May 14, 2025 • 19 mins
Despite the anti-Trump sentiment from the Left, what he is doing to bring peace to the Middle East, and to Ukraine, and now, between Pakistan and India, is historical, and cements the president as the President of Peace, probably worthy of a Nobel prize. Why can't his political opponents celebrate his achievements?
Plus, Mental Illness and homelessness have become a racket that will not be going away anytime soon. Let's lift the hood and look at what is really going on under Gavin Newsoms' watch in California.
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Are you tired of winning yet? Welcome to another edition of
America Today for this Wednesday, Jim Watkins, your
host. It's going to be a fact filled
hour and a fun hour too. I think we've got a lot of
positives. I was watching for a good part
of yesterday about President Trump in Saudi Arabia and his
wonderful speech, which I was particularly moved by it.
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And I want to talk about it a little bit because it's
important to the discussion we're having about this
president and what he's attempting to do.
A good friend of mine by the name of Gillian Christie, she
runs a an international marketing agency and we talked
on and on. She's she's a incredible woman.
She smart, intuitive, and she has a lot of support for doing
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the right things. She's a rare example of an
executive who is actually out there trying to make the world a
better place. And in doing that, she brings on
brands that are environmentally friendly, health centered
products that are good for you. But at the same time, you know,
she's running a business and herwhole belief system is based on
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the idea that peace should be profitable.
Think about that for a moment. Peace should be profitable.
And what I'm seeing in the president and, and we hope to
have her on at some point so shecan elaborate on this
organization, which is making peace profitable.
And it's a growing global entitycomprised of people who believe
that, that we don't have to haveincessant wars and we don't have
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to have incessant destruction inthe military industrial complex
in order to make a buck, that perhaps over the long term.
And I believe this is true. I think most certainly the
president has said it is that, you know, you can eliminate the
body count and you know, all this money blood is wasted on
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the battlefield and nobody benefits over the long term.
Look at how long all these struggles have been going on in
the Middle East between these these factions between the Shia
and the Sunni, Iran versus Israel versus Saudi Arabia
versus Egypt. And it's it's continually a
mess. And it's been this way for as
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long as I can remember, going back generations.
And at what point do you you start to say, look, we can all
benefit mutually in peace? That's what I saw.
And that's what I heard when Trump gave his speech yesterday.
He was basically saying, are youtired of the warfare yet?
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Let's make peace profitable. And he was able to get what,
$690 billion in commitments fromSaudi Arabia and doing business
with the United States. Oh, oh, by the way, can anybody
verify if Reid Hoffman really was there?
I was reading the list of peoplethat had that were there.
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Elon Musk was there, Sam Altman from Open AI, Larry Fink from
BlackRock, a couple of others. But then I read that Reid
Hoffman was there. Reid Hoffman, he's the guy that
owns LinkedIn or the Co founder of LinkedIn and he's a Democrat
and he was the one that that basically bankrolled the E Jean
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Carroll trial against Donald Trump.
He bankrolled that whole case. Reed Hoffman is a staunch enemy
of the Trump administration. So I'm just wondering why.
I mean, I'm certainly he had theright to be there, but I don't I
don't think he was there to support the president.
Do you? This is a man who is, and he's
been bankrolling Democratic opponents.
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I believe he invested a lot of money in Kamala Harris and her
campaign. What was he doing there?
He's going to benefit from, from, from all the deals that
Trump is bringing home and, and,and he has the nerve to show up.
I, I, I can't believe that he was there.
Nobody mentioned it, but I did see it.
I think I saw it either in Breitbart or might have been the
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New York Daily News. But anyway, so we're we're
winning. And Trump has brought into the
dialogue this idea of Saudi Arabia becoming part of the
Abraham Abraham Accords. The Abraham Accords officially
recognizes Israel as its own sovereign country.
And it is under that auspices that peace comes.
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Because when you sign on to a treaty that says we acknowledge
you have a right to exist, and that lessens the tension.
Then he took the additional stepof, of, of approaching Iran and
saying, look, let's let's not becontentious.
Let's all work together. Your people will benefit.
The bloodshed will stop. The alliances that Trump is
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building today, he's an on cutter.
