December 30, 2024 • 49 mins
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Segment A: WILL REPUBLICANS SUPPORT JOHNSON?
Segment B: CHANGES TO MORTGAGE RATES
Segment C: THE DEMS CLASSIC PROJECTION
Segment D: ENERGIZED HEALTH IS HERE TO HELP
Segment E: NEED FOR FAMILY & SPIRITUAL TIME
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Coming up on Special Report, President Trump is throwing his
support behind Speaker Mike Johnson ahead of a crucial House
vote this week. We'll discuss with RABS Brian Glynn.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And Congressman Louis Gohmert joins us to talk about Democrats
projecting and the possibility of drones delaying the inauguration next month.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And Kevin and Sam Sorbo join us to chat about
their devotional book and slowing ourselves down. All that and
more right now on Special Report.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Thank you so much for tuning in to this hour
of Special Reports. I'm Emily Finn alongside Bo Davidson. We're
following some breaking news today as President Trump has released
a statement on truth Social giving House Speaker Mike Johnson
his quote, full and total endorsement. The move comes ahead
of a House vote on Friday to elect a new speaker, and.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
In a statement on Truth Social Trump writes, quote, Speaker
Mike Johnson is a good, hard working religious man. He
will do the right thing and we will continue to win.
Johnson speakership is in jeopardy, with some Republicans voicing concern
over his recent backing of the end of year funding package.
We want to welcome our very own rav host of
Saving America Brian Glenn to the show to discuss. So, Brian,
(01:28):
just to start here, what's your reaction to Trump's post
about Johnson today? Did that surprise you at all or
did you feel confident that he would say something along
those lines.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I felt fairly confident he would say something along that lines.
You know, I'm kind of treating this like Trump when
he had all his appointments for his cabinet coming out
and suggesting, you know, that full endorsement of these particular individuals.
I didn't think that perhaps we would get that right
(02:01):
now now, mind you to do a little bit of
some groundwork moving forward that takes place here when they
come back in session.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Before they can really get sworn in.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
For the new session, nineteenth Congressional session, they've got to
find a speaker now. With this endorsement, bo, I really
feel like the majority, if not all Republicans in the
House right now will come together and support that decision.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
That's the only way I look at it.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
If this statement would not have been pushed out, I
think we would have probably gone into a multi round
selection for speaker.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
No one at this point has come out and said
that they intend to run for Speaker of the House.
So as of right now, Mike John's the only name
on the list. Now, what's interesting about this selection of
the speaker is they go by alphabetical.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Order in terms of being these recorded votes.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Okay, well, they announce the congressman's name, they stand up,
they announce who they are voting for. I'll let you
go down the list of who starts from you know,
from A to z. Who might be the first, you know,
Maga Republican to stand up and perhaps say a different
name than Mike Johnson.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
It should be interesting to watch.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Who would that name be, Brian? If you're going down
the list, who would be the first one to speak
a different name?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Well, if I look, if I look starting from A
to Z, I would probably say out of that list,
maybe Eli Crane out of Arizona could be the first
person that we might be able to hear someone say
someone other than Mike Johnson. But look, if you if
you keep the same logic of supporting Trump's nominees for
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the cabinet, I think you have to follow that same
mindset when it comes to Speaker of the House. This
was a huge announcement today, and I think that really
did solidify the speaker Johnson be the next Speaker or
continue to remain as Speaker of the House.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, Brian, I mean, it's never a good look to
have a party that's not unified, right, And there are
some House Republicans, like Congressman Thomas Massey, for example, they've
said that they will not support Johnson. After President Trump's
statement today, Massey actually came out on accent doubled down,
saying that he's simply not going to vote for him.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
The Speaker can't afford more than one Republican vote to
keep his speakership.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So I mean, do you anticipate that the Republicans who
are on the fence, like Massey, they'll, you know, now
change their minds and throw their support behind him.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You know, what could be an interesting tactic here is
that at the end of the day, we could still.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Put Mike Johnson as Speaker.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Of the House, but maybe going a couple rounds deep
might be a subtle way to remind him that it
was never unanimous from the very beginning.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
So maybe it's a lesson.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Maybe it's kind of playing a little politics with him,
if you will, to make him kind of work for
those votes that aren't there initially. But I think at
the end of the day, I do think Mike Johnson
is going to be your speaker. But that is only
because President Trump has come out and endorsed him and
has put hey, you've got my full full endorsement to
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be speaker, because if he would not have done that,
I can promise you.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
But here's also another conversation. No one else has come
out and said they want to be speaker.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I know they'll float out of Jim Jordan or maybe
a Tom Emmer or someone like that, but those individuals
have never even during the speaker fight during McCarthy, they
never publicly said I want to be speaker.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
It was always someone else nominating them benounst to them.
They didn't even know they were going to do it.
It's a total surprise.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It'll be fun to watch, but maybe letting him go
to the second or third round before we actually award
him to be a speakership, maybe that's a tough lesson
that might need to have in this speaker fight.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well, and it was tough, honestly, Brian, to watch the
whole Kevin McCarthy, Mett Gates saga too. I mean that
was I don't know how many rounds we'd have to go,
but it was very clear that Matt Gates opposed him,
and it seems like that maybe hit trickle down even
till today if you think about it. But you know,
the spending bill was a big point of contention among Republicans,
while the government shutdown has been avoided for now. Do
you think we're gearing up for a fight in Congress
(06:16):
in the first few months of Trump's second term.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I think we are. Actually, I think we are.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
You know, if I'm not mistaken, March is the next
opportunity we'll have to take a look at this.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
This has always been a heated.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Debate and it makes me angry just as an American
that we keep seeing this, this being kicked down the
road for the next term, the next Congress to deal with,
the next and the next president to deal with. You know,
the reason why we're so far in debt is because
of the reckless spending from Democrats and Republicans up until
this point. So I do think it's gonna We're looking
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at another big fight coming up in March.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I want to get it resolved. I want us to.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Finally get our debt under control, get our budget in line,
and really start working for the American people. And it
does start with having a balanced budget and really kind
of taking responsibility for what we've done so far.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, and I think that Doge, right the Department of
Government Efficiency is going to be a great first step
in that direction. And that's probably why Elon Musk was
very vocal about his.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Disdain for the spending bill.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Of course, we know he's going to be heading DOZE
with the vek Ramaswami. Trump actually voiced agreement with Elon
Musk on all of this, but some have been raising
concerns that Musk may have too much influence on the
president and American politics today. What is your reaction to
Musk and Trump's close relationship.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well, it's interesting you say that because this morning on
American Sunrise, we talked about Elon Musk kind of staying
in his lane as he kind of dabbled into the
whole immigration discussion. I think Elon Musk and Vivekt are
two individuals that are made for this committee.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Doge. They're going to look into all of the wasteful spending.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Now, what's another They're interesting conversation is how are Democrats
going to work with Republicans on this committee? Now you've
got Margie Taylor Green is the chairman of the sub
committee for Doe, so she's in the in the Congress.
She is the one that's going to be bringing a
lot of these topics to the floor for discussion to
find out whether or not they should be funded or not.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
But how are Democrats going to work with Republicans?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Are they Are they four getting way, you know, getting
rid of wasteful spending and abuse of our government, or
are they just going to be there to block all
of those things that many Republicans you know in Vek
and Elon as well, that want to cut So it
should be I think it's going to be must ce
TV on this particular committee all through the term because
(08:45):
we're going to see, finally, guys, this is how you
drain the swamp is you literally cut off the money
to some of these, uh, some of these programs that
are just wasting American tax dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And it's so amazing, Brian, that no one has thought
to create a Department of Government efficiency like this. It
was floating. It's kind of like, you know, Elon threw
it out there, Trump through it out there, and then
here it is actually coalescing and happening, and for the
first time in history, we can look at things that
are wasteful and actually do something about it. You got
to say something for that. But you know, Trump has
seemingly sided with Elon Musk again on this H one
B visa debate, which you said something about, which sparked
(09:18):
turmoil among Republicans on social media over the weekend. Do
you think there's room for reform of the program like
some maga Republicans seem to think.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Well, I like the heated discussion that we're having on it.
I think it's healthy that we are talking about this.
You've got people like Steve Bannon and others that just
want to completely do away with it, and you have
people that say, wait a minute, it's needed right now.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
It is. We don't have a conveyor belt.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Of in my opinion, of enough educated people coming out
of college.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
To fill these tech jobs. That's the reality.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
So that's why they're bringing in some of these immigrants
from other countries to fill these jobs. I'm all for
putting the American worker first, but I think it starts
in our educ cation system. We must develop sharp minds
so that they don't have to go overseas and do this.
I see both sides of the ball, bo I really
do I want America first.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I want the America first worker.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I want the guy in college right now that's studying
computer science to know.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
That when he gets out of college that he will
get that.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Job opportunity that's not going to go to some other
person from a foreign country brought over here and then
to pay him a less wage. I want that American
worker to get what they deserve, but it's going to
take some time. I don't think you just cut it
off overnight. But do I have the solution to that?
Unfortunately I don't. But I think it's a great healthy conversation.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Brian, only about thirty seconds left here, So you think
that the debate is healthy. I know there were some
people with criticism saying that, you know, it seems like
the party is not unified on certain things here, but
that's kind of what our democracy is all about.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
We want to be, you know, open to debate and
open to conversation, right.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I think it is.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
The part I don't like is what it gets really
vicious and we start to really break out the knives
on things. I don't think it's worth doing that. If
you find it like it's either pro Elon or anti Elon.
I don't like that conversation. Look, Elon Musk dumped a
bunch of money in this election to ensure that we
got the word out to vote.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
He helped President Trump.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
So at the end of the day, let's let's lay
off attacking him and the effect for how they feel
about this, and let's just have a healthy discussion and
make what's what's best for.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
This country real quick.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Brian, there was an article that came out that said
Trump is annoyed or bothered by Musk. True or false.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
I don't know. That's a great I don't think annoyed.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
You know, President Trump likes to be President Trump, and
May obviously likes his space.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
It's a maybe, yeah, it's amazing. I'll go with maybe. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Thank Thank you so much for being with us today, Brian.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Thank you all right.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Coming up, the housing industry maybe facing some.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Changes regarding Fanny May and Freddie Mack will take a
deep dive when we return.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Welcome back to Special Reports.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
President Trump's incoming administration is expected to shake up the
housing industry with new policies that could remove Fannie May
and Freddie Mack from government control.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
This was something Trump pushed for during his first term,
but the COVID nineteen pandemic forwarded those plans. Looking likely
he will be able to address this now during his
second round in office.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
We want to bring in Todd Sheets, the author of
two thousand and eight What Really Happens to the show
for discussion.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Todd, thank you so much for being with us today.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So what do you anticipate these changes are going to
look like under President Trump?
