June 2, 2025 • 50 mins
Just the News No Noise on Real America's Voice
Segment A: ANTISEMITIC ATTACKS ON THE RISE?
Segment B: HOW THE FBI MAY BE ABLE TO COUNTER ANTI-JEWISH ATTACKS
Segment C: SUPREME COURT DIVIDED ON CHARTER SCHOOLS, AND OKLAHOMA TEACHING ABOUT DISCREPANCIES IN 2020 ELECTION
Segment D: AN EMMY AWARDWINNING ACTRESS AND HER NYPD HUSBAND DEALING WITH WEAPONIZED JUSTICE
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
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Speaker 1 (00:51):
For years, the scourge of anti Semitism has infected our country,
especially our college campuses, with ugly protests, ugly words of hatred,
jaw dropping episodes of tolerance. But now twice in two weeks,
hatred of Jews as manifested itself in stending and heinous crimes.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
True violence.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
First, it was too young Israeli embassy workers gun down
outside a Jewish museum in Washington, d C. By a
man who was yelling free Palestine. Now an Egyptian man
named Mohammed Sabriy Solomon, who was illegally in the country
by the way, after overstaying his visa. He's charged with
sixteen state concept attempt at murder in Colorado in one
federal hate crime for trying to burn to death twelve
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victims with molotov cocktails. He too, was also allegedly yelling
in support of Palestine. What were those twelve victims doing.
They were simply attending a vigil for Israeli hostages, and God,
that's all they were doing. We're going to delve deeper
into this mindless violence and the staring hatred that it's
wearing its head in our country right now, and what
is going to be done about it all throughout the
show today and also in an exclusive you can go
(01:55):
read about on justinews dot com. The FBI has launched
a sprawling investigation into possible criminal cover ups that occurred
during the COVID nineteen pandemic. We've learned that the FBI
is zeroing in on three separate plots. They are the
origins of the virus itself. Did they try to hide
the fact that it came from the Wuhan lab that
got federal funding. Were they trying to hide or destroy
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federal records and in federal agency so that Congress and
the public couldn't see what was going on. And the
third plot was their manipulation of the vaccine approval process
and its subsequent side effects, particularly those heart inflammations we've
been talking about. It's all being done by agents in
three cities. FBI agents in Cleveland, New York, and Baltimore
leading those three investigations. Officials told justin News that the
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possibility of a legal conduct in the matter is being
significantly investigated, in fact, charges and the risk could be
made in just a few short weeks, so a pretty
big deal. We're going to keep you up to speed
on all of those things over at justinews dot com.
Now a good opportunity to turn to my amazing ghost
and man it a lot of other news today, Amanda.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Oh wh Yes, In fact, I wanted to touch on
a little bit more of the Boulder attacks, those horrific
attacks that took place yesterday, because everything that's being reported
points to a motive, as you pointed out, as evidenced
by the attacker allegedly saying that he wanted to kill
all Zionist people, as well as the report that he
held Free Palestine during the attack. The FBI came out
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and said as much after the attack, labeling it a
targeted terror attack against people attending.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
A pro Israel rally there in Boulder.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
However, CNN thought a little bit differently about it, and
they called out the FBI for labeling it so quickly
instead of reporting on the attack, I suppose check it out.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Maybe it's not, and he has no incentive to get
it wrong. So we're going to take a step back,
not be responsive to tweets by two heads of the
FBI who don't have a long history in local law enforcement.
And we will wait and it isn't what we all
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worry it is, and if it is, then there'll be
an investigation. But that was that's nothing I'd ever seen before.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
You normally, actually Andrew knows this.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
You normally get the.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Local people getting way ahead on motive and the FBI
is saying we don't have it yet. You now have
the opposite here, and until we know that the victims
were members of that organ of the of the Jewish
or event, we don't have the nexus. And I will
believe the Donever Police Chief that they do not have
that exus now, and if they do, I will be
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the first one out here saying that that is a
hate crime. But until we do, we all need to
not follow the FBI's tweets.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Okay, we've got a I mean, generally it is good
to wait until we know all of the facts before
reporting on something, but unfortunately that's not really something that
the media does anymore. We've all seen them jump to
the gun on numerous opposed hate crimes in the past.
But this time, that's when they questioned the FBI for
labeling the attack in Boulder, Colorado an act of tear
John give me a break.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And by the time Cash made those pronouncements and Dan
Bongina made them on they already knew that the man
said he was trying to kill Zionis and that he
had shot at Free Palestine. And that's several of the
victims were attendees at this vigil as opposed to just
members on the street, so they weren't acting well out
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of character for sure. All right, Well, we got a
great first guest to kick us off today. She represents
the great State of Iowa in the United States House
of Representative. She is Congressome Marinette Miller Meeks Congressoming. Great
to have you on the show.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Great to be with both of you, and I could
not agree with you more. The FBI did not act rashly.
As a matter of fact, their quick actions and quick
quick summary has been in contrast to people allowing things
to go on, which is why we have seen the
dramatic rise in anti Semitism and why it seems that
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it's almost tolerated in the United States and it should
not be. So I think that they called it like
it was, especially as you mentioned two weeks ago, a
young couple being murdered just outside the Jewish Museum in Washington,
d C. Just like we saw for the past two years,
since October twenty twenty three, with the rise in anti
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Semitism on college campuses. But yet the President's not doing
anything and then being ousted. So I think it's very
appropriate that the FBI called this out. And remember that
the FBI didn't even call out domestic terrorism in the
shooting of Majority Leader Steve Scalice in twenty seventeen, and
that was left wing domestic terrorism, which when I was
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in Homeland Security, they weren't even calling that domestic terrorism.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah all over again, Congress, I want to ask a
little bit about this boiling teapot that we have. You've
got these an entire generation of young people here whose
minds have been poisoned in the academic world to hate
Jews and to think that Palestinians are victims of a genocide.
And then you have all of these people that came
in the country, some illegally, some overstaying the visa allegedly
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as this man did, and all of them have this
same sort of hatred. Working together, it seems like we
have a national crisis underway.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
I think that there is a national crisis, and the
first thing to address that is one to acknowledge that
you have a crisis, to acknowledge that it exists, instead
of just passing it off, blowing it off as we
have seen some individuals.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Do you know when you have students that.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
Can't get to their classroom, aren't allowed to pass on
to a campus for which they are paying tuition, where
they feel unsafe and unwanted.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
I mean, that isn't underscores what's happened.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
We had shootings at Jewish synagogues, we had a stabbing
of a rabbi in Detroit coming home from a synagogue.
So this has definitely been on the rise, and we
have to acknowledge it and then we have to start
addressing it. And to that end, I have a bill
to set up an Anti Semitism Commission to study this
so that then we can make recommendations, work with local
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law enforcement, work with community areas, find out what's being
taught to children, and that includes in religious facilities, in schools, in.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Higher education, what exactly is being taught.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Congresswomen, and it also feels like they are a drag
on the Democrat Party because you have more senior members
of the Democrat Party who I think support Israel and
support Jews in this country and hate to see this
happening to them, But you have this younger faction of
their party who is pulling them down. How do those
more senior Democrats find a way to not turn off
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those younger voters and at the same time protect these.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
People who have been a large part of their constituency
for a long time.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Well, you know, one of the first things they did
was in their convention I think that was twelve years ago, remove.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
God from their platform.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
As a nod to those of the Islamic faith, which
I believe for the majority of those who practice the
Islamic faith, they are people that are of peace. But
we know that there is a radical jihadis Islamic contention,
and so you know, they've done things that have coddled
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these individuals. And at the point, there are wonderful members
of Congress Representative Wasserman Schulz, Brad Schneider and others that
you know. I won't go into all of them, but
there are many members on both sides of the aisle
bipartisan support for Israel who do not see Israel as
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you know, the purveyor of this violence. They haven't been
in Palestine since two thousand, or Gaza since two thousand
and five. They were attacked on October seventh of twenty
twenty three. They are not responsible for these actions, and
there is hatred and a desire by these individuals to
destroy Israel and the Jewish people. So I think knowledging it,
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acting upon it, and we have a bipartisan group of
people who I know want to do that. But the
Democrat Party is going to have to come to terms
with that within their own factions because as you said,
they have young people wanting to primary you know, people
that have been in Congress who may feel differently than them,
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but they're going to have to come to terms with
this within their own party, this fracture, which as we
have already seen, is leading to violence congers from.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
There's another problem that seems to be rearing its head
in that is a significant amount of espionage among our
own ranks in the military and the DIA.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
We had a couple.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Soldiers last week at the IA official this week before that,
a CI official. It seems like during the Biden years
a lot of spies began getting recruited or certainly got
active for foreign countries. How serious is it and are
there some good countermeasures underway?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
You satisfied?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Where where the FBI is now and rolling up some
of these spies.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
I think it is a very serious issue, and there
used to be severe punishments for this type of activity,
even lesser than this. Having been in the military, both
active duty and reserve, and my husband thirty years in
the military, you know, we're continually taught all of our
training about being careful about people addressing you, coming to you,
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wanting to interact with you, you know, we've had to
take actions with the Select Subcommittee on the Chinese Communist Party.
We've had to take actions on you know, outreach and
ingresses into both our universities, into our military, into our
institutions within the federal government.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
It is a very important issue.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
We've had to take action on preventing the Chinese Communist
Party from buying farmland, especially farmland that's near our military basis.
And let us not forget, you know, a Chinese spy
balloon that was allowed to go all the way across
the United States and it wasn't shot down until it
went all the way across the United States. Meanwhile recording
sending information in real time going across sensitive military basis,
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nuclear silos. That was unconscionable that this was allowed to
be perpetuated during the Biden administration. And I think the
Trump administration, Cash Patel and the FBI, they are going
through this. They're going to weed this out and put
our agencies back on what their mission is, which is
to protect the people of the United States and the
United States.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
A congresswoman, I think that there is some type of
subtle connection between anti Semitism and the loss of faith
in this country and the loss of patriotism in this country.
But you served our country in the United States Army
for two and a half decades, and we have the
two hundred and fiftieth birthday of it coming up in
a few weeks. There's going to be a parade, a
lot of fanfare surrounding it. Is that possibly a way
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to inspire young people and move things back in the
direction of patriotism.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
I think that it is to acknowledge what's happening to
you know, to have this educational moment, if you will,
in TV and media coverage. But then the other thing
that I see as helping has been, you know, the work.
