May 12, 2025 • 39 mins
A tarrif deal with China, a brokered cease fire between India and Pakistan, EO to reduce prescription's for every American, Putin says he will meet with Zelenskyy, Qatar gives Trump a gold-studded jet airplane, stocks are up a thousand points, new study shows Biden lied about employment figures throughout in 2024.
You could not ask for a better day for Trump.
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Great date. Is there another kind?
You see, the useful idiots that the Soviet Union that Lenin put
into America are now the useful idiots from the Chinese.
They're coming down in America like Pac-Man eating us up.
Alive. They're acting more as
propagandists. You know the Pac-Man game.
Think of a Pac-Man game, out of control, sucking away at the
foundation of America. If Russia pursues its
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aggression, it will face the massive consequences.
Because if they don't want you to believe something and they
can cast doubt, sometimes confusion can actually be the
goal. The goal?
The goal and as we've said all along.
Confusion can actually be the goal.
I like the sound of winning. Welcome to another edition of
America Today. Jim Watkins, your host as we
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heard coast to coast on many great radio stations and CRN and
also on the wonderful Talk Medianetwork.
And so we're here again. Hope you had a good weekend.
Lots of good news to start off the week.
The stock market took off like arocket after the announcement
was made that a tentative tariffpause or at least a reduction
between China and the United States, the two largest
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companies in terms of trade, andthat Trump is going to be
reducing the tariff structure temporarily while the two sides
come to agreement on new tariff rates.
And that has sent the stock market soaring.
Another piece of good news is that Trump, through his
negotiation team after nearly a year and a half in captivity
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Friday, Alexander, the last remaining US hostage taken by
Hamas, set to come home. The news was first reported on
President Trump's social media, then later confirmed.
Eden Alexander, an American citizen who had been held
hostage since October 2023, is coming home to his family.
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Trump said on social media. I'm grateful to all those
involved in making the monumental news happen.
How did he do it? Negotiation, The team that he
has assembled, notably Steve Witkopf and government agencies
from Qatar and Egypt all negotiated with Hamas or at
least representatives of Gaza, saying that if this can show
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goodwill and get us closer to the peace process, we're in on
it. The move comes says Trump is set
to begin a Middle East visit on Tuesday, which will take him
from Saudi Arabia to Qatar, thento the United Arab Emirates.
I read that that Qatar's government gave him a billion
dollar airplane. That's going to get the
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Democrats very, very upset. According to the Times of
Israel, Alexander is a dual citizen who spent most of his
life in New Jersey. He was kidnapped on October 7th
during the Hamas attacks. He was in Israel at the time
serving the Israel Defense Forces, the IDF.
The BI administration had not been able to obtain his freedom,
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but it is been an agenda item for the Trump administration and
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witko, who
has facilitated much of the administration's policies
regarding Israel, Gaza and its desire for an end to
hostilities, has been to set to travel to Israel from Oman on
Monday to work out the details of Alexander's release.
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On top of that, over the weekend, when we left the show
on Friday, Pakistan and India were at odds and near the brink
of war. Over the weekend, it was
revealed that Trump administration Marco Rubio good
job Marco was able to negotiate at least some sort of temporary
ceasefire. Though there was a report of
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some skirmish in Kashmir and theonly reason that most Americans
know about Kashmir is because Led Zeppelin made a wonderful
song about it. But aside from that, we don't
know much about it except for the fact that Marco Rubio was on
the phone quite a bit this weekend, working late into the
night time hours negotiating a peace settlement between the two
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nations to come to terms. And then on top of that, Putin
over the weekend said that he would welcome a face to face
meeting with Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine and you.
And Zelensky said he's up for ittoo.
So it's like the angels of peacedescended upon the earth at the
last minute to put, to try to put some sort of a foothold on
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all of this shenanigans going onin our our country.
On top of that, we told you earlier that that not only are
China and the United States coming to terms, but also Trump
signs an executive order lower here.
It is lowering the prices of drugs in the United States, the
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prescription drugs that you and I pay for.
And it what's tremendous about this, and I didn't know this,
but what he has done, he is he signed an executive order that
is reducing the cost of prescriptions between 30 and 80%
by forcing pharmaceutical companies to adopt lower price
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structures equal to that which the least, or let me put it this
way, foreign countries that pay pennies on the dollar for the
same prescriptions, Americans will now be entitled to that
same price structure. So if they're people, if, if, if
big Pharma, Eli Lilly is charging a certain amount for a
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drug that maybe cost $5 in Botswana, Americans will be
entitled to that same price structure.
That's good news. That's great news.
It would be a real shame and a real travesty if the major
mainstream news media would ignore all those stories today,
which they may do little bit later on.
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We're going to talk to a woman who's written a book called
Y'all Fired. It's a it's a close look at
what's happening with the EPA and how they are, through the
efforts of Lee Zeldin, are reducing expenses and focusing
their energies on the task at hand, which is cleaning up the
earth. Not counting credits.
Credits and ruining businesses and making it hard to do
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business in the United States because of these climate change
friendly kooks who've taken overthe EPA and turned it into a
slush fund for NGOs and nonprofits to again usurp tax
dollars. This all pretends to a winning
state of mind. And frankly, I think it's
terrific. I can't get enough of it and
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keep on going. And it was I think Don Dan
Bongino this week came out. He posted a tweet on Tuesday
night saying heads are going to start rolling.
There's so many different investigations going on right
now with the the Biden shenanigans.
There was a new report out issued Monday that every job
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report that came out in 2024 wasa lie.
When they said that they created400,000 jobs, turns out they
lost almost 200,000. And this was all done through
different kinds of manipulation of dollars and figures.
And what it means is that the mainstream media let the Biden
administration get a pass. Anything that they said was
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considered gold. If Biden's administration came
out and said that they had a good jobs report, the media
would report it without question.
This new latest report confirms what everybody knew, which is
jobs were slipping away and businesses were losing and
credit card debt was was rising.All of this happening, it was
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probably one of the worst administrations and political
history, one of the worst. There was never more corruption,
the amount of drugs that was just at the tip of the iceberg.
And the media lap dogs just tookit all up and didn't question a
thing because they didn't want the president at the time to
look ineffective or like he wasn't doing his job, which
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turns out that's exactly what hewas doing.
And it's, it's amazing how the propaganda works, isn't it?
It, it, it always seems to flow in One Direction.
And it gave me pause to think over the weekend, what if, if
you're going to use propaganda, there's an old saying,
perception is reality. And what that means is if you
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project the perception that things are fine or that the
glass is half full and you operate under those assumptions,
you're, you're bound to be more optimistic about your efforts.
And the perception as put forward during the Biden
administration was that everything was OK, when in fact,
it wasn't. And it sooner or later we were
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going to catch up to that reality.
And we have. And I think that the Trump
administration, rightly his, histeam that he's assembled all
went into this saying we've got to fix all of these problems
that the previous administrationleft for us, regardless of how
the media treats us, regardless of their slamming Biden or Trump
because of his ICE attempts to rid the country of hardened
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criminals, gang gang members from very bad organizations.
