doing everything possible to make sure that we're
not at war with Iran. So the whole thing just
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doesn't make a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Yeah, Iran's been at war with US for forty six years.
Interviewing Tokyo Rose wouldn't help us learning any more about
them Sierra. But if Americans do want to focus on
something that is going on overseas that involves Islamis, terrorists,
and Christians, they ought to pay attention to Nigeria. Check
out how one reporter asked the State Department spokeswoman about
that late last week. Check this out.
Speaker 7 (39:50):
Nigeria recently, more than two hundred people were slaughtered earlier
this month in a series of attacks on Christian villages
by Islamic militants. Of some six thousand were displaced. What's
state doing to address this? Is there anything state can
do to address the.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Sierra? She went on to respond to say that they're
looking into it. But what should all Americans know about
this situation in Africa?
Speaker 6 (40:18):
Well, you know, I think President Trump and his administration
are faced with a critical issue that was largely neglected
by the Biden administration, and that's global terrorism, and combating
terrorism is key to our national security. But the left
has been totally absent on this issue, and the Biden
administration wouldn't even utter the word terrorism, let alone fight it.
They were too busy obsessing over their first world problems
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like pronouns. And meanwhile, real human rights crises like the
persecution of African Christians by ISIS were swept under the rug.
So now the threat has grown and we're seeing more deaths.
And in the US, you know, we have these protests
on college campuses and people supporting Islam and terrorists. It
just shows how out of touch the left is and
the facts on the ground in Nigeria are clear and
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know what's going on now thanks to the transparency from
the State Department. This is religious persecution of Christians by
Islam and terrorists who want to impose Shari law. Where
are the protesters who want to stand up for these
people's rights. Where are the Democrats who are so concerned
about foreign aid cuts on this issue? Not a one
has mentioned it yet. They seem to have time to
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defend Hamas or RN every chance they get. They don't
really care about human rights. And we are not the
world's policemen, but we should concern ourselves with issues that
represent our values as Americans, such as religious freedom. So
I would like to see and hear more from the
Democrats on this issue and other real human rights crises,
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and less about defending Hamas and Iranian terrorists.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Yeah, and I'd like to hear from other Republicans also.
And let me give you a hot tip. If Christian
groups in America started a large protest movement in support
of African Christians who are being persecuted, a lot of
other American groups, non Christian groups, would join them. I
can tell you that right now I'd like to see it.
This is an absolute effort that's worth it really should
be made. Sierra Claire, thank you so much for waking
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up real early out in the West Coast. Coars and
have a great rest of your week.
Speaker 6 (42:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
All right, coming up, let me put my money, or
at least my time where my mouth is. When it
comes to the priorities the news media should have when
reporting on tragedies like the Texas flooding. It's not all
about the politicians. It's about the real heroes. David Brody
will help me do that when American Sunrise Early Edition
comes right back. Ooh, that's a beautiful shot of Dallas,
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Texas this morning. Welcome back to American Sunrise Early Edition.
Of course, further down south in Texas, they are dealing
with some of the worst flooding disaster that we've seen
in this country in a long time. I know a
lot of us, even though we enjoyed our July fourth weekends,
I hope you did, were really gripped by what was
going on in that story down in Texas all week
all weekend. Joining me now is David Brody, and David
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I promised at the beginning of the show to really
try to put my money or my time where my
mouth is. These tragedies have one thing in common. There
are always some incredible heroes that emerge. And we did
get one just the other day when Christynoman told us
about a guy named Scott Ruskin. He is a relatively
new member of the Coastguard. He is a rescue swimmer
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and petty officer. And you know, the Coast Guard for
those of us in the media capital of the world,
New York, not that far. The Coast Guard academy is
in Connecticut. It's very close to New York City. So
there's no excuse not to make more of the story
about this guy. Get this, David. They are crediting him
with saving one hundred and sixty five people one guy,
(43:53):
and they all say it's a record. They're not even
gonna bother even I mean, they all know it's a record.
This is incredible. Here's a picture of as graduation. I guess,
and I'm gonna take a little credit for him, David.
He's not from New York, but he's close. He's a
Jersey guy. He's some Jersey Scott Ruskin and I just
these are the kinds of stories that and by the way,
even a nine to eleven, and we did hear about
here as a nine to eleven, But still the reporting
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in America is so focused on blame game, doom and gloom.
And yes, this is a very sad story and it's
important that everyone knows the levels of the sadness here
and the levels of the devastation. But if you spend
more time trying to blame someone politically than giving credit
to Scott Ruskin and people like him, then it isn't
just your news or your politics. I don't like I'm
wondering about your soul. I really am.
Speaker 8 (44:38):
Yeah, and here's the sad news. If we started a
good news network and this has been tried before, the
ratings would tank, they would, you know, sadly. You know,
this is what the media does, and this is what
sadly a lot of folks don't necessarily want.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
We say they want it.
Speaker 8 (44:58):
But the truth of the matter is we do get
caught up, all of us in negativity and in tragedy,
and so let's just not blame this on the media.
I think we have some responsibility in this as well,
if I'm being fully honest. You know, Calvin Coolidge not
one of the best presidents in the world for sure, but.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
He had a great quote.
Speaker 8 (45:16):
He said, heroism is not only in the man, but
in the actual occasion. And I think that is a
great point and a great situation here, specifically for what
Scott Ruskin did here, because do we have.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Heroism within us? I think many of us do.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
I think many of us don't know it.
Speaker 8 (45:37):
But when the occasion actually presents itself, some people shirk
that responsibility and others rise to the occasion. And you know,
to me, there are so many other Scott Ruskins out there.
Quite frankly, there's so many in our audience today, Jake. Honestly,
you know, do you have some Scott Ruskin? And you do,
I do as well. We don't think we do, but
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we do. The quot question is are we going to
act on it in the occasion? And to me, uh,
you know that that's just unknown until it actually happens.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
But it's uh, it's.
