May 29, 2025 • 39 mins
Segment 1 - Media Distortion and Elon Musk
Segment 2 - Michael Letts - Dragnets Are Coming
Segment 3 - Mark Jones, Gun Owners of America on Congressional Bills and Ken Paxton
Segment Disturbing Soundbites and Climax Change Hoax Debunked - Finally
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This is America. Day.
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possess his brother's land. They're not breed in great
numbers. For he will make a desert of his
home and yours. Oh my God, shun him out of
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order. Drive him back into his jungle
lair. For he is a harbinger of death.
Fight really didn't. Iran Musk will remain a friend
and advisor to the Trump administration even after his
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tenure leading the Department ofGovernment efficiency comes to
an end, according to Vice President JD Vance.
Speaking on Fox and Friends, Vance said Musk's role was
always intended to be temporary,lasting about six months, but
stressed that the billionaires impact won't stop there.
Of course he's going to continueto be an advisor, Vance said,
dismissing media reports of a rift as fake news.
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Elon is going to remain a friendand an advisor of both me and
the president, and he's done a lot of good things.
You know how old history look atElon Musk?
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My name is Jim Watkins. I'm your host.
And again, you know, how will history look at Elon Musk making
the announcement this week that he is exiting his position at
Doge, which as you just heard, JD Van said it was never meant
to be that, that that to me is the true exhibition of a person
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who is not power hungry, someonewho when they say they're going
to leave, they leave. Unlike many people, you know,
George Washington was famous forthat.
They wanted him to continually to serve and, and George said,
no, I, I'm, I don't, it's, it's time for me to move on.
And I and I applaud Elon Musk. I think history will ultimately
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be very kind to him. What is shattering to me is that
how easily, and this is a lessonfor all of us to learn when we
engage with legacy media, is howeasily they can turn someone
into an enemy. I remember last Christmas, or
maybe it was the Christmas before, I had given my son a
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book on Elon Musk. It had just been written and it
was a best selling book. And you know, he and my son
actually went out and worked hisass off and raised enough money
and he bought himself a Tesla and he had a pretty decent job
and all of that. And I rode in the Tesla, the
beautiful machine. I'm not a huge fan of electric
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cars simply because the real truth is that the carbon
footprint to produce an electriccar is much greater than the old
gas guzzler you're you're driving right now.
But the, the Elon Musk was just a real innovator of the 21st
century, probably one of the first among many, but certainly
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his ideals and his ambitions. And it's a Great American story
too, because he came from what probably was a very challenging
ordeal in South Africa, which iswhere he was born, did not have
a good relationship with his dad, which is never a good
thing. He he goes to Canada and he
decides, you know what? I don't really like this, this
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vibe. Let me go to where the
entrepreneurials live and thrive.
And he made his way to the United States and the rest, as
they say, is history. And he got the ball rolling on
EVs, which everybody wanted because, you know, the climate.
I mean, he, he literally kick started the entire EV movement
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showing that it could be profitable.
And at first we remember that his cars were very expensive,
but he was not given the subsidies that many of these
other big automakers were given.And and and basically because
Elon Musk was not a bag carryingwater carrying Democrat for the
progressive left, they disdainedhim and they began their
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campaign of turning this man into Emmanuel Goldstein in
reference to the book 1984 and the two minutes hate always
somebody to focus your energy on.
That's the that's the that's thecard they play.
They've done it with Trump with it.
And you say, oh, with Jim, you know, they're legitimate reasons
to not like somebody. Yeah.
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Well, OK, Elon Musk was a union Buster.
Well, he had his own reasons forthat.
Plus he was in a state with the highest employee tax in the
nation. And And I think sometimes unions
can be great. Sometimes unions can be nothing
more than a political lobby group, which is what they've
become today, especially organizations like the teachers
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union. They've become a lobbying group
for the Democratic progressive left.
That's not the intent of unions.Unions are supposed to protect
workers from being abused. And they they pay the unions a
little bit out of their paycheckand they're supposed to get
protected. Somebody gets fired unfairly,
they can help you. That's the purpose of a union,
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not to get everybody's money andthen turn out turn over and hand
it to the candidate that you like.
At least that's that's what my dad explained to me when I was a
young man. And so he was persona non grata
Elon Musk, and it was a real tragedy.
So he comes in and wants to holdthe government accountable.
Trump likes him, thinks he. And and by the way, remember
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that Elon Musk was formerly a member of the Democratic Party.
And so as soon as he stepped into the ring and started
looking into the matters of the deep state, and we know now the
corruption was wide and deep andhas been many, many.
It's going to take literally years.
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That's if Congress has the wherewithal to get it done, to
investigate the abuse of this government and the abuse of the
taxpayers of this country. It I am ashamed, ashamed at how
much the grift was going on around me.
I'm only sorry that I didn't take advantage of it myself.
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But as a man of principle, you know, I didn't.
I assumed that for the most part, my government was honest,
and now I'm not so sure. And then yet there another
institution down by the wayside.It's going to take a long time
before this government, any government, earns my trust.
Again, trust but verify is my motto.
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So here we have this man who's holding the government
accountable. He goes in, tries to identify
waste doge. He brings his his team of crack
computer tech geeks and they start unearthing so real
tragedies and abuse, financial abuse, and it still goes on
today. And what does he get for it?
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A bunch of liberal fanatics keying his car, destroying his
cars, making victims of Tesla drivers and car owners, burning
them, setting them ablaze. Boy, they really know how to
treat a guy, don't they? And to me, that is the end
result of massive or formation, mass psychosis or mass psychosis
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formation from Mattia's Desmond,great term.
But in other words, being brainwashed.
And if you have rage in your heart against Donald Trump, then
you can identify yourself as being completely brainwashed.
I am convinced of that because again, up until he took on the
Democratic Party, which any rightful citizen should take on
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their government and hold them accountable at all costs.
And we see now how corrupt the Biden administration was.
No wonder. And by the way, Elon was not the
only defector of the Democratic Party.
It continues today. Hell, half of the people on
Trump's administration are former Democrats.
Tulsi Gabbard, who else? So it's a real tragedy.
And I hope that history remembers the lesson here, which
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is how powerful the legacy mediahas become.
And as we look at that, I would encourage you to read a great
article, article by Douglas Stone in The Federalist today,
which we'll talk about in the fourth block.
And then we're going to play some interesting sound bites
too. Alex Thompson on deck to give us
the shit, you know, the skinny on Biden corruption.
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And now the big question everybody's asking today.
Here's the question. Now that we know that for the
most part, Biden was incapacitated during his term,
did Hunter Biden figure out a way to pardon himself?
Think about that for a moment because according to the new
Jake paper book Original Sin, Hunter Biden was in on a lot of
meetings right after the debateswhen everything fell apart.
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And it was at that time that Joesupposedly reversed his position
and said, I want to pardon my son because he felt like his son
was being attacked. But what if it was Hunter Biden
pulling on the strings? We could talk about that in a
little bit. Michael Letts is on deck,
followed by Mark Jones from the Gun Owners of America.
We'll take it to take a look at some new 2A news.
Hang on, don't go anywhere. This segment of the program is
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Let the journey begin. Well, there's a lot of hubbub
going on on this news circuit. Dan Bongino making some
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appearances and some announcements, and there's a
whole lot of stuff under the hood.
And who better to bring in than Michael?
