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Colorado is abundant in natural gas, and from a regulatory standpoint, which that comes down from the governor's office, and from a legislative standpoint, there is this war on natural gas, well, oil and coal here in Colorado. And we need to understand that ultimately what that does, it raises prices, and ultimately it'll make it more scarce as well. So that's why we need to shed light on all that is happening regarding our energy sector. And do thank Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. We do search for truth and clarity on these issues by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Socialism is not about free stuff. The free stuff is just the carrot to get people to vote for socialism. And ultimately, socialism has to come down to force. and it's never compassionate to take other people's stuff, whether or not it's their rights, their property, their freedom, livelihoods, opportunities, or lives via force. Force can obviously be a weapon, but policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, The World Economic Forum's agenda that rolls into the globalist elites agenda, the United Nations agenda. And you see this then being played out, the Colorado state legislature, the Colorado governor, many local and county governments here in Colorado as well. the World Health Organization, which we're not a member of, yay, but also land use codes, zoning regulations, force fees, conservation easements, national monument designations, et cetera. The list has been going on and on. We're gonna start to see that list roll back. At this particular point in time, we can pull off the World Health Organization for us in America because Donald Trump has pulled us out of that. So that's pretty amazing. Check out the website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. And the show comes to you Monday through Friday, 6 to 8 a.m. live. And then the first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon, second hour 10 to 11 at night. And that is on all KLZ 560 platforms. KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app. And then you can find the shows at my website and just click on the image and it'll bring up the written summary as well as the podcast. And then podcasts can be heard on Spotify and iTunes. So we are everywhere. So let's see, let's get into it. First thing, I'll get to the word of the day, our quote of the day, but then there's all kinds of headlines to talk about. The word of the day is profundity. It's P-R-O-F-U-N-D-I-T-Y. And it's the quality of showing a clear and deep understanding of serious manners matters or number two, it could be a remark or thought that shows or is intended to show great understanding. So profundity, I would say that President Donald Trump and what he is pushing through his administration is. He has a tremendous profundity of the seriousness of the issues that America is facing right now. And day one, he has started to work to get all that turned around. Our quote of the day, I went to Martin Luther King Jr. because Inauguration Day was on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, We were certainly focused on the inauguration of Donald Trump, and I did not pull a Martin Luther King Jr. quote yesterday, so I thought I'd do it today. And he was born in 1929. He died in 1968. And I think many of you know his father, they changed their name. They added – they changed it to – Martin Luther. I think they added in Luther. So Martin Luther King Jr., and he was a pastor as well. I think that's important to realize as well. So anyway, he was born in 1929. He died in 1968. He was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher. He was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. And And he advanced civil rights for people of color or, as my good friend Cain would say, of Negroes in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws. Remember, these were laws. They were not constitutional. They did not adhere to this vision of the Declaration that all men are created equal, but yet they were laws. And then it says in other forms of legalized discrimination. And this is what he said. He said, be the best of whatever you are. That's what we need to be teaching our kids. And merit, we're seeing merit will be brought back to the military in the Donald Trump administration as well. And that falls right into one of these headlines. And that is... Trump removes the Coast Guard commandant because her focus was on all of this DEI stuff, this diversity, equity, inclusion, instead of merit. And so we're going to see merit come back to America. That is what's made America great, is people doing their best and seeing what could happen. And, of course, America happened, this amazing big – Big middle class where everyday people could, can't, could and can thrive and prosper. And so, again, this is from Reuters. The Trump administration fired the U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Lee Fagan, the first female uniformed leader of an armed forces branch. The Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday, I find it so interesting just on this DEI. For example, she was a DEI hire. The radical activist Democrats say that they can't really tell that there's more than two genders, but yet they're focused on gender here. And so anyway, former President Joe Biden nominated Fagan to lead the Coast Guard, which is responsible for maritime security in 2021. And she is no longer the commandant there. So we'll talk about many of the other things that Donald Trump is doing as well. I think we'll talk about the bill of the day. On Wednesdays, we're going to have one of my fellow CUT board members call in, and we'll do some commentary on the legislation that is being proposed down at the Statehouse. And tomorrow evening, we are hosting our legislator kickoff. and legislative kickoff. That will be at the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association, which is located at 290 East Speer in Denver. Lucy had texted me a question, what about parking there? Parking is right next to the building and it doesn't cost anything. So I know that there's concern sometimes to go into Denver, but at CADA, great parking, very well lit, right next to the building. And so do join us. It's $10. You can go to the Colorado Union of Taxpayers website, which is coloradotaxpayer.org. Tickets are only $10. And while you're there, be sure and join us. To join us, it's only $25 per year. And for $2.08 a month, you're going to receive the emails with the analysis of hours and hours of volunteer time. to analyze legislation down at the State House as it affects taxpayers, which is all of us, TABOR, Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights, property rights, and school choice. Those are some of the many things that we focus on. But when you see my fellow volunteer board members, say thank you to them. That is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson, Rami Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, and Corey Onusorg. Be sure and say thank you to them for all of their hard work. Let's see, lots of headlines. I think the next one, you probably have all seen this, but it's like you have to hold on to your hat. Because there is so much that is going on. And again, this is from Reuters. And the headline is you're fired. Trump tells Biden appointees who many of them say that they already quit. I'm not sure that they got got in front of him, but they want to say that. And so Trump said that he plans to remove over 1000 of former President Joe Biden's appointees from their government positions and that he had fired four individuals immediately, including celebrity chef Jose Andres and former top general Mark Milley. And also headlines are that Mark Milley's photograph or not photograph, his portrait has been taken down at the Pentagon as well. And you're fired, Trump wrote in an early morning post on his Truth Social platform that named Millie Andres, his former Iran envoy Brian Hook, and former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who Biden had appointed to an export council. So that is pretty amazing. Let's see. Next thing I wanted to read, Eric's text with Manning's famous burritos. Yesterday, he had texted me and I had meant to say this and I had missed it. He said, those in the deep state media that are so obsessed in calling President Donald Trump a felon are actually felons themselves. They've just not been convicted. And he says that's one that we could use. And he's right. And remember those those that conviction for Donald Trump regarding so that they could call him a felon. If you do the research on it, they say it was 34 counts. They are all accounting entries. And I imagine he didn't even know what those accounting entries were when you when you look at how big his operation is. But good point on that, Eric. He always has really good things to say about all this happening out there. And let's see a couple other other headlines that I wanted to mention. was that Trump orders all DEI government offices to close up shop by the end of the day, which that is pretty amazing. And then yesterday I did go down to the press presser for John and Aaron Lee and their their press conference regarding their court case against the Poudre Valley School District. And their daughter, the whole story, you can find that at artclubmovie.com, which they worked with Kevin Lundberg on producing that particular movie. And anyway, their case, and it's another family as well, was heard in district court yesterday. and talked with Erin afterwards. We're going to get her on the show for an update next week. But they hope that they can get this to the Supreme Court, where government-run schools cannot be doing this transgender indoctrination and all of that agenda without parents' knowledge. So it's a very important court case, and good for them for their good work on that. So they are And they are working on that and did meet their daughter who was the victim. Initially, I don't want to say victim, who was the target. Let's put it that way, the target of this agenda. 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And welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can do that at Kim Munson dot com. And thank you to all of you who support us. I greatly appreciate all of you. So pleased to have on the line with me, Dave Evans. Dave is a listener of the show and he is a new member of the board of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers Association. or also known as CUT. And again, our legislative kickoff is tomorrow evening at CADA, Colorado Automobile Dealers Association. We'd love to have you join us. Tickets are only $10. And also we'd love to have you join us as members as well so that you get that weekly email that we send to the governor and legislators regarding positions on legislation so that you can be informed and be active in what is happening. Dave Evans, welcome to the show.
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Well, thank you, Kim. Good morning to you.
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Well, good morning. It's great to have you. And I'm so thrilled to have you be a member of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers Board. You're new. You jumped in. We did our first email and now I sent out our first email on our analysis this last Monday. So first of all, Dave, tell us why you stepped forward to volunteer to do this, because it's so important.
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Well, I've lived in Colorado all my life. And watched the state turn bluer and bluer and bluer and felt like there was nothing I could do about it. But then the opportunity to join the union of taxpayers came up and I said, well, that sounds real interesting. Maybe I could help out doing it that way.
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Well, and we are thrilled to have you. So we have done our first week of analysis, and we used this software, BuildTrack 50. I had a few little challenges, and Karen and I got that figured out. She actually is the creator of that. She used to live in Denver. She lives in London. So with the time difference, we had to work things out. But I think that we've got it. But it's a really... great piece of technology to watch what's happening. And I think you've done a really good job of navigating it. So what do you think about BuildTrack 50?
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Well, I agree. It's a great program. Very easy to use, actually. You just have to find the right column to write in. And it's just like entering your text in Word or something like that. Very simple and easy to use.
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Well, and the other thing is it's a tool...
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I was going to say, I have to say that when I started out, I fumbled around a little bit, but, you know, after a few minutes of that, I figured it out pretty readily, so.
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Well, and the other thing about it, Dave, is that we can actually see all of the bills that have been proposed already. There's 154 bills that have been proposed. And then what we do is when they're scheduled for hearing, that is when we then send that out to the team for analysis. And then the other thing that we did is... I asked Karen to with the key words to let us know if there's something, for example, with energy or firearms, these gifts, grants and donations where that might be in a piece of legislation, which that means that interested parties could come in and actually put money behind donations. law, which I think is a real problem. And then, of course, the safety clause. So great stuff. Also Tabor. I put in transgender activism. We've got and vaccine related. So we're really watching all of those things closely. So for analysis this last week, we did analysis on Actually, you guys all did more bills because I had manually pulled bills into rate and then the Senate changed their calendar. So we'll be including those bills probably next week. But was there one particular bill that jumped out at you that you in particular wanted to talk about regarding the six bills that we looked at this week?
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Well, after looking over our analysis, I think that first one on our list, SB 25005, is probably the biggest stinker of them all. It's really just a sop for the Democratic Party and a sop for the unions designed to make it harder for employers in this state, make it more expensive for people, and it's going to hurt employment, too.
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Yeah, and that is, it's titled Worker Protection Collective Bargaining, and what it's doing, from what I can tell, Dave, is normally if workers were going to unionize, that there would have to be two votes to do so, and this gets rid of that second vote, so it really does give unions much more power.
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Right, yes, it'll, things will become much more unionized, and and much harder for employers to keep costs down.
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And it's it's difficult. It's getting more and more difficult to run a business in Colorado as it is. I remember I think it was the Colorado or CU lead school of business. We used to be in the in the in the tops regarding economic growth. We're down to 40, 41st now in Colorado. And it's because, Dave, of what's happening down at the statehouse.
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Right. Well, we used to be pretty well governed in almost every aspect, and now we're terrible. Utah spends a lot less money than we do, and they're a whole lot better governed than we are. Yeah, we're just going downhill in a hurry, and I sure hope the electorate wakes up and sees what's going on.
