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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Shapiro, I think fit is important. Uh, but you know,
I also think that when you look at the principle
of do no harm, maybe they did say, in a
state like Minnesota, do we want to those one hundred
thousand uncommitted voters who came out about the Gaza war?
(00:20):
Do we want to antagonize those voters? Those are all
parts of part of the questions as well.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
But I just say Tim Walls also spoke conciliatorily towards
those people. He said, look, that uncommitted vote is significant
and those people should be heard. So having that kind
of response, I think is probably more of an open
door to the parts of the party that have been
very frustrated with the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
So but just to just to one point on the
on the on the Gaza war, Shapiro has the same
position on Israel that Governor Walls that the Senator Kelly has.
He's actually been more critical of Nets on Yahoo than
the other two.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
But he is Jewish and also.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
The face of the crackdown on the protests.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
He spoke very vehemently about those campus protests as being
anti Semitic, not.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
All of them, the ones that were anti semitic, he
criticized as being anti Sebbitic.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
He was out front on the issue, So I'm wondering
if that's the kind of thing that again for the
activist wing of the party. Absolutely was a slap in
the face.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Oh my god. Should he have not been out front
on the issue when they were clearly pro Hamas and
anti Semitic and anti Israel and anti jew and Governor
Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania is Jewish. Should he just sit
on the sidelines and not rile up the pro Hamas
wing of the party in the base that it would
(01:49):
like to see, you know, all of Israel destroyed in
the Hamas squad that lost another member hashtag rip Corey
Bush losing in a primary last night. It was very sad.
A single tier. It's not my right cheek, just one tier.
She might have gotten two, but I wasn't quite that
sad about it. Ryan Shulding back with you here on
six point thirty K how and who you heard there,
(02:10):
Abby Phillip, Audi, Cornish, Jake Tapper CNN analyzing why Kamala
Harris decided to pass on a Jew der Juden der
Juden as their running mate, and they just said the
quiet parts out loud. There you had. You know, not
that I care, But when you go down the primrose
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path of identity politics, guess what it ends in a
dead end and you end up on a six year
old white guy named Tim Walls because I don't know,
gotta appear to be at least fly over country, Midwest,
corn eaton flannel wearing football coaching, Tim Walls, Minnesotan, Minnesota
(02:53):
Nisson and as Jesse Waters pointed out, we'll get to
that in a little bit, he's none of those things.
But Abby Phillip, Audie Hornish, both black women, Jake Tapper,
Jewish guy. They're going right ahead and saying, well, we
don't want to aggravate now the militant wing of the
Democratic voting base. So you can't have a jew mean, Oh,
(03:15):
our lonely eyes and ears. Turned to my next guest.
He is Suraj Hashmi. He is the co host of
the Habibi Brothers podcast, which is currently in hiatus because
he's a father a very young beautiful daughter. He joins
us now and he just kind of broke through on
the Twitter verse again, also known as Ax. You can
follow him there at saraj A Hashmi that A stands
(03:38):
for awesome, h Ashmi, He joins us now Live, Sarage,
welcome back, my friend, Mandy.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
It's always a pleasure.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
What do you make of all of this identity politics crap?
And I say this, Saraj, you and I can have
this conversation a bit freely, I think, because we're Americans,
you and me. You know, my mom was Serbian, my
dad Dutch and British. Your father's Pakistani, Your mom is
white and from Jersey or whatnot. How do you identify?
And I want to make sure I'm sensitive to that.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Wait, you said you're family's from Serbia. That's that's disqualifying.
You can't be American?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Now, No, I know, i'd see there it is. I
just tripped the wire.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
I mean, I identify as American. Yeah, so who else
does I remember? Interestingly enough, there was an interview very
early on in the Tucker Carlson on Fox News Days
when he has his own show, Prime Time Tucker Carlton Tonight,
he had this black Muslim woman who was also a lesbian,
(04:43):
and he asked her, what did you identify? At first?
Speaker 7 (04:46):
You identified an American?
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Right, She's like, I identify as black. He's like, all right,
thank you for your.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
Time, and then I will let him go. So I
think about that often, especially because there are a lot
of people who, you know, they put this a hierarchy
to how they identify. It's no longer you're American first
and then you're whenever you are a second. Some people
just to put their religion ahead of them of whatever
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their national identity is, and that's fine. I never really
thought about the hierarchy that I would have because you know,
I'm sort of just a smorgas board of all these
different things, and I just I'm Saraged and you know,
I'm an American, I'm Muslim, I'm biracial, I have Pakistani heritage
from my dad's side, I have European ancestry from my
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mom's side.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
And you know, I'm just out here trying to do it,
do the best I can.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
And this takes us back, Saraja. I never got a
chance to ask you your comments about what Donald Trump
said at the National Association for Black Journalists where he
was kind of making light of the fact about Kamala's
chameleon identity, which would whatever was most expedient for her
in the moment. Ap referred to her as the first
Indian American senator. Well, now, all of a sudden, he's
(06:00):
black and she just became black, and I don't know how.
And if you noticed, there were members of that audience
who were black journalists that were laughing along with him.
It wasn't like a really negative reaction necessarily, But couldn't
Kamala Harris have really done, I think what Barack Obama
did in two thousand and eight and unify and say, look,
I'm an American kind of like what we were just
(06:21):
talking about, regardless of my background. But no, she had
to lean into that. What was your reaction to it?
All of that, Well, for.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
One, that we don't live in the same time as
we do. When Barack Obama was running for president, you know,
we were all thinking about how historic it would be
at the time to like a black man as president
and who actually like came off as presidential obviously, like
people try to, you know, paint this comparison between Kamala
(06:51):
Harris and Barack Obama, and it's just not there. Kalla
Harris is not anywhere close to the same lead as
Barack Obama. And I say that someone as an avowed
Barack Obama hater. Okay, I vote a F the dude twice,
and I am I'm telling you that he does not
disappoint He has disappointed me so hard and I regret
(07:14):
vote ever voting for him. But of course, like at
the time I was young, I was a big lib
so of course it happened the way it did.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
But like, I don't know how.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
People get energized and think about, oh, Kamala Harris like
she's definitely the next Barack Obama. No, they're trying to
astro turf that they're trying to make it like she
actually has like substance, Like Barack Obama kept kind of
under the radar before he ran for president, so there
wasn't much of a record to attack exact. A lot
(07:44):
of people are like, where did this guy come from?
