The Joyce Kaufman Show 7/31/26 - Spain/ Morocco mass border crossing, Maine's Troy Jackson scandal, Gavin Newsome releases four years of tax returns, Tit-for-tat attacks with Iran

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And that would be wonderful. Unfortunately, he doesn't have the support of his own Congress, his own party. It's very disturbing. What's even more disturbing is this ridiculous announcement today that, oh, you know, Hamas has agreed to disarm. Hamas will agree to anything. They won't do it. They'll verbally agree. Yesterday, Cairo had a weekend deadline on a roadmap that was built around one sentence. And last night, the deadline produced this document. to which President Trump said, oh, it's a historic agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza. Does anybody believe that besides Donald Trump? It was mediated by Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey to be executed in carefully structured phases. Whenever I hear that, I know nothing is going to happen. With Israeli withdrawal tracking disarmament. And Hamas told the AP, oh yeah, yeah, we're going to begin disarming. Article 6 in this roadmap enshrines the exact formula of how this is going to happen. Gaza shall be governed according to the principle of one authority, one law, one weapon. Now the small print, and there's a lot of it. a 14-day window to build the implementation timetable. Why is there always this window? Because nothing ever happens within the window. The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza as the sole eventual holder of weapons. Oh, so there will be weapons in Gaza. with an international verification committee certifying each phase. Heavy weapons, production sites, depots, tunnels, inventoried and stored with no weapons transferred or handed to Israel or non-Palestinian parties. So what does disarmament mean if they're not giving their weapons up? They're just going to police the weapons? Oh, this is... This is pathetic. The annex that the BBC has seen requires Israeli forces to pull back to the yellow line within 24 hours of the Israeli government approving the plan. And the conditions? Hamas says laying down its heavy weapons is contingent on the creation of a Palestinian state. It's negotiator Ghazi Hamid states the operating rule. If Israel does not implement the agreement, neither will we. So why is anybody crowing today? None of this is going to happen. So I'm not even going to, I'm not going to deal with it. You know, it's hardly a done deal, which is of course the way it was presented.

I just, you know, I grieve for the men and women who are serving here in our military, the IDF, when they hear these things, it's like a kick in the stomach. But there have been a lot of those. Just hate getting used to them. The new, well, a year, he's been in the position a year, Adam O'Neill was the top editor of the Washington Post's opinion section. He resigned today. Just over a year since Jeff Bezos hired him to reorient the section towards a more libertarian bent. He said, well, this was not an easy decision, I am leaving proud of how far the opinion section has come and optimistic that its best days lie ahead. That's what he wrote in a note to his colleagues. He didn't say why he was leaving in the note. Jeff Donofrio, the publisher and chief executive of the Post, wrote in a separate note that Mr. O'Neill had made the call to step down. I want to thank him for his leadership and hard work in reimagining the section. Another shockwave to the news organization that's gone through some pretty drastic changes in the past few years. In 2023 and 2025, it offered buyouts that shrank the news staff by more than 200 journalists, and in February they laid off in excess of 300 journalists, hollowing out sports, local, and international teams. Back in February of 2025, Jeff Bezos issued a directive to focus the opinion section on two pillars, personal liberties and free markets. He wrote that the section would cover other topics too, of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. The opinions editor at the time, David Shipley, resigned over the mandate. And then Mr. O'Neill took over a couple of months later. And under his direction, the paper's editorial positions often encourage lower taxes and less government regulation. In his note to the staff, Mr. Donofrio wrote, this past year, under the leadership of Adam O'Neill, post opinions has become more balanced in perspective, more financially sustainable, and more accessible to readers than ever before. Well, let me tell you why it's more financially. sustainable because what business wants to advertise in a newspaper that constantly denigrates the free market and this was just a common sense it's what I said about talk radio why did conservative talk radio flourish and liberal talk radio die on the vine. Well, because what business wants to advertise on a station where the hosts are constantly a demeaning capitalism and basically endorsing socialism and communism? No business person would do that, and that's why they couldn't be sustained. And so Jeff Bezos made a very good business decision.

