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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hello America, Happy Monday to all of you. Welcome to
Justin News and No Noise. I'm a Manda Head, your host,
my co host, and justin News editor in chief John
Solomon is out on assignment tonight, but he'll be joining
us later in the week. But I want to get
to a few news clips that I want to play
for you now. Many of you, by now, unless you
have been spelunking, unless you have been in a cave
for the last week or so, you know what has
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been going down in Minnesota in a lot of hotbed
Somali communities. This fraud that stemmed from this feeding our
future scandal to the tune of billions of dollars American
taxpayer dollars flooding through these fraud coffers and into the
pockets of At this point god knows who. I think
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we pretty much know who. But at any rate, there
have been a number of intrepid journalists. The original one
on the ground who was shedding light on this was
Nick Shirley. He's an independent journalist. He's been out beating
the streets doing what journalists, formerly respected journalists, used to
refer to as gum shoe journalism. You walk around the cities,
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you beat the streets, you knock on doors, and you
get the story. And that is exactly what Nick Shirley
has been doing up in Minnesota. While CNN's Abby Phillips
she doesn't respect this style of journalism apparently check out
her check out her rent.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
But you know, honestly, you knock on the door of
a daycare center and you're like, let me in, let
me in. What do you expect people to do? You know,
in some of those cases there were children in there.
What do you want people to do in that situation?
Open the door and say come on in? When they
know that the Somali community is under attack, back is
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being threatened every single day. What is going on here?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
First of all, it's a business. There shouldn't be any
reason why someone couldn't come in a business, especially if
there were questions surrounding that business and whether they even
served children as a daycare business at all, Abby Phillips.
That is exactly what journalism is supposed to be. It's
asking questions and it's going to the source. And I'm
sorry if you don't find that to be real journalism,
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but I find you to be and what you do
not to be real journalism. All right, everybody, I want
to show you another clip because I want to get
on the foreign policy front and everything that President Trump
has been doing to try to instill peace across the country.
And there were some comments made over on another network,
on a liberal network regarding what is happening between Israel
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and Hamas. As I discussed, was that last night, is
it Tuesday or Monday? It's Tuesday. I think I said
happy Monday at the top of the show. It's Tuesday.
Last night on the show, I was discussing a number
of items that were taking place between Israel and Hamas
with respect to their peace agreement, and they are now
moving into phase two of that. There are a number
of things that are still to be decided. But it
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seems like everyone and their brother wants to be a
naysayer when it comes when it comes to what is
happening right now and what the outcomes could be.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
But check this out.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, those two realities don't seem that they can coexist.
The President renewed his threats to Hamas as we talked about,
to disarm in short order. Trump wants to see the
ceasefire deal, of course, move into phase two. He says,
they'll be hell to pay if Hamas doesn't come to
play here.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Well, Hamas is in violation of the cease firing two ways. One,
it has not disarmed, and there is still the remains
of one hostage left in Goset, so much.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
More still to come. President Trump obviously has been working
very hard at this, But I oftentimes see clips like
that from the mainstream media and I wonder if they
are doing their job and being skeptical of former of
adversarial powers like Iran and Hamas by proxy, or if
they are just trying to kick the legs out from
under any potential peace success for President Trump. All right,
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I got one more clip that I want to show you.
The mayor elect of New York City, who I believe
gets sworn in on January first, zoron Mom Donnie. While
he has names, he has named Romsey Cossim, a lawyer
who defended al Qaeda Terris, as his chief counsel.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Check this out.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Finally, as today is the day of announcements and we
are speaking of council, I am delighted to announce that
I am naming Ramsey Cassim as Chief Counsel Brem Ramsey
will be joining the administration from Cuney, where he serves
as a professor of law. Government service is no novel
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concept for Ramsey, who served as a senior policy advisor
for President Biden from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty
four and has deep experience arguing in court, including before
the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
So he, as we say, in the South bona fides
that would be CuNi. He is a professor of law
at City University, New York, but he also has represented
a number of detainees at GITMO. Yes, one of them
Ahmed Galani al Darby, who was an al Qaeda member
who pleaded guilty to involvement in the two thousand and
two bombing of a French oil tanker that killed one person.
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And also Shaker Amayor, who was a close associate of
Osama bin Laden. Now he was never charged and he
was later released. But still, you know, it seems like
there are a lot of these folks surrounding Zooron Mamdani
who have a lot of these really really shaky connections
to oh terrorism. All right, everybody, So time to get
to another interview that I did a few weeks ago
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over at the Republican Study Committee event. This time I
sat down with a very close friend of the show,
Congressman Ralph Norman of South Carolina, and we spoke about
fixing America's debt crisis, his campaign for a governor of
South Carolina, and the best ways to increase the GOP
edge against Democrats heading into the midterms. Check it out.
Returning with us one of our favorite members of Congress,
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Congressman Ralph Norman, thanks so much for being with us.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
That's always glad to be with you, Amanda.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
All right. I love talking finance and economy with you
because you are one of the true fiscal conservatives up
on Capitol Hill. You were always fighting for not only
the people of South Carolina, but the American people and
our wallets as well. We had this long enduring what
was it, forty three days shutdown? Did Republicans get what
they wanted? Did you get what you wanted?
Speaker 8 (06:27):
What happened to Amanda with the forty three days showed
that the Democrats would go to any means to use
their words leverage to get a three andon and a
half dollars that we had through reconciliation to give to
illegals that would take Sapphire tax dollars.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
It failed, and it was the.
Speaker 9 (06:48):
Humor shut down, but I guess it showed.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
A ruthlessness and the ends justify the means that we've
never seen before. And the other thing highlighting is we're
facing a different, different Democrat party that Republicans face the
Marxist socialists. They're total, they're totally driven by power and
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we can't let them have it.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Well, and you bring up the socialism aspect, there was
a vote, I think it was in November to put
House members on record as far as their opposition to socialism,
and this vote has been held before. I think last
year you had maybe thirty or forty Democrats who were
on record saying that they were basically okay with socialism,
and this time I think it was one hundred something
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that many Democrats who were willing to go on record
and or maybe it was not condemning socialists, and that's
what it was. They weren't supporting it, but they weren't
condemning it. Does it seem to you like, I mean,
I know the Democrat Party has been flirting with that
for a long time, but now it seems like it
is injected into practically every one of their policies.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
Not only that they believe it, the crony capitalism has
recruited socialists to get our tax money by any means
that they see fit. Uh No, it's a real it's
a real concern, and the only way we're gonna stop
it is elect true conservative statesmen that aren't out to
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gain the system, that aren't out to get anything for themselves.
And it's gonna take a lot of work, but it's
a it's a party that will do anything now. And
as we saw during the shutdown, it doesn't matter the
snap programs that affected children, that affected the disabled, They're
willing to do it because of so called leverage.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
What was the difference maker this time around when it
comes to the blame game, because the pulling that we
saw nearing the end of the shutdown and then the
reaction by Democrats, it really did turn out to be
the Schumer shutdown. And even in the past when it
was when it fell at the feet of Democrats, Republicans
still got blamed. So what was the change maker this
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time around? Was it messaging? Was it reality?
Speaker 8 (08:59):
What was I think you had a president with Donald
Trump that people have faith in.
Speaker 9 (09:05):
Look what he's done in a short eleven and a
half months.
Speaker 8 (09:08):
Look what the man's done to completely bring a country
back from total derailment, total mismanagement by a Biden administration
didn't know what they were doing, that were hell bent
on getting power back, and it didn't work. And American
people saw that they trust leadership now.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
So that was the difference.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
And you got to remember the mainstream media tried to
play it out as affordability crisis.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
As you know, Republicans causing this.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
The Obamacare with health care as an example, was a
Democrat scheme, not a Republican scheme.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
So they didn't get by with it.
Speaker 9 (09:48):
Plus, we didn't give in the worst thing.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
If we had, like on the tree in five that
they were asking for to put illegals back on the payroll,
if we'd given an inch on that, they would have
claimed victory.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
We didn't.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
That they didn't get anything and they should not have
gotten anything.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
And it was a great, great day in this country.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, and you were a big part of that. And
I want to ask you. I think up on Capitol
Hill you are pretty much regarded as the budgetary mastermind
when it comes to Republican priorities and spending. When it
comes to this next year, we've got obviously midterms in
less than a year. Now, what are the budgetary priorities
you see that can help Republicans keep the majority.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
The way we're going to keep the majority is one
doing what we say.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
We got nine appropriation bills EI of the twelve that
need to be passed. We need to focus on getting
agreement and getting Republicans to the table because I.
Speaker 9 (10:41):
Don't want another sea January twentieth to January thirtieth, and
we've got a work to do that now.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
It's not easy, it never is.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
We've got a slim majority, but we passed a big,
beautiful bill with a slim majority, and I think the
midterms will if we do what we say in major
in the main things that affect the country, which are budgetary.
I mean, the thing that's going to derail those country
is when our bonds are no longer being purchased.
Speaker 9 (11:09):
That's going to be a dead stop, which we can't
let happen.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
But the great things that are happening. Look at the tariffs,
the money that is brought in, Look at the recision
package that we were able to pass. I want to
see another recision package. I want to see another reconciation bill,
and we can do it. And because we're right and
we've got to write policies, and while we may not
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get everything we want, we moving the ball forward.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I want to ask you about crime in the cities.
South Carolina is one of those states that you guys,
don't deal with it in your big cities to the
degree that your buddy North Carolina Charlotte deals with are
they dealing with in Charlotte? And you know Atlanta and Georgia.
You've got these red states with blue pockets in them
where a Democrat policy has just practically destroyed those cities
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when it comes to law in order. And we've up
to you many times about law and order, how important
is that as far as pushing that priority going into
midtterm one?
Speaker 8 (12:08):
President Trump is handling it right by the National Guard
that are coming in. Isn't it tragic that a twenty
year old and a twenty four year old one deceased
one has a long road recovery, if road to recovery,
if he lives.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
He's doing the right thing to curb it.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
In South Carolina, we've got a problem with.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
The way we elect our judges.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
These criminals, as we saw in Charlotte with the Ukrainian
who the killer had been arrested forty times. In South
Carolina we had a young girl at the university who
was beautiful girl who same thing. He had been a
repeat offender, he had been arrested multiple times and cut
back loose. We recently had a killing in Beautifer, South Carolina.
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The two or three that kill the people or walk
in the streets, so it all starts with one killing
is too much.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
One innocent life is way too much.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
We've got to change in South Carolina, change the way
we elect our judges.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
And the only way we're going.