Kamala Harris has an established public record that you can
date back to the last two to three decades and
how she got her start from Willy Brown to San
Francisco District Attorney to California the US Center, theor for California.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
She hasn't done, and then the vice president.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
She hasn't done anything that is considered to be good.
All the things that are on her record are always bad?
Is never something that she's done. They listen her accomplishments.
I can't recall which article with their publications they listener accomplishments.
Top three accomplishments. First one, first of VIX president to
visit a plant parenthood clinic. Okay, I'm not saying she
(08:24):
had an appointment, but they didn't say she didn't have
an appointment. Secondly, she was oh, I can't even remember
the other dude, but the fact that they lead off
of that one just shows you how terrible her record is.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Saraj Hashmi is my guest. You can follow him on
x at that handle saraj A Hashmi. And you answered
this as being kind of an AstroTurf campaign. I mean,
it's so much more than that, Saraje. It's on steroids,
with the media running cover for her. Jd Vance doing
his best to call it out that it's been what
sixteen seventeen days here nary a word from her to
(08:59):
a reporter in the form of a press conference or
sit down interview. Could she really run the entire campaign
like this does Tim Walls is able to do that
as well. We see the poles they've shifted in her favor.
Are you buying that? Is this a sugar high as
some on the writer calling it, or can she sustain
this and really sprint to the finish?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
I'd say as long as the poles are tight, she
doesn't have to do a darn thing. She can continue
to ride the wave that sugar high. We'll see how
long elass because there's gonna be something bad that happens
that she's gonna have to respond to and get in
front of the cameras for because at this point she's
pretty much the acting president right now. It's not even
(09:38):
a matter that Biden's been hasn't been behind the wheel
and at least a year. I mean we're looking at
we're looking at Kamala Harris already being president. So everything
that's happening right now you can absolutely blame on Kamala Harris,
whether it's the burner with stock market crash and the
economy tanking, inflation going high, you know, her cackling haunting
(09:58):
my nightmares, you could blame all of that on her.
And so I think what we're gonna see have happened
is as soon as the poles start sort of correcting itself,
because I think most of the country is pretty much
still in.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
The camp of.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
You not voting at all. They're voting for Trump. I
don't think there's going to be a whole lot of people. Yeah,
sure made the base my team energized, but don't I
still think in the head to head matchup with Trump,
she still doesn't hate every battleground state that is up
for grabs. I just don't see it happening.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
And the battleground states that she would need to win
that blue wall of Minnesota, which she hopes to nail
down now with Tim Walls being the pick, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
we'll see how it plays out. But Harris Walls ticket,
my goodness, gracious, I can't remember one that was further
to the left, especially with the addition of Walls, and
how that plays in Peoria, so to speak, or even
(10:55):
Minneapolis or Claire, Wisconsin, where we saw both Harris and
jdva ants Today to the meat of the matter here, Saraj,
the reason I reached out to you only half joking,
especially now. I interviewed Susan Crabtree in the first hour.
She of real clear politics and her sourcing within the
Secret Service I've gotten to a point now. I'm not
a big conspiracy theorist guy. And I listened to Dan Bongino,
(11:18):
and I think he tries to let the facts lead
him rather than jumping to conclusions. However, I don't trust
the FBI, I don't trust the CIA, I don't trust
our DOJ. And now we see this headline Pakistani mann
with ties to Iran charged in foyle an assassination plot
potentially targeting Trump. Subheader asif Merchant forty six allegedly worked
(11:42):
with a supposed hitman to try and kill a political figure,
the Justice Department, said Saraj, Aside from the joke, obviously
this guy's Pakistani and you have some heritage there and
it's your cousin or what. But what was your reaction
to this story?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Well, I question whether he's even Pakistani because I have
not met a single Pocketsana. Last surname is Merchant. Yeah,
that's that is incredibly I mean, like drop the tea
and it's basically the cousin of the judge who's sentenced
Uh it's going to be sentencing Trump and the hush
money trial. Uh wa Rashaan Uh Yeah, the whole thing
(12:21):
kind of thinks a little bit. I'm not doubting the
the motives and the motivation behind office merchants, uh, you know,
like attempts to try to uh assassinate Donald Trump. I mean, look,
there's so many people on the left that want to
kill Trump. It's just like, uh, you tell the FBI,
(12:44):
you tell someone that within the federal government, Hey, someone's
out there to kill Trump, and be like WHOI which one?
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Like? Which one?
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Which?
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Like?
Speaker 6 (12:52):
The get like take a number, right, too many people
that want to kill Trump, right, And it's funny. You
got the rest of the day before Trump is actually
he was shot in the air, and Butler, Pennsylvania was
just kind of wild and of itself. But getting back
to the are like this guy accordingly, you know, apparently were
allegedly paid to paid what the confidential source and then
(13:13):
to hitman for higher Woody gave a SATs thousand dollars
events I don't know, five thousand dollars seems a little
bit low if you're trying to assassinate the president of
the United States. There's just a lot of things that
just seem walking about. Of course, this obviously is very
reminiscent of the entrapment schemes that they did in the
post nine to eleven. Uh, you know, I would say
(13:36):
the decade or so after before isis in which they
basically sound they would announce in the rest of a
terrorist to plotted to kill Americans, and it ended up
being like this, like radicalized Muslim man who had no
means of doing anything basically being approached by fed the
hatch out an entire scheme to try to you know,
(13:59):
develop some sort of terrorist plot, and then eventually they
arrest them before you know, good skills any further. Like
that's the That's basically what this is. This is where
we're at right now with us. I also don't know
what the DJs angle here is because obviously there's some
element about like trying to play up this whole foreign
interference angle, especially by connecting this guy to Iran and
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apparently only had a wife and kids who are who
are Iranian, like he didn't like we don't actually know
of any like a ties association with the Iranian regime,
right And I'm not saying that there isn't. It's just
that they haven't really produced that evidence just yet. But
I will say that the DOJ has a lot more
(14:45):
to answer for this because they they haven't really satisfied
the public interests in this story. They haven't like settled
the question of why this actually happened and why they
can you need to engage in these Chapman seeds, like, yeah, sure,
I obviously understand that you want to, like the national
security is important. You want to obviously avoid assassination. Thought
(15:09):
maybe this is the best way they could get get
it done. But like, at the same time, you couldn't
just like, I don't know, you couldn't just like pull
the dude aside and be like, hey, we're watching you.