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Well, hopefully what we'll see is that these two entities,
which are called government sponsored enterprises, which mean they've been
politically favored for most of their life, they are now
controlled completely by the government.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Hopefully they'll either be.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
Shut down completely or privatized so that they are owned
by the private market and no longer operating with the
kind of privileges that led them to play the role
that they did in the housing bubble.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
And so what will that mean for mortgage rates?
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Yeah, so I think it's important, a little bit of
history is important. They do bring slightly lower interest rates
into the marketplace. But that's also the mechanism that, as
I show in the book, Drake drove the initial phase,
or what I call the liftoff phase of the housing bubble.
Fanny and Freddie decided to significantly expand their housing mission
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beginning in nineteen ninety eight, and in that year they
started growing significantly faster than they had before, and that's
what caused housing prices to start appreciating so much above trend.
And so that was the beginning phase. Then, combined with
the federal reserves actions in the two thousands, that really
took us down this path of basically upset atting these
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markets that had been very predictable for so long. So
the benefit of them being around was that they did
provide slightly lower interest rates for a period of time.
But the negative side was they have massed so much
control over the housing markets that they basically created a
bubble and a crash unlike anything that we had ever
had before. And importantly, if we go back to the
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years before they were created, let's say the post World
War two years up through the late nineteen sixties, housing
finance and the housing markets in this country had grown
very rapidly without their participation, somewhere around ten percent a year. So,
you know, I think there needs to be some transitional
period factored in. But we don't need to be afraid
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of the idea that the housing markets will fail to
adjust and there won't be money available for homeowners to
purchase homes with, you know, if we do away with
these entities.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Yeah, absolutely, Todd. I'm really loving this history lesson that
you're giving us here. I mean, this is a topic
that I can get a little bit complicated.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Can you explain for us what the conservatorship Fanny and
Freddie are under. We understand that it's overseen by the
Federal Housing and Finance Agency, but this was never intended
to be permanent, right, No, You know.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Fanny and Freddie were created in their original form in
the late nineteen sixties. In the early nineteen seventies, because
of some failures in the banking regulatory model that came
out of the New Deal and the inability of that
model to provide housing finance to fast growing areas of
the country like Florida and California, the Feds wanted to
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continue to have influence over these two organizations, so they
set them up outside of, you know, the government's books,
because they didn't want the debts to show up on
the federal government's books at a time when deficit spending
and debts were growing because of the combination of lbj's
Great Society social programs and Vietnam War. But they still
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wanted to be able to influence housing, so they took
them off the books. They made them private entities, and
they were intended to operate outside of the government sphere,
but with government influence. And because of the special privileges
that they were branded, they could borrow more cheaply than
other enterprises, and that allowed them to amass the significant
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market share that gave them the ability to influence or
trigger the housing bubble. Like we talked about, through all
this period of time, they were off the government's books.
But then when the collapse came, Fanny and Freddie effectively failed,
along with a number of other critical institutions, and at
that point in time, they were brought back onto the
government's books. The government effectively bailed out those institutions that
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had provided loans to them, and that's where they sit today.
And so again I think the ideal thing would be
for the Trump administration to continue down the process of
moving moving these entities either back into the private marketplace
and probably breaking them up as well so that they
don't have such a significant market share, and or just
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dissolving them over time.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Oh, that's so informative everything that you just said. People
should just rewatch that. It's amazing. Walk us through why
the housing market has been behaving unexpectedly despite the Fed
slashing interest rates.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Yeah, well, so what's happened is Fanny and Freddie triggered
the onset of the housing bubble. That's what I show
in the book. The second key factor was what happened
in what I call the acceleration phase, which was in
the early to mid two thousands. And what happened then
was the Federal Reserve made the disastrous mistake of dramatically
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lowering interest rates after the dot com bubble of the
late nineties and early two thousands collapsed. When they lowered
short term interest rates down into the one percent range,
they created a historically unique opportunity for people to speculate
on single family home appreciation with adjustable rate or variable
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rate mortgages, and that ultimately was disastrous. That drove what
happened in the mid two thousands, which was the FED
lowering short term interest rates in the midst of this
historically high housing appreciation that had been triggered by Fanny
and Freddy. So we get the bubble collapses, we have
the financial panic, We move on. Unfortunately, we don't draw
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the proper lessons about what really caused this, and as
a result, the FED then went on in the aftermath
of the collapse, even though, as I show in the book,
the financial panic was clearly over by early two thousand
and nine, by about March of two thousand and nine,
you can see it in stock prices and you can
see it in short term interest rates. The FED then,
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in the beginning in twenty ten, went back to the
same failed technical that they had employed before. They dramatically
lowered short term interest rates, and then they also significantly
expanded their balance sheet through the purchase of long term
bonds to try and juice economic activity. Unfortunately, you know,
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we had a prolonged recession without much economic growth. But
what this has done is created inflated asset prices once again,
and one of those areas is in housing again. So
housing prices are now back up slightly above where they
were at the peak of the bubble. And now so
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that doesn't mean we're going to go into a collapse.
The lending markets haven't gotten as crazy.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I hate to cut you off there. We are up
against a break. But thank you so much for all
your knowledge today.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Thank you, sir, Yeah, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Absolutely. Coming up, Congressman Louis Gilmer joins us to talk
about the classic case of Democrats projection and whether drones
could be a problem come inauguration. Tongue back in a moment,
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Speaker 1 (21:08):
Today, welcome back to Special Report. The concept of projection
is accusing someone without merit of doing the very thing
you yourself are doing. And in politics, we have seen
this with the Democrats accusing Trump of working with the Russians,
but that's actually what they did with the whole Christopher
Steele dossier. They also said Trump did a quid pro
quo with Ukraine, but it was Biden caught on tape
(21:29):
doing it for the benefit of his son Hunter. And
now it seems that Dims may be doing the very
same thing and accusing Trump of weaponizing the federal government.
The latest example of this is the possibility that a
national emergency could be enacted over these mysterious drones joining
us to discuss as our friend, Congressman Louis Gohmert. Welcome, Congressman.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
It's great to be with you on the EVV of New.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Year's absolutely New Year's Eve Eve. So, Congressman, you wrote
in your op ed for Front Page magazine that these
drones could be the US government looking for something, perhaps
even radioactive material, and if that's the case, they could
then declare martial law, perhaps out of these circumstances, to
delay the swearing in a president elect Trump. So I
(22:13):
got to know, do you think that that's a possibility
we must consider.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:18):
I think it's a possibility because that's exactly what they
were accusing President Trump ofv back in January twenty twenty one,
that oh, he's going to declare martial law and he's
going to take over everything, and he's not going to
let the inauguration go forward. President Trump just wanted a
fair count. That's all he was asking for. That's all
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he was seeking.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
A fair count. But here we are.
Speaker 9 (22:45):
Now we've got election deniers, Democrat election deniers, people like
Jamie Raskin, who was saying before the election even occurred,
he wasn't sure if he could vote for president vote
to Paul toward college votes. So we got some election deniers.
They're doing what they projected on Republicans. And I am
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sure that there are people that would look for any
excuse to postpone the inauguration to allow President Trump to
come in and restore some peace and some harmony in
the world and get our country back on track. So
I'm sure they would. Yeah, I'm sure they're looking for
some excuse.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, Lord knows we could use some peace and quiet
and some order, some fiscal order as well.
Speaker 10 (23:33):
Well.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Congressman as Yeah, we certainly could. You also write that
constitutionally speaking, the president elect doesn't need to be sworn
in public, citing the private swearing in a president Rutherford
Behayes in eighteen seventy seven by the Chief Justice, and
that was because of due to fear of riots. We
know that riots are certainly possible on January twenty, twenty
twenty five. So do you think it's more sensible to
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swear Trump in privately or even earlier?
Speaker 9 (23:58):
Well, it may be a good safe position to take,
just as with Ruther B. Hayes, that was a contested
election where the electoral votes were not.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
They had to be sorted out.
Speaker 9 (24:14):
They were contested in different states, and so that's why
they were afraid there'd be riots on Monday when he
was to be sworn in. So President Grant had the
Chief Justice come to the White House, had rutherand b.
Hayes come to the White House. He was sworn in
on Saturday, just in case. And we also know it
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even in modern times, it's not a problem to swear
president in actually before they take office at noon on
January twentieth, as we know from the constitutional amendments in
nineteen thirty three, because Joe Biden himself was sworn in
they finished the oath at eleven forty eight, twelve minutes
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before he actually was to become president. So there's no
harm in having a swearing in earlier. We know the president,
the outgoing president does not have to be there. It's
happened twice, doesn't have to be there. So President Trump
and President of Advance could just have a private swearing
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in at an undisclosed location. Don't let Biden know, because
he let the cat out of the bag on the
previous undisclosed location that was being his basement when he
was vice president. But yeah, making an undisclosed swear men
early and then no matter what happens. On January twentieth,
at noon on January twentieth, President Trump, thank god, we'll
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be president again.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Well, I got to ask you about this, Congressman. You know,
we have the late Jimmy Carter, who died at one
hundred years old. It's interesting because Biden commented that Trump
could learn decency from the late Jimmy Carter, but honestly,
wouldn't the decent thing to have done, Ben Biden not
seeking a second term when he was cognitively and physically
impaired and incapable of a second term.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
You are so right, and keep in mind there's a
time for decency. And I've seen President Trump when he
was incredibly sympathetic, incredibly humble and gracious. I've seen that.
