New documents reveal the FBI was targeting conservative groups, including TPUSA and Charlie Kirk. Hans von Spakovsky, Heritage senior fellow, will join us to discuss just how high up these orders came from??
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President Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on whether he has the authority to fire a member of the Federal Reserve’s powerful board of governors. White House Correspondent – and attorney – JON DECKER will explain why the Justices have been asked to look at the case, and what the challenges are.
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Charlie Kirk's widow unanimously named CEO of Turning Point USA,
former President Barack Obama urging the media companies to start
standing up to President Trump.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Oh, it's all about President Trump.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's not about losing eighty percent of your audience in
a decade or revenue being not even twice as much
as what the host himself is making.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
These are ratings, revenue failures, not Donald Trump tyrannical firings.
But it's all about the narrative. President put his fist
in the air with his head bleeding, avoiding assassination by centimeters,
and said fight, fight, fight. These people are trying to fight, fight,
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fight for political theater. Shameful.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Bill's now three and zero beating the Dolphins last night
thirty one twenty one on Thursday Night Football often talk
about scandals way bigger than Watergate. The weaponization of COVID
a way bigger scandal than Watergate, the shadow campaign to
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save the democracy, faking a presidency for four years. These
are all bigger scandals in watergame. We don't even acknowledge them.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
The FBI has released documents of Arctic frost, the FBI
by way of the Justice Department, and we don't know
how high it went because we don't even know who
the president was. But they were targeting over just under
one hundred GOP groups, including Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA.
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How is this not a major scandal? How damning is
this for Ray and the FBI or the Justice departm
or perhaps the previous administration. Hans von Spakowski is with us.
He's a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. I love
saying his name and I love talking to his mind.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Hans.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Great to have you on again, Michael, has been too
long since we talked, and you were right. This is
one of the most outrageous, outrageous and frankly dangerous things
I've ever seen. And when you say targeting, people need
to understand Jack Smith and his minions dispatched secret subpoenas two,
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for example, grab the financial records at the banks of
all of these organizations.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
And what justification did he use.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Oh that they had raised questions about the outcome of
the twenty twenty election. The last time I looked, there's
nothing in the US Code saying that you're engaging in
a criminal violation of the law. If you stand up
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and say you know I got doubts about how that
election was.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Conducted and how it came out. And yet they did it.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
By the way, Hillary.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Did too, Hans, nobody investigated her the Democratic.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Apparatus, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
There was no legal justification whatsoever for Jack Smith and
his people to do that.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
And I say that, Look, I spent.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Almost five years at the US Justice Department. I know
what kind of evidence you have to have. They even
start an investigation, and Jack Smith didn't have it. This
is another sign that this was a political persecution being
conducted by the Justice Department, particularly Jack Smith.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
It was not a legitimate investigation. By the way. I
was astounded when I looked at the list to see that.
You know, I, yeah, I work at the Heritage Foundation,
but I'm also.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
The chairman of the board of the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
You know, that's a that's an organization that is concerned
with election integrity. For example, they go after states when
states are not maintaining the accuracy of their voter rolls,
which they are allowed.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
To do under federal law.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And I look, they were on the list. The Justice
Department seized the company's financial records from its bank.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Hans van Spakowski joining us from the Heritage Foundation. Obviously,
the two biggest questions are just how corrupt is the FBI,
or does it start above that at the Justice Department,
or above that in an administration, or even above that
in some you know, swamp corner.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Of the world.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And how much such of it has been cleaned up,
because this is really troubling stuff. And I mean, you
have the left right now falsely claiming that the president
is tyrannically using our own military against our own cities.
This was apparatusus within the federal government being used for
partisan political gain.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
This is this is big stuff.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
It is well, I will tell you.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Not that long ago I had a great discussion with
a retired FBI agent that I know, very very.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Good guy, and what he said was, and I think.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Folks probably understand this, was that the everyday agents of
the FBI, the guys who and women who are in
their field offices all over the country, the vast majority
of them are good.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
They're good.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
They they want to go out and combat real crime.
The problem for the past number of years, particularly during
the Obama and by administrations, was that the headquarters in Washington,
d C. Was staffed with politicians. And that also included
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the Washington Field office of the FBI, which is a
separate office where you'll recall that one of their chief
guys was forced out because of all the blogging, the
blogging he did against Trump and others in his administration.
And that's the place where it's essential that Cash Patel
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and don Dan Bongino clean up and get rid of
the people there.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
The Justice Department also the key.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
There were the political appointees, the terrible ones put in
by Biden and Obama, but the other but the Justice
Department had a much more severe problem with its career lawyers.
I know that because I worked there as a career
lawyer and I was surrounded. I was surrounded by the
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most partisan, left wing ideologues I have ever encountered in
my entire legal career.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
And who were they? They were career lawyers inside the
just tournaments.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
It tells you something that huge numbers of those lawyers
have resigned and quit in the last six months because
they said, oh, they just can't stomach working for Donald Trump.
What does that tell you about just how nonpartisan and
objective they were.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
No, it's very very revealing, and so frankly The one
of the best things that's happened to the Justice departments.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Is all of those lawyers quitting, Yeah, resigning.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
How do you eat an elephant? You know, you could
just stare at it, and you know, just never start eating.
One bite at a time is the answer. And some
of these things are so big, yes, but an arctic frost,
it gives us something we can look at, understand and
e and at the root of it.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I want to make sure people know what they're eating.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
They were taking out an apparatus of an opposing party,
everything that would have reached hearts and minds or energized
or unified people to vote. All right, so you're stacking
the deck. I mean this in totality. They were taking
out the entire GOP apparatus for the purposes of securing
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elections that they can't secure based on the mind and
arguments and policies. That's what makes this different. I would
also remind everybody of the shadow campaign to Save the Democracy,
And you can go look this up. It's February fourteenth
edition of Time magazine twenty twenty one, and these and
some of them went on to be chiefs of staff.
They're telling you how they weaponized COVID, how they changed
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election laws, how they harvested ballots, how they won in
stole the election in swing district, swing precincts of swing
districts of swing states, harvesting these ballots, and they justified
by saying we had to do it to save democracy.
