Trump Signs Executive Order On Birth Tourism

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right up until somebody started interpreting the 14th Amendment of the Constitution to suggest otherwise. And until this summer, when the Supreme Court affirmed that bizarre interpretation, it was always sort of up in the air. But now the Supreme Court has said, yeah, based on the language of the 14th Amendment, if you're born in this country, you're a citizen of this country. That's it. No questions asked. All right. So let's take this a little further. What if there's a foreign couple who is pregnant and they're from, I don't know, let's say turkey. And they want their baby to have U.S. citizenship. And they deliberately want their baby to have U.S. citizenship because they know that years from now, that baby, being a U.S. citizen, will be able to bring 8, 10, 12, even more members of this Turkish family into the United States so that they can be citizens to. And... They're so calculating that they know that that little U.S. baby citizen that is born in the United States and automatically becomes a citizen will be entitled to tons of protections and benefits and money as a United States citizen. This Turkish couple know that that's the case. So they deliberately go out of their way and fly to the United States so that that baby can be born. It's a deliberate act. They do it on purpose so they can take advantage of our rules. Do you think that's all right? Do you think that's how we should run our policies? I'll take it one step further. Let's say you're in China. And you consider the United States to be a great threat. Let's say you're part of the Chinese government. And you want to figure out a way to, in some way, mitigate over the long haul, play in the long game, decades from now, mitigate the economic, military, and political threat that the United States poses to you, a country that's trying to dominate the Pacific Rim and Asia. What if you create and set up a government program? that involves flying people from your country to just a U.S. territory like Guam. It's very close to your mainland or maybe to California so that people can enjoy Disneyland and Universal Studios while they're there. And you deliberately, as a government, create a policy so that thousands of little Chinese babies can be born in the United States and claim U.S. citizenship. Would that be a good thing for the United States to allow to happen? Well, all of those questions bring us to yesterday's scene in the Oval Office, where the president signed executive orders specifically targeting birth tourism and doing whatever he can as President of the United States, commander-in-chief, and head of the executive branch of our government, at least for three more years. I shouldn't say at least. People will think I'm pining for a fourth term.

for the next three years. He did whatever he could to stop those practices. And it took him about six weeks since that Supreme Court decision to be able to come up with the right legal language. And I sure hope and trust that the lawyers all involved in crafting this language, dotted every eye and crossed every tea and made it federal judge proof because you know that the lawsuits will begin immediately. Because all of those ridiculous scenarios that I just laid out for you are happening. And there are liberal, radical American lawyers, let's call them Democrats, who in this country are fighting to keep those ridiculous policies in place. They cannot rest on the fact that, well, you know, birthright citizenship is legal. It's the law of the land. That's not enough for them. They have to fight to make all of those insane manipulations of birthright citizenship legal as well. You know, we could agree on certain. They know, okay, fine. You know, listen, I disagree. But if the Supreme Court said so, then, you know, the only fight that we've got then is either change the makeup of the Supreme Court or work on a constitutional amendment. Yeah, that's what reasonable people would say. But then they would say, okay, fine. But can we at least agree that we shouldn't have a whole industry created on the other side of the U.S.-Mexican border where people are getting rich, shipping nine-month programs? pregnant women across the border. They've never set foot in the United States in their lives, but they pay $10,000 to a company that puts them on a bus, takes them to a hospital so that they can give birth in America and have a U.S. citizen. Can we at least agree that we should do something to stop that? And the left-wing Democrats in this country will say, nope, we will fight you tooth and nail. We will sue you if you try to stop that, and we will find a judge who will agree with us. And that's what's about to happen. But before we get there, here's the president yesterday, speaking before he signed his executive order. And then we'll hear from Stephen Miller, who really explains the details here. But here's the president yesterday. We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright was close, but a very, very unfortunate decision. So we're making adjustments because it's very unfair. This was done for a different reason. This was done right after the Civil War. This was for the babies of slaves.

And what's happening now, people are building businesses around it from wealthy people are building businesses around birthright citizenship. That's not the way it was supposed to work. It's a disgrace. They're buying their way in. And we're not going to let it happen. Hey, memo to Mike Rogers, who wants to be the senator from Michigan. Did you hear what the president just said? It might be worth your while as you try to build a coalition that involves... disaffected Democrat voters who did not support Abdul El-Sayed and who may be very suspicious of that guy coming out of nowhere and suddenly being what I heard people talking yesterday about him being a presidential candidate soon Mike Rogers, you might want to communicate something to all of the African-American voters in the Detroit area that supported Haley Stevens. You might want to communicate to them to them that the 14th Amendment was designed to give full legal protections to slaves and the children of slaves. And Abdul El-Sayed and Rashida Tlaib and all the Democrats in Michigan are now... warping the language and intent of that 14th Amendment that was meant to write the wrongs of slavery, they're now warping that language to allow Dearborn and Hamtramck to be flooded with newly arriving Arab Americans who are now taking black people's jobs in Detroit. And that's the Abdul El-Sayed Democrat Party policy. Who suffers the most because of this? The people who were meant to benefit from the 14th Amendment in the first place. The slaves and their progeny. And their progeny right now are in Detroit and they're wondering who to vote for. Mike Rogers, you might want to let him know what side Abdul El-Sayed is on. And you might want to point out the direct results of all of those anchor babies in Dearborn and Hamtramic. All right. Stephen Miller talked about birthright citizenship next. For nearly 3,000 years, Homer's The Odyssey has shaped Western imagination. It tells the story of Odysseus as he faces monsters, shipwrecks, false comforts, and impossible choices on his long journey home. As one of the foundational works of Western literature, Homer's epic is more than mythology. It explores permanent questions about courage, duty, loyalty, family, leadership, temptation, and the search for home. In one of the epic's defining moments, Odysseus rejects the offer of immortality from the goddess Calypso, choosing instead the long and difficult journey home. His decision reveals one of the central themes of the Odyssey that a life of duty, family, and home is greater than a life devoted to comfort or glory. Achilles chose glory. Odysseus chose home. That's why Hillsdale College has released its newest free online course, The Odyssey. Taught by Professor Benedict Wayland, the course reveals why Homer's masterpiece remains one of the greatest works of Western literature. Find this free course at Hillsdale.edu forward slash start now. The Odyssey from Hillsdale College, go to hillsdale.edu forward slash start now.

And so the same crazy left-wing progressive name, whatever, I mean, they are Marxists at this point. They're welcoming the Marxists in their party. You know, they'll scream and complain about the millionaires and billionaires who don't pay their fair share. And you say, look, we've got a tax code. The tax code is there. Here are the stats. Here's the data. The fact is the so-called 1% of the millionaires and billionaires, they pay upwards to 80% of the revenue that comes into the government. What's the fair share? And then they'll say, well, there are loopholes. There are loopholes. And they take advantage of the system. Oh, you want to talk about taking advantage of the system? All right. Let's talk about taking advantage of the system. Your precious birthright citizenship that you think is enshrined as a human right, is a human right for people. from all around the world to become a U.S. citizen if they happen to be born on our soil, no matter what the circumstances. You want to talk about a loophole. You've got people from all over the place, including countries that are our sworn enemies who come here deliberately for the purpose of having a baby. There are businesses getting rich. By providing travel packages to pregnant women to come here for one reason and one reason only so that their baby is a U.S. citizen, then they go home, the baby didn't even live here, and they exploit our system. Why aren't you upset about that? Why aren't you exercised about that? Could we at the very least, you got your Supreme Court decision? Could we at very least come together and figure out something to do with the obvious practice of exploiting that? And the president did that yesterday. And he's being opposed by those very same Marxists. Here's Stephen Miller explaining exactly what this executive order does and how it will stand up legally, God willing. The president is using his authority as commander-in-chief. to sign first an executive order using the new ruling the Supreme Court issued to expand the definitions of people who are ineligible for birthright citizenship. That includes, for example, alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations, and large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments. And so with taking this action, pause it there for a second. Pause it there for a second. So say to your insane Bernie, bro, Abdul El-Sayed, loving, you son-in-law on Facebook or however they're attacking you, say, all right, let me ask you something. Do you agree that there are terrorists? Can we at least agree that there are terrorist organizations out there that want to come here and kill innocent people? I mean, I'm guessing that your insane Marxist son-in-law will at the very least concede that al-Qaeda exists, that Hamas exists. Okay. So an al-Qaeda terrorist. and his sex slave wife over there in Syria, they come here and have a baby. Should the baby of that terrorist get automatic citizenship and thereby have the ability to bring that baby's father, the terrorist, into this country to be a citizen? You're good with that? Should we at least maybe put the brakes on that? You need to get them on the record on what they will allow and what they will not.

and recognize how far they have come from Barack Obama 10 years ago. All right. Let's continue with Stephen Miller. No longer be eligible for those benefits. The second action that he's taking, which is especially historic, is for the first time ever in American history, to ban birth tourism. So I want you to really let that sink in. This has been some of the people who talked about not only for years, but for decades. The idea that people come here pretending to be a tourist, pretending to be a visitor, saying they want to go to Disneyland, they want to go visit a monument or go to a national park. But the real reason they're here is to have a child, to make that child an automatic citizen, leave our country, and then have a U.S. citizen child. It gives them access under this broken system to welfare benefits, ultimately to the voting booth and all the other rights and privileges that belong solely to Americans. So that practice of birth tourism is, as of the signing of this order, hereby banned. And what that means is that no one in the world is any more allowed to obtain a visa for this fraudulent purpose. It is probably... And it's just that simple. And it is already being opposed, and they're already trying to shop for a federal judge who will block this. And if you don't believe how over the top thing, because right after the election and when the president secured the border, you had Democrats coming out saying, well, listen, maybe Biden went too far on the border. We all agree there should be a secure border. We all agree we need to lock down the border. You want to hear what they're saying now? Here's Amy Klobuchar. She's running for governor in Minnesota. This is cut three. Look what happens at an event, a forum with other candidates, where she says that she's always wanted to keep a secure border. Watch. Listen to this. I've long believed and supported funding for order at the border, and I have worked well with law enforcement in Minnesota for years. But what I... Quiet, quiet. There you go. That's who they are now. Listen, whether you're preparing for exams, juggling family, and career, or just looking to stay sharp as you age, Think Factor is here to help you. It's created by the same company that makes Relief Factor. Think Factor supports sharper focus, stronger recall, and clearer thinking. It's a natural way to give your brain the daily nutrients it needs for memory, attention, and even vibrant vision. I use Think Factor every morning right before the program. And I love it. I've noticed the difference. It makes you will too. If you want to stay focused during demanding tasks, keep your memory strong, maintain mental energy for whatever's ahead. Think Factor is for you, 800 for Relief.com to order Think Factor. 800 for Relief or ReliefFactor.com. Your first bottle is just $19.95. And you'll see the difference. Think Factor, think clearer, perform better daily.