Then I think he goes on to another country later in the
week. He is trying to shore up peace,
which is so unusual. And he he does it in his own
funny way. But isn't that a good thing?
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It should be a good thing. It should be recognized as a
good thing, just like here at home.
It should be recognized that it's a good thing, as Rand Paul
pointed out today, that we, the news media, should be
celebrating the victories of ourborder and the, and are
controlling the immigration problem and the drug problem
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too. The the media should be
celebrating doing cartwheels at how much has been accomplished.
But they can't bring themselves to do it because it would mean
that they were wrong about Trump.
And two, that he's right about alot of the things that he's
doing, which is making America better, safer.
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All I I I'm going to predict that the next major poll will
show a sharp increase in the support now with the
prescription drugs that he's trying to curtail bring down the
prices for that the tariff deals.
He put the pause on China and some of these other countries
coming in high on tariffs, but it turns out that they're
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willing to negotiate the way that the media presents it.
Is it Trump is backtracking these but but is that part of
the negotiation? Could it be you come in with a
high bid, but you know that yourpartner wants to do a deal with
you and they compromise? Well, we'll meet you halfway.
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That is the art of the deal, isn't it?
So look, if you want to continueto to be upset and and focus all
your anger like AOC threatening the president and Christina with
something. Not sure.
We had a judge this week who took sides with the the
opposition. A former gang member and migrant
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in Milwaukee, and she now faces a number of years and a $300,000
fine for assisting and abetting a criminal in her courtroom.
So Dugan will be entering a pleaon Wednesday.
But she she, what did she do? One of the first judges in the
country that actually aided and abetted a criminal, allowed a
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criminal to escape while he was being apprehended by the federal
agency, immigration agency. Unbelievable.
And I think that those people are on the wrong side of history
on this. And so we'll have Michael Letts
on. He'll talk about a little bit
too. We also have Grant Berry.
I want to get his take on the new Pope.
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Grant Berry is the founder of the great group which is called
the Reconnecting Ministries and Roman Romans 9/11 Projects.
So he'll be along a little bit later on.
And we have so much more. Gavin Newsom in California has
finally decided that he's sick of the homeless problem.
Yeah. We played a clip yesterday from
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a guy by the name of Chris Bianco.
He's Ala County Sheriff. We'll play that for you.
The mental health crisis in California has become a big
business proposition for drug companies, for people who are
working on behalf of mental health.
And so we have to talk about that because it I think it's one
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of the more crucial issues of California, which is facing a
huge homeless problem and crime now is up a little bit later on
in the week. I think we're going to get
Chris, what's his Horwich back, Horwitz.
Horwitz talking about home breakinsurance.
And did you hear about this 79 year old veteran in Southern
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California that was literally dragged out of his car and
beaten to death in the middle ofthe day on a freeway?
And now carjackings are seeing arise in California, which is
unprecedented. We've never had this kind of
criminal activity. Is, is and, and I go back 60
years, I grew up in in the worstparts of Los Angeles.
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And but it's a whole different story today.
It it and it's becoming commonplace even in places like
Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, people being followed home.
It's exactly what's happening right now in places like
Manchester, England, and London.Was that Ed Sheeran was on a
podcast the other day saying that there is nowhere safe to go
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in England right now. Can you imagine that?
And that's exactly what's happening in Southern
California. So when does it stop?
Who do we hold accountable? We could lose this ship.
We could lose it very quickly. Stay tuned.
America Today continues. Michael, let's up next.
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All right, I want to play a clipfor you.
This is America today. Jim Watkins, I want to play this
clip for you because I think it's important to point out that
California, I'd always say this,California is fast.
And I don't mean this. I know I have a lot of listeners
in San Luis Obispo, which is paradise.
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It's one of the few places I think where I would live if I,
if I was going to live in California again, I, I think San
Luis Obispo would be good. I spent a lot of time in Santa
Barbara and as much as it is beautiful and ideal and it has a
lot of pluses, I, I, but I thinkI would prefer to live in Santa
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Anez because Santa Ynez is aboutas close as you're going to get
to 1950 that you will find anywhere on the planet.