Maybe a little bit later, I'll share an interesting story I had
with a gentleman from Venezuela,former cop, in what he told me
was mind boggling, absolutely mind boggling.
So I've got a busy show for you today and I appreciate you
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Jim Watkins here. We've got on the line.
It's Mandy Gunasakara, author ofY'all Fired, A Southern Belle's
Guide to Restoring Federalism and Draining the Swamp.
And we've been hearing a lot about the EPA facing a massive
overhaul and saving taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars
a year. Give us a little history just
about what the EPA's original mission was.
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Yeah. So EPA really was formed in the
1970s when there was a culmination of rightful interest
in pollution in this country. We'd had a very successful
industrial age, but we didn't fully understand the impacts of
that industrial revolution on surrounding ecosystems and
public health. So a lot of this came to head in
1970. And before EPA existed, there
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were a number of statutes that existed giving the federal
government various authority to go after certain, but there
wasn't any kind of agency exclusively focused on it.
So under President Nixon, he actually signed or an organizing
document, it's called organizingdocument #3 it established EPA,
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and the original mission was to protect public health and the
environment. And it's really important
because over the existence of EPA, they've had some great
success early on, but more recent years, certainly under
the Obama administration and then the Biden administration,
that very important mission was actually Co opted for a larger
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political goal where they tried to turn the agency into the
agency of climate change. And they expanded their
authority and basically became the Sayers of what businesses
could exist and which ones couldnot.
They tried to exert public policy and they tried to try to
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exert all sorts of things that they don't actually have the
authority to do. So that's the history of EPA in
a nutshell. And now we have Lee Zeldin back
at the helm, who not only understands the mission, but he
understands the statutory limitsof the various rules that
Congress has delegated the the authority Congress has delegated
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to the agency. And he that's why he's getting
the agency back in ship shape and really focusing the various
offices and the personnel on that core mission of protecting
public health, which manifests itself in cleaning up the air,
cleaning up the water, addressing legacy pollution, and
dealing with things like new chemicals and existing chemicals
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to ensure that industrial activities are done safely.
But we balance that with the economic opportunities that are
really important and directly tied to them.
Well, like a lot of government agencies, they became slush
funds for NGOs and nonprofit organizations who would use the
the Clarion call of climate change to get funding for
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programs. It really did nothing or next to
nothing but pad the pockets of afew organizations in the
country, right? Yeah, that's exactly right.
And that's part of EP as missionbeing Co opted.
And probably the most egregious example of this, it's what the
left likes to characterize is environmental justice.
Now if you and I were to ask questions about what is
environmental justice, they could tell us that we were
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insensitive to vulnerable communities or maybe we were
racist or bigoted. They could throw these slurs at
us to try and avoid answering very serious conversations.
Get that. Get to the heart of what they
were actually which actually doing, which was using the
plight of vulnerable communitiesas a cover to engage in
political activity that has muchmore to do with growing the
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power and influence of the left than it does to actually help
people living in areas that are burdened by legacy or even new
pollution. You know, there's no greater
example of how the EPA failed that in Southern California
where they were so concerned about little 2 inch, you know,
pieces of shrub instead of filling the aquifers and the
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reservoirs with water. And that's sort of a emblematic,
I think of how you, as you mentioned, was hijacked Co
opted. And what will now change with
the reduction? Have they reduced staff?
What's actually being done internally at the EPA right now?
Yeah, internally what they're doing is they're purging a lot
of these political offices or offices that were created that
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are simply redundant to important functions within the
various offices, but just createmore bureaucracy without
producing tangible results. So the filter by which all
agencies, but certainly EP in particular, is looking at
existing roles and existing offices is do do the actions of
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this collective unit actually contribute to the meaningful
advancement of the agency's stated mission.
And you have to understand, EPA is organized.
You have anywhere from 12 to 14 offices housed at the
headquarters in EPA. They're split up over the
various mediums that we call them, so air, water, land,
chemicals, or sort of the main ones.
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You have a science office, a general counsel's office and
some additional ones that are housed in in Washington, DC.
And then you have 10 regional offices.
So it's a pretty large operation.
But you know, even with that large operation there, you have
to you have to be able to look at it and see what's working and
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what isn't working, again, with that core mission in mind.
And so that's what they're doing.
And they're getting rid of offices that are just a waste of
taxpayer resources or even worsethan that, were used for
political purposes. And one of one of the ones that
was shut down early on, and rightfully so, was this new
environmental justice office that was established during the
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Biden administration. Now there is a policy role for
environmental justice, or ratherhow pollution impacts vulnerable
and low income communities that already existed by virtue of EP
as core actions, which is regulatory rulemaking.
What the Biden administration did is they took that core
function and they turned it intoa whole new office and that
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became ground 0 for this taxpayer money laundering
operation. And I'm sure many of your
listeners heard or saw headlinesa couple months ago where there
were there was. One of the most egregious
examples was a $20 billion slushfund the Biden administration
had established by virtue of money received by Congress.
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Their allies on Capitol Hill hadgranted EPA $20 billion, which,
mind you, is almost double the entire agency's operating
budget, so $20 billion. And then they knew they weren't
going to be able to spend this money in time when they saw that
Biden was losing and Trump was winning.
And so they decided to push all that money out of the reach of
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the federal government and establish an off campus slush
fund through an unaffiliated bank.
And so they were doing this because they wanted to protect
those funds again, to ensure that their political friends and
allies got this money. And you look at some of the the
nonprofits that were slated to receive these funds.
One of them was had Stacey Abrams.
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She's not really known as an environmentalist, but she
certainly, certainly is known asa leader in Southern Democrat
politics. And she was one of her
organizations, was the recipientof a $2 billion grant, this
nonprofit that had barely existed the year before.
So it just goes to show you the tricks that the Democrats used
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to shovel taxpayer money out thewindow under the cover of we're
doing something good and moral, we're helping people, we're
helping the environment. But really, it was just going to
the pockets of their political allies.
It could this all be for not if some other person steps in and
does that, I'm going to go back to the way it was, you know, a
slush fund. Well, this is where we need
Congress to step up and we need the power of the people to step
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up. So Congress could solidify any
of these structural changes. Congress could step up and
anything that they shore up legislatively that's going to be
really important for that longevity that we we also want
to ensure the balance that is being re established right now
is not ultimately lost because now the public is in on it.
This is some of the great work of the Department of Government
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Efficiency really was just shining a light in ways that the
average person who's not going to spend a lot of time trying to
read through budget reports or you know, a thick letter audit.
DOGE has communicated to the public the very obvious waste,
fraud and abuse that has been occurring to the tunes of
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hundreds of millions to billionsof taxpayer dollars.
And now that the public is looped in on it, they're not
going to be so keen to just signup for that next, that next big
idea that the leftist administration comes in and
says, oh, we need, you know, we need a $10 billion budget and we
need 50 to 100 additional new full time employees with
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benefits to actually make this have happen.