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store versus what you order when you order takeout or you sit down at a restaurant. And interestingly, yes, food that you buy at home and prepare at home is much cheaper. And the inflation on that food is actually much slower than what you're spending when you go to a restaurant, even take out or sit down. Why? Well, you have minimum wage increases across a number of different states. You have regulations that are going into the the people who are actually preparing the meals that you're paying for. Yeah, the restaurant industry is just, oh, the restaurant industry is overloaded with regulations and various expensive little hoops they have to jump through. Frankly, I think that's why you see so many fast food chains and chain restaurants rather than individual family-owned businesses today because it's so hard for them to figure out how to navigate it. That said, you have to have personal responsibility. And one thing that I do, Larry, is I'm blessed to work from home. I make at least five meals, fresh, five dinners every night for my family. Why? Because it's cheaper. Why also? Because I know what I'm putting in the food that my family is consuming. So I can decide, you know, how many calories are going to be consuming. And I'm not, you know, whether I do beef tallow or peanut oil or whatever, that's my choice that I get to make. And so I do think young people have to take some ownership here. You have to figure out, okay, how many meals can I actually prepare at home versus how many times am I, you know, using Uber Eats to have something, you know, a coffee latte from McDonald's delivered or from Starbucks delivered, which the delivery fee is probably as much as the actual item itself, if not more. And they need to, they do need to take some ownership in this. I mean, hey, our grandparents were able to make it on through the Great Depression because they figured it out. They prepared food at home, and then going out was more of a luxury. Yeah, we have, objectively speaking, a much better lifestyle and economy and way of life than our parents and our grandparents. It's not even close. And by the, is it not lost on people that those who are complaining that they're spending too much for a burrito and they can't make ends meet? And I'm not trying to diminish their... their concern about the economy and how far they can stretch their dollar. But has it not occurred to anyone that they are expressing their anxiety, utilizing social media, and probably a thousand dollar smartphone because they have a supercomputer in their pocket. the irony. I mean, these are the same young people who are increasingly bought into socialism because in their mind, it means everybody's quality of life is going to be the same. So they'll get to live like Elon Musk and they're working, you know, a regular barista job. They think that that's equalization or equity. And, you know, there's there's a lot of naivete in that. When they have kids, I think they will start to wake up and realize, oh, you know, I really can't afford to, uh,

you know, Uber eats out every single meal multiple times a day. And I will give them this. If they want to buy a first home, it is challenging. It is a lot to be able to put down, save money for that down payment, and then you actually have to buy the house and maintain it. But that said, you need to have some, if you are good with the small, if you are, at the being the Bible says, if you are a master of the small, then you can be a master of greater things. And so if you are able to actually have good spending habits and saving habits with the little you have, that begins to compound over time. So I marry personal responsibility with the reality that, yeah, it is actually hard for a lot of young people to get into, you know, buy their first home and start their families, but they're not entirely off the hook. They have some personal responsibility here. Well, and by the way, I'm in the house I live in right now and in the neighborhood that I live in right now, I would have never dreamt when I was 23 years old that I would ever have a home like this. But at the time, I did buy a one-bedroom condo in a really dodgy neighborhood so that I could pay my money into the equity of some real estate that I owned instead of continuing to pay rent in an apartment building. And you can, well, just go on and on. And it sounds like, Patrice, we're sounding like we're telling people to get off our lawn. Are we too old and out of touch? Are we lecturing people who aren't inclined to listen because we don't get it? I just think that a lot of young people, they want their parents' lifestyles when they're starting out in life. And it's not realistic. You have to build to that. I mean, you have to pay into the system, so to speak. You have to be able to start little, get your starter house. You know, you talk about equity. You buy bigger. You build. You know, you get married before you have children and you stay out of poverty. That's also a big thing. I mean, you do need to start small and then you grow from there. But I honestly think a lot of young people they are so mesmerized by social media and the idea of an influencer pulling down millions of dollars at 21 years old and having this fabulous lifestyle that it took their parents, you know, decades to achieve that somehow that is owed to them. Hello, you are not owed anything in this life. It is what you make of what's in front of you. And when they adopt that perspective, then they will stop chasing behind the mom dummies of this world with their crazy ideas and actually start to make something of what's in front of them. And they can build something great over time. Patrice, I'm Wouca, is the Vice President of Economic Policy and Director of the Independent Women's Center for Economic Opportunity over at Independent Women. And Patrice, I'd love for you to comment on the story we just talked about the president signing some executive orders trying to end birth tourism and also preclude people from certain countries and enemies of this country. to be able to come here, have a baby, and let that baby be a citizen. Seems like a no-brainer. You're an immigrant who came to the country legally. Your family gave you a better life here. I'd love for you to comment on the birthright citizenship drama that we're seeing unfold here and the fact that there will be people opposing these common sense executive orders.

Well, there are always people opposing common sense because they lack it. Listen, there is a good reason for us to not allow people to abuse the system. And birthright, the baby birthright industry is abuse of our system. I mean, yes, I understand you want your child to be a citizen. Well, do it the right way. You come here. You don't just come here when you're eight months pregnant and then deliver, but actually become a citizen and then, you know, have your children and they can become citizens too. I understand that there are a lot of people who just want a shortcut around our immigration policies and our immigration process. But that's not fair to those of us who actually didn't take a shortcut. We could have. But we chose not to because we don't want to live in the shadows of the federal government. We don't have to be looking over our shoulders. When my parents stepped off the plane with us 41 years ago, I think it was this year, we weren't chasing. We weren't dipping under a fence at the southern border. We were walking into Washington, D.C. and welcomed into this nation and doing, you know, having a baby timing it just so perfectly. You can get in to the United States. A lot of other countries do not permit that. So why should we also permit that? No, I think it's logical for the United States to say no and to figure out ways to ensure that that does not become an industry within itself. And one industry that can be abused by people who, you know, have some nefarious motives. Patrice, I've always, you know, you were raised on a Caribbean island or born on a Caribbean. I've always just romantically thought that you came here on a boat. And I don't know why. I just, there's something about, you're taking the mystique away from it, arriving on a 747. That's all right. I'm still going to imagine your family on a boat just showing up on the shores of Florida and just say, we're here, America. No, we didn't swim. My parents did it the right way. And we sold everything, Larry. We sold our home and our cars and had a few suitcases of clothes and dreams. But, you know, we did it the right way. And look at me now. God bless America. Today at 8.30, we're going to get the jobs reports for July. I'd love for you to give us a preview of what you think that's going to have. And by the way, I saw an astounding stat out there that 86% of the new jobs created under President Trump have gone to women. Considering that's what your focus at independent women, that's a remarkable number. It is, but it's actually not surprising because when we look at where growth is for jobs right now every month, they're in industries that are concentrated with women. the hospitality industry, the healthcare industry, the social assistance industry. Those are areas. A lot of these are caring industries that women are naturally drawn to, Larry. A lot of women want to be social workers. They want to be caregivers. They want to take care of people. And because we have an aging baby boomer population who, they're sticking around for a while, we actually need a lot of workers who are going to continue to take care of our aging populations. And so it's not surprising that we're seeing such

growth among women under the Trump administration. Doesn't that undercut the narrative about Trump and women? I mean, it's beautiful. We are still some turbulence in manufacturing. It takes time for a lot of the investments that the president has managed to negotiate come into play here. But I do think that we're seeing manufacturing numbers start to rise. So I think you'll see that growth in men also coming back into the workforce. But I do worry about all those young men who are buying their burritos. Why? Because they're on Medicaid and because of the Obamacare expansion and they are not working. And that is concerning. All right. But today's number, we only have 15 seconds, but summer job boost in the July numbers, you hope? Hopefully, the ADP report earlier this week did not show good things. So we will see. Sometimes the report together, sometimes they will. We'll hold our breath at 830. Patrice Honmuka, always good to talk to my friend. Thanks for joining us. When it comes to supplements, there's two things that matter most. You want to make sure that that supplement works and that you can trust it. Meredith screens all my supplements. And when I told her that I was going to start taking relief factors, she looked at the ingredients, did some searches and said, oh, yeah, that's some good stuff. It is. Definitely good stuff. We hear from people every single day whose lives have changed, and we love to hear their stories and relay them to you, like Chris. Chris spent years doing physical work, and at the end of the day, his feet were so sore. He just had to put him up and sit on his butt for the rest of the evening. After starting relief factor, no more sitting on the butt. He did something he never done before. He ran a half marathon. And now he tells all his friends about Relief Factor. Why don't you try Relief Factor? We make it easy for you. Your three-week quick start of Relief Factor, just $17.76. Just go to ReliefFactor.com or call 800 for Relief. You're going to connect with our friendly local team, and they're going to do everything they can to help. That's Relieffactor.com. Your education is more than a path to a degree. At Regent University, it's an important step in God's plan for your career. It's where you'll be equipped to lead and serve with purpose. It's where 40,000 graduates have prepared to fulfill their callings, and so can you. Choose the Top Rings program from over 150 areas of study on campus or online and watch what God will do. Learn more at regent.edu. That's regent.edu.

