LIVE On Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham 11/9/2025

The government shutdown may be nearing an end. Bill breaks down what may happen this week. Alex McFarland, Congressman Warren Davidson and Michael McDonald from The Catholic League.

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Speaker 1 (00:22):
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(00:46):
the one and only Bill Cunningham.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
All right now, Billy Cunningham, the Great America and the
Sunday Nights. And about an hour and a half, two
hours ago, my dinner was disrupted at Benny Hannas celebrating
a family member's birthday. And I learned, as you have learned,
that there's been a logjam broken in the United States Senate,
and that the first procedural vote has taken place. There's

(01:10):
two or three more procedural votes actually pass what they
want to pass, and then down the road in a
few days has to go back to the House. And
I have calls into two United States Senators and two
or three Congressmen to come on tonight to talk and
we'll see what happens. I know the Senate's busy. Hope
to get a congressman on, maybe Warren Davidson. Down the

(01:31):
road at some point from Ohio to talk about what
he's learned, what's occurred in the House of Representatives, led
of course by Michael Johnson of Louisiana. Have a call
into the leadership there also to see what we can glean.
But what's happening now is that about eight or nine,
maybe as many as ten Democratic senators who are somewhat
moderates who aren't running next year or are from states

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that don't act like New York City, voted to open
up the government open for another few days. But the
deal deal says that the cr will continue until January
the thirty first of twenty twenty six. So we have
the rest of November, December and January, what about seventy
five days maintain the status quo. I guess that this

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would be horrific come January thirty first, if somehow we
go back into a shutdown. I pray to God that
doesn't happen. Part of the deal is the workers will
get their back pay. The TSA and the Air Traffic
Control is anybody working now is going to get their
back pay, and that the furloughed employees caused by the

(02:38):
shutdown will come back to work. With back pay. Democrats
insisted on that even though they didn't work. Secondly, there's
going to be a vote on the Unaffordable Care Act
subsidies by the second week in December, without a guarantee
whether actually in the Senate it'll pass or not. Of
course it should not pass. We'll talk about that later.

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But that's the deal. Keep the government open until January thirty. First,
workers get all their back pay. There's a vote on
ACA Affordable Care Act subsidies by the second week in December.
Then also that food stamps and through the Agricultural Department,
food stamps will be fully funded through October thirtieth of

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next year, so for the fiscal year, along with congressional employees.
There's another provision that says that military construction projects and
VA construction projects will have a three year lifespan. So
those are the parameters. Off the air, I spoke to
a US Senator and a two congressmen, one of whom
could not come on the air with me, saying there's

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nothing in here to upset us in the House very
much at all. It appears Senator Ran Paul in the
Senate is still voting against it, So it appears they
need eight senators, then fifty three Republicans. If Ran Paul
continues to vote no on the procedural votes later tonight
or tomorrow, that means you need eight in the eight
to be Senator Gary Peters of Michigan, Senator Maggie Hassen

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of New Hampshire, and Senator Janine Shaheen also of New Hampshire.
Senator Jackie Rosen not the favorite of Wayne Allen Rude
my dad from Nevada. She's going to vote yes, Jackie Rosen.
Also Catherine Cortes Mastow also Nevada's going to vote yes.
Tim Kain, the big red machine, the big blue machine

(04:24):
from Virginia's going to vote yes. He was just elected
in twenty twenty four. He's an eight got a six
year run ahead him. Maine independent senator who caucus is
with the Democrats, Angus King, and there's a shocker Illinois
second in command of the Senate, Dick Durbin, will vote
to open the government. So the eight practical Democrats are Peters, Hassen, Rosen, Shaheen, Mastow, Kin, King,

(04:50):
and Durban along with the fifty two of the fifty
three Republicans. There's your sixty. But this is a large butt.
But this is subject to the voter rama rules. If
one United States senator, and let's face it, six or
seven or half nuts like Senator Sanders Vermone, if one

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senator wants debate on these issues, then the voter rama
rules kick in. Eight side's given twelve hours. I'm told though,
that Senator John Thune, who's kept them in the session
of South Dakota for the past several days, that the
senators want to go home. They've had enough. They can't

(05:32):
stand being with each other. How would you like to
be with Senator Bernie Sanders for dinner, breakfast, and lunch
every day. That'd be enough to drive me insane. Asylum.
So the eight senators are going to say they've signed on,
according to media accounts, without direct communication from Trump. Trump's
in favor of this, get the government back open. He

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wants to change the ACA. We're going to talk about
that in a few minutes. And then this gives everyone
until the end January to come up with a workable
plan on the ACAS. But there will be a vote
the second week in December. But the food stamps et cetera,
well snop benefits will be available through September thirtieth, the

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fiscal year. So that's where it as as we sit
here about ten thirteen pm on Sunday night, Eastern time.
That's where it is subject subject to change absolutely, because
we have to get through the Senate and then Ward
for Ward has got to pass the House. And a
House representative member told me they're going to have a
little phone call tomorrow among the Republicans at eleven thirty am,

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and most do not want to come back on Tuesday, which,
as you know, is Veterans Day. We're out of the
sacrifice of all the men and women who have given
so much of the time and treasure and talents to
this country. That's better Veterans Day is on Tuesday, and
then they want to fly back in on Wednesday and
vote on Wednesday night or Thursday. It goes to the

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President's desk. So if you're a federal employee, it appears
you'll be paid close to the fifteenth, which is Saturday,
which would be Friday, I guess. And away we go.
And of course the pundits want to say who won,
Who lost? Well, I think number one, the American people
lost because there was no reason for the Democrats, this

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is going to be about a forty four day shutdown
by the time it's done. If things go according to
Hoyle wherever the heck hoile is, that's going to be
a forty four day shutdown. And what's different by the
time this thing opens up on Thursday of Friday as
opposed to forty four days ago. Forty days ago, the
answer is nothing. Nothing. And where we were. The Democrats

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wanted to keep this thing going strong through the election cycle,
to have as much anger and chaos and confusion as
possible to use as a campaign tactic against Republicans in
New York City, Virginia, New Jersey, California, elsewhere. They caused
the chaos and then benefited from it, blaming Trump and
the Republicans and so doing. Because the media, I know

(08:11):
that NewsBusters dot Org and Curtis help deals with this
all the time, about ninety percent of the media the
negative stories about the Republicans and positive stories about the Democrats.
So that's where we are. It's all about the ACA
and the Unaffordable Care Act. Let's set this up. Danny
boy gleeson, can you pot up the twenty five second

(08:34):
quick montage of Barack Usain Obama, this is about the
Unaffordable Care Act subsidies, and in his own words, the
media want to play these, I'll play him for you.
This was the original sin of the healthcare debate by
Barack Husain Obama himself. And see if his words of

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fourteen and a half years ago equal to what transpired today.
Danny Gleeson hit.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
It actually reduce the deficit by four trillion dollars over
the long term, reducing the waste and inefficiency in Medicare
and Medicaid will pay for most of this plan.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
It will slow the growth of healthcare costs for our families,
our businesses, and our government. There will be a provision
in this plan that requires us to come forward with
more spending cuts if the savings we promised don't materialize.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Uh. Did it cut the deficit by four trillion dollars?
Did it reduce premiums of families by twenty five hundred
dollars a year? Did it help save Medicare and Medicaid
and Social security? Did it do anything that it said
it would do? Absolutely nothing, zero, zilch, nada. Have you

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heard anything from the mainstream media about any of this?
Absolutely not, because it doesn't make any sense because it's
the truth. Things want the exact opposite direction of what
was intended, and like, he's going to get worse because
when you subsidize something, you get more of it. So
when the government subsidizes someone's healthcare premium, about seven percent

(10:09):
of those of the country seven percent, twenty two million Americans.
When you subsidize something, you get more of it. You
don't get less of it. Heck, you get more of it,
and so you get more individuals that are subsidized at
all higher cost and high deductibility. Now, as you know,
the great bulk of the of America is on the
employer employee sponsored plans, and about ninety percent of those

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on the employer employee plans are happy with them. It
costs less than Obamacare. Many are on veterans benefits less
expensive and better care, Medicare, Medicaid less expensive and better care.
So you put all this together, how in the hell
can anyone fairly say that Obamacare worked. The average family

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coverage right now is twenty seven thousand dollars per year.
It's like the price of a car twenty seven thousand
dollars a year. And guess what deductibles range between five
and ten thousand dollars each. That means you can't access
to plan until you spend five thousand dollars. How about that?

(11:15):
What did Obama say about that? That's not going to happen.
It did happen. Taxpayer subsidize the whole situation, according to
Wall Street, by about seven hundred billion dollars a year.
It's a scam, it's wrong, the AC subsidies debate, et cetera.
The family coverage for employeer er plans is much less

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than twenty seven thousand dollars a year. You get better
care to lower price. So the few people seven percent
that got on Obamacare because they weren't covered by their employer,
they didn't have any police fire, those kind of benefits.
They were not working within the private employer that provided
medical insurance. And you want our Medicare medicator veterans benefits.

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So seven percent get it. Every year the cost skyrockets
goes up because the government subsidizes it. The government sends
money directly to the insurance companies, directly to the insurance companies,
and then in turn they give money back to Democrats
and the former campaign donations. The president Donald Trump's come
up with a brilliant idea, which is out there health

(12:20):
savings accounts or sending money directly to those of the
twenty two million and a check as opposed to funding
insurance companies. Now, the media is somewhat complicated, so the
media doesn't spend time on the Unaffordable Care Act to
go over this information with you like I did, which
because it is so injurious to Democrats. Obamacare has grossly

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increased the cost of health care and health insurance. In
twenty twenty, health care spending was about nineteen point seven
percent of US gross domestic product. Since then, it's gone
up to twenty six percent, which is about a forty
percent increase. And what happened during COVID is that the
government decided to send more money to the insurance insurance

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companies to encourage them to have coverage, and also gave
more tax credits to individuals on the plan. In twenty
twenty one, before the explosion of government subsidies, the Heritage
Foundation reported that Obamacare has doubled the cost of individual
health care plans. HEREDI is also cited costly new mandates

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and regulations imposed by the ACA as the reason for
this high higher cost with high deductibilities. It is incredible
how this has been allowed to flourish, and because there's
a constituency built up around it a government program, they
fight like warrior poets to keep it. And that's always
been the case. So Democrats are attempting to destroy a

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powerful benefit for employees like me and maybe you and
Danny Boyd Gleeson and increase workers' reliance on the federal
government by moving them to exchange plans outside of your
own healthcare company now with high deductibles, lower actual oial value,
and narrow networks where you can't go to certain doctors

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you might recall. If you like your doctor, keep your doctor,
like your plan, keep your plan. That was all a
lie that they're accomplishing this by weakening the firewall between
the employer plans on one hand and ACA plans on
the other. So on a per person basis, Obamacare is
much more expensive than what was anticipated nor budgeted. That's

(14:36):
why you have to stop the government and not educate
the people and simply talk about healthcare and the expansion
of Obamacare, which the Washington Post has said is unaffordable.
We can't keep doing this so we'll see what happens
come the second week in December, which is, believe it
or not, only about four weeks away. And at that point,

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it's an agreement to have a vote on the subsidies
for the few people, few Americans on Obamacare, maybe half
of whom shouldn't be there in the first place, kind
of like food stamps. A lot of waste, fraud and
abuses going on. And to give you another idea, in
twenty twenty alone, according to the Biden administration, improper Medicaid

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payments totaled ninety billion dollars in one year. That's where
the money is. So government controlled healthcare will mean less choice,
less competition, and lower quality, and socialized healthcare, which is
healthcare for all, will be similar to what we have Obamacare. Now,

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if somehow the whole healthcare system collapses, now, wouldn't that
be something. Let's continue, let's get your reaction to these stories.
Later on. We have doctor Alex McFarlane will be here
and also the great Michael McDonald of the Catholic League
about Mamdani. On Tuesday, we want to have a congressman
on I believe the Congressman Warren Davidson will be here

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because what's going to happen come Wednesday or Thursday or Friday.
Are the Republicans going to vote yes? And well? It
Keeme Jeffries, who tonight said I'm against it. Schumer's voting
against it, but second in command of the United States
Senate Dick Durbin's voting yes. You may need a few
Democratic votes in the House. And it came Jefferies wants
to crack down. Let's continue with your calls and more.