I just don't think the public islargely going to be willing to
go along with it. So I, I really think there's
been one of the greatest things is this new education that has
occurred while people understandthere's a role for the federal
government, but our federal government all the past few
years has gotten way out of control and it's been completely
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unchecked. And that obviously lends itself
to the corruption that we've seen on full display thanks to
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and draining the Swamp. Thanks again, I really
appreciate you very much. Welcome back to America Today,
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before I get to my next subject,which has a lot to do with my
former hometown, Dallas, TX. And what's happening there And
I, and I apologize to my listeners for not bringing this
up sooner because now it's getting way out of hand and it's
going to be drawing the ire of alot of people that are going to
be screaming about Islamophobia.But there's a real issue here.
And it's something I think that we in the West need to grapple
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with. It's always curious to me why it
is that of all the religions in the world, the one religion no
one seems to want to discuss or have a conversation about is
Islam. Hands off, you can't talk about
it. We'll get to that story.
But I do want to follow up on what we talked about in the
first segment about Donald Trump's decision to sign an
executive order forcing Big Pharma to be more fair in the
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way that they charge consumers for their products.
What he's done with his executive order is make it so
that whatever they charge, the lowest recipient country or
their drugs must be offered to the United States citizen.
Isn't that wonderful? So if Congo is paying $5 for
insulin, then Americans should be entitled to that.
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That is going to lower the priceit should of our premiums and it
should lower the price of our out of pocket expenses so that
we can afford these drugs sometimes that are life saving.
I want to roll down the list of the top five pharma companies,
what they make and how many employees they have, just so you
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have an idea of the enormous amount of profits that these
these companies make. Now, I'm not, I'm not chiding
them. Yeah, I am chiding them.
I'm not chiding them for making health saving, life saving
drugs, but I am chiding them forbasically charging one country
one thing and then unfairly charging Americans a different
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rate simply because what, they have the money.
So just to give you an idea, thenumber one drug company, go
figure is Pfizer based in New York City.
In 2024, their revenue was $58.5billion.
Their employees approximately 79,079 thousand employees.
Johnson and Johnson, headquartered in New Brunswick,
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NJ reaped 54 billion in profits.They have over 150.
They have twice as many people, 150,000.
What do they do? What makes up the bulk of these
these people distribution R and I research R&D, research and
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development doctors amount of scientists that are involved
factories perhaps that generate and produce the the drugs.
It's hard to know, right? I would like to have more
disclosure on these companies. Abby V $54 billion in profits.
Add them all up. We've already gotten to what,
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5455, that's 100. And is that?
Yeah, it's 150 billion so far. That's just in the top three.
They employ over 50,000 people, Merck five, $53 billion
employees, approximately 74,000.Roche based in Switzerland, 49
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billion. They're all making about $50
billion and they employ 100 and thousand.
I want to know, I'll do more research in this.
I want to know what it is that all those employees do.
That would be interesting to me to see.
Sorry about that. Watch the mic there.
But it gives you an idea of how much money these companies make.
And, and I would venture to say that probably the upper 5% make
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the most money. But we'll look into that a
little bit later. But I congratulations to the
Trump team for doing this is something could Biden could have
done. OK, so this comes from the
Gateway reported by Christina Leila.
The Department of Justice is launching an investigation into
the planned Sharia city with mega mosque and Sharia Sharia
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compliance school near Dallas. Sorry, not Sharia.
The Justice Department on Fridayopened an investigation into the
planned Sharia city near Dallas,according to Senator John
Cornyn. Last month, Texas Governor Greg
Abbott launched a campaign against a planned Islamic mega
city outside Dallas. The East Plano Islamic Center,
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via its affiliate Community Capital Partners, is seeking to
construct a 1000 home settlementaround 40 minutes from Dallas.
The Sharia city would come complete with a mega mosque,
Sharia adherent Muslim schools, Community College and sporting
facilities. And Sharia law, by the way, is
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outlawed in Texas under a law itsigned in 2017.
Texas is investigating Epic Cityfor many allegations, including
attempts to circumvent that law.All entities in Texas must
follow state laws, not Sharia law, according to Greg Abbott.
Now, KHOU reported that the US Department of Justice has opened
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an investigation into Epic City,a Muslim centered development
proposal in Collin County, following calls from Senator
John Cornyn, among others. Epic recently bought just over
400 acres of property north of Josephine near the intersections
of County Roads 850 and 695 for the proposed development that
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includes more than 1000 homes, aschool, retail areas, parks and
more centered around a mosque. Now it's important to understand
that why we have pluralism in our country, Islam itself is not
a pluralistic religion. In other words, it's against
their laws. Depending on how deep you are
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committed to that faith that anyother religion would be despised
or otherwise ignored, including the ability for women to dress
as they see fit. That that is, the laws of the
United States Constitution are against many of the laws of
Sharia and vice versa. And what we've seen in places
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like Minneapolis, what we've seen in places like Washing
Michigan, Cadillac, MI places where they have a high
centralization of of Muslims is that they don't conform to to
the United States way of life. And this we see repeatedly in
places like England, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden,
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Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands.
All of these places have allowedin large numbers of migrants and
asylum seekers from Islamic countries.
And in every case, crime has gone up, treatment against
non-Muslims. No, no zone, no go zone cities.
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So you have to start connecting the dots and ask yourself, what
is it about this religion that makes it incompatible with the
cultures of what of the West? And the answer is simple.
Their, their religion is very militarized, as we can see in
the theocracy of, of, of Iran and in Saudi Arabia, where women
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are afforded little rights. And that, and that's the crux of
it, is that in America, men and women are for the most part
treated equally and they have equal rights, equal access, and
we have discrimination laws against not only people of
faith, but of people of color. So you by law in our state.
This is why, you know, these people that run around and say
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the system is is racist, systemic racism.
You want to talk about racism, look at what an A faithful
Islamist and how they view the West.
And they do in many, in some cases they do unspeakable crimes
to Western women because they have no respect for them.
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Their religion gives them the allowance, the ability to do
things that are strictly againstbasic human rights.
So the question here is what is the intent of setting up a
Muslim city? If you want to set up a city
like Chinatown, but you still observe and assimilate to the
laws inherent in the United States Constitution.
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But the people on the left wouldsay, well, this is a violation
of religious principles. So this is going to be debated
in court and it's not going to go away.
And the in the insidious people over at the ACLU and various
NGOs care, the Organization for Arab Islamic Relations.
And these are front groups to try to move in.
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The plan is no different from, say, the plan of China, which is
to to not assimilate to the West, but to slowly usurp the
power of the West through their own laws.
And this is this is not good news.
This does not bode well because if it happens there, it happens
there. And they'll be using our laws to
give them protection so that they can practice their
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religion, which violates our Constitution.
We'll keep following this, but is not a pretty sight and I'm
sure there are a lot of people in Plano, TX that are extremely
upset at this, as they should be.
This is an insult to the American way of life and it has
nothing to do with being an Islamophobe.