I had my first bill on school choice with Senator
Tim Scott in twenty twenty one, my first year I
came into Congress. So I think school choice, having educational
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opportunities is also going to help with that.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
So I see, you know, parents.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
How they raise their children, where they go to school,
what's taught in school is going to help as well.
But the focus on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary,
focus on, you know, how we're training our military, what's
happening within our national intelligence agencies and FBI, all of
those things are going to help to you know, reinvigorate
this sense of pride in America. We know that our
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flag and our constitution stand for values. While we may
be imperfect, we are always striving for protection and to
live up to the values of our constitution and our flag.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Important, and Flag Day just Ahead's very important. It's hard
to believe, congress Woman, we're going to be watching that
bill close. It seems like the perfect bipartisan opportunity for
people to stand up against anti Semitism in this census
violence with that commission. Thanks for joining us today and
giving us such an important update.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Thank you all so much for covering this important topic.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, good to have you on. Thanks so much. All Right, folks,
we're going to take a quick commercial break.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I'll me come back more on a heinous attack in
Gisrael and what the FBI will likely to be doing over.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
The next several weeks to piece it together. Who is
behind it? Who are other people likely to commit such violence?
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Welcome back everybody.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
During a rally in support of the release of Israeli
hostages in Boulder, Colorado this weekend, a forty five year
old Egyptian national, Mohammed Solomon, reportedly used makeshift flamethrowers and
molotov cocktails. He injured eight, including a Holocaust survivor. He
was also reported by witnesses to be yelling free Palestine.
So we now have two attacks against shoes in two
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weeks here in the here in the United States. Is
this the start of a disturbing trend? And what can
the FBI do about it? Joining us now retired FBI
Executive Assistant director and the author of the book Wanted
the FBI I once knew, one of my favorite books
on the topic, Chris Plihoda.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Chris, thanks so much for being here.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
Thank you very much. Always a pleasure to visit with
you and your audience.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Likewise, and you know, I think back to the Biden
administration when we were dealing with such border crises, and
I remember there were a number of law enforcement agencies
FBI included, who issued bolos for military age males coming
across the southern border. It seems to me that there
is an opportunity here for bolos on these types of
attacks because so many of them are turning violent, turn
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and edging up against terrorism.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
Well, what we're looking at here is the threat environment
that the previous administration allowed to form and evolve and
intensify in our nation. So now we're starting to see
some of the ripple effects of those I would say
flawed policies and practices when they basically shut down our
border security. Putting out the alerts to our communities is
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one part of the equation. The other part is starting
to nick together the government systems that for this individual
would show more clearly and timely that he was an
overstay on his immigration authority.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, that's a big piece of this and a concerning
piece of it because there's a lot of other folks
that fall into that category. During the Biden years, this
was sort of a storm that's been brewing for a
long time. Person I know, even when you were back
in the FBI just a few short years ago, you
were seeing this rise of anti Semitism. You got this
sort of foreign component that's stirring it and sometimes sending
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people in. And then you got these incubating labs of
college campuses where the hatred is spreading. How do we
start to put this back in the box. How do
we start to combat this successfully?
Speaker 9 (18:21):
Well, I think we have to acknowledge it.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
First of all, I think there's a large part of
our society that won't acknowledge that we are witnessing a
shift in world power structures, as well as waves of
ideological change Leftism, you're looking at Marxism, neo Marxism, and
other I would say political slash religious views that are
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moving into the Western societies and they're asserting themselves in
our societies.
Speaker 9 (18:48):
And until we acknowledge it, it'll be.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
Hard to start resolving some of these possible hazards or
threats that are being posed by these I would say
adversarial ideologies to what we have in the United States
and parts of Europe so important.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
And you know, a lot of this anti semitism, this
hatred is brewing on college campuses. But a lot of
these kids are not college graduates or even attendees. But
you see these conversations, these radical statements, these threats of
violence percolating on social media. Is there an opportunity there
for the FBI to maybe deploy more efforts in examining
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social media posts to prevent.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Some of these things.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
I think you can.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
I think you have to measure that type of action against,
of course, the free speech that makes our nation great.
Speaker 9 (19:38):
Right.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
You have to look at what is protected speech versus
what is a flammatory speech that could move people from
ideological opposition to violence and action. So I think the
FBI's position, yes, you can monitor certain threatening language online. However,
I think what the FBI has to do is start
engaging with these universities and informing them of the threat
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environment and the possible negative outcomes of allowing some of
these ideologies to form on their campuses and be protected
on these campuses, and then move that out into the
communities and result possibly in acts of violence like we've
seen over the past couple days and weeks.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
So so important that contact and that message to be spread, Chris,
I know in an investigation like this, the next phase
of it. Now that we sort of have the first
suspect invol of this, who else.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Was he in contact?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Who else might have been encouraging funding pushing him? Looking
for similarities in that funding trail, What does the FBI
do over the next five to ten days to check
all those leads.
Speaker 9 (20:42):
Well, they're going to start looking into this individual's lives.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
They're going to of course a very basic investigative work, friends, family, associates.
They're going to look at all of his social media,
They'll search his living area, They'll look for all of
his car, electronics, I mean, all of these things.
Speaker 9 (20:56):
They're going to try to build a pattern.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Of life and look at the reason that he moved
from his ideology to action. They're going to see what
was a triggering event. And they're also going to look
to see if he's part of any larger network of
people who may hold similar views or maybe close to
taking violent action based upon again religious or political ideologies.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
So that's where they're going to be looking.
Speaker 8 (21:19):
But they're also going to go in addition to an
investigative work, they're going to go into prevent mode. They're
going to start working with some of the communities that
are at risk and they're going to start helping them
bolster security practices, awareness, and just kind of community welfare discussions.
So the FBI has a multi layered approach on this.
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We've done it for years and it's nothing new to
the FBI. This is something that now that they're no
longer distracted with some other peripheral issues, they're very good
at this and they'll engage the proper communities and make
sure that everybody stays safe.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, and I'm glad you brought that up, because I'm
curious if you think the FBI needs to possibly be
deploying deploying more agents or if that comes in the
form of some type of taxpayer funded security. But the
synagogues already have their own security. Many of them, unfortunately,
have had need for it for a long time.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Absolutely, they have their own security. They're very good at
what they do. The communities are very tight knit on
those issues. When I was out in the field and
when I ran field offices, we had very close contact
with the Jewish community, and you know, mostly they take
care of their own security needs.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
We help them with awareness.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Mostly we help them with threat environmental awareness, any kind
of immediate or incoming threats, and we also make sure
that they have clear lines of communication with the FBI
and with our state.
Speaker 9 (22:45):
And local law enforcement partners. So again, layered problems set.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
But the FBI is very good at this and we
have great relationships in most of the communities that we
do business in.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, great, great point, Chris.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
We have a storry this morning looking at had a
sprawling investigation of the FBI into three possible COVID couver ups,
and it starts with something very important. The FBI was
the first and most correct when it came to assessing
that the COVID nineteen vaccine moslakly came out of the
Wuhan lab where there was some federal funded research, dangerous
research going on. Now they're looking at three things. Were
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there scientists, were their foreigners? Where their people in the
pharmaceutical industry or other private industries who are trying to
cover up different elements of this pandemic, from the origins
to its human human transmissibility to problems with the vaccine.
It's pretty rare, pretty large investigation. Your thoughts on what
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might be going on behind the scenes.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
I think right now what you're looking at is a
national platform investigation as we used to call it, where
you have several field offices are going to take different
parts of very large investigative approaches. And as you broke
it down into those three areas, you'll have those three
offices that will each take in air area because it's there.
They're very broad and broad investigative areas, right, And what
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they'll do is they'll issue investigative leads to other field
offices as the investigative effort matures and we start looking
more deeply into things, and they're going to see basically
war any laws broken, How are the ethics of these
situations used to possibly you know, make decisions or substitute
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political views for proper decision making.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
And maybe not.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
They weren't looking out for the welfare and well being
of the American people so much as to support their
own political beliefs or possibly you know, profit driven motives.
So the FBI is going to look into those things
and then with the Department of Justice see where there
could possibly be some corrective action taken or possibly some
legal action.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Christ real quick, we got a minute left. There's another
headline in this and that it comes right out of
your book. You were one of the biggest advocates of
returning these investigations to field offices, getting headquarters out of
the meddling. That's what's happening here at Cleveland, New York, Baltimore.
A good sign that the new leadership is following the
playbook that you like.
Speaker 9 (25:08):
That's correct. So let the field offices do the investigative work.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
Step back, watch them, watch them work the FBI magic
that the FBI was once known for.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
And we're going to be in good shape.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yeah, as you're working.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
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and I both have read.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
It in absolutely my favorites.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Chris biow to thank you so much for being here.
Great to see my friend.
Speaker 9 (25:27):
Yeah, pleasure, have a great.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Night you too.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
All Right, everybody up next, Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters
is going to be here to discuss his latest quote scandal,
teaching about the twenty twenty election in schools.
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When our founding fathers were creating this beautiful country two
hundred nearly two hundred and fifty years ago, they intended
the states to be the laboratories for the best ideas.
And when it comes to education, there is one state
that stands out. Oklahoma is on the forefront of some
of the biggest reforms in education, led by Governor kevinants In.
Our next guest, the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction,
(27:34):
Ryan Walters. Mister Superintendent, good to have you on the show.
Speaker 10 (27:38):
Thank you for having me on.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
All right, I want to start with the big news
that happened last week.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
The Supreme Court deadlocked four to four on the issue
of a faith based charter school. That leaves a lot
of flexibility for your state to try to find maybe
a workaround or a solution. Tell us what's going on
behind the scenes in your state right now.
Speaker 10 (27:59):
Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (28:00):
You know.
Speaker 11 (28:00):
First thing is, obviously you know, a lot of parents,
myself included, disappointed here in the ruling.
Speaker 10 (28:04):
You know, we were really hoping.
Speaker 11 (28:05):
Amy Kuny Herrett was going to be a voting member
here and we felt very confident in that majority there,
but she recused herself, so we got a four to
four tie, which kicks it back down, which means the
charter school can't move forward, but it's not definitive ruling,
so we can bring the case back up. We're looking
at our options here from the state Department of Education.
We're going to continue to fight for parents. We're going
to continue to fight for their religious liberties, and we're
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going to continue to fight for school choice. And unfortunately,
the only people celebrating this are our Attorney General Getner Drummond,
atheist Satanists, the Teachers' Union. You know, they're out crowing
about this, But the reality is this isn't over. We're
not going to stop our fight for religious liberty and
parents in the state of Oklahoma.