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It calls from Missouri, in Florida and California, and we
have three lines open. If you call now, if you
get on hold by Danny Gleeson, I will take your
call in the next hour, which is eight six six
six four seven seven three three seven eight sixty six
six four seven seven three three seven. You have us taken.
This government run healthcare has high cost, loss of subsidies,

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it has high deductibles, provides lousy care because it reduces
the plan. And as a consequence, the Democrats love it
because they control Oh your healthcare. Let's continue twenty three
minutes after the hour, Bill Cunning into great American with
you and all great Americans every Sunday night. God Billy

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cunning him. Let's continue and never stop. We simply continue.
One last thought before I take your calls. The the
food benefit the EBT cards, Electronic Benefit Transfer Cards, food stamps, SNAP,
whatever you want to call it, is an agency in
a program riped with waste, fraud, and abuse of incredible proportions.

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In the nineteen seventies, one in fifty Americans were on foodstamps,
one in fifty. Now it's one in eight, and it's accelerating.
Until Trump took over that the Secretary of Agriculture and
Brooke Rowlins pointed out that they have found massive fraud
and the SNAP program and it must be reformed as

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much as possible. Now, I said before I said last
Sunday night, I'll say again, please reform the program so
the food is available to any American that's hungry, he
needs it, that disabled, single moms, kids, senior citizens, whatever. Absolutely,
it's possible that you or I at some point may
need food stamps because we don't have the ability to

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raise money to feed ourselves in this country. We should
feed Americans, but we should not feed dead people, and
we should not feed illegal aliens, and we should not
feed people that are using the ebt of transfer cards
as currency. The Secretary Rollin said that in the first
six months of her administration they have found five million

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dead people getting food stamps. Now, the dead don't eat
a lot. But nonetheless, she said, five million we've located
so far are dead and someone else is using their benefits. Secondly,
she said, we estimate five to eight million should not
be receiving them because they're either should not be eligible

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to get in the program, or secondly, they are legal aliens.
It's illegal to get federal benefits. Put all that together,
let's continue. Line becomes available eight sixty six six four seven,
seven three three seven. Your calls her next. Bill Cunningham
with you every Sunday night. Hi, Danny boy Gleason, thank you.

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And we have come to a place where the last
forty days and I guess three or four more days remain.
It's been a complete lack and waste of time by
the Democrats. They glean nothing, zero from this got nothing
from it because you had eight reasonable senators who said,
you know what, this stupid, this idiotcy's got to stop.

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And I want to compliment, which I seldom do senators.
The eight Democratic senators Maggie Hassen of New Hampshire, Jackie
Rosen and Nevada, Janine Shahena New Hampshire, Catherine Cortes, Master
of Nevada, and Tim Kine of Virginia. Angus King independent
from Maine, Senate Dick Senate second in Command, Dick Durbin

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of Illinois, and John Fetterman, those of the eighth and said,
we got to move on and the deal deal simply
kicks the can down the road on the on the
cr until January the thirty first. Also provides for a
vote on the ridiculous subsidies the second week in December.
So lastly got to get to the calls eight six
six six four seven seven three three seven that food

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stamps is riddled with waste, fraud and abuse. According to
Joe Biden, uh the secretary of Brooke Rowlins put out
a missive about two weeks ago that I kept and
she said in this message that was not reported in
June at twenty twenty four, by the way, that Biden
had about several more months as screw up the presidency.

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The USDA US Department of Agriculture reported that there was
about eleven billion dollars in snap benefits paid in fiscal
year twenty twenty three that were improper should not have
been paid because the recipients were dead, or the recipient
was not the proper party to receive it, or there
were legal aliens involved, whatever. And this data comes out

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when you have a total of twenty one Blue states.
Twenty one refused to give data to the federal government.
All the FEDS do is issue at check the states
administer snap. So the Blue States refused to share with
the FEDS who's getting these federal government benefits that you
and I are paying for? Can I say again, as
I'm sure that Mark and Missouri understands number one, I

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want to make sure that every hungry American who needs
food is fed, absolutely one thousand percent. I don't think
dead people should be fed. I don't think legal aliens
should be fed. I think those using these EBD cards
as currency fifty cents in the dollar and using them
should not get them. I don't think illegal immigrants who

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collect food stamps illegally and then put them in drums
and send them to Haiti or Honduras to sell at
convenience stores, I don't think they should get it. It
is massive waste, fraud, and abuse, according to the Biden administration. Also,
the Biden administration said that in Medicare, Medicaid reimbursements and

(22:43):
benefits in one year, there was one hundred billion dollars waste,
fraud and abuse just in one year. And so anyone
that says, you know what, we have to reform these programs,
God bless you, hopefully you'll do it. Let's take some
calls and the eight sixty six six fours having seven
three three seven, we have Mark and Missouri, and then Ruth,

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and then Eddie and Ken and thousands of others. Mark
and Missouri. Welcome to the Bill Cunningham show. Mark, how
are you.

Speaker 5 (23:12):
Well?

Speaker 6 (23:12):
I'm okay. Our government is broke. I mean, have you
noticed what you just reported? Food snaps, Medicare, Medicaid, and
no doubt Obamacare. They're all mostly uh, fraud and abuse.
It seems like, I mean, it's just unbelievable. I mean,
they're all run by the federal government. I think that
is the problem. Before these programs came out, people were

(23:34):
taken care of, they were even and it's the poor
even had similar hospitals days as others. This is all
just a shame and this SNAP program, which unfortunately Richard
Nixon passed. I mean, it's seems like nearly all front
I'm for you, hungry people should be FASTY has always
done yes. But but I'm not for stopping these programs instantly.

(23:59):
But we got a phased out. I think SNAP. I
don't think it can be saved and get back to
local people providing help like they always did. These programs
actually create a disincentive to do that, and it's they
harm people like Medicare and Medicaid. They nearly cost a
trillion a year each. Yet more and more doctors don't

(24:21):
take it. It's all you can look at it as
all basically fraud. The doctors don't like it, most of them.
It's all a disaster. And I know you know this
being a lawyer. Article one, section eight of the Constitution
doesn't even give the federal government the power. No ide
Congress can't spend money. But they and the Social Security
game about. They changed everything, and so they just open
the floodgates.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
You know.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Mark a couple of ways on the massive ways fraud
and abuse and SNAP that these numbers of USDA comes
from the Red States and not from the twenty one
blue states and refuse to share the data. Talk about
New York and California, Illinois, the West Coast, East Coast.
They want share data as to who's getting the food

(25:02):
food stamps, who's getting SNAP because it is so bad.
They want to have a core constituency depending upon that benefit,
so they vote to keep them in power behind. This
is political power, and we have in Cincinnati. I'm sure
you have in Saint Louis. Many cities have a free
store food bank in which a person shows up, You

(25:23):
look at the person, they look at you, they say
what their needs are. And we're the headquarters of Kroger,
a large and the largest grocery chain outside of Walmart
in the country, and they donate every week millions of
dollars of food to the free store food bank. Now,
I got my doubts. When I see Alexis pull up,
I see a Sienna pull up, I'm thinking, Okay, I've

(25:45):
seen Mercedes pull up. Maybe that's a bad idea. One
of the local news channels followed a person in Alexus
to two other locations to pick up free store food
bank stuff. So I'm sure even in that there's a
little bit of abuse going on, but not at the
level of the foodstamp BBT cards. Not when we're giving

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five million dollars of five million dead people food stamps.
There is something wrong in the system, and Trump wants
to shall I say, reform it. And secondly, on the
ACA enroll leaes who qualify for these tax credits up
to four hundred thousand dollars, you get tax credits. They're
known as premium subsidies. The person never sees the money

(26:28):
at all. They're sent directly to the insurers to offset
the person's monthly premiums. And so we're funding the insurance
companies to the tune of about four hundred billion dollars
a year on subsidies. And they're not incentivized to hold
down expenses, they're incentivized to spend money. How's that fair?

Speaker 6 (26:48):
That was getting me to my main point. You're right,
the insurance companies can just make arbitrary costs. And you
mentioned earlier like twenty five million people were on Obamacare. Well,
I think everybody on insurance is getting affected by like
you were saying, it raises everybody's price. It's all related.
And these insurance companies that are making out like banks
and like you say, they'll donate to Democrats then, and

(27:10):
my main point what I called is this shut down.
I mean the Republicans were decent, but they kept saying, well,
we'll negotiate subsidies after the government's open. I think that
was a mistake. They have to be like President Trump,
get on offense and tell the truth about Obamacare. What
a disaster is. I mean, standbites you play from Obama.
He knew he was lying on every statement he made

(27:32):
that that's what the communist do. He wants to get
socialized health care to the whole country. This is the
first step, and Republicans have to tell the truth about that.
They have to tell what Obamacare was really all about,
what is happening, tell about the insurance companies. And then
they have to have a plan of their own. I
mean President Trump, health savings accounts, we need to get

(27:52):
to bring costs down, we need maybe need to privatize Medicare.
I know you can't get up a rid of them
all at once. That that's not happened. But they have
to have some ideas of their own and offer that
as well. But they seem, as usual, they seem afraid
to They don't have the core convictions that they really
believe in and put them forth and believe it or not.

(28:13):
Obancare in the polls doesn't do that bad. But what
did Reagan say about Poles. He just looks at the
polls to say how much educating he's going to get
to do of the populace. And so if they shouldn't
fear that either do what's right. Obamacare is a disaster
attack and wipe it out. It's just but it doesn't
seem like the you know, the Republicans of Congress have

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the courage or even the knowledge.

Speaker 5 (28:38):
To do that. This part.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
I'm reading a story out of the Wall Street Journal
that said if a person shows up in an er
without any insurance at all, and they don't have Medicare
Medicaid in otherwords, they have no plan to a see
they got nothing, and the person says, I'll pay for
it myself to get an to get a particular MRI.
The person it costs seven and ninety five dollars. If

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you If the person shows up with insurance and says
I got to have this MRI, the cost building the
insurance company was five five hundred dollars. It's all a game,
but it's a system, and the insurance companies are making billions.
In fact, the President has said, I'm reading a story
here that that he believes the money should go to

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a billion dollars a year directly to the people, And
I'm thinking, okay, I don't know what that means. That
means more people would get on the Unaffordable Care Act
if somehow the government's going to mail you money, because
right now, if you pay the premium, you don't see
the money at all. It goes directly to United Health
or Blue Cross, Blue Shield. The whole system needs to
be reformed. To what I'm saying, Mark, and to say,

(29:43):
let's keep it going for another year. Let's keep ripping
off the American taxpayer. Ninety three percent of us are
not on the Unaffordable Care Act, We're not in Obamacare.
And by continuing for one more year, you give the
insurance companies billions of dollars have high deductibles and bad care.
And it'll Obama lied, lied and continues to lie. And
when I bring this up to others, and I've had

(30:04):
us senators tell me when they bring it up, their
scold and saying that that's old news. We got to
deal with the present problems. We got to deal with
the birth of the present problems. What is the foundation
of the present problems? And it's all about Barack Hussein
Obama and Joe Biden grossly increasing the subsidies because of
COVID and having the term air outs. I would say,

(30:26):
and at the end of this year, but why not
have a reformation and reform of food stamps, of Medicare,
Medicaid and also the Unaffordable Care Act? Why not reform
the system before we extend it and support it some
more and subsidize it. Well, why would you subsidize the
system that's failing and has failed miserably. Why would you
do that?