Speaker 8 (13:09):
To do that is change the law and put a
bill forward, which I will do along with a lot
of other things. But you know, if you're not safe, Amanda,
if you're not safe to go to the grocery store,
send your child to school. That's the basics of what
government should provide. Infrastructure, safety and education.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Tell everybody about your upcoming campaign.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Running for governor. I uh, it was a tough decision
for me.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
But South Carolina needs a CEO, which the governor is
a spokesman.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
He's a CEO. He sets the course. He he you.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
Know, puts the conservative measures in place. If he's a
true conservative, and I am, I fit the bill, We're
gonna win the race. It's gonna be a tight race,
but we're gonna win it because our message is true
and we're able to put it out. And it's the
reason we had over eleven hundred people at my announcement,
more than all the others put combined. But it's not
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about me. It's a conservative movement that's people are buying
into and we've got to carry it forward. South Carolina
has got so much to look forward to. I want
to make it greater.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Absolutely, and I want to ask you about, you know,
the CEO aspect of a state like South Carolina. For
governor there, you're going to take a lot of your
expertise from Capitol Hill to that job in budgetary categories.
When it comes to the economy of South Carolina. We've
seen some really great things in states like Florida where
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they have managed to turn around their economy and do
some of these things there. It seems to me like
you're the perfect guy for that, because that's what you've
been trying to do on Capitol Hill for a long time.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Yeah, and you know being one of one hundred, four
hundred and thirty four others is harder than in South Carolina.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
You've got the lead role.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
You are the chief executive officer, and you can affect
change and we will do that. Ron de Scientis und
a good job in Florida. His infrastructures is a lot
better than we have it.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
George's is.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
I will focus on getting an infrastructure right, making sure
our law enforcement safety is there for all South Carolinians.
Education has to be a focus, and it's reprioritization.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Of money that has not been done for a long time.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
We've had a supermajority of Republicans, they haven't governed like Republicans.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Government has grown.
Speaker 8 (15:28):
I will change all that, and I will use the
veto and I will use the bullet pulpit to explain
to the American people to the South Carolinian needs, what
needs to happen and why, and we'll get it done.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Well. I know when you were up here on Capitol Hill,
when it comes to the budget, it feels like hurting cats.
So now you can go from herding cats to being
the top dog. That's a much preferable position. I know
the South people of South Carolina absolutely love you, and
we are tell everybody where they can find your campaign.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
Ralph Now for Governor dot Com, I.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Love it very easy. Ralph Norman for Governor dot Com. Congressman,
thank you so much for being with this. All right, everybody,
and coming up next, we're going to discuss how Republicans
can finally get some accountability for the weaponized government during
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I know what you're thinking. Whenever we have the conversation
on accountability, you think to yourself, yeah, right, that never
happens in Washington and I don't necessarily disagree. And mainstream
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media is always quick to accuse President Trump of weaponizing
the government to go after his political enemies while ignoring
the misconduct of prominent Democrats during the Obama Biden era
to stop President Trump from taking office. So which is it?
Or maybe it just depends on who's in office. I'm
pretty sure that's what it is. Joining us to discuss this.
As US Navy veteran JAG officer and Senate candidate for
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North Carolina Don Brown, Don, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Thank you, Amanda, Happy New Year, and thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Happy New Year. We're delighted to have you on. I
want to ask you about what you know what John
and I have have described as a grand conspiracy. I
think the case can be built as this, where, despite
statute of limitations on some of the things that have
happened against President Trump, if you bring in a grand
conspiracy where you can tie these all together, then this
statute goes out the window. So you start this with
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Russia collusion during President Trump's first term, You continue with
all of the obstruction during his first term, including impeachment
number one and impeachment number two. You carry that through
to the twenty twenty election, all of the efforts to
change election laws, including that ever pivotal Supreme Court decision
out of Pennsylvania, and all the other election fraud that
has been investigated, and then of course the subsequent charges
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against President Trump, and then we land here and all
of this it seems like could be wrapped up in
a big, pretty ten year grand conspiracy. Ooh, how successful
do you think that method could be?
Speaker 10 (18:49):
I like the I like that approach.
Speaker 11 (18:51):
I know that you and John have discussed that, and
I've considered it, and I think it is certainly a
conspiracy going all the way back when coming wanted to
talk to then as an elect Trump and they brought
him in, and you know, a Bomba met with his team,
and it has clearly been a continuing course of conduct
for the purpose of bringing down the first Trump administration
and then the second Trump administration. By using that theory
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with an ongoing conspiracy, the statute limitations doesn't end until
the conspiracy comes to a close, and so therefore we
can look at more recent dates rather than going back
to twenty seventeen.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
And I think that it will work.
Speaker 11 (19:29):
I would like to err on the side of the
side of caution, however, and see Pam BONDI pulling the
trigger on some indictments a little earlier just to be safe.
But I think it is a solid legal theory. I
think it's a theory that it's gonna be hard to
punch holes into. And I'd say roll with it above
all things, roll with it.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Who do you think is the lowest hanging fruit? Now
I'm not one of those people. I will completely destroy
my own lofty desires to see certain people do the
purp walk, like Barack Obama. But who do you think
are so of these these low lying targets who similar
to if you were building a Rico case, you could
get the you know, the underbosses and the people who
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were co conspirators in certain crimes. Who are some of
those people you would focus on?
Speaker 11 (20:14):
You know, John Bolton has pretty clearly already been indicted
for espionage for retaining and transmitting classified information on eighteen Council.
Speaker 10 (20:23):
He's already out there.
Speaker 11 (20:25):
But you go back before then you look at Brennan
and his attempt to cover up the dastardly deeds related
to the Steele dossier.
Speaker 10 (20:34):
That's an obvious one.
Speaker 11 (20:35):
As we move all the way in through January sixth
and some of the stuff going on there, you look
at the Cassidy Hutchison and Liz Cheney and Cassie Hutchison
apparently proffered false testimony about the President Trump and this limousine.
So there are a number of opportunities to go in
and get some indictments for as you say, sort of
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low hanging fruit, for some some pretty straightforward indictments. I
think you've got more than enough probable cost to bring
those those charges, and so a number of them could
be picked out.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
But I would like this, you know, I would. I
would include go back to Comy.
Speaker 11 (21:09):
I know that one charge has been dismissed, a guy
after him again, I would I would look at Brennan,
you know you coming there, you look at and maybe
this goes the way up to Obama himself. But Brennan
and Coney and Clapper were all in the middle of
it early on, and it's continued on through the Special
Select Jay Cis Committee, which is a kangaroo court. They
suppressed evidence, they hit evidence, they cherry picked. They were involved,
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I think, and you know, in in in conspiracy to
suborn perjury in certain cases, perhaps with Liz Cheney, with
defraud in the United States. There are a lot of
targets there. But the sooner we get started, I think,
the sooner the dominoes will begin to fall. So I'm
looking forward to the next step.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I am as well. But I there is this lingering,
very very dark concern that I have that if if
no one, if no one ends up being held accountable,
or if very few end up being held accountable, then
this only feeds the problem. It only feeds the temerity,
the audacity of politicians to think that I can do
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whatever the heck I want and get away with it.
Speaker 10 (22:14):
You're concern is on Mark.
Speaker 11 (22:15):
I had book release last year called Kangaroo Court, The
looks of the pattern of Democrat prosecutions going all the
way back to the Rick Perry case, in some other
cases against the governor of Virginia and against some regular
citizens also for just speaking their beliefs, like mccloskey's who
just held up their guns were prosecuted by CSORIS prosecutor
Kim Garter in Missouri. Listen, if we don't pull the
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trigger and prosecute those who have abused the system, if
these prosecutions don't come rapidly, and they are, you know,
you could add in conspiracy not only to defraud the
United States, but the pride folks there their civil rights.
If these prosecutions don't come down the pike, even when
the other side ever takes control again, there's no deterrence
at all for them just to go, you know, to
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step on the accelerator, and we're going to lose the
integrity of our criminal justice system. So that's why I
would like to see Pam Bondi get moving a little
more quickly to some of these indictments.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Absolutely, when you look at our overall justice system, and
you know, we hear all of these comments coming from
Democrats about President Trump weaponizing the system against his political opponents. Look,
humans are fallible. President Trump is a human. Therefore President
Trump is fallible. But do you think that the prosecutions
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everything coming out from the DJ because I've heard President
Trump personally say, I don't want to have anything to
do with this, whatever Pam Bondi is doing, whatever Cash
Hotel is investigating. I want there to be some separation
because I don't want it to look like that. But
that doesn't matter to the Left. They are going to
say that that's what it looks like and that, in fact,
is what it is. Do you think that there is
a piece of this from President Trump that is going
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after his enemies or is it just is it just
that in a Venn diagram of his enemies and criminality
they overlap a whole lot.
Speaker 10 (23:58):
It's a very good question.
Speaker 11 (23:59):
I got this straight question from an NBC reporter just
a couple of weeks ago, and I pointed out that
it's different with.
Speaker 10 (24:05):
The Democrats because the question was, well, as.
Speaker 11 (24:07):
President Trump is doing the same thing you're accusing the
left of doing by going after his political opponents, listen
to left did not just go after political opponents. Although
they went after President Trump, they went after the governor
the former governor Virginia. They went after Rick Perry, They
went after Ted Stevens, m Alaskan.
Speaker 10 (24:22):
The list goes on.
Speaker 11 (24:23):
But they went off after ordinary citizens as well. You know,
we remember the cartoonists from Florida, you know who just
drew a picture of Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen. They
went after him in twenty twenty one. The Obama Justice
Department did I just talked about a moment ago, the mccloskey's.
They have gone after you know, pro life fathers, you know,
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Mark Hawck and others for simply expressing their constitution rights.
So the Democrats have brought the hammer down against average,
ordinary Americans for the exercise of their constitutional rights. And
even when you look at p Trump's associates, whether it's Bannon,
or whether it's whether it's Roger Stone or George Popadopplin,
whoever it might be, those folks were prosecuted by Mark
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for one reason and one reason only, because of their
association with the president.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
Now, of course the Democrats look for.
Speaker 11 (25:15):
An excuse to prosecute, but the overriding drive was because
of their constitution or right and freedom of association. These
political prosecutions, Amanda, are an absolute assault on the United
States Constitution, and the prosecutors themselves should be prosecuted on
the backside, and I've been advocating that for some time.
I think you can find grounds for it right now.
But we need grogue prosecutor laws to block this sort
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of shenanigans in the future, because if we lose the
integrity of our criminal justice system, we've lost the heart
of our constitutional republic.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Absolutely. I'm don I want to get a little bit
into your campaign. You are running there in North Carolina,
and we've often had conversations with you, as well as
Rolf Norman, my previous guest, about law and order and
North Carolina, especially Charlotte has been the very center of
this conversation for the better part of about six months.
Talk to us about that aspect of your campaign and
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what message is resonating with the voters of North Carolina.