Let's invest, usa.org founder and CEO, to talk about some of
what Dan Bongino had to say today.
What's, I mean, where do we start?
Do we want to talk about the Capitol Police?
Do we want to talk about Fauci? Where do we begin?
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Well, let's talk about Capitol Police because that will lead
into what's going on with the Bureau, which is part of Fauci
and everything else. So I think that's a great
starting point. You know, are the DC Capitol
Police chief who's been there for ever since the January 6th
and he is retiring today. His last day is my recollection
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and he decided to take some parting shots that people he
doesn't like on the way out the door.
One of them being President Trump saying how traumatized he
as a police chief was to learn that Trump was going to pardon
the J6S. Never mind the fact that he did
not address the fact that the Bureau is now releasing those
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files to the Government Oversight Committee, James
Cormor's committee on all the issues that really happened
January 6th. The destruction of records by
the previous committee that was chaired by the Democrats and how
they refuse to allow exculpatoryevidence to be heard, refuse to
bring in witnesses that counter any of their narrative.
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All that's fixing to come out. It's actually already been sent
over the last few days to the House.
We expect you there. I'm pressing that I love the
house, I love James, but if we can't seem to get that into the
publics hand, then we need to goahead and release it to the
president and he needs to release it immediately until all
media outlets, the real files will really happen.
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So you see how they circle around themselves to begin to
try to press false narratives. That's all there is to it, quite
frankly. He reported to the speaker.
He was the one that helped stagethis.
He knew how many federal agents Bureau, We know that the Bureau
had plenty of agents there amongothers and what they had staged
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to create a scenario. I seen you remember that was
their whole purpose. They wanted to send a message to
America. You don't trust don't like
conservatives because look at what they do.
They try to overthrow the government and trash our Capitol
building. All a bunch of lies and all all
faults. But do you see the Bureau is now
put together under the new leadership under cash and damn,
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they've recovered in all those files that were being held back
currently. And you turning those over now
to the house so that we can see the truth of what really
happened, The investigations that were squashed, the
information that was not allowedto come forward, that is
actually documented information that would have changed totally
the perception of view of what happened on January 6th.
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But that is coming out. Of course, the inbound, you
know, also know some other things that you are doing now.
Dan's the deputy director there.One of the things is that Pouchy
is now under investigation. Of course, you know, we've
already got James Comedy on an investigation.
Christopher Ray will be coming up.
He better make sure that he goesto buy some extra packs of
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toothpaste, I believe. And quite frankly, there are
some other things that are very interested to all the listeners
that are fixing to occur within the Bureau.
After some meetings and discussions there, it's been
decided that we're going to go back and take a look at all the
cases that were never, quote UN quote, brought to closure.
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And I'm not saying why I say quote, UN quote.
I'm not saying we didn't have the closure, didn't have the
answer that was never shared. What are some cases that you
would recognize? You remember to ask him the
question What happened to who brought the cocaine into the
White House? Yeah, that's.
A Did we ever give you an answerwith that one?
No, but that that case is not going to be reopened and we can
just go down the list. Anything in the last four years
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that you remember being in the news but never getting an answer
to? We're going to go back now and
make sure every case is reopenedand that we provide a definitive
answer as to what happened. Two of the best of our
knowledge, what we can find, what we can do, including
records that have been buried. If they need to be
reinvestigated again, we will doso.
And quite frankly, here's what Iwant to let our listeners know
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because I know I'm frustrated. I know the rest of American
people are. And when do we see handcuffs?
Just keep this in mind, folks. You see, there is so much
corruption that's coming about. It will take some time to work
through all this because it's not just the investigative part.
It's creating that dossier, sending it over to the
Department of Justice who has toconcur that they feel like a
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crime was committed, and then convening a federal grand jury,
presenting that to them and getting them to agree and issue
an indictment before to be sure that we can move forward.
But I have this commitment. It will happen on every case we
can get our hands on. So a lot of people, you think
you had pardons just like with Senator Warren and not coming
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out. She was involved with the auto
pen as well. All this stuff that you think
that you got away with because of the auto pens and because
nobody has questions. I make sure I have my little
overnight bagpack because you may be spending some some nights
in some places you don't want tobe because we're going to go
ahead and expose to the Americanpeople.
You know, I'm fascinated by the Fauci thing.
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What is it that the I mean, I know it my own opinion, but what
is the from the government's perspective, what crimes did
they think that he committed? Oh.
My goodness, you got, you got a couple hours on your show.
Obstruction of justice, perjury before Congress, buying the
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Congress, perjury before Congress.
This is crimes against humanity.I mean, quite frankly, when you
know that something you're proposing has devastating
effects and you weren't the onlyone to know, you got to verify
by the pharma companies and you refuse to to acknowledge that
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and you actually put out the exact opposite.
Now, what were they telling us? Take this little shot.
You feel prick sting for 10 seconds and then you're
guaranteed you'll never get sick.
No, no, you're going to be able to count for all that.
That caused tremendous amount ofdeaths.
And gain of function research, which he was not supposed to be
doing or being involved with. Correct.
Yeah. Censorship of ideas.
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I mean, the list goes on and on.And, you know, two years ago,
you could not have said, you know, guilty of crimes against
humanity without everybody clutching their pearls.
So we'll see where that leads. And like you, I want to see
justice. It's the only way that we can
reconcile what happened to us isit's no different than being
sexually assaulted and knowing that your perpetrator is walking
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around free. You can't have closure until you
know that person is paid for their crime.
And I totally agree. And what else?
Now we've got Ron, we've got David Hogg connected with the
Democratic Party, caught undercover from the Project
Veritas, admitting that Jill Biden ran the chief of staff of
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the White House. But what's even more
disconcerting is that now there are rumors that that Hunter
Biden may have had a hand in hisown pardon.
Quite frankly, I don't think those are rumors.
I think there's no question about that.
I had it. I was on the previous show just
a few minutes ago. The question was that so who's
running the show? And the response is very simple,
depends on what section you're talking about.
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You're talking about policy matters.
That would have been Obama and Clinton.
You're talking about personal matters.
I need a pardon for myself and my buddies, Hunter.
We're one of the best ones to dothat.
You're talking about matters that legislative matters.
How do we put money into variousNg OS so that I get a portion of
it? Senator Warren, I hope you got a
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big smile and you know, there's just then internal day-to-day
operations. You have all your your assistant
chiefs of tabs, your accuses tab, etcetera, etcetera, that
what do I need? How much are you willing to give
me for it? I can make sure I can get a
signature on there. Is this is the biggest scandal
in American history? Yes, but everybody Jed their
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hands in it. Quite frankly, it's not just one
person. Literal den of thieves.
Michael, always pleasure to talkto you.
Of course, you know, you're on with us Tuesday through Friday
for a segment to and there's so much listen, you know, it's
striking to me with all these legacy media outlets, there are
so many good breakout stories, so many potentials for winning
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awards, Schuler surprise awards,you know, for revealing the
truth. And every single one of them has
been bought off by the Democratic Party so they cannot
do their job. And, and it is really a sad
state of affairs in a country that is enshrined in our own
constitution, a Free Press. Well, the way you.
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Say that, Jim. Yeah.
Well, because we're going to have to go after that next Free
Press. What does that mean?
It doesn't mean lying to the American people.
That's the discussion we're going to have to be having.
I'm going to be coming up with my own list of questions I would
ask David Muir if he was sittingin front of Congress.