Speaker 10 (28:45):
So you'll be.
Speaker 11 (28:46):
Hearing from us soon and we'll continue to move the
ball forward leading the charge for religious liberty and school choice.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Yeah. I mean, it's hard to think of the argument
against this. What was the dissenting opinion? In a nutshell?
Speaker 10 (28:58):
What in a nutshell?
Speaker 11 (28:59):
They just basically said that they wanted to not allow
the Catholic church, Christian churches to do this because they
felt like there was a separation of you know, a
church and state issue. Which isn't in the Declaration of Independence,
is in the Constitution.
Speaker 10 (29:12):
Again, what we.
Speaker 11 (29:13):
Said was they met all the criteria of a charter school.
Telling them they can't do it because they are religious
violates their right to express the religious beliefs.
Speaker 10 (29:22):
Again, they met every criteria.
Speaker 11 (29:24):
There was zero issue in the way they were going
to run the school and the way they're going to
start the school.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
But our local.
Speaker 10 (29:29):
Supreme Court here in Oklahoma got this dead wrong.
Speaker 11 (29:31):
They stepped out and said, I know, but you are Christian,
so we can't take your application. That flies in the
face of the constitutions. To look, you know that the
justices on the other side got.
Speaker 10 (29:40):
It dead wrong here.
Speaker 11 (29:41):
I think this is a fundamental issue.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
Of you're seeing the states. You're seeing the federal.
Speaker 11 (29:46):
Government, the state government weaponizing itself against Christians for far
too long. We've got to correct that and say Christians, absolutely,
we want you to be.
Speaker 10 (29:53):
Involved in our kids' education.
Speaker 11 (29:54):
Parents, absolutely, we want you to decide for your kids
where they go to school. And again, we've got a
lot of great coools across the country that are Catholic,
that are Christian, they do a great job.
Speaker 10 (30:04):
We want our parents to be able to choose those
options as well.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, so important.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
There are many huge reforms that you have been able
to enact in your role as the chief of the
public school system. Among them some new curriculum standards. Tell
us how those are going and what the impact has
been for parents and children downstream.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
In the school system.
Speaker 11 (30:24):
Well, Jenny, the left has been losing their minds over
this one, and I love it. I mean one of
my favorite things we've been able to do, which is
we went in and we looked at our history standards.
You know, I heard this all over the state of
Oklahoma and O raign for office. Why don't our kids
know more about America? Why don't they know more about
American history? You know, they know that, but you know,
they know that Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner, but
they don't know he was the author of the Declaration
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of Independence. They don't know all of the prolific writings of.
Speaker 10 (30:49):
The Founders, they don't know about the Federalist papers.
Speaker 11 (30:51):
So we came in, I said, we're going to rewrite
our history standards, and we're going to make sure that
our kids have an understanding of those fundamental principles that
make America the greatest in the history of the world,
and we're unapologetic about that. We want our kids to
be patriotic. We want our kids to love this country.
We want them to understand where this country's values came from.
So we took it on. We increased the standards dramatically.
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We put the Bible back in. We said, listen, kids
have to understand the role of the Bible played in
American history. My goodness, every founding father cited it, every
president has cided it. They've got to understand that context.
We went through and so they've got to understand more
about the Founding. They got to know all the federalist papers.
They've got to know about the Declaration of Independence. They
need to read the letters that all these prolific Americans
wrote time and time again. And we also said, listen, absolutely,
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we've got to go all the way up to twenty
twenty election, and we want critical thinkers. So we want
them to dig into the election, look at the information,
look at the data, look at the charts.
Speaker 10 (31:42):
Come to their own conclusion. But we want them to
study things.
Speaker 11 (31:45):
We want them to not be pushed by a left
wing media agenda, but instead be critical thinkers that shouldn't
be a left right issue.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
It should be common sense.
Speaker 11 (31:54):
But where our leftist folks out there are losing their
mind over this one.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
They are At some point in the last forty years,
things went awry with education with respect to actually teaching history.
And I feel like it's right about the time they
went from teaching history to renaming it social studies. Now
they said social studies is the same thing as history,
but it's really not. And most school systems across this
country are still teaching social studies.
Speaker 11 (32:20):
Right, that's right, And you're so right on this of
we've got to get back to history is history, it's
what happened. Okay, you study those facts. Remember I'm a
former history teacher, so I get real passionate about this.
But history is understanding what happened before you. So one
you can see what worked, what was successful, What are
traits you want to have as an individual, what are
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traits that the country should pursue. And also there's the
bad examples that teach you things not to do. You
learn from history. Twinston Churchill said, the further back you
look is the further.
Speaker 10 (32:51):
Ahead you can also see. So you've got to be
able to.
Speaker 11 (32:54):
Understand history, not as a science, not as all know,
but as what were the events, how did they have?
Not through the lens of critical race theory, not through
the ends of diversity, equity, and inclusion, but just what's
historically accurate, and then use that to formulate your own
thought process, your own identity, your own views of the country,
your own views.
Speaker 10 (33:13):
Of the future.
Speaker 11 (33:14):
And again, we can never be unified as Americans. We
can never be unified in purpose and goals if we
don't know where we came from. And I think I
think that's why the Loft takes it so much, is
they thrive on turning Americans against each other. They thrive
on the most divisive ideologies the country's ever seen. When frankly,
conservatives are saying, you know, if we go back to
the Founding and we really study it, it's a central.
Speaker 10 (33:34):
Point we can all start with.
Speaker 11 (33:36):
So even when we have our differences, we have this
similar belief in the founding, the core principles of America,
that that's really what brings people together.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yeah, so real quickly, you're about a minute left. There's
a little brew haha. And the legacy media over some
of the things that are in the current curriculum about
teaching with the twenty twenty election, about where COVID, the
virus came from. Tell us a little bit what you're
thinking was answer to some of those critics.
Speaker 11 (34:02):
Absolutely, you know, you know, I went on unfortunately, I
went on MSNBC a couple of weeks ago, you know,
and they were just, we can't believe you reported this
and that or this is in here.
Speaker 10 (34:11):
I said, well, y'all reported that.
Speaker 11 (34:12):
I mean, you are now trying to go back in
gas light and say there wasn't a record amount of
mail in ballots.
Speaker 10 (34:17):
Well, of course that's a fact.
Speaker 11 (34:18):
Oh you try to go back and say, well, we
don't know where the where COVID originated from. The FBI
and CI have released that, and we know it came
from a lab in Wuhan. We know that there were
obviously a lot of concerns around the country around mail
in ballots. How do I know that, Well, because three
dozen states passed voter integrity laws afterwards to correct that.
So what we're doing is presenting the facts to students.
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We want them to do a deep dive. We want
them to come to their own conclusions. What we're not
going to do is say, we're going to take a
New York Times headline and that's going to be all
that they study on the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 10 (34:48):
Now we're going to.
Speaker 11 (34:49):
Say, listen, look at all the data, look at all
the information. We want you to see. Obviously, there were
a lot of voters that voted there that didn't vote
in the future. All right, So how many mail in
ballots were there? From what counties? What were the swings there?
And we want kids to analyze elections. I think that's
the only truthful way to cover this.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah, critical thinking, which is something all of us should
come out of schools prepared to do. Superintendent, always a
great honor to have you on.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
We always learned so much.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
There's so many things going on in your great state,
but a great honor to have Youantay, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 10 (35:17):
Thank you guys very much.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Great conversation you too. All right, folks, a quick commercial
breakround in the corner. But then we're going to talk
about the story of weaponized US as this one involving
an Emmy Award winning actress and her NYPD sergeant husband.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Can't wait for that one mo We have that. But
after these messages.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Welcome back, everybody. I want to highlight an.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Important story that I recently shared on my podcast. It
is about, of course, the weaponized justice system, and it's
not just President Trump who has had to deal with it.
For example, Emmy Award winning actress Martha Burne and her
husband NYPD sergeant Michael McMahon have allegedly had it happened
to them under the former Biden regime.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
It's a pretty crazy.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Story and I want to bring on Martha to get
her side of it. She has written a book all
about it too, entitled In Interest of Justice, and it's
out on June fifth.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Martha, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 12 (36:14):
Thank you so much for having me on. It's always
a pleasure to see you and I'm a huge fan.
I've been following you for years and it's a pleasure
to be here.
Speaker 13 (36:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
We are so happy to have you here, and I'm
very sorry for what your husband is going through. Give
everybody just kind of a rundown of everything that has transpired.
Speaker 12 (36:32):
So, my husband was a retired sergeant NYPD sergeant. He
was very successful in his career on the YPV. He
had one thousand arrests, seventy eight medals and he was
in the Bronx and was suffered a severe car accident
on the job. Became a private investigator and had a
very successful career. He worked for the Vatican, he worked
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for presidential candidates.
Speaker 13 (36:56):
He had a great, great career. And he got a
routine call in two thousand and sixty.
Speaker 12 (37:00):
From a translation company in Queens and her client was
looking for some me to find some assets, do some surveillance,
and basically that was it. Some asset searches and he
hired two NYPD retired detectives.
Speaker 13 (37:13):
Who were pis to work with him on this case.
Speaker 12 (37:16):
And he spoke to two federal agents about the case
back in twenty sixteen. It was a civil matter. Never
thought about it again. He notified local police even when
he was doing the surveillance and did reports and just
moved on with his life and as I said, had
this incredible career as a private investigator. He actually even
did security for the Parkland shooting survivors, the kids around
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the country.
Speaker 13 (37:38):
He was a sought after PI. Didn't think about it.
Speaker 12 (37:41):
He had made a few thousand dollars on that case
in twenty sixteen, and then on October twenty eighth, twenty
twenty a pre dawn rate at our house, which is
still horrifying to this day that they even happened, and
they arrested him for violating FARA, the Foreign Agents Registration Act,
and interstate stocking. Now it should be noted that the
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subjects of his surveillance never saw him. They never filed
a police report, They had no photographs, they had no
license plate, no description of the drivers. They never saw
him or the other two private investigators either, and he
was charged for a federal crime for doing his job
as a private investigator. He didn't break any law. It
was shocking. And as a Foreign Agent Registration Act he
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was hired by a New York company, so there was
no foreign government connection. So of course he's like, this
is crazy, Like I something's wrong here.