Speaker 8 (46:10):
Quite remarkable and we should be thank you, not only
folks like Scott Ruskin, but so many of those other
folks that came to the rescue of those Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Well, you know my counterpoint to you about how it
would never rate if you did a good news thing
is that I have. I've understood that furious because of
the way that they would that you that I've seen
it approached. It's they do it the wrong way. It
can't be happy talking smiley face. It has to be
the way you just did it, where we talk about
a hero and talk about how it is in us,
and we basically say, here are some of the really
bad things that these people stand up to. You still
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use that that alacrity and that hardcore makes it sound
like it's real news, not like a smiley face thing.
And I actually think it can be successful. But you
guys are going to be successful. On American Sunrise the
next two hours. I'll see you in the nine am hour,
and I'll see the rest of you on Tuesday.
Ahead an American Sunrise early edition. The gut wrenching scenes
of devastation and sorrow just kept coming out of Texas
over the weekend, as massive and freakish floods swept so
many lives and property away. At least eighty two people
are now confirmed dead, twenty eight of them children. But
as it is with every tragedy, there are those who
(00:24):
insist on trying to use this flood for political gain
without much evidence. Opportunists immediately are throwing blame around, even
as rescue and search crews are still battling the odds.
Later today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nitanyaha will visit President
Trump at the White House. What's their next move? As
(00:45):
hopes for the end to the war in Gaza hang
in the balance, Elon Musk makes it official he's filed
to begin a new Centrist America Party. He's got the
cash to build it up. But will he get any votes?
And could Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman try to do almost
the same thing. Fetterman's July fourth post about patriotism and
(01:08):
the Democrats raises questions about whether he's up for transforming
his own party. American Sunrise Early Edition begins now.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Welcome to American Sunrise Early Edition, the show where faith, freedom,
and the values that built this nation takes centers.
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Join host Jake Novak as he breaks down the stories
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American Sunrise Early Edition with your host Jake Novak starts now.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Welcome everyone. I hope you had a great July fourth weekend.
On Jake Novak. This is a Monday edition of American
Sunrise Early Edition. Some tough, tough stories coming out of
Texas all weekend, and most of us have been following
that with compassion and with concern. And one of the
people doing that along with all of us is David Pollock.
He's going to join us now. He's the state director
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of the Florida Conservative Caucus. And David, I I know
you join me in praying for the victims of the
Texas floods. And you know, it's just it's worth reminding
everyone that these students and young people you know there there.
It's it's it's got to be our first concern as
we look at this, and I you know, again, it's
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also interesting to see President Trump immediately jumping in and
talking about first of all, he's going to visit the
scene on Friday. As you know, President doesn't like to
go in the day is when all the stuff is
still going on. He'll only be a distraction and a
drain on the resources. But there's already been a pledge
by the Trump administration to fix some of these problems
that caused this. What's your initial thoughts about this? I mean,
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is this a question of changing the way the government
deals with this or was it a freakish flood that's
only going to happen once every several hundred years and
we just have to do our best for surge and rescue.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well let's start right at the very top.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
It didn't take much time for Democrats and their friends
and the fake news media to run out there and
find some sort of nexus to President Trump. I mean,
they looked at how are we going to blame this
on Trump? They said, And then what do they do?
They said, Well, let's try to tie DOGE cuts scheduled
DOGE cuts on satellites and global warming research and somehow
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tie that to this flood, and then from there they started,
of course, leaving out key facts and making it seem
as if any of these cuts to the National Weather
Service somehow led to prediction failures and forecast issues that
allowed these people to become victims of this horrific flood.
When the reality is and at this point, if you
do any simple research, people will know that the warnings
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did go out early, the flag flood alert, the high
alert came out on time. People were made aware the
forecast only literally. The only thing that you can try
to find faulted is that they thought less rain would fall,
but to predict a storm stalling in the manner that
it did over the vulnerable place that it did, and
the resulting tragedy. And we saw something similar to this
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in North Carolina when Biden was president, and dose cuts
did have anything to do with people in the mountains
not knowing the amount of rainfall that would come down
in the remnants of that storm.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
There.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
So the idea that Trump doze cuts somehow had anything
to do with people not being aware that this flood
was coming is complete nonsense. The warnings came in the
middle of the night, people were sleeping, the real question here, Jake,
is what are we going to do about people living
in places next to rivers that historically crest. Yes, it's
once every few hundred years, but guess what's happened over
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the last hundred years. People have literally moved everywhere, even
in the undesirable places that haven't been developed for a
very long time. As people move into these places that
historically have flooded, that have not been developed until recently,
these things occur. We saw this in New Orleans with Katrina.
We saw this in North Carolina and Appalachia. Now the
Appalachia is a little bit different of a situation, but
now we have another tragedy in Texas.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And so I think Trump is right to go down to.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Texas because one to dispute the claims that somehow cuts
led to this tragedy, because the family deserved better and
they need to know that this wasn't preventable necessarily with warnings.
And two, it's important that Trump put out the information
that he's there to help to give people some peace,
to provide support, and to lay out the plan to
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prevent tragedies like this from happening again.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Because we need to do better with flood warning.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
As a nation, we do a lot of advanced warnings
with hurricanes and tornadoes. Now even we're getting better at
predicting these floods flash floods, we need to come up
with some early warning systems, whether it be sirens or whatever.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So I think this trip is very important. Yeah, and
I think it'd be interesting. I'd love to hear some
of the new technology. There's always somebody who has a
technol logical, not a complete solution, but there's probably some
new technology as well that can protect some of these communities. Now, David,
this is the time for what I am about to do,
which is to recognize and say a name everyone American
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should be talking about. Instead of talking doing the political
blame game, America and the news media should be spending
all of that energy talking about a major, major number
of heroes in this entire story, especially the Coastguard rescue
swimmer and petty officer who has now been credited with
saving get this, one hundred and sixty five lives. Everyone
agrees this has got to be a record. His name
(06:35):
is Scott Ruskin. He's from New Jersey, so from this
general area generally, I'm going to take a little bit
of credit and I'm just kidding, but I'm rooting for him.