Speaker 6 (30:46):
Well, because you're a Democrat. That doesn't makes logic to them.
They're all about games, they're not about solving problems. They
have an advantage because they don't have a conscience. They
lie everything they say and then the media covers for them.
But you hail the problem with health care when you
talk about going to the emergency room.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
It doesn't coud.

Speaker 6 (31:04):
But what we pay for health care even private insurance
no and or government.

Speaker 7 (31:08):
Insurance don't know.

Speaker 6 (31:10):
The government involvement distorts all costs. I mean, if we
had to go and pay for what we need, costs
would come down. It's like a grocery store. I mean
the government wouldn't provide food insurance and health insurance should
be maybe like auto insurance, so you don't have insurance
to cover weal changes. No, it's just as something catastrophic happens.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Catastrophic care actually is. And Marco and the whole idea. Well,
as a consumer, what industry or business do you deal
with and you don't care what a cost? I just
had dinner celebrating a relatives of a birthday at Benny Hannah,
nice Japanese. I like it there. It's good, and everyone
looks on the right side of the menu saying, well,

(31:50):
you know that steak is seventy nine dollars, rather than
not get that. When you look at a car, do
you go into a Chevrolet dealership and just pick a
car out without looking at the price? Do you say, hey,
by the way, how much that vacation going to cost?
And then you make a decision whether you go to
Europe or not. But in healthcare we're incentivized to use it,
and the system games everybody involved at high expenses. And

(32:12):
if the insurance companies lose money, they pass on the
cost of the federal government to pay to make up
the difference. And no one cares about cost. No, we
care about quality, but not cost. And Obama cares the
worst of the worst. Mark we got to run. But
I hope this is an occasion where the President looks
at this thing and says, why are we doing this?
It makes no sense? But I wish we had a

(32:35):
media that would inform electors and voters exactly what is Obamacare?
How did it begin? What were the promises made? Were
the promise is kept? And if they weren't kept, and
the whole thing was built upon lies, why subsidize a lie?
Does that make sense? I hope not. Let's continue now
with Ruth and Illinois, the home of Dick Durbin. To

(32:57):
voted yests Ruth and ILLINOI welcome to the build, cunning,
I'm sure, Ruth, how are you well?

Speaker 8 (33:03):
Thank you so much. I want to mention to you
that the president has a Saint Michael the archangel Stantire
next to his night stand. According to Baron, I want
to get as half as much time as the caller
before me, and I will tell you what my Saint
Michael connection is also, But I've called to speak on
your topics, My Marine Corps World War two father, and

(33:27):
don't forget to bless the Marine Corps, the veterans and
their families. At the end of the conversation, My Marine
Corps World War two father, we lost him. My mother
was on It wasn't called EBT, it was called relief.
This is the early nineteen fifties. We ate cream of

(33:49):
wheat three times a day, with powdered milk, amas muge
of artificial margarine. We were healthy. She got a job
when I was ten years old at a factory on
Ogden Avenue, and we were so healthy. With the amount

(34:10):
of money that she got from her EBT what was
then called relief, we were not allowed to have a TV.
Now ironically, she got this factory job and we started
getting regular meals. I was ten years old and it
was Ogden Avenue and two of my grandsons are in
the military and one is a descendant of the first

(34:32):
mayor of Chicago Ogden. Well back to the real suggestion
that I have is a buyout of social security to
someone who wants to accept it, and affordable housing a
buy out of that, and you'll see how many people

(34:52):
sign up for that.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Look at it this way, when the government subsidizes something
the price of skyrocket, and there's a constituency built around
it that finds it very difficult ever to have that
government benefit stop. And uh, we're at that point right now.
But Trump's got the got the coyones to do what
other presidents will not do, which is, we have to

(35:14):
stop the madness before it's too late. Ruth, We've got
to run. Thanks for your call up against the clock.
Let's continue in your calls. Eight sixty six six four
seven seven three three seven eight sixty six six four
seven seven three three seven Bill Cunningham, the Great America
with you every Sunday night, Hilly cunning must continue. Did

(35:44):
you see during a big touchdown with the Detroit Lions
game in Washington against the Commanders, there was a big
play with the Lions wide receivers had scored a touchdown
and one of them pointed up toward the uh toward
the presidential box in Washington and looking at Donald Trump
and doing the Trump dance. Kind of looks like the
twist a little bit. And Donald Trump's won a hell

(36:06):
of a president. But he's not much of a dancer.
But even I can do the twist Telby Checkers style.
And later on in the game there was a Washington
commander player may have took m umbrage out it and
hit the player that was dancing in the head. Don'd
hell broke loose? So it was a unifying moment in
a sense. So let's see what happens. Let's continue in

(36:28):
your calls. And I can't think of a durned thing
that right now that Donald Trump is doing. He did
not say he would do. These are things we voted for.
What seventy seven and a half million of us voted
for this, and he was inaugurated January the twentieth, spent

(36:49):
about ten months in office, and he's doing exactly what
he said he would do we voted to have occur.
And how's it a threat to democracy when someone is
freely elected then imposes the agenda that he promised? What
in that how politics? Is that a threat to democracy?

(37:09):
When Republicans win? Is that the threat to democracy? Right there?
When ice agents enforced federal law, is that a threat
to democracy? What it's a threat to is the political
power of the democratic party but they've never accepted the
outcome of the election whenever a Republican wins, whether it

(37:29):
was Bush and he was a terrible president forty one
and forty three, terrible, and now Donald Trump is hated
as much by the Democrats as Abraham Lincoln was hated
by the Democrats, and both were shot won successfully by Democrat,
thank god, won unsuccessfully. Let's continue with your calls as

(37:50):
we have calls from Kentucky, Florida and Tampa. And we
have three lines open if you call in and Danny
Boy Gleeson can say hi to Danny Boy Gleeson when
you call in. Eight six six four seven seven three
three seven. Bill Cunningham, Great American, with you and all
great Americans every Sunday.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
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Speaker 2 (38:59):
Billy cunning I'm the Great America, one of the Senators.
I called to come on tonight to discuss what's going on.
The Senator John Eustead of Ohio. I'm looking at the
Senate floor right now and he's presiding over the Senate.
So I'll give John a Texas el Paso on this
deal because they're going through the process of as many
as three procedural votes to pass the amendment to the CR,

(39:24):
which we have to go back to the House and
msn ME seeds to my left. I'm watching this. They're
all urinated off about what's going on because the Democrats
got they lost, because they should have lost. The new
deal says the CR is in play till January the
thirty first of next year, about seventy five days. So

(39:45):
on seven forty days ago, SR said that already and
vote on the ACA the second week in December without
any promises as to the outcome. Is that worth shutting
down the government to have possibly a vote in the
future without the outcome known. Absolutely not. Then to fund

(40:06):
military and VA construction for three years that was already happening,
to fund the food stamp program, and to fund congressional
salaries that was happening anyway. So what did the Democrats
get out of their ridiculous behavior. Other than the status quo,
the answer is nothing. But these eight Democratic senators said,

(40:26):
we can't take it anymore. This is stupid. If the
military not getting paid, you have ice not getting paid,
you have congressional staffers not getting paid. Food stamps are
not going out. About half of them should not go
out anyway. The ATC's air traffic controllers, they're ready to
break the system, but they got to keep it up
for another four or five days. I'm looking at the

(40:48):
floor of the Senate, and if it passes tonight or
tomorrow morning, then it's got to go back to the House.
We have a congressman coming up in about an hour
to talk about what does all that mean? He's telling
me off the air. They'll say it on the air.
I think that they're having meetings now on a phone
to discuss what are they going to do because they

(41:09):
hadn't passed the Senate yet. And then if it does
pass the Senate, most of them want to stay in
their districts. On Tuesday, which is Veterans Day. God blessed
the American Soldier, sailor and Marine Coast Guard. God blessed
the National Guard that's Tuesday. So then they come back
on Wednesday and vote, and then the President signs it
on Thursday in time for the ATC's and the other

(41:32):
ones to get paid. I guess on Friday. Part of
this deal is back pay for those who worked. Well,
that was happening anyway. So what did the Democrats get
out of it? Zero, zilch, nada. However, come June January
thirty first, here we go again, and Danny boy Gleason,
we have thousands that calls out. I got to get

(41:53):
to them from Columbus and from Florida, from Kentucky and
from California. Let's play the warl words of Barack usein Obama.
That was the foundation, the reason, the reason the Unaffordable
Care Act passed. And I might might note that the
Washington Post has said the ACA is unaffordable. We can't

(42:17):
keep doing that. Only seven percent of Americans are on
the ACA. And so these are the words of Barack
Housain Obama as the president. To sell this to the nation,
to sell to the Democrats and check off any of
these things that happened. Danny boy Gleeson hit it.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
It will actually reduce the deficit by four trillion dollars
over the long term. Reducing the waste and inefficiency in
Medicare and Medicaid will pay for most of this plan.
It will slow the growth of healthcare costs for our families,
our businesses, and our government. There will be a provision
in this plan that requires us to come forward with
more spending cuts if the savings we promised don't materialize.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
Lie, lie, lie lie. And when something doesn't work in
the real world, in your family and your business, if
something doesn't work for a long period of time, what
do you do with it. It chuck it and go in
a different direction. But not if you're the government. If
you're the government, you subsidize it, and if it fails,
you give it more money. And the subsidies don't go

(43:20):
to the twenty two million Americans on Obamacare. The moneys
go directly to the insurance companies or in the business
of making money. It did not reduce waste, fraud, and abuse.
It cost it four trillion dollars off the deficit. It
increased the deficit by nine trillion dollars. It says slow
the growth of premiums paid by individual families. That was

(43:42):
a lie and went the opposite direction and the triggered
cuts because none of these things happen. Memory said. At
the end of this, Obama said, if all this doesn't
work automatically, there will be cuts in federal spending to
reflect dollar for dollar what it didn't do. Did that happen?
So why had the damn thing at all? When it

(44:03):
doesn't work, it's failed. Now let's continue. And a few
other little items just you know, kind of irrelevant. If
you like your doctor, keep your doctor. If you like
your plan, keep your plan. We're going to have employers
send more of their employees onto the AC exchanges, which

(44:26):
will save the employeers more money so they can give
the employees raises. Lie, lie upon lie. And now that
it's failed, Donald Trump's at fault shut down the government,
we have to subsidize it, provide more money.

Speaker 5 (44:44):
What for?

Speaker 2 (44:45):
What for a failed government program? Much like food stamps,
it has failed. It feeds five million dead people every year.
It feeds five million illegal aliens every year. It provides
another five million people with current see called the e
BT card, which is causing them to sell them for
fifty cents on the dollar. That leaves approximately twenty million

(45:08):
Americans who need help please help those twenty million Americans,
but don't fund the failure and don't fund meals for
dead people. According This is according to the US Secretary
of Agriculture, or Rollins. Let's continue, now take some more calls.
Coming up in about forty five minutes or so will
be Congressman Warren Davidson. Let's continue. Let's go to a Padding, Columbus,

(45:32):
the home of the Buckeyes, Padding, Columbus. Welcome to the
Bill Cunningham Show. Pat, how are you well.