I mean, they're admitting it to you, so for anybody
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to doubt then the accuracy of the election would be
common sense, not conspiratory.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
They're admitting to it.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
And here in Arctic frost, we see how they were
going to take out the opposition's very apparatus for political advantage.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
That's worse than Watergate.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Hans, Oh, no, it is.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
And let me tell you every single organization that was
on this target list, and let me tell you what
needs to happen.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
They need to immediately file boy.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
A Freedom of Information Act requests with both the Justice
Department the FBI, get every single document that was seized
from them. They need to go to their banks where
they have their organization accounts, the banks who failed to
tell them that they'd received subpoena to give them an
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opportunity to them and change banks and let those banks
know why they're changing. And then once they've gotten all
the documents to FOIA, I hope that Jack Smiths and
everybody who worked for him is hit with a hundred
civil rights lawsuits.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Because of the fact that he, like I said, and.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
His minions were abusing their power to deny the civil
rights of all these individual.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Organizations to do what participate in the electoral process.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Well, because in the court of a public opinion, even
though journalism is dead and has lost its influence and reach,
we're still stuck in a matrix.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
So the left is getting their narrative.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
They're not honest news consumers that are critically thinking and
verifying for themselves, so they're just narrative repeating the rights. Really,
far right isn't much better doing it on its own sources.
So the best way to make progress is one lawsuit
at a time, one freedom of information act at a time.
Because the only safe place, and we see this with everything.
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You have a political judge in a district stopping the
president on something ultimately against the Supreme Court and it
gets clearance. So the only safe haven is the highest courts.
So you're right on that. Real quickly, we don't have
a lot of time, but the president this week designating
Antifa a major terrorist organization.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
This might be preempting.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Look in that shadow campaign to Save the Democracy Hans,
they talk about how they were going to plan an
insurrection and they were conditioning us with Antifa and Black
Lives Matter for that, and then when they accidentally won
with Joe Biden, they had a hard time calling off
the insurrection. Then they wait un till January sixth. I
pinned insurrection on Trump. If they did it once, they
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would do it again. I think the President's aware that
that might be the plan, and that takes that off
the table. But by definition would Antifa meet the criteria
of a terrorist organization?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Because if they don't, who does?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
No, I think they do and the chief A good thing.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
About doing that is that it brings into play this
other federal criminal statue that makes it a crime to
provide material support or resources for a terrorist organization.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
It means the Justice Department can investigate and go after
the funders of Antifa, all the.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Organizations on the far left.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
That have been providing them with money and other resources.
That's the key to breaking Antifa.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
There's a lot broken in America and George Soros and
Barack Obama are still a big looming force. This might
start revealing at least one of them. Hans, you said
something at the beginning, and I got to live by it.
You're right, it has been far too long. Let's make
it not this long next time. God bless you, my friend.
Thanks for all your insights. Sure, then goodbye, Hans von Spakovski,
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one of the great names and one of the great
fellows at the Heritage Foundation.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chrono. What
happens to forty seven?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Pease? What gets your ratings up?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
He is first and foremost number one, thank you for
missing him. Two, it's really Sean Farrach and he is
a compassionate human being in addition to being intelligent, gifted
and funny. And three we don't think it's support it's appropriate,
unlike Jimmy Kimmel to be doing satire at this time.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
But I think we'll be fine for next Friday. And
thanks for noticing that.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
All right, if you're just waking up, it is twenty
seven minutes after the hour.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
These are the top stories.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
The widow of Charlie Kirk has been unanimously voted and
named CEO of Turning Point USA.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Erica Kirk will take over the organization that her husband
helped create. Kirk was assassinated last week while speaking at
a college in Utah. In a statement, Turning Points board
members said they will not surrender or kneel before evil.
Turning Point USA was founded in twenty twelve and is
credited with helping to galvanize at youth voters in support
of President Trump.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I'm Mark Mayfield protesters were speaking out after Jimmy Kimmel
Live was suspended definitely by ABC.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
The protest was held outside the El Capitan Theater in
Hollywood and led by Refusefascism dot org. This follows Kimmel's
comments criticizing the right wing response to Charlie Kirk's assassination
that led to the show's suspension. Protesters condemned the suspension
as politically motivated censorship and a violation of free speech.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
The group is.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Calling for the immediate reinstatement of Kimmel's show. I'm Tammy
Truio funny out.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
The left didn't have a problem when they completely gutted
ESPN of all of its talent for the same reason.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Lack of revenue.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Jimmy Kimmel lost eighty percent of his audience in ten
years and seventy percent of his revenue in the last
six years. It was down to forty six million dollars.
His salary alone is fifteen It just didn't make sense anymore.
In sports, Josh Allen three touchdowns, James Cook one hundred
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Night Football over the Miami Dolphins.
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Race shut out the Jays four to nothing, Bruke Crew
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This is your morning show. We'll get to some of
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your talkbacks coming up. It's thirty five minutes after the hour.
That gives those in the Central time zone about twenty
five minutes to be to work by eight o'clock if
you're just waking up. The Supreme Court will hear arguments
on the legalities of President Trump's tariff plan.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
The dates have been set for November.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Charlie Kirk's widow, Erica, unanimously voted the new CEO of
the Turning Point USA organization, in addition to heading up
the board of directors. The bills now three and oh
after beating the Dolphins last night thirty one to twenty one,
and the controversy over the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, I
you know, obviously that was one of my goals today.
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I wanted you to see how twenty five to fifty
four he's lost eighty percent of his audience in ten
years he once had a million viewers twenty five to
fifty fours down to two hundred thousand now and revenues
down to forty six million annually. Jimmy Kimmel himself is
a fifteen million dollars salary. This is a ratings and
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revenue and product viability story. But the narrative is to
take our attention away from Charlie Kirk, who lost his
life for reasonable free speech, not somebody who's been taken
off the air temporarily for insensitive and inaccurate speech. But
some Democrat lawmakers are demanding the FCC chairman resign, while
some Republicans are saying that other liberal hosts should be fired.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
That's a game I'm not interested in playing.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
And I think the President made a big mistake on
the plane saying that the FCC should take licenses away
from TV networks that overwhelmingly are critical of him. I
don't like anybody making everything about him, whether it's Donald
Trump or Jimmy Kimmel or an ignorant electorate in the middle.