But, you know, the news staff didn't like it and didn't really go for it. Just, and it's opinions. This is an opinions page. It's not like it was even the news gatherers. I don't know that there are any. There are no investigative journalists at the Washington Post or the New York Times. None whatsoever. They got bounced out years ago. Exactly. That's why you now see. You know, those who left and started the free press as editors of major news companies. Bari Weiss being one. It's just more insanity. It's another day more insanity. That's all I can say. I'm going to take a quick break, but when I come back, I want to talk about the amazing new millionaires or folks. who are now making million dollars, who are telling you that capitalism doesn't work and you should give more of your money to the government. I'll be talking about Gavin Newsom. Anyway, don't forget to download that 850 WFTL app. You can put it on your cell phone, laptop, anywhere you want it. Can listen to podcasts and over the weekend get all the breaking news that you want as well as participate in our contest. Quick break. Stay right where you are. So the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, released four years of federal tax returns this week. And his aides said this was driven in part by a federal investigation into the finances of his wife, Jennifer Siebel Gavin Newsom. In 2024, the most recent year released, the couple reported a taxable income of about $1.39 million, which included more than a million dollars from investments. Gee, capitalism's working for the Gavin Newsom's. Mr. Gavin Newsom had taxable wages of about $192,000 from his salary as governor, and his wife's wages were about $148,000. It was the first time that they released returns since he ran for re-election in 2022. And by the way, when he was first elected governor, he promised to release his tax returns annually, but he didn't do that. His office said it was releasing the documents now to counter right-wing claims that the Newsombs had enriched themselves during his time as governor. You know, tax returns often do not indicate how much a person's wealth has grown through investments in business holdings. You know, but many asset classes grew between 21 and 24, yet the Gavin Newsom's income remained roughly the same. They got a whole bunch of money in blind trust, and only the income from those investments was reflected in the tax returns.

It shows that, you know, they make tons of money from investments in the wine and hospitality industry, which have been held in the blind trust since he became governor. He's supposed to file every year. So if he plans on running for the presidency, he's going to have to start releasing these every year. Now, Mr. Gavin Newsom and all those California Democrats, remember how they criticized President Trump for withholding his tax returns? Presidential candidates are not required to release their tax filings, but most of them had done so. Well, after the Watergate scandal, anyway. Mr. Gavin Newsom signed a bill in 2019 that would have required presidential candidates to release five years' worth of tax returns to appear on the ballot in California. But of course, that law was struck down by the state Supreme Court. candidates for governor in the state must still provide their tax forms. In June, Mr. Gavin Newsom said the Justice Department was investigating him and his wife and described it as a politically motivated probe on the part of the Trump administration. Well, really, nobody knows what the investigation is about. Mr. Gavin Newsom's aides have said that it's focused in part on his wife. and that agents had interviewed people connected to her nonprofit groups. I love how nonprofit groups make so much money. The governor's office said in a statement to reporters reviewing the tax documents that the returns reflect consistent financials over the four-year period and that they contradicted the false right-wing claims. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They also had to pay additional taxes for domestic staff members and babysitters. They paid nearly $200,000 in wages for household employees in 2024. Can you imagine? This is a guy who just published a book this year, his memoir, A Young Man in a Hurry. He earned $70,000 as an author in 2023 and an additional $75,000 in 2024. It's not clear if that money was in advance for the memoir, was related to the children's book. He published back in 2021 about a boy with dyslexia, which, by the way, he has had his whole life. This is going to be an awful presidential election. That's all I can say.

Another check on the box of Democrats doing things they always project onto Republicans. Maine Democrats are a special breed, or rather inbreed. It does happen in small towns. I don't think it's going to gain many votes. It's just bizarre to me. I don't know. Maybe it's me. But didn't we used to expect that like the people who ran for these high offices would be statesmen? I remember a time like that. Apparently, remembering is about all you can do. You're not going to be able to duplicate it. It's no longer, you know, what we can anticipate. It's just sad. I don't care what anybody says. I think a lot of the stuff that we are talking about these days are things that we used to quietly talk about and question. Not anymore. Everything is a go. Then I saw this whole article, this was weird. There was a thing posted on X when JD Vance and his wife, Usha JD Vance, had the fourth kid that was born on July 19th. They announced the birth of their son whom they named Alec Neal JD Vance. So they have Ewan, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Mirabelle, and now they have Alec Neal. And given the baby name trends of recent years, the choice of Alec Neal raised eyebrows among... And given the baby name trends of recent years, the choice of Alec Neal raised eyebrows among experts in this area. So the Huff Post asked a few of the experts to share what they make of the pick and what it reveals about the political family's approach to naming. Alec was certainly a surprise. The editor-in-chief of Nameberry told Huff Post, I hadn't heard it chosen for a baby in a long time. Indeed, the name Alec peaked in popularity in 1995 at 112 on the Social Security Administration's annual list of top baby names in the U.S. At the moment, Alec is a dad name. Many of the Alex out there today are in their late 20s and early 30s, starting to have children of their own. Alec has fallen far from its peak. Why would anybody even think about this? Baby name consultant Taylor Humphrey. I didn't know there was such a thing as a baby name consultant. But this one called Alec a good solid name, but added that it doesn't feel particularly optimized for an upcoming presidential run. Having worked with high-profile families whose baby name choices are open to public scrutiny, Humphrey believes these decisions offer politicians a chance.