All right, well, listen, thank you again, Michael.
Have a good week. And we'll catch up with you next
Tuesday here on America TODAY. God bless you, God Bless
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America, you have a great weekend.
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with us is a national director of the Gun Owners of America.
We've had them on frequently. Mark is with us today to talk
about pretty important things. Mark Jones and I and I want to
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talk to you about some good news.
How do you think Congress is doing right now with, you know,
in comparing the previous administration in the previous
house? How do you think they're doing
right now for gun owners? Well, that's a great question,
Jim. I know we've talked before about
some of the disappointment we had with the House Ways and
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Means Committee when they dropped their budget bill a
couple weeks ago. They left out some provisions to
repeal the National Firearms Actor reform it, and there was a
firestorm in Washington. And of course, that's a
Republican control committee. We expect better than we had
under under the Democrats when they control Congress and they
set off a firestorm in Congress and we actually got some
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provisions put back in Trump's big, beautiful bill to take some
things out of the National Firearms Act.
We didn't get as much as we wanted, but there's a big effort
going on in the Senate right nowand a lot of Republican senators
are working with us. And essentially, I think we're
going to have an opportunity to reform many aspects of the
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National Firearms Act, which is the 91 year old antiquated
unconstitutional law. So I think it's better.
It's certainly better than it was under the Democrats.
Didn't start off as good as it should have a few weeks ago with
these Republican leaders, but there are a lot of good members
in the Republican members who'vebeen fighting hard.
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So certainly in a better position than we were a year or
two ago, Jim. One good example is the silencer
tax is now dead well. It was repealed in the House, in
the House's budget, and that is great.
But now nothing has passed finalfinally, you know that all that
goes to the Senate. There's a fight there.
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That's where we want additional things added, like reform to the
laws around short barrel weapons.
And we want some language in there that makes it harder for
future presidents to misuse someof the the federal laws.
So there's still a lot of work to be done.
But you're right, the House did pass a version that would repeal
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or remove silencers from the National Firearms Act.
We also have the CHPA, which is the Constitutional Hearing
Protections Act. The House has dropped a
legislative bombshell, an absurd$200 tax and mandatory
registration for firearm suppressors.
Has that's gone away? Well, it has, that is the same
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thing we're talking about the hearing protection bill.
The, the essentially what that is, you know, the National
Firearms Act as as was established in 1934 and people's
rights to access suppressors have been restricted.
You have to go through this long, arduous federal paperwork
process, pay a $200 tax fee on top of the cost of the of the
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item. And you have for 91 years.
And the House's version repeals that.
Now we've got to get that through the Senate, as I said.
And we've also got to add some more repeal provisions that need
to happen with the National Firearms Act.
But, but we're moving in the right direction, Jim.
That's the good news. But these things in Congress
move slow, and they've got to, you know, the fight's far from
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over. Yeah, it does seem some
sometimes that things are alwaysat a crawl when you look about
this. So you guys are endorsing Ken
Paxton. I see.
Tell us about that. We've got stations in Texas, so
we want to get your thoughts on Ken.
Tell us why you guys are supporting.
Him well, you know, as the attorney general of Texas,
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Paxton has always been one of the first attorney general in
the United States to stand up for the constitutional rights of
the citizens of Texas. I mean, I know you, a lot of
your listeners and you, Jim, will know that through time.
We when we've had Obama, when we've had Biden, we've had
lawsuits against, against the federal government by the red
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states. Usually there's 26 AGS will
attorney general will join thoselawsuits most of the time.
And Paxton is usually leading the pack.
If it's not Paxton, it's maybe the attorney general from
Missouri. But there's a handful of
attorney generals in this country that are always leading
the pack to protect the constitutional rights of their
citizens and factions, always right there at the forefront.
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So I think that's one of the reasons we're so excited about
him is he has a track record as a as attorney general of Texas
of fighting for the constitutional rights of Texans
and of leading other states in in fights against federal
overreach. So I think we we, we think Ken
Paxton would make a great US senator and and that's why we're
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supporting him so early in that race in Texas.
Yeah. He.
Gets an A+ rating from you guys.That's good.
That's good for the state of Texas.
Let's hope it it's successful. You've got a conference coming
up. Tell us what the center of
attention will be. Tell us about your upcoming
conference. So we, this is our second annual
Gun Owners Leadership Summit. Think of it like an annual
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conference or convention. We had our first one last year
in Knoxville, TN. We'll have our second one in the
same location this year. You know, last year we had great
speakers like Cash Patel, who's obviously now someone that
everybody knows about and is wrong with the FBI, but he was
one of our speakers last year. We we have, we'll have great
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speakers this year too, Jim. We'll have a lot of the history
will be there with firearms and firearms related items and
paraphernalia. We'll have breakout sessions.
It's free to gun owners of American members.
And so we encourage people to kind of put that on their radar
screen and, and get out and comeand support that.
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This year in Knoxville, it's theweekend of August 8th, you know,
the second weekend in August. It should be a great event.
We have 10s of thousands of people show up for this.
Now for those who are gun ownersand they're not signed up with
the Gun owners of America, a good way to do that is just go G
oa.org and you can find out moreabout this organization.
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They are there to help you. Are you feeling confident now?
We're what, 5 months into this administration, Cash Patel, Dan
Bongino, they're out. Do you think they brought some
amount of equilibrium back to the what I thought was the
overreaching ATF? And do you feel more confident
now that the FBI has been depoliticized, or do you still
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think there's a lot of work? I definitely think that these
new Trump appointees have made progress.
I mean, ATF repealed its zero tolerance policy, which was
shutting down people who sell guns for clerical errors,
ridiculous clerical errors. They, they're moving in the
right direction. Obviously with Cash Patel and
the FBI, all these things have gotten better.
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They're trying to de weaponize these agencies that have been
working against people's rights.But there's, you know, these
bureaucracies are so big, there's so many employees, so
many rules that, that it can't happen overnight.
So we, we, we encourage these, these good people that Trump's
put in there to keep fighting and keep working and the
American people to support them.And Congress needs to support
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them with appropriate funding and legislation.
So definitely moving in the right direction, Jim.
But there's still a lot of work to be done.
These are these agencies are behemoths and it took them
decades to get in the sad shape they were in.
So it's going to take a long time to reform them.
I think a good, healthy first step, I guess they're not moving
out of Washington after all. They're just going to get rid of
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the J Edgar Hoover building, which is a real shame because I
thought there was a sense of wisdom to putting these agents,
field agents, out into the communities.
It makes them closer to home andmakes them more accountable.
Sometimes when you have that decentralization, that is not
good because then law enforcement becomes its own
worst enemy, which we've seen, certainly, and that's about it.
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I really appreciate you, Mark Jones, again, Gun Owners of
America. He is the national director.
And if you want to get involved and have the support of other
gun owners and enthusiasts, great place to go.
G oa.org. And we'll catch up with you
again real soon, Mark. Jim, thank you for having me on
the show. Glad to come back anytime.
Always, always a welcome guest, Mark Jones here on America
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Today. You know, the danger always.
And I've seen this happen whether it's in Oregon or, or
whether it's in Washington, whether it's in Montana, in
Wyoming, Idaho, Texas, even in Florida, which was starting to
see which is a real is when you have these small clusters of
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progressive liberals who move into these, these states that
usually the capital or wherever the universities are.