In fact, it's a, it's remarkableto me that Santa Ynez, which is
just over the, the mountains from the coast, it's a, it's,
it's, it really is like a, an episode out of Twilight Zone.
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It's like, and they've got this huge casino and it's the
Kochuma, you know, but that's it.
The rest of California sucks. I mean, maybe Monterey, but then
it's foggy. Where, where are you going to
live in San Diego? You're going to live in My
brother lives in Joshua Tree high up.
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So it's not as hot. But you know, you go down to the
desert floor. Palm Springs, it's blazing.
It's 122° in the summer. Your your tennis shoes melt on
you and then you get the crime. I have some really good friends
that run a couple of radio stations there down in
Victorville, My good friends over at Talk 960, you know, San
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Bernardino is, is, is becoming the crime capital of, of inland
of the Inland Empire. Riverside is just overly
congested. Moreno Valley, forget it.
The traffic is just unbearable. And then you go up north to
Santa Clara, the Bay Area. The Bay Area is, I mean, your
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car is going to get stolen. There's a 30% chance if you go
to San Francisco and leave your car there for an hour, it's
going to get broken into. And so when Gavin Newsom comes
on and says, I think we need to deal with the homeless, it's a
little too late. Think about how how long has he
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been in in office? Anyway, here is Chris Bianco and
we're going to try to get him onthe program.
He LA sheriff, he's a conservative.
Listen to his take on mental illness and the homeless
population in in California today.
And and he would know this because he's a sheriff.
So he's dealing with the criminal element and the
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homeless non-stop in Los Angeles, the California's
largest city. People that we don't that, that
aren't calling it a homeless crisis or anything.
It's a it's a homeless industrial complex because there
are thousands and thousands of people making millions and
millions of dollars off the homeless.
And if we fix the homeless and cause them to all go away, all
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of those people lose their money.
All of those businesses lose their funding, all of those
nonprofits lose their funding. And so this special interest
relationship that between lobbyists and special interests
and Sacramento legislators with the kickbacks and the free trips
and the the business trips and everything else that's keeping
this going, they can't solve thehomeless problem or they won't
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be able to launder all of our taxpayer money back into these
these businesses and these organizations that are supposed
to be helping it. Yes, Sir.
Who owns those businesses? The people that are the people
that are not going to be in favor of me being governor.
And that's the way it goes, right?
It's the same old thing. You have people that want to
come in and they want to help you and they want to help take
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care of all of your problems, but they're just helping
themselves. It's a great line from a
wonderful Paul Newman movie, Theverdict.
And, and that is exactly the case in California.
And it's that way on every leveland every function.
And these people walk around from the coastal Commission.
You know, these poor people in LA.
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Well, how many, how many structures have been rebuilt
since the the fires that were caused by the negligence not
only of the mayor. Why isn't there more anger in
California? I don't understand.
Are are you guys just all smoking so much weed that you
just don't get pissed off and aslong as your your checks show up
on the 5th for disability you don't care?
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Maybe that's it. Maybe there are so many people
now dependent on the government of California that nobody dare
complain because they're afraid maybe they're going to get their
benefits taken away. I don't know, It's beyond me.
And, and, and trust me, I am a California native.
That's why I talk about it. And I and I know about the
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homeless problem and the mental problems and all the things that
they fix and they don't fix anything.
They, they just shuttle you fromone case manager to another.
Everyone evaluates you. They give you heavy psychotic
drugs that you have to show up every month.
Now think about this for a minute.
If you're a person who has some kind of mental illness, you go
to your case manager, you sit there and talk for 1/2 an hour.
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Then they refill your prescriptions.
And these are, sometimes they could be just numb drugs, you
know, drugs that kind of keep you in a drug state.
Other times they might be amphetamines, which gives you an
elevated state, but they're giving you drugs that you don't
have to pay for that are paid for by the taxpayers.
Then they turn around and they sell some of that stash to other
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people who are also addicts. And so the problem never gets
fixed. And the, and the government
continues to to process this in that way because they're getting
funding from either the federal government or from the state tax
rolls. And so you can see that there's
no incentive, none whatsoever totry to get the people off drugs,
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rehabilitate them and make them so that they can function in
society. There is absolutely no incentive
now that they say that they're trying to create stability.