I like that's more than enough, So like, come off.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
It's incredible to me because when you look at the
timeline and I'm basing this on what I sent you,
what you've quoted here in a post on acts from
Julie Kelly, it says in one of these in the
overview portion of the report, since at least April twenty
twenty four, Merchant orchestrated a plot to assassinate US government
officials on US soil. The assassination attempt against Donald Trump
(15:47):
happened less than a month ago, and yet they didn't
offer him a full security compliment or detailed the way
that you would maybe for Joe Biden as a sitting
president of the United States, that part doesn't add up
as well. And then you factor in, you know, FBI entrapman.
How about hello, the kidnapping of my home state governor
Gretchen Whitmer, that allegedly there were those in there were
(16:07):
agents or assets of the FBI trying to entrap or
lure in some of these roubes from northern Lower Michigan
into such a plot. So I'm with you, Saraj. I
don't trust the DOJ or the FBI as far as
I can throw them, and I don't know that I
believe them entirely here.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Yeah, it's look, I think they want it's like one
of those drug busts means that you see online where
they like say they have this massive drug bus and
it's just like a vase pen and like a bb
gun Like that's the ju Yeah, like that's basically where
That's basically where we're at in terms of national security policing. Yeah,
it's I think it's it's just a facade. It's the
(16:46):
illusion of security or the illusion of like, hey, we're
keeping you safe. So please thank us. And you know,
like I don't know who this is helping and who
they're catering to, but it definitely isn't people who actually
have two brain cells or more.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
We're living in a simulation and if you put them together,
I think Saraj and I do have two brain cells.
But you can follow. I'll give you my extra one
follow me about x at saraj a hash me that's
a is an awesome an h A s h m.
I sarag Always thankful for your time. Thank you so much.
(17:22):
Enjoy Florida.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Hey Mandy, it's always a pleasure, and wait to do
it again.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Good old Sarage joining us here and coming up after
the bottom of the hour time out. I'm very happy
to be joined by the CEO of Newsmax, Chris Ruddy
is going to be joining us with some exciting news
and an opportunity for those of you who watch Newsmax quickly, ladies.
P K Stein, Mark Stevenson, Mindy debor Scott. Are you
Newsmax viewers. I know that you don't watch a lot
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Speaker 9 (17:48):
PK Right, no TV alternative?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Do you watch any TV news?
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I watch a little bit.
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What do you watch I'll.
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I like America's voice, the three guys, okay.
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Real America's voice. That's the one. And Mindy, you're kind
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You watch a lot of the good we go up
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Oh no, he's downstairs watching his uh you know, his programs,
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Or something, family cooking shows.
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All right, who's your favorite Fox News host?
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If you have one favorite Fox.
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Was not mine. No, no, okay, it's funny. I can
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We'll let you think about it during the break, Jesse.
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Yeah, there you go.
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Kamala and Tim can just have JD Vance do all
of their interviews for them. That's the thing that's actually
a good point. And if those two Kamala Harris Tim
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Walls are going to constantly avoid media appearances, meaning sit
down interviews one on one or hits on various shows
mainstream or otherwise, or press conferences with reporters. Then jd
Vance needs to take it upon himself, as does Donald Trump,
to define those two for them. Just do them that favor.
If they're not going to come out and do it themselves, well,
(20:25):
then provide that service for the American voters. And that
will force their hands when you think about it, if
they're going to rely upon just the ether and to
kind of float along here in a basement campaign, well
then jd Vance could come on CNN, MSNBC, all these
hostile media outlets and say, okay, here's my definition of them.
Then they'll be forced to do what respond And one
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of the responses in the ecosystem out there is Newsmax
joining us now. He is the CEO of Newsmax with
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Chris Ruddy is our guest. Chris, thank you for the time.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Ryan, thank you for having me on.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Absolutely and take us through the decision to make stock
in Newsmax go public with the initial public offering, what
that means for the company and what went into that decision.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Well, I think I might need an hour of your time,
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People are basically voting with their remote controls, their devices,
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Speaker 5 (23:03):
Chris Ruddy is our guest. He's the CEO of Newsmax Chris.
There has been an effort and it's been rekindled, I
think by the naming of Tim Walls as the running
mate for Kamala Harris to silence conservative voices. It's politically
targeted in the name of misinformation disinformation, and I'm wondering
if you've encountered that, and maybe that was a factor
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outlets like Dish Network, Direct TV, various cables systems and
services that you may have had run ins with them,
And if you think that might have been politically motivated
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Speaker 7 (23:40):
At all, well, the cable operators were currently carried on
all of the cable systems, so we're happy with that fact.
And companies like DirecTV and Dish are carrying newsmacs on
their basic digital package, so you should be able to
get us. The concern we've had is this has been
an effort by me your ad agencies to block advertising
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run by a Democratic Party operative and he decides who
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lot of these groups, including NewsGuard, have gotten government grants
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it's a real threat to our freedom, and so we're
working with other groups and pointing out exposing the danger.
But people need to be aware of what left wing
NewsGuard is doing. Real danger. And Elon Musk is that
you know, he just brought that suit. I applaud him
for his courage, but it's not We're not going public
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because of that. We're actually been growing quite a bit.
This year, Newsmax will do probably over one hundred and
eighty million in revenue, will be we're expecting to be
profitable and all of that. And GARM and NewsGuard have
tried to attack us, they haven't stopped us. We have
grown tremendously. We're now the fourth rated cable news channel.
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We regularly beat CNN and key ratings. We're top ten
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And once again later this calendar year early next you
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the Sea of Newsmax joining us Chris Ruddy, just one
more thing I'd like you to comment on, Chris, because
you obviously have your eyes on the horizon with everything
that's going on in the media landscape, and this recent
(26:12):
effort by George Soros, billionaire liberal donor people know him well,
to purchase radio Giant Odyssey to basically move into that space.
This is an iheartstation. But just how you feel that
might affect just free speech, the ability of conservative voice
is to have a platform, and why your effort to
put Newsmax out there in a shareholding capacity can help
(26:35):
fight that.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Well, we're not directly fighting what's going on in radio.
Someday we might be involved in radio. We certainly have
some activities that we do there when we're on shows
like yours, Ryan, and we believe in the importance of radio.
You know, there was an effort just a couple of
you just in the past few years for the car
makers to take AM radio out of cars. If you
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look at the Republican base, it's made up of two things,
conservatives and evangelicals. And guess where a lot of them
get their news and information. AM radio. Christian radio is huge,
and talk radio has been a mainstay from Rush limbo
shows like yours in Colorado, and so they were cleverly saying, wow,
(27:22):
the cars don't really need AM radio. Well they do
in eight AM radio. They need it for emergency broadcasting.