Speaker 8 (45:39):
I completely disagree with the idea that we should be feeding, feeding,
feeding these poor people. I was a poor child, I
went hungry night after night. Then I was the wife
of a very poor lance corporal in the Marines, and
we did without. But I'm telling you, hunger is a

(46:01):
good thing. It drives you to improve your life. And
you are steal You are stealing. You are stealing from
the people the very thing that would help them to
become better when you feed them. It is a mistake.
You see these people saying, oh, I need food, I
need food, and they're all thirty pounds overweight. It's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
Kt look at it this way. My family went through
exactly what your family went through when my father, who
was a raging alcoholic, left a mother and four kids,
small kids. I was a little boy about ten years old,
and Saint Vincent de Paul showed up about twice at
the front door. Finally, my mother said, you know what,
I'm not taking charity from anybody. I'm working. She made

(46:47):
a dollar ten an hour. The rest of us did
menial jobs. We got through. I'm skinny today maybe because
of that fact. And when you wake up, when you're hungry,
when you wake up, there's not a roof over your
head when you wake up, and you can't have a
car when you wake up and can't pay your bills,
that is one hell of a motivating factor to go

(47:08):
do those things in life that provide you income so
you can pay for your own stuff, and you can
get your own car, and you can't get your own apartment.
But when government becomes mommy and daddy, it tends to
take away the incentive to work. Do you agree?

Speaker 9 (47:22):
And the well meaning people they mean well, they're generous hearted,
but that is completely misplaced to be giving away food.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Well, it keeps people. For one classic thing I saw
on YouTube this woman had three colored hair. She was
about five foot eight, and God bless her, she had
a weigh over three hundred pounds. And she said to
the interviewer, I'm starving to death. And the interviewer said,
why don't you work, And she said, that's none of
your business. And it's like, she said, the more the

(47:56):
heavier I get, the more food I need. So the
more I eat, I gotta eat more food to keep
up my weight. And it's like, what what.

Speaker 8 (48:08):
That's a perfect example of what the entitlement mentality does
to people. It's a mistake to be giving away food.
We should not be having food stamps at all, let
alone to a bunch of dead people and illegal aliens
and everybody else.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
Well, Pat, what's your thought on things like the free
store food bank? Saint Vincent de Paul? You know Americans
have been hungry since seventeen eighty seven. You know, it's
let me share you.

Speaker 8 (48:38):
I volunteered at the food bank, and here's what I saw.
People pull in in nice cars, they had lots of jewelry,
they had fancy phones, they had Nike shoes, they were
well dressed, and they're in there getting free food at
the food bank. Now, what's the wrong with this picture.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Well, they have.

Speaker 8 (48:57):
Their priorities all mixed up. They don't understand that first
you provide yourself.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
With shelf, you can't use foul language. We got to
run on that one, but hit the button. But I
get what you're saying, but we're not organized that way today.

Speaker 5 (49:14):
Now.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
I think private charity. If someone wants at the free store,
food bank, Saint Vincent de Paul, church's synagogues, whatever, it
is helping those in need. Absolutely, But when you institutionalize
the government program, the last thing to happen is to
get rid of the government program. There's a whole core
constituency group build up around that to indicate that it

(49:37):
must be continued. One of the farces today pat is
that Obamacare, which has failed miserably. That's according to the
Washington Post. And now the Democrats say there's too many
people getting Obamacare subsidies, which go directly, by the way,
to the insurance companies, not to the insured. And it's

(49:57):
a consequence. Too many people are getting this government benefit
and we have to continue to provide it. In fact,
Schumer the last I'm sure he was told these eight
US senators are about to jump ship on him. A
couple of days ago. I think it was fighting. He said,
we'll maintain the status quo, a CR of one year,

(50:19):
extend the benefits for one year, extending failed program one year.
That's costing I don't know, several hundred billion dollars a year.
And thank god Donald Trump the Republicans said no, we're
not going to continue the subsidies for ACA for one
more year because it's a failed program that doesn't work,

(50:40):
it's too expensive, and it's increased health care costs. In fact,
everything Obama talked about reducing waste did not happen. Four
trillion dollars off the deficit. The opposite took place. It
didn't slow the growth of premiums and accelerated the growth
of premiums. And he also said that all these things
don't happen, the budget will be triggered to cut the

(51:02):
amount of money that the promises weren't kept. That didn't
happen either. So when all these things have failed, the
next best thing to do is to do what subsidize
it that much more and encourage more people to get
on board. And I've seen the interviews too with individuals
that have their Obama phones. They look their dress fairly well.
They operate motor vehicles, which has got to be what

(51:26):
ten thousand dollars a year with a junker almost because
of insurance and gasoline and repair. You have all these moneies,
but you can't feed yourself because governments giving you something
for nothing. And that's that's how you value it, because
you think it's worth nothing. Let's go to Ken in Kentucky.
Ken in Kentucky. Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show.

Speaker 5 (51:46):
Ken.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
How are you? I'm proud to be here, God bless you.

Speaker 5 (51:50):
Go ahead.

Speaker 7 (51:53):
So there are two Democrat parties here in Kentucky. Party
in the republic Camp party. The junior senator is Rand Paul,
who represents the Austin Texas, and the senior senator is

(52:15):
a shipping magnet to represents Beijing.

Speaker 5 (52:19):
Hell.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
You know, I have I have empathy for Rand Paul
because he has principles. I have no empathy whatsoever for
Mitch McConnell. His time is coming gone and he keeps
power because he's been there I don't know forty years
and God bless him. His time for public services ended.
He's now a multi millionaire, not nearly as much as

(52:41):
for example, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, who is
now worth about four hundred million dollars US treasure out
I Nancy hire Nancy Pelosi to handle the investments for
the country. Let's continue with more coming up later as
a Reverend Alex McFarlane, And also later is live is
going to be Congressman Warren dayson? And if I get

(53:01):
a call from a senator but one of the ones
I called is presiding over the Senate as I speak,
then also later on is the great Michael McDonald of
the Catholic League about what happened Tuesday with Mom? Donnie
twenty one minutes after the hour Bill cunning into Great
American with you every Sunday night, I cunning into Great American.

(53:30):
Let's continue. Sometimes if something is somewhat difficult or have
a lot of provisions, it's hard to understand. I kind
of look at those who oppose that those are in
favor of it because they have seen the ins and outs.
I haven't read the bill that the Senate appears to
be passing as I speak to send onto the House
for a vote. Later in the week, eight Democrats crossed

(53:52):
the party lines. Chuck Schumer opposes it, Bernie Sanders opposes it,
the so called Squad opposes it. Senator Shift of California
opposes it. Whatever they oppose, I'm in favor of. And
those in favor of this thing include Congressman Warren Davidson,

(54:13):
includes Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who appears to
be saying he's going to give this thing a vote
on Wednesday or Thursday. It appears Donald Trump is on board.
And so what it does is keep the government open
until January the thirty first of twenty twenty six, along
with back pay for everyone who worked, along with hiring

(54:35):
back a lot of the fertile employees. That's a different matter.
They're going to vote on the ACA subsidies, all of which,
by the way, goes to insurance companies and not to
the person who's receiving the benefits. Insurance companies are making
billions of dollars off this, and there's going to be
a vote on that, and they haven't promised yes or
no to change, just to vote on it in the

(54:56):
Senate the second week in December. They also have agreed
to fund military and VA construction for a three year period,
also to have food stamps and snap benefits available through
the fiscal year, which is September the thirtieth. And also
to pay all congressional employees got to pay yourself. So

(55:19):
this is what was available forty days ago. The CR
continued the subsidies as they were. The CR also had
food stamps. The CR didn't have to pay any back
pay because people were working. So what the Democrats get

(55:39):
for the last forty days The answer is zero, zilch, nada.
It was a farce. It was a political game, calls
by them to get the election behind them so they
can run on a campaign of corruption, a campaign of
chaos and confusion that their behavior caused. Anticipate the meet
is going to blame Trump for the bad consequences of

(56:02):
their behavior. And so at this point it's over. We think.
I'm looking at the Senate floor right now at eleven
twenty seven Eastern time, and there's a few senators parading around.
I guess they kept it open if you want to change.
But nonetheless, it appears the Senate has passed the CR

(56:23):
with a couple of these editions and then send it
onto the House. We have coming up in about thirty
five minutes. Congressman Warren Davidson live from his home to
talk about what he understands is in it. At one point,
Congressman Davidson voted no in the beginning, but he voted
yes at the end, and he's intending to vote yes

(56:43):
this time. There will be some serious arm twisting by
Mike Johnson and by President Donald Trump to take the deal,
and the Trumpster will sign it either Thursday or Friday.
And I want to give kudos to air traffic controllers
and the federal law enforcement officials, military and to TSA
for staying on board the last They're gonna go five

(57:06):
weeks without a I'm sorry, six weeks without a paycheck.
Then they're gonna get all their money back over several
pay periods. After that. It won't happen all at once.
It's gonna happen over the next ninety days. So I
compliment that on what they're doing. So let's continue with more.
Coming up soon will be doctor Alex McFarlane about the
takeover of America Islamophobia. Also in about thirty five minutes

(57:28):
will be Congressman Warren Davidson the ins and outs of
what's occurring there and the wrap things up to night
will be the Great Michael McDonald what a fool believes
from the Catholic League about the consequences nationally of Mondanie
becoming the mayor of New York City. Bill Cunningham, the
Great American, with you and all great Americans every Sunday him,

(57:51):
Billy Cunningham, the Great American, welcome once again.

Speaker 5 (57:54):
Of course.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
Doctor Alex McFarland has written more than twenty books on
various matters. He has Alex mcfark ministries, and he also
is a but on all the talk shows nationally, and
I wanted to get him on after the election on Tuesday,
especially because of what the media is telling us, which
was a great success for socialist democrats, and that socialism, democratism,

(58:15):
Marxism and communism might be the future in this country.
Many were alarmed when Mom Donnie was elected in New
York City, and I'm reading some of the columns about
this and New York Times headline a mayor for a
new age, the coming of shy. I say socialism, which
is a brand of communism, and I wanted to see

(58:36):
where we are, especially in relationship to the to the
murder on September the tenth of the Great Charlie Kirk
and I see revitalization happening on college campuses, which must happen.
And also, Erica Kirk has carried forward that banter quite well.
And doctor Alex McFarlane, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show.
And before we get into specifics about what happened in

(58:59):
a New Jersey, Virginia, California, and New York City, just
give me an overview where you think the country is
now morally and also politically, and what this portends for
the future.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (59:11):
Well, thank you for having me. It's a great honor
to be on. I think socially and politically we are
at a crossroads, a tipping point that could go either way.
I think morally we are We're not bankrupt, but we
our balance is down. Spiritually, I'm very encouraged. I'm seeing
a lot of young people that are excited about learning

(59:35):
who God is and what their purpose is. In fact,
you know, as soon as you and I finished this interview,
I'm driving to a conference center that I'll be in
front of eleven hundred teenagers this weekend to talk about
God and country, the biggest event in the history seventy
year history of this conference center.

Speaker 5 (59:56):
So spiritually, there's.

Speaker 10 (59:57):
A great hunger, you know, like many people disappointed in
some of the results of Tuesday, the elections. Of course
New York City. I mean, what an irony on so
many levels that New York City, where you know, on
nine to eleven, three thousand New Yorkers died because of

(01:00:17):
actions carried out by Muslims, and then they would elect
a Muslim mayor. I mean, it's it's almost like if
Hawaii put Herahita's picture on the flag of Pearl Harbor.
I mean ironic, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
I could not have imagined. And of course there are many,
shall we say, available Muslims. We have a mosque in
the Cincinnati area, there's one in Toledo. All over the
country there's a moderate Muslim sex. Shall we say that
you have no difficulties from But this doesn't describe whatsoever,
Mom Donnie give us two or three things about Mom
Donnie that indicates that this is shall we say, a

(01:00:57):
radical support of the most violent aspects of Islam, and
Mom Donnie supports it. He doesn't condemn October seventh, it
keeps his mighty keep things quiet about Hesbla and Hamas.
Explain that, and why is this different than maybe some
moderate Muslims in America.