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Well, and that's why we're doing this now. I always like to give credit where credit is due. The prime sponsors on this Senate Bill 25005, which is really the union bill, is Senator Robert Rodriguez, Senator Jesse Danielson, Representative Javier Mabray, and Representative Jennifer Bacon. So, Dave Evans, another one that we did this week is the Third Party Administration of the Division of Housing Programs, House Bill 25-1019. And its short summary is concerning third-party administration. of programs for persons experiencing homelessness that are overseen by the Division of Housing and the Department of Local Affairs. And we came out with a no on that. The sponsors, prime sponsors on that are Representative Emily Sirota and Senator Nick Hendrickson. And I think that this is also a very bad bill, moving something into third-party administration. This is where we really get into interest of parties, government, cronyism is what I think about that. What do you think?
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Yes, I agree. It's completely inappropriate to have outside contractors administering state programs. Plus, they'll have to pay these contractors something, and that's going to come out of the program, and so it's going to reduce funding for the actual program, which means that next year they're going to say, oh, gee, we need more money for this, and it'll come out of the taxpayer's hide.
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Well, and the other thing is, though, the agency, if I understand it correctly, will still get some percentage to administer this to send it over to the third party. Did I catch that correctly?
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I think that's right, yes.
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OK.
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Yeah.
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And and tomorrow evening, Dave, we're going to have our legislative event, our legislative kickoff, and we will be very pleased to present our awards to our Colorado taxpayers, guardian and our champion, our guardians and our warriors. And that's tomorrow evening. 530 to 6 is the Mix and Mingle. The program begins at 6 at the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association. I think it's going to be a really great evening, Dave Evans.
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Well, I think so, too. I'm looking forward to it. Thanks for putting this together, Kim.
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Well, we've got a great board, people that care deeply about our state. And Dave, we are just really thrilled to have you as our new board member. And it's a lot of analysis, but I think we each have to do our part to reclaim our state. I'm pleased to see what's happening at the national level. with Donald Trump with his regulatory freeze. But what I think is going to happen here in Colorado is this legislature and then many of our local and county governments are going to double down on this bigger and bigger government agenda. And as Dennis Prager says, when government gets bigger, the individual gets smaller. Well, America, Dave, was founded on this idea of the individual having all this liberty to go after their hopes and dreams. And you can't have both. You can't have big government and people going after their hopes and dreams. So we need to reclaim that for Colorado as well, Dave Evans.
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Yep, that's being taken away from us.
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Well, Dave Evans, I'm excited. We will see you tomorrow evening. And thank you for jumping in and being on the radio with me. And thank you for listening. I greatly appreciate you.
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Well, you're welcome, and thank you. It was an honor, and I sure appreciate all you're doing. You're really doing the yeoman's work on this. Thank you.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something's a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. And I did want to mention our quote of the day. I chose a quote from Martin Luther King, Jr., And a great quote that we have from him and Mark, one of our listeners said, we should continue to point out the DEI, this diversity, equity and inclusion is the exact opposite of what Martin Luther King Jr. fought and died for. judging people by their... He fought for judging people by their character, not by their skin color. And Mark goes on to say, MLK fought to eliminate Jim Crow laws, not to create new laws. Equal treatment, not special treatment. He's absolutely right. We say it on the show all the time. You can't have equal... I'm paraphrasing now. You can't have special treatment and And not have equal treatment. So he's right on that. The quote from Martin Luther King Jr. is be the best of whatever you are. Please have on the line with me my friend Scott Powell. He is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute. And he's written a couple of really important pieces that we wanted to chat with him about. And the first one is regarding the Donald Trump administration and. This populist mandate that is bringing on our second American Revolution. And I've actually said that we're in our third founding of our country. And that was, first of all, we had the founding, then we had the Civil War, and now. Scott Powell, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 07 :
Kim, wonderful to be with you.
SPEAKER 13 :
Good to have you. And it is remarkable. You just also published a piece about all of these executive orders. There's been a flurry. I think flurry would be the correct word, Scott Powell.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I think last count it was over 200 in the first 12 hours. That's clearly a world record.
SPEAKER 13 :
And I don't really want us to be governed by executive order. However, there are so many things that need to be rolled back immediately. And because if we don't get those done, then it will just take too much time to try to get a bunch of this bad stuff rolled back. And a number of those executive orders was rolling back things that Joe Biden had done as executive order. So I think it is pretty important.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, absolutely. It's important to get the Trump administration off to a very strong and quick start, you might say. Shock and awe is the name of the game and the order of the day.
SPEAKER 13 :
It really is. So let's talk about these pieces that you have recently published. This first one is at Newsmax, and it's the populist mandate brought the second American revolution. And we are clearly in historic times, Scott Powell.
SPEAKER 07 :
These are very exciting times, really. And I know that many of your audience, and I'm included in that group, really was upset when Donald Trump was deprived of a second term in 2020. We saw that there was massive voting irregularity, election irregularity, vote fraud. And we were all on board with trying to get that corrected. Of course, it came to naught. And so Joe Biden, and that led to, of course, January 6th, that was then used really against the patriot cause, if you will. It certainly was not an insurrection, but it was, it was, we got played on that. Anyway, we know what happened. Joe Biden's administration got installed and Donald Trump was out of office for four years, but, and we, we wrung our hands over that, but perhaps, you know, the hand of God had a different plan. And the plan was, to allow the American people to really see the results of an evil and demonic government, what it could do, the harm it could do, the disruption, the damage it could create. And that's what we witnessed in the last four years. Meanwhile, Donald Trump was preparing for his second term. He was studying – the landscape, if you will, and coming up with a battle plan. And many people thought he could not come back, and yet he did. And now he's having his second term. He's the 47th president of the United States. And he will be far more effective in leading America now than he would have been had he had a consecutive term. So none of us planned that. None of us could really see that. But the right thing has happened, and I feel it's almost providential that things happened the way that they did because now the people are really ready, and that's why they voted overwhelmingly. We had a popular – a big popular majority that put him back into office – Which makes him a more powerful leader, and we have the House and the Senate supporting him. We had a trifecta, really. We wouldn't have had – we didn't have a trifecta. Four years ago.
SPEAKER 13 :
So, Scott, a couple of things. You mentioned January 6th. And I was talking with a young person last year on January 6th because January 6th has been painted by the mainstream media as an insurrection against our country. But we've all seen the videos of people, just regular people that are just walking through the Capitol. They're staying on the carpet. They're in between the cordoned off area. They're walking where they're supposed to, looking around. But this young person said to me that they knew that the narrative was being manipulated when you saw that picture of the horned guy that was in the inner chambers and the Capitol Police were just walking behind him. And I thought that that was that I think that's important to to bring out so that people understand how that narrative was manipulated, as you mentioned, against against those that really wanted to reclaim our country. And then you mentioned one other thing regarding the questions on the election. And in in let's see, I had this here in 2020. Joe Biden apparently received 81 million votes, plus a little bit, to Donald Trump's 74 million votes. But in 2024, I think it was about 76 million votes for Donald Trump and around 74 million for Kamala Harris. One has to ask, where did all those Biden voters go, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. They were not real voters. The ballot boxes, the drop boxes, and the after-hours vote counting were all – many of them were phony ballots. And so that the – for instance, I believe in Pennsylvania more people voted than they had registered voters. And that was true in some other jurisdictions as well. So there really was a massive vote fraud, and of course it was all part of the plan really. I think that they recognized that the conditions due to COVID were such that the Democrat lawyer operatives could get the voting protocols and the voting laws changed and they focused on the swing states, remember, so that they got extended period for voting. They got allowing the use of drop boxes that was funded by Mark Zuckerberg in Wisconsin and Georgia and elsewhere. But there was a plan to, you know, Steal the election, literally. And these 86 million votes, there's no way that Joe Biden got 86 million votes. The man didn't campaign. He was an unimpressive, very unimpressive guy. And so – It is what it is, but, you know, the Bible says that God— And just clarification, they said it was 81 million, just a clarification.
SPEAKER 13 :
81 million, okay. About 6 million more. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but where did all that go? But go ahead. You said the Bible says?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I was just pointing out that the Bible says that God uses all things for good. So who would have guessed that these circumstances— would be used for this great outcome that we now have. But they have been used, and they were used almost in a way that transcends our ability to have orchestrated it. We certainly didn't orchestrate the demise of the Democrat Party. They orchestrated their own demise with all the things they did with open borders, with you know, reducing energy production, uh, inflation, uh, you know, so many things happened in the last four years that really turned, uh, that opened the American people's eyes to the state of affairs that America had come to. And they said, no, we need to correct this. And, uh, and so we had this great victory, uh, last November five. And, um, And Trump has got a popular mandate, not just an electoral college victory, but a popular victory. So we have much to be grateful for. We really do.
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Well, so Scott Powell, several things. We need to, you mentioned elections. We need to get to the point where votes are counted on Election Day and that is it. What we saw afterwards with this extension of counting votes for some of these House seats, for these Senate seats, that's a real problem.