86% of new jobs created by President Donald J. Trump have gone to women. 86% of the new jobs created under President Trump in the first year and a half of this second term have gone to women. That's astound 86%. I'm actually starting to feel a little oppressed as a man. 86% of jobs. Women now make up a slight majority in all non-farm jobs. If you take agriculture jobs out of the mix, you look at all the other jobs, women are now the majority of the workforce in America. And I agree with Patrice Anwuka that actually this is great, but you'd start to worry about men in a big way, and we should. We should worry about that. But that is astounding. There's one woman who would love to get a new job. Her name is Francesca Hong. The job that she's angling for is governor of Wisconsin. Now, Francesca Hong is not one of these Democrats, socialist, Marxists, who pretend that she's not who she says she is. Like Abdul Zayette, oh, I'm not a socialist. I'm not a socialist. I'm not a socialist. I just adopt all of their policies. I use and harness their political organization skills and fundraising ability. I encourage them to. campaign for me and knock on doors and do all the ground grassroots organizing but no no no no I'm not a socialist why is he not a socialist well because they test marketed it they did some focus groups and in Michigan they don't want to vote for a socialist so he didn't get the card over there in Wisconsin Francesca Hong who is a state senator and a failed restaurateur and chef I wasn't able to make it in that business. So, you know, if you can't make it in the real world with your real profession and in real business, you have two routes to take. You go into politics or you become a Marxist. And then you justify your failure by saying the system was rigged, man. And so now because I failed and I couldn't make it in the free market and in this capitalist pig system, I'm going to tear the whole damn thing down. That's... That's her choice. That's what she's decided to do. But now she wants to inflict her will on everyone in Wisconsin. And apparently in Wisconsin, they thought that things would be fine. Socialist, you bet. The attacks on her have not even scratched the surface on how incompetent and insane she is. because right now they're just focusing on the lunatic things she said on social media, like the fact that she hates Thanksgiving. She's been through quite a journey here. This is clip four. Let's go to clip four first. She tweeted out that she hated Thanksgiving and she gave all of the woke, you know, stolen land. We killed the indigenous people, anti-colonial, anti-pilgram, anti-white people, anti-everything. gave all the excuses as to why she hated Thanksgiving, and it was all that. It was all the woke political nonsense about how evil white European Christians are, right? Then, on CNN, challenged on that, she said this. Thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many people in our communities. My favorite called... So that was her answer. This is a very tough time for people in our communities.

Right. So she continued to say, and she also went on and said, and it's just not fair for service industry people that they have to work to service people who are having a feast and there are poor people. So again, it was woke political nonsense. Then, after that didn't land, and even Democrats were saying, um, dear, if you want to be governor and actually play in the big leagues, you can go ahead and be your little Marxist self, but at least pretend that you're not a lunatic. At least do us all a favor and do what the rest of us do when we're running for office as a Democrat. Lie about how we really feel about things. Pretend that we're not as insane and left wing and woke and dangerous and anti-American as we actually are. If you're going to be a Democrat and you're going to win at the state level, you've got to learn to lie. So a week later, here's Francesca Hong. Same question. lying go ahead it is thanksgiving because they have it yep i don't want to cancel it i actually love it there you go there you go my favorite holiday is thanksgiving And she smiled when she said it. It's got to be true. But it goes beyond that. She doesn't like fireworks. So goodbye 4th of July. She doesn't like Christmas. She complained on a Zoom call that somebody in the background had a Christmas tree. And she said, I feel attacked. She hates Valentine's Day because of how horrible it is for the restaurant industry. By the way, you want a restaurant, you hate Valentine's Day? No wonder you want it to business. That's like the biggest day of the year, if you know what you're doing. Uh, more of Francesca Hong. Let's go to cut six, shall we? We are finally having this conversation about, you know, how our industry really did come from it and kind of is rooted in white supremacy, that tipping in itself, if we look at the history of tipping and how racist it is and how it has kept wages low. Tipping is racist and tipping in the restaurant industry has its roots in white supremacy. You can't make it up. It's fine. And then she goes on to talk about the statistics, how black servers get under tipped. I'll just throw this out there. The study you might want to do is on the racial makeup of the person doing the tipping. I'm just saying. I've known a lot of people who work in the restaurant industry. For my entire life, I've known them. I love them. And they do see a consistent trend when it comes to the racial makeup of the person doing the tipping. And it's possible that then that translates to a predominant number of African-American waiters and waitresses who work in certain communities that cater to a certain racial demographic group.

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Good morning. I love the Navy analogy by talking about anchors. Great. That's right. You bet. Anchors away, my friend. I got a lot of questions. Let's focus on Anthony Fauci, though. What exactly did the Senate committee do yesterday with regard to referring a, is it an actual criminal charge to the Justice Department for contempt of Congress? And how serious is that? Yeah. So they held him in criminal contempt on a committee party line vote. What's supposed to happen under the statute is then that report is supposed to go to the president of the Senate. And as a constitutional scholar, you know that is the vice president of the United States. That person is supposed to certify that and then send it over to the appropriate U.S. attorney, who here is Dene Piro, who then makes an independent decision about whether or not to present that to the grand jury and prosecute. So there's a bunch of steps along the way. What happened yesterday is, Rand Paul just sent the contempt citation referral directly over to DOJ and the U.S. attorney. So we'll see what happens next. So he had a pardon for 10 years of activities between 2014 and inauguration day 2025. He got that pardon from Joe Biden. And then the committee calls him into answer questions about that time. And he exercised his Fifth Amendment right in the Constitution to not testify lest it might incriminate him. How can you hold somebody in contempt of Congress from merely exercising their constitutional right? Well, I think as Josh Holly put very succinctly yesterday, he essentially had testimonial and transactional immunity for anything that happened during that time. So he had no Fifth Amendment right because he'd already been prepartened for anything he happened then. Furthermore, the Supreme Court has been very clear, as Holly put out, put forward and anyone who's on criminal law knows that. You know, if you're asked a question like, what colors your tie, what is the day today, what's your name, and you claim the fifth, there's no reasonable likelihood that you're going to be prosecuted for that. So this was an abuse of and blanket invocation of his Fifth Amendment right. And if the committee was going to drill down into what happened during those bookend time periods where the immunity, where the pardon was covered, there was no way he was going to get prosecuted. Now, I think most criminal defense attorneys would have told Anthony Fauci take the fifth and we'll roll the dice and see what happened next. So I'm not surprised how it played out. And if I'm Anthony Fauci, and let's say I do recognize either you believe, as Anthony Fauci has stated, that there is a witch hunt out to get him and they're going to do whatever they can to throw the book at him either way. Or he truly does think that, you know, he has a guilty conscious because he knows the crimes were committed. He knows that there are states. Like the Attorney General of Florida, it was public yesterday. saying that he's looking at criminal charges or at least a civil investigation that could lead to criminal charges in the state of Florida. So that federal pardon from the president doesn't protect him.

Correct. The federal pardon covers federal potential prosecution. It doesn't cover potential state prosecution. So won't that be his argument when they try to charge him for contempt of Congress saying, guys, listen, if I had testified, regardless of my pardon, I could have still been open to criminal charges in Florida. You cannot compel me to deliver testimony that can be used against me, no matter the jurisdiction. Well, yeah, that will be an argument that Dave Schertler, who's an outstanding criminal defense attorney, will make. Of course, if you tell the truth, then you're not going to be prosecuted for telling the truth. There's also an interesting statute also, Larry. It's two USC 163, and Congress passed a law that said basically that when you're compelled to testify in front of Congress, you can't hide behind the fact that if you testify, it's embarrassing to you. And so I think there's a lot of people. Oh, sorry, Colley. Go ahead. No doubt that the things he said in his diary were directly opposite of the things he said to the public. And people would have gone into that. And that would have been embarrassing for him and tarnished his so-called legacy. Yeah. I agree. And I think the Rosetta Stone here is the diary. Then he voluntarily put information in there that absolutely contradicted the things he was saying in the public. And these are things that he was saying in public that had a huge impact on people's lives. our country. About the phone, do we have details about this phone because he had a couple of different jobs. He worked for NIH through the HHS, but then for a while he was a White House advisor. Under Joe Biden, he was only working for the White House, I think. White House phones are different than phones that the government gives you when you work in those other departments. What do you say, if you were a prosecutor, which you have been, what would you be looking for on these phones? Well, under the pardon, it says he had four different jobs during that relevant time period. So assuming that the phone that they have in custody is a government-issued phone. It doesn't matter it was a White House phone, NIH phone. As long as it's a government phone, it's a government phone. I think that's relatively irrelevant, though, for purposes of what I'd be interested in. I'd want to just know... all the time hacks for the things he emailed, the things he texted, the things he, if he had encrypted apps on there. And I'd match that up to his personal statements, to his statements under oath and committees, to things he said in his diary, and try to draw a timeline to see whether that adds any additional information that potentially could fall outside, outside the four corners of the pardoned bookends. That's what I'd be looking for. I get, is it true? I've heard some people say that a White House phone does not have a texting feature. So any text would actually be on some of those other issued phones. I guess that's where the difference lies. But, but it is about timing. And even if you just had a call log and that sort of thing, you could time out a lot of the things that he was saying publicly versus stuff he was saying in his diary and who he was talking to in the media. Right, right. And you would look at the metadata, and you would see who called whom, who he called out to, who called into him, the length of those calls. It just is more breadcrumbs. It's more breadcrumbs in a larger mosaic of facts that allow you to follow things through. Remember, the pardon did not cover anything he would have said or did.