And then they they infiltrate and start to bring their
progressive liberal lefty ideas to these otherwise conservative
states, even to the point where you have places like Oregon
where they want to break off from Portland and become part of
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Idaho. But now Idaho has the same
problem. So to me, the, the, the, the
biggest enemy is the political left who are taking over these
small clusters of cities in otherwise conservative states.
So we'll continue to stay on that.
Again, always good to have Mark Jones.
And if you're a gun gun owner, you know how important it is to
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stay on top of these things. And this is America today.
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Do you know that Caitlin Clark, Caitlin Clark could be worth $2
billion? Some are saying that Caitlin
Clark of the now fever, the Indiana Fever, she is single
handedly creating the juggernautknown as the WNBA and also the
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controversy surrounding her as well.
She gets into these what are essentially catfights with other
NBA players and it's quite entertaining.
I mean, you know, these these gals.
Let's see if I have this one. You want to know where all the
testosterone is going? It's going to the women.
The women are. I can't even play the clip
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because I, I think I have to edit some of the, there's too
much profanity and it's not verywomanly either.
I would, I would have to, I would have to say that it's not
very womanly. Some of what they say, oh, I
can't. Oh, here it is from the action.
OK, let's look in here if we canfind it.
I think I have it. But Caitlin Clark is worth 2
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million, $2 billion right now inrevenue for the NBA.
Not only that, but she is almostthe entire reason why people are
even watching the NBA, because it's fun to watch and she is
such a spectacular player. It's you're, you're talking
about somebody who is as good ifnot better than what they're
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saying with Jordan, Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
I mean, if she was playing on the level with the men, she
would be the absolute best player in the NBA.
And she's rambunctious. She's got a lot of spunk.
He's got a lot of attitude. And frankly, I, I, I'm not sure
if it's a great again, because I'm more of a traditionalist,
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but I'm not sure if it's a good thing to watch women acting like
men, you know? And OK, I do have it here.
Let's, let's see if we can get this going.
I can't play it because it's gotthe F word.
Maybe I can do something about it.
Hang on. 1st overall in WNBA history and let's be real, it's
good for the game. Because the truth is that people
only watch women's sports to seeattractive ladies get sweaty.
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Now the feminists will hate on me for saying the truth, but I
mean, we can't even dunk or anything and we got to give them
something to actually watch. Looks wise, nobody even comes
close to me. Not that plain Jane Caitlin
Clark or that pale tomboy Sabrina UNESCU.
Major Yuck. Not a single guy in this world
is going to crank one out while thinking about any of these
fugly hoopers, so that's probably why they all can date
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each other. Man, it's that's Paige Bucher.
She's also a very good player too.
And so what's happening now is you've got these NBAI don't
know, hot players that are really starting to grab the
attention and it's invigorating the sport and good for her and
good for the WNBA. That's the kind of character, I
think, that draws people out. And you don't hear that honesty.
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And that's the other thing. People are starving for real
conversation without worrying about, you know, getting
chastised or cancelled. And these people, you know, but
they have sucked up all the testosterone in the room.
There's no question about that. I want to play this clip.
And again, if you've got a favorite clip or link, send it
to me voice on thespot@gmail.comand I'll, I'll put it on.
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There's two things that are on my mind right now #1 is when
they're going to start locking up people for COVID, What
happened during COVID, It is probably the most lethal crime
in global history. And certainly in.
And if that subject is is important to you, whether
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because you know, somebody who died from COVID-19 or somebody
who was injured from a vaccine, then this is the program.
Nobody else is going to have thecourage to talk about it until
it becomes popular, but I've been in on it since the very
beginning. I've been monitoring it since,
you know, the very beginning. I documented all of the daily
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reports for years. We did this and it's still up.
If you want to go back and see what life was like in April of
2020, you've got the coronavirusupdate.
And I'm going to stay on this until people start getting
locked away. We can never do this again.
I don't think people even realize how bad it is and what
must be done to make sure that our governments of any country
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can never do what they pulled onus.
It is. It is a crime beyond imagination
that will stay on my mind. Another thing that we'll always
talk about here on the program is the climate change hoax.
It is a hoax. Here's a gentleman from the
Liberty Foundation media, Alex Newman, an award-winning
journalist. Listen very carefully to what he
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says about this whole climate hoax.
Take a listen. Environmental question depends
on, I think, a very flawed fundamental presupposition.
It depends on the idea that carbon dioxide is pollution.
And I would argue that after interviewing hundreds of
scientists, including many who've worked for the UNIPCC,
many of the leading scientists in the world, that the notion
that CO2 is pollution is absolutely preposterous.
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We exhale about 2 lbs of it every single day.
The the proportion of green house gas is made-up of human
CO2 emissions is a fraction of afraction of 1%.
The idea that that is going to destroy the planet or change the
temperature of the earth is frankly, in my opinion, totally
ludicrous. But from a totalitarian
perspective, if you can convincepeople that CO2 is pollution,
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there's no human activity that doesn't result in CO2 emissions,
including living, including dying, turning on a light
switch, every single aspect of your life.
Then if we submit to the idea that CO2 is pollution, then
comes under the regulatory control of the people who claim
to be saving us from pollution. So when they do these
environmental studies and they say, well, your CO2 footprint
will be smaller if you eat bugs or you do this Saturday, you
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drive an electric car, that doesn't show anything about
whether that's going to benefit the environment or not.
In fact, CO2 has actually been very beneficial for the
environment. In interviewing, you know,
Trump's climate advisor, Doctor William Happer, a physics
professor at Princeton University, he said the Earth is
starving for more CO2. And since we've had a little bit
of an increase in atmospheric CO2 over the last 100 years or
so, plants have gotten much greener.
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Agricultural yields have improved.
So I think we need to also talk about the fundamental
presupposition here. Is CO2 really pollution?
If it's not, then all these alleged environmental benefits
are completely fictional. And the most important thing
that Alex Newman said there is if we can convince people that
carbon is dangerous, then everything becomes under their
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regulatory control. And that's exactly what this is
all about. Do you know the wind turbines
that they've been building all around the world, they're
becoming useless. There's two major producers, the
people that go out and put thesethings up, and both of them are
bailing. The subsidies are ending.
They don't. They're not sustainable.
They're falling apart. And I'm telling you, our
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generations from now, because nobody's ever going to pull all
of these windmills down the onesthat line the North Carolina
coast or up along the Eastern seaboard or in the Northern Sea
or the Black Sea or wherever they're at on the hills of
Hawaii. You see, these weren't wind
turbines. They are going to be a living
testament in the generations to come of just how stupid we were
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and how easily fooled we were asa as a species by a bunch of
greedy son of a bitches headed by Al Gore, hockey stick Al
Gore. All right, so that's something
that we will always stay on top of here on this program.
Also, AI is really big. I think it's probably the
biggest topic right now. Futurist, what's her name?
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Sinead Boy Bovell, who is the president of way futurist
organization that looks at the future and cultural trends.
Do we have time? Let me play this.
I'd say the final thing that we're going to have to watch out
for, and we saw this with socialmedia after the fact, is the
relationships kids are going to build with these systems.
We are now giving kids access toan infinite, never ending
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opportunity to engage with an imaginary friend.
Something that is always on can answer all of their questions.
That is a recipe for a new type of addiction and we have to
really be looking out for this. We kind of missed the boat on
smartphones and now we're all trying to get get them back out
of the classrooms. We can see this line of sight
directly with AI systems and chat bots.