We're simply trying to protect our culture.
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your life. All right, so I took the time in
between breaks to kind of look at the numbers and I want to
show you what we're talking about it.
We went down the list of what Pfizer and how much they make,
which is somewhere in the neighborhood, overhood of $55
billion a year. They have 80,000 employees.
What do they do? And all of this is brought on by
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the fact that President Trump onMonday morning signed an
executive order forcing Big Pharma to more fairly charge
American people for their drugs,Charge them.
What they charge people in othercountries is far lower than what
we pay here in the United States.
That's probably one of the best,best news.
And I don't think that I really don't believe, it would be hard
for me to believe that ABC News or NBC News or CNN, they'll
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either have a, a negative spin on it or they'll report it
factually. And if they report it factually,
it will be a win for the United States and for the people of the
United States who are dependent on drugs.
And there's a whole lot of us. So I wanted to look through and
say, OK, well, they have 80,000 people.
What do they do at Pfizer Manufacturing requires and
supply The global supply requires 30,000 employees, so
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almost half of their workforce. This division is responsible for
the production and global distribution of Pfizer's
medicine and vaccines that operates over 30 manufacturing
sites and 11 distribution centers worldwide and they serve
in over 165 countries. Research and development R&D
between 10,000 and 15,000 employees.
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Their function in the R&D division is to focus on
discovering and developing new medicines and vaccines.
The company has over 100 projects in its pipeline
emphasizing areas such as oncology, immunology, rare
diseases and mRNA technology. 10to 15,000 people, commercial
operations, sales, marketing andmarket access.
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So this is where you're sitting in the doctor's office.
I'm sure you've had this happen.You're sitting waiting to speak
to your doctor and a nice attractive woman in a suit comes
in with a suitcase. She's probably from a big tech
pharma company. She's there to sell her drugs to
that doctor. You see a lot of that.
They've got 15 to 20,000 people who do this.
Like one of my sons best friend's mother did this for a
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long time. She made a great living.
Let's see finance legal HRIT compliance 10 to 15,000
employees at Pfizer. These departments provide
essential support services that enable Pfizer's operations.
They handle financial planning, legal affairs, human resources,
information technology, and ensure compliance with global
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regulation. These are the people that make
the most. I can almost guarantee you these
and the executive are the ones that make the most money and the
executive is about 100 or few 100 people, mostly executive
leaders and strategic managementled by CEO Albert or Borla.
That's right. I think wasn't he with the CDC
or the FDA before that team? They set Pfizer's strategy
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direction and overseas the company's overall performance.
The leadership structure is designed to facilitate effective
decision making and collaboration across various
function and business. The the number breakdown is, hey
Siri, what is 54 billion / 81,000?
So the average salary if you were to average that out would
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be ironically enough 66666666666.
That's the average salary of Pfizer.
Now Pfizer is under a lot of fire as they should be because
they rushed the mRNA vaccine to market.
They did not do investigative enough on on effects and thus
far, according to the CDC's own records, own information, there
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have been close to 39,000 known deaths subsequent within a week
or two from getting a vaccine, an mRNA vaccine.
They came out with a report lastweek that showed more adverse
effects were likely from the Pfizer vaccine than from the
Moderna vaccine. Both of them are mRNA vaccine.
I had a choice, I could have letit fail or make it as good as
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possible, but this makes it justmakes everything work because of
the fact I was able to cut drug prices by 80 or 90%.
I think this gives the Republicans a chance to actually
do a healthcare that's much better than Obamacare and for
less money, which if you guys would work on that.
But I do want to say that Democrats could have done this a
long time ago. They have fought like hell for
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the drug companies and they knewthey were doing the wrong thing.
And again, the top story starting off our week is that
President Trump signing an executive order which forces Big
Pharma to reduce its drug pricesbetween 30 and 80% to the
American consumer. All right, Well, the other big
news that we want to talk about is the big trial.
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The big trial between P Diddy Combs and all those women.
Federal prosecutors and the SeanDiddy Combs sex trafficking case
are opening statements on Monday.
And just days before their opening statements, one of their
key witnesses has gone missing. She is known in court documents
as victim 3. Now, victim 2 and victim one are
still expected to give testimonyduring the trial, which gets
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underway Monday. Yeah, that's right.
So again, like the Jeffrey Epstein case, I, I draw some
similarities in that both of these individuals allegedly
entertained a very high caliber kind of person, someone who is
most likely a millionaire involved in all kinds of maybe
actors, performers, the techs, executives from major media tech
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firms, people who are so rich that that if you had one 100th
of their salary, you would neverhave to work another day.
And sometimes the predilections of very wealthy people is
insatiable and they go to peoplelike P Diddy or perhaps Jeffrey
Epstein to have their own freak offs.
That's, that's essentially what it is.
How far can my wealth get me? What can it buy for me that that
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it considered taboo in any otherrealm?
And the other distinction that Iwould draw between Jeffrey
Epstein and P Diddy Combs is that they like to videotape what
their friends are doing in theirfreak offs.
And this is where it starts to get dicey because those same
very influential people that were having their own personal
freak offs and they were stupid enough to think that nobody was
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videotaping them could be extorted for well, pretty much
anything. And that's why you start to see
these bodies dropping all over the place because these very
wealthy people don't want to lose their wealth.
And they they will lose their wealth if they become shamed and
they get cancelled in society. And that's what this is all
about, protecting their own asses.
So I'm not sure if this is a show trial or if they're going
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to say that, oh, well, these people were there on their own.
They were adults, they were consenting.
We're never going to see the videos.
And that's what upset. And not that I want to see,
frankly, what Bill Gates is doing with young girls.
I really don't want to see it. But I need to know if that's
what's happening. I need to know if Ellen de
Generes hung out with P Diddy Combs or Meghan Markle or Prince
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Harry or all of these people whogo around moral virtue signaling
each other, acting as if they'rethe moral beacon of virtue in
the in the world. And then you find out what
they're really doing behind thisand all the connections that
they made and all the videotapesthat they now.
Wednesday, lead prosecutor Maureen Comedy, which a lot of
people don't like because her dad Jim basically was part of
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that whole Russia gate scandal, former head of the FBI.
So she's appointed. She was also appointed to
oversee the Epstein case. So there's that other
connection. There's all these connections
between B Diddy and Epstein #1 they both cater to the elite and
they both provided sexual favorsto the elite.
That that much we know how much and to what extent That's what
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these cases should, should be exposing, but they don't.
Now, Victim 3, who is missing, was expected to provide very
personal and explosive details regarding alleged abuse by
Combs. Back in April, prosecutors had
assured the court that she did not wish to use a pseudonym
during her testimony, suggestingthat she was prepared to go
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public. And of course, we know that.
The case took a further turn in April when a third superseding
indictment added on extra charges of sex trafficking and
transportation to engage in prostitution.
Combs faces five counts, including racketeering and sex
trafficking tied to 4 alleged victim.