Speaker 13 (38:36):
They must have made a mistake. And we went through
all his emails.
Speaker 12 (38:40):
He saved everything, everything he had, every text message, email,
he had saved, every invoice, everything, every penny was accounted for.
Speaker 13 (38:47):
He goes, what it was going on here? I have
to fight back. This must be a mistake.
Speaker 12 (38:52):
And we went to trial in twenty twenty three of June.
Speaker 13 (38:58):
He was arrested in October of twi.
Speaker 12 (39:02):
And we were absolutely horrified, not just the fact that
from the criminal complaint out of the Newark FBI office,
the amount of false information in that criminal complaint was outrageous.
I mean absolutely outrageous, literally making up scenarios that he
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had nothing to do with, and we couldn't believe it,
like he's like, this has got to be a mistake.
And those lies continued to trial even we had proven
that they were false, and they continued to lie, and
you know, he was found not guilty of count one,
which was the major account, which was violating far a conspiracy,
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which that means you were with the foreign government. So
they couldn't prove that he had been connection with the
foreign government because we found out and learned through our
own investigation that he was recommended for this job by
a former US attorney, so there was no foreign connection.
But he was found guilty of violent fara an interstate
stalking and John and Amanda. You know, after President Trump,
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when you're dealing with the court system, the amount of
effort they do gymnastics to keep exculpatory evidence.
Speaker 13 (40:14):
Out of these trials. No one testified against my husband.
The case agent didn't testify.
Speaker 12 (40:20):
The alleged victims couldn't identify them in court because a
fairy tale was told to the jury, to the judge.
Speaker 13 (40:30):
And you sit there every day thinking, how is this America?
Speaker 12 (40:33):
But the FBI in Newark, over their four year investigation
on this case, they never spoke to my husband, the
two NYPD retired detectives, the two federal agents that were
touched this case.
Speaker 13 (40:46):
But they did speak to the CCP agents.
Speaker 12 (40:50):
The actual people who did these things were in another
you know, doing something totally separate for years, for years,
and they never spoke to you as long as about
this case. To learn it was shocking to me the
amount of perjury that went on and gymnastics and fairy tales.
Speaker 13 (41:09):
That's the only way I could could explain it.
Speaker 12 (41:11):
And I'm still to this day shocked, having been in
law enforcement with my husband and our relatives and friends
and family, Like, how in the world could you take
an innocent man, a hero, a hero like my husband
and create a case against him for the w you know.
And President Trump went through the same thing, suppressing evidence,
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not letting him put witnesses on, creating a case out
of nothing. I mean, my husband did nothing illegal, nothing,
absolutely nothing. So you know, when I see President Trump
going through this, I'm like, I'm like in tears, almost
like this he understands, he knows this happens, the weaponization
and John, when you get false search warrants and my
family with falsified information and you're spying on my family,
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I mean, you have no probable cause, you're spying for
years following us went through ten years of our banking records,
my children. How can the FBI totally put my family
in danger, not protect us, and then continue to monitor
us for years, for years? And I wish I was wrong,
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you know, I wish we wouldn't have to fight this
and continue to fight this. I mean, my husbands supposed
to report to prison in two weeks, federal prison.
Speaker 13 (42:26):
They gave him eighteen months.
Speaker 12 (42:28):
The judge eighteen months for doing his job as a
private investigator.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Terrible, Martha, we only got about a minute left. What
is next? Is there a pardon request? And is Congress
getting involved? And no, I'm looking forward to reading your
book because it's going to be meticulously research. But what's
the next step. We got about a minute left.
Speaker 12 (42:46):
We have put in a pardon request for the President
of the United States. Mister President Donald Trump, I know him.
I know if he knows that an NYPD hero was sacrificed,
who's given everything, his body, his heart to service, I
know he would would embrace him and say, I've been there,
you know, I get what you've been through.
Speaker 13 (43:07):
But we don't do this to heroes in this country.
Speaker 12 (43:09):
We don't sacrifice heroes for our greatest enemy, China.
Speaker 13 (43:14):
So we put the request in.
Speaker 12 (43:15):
We're praying every single day, and I believe that once
he hears the facts of this case, it will be
an absolute done deal.
Speaker 13 (43:22):
But we have we're running out of time.
Speaker 12 (43:24):
We only have till June sixteenth until he has to report.
So if he's listening and praying, we are going to
continue to do that.
Speaker 13 (43:32):
So thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Yeah, absolutely, Martha Burne and everybody go check out the
book again.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
It is called in the Interest of Justice.
Speaker 6 (43:39):
Martha.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
Great to see you again.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Hoping to hear some really great updates in the next
few weeks.
Speaker 13 (43:43):
Let's have some joy soon. But yeah, that is absolutely.
Speaker 12 (43:48):
I hope you read it and you see what really happens.
Speaker 13 (43:51):
It's all in there. All the truth is in.
Speaker 12 (43:54):
There about what happened to our family, because it could
happen to anybody.
Speaker 13 (43:57):
If it could happen to me, but it coun happen
to my husband, who's never do anything wrong in his life,
and that.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
Can happen to the President of State. Absolutely, Martha Burne,
thank you so much. Everybody, go check out that book.
We're going to take a quick break and we'll be
back on the other side.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
Welcome back, everybody.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
If you were tracking President Trump's travel to the Gulf
States as he went to Saudi.
Speaker 4 (44:25):
Arabia and cutter and Ua, you know.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
That near the conclusion of that was an interesting plot
twist when Iran called Unk. I wouldn't say they called
full uncle, but they called unk and indicated that they
were ready to.
Speaker 4 (44:37):
Come to the table when it comes to a nuclear deal.
So joining us now to talk about that is the deputy.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
Director of the Washington office of the National Council of
Resistance of Iran. He's also the author of the Iran Threat,
Ali resijafars At, Ali Resid.
Speaker 6 (44:50):
Great to see you, Great to see you, my dog,
and also.
Speaker 4 (44:54):
John, Yes, it's good to see him too, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
Ali Reza, the Secretary Stay said this over the weekend,
and President Trump just trouthed it out as we were
coming to air that uranium enrichment is completely off the
table when it comes to this deal. What else does
President Trump want to see in there?
Speaker 10 (45:12):
What do you want to.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
See in it?
Speaker 14 (45:15):
Well, I think it's so important to stick to the
point that this regime, given the Tracker code and the
history of decades of lie and deception and moving a
nuclear weapons program, not an nuclear energy program. It's so
important to call for the dismantlement of all of the
nuclear sites of Iran, and obviously that includes zero enrichment.
(45:38):
But also you need to understand that this regime is
so weak. They have been at the negotiating table before,
but they have never been so weak. They have lost
much of their cloud in the region. The biggest ally
aside is gone. The proxies you know, Hesbali Lebanon, the
who is in Yema, and the Shia militias in the
Rock and a number of others have been basically decimated.
(46:00):
Inside Iran, the people are opposed to the regime, you know,
and I've been rounds of major uprisings in the country.
This is a new reality of Iran, and I think
under these circumstances. This is the time to hold the
regime accountable and make them delivered.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
You mentioned the weakness of the regime, and I think
we're seeing more and more signs of that over the
last few days. Some trucker strikes just open resistance to
the government. We saw the earlier waves of the women protesters.
People in Iran are more involved and never to express
their dissatisfaction with the really government.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Correct.
Speaker 14 (46:38):
Absolutely, you mentioned John, you know, the the truck drivers.
There are tens of thousands of truck drivers who are
on strike in all thirty one provinces of the country.
They're fed up. And this is not the only sector
of the society. You have other you know, workers, people
who are involved in the you know, making bred the
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you know, people involved in the agriculture, students.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
They have been on strike.
Speaker 14 (47:07):
And this regime is in trouble because the economy is
in shambles. The currency has lost about half of its
value since last year, and the regime finds no other
solution other than stepping up executions in Iran.
Speaker 9 (47:23):
You know, since.
Speaker 14 (47:24):
Passhkia took office as a new president of the regime
last August, about thirteen hundred prisoners, including women and including
political prisoners, have been executed by the Iran regime. This
is a sign of absolute weakness of the regime and
that's why the resistance.
Speaker 9 (47:42):
Is on the rise.
Speaker 14 (47:43):
You know, missus Mariam Rajiv, the President elect of the
Iranian Resistance. She was actually endorsed by House majority in
Atress one sixty six that called for endorsing her ten
point platform, but she also appeared before hearing House hearing
via satellite from Paris. She said there's no need for
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boots on the ground or appropriation of money.
Speaker 9 (48:07):
All the West need to do is.
Speaker 14 (48:09):
To recognize the right of the people of Iran who
have both the capability and the intent to bring down
the molas. You need to recognize the right to confront
the revolutionary guards. That's where the focus should be, not
just only on the nuclear issue, but also see the
other aspects of the weakness of the regime and also
the potential for change as the only viable end to
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the nuclear and terror threat of the Iran regip.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
Ali Reza, we've only got about forty five seconds left,
but I don't want to get ahead of my skis here.
But let's say pen hits pad negotiations are successful, the
deal goes through, should the United States be sending their
own inspection agents? And there are a lot of other
countries that I think are interest in parties who are
going to want to make sure that there are that
there's compliance as well.
Speaker 13 (48:55):
How will that look?
Speaker 14 (48:57):
I think the only successful deal would be a deal
that would lead to the closure of all the nuclear
sites of Iran, and the role of the internationalem again
Ergy Agency plus the US inspectors should be to.
Speaker 9 (49:11):
Oversee the closure of all.
Speaker 14 (49:13):
Of the sites in Iran because they're all involved and
our part and parcel of a nuclear weapons program which
needs to end.
Speaker 4 (49:21):
Huge ollie res it defar. Is it always a pleasure
to have you here, sir.
Speaker 3 (49:25):
We'll have you back on again very soon, hopefully as
these negotiations go forward and are successful and we can
get an update from you.
Speaker 9 (49:31):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
All is a.
Speaker 4 (49:32):
Pleasure, like guys, likewise, John great show.
Speaker 3 (49:35):
I hate the subject matter that we had to start
with because I feel like there's.