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I think we need to get that changed. It is, and it'll be interesting to see how we pull this off. I think we're going to get it done. But the Constitution allows for states to control the voting protocols that they – each state has the responsibility for establishing the voting – rules and regulations. So there's really, there's not a national, you know, the Constitution doesn't provide for the national, the federal government for, you know, establishing voting protocols. That's a state responsibility. Many states have brought about reform, but we definitely need what you've just described, Kim. And I do think that Somehow it's going to happen. The American people are behind voting ID. Everybody should have an idea to vote. They are all in favor of one-day voting. They're in favor of paper ballots, I believe, because people know that other countries that – like France. France is a big country, and they get – they don't have any problems with their national votes. They use paper ballots. It's all done in one day. They know the results by late the night of the election. And we in Florida – I live in Florida. We know the results by 10 o'clock at night. Our system is very efficient. We don't just use paper ballots, though. We have a mail-in ballot protocol here. But all the ballots have to be in by Election Day.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, and that's really important. And Colorado has a really extended voting time, about three weeks. And we need to compress that. Ideally, I'd love to compress that down to one day. I'm talking with Scott Powell, and we were talking about this piece that he's written about. It's in Newsmax regarding this populist mandate of the Donald Trump administration and what that actually means. And these are such important discussions. They come to you because of our sponsors. And for everything mortgages, reach out to Lorne Levy. He can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. Two nonprofits that I love and support on the show. One is the Center for American Values located in Pueblo, Colorado and on the Riverwalk. Pueblo is known as the home of heroes because four Medal of Honor recipients grew up there. And so they have these beautiful portraits of valor and they're going to have a great event tomorrow evening. 4 o'clock is their On Values presentation regarding the USS Pueblo, which was taken captive during the Vietnam War and held by the North Koreans for over a year. Robert Chico was a crew member on that ship, and he's going to be talking about his experiences. And so you can get more information by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. And just let them know that you're going to be attending, and it doesn't cost anything, and they normally have a nice little reception afterwards. And then also the USMC Memorial Foundation is raising money for the remodel of the Marine Memorial, which is right here in Colorado. and you can get more information to support them by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. I'm talking with Scott Powell. He is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, and we're talking about this piece that he's written at Newsmax regarding the populist mandate of Donald Trump. And, again, we're trying to clarify the numbers. It's reported that Biden received a little over $81 million Votes in 2020, Trump about 74 million. And then Trump in 2024 received 77 plus million votes. Harris, 75 million. And again, and thank you, Eric, for making sure that we had that clarified. where did those approximate six million votes go? And that is a question I think people have to really ask. And I think what happens, Scott Powell, is work that we did here in Colorado with our Colorado 2024 Election Project, people all over the country watching these elections i think that that was key as people across america were doing things to watch these elections to try to make sure that we had a free fair honest transparent election there were still things that occurred but um they were not over those nefarious things did not overcome that the outcome of the national election that's right uh and um and it was um a great day um
SPEAKER 07 :
It was a great day on November 5, and what a great day on the Inauguration Day just two days ago. There's such optimism now, optimism that I've really not seen in a long time. It's very – we're living in historic, really biblical times. This is perhaps – Donald Trump is going to be – the 47th president is perhaps going to be the most consequential president in all of our history, with the exception, of course, perhaps of our early – our first president. Of course, the first president had no precedent. It was the creation of a new nation and a new government. But in the last 245 years – And isn't it amazing that Donald Trump, having the second term when he does, that he, like Grover Cleveland, has had unconsecutive terms. He skipped four years and then came back, that he's going to be the president at the time of the great celebration of the 250th anniversary of our country, of our constitution. You know, 2026 is 250 years after 1776, and so it'll be a – it's an incredible time in which to be alive, I must say. It's – I'm still getting used to – still getting used to it.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, it is. It's a remarkable time. And I have said this, and one of our listeners, Eric, said, Kim, I know that you say that Donald Trump is not our savior. Let me get to where he's at. But he said, with all of these executive orders, it looks close. And I agree. I agree. These things that he's doing – and I know that there are those even on the – that are on the right had said that they had some concerns about Donald Trump and things that he might do when he came into office. But I love the fact in his inaugural address and then what you saw on that first day is he said that he's going to adhere to the Constitution. And he gave credit to God on many occasions. And I think he's got his priorities in the right place. And I really am encouraged that he is going to be doing things that he can do constitutionally and adhere to the Constitution. Your thoughts, Scott Powell?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, as I said in the Newsmax article published last week, this second American revolution that we're in right now is really – a moral and spiritual revolution. And isn't it, it's just remarkable that Donald Trump, who is not thought of as a, you know, he's a businessman. He was a commercial real estate magnate. He accomplished great things in a very difficult industry. He's You might call him a bit of a rough diamond, but that's what was required for him to be successful. But he is a remarkable patriot. I can't think of a leader that we've had who has more patriotism than Donald Trump. And isn't that the most important qualification to be the leader of America is a great patriot? And we have this remarkable – yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
Go ahead. Well, and the term patriot, the left to try to sully that that word patriot, but patriot isn't this bravado. Patriot is love of country. And I agree with you. He has this amazing love of country. We've got a couple of minutes left, but I want to make sure that I do mention your book, which is so important, Rediscovering America, How the National Holidays Tell an Amazing Story About Who We Are. And everyone should have this book at home on their Freedom Library for sure, Scott Powell. So we've got a couple of minutes left. How do you want to wrap this up?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, regarding Rediscovering America, I purposely wrote the book – … for American people, and American people are very busy. They don't have time to read books, and typically history genre books are long. They tend to be long books. This is a short book. It's just a little over 200 pages, and it's written with chapters that each tell a standalone story about the transitional periods of American history. If you read – Rediscovering America tells you pretty much everything you need to know about America… and why we have been the greatest nation in world history. There's no country like America. America was born on these amazing ideas of equal value, of life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. We were born out of ideas. We weren't born out of a blood lineage or the spoils of war or a common culture or common language as other nations have been formed. We were born out of these great ideas and this Second American Revolution that we're in right now is a restoration of those ideas, a restoration of constitutional law, law and order. It's a restoration of putting America's interests first. The founders recognized that if America could establish a country that would be exemplary to the world… It would be a great gift to the world. It would show the way to the rest of the world, and we would be a city on a hill. And that is what the America First movement also recognizes, that if we become an exemplary nation, other countries will move in our direction. In other words, we don't have to go out and change regimes overseas like we've been doing, being overly involved in foreign affairs. We take care of our own country. and we create the opportunity environment for people to flourish, they will flourish. So it's a great day that we have, and I'm very excited about the time in which we're living.
SPEAKER 13 :
Absolutely. Scott Powell, thank you so much. We will talk again very soon, and keep up the great work.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you, Kim.
SPEAKER 13 :
And our quote for the end of the show, Martin Luther King Jr. said, if you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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Indeed. Let's have a conversation and welcome to our number two of the Kim Munson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You're each treasured, you're valued, you have purpose today. Strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. As we're talking with Scott Powell, we are in an amazing time in history. Thank you to the team. That's Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. And Producer Joe, you shared great optimism yesterday with – you'd watched or had it on basically all day on Inauguration Day to watch what was going on. And what's your take after day number two of the Trump administration?
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I'm still optimistic. I think – He hit the ground running really well, and it's going to take time, just like everything else. It doesn't fix overnight, and we've got to keep this battle going.
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Yeah, we really do. And we're really at the forefront, I think, here in Colorado. So what I see is the radical activists, extremists are going to double down and try to stay a little bit under the radar, if you will, from a national level. but then doing the subversion at these other levels. And so we need to be engaged even more in this battle of ideas. That's why we do the show, is so that you can get your brain around these issues and engage in this battle of ideas. And be sure and check everything out that we're doing at KimMunson.com. You can sign up for our weekly email newsletter there. You'll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com. The text line is 720-605-0647. And thank you to all of you who support us. We are an independent voice. Watch that. What that means is, is I purchased my airtime, but that gives me total freedom in subject selection, guest selection. And so thank you for supporting that. And of course, all of our sponsors make that happen as well, such as Laramie Energy. I appreciate their goal sponsorship of the show. It's that reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to control our own personal climate, to be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. And that whole thing is under attack. And we have to ask why. Because the fact that everyday people can thrive and prosper is really this big, great American idea. And that certainly has been under attack. So, anyway, it's important that we have these discussions, and we have them every Monday through Friday, 6 to 8 a.m., with the first hour rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon, second hour rebroadcast 10 to 11 at night, and that's on all KLZ 560 platforms, KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM. the KLZ website, the KLZ app. And you can find our podcast of the show at my website. Just click on the image of the show and that'll bring up the written summary as well as the podcast. And then podcasts can be heard Spotify and iTunes as well. And we look at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something's a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. Uh, let's see regarding, Oh, our word of the day. We need to get to all of these things here is a profundity and it is P R O F U N D I T Y. And your challenge is to use that in a sentence today. And it could be the quality of showing a clear and deep understanding of serious matters. I think with, uh, the day one of the Trump administration with the executive orders to roll back all of these terrible things that have been happening in our country because of the Biden-Harris administration, that Donald Trump has a deep profundity of the seriousness of all that's going on here. And so your challenge is to use the word profundity in a sentence today. Our quote of the day is from Martin Luther King Jr. He was born in 1929. He died in 1968. And he was an American Baptist minister, activist, political philosopher, and a prominent leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. And he pushed for the advancement for – in Wikipedia it says people of color. My friend Cain wants to reclaim the word Negro in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination. And Mark, one of our listeners, had said – Let's see here. The civil rights movement was twisted by the wicked ones. The new civil rights laws were unnecessary. Totally agree. And then those civil rights laws have also been twisted to push forward this transgender activist movement. And Mark goes on to say that DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, which those are really about dividing people, putting them into... different groups according to their their race or their gender uh we're born during the civil rights movement and he's absolutely correct and um one of the sound bites that we pull from the show that we have is you cannot have equal rights if you have special rights And that's whether or not it's remember the Equal Rights Amendment that Biden apparently got confused and thought that that actually was part of the Constitution. It's not because if you have special rights for people, you cannot have equal rights. And so that is so important to understand that. Anyway, his quote, let me share that with you, is be the best of whatever you are. So every day when we talk about striving for excellence, be the very best that you can be and strive for excellence. And it's a very important point. I didn't talk about this in the first hour, this day in history, because as we've added in the bill of the day, we won't be focusing quite as much on this day in history. However, there were these different weather events that I thought were important to note because we've always had weather. The climate has always changed. And this whole narrative of climate change has been weaponized to basically bankrupt uh everyday people bankrupt america and that is why this uh documentary a climate conversation which is the project of walt johnson is so important to understand this narrative i talked with a friend of mine just the other day and she said kim i think that is is one of the best documentaries regarding this particular subject in the way that it was handled And so you can watch that for free at a climate conversation dot com. And then we also have created a great podcast series with a number of great scientists and experts on this narrative as well. So you'll be very, very informed on that. But there had been the narrative that the world was going to freeze. And a little global warming would be a great idea. So these were some weather events. 1930, negative 35 degrees Fahrenheit at Mount Carroll, Illinois, which is a state record. 1943, 26.12 inches of precipitation over a 24-hour period in Hoagies Camp, California, state record. 1943, temperatures rise 49 degrees Fahrenheit in two minutes. In Spearfish, South Dakota, we had such an interesting change in temperature there that we talked about yesterday in South Dakota. A couple of other things. 1944, the Allied forces begin landing at Anzio in the Italian mainland. This 1973 was the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court legalizing most abortions in Roe v. Wade. authoring the majority opinion. Harry Blackmun states that the criminalization of abortion does not have roots in the English common law tradition. And, of course, that was overturned by our Supreme Court recently. Just a couple, let's see, well, some other weather events. 1982, 75% of North America is covered by snow. In 1985, negative 30 degrees Fahrenheit in Mountain Lake Biostation in Virginia, which is a state record. In 1985, cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop. And in 2016, a winter storm conditions strand 500 motorists for 24 hours in Somerset and Bedford counties, about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. And so the weather is always changing is the point that I want to make with all of these different things this day in history regarding weather. And this Green New Deal, what I've come to learn is the Green New Deal is the green that was going into PBI's pockets, those politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties. And day one, Donald Trump is turning all that around regarding the Green New Deal. And the money that Joe Biden promised, these millions and millions of dollars to these different green energy PBIs, hopefully that money will not be spent. 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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. It's that reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to control our own personal climates, to be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. And all of that is under all kinds of attack. And that's why it's important that we... Talk about these important issues, and in particular, those that have been under attack as the people that feed and fuel us. And Trent Luce, sixth-generation farmer and rancher, has been shedding light on these issues for over 25 years, and he is on the line. Trent Luce, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 04 :
On the line, there are several interpretations of that, but it's a pleasure to be back with you, Kim.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, you've been busy. You've been out at the National Western. And I remember as a kid that it was always cold during the National Western, and we had a bit of a cold snap. And it makes those barns a little chilly out there, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and the bison were rolling in yesterday. The draft horses are rolling in, and the bison in particular, they are outside in normal environments, and that is going to be a very exciting show. There are 35 more bison here than there was last year, which I'm just going to go back to American buffalo.
SPEAKER 13 :
I like American buffalo. Why did they change the name? Why did that happen?
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Because India, the country in the world with the most bovine animals, has a huge population of water buffalo. And so some individuals within the American Buffalo Association thought, we want to make sure that nobody confuses us for the water buffalo of India. And so they started going with some bison instead of buffalo buffalo. Now, living on the Rosebud Indian Reservation for five years and working with tribal members who were owned and managed the buffalo herds on the tribes, the tribal folks still call them buffalo, not bison. Tatonka. Let us go with Tatonka.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, so how does this work exactly at the National Western? They bring in different animals at different times. So last week, you were the emcee for the Beef and Wine Festival, which was... And they brought in four different cattle. And they were so beautiful at Trent Luce. And so how does this work? Because they can't have all the animals there at the same time. There's not enough room. So how does this work out at the National Western?