Victim 1 singer Cassie Ventura will testify under her real
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name, Victim 2, and four have been granted pseudonym.
So this will be the case that will occupy our attention while
other things are going on. Jim Watkins, you're listening to
America TODAY.
Great date. Is there another kind?
You see, the useful idiots that the Soviet Union that Lenin put
into America are now the useful idiots from the Chinese.
They're coming down in America like Pac-Man eating us up.
Alive. They're acting more as
propagandists. You know the Pac-Man game.
Think of a Pac-Man game, out of control, sucking away at the
foundation of America. If Russia pursues its
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aggression, it will face the massive consequences.
Because if they don't want you to believe something and they
can cast doubt, sometimes confusion can actually be the
goal. The goal?
The goal and as we've said all along.
Confusion can actually be the goal.
I like the sound of winning. Welcome to another edition of
America Today. Jim Watkins, your host as we
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heard coast to coast on many great radio stations and CRN and
also on the wonderful Talk Medianetwork.
And so we're here again. Hope you had a good weekend.
Lots of good news to start off the week.
The stock market took off like arocket after the announcement
was made that a tentative tariffpause or at least a reduction
between China and the United States, the two largest
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companies in terms of trade, andthat Trump is going to be
reducing the tariff structure temporarily while the two sides
come to agreement on new tariff rates.
And that has sent the stock market soaring.
Another piece of good news is that Trump, through his
negotiation team after nearly a year and a half in captivity
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Friday, Alexander, the last remaining US hostage taken by
Hamas, set to come home. The news was first reported on
President Trump's social media, then later confirmed.
Eden Alexander, an American citizen who had been held
hostage since October 2023, is coming home to his family.
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Trump said on social media. I'm grateful to all those
involved in making the monumental news happen.
How did he do it? Negotiation, The team that he
has assembled, notably Steve Witkopf and government agencies
from Qatar and Egypt all negotiated with Hamas or at
least representatives of Gaza, saying that if this can show
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goodwill and get us closer to the peace process, we're in on
it. The move comes says Trump is set
to begin a Middle East visit on Tuesday, which will take him
from Saudi Arabia to Qatar, thento the United Arab Emirates.
I read that that Qatar's government gave him a billion
dollar airplane. That's going to get the
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Democrats very, very upset. According to the Times of
Israel, Alexander is a dual citizen who spent most of his
life in New Jersey. He was kidnapped on October 7th
during the Hamas attacks. He was in Israel at the time
serving the Israel Defense Forces, the IDF.
The BI administration had not been able to obtain his freedom,
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but it is been an agenda item for the Trump administration and
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witko, who
has facilitated much of the administration's policies
regarding Israel, Gaza and its desire for an end to
hostilities, has been to set to travel to Israel from Oman on
Monday to work out the details of Alexander's release.
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On top of that, over the weekend, when we left the show
on Friday, Pakistan and India were at odds and near the brink
of war. Over the weekend, it was
revealed that Trump administration Marco Rubio good
job Marco was able to negotiate at least some sort of temporary
ceasefire. Though there was a report of
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some skirmish in Kashmir and theonly reason that most Americans
know about Kashmir is because Led Zeppelin made a wonderful
song about it. But aside from that, we don't
know much about it except for the fact that Marco Rubio was on
the phone quite a bit this weekend, working late into the
night time hours negotiating a peace settlement between the two
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nations to come to terms. And then on top of that, Putin
over the weekend said that he would welcome a face to face
meeting with Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine and you.
And Zelensky said he's up for ittoo.
So it's like the angels of peacedescended upon the earth at the
last minute to put, to try to put some sort of a foothold on
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all of this shenanigans going onin our our country.
On top of that, we told you earlier that that not only are
China and the United States coming to terms, but also Trump
signs an executive order lower here.
It is lowering the prices of drugs in the United States, the
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prescription drugs that you and I pay for.
And it what's tremendous about this, and I didn't know this,
but what he has done, he is he signed an executive order that
is reducing the cost of prescriptions between 30 and 80%
by forcing pharmaceutical companies to adopt lower price
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structures equal to that which the least, or let me put it this
way, foreign countries that pay pennies on the dollar for the
same prescriptions, Americans will now be entitled to that
same price structure. So if they're people, if, if, if
big Pharma, Eli Lilly is charging a certain amount for a
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drug that maybe cost $5 in Botswana, Americans will be
entitled to that same price structure.
That's good news. That's great news.
It would be a real shame and a real travesty if the major
mainstream news media would ignore all those stories today,
which they may do little bit later on.
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We're going to talk to a woman who's written a book called
Y'all Fired. It's a it's a close look at
what's happening with the EPA and how they are, through the
efforts of Lee Zeldin, are reducing expenses and focusing
their energies on the task at hand, which is cleaning up the
earth. Not counting credits.
Credits and ruining businesses and making it hard to do
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business in the United States because of these climate change
friendly kooks who've taken overthe EPA and turned it into a
slush fund for NGOs and nonprofits to again usurp tax
dollars. This all pretends to a winning
state of mind. And frankly, I think it's
terrific. I can't get enough of it and
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keep on going. And it was I think Don Dan
Bongino this week came out. He posted a tweet on Tuesday
night saying heads are going to start rolling.
There's so many different investigations going on right
now with the the Biden shenanigans.
There was a new report out issued Monday that every job
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report that came out in 2024 wasa lie.
When they said that they created400,000 jobs, turns out they
lost almost 200,000. And this was all done through
different kinds of manipulation of dollars and figures.
And what it means is that the mainstream media let the Biden
administration get a pass. Anything that they said was
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considered gold. If Biden's administration came
out and said that they had a good jobs report, the media
would report it without question.
This new latest report confirms what everybody knew, which is
jobs were slipping away and businesses were losing and
credit card debt was was rising.All of this happening, it was
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probably one of the worst administrations and political
history, one of the worst. There was never more corruption,
the amount of drugs that was just at the tip of the iceberg.
And the media lap dogs just tookit all up and didn't question a
thing because they didn't want the president at the time to
look ineffective or like he wasn't doing his job, which
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turns out that's exactly what hewas doing.
And it's, it's amazing how the propaganda works, isn't it?
It, it, it always seems to flow in One Direction.
And it gave me pause to think over the weekend, what if, if
you're going to use propaganda, there's an old saying,
perception is reality. And what that means is if you
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project the perception that things are fine or that the
glass is half full and you operate under those assumptions,
you're, you're bound to be more optimistic about your efforts.
And the perception as put forward during the Biden
administration was that everything was OK, when in fact,
it wasn't. And it sooner or later we were
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going to catch up to that reality.
And we have. And I think that the Trump
administration, rightly his, histeam that he's assembled all
went into this saying we've got to fix all of these problems
that the previous administrationleft for us, regardless of how
the media treats us, regardless of their slamming Biden or Trump
because of his ICE attempts to rid the country of hardened
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criminals, gang gang members from very bad organizations.