Speaker 4 (49:38):
A bit of a trend and I don't want to
see right.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
I know we have to keep highlighting it, though. We
have to shout out this hatred to start to shame
it to this end.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
YEP, Shaming it the only way to do it. Everybody,
head over to justinews dot com. Lots of great reporting,
especially John's article there on the FBI and COVID. Check
it out, and then we move back here tomorrow night
at six pm Eastern, right here on Real America's Voice
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Speaker 1 (00:51):
For years, the scourge of anti Semitism has infected our country,
especially our college campuses, with ugly protests, ugly words of hatred,
jaw dropping episodes of tolerance. But now twice in two weeks,
hatred of Jews as manifested itself in stending and heinous crimes.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
True violence.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
First, it was too young Israeli embassy workers gun down
outside a Jewish museum in Washington, d C. By a
man who was yelling free Palestine. Now an Egyptian man
named Mohammed Sabriy Solomon, who was illegally in the country
by the way, after overstaying his visa. He's charged with
sixteen state concept attempt at murder in Colorado in one
federal hate crime for trying to burn to death twelve
(01:33):
victims with molotov cocktails. He too, was also allegedly yelling
in support of Palestine. What were those twelve victims doing.
They were simply attending a vigil for Israeli hostages, and God,
that's all they were doing. We're going to delve deeper
into this mindless violence and the staring hatred that it's
wearing its head in our country right now, and what
is going to be done about it all throughout the
show today and also in an exclusive you can go
(01:55):
read about on justinews dot com. The FBI has launched
a sprawling investigation into possible criminal cover ups that occurred
during the COVID nineteen pandemic. We've learned that the FBI
is zeroing in on three separate plots. They are the
origins of the virus itself. Did they try to hide
the fact that it came from the Wuhan lab that
got federal funding. Were they trying to hide or destroy
(02:17):
federal records and in federal agency so that Congress and
the public couldn't see what was going on. And the
third plot was their manipulation of the vaccine approval process
and its subsequent side effects, particularly those heart inflammations we've
been talking about. It's all being done by agents in
three cities. FBI agents in Cleveland, New York, and Baltimore
leading those three investigations. Officials told justin News that the
(02:40):
possibility of a legal conduct in the matter is being
significantly investigated, in fact, charges and the risk could be
made in just a few short weeks, so a pretty
big deal. We're going to keep you up to speed
on all of those things over at justinews dot com.
Now a good opportunity to turn to my amazing ghost
and man it a lot of other news today, Amanda.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Oh wh Yes, In fact, I wanted to touch on
a little bit more of the Boulder attacks, those horrific
attacks that took place yesterday, because everything that's being reported
points to a motive, as you pointed out, as evidenced
by the attacker allegedly saying that he wanted to kill
all Zionist people, as well as the report that he
held Free Palestine during the attack. The FBI came out
(03:18):
and said as much after the attack, labeling it a
targeted terror attack against people attending.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
A pro Israel rally there in Boulder.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
However, CNN thought a little bit differently about it, and
they called out the FBI for labeling it so quickly
instead of reporting on the attack, I suppose check it out.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Maybe it's not, and he has no incentive to get
it wrong. So we're going to take a step back,
not be responsive to tweets by two heads of the
FBI who don't have a long history in local law enforcement.
And we will wait and it isn't what we all
(03:57):
worry it is, and if it is, then there'll be
an investigation. But that was that's nothing I'd ever seen before.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
You normally, actually Andrew knows this.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
You normally get the.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Local people getting way ahead on motive and the FBI
is saying we don't have it yet. You now have
the opposite here, and until we know that the victims
were members of that organ of the of the Jewish
or event, we don't have the nexus. And I will
believe the Donever Police Chief that they do not have
that exus now, and if they do, I will be
(04:28):
the first one out here saying that that is a
hate crime. But until we do, we all need to
not follow the FBI's tweets.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Okay, we've got a I mean, generally it is good
to wait until we know all of the facts before
reporting on something, but unfortunately that's not really something that
the media does anymore. We've all seen them jump to
the gun on numerous opposed hate crimes in the past.
But this time, that's when they questioned the FBI for
labeling the attack in Boulder, Colorado an act of tear
John give me a break.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And by the time Cash made those pronouncements and Dan
Bongina made them on they already knew that the man
said he was trying to kill Zionis and that he
had shot at Free Palestine. And that's several of the
victims were attendees at this vigil as opposed to just
members on the street, so they weren't acting well out
(05:18):
of character for sure. All right, Well, we got a
great first guest to kick us off today. She represents
the great State of Iowa in the United States House
of Representative. She is Congressome Marinette Miller Meeks Congressoming. Great
to have you on the show.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Great to be with both of you, and I could
not agree with you more. The FBI did not act rashly.
As a matter of fact, their quick actions and quick
quick summary has been in contrast to people allowing things
to go on, which is why we have seen the
dramatic rise in anti Semitism and why it seems that
(05:52):
it's almost tolerated in the United States and it should
not be. So I think that they called it like
it was, especially as you mentioned two weeks ago, a
young couple being murdered just outside the Jewish Museum in Washington,
d C. Just like we saw for the past two years,
since October twenty twenty three, with the rise in anti
(06:15):
Semitism on college campuses. But yet the President's not doing
anything and then being ousted. So I think it's very
appropriate that the FBI called this out. And remember that
the FBI didn't even call out domestic terrorism in the
shooting of Majority Leader Steve Scalice in twenty seventeen, and
that was left wing domestic terrorism, which when I was
(06:38):
in Homeland Security, they weren't even calling that domestic terrorism.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah all over again, Congress, I want to ask a
little bit about this boiling teapot that we have. You've
got these an entire generation of young people here whose
minds have been poisoned in the academic world to hate
Jews and to think that Palestinians are victims of a genocide.
And then you have all of these people that came
in the country, some illegally, some overstaying the visa allegedly
(07:04):
as this man did, and all of them have this
same sort of hatred. Working together, it seems like we
have a national crisis underway.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
I think that there is a national crisis, and the
first thing to address that is one to acknowledge that
you have a crisis, to acknowledge that it exists, instead
of just passing it off, blowing it off as we
have seen some individuals.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Do you know when you have students that.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
Can't get to their classroom, aren't allowed to pass on
to a campus for which they are paying tuition, where
they feel unsafe and unwanted.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
I mean, that isn't underscores what's happened.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
We had shootings at Jewish synagogues, we had a stabbing
of a rabbi in Detroit coming home from a synagogue.
So this has definitely been on the rise, and we
have to acknowledge it and then we have to start
addressing it. And to that end, I have a bill
to set up an Anti Semitism Commission to study this
so that then we can make recommendations, work with local
(08:02):
law enforcement, work with community areas, find out what's being
taught to children, and that includes in religious facilities, in schools, in.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Higher education, what exactly is being taught.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Congresswomen, and it also feels like they are a drag
on the Democrat Party because you have more senior members
of the Democrat Party who I think support Israel and
support Jews in this country and hate to see this
happening to them, But you have this younger faction of
their party who is pulling them down. How do those
more senior Democrats find a way to not turn off
(08:41):
those younger voters and at the same time protect these.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
People who have been a large part of their constituency
for a long time.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Well, you know, one of the first things they did
was in their convention I think that was twelve years ago, remove.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
God from their platform.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
As a nod to those of the Islamic faith, which
I believe for the majority of those who practice the
Islamic faith, they are people that are of peace. But
we know that there is a radical jihadis Islamic contention,
and so you know, they've done things that have coddled
(09:16):
these individuals. And at the point, there are wonderful members
of Congress Representative Wasserman Schulz, Brad Schneider and others that
you know. I won't go into all of them, but
there are many members on both sides of the aisle
bipartisan support for Israel who do not see Israel as
(09:36):
you know, the purveyor of this violence. They haven't been
in Palestine since two thousand, or Gaza since two thousand
and five. They were attacked on October seventh of twenty
twenty three. They are not responsible for these actions, and
there is hatred and a desire by these individuals to
destroy Israel and the Jewish people. So I think knowledging it,
(10:00):
acting upon it, and we have a bipartisan group of
people who I know want to do that. But the
Democrat Party is going to have to come to terms
with that within their own factions because as you said,
they have young people wanting to primary you know, people
that have been in Congress who may feel differently than them,
(10:21):
but they're going to have to come to terms with
this within their own party, this fracture, which as we
have already seen, is leading to violence congers from.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
There's another problem that seems to be rearing its head
in that is a significant amount of espionage among our
own ranks in the military and the DIA.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
We had a couple.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Soldiers last week at the IA official this week before that,
a CI official. It seems like during the Biden years
a lot of spies began getting recruited or certainly got
active for foreign countries. How serious is it and are
there some good countermeasures underway?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
You satisfied?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Where where the FBI is now and rolling up some
of these spies.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
I think it is a very serious issue, and there
used to be severe punishments for this type of activity,
even lesser than this. Having been in the military, both
active duty and reserve, and my husband thirty years in
the military, you know, we're continually taught all of our
training about being careful about people addressing you, coming to you,
(11:21):
wanting to interact with you, you know, we've had to
take actions with the Select Subcommittee on the Chinese Communist Party.
We've had to take actions on you know, outreach and
ingresses into both our universities, into our military, into our
institutions within the federal government.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
It is a very important issue.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
We've had to take action on preventing the Chinese Communist
Party from buying farmland, especially farmland that's near our military basis.
And let us not forget, you know, a Chinese spy
balloon that was allowed to go all the way across
the United States and it wasn't shot down until it
went all the way across the United States. Meanwhile recording
sending information in real time going across sensitive military basis,
(12:08):
nuclear silos. That was unconscionable that this was allowed to
be perpetuated during the Biden administration. And I think the
Trump administration, Cash Patel and the FBI, they are going
through this. They're going to weed this out and put
our agencies back on what their mission is, which is
to protect the people of the United States and the
United States.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
A congresswoman, I think that there is some type of
subtle connection between anti Semitism and the loss of faith
in this country and the loss of patriotism in this country.
But you served our country in the United States Army
for two and a half decades, and we have the
two hundred and fiftieth birthday of it coming up in
a few weeks. There's going to be a parade, a
lot of fanfare surrounding it. Is that possibly a way
(12:50):
to inspire young people and move things back in the
direction of patriotism.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
I think that it is to acknowledge what's happening to
you know, to have this educational moment, if you will,
in TV and media coverage. But then the other thing
that I see as helping has been, you know, the work.
I had my first bill on school choice with Senator
Tim Scott in twenty twenty one, my first year I
came into Congress. So I think school choice, having educational
(13:18):
opportunities is also going to help with that.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
So I see, you know, parents.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
How they raise their children, where they go to school,
what's taught in school is going to help as well.