Speaker 10 (01:01:15):
Well, he will not be on record is criticizing Hamas
and Islamic jihadism. He would not go on record as condemning,
you know, Antifa, the global Antifa. He's a vocal anti Semite.
And New York City is the most dense concentration of
Jewish people of any place outside of the Israel itself.

(01:01:37):
He's a vocal anti Semite. New York City is the
thirteenth largest economy in the world.

Speaker 5 (01:01:43):
He's a Marxist.

Speaker 10 (01:01:44):
And in a city of one hundred and five billionaires,
New York City, he says it should be illegal to
be a billionaire. And this is what you know, regardless
of whether or not somebody's a Christian, this is what
constitutionalist Americans need to be concerned about. You know, from
Ilhan Omar to Mam Donnie, there is a slow, under

(01:02:09):
the radar cultural jihad being attempted, as mosques are being
built throughout Heartland America, as more and more Muslims are
aspiring to and achieving seats on city councils, mayor races,
school boards, things like that, and the bottom line, anyone

(01:02:32):
that wants to may try to legally migrate to America.
But if you get to America, then you need to
assimilate and you can believe whatever you want to believe.
But you know, politically and structurally, we cannot allow people
like mom Donnie to use the tools of America to

(01:02:53):
dismantle America.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
One other issue in Dearborn, Michigan, almost the birthplace of
the American automotive experience variance, the radical Muslims have taken
over Dearborn, Michigan, and I watched a council meeting about
two or three weeks ago. They had the call to
prayer five times a day starting about five thirty am
in the morning, and there was a Christian male that
stood up and said he's disrupted by this, that he'sa

(01:03:17):
ad practicing Christian. He does not want to hear the
Muslim called a prayer over the loudspeakers in the city
five times a day, and that his rights to practice
his religion had been infringed upon. And the Muslim mayor
Dearborn looked at him and said, you don't belong here.
Get out, Yeah, yeah, explain, explain what that says.

Speaker 10 (01:03:37):
Well, well, you know, here are the interlopers. You know,
wanting to subjugate the naturalized citizens. And that's how Islam
does the dimi status around the world.

Speaker 5 (01:03:51):
Jews and Christians.

Speaker 10 (01:03:52):
And non Muslims are oppressed and persecuted, and really, you know,
said submit or pay the consequences. You know, there have
been so much that the naives left has said so
much about Islamophobia and the New York City mayoral election. Look,

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it's not phobia those of us that are realists and frankly,
having taught world religions at the college and postgrad levels
for twenty five years and I've interviewed dozens of scholars.
I'm not talking right wing conservative Christians. I'm just talking
historians and philosophers and sociologists that know whereof they speak,

(01:04:39):
Islam is not about peaceful coexistence and toleration. But let
me give you an example. The Atlantic dot Com, which
is a you know, actually a great engine of journalism
and not some right wing conservative think tank by any means.
But the Atlantic dot Com two years ago did an

(01:05:00):
article about the misnomer that true Islam is a religion
of peace, and even the Atlantic dot Com said, look,
the jihadists are the faithful Muslims. It's the liberal, westernized,

(01:05:20):
peaceful Muslims. That really are the backsliders in true Islam.
Now again, people don't believe whatever they want to believe.
I'm a Christian. I believe everybody needs Jesus Christ. But
as an American citizen, we are called, and certainly our
elected officials, they take the oath to protect the US

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Constitution from threats within and without. And it is not phobia,
it is not fear, it is not biased. It is
common sense, mature adult realism. Islam is bent on the
bringing down on the infidel. That's me, Thank you, America,

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that's you and I we non Muslims. They hate Israel,
they hate America. And I will tell you these absolute
fools that are the Democrats, and they are foolish. They
will be among their grandkids and kids will be among
the ones beheaded as infidels when Jihadism finally takes over.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
Doctor Alex MacFarland, to give you some examples. Egypt is
perceived I think as being a somewhat moderate Muslim state.
In Egypt, ninety four percent of the girls when they
have their first period are sexually mutilated, generally by their
mothers and aunties. As far as converting to Catholicism, Christianity,

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or being a Jew. In Egypt, ninety five percent of
Egyptian citizens believe that if you leave the faith, you
should be killed, and if you joined some other religion
in Egypt, you should be beheaded. And that's a moderate state.
There are no mosque or Christian churches anywhere outside of Israel,
in the Middle East, it doesn't exist. And you have

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some of your columns indicate that mam Donni refuses to
denounce globalizing the end of Fada, and he called voters
who don't vote for him Islamophobic. On celebrating communism, mon
Donnie was beaming in a photo last year with the
communist Cuba delegation. He also says that the mayor, the
Cuban mayor of Miami, compared mam Donni to Fidel Castro.

(01:07:35):
The Cuban Republican mayor said he's young, charismatic leader, not
too different from Mam Donni, referring to Fidel Castro convinced
a population, give us all your property, give us your businesses,
will make everybody equal. He did. He made everybody equally poor.
And so many Democratic voters tend to be useful idiots
who simply march along with this, and that's where it's

(01:07:56):
being led. I think Cubans understand when they fled Cuba
what communism is, and Mom Donnie is embracing Cuban communism,
which is going to introduce largely to New York City.
And I think the media when it says a mayor
for a new age, what is the new age?

Speaker 10 (01:08:14):
Well, the new age would be communism equally distributed misery
and the loss of not only the loss of a
great city, New York, but the loss of a great country.
And folks, you just said it so wonderfully, Bill, but
the word democrat is a word synonymous with treason, really,

(01:08:39):
and folks, again, apart from Christianity, although you know, obviously
job one for me is to promote Christianity, but I'm
just talking about as a free, safe, prosperous American that
can sustain what we've enjoyed for a quarter millennia. We
must remain a more oral, constitutional, free market economy republic,

(01:09:04):
not a socialist gulag, which is what AOC I han,
Mom Donnie, and these leftists advocate. I'm just I'm not
you know, like defeated or anything like that I am
just shocked at how naive, how naive many voters are,

(01:09:28):
how calculatingly malicious the Democrat leaders are, but also how
apathetic and unengaged many of the conservative Christian voters are.
Don we really ought to fight for our country.

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
Doctor McFarland i said a few days ago that the
way to win at the polls from a liberal Democratic
perspective is more and more chaos. When need confusion and chaos,
they ran on the election and largely won according to
the pundits, when it came to chaos. By inflicting more chaos,
the party in power is to account. And also, I

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think same day voter registration. There were many YouTube videos
of many individuals voting repeatedly in New York City same
day registration. No voter ID go from place to place
to place to vote. But chaos now reigns supreme because
a lot of the federal workers working are not being paid.
So that the liberal Democrats are blaming Donald Trump for

(01:10:24):
the chaos the Democrats have caused, and the occasional voter
in America think somehow Donald Trump is in charge of
the Democrats and the Senate to break the vilibuster the
chaos is the policy they ran on, caused by their
policies and they won. Does that incentivize more chaos?

Speaker 10 (01:10:42):
Well, this is very calculated, and the Democrats know that
in order to impose new order, they have to create disorder,
and they do that and they do it well, sadly,
But voter fraud has been a tool in their toolkit
for decades. I mean literally, and I've interviewed poll workers,

(01:11:02):
I've interviewed election board officials, I mean the Democrat This
is why I say the word Democrat means treason. It
didn't always mean that there were the FDR Democrats.

Speaker 5 (01:11:17):
Yes, but folks believe it, believe it.

Speaker 10 (01:11:21):
Democrat means treason against the US Constitution, and voter fraud
is just one of their tactics. But dishonesty and immorality
and the eventual overturning of a nation that's their mo
People believe.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
It and to make that happen. Imagine this is why
Senator John Thune I watched one of the morning shows,
said We're not going to overturn the filibuster because it
is going to come a time in the near future
when the Democrats control the presidency of the House. In
the Senate, and you get rid of the filibuster. We're
going to have fifty two or fifty three states Washington, DC,
Puerto Rico to back to the Supreme Court. In fact,

(01:12:02):
I looked it up. How does Puerto Rico become a state.
It becomes a state by having a constitution put together
approved by the Congress for Puerto Rico. They vote for it.
If they vote yes, they want to join the United States.
And then the President says okay, that's fine. The House
and the Senate says okay, that's fine. They're then a
state within twelve months, same thing with Washington, d C.

(01:12:22):
They're now a state. Plus the US Supreme Court tends
to lean a little bit conservative, but the Congress can
erect four more seats, make at thirteen and make them
all liberal Democrats like Justice Jackson. And that's how to
take over the country is get rid of the filibuster.
So an extent, I hate the chaos, but imagine a
world in which AOC controls the presidency and Mamdani types

(01:12:47):
control of the Senate in the House, what would America
look like?

Speaker 8 (01:12:49):
Then?

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
Obviously we would vote this in without knowing what's coming.
There'll be more chaos, more Jews would be scapegoaded, more
Christian churches will burn, and it's a consequence would have
more crises and panic attacks, in which case is more
controlled by the federal government on everything. And so I
don't like the chaos way of now with the lack
of the government being open. But on the other hand,

(01:13:11):
I know what's coming, and I fear it's almost impossible
to stop unless the voters get educated.

Speaker 5 (01:13:16):
You know what I'm saying, that is brilliant.

Speaker 10 (01:13:19):
I want to say the last three minutes, what you
said is one of the most brilliant and accurate analyzes
that I've ever heard. That well said, sir. And here's
the thing. Let's just say, the liberal Democrats they don't
love this country like most of us do. Because if
you love the country, you would respect her founding and

(01:13:42):
her institutions, and you would not try to deconstruct them,
you would try to preserve and venerate them. They don't
love this country. Yeah, And you know, those who don't
know the true and living God, they have a God
of their own, and it's the tower of babble of
our times, this delusional, global, amoral utopia that they think

(01:14:07):
they're going to create, but all of it will. It
will just be like all communist regimes atheistic regimes have been.
It will be a hellscape with a high body count. America.
The only thing that can hold at bay the two
juggernauts trying to control our futures, the iron cysts of socialism,

(01:14:29):
the iron sword of Shariah. The only thing sufficient to
peaceably hold those at bay is constitutionalism and Christianity.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
And that's I like the fact that you're optimistic. I'll
go down fighting like a warrior poet for the Home
of the Free and the land of the brave. Doctor
Alex McFarlane, we've got to run. Let's do it again
in a month or two, because we're singing out of
the same hymn book and we want to warn the
American people what's going to occur in the next five
to ten years, and we we certainly don't want that,

(01:15:01):
Doctor Alex McFarlane, you're a great American. And thanks for
coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, doctor. I'm
back at you. Brother, God bless you all. Let's continue
with more Bill Cunningham, the Great American Live with you
every Sunday Night. By Billy Cunningham, the Great American. Always

(01:15:22):
good to hear from. Doctor Alex McFarlane. I agree with
about eighty five ninety percent of what he says. Coming
up next, I've located a real live United States Congressman
Warren Davidson, the great state of Ohio. We've spent on
calls with the leadership in the House as to what
they're going to do. They need to know what are
we going to do? And there probably aren't going to
get this thing to Wednesday or Thursday. Monday, there's another

(01:15:44):
big powwow as I think he's going to report to
you tonight, and then tomorrow is Veterans Day, God bless
the veterans, and so many want to stay home and
participate in veterans' activities then back out on Wednesday. So
assuming the Congress passes this thing uh sometime tonight and
they're in the first procedural vote, then the Congress would

(01:16:05):
pass it late in the week, the President would sign
up in a way we go. Let's continue with more.
Phil Cunningham, the Great American with you and all great
Americans every.