But when it comes to being a world leader, you know,
Jimmy Carter was a very sincere and I think a
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strong Christian. But you know, he was trying to be
decent to the iola comane when he called him a
man of peace, and he pushed the Shaw of Iran
out of power. Helped do that, but he welcomed the
Iota as a man of peace, and the world has
not had peace ever since he did that. And it
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was he was trying to be decent and negotiate with
the hostage takers back in nineteen eighty and seventy nine
eighty and it cost so much in American life, in prestige,
and it encouraged the terrorists. So there is a time
for decency. And I've seen President Trump be very decent
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and very very very gracious, but when it comes to
being the world leader, it's time to be tough and
talk tough. And that's why I'm thrilled President Trump's going
to be back there.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
It seems that the nation will remember Jimmy Carter more
kindly than they will Joe Biden. Would you agree with that?
Has Biden tarnished his reputation and his legacy by the
way he's leaving, well.
Speaker 9 (27:32):
Only for the last four years has tarnished that. But
if you go back to his days as vice president,
he was vice president when he was bragging on video
about the quid pro quile we got from Ukraine to
throw out the prosecutor going after his son.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
So yeah, I think.
Speaker 9 (27:53):
History will not be kind to Biden because of the
incredible government overreach that he did and the funding by
the actions he took when he took office, the cost
of all a gas skyrocketed, and he made for president
putin an extra six hundred billion. So he funded the
(28:15):
Russian side of the war against Ukraine. And then he
comes in and he's wanting to fund the Ukrainian side
of the war with Russia. So and then helping Iran,
bending over backwards, trying to be gracious to Iran. You
do not show graciousness to people that want to kill you,
and that is their goal, killing Americans and killing Israelis.
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That's not somebody your kind to.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
You're right, Congress, we got about just a minute or
a little less left. We spoke in the last segment
about Speaker Johnson. Are you and your colleagues do you
think relatively and unanimity with regard to Speaker Johnson and
what he can do with this next session, because you
guys got a lot of work ahead of you with
President Trump both houses. Do you have confidence in him?
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Johnson is just a great guy. He's a wonderful guy.
Speaker 9 (29:03):
I feel like he got maybe overwhelmed by Hakeem Jeffers
and McConnell and Schumer all together coming at him in
the last session.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
But they're a legitimate concerns.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
He is.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
You know, when President Trump was saying, please please require
warrants for the FBI the DOJ to grab personal information,
he let that go through so they could continue getting
information without a warrant. I still think it's unconstitutional, but
so there are legitimate issues there. But I think since
(29:37):
we don't have any room for this cord in order
to get a speaker elect I.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Got to cut you off here because we are going
to break. But thank you so much for your time
day and Happy New Year's ev Happy twenty twenty five.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
We got an elector speaker for sure.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Thank you. We'll be back in just a moment.
Speaker 11 (29:53):
Thank you. College Listen, guys, five days. We promise you
this will change your life. I've spent oney seven years
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helping people transform at the sailor level. This is your time.
Speaker 12 (30:19):
I couldn't be happier, and in three days of starting
the five to five challenge, it's working.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
I can't thank you enough.
Speaker 11 (30:28):
You invested in yourself and I'm going to invest back
in you.
Speaker 12 (30:31):
I am literally a absolute changed person.
Speaker 13 (30:36):
I love it.
Speaker 10 (30:37):
I'm in it for life.
Speaker 11 (30:39):
This is your time. So if you put it off
in the past, don't put it off anymore. This is
your moment.
Speaker 13 (30:45):
Just listen to them.
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Just listen to the five five five challenge.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Please just listen.
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Speaker 11 (30:52):
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Speaker 13 (31:00):
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Speaker 1 (31:06):
Well, twenty twenty five is just around the corner, Emily,
just two days away basically, and there are more programs, supplements,
and medications out there than ever before. Yet America has
the worst health it's ever had. Here to let us
know what we can do to improve our health is
founder of Energized Health, John Jubilee. Welcome John.
Speaker 11 (31:25):
Hey, thank you guys so much, and happy new year
to everybody.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Yeah, happy new year to you, John.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
So, I guess the biggest question that everyone has ahead
of twenty twenty five is how can we take control
of our health this coming year?
Speaker 11 (31:37):
Well, well, the first thing is, let's not do the
same thing we've done for the last five, ten, fifteen,
twenty years, right, don't make another New Year's resolution, Cause
how's that working for you? They just don't work, guys.
The resolutions don't work, and so why don't we do
something different for twenty twenty five. Well, let's take five days.
(32:00):
Let's take five days, and let's learn an absolutely simple
and a scientific way to really get healthy. Let's learn
how our body was really made. Let's learn how to
actually not lose weight. Because if you believe in weight loss, guys,
I got an easy plan for you. It's called the
sauna Twinkie diet. Go sit in the sauna, stay there
(32:21):
all day, eat a box of Twinkies. You'll lose five
pounds of what of water?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Right?
Speaker 11 (32:27):
But on our five to five to five challenge, we'll
teach you the difference of losing weight and losing fat.
So I got my unfriendly fat blob here. I would
call it friendly, but it's not friendly that that fat
will kill you. Do you know that twenty pounds of
fat will kill you faster than two packs of cigarettes?
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Guys?
Speaker 11 (32:47):
For real? So let's get serious in twenty twenty five.
Come and just spend five days with Chelsea and I
and let us just walk you through a simple and
a scientific way to get off of the marre Go
round of crazy, the hamster wheel. Right of diet, diet, diet, diet, diet.
You know the first three words of diet are die,
(33:08):
you know, so you know it's like the easier to die, right,
they go on to another diet, and it's frustrating, right
when you keep failing over and over and over. That
was my experience, by the way, for ten years, I
failed over and over and over on diets. And that's
why it's so joyful for Chelsea and I to get
to share something different with you this year. But we've
(33:29):
been sharing this for twenty seven years. How to get
healthy at the sellular level with the side effect. Let's
get healthy, let's feel good first, and let's look good
after we feel good. So that's what we could do
different for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
It's interesting, John that you talked about weight loss, because
everybody in January focuses on weight loss and just about
what the scale says, not what's happening inside your body.
So what are the key health indicators that people should
be looking for to improve this year? What are the
most important ones, because it's not just the number that's
on that scale.
Speaker 11 (33:59):
Right, No, it's really not. And I would really challenge
everybody for twenty twenty five, know what your hydration level is.
So when you sign up for the five to five
to five Challenge, if you just did it for this
one thing, if you sign up for our VIP, guys,
we'll FedEx you a bioimpedance device that will measure your hydration.
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It's the most important health marker. It's more important than
your A one C. It's more important than your blood pressure,
than any blood work number you have. Is your hydration level.
Men should be sixty, ladies should be fifty five. So
if for no other reason, guys this year know what
your hydration is, maybe for the first time in your life,
because if you're dehydrated, you absolutely are going to have inflammation,
(34:44):
You're going to have health issues. Your organs are going
to fail. They're going to fail. So kidney failure, diabetes, arthritis, asthma,
all of those things, the root cause is cellular dehydration.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yeah, and this is something that you talk about with
us often here. What does intercellular hydration do for the
body that makes it so critical to overall health? I mean,
are we just talking about drinking more water.
Speaker 11 (35:08):
Well, we're really not. I wish it was right. I
wish it was that easy. But it's not that we're
all drinking more water. But it's like the difference between
a raisin and a grape. It's a raisin and a grape.
So raisin is full of healthy hydration. A raisin is
shriveled up and much harder. And actually it's I'm giving
(35:32):
it a lot of grace to even call it a raisin.
It's more like a glass marble. So when you pour
water on a glass marble, how much will get in
the glass marble? Zero? Right, almost zero is going to
get in there. Just bounce it off. So that's the difference.
Intracellular hydration is when the hydration gets in like a
sponge instead of a glass marble. So now the hydration
gets in the sponge. It optimizes your organs. But imagine
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your kidney, your liver, your brain, imagine those the difference
if they were fully hydrated or if they're shriveled up
like a raisin. If they're shriveled up like a raisin,
they can't function the way they should and you are
gonna have inflammation, illness, and disease in your body.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
John, I'm actually I was laughing because when you said
A one C. The only reason I even know what
that is, or kind of know what is from the
Jardiance commercial, which is they have a great jingle. But
that's sad because that's a pharmaceutical and it doesn't have
to do with what you're talking about and energized health. Now,
I know you and Chelsea are hosting a January five,
four five challenge to help people start the new year
off right, what are people gonna learn in those five
(36:31):
days they'll make twenty twenty five of their year to
get healthy and stay healthy, because I know it takes
about thirty days to make a habit, so it sounds
like you guys have something playing just in five short
days that can get them on the right track.
Speaker 11 (36:43):
Well, the reason we do that, you know, listen, if
you lose five pounds of fat, and by the way,
we measure it so you're gonna know you didn't lose water,
you didn't lose muscle, you only lost fat. So make
sure that you join the challenge, join the VIP so
that you can measure and know for the first time
in your life. But in those five days, we're going
to walk you through why scientifically you need saiular transformation,
(37:06):
why you have to focus on the cells. When your
cells get healthy, everything is healthy. When your cells get healthy,
you reset your hypothalamus and your metabolism back how you
were when you were seventeen years old. So you're going
to learn it, but you're also going to experience it
because you're literally going to lose one of these giant
fat blobs in just those five days. Guys, So come on,
(37:29):
you know, make a difference. If you want to change,
you got to make a change. If you want something different,
you have to do something different.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
That's right, all right?
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Well, John, thank you so much for sharing all of
that with us today. Appreciate you. Happy New Year, Thanks John.
Speaker 11 (37:40):
Well, Happy New Year, Happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Now coming up, husband wife team Kevin and Sam Sorbo
join us to talk about slowing down over the holidays
and what's on TEP for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
We'll be back in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Well, welcome back to Special Report. We're just only a
few days past Christmas, which flew by, and now we
are one day away from New Year's Eve. Sure seems
like time flies, especially once you get past Thanksgiving, doesn't it?
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Emily, it certainly does Bo.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
And in spite of the rushed feel that this season
seems to induce, it's important to remember to slow down
because if you don't, the season and the reason for
it tend to evaporate pretty quickly. Here to talk about
how we can slow down a bit, our actors and
podcast hosts and authors. Wow, a lot of titles here.
Kevin and Sam Sorbo. Thank you so much for being
on the show.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
It's great to see you guys.