Now, I've had people that were former heroin addicts and I've
driven them to get their whatever the, the state is now
subscribing them to keep them off of the heroin.
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I, I've driven at 6:00 in the morning to these places where
they give you that replacement drug to, to wean you off of
heroin. And you would be surprised at
how many people at 6:00 in the morning are lining up and going
to get their methadone. I think that's what it is.
Methadone. There is at least 30 to 40
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people and they, they all look like moms, dads, business people
in suits, other people that looka little shady, but they show
up, they get their methadone forthe week.
They only get a week supply and that keeps them high until the
next visit. And then every four weeks they
go see the the mental health case manager to make sure that
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you know that they're still alive.
And every single step of that process requires a ton of money.
I would venture that they're probably spending about $100,000
in services and payroll to treatthe number of addicts and the
number of homeless in the state of California.
Do you get the sense now? Do you do you understand why I'm
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telling you about this? This is real life on the ground
stuff that nobody wants to talk about.
And if you go back a couple of years now, China made an
interesting statement this week.They're saying, you know, the
fentanyl problem is not our problem.
It's your problem. The fact that your citizens take
fentanyl, it's not our problem. We're, you know, and then that
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that, that that's obviously a cop out and it's not true
because they're the ones supplying it on such a level
that it's become cheap. But there is some accuracy to
that because when Purdue got everybody jacked up on Oxycontin
and created an opioid epidemic, we're now five years after that
and those same people that were addicted to opioids are now
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going after the fentanyl. So we created the environment
where we created more addicts thanks to Big Pharma, and these
are the things that people don'twant to talk about.
So how on earth are we going to fix the homeless problem when it
has become, like every other mental health issue, a
profitable venture? Where a small group of people at
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the very top are benefiting enormously from the masses of
sick people on the very bottom? Many of whom are sick because of
the very institutions that have failed them and have made them
permanently disabled so that they cannot function in society
and are dependent on the federalgovernment or the state
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government for the rest of theirlives.
You guys are all the same. The doctors at the hospital,
you, it's always what I'm going to do for you.
And then you screw up and it's we did the best that we could.
I'm dreadfully sorry. And people like us live with
your mistakes the rest of our lives.
Are you tired of winning yet? Welcome to another edition of
America Today for this Wednesday, Jim Watkins, your
host. It's going to be a fact filled
hour and a fun hour too. I think we've got a lot of
positives. I was watching for a good part
of yesterday about President Trump in Saudi Arabia and his
wonderful speech, which I was particularly moved by it.
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And I want to talk about it a little bit because it's
important to the discussion we're having about this
president and what he's attempting to do.
A good friend of mine by the name of Gillian Christie, she
runs a an international marketing agency and we talked
on and on. She's she's a incredible woman.
She smart, intuitive, and she has a lot of support for doing
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the right things. She's a rare example of an
executive who is actually out there trying to make the world a
better place. And in doing that, she brings on
brands that are environmentally friendly, health centered
products that are good for you. But at the same time, you know,
she's running a business and herwhole belief system is based on
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the idea that peace should be profitable.
Think about that for a moment. Peace should be profitable.
And what I'm seeing in the president and, and we hope to
have her on at some point so shecan elaborate on this
organization, which is making peace profitable.
And it's a growing global entitycomprised of people who believe
that, that we don't have to haveincessant wars and we don't have
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to have incessant destruction inthe military industrial complex
in order to make a buck, that perhaps over the long term.
And I believe this is true. I think most certainly the
president has said it is that, you know, you can eliminate the
body count and you know, all this money blood is wasted on
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the battlefield and nobody benefits over the long term.
Look at how long all these struggles have been going on in
the Middle East between these these factions between the Shia
and the Sunni, Iran versus Israel versus Saudi Arabia
versus Egypt. And it's it's continually a
mess. And it's been this way for as
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long as I can remember, going back generations.
And at what point do you you start to say, look, we can all
benefit mutually in peace? That's what I saw.
And that's what I heard when Trump gave his speech yesterday.