But the focus on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary,
focus on, you know, how we're training our military, what's
happening within our national intelligence agencies and FBI, all of
those things are going to help to you know, reinvigorate
this sense of pride in America. We know that our
(13:46):
flag and our constitution stand for values. While we may
be imperfect, we are always striving for protection and to
live up to the values of our constitution and our flag.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Important, and Flag Day just Ahead's very important. It's hard
to believe, congress Woman, we're going to be watching that
bill close. It seems like the perfect bipartisan opportunity for
people to stand up against anti Semitism in this census
violence with that commission. Thanks for joining us today and
giving us such an important update.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Thank you all so much for covering this important topic.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, good to have you on. Thanks so much. All Right, folks,
we're going to take a quick commercial break.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I'll me come back more on a heinous attack in
Gisrael and what the FBI will likely to be doing over.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
The next several weeks to piece it together. Who is
behind it? Who are other people likely to commit such violence?
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During a rally in support of the release of Israeli
hostages in Boulder, Colorado this weekend, a forty five year
old Egyptian national, Mohammed Solomon, reportedly used makeshift flamethrowers and
molotov cocktails. He injured eight, including a Holocaust survivor. He
was also reported by witnesses to be yelling free Palestine.
So we now have two attacks against shoes in two
(16:26):
weeks here in the here in the United States. Is
this the start of a disturbing trend? And what can
the FBI do about it? Joining us now retired FBI
Executive Assistant director and the author of the book Wanted
the FBI I once knew, one of my favorite books
on the topic, Chris Plihoda.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Chris, thanks so much for being here.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
Thank you very much. Always a pleasure to visit with
you and your audience.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Likewise, and you know, I think back to the Biden
administration when we were dealing with such border crises, and
I remember there were a number of law enforcement agencies
FBI included, who issued bolos for military age males coming
across the southern border. It seems to me that there
is an opportunity here for bolos on these types of
attacks because so many of them are turning violent, turn
(17:07):
and edging up against terrorism.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
Well, what we're looking at here is the threat environment
that the previous administration allowed to form and evolve and
intensify in our nation. So now we're starting to see
some of the ripple effects of those I would say
flawed policies and practices when they basically shut down our
border security. Putting out the alerts to our communities is
(17:31):
one part of the equation. The other part is starting
to nick together the government systems that for this individual
would show more clearly and timely that he was an
overstay on his immigration authority.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, that's a big piece of this and a concerning
piece of it because there's a lot of other folks
that fall into that category. During the Biden years, this
was sort of a storm that's been brewing for a
long time. Person I know, even when you were back
in the FBI just a few short years ago, you
were seeing this rise of anti Semitism. You got this
sort of foreign component that's stirring it and sometimes sending
(18:10):
people in. And then you got these incubating labs of
college campuses where the hatred is spreading. How do we
start to put this back in the box. How do
we start to combat this successfully?
Speaker 9 (18:21):
Well, I think we have to acknowledge it.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
First of all, I think there's a large part of
our society that won't acknowledge that we are witnessing a
shift in world power structures, as well as waves of
ideological change Leftism, you're looking at Marxism, neo Marxism, and
other I would say political slash religious views that are
(18:43):
moving into the Western societies and they're asserting themselves in
our societies.
Speaker 9 (18:48):
And until we acknowledge it, it'll be.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
Hard to start resolving some of these possible hazards or
threats that are being posed by these I would say
adversarial ideologies to what we have in the United States
and parts of Europe so important.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
And you know, a lot of this anti semitism, this
hatred is brewing on college campuses. But a lot of
these kids are not college graduates or even attendees. But
you see these conversations, these radical statements, these threats of
violence percolating on social media. Is there an opportunity there
for the FBI to maybe deploy more efforts in examining
(19:26):
social media posts to prevent.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Some of these things.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
I think you can.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
I think you have to measure that type of action against,
of course, the free speech that makes our nation great.
Speaker 9 (19:38):
Right.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
You have to look at what is protected speech versus
what is a flammatory speech that could move people from
ideological opposition to violence and action. So I think the
FBI's position, yes, you can monitor certain threatening language online. However,
I think what the FBI has to do is start
engaging with these universities and informing them of the threat
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environment and the possible negative outcomes of allowing some of
these ideologies to form on their campuses and be protected
on these campuses, and then move that out into the
communities and result possibly in acts of violence like we've
seen over the past couple days and weeks.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
So so important that contact and that message to be spread, Chris,
I know in an investigation like this, the next phase
of it. Now that we sort of have the first
suspect invol of this, who else.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Was he in contact?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Who else might have been encouraging funding pushing him? Looking
for similarities in that funding trail, What does the FBI
do over the next five to ten days to check
all those leads.
Speaker 9 (20:42):
Well, they're going to start looking into this individual's lives.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
They're going to of course a very basic investigative work, friends, family, associates.
They're going to look at all of his social media,
They'll search his living area, They'll look for all of
his car, electronics, I mean, all of these things.
Speaker 9 (20:56):
They're going to try to build a pattern.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Of life and look at the reason that he moved
from his ideology to action. They're going to see what
was a triggering event. And they're also going to look
to see if he's part of any larger network of
people who may hold similar views or maybe close to
taking violent action based upon again religious or political ideologies.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
So that's where they're going to be looking.
Speaker 8 (21:19):
But they're also going to go in addition to an
investigative work, they're going to go into prevent mode. They're
going to start working with some of the communities that
are at risk and they're going to start helping them
bolster security practices, awareness, and just kind of community welfare discussions.
So the FBI has a multi layered approach on this.
(21:42):
We've done it for years and it's nothing new to
the FBI. This is something that now that they're no
longer distracted with some other peripheral issues, they're very good
at this and they'll engage the proper communities and make
sure that everybody stays safe.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, and I'm glad you brought that up, because I'm
curious if you think the FBI needs to possibly be
deploying deploying more agents or if that comes in the
form of some type of taxpayer funded security. But the
synagogues already have their own security. Many of them, unfortunately,
have had need for it for a long time.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Absolutely, they have their own security. They're very good at
what they do. The communities are very tight knit on
those issues. When I was out in the field and
when I ran field offices, we had very close contact
with the Jewish community, and you know, mostly they take
care of their own security needs.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
We help them with awareness.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Mostly we help them with threat environmental awareness, any kind
of immediate or incoming threats, and we also make sure
that they have clear lines of communication with the FBI
and with our state.
Speaker 9 (22:45):
And local law enforcement partners. So again, layered problems set.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
But the FBI is very good at this and we
have great relationships in most of the communities that we
do business in.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, great, great point, Chris.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
We have a storry this morning looking at had a
sprawling investigation of the FBI into three possible COVID couver ups,
and it starts with something very important. The FBI was
the first and most correct when it came to assessing
that the COVID nineteen vaccine moslakly came out of the
Wuhan lab where there was some federal funded research, dangerous
research going on. Now they're looking at three things. Were
(23:21):
there scientists, were their foreigners? Where their people in the
pharmaceutical industry or other private industries who are trying to
cover up different elements of this pandemic, from the origins
to its human human transmissibility to problems with the vaccine.
It's pretty rare, pretty large investigation. Your thoughts on what
(23:41):
might be going on behind the scenes.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
I think right now what you're looking at is a
national platform investigation as we used to call it, where
you have several field offices are going to take different
parts of very large investigative approaches. And as you broke
it down into those three areas, you'll have those three
offices that will each take in air area because it's there.
They're very broad and broad investigative areas, right, And what
(24:06):
they'll do is they'll issue investigative leads to other field
offices as the investigative effort matures and we start looking
more deeply into things, and they're going to see basically
war any laws broken, How are the ethics of these
situations used to possibly you know, make decisions or substitute
(24:27):
political views for proper decision making.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
And maybe not.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
They weren't looking out for the welfare and well being
of the American people so much as to support their
own political beliefs or possibly you know, profit driven motives.
So the FBI is going to look into those things
and then with the Department of Justice see where there
could possibly be some corrective action taken or possibly some
legal action.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Christ real quick, we got a minute left. There's another
headline in this and that it comes right out of
your book. You were one of the biggest advocates of
returning these investigations to field offices, getting headquarters out of
the meddling. That's what's happening here at Cleveland, New York, Baltimore.
A good sign that the new leadership is following the
playbook that you like.
Speaker 9 (25:08):
That's correct. So let the field offices do the investigative work.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
Step back, watch them, watch them work the FBI magic
that the FBI was once known for.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
And we're going to be in good shape.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yeah, as you're working.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
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and I both have read.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
It in absolutely my favorites.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Chris biow to thank you so much for being here.
Great to see my friend.
Speaker 9 (25:27):
Yeah, pleasure, have a great.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Night you too.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
All Right, everybody up next, Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters
is going to be here to discuss his latest quote scandal,
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When our founding fathers were creating this beautiful country two
hundred nearly two hundred and fifty years ago, they intended
the states to be the laboratories for the best ideas.
And when it comes to education, there is one state
that stands out. Oklahoma is on the forefront of some
of the biggest reforms in education, led by Governor kevinants In.
Our next guest, the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction,
(27:34):
Ryan Walters. Mister Superintendent, good to have you on the show.
Speaker 10 (27:38):
Thank you for having me on.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
All right, I want to start with the big news
that happened last week.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
The Supreme Court deadlocked four to four on the issue
of a faith based charter school. That leaves a lot
of flexibility for your state to try to find maybe
a workaround or a solution. Tell us what's going on
behind the scenes in your state right now.
Speaker 10 (27:59):
Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (28:00):
You know.
Speaker 11 (28:00):
First thing is, obviously you know, a lot of parents,
myself included, disappointed here in the ruling.
Speaker 10 (28:04):
You know, we were really hoping.
Speaker 11 (28:05):
Amy Kuny Herrett was going to be a voting member
here and we felt very confident in that majority there,
but she recused herself, so we got a four to
four tie, which kicks it back down, which means the
charter school can't move forward, but it's not definitive ruling,
so we can bring the case back up. We're looking
at our options here from the state Department of Education.
We're going to continue to fight for parents. We're going
to continue to fight for their religious liberties, and we're
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going to continue to fight for school choice. And unfortunately,
the only people celebrating this are our Attorney General Getner Drummond,
atheist Satanists, the Teachers' Union. You know, they're out crowing
about this, But the reality is this isn't over. We're
not going to stop our fight for religious liberty and
parents in the state of Oklahoma.