And the focus still should be on Charlie Kirk, who
lost his life. But where do we stand with all
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this or your morning show correspondent has been following this closely.
Is this a business decision the way they got at
ESPN that's now being turned into a narrative or is
somebody being silenced?
Speaker 8 (19:11):
Well, I think the question is who's Did the FCC
have the thumb on the scale?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Right?
Speaker 8 (19:15):
Look, had Disney ABC come along and said, Jimmy, what
you said was reprehensible, You're suspended indefinitely, we wouldn't be
having a discussion because that would be fine. The question
is due to the comments of the FCC chair who
sort of put pressure on these station ownership groups that
have a big six point two billion dollar merger pending
with him, did they then act against their affiliate ABC
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Disney because they were trying to curry favor with the
FCC chair? And then is it just a one off
because essentially the same thing happened with Colbert and the
paramount sky Dance merger getting approved based on the fact
that Colbert was not going to be returning in the spring.
So it seems to be there's two instances of these
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business relationships perhaps impacting programming decisions.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
All right.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Then the other side of it is, look at the
raw numbers. Disney gutted ESPN. I'm not going to waste
everybody's time. I could listen names you know, and a
network more watched. But if business wise didn't make sense,
that was none that was done. Nobody screamed anything about that.
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And I look at these and while that everything you
bring up is relevant and it could be part of it,
I don't know there's another way of looking at it.
Those affiliates of many ABC stations thought those remarks were
remarkably impoor taste and inaccurate, and they acted and that
forced Disney to take an action. But I think it's
being narrativized. I'm guessing Disney's making this decision for the
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same reason CBS made the decision, lack of audience and.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Lack of revenue.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
And by the way, some of that has to do
with how political and less entertaining these shows have become.
But a lot of it is just technology and we've
moved on for the same reason. I don't watch local
news anymore, or I think I think there's a place
for maybe Jimmy Fallon to survive, but that's only because
you're not splitting what is a half of a pie
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among three networks?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Any longer, So I don't know.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
So there are these, I mean I I'd also like
to see what of the Colbert numbers, What are the
Kimmel numbers, what are the Falon numbers. I know they're
all down significantly. I don't have the twenty five to
fifty four year old breakdowns. But as you said, no
one sits down and rushes to to get into bed
by eleven thirty five to watch this stuff anymore. We
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all just watch the clip the next day on our
social media with that with the good parts. So you know,
these all these shows are in a crisis for the
fact that no one is tuning into this linear TV
like they used to.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And all the more reason, Rory, it doesn't make sense
to become political. You can't win, You're gonna you're gonna
divide your audience and meeting. And so the left is
going to play the clips to their gain to the left.
The next day, the right's going to play the negative
clips to the right to your lass. It's just a
knowe and Johnny said as much on sixty Minutes Right
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forty eight years ago.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
Yes, and let Disney and CBS make that decision if
their shows are failing what you don't want is the
president and the FCC putting the thumb on the scales to.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Make those decisions. You know, I did the whole history.
I don't know if you need to go, but I
did the whole history, going back to the original Tonight
Show and why it came to be, and then Jack
Parr and then Johnny Carson and then David Letterman after that.
Then they couldn't handle that handoff, and that brought CBS
into it. ABC went from Ted Copple and a four
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hundred million dollar pie is down to two hundred million
dollars and the smallest piece of the pie was Jimmy
Kimmel at forty six million, which is barely twice as
much revenue than his salary. So it's just, you know,
I think it's just a straight business decision. We could
debate how they got there, and as always, the answer
ends up being all of the above, and then may
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be the case here again, great reporting, Rory.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
We'll talk again tomorrow. We have two hot buttons.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I would point you to Kamala Harris, and I would
point you to the research numbers on the transgender movement, literally,
the political transgender movement just like there's an abortion movement
or a pro life movement, just like there was a
tea party movement.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Red would point you to.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
The sheriff, making it clear how afraid the assassin was
of being killed, and how they had to negotiate.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
How did they call it a gentle surrender?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
A gentle surrender and with outrage read is here's a
guy that violently took the life of Charlie kirk worried
about losing his.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Can I get that?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I mean, if he could negotiate a gentle surrender, why
couldn't he negotiate a gentle discussion with Charlie kirk Woll Yeah,
of course that's narcissism. Look, we knew that when he
didn't kill himself, because that was the plan. He wasn't
man enough. I mean if he was. And by the way,
it's gonna work against him if he tries to plead insanity,
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not that his texts and his letter don't already do.
That shows premeditation, shows clear modive. The rational decision he made.
Some hate can't be negotiated with. But he couldn't follow
through and kill himself. Mentally ill people followed through and
kill themselves. He wasn't mentally ill. He's a coward. The
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Kamala Harris one is interesting, and I'm one of the
few people a lot of people will just focus on
the are you kidding me? You represent a party of
inclusion and diversity, and the reason you didn't choose Pete Boudage.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Is he was gay. Hello. But that's not the worst
part about it.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
The worst part about it is when she said, but
we were already asking a lot of America in the
mind of the left, in the mind of Kamala Harris,
it's asking a lot of America to not see gender,
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to not see race. That's basically her saying, oh, she'd
have done it because I am not sexist, I am
not racist, I am not anti Semitic.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
But the American people look at her view of America.
Everybody missing that in the statement.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
We were already asking a lot of America to accept
a woman, a black woman, a black woman married to
a Jewish man. Why because the voters are antisemitic, racist
and sexist.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
That's asking a lot.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Part of me wanted to say, screw it, let's just
do it, but knowing what was at stake, it was
just too big to risk and Timmy wasn't and I
loved pet Budage's response. Well, yeah, I was shocked to
hear I was her number one pick, and then I
didn't get it because I'm not a straight white male.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
But it's my opinion that in politics, the way you
build and earn trust with voters is based mostly on
what they think you're going to do for their lives,
not on categories. What a mouthful, I mean, that's not
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a salad. That's the kind of quote. If reading my
lips no new taxes was enough to not get H. W.