to build rapport with constituents. Baby names reveal parents deepest held values. So public figures can and do use their baby names to communicate their values to the wider public. It's one way politicians and business magnates can build trust with their constituents and shareholders. That is so bizarre. I don't even know where to begin. I don't know, but this is like a five-page article about the name that the vice president and his wife selected for their fourth child. Some people have way too much time on their hands, really. All right, let me take a quick break. Please stay right where you are. I'm wondering if anybody in my audience knows why flags. have been ordered to fly at half staff in Arizona, Colorado, and New York this weekend. Let's see just how smart you are. I'll be right back. So I just found out that there's these Chinese brand cars sitting at Canadian ports waiting to be unloaded. My son, Derek, is in Canada. He'll be heading back to the States, I believe, tonight. And the first dealerships of B.Y.D. Gilly and Sherry are set to open this fall in Vancouver and in Toronto and in Montreal with more to follow by the end of the year. And not one of those cars can legally be sold in the United States. Think about that gap. Vehicles landing at America's doorstep that cannot be sold across the border is the center of a quiet contest now unfolding on the northern frontier. We walled out Chinese cars. We have 100% tariff. And a national security rule that bars China-owned automakers from the U.S. market, even if they build their cars on American soil. But Canada has moved the other way. They agreed to let in a rising number of Chinese electric vehicles, and they have a tariff of only 6.1%. So they broke ranks with us. Former senior Canadian official and several auto industry analysts told the Epic Times that Canada's move matters to Americans for three main reason. It hands Beijing a foothold on the continent. It threatens U.S. factory jobs, even if no Chinese car is ever sold south of the border. And it puts Chinese-made computers on wheels, on roads that are just a short drive from the United States. With none of the safeguards, Washington, as imposed, to prevent surveillance of Americans. I mean, does anybody really think that people in Canada aren't going to get into their cars and drive across the border? Just on a vacation. But, see, China plays the long game. And they're just getting their foot in the door. And then they'll force their foot in a little bit farther with every one of these demands.

And we're all pretending, well, it's not a problem for us. It will be. Look, the objective is for North America to be, or for Canada, to be for North America what Brazil became for South America, the entry point. That's what the objective is. And there was a lot of economic pressure from Beijing. which had hit Canada with punishing tariffs before Ottawa dropped its 100% EV duty. It was the third time that China has bent Canadian policy their way. On paper, Canada is a strange place to stake so much. But like I said, the Chinese are very, very patient. They don't think in months or years. They think in decades and centuries, must like the Muslims. And we don't think that way. Now, a U.S. Commerce Department regulation that's been in effect since January of 2025 bans vehicles containing Chinese-made connectivity software. beginning with the 2027 model year, and Chinese-made connectivity hardware, beginning with the 2030 model year. It bars automakers being owned or controlled by China from selling internet-connected cars in the United States at all, even if those cars are assembled on American soil, starting in 2027. And when it was announced, that rule was announced by then Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. She said, modern cars aren't just steel on wheels, they're computers. And the rule already has teeth. But, you know, I asked if anybody in my audience, and hopefully you didn't all Google it, because that's cheating. New Y, three states, Colorado. Arizona and New York will be flying flags at half-mast. Well, we'll begin with New York. Governor Hogle ordered flags on all state government buildings to fly at half staff from sunrise to sunset on July 31st today in honor of Staff Sergeant Angel S. Ramperset, who died on July 17th during the attack in Jim Jordan. She was a lifelong resident of Ozone Park in Queens. served with the 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, I announced her name last week, part of the 52nd Air Defense Artillery Brigade based in Germany. She graduated from Forest Hills High School, earned a criminal justice degree from John Jay College, and then started building a military career, and she was posthumously promoted to staff sergeant. So probably the nicest and best thing Kathy Hochul has ever done. Colorado Governor Jared Polis ordered flags lowered on today to honor Nathan Matthews, a U.S. Wildland Fire Service firefighter who died from injuries suffered while responding to the Knowles Fire in Mesa County.