Speaker 10 (28:45):
So you'll be.
Speaker 11 (28:46):
Hearing from us soon and we'll continue to move the
ball forward leading the charge for religious liberty and school choice.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Yeah. I mean, it's hard to think of the argument
against this. What was the dissenting opinion? In a nutshell?
Speaker 10 (28:58):
What in a nutshell?
Speaker 11 (28:59):
They just basically said that they wanted to not allow
the Catholic church, Christian churches to do this because they
felt like there was a separation of you know, a
church and state issue. Which isn't in the Declaration of Independence,
is in the Constitution.
Speaker 10 (29:12):
Again, what we.
Speaker 11 (29:13):
Said was they met all the criteria of a charter school.
Telling them they can't do it because they are religious
violates their right to express the religious beliefs.
Speaker 10 (29:22):
Again, they met every criteria.
Speaker 11 (29:24):
There was zero issue in the way they were going
to run the school and the way they're going to
start the school.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
But our local.
Speaker 10 (29:29):
Supreme Court here in Oklahoma got this dead wrong.
Speaker 11 (29:31):
They stepped out and said, I know, but you are Christian,
so we can't take your application. That flies in the
face of the constitutions. To look, you know that the
justices on the other side got.
Speaker 10 (29:40):
It dead wrong here.
Speaker 11 (29:41):
I think this is a fundamental issue.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
Of you're seeing the states. You're seeing the federal.
Speaker 11 (29:46):
Government, the state government weaponizing itself against Christians for far
too long. We've got to correct that and say Christians, absolutely,
we want you to be.
Speaker 10 (29:53):
Involved in our kids' education.
Speaker 11 (29:54):
Parents, absolutely, we want you to decide for your kids
where they go to school. And again, we've got a
lot of great coools across the country that are Catholic,
that are Christian, they do a great job.
Speaker 10 (30:04):
We want our parents to be able to choose those
options as well.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, so important.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
There are many huge reforms that you have been able
to enact in your role as the chief of the
public school system. Among them some new curriculum standards. Tell
us how those are going and what the impact has
been for parents and children downstream.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
In the school system.
Speaker 11 (30:24):
Well, Jenny, the left has been losing their minds over
this one, and I love it. I mean one of
my favorite things we've been able to do, which is
we went in and we looked at our history standards.
You know, I heard this all over the state of
Oklahoma and O raign for office. Why don't our kids
know more about America? Why don't they know more about
American history? You know, they know that, but you know,
they know that Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner, but
they don't know he was the author of the Declaration
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of Independence. They don't know all of the prolific writings of.
Speaker 10 (30:49):
The Founders, they don't know about the Federalist papers.
Speaker 11 (30:51):
So we came in, I said, we're going to rewrite
our history standards, and we're going to make sure that
our kids have an understanding of those fundamental principles that
make America the greatest in the history of the world,
and we're unapologetic about that. We want our kids to
be patriotic. We want our kids to love this country.
We want them to understand where this country's values came from.
So we took it on. We increased the standards dramatically.
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We put the Bible back in. We said, listen, kids
have to understand the role of the Bible played in
American history. My goodness, every founding father cited it, every
president has cided it. They've got to understand that context.
We went through and so they've got to understand more
about the Founding. They got to know all the federalist papers.
They've got to know about the Declaration of Independence. They
need to read the letters that all these prolific Americans
wrote time and time again. And we also said, listen, absolutely,
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we've got to go all the way up to twenty
twenty election, and we want critical thinkers. So we want
them to dig into the election, look at the information,
look at the data, look at the charts.
Speaker 10 (31:42):
Come to their own conclusion. But we want them to
study things.
Speaker 11 (31:45):
We want them to not be pushed by a left
wing media agenda, but instead be critical thinkers that shouldn't
be a left right issue.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
It should be common sense.
Speaker 11 (31:54):
But where our leftist folks out there are losing their
mind over this one.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
They are At some point in the last forty years,
things went awry with education with respect to actually teaching history.
And I feel like it's right about the time they
went from teaching history to renaming it social studies. Now
they said social studies is the same thing as history,
but it's really not. And most school systems across this
country are still teaching social studies.
Speaker 11 (32:20):
Right, that's right, And you're so right on this of
we've got to get back to history is history, it's
what happened. Okay, you study those facts. Remember I'm a
former history teacher, so I get real passionate about this.
But history is understanding what happened before you. So one
you can see what worked, what was successful, What are
traits you want to have as an individual, what are
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traits that the country should pursue. And also there's the
bad examples that teach you things not to do. You
learn from history. Twinston Churchill said, the further back you
look is the further.
Speaker 10 (32:51):
Ahead you can also see. So you've got to be
able to.
Speaker 11 (32:54):
Understand history, not as a science, not as all know,
but as what were the events, how did they have?
Not through the lens of critical race theory, not through
the ends of diversity, equity, and inclusion, but just what's
historically accurate, and then use that to formulate your own
thought process, your own identity, your own views of the country,
your own views.
Speaker 10 (33:13):
Of the future.
Speaker 11 (33:14):
And again, we can never be unified as Americans. We
can never be unified in purpose and goals if we
don't know where we came from. And I think I
think that's why the Loft takes it so much, is
they thrive on turning Americans against each other. They thrive
on the most divisive ideologies the country's ever seen. When frankly,
conservatives are saying, you know, if we go back to
the Founding and we really study it, it's a central.
Speaker 10 (33:34):
Point we can all start with.
Speaker 11 (33:36):
So even when we have our differences, we have this
similar belief in the founding, the core principles of America,
that that's really what brings people together.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yeah, so real quickly, you're about a minute left. There's
a little brew haha. And the legacy media over some
of the things that are in the current curriculum about
teaching with the twenty twenty election, about where COVID, the
virus came from. Tell us a little bit what you're
thinking was answer to some of those critics.
Speaker 11 (34:02):
Absolutely, you know, you know, I went on unfortunately, I
went on MSNBC a couple of weeks ago, you know,
and they were just, we can't believe you reported this
and that or this is in here.
Speaker 10 (34:11):
I said, well, y'all reported that.
Speaker 11 (34:12):
I mean, you are now trying to go back in
gas light and say there wasn't a record amount of
mail in ballots.
Speaker 10 (34:17):
Well, of course that's a fact.
Speaker 11 (34:18):
Oh you try to go back and say, well, we
don't know where the where COVID originated from. The FBI
and CI have released that, and we know it came
from a lab in Wuhan. We know that there were
obviously a lot of concerns around the country around mail
in ballots. How do I know that, Well, because three
dozen states passed voter integrity laws afterwards to correct that.
So what we're doing is presenting the facts to students.
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We want them to do a deep dive. We want
them to come to their own conclusions. What we're not
going to do is say, we're going to take a
New York Times headline and that's going to be all
that they study on the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 10 (34:48):
Now we're going to.
Speaker 11 (34:49):
Say, listen, look at all the data, look at all
the information. We want you to see. Obviously, there were
a lot of voters that voted there that didn't vote
in the future. All right, So how many mail in
ballots were there? From what counties? What were the swings there?
And we want kids to analyze elections. I think that's
the only truthful way to cover this.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah, critical thinking, which is something all of us should
come out of schools prepared to do. Superintendent, always a
great honor to have you on.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
We always learned so much.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
There's so many things going on in your great state,
but a great honor to have Youantay, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 10 (35:17):
Thank you guys very much.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Great conversation you too. All right, folks, a quick commercial
breakround in the corner. But then we're going to talk
about the story of weaponized US as this one involving
an Emmy Award winning actress and her NYPD sergeant husband.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Can't wait for that one mo We have that. But
after these messages.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Welcome back, everybody. I want to highlight an.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Important story that I recently shared on my podcast. It
is about, of course, the weaponized justice system, and it's
not just President Trump who has had to deal with it.
For example, Emmy Award winning actress Martha Burne and her
husband NYPD sergeant Michael McMahon have allegedly had it happened
to them under the former Biden regime.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
It's a pretty crazy.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Story and I want to bring on Martha to get
her side of it. She has written a book all
about it too, entitled In Interest of Justice, and it's
out on June fifth.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Martha, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 12 (36:14):
Thank you so much for having me on. It's always
a pleasure to see you and I'm a huge fan.
I've been following you for years and it's a pleasure
to be here.
Speaker 13 (36:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
We are so happy to have you here, and I'm
very sorry for what your husband is going through. Give
everybody just kind of a rundown of everything that has transpired.
Speaker 12 (36:32):
So, my husband was a retired sergeant NYPD sergeant. He
was very successful in his career on the YPV. He
had one thousand arrests, seventy eight medals and he was
in the Bronx and was suffered a severe car accident
on the job. Became a private investigator and had a
very successful career. He worked for the Vatican, he worked
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for presidential candidates.
Speaker 13 (36:56):
He had a great, great career. And he got a
routine call in two thousand and sixty.
Speaker 12 (37:00):
From a translation company in Queens and her client was
looking for some me to find some assets, do some surveillance,
and basically that was it. Some asset searches and he
hired two NYPD retired detectives.
Speaker 13 (37:13):
Who were pis to work with him on this case.
Speaker 12 (37:16):
And he spoke to two federal agents about the case
back in twenty sixteen. It was a civil matter. Never
thought about it again. He notified local police even when
he was doing the surveillance and did reports and just
moved on with his life and as I said, had
this incredible career as a private investigator. He actually even
did security for the Parkland shooting survivors, the kids around
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the country.
Speaker 13 (37:38):
He was a sought after PI. Didn't think about it.
Speaker 12 (37:41):
He had made a few thousand dollars on that case
in twenty sixteen, and then on October twenty eighth, twenty
twenty a pre dawn rate at our house, which is
still horrifying to this day that they even happened, and
they arrested him for violating FARA, the Foreign Agents Registration Act,
and interstate stocking. Now it should be noted that the
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subjects of his surveillance never saw him. They never filed
a police report, They had no photographs, they had no
license plate, no description of the drivers. They never saw
him or the other two private investigators either, and he
was charged for a federal crime for doing his job
as a private investigator. He didn't break any law. It
was shocking. And as a Foreign Agent Registration Act he
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was hired by a New York company, so there was
no foreign government connection. So of course he's like, this
is crazy, Like I something's wrong here.
Speaker 13 (38:36):
They must have made a mistake. And we went through
all his emails.