Speaker 13 (38:40):
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Well, Sam, you know you guys wrote a forty day
Christmas devotional and that's great because this year I feel
like the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas was really really short,
and the retailers had already blown through this season and
prepared us for New Years. So how does this devotional
allow people to just slow down their lives and reflect.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Well, if that is the.
Speaker 13 (39:04):
Point is there's more to the season than just the
gift giving and the day of Christmas, and we actually
celebrate Christmas. We start we we decorate the house starting
in September, late September. He's the decorator. He puts, he
puts out all the all all that he can. How
many Santa Clauses do we have?
Speaker 10 (39:25):
Now that's not just Santa Claus.
Speaker 13 (39:30):
Oh, we have the crash and several iterations and all that,
several trees. And so the devotional was birth from that,
that idea that hey, you know, Christmas is more than
just that one day. It's actually there's a feeling, there's
a reason and uh and there's joy behind the season.
(39:50):
And you know, with the big pushback against Christmas that
we've all experienced over the years, Kevin and I just thought,
let's be a little bit more proactive and encourage people
to sell celebrate Christmas for forty days. It takes thirty
days to make a habit. And so that's the idea
behind the book, and it's still available. By the way,
it makes a fabulous Valentine's Day gift for your significant other.
(40:13):
Make a promise to celebrate Christmas with them for forty days.
Speaker 10 (40:16):
It's actually a good year round devotional.
Speaker 6 (40:18):
Actually, yeah, it really is.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Well, that's fantastic. I'm certainly going to have to check
it out. I may have to get that for my boyfriend.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
I don't know. It sounds like a great Valentine's Day present.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
No solo studios do perfect perfect Thank you for that, Kevin.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
I want to ask you this specifically.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
It must be so hard for you to slow down
because you go from film to film. So what do
you do to ensure that you get the proper family
time and even spiritual.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
Time that you need.
Speaker 10 (40:43):
I don't know what are you gonna say about that.
This past year is actually pretty crazy busy for me.
Speaker 12 (40:50):
Actually, I do a lot of speaking events as well,
and I do have four movies in post.
Speaker 10 (40:55):
Production right now.
Speaker 12 (40:55):
I got predocumentaries in posts. They'll all be out next year,
spread up over the year. I've got two of them
movies that look pretty positive right now that they're gonna.
Speaker 10 (41:03):
Get fun without the directing and acting as well.
Speaker 12 (41:05):
So yeah, growing up, I mean when our kids are
growing up, Sam traveled with me all the time. Anyway,
at that time she's back full on into producing and acting,
and by the way, but she would travel with me
with the kids.
Speaker 10 (41:17):
So the kids grew up on movie sets, and of
course I knew.
Speaker 12 (41:20):
Eventually that one or one or more that would want
to get involved in acting. And of course both my
boys have been doing it now for about about seven.
Speaker 10 (41:27):
Or eight years now. At least, so you know, it's
it's we do we can.
Speaker 12 (41:33):
They're growing up older now too, they're twenty three, twenty
and nineteen, almost twenty one to twenty old, and you know.
Speaker 10 (41:38):
You remember that age you pretty much want to do
your own thing anyway. So they don't run to the
front door anymore when I come home.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
They don't give up a standing ovation when you watch it,
we know, guys, we now have twenty twenty five right
on our doorstep. And I think it hits differently because
many of us are excited about Trump returning to the
White House. You know, is that a family gathering in
New York? And I hope it's in laws griping about
Trump and taking Greenland and the Panama Canal and making
Canada state. It was like it was like they couldn't
(42:06):
help themselves. And I was thinking, well, do you have
any brilliant ideas, because that's why he's the president and
you're not, so, you know, tell me the magnificent ideas
coming out of your part. You don't even have a leader.
So what do you guys expect in twenty twenty five?
Do you think it'll be a return to some law
and order in some sanity.
Speaker 10 (42:23):
I think it's going to be an amazing year right away.
I mean, he already is, he's already president.
Speaker 12 (42:28):
You already see the reaction from Canada and reaction from
Mexico in terms of letting more illegals into our country
as far as Panama. Remind them that we're the ones
who built that, We're the ones in front of that,
We're the ones who are lost. I don't know how
many thousands of Americans died in building there. Yeah, So
here's the thing with the least. They're going to always
going to lie and complain, but behind closed doors. As
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every month over the next four years gets better for them,
they'll only admit it behind closed doors. They'll never admit
it out loud.
Speaker 10 (42:57):
You know, it's what it is.
Speaker 13 (42:58):
And I'll tell you I've heard stories of other people
who are from New York and the first time that
Trump was elected, they said the whole neighborhood was up
in arms and aggravated. And this time the reports are
coming back that people are much less aggravated. They seem
to have a complacency about it, even if they're not
for Trump. They're sort of resigned. And I think it's
(43:19):
because of how far the Democrat Party went literally off
the deep end, transing kids and the like, and what
Biden did recently when they asked him, does he have
any regrets? And he doesn't even regret the thirteen service
members who died in Afghanistan. This is just, you know,
(43:40):
it's a tragedy. We are lucky that we've already elected
Trump and he's already behaving as the commander in chief.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Absolutely, absolutely and very excited to see him back in
office in just a few weeks.
Speaker 11 (43:51):
Here.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Now, I want to get back to your devotional. You know,
people often talk about New Year's resolutions around this time
of year, most of which people will forget or not
stick with. But in this devotional, you want people to
create a habit. You mentioned this earlier. It takes thirty days.
So how can you inspire people to make a thirty
day habit, not necessarily for their physical shape, but for
their spiritual shape.
Speaker 13 (44:12):
Oh that's a good question. Well the devotional. Of course,
you can do the devotional any time of year. It
does focus on Christmas, but of course we carry Christmas
in our hearts all year long, and so the idea
would be to purpose every morning to read your devotional
or just read your Bible and make a habit of that.
And the only way that you could there there are
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no shortcut. The only way to make a habit of
something is to force yourself to do it repeatedly. And
the easiest way to make a habit of being present
with your spiritual life is to read the Bible every day. Now,
a lot of people are scared of reading the Bible because, well,
we go to school and that we learn that we
hate to read one thing, right, And there's plenty of
(44:53):
other reasons to sort of go, oh, it's such a
big book. I don't know where to start. But the
great thing about the Bible is you literally can start
anywhere and you can just start to read, and you
don't have to read a lot. You can read just
a little tiny snippet and get something out of that,
especially if you get yourself an annotated Bible, which I
highly recommend, and it's very fun to do with your kids,
(45:14):
which is what we used to do with our kids.
Every morning.
Speaker 10 (45:16):
We would sit and read the Bible and.
Speaker 13 (45:18):
I'm saying fifteen minutes. And you make a habit of that,
and it creates a lifelong habit and it is a
very beneficial habit to have.
Speaker 10 (45:25):
Well, it's the reason it's a best selling book year
after year after year.
Speaker 12 (45:29):
So maybe people should check out the reason why this
Bible sells more than any other book every year.
Speaker 10 (45:33):
Around the world.
Speaker 13 (45:34):
They say, it's the only book that reads you.
Speaker 4 (45:37):
Ah, that's great.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Well, Kevin, you know I mentioned earlier that we often
have to eat with people that think differently from us,
and I've certainly broken bread with those who perhaps have
wished my own demise. I don't know, but you have
a documentary coming out next Easter called Eating with the Enemy,
and I want to know more about that.
Speaker 10 (45:55):
Ingenuity Films Brent Moll's company. They do amazing job.
Speaker 12 (45:58):
I had the number one documentary with them I was
part of. I narrated it, and I narrate this one
as well. That came up three years ago and it's
called Before the rat It deals with the Second Coming.
Speaker 10 (46:08):
They do amazing, amazing work and people are.
Speaker 6 (46:10):
Ill love this.
Speaker 12 (46:11):
It's a whole interesting way to look at the Last
Supper coming out, and sure enough they're going to release
it before Easter.
Speaker 10 (46:17):
Obviously, I hope.
Speaker 12 (46:18):
People will will jump on board that they're amazing in
them stuff they do. I was just with them recently
on the set of The Chosen where we did an
ad for the documentary and also a promotional work for
their new streaming service that they're coming up with next year,
So I hope.
Speaker 10 (46:33):
People check that out. I got another documentary coming out
after that.
Speaker 12 (46:37):
We spent three weeks in Israel tracing the flow of
the arc of the Covenant through archaeological days, and that
was called The Quest for the Throne of God. So
I hope people will take a look for that one
as well. But even at the Enemy, I think is
the first of the three documentaries coming out next year.
Speaker 10 (46:50):
And I do get a plug and I have a
movie right now. There was in theaters for a little while.
Speaker 12 (46:54):
It's now streaming on all platforms and it's called God's Here.
It's a wonderful Christmas movie, but it doesn't have to
be Christmas to be able to watch it. It's a
great story and a great tale. I helpe people check
out God's Here.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
God's Here and Sorbostudios dot com as well. That's where
we can get all of your books and things right
in movies. Yes, all right, well, Sam and Kevin, thank
you so much. For being with us on Special Report.
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you both.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Likewise, thanks all right, Well, coming up tomorrow on Special Reports,
we are going to take a look back at the good,
the bad, and the insanity of twenty twenty four. You
definitely don't want to miss it. Make sure you're staying
tuned for War Room.
Speaker 8 (47:51):
A guilty verdict, guilty on all of them, core ingested.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
This is a stalinistic show trial, tempted judicial assassination.
Speaker 11 (47:59):
We're going to set things right on a victory.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
You're gonna see a massive red Way action action action.
Speaker 10 (48:04):
When Trump wins, She'll get there, come up, and sh'll
keep fighting.
Speaker 6 (48:07):
Till the end, and we'll win it.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
The most important night of Joe Biden's president's the one
shot he's got to get either.
Speaker 11 (48:16):
I've proposing that everybody in the payment.
Speaker 9 (48:19):
What this man has done is absolutely criminal.
Speaker 11 (48:27):
Yes, this has.
Speaker 4 (48:30):
Been building up to this moment.
Speaker 10 (48:32):
At least one by stand, the.
Speaker 3 (48:34):
Left will stop inches away from killing the former president.
I've been fighting back anger, and I've been fighting back tears.