He was basically saying, are youtired of the warfare yet?
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Let's make peace profitable. And he was able to get what,
$690 billion in commitments fromSaudi Arabia and doing business
with the United States. Oh, oh, by the way, can anybody
verify if Reid Hoffman really was there?
I was reading the list of peoplethat had that were there.
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Elon Musk was there, Sam Altman from Open AI, Larry Fink from
BlackRock, a couple of others. But then I read that Reid
Hoffman was there. Reid Hoffman, he's the guy that
owns LinkedIn or the Co founder of LinkedIn and he's a Democrat
and he was the one that that basically bankrolled the E Jean
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Carroll trial against Donald Trump.
He bankrolled that whole case. Reed Hoffman is a staunch enemy
of the Trump administration. So I'm just wondering why.
I mean, I'm certainly he had theright to be there, but I don't I
don't think he was there to support the president.
Do you? This is a man who is, and he's
been bankrolling Democratic opponents.
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I believe he invested a lot of money in Kamala Harris and her
campaign. What was he doing there?
He's going to benefit from, from, from all the deals that
Trump is bringing home and, and,and he has the nerve to show up.
I, I, I can't believe that he was there.
Nobody mentioned it, but I did see it.
I think I saw it either in Breitbart or might have been the
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New York Daily News. But anyway, so we're we're
winning. And Trump has brought into the
dialogue this idea of Saudi Arabia becoming part of the
Abraham Abraham Accords. The Abraham Accords officially
recognizes Israel as its own sovereign country.
And it is under that auspices that peace comes.
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Because when you sign on to a treaty that says we acknowledge
you have a right to exist, and that lessens the tension.
Then he took the additional stepof, of, of approaching Iran and
saying, look, let's let's not becontentious.
Let's all work together. Your people will benefit.
The bloodshed will stop. The alliances that Trump is
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building today, he's an on cutter.
Then I think he goes on to another country later in the
week. He is trying to shore up peace,
which is so unusual. And he he does it in his own
funny way. But isn't that a good thing?
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It should be a good thing. It should be recognized as a
good thing, just like here at home.
It should be recognized that it's a good thing, as Rand Paul
pointed out today, that we, the news media, should be
celebrating the victories of ourborder and the, and are
controlling the immigration problem and the drug problem
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too. The the media should be
celebrating doing cartwheels at how much has been accomplished.
But they can't bring themselves to do it because it would mean
that they were wrong about Trump.
And two, that he's right about alot of the things that he's
doing, which is making America better, safer.
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All I I I'm going to predict that the next major poll will
show a sharp increase in the support now with the
prescription drugs that he's trying to curtail bring down the
prices for that the tariff deals.
He put the pause on China and some of these other countries
coming in high on tariffs, but it turns out that they're
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willing to negotiate the way that the media presents it.
Is it Trump is backtracking these but but is that part of
the negotiation? Could it be you come in with a
high bid, but you know that yourpartner wants to do a deal with
you and they compromise? Well, we'll meet you halfway.
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That is the art of the deal, isn't it?
So look, if you want to continueto to be upset and and focus all
your anger like AOC threatening the president and Christina with
something. Not sure.
We had a judge this week who took sides with the the
opposition. A former gang member and migrant
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in Milwaukee, and she now faces a number of years and a $300,000
fine for assisting and abetting a criminal in her courtroom.
So Dugan will be entering a pleaon Wednesday.
But she she, what did she do? One of the first judges in the
country that actually aided and abetted a criminal, allowed a
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criminal to escape while he was being apprehended by the federal
agency, immigration agency. Unbelievable.
And I think that those people are on the wrong side of history
on this. And so we'll have Michael Letts
on. He'll talk about a little bit
too. We also have Grant Berry.
I want to get his take on the new Pope.
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Grant Berry is the founder of the great group which is called
the Reconnecting Ministries and Roman Romans 9/11 Projects.
So he'll be along a little bit later on.
And we have so much more. Gavin Newsom in California has
finally decided that he's sick of the homeless problem.
Yeah. We played a clip yesterday from
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a guy by the name of Chris Bianco.
He's Ala County Sheriff. We'll play that for you.