outside the front and back bookend of that pardon time frame. So he is still potentially liable for crimes federally if the activity fell outside that time frame. Cully Stimson is our guest. And I'd like to draw your attention to the final part of this conversation about Anthony Fauci, Cully, back to your book, your great book, rogue prosecutors, how radical soros lawyers are destroying America's communities. Because during Anthony Fauci's term during the Trump administration and during the pandemic, one of the key decisions that was made based on his and the CDC's recommendation was the six foot social distancing rule. This affected everything. It affected businesses. It affected schools. It affected our election. It also affected prisons. When county jails and when state prisons were told by the federal government that they had to have a mandatory six foot distancing rule. These Soros prosecutors that you write about in your book, the rogue prosecutors, they used that to empty our prisons, didn't they? I mean, they didn't even hesitate. Well, they were certainly in favor of it because, of course, they're part of the prison abolitionist movement, but the DAs don't run the prisons. And so I'm sure they were in cahoots or in communications with or sympathetic to. the state prisons or local jails who they'd work with the governors and the other controlling interests right yeah there's no doubt about it because it was just doing their dirty work for them uh so they were more than happy to see it happen and we know from studies after that happened that the people that were so-called released for compassionate reasons uh a large percentage of those people went on to commit further crimes including felonies and murders yeah And, of course, after the fact, Anthony Fauci under oath, said that he wasn't sure where that arbitrary random six-foot number came from. And that's probably one of the most infuriating aspects of it. They totally just made it up. Coley, and in our final minute here, you're seeing a lot of politicians from Abdul El-Sayed to Francesca Hong to others all seem to come from the same political perspective, saying things like, you know, oh, well, we don't want to abolish the police, but we want to reform the police, and we want to close prisons down. And you've got to be getting a lot of little dog whistle language with all of these things they're saying. This is exactly what you've written about. Right. The first chapter of our book is the origins, playbook, and belief of the prison abolitionist movement, of the rogue prosecutor movement, which grows out of the prison abolitionist movement, which comes out of the SDS in this whole Marxist movement. And so they are just singing from the same hymnal, period. I'd love to have a society where we don't need prisons, but not just arbitrarily shutting them down. It's about people acting morally and ethically and not breaking the law. All right, Culling. That's like a Star Trek futureverse. We'll deal with it next time. Have a great weekend, Culley Stimson. Always good to talk to you. It's O'Cotter & Company. Keep it here.

All right, it's time to talk about the election. Let's go. You know, it's all about politics in this town. And we just hop from one election to another. Yeah, we just have the primary in Tennessee yesterday. Marsha Blackburn. Andy Ogles did not retain the nomination for his district. Well, here's what happened. I was like, why do people hate Andy Ogles in his district? No, no, no, no. That's not the situation. Situation is, as you know, Tennessee redistricted. They drew their congressional lines, and Andy Ogles' congressional district is different. He's running in a new district now, or at least a newly formed district. And he came up short. Andy Ogles, big support of the president, right-wing conservative Republican. He used to have him on the program a lot. Maybe that's the problem. He didn't come on this show enough. That's the problem. Everything else seemed to fall in line there in Tennessee as expected. So now it's time to talk about, well, the upcoming election that everyone wants to talk about. No, no, no, no, not the midterms. The 2028 presidential election. In fact, we started talking about it the day after the 2024 presidential election. That's all anybody ever focuses on in this town. And do you know why, by the way? Do you know why? Because I lament this all the time. I wish we spent, you know, 5%. In this country, if we spent 5% of the time we use focusing on the next presidential election and focused on school board elections, I do believe our country would be about 1,000% improved. If we put that kind of energy and that kind of focus into what the people who are running our schools and affecting our children are doing, who they are, where they came from, what their background is, what they believe, what they intend to do when they get in the school board. Just 5% of the time that we spend on presidential elections. What happens in your house? More important than what happens in the White House. That's the world we're living in. Why do we spend so much time on the presidential elections? I will tell you. because it's good for ratings. It's your fault. It's what you care about. I like to say on the show, we do do a balance. We probably talk about school board elections more than any other radio program in this country. And we will continue to do so. That said, there is some interesting shuffling behind the scenes going on with regard to 2028. I think part of the reason why the 2008 presidential election is... fascinating and people are interested is because on the Republican side, you've got your sort of presumptive nominee, JD Vance, by definition, by being the vice president and being the torchbear and being young and being, by the way, in charge of the RNC's fundraising. process right now. So he's out canvassing the country, raising money for congressmen and congressional candidates, raising money for senators and sending candidates and governors. That puts him out there where the election will take place, meeting all of the people who will be doing the endorsements, meeting all the people who are raising money. JD Vance, if he wants it, is perfectly poised to be the nominee to succeed Donald Trump. But then you've got Marco Rubio. And there's a lot of people who like Marco Rubio. In fact, based on a lot of the polls, if you believe polls, which, by the way, coming out of Michigan, I don't know why we would ever do a whole segment just talking about political polls anymore. But again, I guess that's good for ratings too. Harry Enton would be out of a job at CNN. The polls suggest that Marco Rubio is actually more popular within the Republican Party than JD Vance's.

There are a lot of people who don't know enough about JD Vance or even distrust JD fans. And, well, they want to go through a process for the primary to hold the candidate accountable for his positions. And by the way, there's nothing wrong with that. And I bet JD Vance would say the same thing. So what is really happening? Oh, and by the way, throw into the mix the fact that Donald Trump has made many public statements that suggest that he thinks Marco Rubio is phenomenal. He thinks Marco Rubio is the best Secretary of State we've ever had. He thinks Marco Rubio. And he's even said, he like goes up to the podium. All right, who here in the crowd wants JD Vance. Okay, who wants Marker? I mean, he's like playing around like in some sort of, you know, he's the kingmaker. And he. recognizes and I think he thinks that competition makes people better. Well, I think all of that is just kind of noise and a distraction. I think that it's obvious and it's sort of baked in the cake that if JD Vance wants to run for president, he will be the nominee. And Marco Rubio will support him 100%. I think that's the reality of the situation. And the Washington Post now, not that I believe them on a regular basis, has an article that sort of affirms the same thing. This isn't about trusting the Washington Post. This is about wondering why did this story get leaked in the first place. Trump privately tells donors to back JD Vance while publicly keeping 2028 open. Trump privately told donors at a high dollar fundraiser, the Vice President JD Vance should be the Republican nominee in 2028. It's probably the most, it's the biggest affirmation of JD Vance as his successor that we've ever seen. And again, the real story is that the fact that this leaked, who leaked it, and why it leaked. Yeah, it's JD Vance's if he wants it. That said, he just had his fourth child. He might not want it. All right, back to the school board. You know life moves fast and staying sharp, focused, and clear-headed, isn't always easy. And that's why the same company that brings your relief factor has developed something new. It's... Think Factor. Think Factor is made to help you think clearer and perform better daily. It's a powerful blend of nutrients that unlock mental clarity and precision. Nurture your memory and boost your attention. With Think Factor, brain power and performance finally meet for lasting daily results. Supercharge your memory and mental sharpness. Your brain is your most valuable asset, powering your creativity, focus, and daily performance. If you're feeling mentally foggy or not recalling things as quickly as you used to, think factor could give you what you need to redeem. that cognitive edge. I want you to take Think Factor so you can be on top of it. Call 800, the number four, relief, or go to ReliefFactor.com. You know, your first bottle of ThinkFactor, just 1995. Go to ReliefFactor.com. Think Factor, think clearer, perform better daily.

It's the Relief Actor Studios here on WMAL, our flagship in Washington, D.C. Heard coast to coast now on a gunner company America's morning show. Thanks for tuning in here. Coming up in our next hour, Congressman Andy Harris, he leads the Freedom Caucus in the House. He's a very effective Republican congressman for the state of Maryland, the last remaining Republican congressman and his state legislature at the behest of their governor. has just redistricted, or they're in the process of redistricting now. They just passed a provision for the Constitution. It'll go to a referendum to get Andy Harris out of his job because one Republican congressman is too many for the state of Maryland. And we'll get into that coming up in just 30 minutes. Also, a very sad story about a 75-year-old man whose wife has been abducted by ICE and deported. It's awful. Terrible. Oh, a couple of things, though. She was not in the country legally, and she's 30 years younger, 30 years younger from Venezuela. I have a lot of questions about this. We'll get into it coming up in the next hour. It's joining us right now. Joel Barry, Joel Barry, former managing editor of Babylon B, his book, Postmodern Pilgrim's Progress. And Joel, we know you now as sort of the tipping point of what has been referred to as... burrito gate what have you got to say for yourself what if you we blame you for all of this Joel I'm yes I know I'm sorry I'm sorry what kicked this off was I posted in in response to someone who is complaining how expensive food wasn't and they said that you know burritos shouldn't be twenty dollars And I responded by basically posting what I had eaten with my family last night. You just so happened to have a burrito night the night before. We had just so happened to have burritos. And, you know, we're not rich people. We're, you know, middle class people. We were frugal. You know, most of my life I spent doing the Dave Ramsey program aggressively paying off debt, eating beans and rice, you know, doing what you have to do to get by. And so we shop at Aldi, we scrimp and save. And I explained how, you know, if you shop and you cook at home, you can make burritos for a family of eight for $20 or less. And that kicked off more outrage than I've ever seen on anything that I've ever posted. Yes, it is funny. The next day you came before, I'm going to read what you said. He said, I've said some wild things on this app that drew an insane amount of rage, but none as much as what I tell 20-somethings to try cooking at home instead of ordering a gourmet burrito delivered by Uber Eats. But there's a reason for that. You touched on something. You touched on something that is very real. And also, by the way, Joel, and I don't know if you've reached this conclusion or not, but my conclusion here is,