SPEAKER 04 :
So there's a rotation of animals by breed and what the purpose is that come in the first weekend. The first weekend was really geared towards commercial cattlemen. So there was commercial seminars about animal health strategies and genetic strategies and data collection and all of those things that have allowed us to eliminate some of the surprises, so to speak, in raising animals. But then once the commercial weekend concludes, the commercial cattlemen kind of move out. And then I said, each breed comes in. So Gelby breed was first. and then the limousine breed, and then you just rotate through all of the beef breeds, including Angus and Hereford, and the Red Angus and Charolais and Scimital and Maine Anjou. I'm really glad I started naming them, but I think I came up with, oh, no, the Scottish Highlanders are in now. But then once those cattle roll out, then this last weekend, you have the bison roll in. And so it's the same concept. I saw trailers unloading yesterday from Utah. Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado. And it's breeders bringing animals of different ages and sizes because it's where you can come together and evaluate the genetics and maybe take home a new set of genetics that will improve your herd. And so that rotation is what keeps what we call in the yards just very fluid and and the cattle are outside, and the bison will never be haltered or shown like you think of. In terms of putting them on a halter and showing them, they're just going to be pinned loose, and you won't be allowed to go pet the bison. There will be much more distance than what you had at the Beef and Wine Festival from those four beautiful animals. But there's something so majestic about the buffalo. It's just pretty incredible if you think about where they've been and what they've done.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, and then you said the draft horses as well. You talk about beautiful animals, and certainly they were the workhorses for many, many years. So those will be coming in as well, you said, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
They are coming in as well. In fact, a longtime dear friend, Joey, funny I would say that, Joey Friend, his name is Friend, From Elizabeth, Colorado, I believe he told me he's bringing six teams of horses in, so they'll have draft horse pulls, draft horse competition, and all of those are going to be in throughout the rest of the week. But the interesting thing about Running Creek Ranch, which is in Elizabeth, Colorado, is that they still feed all of their horses with a team every single day. So they're harnessing horses, and they're doing it what I'll call in the old way, Without a tractor, they're managing that ranch, and they've always had just a tremendous set of Belgians. I don't understand, and I had that conversation with Joey last week. I'm like, dude, the percherons are so much better. Why do you continue to have these subpar animals called Belgians? You know, friends jabbing one another.
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, my. So this is very exciting. So you're here at the National Western. You said that you basically went home for just a few days, but you are out there. and really doing such amazing work, Trent Luce. But let's talk about some of these other things. While you were here, you gave some testimony at the Colorado Capitol. I thought it was the Senate committee, but when you and I were preparing, you said it was a joint committee that you presented at last week, and I assume you did that via Zoom. Is that right?
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I did not present. I showed up at the – this is the Joint Senate and House Committee on Energy and Environment, And it's one of the most frustrating things I've endured. And I've been a part of this political process. I know how frustrating it is. But what took place was the meeting was to begin at 11 o'clock, which it did. It started on time. I was in the committee room myself.
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Oh, okay.
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Each division within energy or environment made their presentations, and there was a schedule put forth, and the public comment period, which I had been asked to contribute to the public comment period, was scheduled to start at 3.50 on Thursday afternoon. So I sat there from 11 o'clock, and then it got to the point where they were an hour and 15 minutes behind. I had another live broadcast, so I literally had to leave the Capitol, get to another live broadcast, And my friend from Eastern Colorado, Richard Rubel was there and he did stay the whole time. And when there was time for public comment, there was actually three of them that stood up and wanted to have a say that were present in the room. You did have the option of doing it via Zoom, but I don't understand why you would not be present in the room and witness the body language and see all of the things that are taking place. And why it was frustrating to me, Kim, was the fact that all I heard from each one of the bureaucrats, from the director of energy, which I think was the worst, he didn't want to talk about anything other than the initiative to get Colorado to net carbon zero before California. That's the only thing that mattered to him. And I got to give a shout out to Representative Ken DeGroff from, I believe he's El Paso County.
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Right, right.
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He said, I don't understand why you sit there continuing to tell me that we need to get to net carbon zero when 65 percent of the buildings in downtown Denver are vacant. And we don't have businesses that can comply with what we're already putting in place as regulations. And you're not addressing that. You're not looking at what we can do to incentivize business entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs. You simply want to put up more hurdles to chase more business. And that to me was the theme of the entire event. And when I talked about the body language, you can see the members of this joint committee between the House and the Senate that agreed with him and that disagreed with him. And quite frankly, I only felt like there were two that were willing to take on the narrative that I witnessed. And that was Senator Pelton. from Logan County, and he represents a pretty big area of eastern Colorado, and then obviously Representative DeGroff from El Paso County. But otherwise, it's just like we're going to allow these bureaucrats to do everything other than what can we do to improve the business climate of Colorado and what can we do to improve the opportunity for a better life for our Colorado citizens. It was just very frustrating in that regard. And yeah, I wish I could have stayed and given my three minutes of testimony. And everybody should do that. At the end of the day, we know what kind of an impact it would have made, but at least it would have gotten some things on the record. But my point in all of that is, every time I've ever been a part of going to testify in front of a committee, and this would have been the sixth state capitol that I've been in, and my particular job was to talk about CO2 injections, which they walk through how they're going to do this in northeast Colorado. Anytime there's a public comment period, they start with that, and then they get to their scheduled presenters. And it was clear to me this particular committee did not want to. I'm sure it's a representation of what's happening in the Colorado capital every day. They did not want to hear from the constituents.
SPEAKER 13 :
And, yeah, it is a strategy that they use, Trent Luce. And was that Senator Rod Pelton? There's two Peltons. There's Byron Pelton and Rod Pelton. Which of them was it?
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm sure it's from Logan County. I'm sure it's Byron Pelton.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, okay. And just a quick note, this is a good time that I can mention the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. It's an all-volunteer group. I'm the president of this. We're going to have our legislative kickoff tomorrow evening, and we will be honoring our Colorado taxpayer champion, guardians, and warriors. And just a quick shout-out, and I think they're all going to be at the event, and that's Stephanie Luck, Kindergraf, who you just mentioned, scott bottoms kevin van winkle mark basely rod pelton ron weinberg brandy bradley and don wilson and so these are people that have really been standing up for you the taxpayer which is all of us and did did your friend tell you what time he finally was able to testify trent loose
SPEAKER 04 :
Richard did tell me, and they had moved up the time. It was not an actual hour and a half later. They shortened it up somehow. I did confirm myself. I was right. It was Byron Pelton from eastern Colorado.
SPEAKER 13 :
Great. Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
And he did not even get to testify either, but he stood up and was going to be one of the three. I don't know what happened there, but he said he did not testify either, and he sat there from 11 o'clock until 6 p.m. They do not want to hear from constituents.
SPEAKER 13 :
They don't. And it is a strategy. And I've seen that many, many times when I've been down at the Capitol as well. And so I think we need to use the Zoom link if we can't get down there because, Trent, you didn't clearly have the time. To sit there for all those hours and then not even get to testify because you had so much that you needed to do with all the media that you do. And so they know what they're doing. They know that people are busy and they play into that, I think.
SPEAKER 04 :
I agree with you 100% and I feel like I witnessed it.
SPEAKER 13 :
You did. And I think, again, when I think you said the director of energy said that they want to outdo California, you can see that that's the fight that we have here in Colorado. So we're going to continue the discussion with Trent Luce. And we have these discussions because it's so important that we're in this battle of ideas. And I tell you, an industry that's under attack is the beef industry. It's under regulatory attack and legislative attack. And we have to ask why, because it's such a great protein source in our diets. And, of course, for a great treat, great protein in your diet and that steakhouse experience at home is Lavaca Meat Company.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And tomorrow there's two great events going on. First of all, we are having our legislative kickoff with the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. That is at 530 at the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association. And we are very excited to present our awards to our taxpayer guardian and warriors and champions. and we'd love to have you join us. Tickets are only $10, and CADA has good parking, free parking, a well-lit parking lot, and so love to have you join us, and you can buy your tickets by going to coloradotaxpayer.org. Tried to be in two places at the same time, never successfully, but if I could, the other place that I would be is down in Pueblo at the Center for American Values. They are having an On Values presentation today, by Bob Chica, who was a crew member on the USS Pueblo, which was taken captive during the Vietnam War by the North Koreans. And that will be an excellent presentation as well. You can get more information by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. It doesn't cost anything, but let them know that you are coming and you can get all that information there. Trent Luce is on the line. And Trent, so interesting regarding your testimony down at the Capitol and that you were actually there and the strategy that the PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties have to basically shut down our voices. They extend the timeframe because they don't really want to hear from us. They don't really want to represent us. They're representing all these interested parties. but the co2 pipeline of which you were going to testify on uh we've seen some disruption and again a lot of it's from the work that you're doing the disruption in trying to get the land to do these um i guess that was that that's not the co2 pipelines that is the transmission lines uh here in colorado And so anything that you learned regarding transmission lines and trying to disrupt getting the land to make that happen here in Colorado?
SPEAKER 04 :
I actually left just as that presentation from that bureaucrat was taking place. But the Missouri Cattlemen's Convention happened this week, and it concluded on Sunday. My friend Chuck Miller from Missouri is past president, and I'm talking about Missouri in answer to your question because the issues that the state of Missouri and the cattlemen have as a top priority coming forward is transmission lines. the abuse of solar energy that are coming in on land, confiscating land, confiscating is probably not a good word, but the threat of eminent domain, and the fact that the money that is captured by all of these does not stay in the county or the community where the projects are taking place. Now, the reason I walk you through that is because I could go to Georgia and I could go to Nevada and I would have the same exact story that we're talking about here with Colorado. And so what I've come to the conclusion, and I'm going to Carter County, Montana on Tuesday, we're going to talk about the same exact thing and really just an extension of what that meeting was last week in Washington County, which I'm still very proud of what those people in Washington County are doing. But Kim, this long drawn out answer to your question is that this is not a Colorado issue. Colorado continues to be the tip of the spear, but we have a major attack on taking land away from individuals and putting that land into a collective state no different than what Russia did during the Bolshevik Revolution and how there were willing participants to go into that saying that we could just work for the state. We don't need to own anything. And we know how that turned out. It turned out with famine and 30 million people dying. The same risk is in front of us today today. Because of all of these land grabs, they do not want individuals to own land and generate the essences of life from the land. That's 100% what it's about. It has nothing to do with green energy. It has nothing to do with sequestering carbon. It has everything to do with taking our land from us. Rewilding America is in full-blown press right now.
SPEAKER 13 :
So I think that takes us to the next question. One of our listeners had alerted me to this, and this is out in California. And I texted you this last night, so hopefully I'm not surprising you too much. And this is regarding the Point Reyes Park out in California. There's been cattle grazing there. there for many, many years, but a settlement just was reached where there's not going to be grazing there is my understanding. What's your thoughts about all this?