You know, this is an issue in the news media, David.
It's not just that there's political bias. There's also bias
in favor of doom and gloom and a belief in
every newsroom in America, and I've worked in a lot
of them that the only way the American people will
(06:56):
watch your product is if you have something frightening, horrible
and her rific to show them. That's not true. Teach
people in your newsrooms, teach people in your journalism schools
how to do stories about heroes, because I don't think
they know how to do this. And while I saw
on social media a lot of stuff about Scott Ruskin,
I didn't see any specific, long portrayal of him on
(07:17):
the establishment media. So again, I mean, we have to
talk about heroes when they do come around, and in
these incidents I'm not talking about wars here. In these incidents,
there always are a lot of heroes.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Aren't there.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Well, Yeah, and of course the media doesn't want to
report that because a positive story out of this, they
can't spin and use that outrage to somehow hurt Trump.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
And that's how sick they've become.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
You're exactly right, though, and it's an excellent point about
the news coverage being negative.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I don't even let my kids watch the news.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
They haven't in a very long time because every other
story is about terrible things. And when you go when
you can go to other countries, you go to Europe,
you go to South America or Central America, you turn
on their news just people dancing.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
There's stories of markets and festivals.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
And that was one of the things that struck most the
first time I traveled overseas when I was younger. But
I turned on the news and I'm like, wow, there's
nothing bad happening. And then you turn on CNN International
or whatever you were watching, and it just like made
the look in the United States look like it was crumbling.
I don't know what the obsession is with the bad
and the good that's coming out of this tragedy. Of course,
(08:18):
is always inspiring in every tragedy, there's always these good,
inspiring stories.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
But yes, you're right, the media wants to ignore it.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
They want to paint this dark picture, and then somehow
they find a way to politicize it and make it
seem like Donald Trump or whatever Republican is in charge.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
They did this with George Bush after Katrina.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Remember, somehow George Bush was responsible for one of the
worst hurricanes to ever hit New Orleans. Rather than the
inspiring stories of all the people that rescued those folks
that became victims too, really a failure in engineering and
bad community planning policies.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And this is constantly the theme.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
And we do need to be more responsible to do
a better job with reporting on the good because people
need good things in their lives.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
They need to.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Hear the positive because this country is a great unt
and a lot of great stories like this one do
come out every day.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, all right, let's get into the politics, because the
big political story over the weekend is that Elon Musk
has filed to start the America Party. It's his third
party plans. And you know, there's a lot of discussion
about this, whether this is a personal issue that Musk
has or anything of the sort. But to me, this
is really the result of a bad reading of history.
(09:26):
First of all, the very very recent history. Elon Musk, remember,
poured a ton of money into that Wisconsin State Supreme
Court election. He even showed up a bunch of times
that didn't work. Also, in the history of this country,
if you really want to get tremendous results and you're
not liking where the parties are, you have much more
history showing that reforming your party within your party is
the way to go. I think the most recent person
(09:48):
to really pull that off was Bill Clinton in the
Democratic Party in nineteen ninety two, pulling it more to
the center. You could argue that Donald Trump did that
with the Republican Party, but I don't think he set
out to change the Republican Party. Think he went to
the nation first and maybe his party second. Bill Clinton
successfully moved the Democratic Party to the center until Obama
pushed it way over to the left.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Again.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
That's where Elon Musk should be spending his money and
his efforts if he knows his history. But I don't
think he does.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yeah, this topic has just been so fascinating over the weekend,
so many different conversations and takes, and the initial gut
reaction from most people was that if Elon starts this party,
this is bad for Republicans.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I had the same theory.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I thought about it a lot, and to your point,
you're right, Donald Trump didn't set out to change the
Republican Party. But what he did when he came down
an escalator in twenty fifteen was he gave a lot
of frustrated Republicans all new home in the Republican Party
because for the longest time, the Republicans didn't feel really
like their voice was being heard.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I was one of them.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
And then you heard Donald Trump come down an escalator
and start saying the things that we were so frustrated
about for so long. And it wasn't just Republicans. It
was Centrists and Independents and Democrats and all kinds of people.
Libertarians who and especially you saw this in twenty twenty four,
who rallied around this idea that America belongs to its people,
not to Democrats, not to Republicans, but to us. And
(11:09):
you heard that in his inaugural address in twenty sixteen.