Speaker 11 (26:07):
Well, I think this resident by way, Ralph's a good friend.
I'm glad to see him on before me, and I'll
test him afterwards. Some congradulating for a great.
Speaker 10 (26:13):
Job, but all that aside.
Speaker 11 (26:15):
You know, the thing that is resonating with North Carolina
voters all around the state, and we've been to most
counties of the state, and I believe our campaign is
most momentum right now in this race is the national
debt continues to explode. We've got to get it under control.
We can't just reduce the rate of spending. We've got
to go in and cut the government. In other words,
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the Department of Education must go. Only Congress can do that.
We want to see the IRS gone. Congress has to
do that. We want to see FEMA gone. It's been
a disaster in the western part of the state and
the eastern part of the state of these hurricanes.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
But as far as crime goes.
Speaker 11 (26:50):
I'm the only a Senate candidate in North Carolina who,
after that poor girl Arena was murdered, I call for
President Trump to deploy the National Guard to Charlotte to
stabilize the light rail system here. Two weeks later, the
Charlotte Paternal Order of Police joined me in that call,
also asking for President Trump to send in the National
Guard to stabilize the murder rate these big blue cities.
Speaker 10 (27:11):
I heard you mentioning that to Ralph a moment.
Speaker 11 (27:13):
Ago in North Carolina had become a blight and Charlotte, unfortunately,
when I moved to the area years ago was controlled
by Republicans. That's flipped and the support for law enforcement
has gone to hell in a handbasket here. I wouldn't
mind seeing the North count of General assume me step
in and take control of the city council in Charlotte until.
Speaker 10 (27:30):
Law and order is restored.
Speaker 11 (27:32):
They have a right to do that under the NZ
Constitution in North Carolina law.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
All right, don I know your platform, I know the
things that you stand for, But just for our audience
to have an idea of who you are when you
are out on the campaign trail and you are aligning yourself.
Let's just say, hypothetically you win, you're up on Capitol Hill,
you're in the Senate. Who are some of those senators
who you feel like you'll join arms with to get
stuff done?
Speaker 11 (27:58):
Well, john'son up in and you know it is a
good guy. I think he's probably someone that I would
align with. I really can't wait to spend some time
with John Kennedy. You know, he's he makes everybody laugh,
but he's got a lot.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Of with him.
Speaker 11 (28:11):
I really think Mike Lee is one who I would
be philosophically aligned with, and maybe even Ted Cruz and
I like Sincra Scott from that in Florida as well.
I think those are the ones who probably I would
seek out first to seek advice from and go from there.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yeah. I think that puts you in some great companies. John,
tell everybody very quickly where they can find your campaign.
Speaker 10 (28:32):
Thank you, man.
Speaker 11 (28:33):
I please go to Brown for n C. My last
name is Brown, like Charlie Brown. Four the word for
fl R n C dot com, Brown for NC dot com.
Say it's an email, hit the donate button. We're trying
to close out at the end of the quarter here.
We need every openny we can get. We're running against
some big money establishment. We're going to win this race
and we look forward to hearing from all voters and
appreciate the opportunity to talk to voters via email, text
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and everything else.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Perfect Perfect US Navy are and JAG officer and Senate
candidate in North Carolina, Don Brown, thanks so much for
being with us tonight and next. Colleges continue to coddle
their students, but you're not going to believe what they
are doing. Now we're going to explain after the break.
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Welcome back everybody. You know finals in college are usually
a make or break scenario. They were, at least for me,
so you can understand how they would be a little
nerve wracking, and the best remedy to combat those nerves
for the day of the test would typically be studying
the material so that you know them really well and
you're really prepared. At least that's what I would think,
and that's what I know from experience is what works best.
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But in an effort to quell test taking nervousness, various
Ivy League schools have implemented de stressing initiatives that sees
students participate in infantile activities like playing with play dough, making
friendship bracelets, and even get having students a chance to
win a stuff to animal. So is there any way
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to end the coddling of America's students? Joining us now
to discuss is campus reform Reporter Emily Sturge. Emily, thanks
so much for being with us tonight.
Speaker 12 (30:14):
It is great to be with you.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
You know what's insane about this to me is that
in everyday life, in most jobs, you will encounter times
when you are nervous. In my job, the first few
times I was in front of President Trump, or the
other world leaders. Yep, hands get clammy, neck gets sweaty,
and I get a little tongue tied. That's just what happens.
But you don't get prepared for scenarios like that if
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you are called your entire life and if you're coddled
during these types of scenarios and test taking, Emily, it
doesn't end there. You're going to have stressful situations in life.
So how on earth is this in any way preparatory
for creating successful humans.
Speaker 12 (30:57):
Well, that's the bottom line here.
Speaker 13 (30:58):
It's colleges are not preparing students for the workforce or
the real world. And to get into some of the examples,
Indiana University offered care bears to students this exam season.
There was a community college in Washington that gave students Plato,
and then engineering students at the University of Chicago, Illinois,
we're playing with slime and making friendship bracelets. None of
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those activities are preparing students for their exams, for the
workforce or the real world. And when I talk about
these activities, our college campuses sound a lot more like
kindergarten birthday parties than they do rigorous academic institutions now
colleges say that they're providing these activities to students to
help them de stress before exams. But Amanda, you and
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I both know that the real stress would come for
these students after graduation, when they're unable to find jobs.
And unfortunately, that's a reality for many students. I mean,
we've reported at the Leadership and Students Campus Reformed that
it's only twelve percent of college graduates who are able
to secure a job before graduation.
Speaker 12 (31:58):
And when you look at.
Speaker 13 (31:59):
The tech activities happening in the classroom, it's not shocking.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Why no, I mean, I got to say, these Ivy
League schools look more like daycares than a lot of
these daycares in Minnesota. But maybe that's the point I
want to ask you from from a student perspective, because
I you know, I think back to my college days
and I would like to think that I would see
this as ridiculous, and I probably would, But at the
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same time, I would be like, hey, Plato in class
sounds great. Do these students recognize how ludicrous this is
or does it? Is it really catering to a very
infantile personality that they apparently still.
Speaker 13 (32:37):
Have The silver lining here is that most Gen z
ers are not falling for this nonsense.
Speaker 12 (32:44):
Generation Z is not a generation of snowflakes.
Speaker 13 (32:46):
I'll remind you that this is the generation that helped
fuel President Trump's return to the Oval office and the
November presidential election. Gen Z turned out and voted for
President Trump. This is also the generation, both young men
and young women, who are leading the military recruitment boom.
Speaker 12 (33:03):
We have eighteen year.
Speaker 13 (33:04):
Olds lining up to serve this country. The problem here
is the higher education system. The higher education system is
infantilizing and coddling students.
Speaker 12 (33:15):
That's where the blame lies.
Speaker 13 (33:17):
That's where the blame needs to fall, not necessarily on
this entire generation, because many of us look at this
and think that it's nonsense.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah yeah, yeah right here for sure, I want to
ask you about some other reporting that you did. You
were talking about a study that found that sixty three
percent of Americans no longer think that a college degree
is worth it, and I would I would totally agree
it's not worth it from an educational standpoint, because I
just don't think that you are look at the Ivy
League standards now, you're not leaving college prepared for the
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workforce much less even with a job already in hand.
But also the price of it, the price of skyrocketed.
Even for these institutions that are state colleges or state
universities that are a great bargain, they have still exploded
in price. Tell us about it, absolutely. So.
Speaker 13 (34:05):
We've reported a campus reform recently that the number is
now up to two thirds of Americans who say college
is just no longer worth the cost.
Speaker 12 (34:13):
And we're at a time right now.
Speaker 13 (34:15):
Many eighteen year olds have sent in their college applications.
In the spring, many of them will be taking campus
tours and then deciding where to spend the next four
years of their life. And I like to remind those
young students that where they choose to go to college
their college search really will determine their American dream, because
tuition is one of the biggest expenses that young people face,
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and where they choose to go to college will determine
both the skills that they take into their adult life
and also the debt that they take into their adult life.
So a piece of advice I would have for young
people right now in their college search is to prioritize
two things. Academics and affordability. And when you look at
those two things, it's actually southern public universities that are
certainly dominating the charts.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Right now.
Speaker 13 (34:59):
We're seeing a man massive trend of students heading from
up north down south to some of those public universities
because those are the universities that have found great ways
to combine both rigorous academics and affordability.
Speaker 12 (35:11):
It seems like a win win for many families.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Absolutely, And I want to make sure we hit one
more topic before we go, because I know you have
your finger on the pulse of this. We started out
talking about these ludicrous things like Plato in classrooms of
Ivy League schools, But what to me is equally ludicrous
is inviting and accepting students into a university based on
immutable things like their skin color, their gender, or their
you know where they are from the status of deeion collegists.
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This is obviously something that President from along with Secretary
Limited Man, have worked very hard to eradicate from the
campus atmosphere. But is it still there? I mean, in the.
Speaker 13 (35:47):
Past year, this president was a bowl in the china
shop and just completely shattered the old norms of the
higher education system.
Speaker 12 (35:53):
And on day one, this President signed.
Speaker 13 (35:55):
In executive order to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion.
Speaker 12 (35:59):
Over the past year or we've seen over twenty.
Speaker 13 (36:01):
States now have passed anti DEI legislation and as a
result of that, many colleges have rolled back DEI on campus,
whether it's in hiring processes, admissions processes, or even those
offices on college campuses. We've seen a lot of positive
change over the last year. We also saw the president
roll out and executive action where the Department of Education
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will require colleges to report detailed admissions data on race
and sex of students that they admit to universities so
that the administration can ensure that students aren't being discriminated against.
It's been remarkable over the past year to see this administration.
Speaker 12 (36:39):
Enforced federal law and protect students.
Speaker 13 (36:41):
We saw many positive changes in twenty twenty five with
this specifically, and I'm very optimistic for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Amen. Amen, Amen, All right, now, please tell everybody where
they can find you on social media and you're reporting.
Speaker 13 (36:53):
We're reporting every single day at Campus Reform dot org
and I'm at rio Emily Sturch on all social media.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Platforms indeed she is, and she's still like to follow us.
Everybody can go follow her, all right, everybody, We're going
to take a very quick break on the other side
of Climate Depot Executive editor Mark Morano is going to
join us to talk about more ludicrous things that would
be the climate agenda heading into next year. We'll be back.
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Welcome back, everybody. About a month ago we tuned into
the COP thirty conference in Brazil, and of course, as
we expected, the failure of the climate change agenda was
blamed on of course, President Trump makes total sense. They
blamed it on him and his administration for not participating.
And yet the powers that be at COP thirty decided
to cut through thousands of acres of protective rainforest to
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accommodate the thousands of folks who were attending that conference.