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And this isn't of course, all oneducators.
This has to come to, you know, tech companies, how we design
these systems, age gating them, but something to look out for.
Total, 100% agree. And that's why we talk about it
right here on America Today. Jim Watkins at a time, see you
in 24 hours.
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Fight really didn't. Iran Musk will remain a friend
and advisor to the Trump administration even after his
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tenure leading the Department ofGovernment efficiency comes to
an end, according to Vice President JD Vance.
Speaking on Fox and Friends, Vance said Musk's role was
always intended to be temporary,lasting about six months, but
stressed that the billionaires impact won't stop there.
Of course he's going to continueto be an advisor, Vance said,
dismissing media reports of a rift as fake news.
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Elon is going to remain a friendand an advisor of both me and
the president, and he's done a lot of good things.
You know how old history look atElon Musk?
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My name is Jim Watkins. I'm your host.
And again, you know, how will history look at Elon Musk making
the announcement this week that he is exiting his position at
Doge, which as you just heard, JD Van said it was never meant
to be that, that that to me is the true exhibition of a person
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who is not power hungry, someonewho when they say they're going
to leave, they leave. Unlike many people, you know,
George Washington was famous forthat.
They wanted him to continually to serve and, and George said,
no, I, I'm, I don't, it's, it's time for me to move on.
And I and I applaud Elon Musk. I think history will ultimately
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be very kind to him. What is shattering to me is that
how easily, and this is a lessonfor all of us to learn when we
engage with legacy media, is howeasily they can turn someone
into an enemy. I remember last Christmas, or
maybe it was the Christmas before, I had given my son a
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book on Elon Musk. It had just been written and it
was a best selling book. And you know, he and my son
actually went out and worked hisass off and raised enough money
and he bought himself a Tesla and he had a pretty decent job
and all of that. And I rode in the Tesla, the
beautiful machine. I'm not a huge fan of electric
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cars simply because the real truth is that the carbon
footprint to produce an electriccar is much greater than the old
gas guzzler you're you're driving right now.
But the, the Elon Musk was just a real innovator of the 21st
century, probably one of the first among many, but certainly
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his ideals and his ambitions. And it's a Great American story
too, because he came from what probably was a very challenging
ordeal in South Africa, which iswhere he was born, did not have
a good relationship with his dad, which is never a good
thing. He he goes to Canada and he
decides, you know what? I don't really like this, this
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vibe. Let me go to where the
entrepreneurials live and thrive.
And he made his way to the United States and the rest, as
they say, is history. And he got the ball rolling on
EVs, which everybody wanted because, you know, the climate.
I mean, he, he literally kick started the entire EV movement
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showing that it could be profitable.
And at first we remember that his cars were very expensive,
but he was not given the subsidies that many of these
other big automakers were given.And and and basically because
Elon Musk was not a bag carryingwater carrying Democrat for the
progressive left, they disdainedhim and they began their
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campaign of turning this man into Emmanuel Goldstein in
reference to the book 1984 and the two minutes hate always
somebody to focus your energy on.
That's the that's the that's thecard they play.
They've done it with Trump with it.
And you say, oh, with Jim, you know, they're legitimate reasons
to not like somebody. Yeah.
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Well, OK, Elon Musk was a union Buster.
Well, he had his own reasons forthat.
Plus he was in a state with the highest employee tax in the
nation. And And I think sometimes unions
can be great. Sometimes unions can be nothing
more than a political lobby group, which is what they've
become today, especially organizations like the teachers
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union. They've become a lobbying group
for the Democratic progressive left.
That's not the intent of unions.Unions are supposed to protect
workers from being abused. And they they pay the unions a
little bit out of their paycheckand they're supposed to get
protected. Somebody gets fired unfairly,
they can help you. That's the purpose of a union,
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not to get everybody's money andthen turn out turn over and hand
it to the candidate that you like.
At least that's that's what my dad explained to me when I was a
young man. And so he was persona non grata
Elon Musk, and it was a real tragedy.
So he comes in and wants to holdthe government accountable.
Trump likes him, thinks he. And and by the way, remember
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that Elon Musk was formerly a member of the Democratic Party.
And so as soon as he stepped into the ring and started
looking into the matters of the deep state, and we know now the
corruption was wide and deep andhas been many, many.
It's going to take literally years.
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That's if Congress has the wherewithal to get it done, to
investigate the abuse of this government and the abuse of the
taxpayers of this country. It I am ashamed, ashamed at how
much the grift was going on around me.
I'm only sorry that I didn't take advantage of it myself.
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But as a man of principle, you know, I didn't.
I assumed that for the most part, my government was honest,
and now I'm not so sure. And then yet there another
institution down by the wayside.It's going to take a long time
before this government, any government, earns my trust.
Again, trust but verify is my motto.
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So here we have this man who's holding the government
accountable. He goes in, tries to identify
waste doge. He brings his his team of crack
computer tech geeks and they start unearthing so real
tragedies and abuse, financial abuse, and it still goes on
today. And what does he get for it?
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A bunch of liberal fanatics keying his car, destroying his
cars, making victims of Tesla drivers and car owners, burning
them, setting them ablaze. Boy, they really know how to
treat a guy, don't they? And to me, that is the end
result of massive or formation, mass psychosis or mass psychosis
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formation from Mattia's Desmond,great term.
But in other words, being brainwashed.
And if you have rage in your heart against Donald Trump, then
you can identify yourself as being completely brainwashed.
I am convinced of that because again, up until he took on the
Democratic Party, which any rightful citizen should take on
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their government and hold them accountable at all costs.
And we see now how corrupt the Biden administration was.
No wonder. And by the way, Elon was not the
only defector of the Democratic Party.
It continues today. Hell, half of the people on
Trump's administration are former Democrats.
Tulsi Gabbard, who else? So it's a real tragedy.
And I hope that history remembers the lesson here, which
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is how powerful the legacy mediahas become.
And as we look at that, I would encourage you to read a great
article, article by Douglas Stone in The Federalist today,
which we'll talk about in the fourth block.
And then we're going to play some interesting sound bites
too. Alex Thompson on deck to give us
the shit, you know, the skinny on Biden corruption.
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And now the big question everybody's asking today.
Here's the question. Now that we know that for the
most part, Biden was incapacitated during his term,
did Hunter Biden figure out a way to pardon himself?
Think about that for a moment because according to the new
Jake paper book Original Sin, Hunter Biden was in on a lot of
meetings right after the debateswhen everything fell apart.
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And it was at that time that Joesupposedly reversed his position
and said, I want to pardon my son because he felt like his son
was being attacked. But what if it was Hunter Biden
pulling on the strings? We could talk about that in a
little bit. Michael Letts is on deck,
followed by Mark Jones from the Gun Owners of America.
We'll take it to take a look at some new 2A news.
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Let the journey begin. Well, there's a lot of hubbub
going on on this news circuit. Dan Bongino making some
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appearances and some announcements, and there's a
whole lot of stuff under the hood.
And who better to bring in than Michael?
Let's invest, usa.org founder and CEO, to talk about some of
what Dan Bongino had to say today.
What's, I mean, where do we start?
Do we want to talk about the Capitol Police?
Do we want to talk about Fauci? Where do we begin?