Bush reelected, how does she survive this quote? And oh, man,
I want to just reinforce to you, don't miss not
the ridiculousness of her statement, but the ridiculousness of her
assumption of who we are. That's a woman that believes
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America is sexist, racist, and anti semitic. Why because they are,
and because they've narrativized such that is their party's view
and they're projecting it on us. She's the loser of
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the day. As for the gender movement, and obviously this
assassination is not going to help. It's still not doing
well and it never has done well, only nineteen percent
of American adults. This is why I don't know why
the Democrat Party has chosen to die on this unwinnable
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eighty twenty hill. Open borders is a hill you can't
win on. Biological men competing against women in the outrageous
notions of the transgender movement is a hill you cannot
win on. All cops are bad, all bad guys are good,
or is our quote of the day, Just because somebody
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commits a crime, they're not a criminal, according to Jasmine Crockett.
So you might get raped, but it wasn't by a rapist.
You might get robbed, but it wasn't by a robber.
You might get murdered, but it's not by a killer.
It's got to be exhausting to believe in such nonsense.
(29:02):
And when you think of how they controlled the White
House and everything they did from the White House, all
of the loud mounths in Congress, all the legacy mainstream media,
all print I mean, all television shows, from children's programming
to sitcoms, to dramas to motion pictures.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I mean, with the full weight of all.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Indoctrinative power, sixty nine percent, seven out of ten of
Americans oppose such policies that would allow schools and teachers
to counsel students on their sexual and gender identity. Sixty
nine percent agreed with the statement there's only two genders,
male and female, including fifty five of the sixty nine
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percent strongly. And this was a majority of Republicans, Democrats
unaffair alated Republican seventy seven percent, Independent seventy one percent,
even Democrats six out of ten. It's not even a
winning issue for their own party. Across male and female lines,
across racial lines, the transgender movement remains a failure, and
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they're still fighting for it. Those are our three top
stories of the day.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
It's your Morning show with Michael del Churno.
Speaker 9 (30:34):
There's a Joe from Raichville, Pennsylvania. Good morning, Michael, Jeffrey
and Read. Hope you all have a blessed weekend. We
will be keeping our thoughts emprayors this.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Weekend with not only the Kirk family.
Speaker 9 (30:48):
But also our three fallen heroes here in York, Pennsylvania.
Please be careful, Read, enjoy your weekend as best we can.
Love your show. We love you, Joey. Great word.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Let's keep our focus on a widow, two small children,
a mother and father, a lot of family and friends
who lost someone they loved very much. Jerry had great
political significance, He had great significance to a generation for
the gospel. But this is a very personal time. Don't
let anybody get you thinking about Jimmy Kimmel or under
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other things. And also with seven out of the ten
in the line of succession all in one place, pray
for the security and protection of those who are going
to honor him in Arizona this weekend. And yes, we
have not forgotten your three fallen officers either in Pennsylvania.
Great word, Joey. Let me turn to John Decker. So
(31:44):
the President is asking the US Supreme Court to rule
on whether he has the authority to fire members of
the Federal Reserve. He got his interest rate cut, two
more are coming. The main problem the cherry. He'll be
done next year. Why even go here?
Speaker 10 (32:00):
Well, he wants another vacancy, I think on the US
Supreme Court, and he thinks that he can get another
vacancy if he's permitted to remove to fire Lisa Cook
from her position on the Federal Reserve Board. She joined
eleven out of the other twelve members of the Federal
Reserve in urging and voting for an interest rate cut
(32:20):
of a quarter of appoint just the other day, and
as you point out, the FED has indicated it will
likely cut interest rates again at their final two meetings
of the year.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
All right, So if we had a you know, chain
of command chart, where does the FED and its members
connect to an executive in a branch of government.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Well, it's an independent body.
Speaker 10 (32:46):
Under federal law, the President can remove a Federal Reserve
Board governor, but only for cause what would be four caused,
something like malfeasan. So Lisa Cook has been accused. There's
an allegation and that she committed mortgage fraud. But it's
just one allegation made by one individual, and it's just
that it's an allegation. She hasn't been convicted of anything.
(33:09):
So she hasn't even been charged with anything. No civil
suit has been filed against her. And so what her
lawyers say is, look, first of all, she didn't commit
mortgage fraud number one, and number two, she should be
able to have due process. She should not just be
be able to be removed from her position simply because
of an allegation from one person.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I guess you could defend, though I doubt this would
be the case, but you could defend that the presidents
wanting to find out if he has this authority in
case charges are filed, in case due process leads to conviction.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
But I don't know, are you?
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Is anybody uncomfortable that we have about seven out of
ten of the line of succession and I can't figure
out who the designated survivor really actually is because I
can't confirm if Speaker Johnson's going to be there.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
I know he's not speaking. He will be there. He
will will be the right so we almost and he'll
be on Air Force one. By the way, he'll be
on air Force one. Yes, so we have the entire
line of succession in one place. Is that a good idea?
And what's the level of security to protect them?
Speaker 10 (34:07):
Well, we do know that the Vice president his plane,
air Force two, will be on the tarmac at Sky
Harbor Airport alongside Air Force one, so they will fly separately.
But keep in mind, once a year we have the
entire government in the same room at the same time,
and that's for the State of Union address. I'm always there,
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I'm always in that room, the security is the tightest
I've ever seen for any event I've ever attended, and
for good reason. It's because all the leavers of government,
all branches of government are in that room at the
same time. So it's even even more security than what
you're talking about for this upcoming week.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
All right.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
In the list of speakers, of course, the President of
the United States, Vice President vance Erica Kirk, the widow
Susy Wiles, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, RFK Junior, Pete
heg Seth Tulsey Gabbert, Donald Trump Junior, Tuck Carlson, and
Stephen Miller, just to name a few. Please be in
prayer for this family and for those fallen officers in PA.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
And we'll see on Monday.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
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Speaker 1 (01:01):
This is your morning show. I'm Michael, honored to serve you.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Charlie Kirk's widow unanimously named CEO of Turning Point USA,
former President Barack Obama urging the media companies to start
standing up to President Trump.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Oh, it's all about President Trump.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's not about losing eighty percent of your audience in
a decade or revenue being not even twice as much
as what the host himself is making.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
These are ratings, revenue failures, not Donald Trump tyrannical firings.