But the public, there's no harm to having AM radio
unless you don't like what's being broadcast on there and
it costs you want to make has nothing to do it.
So why did they all of a sudden want to
pull AM radio out. Well, fortunately there was an effort
in Congress, and automakers have reluctantly agreed to keep doing
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AM radio. But it's a Soros is buying radio stations.
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Speaker 4 (29:37):
I also think it's dishonest something Again, if you guys
ever get an opportunity to ask Tim Waltz or Kamala
Harrison questions, he made this interesting comment that the Kamala
Harris campaign put out there, and I bet they were
regretting they put it out there now because he said
that we and he was making a point about gun control.
He said, we shouldn't allow weapons that I used in
(29:58):
war to be on America Street. Well, I wondered, Tim Waltz,
when were you ever in war? When what was this
weapon that you carried into war? Given that you abandoned
your unit right before they went to Iraq and he
has not spent a day in a combat zone. What
bothers me about Tim Waltz is the stolen valor garbage.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Do not pretend to be something that you're not.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
And if you want to criticize me for getting an
Ivy League education, I'm proud of the fact that my
mamm all supported me, that I was able to make
something of myself. I'd be ashamed if I was him
and I lied about my military service like he did.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Whoa Senator jd Vance bringing the heat pure fastballs there,
and he's on point with every bit of that. Now,
what he's referring to here is this comment made Governor
Tim Walls. And this is the problem with both Walls
and Harris. They have not been properly vetted. There's not
a lot of time to do it. So guess what
we're going to do right here.
Speaker 11 (30:50):
Pope woke up like many of you did five weeks ago,
and Dad said, Dad, you're the only person I know
who's an elected office. You need to stop what's happening
with this. I'll take my kick in the butt for
the NRA. I spent twenty five years in the arm
me and I hunt and I gave the money back.
And I'll tell you what I have been doing. I've
been voting for common sense legislation that protects a second Amendment.
But we can do background checks, we can do CDC research,
we can make sure we don't have reciprocal carry amongst states,
(31:12):
and we can make sure that those weapons of war
that I carried in war is the only place where
those weapons were.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
He did not carry weapons of war and war that
is stolen valor. He k mindy thoughts on this part
of the whole puzzle.
Speaker 10 (31:24):
Everything with the Democrats is expediency. They'll say whatever they
need to say to capture their audience, and then it
can be a lie, but they'll try to make you
believe it's the truth.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
But Mindy, is he really that dumb to just run
races and said these things thinking they would never come
back to him.
Speaker 9 (31:42):
Now they're playing a game. I know that, and checkmate.
Who's the checkmate? Dj DJ TRUP dj JZ Trump, Yeah,
the Tugh we're gonna out smart and we always.
Speaker 10 (31:54):
Do k But right, they've gotten away with it for
so long they don't think they're doing anything wrong.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Now you're going to the George Costanza line of Seinfeld.
It's not a lie if you believe it, and they
tell the lie over and over to themselves to the
point I think where they just believe it.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
And we talked about a projection.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Maybe he believes he carried weapons of war while serving
in war. He did not. In fact, there's extensive reporting.
She's wonderful at this, Liz Collin, and it's a full package.
I played a majority of it yesterday from Alpha News
in Minnesota. This goes back to the last gubernatorial run
that Tim Walls had in Minnesota and Tom Barns the
guy that kind of picked up the slack when Walls
(32:34):
got while the gitting was good and his National Guard
unit was called into action in her Rocks. Ah, you
know what, I'm going to go ahead and say sayonara,
and I'm going to run for Congress instead. And he
left his whole unit hanging. This is stolen valor more
so because of what he claims in the aftermath of
that that he was a command sergeant major. He was not.
(32:56):
He had that rank revoked because he didn't complete the
necessary paper work whatever to establish that ranking. Yet he
put it out there in the form of mailers and
campaign materials. He is lying about his military service. And
if you asked anybody that's served, that's like a number
one No, no, you cannot do that, like I got
a purple heart and no you didn't. You can't go
around lying about stuff like that. And the audacity of
(33:19):
him to attack JD. Vance for his service, who did
serve in the Marine Corps, who did go to Iraq.
PK is galling.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Well.
Speaker 10 (33:26):
This whole thing is just he's They're ludicrous, and it's
I feel sorry for the other veterans and all of
the other people are served because they are carrying those guns,
they are in those firefights, and this guy's a phony,
and I just feel so bad for him.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
PK.
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Shapiro, I think fit is important. Uh, but you know,
I also think that when you look at the principle
of do no harm, maybe they did say, in a
state like Minnesota, do we want to those one hundred
thousand uncommitted voters who came out about the Gaza war?
(00:20):
Do we want to antagonize those voters? Those are all
parts of part of the questions as well.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
But I just say Tim Walls also spoke conciliatorily towards
those people. He said, look, that uncommitted vote is significant
and those people should be heard. So having that kind
of response, I think is probably more of an open
door to the parts of the party that have been
very frustrated with the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
So but just to just to one point on the
on the on the Gaza war, Shapiro has the same
position on Israel that Governor Walls that the Senator Kelly has.
He's actually been more critical of Nets on Yahoo than
the other two.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
But he is Jewish and also.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
The face of the crackdown on the protests.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
He spoke very vehemently about those campus protests as being
anti Semitic, not.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
All of them, the ones that were anti semitic, he
criticized as being anti Sebbitic.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
He was out front on the issue, So I'm wondering
if that's the kind of thing that again for the
activist wing of the party. Absolutely was a slap in
the face.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Oh my god. Should he have not been out front
on the issue when they were clearly pro Hamas and
anti Semitic and anti Israel and anti jew and Governor
Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania is Jewish. Should he just sit
on the sidelines and not rile up the pro Hamas
wing of the party in the base that it would
(01:49):
like to see, you know, all of Israel destroyed in
the Hamas squad that lost another member hashtag rip Corey
Bush losing in a primary last night. It was very sad.
A single tier. It's not my right cheek, just one tier.
She might have gotten two, but I wasn't quite that
sad about it. Ryan Shulding back with you here on
six point thirty K how and who you heard there,
(02:10):
Abby Phillip, Audi, Cornish, Jake Tapper CNN analyzing why Kamala
Harris decided to pass on a Jew der Juden der
Juden as their running mate, and they just said the
quiet parts out loud. There you had. You know, not
that I care, But when you go down the primrose
(02:32):
path of identity politics, guess what it ends in a
dead end and you end up on a six year
old white guy named Tim Walls because I don't know,
gotta appear to be at least fly over country, Midwest,
corn eaton flannel wearing football coaching, Tim Walls, Minnesotan, Minnesota
(02:53):
Nisson and as Jesse Waters pointed out, we'll get to
that in a little bit, he's none of those things.