Both sides are right and both sides are wrong. You are objectively correct that if you put some thought into it, some effort into it, you can feed yourself, you can feed your family, and it certainly doesn't have to cost the level of a $20 burrito. But there is huge economic anxiety for people in their 20s right now who believe because of the economy right now in decisions that are out of their hands, because the government has made those decisions, they'll never be able to get married, start of family, and buy a home. But both sides have a point, don't they? Absolutely. Yeah, two things can be true at once. There is an affordability crisis. Now, you know, you can point to the charts that say that wages have outpaced inflation over the last 10 years, but pointing to a chart isn't going to make anybody feel better. You know, they're saying, well, it doesn't feel right for me. You know, I'm struggling here. I'm doing everything that I can. You know, there are government policies that have put this into place. There are government policies that need to be debated and changed, and we can talk about government spending. We can talk about the national debt we can talk about regulations all these things that can be done to to bring down the cost of housing bring down the cost of food but kind of what i tend to focus on You know, when I'm speaking in my rhetoric is, what can you do? You know, because I think people don't realize how much agency they have. There are things that are outside of your control, and if you focus on those things, it will make you crazy. Because little old me, you know, I can complain about the national debt on Twitter, but that's not going to change anything. You know, what can change things is me looking at my life and seeing how I can. how I can adjust, how I can use my personal agency to overcome the obstacles in my way. And perspective is good, too. I always say this, that, you know, if you can afford a, you know, a box of Kraft mac and cheese, and you put some salt and pepper on that thing, you sit down on a couch in an air-conditioned room, you can watch TV, you're living better than the pharaohs of ancient Egypt. I mean, you're living better than 99.9% of people who've ever walked the earth. And thankfulness just makes you happier. You know, we're complaining people, that's human nature. You think about the Israelites, you know, wandering through the wilderness. God gave them free food. It fell from heaven. It was free. They had to pay nothing for it. Water poured forth from Iraq, you know, in the desert, and they still complained. That's right. That's just what we do. It's what we do, and we have forever. But you're absolutely right. And listen, I'm a little bit older than you, but I can tell you that if your plan is to complain about the government and wait for the government to solve this problem for you, it ain't going to work out for you. So you're right. You need to look at the circumstances as you're living in and then figure out the best way forward for yourself. And there is definitely a way forward. I also found it noteworth, and I like Andrew Colvin. He tipped this off. He's... Charlie Kirk's, and by the way, Charlie talked about this a lot in the last year or so of his life because he was hearing it a lot too. Andrew said, one of our TPUSA college students gave me this take on affordability. A burrito shouldn't cost $20. That's what started this all. There's two things that are instructive there. Number one, the kid was in college making that statement.

I see from your bio, you're a Marine Corps veteran. Right there is a choice that was made that either you go into debt and get a college degree that doesn't guarantee you a job afterwards or maybe there's another path forward. Also, by the way, I have no doubt that that kid in college who complains about his $20 burrito also has a thousand or maybe $1,500 supercomputer in his pocket. It's true. Well, you know, everything is relative. And we have to remember a lot of these young people who are coming up now, they're in college, what do we do in the most formative years of their life? We lock them in their houses during COVID. and we put them in front of screens. And what do they do? How do they eat? They ate ordering DoorDash. Like, I think for a lot of these young kids, it's like, that's just how you eat is you order it in, you know? Yeah. And so there's so much, I think there's a lot of financial illiteracy. There's a lot of kids who have been failed in the sense they just haven't been taught how to live. You know, they haven't been taught how to, you know, my wife and I, we struggled for. For 10, 15 years, young kids, sometimes I remember weeks when we had to sell things in our house to afford groceries that week. You know, life is really, really hard. And that's not to be insensitive to people who are struggling. But I really do want to encourage young people that, yes, you know, life is tough. It's going to throw a lot of things at you. You can do this. You can overcome. You know, here are a few things that you can do. You know, and that's not to discount all the things, all the ways that they've been done wrong, you know? Yeah. Just because you have been victimized that a lot of things may be true, you may be a victim, you don't have to live like a victim. Amen. And listen, I've been teaching this to my kids and other young people who I get to mentor gratefully through the U.S. Naval Academy in the Annapolis area. You buy chicken thighs, so the cheapest cut you can get on the bone, because it tastes better, by the way, on the bone, and it's cheaper. You get right, super cheap and healthier for you. Get broccoli, and don't get the pre-cut broccoli. Cut it yourself because you've got to have something to do while the rice is cooking anyway. And there you've just done a, and then get some soy sauce. And you've just done a little Asian chicken rice bowl for the entire week. And it costs you less than 20 bucks. But they do need to learn that, Joel. And they need to have mentors in their lives. And maybe that's where my generation has, has fallen down along with the government policies. This is a political show. You're in the political universe as well. what do smart politicians need to learn from this entire process and what should they be communicating? Because that guy in Michigan, that Abdul El-Sayed, he says, money out of politics, money in your pocket, Medicare for all, and everybody thinks he's a genius.

What should we be doing here? Well, I would recommend, you know, if you're a politician, don't do what I did. You know, it's never good to go out and say, hey, it's not as bad as you think. Suck it up, you know, pull out yourself up by your bootstraps. You need to, you need, your job is to put forth solutions. That's what you do as a politician. And to say you feel their pain, even if you roll your eyes afterwards. Absolutely. Sympathize with them. You know, the leftist solution will always be, you know, we're going to raise the minimum wage to $1,000. We're going to create a U.S. Department of Burrito and give everyone a free burrito voucher. And, you know, by the way, that's how you end up with a $300 burrito. You know, that's how economics works. You know, and the conservative solutions are always a little more harsh. You know, they... they come across as a little more heartless because it's like, okay, well, here's why things are so expensive, and then you have to explain inflation. You have to explain what we're spending on entitlements and the waste and fraud and abuse. And, you know, what happens? We know as older conservatives, what happens when you do that? Democrats make commercials of you tossing grandma off a cliff, you know? Yeah. And so there's always going to be a, our message is going to be harder. Um, harder to swallow, harder to teach. Um, we have a much more uphill battle than the left does in addressing this problem. But we have to, we, we can't make excuses. We have to overcome just like, you know, I would tell a young Gen Z guy, learn how to cook, I would tell politicians, you know, sympathize, say I feel your pain. Um, and, and teach, you have to teach the public and you have to lead them and explain to them why all these things are going on. Can I say, though, Joel, listen, you're a media type, as am I, and maybe we're on to something here, because it's more than just saying to a Gen Z guy learn how to cook, although that is critically important, and it really does, because it's not just about the money, it's also a cultural thing. It actually puts a man in the kitchen. It puts a man in the home. It demonstrates to women and to future children that a man does this sort of thing. And a man provides for a family in something so basic and essential as the food on the plate. But beyond that, Joel, if I may, if I'm talking to a Gen Z guy and I want to explain to him how important this is, I'll just say it. Chicks dig a guy who can cook. Yeah, that's, you know, that, in doing that, you're also addressing, hopefully you're addressing the dating problem that Gen Z's happening right now. Exactly. Go to a cooking class. Take a cooking class. You're going to be surrounded by women. And I promise you, you're going to, even if you're mid, you're going to be like an eight or a nine in their eyes. Absolutely. Absolutely. And again, you can still push forth government solutions to this. or small government solutions to this. And explain to people, yes, okay, to a certain extent, this was done to you. It was unjust. And you know who did it? It was the left. And explain, over the last 60 years, this is what the left has done to our economy. The same people who say they have a solution are the ones who created the problem in the first place. Joel, we only have like less than the minute left. Let's be real now because I understand how ex monetization works based on the...

explosion of that viral post about $20 burritos. How many burritos can you buy next month for your family? Oh, it's going to be great. You know, I think we might even be able to afford to put guacamole on this time. Good luck with that. I love talking with you, Joel. Well done. I've followed you your career and your trajectory for quite some time. Very impressive. Tell Jeremy Boring, who you're working with now. We said hi. He's a good friend as well, and take care. Thank you. Thank you. Listen, I would tell you about relief factor. You know, supplements are important for healthy living, especially when you reach a certain age. And relief factor, it handles two really important things in my book. It goes after the inflammation that causes, you know, severe pain if you're suffering from really, really bad chronic stuff, like my sciatica that I had with my lower back pain. My muscles were constricting. They were inflamed. I was in spasm hitting that sciatic nerve. It was a nightmare. Relief factor, boom. Fabulous. But also, just those everyday aches and pains that start to grow as you get older. See, Relief Factor goes after the source of the pain. Joni shared with us that before Relief Factor, her husband couldn't open his hands in the morning, and he had to give up playing guitar. Now he wakes up with flexibility, and he's back to playing music. See, the whole point of Relief Factor is you get back to the things you love. The three-week quick start of Relief Factor is just $17.76. Why not give it a try? Go to relieffactor.com or call 8004 relief, the number four relief or relieffactor.com. I would totally start that cooking show. I'm talking about doing a cooking show forever. Let's do a cooking show. It's geared toward teen young men in their teens and early 20s. And of course, while we're cooking, because there's a lot of downtime when you're cooking, by the way. And while you're cooking, you just talk about everything in life. And I'm telling you, I just, you guys, I am a moderate, if not, I am a very average looking dude. Okay, for those of you who are only listening on radio, I promise you, I'm no looker. I've been blessed with a gorgeous wife. And before you even jump to that conclusion, no, she knew me well before I had any kind of career in the media or what have you. Can I just tell you something?