SPEAKER 04 :
It's the same scenario. There's nothing different about that scenario than anywhere else. And the other thing that ties into every bit of that is that you see people and there are people that say, well, I have to take this money. I have to sign up for this easement because I can't afford to pay my property tax plus the high input costs for what I'm getting on the commodities that I'm producing. That only happens when there's an orchestrated event, and that's the number one avenue to eliminate land ownership in this case, Kim, is that we're going to increase Across the board, state by state, we're going to increase property valuations. In fact, my wife Kelly just sent me a neighboring property close to us that's for sale at $8,700 an acre. And that land three years ago was probably maybe $3,000. It's irrigated farmland, so $3,000 to $5,000. But now it's $8,700 an acre in central Nebraska. What happens as a result of that land sale is, is that valuations on neighboring properties all skyrocket. So the county commissioners could literally take the mill levy down, and yet property taxes will continue to skyrocket. What is happening is that they increase the value of the property that we own, which pushes property taxes to an unaffordable rate. They come along with some Inflation Reduction Act money or some other program that you can get in to pay. You get paid, and this way you can pay your property tax. And once you sign something for perpetuity on your place, you no longer own it.
SPEAKER 13 :
So I know that it is a focus of yours to reduce property taxes. Mine as well, because that is the way that they are basically taking our property. And my friend Susan Kochevar, who has 88 Drive-In Theater, her property taxes with all these different valuations went up last year. I think it was $14,000. She was at $14,000. It went up to over $40,000. And that's not sustainable for people to do that. And so, yes, we've got to work on these property taxes. I wanted to go back to when you were down at the state capitol and you said that the director of energy, a bureaucrat, wants to outdo Colorado and get Colorado to net zero by, I didn't write down the year, is it 2035? You know, another way that you do that is you just shut down the economy. You mentioned how many buildings in downtown Denver... They're at net zero regarding – I guess they are trying to keep them warm, but they're kind of at net zero because people are not renting them. And that is not sustainable because property taxes are not – is a way that – Governments get revenue. And, gosh, if these buildings are empty and end up being reduced in value significantly, I mean, they're going to get the economy to net zero. But it's not going to be a thriving economy, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 04 :
Net zero. Net carbon zero is death. There's no two ways to look at that. Without carbon in the atmosphere, your human body is 18% carbon. So without carbon, you're dead. It's that simple. There's no in between. But let's talk about the National Western again. The event has actually just literally been fantastic. The event itself and what has been accomplished and the crowds have been incredible. The first day set a record for a number of attendants. But as I talk to vendors and I talk to people who come to Colorado and spend money, every one of them will tell you that the cost, not associated directly with the National Western, but the cost of coming to Denver, Colorado, has grown so inflationary that there will be people considered not coming back simply because of what it costs. I'll just give you a quick example. I had a phone that was in bad shape. And I had a moment where I could actually stop and talk to the guys who I get my phone from. They stopped me, and they had this great deal for the stock show deal, right? And they did. They treated me right. They didn't do anything incorrectly. I got my bill, and it's $200 higher than I anticipated it to be, what he told me it would be. So I chopped back over there the next day. I was like, this is $200 above what it is. He pulled up the sheet on what it was, and guess what that $200 was? All tax imposed by the city and the state of Colorado. That's exactly what you just described in terms of net carbon zero and everything other than trying to promote a thriving economy. And let's face it. Nowhere in the Colorado State Constitution, which I haven't read, but if somebody wants to find and tell me I'm wrong, I'd love to see it. Nowhere in the Colorado State Constitution, nowhere in the United States Constitution than I have in my hand does it say the role of government is to incentivize business. And yet that is all they're doing is looking for another program to tie people into so they are completely beholden to the government.
SPEAKER 13 :
And Colorado's at the forefront on this. And, yeah, so it's so important that we shed light on all of this. Trent, we're going to go to break. When we come back, I want to talk about wolves. I also know that Gammy wants to give us a couple minutes regarding an update on some of the stuff that she's seen. And so we do all of this because of our sponsors. And one of those is the Boson Law Firm. If you've been injured, reach out to them as soon as possible.
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Welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. This year, my friends, we need to recommit to helping the USMC Memorial Foundation as they are raising the money for the remodel of the Marine Memorial. That is out at 6th and Colfax. It's the official Marine Memorial. It was dedicated in 1977. And so it's time for a facelift. And you can help Paula Sarles, the president, USMC Memorial Foundation, and her team. And get more information by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That's usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Trent Luce is on the line. He is a sixth-generation farmer and rancher. And, Trent, I did want to ask you about these wolves that were just a whole new set was released here in Colorado, and that is another assault upon property rights. You introduce, PBIs introduce a predator into the environment, and it attacks and kills your property. That is a direct assault upon property rights. And that is also an assault upon our food source. So what they've been pretty tight lipped about what they did exactly on this Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, not in the world I live in because the fish and wildlife have been tight lipped. But I have a friend in Kremlin who knows the individuals where they were released. And if you'll remember, Colorado voted on a ballot initiative to release 10 wolves over five years, which have been 50 wolves. Well, they released 20 this week. And I asked my friend from Kremlin, I said, how can they do that? How can they release 20? Well, they had 15 adults, and apparently one of the females had a litter of pups. And so those pups, what's that purpose? releasing them into a completely strained foreign. What's the odds that they're going to even know how humane is that? If that's what you really want to do, but you're right.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's no different than the transmission lines in Pueblo. It's no different than the proposed projects of CO2 pipelines in the Eastern Plains. It is an attack on animal ownership. And at every turn, What happens is the ranchers who deal with depredation, who deal with the stress of the predators that are released, they're not profitable. Their costs continue to go up. And, well, yeah, there's an indemnification fund, right? No, there is no amount of money a rancher will ever be compensated that will make it okay that his animals endure distress. We have been taught from day one in all of our programs that that we learn are about how can we minimize the stress impact on the animals that we produce for food, and then you release apex predator into that environment that induces stress like never before, it's counterintuitive to everything we've been taught and we've been trying to do for 100 years.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and I had heard that some of them might have been released in Pitkin County. Did your colleague?
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 13 :
So I think people up in Pitkin County, which normally I think they vote for these radical activist agenda things. I think they might be a little surprised when they start to have all these wolves in their county. What do you think?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, I agree 100%. And I am told. that there is a very influent landowner in Pitkin County that said, hey, bring them on up here. I'm fine with it. Again, an absentee landowner that doesn't truly understand the land. But it's his property. He can do what he wants. But it's going to spill over and affect everybody else's property.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. And what do you think about there might be a ballot initiative to reverse this? What's your ear to the ground say about that?
SPEAKER 04 :
I think that the reason the predator bill in Colorado failed, it's about an issue last time is because there is an understanding with the majority of Coloradans that this was a stupid idea. We really wish we could take it back. And so if that is a potential possibility, I think it needs to be pursued rapidly.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay. And the election results on that, it was Prop 114 was so razor thin. It was 50.91% in favor, 49.09% against. And again, we're working on our Colorado 2024 election project. I think that we have some real challenges regarding our elections. And so with something that close, that's really of great concern. Let's get over here, Trent Luce. I know she's a big fan of yours, and that is Gammy. She is so informed on so many different things, but she wanted to give us an update on some of the stuff that's been happening, so she's going to give us a two-minute synopsis on that. So, Gammy, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 16 :
Thank you. Hi, guys. Hey, it's Gangsta in the Trenches this week. I spent two days with Dr. Clemens and Ann VanderSteel and Viva Frye, of course, by computer as they covered the prisoners record and all the releases all over and 900 days the storm trooper group on the freedom corner which was a spot right by the jail in dc they called a gulag and they released them in small slow walk places worst of all worst of all What happened was Jake Lang didn't get out the day before. I watched this for two days into midnight the first night and all day yesterday to last night. The elation, love, and families there waiting for their people and freezing to death outside while the police lined up to have a show of force for D.C. They made the Freedom Caucus. Representative Boebert, Chip Roy, and many others showed up. to defend and and the marshals to get them out and on some based secondary you know charges six of them didn't get out by about eight last night they may get out today including the famous jeremy brown green beret so this was all nasty but what really is was happening thank god and vandersteel and viva fry gave up their whole sites for two days but here's what what you need to know The immense violation of prisoners' rights, deaths, rape, eyes poked out, beaten, Geneva Convention violated is so egregious that they do need a – I think they need to prosecute and expose and explore the real crimes because if they could do it to you – I mean to them, they could do it to all of us, right? So this isn't over just because they were released, guys. This is just beginning because this ties to everything that you and Trent keep exposing, like the AI use of water and energy, the abuses. This goes to the fact that now the exposure of the crimes of the last two decades must be put out or we, the humans, don't have a chance.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, Gammy, and thank you for sharing that with us. And yes, this is historic with the January 6th, 1500 were issued pardons and being released. And so it's interesting to watch how this is going to transpire. But it all, the truth will come out. And Trent, we've got another caller on the line, and that's Bill in North Glen. Welcome, Bill.
SPEAKER 06 :
You guys were talking earlier about the Wolf Initiative. There are putting forth a ballot initiative and i think that's key in colorado we have the ability as the citizenry to rise up and i think trent had mentioned that something happened in south dakota regarding land grab or something we as citizens need to get up and let's repeal this idiotic egg thing because we don't want the little chicken upset because he's in a cage let's get rid of these grocery bag situation let's take it to the people and let the people decide I know that the Republicans in the State House are planning a program, and they're going to use it to repeal a bunch of these bills, but very likely they're going to fail because we're in the minority. But we need to do what Trump is doing. He's a showman and come out and say, okay, these people denied you, the Coloradans, the ability to choose whether you want the chicken in the cage or not, and you want to spend $10, $15 a dozen for eggs or whatever. we need to do that and we need to be a little bit better with the media in Colorado. And I think that Colorado may not be as liberal as we think they are. I mean, for the most part, all these liberals are quite deranged to liberalism as a mental illness. But I think if we get some practical moves like ballot initiatives, I really think that the people would say, hey, this is reasonable and it's common sense, just like Trump is doing now.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay. Bill in North Glen, thank you. Great ideas. Trent Luce, we're basically out of time, but great conversations today, Trent.
SPEAKER 04 :
It always is, and our goal is to inspire more people to stand up and be like Gammy and Bill, and we'll do it one day at a time. Thank you, Kim.
SPEAKER 13 :
We will.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'll be over for sausage and pancakes right after this.
SPEAKER 13 :
And Trent Luce, keep up the good work. We'll talk next week.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you.
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Join us as we explore an unforgettable moment in history where commitment to American strength and sovereignty takes center stage. From critiques over the swearing-in ceremony to compelling orations about America's future, this episode unpacks the optimism and drama of Trump's return as leader. Mike Deller, from the Relief Factor Studios, adds depth to every key moment, making this a must-listen for anyone following the unfolding story of America’s renewal.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor studios, here's Mike Deller.