But Abby Phillip, Audie Hornish, both black women, Jake Tapper,
Jewish guy. They're going right ahead and saying, well, we
don't want to aggravate now the militant wing of the
Democratic voting base. So you can't have a jew mean, Oh,
(03:15):
our lonely eyes and ears. Turned to my next guest.
He is Suraj Hashmi. He is the co host of
the Habibi Brothers podcast, which is currently in hiatus because
he's a father a very young beautiful daughter. He joins
us now and he just kind of broke through on
the Twitter verse again, also known as Ax. You can
follow him there at saraj A Hashmi that A stands
(03:38):
for awesome, h Ashmi, He joins us now Live, Sarage,
welcome back, my friend, Mandy.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
It's always a pleasure.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
What do you make of all of this identity politics crap?
And I say this, Saraj, you and I can have
this conversation a bit freely, I think, because we're Americans,
you and me. You know, my mom was Serbian, my
dad Dutch and British. Your father's Pakistani, Your mom is
white and from Jersey or whatnot. How do you identify?
And I want to make sure I'm sensitive to that.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Wait, you said you're family's from Serbia. That's that's disqualifying.
You can't be American?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Now, No, I know, i'd see there it is. I
just tripped the wire.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
I mean, I identify as American. Yeah, so who else
does I remember? Interestingly enough, there was an interview very
early on in the Tucker Carlson on Fox News Days
when he has his own show, Prime Time Tucker Carlton Tonight,
he had this black Muslim woman who was also a lesbian,
(04:43):
and he asked her, what did you identify? At first?
Speaker 7 (04:46):
You identified an American?
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Right, She's like, I identify as black. He's like, all right,
thank you for your.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
Time, and then I will let him go. So I
think about that often, especially because there are a lot
of people who, you know, they put this a hierarchy
to how they identify. It's no longer you're American first
and then you're whenever you are a second. Some people
just to put their religion ahead of them of whatever
(05:10):
their national identity is, and that's fine. I never really
thought about the hierarchy that I would have because you know,
I'm sort of just a smorgas board of all these
different things, and I just I'm Saraged and you know,
I'm an American, I'm Muslim, I'm biracial, I have Pakistani heritage
from my dad's side, I have European ancestry from my
(05:33):
mom's side.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
And you know, I'm just out here trying to do it,
do the best I can.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
And this takes us back, Saraja. I never got a
chance to ask you your comments about what Donald Trump
said at the National Association for Black Journalists where he
was kind of making light of the fact about Kamala's
chameleon identity, which would whatever was most expedient for her
in the moment. Ap referred to her as the first
Indian American senator. Well, now, all of a sudden, he's
(06:00):
black and she just became black, and I don't know how.
And if you noticed, there were members of that audience
who were black journalists that were laughing along with him.
It wasn't like a really negative reaction necessarily, But couldn't
Kamala Harris have really done, I think what Barack Obama
did in two thousand and eight and unify and say, look,
I'm an American kind of like what we were just
(06:21):
talking about, regardless of my background. But no, she had
to lean into that. What was your reaction to it?
All of that, Well, for.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
One, that we don't live in the same time as
we do. When Barack Obama was running for president, you know,
we were all thinking about how historic it would be
at the time to like a black man as president
and who actually like came off as presidential obviously, like
people try to, you know, paint this comparison between Kamala
(06:51):
Harris and Barack Obama, and it's just not there. Kalla
Harris is not anywhere close to the same lead as
Barack Obama. And I say that someone as an avowed
Barack Obama hater. Okay, I vote a F the dude twice,
and I am I'm telling you that he does not
disappoint He has disappointed me so hard and I regret
(07:14):
vote ever voting for him. But of course, like at
the time I was young, I was a big lib
so of course it happened the way it did.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
But like, I don't know how.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
People get energized and think about, oh, Kamala Harris like
she's definitely the next Barack Obama. No, they're trying to
astro turf that they're trying to make it like she
actually has like substance, Like Barack Obama kept kind of
under the radar before he ran for president, so there
wasn't much of a record to attack exact. A lot
(07:44):
of people are like, where did this guy come from?
Kamala Harris has an established public record that you can
date back to the last two to three decades and
how she got her start from Willy Brown to San
Francisco District Attorney to California the US Center, theor for California.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
She hasn't done, and then the vice president.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
She hasn't done anything that is considered to be good.
All the things that are on her record are always bad?
Is never something that she's done. They listen her accomplishments.
I can't recall which article with their publications they listener accomplishments.
Top three accomplishments. First one, first of VIX president to
visit a plant parenthood clinic. Okay, I'm not saying she
(08:24):
had an appointment, but they didn't say she didn't have
an appointment. Secondly, she was oh, I can't even remember
the other dude, but the fact that they lead off
of that one just shows you how terrible her record is.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Saraj Hashmi is my guest. You can follow him on
x at that handle saraj A Hashmi. And you answered
this as being kind of an AstroTurf campaign. I mean,
it's so much more than that, Saraje. It's on steroids,
with the media running cover for her. Jd Vance doing
his best to call it out that it's been what
sixteen seventeen days here nary a word from her to
(08:59):
a reporter in the form of a press conference or
sit down interview. Could she really run the entire campaign
like this does Tim Walls is able to do that
as well. We see the poles they've shifted in her favor.
Are you buying that? Is this a sugar high as
some on the writer calling it, or can she sustain
this and really sprint to the finish?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
I'd say as long as the poles are tight, she
doesn't have to do a darn thing. She can continue
to ride the wave that sugar high. We'll see how
long elass because there's gonna be something bad that happens
that she's gonna have to respond to and get in
front of the cameras for because at this point she's
pretty much the acting president right now. It's not even
(09:38):
a matter that Biden's been hasn't been behind the wheel
and at least a year. I mean we're looking at
we're looking at Kamala Harris already being president. So everything
that's happening right now you can absolutely blame on Kamala Harris,
whether it's the burner with stock market crash and the
economy tanking, inflation going high, you know, her cackling haunting
(09:58):
my nightmares, you could blame all of that on her.