But here's the deal. I'm not worried about Elon Musk
starting a third party. And here's why. First of all,
it takes all of the third parties have been started
by people who had some kind of political cloud or
some sort of organization in plays, whether it be former
presidents or former presidential candidates, Elon Musk, and I respect
(11:31):
him tremendously. He's done amazing things for our country. I
think he's frustrated. I understand that he's frustrated. A lot
of us are. But the idea that he's going to
start this third party and somehow even get ballot access
in a hurry and to affect the twenty twenty six
midterm elections, I think he's in for a much bigger
project than he's realizing. I think if Elon Musk wants
to make a difference, and I understand this frustration, I
(11:52):
really do local elections. Take some of your billions of dollars, Elon,
and get involved in local elections. Because when you change
your city councils, and your school boards, and your county commissions,
even your state House races, you start to change the
culture of the Republican Party. But you can't change the
culture of the Republican Party at the very very top,
at the tippy top in Washington, DC. If you don't
(12:14):
like the way Republicans vote, you have to stop the
mechanism of putting those types of Republicans in Washington. And
the way to do that is get involved locally, strengthen
your local gops. Give the magabase of the Republican Party
who's constantly fighting Republicans, give them a voice with your
bank account. So I think Elon's efforts are going to
be way better spent getting involved in Republican politics, because
(12:36):
if you look at the two parties, the only America
party right now is the Republican Party. The other party
doesn't want to see America survive. So Elon, if you
want to say of America, what you have to do
is help MAGA Republicans take back the Republican Party, and
then I think you'd be a lot happier with it.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, I only have about twenty seconds left, but I
actually think of more compelling and potentially really interesting story
over the next year or so. He is going on
in the Democrats side, because I keep seeing Senator John
Fetterman do posts like this. He had a post just
going into the July fourth weekend decrying that poll that
a lot of us talked about in the news media
last week about how Democrats are much less likely to
(13:15):
be patriotic than Republicans. It's a really low number and
Fetterman is very upset about this. Now. I don't know
if he has higher aspirations. I don't know the status
of his health condition all that much, but when I
see him posting things like this and again, as I
draw back on the history of people like Bill Clinton
in nineteen ninety two, I'm saying to myself that if
someone wants to reform a party in America, John Fetterman
(13:35):
could do it if he wants to. I actually think
there's enough people who sort of are still registered Democrat
or who would rather see the party get more centrist,
and I think he could really really ride that successfully
if he wants to. Don't know if he wants to.
And the only reason why I'm interested in that is
I would rather see a less radical party in America.
I don't care if they're called the Democrats, the socialists,
(13:55):
or the monkeys. I don't really care what you call them.
I just want to see or the Beatles, or whatever
a group you want to call them. I want to
see less radicalism in America. I'd love for him to
try to do this. What do you think could he
possibly do it? I'm sorry, I only have a couple
of seconds left.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
No, you're fine. I think he'll try.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
The Democrats will eat him up, just like they did RFK,
just like they did Toulsy Gabbard. And then you'll see
him shifting to an independent like you tend to do
with centrists like him, because the Democrats have no tolerance,
no tolerance for anybody who disagrees with them.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah, it's a shame, but again, I don't think i'd
ever vote for him, but I'd love to see him
move the party a little bit more to the mill.
All Right, David Pollack, thank you so much for joining us.
Have a great rest of your week. Thanks for having me.
It's always pleasure coming up. This is probably one of
those Democrats that John Fetterman should talk to first if
he really means what he says. You'll hear the latest
foolishness from Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Get yourself ready for that.
(14:45):
And the experts have been studying all the data. And
which big city do you think came in as the
number one most dangerous area to drive in America? Take
your guesses and I'll have the answer just a little
bit later on this program because American Sunrise Early Edition continues.
(15:22):
So here's what I like about the new flag poles
at the White Houst. Besides the fact that in the
old before those flag holes, he didn't see an American
flag that clearly. It now gives us a little bit
of a weather forecast as well. And as you can see,
the flags are barely fluttering, which means it's another really
hot and humid day in our nation's capital. I'm Jake Novak.
Welcome back to American Sunrise early edition. Thank you especially
(15:44):
to those of you in the Getter and Rumble chat.
It is very hot and heavy going right now. In
the Getter chat, a lot of people jumping in right
away and talking and getting into it.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I don't like a passive audience. I like everyone making
comments and I get a chance to check them out.
There are four new poles out there, by the way,
in the last few days about illegal immigration, and not
one of them is from a so called conservative or
Republican pollster. So that's why this is really interesting. All
of them show a clear majority of Americans support deporting
(16:13):
all that's right, all illegal immigrants. The numbers go from
fifty five percent in the New York Times to sixty
four percent in the Marquette poll. This is really really extraordinary.
You would think that with all the efforts to mainstream
media and the Democrats and other people on social media
have been pushing into making deportation of illegal aliens into
(16:33):
some kind of new Nazi agenda that you would think
that those poll numbers would be much lover. Remember the
opposite numbers in those polls. These are not zero sum
game polls. In other words, there's number of people who
are undecided. So even in that New York Times poll
where it's fifty five percent are in favor of deporting
all illegal aliens, it isn't forty five percent against. And
even then it would be a pretty nice majority in
today's America, But it's more like in the thirties and
(16:55):
the high twenties. These are This is a very very
clear issue in America right now. Politicians who support illegal
aliens are do so at their own peril. And again,
I think this adds to my theory that the people
who are doing this, it's not that they're stupid. They
can read polls just like you and I. They absolutely
(17:16):
must be getting funding to do this. They must be
getting really big campaign donations to make these suicidal politically positions.
It's the only explanation I've been working on it I've
been talking to people who investigate this, and I'm gonna
hope to have some real hard numbers to back me
up in the coming months. But that seems to be
the only explanation. All right, Well, that kind of support
for illegal aliens. You can be sure the smart politicians
(17:37):
from both parties would either not talk about opposing deportations
or simply see it the way the majority of Americans do.
Maybe come over, maybe if you can't be and us
join us. Well, spoiler alert, Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is
not one of the smart ones. Listen to this.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
As far as I'm concern, you randomly kidnapping folk and
you're throwing them out of the country, against their civil rights,
against their constitutional rights. And frankly, how would they feel
if some other country decided that they were going to
just start throwing people randomly in our country like that?
Is absolutely insane. So yes, all I gotta say is,
(18:13):
you'll need to get these.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Fools out of here, Jasmine, That's exactly what happened. People
have been randomly throwing people into this country for decades.
That's the whole point. But you know, maybe she's crazy
like a fox. I know, I think that some politicians
who are aggressively and supporting illegal aliens are obviously say
(18:35):
it and do it a lot smarter than she does.