Joe Biden is out of the presidential He has Endorsedkamla Harrison.
Speaker 6 (48:45):
She's a terrible candidate.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
The border crisis is a Kamala Harris crisis. Donald Trump
survives another attempted assassination down at one of.
Speaker 4 (48:54):
His own golf clubs.
Speaker 11 (48:57):
This is Donald Trump's eighteenth president of debate.
Speaker 6 (49:00):
She's a Marxist. Everybody knows she's a Marxist.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
Donald Trump has been elected president.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
This is a manda. He would not be able to
do it without out looks like real American voice.
Speaker 11 (49:11):
If I have not done with this country yet, I
have not done with this country yet
Coming up on Special Report, President Trump is throwing his
support behind Speaker Mike Johnson ahead of a crucial House
vote this week. We'll discuss with RABS Brian Glynn.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And Congressman Louis Gohmert joins us to talk about Democrats
projecting and the possibility of drones delaying the inauguration next month.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And Kevin and Sam Sorbo join us to chat about
their devotional book and slowing ourselves down. All that and
more right now on Special Report.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Thank you so much for tuning in to this hour
of Special Reports. I'm Emily Finn alongside Bo Davidson. We're
following some breaking news today as President Trump has released
a statement on truth Social giving House Speaker Mike Johnson
his quote, full and total endorsement. The move comes ahead
of a House vote on Friday to elect a new speaker, and.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
In a statement on Truth Social Trump writes, quote, Speaker
Mike Johnson is a good, hard working religious man. He
will do the right thing and we will continue to win.
Johnson speakership is in jeopardy, with some Republicans voicing concern
over his recent backing of the end of year funding package.
We want to welcome our very own rav host of
Saving America Brian Glenn to the show to discuss. So, Brian,
(01:28):
just to start here, what's your reaction to Trump's post
about Johnson today? Did that surprise you at all or
did you feel confident that he would say something along
those lines.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I felt fairly confident he would say something along that lines.
You know, I'm kind of treating this like Trump when
he had all his appointments for his cabinet coming out
and suggesting, you know, that full endorsement of these particular individuals.
I didn't think that perhaps we would get that right
(02:01):
now now, mind you to do a little bit of
some groundwork moving forward that takes place here when they
come back in session.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Before they can really get sworn in.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
For the new session, nineteenth Congressional session, they've got to
find a speaker now. With this endorsement, bo, I really
feel like the majority, if not all Republicans in the
House right now will come together and support that decision.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
That's the only way I look at it.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
If this statement would not have been pushed out, I
think we would have probably gone into a multi round
selection for speaker.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
No one at this point has come out and said
that they intend to run for Speaker of the House.
So as of right now, Mike John's the only name
on the list. Now, what's interesting about this selection of
the speaker is they go by alphabetical.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Order in terms of being these recorded votes.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Okay, well, they announce the congressman's name, they stand up,
they announce who they are voting for. I'll let you
go down the list of who starts from you know,
from A to z. Who might be the first, you know,
Maga Republican to stand up and perhaps say a different
name than Mike Johnson.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
It should be interesting to watch.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Who would that name be, Brian? If you're going down
the list, who would be the first one to speak
a different name?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Well, if I look, if I look starting from A
to Z, I would probably say out of that list,
maybe Eli Crane out of Arizona could be the first
person that we might be able to hear someone say
someone other than Mike Johnson. But look, if you if
you keep the same logic of supporting Trump's nominees for
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the cabinet, I think you have to follow that same
mindset when it comes to Speaker of the House. This
was a huge announcement today, and I think that really
did solidify the speaker Johnson be the next Speaker or
continue to remain as Speaker of the House.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, Brian, I mean, it's never a good look to
have a party that's not unified, right, And there are
some House Republicans, like Congressman Thomas Massey, for example, they've
said that they will not support Johnson. After President Trump's
statement today, Massey actually came out on accent doubled down,
saying that he's simply not going to vote for him.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
The Speaker can't afford more than one Republican vote to
keep his speakership.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So I mean, do you anticipate that the Republicans who
are on the fence, like Massey, they'll, you know, now
change their minds and throw their support behind him.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You know, what could be an interesting tactic here is
that at the end of the day, we could still.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Put Mike Johnson as Speaker.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Of the House, but maybe going a couple rounds deep
might be a subtle way to remind him that it
was never unanimous from the very beginning.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
So maybe it's a lesson.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Maybe it's kind of playing a little politics with him,
if you will, to make him kind of work for
those votes that aren't there initially. But I think at
the end of the day, I do think Mike Johnson
is going to be your speaker. But that is only
because President Trump has come out and endorsed him and
has put hey, you've got my full full endorsement to
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be speaker, because if he would not have done that,
I can promise you.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
But here's also another conversation. No one else has come
out and said they want to be speaker.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I know they'll float out of Jim Jordan or maybe
a Tom Emmer or someone like that, but those individuals
have never even during the speaker fight during McCarthy, they
never publicly said I want to be speaker.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
It was always someone else nominating them benounst to them.
They didn't even know they were going to do it.
It's a total surprise.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It'll be fun to watch, but maybe letting him go
to the second or third round before we actually award
him to be a speakership, maybe that's a tough lesson
that might need to have in this speaker fight.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well, and it was tough, honestly, Brian, to watch the
whole Kevin McCarthy, Mett Gates saga too. I mean that
was I don't know how many rounds we'd have to go,
but it was very clear that Matt Gates opposed him,
and it seems like that maybe hit trickle down even
till today if you think about it. But you know,
the spending bill was a big point of contention among Republicans,
while the government shutdown has been avoided for now. Do
you think we're gearing up for a fight in Congress
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in the first few months of Trump's second term.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I think we are. Actually, I think we are.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
You know, if I'm not mistaken, March is the next
opportunity we'll have to take a look at this.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
This has always been a heated.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Debate and it makes me angry just as an American
that we keep seeing this, this being kicked down the
road for the next term, the next Congress to deal with,
the next and the next president to deal with. You know,
the reason why we're so far in debt is because
of the reckless spending from Democrats and Republicans up until
this point. So I do think it's gonna We're looking
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at another big fight coming up in March.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I want to get it resolved. I want us to.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Finally get our debt under control, get our budget in line,
and really start working for the American people. And it
does start with having a balanced budget and really kind
of taking responsibility for what we've done so far.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, and I think that Doge, right the Department of
Government Efficiency is going to be a great first step
in that direction. And that's probably why Elon Musk was
very vocal about his.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Disdain for the spending bill.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Of course, we know he's going to be heading DOZE
with the vek Ramaswami. Trump actually voiced agreement with Elon
Musk on all of this, but some have been raising
concerns that Musk may have too much influence on the
president and American politics today. What is your reaction to
Musk and Trump's close relationship.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well, it's interesting you say that because this morning on
American Sunrise, we talked about Elon Musk kind of staying
in his lane as he kind of dabbled into the
whole immigration discussion. I think Elon Musk and Vivekt are
two individuals that are made for this committee.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Doge. They're going to look into all of the wasteful spending.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Now, what's another They're interesting conversation is how are Democrats
going to work with Republicans on this committee? Now you've
got Margie Taylor Green is the chairman of the sub
committee for Doe, so she's in the in the Congress.
She is the one that's going to be bringing a
lot of these topics to the floor for discussion to
find out whether or not they should be funded or not.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
But how are Democrats going to work with Republicans?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Are they Are they four getting way, you know, getting
rid of wasteful spending and abuse of our government, or
are they just going to be there to block all
of those things that many Republicans you know in Vek
and Elon as well, that want to cut So it
should be I think it's going to be must ce
TV on this particular committee all through the term because
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we're going to see, finally, guys, this is how you
drain the swamp is you literally cut off the money
to some of these, uh, some of these programs that
are just wasting American tax dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And it's so amazing, Brian, that no one has thought
to create a Department of Government efficiency like this. It
was floating. It's kind of like, you know, Elon threw
it out there, Trump through it out there, and then
here it is actually coalescing and happening, and for the
first time in history, we can look at things that
are wasteful and actually do something about it. You got
to say something for that. But you know, Trump has
seemingly sided with Elon Musk again on this H one
B visa debate, which you said something about, which sparked
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turmoil among Republicans on social media over the weekend. Do
you think there's room for reform of the program like
some maga Republicans seem to think.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Well, I like the heated discussion that we're having on it.
I think it's healthy that we are talking about this.
You've got people like Steve Bannon and others that just
want to completely do away with it, and you have
people that say, wait a minute, it's needed right now.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
It is. We don't have a conveyor belt.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Of in my opinion, of enough educated people coming out
of college.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
To fill these tech jobs. That's the reality.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
So that's why they're bringing in some of these immigrants
from other countries to fill these jobs. I'm all for
putting the American worker first, but I think it starts
in our educ cation system. We must develop sharp minds
so that they don't have to go overseas and do this.
I see both sides of the ball, bo I really
do I want America first.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I want the America first worker.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I want the guy in college right now that's studying
computer science to know.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
That when he gets out of college that he will
get that.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Job opportunity that's not going to go to some other
person from a foreign country brought over here and then
to pay him a less wage. I want that American
worker to get what they deserve, but it's going to
take some time. I don't think you just cut it
off overnight. But do I have the solution to that?
Unfortunately I don't. But I think it's a great healthy conversation.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Brian, only about thirty seconds left here, So you think
that the debate is healthy. I know there were some
people with criticism saying that, you know, it seems like
the party is not unified on certain things here, but
that's kind of what our democracy is all about.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
We want to be, you know, open to debate and
open to conversation, right.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I think it is.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
The part I don't like is what it gets really
vicious and we start to really break out the knives
on things. I don't think it's worth doing that. If
you find it like it's either pro Elon or anti Elon.