And so I think what we're gonna see have happened
is as soon as the poles start sort of correcting itself,
because I think most of the country is pretty much
still in.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
The camp of.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
You not voting at all. They're voting for Trump. I
don't think there's going to be a whole lot of people. Yeah,
sure made the base my team energized, but don't I
still think in the head to head matchup with Trump,
she still doesn't hate every battleground state that is up
for grabs. I just don't see it happening.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
And the battleground states that she would need to win
that blue wall of Minnesota, which she hopes to nail
down now with Tim Walls being the pick, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
we'll see how it plays out. But Harris Walls ticket,
my goodness, gracious, I can't remember one that was further
to the left, especially with the addition of Walls, and
how that plays in Peoria, so to speak, or even
(10:55):
Minneapolis or Claire, Wisconsin, where we saw both Harris and
jdva ants Today to the meat of the matter here, Saraj,
the reason I reached out to you only half joking,
especially now. I interviewed Susan Crabtree in the first hour.
She of real clear politics and her sourcing within the
Secret Service I've gotten to a point now. I'm not
a big conspiracy theorist guy. And I listened to Dan Bongino,
(11:18):
and I think he tries to let the facts lead
him rather than jumping to conclusions. However, I don't trust
the FBI, I don't trust the CIA, I don't trust
our DOJ. And now we see this headline Pakistani mann
with ties to Iran charged in foyle an assassination plot
potentially targeting Trump. Subheader asif Merchant forty six allegedly worked
(11:42):
with a supposed hitman to try and kill a political figure,
the Justice Department, said Saraj, Aside from the joke, obviously
this guy's Pakistani and you have some heritage there and
it's your cousin or what. But what was your reaction
to this story?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Well, I question whether he's even Pakistani because I have
not met a single Pocketsana. Last surname is Merchant. Yeah,
that's that is incredibly I mean, like drop the tea
and it's basically the cousin of the judge who's sentenced
Uh it's going to be sentencing Trump and the hush
money trial. Uh wa Rashaan Uh Yeah, the whole thing
(12:21):
kind of thinks a little bit. I'm not doubting the
the motives and the motivation behind office merchants, uh, you know,
like attempts to try to uh assassinate Donald Trump. I mean, look,
there's so many people on the left that want to
kill Trump. It's just like, uh, you tell the FBI,
(12:44):
you tell someone that within the federal government, Hey, someone's
out there to kill Trump, and be like WHOI which one?
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Like? Which one?
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Which?
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Like?
Speaker 6 (12:52):
The get like take a number, right, too many people
that want to kill Trump, right, And it's funny. You
got the rest of the day before Trump is actually
he was shot in the air, and Butler, Pennsylvania was
just kind of wild and of itself. But getting back
to the are like this guy accordingly, you know, apparently were
allegedly paid to paid what the confidential source and then
(13:13):
to hitman for higher Woody gave a SATs thousand dollars
events I don't know, five thousand dollars seems a little
bit low if you're trying to assassinate the president of
the United States. There's just a lot of things that
just seem walking about. Of course, this obviously is very
reminiscent of the entrapment schemes that they did in the
post nine to eleven. Uh, you know, I would say
(13:36):
the decade or so after before isis in which they
basically sound they would announce in the rest of a
terrorist to plotted to kill Americans, and it ended up
being like this, like radicalized Muslim man who had no
means of doing anything basically being approached by fed the
hatch out an entire scheme to try to you know,
(13:59):
develop some sort of terrorist plot, and then eventually they
arrest them before you know, good skills any further. Like
that's the That's basically what this is. This is where
we're at right now with us. I also don't know
what the DJs angle here is because obviously there's some
element about like trying to play up this whole foreign
interference angle, especially by connecting this guy to Iran and
(14:23):
apparently only had a wife and kids who are who
are Iranian, like he didn't like we don't actually know
of any like a ties association with the Iranian regime,
right And I'm not saying that there isn't. It's just
that they haven't really produced that evidence just yet. But
I will say that the DOJ has a lot more
(14:45):
to answer for this because they they haven't really satisfied
the public interests in this story. They haven't like settled
the question of why this actually happened and why they
can you need to engage in these Chapman seeds, like, yeah, sure,
I obviously understand that you want to, like the national
security is important. You want to obviously avoid assassination. Thought
(15:09):
maybe this is the best way they could get get
it done. But like, at the same time, you couldn't
just like, I don't know, you couldn't just like pull
the dude aside and be like, hey, we're watching you.
I like that's more than enough, So like, come off.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
It's incredible to me because when you look at the
timeline and I'm basing this on what I sent you,
what you've quoted here in a post on acts from
Julie Kelly, it says in one of these in the
overview portion of the report, since at least April twenty
twenty four, Merchant orchestrated a plot to assassinate US government
officials on US soil. The assassination attempt against Donald Trump
(15:47):
happened less than a month ago, and yet they didn't
offer him a full security compliment or detailed the way
that you would maybe for Joe Biden as a sitting
president of the United States, that part doesn't add up
as well. And then you factor in, you know, FBI entrapman.
How about hello, the kidnapping of my home state governor
Gretchen Whitmer, that allegedly there were those in there were
(16:07):
agents or assets of the FBI trying to entrap or
lure in some of these roubes from northern Lower Michigan
into such a plot. So I'm with you, Saraj. I
don't trust the DOJ or the FBI as far as
I can throw them, and I don't know that I
believe them entirely here.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Yeah, it's look, I think they want it's like one
of those drug busts means that you see online where
they like say they have this massive drug bus and
it's just like a vase pen and like a bb
gun Like that's the ju Yeah, like that's basically where
That's basically where we're at in terms of national security policing. Yeah,
it's I think it's it's just a facade. It's the
(16:46):
illusion of security or the illusion of like, hey, we're
keeping you safe. So please thank us. And you know,
like I don't know who this is helping and who
they're catering to, but it definitely isn't people who actually
have two brain cells or more.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
We're living in a simulation and if you put them together,
I think Saraj and I do have two brain cells.
But you can follow. I'll give you my extra one
follow me about x at saraj a hash me that's
a is an awesome an h A s h m.
I sarag Always thankful for your time. Thank you so much.
(17:22):
Enjoy Florida.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Hey Mandy, it's always a pleasure, and wait to do
it again.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Good old Sarage joining us here and coming up after
the bottom of the hour time out. I'm very happy
to be joined by the CEO of Newsmax, Chris Ruddy
is going to be joining us with some exciting news
and an opportunity for those of you who watch Newsmax quickly, ladies.