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Well, let's talk about Capitol Police because that will lead
into what's going on with the Bureau, which is part of Fauci
and everything else. So I think that's a great
starting point. You know, are the DC Capitol
Police chief who's been there for ever since the January 6th
and he is retiring today. His last day is my recollection
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and he decided to take some parting shots that people he
doesn't like on the way out the door.
One of them being President Trump saying how traumatized he
as a police chief was to learn that Trump was going to pardon
the J6S. Never mind the fact that he did
not address the fact that the Bureau is now releasing those
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files to the Government Oversight Committee, James
Cormor's committee on all the issues that really happened
January 6th. The destruction of records by
the previous committee that was chaired by the Democrats and how
they refuse to allow exculpatoryevidence to be heard, refuse to
bring in witnesses that counter any of their narrative.
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All that's fixing to come out. It's actually already been sent
over the last few days to the House.
We expect you there. I'm pressing that I love the
house, I love James, but if we can't seem to get that into the
publics hand, then we need to goahead and release it to the
president and he needs to release it immediately until all
media outlets, the real files will really happen.
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So you see how they circle around themselves to begin to
try to press false narratives. That's all there is to it, quite
frankly. He reported to the speaker.
He was the one that helped stagethis.
He knew how many federal agents Bureau, We know that the Bureau
had plenty of agents there amongothers and what they had staged
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to create a scenario. I seen you remember that was
their whole purpose. They wanted to send a message to
America. You don't trust don't like
conservatives because look at what they do.
They try to overthrow the government and trash our Capitol
building. All a bunch of lies and all all
faults. But do you see the Bureau is now
put together under the new leadership under cash and damn,
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they've recovered in all those files that were being held back
currently. And you turning those over now
to the house so that we can see the truth of what really
happened, The investigations that were squashed, the
information that was not allowedto come forward, that is
actually documented information that would have changed totally
the perception of view of what happened on January 6th.
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But that is coming out. Of course, the inbound, you
know, also know some other things that you are doing now.
Dan's the deputy director there.One of the things is that Pouchy
is now under investigation. Of course, you know, we've
already got James Comedy on an investigation.
Christopher Ray will be coming up.
He better make sure that he goesto buy some extra packs of
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toothpaste, I believe. And quite frankly, there are
some other things that are very interested to all the listeners
that are fixing to occur within the Bureau.
After some meetings and discussions there, it's been
decided that we're going to go back and take a look at all the
cases that were never, quote UN quote, brought to closure.
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And I'm not saying why I say quote, UN quote.
I'm not saying we didn't have the closure, didn't have the
answer that was never shared. What are some cases that you
would recognize? You remember to ask him the
question What happened to who brought the cocaine into the
White House? Yeah, that's.
A Did we ever give you an answerwith that one?
No, but that that case is not going to be reopened and we can
just go down the list. Anything in the last four years
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that you remember being in the news but never getting an answer
to? We're going to go back now and
make sure every case is reopenedand that we provide a definitive
answer as to what happened. Two of the best of our
knowledge, what we can find, what we can do, including
records that have been buried. If they need to be
reinvestigated again, we will doso.
And quite frankly, here's what Iwant to let our listeners know
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because I know I'm frustrated. I know the rest of American
people are. And when do we see handcuffs?
Just keep this in mind, folks. You see, there is so much
corruption that's coming about. It will take some time to work
through all this because it's not just the investigative part.
It's creating that dossier, sending it over to the
Department of Justice who has toconcur that they feel like a
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crime was committed, and then convening a federal grand jury,
presenting that to them and getting them to agree and issue
an indictment before to be sure that we can move forward.
But I have this commitment. It will happen on every case we
can get our hands on. So a lot of people, you think
you had pardons just like with Senator Warren and not coming
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out. She was involved with the auto
pen as well. All this stuff that you think
that you got away with because of the auto pens and because
nobody has questions. I make sure I have my little
overnight bagpack because you may be spending some some nights
in some places you don't want tobe because we're going to go
ahead and expose to the Americanpeople.
You know, I'm fascinated by the Fauci thing.
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What is it that the I mean, I know it my own opinion, but what
is the from the government's perspective, what crimes did
they think that he committed? Oh.
My goodness, you got, you got a couple hours on your show.
Obstruction of justice, perjury before Congress, buying the
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Congress, perjury before Congress.
This is crimes against humanity.I mean, quite frankly, when you
know that something you're proposing has devastating
effects and you weren't the onlyone to know, you got to verify
by the pharma companies and you refuse to to acknowledge that
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and you actually put out the exact opposite.
Now, what were they telling us? Take this little shot.
You feel prick sting for 10 seconds and then you're
guaranteed you'll never get sick.
No, no, you're going to be able to count for all that.
That caused tremendous amount ofdeaths.
And gain of function research, which he was not supposed to be
doing or being involved with. Correct.
Yeah. Censorship of ideas.
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I mean, the list goes on and on.And, you know, two years ago,
you could not have said, you know, guilty of crimes against
humanity without everybody clutching their pearls.
So we'll see where that leads. And like you, I want to see
justice. It's the only way that we can
reconcile what happened to us isit's no different than being
sexually assaulted and knowing that your perpetrator is walking
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around free. You can't have closure until you
know that person is paid for their crime.
And I totally agree. And what else?
Now we've got Ron, we've got David Hogg connected with the
Democratic Party, caught undercover from the Project
Veritas, admitting that Jill Biden ran the chief of staff of
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the White House. But what's even more
disconcerting is that now there are rumors that that Hunter
Biden may have had a hand in hisown pardon.
Quite frankly, I don't think those are rumors.
I think there's no question about that.
I had it. I was on the previous show just
a few minutes ago. The question was that so who's
running the show? And the response is very simple,
depends on what section you're talking about.
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You're talking about policy matters.
That would have been Obama and Clinton.
You're talking about personal matters.
I need a pardon for myself and my buddies, Hunter.
We're one of the best ones to dothat.
You're talking about matters that legislative matters.
How do we put money into variousNg OS so that I get a portion of
it? Senator Warren, I hope you got a
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big smile and you know, there's just then internal day-to-day
operations. You have all your your assistant
chiefs of tabs, your accuses tab, etcetera, etcetera, that
what do I need? How much are you willing to give
me for it? I can make sure I can get a
signature on there. Is this is the biggest scandal
in American history? Yes, but everybody Jed their
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hands in it. Quite frankly, it's not just one
person. Literal den of thieves.
Michael, always pleasure to talkto you.
Of course, you know, you're on with us Tuesday through Friday
for a segment to and there's so much listen, you know, it's
striking to me with all these legacy media outlets, there are
so many good breakout stories, so many potentials for winning
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awards, Schuler surprise awards,you know, for revealing the
truth. And every single one of them has
been bought off by the Democratic Party so they cannot
do their job. And, and it is really a sad
state of affairs in a country that is enshrined in our own
constitution, a Free Press. Well, the way you.
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Say that, Jim. Yeah.
Well, because we're going to have to go after that next Free
Press. What does that mean?
It doesn't mean lying to the American people.
That's the discussion we're going to have to be having.
I'm going to be coming up with my own list of questions I would
ask David Muir if he was sittingin front of Congress.
All right, well, listen, thank you again, Michael.
Have a good week. And we'll catch up with you next
Tuesday here on America TODAY. God bless you, God Bless
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with us is a national director of the Gun Owners of America.