And if that doesn't illustrate the state of climate change advocacy,
I don't know what will. So what's next on their
agenda for twenty twenty six. Joining us to discuss is
Mark Morano, executive editor for Climate Depot. Mark, great to
see you, Happy New.
Speaker 14 (38:02):
Year, Thank you, Happy new year to you, Amanda.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
Happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
All right. We've talked and I don't think I don't
think it's lofty aspirations. I think that there is concrete
evidence that the climate agenda is really starting to become
persona on grata in some of the most unlikely corners
of the universe, including in leftists in this country. It
seems like some of them are finally abandoning and admitting
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that it was a bit of a hoax and it
really didn't help that Cop thirty turned down all of
this rainforest in the interest of environmentalism.
Speaker 14 (38:37):
Yes, that's exactly right that, as exclusively reported originally by
the BBC, they put an eight mile swath of highway
right through the Amazon rainforest, and the Brazilian government was
bragging in their engineering department about doing it for the
big Climate Summit, and their environmental minister said, we have
declared this to get more people into the conference, so
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we can chowke it the world how we're saving the rainforest.
So we actually got out there. You can see the
videos that Climate Deep, but we got into the actual
area where the highway was still being constructed in parts
and it's just big clearcut, which would be a horror
for any environmentalists. But hey, they ended up at the
conference coming up with a plan to save the rainforest.
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One idea is not to make highways for summits. But
they liked the other idea which they came up with,
which was that western nations will pay poor nations not
to clear cut their rainforest for highways. And that was
their solution. Pay us not to destroy it and we won't.
That was basically the result of that.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Yeah, you know what's amazing to me is their argument
regarding this road where they tore down all these beautiful trees.
It's very similar to the argument that we hear from
a lot of these folks, Leonardo DiCaprio, but also the
governmental ilk that are in this world. When people bring
up the point that they fly on these jets and
the in the case of Leonardo DiCaprio, owns a mega
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yacht that burns fuel as much as I think it's
left bit of like one hundred and seven forty sevens
a year, but they always have the you know, it's
this entitlement. I suppose it's this attitude of well, we
are the ones who are going to save the world,
so of course we should be excused.
Speaker 14 (40:21):
Yes, And we've heard that literally almost verbta what you
just said, Amanda. We've heard that from John Carrey. We've
heard that from Bill Gates. And John Carey actually told
a reporter he flew to Iceland for an environmental award
in a private jet. He was confronted at the airport
and he basically said, do you.
Speaker 7 (40:37):
Know who I am?
Speaker 14 (40:39):
I'm man doing more for anyone to challenge climate change.
Speaker 5 (40:42):
Of course I know a private jet. I'm so in
My work is so.
Speaker 14 (40:45):
Important that you shouldn't even pay pay no attention to
that man and the private jet. And Bill Gates, he
has only variation to what John Carrey said is he said,
I buy more carbon offsets, and of course he said
the same thing, I do more to challenge climate than
anyone else in the world to fight climate change. So
they think they're completely immune. It was interesting. Cop thirty
also featured cruise ships. So I'm talking about like the
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Carnival sized type cruise ships. Because they didn't have enough hotel,
they picked the small city, and the cruise ships have
a carbon footprint bigger than the airline and hotel and
all the meals of all the delicate's going. So of
course the UN would use the same logic, it doesn't
matter our car.
Speaker 5 (41:24):
They have a carbon footprint.
Speaker 14 (41:25):
For these fifty thousand UN climate summits more than African
nations put out in a year in terms of energy.
That's how much just energy hogs these conferences are.
Speaker 5 (41:36):
And of course we know the charts.
Speaker 14 (41:38):
CO two continues to go up, and Donald Trump has
done an amazing job of not only in the United States,
but he's created a tipping point for the world. We're
now seeing Europe retreat, We're seeing even Canada zero out
there carbon taxer scene, Gavin Newsom trying to appeal to
the oil industry to stay in his state the refineries,
they're seeing. Governor Hope of California in twenty twenty five
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basically said climate goals aren't as important as affordable, reliable energy.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
Whoa who saw this coming?
Speaker 14 (42:08):
I mean, and I have to say this is because
Donald Trump and particularly Lee's Elden in his administration and
also Chris Wright have just got the narrative of climate
change and flipped it. No longer do we have these
weak ass Republican presidents who are like.
Speaker 15 (42:23):
Well, of course climate's are a problem, and I'm not
against the environment, but but maybe you've gone too far, hello,
George Bush, Mitt Romney, John McCain. This whole new ethic
that they've done, and it blows away Trump's first administration
is climate change is a scam.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
It's a religion, it's a cult.
Speaker 14 (42:38):
There's absolutely nothing that the UN would ever do to
solve it, even if we faced it. And they're embracing
energy abundance and energy fossil fuels. And because they're so
strong European leaders, you know, I think it was eighty
some countries didn't even bother to meet their COP thirty
commitments right before the summit.
Speaker 5 (42:56):
And Europe is now EU got rid of the man.
Speaker 14 (43:00):
I mean, it's just it's like a house of cards
collapsing around the world. Green energy is out. But of
course I would be remiss, Amanda, if I didn't say
at the end of twenty twenty five that the US
Congress and Donald Trump administration have to go one step further.
They need to codify, They need as much permanence as possible.
Congress needs to go in on some of these executive
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orders that they haven't already and try to pass legislation
before the midterms to solidify like these hundred actions that
Trump did in his first hundred days to open American energy.
And the big thing is we need to get rid
of the COEO two Endangerment finding, which the Trump administration
will have a major announcement coming in about the next month,
and also get this out of the nineteen ninety two treaty.
Speaker 5 (43:42):
We need permanence. Now.
Speaker 14 (43:43):
It's great to share all this on but like the
first term, it was all undone within a couple months
of Biden. We can't let a future Gavin new Some
undo the beautiful work that the Trump administration has done.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Absolutely, and I agree all that stuff has to be
I guess a set in stone as we can possibly
make it. I want to ask you though, because you know,
this is a story as old as time, because people
make money off of this, so they're not going to
give up the con. But you've got folks like this,
this climate doom and gloom noster domis this guy, Professor
Guy McPherson, who effectively said that humans are going to
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be extinct by twenty twenty six as a result of
human activity industrialization putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. We're
two days away from twenty twenty six it's quite obvious
that's not going to happen. But these people will continue
any money because this guy puts it out. He gets
media hits, he gets news hits. You know, people want
to talk to him. He probably gets books. It is
a money making industry at his core, at.
Speaker 14 (44:40):
Its core, absolutely, and this guy, you know, he serves
his purpose because he's mostly scaring younger generation.
Speaker 5 (44:45):
They look at the Oh.
Speaker 15 (44:46):
Look there's a scientist who's saying, you know, we're going
to be you know, we're all going to be all
our species is going extinct.
Speaker 5 (44:51):
We've got to say the planet.
Speaker 14 (44:53):
This is CBS News just did a report about climate anxiety,
kids not wanting to have kids because of worrying about
climate change. They've been indoctrinated from kindergarten to college. But
you asked about money. The reason Donald Trump administration has
to go through and make this permanent again. Get rid
of the CO two Endangerment Finding, which is regulating carbon
dioxide human breath we exhale carbon dioxide as a pollutant
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under the Clean Air Act, which a Clean Air Act
was never intended to do, and pulling us out of
the nineteen ninety two Rio Earth Summit. Treaty which George
hw Bush got us into. Which make it harder is
because you have billionaires, corporations, academia, international organizations like World
Economic Forum, the World Health Organization in the United States
all pushing these foundations like the Tides Foundations, the Gates,
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and they're just pumped billions and hundreds of millions of
dollars and billions of dollars over the last several decades.
Whether it's in education, whether it's the Associated Press taking money,
whether it's inpr taking money. These are the media is
a mouthpiece for a lot of these climate activists foundations.
That money is still pumping, you know, whether it's the
Bloomberg money, whether it's Soros money, whether it's Gates money,
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or whether it's the Virgin Atlantic whatever his name is,
Richard Branson's money. This is going into fake meat, This
is going into blocking the sun as Bill Gate. All
of this money is just you can't just cut. No
one's cutting that spigot off, is what I'm getting at.
And that money is going to go somewhere. I think
it'll go to a retooling. My prediction is they're going
to roll climate into public health, into this one health
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World Health Organization Global sort of pandemic treaty type thing,
and they're already doing that with hospitals and doctors. Doctors
have climate toolkits. Doctors in Canada had the first medically
diagnosed patient suffering from climate change, wrote that on the
chart as a diagnosis because they had heat stroke. And
we also have academics in Australia in a Pyraview study
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arguing that we should add climate change as a cause
of death on death certificate.
Speaker 5 (46:49):
So it's not going anywhere. They're not they're regrouping, they're
laying low.
Speaker 14 (46:52):
Democrats have stopped talking about it, the media has dramatic
reductions in talking about it. It's not going away because
that infrastructure is all in place.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
Absolutely well, and it's pretty adjacent to the oldest business
in the world. And I'm not talking about politics.
Speaker 14 (47:10):
So everybody as when you have that much money, you're
going to have all these people willing to let's say, you.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
Play whatever it takes.
Speaker 5 (47:19):
Yes, that's exactly what it takes.
Speaker 14 (47:21):
And I'll be going I'm going to Davos and I'm
going to Davos World Economic Forum UH in January, and
they'll be pushing this as well.
Speaker 5 (47:30):
But they're pushing it on a more corporate, more stealth level.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Yes, well, we'll have you back on to talk about
that for sure, because we need to know all the
ins and outs of what the stealth mode is going
to look like. Thanks so much for being with us
in Happy New Year to you. All Right, everybody, We're
going to take it very quick break and we'll be
back with more on the other side. Welcome back everybody.
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This final segment, listen, I'm going to go ahead and
give you guys a trigger warning and tell you guys
to go get a Kleenex. You're gonna need it. While
I set up this clip. This is one hundred and
four year old World War veteran Dominic Critella Critelli. I'm
gonna be really sad one of these days when we
can no longer talk about World War Two veterans who
are still alive. But this young man played the saxophone
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at a New York Islanders game and it is absolutely
going It's going to make you cry.
Speaker 5 (48:26):
Check it out.
Speaker 16 (48:40):
Instead of ser Jennifer Domini, critilly.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
And of course ruckus. Applause from the audience, including chants
like Usa, Usa, Usa, Absolutely incredible Apparently he practices the
saxophone an hour a day, so that's something that those
Ivy League kids with their playto will absolutely never understand.
All Right, one more clip to squeeze in before we go.
Speaking of New York, there used to be a show
in the nineties, or maybe it was just a segment
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on Cops that featured stupid criminals. Here's a stupid criminals.