I've chosen two professions in my life, before talk radio, two professions or two paths that made me seem like Tom Selleck to the women in my lives. Number one, I cook. And if you're dating a woman and you say, hey, you know what? Let's not go out to a restaurant. I'd love to cook for you. Dude, I'm telling you, listen to me. These are pearls I'm giving you. That's number one. And also the other great choice that I made was that I loved Broadway theater and specifically Broadway musicals. And it turned out, I didn't realize this, it wasn't calculated, but good choice on my part. I was at a theater or involved in a production of a show, a Broadway musical, and I was basically one of the only three straight men in the room. You got to go where the odds are in your favor, gentlemen. That's all I'm telling you. Straight guy who loves musical theater who cooks. It's the secret to my success. Also, by the way, Joel Bari Weiss was just talking about you get the macaroni and cheese. and you spice it up a little with salt and pepper and you watch some cable TV in an air-condition room and you are living a life better than 98% of the people on this planet. And I feel seen. Can I tell you when I was struggling, when I had to really scrimp and save, when I was making $200 a week, that was my first salary that I made when I worked in New York in theater, I would get the craft, macaroni and cheese. You can get them in an eight-pack. for like two dollars for an eight pack they were all like in a big saran wrap package there right and i would but instead of salt and pepper on the craft mac and cheese you do the quarter cup butter quarter cup milk so you just get the little the little like um what do you call it quarter gallon is that a pint no it's more than a pint it was quart you get a quart of milk that'll last year for the week for just mac and cheese and then you get your sticks of butter cheapest butter you can get And if you need to buy four to get the better discount, you buy them because butter lasts forever in your refrigerator. But then instead of salt on paper, here's the trick. Garlic powder. You sprinkle a little garlic powder on that Kraft mac and cheese, and you're eating like you're in a freaking gourmet restaurant. And when I really wanted to splurge, I would get English muffins. toast the English muffin, not the Thomas's English muffin, though that's too bougie. I didn't have the money for the Thomas's English muffin. You get the cheapest Kroger, you know, name brand English muffin. They don't have the same nooks and crannies, but it's fine. You toast it enough. It'll feel like you got the nukes and grannies. You toast your English muffin, and then you spoon your garlic powder, craft macaroni and cheese onto the English muffin. And the English muffin becomes your macaroni and cheese delivery system. So it gets a little crunch to the proceedings. Oh, yeah. By the way, if I die of heart failure at some point soon, you will know why. I'm telling you the origin story of my clogged arteries. It all happened when I was 19 living in Brooklyn with my craft macaroni and cheese, $200 a week's salary with a $650 a month rent. Do the math.

My craft macaroni and cheese, garlic powder, English muffin, feast. And that was dinner every night at the end of working two jobs in Manhattan and writing the F train to the A train to get home. That's what I ate. And I'm fine. And I was fine. And did I love it? Well, kind of. Was it easy? No. Would I have preferred to have steak every night? Yes, or even a $20 burrito. But in a way, it made me who I am. And I know if you're listening to this right now, you have a story just like that. Why are we robbing our children from being able to tell a story like this someday? My dad loved me, but he wasn't paying my rent. He wasn't buying me, you know, Michelin-Star restaurant meals. He loved me because he knew that he was helping me get to the point where I would have a story like this to tell you. So why are we stealing our children's dignity from them? Why are we removing from them the opportunity to actually struggle and grow? And be better. What is, what is it about our psychology that makes us, you know what it is? I'll tell you, I'm answering my own question as we talk. It's our ego. It's our narcissism. We want to be able to say to our kids, to our wives, to our colleagues and our friends, my children, if they need, if they're struggling, I'm going to help them out. Because I've been able to succeed. Because I've won it life. So because I've won it life, I'm going to prove it and make myself feel better and feed my own narcissism and my own ego by writing a blank check for my kids so they don't have to struggle the way I did. And in return, what you're actually doing is robbing your child from that important wisdom and character building that you enjoyed. Yeah. That's the $20 barrito. Rolling into our three of O'Connor and Company this morning from your nation's capital on our flagship station, WMA, 105.9 FM, making sense of the news and all across the country on so many radio stations of the Salem Radio Network and our extended affiliates, we welcome you to this 807 mark on the East Coast. Thanks for joining us a lot to get to, but I want to go right to... Representative Andy Harris. He is Republican congressman from Maryland, although the governor and the Democrats there are even trying to, they're even trying to alter the Constitution, apparently illegally, to try to get you out of a job, Andy Harris. You are a dangerous, dangerous man being the only Republican holding any kind of political office in Maryland. Yeah, look, there's no question about it. They're pulling out all the stops. They basically went as far as to say that you shouldn't consider the Declaration of Rights in the Maryland Constitution when you're drawing a map with regards to protecting free speech. It's unbelievable. And they're the ones that have the no-king's rallies while they're taking away everybody's constitutional rights.

Yeah. The oversight project, which is a offshoot of Heritage Foundation, they've been very affecting, gotten a lot of things done. They helped get the Joe Biden audio tapes with his ghostwriter out there and sued for that. They are now suing to block this move. Apparently, there's some sort of violation of the procedures here in getting this referendum going. Sounds a lot like Virginia. Yeah, yeah, that's another thing they're doing. So they passed the law in the regular General Assembly session this spring that said, oh, by the way, you have to have your constitutional amendments by July 1st for consideration so that people have enough time to consider it. And then in this... And then in doing this, what they did this week, they said, well, never mind that. Notwithstanding that, you know, we're going to push this ahead anyway. So I'm not sure that, you know, they have the ability to do that. I think it's going to be challenged in court. I think the idea, again, of taking away someone's declaration of freedom of right to free speech to push this through is just an abomination. That's that Congressman Harris, I know you have to work with Democrats. You're a Republican from Maryland. Yeah, you have to talk to them. You have to work together sometimes. Off the record, they've got to say to you how stupid they think this is, right? Because like it or not. Maryland does a lot of work with the federal government. And when Republicans control the House and the Senate and the White House, a state like Maryland benefits by having the one guy you, a guy like you who's able to work with those people because that benefits Maryland. That's absolutely right. That's why this is all done for Wes Moore's presidential aspirations on the national stage. This is not good for Maryland. It's obviously good for his campaign for president, but it's not good for Maryland, and he's not putting Maryland first as a governor should. Do they tell you off the record? How do they respond to you when you say, guys, this is just, you know, you're shooting yourself on the foot here because you've got to have a good relationship with both parties if you're Maryland? Oh, absolutely. I've had Democrats come to me from other states who realize the importance of having a member of the majority and minority part, depending on who's in the White House, but of having a member in the other party. I can't tell you how many times a week. I get a request from the delegation to sign on to something supporting a project in someone else's district. Yeah. The reason why they have me sign on to it is because they know that without my signature, it goes to the bottom of the pile. So this is, again, this is, you know, just a foolish thing to do. The governor rammed it through. He even had a phony signing ceremony this week because the law says he doesn't sign these. Yeah, this is a referendum to the Constitution. The governor has no legal basis to sign. There's nothing to sign. What did he sign a postcard from Annapolis?

I don't know, but there they were the three of them, just beaming, grinning ear to ear, having taken away the constitutional rights of Marylanders. Amazing. It's very, very strange. Congressman Andy Harris is our guest, and I've got two more lines of questioning for you here. One, drawing on your experience as an MD as a medical doctor, not like, you know, Abdul El-Sayed, who calls himself a doctor and actually never got the license as a medical doctor. When you see this Anthony Fauci story rollout, it's really all the actions been in the Senate with your fellow Dr. Rand Paul over there coordinating the questioning and he taking the fifth. What sticks out to you as a doctor who tried to navigate and manage the COVID pandemic like the rest of us, but also as a lawmaker? What do you want to know more about or have you already reached your conclusions about Anthony Fauci? Well, look, it's become perfectly clear that he knew that, or he strongly suspected this came out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. He knew that NIH's funds were going to that institute, and he denied it at first. And again, you know, that's the problem. Just be truthful about it. At this point, really, he should just be truthful and say, yeah, you know, I shouldn't have misled the American public because the American public occasionally are pretty forgiving if somebody... admits that they were wrong. But no, he doesn't want to admit he's wrong. He still has a fawning following that still, even to this day, just thinks that he was, you know, the gift to the COVID pandemic. And, you know, the history will bear out otherwise. Yeah. But, I mean, I know that you have great respect and reverence for the idea of having unbiased scientific evaluations coming from our public health institutions. Can we quantify the type of damage done to those institutions because of what we learned about Anthony Fauci? Because the next time something comes along and someone like Anthony Fauci recommends to a governor that they should do drastic measures like we just lived through, the people are not going to believe it. We're not going to buy it. We're not going to trust it. Oh, that's absolutely true. Look, that's why you have vaccine hesitancy now because we were told by Anthony Fauci that if you get vaccinated, you're not going to get COVID. Well, people got vaccinated and, well, people got COVID. So now when you tell them, well, you know, you need to be vaccinated against to fill in the blank so that you don't get it. People like, wait a minute, that's what they told me about COVID. And that didn't work out so well. So, you know, that's the problem when you are unscientific. And the most unscientific thing you can do is declare that something is policy. and with no questioning. It was not without the ability to say, well, you know, geez, there's hydroxychloroquine or, you know, Ivermectin. They make a difference. Let's study it in a very rigorous way. No, they end up studying it in a way that I could have told you was going to show it had no effect because it only had an effect if you gave it pretty close to the infection. And they were sending.

In the study, they were sending the pills by mail to the people in the study. So, you know, it's just you designed to study. By definition, it was going to get there a week later after you contracted the virus. That's absolutely right. So, again, that's not science. You know, that's, again, the blend of public policy and science shouldn't really occur at the NIH. The NIH should be purely scientific. And what it turned into was it turned into a policy institute. Our guest is Andy Harris. He is a congressman, Republican from Maryland. You're also the chair of the Freedom Caucus in the House. And as we ramp up to these midterm elections less than 90 days away, most experts suggest that this majority is going to be one or lost in the House in about maybe 16, maybe 20 districts across the country. And regardless of the candidates, how important is it for Republicans now to point out the fact that Democrats are aligning themselves with some of the most radical members of the Democrat Socialists of America? Even if your Congressman is a Democrat doesn't buy into all of that garbage, they're caucusing with them, Congressman Harris. And if it's a small majority, these guys are going to have a powerful voice. No, that's absolutely right. And, you know, again, the problem is not, the problem is that they're not speaking out against the person like El-Sayed, who is violently anti-Semitic. You have to speak out against them. You can't just go into the corner and say, well, gee, I hope they don't do our party a whole lot of harm. You have to say, no, you know what, we can't elect someone like that to the U.S. Senate who has those kind of policies and feelings. You have to be vocal, and that's what the American people are not going to stand for. They're not going to stand for Democratic candidates around the country, not being vocal about these democratic socialists, and that's a misnomer because they're basically communists. What Zohran Mamdani is doing in New York is communism, not socialism. The bottom line is that they have to speak out against it, and they will be punished at the polls if they don't. What's your focus right now between now and Election Day? Obviously, you're campaigning in your district. You want to make sure that your very strong constituent services continue to help the people of Maryland One. Are you also going to be campaigning across the country for some of your colleagues or maybe some new candidates who are on the scene? I know, you know, I might do a little bit of that, but I'm staying in Maryland fighting against this redistricting fiasco, because I do believe a majority of Marylanders do not believe in hyperpartisan gerrymandering, and they do not believe in suspending the Declaration of Rights for a political purpose, as the General Assembly just did. I got to tell you, Congressman, I've been here going on 15 years now, and it seems like every two years, Democrats throw everything they can at you. They find the new flavor of the month, and they end up throwing a lot of money because they keep thinking that they're going to defeat you. And it's now reached the point where they literally have to change the Constitution of the state to get rid of you. I mean, in a way, you should be flattered.