But it's all about the narrative. President put his fist
in the air with his head bleeding, avoiding assassination by centimeters,
and said fight, fight, fight. These people are trying to fight, fight,
(01:50):
fight for political theater. Shameful.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Bill's now three and zero beating the Dolphins last night
thirty one twenty one on Thursday Night Football often talk
about scandals way bigger than Watergate. The weaponization of COVID
a way bigger scandal than Watergate, the shadow campaign to
(02:15):
save the democracy, faking a presidency for four years. These
are all bigger scandals in watergame. We don't even acknowledge them.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
The FBI has released documents of Arctic frost, the FBI
by way of the Justice Department, and we don't know
how high it went because we don't even know who
the president was. But they were targeting over just under
one hundred GOP groups, including Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA.
(02:52):
How is this not a major scandal? How damning is
this for Ray and the FBI or the Justice departm
or perhaps the previous administration. Hans von Spakowski is with us.
He's a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. I love
saying his name and I love talking to his mind.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Hans.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Great to have you on again, Michael, has been too
long since we talked, and you were right. This is
one of the most outrageous, outrageous and frankly dangerous things
I've ever seen. And when you say targeting, people need
to understand Jack Smith and his minions dispatched secret subpoenas two,
(03:36):
for example, grab the financial records at the banks of
all of these organizations.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
And what justification did he use.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Oh that they had raised questions about the outcome of
the twenty twenty election. The last time I looked, there's
nothing in the US Code saying that you're engaging in
a criminal violation of the law. If you stand up
(04:08):
and say you know I got doubts about how that
election was.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Conducted and how it came out. And yet they did it.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
By the way, Hillary.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Did too, Hans, nobody investigated her the Democratic.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Apparatus, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
There was no legal justification whatsoever for Jack Smith and
his people to do that.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
And I say that, Look, I spent.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Almost five years at the US Justice Department. I know
what kind of evidence you have to have. They even
start an investigation, and Jack Smith didn't have it. This
is another sign that this was a political persecution being
conducted by the Justice Department, particularly Jack Smith.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
It was not a legitimate investigation. By the way. I
was astounded when I looked at the list to see that.
You know, I, yeah, I work at the Heritage Foundation,
but I'm also.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
The chairman of the board of the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
You know, that's a that's an organization that is concerned
with election integrity. For example, they go after states when
states are not maintaining the accuracy of their voter rolls,
which they are allowed.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
To do under federal law.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And I look, they were on the list. The Justice
Department seized the company's financial records from its bank.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Hans van Spakowski joining us from the Heritage Foundation. Obviously,
the two biggest questions are just how corrupt is the FBI,
or does it start above that at the Justice Department,
or above that in an administration, or even above that
in some you know, swamp corner.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Of the world.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And how much such of it has been cleaned up,
because this is really troubling stuff. And I mean, you
have the left right now falsely claiming that the president
is tyrannically using our own military against our own cities.
This was apparatusus within the federal government being used for
partisan political gain.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
This is this is big stuff.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
It is well, I will tell you.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Not that long ago I had a great discussion with
a retired FBI agent that I know, very very.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Good guy, and what he said was, and I think.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Folks probably understand this, was that the everyday agents of
the FBI, the guys who and women who are in
their field offices all over the country, the vast majority
of them are good.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
They're good.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
They they want to go out and combat real crime.
The problem for the past number of years, particularly during
the Obama and by administrations, was that the headquarters in Washington,
d C. Was staffed with politicians. And that also included
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the Washington Field office of the FBI, which is a
separate office where you'll recall that one of their chief
guys was forced out because of all the blogging, the
blogging he did against Trump and others in his administration.
And that's the place where it's essential that Cash Patel
(07:32):
and don Dan Bongino clean up and get rid of
the people there.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
The Justice Department also the key.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
There were the political appointees, the terrible ones put in
by Biden and Obama, but the other but the Justice
Department had a much more severe problem with its career lawyers.
I know that because I worked there as a career
lawyer and I was surrounded. I was surrounded by the
(08:04):
most partisan, left wing ideologues I have ever encountered in
my entire legal career.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
And who were they? They were career lawyers inside the
just tournaments.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
It tells you something that huge numbers of those lawyers
have resigned and quit in the last six months because
they said, oh, they just can't stomach working for Donald Trump.
What does that tell you about just how nonpartisan and
objective they were.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
No, it's very very revealing, and so frankly The one
of the best things that's happened to the Justice departments.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Is all of those lawyers quitting, Yeah, resigning.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
How do you eat an elephant? You know, you could
just stare at it, and you know, just never start eating.
One bite at a time is the answer. And some
of these things are so big, yes, but an arctic frost,
it gives us something we can look at, understand and
e and at the root of it.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I want to make sure people know what they're eating.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
They were taking out an apparatus of an opposing party,
everything that would have reached hearts and minds or energized
or unified people to vote. All right, so you're stacking
the deck. I mean this in totality. They were taking
out the entire GOP apparatus for the purposes of securing
(09:25):
elections that they can't secure based on the mind and
arguments and policies. That's what makes this different. I would
also remind everybody of the shadow campaign to Save the Democracy,
And you can go look this up. It's February fourteenth
edition of Time magazine twenty twenty one, and these and
some of them went on to be chiefs of staff.
They're telling you how they weaponized COVID, how they changed
(09:47):
election laws, how they harvested ballots, how they won in
stole the election in swing district, swing precincts of swing
districts of swing states, harvesting these ballots, and they justified
by saying we had to do it to save democracy.