Speaker 17 (49:25):
Gosh, gosh, gosh, gosh.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
I don't feel even the slightest bit bad for her.
I hope she lost an earring and it totally messed
up her hair and makeup. I haven't been to New
York in a few years. Those doors on those stalls
must be relatively new. Anyway. Word to the wise, don't
try to dodge fares on the New York City subway. Everybody,
have a great night. We'll be back here tomorrow night
at six pm Eastern
Hello America, Happy Monday to all of you. Welcome to
Justin News and No Noise. I'm a Manda Head, your host,
my co host, and justin News editor in chief John
Solomon is out on assignment tonight, but he'll be joining
us later in the week. But I want to get
to a few news clips that I want to play
for you now. Many of you, by now, unless you
have been spelunking, unless you have been in a cave
for the last week or so, you know what has
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been going down in Minnesota in a lot of hotbed
Somali communities. This fraud that stemmed from this feeding our
future scandal to the tune of billions of dollars American
taxpayer dollars flooding through these fraud coffers and into the
pockets of At this point god knows who. I think
(01:02):
we pretty much know who. But at any rate, there
have been a number of intrepid journalists. The original one
on the ground who was shedding light on this was
Nick Shirley. He's an independent journalist. He's been out beating
the streets doing what journalists, formerly respected journalists, used to
refer to as gum shoe journalism. You walk around the cities,
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you beat the streets, you knock on doors, and you
get the story. And that is exactly what Nick Shirley
has been doing up in Minnesota. While CNN's Abby Phillips
she doesn't respect this style of journalism apparently check out
her check out her rent.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
But you know, honestly, you knock on the door of
a daycare center and you're like, let me in, let
me in. What do you expect people to do? You know,
in some of those cases there were children in there.
What do you want people to do in that situation?
Open the door and say come on in? When they
know that the Somali community is under attack, back is
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being threatened every single day. What is going on here?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
First of all, it's a business. There shouldn't be any
reason why someone couldn't come in a business, especially if
there were questions surrounding that business and whether they even
served children as a daycare business at all, Abby Phillips.
That is exactly what journalism is supposed to be. It's
asking questions and it's going to the source. And I'm
sorry if you don't find that to be real journalism,
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but I find you to be and what you do
not to be real journalism. All right, everybody, I want
to show you another clip because I want to get
on the foreign policy front and everything that President Trump
has been doing to try to instill peace across the country.
And there were some comments made over on another network,
on a liberal network regarding what is happening between Israel
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and Hamas. As I discussed, was that last night, is
it Tuesday or Monday? It's Tuesday. I think I said
happy Monday at the top of the show. It's Tuesday.
Last night on the show, I was discussing a number
of items that were taking place between Israel and Hamas
with respect to their peace agreement, and they are now
moving into phase two of that. There are a number
of things that are still to be decided. But it
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seems like everyone and their brother wants to be a
naysayer when it comes when it comes to what is
happening right now and what the outcomes could be.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
But check this out.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, those two realities don't seem that they can coexist.
The President renewed his threats to Hamas as we talked about,
to disarm in short order. Trump wants to see the
ceasefire deal, of course, move into phase two. He says,
they'll be hell to pay if Hamas doesn't come to
play here.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Well, Hamas is in violation of the cease firing two ways. One,
it has not disarmed, and there is still the remains
of one hostage left in Goset, so much.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
More still to come. President Trump obviously has been working
very hard at this, But I oftentimes see clips like
that from the mainstream media and I wonder if they
are doing their job and being skeptical of former of
adversarial powers like Iran and Hamas by proxy, or if
they are just trying to kick the legs out from
under any potential peace success for President Trump. All right,
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I got one more clip that I want to show you.
The mayor elect of New York City, who I believe
gets sworn in on January first, zoron Mom Donnie. While
he has names, he has named Romsey Cossim, a lawyer
who defended al Qaeda Terris, as his chief counsel.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Check this out.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Finally, as today is the day of announcements and we
are speaking of council, I am delighted to announce that
I am naming Ramsey Cassim as Chief Counsel Brem Ramsey
will be joining the administration from Cuney, where he serves
as a professor of law. Government service is no novel
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concept for Ramsey, who served as a senior policy advisor
for President Biden from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty
four and has deep experience arguing in court, including before
the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
So he, as we say, in the South bona fides
that would be CuNi. He is a professor of law
at City University, New York, but he also has represented
a number of detainees at GITMO. Yes, one of them
Ahmed Galani al Darby, who was an al Qaeda member
who pleaded guilty to involvement in the two thousand and
two bombing of a French oil tanker that killed one person.
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And also Shaker Amayor, who was a close associate of
Osama bin Laden. Now he was never charged and he
was later released. But still, you know, it seems like
there are a lot of these folks surrounding Zooron Mamdani
who have a lot of these really really shaky connections
to oh terrorism. All right, everybody, So time to get
to another interview that I did a few weeks ago
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over at the Republican Study Committee event. This time I
sat down with a very close friend of the show,
Congressman Ralph Norman of South Carolina, and we spoke about
fixing America's debt crisis, his campaign for a governor of
South Carolina, and the best ways to increase the GOP
edge against Democrats heading into the midterms. Check it out.
Returning with us one of our favorite members of Congress,
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Congressman Ralph Norman, thanks so much for being with us.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
That's always glad to be with you, Amanda.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
All right. I love talking finance and economy with you
because you are one of the true fiscal conservatives up
on Capitol Hill. You were always fighting for not only
the people of South Carolina, but the American people and
our wallets as well. We had this long enduring what
was it, forty three days shutdown? Did Republicans get what
they wanted? Did you get what you wanted?
Speaker 8 (06:27):
What happened to Amanda with the forty three days showed
that the Democrats would go to any means to use
their words leverage to get a three andon and a
half dollars that we had through reconciliation to give to
illegals that would take Sapphire tax dollars.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
It failed, and it was the.
Speaker 9 (06:48):
Humor shut down, but I guess it showed.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
A ruthlessness and the ends justify the means that we've
never seen before. And the other thing highlighting is we're
facing a different, different Democrat party that Republicans face the
Marxist socialists. They're total, they're totally driven by power and
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we can't let them have it.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Well, and you bring up the socialism aspect, there was
a vote, I think it was in November to put
House members on record as far as their opposition to socialism,
and this vote has been held before. I think last
year you had maybe thirty or forty Democrats who were
on record saying that they were basically okay with socialism,
and this time I think it was one hundred something
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that many Democrats who were willing to go on record
and or maybe it was not condemning socialists, and that's
what it was. They weren't supporting it, but they weren't
condemning it. Does it seem to you like, I mean,
I know the Democrat Party has been flirting with that
for a long time, but now it seems like it
is injected into practically every one of their policies.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
Not only that they believe it, the crony capitalism has
recruited socialists to get our tax money by any means
that they see fit. Uh No, it's a real it's
a real concern, and the only way we're gonna stop
it is elect true conservative statesmen that aren't out to
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gain the system, that aren't out to get anything for themselves.
And it's gonna take a lot of work, but it's
a it's a party that will do anything now. And
as we saw during the shutdown, it doesn't matter the
snap programs that affected children, that affected the disabled, They're
willing to do it because of so called leverage.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
What was the difference maker this time around when it
comes to the blame game, because the pulling that we
saw nearing the end of the shutdown and then the
reaction by Democrats, it really did turn out to be
the Schumer shutdown. And even in the past when it
was when it fell at the feet of Democrats, Republicans
still got blamed. So what was the change maker this
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time around? Was it messaging? Was it reality?
Speaker 8 (08:59):
What was I think you had a president with Donald
Trump that people have faith in.
Speaker 9 (09:05):
Look what he's done in a short eleven and a
half months.
Speaker 8 (09:08):
Look what the man's done to completely bring a country
back from total derailment, total mismanagement by a Biden administration
didn't know what they were doing, that were hell bent
on getting power back, and it didn't work. And American
people saw that they trust leadership now.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
So that was the difference.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
And you got to remember the mainstream media tried to
play it out as affordability crisis.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
As you know, Republicans causing this.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
The Obamacare with health care as an example, was a
Democrat scheme, not a Republican scheme.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
So they didn't get by with it.
Speaker 9 (09:48):
Plus, we didn't give in the worst thing.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
If we had, like on the tree in five that
they were asking for to put illegals back on the payroll,
if we'd given an inch on that, they would have
claimed victory.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
We didn't.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
That they didn't get anything and they should not have
gotten anything.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
And it was a great, great day in this country.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, and you were a big part of that. And
I want to ask you. I think up on Capitol
Hill you are pretty much regarded as the budgetary mastermind
when it comes to Republican priorities and spending. When it
comes to this next year, we've got obviously midterms in
less than a year. Now, what are the budgetary priorities
you see that can help Republicans keep the majority.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
The way we're going to keep the majority is one
doing what we say.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
We got nine appropriation bills EI of the twelve that
need to be passed. We need to focus on getting
agreement and getting Republicans to the table because I.
Speaker 9 (10:41):
Don't want another sea January twentieth to January thirtieth, and
we've got a work to do that now.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
It's not easy, it never is.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
We've got a slim majority, but we passed a big,
beautiful bill with a slim majority, and I think the
midterms will if we do what we say in major
in the main things that affect the country, which are budgetary.
I mean, the thing that's going to derail those country
is when our bonds are no longer being purchased.
Speaker 9 (11:09):
That's going to be a dead stop, which we can't
let happen.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
But the great things that are happening. Look at the tariffs,
the money that is brought in, Look at the recision
package that we were able to pass. I want to
see another recision package. I want to see another reconciation bill,
and we can do it. And because we're right and
we've got to write policies, and while we may not
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get everything we want, we moving the ball forward.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I want to ask you about crime in the cities.
South Carolina is one of those states that you guys,
don't deal with it in your big cities to the
degree that your buddy North Carolina Charlotte deals with are
they dealing with in Charlotte? And you know Atlanta and Georgia.
You've got these red states with blue pockets in them
where a Democrat policy has just practically destroyed those cities
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when it comes to law in order. And we've up
to you many times about law and order, how important
is that as far as pushing that priority going into
midtterm one?
Speaker 8 (12:08):
President Trump is handling it right by the National Guard
that are coming in. Isn't it tragic that a twenty
year old and a twenty four year old one deceased
one has a long road recovery, if road to recovery,
if he lives.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
He's doing the right thing to curb it.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
In South Carolina, we've got a problem with.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
The way we elect our judges.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
These criminals, as we saw in Charlotte with the Ukrainian
who the killer had been arrested forty times. In South
Carolina we had a young girl at the university who
was beautiful girl who same thing. He had been a
repeat offender, he had been arrested multiple times and cut
back loose. We recently had a killing in Beautifer, South Carolina.