Speaker 12 (38:40):
He saved everything, everything he had, every text message, email,
he had saved, every invoice, everything, every penny was accounted for.
Speaker 13 (38:47):
He goes, what it was going on here? I have
to fight back. This must be a mistake.
Speaker 12 (38:52):
And we went to trial in twenty twenty three of June.
Speaker 13 (38:58):
He was arrested in October of twi.
Speaker 12 (39:02):
And we were absolutely horrified, not just the fact that
from the criminal complaint out of the Newark FBI office,
the amount of false information in that criminal complaint was outrageous.
I mean absolutely outrageous, literally making up scenarios that he
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had nothing to do with, and we couldn't believe it,
like he's like, this has got to be a mistake.
And those lies continued to trial even we had proven
that they were false, and they continued to lie, and
you know, he was found not guilty of count one,
which was the major account, which was violating far a conspiracy,
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which that means you were with the foreign government. So
they couldn't prove that he had been connection with the
foreign government because we found out and learned through our
own investigation that he was recommended for this job by
a former US attorney, so there was no foreign connection.
But he was found guilty of violent fara an interstate
stalking and John and Amanda. You know, after President Trump,
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when you're dealing with the court system, the amount of
effort they do gymnastics to keep exculpatory evidence.
Speaker 13 (40:14):
Out of these trials. No one testified against my husband.
The case agent didn't testify.
Speaker 12 (40:20):
The alleged victims couldn't identify them in court because a
fairy tale was told to the jury, to the judge.
Speaker 13 (40:30):
And you sit there every day thinking, how is this America?
Speaker 12 (40:33):
But the FBI in Newark, over their four year investigation
on this case, they never spoke to my husband, the
two NYPD retired detectives, the two federal agents that were
touched this case.
Speaker 13 (40:46):
But they did speak to the CCP agents.
Speaker 12 (40:50):
The actual people who did these things were in another
you know, doing something totally separate for years, for years,
and they never spoke to you as long as about
this case. To learn it was shocking to me the
amount of perjury that went on and gymnastics and fairy tales.
Speaker 13 (41:09):
That's the only way I could could explain it.
Speaker 12 (41:11):
And I'm still to this day shocked, having been in
law enforcement with my husband and our relatives and friends
and family, Like, how in the world could you take
an innocent man, a hero, a hero like my husband
and create a case against him for the w you know.
And President Trump went through the same thing, suppressing evidence,
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not letting him put witnesses on, creating a case out
of nothing. I mean, my husband did nothing illegal, nothing,
absolutely nothing. So you know, when I see President Trump
going through this, I'm like, I'm like in tears, almost
like this he understands, he knows this happens, the weaponization
and John, when you get false search warrants and my
family with falsified information and you're spying on my family,
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I mean, you have no probable cause, you're spying for
years following us went through ten years of our banking records,
my children. How can the FBI totally put my family
in danger, not protect us, and then continue to monitor
us for years, for years? And I wish I was wrong,
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you know, I wish we wouldn't have to fight this
and continue to fight this. I mean, my husbands supposed
to report to prison in two weeks, federal prison.
Speaker 13 (42:26):
They gave him eighteen months.
Speaker 12 (42:28):
The judge eighteen months for doing his job as a
private investigator.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Terrible, Martha, we only got about a minute left. What
is next? Is there a pardon request? And is Congress
getting involved? And no, I'm looking forward to reading your
book because it's going to be meticulously research. But what's
the next step. We got about a minute left.
Speaker 12 (42:46):
We have put in a pardon request for the President
of the United States. Mister President Donald Trump, I know him.
I know if he knows that an NYPD hero was sacrificed,
who's given everything, his body, his heart to service, I
know he would would embrace him and say, I've been there,
you know, I get what you've been through.
Speaker 13 (43:07):
But we don't do this to heroes in this country.
Speaker 12 (43:09):
We don't sacrifice heroes for our greatest enemy, China.
Speaker 13 (43:14):
So we put the request in.
Speaker 12 (43:15):
We're praying every single day, and I believe that once
he hears the facts of this case, it will be
an absolute done deal.
Speaker 13 (43:22):
But we have we're running out of time.
Speaker 12 (43:24):
We only have till June sixteenth until he has to report.
So if he's listening and praying, we are going to
continue to do that.
Speaker 13 (43:32):
So thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Yeah, absolutely, Martha Burne and everybody go check out the
book again.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
It is called in the Interest of Justice.
Speaker 6 (43:39):
Martha.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
Great to see you again.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Hoping to hear some really great updates in the next
few weeks.
Speaker 13 (43:43):
Let's have some joy soon. But yeah, that is absolutely.
Speaker 12 (43:48):
I hope you read it and you see what really happens.
Speaker 13 (43:51):
It's all in there. All the truth is in.
Speaker 12 (43:54):
There about what happened to our family, because it could
happen to anybody.
Speaker 13 (43:57):
If it could happen to me, but it coun happen
to my husband, who's never do anything wrong in his life,
and that.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
Can happen to the President of State. Absolutely, Martha Burne,
thank you so much. Everybody, go check out that book.
We're going to take a quick break and we'll be
back on the other side.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
Welcome back, everybody.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
If you were tracking President Trump's travel to the Gulf
States as he went to Saudi.
Speaker 4 (44:25):
Arabia and cutter and Ua, you know.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
That near the conclusion of that was an interesting plot
twist when Iran called Unk. I wouldn't say they called
full uncle, but they called unk and indicated that they
were ready to.
Speaker 4 (44:37):
Come to the table when it comes to a nuclear deal.
So joining us now to talk about that is the deputy.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
Director of the Washington office of the National Council of
Resistance of Iran. He's also the author of the Iran Threat,
Ali resijafars At, Ali Resid.
Speaker 6 (44:50):
Great to see you, Great to see you, my dog,
and also.
Speaker 4 (44:54):
John, Yes, it's good to see him too, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
Ali Reza, the Secretary Stay said this over the weekend,
and President Trump just trouthed it out as we were
coming to air that uranium enrichment is completely off the
table when it comes to this deal. What else does
President Trump want to see in there?
Speaker 10 (45:12):
What do you want to.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
See in it?
Speaker 14 (45:15):
Well, I think it's so important to stick to the
point that this regime, given the Tracker code and the
history of decades of lie and deception and moving a
nuclear weapons program, not an nuclear energy program. It's so
important to call for the dismantlement of all of the
nuclear sites of Iran, and obviously that includes zero enrichment.
(45:38):
But also you need to understand that this regime is
so weak. They have been at the negotiating table before,
but they have never been so weak. They have lost
much of their cloud in the region. The biggest ally
aside is gone. The proxies you know, Hesbali Lebanon, the
who is in Yema, and the Shia militias in the
Rock and a number of others have been basically decimated.
(46:00):
Inside Iran, the people are opposed to the regime, you know,
and I've been rounds of major uprisings in the country.
This is a new reality of Iran, and I think
under these circumstances. This is the time to hold the
regime accountable and make them delivered.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
You mentioned the weakness of the regime, and I think
we're seeing more and more signs of that over the
last few days. Some trucker strikes just open resistance to
the government. We saw the earlier waves of the women protesters.
People in Iran are more involved and never to express
their dissatisfaction with the really government.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Correct.
Speaker 14 (46:38):
Absolutely, you mentioned John, you know, the the truck drivers.
There are tens of thousands of truck drivers who are
on strike in all thirty one provinces of the country.
They're fed up. And this is not the only sector
of the society. You have other you know, workers, people
who are involved in the you know, making bred the
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you know, people involved in the agriculture, students.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
They have been on strike.
Speaker 14 (47:07):
And this regime is in trouble because the economy is
in shambles. The currency has lost about half of its
value since last year, and the regime finds no other
solution other than stepping up executions in Iran.
Speaker 9 (47:23):
You know, since.
Speaker 14 (47:24):
Passhkia took office as a new president of the regime
last August, about thirteen hundred prisoners, including women and including
political prisoners, have been executed by the Iran regime. This
is a sign of absolute weakness of the regime and
that's why the resistance.
Speaker 9 (47:42):
Is on the rise.
Speaker 14 (47:43):
You know, missus Mariam Rajiv, the President elect of the
Iranian Resistance. She was actually endorsed by House majority in
Atress one sixty six that called for endorsing her ten
point platform, but she also appeared before hearing House hearing
via satellite from Paris. She said there's no need for
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boots on the ground or appropriation of money.
Speaker 9 (48:07):
All the West need to do is.
Speaker 14 (48:09):
To recognize the right of the people of Iran who
have both the capability and the intent to bring down
the molas. You need to recognize the right to confront
the revolutionary guards. That's where the focus should be, not
just only on the nuclear issue, but also see the
other aspects of the weakness of the regime and also
the potential for change as the only viable end to
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the nuclear and terror threat of the Iran regip.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
Ali Reza, we've only got about forty five seconds left,
but I don't want to get ahead of my skis here.
But let's say pen hits pad negotiations are successful, the
deal goes through, should the United States be sending their
own inspection agents? And there are a lot of other
countries that I think are interest in parties who are
going to want to make sure that there are that
there's compliance as well.
Speaker 13 (48:55):
How will that look?
Speaker 14 (48:57):
I think the only successful deal would be a deal
that would lead to the closure of all the nuclear
sites of Iran, and the role of the internationalem again
Ergy Agency plus the US inspectors should be to.
Speaker 9 (49:11):
Oversee the closure of all.
Speaker 14 (49:13):
Of the sites in Iran because they're all involved and
our part and parcel of a nuclear weapons program which
needs to end.
Speaker 4 (49:21):
Huge ollie res it defar. Is it always a pleasure
to have you here, sir.
Speaker 3 (49:25):
We'll have you back on again very soon, hopefully as
these negotiations go forward and are successful and we can
get an update from you.
Speaker 9 (49:31):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
All is a.
Speaker 4 (49:32):
Pleasure, like guys, likewise, John great show.
Speaker 3 (49:35):
I hate the subject matter that we had to start
with because I feel like there's.
Speaker 4 (49:38):
A bit of a trend and I don't want to
see right.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
I know we have to keep highlighting it, though. We
have to shout out this hatred to start to shame
it to this end.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
YEP, Shaming it the only way to do it. Everybody,
head over to justinews dot com. Lots of great reporting,
especially John's article there on the FBI and COVID. Check
it out, and then we move back here tomorrow night
at six pm Eastern, right here on Real America's Voice
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