But she's probably on the payroll too. However, if you
are one of the people who's funding Jasmine Crockett to
support illegal aliens and to oppose deportations, maybe give her
a script next time, because she really is becoming a
human laugh track.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
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the political types like us are arguing about CBS News
(20:12):
and its parent company, Paramount's issues with the truth and
their political bias, the folks with real skin in the
game look at CBS and see something else entirely. I'll
have that and more money news and also the answer
to the question about what's the most dangerous city in
America to drive what American Sunrise Early Edition roars right back.
(20:58):
You know I'm getting on this program early this morning.
At the beginning of the program talking about how the
news media has a bias in favor of gloom and doom,
and then the control room gives me this gloomy and
doomy shot of New York. Come on, guys, now, just kidding.
That is an interesting shot. It's definitely artistic. That's New
York Harbor and you can barely see the top of
the buildings through the fog. We are expected to have
rain like every day for the next ten days in
(21:19):
New York. I was looking at my weather stuff. Hopefully
that won't be true. Let's take a look where the
markets are going to begin today as we begin this
next segment here on American Sunrise Early Edition. The markets
have been on a nice, nice winning streak, as you know,
and it looks like they're going to open slightly lower
today as I'm taking a look. You're nothing serious, although
the nasdack almost a half a percent percent point down,
(21:41):
Gold is down a little bit, Crude oil is flat.
Sixty six really almost exactly sixty seven dollars a barrow.
Let's take a look at bitcoin, and I think bitcoin
is again. If you've been watching this program, you know
we've been stuck between one hundred and one hundred and
ten thousand for weeks and weeks and weeks. We still are,
although we are now at the upper end of that.
So again we'll see if the rally continues a lot
(22:02):
of days this last few weeks, we've had lower opens
only to see the market close pretty clearly higher. And
let's see if that happens again today. Well, President Trump
keeps changing the terms, or at least the public terms.
I think he's playing this game pretty well. But maybe not.
But maybe he isn't you listen to, folks, I think
this is interesting. He keeps changing the terms of the
tariff and when the dates are going to go into effect.
(22:23):
He did it again yesterday now saying that the new
tariffs will go into effect on August first instead of
this Wednesday. Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, also joining in
in that explanation. One of the things that again this
is something that most of the news media doesn't understand,
is it's not up to us in the news media
to dictate the terms and to let everyone know about
(22:44):
what's going on. And basically our private negotiations should they
be completely public? Well maybe yes, maybe no. I don't
have a problem if that's always the case, especially if
they're not discussing some secret matters. But as we found
out with the EU, there are some things that probably
shouldn't be public knowledge. For example, in our EU negotiations.
We've been talking about the EU buying some of our
sensitive weapons systems, our defense systems. So again, not all
(23:08):
this can be above board. But for those of us
who think, hey, we deserve to have every single detail
about when the terists are going to go into an
effect and when they're not, relax take it easy. This
is where negotiations go. For those of you who are
sports fans, you know that we don't always know what's
going on when the big ballplayers get major contracts either.
Let's see how this splashes out the markets. They've been
starting to guess it right, just a little bit better.
(23:30):
The markets were freaking out just a couple of months
every time there was a change. Now they seem to
be taking it much more in stride. As you saw,
the futures are not terribly in the red right now
this morning, and who knows, we might finish up again
at the end of the day. All Right, it begins.
Some of the five point three million Americans who have
delink went student loan debt have now begun to see
(23:50):
smaller paychecks as part of the wage garnishment policy that
Trump administration put into effect in April. We talked about
this in April on this program, letting everyone know that
wage garnishments would begin. They have now begun in the
last couple of weeks. People looking at their paychecks again.
I'm hoping that this will start a movement in America,
not against the young kids or the people in their
(24:13):
early thirties who are working at Starbucks. They're not the
ones who are the problem. Although they are responsible, I'm
not exonerating them of any responsibility, but ultimately this is
something that the universities themselves are responsible for. They have
taken advantage of the law. They've taken advantage of the
student loans structure to gouge the public and all of
us who get angry at gas prices, or drug prices
(24:33):
or grocery prices. I don't understand why there isn't a
popular movement in America to talk about tuition prices, which
dwarf all those combined. And I'd love to see the
colleges be forced to lower their prices and stop getting
tax breaks and incentives to charge the highest sticker price possible.
That's what's going on here in America. Yes, those kids
should have been more responsible, and believe me, they're paying
(24:55):
for it, and I have a problem with them paying
for it, but I'd like to see the colleges change
their policy. Okay, if you think the big settlement CBS
News Paramount Global just made with President Trump is hurting
the future of the news division, you may be making
assumptions that ignore the obvious. Who cares about the news division?
If you've got big money and you're buying CBS like
(25:16):
start like this private equity group that is buying this organization.
They are buying it not for the News, not for
Walter Cronkite, who's been dead, not for decades, not for
Dan Rather, who's really almost on his last legs. They're
not buying it for sixty minutes. They're buying it for
the NFL. The NFL, as an entertainment property in America,
(25:38):
is the most successful entertainment property. It is America's addiction.
It's one of the few entertainment properties, if not the only,
entertainment property that's just as popular with white people as
it is with black people, poor people, as it is
with rich people, and everything down the line. CBS is
a major NFL contract. That's where their biggest value is,
(25:58):
and those private equity folks Larry Ellison's son. They are
interested in accentuating their NFL. Look for CBS to be
all about the NFL even more than it already is
once that sale goes through, and much less about news.
That's the answer to that question. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
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T for ten percent off your first order. Well, it's Monday,
so we might as well get the inevitable weekly bad
news about Nissan out of the way now. Nissan is
recalling almost four hundred and fifty thousand models of Ultimo's
Rose and Infinity QX fifties and QX fifty five's for
their VC turbo engines that could possibly fail. Now the
(27:14):
recall affects model the years twenty nineteen through twenty twenty four,
but the years vary on those models. So contact your
dealer or make sure you're looking for your emails or
your phone calls. Make sure that you're looking for them.