The mental health crisis in California has become a big
business proposition for drug companies, for people who are
working on behalf of mental health.
And so we have to talk about that because it I think it's one
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of the more crucial issues of California, which is facing a
huge homeless problem and crime now is up a little bit later on
in the week. I think we're going to get
Chris, what's his Horwich back, Horwitz.
Horwitz talking about home breakinsurance.
And did you hear about this 79 year old veteran in Southern
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California that was literally dragged out of his car and
beaten to death in the middle ofthe day on a freeway?
And now carjackings are seeing arise in California, which is
unprecedented. We've never had this kind of
criminal activity. Is, is and, and I go back 60
years, I grew up in in the worstparts of Los Angeles.
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And but it's a whole different story today.
It it and it's becoming commonplace even in places like
Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, people being followed home.
It's exactly what's happening right now in places like
Manchester, England, and London.Was that Ed Sheeran was on a
podcast the other day saying that there is nowhere safe to go
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in England right now. Can you imagine that?
And that's exactly what's happening in Southern
California. So when does it stop?
Who do we hold accountable? We could lose this ship.
We could lose it very quickly. Stay tuned.
America Today continues. Michael, let's up next.
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All right, I want to play a clipfor you.
This is America today. Jim Watkins, I want to play this
clip for you because I think it's important to point out that
California, I'd always say this,California is fast.
And I don't mean this. I know I have a lot of listeners
in San Luis Obispo, which is paradise.
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It's one of the few places I think where I would live if I,
if I was going to live in California again, I, I think San
Luis Obispo would be good. I spent a lot of time in Santa
Barbara and as much as it is beautiful and ideal and it has a
lot of pluses, I, I, but I thinkI would prefer to live in Santa
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Anez because Santa Ynez is aboutas close as you're going to get
to 1950 that you will find anywhere on the planet.
In fact, it's a, it's remarkableto me that Santa Ynez, which is
just over the, the mountains from the coast, it's a, it's,
it's, it really is like a, an episode out of Twilight Zone.
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It's like, and they've got this huge casino and it's the
Kochuma, you know, but that's it.
The rest of California sucks. I mean, maybe Monterey, but then
it's foggy. Where, where are you going to
live in San Diego? You're going to live in My
brother lives in Joshua Tree high up.
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So it's not as hot. But you know, you go down to the
desert floor. Palm Springs, it's blazing.
It's 122° in the summer. Your your tennis shoes melt on
you and then you get the crime. I have some really good friends
that run a couple of radio stations there down in
Victorville, My good friends over at Talk 960, you know, San
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Bernardino is, is, is becoming the crime capital of, of inland
of the Inland Empire. Riverside is just overly
congested. Moreno Valley, forget it.
The traffic is just unbearable. And then you go up north to
Santa Clara, the Bay Area. The Bay Area is, I mean, your
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car is going to get stolen. There's a 30% chance if you go
to San Francisco and leave your car there for an hour, it's
going to get broken into. And so when Gavin Newsom comes
on and says, I think we need to deal with the homeless, it's a
little too late. Think about how how long has he
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been in in office? Anyway, here is Chris Bianco and
we're going to try to get him onthe program.
He LA sheriff, he's a conservative.
Listen to his take on mental illness and the homeless
population in in California today.
And and he would know this because he's a sheriff.
So he's dealing with the criminal element and the
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homeless non-stop in Los Angeles, the California's
largest city. People that we don't that, that
aren't calling it a homeless crisis or anything.
It's a it's a homeless industrial complex because there
are thousands and thousands of people making millions and
millions of dollars off the homeless.
And if we fix the homeless and cause them to all go away, all
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of those people lose their money.
All of those businesses lose their funding, all of those
nonprofits lose their funding. And so this special interest
relationship that between lobbyists and special interests
and Sacramento legislators with the kickbacks and the free trips
and the the business trips and everything else that's keeping
this going, they can't solve thehomeless problem or they won't
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be able to launder all of our taxpayer money back into these
these businesses and these organizations that are supposed
to be helping it. Yes, Sir.
Who owns those businesses? The people that are the people
that are not going to be in favor of me being governor.
And that's the way it goes, right?