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The two or three that kill the people or walk
in the streets, so it all starts with one killing
is too much.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
One innocent life is way too much.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
We've got to change in South Carolina, change the way
we elect our judges.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
And the only way we're going.
Speaker 8 (13:09):
To do that is change the law and put a
bill forward, which I will do along with a lot
of other things. But you know, if you're not safe, Amanda,
if you're not safe to go to the grocery store,
send your child to school. That's the basics of what
government should provide. Infrastructure, safety and education.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Tell everybody about your upcoming campaign.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Running for governor. I uh, it was a tough decision
for me.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
But South Carolina needs a CEO, which the governor is
a spokesman.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
He's a CEO. He sets the course. He he you.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
Know, puts the conservative measures in place. If he's a
true conservative, and I am, I fit the bill, We're
gonna win the race. It's gonna be a tight race,
but we're gonna win it because our message is true
and we're able to put it out. And it's the
reason we had over eleven hundred people at my announcement,
more than all the others put combined. But it's not
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about me. It's a conservative movement that's people are buying
into and we've got to carry it forward. South Carolina
has got so much to look forward to. I want
to make it greater.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Absolutely, and I want to ask you about, you know,
the CEO aspect of a state like South Carolina. For
governor there, you're going to take a lot of your
expertise from Capitol Hill to that job in budgetary categories.
When it comes to the economy of South Carolina. We've
seen some really great things in states like Florida where
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they have managed to turn around their economy and do
some of these things there. It seems to me like
you're the perfect guy for that, because that's what you've
been trying to do on Capitol Hill for a long time.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Yeah, and you know being one of one hundred, four
hundred and thirty four others is harder than in South Carolina.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
You've got the lead role.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
You are the chief executive officer, and you can affect
change and we will do that. Ron de Scientis und
a good job in Florida. His infrastructures is a lot
better than we have it.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
George's is.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
I will focus on getting an infrastructure right, making sure
our law enforcement safety is there for all South Carolinians.
Education has to be a focus, and it's reprioritization.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Of money that has not been done for a long time.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
We've had a supermajority of Republicans, they haven't governed like Republicans.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Government has grown.
Speaker 8 (15:28):
I will change all that, and I will use the
veto and I will use the bullet pulpit to explain
to the American people to the South Carolinian needs, what
needs to happen and why, and we'll get it done.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Well. I know when you were up here on Capitol Hill,
when it comes to the budget, it feels like hurting cats.
So now you can go from herding cats to being
the top dog. That's a much preferable position. I know
the South people of South Carolina absolutely love you, and
we are tell everybody where they can find your campaign.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
Ralph Now for Governor dot Com, I.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Love it very easy. Ralph Norman for Governor dot Com. Congressman,
thank you so much for being with this. All right, everybody,
and coming up next, we're going to discuss how Republicans
can finally get some accountability for the weaponized government during
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I know what you're thinking. Whenever we have the conversation
on accountability, you think to yourself, yeah, right, that never
happens in Washington and I don't necessarily disagree. And mainstream
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media is always quick to accuse President Trump of weaponizing
the government to go after his political enemies while ignoring
the misconduct of prominent Democrats during the Obama Biden era
to stop President Trump from taking office. So which is it?
Or maybe it just depends on who's in office. I'm
pretty sure that's what it is. Joining us to discuss this.
As US Navy veteran JAG officer and Senate candidate for
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North Carolina Don Brown, Don, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Thank you, Amanda, Happy New Year, and thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Happy New Year. We're delighted to have you on. I
want to ask you about what you know what John
and I have have described as a grand conspiracy. I
think the case can be built as this, where, despite
statute of limitations on some of the things that have
happened against President Trump, if you bring in a grand
conspiracy where you can tie these all together, then this
statute goes out the window. So you start this with
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Russia collusion during President Trump's first term, You continue with
all of the obstruction during his first term, including impeachment
number one and impeachment number two. You carry that through
to the twenty twenty election, all of the efforts to
change election laws, including that ever pivotal Supreme Court decision
out of Pennsylvania, and all the other election fraud that
has been investigated, and then of course the subsequent charges
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against President Trump, and then we land here and all
of this it seems like could be wrapped up in
a big, pretty ten year grand conspiracy. Ooh, how successful
do you think that method could be?
Speaker 10 (18:49):
I like the I like that approach.
Speaker 11 (18:51):
I know that you and John have discussed that, and
I've considered it, and I think it is certainly a
conspiracy going all the way back when coming wanted to
talk to then as an elect Trump and they brought
him in, and you know, a Bomba met with his team,
and it has clearly been a continuing course of conduct
for the purpose of bringing down the first Trump administration
and then the second Trump administration. By using that theory
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with an ongoing conspiracy, the statute limitations doesn't end until
the conspiracy comes to a close, and so therefore we
can look at more recent dates rather than going back
to twenty seventeen.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
And I think that it will work.
Speaker 11 (19:29):
I would like to err on the side of the
side of caution, however, and see Pam BONDI pulling the
trigger on some indictments a little earlier just to be safe.
But I think it is a solid legal theory. I
think it's a theory that it's gonna be hard to
punch holes into. And I'd say roll with it above
all things, roll with it.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Who do you think is the lowest hanging fruit? Now
I'm not one of those people. I will completely destroy
my own lofty desires to see certain people do the
purp walk, like Barack Obama. But who do you think
are so of these these low lying targets who similar
to if you were building a Rico case, you could
get the you know, the underbosses and the people who
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were co conspirators in certain crimes. Who are some of
those people you would focus on?
Speaker 11 (20:14):
You know, John Bolton has pretty clearly already been indicted
for espionage for retaining and transmitting classified information on eighteen Council.
Speaker 10 (20:23):
He's already out there.
Speaker 11 (20:25):
But you go back before then you look at Brennan
and his attempt to cover up the dastardly deeds related
to the Steele dossier.
Speaker 10 (20:34):
That's an obvious one.
Speaker 11 (20:35):
As we move all the way in through January sixth
and some of the stuff going on there, you look
at the Cassidy Hutchison and Liz Cheney and Cassie Hutchison
apparently proffered false testimony about the President Trump and this limousine.
So there are a number of opportunities to go in
and get some indictments for as you say, sort of
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low hanging fruit, for some some pretty straightforward indictments. I
think you've got more than enough probable cost to bring
those those charges, and so a number of them could
be picked out.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
But I would like this, you know, I would. I
would include go back to Comy.
Speaker 11 (21:09):
I know that one charge has been dismissed, a guy
after him again, I would I would look at Brennan,
you know you coming there, you look at and maybe
this goes the way up to Obama himself. But Brennan
and Coney and Clapper were all in the middle of
it early on, and it's continued on through the Special
Select Jay Cis Committee, which is a kangaroo court. They
suppressed evidence, they hit evidence, they cherry picked. They were involved,
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I think, and you know, in in in conspiracy to
suborn perjury in certain cases, perhaps with Liz Cheney, with
defraud in the United States. There are a lot of
targets there. But the sooner we get started, I think,
the sooner the dominoes will begin to fall. So I'm
looking forward to the next step.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I am as well. But I there is this lingering,
very very dark concern that I have that if if
no one, if no one ends up being held accountable,
or if very few end up being held accountable, then
this only feeds the problem. It only feeds the temerity,
the audacity of politicians to think that I can do
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whatever the heck I want and get away with it.
Speaker 10 (22:14):
You're concern is on Mark.
Speaker 11 (22:15):
I had book release last year called Kangaroo Court, The
looks of the pattern of Democrat prosecutions going all the
way back to the Rick Perry case, in some other
cases against the governor of Virginia and against some regular
citizens also for just speaking their beliefs, like mccloskey's who
just held up their guns were prosecuted by CSORIS prosecutor
Kim Garter in Missouri. Listen, if we don't pull the
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trigger and prosecute those who have abused the system, if
these prosecutions don't come rapidly, and they are, you know,
you could add in conspiracy not only to defraud the
United States, but the pride folks there their civil rights.
If these prosecutions don't come down the pike, even when
the other side ever takes control again, there's no deterrence
at all for them just to go, you know, to
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step on the accelerator, and we're going to lose the
integrity of our criminal justice system. So that's why I
would like to see Pam Bondi get moving a little
more quickly to some of these indictments.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Absolutely, when you look at our overall justice system, and
you know, we hear all of these comments coming from
Democrats about President Trump weaponizing the system against his political opponents. Look,
humans are fallible. President Trump is a human. Therefore President
Trump is fallible. But do you think that the prosecutions
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everything coming out from the DJ because I've heard President
Trump personally say, I don't want to have anything to
do with this, whatever Pam Bondi is doing, whatever Cash
Hotel is investigating. I want there to be some separation
because I don't want it to look like that. But
that doesn't matter to the Left. They are going to
say that that's what it looks like and that, in fact,
is what it is. Do you think that there is
a piece of this from President Trump that is going
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after his enemies or is it just is it just
that in a Venn diagram of his enemies and criminality
they overlap a whole lot.
Speaker 10 (23:58):
It's a very good question.
Speaker 11 (23:59):
I got this straight question from an NBC reporter just
a couple of weeks ago, and I pointed out that
it's different with.
Speaker 10 (24:05):
The Democrats because the question was, well, as.
Speaker 11 (24:07):
President Trump is doing the same thing you're accusing the
left of doing by going after his political opponents, listen
to left did not just go after political opponents. Although
they went after President Trump, they went after the governor
the former governor Virginia. They went after Rick Perry, They
went after Ted Stevens, m Alaskan.
Speaker 10 (24:22):
The list goes on.
Speaker 11 (24:23):
But they went off after ordinary citizens as well. You know,
we remember the cartoonists from Florida, you know who just
drew a picture of Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen. They
went after him in twenty twenty one. The Obama Justice
Department did I just talked about a moment ago, the mccloskey's.
They have gone after you know, pro life fathers, you know,
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Mark Hawck and others for simply expressing their constitution rights.
So the Democrats have brought the hammer down against average,
ordinary Americans for the exercise of their constitutional rights. And
even when you look at p Trump's associates, whether it's Bannon,
or whether it's whether it's Roger Stone or George Popadopplin,
whoever it might be, those folks were prosecuted by Mark
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for one reason and one reason only, because of their
association with the president.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
Now, of course the Democrats look for.
Speaker 11 (25:15):
An excuse to prosecute, but the overriding drive was because
of their constitution or right and freedom of association. These
political prosecutions, Amanda, are an absolute assault on the United
States Constitution, and the prosecutors themselves should be prosecuted on
the backside, and I've been advocating that for some time.
I think you can find grounds for it right now.