Make sure that your car is or isn't under recall.
But that's a big one. Four hundred and fifty thousand.
Now remember that drive through damage assessor from Hurtz that
(27:35):
I first showed you last month. Believe me, no other
news station bothered to show that to you, at least
not a national one. That's where you drive through a
special AI power drive through machine with when you first
take your car out, it hurts, so when you bring
it back and it decides whether or not you have
any damage. Here's the problem. This thing seems to be very,
very nitpicky, including one guy who says that a smudge
(27:57):
on the car turned into a one hundred and ninety
five dollars charge from Hertz just a few hours after
he returned his car. Now, if this news gets out,
and I think it should, people may not want to
rent from Hurts anymore. Maybe they shouldn't have touted this
thing as much as they thought. They thought they were
telling customers, Hey, this will get you in and out
really faster. We won't do the inspection. You will be
(28:19):
able to get to your flight. But if that AI
machine is starting to charge people two hundred bucks per
smudges and scratches as you can't even see, this is
not gonna be good for hurts. So I think they
need to fine tune that machine just a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Valet parking is a big deal for people with fancy
cars and in fancy places where they take them, so naturally,
smart thieves are interested in valet parking too, at the
right places. In Plato textas though those thieves went a
little bit too far, A gang of car thieves stole
a five hundred thousand dollars twenty twenty four Rolls Royce
specter on June six from a valet parking spot. Now
(28:57):
that triggered a multi agency effort to get the crooks.
What happens when you get a big score like that,
And it indeed brought the heat, so Cob said, a
few days later, they traced the crooks to an address
where they found that specter another Rolls Royce, this time
at Rolls Royce Cullenen, a Cadillac Escalade V, a Maserati Levante,
and Audi RS seven. The total value nearly one and
(29:17):
a half million dollars. Now, these guys were not amateurs technically.
Police say the suspects were seen on surveillance cameras dismantling
a part of a car's trunk, which disabled the GPS trackers.
But they weren't too smart about getting rid of the evidence.
But anyway, listen, if you're gonna make big scores like this,
you got to make the big score and then get
out of town. They didn't learn that lesson. Okay, a
(29:37):
little while ago, I asked you all the guests, which
American city is the most dangerous for drivers. The answer Boston, Massachusetts.
For those of you who live in the Northeast, you're
probably not surprised, but this is what surprised me. The
statistics are really bad. Bostonians drive an average just three
point one years between accidents. That's it. That's compared to
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a ten and a half year rich for the rest
of the country. Every three years they get into an accident. Brownsville, Texas,
by the way, has the best safety average. They're at
fourteen point one years between accidents and they drive a
lot in Texas, so that's impressive. This was an all
state survey, a survey by the insurance company looking at
other insurers as well. If you've ever driven in Boston,
they are incredibly aggressive there. Please be careful if you
(30:20):
drive through there, Baby, take public transportation or an uber,
although I guess if you're an uber you could get
into a crash. To Boston drivers, they're out of their minds.
They always have been, Okay, coming up the latest on
the terrible floods down in Texas and the misplaced priorities
so many people have when they're commenting on this tragedy,
and why in the world would you interview the president
(30:41):
of Iran? And on the fourth of July too. He's
not even the guy in charge over there, by the way,
nor is he ever going to say anything truthful. American
Sunrise Early edition will be right back. It's Monday, July seventh.
(31:14):
Hero this morning's top stories. The gut wrenching scenes of
devastation and sorrow just keep coming out of Texas after
that massive and freakish flood swept so many lives and
property away. At least eighty two people are now confirmed dead,
twenty eight of them children. Later today, Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Nintanyahu will visit President Trump at the White House.
(31:35):
What's their next move? As hopes for the end to
the war in Gaza hang in the balance, Elon Musk
makes it official he's filed to begin a new Centrist
America Party. Well, he's got the cash to build it up.
But will it get any votes? And why on Earth
would Tucker Carlson or anyone waste their time interviewing the
(31:57):
president of Iran. Don't we have enough people bash America
and trying to make us feel bad right here inside
our own borders. American Sunrise Early Edition continues now. Welcome
back to American Sunrise Early Edition. I'm Jake Novak Special.
Welcome to those of you in the Getter and the
(32:18):
rumble Chats. You're already off and running after that long weekend.
You guys got a lot of rest, clearly over the
weekend because you were going strong. Joining me now is
Sierra Claire. She's a professor and published writer on all
things political and cultural. So Sierra, let's start with something
that's political and cultural. The obsession by the mainstream media
and many other people as well, to immediately look at
(32:40):
this Texas flooding disaster and find a way to blame
it on President Trump. Now, they've been pulling this kind
of stuff at least since Hurricane Katrina, when they blame
that on George W. Bush. It's had diminishing success since then.
I'm sorry to say that was a very successful smear
campaign twenty years ago now, if you can believe it.
But they're trying it again, despite the National Weather Service
(33:03):
putting this out, the National Service showing Weather Service showing
that they added extra staffers, and the APE reported this.
They looked into it. They added extra staffers for this
storm event. So this whole discussion of the gutted federal
of bureaucracy is really erroneous. Here, Sarah, please make this
make sense. Why do people need to blame? Is this
(33:23):
like going back to ancient times when they would blame
somebody in the community for the bad weather and then
sacrifice them to the gods. I think this is what
this is.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Yeah, I mean, it's definitely baffling. You know, eighty people
wor confirmed dead and including twenty eight children, and we've
seen a myriad of approaches from conservatives. You know, some
people like President Trump wanted to leave right into action.