Maybe a little bit later, I'll share an interesting story I had
with a gentleman from Venezuela,former cop, in what he told me
was mind boggling, absolutely mind boggling.
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Jim Watkins here. We've got on the line.
It's Mandy Gunasakara, author ofY'all Fired, A Southern Belle's
Guide to Restoring Federalism and Draining the Swamp.
And we've been hearing a lot about the EPA facing a massive
overhaul and saving taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars
a year. Give us a little history just
about what the EPA's original mission was.
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Yeah. So EPA really was formed in the
1970s when there was a culmination of rightful interest
in pollution in this country. We'd had a very successful
industrial age, but we didn't fully understand the impacts of
that industrial revolution on surrounding ecosystems and
public health. So a lot of this came to head in
1970. And before EPA existed, there
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were a number of statutes that existed giving the federal
government various authority to go after certain, but there
wasn't any kind of agency exclusively focused on it.
So under President Nixon, he actually signed or an organizing
document, it's called organizingdocument #3 it established EPA,
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and the original mission was to protect public health and the
environment. And it's really important
because over the existence of EPA, they've had some great
success early on, but more recent years, certainly under
the Obama administration and then the Biden administration,
that very important mission was actually Co opted for a larger
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political goal where they tried to turn the agency into the
agency of climate change. And they expanded their
authority and basically became the Sayers of what businesses
could exist and which ones couldnot.
They tried to exert public policy and they tried to try to
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exert all sorts of things that they don't actually have the
authority to do. So that's the history of EPA in
a nutshell. And now we have Lee Zeldin back
at the helm, who not only understands the mission, but he
understands the statutory limitsof the various rules that
Congress has delegated the the authority Congress has delegated
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to the agency. And he that's why he's getting
the agency back in ship shape and really focusing the various
offices and the personnel on that core mission of protecting
public health, which manifests itself in cleaning up the air,
cleaning up the water, addressing legacy pollution, and
dealing with things like new chemicals and existing chemicals
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to ensure that industrial activities are done safely.
But we balance that with the economic opportunities that are
really important and directly tied to them.
Well, like a lot of government agencies, they became slush
funds for NGOs and nonprofit organizations who would use the
the Clarion call of climate change to get funding for
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programs. It really did nothing or next to
nothing but pad the pockets of afew organizations in the
country, right? Yeah, that's exactly right.
And that's part of EP as missionbeing Co opted.
And probably the most egregious example of this, it's what the
left likes to characterize is environmental justice.
Now if you and I were to ask questions about what is
environmental justice, they could tell us that we were
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insensitive to vulnerable communities or maybe we were
racist or bigoted. They could throw these slurs at
us to try and avoid answering very serious conversations.
Get that. Get to the heart of what they
were actually which actually doing, which was using the
plight of vulnerable communitiesas a cover to engage in
political activity that has muchmore to do with growing the
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power and influence of the left than it does to actually help
people living in areas that are burdened by legacy or even new
pollution. You know, there's no greater
example of how the EPA failed that in Southern California
where they were so concerned about little 2 inch, you know,
pieces of shrub instead of filling the aquifers and the
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reservoirs with water. And that's sort of a emblematic,
I think of how you, as you mentioned, was hijacked Co
opted. And what will now change with
the reduction? Have they reduced staff?
What's actually being done internally at the EPA right now?
Yeah, internally what they're doing is they're purging a lot
of these political offices or offices that were created that
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are simply redundant to important functions within the
various offices, but just createmore bureaucracy without
producing tangible results. So the filter by which all
agencies, but certainly EP in particular, is looking at
existing roles and existing offices is do do the actions of
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this collective unit actually contribute to the meaningful
advancement of the agency's stated mission.
And you have to understand, EPA is organized.
You have anywhere from 12 to 14 offices housed at the
headquarters in EPA. They're split up over the
various mediums that we call them, so air, water, land,
chemicals, or sort of the main ones.
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You have a science office, a general counsel's office and
some additional ones that are housed in in Washington, DC.
And then you have 10 regional offices.
So it's a pretty large operation.
But you know, even with that large operation there, you have
to you have to be able to look at it and see what's working and
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what isn't working, again, with that core mission in mind.
And so that's what they're doing.
And they're getting rid of offices that are just a waste of
taxpayer resources or even worsethan that, were used for
political purposes. And one of one of the ones that
was shut down early on, and rightfully so, was this new
environmental justice office that was established during the
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Biden administration. Now there is a policy role for
environmental justice, or ratherhow pollution impacts vulnerable
and low income communities that already existed by virtue of EP
as core actions, which is regulatory rulemaking.
What the Biden administration did is they took that core
function and they turned it intoa whole new office and that
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became ground 0 for this taxpayer money laundering
operation. And I'm sure many of your
listeners heard or saw headlinesa couple months ago where there
were there was. One of the most egregious
examples was a $20 billion slushfund the Biden administration
had established by virtue of money received by Congress.
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Their allies on Capitol Hill hadgranted EPA $20 billion, which,
mind you, is almost double the entire agency's operating
budget, so $20 billion. And then they knew they weren't
going to be able to spend this money in time when they saw that
Biden was losing and Trump was winning.
And so they decided to push all that money out of the reach of
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the federal government and establish an off campus slush
fund through an unaffiliated bank.
And so they were doing this because they wanted to protect
those funds again, to ensure that their political friends and
allies got this money. And you look at some of the the
nonprofits that were slated to receive these funds.
One of them was had Stacey Abrams.
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She's not really known as an environmentalist, but she
certainly, certainly is known asa leader in Southern Democrat
politics. And she was one of her
organizations, was the recipientof a $2 billion grant, this
nonprofit that had barely existed the year before.
So it just goes to show you the tricks that the Democrats used
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to shovel taxpayer money out thewindow under the cover of we're
doing something good and moral, we're helping people, we're
helping the environment. But really, it was just going to
the pockets of their political allies.
It could this all be for not if some other person steps in and
does that, I'm going to go back to the way it was, you know, a
slush fund. Well, this is where we need
Congress to step up and we need the power of the people to step
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up. So Congress could solidify any
of these structural changes. Congress could step up and
anything that they shore up legislatively that's going to be
really important for that longevity that we we also want
to ensure the balance that is being re established right now
is not ultimately lost because now the public is in on it.
This is some of the great work of the Department of Government
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Efficiency really was just shining a light in ways that the
average person who's not going to spend a lot of time trying to
read through budget reports or you know, a thick letter audit.
DOGE has communicated to the public the very obvious waste,
fraud and abuse that has been occurring to the tunes of
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hundreds of millions to billionsof taxpayer dollars.
And now that the public is looped in on it, they're not
going to be so keen to just signup for that next, that next big
idea that the leftist administration comes in and
says, oh, we need, you know, we need a $10 billion budget and we
need 50 to 100 additional new full time employees with
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benefits to actually make this have happen.