I don't like that conversation. Look, Elon Musk dumped a
bunch of money in this election to ensure that we
got the word out to vote.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
He helped President Trump.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
So at the end of the day, let's let's lay
off attacking him and the effect for how they feel
about this, and let's just have a healthy discussion and
make what's what's best for.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
This country real quick.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Brian, there was an article that came out that said
Trump is annoyed or bothered by Musk. True or false.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
I don't know. That's a great I don't think annoyed.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
You know, President Trump likes to be President Trump, and
May obviously likes his space.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
It's a maybe, yeah, it's amazing. I'll go with maybe. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Thank Thank you so much for being with us today, Brian.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Thank you all right.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Coming up, the housing industry maybe facing some.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Changes regarding Fanny May and Freddie Mack will take a
deep dive when we return.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Welcome back to Special Reports.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
President Trump's incoming administration is expected to shake up the
housing industry with new policies that could remove Fannie May
and Freddie Mack from government control.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
This was something Trump pushed for during his first term,
but the COVID nineteen pandemic forwarded those plans. Looking likely
he will be able to address this now during his
second round in office.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
We want to bring in Todd Sheets, the author of
two thousand and eight What Really Happens to the show
for discussion.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Todd, thank you so much for being with us today.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So what do you anticipate these changes are going to
look like under President Trump?
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Well, hopefully what we'll see is that these two entities,
which are called government sponsored enterprises, which mean they've been
politically favored for most of their life, they are now
controlled completely by the government.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Hopefully they'll either be.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
Shut down completely or privatized so that they are owned
by the private market and no longer operating with the
kind of privileges that led them to play the role
that they did in the housing bubble.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
And so what will that mean for mortgage rates?
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Yeah, so I think it's important, a little bit of
history is important. They do bring slightly lower interest rates
into the marketplace. But that's also the mechanism that, as
I show in the book, Drake drove the initial phase,
or what I call the liftoff phase of the housing bubble.
Fanny and Freddie decided to significantly expand their housing mission
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beginning in nineteen ninety eight, and in that year they
started growing significantly faster than they had before, and that's
what caused housing prices to start appreciating so much above trend.
And so that was the beginning phase. Then, combined with
the federal reserves actions in the two thousands, that really
took us down this path of basically upset atting these
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markets that had been very predictable for so long. So
the benefit of them being around was that they did
provide slightly lower interest rates for a period of time.
But the negative side was they have massed so much
control over the housing markets that they basically created a
bubble and a crash unlike anything that we had ever
had before. And importantly, if we go back to the
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years before they were created, let's say the post World
War two years up through the late nineteen sixties, housing
finance and the housing markets in this country had grown
very rapidly without their participation, somewhere around ten percent a year. So,
you know, I think there needs to be some transitional
period factored in. But we don't need to be afraid
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of the idea that the housing markets will fail to
adjust and there won't be money available for homeowners to
purchase homes with, you know, if we do away with
these entities.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Yeah, absolutely, Todd. I'm really loving this history lesson that
you're giving us here. I mean, this is a topic
that I can get a little bit complicated.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Can you explain for us what the conservatorship Fanny and
Freddie are under. We understand that it's overseen by the
Federal Housing and Finance Agency, but this was never intended
to be permanent, right, No, You know.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Fanny and Freddie were created in their original form in
the late nineteen sixties. In the early nineteen seventies, because
of some failures in the banking regulatory model that came
out of the New Deal and the inability of that
model to provide housing finance to fast growing areas of
the country like Florida and California, the Feds wanted to
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continue to have influence over these two organizations, so they
set them up outside of, you know, the government's books,
because they didn't want the debts to show up on
the federal government's books at a time when deficit spending
and debts were growing because of the combination of lbj's
Great Society social programs and Vietnam War. But they still
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wanted to be able to influence housing, so they took
them off the books. They made them private entities, and
they were intended to operate outside of the government sphere,
but with government influence. And because of the special privileges
that they were branded, they could borrow more cheaply than
other enterprises, and that allowed them to amass the significant
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market share that gave them the ability to influence or
trigger the housing bubble. Like we talked about, through all
this period of time, they were off the government's books.
But then when the collapse came, Fanny and Freddie effectively failed,
along with a number of other critical institutions, and at
that point in time, they were brought back onto the
government's books. The government effectively bailed out those institutions that
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had provided loans to them, and that's where they sit today.
And so again I think the ideal thing would be
for the Trump administration to continue down the process of
moving moving these entities either back into the private marketplace
and probably breaking them up as well so that they
don't have such a significant market share, and or just
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dissolving them over time.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Oh, that's so informative everything that you just said. People
should just rewatch that. It's amazing. Walk us through why
the housing market has been behaving unexpectedly despite the Fed
slashing interest rates.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Yeah, well, so what's happened is Fanny and Freddie triggered
the onset of the housing bubble. That's what I show
in the book. The second key factor was what happened
in what I call the acceleration phase, which was in
the early to mid two thousands. And what happened then
was the Federal Reserve made the disastrous mistake of dramatically
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lowering interest rates after the dot com bubble of the
late nineties and early two thousands collapsed. When they lowered
short term interest rates down into the one percent range,
they created a historically unique opportunity for people to speculate
on single family home appreciation with adjustable rate or variable
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rate mortgages, and that ultimately was disastrous. That drove what
happened in the mid two thousands, which was the FED
lowering short term interest rates in the midst of this
historically high housing appreciation that had been triggered by Fanny
and Freddy. So we get the bubble collapses, we have
the financial panic, We move on. Unfortunately, we don't draw
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the proper lessons about what really caused this, and as
a result, the FED then went on in the aftermath
of the collapse, even though, as I show in the book,
the financial panic was clearly over by early two thousand
and nine, by about March of two thousand and nine,
you can see it in stock prices and you can
see it in short term interest rates. The FED then,
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in the beginning in twenty ten, went back to the
same failed technical that they had employed before. They dramatically
lowered short term interest rates, and then they also significantly
expanded their balance sheet through the purchase of long term
bonds to try and juice economic activity. Unfortunately, you know,
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we had a prolonged recession without much economic growth. But
what this has done is created inflated asset prices once again,
and one of those areas is in housing again. So
housing prices are now back up slightly above where they
were at the peak of the bubble. And now so
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that doesn't mean we're going to go into a collapse.
The lending markets haven't gotten as crazy.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I hate to cut you off there. We are up
against a break. But thank you so much for all
your knowledge today.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Thank you, sir, Yeah, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Absolutely. Coming up, Congressman Louis Gilmer joins us to talk
about the classic case of Democrats projection and whether drones
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Speaker 1 (21:08):
Today, welcome back to Special Report. The concept of projection
is accusing someone without merit of doing the very thing
you yourself are doing. And in politics, we have seen
this with the Democrats accusing Trump of working with the Russians,
but that's actually what they did with the whole Christopher
Steele dossier. They also said Trump did a quid pro
quo with Ukraine, but it was Biden caught on tape
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doing it for the benefit of his son Hunter. And
now it seems that Dims may be doing the very
same thing and accusing Trump of weaponizing the federal government.
The latest example of this is the possibility that a
national emergency could be enacted over these mysterious drones joining
us to discuss as our friend, Congressman Louis Gohmert. Welcome, Congressman.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
It's great to be with you on the EVV of New.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Year's absolutely New Year's Eve Eve. So, Congressman, you wrote
in your op ed for Front Page magazine that these
drones could be the US government looking for something, perhaps
even radioactive material, and if that's the case, they could
then declare martial law, perhaps out of these circumstances, to
delay the swearing in a president elect Trump. So I
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got to know, do you think that that's a possibility
we must consider.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:18):
I think it's a possibility because that's exactly what they
were accusing President Trump ofv back in January twenty twenty one,
that oh, he's going to declare martial law and he's
going to take over everything, and he's not going to
let the inauguration go forward. President Trump just wanted a
fair count. That's all he was asking for. That's all
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he was seeking.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
A fair count. But here we are.
Speaker 9 (22:45):
Now we've got election deniers, Democrat election deniers, people like
Jamie Raskin, who was saying before the election even occurred,
he wasn't sure if he could vote for president vote
to Paul toward college votes. So we got some election deniers.
They're doing what they projected on Republicans. And I am
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sure that there are people that would look for any
excuse to postpone the inauguration to allow President Trump to
come in and restore some peace and some harmony in
the world and get our country back on track. So
I'm sure they would. Yeah, I'm sure they're looking for
some excuse.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, Lord knows we could use some peace and quiet
and some order, some fiscal order as well.
Speaker 10 (23:33):
Well.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Congressman as Yeah, we certainly could. You also write that
constitutionally speaking, the president elect doesn't need to be sworn
in public, citing the private swearing in a president Rutherford
Behayes in eighteen seventy seven by the Chief Justice, and
that was because of due to fear of riots. We
know that riots are certainly possible on January twenty, twenty
twenty five. So do you think it's more sensible to
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swear Trump in privately or even earlier?
Speaker 9 (23:58):
Well, it may be a good safe position to take,
just as with Ruther B. Hayes, that was a contested
election where the electoral votes were not.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
They had to be sorted out.
Speaker 9 (24:14):
They were contested in different states, and so that's why
they were afraid there'd be riots on Monday when he
was to be sworn in. So President Grant had the
Chief Justice come to the White House, had rutherand b.
Hayes come to the White House. He was sworn in
on Saturday, just in case. And we also know it
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even in modern times, it's not a problem to swear
president in actually before they take office at noon on
January twentieth, as we know from the constitutional amendments in
nineteen thirty three, because Joe Biden himself was sworn in
they finished the oath at eleven forty eight, twelve minutes
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before he actually was to become president. So there's no
harm in having a swearing in earlier. We know the president,
the outgoing president does not have to be there. It's
happened twice, doesn't have to be there. So President Trump
and President of Advance could just have a private swearing
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in at an undisclosed location. Don't let Biden know, because
he let the cat out of the bag on the
previous undisclosed location that was being his basement when he
was vice president. But yeah, making an undisclosed swear men
early and then no matter what happens. On January twentieth,
at noon on January twentieth, President Trump, thank god, we'll
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be president again.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Well, I got to ask you about this, Congressman. You know,
we have the late Jimmy Carter, who died at one
hundred years old. It's interesting because Biden commented that Trump
could learn decency from the late Jimmy Carter, but honestly,
wouldn't the decent thing to have done, Ben Biden not
seeking a second term when he was cognitively and physically
impaired and incapable of a second term.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
You are so right, and keep in mind there's a
time for decency. And I've seen President Trump when he
was incredibly sympathetic, incredibly humble and gracious. I've seen that.