I mean, they're admitting it to you, so for anybody
(10:07):
to doubt then the accuracy of the election would be
common sense, not conspiratory.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
They're admitting to it.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
And here in Arctic frost, we see how they were
going to take out the opposition's very apparatus for political advantage.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
That's worse than Watergate.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Hans, Oh, no, it is.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
And let me tell you every single organization that was
on this target list, and let me tell you what
needs to happen.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
They need to immediately file boy.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
A Freedom of Information Act requests with both the Justice
Department the FBI, get every single document that was seized
from them. They need to go to their banks where
they have their organization accounts, the banks who failed to
tell them that they'd received subpoena to give them an
(10:59):
opportunity to them and change banks and let those banks
know why they're changing. And then once they've gotten all
the documents to FOIA, I hope that Jack Smiths and
everybody who worked for him is hit with a hundred
civil rights lawsuits.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Because of the fact that he, like I said, and.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
His minions were abusing their power to deny the civil
rights of all these individual.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Organizations to do what participate in the electoral process.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Well, because in the court of a public opinion, even
though journalism is dead and has lost its influence and reach,
we're still stuck in a matrix.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
So the left is getting their narrative.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
They're not honest news consumers that are critically thinking and
verifying for themselves, so they're just narrative repeating the rights. Really,
far right isn't much better doing it on its own sources.
So the best way to make progress is one lawsuit
at a time, one freedom of information act at a time.
Because the only safe place, and we see this with everything.
(12:11):
You have a political judge in a district stopping the
president on something ultimately against the Supreme Court and it
gets clearance. So the only safe haven is the highest courts.
So you're right on that. Real quickly, we don't have
a lot of time, but the president this week designating
Antifa a major terrorist organization.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
This might be preempting.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Look in that shadow campaign to Save the Democracy Hans,
they talk about how they were going to plan an
insurrection and they were conditioning us with Antifa and Black
Lives Matter for that, and then when they accidentally won
with Joe Biden, they had a hard time calling off
the insurrection. Then they wait un till January sixth. I
pinned insurrection on Trump. If they did it once, they
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would do it again. I think the President's aware that
that might be the plan, and that takes that off
the table. But by definition would Antifa meet the criteria
of a terrorist organization?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Because if they don't, who does?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
No, I think they do and the chief A good thing.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
About doing that is that it brings into play this
other federal criminal statue that makes it a crime to
provide material support or resources for a terrorist organization.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
It means the Justice Department can investigate and go after
the funders of Antifa, all the.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Organizations on the far left.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
That have been providing them with money and other resources.
That's the key to breaking Antifa.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
There's a lot broken in America and George Soros and
Barack Obama are still a big looming force. This might
start revealing at least one of them. Hans, you said
something at the beginning, and I got to live by it.
You're right, it has been far too long. Let's make
it not this long next time. God bless you, my friend.
Thanks for all your insights. Sure, then goodbye, Hans von Spakovski,
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one of the great names and one of the great
fellows at the Heritage Foundation.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chrono. What
happens to forty seven?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Pease? What gets your ratings up?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
He is first and foremost number one, thank you for
missing him. Two, it's really Sean Farrach and he is
a compassionate human being in addition to being intelligent, gifted
and funny. And three we don't think it's support it's appropriate,
unlike Jimmy Kimmel to be doing satire at this time.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
But I think we'll be fine for next Friday. And
thanks for noticing that.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
All right, if you're just waking up, it is twenty
seven minutes after the hour.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
These are the top stories.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
The widow of Charlie Kirk has been unanimously voted and
named CEO of Turning Point USA.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Erica Kirk will take over the organization that her husband
helped create. Kirk was assassinated last week while speaking at
a college in Utah. In a statement, Turning Points board
members said they will not surrender or kneel before evil.
Turning Point USA was founded in twenty twelve and is
credited with helping to galvanize at youth voters in support
of President Trump.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I'm Mark Mayfield protesters were speaking out after Jimmy Kimmel
Live was suspended definitely by ABC.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
The protest was held outside the El Capitan Theater in
Hollywood and led by Refusefascism dot org. This follows Kimmel's
comments criticizing the right wing response to Charlie Kirk's assassination
that led to the show's suspension. Protesters condemned the suspension
as politically motivated censorship and a violation of free speech.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
The group is.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Calling for the immediate reinstatement of Kimmel's show. I'm Tammy
Truio funny out.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
The left didn't have a problem when they completely gutted
ESPN of all of its talent for the same reason.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Lack of revenue.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Jimmy Kimmel lost eighty percent of his audience in ten
years and seventy percent of his revenue in the last
six years. It was down to forty six million dollars.
His salary alone is fifteen It just didn't make sense anymore.
In sports, Josh Allen three touchdowns, James Cook one hundred
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and eight yards and a touchdown. Bill's now three to zero,
winning thirty one to twenty one on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Night Football over the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Tigers lost three to one to the Guardians and got
swept in the series. Reds beat the Cubs won to nothing,
Race shut out the Jays four to nothing, Bruke Crew
five to two over the Angels, Dodgers two to one
over the Giants, A's won five to three over the
Red Sox, and the Padres lost six to one to
the Mets. So this is Big John and My Morning
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show is your Morning Show with Michael B.
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This is your morning show. We'll get to some of
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your talkbacks coming up. It's thirty five minutes after the hour.
That gives those in the Central time zone about twenty
five minutes to be to work by eight o'clock if
you're just waking up. The Supreme Court will hear arguments
on the legalities of President Trump's tariff plan.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
The dates have been set for November.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Charlie Kirk's widow, Erica, unanimously voted the new CEO of
the Turning Point USA organization, in addition to heading up
the board of directors. The bills now three and oh
after beating the Dolphins last night thirty one to twenty one,
and the controversy over the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, I
you know, obviously that was one of my goals today.
(17:52):
I wanted you to see how twenty five to fifty
four he's lost eighty percent of his audience in ten
years he once had a million viewers twenty five to
fifty fours down to two hundred thousand now and revenues
down to forty six million annually. Jimmy Kimmel himself is
a fifteen million dollars salary. This is a ratings and
(18:12):
revenue and product viability story. But the narrative is to
take our attention away from Charlie Kirk, who lost his
life for reasonable free speech, not somebody who's been taken
off the air temporarily for insensitive and inaccurate speech. But
some Democrat lawmakers are demanding the FCC chairman resign, while
some Republicans are saying that other liberal hosts should be fired.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
That's a game I'm not interested in playing.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
And I think the President made a big mistake on
the plane saying that the FCC should take licenses away
from TV networks that overwhelmingly are critical of him. I
don't like anybody making everything about him, whether it's Donald
Trump or Jimmy Kimmel or an ignorant electorate in the middle.