But we need grogue prosecutor laws to block this sort
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of shenanigans in the future, because if we lose the
integrity of our criminal justice system, we've lost the heart
of our constitutional republic.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Absolutely. I'm don I want to get a little bit
into your campaign. You are running there in North Carolina,
and we've often had conversations with you, as well as
Rolf Norman, my previous guest, about law and order and
North Carolina, especially Charlotte has been the very center of
this conversation for the better part of about six months.
Talk to us about that aspect of your campaign and
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what message is resonating with the voters of North Carolina.
Speaker 11 (26:07):
Well, I think this resident by way, Ralph's a good friend.
I'm glad to see him on before me, and I'll
test him afterwards. Some congradulating for a great.
Speaker 10 (26:13):
Job, but all that aside.
Speaker 11 (26:15):
You know, the thing that is resonating with North Carolina
voters all around the state, and we've been to most
counties of the state, and I believe our campaign is
most momentum right now in this race is the national
debt continues to explode. We've got to get it under control.
We can't just reduce the rate of spending. We've got
to go in and cut the government. In other words,
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the Department of Education must go. Only Congress can do that.
We want to see the IRS gone. Congress has to
do that. We want to see FEMA gone. It's been
a disaster in the western part of the state and
the eastern part of the state of these hurricanes.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
But as far as crime goes.
Speaker 11 (26:50):
I'm the only a Senate candidate in North Carolina who,
after that poor girl Arena was murdered, I call for
President Trump to deploy the National Guard to Charlotte to
stabilize the light rail system here. Two weeks later, the
Charlotte Paternal Order of Police joined me in that call,
also asking for President Trump to send in the National
Guard to stabilize the murder rate these big blue cities.
Speaker 10 (27:11):
I heard you mentioning that to Ralph a moment.
Speaker 11 (27:13):
Ago in North Carolina had become a blight and Charlotte, unfortunately,
when I moved to the area years ago was controlled
by Republicans. That's flipped and the support for law enforcement
has gone to hell in a handbasket here. I wouldn't
mind seeing the North count of General assume me step
in and take control of the city council in Charlotte until.
Speaker 10 (27:30):
Law and order is restored.
Speaker 11 (27:32):
They have a right to do that under the NZ
Constitution in North Carolina law.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
All right, don I know your platform, I know the
things that you stand for, But just for our audience
to have an idea of who you are when you
are out on the campaign trail and you are aligning yourself.
Let's just say, hypothetically you win, you're up on Capitol Hill,
you're in the Senate. Who are some of those senators
who you feel like you'll join arms with to get
stuff done?
Speaker 11 (27:58):
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candidate in North Carolina, Don Brown, thanks so much for
being with us tonight and next. Colleges continue to coddle
their students, but you're not going to believe what they
are doing. Now we're going to explain after the break.
(29:23):
Welcome back everybody. You know finals in college are usually
a make or break scenario. They were, at least for me,
so you can understand how they would be a little
nerve wracking, and the best remedy to combat those nerves
for the day of the test would typically be studying
the material so that you know them really well and
you're really prepared. At least that's what I would think,
and that's what I know from experience is what works best.
(29:44):
But in an effort to quell test taking nervousness, various
Ivy League schools have implemented de stressing initiatives that sees
students participate in infantile activities like playing with play dough, making
friendship bracelets, and even get having students a chance to
win a stuff to animal. So is there any way
(30:04):
to end the coddling of America's students? Joining us now
to discuss is campus reform Reporter Emily Sturge. Emily, thanks
so much for being with us tonight.
Speaker 12 (30:14):
It is great to be with you.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
You know what's insane about this to me is that
in everyday life, in most jobs, you will encounter times
when you are nervous. In my job, the first few
times I was in front of President Trump, or the
other world leaders. Yep, hands get clammy, neck gets sweaty,
and I get a little tongue tied. That's just what happens.
But you don't get prepared for scenarios like that if
(30:39):
you are called your entire life and if you're coddled
during these types of scenarios and test taking, Emily, it
doesn't end there. You're going to have stressful situations in life.
So how on earth is this in any way preparatory
for creating successful humans.
Speaker 12 (30:57):
Well, that's the bottom line here.
Speaker 13 (30:58):
It's colleges are not preparing students for the workforce or
the real world. And to get into some of the examples,
Indiana University offered care bears to students this exam season.
There was a community college in Washington that gave students Plato,
and then engineering students at the University of Chicago, Illinois,
we're playing with slime and making friendship bracelets. None of
(31:20):
those activities are preparing students for their exams, for the
workforce or the real world. And when I talk about
these activities, our college campuses sound a lot more like
kindergarten birthday parties than they do rigorous academic institutions now
colleges say that they're providing these activities to students to
help them de stress before exams. But Amanda, you and
(31:41):
I both know that the real stress would come for
these students after graduation, when they're unable to find jobs.
And unfortunately, that's a reality for many students. I mean,
we've reported at the Leadership and Students Campus Reformed that
it's only twelve percent of college graduates who are able
to secure a job before graduation.
Speaker 12 (31:58):
And when you look at.
Speaker 13 (31:59):
The tech activities happening in the classroom, it's not shocking.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Why no, I mean, I got to say, these Ivy
League schools look more like daycares than a lot of
these daycares in Minnesota. But maybe that's the point I
want to ask you from from a student perspective, because
I you know, I think back to my college days
and I would like to think that I would see
this as ridiculous, and I probably would, But at the
(32:23):
same time, I would be like, hey, Plato in class
sounds great. Do these students recognize how ludicrous this is
or does it? Is it really catering to a very
infantile personality that they apparently still.
Speaker 13 (32:37):
Have The silver lining here is that most Gen z
ers are not falling for this nonsense.
Speaker 12 (32:44):
Generation Z is not a generation of snowflakes.
Speaker 13 (32:46):
I'll remind you that this is the generation that helped
fuel President Trump's return to the Oval office and the
November presidential election. Gen Z turned out and voted for
President Trump. This is also the generation, both young men
and young women, who are leading the military recruitment boom.
Speaker 12 (33:03):
We have eighteen year.
Speaker 13 (33:04):
Olds lining up to serve this country. The problem here
is the higher education system. The higher education system is
infantilizing and coddling students.
Speaker 12 (33:15):
That's where the blame lies.
Speaker 13 (33:17):
That's where the blame needs to fall, not necessarily on
this entire generation, because many of us look at this
and think that it's nonsense.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah yeah, yeah right here for sure, I want to
ask you about some other reporting that you did. You
were talking about a study that found that sixty three
percent of Americans no longer think that a college degree
is worth it, and I would I would totally agree
it's not worth it from an educational standpoint, because I
just don't think that you are look at the Ivy
League standards now, you're not leaving college prepared for the
(33:48):
workforce much less even with a job already in hand.
But also the price of it, the price of skyrocketed.
Even for these institutions that are state colleges or state
universities that are a great bargain, they have still exploded
in price. Tell us about it, absolutely. So.
Speaker 13 (34:05):
We've reported a campus reform recently that the number is
now up to two thirds of Americans who say college
is just no longer worth the cost.
Speaker 12 (34:13):
And we're at a time right now.
Speaker 13 (34:15):
Many eighteen year olds have sent in their college applications.
In the spring, many of them will be taking campus
tours and then deciding where to spend the next four
years of their life. And I like to remind those
young students that where they choose to go to college
their college search really will determine their American dream, because
tuition is one of the biggest expenses that young people face,
(34:37):
and where they choose to go to college will determine
both the skills that they take into their adult life
and also the debt that they take into their adult life.
So a piece of advice I would have for young
people right now in their college search is to prioritize
two things. Academics and affordability. And when you look at
those two things, it's actually southern public universities that are
certainly dominating the charts.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Right now.
Speaker 13 (34:59):
We're seeing a man massive trend of students heading from
up north down south to some of those public universities
because those are the universities that have found great ways
to combine both rigorous academics and affordability.
Speaker 12 (35:11):
It seems like a win win for many families.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Absolutely, And I want to make sure we hit one
more topic before we go, because I know you have
your finger on the pulse of this. We started out
talking about these ludicrous things like Plato in classrooms of
Ivy League schools, But what to me is equally ludicrous
is inviting and accepting students into a university based on
immutable things like their skin color, their gender, or their
you know where they are from the status of deeion collegists.
(35:36):
This is obviously something that President from along with Secretary
Limited Man, have worked very hard to eradicate from the
campus atmosphere. But is it still there? I mean, in the.
Speaker 13 (35:47):
Past year, this president was a bowl in the china
shop and just completely shattered the old norms of the
higher education system.
Speaker 12 (35:53):
And on day one, this President signed.
Speaker 13 (35:55):
In executive order to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion.
Speaker 12 (35:59):
Over the past year or we've seen over twenty.
Speaker 13 (36:01):
States now have passed anti DEI legislation and as a
result of that, many colleges have rolled back DEI on campus,
whether it's in hiring processes, admissions processes, or even those
offices on college campuses. We've seen a lot of positive
change over the last year. We also saw the president
roll out and executive action where the Department of Education
(36:23):
will require colleges to report detailed admissions data on race
and sex of students that they admit to universities so
that the administration can ensure that students aren't being discriminated against.
It's been remarkable over the past year to see this administration.
Speaker 12 (36:39):
Enforced federal law and protect students.
Speaker 13 (36:41):
We saw many positive changes in twenty twenty five with
this specifically, and I'm very optimistic for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Amen. Amen, Amen, All right, now, please tell everybody where
they can find you on social media and you're reporting.
Speaker 13 (36:53):
We're reporting every single day at Campus Reform dot org
and I'm at rio Emily Sturch on all social media.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Platforms indeed she is, and she's still like to follow us.
Everybody can go follow her, all right, everybody, We're going
to take a very quick break on the other side
of Climate Depot Executive editor Mark Morano is going to
join us to talk about more ludicrous things that would
be the climate agenda heading into next year. We'll be back.
(37:24):
Welcome back, everybody. About a month ago we tuned into
the COP thirty conference in Brazil, and of course, as
we expected, the failure of the climate change agenda was
blamed on of course, President Trump makes total sense. They
blamed it on him and his administration for not participating.
And yet the powers that be at COP thirty decided
to cut through thousands of acres of protective rainforest to
(37:46):
accommodate the thousands of folks who were attending that conference.
And if that doesn't illustrate the state of climate change advocacy,
I don't know what will. So what's next on their
agenda for twenty twenty six. Joining us to discuss is
Mark Morano, executive editor for Climate Depot. Mark, great to
see you, Happy New.
Speaker 14 (38:02):
Year, Thank you, Happy new year to you, Amanda.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
Happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
All right. We've talked and I don't think I don't
think it's lofty aspirations. I think that there is concrete
evidence that the climate agenda is really starting to become
persona on grata in some of the most unlikely corners
of the universe, including in leftists in this country. It
seems like some of them are finally abandoning and admitting
(38:28):
that it was a bit of a hoax and it
really didn't help that Cop thirty turned down all of
this rainforest in the interest of environmentalism.