He was injured during a June 27th burnover event that killed three other firefighters, Emily Baker, Barker rather, Nick Hutcherson, and Sidney Watson. The Knowles Fire merged into what became known as the Snyder Fire, and while he survived the initial incident, he did die from his injuries on July 24th. And finally, in Arizona, Governor Katie Hobbs ordered flags at state buildings lowered from sunrise to sunset tomorrow on August 1st for the burial service of former Arizona Senate President Carl Kunasek, who died on July 20th at age 94. He spent decades in public service, serving in both chambers of the Arizona legislature on the Arizona Corporation Commission and as a federal appointee. So, you know, I bring that up because I'm always slamming those governors, Jared Polis and Kathy Hochul. So if they do something honorable, Katie Hobbs, I should at least give them credit. And that's why I did it. And I wonder if anybody out there, you know, knew that. Maybe some people in New York or former New Yorkers would have known that because, of course, Once a New Yorker, always a New Yorker, right? They still tell me, you know, they follow the New York news more than they follow the news of the states where they currently live. I talk about Zohran Mamdani all the time. I loathe him. And if you hear my thought of the day, he has literally put together a judiciary committee in New York City without one single Jew on it. Like he couldn't find a Jewish lawyer? Of course he could. But he doesn't want any Jewish lawyers on this advisory committee. Think about this. One out of every two people who passed the bar in New York are Jewish. And there's not going to be one on this commission. I'm really... I have to question the insanity that took over New York Jews who voted for this guy. And there were plenty of them. And if you listen to my thought of the day, it's a letter written by a New York lawyer who said that, you know, what will suffer as a result of this is not the Jews. It's New York. Because I remember there was an episode. On All in the Family, can you imagine trying to run a show like All in the Family today? It couldn't get past the half-woke, you know, crew that judges these things. But I remember that Archie Bunker went to meet with a lawyer of some kind and turned out the lawyer was not Jewish. And Archie said, I'm not hiring a lawyer that's not Jewish. I want to win. So it's not, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense that the mayor couldn't find one Jewish person. I think there's 18 or 20 some people on this commission. Couldn't find, couldn't find a Jewish lawyer. How about a Jewish judge? He turned down a Jewish judge for this judiciary committee. So just in case you don't think that Zohran Mamdani's an anti-Semite.

Let me tell you, he's an anti-stamine. Okay, stop trying to, stop trying to make it okay. It's not okay. What's happening in New York is not okay. It's happening across the country, too. The amount of hate crimes, there were two hate crimes in the last week in New York City of a large scale, you know, shooting, a stabbing rather in front of a synagogue. A bunch of Jewish students attacked yesterday. Come on. Anybody who pretends that anti-Semitism isn't on the rise in this country is not paying any attention. And that's sad. Because when you ignore things of this magnitude, it creates opportunity for greater... And I don't mean greater in a positive way, things to happen.

So great piece by Alex Berenson today in unreported truth. He said, how it starts. Suppose you're a public health epidemiologist in a big city. You make a professor's salary so your house isn't that nice, but you have the joy of doing God's work. Not that you believe in God. Religion is the opiate, blah, blah, blah. It's the tale of a well-meaning public health academic who thinks all the right... things, in other words, thinks everything the left thinks, and who has fallen in love with the fame he finds from his doomsaying predictions about COVID. It ends. The hospitals are empty, but the economic devastation from the lockdown you helped cause the unemployment, it's real. You're a public health epidemiologist in a big city. What do you do now? I thought of this thread after seeing a reader comment in response to the piece about Anthony Fauci's failures as a scientist. There's a thing that many humans have, the desire to be famous. Say you're a long time aged bureaucrat. You've had some success. You've had a long career that you know is coming to an end. You're semi-famous among your colleagues because you've spoken at some events and you've been quoted in some articles. Pretty neat, but you'll never be high profile. Taylor Swift famous. And that's okay because no one like you is ever that famous. Then the Wuhan lab has an oopsie. Most people don't deal well with unknowns. Honestly, most people are terrible decision makers. They don't want to be wrong. In a time where things were uncertain, people looked for an expert to make them feel safe. So in you lean and throw us into a spiral I'm not sure we will ever fully recover from, because choosing society's well-being over the possibility that one person might get sick was ghoulish. And man, being a hero is addicting. to be on TV. I bet you George Clooney knows Anthony Fauci's name. He, hey, hey, look, the mayor of New York City is offering free fries in exchange for a Anthony Fauci, Ouchie. They named that shot after you. How cute. And now here we are. Half of America thinks you're a savior, and the other half of us just wants to forget you were ever in charge of anything. I appreciate that Rand Paul wants to have the good doctor to answer things, but I just wanted to disappear. No one's going to be held accountable. Yeah. See, that's the truth. And I saw my friend Sid Rosenberg had a piece on Instagram, I think, where he was talking about nobody's going to jail. Couchy's not going to jail. Nobody's going to jail. Hillary Clinton didn't go to jail. Nobody ever goes to jail. James Comey's not going to jail. Clapper's not going to jail. Except if you're close to Donald Trump, then you can go to jail. They let you go to jail if you're, you know, in with Donald Trump. Matt and Ford. Think of all the people that got to go to jail just because they knew Trump.