We've had them on frequently. Mark is with us today to talk
about pretty important things. Mark Jones and I and I want to
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talk to you about some good news.
How do you think Congress is doing right now with, you know,
in comparing the previous administration in the previous
house? How do you think they're doing
right now for gun owners? Well, that's a great question,
Jim. I know we've talked before about
some of the disappointment we had with the House Ways and
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Means Committee when they dropped their budget bill a
couple weeks ago. They left out some provisions to
repeal the National Firearms Actor reform it, and there was a
firestorm in Washington. And of course, that's a
Republican control committee. We expect better than we had
under under the Democrats when they control Congress and they
set off a firestorm in Congress and we actually got some
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provisions put back in Trump's big, beautiful bill to take some
things out of the National Firearms Act.
We didn't get as much as we wanted, but there's a big effort
going on in the Senate right nowand a lot of Republican senators
are working with us. And essentially, I think we're
going to have an opportunity to reform many aspects of the
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National Firearms Act, which is the 91 year old antiquated
unconstitutional law. So I think it's better.
It's certainly better than it was under the Democrats.
Didn't start off as good as it should have a few weeks ago with
these Republican leaders, but there are a lot of good members
in the Republican members who'vebeen fighting hard.
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So certainly in a better position than we were a year or
two ago, Jim. One good example is the silencer
tax is now dead well. It was repealed in the House, in
the House's budget, and that is great.
But now nothing has passed finalfinally, you know that all that
goes to the Senate. There's a fight there.
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That's where we want additional things added, like reform to the
laws around short barrel weapons.
And we want some language in there that makes it harder for
future presidents to misuse someof the the federal laws.
So there's still a lot of work to be done.
But you're right, the House did pass a version that would repeal
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or remove silencers from the National Firearms Act.
We also have the CHPA, which is the Constitutional Hearing
Protections Act. The House has dropped a
legislative bombshell, an absurd$200 tax and mandatory
registration for firearm suppressors.
Has that's gone away? Well, it has, that is the same
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thing we're talking about the hearing protection bill.
The, the essentially what that is, you know, the National
Firearms Act as as was established in 1934 and people's
rights to access suppressors have been restricted.
You have to go through this long, arduous federal paperwork
process, pay a $200 tax fee on top of the cost of the of the
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item. And you have for 91 years.
And the House's version repeals that.
Now we've got to get that through the Senate, as I said.
And we've also got to add some more repeal provisions that need
to happen with the National Firearms Act.
But, but we're moving in the right direction, Jim.
That's the good news. But these things in Congress
move slow, and they've got to, you know, the fight's far from
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over. Yeah, it does seem some
sometimes that things are alwaysat a crawl when you look about
this. So you guys are endorsing Ken
Paxton. I see.
Tell us about that. We've got stations in Texas, so
we want to get your thoughts on Ken.
Tell us why you guys are supporting.
Him well, you know, as the attorney general of Texas,
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Paxton has always been one of the first attorney general in
the United States to stand up for the constitutional rights of
the citizens of Texas. I mean, I know you, a lot of
your listeners and you, Jim, will know that through time.
We when we've had Obama, when we've had Biden, we've had
lawsuits against, against the federal government by the red
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states. Usually there's 26 AGS will
attorney general will join thoselawsuits most of the time.
And Paxton is usually leading the pack.
If it's not Paxton, it's maybe the attorney general from
Missouri. But there's a handful of
attorney generals in this country that are always leading
the pack to protect the constitutional rights of their
citizens and factions, always right there at the forefront.
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So I think that's one of the reasons we're so excited about
him is he has a track record as a as attorney general of Texas
of fighting for the constitutional rights of Texans
and of leading other states in in fights against federal
overreach. So I think we we, we think Ken
Paxton would make a great US senator and and that's why we're
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supporting him so early in that race in Texas.
Yeah. He.
Gets an A+ rating from you guys.That's good.
That's good for the state of Texas.
Let's hope it it's successful. You've got a conference coming
up. Tell us what the center of
attention will be. Tell us about your upcoming
conference. So we, this is our second annual
Gun Owners Leadership Summit. Think of it like an annual
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conference or convention. We had our first one last year
in Knoxville, TN. We'll have our second one in the
same location this year. You know, last year we had great
speakers like Cash Patel, who's obviously now someone that
everybody knows about and is wrong with the FBI, but he was
one of our speakers last year. We we have, we'll have great
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speakers this year too, Jim. We'll have a lot of the history
will be there with firearms and firearms related items and
paraphernalia. We'll have breakout sessions.
It's free to gun owners of American members.
And so we encourage people to kind of put that on their radar
screen and, and get out and comeand support that.
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This year in Knoxville, it's theweekend of August 8th, you know,
the second weekend in August. It should be a great event.
We have 10s of thousands of people show up for this.
Now for those who are gun ownersand they're not signed up with
the Gun owners of America, a good way to do that is just go G
oa.org and you can find out moreabout this organization.
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They are there to help you. Are you feeling confident now?
We're what, 5 months into this administration, Cash Patel, Dan
Bongino, they're out. Do you think they brought some
amount of equilibrium back to the what I thought was the
overreaching ATF? And do you feel more confident
now that the FBI has been depoliticized, or do you still
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think there's a lot of work? I definitely think that these
new Trump appointees have made progress.
I mean, ATF repealed its zero tolerance policy, which was
shutting down people who sell guns for clerical errors,
ridiculous clerical errors. They, they're moving in the
right direction. Obviously with Cash Patel and
the FBI, all these things have gotten better.
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They're trying to de weaponize these agencies that have been
working against people's rights.But there's, you know, these
bureaucracies are so big, there's so many employees, so
many rules that, that it can't happen overnight.
So we, we, we encourage these, these good people that Trump's
put in there to keep fighting and keep working and the
American people to support them.And Congress needs to support
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them with appropriate funding and legislation.
So definitely moving in the right direction, Jim.
But there's still a lot of work to be done.
These are these agencies are behemoths and it took them
decades to get in the sad shape they were in.
So it's going to take a long time to reform them.
I think a good, healthy first step, I guess they're not moving
out of Washington after all. They're just going to get rid of
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the J Edgar Hoover building, which is a real shame because I
thought there was a sense of wisdom to putting these agents,
field agents, out into the communities.
It makes them closer to home andmakes them more accountable.
Sometimes when you have that decentralization, that is not
good because then law enforcement becomes its own
worst enemy, which we've seen, certainly, and that's about it.
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I really appreciate you, Mark Jones, again, Gun Owners of
America. He is the national director.
And if you want to get involved and have the support of other
gun owners and enthusiasts, great place to go.
G oa.org. And we'll catch up with you
again real soon, Mark. Jim, thank you for having me on
the show. Glad to come back anytime.
Always, always a welcome guest, Mark Jones here on America
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Today. You know, the danger always.
And I've seen this happen whether it's in Oregon or, or
whether it's in Washington, whether it's in Montana, in
Wyoming, Idaho, Texas, even in Florida, which was starting to
see which is a real is when you have these small clusters of
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progressive liberals who move into these, these states that
usually the capital or wherever the universities are.
And then they they infiltrate and start to bring their
progressive liberal lefty ideas to these otherwise conservative
states, even to the point where you have places like Oregon
where they want to break off from Portland and become part of
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Idaho. But now Idaho has the same
problem. So to me, the, the, the, the
biggest enemy is the political left who are taking over these
small clusters of cities in otherwise conservative states.