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I have a framed cover of the New York Post on my studio wall. It has a picture of Donald Trump with his fist in the air. It says, Trump shot. Bloodied but unbowed, ex-president survives assassination attempt. Now I want to add another New York Post cover image. To my wall, I want to put today's cover under the framed cover of the New York Post that says Trump shot. And today's cover, Donald Trump, 45th and 47th president, vows, and in big, bold letters, golden age of America. And it's a big picture of the swearing-in ceremony that, incidentally, Chief Justice Roberts botched. He rushed it, didn't give Melania time to stand by her husband's side. And as a result, he didn't have his hand on the Bibles that she was to hold because John Roberts screwed up another swearing-in. He messed up the Obama inauguration, too, the swearing-in ceremony. They had to redo it. Remember they had to do a do-over because John Roberts couldn't read the few words that were on the paper correctly? Well, this time he rushed it, and so Melania and the kids couldn't be at their husband and dad's side fast enough, and she didn't have time to hold the Bibles up, leading to this whole plethora of conspiracy theories going about why he didn't have his hand on the Bible. You can thank John Roberts once again. Big dummy. Anyway, here we go. The golden age begins. And I'm going to get that framed. The golden age of America. Below Trump's shot. What a year. And what a time to be alive. It's like we've got to pinch ourselves. Is this really all happening? His day yesterday, look, I got a little tired for a quick trip to Washington, D.C. How this man does what he does, 42 executive orders and memos and proclamations, 115 personnel actions, over 200 executive actions, 60 minutes of press questions and answers, and three historic speeches, not to mention dancing with his wife at the Commander-in-Chief Ball. and having a giant sword to cut the cake with, and singing and dancing to the YMCA from the village people. My gosh. Yesterday he announced to the nation that we are a nation that will be proud again, that will be prosperous again, that will be free again.
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I couldn't get enough of the images of Kamala and Joe and Hillary and Bill and Barack all sitting there. having to endure his promise to fix the mess that they created. It was amazing. It was astounding, actually. It was like a hostage video. They were held hostage. They're in that room, having to listen to him say, I've basically inherited a dumpster fire, and here I am to put it out. And the fire was ignited by the horrific policies of these Democrats. My gosh. What a time to be alive. And one of the things, here's the first meltdown of the golden age. The meltdown is the executive order that Trump signed that would end birthright citizenship. You know what birthright, you're born here, you're guaranteed citizenship. And what has happened is Thousands and thousands, maybe millions of illegal immigrants have endangered their children's lives, packing them up and sneaking into America by hoping to give birth while in illegal on American soil so that their child can be guaranteed American citizenship. And I was so fascinated by the way Axios characterizes this. This is the legacy media for you. And let me share with you how they portray it. And then let me give you the common sense people's president's assessment of this. Headline. Trump, this is from Axios today. Trump signs executive order attacking birthright citizenship guaranteed by the Constitution. Oh, no. He's shredding the Constitution on day one? How can this be? Well, Axios explains in its own article that the 14th Amendment, which was ratified in 1868, was passed, you know why? Not to protect illegals who want to sneak into the United States over the border and give birth on American soil. No. No. The 14th Amendment was passed to give emancipated and formerly enslaved black Americans citizenship. Blacks weren't allowed to be citizens. And in 1868, the 14th Amendment was passed to guarantee that they will be. It didn't apply to people sneaking into this country and giving birth on American soil. Now, let me read some more from Axios. Why it matters. Trump is acting on a once fringe belief that U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants have no right to U.S. citizenship. Now, let me repeat that to you. Axios, a legacy mainstream media outlet inside the Beltway, claims that Trump is acting on on a fringe belief. It was once the fringe. In other words, we're all wacky to believe that U.S.-born children of illegals don't have a right to U.S. citizenship. Okay, let's dive in. Let's answer it. I want to turn to you. 800-655-MIKE. Do you think... I'll use Axios' phrase. Do you believe that U.S.-born children of illegals have a right to U.S. citizenship under the 14th Amendment? Knowing that the 14th Amendment was passed... to give the newly emancipated slaves their citizenship. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. One phone number does it all. You can call, text, email the show, mike at mikeonline.com. We're streaming live today on X. We've got the show available to you in a variety of ways. Of course, watching on the Salem News Channel as well and all of its platforms. Welcome in. If you're new to the show, we welcome you with open arms. We're pretty loving and inclusive around here. And we're especially in a great mood after the golden age kicked off yesterday. 800-655-6453. Give me your take next. Put the heaven in your heart and let me be.
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Mike Gallagher.
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What was your highlight of your executive order?
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I think the birthright citizenship, Jesse, was huge. There's going to be an immediate lawsuit filed against that because, of course, there's a constitutional provision about birthright citizenship that the court has not resolved. But most constitutional scholars believe the Constitution requires it. There is an interesting debate that you can actually, an argument that you can make for President Trump's position on this. It's obviously ludicrous. That was good. The J6 pardons.
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What did he do there? Let's talk about, and she's a lawyer and I'm not, and I don't pretend to play one on TV. But if the Constitution, if the 14th Amendment to the Constitution was intended to give emancipated slaves citizenship... Tell me how that has anything to do with swimming across the Rio Grande, plopping yourself in Houston or Galveston or Greenville, South Carolina, having a baby, and then clinging to the 14th Amendment as the reason to ensure that that baby is a citizen. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Again, I'm no lawyer. I can't imagine that there's a debate. Let them sue. And if they're going to sue over Trump's executive order regarding birthright citizenship, who gets to sue Joe Biden over his last-minute preemptive pardons of scoundrels? How does that work? Can anybody sue? It's wrong. It's absolutely wrong. And I like where we're headed. Henry's in Tampa, Florida, 23 past the hour. Hello, Henry. Welcome to the golden age of America, huh? Yeah. How are you feeling?
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Great. I'm feeling great today. Good. Me too. Let's everybody read the second part of that sentence in the paragraph. It's paraphrasing. It's something in the effective. that those people who have birthright sentences must be under the control of the government. And if you are a foreigner... into this person, even if you do something wrong, including birth, it has to be reported to the embassy of that person.
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Well, let me read. I'll read the 14th Amendment in total here in just a moment. I want to also share a text from New York that I just received on the MyPillow text line that makes a lot of sense, too. And again, this is perfect. Very important point. hopefully the change in birthright citizenship will reduce the number of deliveries in the United States hospitals. These people, many of them have no insurance. Well, how would you have insurance if you're an illegal immigrant and you're living here illegally? You think you have health insurance? As the texter writes, they just want the social security number and access to our system. Then many go back to their home country as they're not here with proper long-term documents. They now have a child of U.S. citizenship. The health care system is broken thanks in large measure... to the many illegals and births from those who come into our country just for the benefit. They can't be refused services. That's the point. That's the whole point. And Axios, oh, this is attacking something guaranteed by the Constitution. Trump is acting on a fringe belief. that U.S.-born children have no right to citizenship, and they're part of a big conspiracy that's racist to replace white Americans. Oh, yeah, the great replacement theory. That's back now, according to Axios and all these lunatics who are losing their marbles over Trump with a common-sense perspective. "...all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," says Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, "...are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process." nor denied any person within its jurisdiction the equal protections of the laws. And, you know, there are multiple sections to the 14th Amendment. But again, according to Axios, I'm going by the legacy guys and gals, this was put into place in our Constitution to ensure that slaves could be citizens. So, look, good for Trump. We've got to do a lot of YMCA today, Eric. You got a YMCA? Let's pop that in there. How about Trump dancing to YMCA as he was cutting the cake, this giant cake, at the Commander-in-Chief ball last night? Oh, my gosh. Somebody posted today on social media, I went to bed with that image in my mind, and I woke up with that in my mind. Me too. It's a golden age, and it's here, and doesn't it feel great? There's no better time than right now to call my friends at PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition to start your journey to a healthier you. As I hear from you about how PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition has changed your life, I know that each one of us has had our own reasons for starting. I started my journey because I gained enough weight and was ready to make a change. i sat down with dr ashley lucas and like they say the rest was history i lost 53 pounds and i've kept it off we all have different reasons for starting maybe you got a discouraging diagnosis from your doctor you needed to make a lifestyle change one grandmother i talked to couldn't chase her toddler grandson and was afraid he might get hurt in her care another gentleman had lower back and hip pain which forced him to give up golf he wanted his life back you want your life back Do what I did. Start the PhD journey. Make 2024 your year to say goodbye and let go of all those unwanted pounds. Call PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition today to schedule your consultation. Call 864-644-1900. 864-644-1900. Or just go to MyPhDWeightLoss.com. MyPhDWeightLoss.com.
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I didn't think I could get any happier with the last 24, 48 hours. I just saw a story about an ex-Obama official, Jay Johnson. Remember him? The former Homeland Security Secretary under Barack Obama? He told Morning Joe today on MSNBC that he expected mass resignations from the Justice Department following Trump's pardoning of 1,500 January 6 offenders. Does that make you as happy as it makes me? Good. Good. Clean them out. I hope they all quit. Do a big churn. Do a complete reset at the DOJ. This guy said it like it was a bad thing. Now, as you know, one of the big crises apparently with the mainstream media. is that Trump pardoned approximately 1,500. Actually, as I understand, there were commutations. There were some pardons. There were commutations. Let's let the actual signing, as he's sitting in the Oval Office, hanging out with Peter Doocy. Peter Doocy has died and gone to heaven. No more will Peter Doocy have to fight with Binder's Pierre anymore. And he was owning that press event in the Oval Office last night. Peter Doocy was asking every other question. It's like they were old pals. Peter Doocy can't believe his good fortune that Trump is back in the White House and Peter Doocy stays on the beat. And they're just chatting away. Trump, I can't stop laughing. He kept signing an executive order. Oh, what's this one? Mr. President, this is 1.653, ending birthright citizenship. Oh, yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one. Let me sign that. Hey, Peter, what do you have next? And they're just talking. And you can hear the sound of the Sharpie on the document while he's talking. Can you picture Biden trying to do that? He'd slump over. He would just fall back over his chair. Kamala would just giggle. She would just cackle uncontrollably. She couldn't do that. Trump's day yesterday was a masterpiece. Up at 6 or 7 in the morning, executive orders, three major speeches. I mean, I've never seen anything like it in my life. How about him dancing in the Trump dance to YMCA while swinging around a sword that he used to cut the giant cake at the Commander-in-Chief ball. I mean, in fact, I got to put you in a good mood. We got to play it for you. Good day for you to be watching the show. We got a lot of new listeners, too, on radio stations all over the country. I got emotional last night thinking about 2024. You know, I know that our return to News Talk 98.9 WORD in South Carolina is kind of an inside baseball thing. I mean, look, if you're in Hawaii, you don't care where you hear the show, right? But if I had to tell you where my home was, and I've had many homes in my life, Ohio, South Carolina, New York, Now Florida. But South Carolina, the upstate, is really home for me. And everybody there who I know and love, they know it. That's my home. I'm sure it's where I'll retire. I just love that community. And due to a series of events, we were on that station, and then the company I worked for bought another station. They took me off the station, much to my dismay. And we were on the other station for eight or nine years. And then the company I worked for sold the radio station. And so we were just praying that we could go back to WORD. And we did. And I think everybody's happy. It feels like the management there and the team and great hosts. I mean, Tara. Tara is incredible. She's so smart. Charlie James is wonderful. Bill Frady is a terrific host. And look, that was back in May. And I remember thinking, if we get the chance to go back to News Talk 98.9 WORD, this powerhouse station, And we lose the election, how awful that would be. So the election victory that Republicans experienced was icing on the cake. I mean, I know it's way more important than what station I'm on. But for me to be back home again. I did. I got emotional. I shed some tears because I thought how lucky I am, how blessed I am, and how grateful I am. They didn't have to bring me back. They just didn't. They had to make some changes. They had a kind of a... Rhino guy. I don't want to cast aspersions, but they made some great changes there. And having Joey Hudson with me on the station. Joey does an early morning show for them. He does a weekend show. And, of course, he was doing hits with Tara. I don't know why they didn't ask me. I guess Tara likes Joey more than me. There's Joey in the car talking to Tara. And I thought, why can't I talk to Tara? Anyway, it was just a real epic year for us. And I'm just so happy. I cannot contain my exuberance. And there was Trump. They presented President Trump and Vice President Vance with swords at this military inauguration. It's called the Commander-in-Chief Ball. And one of the symbols, of course, they danced with their spouses for a little bit, and that was a great moment. They looked great. There's Trump in his tux and Melania, oh my gosh, stunning in a black and white outfit that was, she didn't have a hat on, thank goodness. You could see her beautiful face and Usha, the beautiful wife of J.D. Vance. It was just incredible. The day was, I can't get over it. I feel like we're dreaming. It's just too, it's too much. It's too good. And so Trump takes the sword. They give him a sword for some reason to cut the cake because it's a huge cake. And the YMCA theme comes on from the village people. So he starts doing the Trump dance while swinging the sword around. I mean, this is the president of the United States. You've never seen anything like this in your life. Can I share this with you, please? First of all, if you're watching this on Salem News Channel, you'll get it. I'm also going to send you back. We'll send you back the clip on our MyPillow text line, too. So hit it, Christian. Let's put everybody in a good mood. He's got the sword in his right hand. He's doing the dance. Melania's laughing. Keep it going. And they're all laughing, and Melania starts doing the dance, too. I've never seen her do it. Now, she does an elegant version. She doesn't have the closed fists. She does an open-handed Trump dance, which is even better. Gosh, the joy really is back. Isn't it fascinating to consider that Kamala attempted to manufacture a message of joy, and there was zero joy with that bunch. Nothing. There's real joy here. And incidentally, if you want that video clip, which is sure to put a smile on your face, just text the letters YMCA to our MyPillow text line at 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453, and we'll send you back the clip that is sure to put a smile on your face. Just text YMCA to 800-655-6453, and we will send you back... That glorious moment where Trump and Melania and J.D. and Usha are doing the Trump dance to YMCA while he's swinging the sword around. I mean, that could have put somebody's eye out. 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I think a lot of people woke up the morning after this election, after believing for almost a decade, like you say, Anand, that this is not who we are and said, I guess this is who we are.