Other people sent their condolences or focused on the amazing
search and rescue efforts.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
You know.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
So there's been a lot of different ways people have
responding to this, But it's only the Democrats that immediately
we're talking about politics, they jump to this wild speculation,
as you pointed out, that's been debunked by the National
Weather Service, the federal government, the Texas state government. And
you know, I really thought they couldn't get any lower
after the whole Abrego Garcia disaster. But you know, I
(34:17):
guess this is what the Democratic Party stands for now,
which is politicizing the deaths of children and having margarita's
with foreign gang members.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Yeah. I mean, listen, maybe they'll find a way to
do that and get some margarita's going. It is Texas
after all. But it's really it's really amazing to me.
And I'm going to talk a little bit more about
the positive stories about this a little later on. I
guess all the folks in the US and abroad who
are obsessed with trying to pretend President Trump and Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamintennia, who should break up, will be sad
(34:48):
this evening because it will be this evening that Prime
Minister Nantennia will be back at the White House. Look,
we know what they're going to talk about. It's not
just going to be about patting themselves on the back
about the successful strike on Iran. They are now really
trying to create some kind of hardcore timeline to end
the war in Gaza, get the hostages back, and then
to move on to a future for Gaza. What are
(35:11):
you hoping for and expecting out of this meeting?
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Yeah, I mean, I think the meeting should be very interesting.
As you pointed out, a lot of focus on the hostages.
I know the administration has been talking about that a
lot in recent days and their efforts to support Israel
and getting those hostages returned, which I think is what
a lot of the future will hinge on as well.
So that's very important and I'm glad that they're focusing
on that. And I also think it's good for the
(35:36):
world to see that President Trump and net and Yaho
have a close working relationship. You know, they had a
little bit of a riff during the ceasefire discussions and
President Trump expressed his displeasure with Aroan and Israel at
that time. But these you know, Trump and and Yah,
who are both great statesmen, and they are able to
(35:57):
put their differences aside and focus on what really important,
which is what we need from leaders in the Middle
East right now. So I just think it's really good
for people to see that and see them working together.
And I'm excited to see what comes out of it.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, And I want everyone who's watching who's a little
bit worried and thinking, Boy, if the US gets so
friendly and so strong and shows that public friendship with
Israel so much as it is exemplified between President Trump
and nintaniaho won't that lead to trouble? And the answer is,
historically it actually leads to more peace. In nineteen seventy three,
when President Nixon stood strong with Israel, resupplied the military
(36:33):
when they were losing a lot of their weapons and
their machinery, the our world learned, Hey, you know what,
We're never going to break these two people up. The
Soviet Union figured that out too, and we started on
that path towards the Israel Egypt Peace Treaty. Same thing
after the First Golf War when Israel stood with the
United States, accepted the scud missile attacks from Saddama, saying
(36:54):
didn't get involved in the war against Iraq, as President
Bush hw Bush urged them to. Within a year or
so after the Gulf War, Jordan signed a peace treaty
with Israel, and on and on down the line. When
the world sees of the US and Israel are friendly
and are strong in their partnership, it leads to peace,
not war. Yes, there might be some terrorists or upset
about it, but that's another story. I'm talking about overall
(37:16):
nations and overall outlook, it has led to peace every time,
So don't be nervous about that. Now, let's look at
the other side, the enemy nations. Why on Earth, Sierra
would anyone interview the president of Iran, especially on July
fourth weekend when we want to feel good about America.
That's what Tucker Carlson did over the weekend. Now here
are two beefs I have with this. First, the first thing,
(37:39):
I said, you know, you're not going to get any
truth out of this guy. He's going to say terrible
things about America. He's not. And even Carlson himself admitted, oh,
I couldn't ask him the hard questions because he won't
answer them truthfully, which is a good reason not to
do the interview in the first place. But here's my
second beef with this, Sierra. The president of Iran has
no functional power. He is a figurehead. It's like interviewing
Prince William anything other than talking about the ribbon cuttings
(38:03):
he does and the suits that he and Kate Middleton
and the clothes they wear. This guy is a figurehead.
There's no point in talking to him. He's just a
math beat. You might as well talk to someone on
social media who rips into the United States, like Syrian Girl,
that woman who gets all that money to bash America.
I don't understand this. Please make it make sense, Sierra.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Yeah, I mean it was. The timing was horrible. I definitely.
You know, I agree with you on the for the
July thing. That doesn't make any sense at all. And
you know, as far as Tucker Carlson's argument that the
American people might get something out of this, the Trump
administration has been very transparent about their interactions with Iran
and the diplomatic negotiations that they were pursuing with Iran.
(38:45):
And how Iran has responded, which is by not talking
to the US, you know, insisting on using back channels
and third parties. So for me, as an American, I
feel very comfortable. I know how Iran feels about America.
I don't need to hear from as you said, the figurehead.
And then Tucker also mentioned something about that we were
(39:06):
at war with Iran and we could be again, and
so that's why he wanted to do this, But I
think that is also there's a lot of debate about
that statement. I don't know that we were at war
with Iran, and I think President Trump has made it
clear he's doing everything possible to make sure that we're
not at war with Iran. So the whole thing just
(39:26):
doesn't make a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Yeah, Iran's been at war with US for forty six years.
Interviewing Tokyo Rose wouldn't help us learning any more about
them Sierra. But if Americans do want to focus on
something that is going on overseas that involves Islamis, terrorists,
and Christians, they ought to pay attention to Nigeria. Check
out how one reporter asked the State Department spokeswoman about
that late last week. Check this out.
Speaker 7 (39:50):
Nigeria recently, more than two hundred people were slaughtered earlier
this month in a series of attacks on Christian villages
by Islamic militants. Of some six thousand were displaced. What's
state doing to address this? Is there anything state can
do to address the.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Sierra? She went on to respond to say that they're
looking into it. But what should all Americans know about
this situation in Africa?
Speaker 6 (40:18):
Well, you know, I think President Trump and his administration
are faced with a critical issue that was largely neglected
by the Biden administration, and that's global terrorism, and combating
terrorism is key to our national security. But the left
has been totally absent on this issue, and the Biden
administration wouldn't even utter the word terrorism, let alone fight it.