Look, as I say, look, they know they couldn't defeat me at the ballot box. So what they're going to do, they're going to defeat me in the Maryland General Assembly. And that's not the way democracy should work. A democracy should work where you listen to the people. And you don't try to rig elections by altering the Maryland Constitution. Congressman Andy Harris, have a good sprint of the finish line here for Election Day. No doubt we will touch base between now and then. Thank you, sir. Thank you. If your mainstream corporate-owned legacy media is dying to move public opinion against President Trump and against ICE and against the enforcement of our immigration laws, if you're in the country illegally and you stayed in the country illegally, you're breaking our law and you are... Well, you're subject to deportation. And if you are stupid enough to fly back and forth at an airport and check in with your ID and announce to law enforcement who's all over the airport that you're in the country illegally and here you are come and get me, well, you're going to be detained and you're going to be deported. So CBS News is all over the place scouring the nation to find the perfect story to illustrate how horrible it is to enforce our laws. And this is the best they could come up with, the story of John Gannon, 75 years old, whose fiancé were told, did just that, was detained at the airport and is now facing deportation. Let's take a listen to John Gannon's story because we have many questions about this. I voted for Trump. I am saying that they are picking up law-inbiting citizens. They're destroying families, jobs. John Gannon is a 75-year-old businessman and lifelong Republican who supported President Trump in 2024. I wouldn't do that again, not after this fiasco. His fiancé, 45-year-old Venezuelan immigrant Yasmin Suarez Regis, was detained by ICE at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. late July. Eight ice agents swarmed Jasmine. and detained her, didn't tell us why, and rustled her off into a car. All right, pause there for a second. I have many questions. Now, let's start with the fact. And for those of you who are not, who are listening on radio, you've got to see the, you can check out the video stream because they flash a picture. He calls her Jasmine. The name I just learned from CBS News is Yasmin Suarez. Yasmin. It's with a why. But for some reason, he says Jasmine. He is 75 years old. He's from Texas. He's a businessman. Lifelong Republicans. They got to get the lifelong Republicans. The lifelong Republicans who voted for Trump but now hate him because of his policies. See, that's the hook they need. That's the storyline. So here's my question. 75 years old, Texas businessman, lifelong Republican. He calls his wife Jasmine. Her name is Yasmin. She's from Venezuela.

They showed a picture of the two of them. I had to pause the screen. I had to look up the story. She looks 20. Okay? She looks. He's 75 years old. It turns out, she's keeping herself very looking lovely. She's 45. Okay. She's 30 years younger than him. Now, I'm the last person. to lecture somebody about marrying a woman a little bit younger than you. Meredith is a little younger than me. Not 30 years. And I didn't get engaged to her when I was in my 70s. Okay? I was in my 40s. Anyway. Anyway, they're engaged. She's from Venezuela. Are you doing the math here? 75-year-old man, engaged with Venezuelan National, 30 years his junior. All right, let's keep the story going now. Listen to some clues.

What wonder your mind? Well, I was just in total disbelief. According to her immigration lawyer, Suarez Reyes came to the U.S. legally in 2023 and later applied for asylum, a case that is still ongoing. But her underlying permission to be in the U.S. has lapsed. Some people may say, this is what? Right there, right there. So she's in the country illegally. So in other words, she's in the country illegally. She came in 23. Who was president in 23? Anybody? Anybody? Anybody? Thank you. She comes to the country in 23, along with all the gang members who came in. Her temporary legal status has lapsed. She has stayed in the country illegally. So she's like, oh my gosh, what am I going to do? She finds herself some 75-year-old dude. Makes him feel good about himself, as it were. and gets a ring on the finger. And I'm sorry, can you roll this go? I'm sorry, Paul, to do this, do you start at the very beginning. How did this story begin? What did Mr. Gannon, 75-year-old Texan lifelong Republicans say at the very beginning of the story? Go ahead. Roll it. I voted for Trump. I am saying that they are picking up law-inbiting citizens. They're destroying family. She's not a citizen. not a citizen. Law-abiding citizens of Venezuela. Law-abiding. And she's not law-abiding. She broke the... Oh, can I just tell you, ICE did this guy a favor? Can I just tell you his adult children who love their father and are poised to inherit whatever this Texas businessman is sitting there in his will? They are the biggest I supporters you are ever going to see at this very moment. I have so many questions. I want you to get relief from the pain that you are feeling. And the way I've done it is with Relief Factor. I love Relief Factor. I want to tell you about the customers who also love it as much as I do like Mark. Now, Mark was in tears from his daily hand joint discomfort. Brought him to tears. But after a week on Relief Factor, he felt 50% better. Now he barely notices that pain. And he loves the customer's service. I had inflammation that created muscle spasms that compressed my sciatic nerve. If you've had sciatica before, that pain shooting down my right leg all the way to my toes, it was crippling. Now I'm training for the Marine Corps marathon this fall. Relief Factor. Why don't you try the three-week quick start? It's just $17.76. Go to Relieffactor.com or call 800 for relief. Relieffactor.com. Hey, I want to hear from you. I haven't talked to you today. Why are you talking to me? All right, I give you something to talk about. I don't like those radio shows that do open lines. It's always nerve-wracking. Although yesterday, we had a very specific topic, and we had our friend Woody in Louisiana talk about. What was it? Fried Chow Chow in Cornbread? That was a keeper. So even if I have a specific topic for you in a question. We're going to get Woody in Louisiana to come in and just drop a bomb in the middle of the conversation. That said, I do have a question for you. And I mean this in all sincerity. Can the Democrats nominate a Jew as their candidate for president? It's that simple. 855-784-4255. Do you see the Democrats nominating a person who practices the Jewish faith faithfully?

Not a gino. Someone who takes their faith seriously, practices their Jewish faith, and is a supporter of Israel's right to exist. 8557-844-4-2-5, and defend herself. And... reaffirms our commitment to keeping our allies safe in the Middle East when called upon 855784255. I ask because you look at the breakdown of candidates right now for the nomination and a lot of them are Jewish. Rahm Emanuel, Josh Shapiro, Jon Ossoff, Bernie Sanders, I suppose, but he is a gino. He doesn't count. J.B. Pritzker. My friend and colleague Mark Halperin, with whom I do the morning meeting show every day, we stream from 9 to 10 in the morning Eastern across all streaming platforms. That's a very good, serious political conversation that we have every day. He does a monthly list. He calls 8 for 28, where he ranks the eight candidates he thinks that have the best shot of being the Democrats nominee. And this latest list, he put Josh Shapiro as the top. Josh Shapiro is number one. I'm sorry. But the same party that nominates Abdul El-Sayed and celebrates Hasan Piker and has positioned Zohran Mamdani as quite possibly the most influential. elected official in their party, the same party who is in the process of excising John Fetterman from their ranks and will challenge him when he runs in a primary in Pennsylvania for the sole reason that he supports the state of Israel and allowing her to defend herself, that party will not nominate Josh Shapiro. I don't see it. Unless you think it's a possibility. I don't see it. And the fact that we even have to ask this question, and for some people it's kind of a toss-up. You ask political pundits in Washington, D.C., the smart guys, the conventional wisdom, the people who make a living, making predictions and giving their opinion about politics, and most of them are liberal Democrats. You ask them that same question. Can the Democrat Party, 2026, through the caucus and primary process, can they nominate a Jewish candidate? And they will not immediately say to you what should be said, which is what a ridiculous question. Of course, that's outrageous that you would even need to ask the question. They will not respond that way. My friends, they will not. Their response is, well, you know, it depends. I mean, how Jewish are they? Josh Shapiro might have a problem. That sounds pretty Jewish. Asaf might be able to get away with it. Also, I mean, there's Jewish and there's Jewish. I mean, I have no problem with a Jew being a Jew. It's that whole Zionist thing. That whole idea that we have a country that has a Jewish identity. That, oh, I'm not anti-Jewish. I'm anti-Zionist, they'll say. And by they, I mean, people within the power structure of the Democratic Party right now, the fact that that is a thing.

tells you exactly where we are. I'll give you Exhibit A here. Don't just take my word for it, although my word is pretty damn good. Look what happened yesterday on CNN. Mallory McMorrow. Now, Mallory McMarro was the third wheel in that Democrat primary in Michigan. She ended up dropping out. She's the one. She's like the crazy wild-eyed, white suburban, affluent young woman. She's a ginger, too, which really increases the crazy look. And she was, you know, going for that vote. She was not getting traction. But one of the reasons why it used to be like a three-way race, and all three of them were polling around 30%. And then she started to plummet in Michigan. Why? Because she criticized Abdul El-Sayed and the rabid supporters that he brought to the convention because they were openly and outwardly anti-Semitic, not anti-Zionist, not anti-BB, anti-Semitic. She's married to a Jewish man, Mallory McMorrow is. So the Attorney General nominee for Michigan, who is Jewish, who attended that convention, and now they're going to be having a nominating convention later this month, she has said that she will not go to that gathering because she fears for her safety. This is the Democrat nominee for Attorney General in Michigan. She fears for her safety and will not go to the convention. because of the rising tide of Jew hatred in the Democrat ranks in Michigan. So here's what happened on CNN yesterday when Mallory McMorrow was asked about this. Take a listen. Cut 10, please. This is cut 10. So one of Michigan's top leaders, your attorney general, Dana Nessel, she's a Democrat. She also is Jewish. I feel like my presence isn't going to be welcome, she said. I don't want to get chased around. I don't want to get harassed. I don't want to get yelled and screamed at. I don't want to get booed off the stage, irrespective of what I'm saying. And I believe that if I go, that's what will happen, because it's been happening to me. This is her talking about the convention. And, you know, I saw a clip where she said, She doesn't feel like it's because people care that she's a woman or care that she's gay, but they care that she's Jewish. Are Jews not longer welcome in the Democratic Party in Michigan? We have seen rising anti-Semitism. And I even said at our last convention, my husband, who is Jewish, I mean, an interfaith marriage, an anti-Semitic slur was screamed in his face when he was with my five-year-old daughter. We have some healing to do here. I was astounded to see that. And good for her, by the way, Mallory McMorrow, for being honest.