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Isn't that fascinating? People that, according to this NBC anchor, people thought what we are is an open border, lawless society that doesn't follow any mores or standards, that rejects Faith, family, freedom. Burn cities down when a black guy is killed. I mean, an assault on every decent American. Willie Geist evidently thought that there were people who said, yep, that's who we are. And then they woke up and they said, guess that's not who we are. Well, that is not who we are. We don't... Most Americans... as evidenced by the landslide election of Donald Trump, despite their best efforts to make it look like it was close. And it wasn't close. How do you win every swing state? How do you win the way he won and pretend it was close? The popular vote? Newsflash? That's not how we decide the outcome of elections. It was a landslide. So there is a mandate. And everything is changing. I mean, I'm broadcasting today from the Gulf of America. I'm on the Gulf of America now. Florida has become the first state to officially refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issued an emergency declaration ahead of a forecasted winter storm that might be affecting the Panhandle, I guess, and up in the northern part. I mean, it's chilly here in Tampa Bay. But Trump issued an order to create names that honor American greatness. And one of them is changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. I don't think I'll ever say it. It's like I never call the Freedom Tower in lower Manhattan anything other than the Freedom Tower, despite the politically correct nudniks wanting to change that name. Well, now it's the Gulf of America. I'll never say Gulf of Mexico again. Now, let me ask you, are these changes going to be permanent? Is it as good as we think it is? Tell me what you think. 800-655-MIKE.
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Mike Gallagher. Every day, Mike visits with Mark Davis, morning host on 660 AM The Answer in Dallas. Here's today's Eminem experience.
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Welcome, my friend. Breathe deep. Take a deep breath. Does it feel different? Does it just feel different today, Mr. Mike?
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The image of Lisa cooking you a lunch and holding hands on the couch watching the inaugural ceremony has just warmed my heart. I would be nowhere else. I went to bed last night with the image of Trump waving a sword, dancing to YMCA as he cut the cake with J.D. Vance last night. And I woke up with that image in my mind. Burned into our brain. I've never seen anything like this in my life. I mean, it feels like we're in this wonderful, delicious dream that doesn't feel real. I mean, in just 24 hours, the idea that this guy stood up there and just eviscerated the deep state in front of... Barack Obama and Joe Biden and Kamala, that speech, it was so perfect. It was so magnificent. And I couldn't get enough of the facial expressions of all of these Democrats who were forced to sit there and listen to. I mean, it was like everything. felt better everything was vindicated everything all of the pain we felt over his horrific 34 felony convictions all of the anguish we felt over the assassination attempts all of the efforts to weaponize the justice department to make sure he didn't get elected yeah All the media corruption, all the haters, all the lies they told about him over the years, everything they like. Everything came to fruition when he stood there at that podium yesterday and just ripped them apart in a in a in a really, you know, almost pleasant way. I mean, it was like, look, I'm not going to sit around here and do Kumbaya. They tried to they tried to destroy him, Mark. Why would he? Why would he stand there and say, OK, thanks for rifling through my wife's underwear door. So now let's be friends. He's not going to do that. You know, he's not going to do that, which makes the pardons that Biden came up with so egregious. Let me let me let's start there together, Mark. I want to start with the pardons. Here's a headline from The Hill. Adam Schiff. calls Trump's January 6th pardons a grotesque display of power. Hey, Pencil Neck, you might want to sit down on this one because you got a preemptive pardon. That's right. Now, look, here's my attitude about his pardon of the 1,500 January 6ers. Mm-hmm. There's about 1,500 of them, and all night long on Twitter, on X, and everywhere they were saying, oh, my, praise God, I've been pardoned. My record is cleared. I've got another friend. I'm coming out of jail tonight. My family's coming to get me because they were releasing them last night. Okay. Biden decides he's going to give Liz Cheney, Anthony Fauci. Let's start. Let's do it. Look, Mark Milley. Yep. Mark Milley. Let's do. And his own family. But let's start with and he did that as a as a real blank you because he did it minutes before the inauguration ceremony, because at the last possible moment, because he knows how how his legacy has just been completed. Completely shattered. Whatever legacy he had left, it's in the gutter now. I mean, there's nothing left of the Biden legacy after these pardons. But let's go tit for tat. Okay, you're going to pardon Anthony Fauci if the allegation about Fauci is true. that he was absolutely involved and complicit in this Wuhan virus. He was complicit in the whole coronavirus scam. If he had any hand... in the horrific pandemic that destroyed this country and much of the world, okay? Put us on hold, everything else. I would say that's a little more serious than even breaking a window at the Capitol. I would say it's a lot more serious than even something that sickens me, but... Fighting with a police officer.
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Yeah, rioting is bad. Let us stipulate that rioting is bad.
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No one's going to do it. You're not going to get the guy from Gallagher's Heroes, the fallen officer fund, an argument about that. Rioting and assaulting cops is bad. A pandemic complicity is worse. Correct. If Tony Fauci can be pardoned for that, you know what? I am absolutely fine with pardoning every damn last one of them of January 6th. I'm sorry. That's how I feel about it. Playtime is over. Party time is done. And these guys are – and to sit – and I got to say this about – did you see George W. Bush at the – the faces he was making? I did. Rolling his eyes and all the weird – and somebody apparently was able to lip read Obama. No, they weren't.
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Well, no, no, an actual lip reader. I think that's a very inexact science. But anyway, go.
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Oh, it's not that hard. But look, I don't think look, look, I don't think it's nefarious. What did he supposedly write? He supposedly said, but it was a joke. It's OK. But he said supposedly did Bush. Is there any way we can stop this from happening? Well, there you go.
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More lip reading from Obama. My wife and Karen Pence are on their third bottle of wine in a hotel suite not far from here.
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Karen Pence couldn't even show up, just like Michelle. Let's lip read Barron. Did you see Barron lean into Biden and say something and Biden's facial expression change? Barron Trump, the youngest Trump, said something. I think pretty devastating to Joe Biden because Biden was like giving him pleasantries. Oh, no, you see, his whole facial expression changed, Mark.
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Listen, he might have fallen asleep for a moment. I don't know. Barron could have leaned in and said, hey, do you like Nintendo Switch? And Biden would have had that very same.
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No, I think Barron leaned in and said, raiding my family's home was a big mistake, old man. Stop.
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Stop it.
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Stop it.
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No, I'm telling you. I don't believe that for a minute. Have you seen the clip? I don't disbelieve it.
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Something happened.
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I don't know what I do. My favorite Barron moment. There's so many Barron moments. That is a fine looking young man. You know what? He looks just like his mom and just like his dad. Have you ever seen the picture of him?
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Have you ever seen the comparison of Barron when Trump was that age? They're like twins. He looks just like Donald Trump when Trump was young, was in his 20s. They look identical. It's unbelievable.
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And he's 18. Now, did you catch him as he enjoyed the cheers of the crowd, the Novak Djokovic hand to the ear? I took a look at that. Did that picture, tweeted it out with four numbers, 2044.
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No, I'm telling you. And look, give him credit because President Trump gives his son a lot of credit. For the youth vote. For Trump embracing the youth vote and the podcast world and going on to a lot of these podcasts and Rogan and all that. And that's, of course, what an 18-year-old is following. And I love all the memes that show Barron leading into his dad saying, Father, Joe Biden must be destroyed. He always says, Father. Father. Father. Father, you must destroy.
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While we're working our way through the family, can I stop the segment down right now and destroy the listenership of two talk shows at once? I'm going to throw down my hot opinion of the day. You ready? First of all, Melania. Thank God she's back. Fashion icon. Fantastic. Elegant. Especially last night. For the actual inaugural thing, did not enjoy the hat. Well, it's a look. It is, but I like to see people's eyes. And here's the funny thing. When Trunk shows up, he leans into Melania for the little kiss, and the brim of the hat catches him on the bridge of the nose, and everybody goes, and I'm half kidding about that. And please, I'm being totally, just having a little fun here.
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I had the benefit of being with Peg Hudson in the hotel, watching a lot of it after we were at the balls and everything. Yeah. And Peg and Joey and I were in the room and Peg said, look, I would have liked to seen the hat up a little bit. But Peg said and Peg knows she looks like she's down to step right out of a fashion magazine. She always she had a ball gown on for the balls, a black, beautiful flowing. It was she looked beautiful. Anyway, she said, you got to understand that Melania knows fashion. And that's that look is exactly what that calls for. I'm like you. I would have liked to seen her face.
SPEAKER 08 :
If I could see Stevie Ray Vaughan's eyes when he wore that hat, I should be able to see.