P K Stein, Mark Stevenson, Mindy debor Scott. Are you
Newsmax viewers. I know that you don't watch a lot
of TV.
Speaker 9 (17:48):
PK Right, no TV alternative?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Do you watch any TV news?
Speaker 10 (17:53):
I watch a little bit.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
What do you watch I'll.
Speaker 9 (17:55):
Do Max Lay coming home.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
You That's not what I mean.
Speaker 10 (18:01):
I like America's voice, the three guys, okay.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Real America's voice. That's the one. And Mindy, you're kind
of with me.
Speaker 9 (18:07):
You watch a lot of the good we go up
and down and over and now you and your husband Jeff,
Oh no, he's downstairs watching his uh you know, his programs,
Family Man.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Or something, family cooking shows.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Yeah, like Bobby Flay.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
All right, who's your favorite Fox News host?
Speaker 9 (18:23):
If you have one favorite Fox.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Gutfeld Jesse waters Felds.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
Was not mine. No, no, okay, it's funny. I can
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We'll let you think about it during the break, Jesse.
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Yeah, there you go.
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Kamala and Tim can just have JD Vance do all
of their interviews for them. That's the thing that's actually
a good point. And if those two Kamala Harris Tim
(20:05):
Walls are going to constantly avoid media appearances, meaning sit
down interviews one on one or hits on various shows
mainstream or otherwise, or press conferences with reporters. Then jd
Vance needs to take it upon himself, as does Donald Trump,
to define those two for them. Just do them that favor.
If they're not going to come out and do it themselves, well,
(20:25):
then provide that service for the American voters. And that
will force their hands when you think about it, if
they're going to rely upon just the ether and to
kind of float along here in a basement campaign, well
then jd Vance could come on CNN, MSNBC, all these
hostile media outlets and say, okay, here's my definition of them.
Then they'll be forced to do what respond And one
(20:45):
of the responses in the ecosystem out there is Newsmax
joining us now. He is the CEO of Newsmax with
an exciting announcement for all of you who are regular viewers.
Chris Ruddy is our guest. Chris, thank you for the time.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Ryan, thank you for having me on.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Absolutely and take us through the decision to make stock
in Newsmax go public with the initial public offering, what
that means for the company and what went into that decision.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Well, I think I might need an hour of your time,
but I'll try to boil it. I'll try to boil
it down for you. Look, Newsmax has been a tremendous success. People,
your listeners know of us from our cable news channel,
our website, newsmax dot com. Reuters just recently did a
study that sermond forty seven countries and they said, in
(21:36):
the United States, there are twelve major top news brands
that people are going to and Newsmax was one of them.
And we're the only one that's not one of the
major legacy media companies. We don't have billions of dollars.
People are basically voting with their remote controls, their devices,
they're downloads for Newsmax, and we're reaching about forty million
(21:57):
people regularly. It's a big, big number. Well, you know what,
we've been around for a while. We're very close to
overtaking CNN. In fact, during the Republican National Convention, we
were regularly beating them in prime time. So we thought,
you know what, this is an opportunity for us to
partner with hundreds of thousands of people investors that are
(22:19):
stakeholders in Newsmax. So we announced that later this year,
early next year, Ryan, We're going to go public get
listed on the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAC. We
have yet to be approved by the SEC. We're expecting
that will happen later this year early next year. In
the interim, we have launched a private preferred race where
(22:39):
people could join and get early shares before the IPO
if they're eligible. There's certain requirements for them to do
that and people. We've had tens of thousands of about
forty thousand people have gone to our web portal at
newsmaxinvest dot com neewsmasinvest dot com to sign up and
(22:59):
say that they're planning on investing. It's a major achievement
for us.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Chris Ruddy is our guest. He's the CEO of Newsmax Chris.
There has been an effort and it's been rekindled, I
think by the naming of Tim Walls as the running
mate for Kamala Harris to silence conservative voices. It's politically
targeted in the name of misinformation disinformation, and I'm wondering
if you've encountered that, and maybe that was a factor
(23:25):
in this decision. What I mean by that is bigger
outlets like Dish Network, Direct TV, various cables systems and
services that you may have had run ins with them,
And if you think that might have been politically motivated
in terms of carriage of the channel.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
At all, well, the cable operators were currently carried on
all of the cable systems, so we're happy with that fact.
And companies like DirecTV and Dish are carrying newsmacs on
their basic digital package, so you should be able to
get us. The concern we've had is this has been
an effort by me your ad agencies to block advertising
(24:03):
to newsmacs. And Elon Musk just brought a suit against
a group, a global group called GARM, which is a
group of major companies have got together and have basically
used these media monitor raging agencies and the US as
an organization called NewsGuard. It's a far left group. Newsguard's
run by a Democratic Party operative and he decides who
(24:26):
gets the advertising revenue. Elon Musk has called them a
scam newsmax SUS. They have not just newsmas, radio hosts,
television hosts, any conservative media. They seek to defund them,
demonetize them, to censor them. We're finding out that a
lot of these groups, including NewsGuard, have gotten government grants
(24:48):
it's a real threat to our freedom, and so we're
working with other groups and pointing out exposing the danger.
But people need to be aware of what left wing
NewsGuard is doing. Real danger. And Elon Musk is that
you know, he just brought that suit. I applaud him
for his courage, but it's not We're not going public
(25:09):
because of that. We're actually been growing quite a bit.
This year, Newsmax will do probably over one hundred and
eighty million in revenue, will be we're expecting to be
profitable and all of that. And GARM and NewsGuard have
tried to attack us, they haven't stopped us. We have
grown tremendously. We're now the fourth rated cable news channel.
(25:32):
We regularly beat CNN and key ratings. We're top ten
cable channel when you look at the proportionate viewership. We're
reaching those forty million people. So I think there's a
lot of things growing in our favor. We just need
to keep the momentum going.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
And once again later this calendar year early next you
can find out more about your opportunity to invest in
Newsmax as a shareholder. Invest dot newsmax dot com and
the Sea of Newsmax joining us Chris Ruddy, just one
more thing I'd like you to comment on, Chris, because
you obviously have your eyes on the horizon with everything
that's going on in the media landscape, and this recent
(26:12):
effort by George Soros, billionaire liberal donor people know him well,
to purchase radio Giant Odyssey to basically move into that space.
This is an iheartstation. But just how you feel that
might affect just free speech, the ability of conservative voice
is to have a platform, and why your effort to
put Newsmax out there in a shareholding capacity can help
(26:35):
fight that.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Well, we're not directly fighting what's going on in radio.