It's the same old thing. You have people that want to
come in and they want to help you and they want to help take
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care of all of your problems, but they're just helping
themselves. It's a great line from a
wonderful Paul Newman movie, Theverdict.
And, and that is exactly the case in California.
And it's that way on every leveland every function.
And these people walk around from the coastal Commission.
You know, these poor people in LA.
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Well, how many, how many structures have been rebuilt
since the the fires that were caused by the negligence not
only of the mayor. Why isn't there more anger in
California? I don't understand.
Are are you guys just all smoking so much weed that you
just don't get pissed off and aslong as your your checks show up
on the 5th for disability you don't care?
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Maybe that's it. Maybe there are so many people
now dependent on the government of California that nobody dare
complain because they're afraid maybe they're going to get their
benefits taken away. I don't know, It's beyond me.
And, and, and trust me, I am a California native.
That's why I talk about it. And I and I know about the
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homeless problem and the mental problems and all the things that
they fix and they don't fix anything.
They, they just shuttle you fromone case manager to another.
Everyone evaluates you. They give you heavy psychotic
drugs that you have to show up every month.
Now think about this for a minute.
If you're a person who has some kind of mental illness, you go
to your case manager, you sit there and talk for 1/2 an hour.
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Then they refill your prescriptions.
And these are, sometimes they could be just numb drugs, you
know, drugs that kind of keep you in a drug state.
Other times they might be amphetamines, which gives you an
elevated state, but they're giving you drugs that you don't
have to pay for that are paid for by the taxpayers.
Then they turn around and they sell some of that stash to other
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people who are also addicts. And so the problem never gets
fixed. And the, and the government
continues to to process this in that way because they're getting
funding from either the federal government or from the state tax
rolls. And so you can see that there's
no incentive, none whatsoever totry to get the people off drugs,
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rehabilitate them and make them so that they can function in
society. There is absolutely no incentive
now that they say that they're trying to create stability.
Now, I've had people that were former heroin addicts and I've
driven them to get their whatever the, the state is now
subscribing them to keep them off of the heroin.
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I, I've driven at 6:00 in the morning to these places where
they give you that replacement drug to, to wean you off of
heroin. And you would be surprised at
how many people at 6:00 in the morning are lining up and going
to get their methadone. I think that's what it is.
Methadone. There is at least 30 to 40
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people and they, they all look like moms, dads, business people
in suits, other people that looka little shady, but they show
up, they get their methadone forthe week.
They only get a week supply and that keeps them high until the
next visit. And then every four weeks they
go see the the mental health case manager to make sure that
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you know that they're still alive.
And every single step of that process requires a ton of money.
I would venture that they're probably spending about $100,000
in services and payroll to treatthe number of addicts and the
number of homeless in the state of California.
Do you get the sense now? Do you do you understand why I'm
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telling you about this? This is real life on the ground
stuff that nobody wants to talk about.
And if you go back a couple of years now, China made an
interesting statement this week.They're saying, you know, the
fentanyl problem is not our problem.
It's your problem. The fact that your citizens take
fentanyl, it's not our problem. We're, you know, and then that
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that, that that's obviously a cop out and it's not true
because they're the ones supplying it on such a level
that it's become cheap. But there is some accuracy to
that because when Purdue got everybody jacked up on Oxycontin
and created an opioid epidemic, we're now five years after that
and those same people that were addicted to opioids are now
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going after the fentanyl. So we created the environment
where we created more addicts thanks to Big Pharma, and these
are the things that people don'twant to talk about.
So how on earth are we going to fix the homeless problem when it
has become, like every other mental health issue, a
profitable venture? Where a small group of people at
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the very top are benefiting enormously from the masses of
sick people on the very bottom? Many of whom are sick because of
the very institutions that have failed them and have made them
permanently disabled so that they cannot function in society
and are dependent on the federalgovernment or the state
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government for the rest of theirlives.
You guys are all the same. The doctors at the hospital,
you, it's always what I'm going to do for you.
And then you screw up and it's we did the best that we could.
I'm dreadfully sorry. And people like us live with
your mistakes the rest of our lives.
Host
JIM WATKINS
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