And the focus still should be on Charlie Kirk, who
lost his life. But where do we stand with all
(18:58):
this or your morning show correspondent has been following this closely.
Is this a business decision the way they got at
ESPN that's now being turned into a narrative or is
somebody being silenced?
Speaker 8 (19:11):
Well, I think the question is who's Did the FCC
have the thumb on the scale?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Right?
Speaker 8 (19:15):
Look, had Disney ABC come along and said, Jimmy, what
you said was reprehensible, You're suspended indefinitely, we wouldn't be
having a discussion because that would be fine. The question
is due to the comments of the FCC chair who
sort of put pressure on these station ownership groups that
have a big six point two billion dollar merger pending
with him, did they then act against their affiliate ABC
(19:40):
Disney because they were trying to curry favor with the
FCC chair? And then is it just a one off
because essentially the same thing happened with Colbert and the
paramount sky Dance merger getting approved based on the fact
that Colbert was not going to be returning in the spring.
So it seems to be there's two instances of these
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business relationships perhaps impacting programming decisions.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
All right.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Then the other side of it is, look at the
raw numbers. Disney gutted ESPN. I'm not going to waste
everybody's time. I could listen names you know, and a
network more watched. But if business wise didn't make sense,
that was none that was done. Nobody screamed anything about that.
(20:26):
And I look at these and while that everything you
bring up is relevant and it could be part of it,
I don't know there's another way of looking at it.
Those affiliates of many ABC stations thought those remarks were
remarkably impoor taste and inaccurate, and they acted and that
forced Disney to take an action. But I think it's
being narrativized. I'm guessing Disney's making this decision for the
(20:49):
same reason CBS made the decision, lack of audience and.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Lack of revenue.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
And by the way, some of that has to do
with how political and less entertaining these shows have become.
But a lot of it is just technology and we've
moved on for the same reason. I don't watch local
news anymore, or I think I think there's a place
for maybe Jimmy Fallon to survive, but that's only because
you're not splitting what is a half of a pie
(21:15):
among three networks?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Any longer, So I don't know.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
So there are these, I mean I I'd also like
to see what of the Colbert numbers, What are the
Kimmel numbers, what are the Falon numbers. I know they're
all down significantly. I don't have the twenty five to
fifty four year old breakdowns. But as you said, no
one sits down and rushes to to get into bed
by eleven thirty five to watch this stuff anymore. We
(21:40):
all just watch the clip the next day on our
social media with that with the good parts. So you know,
these all these shows are in a crisis for the
fact that no one is tuning into this linear TV
like they used to.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And all the more reason, Rory, it doesn't make sense
to become political. You can't win, You're gonna you're gonna
divide your audience and meeting. And so the left is
going to play the clips to their gain to the left.
The next day, the right's going to play the negative
clips to the right to your lass. It's just a
knowe and Johnny said as much on sixty Minutes Right
(22:15):
forty eight years ago.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
Yes, and let Disney and CBS make that decision if
their shows are failing what you don't want is the
president and the FCC putting the thumb on the scales to.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Make those decisions. You know, I did the whole history.
I don't know if you need to go, but I
did the whole history, going back to the original Tonight
Show and why it came to be, and then Jack
Parr and then Johnny Carson and then David Letterman after that.
Then they couldn't handle that handoff, and that brought CBS
into it. ABC went from Ted Copple and a four
(22:50):
hundred million dollar pie is down to two hundred million
dollars and the smallest piece of the pie was Jimmy
Kimmel at forty six million, which is barely twice as
much revenue than his salary. So it's just, you know,
I think it's just a straight business decision. We could
debate how they got there, and as always, the answer
ends up being all of the above, and then may
(23:10):
be the case here again, great reporting, Rory.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
We'll talk again tomorrow. We have two hot buttons.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I would point you to Kamala Harris, and I would
point you to the research numbers on the transgender movement, literally,
the political transgender movement just like there's an abortion movement
or a pro life movement, just like there was a
tea party movement.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Red would point you to.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
The sheriff, making it clear how afraid the assassin was
of being killed, and how they had to negotiate.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
How did they call it a gentle surrender?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
A gentle surrender and with outrage read is here's a
guy that violently took the life of Charlie kirk worried
about losing his.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Can I get that?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I mean, if he could negotiate a gentle surrender, why
couldn't he negotiate a gentle discussion with Charlie kirk Woll Yeah,
of course that's narcissism. Look, we knew that when he
didn't kill himself, because that was the plan. He wasn't
man enough. I mean if he was. And by the way,
it's gonna work against him if he tries to plead insanity,
(24:39):
not that his texts and his letter don't already do.
That shows premeditation, shows clear modive. The rational decision he made.
Some hate can't be negotiated with. But he couldn't follow
through and kill himself. Mentally ill people followed through and
kill themselves. He wasn't mentally ill. He's a coward. The
(25:00):
Kamala Harris one is interesting, and I'm one of the
few people a lot of people will just focus on
the are you kidding me? You represent a party of
inclusion and diversity, and the reason you didn't choose Pete Boudage.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Is he was gay. Hello. But that's not the worst
part about it.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
The worst part about it is when she said, but
we were already asking a lot of America in the
mind of the left, in the mind of Kamala Harris,
it's asking a lot of America to not see gender,
(25:42):
to not see race. That's basically her saying, oh, she'd
have done it because I am not sexist, I am
not racist, I am not anti Semitic.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
But the American people look at her view of America.
Everybody missing that in the statement.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
We were already asking a lot of America to accept
a woman, a black woman, a black woman married to
a Jewish man. Why because the voters are antisemitic, racist
and sexist.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
That's asking a lot.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Part of me wanted to say, screw it, let's just
do it, but knowing what was at stake, it was
just too big to risk and Timmy wasn't and I
loved pet Budage's response. Well, yeah, I was shocked to
hear I was her number one pick, and then I
didn't get it because I'm not a straight white male.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
But it's my opinion that in politics, the way you
build and earn trust with voters is based mostly on
what they think you're going to do for their lives,
not on categories. What a mouthful, I mean, that's not
(27:09):
a salad. That's the kind of quote. If reading my
lips no new taxes was enough to not get H. W.