But when it comes to being a world leader, you know,
Jimmy Carter was a very sincere and I think a
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strong Christian. But you know, he was trying to be
decent to the iola comane when he called him a
man of peace, and he pushed the Shaw of Iran
out of power. Helped do that, but he welcomed the
Iota as a man of peace, and the world has
not had peace ever since he did that. And it
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was he was trying to be decent and negotiate with
the hostage takers back in nineteen eighty and seventy nine
eighty and it cost so much in American life, in prestige,
and it encouraged the terrorists. So there is a time
for decency. And I've seen President Trump be very decent
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and very very very gracious, but when it comes to
being the world leader, it's time to be tough and
talk tough. And that's why I'm thrilled President Trump's going
to be back there.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
It seems that the nation will remember Jimmy Carter more
kindly than they will Joe Biden. Would you agree with that?
Has Biden tarnished his reputation and his legacy by the
way he's leaving, well.
Speaker 9 (27:32):
Only for the last four years has tarnished that. But
if you go back to his days as vice president,
he was vice president when he was bragging on video
about the quid pro quile we got from Ukraine to
throw out the prosecutor going after his son.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
So yeah, I think.
Speaker 9 (27:53):
History will not be kind to Biden because of the
incredible government overreach that he did and the funding by
the actions he took when he took office, the cost
of all a gas skyrocketed, and he made for president
putin an extra six hundred billion. So he funded the
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Russian side of the war against Ukraine. And then he
comes in and he's wanting to fund the Ukrainian side
of the war with Russia. So and then helping Iran,
bending over backwards, trying to be gracious to Iran. You
do not show graciousness to people that want to kill you,
and that is their goal, killing Americans and killing Israelis.
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That's not somebody your kind to.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
You're right, Congress, we got about just a minute or
a little less left. We spoke in the last segment
about Speaker Johnson. Are you and your colleagues do you
think relatively and unanimity with regard to Speaker Johnson and
what he can do with this next session, because you
guys got a lot of work ahead of you with
President Trump both houses. Do you have confidence in him?
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Johnson is just a great guy. He's a wonderful guy.
Speaker 9 (29:03):
I feel like he got maybe overwhelmed by Hakeem Jeffers
and McConnell and Schumer all together coming at him in
the last session.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
But they're a legitimate concerns.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
He is.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
You know, when President Trump was saying, please please require
warrants for the FBI the DOJ to grab personal information,
he let that go through so they could continue getting
information without a warrant. I still think it's unconstitutional, but
so there are legitimate issues there. But I think since
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we don't have any room for this cord in order
to get a speaker elect I.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Got to cut you off here because we are going
to break. But thank you so much for your time
day and Happy New Year's ev Happy twenty twenty five.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
We got an elector speaker for sure.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Thank you. We'll be back in just a moment.
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Speaker 1 (31:06):
Well, twenty twenty five is just around the corner, Emily,
just two days away basically, and there are more programs, supplements,
and medications out there than ever before. Yet America has
the worst health it's ever had. Here to let us
know what we can do to improve our health is
founder of Energized Health, John Jubilee. Welcome John.
Speaker 11 (31:25):
Hey, thank you guys so much, and happy new year
to everybody.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Yeah, happy new year to you, John.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
So, I guess the biggest question that everyone has ahead
of twenty twenty five is how can we take control
of our health this coming year?
Speaker 11 (31:37):
Well, well, the first thing is, let's not do the
same thing we've done for the last five, ten, fifteen,
twenty years, right, don't make another New Year's resolution, Cause
how's that working for you? They just don't work, guys.
The resolutions don't work, and so why don't we do
something different for twenty twenty five. Well, let's take five days.
(32:00):
Let's take five days, and let's learn an absolutely simple
and a scientific way to really get healthy. Let's learn
how our body was really made. Let's learn how to
actually not lose weight. Because if you believe in weight loss, guys,
I got an easy plan for you. It's called the
sauna Twinkie diet. Go sit in the sauna, stay there
(32:21):
all day, eat a box of Twinkies. You'll lose five
pounds of what of water?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Right?
Speaker 11 (32:27):
But on our five to five to five challenge, we'll
teach you the difference of losing weight and losing fat.
So I got my unfriendly fat blob here. I would
call it friendly, but it's not friendly that that fat
will kill you. Do you know that twenty pounds of
fat will kill you faster than two packs of cigarettes?
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Guys?
Speaker 11 (32:47):
For real? So let's get serious in twenty twenty five.
Come and just spend five days with Chelsea and I
and let us just walk you through a simple and
a scientific way to get off of the marre Go
round of crazy, the hamster wheel. Right of diet, diet, diet, diet, diet.
You know the first three words of diet are die,
(33:08):
you know, so you know it's like the easier to die, right,
they go on to another diet, and it's frustrating, right
when you keep failing over and over and over. That
was my experience, by the way, for ten years, I
failed over and over and over on diets. And that's
why it's so joyful for Chelsea and I to get
to share something different with you this year. But we've
(33:29):
been sharing this for twenty seven years. How to get
healthy at the sellular level with the side effect. Let's
get healthy, let's feel good first, and let's look good
after we feel good. So that's what we could do
different for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
It's interesting, John that you talked about weight loss, because
everybody in January focuses on weight loss and just about
what the scale says, not what's happening inside your body.
So what are the key health indicators that people should
be looking for to improve this year? What are the
most important ones, because it's not just the number that's
on that scale.
Speaker 11 (33:59):
Right, No, it's really not. And I would really challenge
everybody for twenty twenty five, know what your hydration level is.
So when you sign up for the five to five
to five Challenge, if you just did it for this
one thing, if you sign up for our VIP, guys,
we'll FedEx you a bioimpedance device that will measure your hydration.
(34:20):
It's the most important health marker. It's more important than
your A one C. It's more important than your blood pressure,
than any blood work number you have. Is your hydration level.
Men should be sixty, ladies should be fifty five. So
if for no other reason, guys this year know what
your hydration is, maybe for the first time in your life,
because if you're dehydrated, you absolutely are going to have inflammation,
(34:44):
You're going to have health issues. Your organs are going
to fail. They're going to fail. So kidney failure, diabetes, arthritis, asthma,
all of those things, the root cause is cellular dehydration.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yeah, and this is something that you talk about with
us often here. What does intercellular hydration do for the
body that makes it so critical to overall health? I mean,
are we just talking about drinking more water.
Speaker 11 (35:08):
Well, we're really not. I wish it was right. I
wish it was that easy. But it's not that we're
all drinking more water. But it's like the difference between
a raisin and a grape. It's a raisin and a grape.
So raisin is full of healthy hydration. A raisin is
shriveled up and much harder. And actually it's I'm giving
(35:32):
it a lot of grace to even call it a raisin.
It's more like a glass marble. So when you pour
water on a glass marble, how much will get in
the glass marble? Zero? Right, almost zero is going to
get in there. Just bounce it off. So that's the difference.
Intracellular hydration is when the hydration gets in like a
sponge instead of a glass marble. So now the hydration
gets in the sponge. It optimizes your organs. But imagine
(35:55):
your kidney, your liver, your brain, imagine those the difference
if they were fully hydrated or if they're shriveled up
like a raisin. If they're shriveled up like a raisin,
they can't function the way they should and you are
gonna have inflammation, illness, and disease in your body.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
John, I'm actually I was laughing because when you said
A one C. The only reason I even know what
that is, or kind of know what is from the
Jardiance commercial, which is they have a great jingle. But
that's sad because that's a pharmaceutical and it doesn't have
to do with what you're talking about and energized health. Now,
I know you and Chelsea are hosting a January five,
four five challenge to help people start the new year
off right, what are people gonna learn in those five
(36:31):
days they'll make twenty twenty five of their year to
get healthy and stay healthy, because I know it takes
about thirty days to make a habit, so it sounds
like you guys have something playing just in five short
days that can get them on the right track.
Speaker 11 (36:43):
Well, the reason we do that, you know, listen, if
you lose five pounds of fat, and by the way,
we measure it so you're gonna know you didn't lose water,
you didn't lose muscle, you only lost fat. So make
sure that you join the challenge, join the VIP so
that you can measure and know for the first time
in your life. But in those five days, we're going
to walk you through why scientifically you need saiular transformation,
(37:06):
why you have to focus on the cells. When your
cells get healthy, everything is healthy. When your cells get healthy,
you reset your hypothalamus and your metabolism back how you
were when you were seventeen years old. So you're going
to learn it, but you're also going to experience it
because you're literally going to lose one of these giant
fat blobs in just those five days. Guys, So come on,
(37:29):
you know, make a difference. If you want to change,
you got to make a change. If you want something different,
you have to do something different.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
That's right, all right?
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Well, John, thank you so much for sharing all of
that with us today. Appreciate you. Happy New Year, Thanks John.
Speaker 11 (37:40):
Well, Happy New Year, Happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Now coming up, husband wife team Kevin and Sam Sorbo
join us to talk about slowing down over the holidays
and what's on TEP for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
We'll be back in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Well, welcome back to Special Report. We're just only a
few days past Christmas, which flew by, and now we
are one day away from New Year's Eve. Sure seems
like time flies, especially once you get past Thanksgiving, doesn't it?
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Emily, it certainly does Bo.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
And in spite of the rushed feel that this season
seems to induce, it's important to remember to slow down
because if you don't, the season and the reason for
it tend to evaporate pretty quickly. Here to talk about
how we can slow down a bit, our actors and
podcast hosts and authors. Wow, a lot of titles here.
Kevin and Sam Sorbo. Thank you so much for being
on the show.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
It's great to see you guys.
Speaker 13 (38:40):
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Well, Sam, you know you guys wrote a forty day
Christmas devotional and that's great because this year I feel
like the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas was really really short,
and the retailers had already blown through this season and
prepared us for New Years. So how does this devotional
allow people to just slow down their lives and reflect.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Well, if that is the.
Speaker 13 (39:04):
Point is there's more to the season than just the
gift giving and the day of Christmas, and we actually
celebrate Christmas. We start we we decorate the house starting
in September, late September. He's the decorator. He puts, he
puts out all the all all that he can. How
many Santa Clauses do we have?
Speaker 10 (39:25):
Now that's not just Santa Claus.