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Speaker 2 (01:17:05):
Bill Cunningham the Great American News a couple hours back,
in which it appears a logjam has been broken in
the Senate. They've already held one and a half or
two of the so called procedural votes. One more has
to be held, and assuming that passes with at least sixty,
appears they have anywhere from eight to ten Democrats to
go along with it. It's going to pass, in which case,

(01:17:25):
at some point on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, it'll be
back in the House of Representatives, and most of the Democrats,
the Keem Jefferies right now is saying no way. Jose
is going to urge his caucus to all to vote.
Know and what the plan says essentially is that the
lockdown ends upon the President's signature, which might be oh
I ask the congressman Wednesday or Thursday, and it maintains

(01:17:48):
opening the government until January. The thirtieth, twenty twenty six.
What about two and a half three months from now
workers get paid for the back pay the ones that
we're working. Secondly, there's going to be a vote on
ACA Affordable Care Act subsidy is going to be vote
by the second week in December. And it doesn't promise
a yay or any vote. Is simply promises and the

(01:18:08):
Senate a vote. And then lastly, it funds military and
via construction for three years. And of course this could
have been done about thirty nine days ago. Nonetheless, joining
you and on now is the great Congressman, one of
the Leader's House Representatives, Warren Davidson. As we sit here
on Sunday night, approaching the midnight hour, I sound like
Wilson Pickett. Can you tell me what you know at
this point about what the Senate is doing how it

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will impact you in the Congress.

Speaker 11 (01:18:33):
Well, that's a pretty good rundown of the outline from
what they've put together. So it would be a CR
till January twentieth. But it does give full funding for
AG for military construction in the VA, and for the
legislative branch. And those are the three bills that had
already passed the House, already passed the Senate.

Speaker 5 (01:18:56):
They're pretty close.

Speaker 11 (01:18:56):
There are little differences between our version and the House
and the sense, and this basically says it's mostly going
to be the sentence. We've got a couple wins that
are in there in the weeds, but the big thing
is you don't inherently do the unaffordable care subsidies direct
to the insurance companies. I mean, these guys are getting
tens of billions of dollars in a pipeline to them,

(01:19:17):
and they're supposed to hold premiums down that obviously hadn't
working out. So the ACA as we predicted is a failure.
It isn't delivering in affordable care, and it is a
gateway drug to single payers. That's what it is, just
more and more money. So it doesn't guarantee that said
within forty days, and the Democrats get to pick the
version that goes to the floor in the Senate. Now,

(01:19:39):
we haven't cut a deal on any of that in
the House because we can pass things with a simple majority.
We'll see where things go on the whole ACA. But
I'm glad that at least the outline says they're going
to keep them separate. And we are making progress on
the funding bill. So this gives us till January. It
avoids the whole Christmas. Oh well, we have to get

(01:20:00):
it is done by Christmas or whatever.

Speaker 5 (01:20:02):
But I think we'll make momentum and get.

Speaker 11 (01:20:04):
Defense funded and hopefully the rest of the thing by
January twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
You know, one thing I think average Americans don't understand
is that Obamacare gave subsidies to insurance companies, their stocks
going up one thousand percent, all the healthcare companies you're
not a healthcare blue shield, all the rest going up
ten times what they were. They receive over about a
two year period, about a trillion dollars in federal dollar subsidies,

(01:20:27):
either from the federal government directly or by the subsidized
subsidies of the twenty two million. And the idea of
all this going back, you might recall of Obamacare, the
Unaffordable Care Act was that and I have the cuts.
We've played them once, might play them again about Obama
himself promising that when Obamacare passes, like your doctor, keep

(01:20:49):
your doctor, healthcare premiums yearly per family were to go
down two five hundred dollars each, not because of Obamacare.
What's going to happen also is that medical costsenses will
go down, not up. It's going to save Medicare and
Medicaid is going to save trillions of dollars, Obama said,
off the deficit. And also it's going to provide better

(01:21:10):
care at lower price. That's why it passed. Did any
of that happen.

Speaker 11 (01:21:16):
Well, no, there's been a lot of broken promises in there,
and one of the most iconic ones was if.

Speaker 5 (01:21:21):
You like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

Speaker 11 (01:21:23):
It clearly hasn't been affordable. But look, you know, this
just shows when you look at the way the outline
of this deal goes, this kuse shows the Democrats could
have said yes to this forever. So to me, it's
the dumbest thing in the world. I mean, it was
the compromise. This was a true the ceasefire to say, look,
we have our differences, let's work them out while the

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government's funded.

Speaker 5 (01:21:45):
The House just put a clean cr through.

Speaker 11 (01:21:48):
So we've wasted all this time, set the record for
the longest shutdown in the history of America, all so
the Democrats could get through the Mundami election in New
York and the you know, the crazy stuff that they're
doing all over the rest of the country.

Speaker 5 (01:22:03):
And then okay, they're gonna come with the votes ahead of.

Speaker 11 (01:22:05):
Thanksgiving, and then you know, this is supposed to be
some heroic act by the Democrats. This was entirely avoidable,
but nevertheless, hey, thankful for ten or more. The rumor
is ten or more Democrats are part of this coalition,
finally breaking ranks with Chuck Schumer's and Hakeem Jefferies and
saying to the radical crazy wing of their party, Okay,

(01:22:26):
we kind of maybe have made our point. Let's get
on up around the country.

Speaker 2 (01:22:31):
And I love you. Don't watch it. I watched this,
you don't have to. I watch ms NBC tonight talk
about the capitulation, the collapse of Chuck Schumer. Obviously they're
coming after him, but Chuck Schumer doesn't have the power
to stop it in the Senate. It might be tonight,
might be early in the morning, might be Monday, and
he doesn't have the power. But he's got a chunk
of his own cock as saying we can't take it anymore,

(01:22:52):
including Senator to Dick Durbin. Durbin of Illinois is second
in command, and he's right behind Schumer. He's going to
vote yes, he doesn't have to run for reelection. Isn't
that amazing?

Speaker 5 (01:23:03):
It is.

Speaker 11 (01:23:04):
I was reading Tim Kaine's statement, you know, from you know,
Hillary Clinton's VP pick back in sixteen. He's in the
Virginia in the Senate from Virginia, and you know, he's
usually down for the stuff, but he's looking at look
how many military people are in Virginia.

Speaker 5 (01:23:20):
He's like that, Yeah, okay, this is kind of crazy.
We got to do something different here.

Speaker 11 (01:23:24):
And look, hopefully we get on with it, we work
the rest of the appropriations process and we do it.

Speaker 5 (01:23:29):
I mean, we'll see, because.

Speaker 11 (01:23:30):
This agreement doesn't inherently set a timeline for debate, so
this could drag on for days in the Senate or
by a mutual agreement, they could be done and you know,
probably probably Monday or Tuesday, but they could drag it
out to maybe Wednesday. We've got a conference call, you know,
where they'll probably call us back into session, you know,
either either you know, Wednesday or Thursday, from what I hear,

(01:23:54):
So we'll see it hopefully hopefully will be.

Speaker 5 (01:23:58):
This week and we'll get it done and get the
government open.

Speaker 2 (01:24:01):
Did Obamacare lower premiums.

Speaker 5 (01:24:04):
It clearly did not.

Speaker 11 (01:24:05):
I mean, and and you're right, and you talk about
the health insurance stocks. I still remember this conversation. I
had an investment advisor years ago, tell me, is there
a reason you don't have like a health health insurance
company ETF, in your in your in your mutual funds?

Speaker 5 (01:24:19):
And I go, no, I really don't know.

Speaker 11 (01:24:21):
And he goes, well, this is crazy, Like here's the chart,
and it's almost, you know, straight slope line. I mean,
you know, double digit premium increases every year. They're making
money hand over fist, and so have their share prices.
So it's the only consolation is it's been a reasonably
good investment. But it's all bleeding out on the other end.

(01:24:41):
And this is the thing, no one really believes it.
But members of the House of Representatives have Obamacare. One
hundred and sixty hundred and eighty million Americans get their
insurance through their employer. All federal employees get their insurance
from the Federal government insurance pool. And they but but
they said, oh, we have to make the point. And
so members of the House have Obamacare, and it's worse coverage.

(01:25:04):
It costs about four or five hundred dollars a month
more for the premiums, and people still don't believe we
have Obamacare and it's not the greatest coverage. So I
mean I had better insurance for myself and my employees
with a small business.

Speaker 5 (01:25:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:18):
At line. In fact, the Washington Post, not exactly a
conservative publication set about a month ago. Obamacare has failed.
It's the Unaffordable Care Act. Get the government involved. Premium
prices go up, Deductibles are five to ten thousand dollars
a person, and many events are not covered. Plus there's
a lot of out a network cost. And so when
you get the government involved in something, premiums for skyrocket

(01:25:41):
access to care will diminish, deductibilities rise. And then once
you have this subsidy in effect for those making two
to four hundred thousand dollars a year that goes into effect,
they fight like a warrior poet to keep it. Let's
go on to a kind of a related but unrelated matter,
which are food stamps. In the nineteen seventies. By nineteen eighty,

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Congressman Warren Davidson, one in fifty Americans are on food stamps.
Today it's one in eight, which is about twelve and
a half percent of the Of the so called forty
two million on food stamps, there's at least five million
dead people. I don't think they eat a lot, according
to Secretary Rollins. Agricultural Secretary Brook Rawlins. She said, of
the forty two million, we have located at this point

(01:26:24):
five million dead people they don't eat. We also located
about five million illegal aliens getting it. We also located
about three to five million on top of that that
are gaming the system and using the EBED cards as currency.
She said, there's massive waste, fraud and abuse that's costing
about fifty billion dollars a year. But every new show
about this talks about Republicans won a Star of Granny.

(01:26:47):
I want every American who needs food to get it,
but that's not the SNAP program.

Speaker 11 (01:26:52):
Please explain, Yeah, and where Brook Rowlins get this data.
She asked the states to share their data, and only
about half of them complied. You got more than twenty
all blue states that won't share the data. I say,
no data, no money. You shouldn't turn it back on
for these states if they're not going to share how
you're operating the program. So they're getting federal dollars and

(01:27:14):
they won't even provide transparency in some of these states,
you know, the ones California and New York, Illinois, all
the bluest of the blue, they won't share the data.
And the ones that we have looked at the data.
This is what she's finding. And this is the same
kind of thing that dose was highlighting. This is where
we have to get on with. You know, there's a
way to do the right thing and have a safety

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net for a person in need.

Speaker 5 (01:27:38):
Everyone I know would.

Speaker 11 (01:27:39):
Help a friend in need out or a family member,
but they would also say to that friend or family member,
if you're able bodied, working age, you don't have kids
at home that you're looking after, you're going to get.

Speaker 5 (01:27:50):
A job, right.

Speaker 11 (01:27:51):
And that's what we did with the big beautiful bill,
and every controlled media outlet out there is out there saying, oh,
there are massive cuts, you know, the food stamps, massive
cuts to medicaid. There are no cuts. I mean, unless
you're an illegal alien or you're able bodied adult and
you don't have kids at home and you're you know,
you're not a senior citizen or something.

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
Oh you're dead.

Speaker 11 (01:28:14):
Yeah, well yeah, the dead people. Yeah, you're going to
lose out on all your benefits. And if we get
it right and get our act together. We haven't passed
enough voting regulation that's got through the Senate yet, we've
passed it in the House. If we get it right,
it'll be harder to vote if you're dead too. We
have some of these states that literally we had to
sue to go to the Supreme Court and get it approved.