I just don't think the public islargely going to be willing to
go along with it. So I, I really think there's
been one of the greatest things is this new education that has
occurred while people understandthere's a role for the federal
government, but our federal government all the past few
years has gotten way out of control and it's been completely
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unchecked. And that obviously lends itself
to the corruption that we've seen on full display thanks to
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and draining the Swamp. Thanks again, I really
appreciate you very much. Welcome back to America Today,
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before I get to my next subject,which has a lot to do with my
former hometown, Dallas, TX. And what's happening there And
I, and I apologize to my listeners for not bringing this
up sooner because now it's getting way out of hand and it's
going to be drawing the ire of alot of people that are going to
be screaming about Islamophobia.But there's a real issue here.
And it's something I think that we in the West need to grapple
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with. It's always curious to me why it
is that of all the religions in the world, the one religion no
one seems to want to discuss or have a conversation about is
Islam. Hands off, you can't talk about
it. We'll get to that story.
But I do want to follow up on what we talked about in the
first segment about Donald Trump's decision to sign an
executive order forcing Big Pharma to be more fair in the
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way that they charge consumers for their products.
What he's done with his executive order is make it so
that whatever they charge, the lowest recipient country or
their drugs must be offered to the United States citizen.
Isn't that wonderful? So if Congo is paying $5 for
insulin, then Americans should be entitled to that.
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That is going to lower the priceit should of our premiums and it
should lower the price of our out of pocket expenses so that
we can afford these drugs sometimes that are life saving.
I want to roll down the list of the top five pharma companies,
what they make and how many employees they have, just so you
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have an idea of the enormous amount of profits that these
these companies make. Now, I'm not, I'm not chiding
them. Yeah, I am chiding them.
I'm not chiding them for making health saving, life saving
drugs, but I am chiding them forbasically charging one country
one thing and then unfairly charging Americans a different
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rate simply because what, they have the money.
So just to give you an idea, thenumber one drug company, go
figure is Pfizer based in New York City.
In 2024, their revenue was $58.5billion.
Their employees approximately 79,079 thousand employees.
Johnson and Johnson, headquartered in New Brunswick,
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NJ reaped 54 billion in profits.They have over 150.
They have twice as many people, 150,000.
What do they do? What makes up the bulk of these
these people distribution R and I research R&D, research and
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development doctors amount of scientists that are involved
factories perhaps that generate and produce the the drugs.
It's hard to know, right? I would like to have more
disclosure on these companies. Abby V $54 billion in profits.
Add them all up. We've already gotten to what,
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5455, that's 100. And is that?
Yeah, it's 150 billion so far. That's just in the top three.
They employ over 50,000 people, Merck five, $53 billion
employees, approximately 74,000.Roche based in Switzerland, 49
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billion. They're all making about $50
billion and they employ 100 and thousand.
I want to know, I'll do more research in this.
I want to know what it is that all those employees do.
That would be interesting to me to see.
Sorry about that. Watch the mic there.
But it gives you an idea of how much money these companies make.
And, and I would venture to say that probably the upper 5% make
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the most money. But we'll look into that a
little bit later. But I congratulations to the
Trump team for doing this is something could Biden could have
done. OK, so this comes from the
Gateway reported by Christina Leila.
The Department of Justice is launching an investigation into
the planned Sharia city with mega mosque and Sharia Sharia
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compliance school near Dallas. Sorry, not Sharia.
The Justice Department on Fridayopened an investigation into the
planned Sharia city near Dallas,according to Senator John
Cornyn. Last month, Texas Governor Greg
Abbott launched a campaign against a planned Islamic mega
city outside Dallas. The East Plano Islamic Center,
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via its affiliate Community Capital Partners, is seeking to
construct a 1000 home settlementaround 40 minutes from Dallas.
The Sharia city would come complete with a mega mosque,
Sharia adherent Muslim schools, Community College and sporting
facilities. And Sharia law, by the way, is
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outlawed in Texas under a law itsigned in 2017.
Texas is investigating Epic Cityfor many allegations, including
attempts to circumvent that law.All entities in Texas must
follow state laws, not Sharia law, according to Greg Abbott.
Now, KHOU reported that the US Department of Justice has opened
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an investigation into Epic City,a Muslim centered development
proposal in Collin County, following calls from Senator
John Cornyn, among others. Epic recently bought just over
400 acres of property north of Josephine near the intersections
of County Roads 850 and 695 for the proposed development that
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includes more than 1000 homes, aschool, retail areas, parks and
more centered around a mosque. Now it's important to understand
that why we have pluralism in our country, Islam itself is not
a pluralistic religion. In other words, it's against
their laws. Depending on how deep you are
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committed to that faith that anyother religion would be despised
or otherwise ignored, including the ability for women to dress
as they see fit. That that is, the laws of the
United States Constitution are against many of the laws of
Sharia and vice versa. And what we've seen in places
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like Minneapolis, what we've seen in places like Washing
Michigan, Cadillac, MI places where they have a high
centralization of of Muslims is that they don't conform to to
the United States way of life. And this we see repeatedly in
places like England, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden,
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Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands.
All of these places have allowedin large numbers of migrants and
asylum seekers from Islamic countries.
And in every case, crime has gone up, treatment against
non-Muslims. No, no zone, no go zone cities.
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So you have to start connecting the dots and ask yourself, what
is it about this religion that makes it incompatible with the
cultures of what of the West? And the answer is simple.
Their, their religion is very militarized, as we can see in
the theocracy of, of, of Iran and in Saudi Arabia, where women
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are afforded little rights. And that, and that's the crux of
it, is that in America, men and women are for the most part
treated equally and they have equal rights, equal access, and
we have discrimination laws against not only people of
faith, but of people of color. So you by law in our state.
This is why, you know, these people that run around and say
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the system is is racist, systemic racism.
You want to talk about racism, look at what an A faithful
Islamist and how they view the West.
And they do in many, in some cases they do unspeakable crimes
to Western women because they have no respect for them.
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Their religion gives them the allowance, the ability to do
things that are strictly againstbasic human rights.
So the question here is what is the intent of setting up a
Muslim city? If you want to set up a city
like Chinatown, but you still observe and assimilate to the
laws inherent in the United States Constitution.
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But the people on the left wouldsay, well, this is a violation
of religious principles. So this is going to be debated
in court and it's not going to go away.
And the in the insidious people over at the ACLU and various
NGOs care, the Organization for Arab Islamic Relations.
And these are front groups to try to move in.
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The plan is no different from, say, the plan of China, which is
to to not assimilate to the West, but to slowly usurp the
power of the West through their own laws.
And this is this is not good news.
This does not bode well because if it happens there, it happens
there. And they'll be using our laws to
give them protection so that they can practice their
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religion, which violates our Constitution.
We'll keep following this, but is not a pretty sight and I'm
sure there are a lot of people in Plano, TX that are extremely
upset at this, as they should be.
This is an insult to the American way of life and it has
nothing to do with being an Islamophobe.
We're simply trying to protect our culture.
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between breaks to kind of look at the numbers and I want to
show you what we're talking about it.