Unbelievable. Coming up after me is the one and only Guy Benson, followed by Will Kane. Then it's Joe Pags, Lars Larson, and the overnight guys, and then we're officially in the weekend. And it couldn't come fast enough for me. Monday morning at 6 a.m., Jennifer Ross and Stephen Deiner will be back with the South Florida Morning Show, followed at 9 by Brian Kilmeade, noon, Eric Erickson, and me again at 3. But... I still have a segment left in this show and Derek's not joining me. So please stay right where you are. So I'm sure you all got to see the footage of the 50 to 60,000 migrants that entered a small Spanish territory that's alongside of Morocco on yesterday and today, according to Spanish authorities. Although at least 48,000 had returned to Morocco by today, by this afternoon, the mass crossing prompted an immediate backlash. Now listen to how this is written. I'm reading from the New York Times. The mass crossing prompted an immediate backlash from far-right politicians in Europe that seemed poised to linger. So, in other words, if you looked at the scene that I saw on TV last night, the chaos in Ceuta, which is the little area in Spain, if you saw it the way I saw it on a news network, on social media, I don't think you thought, well, gee, from my far right perspective, this is no good. No, no, I think you thought, this is absolutely insane. You got a group of migrants rushing the border. Now, to the credit of the Spanish police officers and soldiers that started trotting towards them, a lot of them turned and ran back to Morocco. The Spanish police office were punching them in the back and saying to Morocco. Other migrants, especially the youngest, tried to evade the police running up a hill or down towards the beach. Now, it looked a lot calmer when I checked the social media before I came on the air today. But a seemingly endless river of people keeps heading towards the border. pushed along by Spanish police officers and soldiers. The migrants who are returning to Morocco are hungry, many say, and have given up on staying here. A lot of thirst, said Adam Ham's age 19. The miners around him were begging for food. Others are determined to stay in Sueta. But even they say it will be difficult to last another day without food. I want to stay in Spain and work, said Florence, Odile Basse, 33, a Sengalese woman on a bench in front of the sea. She had gauze wrapped around her left knee, which she had injured while sneaking into Spain, and she was draped in a red cross blanket. The last time I ate was yesterday in Casablanca before leaving, she said. So what caused this?

tens of thousands of migrants on Thursday, crossing into Spanish territory. How did this happen? Some people say, oh, they came seeking work. They left with their stomachs growling. That's what the open-minded left wants you to think. They swam across the channel. They jumped over a border wall, mostly men, mostly Moroccan. And their underlying motives are familiar. But what prompted them to pour into Suaita over a two-day period is still not quite clear beyond the encouragement of a crowd. Because there's no work in Morocco. Europe did this to itself. And you're going to see scenes like this. If a Democrat takes the White House, In the next election, you're going to see these scenes along our southern border again. We had them and we'll have them again. You know, now President Emmanuel Macron of France and say, oh, we have to strengthen controls at the border. You can't make this stuff up. I thank you for your time this time until next time I've got a plan and that plan is to be back here tomorrow I'm not tomorrow Monday at 3 p.m. If it be his will and he delays his coming what lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us so wherever you are be yourself everybody else is taken God bless you God bless Israel to heck with this deal, by the way. And God bless the USA. See on Monday. This has been the Joyce Kaufman podcast. Available everywhere you get your podcasts.