(01:28:34):
This is back when John Housted, now one of our
great senators. You know, we had to sue and win
in the Supreme Court to be able to remove dead
people from the voter roles in the state of Ohio.

Speaker 5 (01:28:46):
No other states aren't doing it well.

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
The Democrats are fighting hard for the dead. Also, i'd
point out in June of twenty twenty four, that was
during the last year of the Biden administration, well when
he was obviously mentally di minished are non existent the
USDA at that point, at that point under Joe Biden,
reported that twelve percent or about eleven billion dollars and

(01:29:10):
SNOP benefits paid in fiscal year twenty twenty three were improper.
So you have the Democrat head of the United States
Department of Agriculture, Joe Biden, some chief of staff running
the presidency reported out that we're blowing about eleven billion
dollars a year that we know about, and that doesn't count.
On top of that the twenty one Blue states that
won't provide the data because with the way this food

(01:29:33):
stamp program works, the Feds in other words, Congressmen, you
pay for it, but the states administer it. But the
Blue states don't want to say how bad it is,
and they won't have a core constituency they can get
to vote illegally or legally because someone's taking away your
food stamp benefits. But in reality, democrats acknowledge it's a
massive one hundred billion dollar boon doggle that's going up

(01:29:56):
fifty percent in the last three and a half four years,
and it's got to stop. The idea by Doge was
why do we keep supporting these events when we know
in programs that is filled with waste, fraud and abuse,
and that leaves Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security alone, which
according to the Trustees, there's one hundred billion dollars a
year and those three programs that's waste, fraud and abuse

(01:30:19):
where we pay social gourity benefits to dead people that
Democrats support the dead, And I'm thinking this is the
tip of the iceberg. How hard has it been? And
I want to ask you a big question when this
thing comes to you in the Congress Thursday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, a lot of the Democrats, the Liberals are
lining up and keeping the same hatefield rhetoric not tethered

(01:30:39):
to reality. Do you think the Republicans are going to
vote in mass maybe other than Thomas Massey, are they
going to vote for this? Are they going to say okay?
Because the Trumpster tonight seems to be saying he's in
favor of it.

Speaker 11 (01:30:52):
Yeah, I assume based off the outline that it's going
to be there. You know, of course, we want to
read the bill before we pass the bill. We look
at it for the crazy poison pills. But the way
that it's been put out and talked with a few
folks over the weekend as it was coming together, what
looked like was going to be in the ville. It
looks pretty clean. It looks like it's going to be

(01:31:13):
the cr for everything. Those three funding bills that we
were already close and they have passed the House and Senate.
The major differences between the House and Senate aren't truly
major differences. I think we're going to get a decent
product across the finish line and then the ACA thing separate.
So look, you know, I probably vote knowing the ACA thing.

(01:31:35):
I never voted for Obamacare before I hear there are
some Republicans anxious to vote for that, so who knows.

Speaker 5 (01:31:40):
Hopefully hopefully we don't.

Speaker 11 (01:31:42):
I mean, this is a terrible plan, but it does highlight,
you know, where is the Republican plan on healthcare. I've
pushed for years for us to have a standalone committee
for healthcare where every hearing, all the oversight is related
to healthcare. We haven't got that. I'm saying, well, create
a select committee. And the main difference is it's not

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necessarily permanent, and it's not necessarily they don't necessarily generate legislation.
They can just refer it to the committee as a jurisdiction.
So it disarms it to some extent to call it
a select committee. But I do think Republicans it does
put burden to say, well, what's your plan, But our
plan can't just be more subsidies, because you know that's
what you're seeing. If anything we've subsidized. You pick education,

(01:32:26):
you pick healthcare. Maybe those two are the biggest. Maybe
housing would be the third biggest. Whatever we subsidize, the
rate of inflation is higher than normal inflation. If you
take the average inflation rate, the price becomes, you know,
the market price plus the subsidy.

Speaker 5 (01:32:43):
So you know, and you know, Okay, the.

Speaker 11 (01:32:46):
People who get to subsidy, it's it's better for them.
But Democrats' plan is for everybody to get a subsidy.
But at least Trump's talking about, well, if you're going
to give subsidies, at least give them to the individual
instead of giving them to the insurance company, then it
can at least mimic market behavior.

Speaker 2 (01:33:01):
Well, Obamacare subsidies do not hold down healthcare costs, and
costs them to go up. And direct payments to the
insurance companies. By the way, the insurance companies have donated
to Democratic costs over the past ten years, two billion
dollars of money to the healthcare The Democrats are in
the pocket of the healthcare. But the subsidies do not
restrain cost of healthcare. And when you pay money directly

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to the insurance companies to encourage them to hold down
costs and it goes the opposite way. None of that
has anything to do with it holding down the cost
of healthcare. In fact, it makes it go the opposite direction.
But truth doesn't have a part in many of the
words of Schumer and King Jeffrey as well. We got
to run Congressman Warren Davidson. And so the bottom line
is you're going to get together probably on Wednesday in

(01:33:45):
the House of Representatives. Is that true?

Speaker 11 (01:33:48):
Yeah, I think Wednesday, and we'll probably have either of
a Wednesday Thursday.

Speaker 5 (01:33:52):
It could run longer than that.

Speaker 11 (01:33:53):
It kind of depends on how much drama the Senate
puts into this, because they can go into something they
call vot rama. Yeah, I think anyone senator can trip that,
and you know, inevitably one of them will. It seems
so that that could be a you know, a couple
couple extra days of coverage there in the Senate before
it makes its way to the House, and you know,
then you know, I'm excited to they get Veterans Days events,

(01:34:17):
you know, all over. It'll be nice to be in
Ohio Monday, Tuesday and then back, you know, get out
there and get the government open.

Speaker 2 (01:34:23):
Barren Davidson, You're a great American. Thanks for coming on
the Bill Cunningham Show. Good luck and the truth will
set us free on these subsidies. And Congressman, thank you
very much.

Speaker 5 (01:34:32):
Thanks a lot. God bless you and all your listeners.

Speaker 2 (01:34:34):
God bless America. Warren Davidson of the great state of Ohio.
Bill Cunningham, with you every Sunday night. Sorry, Billy Cunningham,
the great American. And I'm glad that I had one
Congressman call me up and said I'll come on. A
lot of them are telling me in a two US
senators have told me, look, there's things in flux. We're
busy on the floor. I'm looking, Yes, you're busy, et cetera.

(01:34:57):
I'm not sure what's going to happen. So I got
it's good to have one come on. Warren Davidson, who
said essentially he was one of the ones early on
that going back several months, who voted no to Donald Trump.
Then we push came to show if he finally voted
yes to Donald Trump, and so uh from that situation,
he seemed to indicate that if things are according to

(01:35:19):
media accounts, he's going to vote yes on Wednesday, or
Thursday in the House. Then the President was signing on Friday.

Speaker 5 (01:35:26):
UH.

Speaker 2 (01:35:26):
The individuals get paid and then away we go. That's
the plan anyway, All let's continue with more. One other
thing that happened on Tuesday was Mum Donnie getting elected,
as you may know, is the UH is the mayor
of New York City coming up next to Michael McDonald
to the Catholic League to talk about what that does
for faith and family into the into America. Bill Cunningham

(01:35:48):
with you every Sunday. The Bill cunning End the Great
American is the election of Mam Donnie is the mayor
of the financial capital of the world and America's largest city.

(01:36:10):
Will portend for the future, is predicting what's going to
happen in races in the mid term and more. And
the New York City economy by itself is about thirteen
percent ranked in the world if it was a country.
In other words, it's a big deal. Jobs are leaving
left and right, and might accelerate, might not. But the
Catholic League and Michael McDonald is headquartered right there in

(01:36:31):
the belly of the beast in New York City. Michael McDonald,
welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show, and there's a
column up penned by Bill Donnie. You're the profile of
Mam Donnie voters is quite telling, and so can you
tell the American people. A lot of works have been
done to identify who voted for Mom Donnie and what
it means for Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Texas, and Florida. So

(01:36:51):
give us a brief profile of the Mondannie voter is
determined by your research.

Speaker 5 (01:36:58):
Yep, thanks both, Great to be with you again. Yeah,
there's a couple of key, very key demographic groups came
out in support of Memdani. Particularly, he crushed it with
young people, people under thirty, just crushed with them, getting
about sixty two percent of the vote from them, and

(01:37:20):
then first time voters as well, sixty he got sixty
five percent of their vote. Young liberal white women he
got eighty four percent of their vote, So that's pretty
much that's pretty much a safe lock there. Asians voted
for him in large numbers, over sixty percent of the vote,

(01:37:43):
nearly sixty percent of the vote among Black voters, nearly
just over fifty percent of the vote from Hispanic voters,
So it was definitely a very big coalition of people
coming out, but particularly young and left her voters tended

(01:38:03):
to break ma'm donnie not even close. I mean, Mam
Donnie got over fifty percent of the vote, so he's
locked in there with pretty much a mandate at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
And one thing I found amazing. Jews voted for Cuomo
over Mamdani sixty three to thirty three. But that means
that thirty three percent of Jews voted for someone whose
doubts about the Holocaust, who did not oppose what Amas
did on October the seventh, one third of Jews said
we want Mamdanni to be the mayor. And then the

(01:38:36):
other thing. Catholics split the vote similarly, among thirty three
percent of Catholics also voted for Mamdanni. And how do
you explain one third of Jews in New York City
voting for Mamdani. How's that possible?

Speaker 5 (01:38:55):
Yeah, it seems like if you dig a little bit deeper.
Younger Us in particularly were the ones that made up
that thirty three percent of the overall Jewish population, but
I saw estimates there that it was closer to seventy
percent amongst younger Jews, breaking hard for Mam Donnie so
it could just be this young left wing idealism. I mean,

(01:39:20):
I know, Mam Donnie said he was always running on
the affordability of four billion out. Yeah, it's New York
is not cheap. But that doesn't necessarily mean that you
need to elect the socialist togey that refuses to condemn
the Intifada, that refuses to come out and really renounce

(01:39:43):
some of the ugly anti Semitism that exists within the
Democratic Party. That doesn't necessarily mean you need to vote
for him. And I mean, if you look at his policies,
they're crazy. They're never going to work. I mean, socialism
has failed everywhere. It's not even a great idea on
the blackboard. It's just a terrible concept that a lot
of these people are young and indoctrinated, they don't know

(01:40:05):
any better, and they're they're kind of fed up. And
even with the Catholics, I will say another thing that
probably should get a little bit more play is Cuomo
in particular was very bad when he was governor. I
mean we talked about all the time he would tramp

(01:40:26):
one religious liberty, but especially during COVID, he was particularly
hard on the Catholic churches here in New York City
and the Orthodox chows in the city. So I could
definitely see you. M maybe some people are just holding
their nose and saying, yeah, Cuomo, you never did right
by me. You were really you shut down my church,
you shut down my synagogue. I'm not coming out to

(01:40:47):
vote for you. So that there is definitely and it
definitely does seem to be that way when you get
down into some of the other more interesting opinion poll pieces,
like when you look at people saying, do you think
Pam Donnie's going to do a good job? Well, no,
I really don't think his policies are going to be good.
You know, most people were saying that compared to the
people it was like thirty percent they thought he would

(01:41:09):
do a good job, about fifty percent. No, he's probably
not can do a good job. Do you think his
policies are realistic? Oh no, absolutely not. So it does
seem to be that this anti Quomo strand was probably
a little bit stronger than everyone kind of thought it
was going to be. I think that also has to
play into this to a big extent, when you have
people saying, I don't think he's up for the job.