Speaker 13 (39:30):
Oh, we have the crash and several iterations and all that,
several trees. And so the devotional was birth from that,
that idea that hey, you know, Christmas is more than
just that one day. It's actually there's a feeling, there's
a reason and uh and there's joy behind the season.
(39:50):
And you know, with the big pushback against Christmas that
we've all experienced over the years, Kevin and I just thought,
let's be a little bit more proactive and encourage people
to sell celebrate Christmas for forty days. It takes thirty
days to make a habit. And so that's the idea
behind the book, and it's still available. By the way,
it makes a fabulous Valentine's Day gift for your significant other.
(40:13):
Make a promise to celebrate Christmas with them for forty days.
Speaker 10 (40:16):
It's actually a good year round devotional.
Speaker 6 (40:18):
Actually, yeah, it really is.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Well, that's fantastic. I'm certainly going to have to check
it out. I may have to get that for my boyfriend.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
I don't know. It sounds like a great Valentine's Day present.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
No solo studios do perfect perfect Thank you for that, Kevin.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
I want to ask you this specifically.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
It must be so hard for you to slow down
because you go from film to film. So what do
you do to ensure that you get the proper family
time and even spiritual.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
Time that you need.
Speaker 10 (40:43):
I don't know what are you gonna say about that.
This past year is actually pretty crazy busy for me.
Speaker 12 (40:50):
Actually, I do a lot of speaking events as well,
and I do have four movies in post.
Speaker 10 (40:55):
Production right now.
Speaker 12 (40:55):
I got predocumentaries in posts. They'll all be out next year,
spread up over the year. I've got two of them
movies that look pretty positive right now that they're gonna.
Speaker 10 (41:03):
Get fun without the directing and acting as well.
Speaker 12 (41:05):
So yeah, growing up, I mean when our kids are
growing up, Sam traveled with me all the time. Anyway,
at that time she's back full on into producing and acting,
and by the way, but she would travel with me
with the kids.
Speaker 10 (41:17):
So the kids grew up on movie sets, and of
course I knew.
Speaker 12 (41:20):
Eventually that one or one or more that would want
to get involved in acting. And of course both my
boys have been doing it now for about about seven.
Speaker 10 (41:27):
Or eight years now. At least, so you know, it's
it's we do we can.
Speaker 12 (41:33):
They're growing up older now too, they're twenty three, twenty
and nineteen, almost twenty one to twenty old, and you know.
Speaker 10 (41:38):
You remember that age you pretty much want to do
your own thing anyway. So they don't run to the
front door anymore when I come home.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
They don't give up a standing ovation when you watch it,
we know, guys, we now have twenty twenty five right
on our doorstep. And I think it hits differently because
many of us are excited about Trump returning to the
White House. You know, is that a family gathering in
New York? And I hope it's in laws griping about
Trump and taking Greenland and the Panama Canal and making
Canada state. It was like it was like they couldn't
(42:06):
help themselves. And I was thinking, well, do you have
any brilliant ideas, because that's why he's the president and
you're not, so, you know, tell me the magnificent ideas
coming out of your part. You don't even have a leader.
So what do you guys expect in twenty twenty five?
Do you think it'll be a return to some law
and order in some sanity.
Speaker 10 (42:23):
I think it's going to be an amazing year right away.
I mean, he already is, he's already president.
Speaker 12 (42:28):
You already see the reaction from Canada and reaction from
Mexico in terms of letting more illegals into our country
as far as Panama. Remind them that we're the ones
who built that, We're the ones in front of that,
We're the ones who are lost. I don't know how
many thousands of Americans died in building there. Yeah, So
here's the thing with the least. They're going to always
going to lie and complain, but behind closed doors. As
(42:49):
every month over the next four years gets better for them,
they'll only admit it behind closed doors. They'll never admit
it out loud.
Speaker 10 (42:57):
You know, it's what it is.
Speaker 13 (42:58):
And I'll tell you I've heard stories of other people
who are from New York and the first time that
Trump was elected, they said the whole neighborhood was up
in arms and aggravated. And this time the reports are
coming back that people are much less aggravated. They seem
to have a complacency about it, even if they're not
for Trump. They're sort of resigned. And I think it's
(43:19):
because of how far the Democrat Party went literally off
the deep end, transing kids and the like, and what
Biden did recently when they asked him, does he have
any regrets? And he doesn't even regret the thirteen service
members who died in Afghanistan. This is just, you know,
(43:40):
it's a tragedy. We are lucky that we've already elected
Trump and he's already behaving as the commander in chief.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Absolutely, absolutely and very excited to see him back in
office in just a few weeks.
Speaker 11 (43:51):
Here.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Now, I want to get back to your devotional. You know,
people often talk about New Year's resolutions around this time
of year, most of which people will forget or not
stick with. But in this devotional, you want people to
create a habit. You mentioned this earlier. It takes thirty days.
So how can you inspire people to make a thirty
day habit, not necessarily for their physical shape, but for
their spiritual shape.
Speaker 13 (44:12):
Oh that's a good question. Well the devotional. Of course,
you can do the devotional any time of year. It
does focus on Christmas, but of course we carry Christmas
in our hearts all year long, and so the idea
would be to purpose every morning to read your devotional
or just read your Bible and make a habit of that.
And the only way that you could there there are
(44:32):
no shortcut. The only way to make a habit of
something is to force yourself to do it repeatedly. And
the easiest way to make a habit of being present
with your spiritual life is to read the Bible every day. Now,
a lot of people are scared of reading the Bible because, well,
we go to school and that we learn that we
hate to read one thing, right, And there's plenty of
(44:53):
other reasons to sort of go, oh, it's such a
big book. I don't know where to start. But the
great thing about the Bible is you literally can start
anywhere and you can just start to read, and you
don't have to read a lot. You can read just
a little tiny snippet and get something out of that,
especially if you get yourself an annotated Bible, which I
highly recommend, and it's very fun to do with your kids,
(45:14):
which is what we used to do with our kids.
Every morning.
Speaker 10 (45:16):
We would sit and read the Bible and.
Speaker 13 (45:18):
I'm saying fifteen minutes. And you make a habit of that,
and it creates a lifelong habit and it is a
very beneficial habit to have.
Speaker 10 (45:25):
Well, it's the reason it's a best selling book year
after year after year.
Speaker 12 (45:29):
So maybe people should check out the reason why this
Bible sells more than any other book every year.
Speaker 10 (45:33):
Around the world.
Speaker 13 (45:34):
They say, it's the only book that reads you.
Speaker 4 (45:37):
Ah, that's great.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Well, Kevin, you know I mentioned earlier that we often
have to eat with people that think differently from us,
and I've certainly broken bread with those who perhaps have
wished my own demise. I don't know, but you have
a documentary coming out next Easter called Eating with the Enemy,
and I want to know more about that.
Speaker 10 (45:55):
Ingenuity Films Brent Moll's company. They do amazing job.
Speaker 12 (45:58):
I had the number one documentary with them I was
part of. I narrated it, and I narrate this one
as well. That came up three years ago and it's
called Before the rat It deals with the Second Coming.
Speaker 10 (46:08):
They do amazing, amazing work and people are.
Speaker 6 (46:10):
Ill love this.
Speaker 12 (46:11):
It's a whole interesting way to look at the Last
Supper coming out, and sure enough they're going to release
it before Easter.
Speaker 10 (46:17):
Obviously, I hope.
Speaker 12 (46:18):
People will will jump on board that they're amazing in
them stuff they do. I was just with them recently
on the set of The Chosen where we did an
ad for the documentary and also a promotional work for
their new streaming service that they're coming up with next year,
So I hope.
Speaker 10 (46:33):
People check that out. I got another documentary coming out
after that.
Speaker 12 (46:37):
We spent three weeks in Israel tracing the flow of
the arc of the Covenant through archaeological days, and that
was called The Quest for the Throne of God. So
I hope people will take a look for that one
as well. But even at the Enemy, I think is
the first of the three documentaries coming out next year.
Speaker 10 (46:50):
And I do get a plug and I have a
movie right now. There was in theaters for a little while.
Speaker 12 (46:54):
It's now streaming on all platforms and it's called God's Here.
It's a wonderful Christmas movie, but it doesn't have to
be Christmas to be able to watch it. It's a
great story and a great tale. I helpe people check
out God's Here.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
God's Here and Sorbostudios dot com as well. That's where
we can get all of your books and things right
in movies. Yes, all right, well, Sam and Kevin, thank
you so much. For being with us on Special Report.
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you both.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Likewise, thanks all right, Well, coming up tomorrow on Special Reports,
we are going to take a look back at the good,
the bad, and the insanity of twenty twenty four. You
definitely don't want to miss it. Make sure you're staying
tuned for War Room.
Speaker 8 (47:51):
A guilty verdict, guilty on all of them, core ingested.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
This is a stalinistic show trial, tempted judicial assassination.
Speaker 11 (47:59):
We're going to set things right on a victory.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
You're gonna see a massive red Way action action action.
Speaker 10 (48:04):
When Trump wins, She'll get there, come up, and sh'll
keep fighting.
Speaker 6 (48:07):
Till the end, and we'll win it.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
The most important night of Joe Biden's president's the one
shot he's got to get either.
Speaker 11 (48:16):
I've proposing that everybody in the payment.
Speaker 9 (48:19):
What this man has done is absolutely criminal.
Speaker 11 (48:27):
Yes, this has.
Speaker 4 (48:30):
Been building up to this moment.
Speaker 10 (48:32):
At least one by stand, the.
Speaker 3 (48:34):
Left will stop inches away from killing the former president.
I've been fighting back anger, and I've been fighting back tears.
Joe Biden is out of the presidential He has Endorsedkamla Harrison.
Speaker 6 (48:45):
She's a terrible candidate.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
The border crisis is a Kamala Harris crisis. Donald Trump
survives another attempted assassination down at one of.
Speaker 4 (48:54):
His own golf clubs.
Speaker 11 (48:57):
This is Donald Trump's eighteenth president of debate.
Speaker 6 (49:00):
She's a Marxist. Everybody knows she's a Marxist.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
Donald Trump has been elected president.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
This is a manda. He would not be able to
do it without out looks like real American voice.
Speaker 11 (49:11):
If I have not done with this country yet, I
have not done with this country yet
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