Bush reelected, how does she survive this quote? And oh, man,
I want to just reinforce to you, don't miss not
the ridiculousness of her statement, but the ridiculousness of her
assumption of who we are. That's a woman that believes
(27:33):
America is sexist, racist, and anti semitic. Why because they are,
and because they've narrativized such that is their party's view
and they're projecting it on us. She's the loser of
(27:55):
the day. As for the gender movement, and obviously this
assassination is not going to help. It's still not doing
well and it never has done well, only nineteen percent
of American adults. This is why I don't know why
the Democrat Party has chosen to die on this unwinnable
(28:18):
eighty twenty hill. Open borders is a hill you can't
win on. Biological men competing against women in the outrageous
notions of the transgender movement is a hill you cannot
win on. All cops are bad, all bad guys are good,
or is our quote of the day, Just because somebody
(28:41):
commits a crime, they're not a criminal, according to Jasmine Crockett.
So you might get raped, but it wasn't by a rapist.
You might get robbed, but it wasn't by a robber.
You might get murdered, but it's not by a killer.
It's got to be exhausting to believe in such nonsense.
(29:02):
And when you think of how they controlled the White
House and everything they did from the White House, all
of the loud mounths in Congress, all the legacy mainstream media,
all print I mean, all television shows, from children's programming
to sitcoms, to dramas to motion pictures.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I mean, with the full weight of all.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Indoctrinative power, sixty nine percent, seven out of ten of
Americans oppose such policies that would allow schools and teachers
to counsel students on their sexual and gender identity. Sixty
nine percent agreed with the statement there's only two genders,
male and female, including fifty five of the sixty nine
(29:52):
percent strongly. And this was a majority of Republicans, Democrats
unaffair alated Republican seventy seven percent, Independent seventy one percent,
even Democrats six out of ten. It's not even a
winning issue for their own party. Across male and female lines,
across racial lines, the transgender movement remains a failure, and
(30:26):
they're still fighting for it. Those are our three top
stories of the day.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
It's your Morning show with Michael del Churno.
Speaker 9 (30:34):
There's a Joe from Raichville, Pennsylvania. Good morning, Michael, Jeffrey
and Read. Hope you all have a blessed weekend. We
will be keeping our thoughts emprayors this.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Weekend with not only the Kirk family.
Speaker 9 (30:48):
But also our three fallen heroes here in York, Pennsylvania.
Please be careful, Read, enjoy your weekend as best we can.
Love your show. We love you, Joey. Great word.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Let's keep our focus on a widow, two small children,
a mother and father, a lot of family and friends
who lost someone they loved very much. Jerry had great
political significance, He had great significance to a generation for
the gospel. But this is a very personal time. Don't
let anybody get you thinking about Jimmy Kimmel or under
(31:23):
other things. And also with seven out of the ten
in the line of succession all in one place, pray
for the security and protection of those who are going
to honor him in Arizona this weekend. And yes, we
have not forgotten your three fallen officers either in Pennsylvania.
Great word, Joey. Let me turn to John Decker. So
(31:44):
the President is asking the US Supreme Court to rule
on whether he has the authority to fire members of
the Federal Reserve. He got his interest rate cut, two
more are coming. The main problem the cherry. He'll be
done next year. Why even go here?
Speaker 10 (32:00):
Well, he wants another vacancy, I think on the US
Supreme Court, and he thinks that he can get another
vacancy if he's permitted to remove to fire Lisa Cook
from her position on the Federal Reserve Board. She joined
eleven out of the other twelve members of the Federal
Reserve in urging and voting for an interest rate cut
(32:20):
of a quarter of appoint just the other day, and
as you point out, the FED has indicated it will
likely cut interest rates again at their final two meetings
of the year.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
All right, So if we had a you know, chain
of command chart, where does the FED and its members
connect to an executive in a branch of government.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Well, it's an independent body.
Speaker 10 (32:46):
Under federal law, the President can remove a Federal Reserve
Board governor, but only for cause what would be four caused,
something like malfeasan. So Lisa Cook has been accused. There's
an allegation and that she committed mortgage fraud. But it's
just one allegation made by one individual, and it's just
that it's an allegation. She hasn't been convicted of anything.
(33:09):
So she hasn't even been charged with anything. No civil
suit has been filed against her. And so what her
lawyers say is, look, first of all, she didn't commit
mortgage fraud number one, and number two, she should be
able to have due process. She should not just be
be able to be removed from her position simply because
of an allegation from one person.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I guess you could defend, though I doubt this would
be the case, but you could defend that the presidents
wanting to find out if he has this authority in
case charges are filed, in case due process leads to conviction.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
But I don't know, are you?
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Is anybody uncomfortable that we have about seven out of
ten of the line of succession and I can't figure
out who the designated survivor really actually is because I
can't confirm if Speaker Johnson's going to be there.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
I know he's not speaking. He will be there. He
will will be the right so we almost and he'll
be on Air Force one. By the way, he'll be
on air Force one. Yes, so we have the entire
line of succession in one place. Is that a good idea?
And what's the level of security to protect them?
Speaker 10 (34:07):
Well, we do know that the Vice president his plane,
air Force two, will be on the tarmac at Sky
Harbor Airport alongside Air Force one, so they will fly separately.
But keep in mind, once a year we have the
entire government in the same room at the same time,
and that's for the State of Union address. I'm always there,
(34:28):
I'm always in that room, the security is the tightest
I've ever seen for any event I've ever attended, and
for good reason. It's because all the leavers of government,
all branches of government are in that room at the
same time. So it's even even more security than what
you're talking about for this upcoming week.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
All right.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
In the list of speakers, of course, the President of
the United States, Vice President vance Erica Kirk, the widow
Susy Wiles, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, RFK Junior, Pete
heg Seth Tulsey Gabbert, Donald Trump Junior, Tuck Carlson, and
Stephen Miller, just to name a few. Please be in
prayer for this family and for those fallen officers in PA.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
And we'll see on Monday.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
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