Speaker 14 (38:37):
Yes, that's exactly right that, as exclusively reported originally by
the BBC, they put an eight mile swath of highway
right through the Amazon rainforest, and the Brazilian government was
bragging in their engineering department about doing it for the
big Climate Summit, and their environmental minister said, we have
declared this to get more people into the conference, so
(38:59):
we can chowke it the world how we're saving the rainforest.
So we actually got out there. You can see the
videos that Climate Deep, but we got into the actual
area where the highway was still being constructed in parts
and it's just big clearcut, which would be a horror
for any environmentalists. But hey, they ended up at the
conference coming up with a plan to save the rainforest.
(39:20):
One idea is not to make highways for summits. But
they liked the other idea which they came up with,
which was that western nations will pay poor nations not
to clear cut their rainforest for highways. And that was
their solution. Pay us not to destroy it and we won't.
That was basically the result of that.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Yeah, you know what's amazing to me is their argument
regarding this road where they tore down all these beautiful trees.
It's very similar to the argument that we hear from
a lot of these folks, Leonardo DiCaprio, but also the
governmental ilk that are in this world. When people bring
up the point that they fly on these jets and
the in the case of Leonardo DiCaprio, owns a mega
(40:02):
yacht that burns fuel as much as I think it's
left bit of like one hundred and seven forty sevens
a year, but they always have the you know, it's
this entitlement. I suppose it's this attitude of well, we
are the ones who are going to save the world,
so of course we should be excused.
Speaker 14 (40:21):
Yes, And we've heard that literally almost verbta what you
just said, Amanda. We've heard that from John Carrey. We've
heard that from Bill Gates. And John Carey actually told
a reporter he flew to Iceland for an environmental award
in a private jet. He was confronted at the airport
and he basically said, do you.
Speaker 7 (40:37):
Know who I am?
Speaker 14 (40:39):
I'm man doing more for anyone to challenge climate change.
Speaker 5 (40:42):
Of course I know a private jet. I'm so in
My work is so.
Speaker 14 (40:45):
Important that you shouldn't even pay pay no attention to
that man and the private jet. And Bill Gates, he
has only variation to what John Carrey said is he said,
I buy more carbon offsets, and of course he said
the same thing, I do more to challenge climate than
anyone else in the world to fight climate change. So
they think they're completely immune. It was interesting. Cop thirty
also featured cruise ships. So I'm talking about like the
(41:08):
Carnival sized type cruise ships. Because they didn't have enough hotel,
they picked the small city, and the cruise ships have
a carbon footprint bigger than the airline and hotel and
all the meals of all the delicate's going. So of
course the UN would use the same logic, it doesn't
matter our car.
Speaker 5 (41:24):
They have a carbon footprint.
Speaker 14 (41:25):
For these fifty thousand UN climate summits more than African
nations put out in a year in terms of energy.
That's how much just energy hogs these conferences are.
Speaker 5 (41:36):
And of course we know the charts.
Speaker 14 (41:38):
CO two continues to go up, and Donald Trump has
done an amazing job of not only in the United States,
but he's created a tipping point for the world. We're
now seeing Europe retreat, We're seeing even Canada zero out
there carbon taxer scene, Gavin Newsom trying to appeal to
the oil industry to stay in his state the refineries,
they're seeing. Governor Hope of California in twenty twenty five
(42:02):
basically said climate goals aren't as important as affordable, reliable energy.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
Whoa who saw this coming?
Speaker 14 (42:08):
I mean, and I have to say this is because
Donald Trump and particularly Lee's Elden in his administration and
also Chris Wright have just got the narrative of climate
change and flipped it. No longer do we have these
weak ass Republican presidents who are like.
Speaker 15 (42:23):
Well, of course climate's are a problem, and I'm not
against the environment, but but maybe you've gone too far, hello,
George Bush, Mitt Romney, John McCain. This whole new ethic
that they've done, and it blows away Trump's first administration
is climate change is a scam.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
It's a religion, it's a cult.
Speaker 14 (42:38):
There's absolutely nothing that the UN would ever do to
solve it, even if we faced it. And they're embracing
energy abundance and energy fossil fuels. And because they're so
strong European leaders, you know, I think it was eighty
some countries didn't even bother to meet their COP thirty
commitments right before the summit.
Speaker 5 (42:56):
And Europe is now EU got rid of the man.
Speaker 14 (43:00):
I mean, it's just it's like a house of cards
collapsing around the world. Green energy is out. But of
course I would be remiss, Amanda, if I didn't say
at the end of twenty twenty five that the US
Congress and Donald Trump administration have to go one step further.
They need to codify, They need as much permanence as possible.
Congress needs to go in on some of these executive
(43:22):
orders that they haven't already and try to pass legislation
before the midterms to solidify like these hundred actions that
Trump did in his first hundred days to open American energy.
And the big thing is we need to get rid
of the COEO two Endangerment finding, which the Trump administration
will have a major announcement coming in about the next month,
and also get this out of the nineteen ninety two treaty.
Speaker 5 (43:42):
We need permanence. Now.
Speaker 14 (43:43):
It's great to share all this on but like the
first term, it was all undone within a couple months
of Biden. We can't let a future Gavin new Some
undo the beautiful work that the Trump administration has done.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Absolutely, and I agree all that stuff has to be
I guess a set in stone as we can possibly
make it. I want to ask you though, because you know,
this is a story as old as time, because people
make money off of this, so they're not going to
give up the con. But you've got folks like this,
this climate doom and gloom noster domis this guy, Professor
Guy McPherson, who effectively said that humans are going to
(44:17):
be extinct by twenty twenty six as a result of
human activity industrialization putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. We're
two days away from twenty twenty six it's quite obvious
that's not going to happen. But these people will continue
any money because this guy puts it out. He gets
media hits, he gets news hits. You know, people want
to talk to him. He probably gets books. It is
a money making industry at his core, at.
Speaker 14 (44:40):
Its core, absolutely, and this guy, you know, he serves
his purpose because he's mostly scaring younger generation.
Speaker 5 (44:45):
They look at the Oh.
Speaker 15 (44:46):
Look there's a scientist who's saying, you know, we're going
to be you know, we're all going to be all
our species is going extinct.
Speaker 5 (44:51):
We've got to say the planet.
Speaker 14 (44:53):
This is CBS News just did a report about climate anxiety,
kids not wanting to have kids because of worrying about
climate change. They've been indoctrinated from kindergarten to college. But
you asked about money. The reason Donald Trump administration has
to go through and make this permanent again. Get rid
of the CO two Endangerment Finding, which is regulating carbon
dioxide human breath we exhale carbon dioxide as a pollutant
(45:15):
under the Clean Air Act, which a Clean Air Act
was never intended to do, and pulling us out of
the nineteen ninety two Rio Earth Summit. Treaty which George
hw Bush got us into. Which make it harder is
because you have billionaires, corporations, academia, international organizations like World
Economic Forum, the World Health Organization in the United States
all pushing these foundations like the Tides Foundations, the Gates,
(45:37):
and they're just pumped billions and hundreds of millions of
dollars and billions of dollars over the last several decades.
Whether it's in education, whether it's the Associated Press taking money,
whether it's inpr taking money. These are the media is
a mouthpiece for a lot of these climate activists foundations.
That money is still pumping, you know, whether it's the
Bloomberg money, whether it's Soros money, whether it's Gates money,
(46:02):
or whether it's the Virgin Atlantic whatever his name is,
Richard Branson's money. This is going into fake meat, This
is going into blocking the sun as Bill Gate. All
of this money is just you can't just cut. No
one's cutting that spigot off, is what I'm getting at.
And that money is going to go somewhere. I think
it'll go to a retooling. My prediction is they're going
to roll climate into public health, into this one health
(46:23):
World Health Organization Global sort of pandemic treaty type thing,
and they're already doing that with hospitals and doctors. Doctors
have climate toolkits. Doctors in Canada had the first medically
diagnosed patient suffering from climate change, wrote that on the
chart as a diagnosis because they had heat stroke. And
we also have academics in Australia in a Pyraview study
(46:45):
arguing that we should add climate change as a cause
of death on death certificate.
Speaker 5 (46:49):
So it's not going anywhere. They're not they're regrouping, they're
laying low.
Speaker 14 (46:52):
Democrats have stopped talking about it, the media has dramatic
reductions in talking about it. It's not going away because
that infrastructure is all in place.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
Absolutely well, and it's pretty adjacent to the oldest business
in the world. And I'm not talking about politics.
Speaker 14 (47:10):
So everybody as when you have that much money, you're
going to have all these people willing to let's say, you.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
Play whatever it takes.
Speaker 5 (47:19):
Yes, that's exactly what it takes.
Speaker 14 (47:21):
And I'll be going I'm going to Davos and I'm
going to Davos World Economic Forum UH in January, and
they'll be pushing this as well.
Speaker 5 (47:30):
But they're pushing it on a more corporate, more stealth level.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Yes, well, we'll have you back on to talk about
that for sure, because we need to know all the
ins and outs of what the stealth mode is going
to look like. Thanks so much for being with us
in Happy New Year to you. All Right, everybody, We're
going to take it very quick break and we'll be
back with more on the other side. Welcome back everybody.
(47:58):
This final segment, listen, I'm going to go ahead and
give you guys a trigger warning and tell you guys
to go get a Kleenex. You're gonna need it. While
I set up this clip. This is one hundred and
four year old World War veteran Dominic Critella Critelli. I'm
gonna be really sad one of these days when we
can no longer talk about World War Two veterans who
are still alive. But this young man played the saxophone
(48:22):
at a New York Islanders game and it is absolutely
going It's going to make you cry.
Speaker 5 (48:26):
Check it out.
Speaker 16 (48:40):
Instead of ser Jennifer Domini, critilly.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
And of course ruckus. Applause from the audience, including chants
like Usa, Usa, Usa, Absolutely incredible Apparently he practices the
saxophone an hour a day, so that's something that those
Ivy League kids with their playto will absolutely never understand.
All Right, one more clip to squeeze in before we go.
Speaking of New York, there used to be a show
in the nineties, or maybe it was just a segment
(49:17):
on Cops that featured stupid criminals. Here's a stupid criminals.
Speaker 17 (49:25):
Gosh, gosh, gosh, gosh.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
I don't feel even the slightest bit bad for her.
I hope she lost an earring and it totally messed
up her hair and makeup. I haven't been to New
York in a few years. Those doors on those stalls
must be relatively new. Anyway. Word to the wise, don't
try to dodge fares on the New York City subway. Everybody,
have a great night. We'll be back here tomorrow night
at six pm Eastern
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