Someday we might be involved in radio. We certainly have
some activities that we do there when we're on shows
like yours, Ryan, and we believe in the importance of radio.
You know, there was an effort just a couple of
you just in the past few years for the car
makers to take AM radio out of cars. If you
(27:00):
look at the Republican base, it's made up of two things,
conservatives and evangelicals. And guess where a lot of them
get their news and information. AM radio. Christian radio is huge,
and talk radio has been a mainstay from Rush limbo
shows like yours in Colorado, and so they were cleverly saying, wow,
(27:22):
the cars don't really need AM radio. Well they do
in eight AM radio. They need it for emergency broadcasting.
But the public, there's no harm to having AM radio
unless you don't like what's being broadcast on there and
it costs you want to make has nothing to do it.
So why did they all of a sudden want to
pull AM radio out. Well, fortunately there was an effort
in Congress, and automakers have reluctantly agreed to keep doing
(27:47):
AM radio. But it's a Soros is buying radio stations.
He started by buying up Latin stations. He bought the
big conservative radio station in Miami, and he's going now
and you know, every thing he touches, he's pretty far
left and he's moving in that direction and it's not good. So,
you know, it's a free country. He has the right
(28:09):
to buy radio stations. Conservatives need to buy buy radio
stations and invest in the communication aspect. Certainly, we love
people going to newsmas if they want to join with
us and they understand that we're playing a very vital role.
You know, Fox News, for instance, is changing. It's not
the same it was twenty years ago. And the family,
(28:31):
a lot of the Murdoch kids that will control Fox
in the future could be very detrimental to its political
reporting and so making newsmax even more important.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
And you can find out more. That's newsmax invest dot
com your opportunity to invest in stock. It's important that
really we all pull in the same direction on this
for the various reasons that Chris so stuteley outlined right there.
He is the CEO of Newsmax, one of the networks
out there doing the good things and providing the message
in the platform for conservative voices. Chris Ruddy our guest, Chris,
(29:05):
thank you so much for the time and best of
luck going forward.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
I just might mention newsmaxinfath dot com take a look
at it and see if you want to join with us.
We'd love to have more of your listeners, Ryan than
Americans across the country.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Definitely would encourage our listener to do just that. Chris Ruddy,
Newsmax CEO, joining us here on six thirty k how
and we appreciate his time. We'll take this time out,
we'll come back, We'll wrap it all up. PK and
Mindy in studio after these words on six thirty K, how.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I also think it's dishonest something Again, if you guys
ever get an opportunity to ask Tim Waltz or Kamala
Harrison questions, he made this interesting comment that the Kamala
Harris campaign put out there, and I bet they were
regretting they put it out there now because he said
that we and he was making a point about gun control.
He said, we shouldn't allow weapons that I used in
(29:58):
war to be on America Street. Well, I wondered, Tim Waltz,
when were you ever in war? When what was this
weapon that you carried into war? Given that you abandoned
your unit right before they went to Iraq and he
has not spent a day in a combat zone. What
bothers me about Tim Waltz is the stolen valor garbage.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Do not pretend to be something that you're not.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
And if you want to criticize me for getting an
Ivy League education, I'm proud of the fact that my
mamm all supported me, that I was able to make
something of myself. I'd be ashamed if I was him
and I lied about my military service like he did.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Whoa Senator jd Vance bringing the heat pure fastballs there,
and he's on point with every bit of that. Now,
what he's referring to here is this comment made Governor
Tim Walls. And this is the problem with both Walls
and Harris. They have not been properly vetted. There's not
a lot of time to do it. So guess what
we're going to do right here.
Speaker 11 (30:50):
Pope woke up like many of you did five weeks ago,
and Dad said, Dad, you're the only person I know
who's an elected office. You need to stop what's happening
with this. I'll take my kick in the butt for
the NRA. I spent twenty five years in the arm
me and I hunt and I gave the money back.
And I'll tell you what I have been doing. I've
been voting for common sense legislation that protects a second Amendment.
But we can do background checks, we can do CDC research,
we can make sure we don't have reciprocal carry amongst states,
(31:12):
and we can make sure that those weapons of war
that I carried in war is the only place where
those weapons were.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
He did not carry weapons of war and war that
is stolen valor. He k mindy thoughts on this part
of the whole puzzle.
Speaker 10 (31:24):
Everything with the Democrats is expediency. They'll say whatever they
need to say to capture their audience, and then it
can be a lie, but they'll try to make you
believe it's the truth.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
But Mindy, is he really that dumb to just run
races and said these things thinking they would never come
back to him.
Speaker 9 (31:42):
Now they're playing a game. I know that, and checkmate.
Who's the checkmate? Dj DJ TRUP dj JZ Trump, Yeah,
the Tugh we're gonna out smart and we always.
Speaker 10 (31:54):
Do k But right, they've gotten away with it for
so long they don't think they're doing anything wrong.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Now you're going to the George Costanza line of Seinfeld.
It's not a lie if you believe it, and they
tell the lie over and over to themselves to the
point I think where they just believe it.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
And we talked about a projection.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Maybe he believes he carried weapons of war while serving
in war. He did not. In fact, there's extensive reporting.
She's wonderful at this, Liz Collin, and it's a full package.
I played a majority of it yesterday from Alpha News
in Minnesota. This goes back to the last gubernatorial run
that Tim Walls had in Minnesota and Tom Barns the
guy that kind of picked up the slack when Walls
(32:34):
got while the gitting was good and his National Guard
unit was called into action in her Rocks. Ah, you
know what, I'm going to go ahead and say sayonara,
and I'm going to run for Congress instead. And he
left his whole unit hanging. This is stolen valor more
so because of what he claims in the aftermath of
that that he was a command sergeant major. He was not.
(32:56):
He had that rank revoked because he didn't complete the
necessary paper work whatever to establish that ranking. Yet he
put it out there in the form of mailers and
campaign materials. He is lying about his military service. And
if you asked anybody that's served, that's like a number
one No, no, you cannot do that, like I got
a purple heart and no you didn't. You can't go
around lying about stuff like that. And the audacity of
(33:19):
him to attack JD. Vance for his service, who did
serve in the Marine Corps, who did go to Iraq.
PK is galling.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Well.
Speaker 10 (33:26):
This whole thing is just he's They're ludicrous, and it's
I feel sorry for the other veterans and all of
the other people are served because they are carrying those guns,
they are in those firefights, and this guy's a phony,
and I just feel so bad for him.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
PK.
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