We went down the list of what Pfizer and how much they make,
which is somewhere in the neighborhood, overhood of $55
billion a year. They have 80,000 employees.
What do they do? And all of this is brought on by
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the fact that President Trump onMonday morning signed an
executive order forcing Big Pharma to more fairly charge
American people for their drugs,Charge them.
What they charge people in othercountries is far lower than what
we pay here in the United States.
That's probably one of the best,best news.
And I don't think that I really don't believe, it would be hard
for me to believe that ABC News or NBC News or CNN, they'll
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either have a, a negative spin on it or they'll report it
factually. And if they report it factually,
it will be a win for the United States and for the people of the
United States who are dependent on drugs.
And there's a whole lot of us. So I wanted to look through and
say, OK, well, they have 80,000 people.
What do they do at Pfizer Manufacturing requires and
supply The global supply requires 30,000 employees, so
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almost half of their workforce. This division is responsible for
the production and global distribution of Pfizer's
medicine and vaccines that operates over 30 manufacturing
sites and 11 distribution centers worldwide and they serve
in over 165 countries. Research and development R&D
between 10,000 and 15,000 employees.
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Their function in the R&D division is to focus on
discovering and developing new medicines and vaccines.
The company has over 100 projects in its pipeline
emphasizing areas such as oncology, immunology, rare
diseases and mRNA technology. 10to 15,000 people, commercial
operations, sales, marketing andmarket access.
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So this is where you're sitting in the doctor's office.
I'm sure you've had this happen.You're sitting waiting to speak
to your doctor and a nice attractive woman in a suit comes
in with a suitcase. She's probably from a big tech
pharma company. She's there to sell her drugs to
that doctor. You see a lot of that.
They've got 15 to 20,000 people who do this.
Like one of my sons best friend's mother did this for a
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long time. She made a great living.
Let's see finance legal HRIT compliance 10 to 15,000
employees at Pfizer. These departments provide
essential support services that enable Pfizer's operations.
They handle financial planning, legal affairs, human resources,
information technology, and ensure compliance with global
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regulation. These are the people that make
the most. I can almost guarantee you these
and the executive are the ones that make the most money and the
executive is about 100 or few 100 people, mostly executive
leaders and strategic managementled by CEO Albert or Borla.
That's right. I think wasn't he with the CDC
or the FDA before that team? They set Pfizer's strategy
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direction and overseas the company's overall performance.
The leadership structure is designed to facilitate effective
decision making and collaboration across various
function and business. The the number breakdown is, hey
Siri, what is 54 billion / 81,000?
So the average salary if you were to average that out would
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be ironically enough 66666666666.
That's the average salary of Pfizer.
Now Pfizer is under a lot of fire as they should be because
they rushed the mRNA vaccine to market.
They did not do investigative enough on on effects and thus
far, according to the CDC's own records, own information, there
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have been close to 39,000 known deaths subsequent within a week
or two from getting a vaccine, an mRNA vaccine.
They came out with a report lastweek that showed more adverse
effects were likely from the Pfizer vaccine than from the
Moderna vaccine. Both of them are mRNA vaccine.
I had a choice, I could have letit fail or make it as good as
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possible, but this makes it justmakes everything work because of
the fact I was able to cut drug prices by 80 or 90%.
I think this gives the Republicans a chance to actually
do a healthcare that's much better than Obamacare and for
less money, which if you guys would work on that.
But I do want to say that Democrats could have done this a
long time ago. They have fought like hell for
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the drug companies and they knewthey were doing the wrong thing.
And again, the top story starting off our week is that
President Trump signing an executive order which forces Big
Pharma to reduce its drug pricesbetween 30 and 80% to the
American consumer. All right, Well, the other big
news that we want to talk about is the big trial.
(35:44):
The big trial between P Diddy Combs and all those women.
Federal prosecutors and the SeanDiddy Combs sex trafficking case
are opening statements on Monday.
And just days before their opening statements, one of their
key witnesses has gone missing. She is known in court documents
as victim 3. Now, victim 2 and victim one are
still expected to give testimonyduring the trial, which gets
(36:07):
underway Monday. Yeah, that's right.
So again, like the Jeffrey Epstein case, I, I draw some
similarities in that both of these individuals allegedly
entertained a very high caliber kind of person, someone who is
most likely a millionaire involved in all kinds of maybe
actors, performers, the techs, executives from major media tech
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firms, people who are so rich that that if you had one 100th
of their salary, you would neverhave to work another day.
And sometimes the predilections of very wealthy people is
insatiable and they go to peoplelike P Diddy or perhaps Jeffrey
Epstein to have their own freak offs.
That's, that's essentially what it is.
How far can my wealth get me? What can it buy for me that that
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it considered taboo in any otherrealm?
And the other distinction that Iwould draw between Jeffrey
Epstein and P Diddy Combs is that they like to videotape what
their friends are doing in theirfreak offs.
And this is where it starts to get dicey because those same
very influential people that were having their own personal
freak offs and they were stupid enough to think that nobody was
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videotaping them could be extorted for well, pretty much
anything. And that's why you start to see
these bodies dropping all over the place because these very
wealthy people don't want to lose their wealth.
And they they will lose their wealth if they become shamed and
they get cancelled in society. And that's what this is all
about, protecting their own asses.
So I'm not sure if this is a show trial or if they're going
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to say that, oh, well, these people were there on their own.
They were adults, they were consenting.
We're never going to see the videos.
And that's what upset. And not that I want to see,
frankly, what Bill Gates is doing with young girls.
I really don't want to see it. But I need to know if that's
what's happening. I need to know if Ellen de
Generes hung out with P Diddy Combs or Meghan Markle or Prince
(37:59):
Harry or all of these people whogo around moral virtue signaling
each other, acting as if they'rethe moral beacon of virtue in
the in the world. And then you find out what
they're really doing behind thisand all the connections that
they made and all the videotapesthat they now.
Wednesday, lead prosecutor Maureen Comedy, which a lot of
people don't like because her dad Jim basically was part of
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that whole Russia gate scandal, former head of the FBI.
So she's appointed. She was also appointed to
oversee the Epstein case. So there's that other
connection. There's all these connections
between B Diddy and Epstein #1 they both cater to the elite and
they both provided sexual favorsto the elite.
That that much we know how much and to what extent That's what
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these cases should, should be exposing, but they don't.
Now, Victim 3, who is missing, was expected to provide very
personal and explosive details regarding alleged abuse by
Combs. Back in April, prosecutors had
assured the court that she did not wish to use a pseudonym
during her testimony, suggestingthat she was prepared to go
(39:03):
public. And of course, we know that.
The case took a further turn in April when a third superseding
indictment added on extra charges of sex trafficking and
transportation to engage in prostitution.
Combs faces five counts, including racketeering and sex
trafficking tied to 4 alleged victim.
Victim 1 singer Cassie Ventura will testify under her real
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name, Victim 2, and four have been granted pseudonym.
So this will be the case that will occupy our attention while
other things are going on. Jim Watkins, you're listening to
America TODAY.
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