They were too busy obsessing over their first world problems
(40:38):
like pronouns. And meanwhile, real human rights crises like the
persecution of African Christians by ISIS were swept under the rug.
So now the threat has grown and we're seeing more deaths.
And in the US, you know, we have these protests
on college campuses and people supporting Islam and terrorists. It
just shows how out of touch the left is and
the facts on the ground in Nigeria are clear and
(41:00):
know what's going on now thanks to the transparency from
the State Department. This is religious persecution of Christians by
Islam and terrorists who want to impose Shari law. Where
are the protesters who want to stand up for these
people's rights. Where are the Democrats who are so concerned
about foreign aid cuts on this issue? Not a one
has mentioned it yet. They seem to have time to
(41:20):
defend Hamas or RN every chance they get. They don't
really care about human rights. And we are not the
world's policemen, but we should concern ourselves with issues that
represent our values as Americans, such as religious freedom. So
I would like to see and hear more from the
Democrats on this issue and other real human rights crises,
(41:41):
and less about defending Hamas and Iranian terrorists.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Yeah, and I'd like to hear from other Republicans also.
And let me give you a hot tip. If Christian
groups in America started a large protest movement in support
of African Christians who are being persecuted, a lot of
other American groups, non Christian groups, would join them. I
can tell you that right now I'd like to see it.
This is an absolute effort that's worth it really should
be made. Sierra Claire, thank you so much for waking
(42:06):
up real early out in the West Coast. Coars and
have a great rest of your week.
Speaker 6 (42:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
All right, coming up, let me put my money, or
at least my time where my mouth is. When it
comes to the priorities the news media should have when
reporting on tragedies like the Texas flooding. It's not all
about the politicians. It's about the real heroes. David Brody
will help me do that when American Sunrise Early Edition
comes right back. Ooh, that's a beautiful shot of Dallas,
(42:48):
Texas this morning. Welcome back to American Sunrise Early Edition.
Of course, further down south in Texas, they are dealing
with some of the worst flooding disaster that we've seen
in this country in a long time. I know a
lot of us, even though we enjoyed our July fourth weekends,
I hope you did, were really gripped by what was
going on in that story down in Texas all week
all weekend. Joining me now is David Brody, and David
(43:11):
I promised at the beginning of the show to really
try to put my money or my time where my
mouth is. These tragedies have one thing in common. There
are always some incredible heroes that emerge. And we did
get one just the other day when Christynoman told us
about a guy named Scott Ruskin. He is a relatively
new member of the Coastguard. He is a rescue swimmer
(43:33):
and petty officer. And you know, the Coast Guard for
those of us in the media capital of the world,
New York, not that far. The Coast Guard academy is
in Connecticut. It's very close to New York City. So
there's no excuse not to make more of the story
about this guy. Get this, David. They are crediting him
with saving one hundred and sixty five people one guy,
(43:53):
and they all say it's a record. They're not even
gonna bother even I mean, they all know it's a record.
This is incredible. Here's a picture of as graduation. I guess,
and I'm gonna take a little credit for him, David.
He's not from New York, but he's close. He's a
Jersey guy. He's some Jersey Scott Ruskin and I just
these are the kinds of stories that and by the way,
even a nine to eleven, and we did hear about
here as a nine to eleven, But still the reporting
(44:15):
in America is so focused on blame game, doom and gloom.
And yes, this is a very sad story and it's
important that everyone knows the levels of the sadness here
and the levels of the devastation. But if you spend
more time trying to blame someone politically than giving credit
to Scott Ruskin and people like him, then it isn't
just your news or your politics. I don't like I'm
wondering about your soul. I really am.
Speaker 8 (44:38):
Yeah, and here's the sad news. If we started a
good news network and this has been tried before, the
ratings would tank, they would, you know, sadly. You know,
this is what the media does, and this is what
sadly a lot of folks don't necessarily want.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
We say they want it.
Speaker 8 (44:58):
But the truth of the matter is we do get
caught up, all of us in negativity and in tragedy,
and so let's just not blame this on the media.
I think we have some responsibility in this as well,
if I'm being fully honest. You know, Calvin Coolidge not
one of the best presidents in the world for sure, but.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
He had a great quote.
Speaker 8 (45:16):
He said, heroism is not only in the man, but
in the actual occasion. And I think that is a
great point and a great situation here, specifically for what
Scott Ruskin did here, because do we have.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Heroism within us? I think many of us do.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
I think many of us don't know it.
Speaker 8 (45:37):
But when the occasion actually presents itself, some people shirk
that responsibility and others rise to the occasion. And you know,
to me, there are so many other Scott Ruskins out there.
Quite frankly, there's so many in our audience today, Jake. Honestly,
you know, do you have some Scott Ruskin? And you do,
I do as well. We don't think we do, but
(45:59):
we do. The quot question is are we going to
act on it in the occasion? And to me, uh,
you know that that's just unknown until it actually happens.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
But it's uh, it's.
Speaker 8 (46:10):
Quite remarkable and we should be thank you, not only
folks like Scott Ruskin, but so many of those other
folks that came to the rescue of those Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Well, you know my counterpoint to you about how it
would never rate if you did a good news thing
is that I have. I've understood that furious because of
the way that they would that you that I've seen
it approached. It's they do it the wrong way. It
can't be happy talking smiley face. It has to be
the way you just did it, where we talk about
a hero and talk about how it is in us,
and we basically say, here are some of the really
bad things that these people stand up to. You still
(46:42):
use that that alacrity and that hardcore makes it sound
like it's real news, not like a smiley face thing.
And I actually think it can be successful. But you
guys are going to be successful. On American Sunrise the
next two hours. I'll see you in the nine am hour,
and I'll see the rest of you on Tuesday.
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