So we'll continue to stay on that.
Again, always good to have Mark Jones.
And if you're a gun gun owner, you know how important it is to
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stay on top of these things. And this is America today.
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Do you know that Caitlin Clark, Caitlin Clark could be worth $2
billion? Some are saying that Caitlin
Clark of the now fever, the Indiana Fever, she is single
handedly creating the juggernautknown as the WNBA and also the
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controversy surrounding her as well.
She gets into these what are essentially catfights with other
NBA players and it's quite entertaining.
I mean, you know, these these gals.
Let's see if I have this one. You want to know where all the
testosterone is going? It's going to the women.
The women are. I can't even play the clip
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because I, I think I have to edit some of the, there's too
much profanity and it's not verywomanly either.
I would, I would have to, I would have to say that it's not
very womanly. Some of what they say, oh, I
can't. Oh, here it is from the action.
OK, let's look in here if we canfind it.
I think I have it. But Caitlin Clark is worth 2
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million, $2 billion right now inrevenue for the NBA.
Not only that, but she is almostthe entire reason why people are
even watching the NBA, because it's fun to watch and she is
such a spectacular player. It's you're, you're talking
about somebody who is as good ifnot better than what they're
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saying with Jordan, Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
I mean, if she was playing on the level with the men, she
would be the absolute best player in the NBA.
And she's rambunctious. She's got a lot of spunk.
He's got a lot of attitude. And frankly, I, I, I'm not sure
if it's a great again, because I'm more of a traditionalist,
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but I'm not sure if it's a good thing to watch women acting like
men, you know? And OK, I do have it here.
Let's, let's see if we can get this going.
I can't play it because it's gotthe F word.
Maybe I can do something about it.
Hang on. 1st overall in WNBA history and let's be real, it's
good for the game. Because the truth is that people
only watch women's sports to seeattractive ladies get sweaty.
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Now the feminists will hate on me for saying the truth, but I
mean, we can't even dunk or anything and we got to give them
something to actually watch. Looks wise, nobody even comes
close to me. Not that plain Jane Caitlin
Clark or that pale tomboy Sabrina UNESCU.
Major Yuck. Not a single guy in this world
is going to crank one out while thinking about any of these
fugly hoopers, so that's probably why they all can date
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each other. Man, it's that's Paige Bucher.
She's also a very good player too.
And so what's happening now is you've got these NBAI don't
know, hot players that are really starting to grab the
attention and it's invigorating the sport and good for her and
good for the WNBA. That's the kind of character, I
think, that draws people out. And you don't hear that honesty.
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And that's the other thing. People are starving for real
conversation without worrying about, you know, getting
chastised or cancelled. And these people, you know, but
they have sucked up all the testosterone in the room.
There's no question about that. I want to play this clip.
And again, if you've got a favorite clip or link, send it
to me voice on thespot@gmail.comand I'll, I'll put it on.
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There's two things that are on my mind right now #1 is when
they're going to start locking up people for COVID, What
happened during COVID, It is probably the most lethal crime
in global history. And certainly in.
And if that subject is is important to you, whether
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because you know, somebody who died from COVID-19 or somebody
who was injured from a vaccine, then this is the program.
Nobody else is going to have thecourage to talk about it until
it becomes popular, but I've been in on it since the very
beginning. I've been monitoring it since,
you know, the very beginning. I documented all of the daily
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reports for years. We did this and it's still up.
If you want to go back and see what life was like in April of
2020, you've got the coronavirusupdate.
And I'm going to stay on this until people start getting
locked away. We can never do this again.
I don't think people even realize how bad it is and what
must be done to make sure that our governments of any country
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can never do what they pulled onus.
It is. It is a crime beyond imagination
that will stay on my mind. Another thing that we'll always
talk about here on the program is the climate change hoax.
It is a hoax. Here's a gentleman from the
Liberty Foundation media, Alex Newman, an award-winning
journalist. Listen very carefully to what he
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says about this whole climate hoax.
Take a listen. Environmental question depends
on, I think, a very flawed fundamental presupposition.
It depends on the idea that carbon dioxide is pollution.
And I would argue that after interviewing hundreds of
scientists, including many who've worked for the UNIPCC,
many of the leading scientists in the world, that the notion
that CO2 is pollution is absolutely preposterous.
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We exhale about 2 lbs of it every single day.
The the proportion of green house gas is made-up of human
CO2 emissions is a fraction of afraction of 1%.
The idea that that is going to destroy the planet or change the
temperature of the earth is frankly, in my opinion, totally
ludicrous. But from a totalitarian
perspective, if you can convincepeople that CO2 is pollution,
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there's no human activity that doesn't result in CO2 emissions,
including living, including dying, turning on a light
switch, every single aspect of your life.
Then if we submit to the idea that CO2 is pollution, then
comes under the regulatory control of the people who claim
to be saving us from pollution. So when they do these
environmental studies and they say, well, your CO2 footprint
will be smaller if you eat bugs or you do this Saturday, you
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drive an electric car, that doesn't show anything about
whether that's going to benefit the environment or not.
In fact, CO2 has actually been very beneficial for the
environment. In interviewing, you know,
Trump's climate advisor, Doctor William Happer, a physics
professor at Princeton University, he said the Earth is
starving for more CO2. And since we've had a little bit
of an increase in atmospheric CO2 over the last 100 years or
so, plants have gotten much greener.
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Agricultural yields have improved.
So I think we need to also talk about the fundamental
presupposition here. Is CO2 really pollution?
If it's not, then all these alleged environmental benefits
are completely fictional. And the most important thing
that Alex Newman said there is if we can convince people that
carbon is dangerous, then everything becomes under their
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regulatory control. And that's exactly what this is
all about. Do you know the wind turbines
that they've been building all around the world, they're
becoming useless. There's two major producers, the
people that go out and put thesethings up, and both of them are
bailing. The subsidies are ending.
They don't. They're not sustainable.
They're falling apart. And I'm telling you, our
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generations from now, because nobody's ever going to pull all
of these windmills down the onesthat line the North Carolina
coast or up along the Eastern seaboard or in the Northern Sea
or the Black Sea or wherever they're at on the hills of
Hawaii. You see, these weren't wind
turbines. They are going to be a living
testament in the generations to come of just how stupid we were
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and how easily fooled we were asa as a species by a bunch of
greedy son of a bitches headed by Al Gore, hockey stick Al
Gore. All right, so that's something
that we will always stay on top of here on this program.
Also, AI is really big. I think it's probably the
biggest topic right now. Futurist, what's her name?
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Sinead Boy Bovell, who is the president of way futurist
organization that looks at the future and cultural trends.
Do we have time? Let me play this.
I'd say the final thing that we're going to have to watch out
for, and we saw this with socialmedia after the fact, is the
relationships kids are going to build with these systems.
We are now giving kids access toan infinite, never ending
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opportunity to engage with an imaginary friend.
Something that is always on can answer all of their questions.
That is a recipe for a new type of addiction and we have to
really be looking out for this. We kind of missed the boat on
smartphones and now we're all trying to get get them back out
of the classrooms. We can see this line of sight
directly with AI systems and chat bots.
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And this isn't of course, all oneducators.
This has to come to, you know, tech companies, how we design
these systems, age gating them, but something to look out for.
Total, 100% agree. And that's why we talk about it
right here on America Today. Jim Watkins at a time, see you
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