(01:41:30):
I don't think he's going to do a good job.
I don't think his policies are realistic. But then if
he still gets over fifty percent of the vote like those,
those numbers don't match up, So there must there must
be a much stronger anti Quomo strand than people gave
him credit for.

Speaker 2 (01:41:45):
Coup. Other findings here, Men are forty eight percent of
the population in New York City, made up only forty
four percent of the electricate women are fifty two percent
of the population. They counted for fifty five percent of
the voters, and of young women under the age of already,
eighty four percent voted for Mamdannie. Young women loved him,
and it's incontestable that both the New York Times and

(01:42:07):
the Washington Posts have moved far to the left of
the radical center left position, they drew the line at Mamdani.
In fact, both publications said he has no experience and
agenda reads like a turbo charge version of the Blasio's
dismaying mayoralty, et cetera, et cetera. One other shocker to me,
which I made a note of, that Mamdani prevailed at

(01:42:30):
every income level, doing best with high income voters. So
if you're a high income voter paying fifty two percent
of your income to the government in one form or another,
either state, local, or federal, that you want more taxes
high income New Yorkers voter for mamdanni. How's that possible?

Speaker 5 (01:42:51):
Well, these are the super wealthy elite that they don't
have to deal with this. They're not going to be
the guys going down by their own groceries, so they're
never going to they run grocery source that Mam Donnie
talks about. These people don't take the bus, so sure,
you know, Ma'm Donnie's gonna have cheap groceries that they
don't care about that the poor people are going to
serve because there won't be any food. They're not going

(01:43:12):
to be riding on the bus with all the criminally
insane people that are already, you know, loose on the
streets of New York. Now we're just gonna allow them
to pile into the buses and hurt people. But these
super wealthy people, they don't have to do with it. Sure,
no one likes paying more taxes, but you know, these
are the people that don't give the charity. This is
statistically proven that the higher income secularists do not give.

(01:43:36):
The charity is generally something that you see from working class,
middle class people of faith. They're the people that actually
support local charity and they think it's the government's job.
The rich people think it is, so you know, they
don't care if Uncle Sam takes a little bit more
from their gazillion dollars that they have in the bank.
But you know, they're taking baths and gold bars like

(01:43:57):
Scrooge McDuff over there, and they don't care. They don't
care that the city's going to because they're walled off.
They live on the Upper west Side, Upper East Side,
they're they're wealthy. They don't care. They're never going to
be touched by these cerebral policies. This is going to come.
And you know, we were sounding the arm on this
multiple times throughout the year that these socialist policies that

(01:44:18):
Mam Donnie is pushing are going to fall squarely on
the working poor, particularly black and Hispanic people in New York,
that they are going to be the ones that have
to deal with him cutting the police. They're going to
have to deal with he's shutting down the charter schools.
And you know it's not even talking about any semblance

(01:44:38):
of school choice. These are the people that are going
to feel it directly, whereas the rich people are not
going to feel it directly. So of course they're going
to vote for him. They're playing with the House's money.

Speaker 2 (01:44:49):
How about this one. Thirty nine percent of New York
has said he's up for the job. Forty seven percent
say he's not up to the job, and he's going
to win as basket of goodies, free bus, fair, free
child care, rent phrases, what you'll make apartments more expensive,
by the way, and also free groceries can't be done.
Sixty percent of the voter said raising taxes will hurt

(01:45:09):
the economy. So your column says, among other things, In
other words, the majority of New Yorkers voted for a
man who they believe can't do the job, will pursue
measures up, will hurt the economy, and will promote policies
that are unrealistic. Any One, can you explain? Can you
square that circle?

Speaker 5 (01:45:28):
Yeah, you know, that's the tough one. I think it
has to be a combination of these these people that
are just voting based on the idea. Oh look at me,
I'm so progressive. I'm voting for a Muslim socialist, and
then you've got also this sort of again, I think

(01:45:49):
it was much deeper. The Homo made enemies when he
was covering. He was there for a long time here,
a lot of things. I mean, this is a guy
that famously said that pro life people don't belong in
New York, that he should not of New York and
you need to leave. So yeah, I can kind of
see where there would definitely be some resentment. And you know,

(01:46:09):
this isn't even going into his whole debaca with the
nursing homes, like that's probably the worst thing that he
ever did. I could definitely see that there probably was
a much deeper anti Cuomo strand than a lot of
the pundits. A lot of the political class gave any
credence like it's a Cuomo. They're kind of like the Kennedy's.

(01:46:30):
Everyone will just vote for him once I see the name,
and that clearly didn't happen here. I think that probably
is a little bit of acting went on in these
figures as well. You have all these people saying, yeah,
have not these policies are going to be bad. We
don't think he's up for the job. This is he's
just going to be a wreck, but somehow we still
get fifty percent of But like those numbers just don't square,

(01:46:51):
and so it probably does come down to a little bit,
a little bit like I think these analogies are a
little overblown by similar to Trump and twenty sixteen verse
Hillary was like, you know, we just everyone despised Hillary
so much. It was very hard for the Democrats to
even mount any sort of effective challenge to Trump because

(01:47:12):
he was popular, he was personable. Yeah, he didn't have
any of the Clinton baggage. I think there probably probably
was a little bit more Cuomo baggage in this case.

Speaker 2 (01:47:22):
Now, Jews from Donnie is like chickens for KFC, and
they have have the idea that one third of Jews
want Mom Donnie, who believes that on mass and Hesbal
are not terrorist groups, who believes in globalizing Intovada and
Jews one third of Jews in York City voted for him.
That's incredible. And so when this is get out your

(01:47:42):
crystal ball before I talk about what's going on with
Cornell University and shutting off funding and now they've reached
a deal. When these policies fail in one to two years,
and when taxes cannot be raised because the governor will
not allow it, when opening up to jails, no bail bond,
homelessness on all the grocery stores are being eluded, police

(01:48:02):
are demoralized. Who's he gonna blame?

Speaker 5 (01:48:07):
Who isn't he gonna blame? This is gonna be everyone's fault.
This is gonna be definitely a Governor Hochal's fault, definitely
President Trump's fault. Absol at the very minimum, those two
are gonna be the first one stone under the bus.
It's probably gonna be the rich people because they fled
New York because they didn't want to pay his ridiculous

(01:48:28):
was like fifty two percent income tax, all a big
Wall Street. They fled and went to Miami in Dallas,
and they left us in the lurch. League. That's where
this is gonna go. It doesn't end happily. Socialism doesn't work.
It never worked, it never will work. It's impossible for
its work. It's a terrible concept. Anyone that argues otherwise,

(01:48:49):
I'm sorry, I want whatever you're drinking, though, because if
you can look at that and say somehow, yeah, that'll work. No,
it never worked. It never has work, it never will work.
It's a terrible concept. And eventually what happens uh, as
Margaret Thatcher said, Uh, they eventually run out of other
people's money. And at that point, he's gonna start, uh,

(01:49:11):
you know, it's gonna start trickling down. Uh. The taxes
are going to start going up for the upper middle
class and the middle class, and then yeah, people are
just gonna flee the city and no one's gonna be left.
It's gonna be this. Uh, it's it's gonna be it.
It's still being a healthscape. Bill. Let's that's what we're
shooting for. That that's really what it looks like, uh

(01:49:32):
Mandanni wants for New York. And it also looks like
that's what New York, over half of New York wants
for itself. Well, these New Yorkers came out and force
for man Donnie. Uh, he's got a mandate at this point,
he's got fifty percent of the boat. Like that's that's huge.
That's just huge.

Speaker 2 (01:49:49):
So it's well, I mean Trump onought to come out
and say, let's, uh, let's shut down the government. If
Trump said shut down the government, the Democrats would open
up the government. Because they all suffer from Trump direct
rangement syndrome. Lastly, Cornell has struck it. You're in the
middle of the era of the Ivy League, in which
they practiced anti Semitism, anti Christian bias for a long time,

(01:50:11):
and Cornell is one of many in Ithaca, New York
that have now said, we'll pay a thirty million dollars
fine and quit discriminating against Jews and Catholics and Christians.
We're gonna have merit based admissions, and we're going to
get rid of professors who are anti Semites. I don't
believe that will happen. They'll simply call it by some
other means and continue. They want to play out the clock.

(01:50:31):
But is it true that the Ivy League, like Columbia,
your town there of New York City, is rampant with
anti Semitism and they've finally agreed to pay money to
stop what they're doing, But they're going to run out
the clock, keep doing it, call it something else, waiting
for the Democrats to take over. Am I being a
pessimist or am I being a realist?

Speaker 5 (01:50:53):
I think you being a realist. Theer bill, I mean
just speaking one of the fun stats that they like
Columbia was like trying to throw around last year in
the spring of twenty twenty four, it was like, oh,
you know, the riots and the protests and the anti
semitism is much worse at NYU, And Okay, to a
certain extent that that was true, But the difference is

(01:51:14):
if you look at the two campuses. NYU is like
on the streets, right, so you can just be walking
down you know, fourteenth Street, and you'll just stumble into
NYU's campus and it was like, Oh, I thought I
was gonna, you know, go into the deli, but here's
the you know, whatever arts building it is here. Columbia
is walled off. So all of the protesters there were

(01:51:36):
actually from the university. So when the cops actually eventually
did start going in there and saying, hey, guys, it's
probably not a good thing for you to be mean
to the Jewish kids, right NYU, most of the people
that they arrested weren't even from the school. They were
just like, you know, people wandering around like, oh, look,
here's a safe place for us to congregate and spew
anti semitism, whereas Columbia it was mostly just the students

(01:51:58):
there because it's separated from the rest of the city.
So it's you know, it's ridiculous, and uh, Columbia was terrible.
They try like, oh, it's not We're not really the
bad guys. Other the people are wears like, no, come
on like that, that just doesn't fly. You shouldn't be
spewing hate, like that's just wrong, right. Uh, And and

(01:52:19):
we've seen this time and time again. And Bill, I'll
be honest with you, it may not even take that long.
They may not even need to run out of the
clock here. I'm sure there'll be some sort of federal
judge that comes in there and says, well, Cornell, you
can do whatever the hell you want. You don't have
to follow any of these rules. I mean, look at this.
You got to judge now telling Trump that, well, this
is how you have to spend the money. And this
is on top of you already had to judge over

(01:52:39):
the summer saying well you can't defund planned parenthood. Judges
don't have any place in spending. That's in the constitutionally,
you guys have nothing, absolutely nothing to do with spending.
And no, sorry, we get to now, right spending policy.
Come on, like I we gotta get We gotta have
a serious wake up call here that the people are

(01:53:00):
playing for keeps. They don't care about fixing this country.
They clearly don't care about human life. But particularly they
are just rabid for the ability to discriminate against people
of faith, and that's what they want to do. And
the judges will bail them out, or like you said,
the lefties, they'll just keep running out the clock. And

(01:53:20):
we got to have a week up call here. We
got to really start pot.

Speaker 2 (01:53:23):
I hope, I have hope. I have faith, but I
always have faith. Sometimes I lose my hope. We got
to run Michael Mcdonaldcatholic League dot org, Religious and Civil
Rights for All Americans. Michael McDonald, thanks for coming on
the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, Michael.

Speaker 5 (01:53:39):
Thanks Billy, You're a great American.

Speaker 2 (01:53:40):
Bill Cunningham, the Grand American. Live with you every Sunday night. Hi,
Billy Cunningham. Of course, eight Democrats have voted yes to proceed,
and this matter should now be concluded by the end
of the week, because, let's face it, one thing also
must happen is that the House must be called back
in the session. That's going to take a few days.
If that takes a few days, this thing will pass

(01:54:01):
at the end of the week. Then we're back to normal,
or as normal as we ever get. Thanks for listening tonight,
Bill cunning and the Great American with you every Sunday night.