Because it could have been, this, by the way, comes on the heels of her endorsing Abdul El-Sayed. It could have been really easy for her to say, oh, that's overblown. Of course not. There are people within the party who have criticisms of the policies of Benjamin Netanyahu and whether we should be funding the war effort that's leading to a genocide and all the garbage that they throw out there. But she didn't. She said, oh, yeah, we got a problem. We've got a real problem. And that's just in Michigan in the Democratic Party. So I ask you, can a faithful Jew who supports Israel's right to exist, can they be nominated by this Democrat Party, 2026? 855-784-4255. As far as I'm concerned, the fact that we have to ask the question legitimately and debate this and wonder and contemplate it is a disaster for the United States of America. And frankly, one of the greatest shames of a once proud, inclusive political party. The Democrats. Let's not forget Harry Truman, the Democrat president in the late 40s, was the first world leader to acknowledge the state of Israel as a legitimate country. And here they are. This is not your grandfather's. This is not your father's Democratic Party. This is not Bill Clinton's Democratic Party. Let's start with Michael in Atlanta. Michael, thanks for joining us. What do you think? I know it's a provocative question, but it's legit at this point. Well, it is, Larry, and thanks for taking my call. But when you look at the polling right now, the top four people of the Democratic side, even though it's early, is Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Alexander Cortez, and Pete Buttigieg. And in my opinion, all four of those have basically no chance of winning because they don't have any records, okay, to runoff. Now, You know, Kamala Harris was a terrible vice president. Gavin was a terrible governor, and Pete Buttigieg was terrible as... I was going to say, Michael, if I can jump in, they have records. They're just awful. What you mean is they don't have any achievements to run on. So now, the wild car is Cortez, right? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Now, as we saw in Michigan, El-Sayed was up by major double digits. Okay? Now, Haley Stevens only lost by one point. She was pro-Israel. which basically means that in the coming up in November, if the Republicans can hold the House and we can beat these radical anti-Israel candidates.

I think then basically Cortez will be thrown out of the mix as well, which means the next tier of candidates come in, which would be basically a Josh Shapiro and a Jon Ossoff. But here I'm from Atlanta, and I can tell you that Jon Ossoff has not done anything for the state of Georgia, and he's running again to keep his Senate seat against Mike Collins. If Jon Ossoff loses in November... How the head could he run and basically for president in 2028? Oh, no, no. Yeah. If he doesn't win re-election, Michael, he's done. No, but the idea is he wins re-election, and now he's this liberal Democrat from a regular red, southern Republican state, and he's the new flavor of the month. He's a shining light for the party. That's the narrative that's being drawn right now. However, with no record, again, I mean, if you go to any Georgian, you'll say, what is Jon Ossoff done in six years, and they'll say nothing. So that leaves Josh Shapiro. We got to leave it. Oh, yeah, Lee's Josh Shapiro. All right. Quickly on Josh Shapiro because we got a lot of other calls. Go ahead. Yeah, one thing I just wanted to touch base about the Venezuelan woman. All right. I was glad he brought that up because I was reading the article last night in CBS News. And I had to send an email to the reporter. It is a total, in my opinion, a total sham. Because what this woman was trying to do, she was on a waiver, a visa waiver from Spain. Even though she's from Venezuela. She's coming from Spain. Now, if she's coming from Spain, she can't really apply for asylum because we don't have a problem with Spain. So she basically, she could go back under the program. She'd go back and forth through Spain and the U.S. for up to two years. She overstayed, but they're trying to claim that she claimed asylum. under the Biden administration, but the Biden administration should have never processed the asylum claim. That's right. It was a false asylum claim. If she wants to claim asylum, she should claim it in Spain. She's from Venezuela. She should have been claiming it in Venezuela to come to the, you know, when she gets to the U.S. Right. She can claim it in Venezuela to come to the U.S. or since she left Venezuela to go to Spain, she can claim it in Spain. But not the way she did. No, I know, Michael. It has mail order bride written over it. I'll be honest with you. If I'm the adult son of that guy, I am thrilled that ICE took care of this before we had a family feud over the will and over the assets. Michael and Atlanta, thank you. All right. Oh, we got Phil and Frederick. We're Jison and Kensington, Maryland. Danny in the district. And you are next. 855-7-844-2-55. I'm sorry for asking such a provocative question, but the Democrats made me do it. Can that party nominated Jew?

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What do you think? 8557-844-2-55. How about Phil and Fredericksburg? You're next up. Hey, Phil. What do you think? Hey, look, I just want to say, absolutely not. They will not nominate a Jew. They will not support a Jew. They're running Jews out of Congress. They're running Jews out of every place they can run them out of. They are teaching our kids in colleges to hate Jews. I mean, it's just crazy. I can't believe that they voted in Zohran Mamdani. And the litmus test about Zohran Mamdani is what happened with the lawyer board, where there's a huge Jewish presence in New York law, and they made sure that they didn't have any of them on that board. I'm just telling you, if the Jews keep voting these leftist communist and fundamentalist Muslim Democrats into office, we are actually going to be seeing hundreds, if not thousands of Jewish people getting killed on the streets of America. It's getting that bad. This feels a lot like 1935 in Germany, and you know what I'm aiming at. This is crazy. Fredericksburg has spoken. Phil and Fredericksburg, Virginia. Thank you, sir. A passionate topic, and I appreciate that more than you'll believe. Danny, right here in the District of Columbia, Danny and D.C., what do you think? Hey, good morning, Larry. Good morning, Larry. I'm going to have to parrot the last caller. No, they can't. But the rhetorical question here is, with the way that the Jewish people are being treated by the party that they support, why haven't they packed up their tent and left it? And the same thing with the African-American people. The Democrat Party was the party of Jim Crow and slavery, but yet most black people I know are Democrat. I just don't understand that logic. Neither do I, Danny. There are some righteous Jewish people in my life, friends of mine who do vote Republican and who are conservatives, and they are fighting the good fight, and they're trying to have that conversation. I think – my short answer to your question, Danny, even if it was rhetorical, is that for a long time, the Republican Party was identified as the Evangelical Christian Party in America. And Jewish Americans have a built-in suspicion about that. They worry about that. And they bought all of the garbage that was fed to them that we were looking to institute some sort of Christian theocracy in this country. And while they weren't looking... Well, they've got people who would be just fine with a Muslim theocracy. Danny, thanks for the call. Jison in Kensington, Maryland, by way of Australia. Jison, what do you say? Go ahead, mate. Yeah, they call them Fairweather Jews. I mean, they like to run with the hounds and the foxes, depending on their cause. I mean, if you're a Jewish Democrat, why the hell would you vote this party? I mean, these are, I mean, any way to keep your party strong.

is to vote against what you know what your policies you don't like otherwise you just got to pretty much elect any of Tom Dick or Harry. I mean, these bloody politicians, they're all bloody grubs. They're just sitting there waiting to hear public opinion. I mean, Chuck Schumer was on his soapbox for years, talk about anti-Semitism, and then not a peep out of him, even during October that October 7th, no word from him. I mean, talking about anti-Semitism. I mean, not a word from these guys, yet they're on their soapboxes proclaiming to the bloody hills that, you know, anti-Semitism won't be tolerated. Jason! They just waved off the fact that a guy had a Nazi tattoo on his chest. And they waved that way. Oh, well, you know, he was in the Marines. That's not important. That's not a thing. It wasn't until there were credible allegations of sexual harassment that they finally decided, yeah, maybe that's too much. Jason and Kensington, thank you, sir. Always great to hear from you. I appreciate you calling. It does me. It does not warm my heart to know that this is the reality for the Democrats right now. I don't like them. I don't agree with them. I do not align with them politically, but on some things we should be able to get on the same page with. And this is the reality right now. And I can only say to Jewish Americans, you've got a home, a welcoming home with the Republicans. You know, life moves fast and staying sharp focused and clear-headed isn't always easy, and that's why the same company that brings your relief factor has developed something new. It's called Think Factor. Think Factor is made to help you think clearer and perform better daily. It's a powerful blend of nutrients that unlock mental clarity and precision, nurture your memory and boost your attention. With Think Factor, brain power and performance finally meet for lasting daily results. Supercharge your memory and mental sharpness, your brain. your most valuable asset, you want it powering your creativity, focus, and daily performance. If you're feeling mentally foggy, that in it, you got to recall things better, and you need Think Factor to help you do it. Here's the deal with Think Factor. Your first bottle is just $19.95. Play that out over the course of a month, right? It's worth a try. It works for me. Relieffactor.com, 800 for Relieffactor.com for ThinkFactor. Life can be messy, but you don't have to figure it out alone. Hey, it's the Lusco. Join pastors and bestselling authors Levi and Jenny Lusco on Hey, it's the Lusco's for honest conversations about faith, marriage, family, grief, ministry, and all the unexpected moments in between. You'll laugh, you'll be encouraged, and you'll be reminded that God is faithful through every season. It will always come back to Jesus in the end. That's right. Dune into Hey, it's the Lusco's with Levi and Jenny Lusco. Available now wherever you get. podcasts.