SPEAKER 07 :
I know. I know. But she's the only woman when I'm in when I've interviewed President Trump and a couple of times I've interviewed him. Was she with with her at his side? Yeah. she takes my breath away she is so she's it's it's unbelievable i mean the skin the face the eyes the hair it's like you stand there and you say this cannot be an actual human being i'm not kidding you she's the most pardon me honey my my wife in heaven is probably going to yell at me when i i'm the chains are going to rattle tonight but she's the most beautiful woman i've ever seen in my life it's unbelievable
SPEAKER 08 :
Do you hear Trump talking about the shoes in Emancipation Hall? The shoes were killing her. She kept saying, I'm going to do this.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm going to do this. My feet hurt. How about when Trump said, she said, sir. And then he said, oh, wait a minute. She never calls me, sir. And she's back there shaking her head saying, no kidding, dummy. I never. Look, you know, somebody described her last night. I think it was Kayleigh McEnany who said, Melania's got a quiet strength. She's her own woman. Oh, no, it was Jeanine Pirro. It was Janine Pirro who's known them forever, right? Who knows a little something about strength that's not quiet. So I love Judge Janine. Right. And Judge Janine knew Melania and Donald before they were married. And Janine told a story last night. And that was a weird segment where Sean is up there with these giggling women who are all like screaming about the fashion and the hair and the shoes and everything. And Sean's going, what am I doing here? It was hysterical. Sean, by the way, who I saw online the other night, just bought a $23 million mansion in Palm Beach. You want to see a house? Google that house. Boy, and Sean with Ainsley Earhart.
SPEAKER 08 :
Is Ainsley his brand new wife? His fiancee. They got married over Christmas. They did get married? Yes. Are they married? Yeah, London boy. They got married over Christmas. Oh, I didn't know. Look, isn't that crazy? But she's got to still be in New York for Fox and Friends.
SPEAKER 07 :
During the week. And he's in Florida, and they get together on the weekends. But then again, when you own a couple of G5s and helicopters and Sikorskis, you can get together.
SPEAKER 08 :
He can be together with her sooner than I can meet Lisa in downtown Dallas.
SPEAKER 07 :
Look, she could be in Iceland, and they're closer than you and Lisa. Exactly. from Flower Mound or whatever to Dallas, Texas. But anyway, there's Sean up there, and they're all good. But Jeanine Pirro told the story about how when Trump first started dating Melania, they all said she's the one because she's smart, she's independent. I mean, she speaks six languages. And fun fact, never once on the cover of any fashion magazine in the first year. Whereas Michelle Obama...
SPEAKER 08 :
With their Target outfits on. Some of them are J.Crew, I think.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, J.Crew, that's true. That's on the cover of Vogue, but not Melania and Jill Biden on the cover.
SPEAKER 08 :
Dude, I may be wrong. I'm Googling. I don't think they got married yet. The engagement got announced. Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, that's what I thought. I'm so enthused I'm getting people married who are just engaged. No, they're not married yet. Put this just in, Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhart welcomed their first child. Sorry. No, he's kidding. He's kidding. Engaged. They're engaged, engaged, engaged. I thought, you know, I kind of like to get these things right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Anyway, we're going to have some fun today on the show because I'm going to play clips of Biden and Adam Schiff and Liz Cheney and all the rest of them condemning preemptive pardons. Hey, look at their consistency check. Isn't that funny? Look, here's the fact. And you know this better than anybody. Everything the Democrats and the legacy media falsely claim Trump would do. Mm hmm. They did.
SPEAKER 08 :
Every accusation is an admission.
SPEAKER 07 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 08 :
Every accusation is an admission. And, you know, for anybody who thought for anybody who thought as Trump was delivering those inaugural remarks, which could absolutely have been subtitled undoing everything you people did as Biden and Kamala sit right there. For anybody who thought, oh, is this kind of harsh? Does he really have to do this? Just pause, check yourself and remember everything these vicious people did to him for four years. A Hitler level threat to democracy. They tried to financially ruin him, personally ruin him, politically ruin him. Spare me the violin music for a somewhat terse inaugural address.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's why I proudly say as I sit on the Gulf of America in my home, I'm now on the Gulf of America.
SPEAKER 08 :
Do you know the answer to that?
SPEAKER 07 :
DeSantis.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think Florida. Florida gets to determine what a body of water is called?
SPEAKER 07 :
He already did it. Last night, DeSantis did kind of a proclamation about this being the Gulf of America now. I mean, I don't know who gets to do it.
SPEAKER 08 :
I don't either. It would seem like, do we unilaterally? It would seem... Okay, by me. America first.
SPEAKER 07 :
I love it. Oh, my gosh. Can we do something to the Atlantic or the Pacific? Can we work on those two? No, we just got to worry about the Gulf of Mexico. Did you see Hillary cracking up when he said that at the speech? They showed her laughing. Good. You laugh away, Hillary. You laugh away because you'll never be president. Here's what I know. I'm a little tired from the trip yesterday. I watched a man get up at about 6 a.m. He issued 42 executive orders and proclamations, 115 personnel actions. He signed over 200 executive actions while talking to reporters in the White House.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I stepped away from the TV and you texted me and said, are you watching Trump right now? And I said, well, hang on a couple hours behind on the DVR. And there he is for an hour and a quarter in the Oval Office just signing stuff, taking questions, signing stuff, taking questions. Riffing, riffing. Yes, just and it got to be like nine something Eastern time. And I thought, doesn't he need to be getting ready for the inaugural balls where he didn't show up until 1030?
SPEAKER 07 :
Dance the night away until well past one and sang and sang and danced with the sword in the hand swinging to YMCA by the village people. All I know is the funniest moment of the night came from one of your texts. Because I said, you've got to see this. He's in the Oval Office signing executive orders. And you can hear the creaking of the pen on the paper as he said, oh, here's a good one. Oh, yeah. I mean, one after the other after the other. And the text back from you, because you were catching up, was, Mother of God, dear sweet Jesus, he's throwing pens into the crowd. I laughed for 10 minutes.
SPEAKER 08 :
I was two hours because he'd done the signing ceremony. And at one point between signing stuff, there were a couple of moments of silence, even in an arena of 20,000. And I hear somebody from eight rows back yell, can you throw me a pen? And I thought, he's going to do it. He's going to throw this guy a pen. Well, there are about 10 pens left. He's throwing pens like the Mavericks shoot T-shirts up into the crowd of the AAC.
SPEAKER 07 :
Pens used to sign executive orders. So somebody walked away. I brought my producer back a coffee mug, but man, I wish I could have grabbed a pen. Get one of those pens. They're on eBay for $5,000. The golden age is here, my friend.
SPEAKER 06 :
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In this episode, we dive deep into the immediate actions taken by the newly inaugurated administration. As President Trump and his team begin to reshape key policies, we explore the barrage of executive orders that signal a significant shift in direction. From civil servant reform to changes in birthright citizenship, these orders are already facing legal challenges, setting the stage for a contentious few months ahead. We also discuss the significance of recent pardons issued and what they suggest about the legal landscape moving forward.
SPEAKER 04 :
today on seculo it's exposed the left lawsuits begin against president trump keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever this is seculo we want to hear from you share and post your comments for call 1-800-684-3110 and now your host jordan seculo
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, welcome to Seculo. As you can see, I'm in Washington, D.C. It's been a week of inaugurations in West Virginia with our colleague J.B. McCuskey, former colleague, becoming the West Virginia Attorney General, of course, here in Washington, D.C., with the officials swearing in of President Trump, J.D. Vance, and that team now going to work today and yesterday full-time with the president signing... 200 executive orders, some new orders, some rescinding and just one order rescinded 78 executive orders by President Biden. We'll walk through some of these on the hot button topics and issues that President Trump campaigned on. And he did it right away after taking the oath in that rally setting. Things were different in Washington, D.C., because most All the events were held inside. I will tell you, even to get inside as we did some of these inaugural balls and events, I mean, just for the five or ten minutes you may be outside, it was, you know, ten degrees outside. So it made sense to move things inside. At the same time, the administration is getting to work and, as you saw, was very prepared on what to do on day one. And I think we're already – I just came from a meeting with our legal team in D.C. going through those executive orders as they are, as we see lawsuits already begin to be filed against the Trump administration. One on Doge. We're seeing others talked about on Fox. birthright citizenship and definitions there. We'll talk through it on the show, but we've already identified, I think, 15 to 16 that are likely going to have lawsuits filed and that we are ready to defend along with the Trump administration.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's right, Jordan. And as you mentioned, and as you have said, since the time of the election, that as soon as there's a new administration, our work in some degree ramps up very aggressively because these groups, these outside groups, will start attacking the very policies that President Trump was elected to enact. And through these executive actions, they are being challenged already. One is being challenged, the Department of Government Efficiency. And then we also see states getting ready to take action against the birthright citizenship, narrowing of that definition that was put out in an order yesterday. And this is just the beginning. We know that those are the ones that were ready to file at 1202, if you will, yesterday or right after things were signed. But these will continue to mount. And we want to make sure that the government can do its job and the new administration can do its job. Therefore, we will be ready to engage these lawsuits as well. And I know you've been meeting with our folks in D.C. and our team there already strategizing our first moves against these lawsuits.
SPEAKER 07 :
For instance, civil servant reform. This is the ability to make sure that when you go in as a department head, whether that's the cabinet-level secretary or undersecretary, and you've got staff of maybe hundreds of federal bureaucrats, and within that civil servant group, there are those who are time and time again Showing you they are they are giving you willful disregard for the instructions and policies that your elected administration that you serve has been is to carry out that you can then remove those people right now. It takes basically. a criminal act by a civil servant to actually remove them this would make it removable by cause because they are thwarting the policies and the input in the actual policies you know putting them into action so a lot of work to do but all work that's necessary to make our government work again for the american people we want you to support the work of the aclj donate today at aclj.org i will tell you our washington team is going to be very busy as the lawsuits begin filed today against the trump administration we'll be right back with your calls on seculo All right, welcome back to Seculo. We are taking your calls, 1-800-684-3110. If you want to join us today on the broadcast, we'd love to hear your thoughts on yesterday with the inauguration of President Trump, his remarks and remarks that he gave throughout the day. You know, did some interesting things that were different, obviously, because of the weather here, but was already going to do some that were different, too, like holding that rally and And then, of course, utilizing that same event space to do kind of a different kind of parade because, again, the high temperatures I think were in the 20s. But while the temperatures were cold, I will tell you, people are just very excited about the prospects of what is already getting done. in this administration what is changing in the world I point to again is everything perfect in the world on day one absolutely not but does it feel like we have a team coming together in place that is excited about tackling these really difficult issues and going out there as happy warriors to represent America. And I think at the same time, Will, from our legal perspective, we see the lawsuits that are already being filed, one on Doge. There will certainly be lawsuits filed on... civil servant reform. Uh, you know, we talked about what draining the swamp means. Draining the swamp really means how, how do you get rid of these bad actors in the bureaucracy? If they're constantly thwarting the president's directives, which are then carried out by these departments. So, you know, they are a problem person. They are, they are willfully ignoring, um, the, the advice, the job that they are instructions that they are given by their, uh, directors who are political appointees. And in some cases, not only do they ignore, they actually do the opposite or try and slow walk things or just cause things to be difficult. That someone like that can be removed or at least put into a different position, if not completely removed from the federal government. So this is learning... I think the Trump team learning from those first four years, really, how do you get to those problem people? And what's the best way to drain the swamp? And the best way to drain the swamp, Will, is to make sure that you can start removing people from these positions after they have shown that they're not going to follow the rules, they're not going to follow the policies, that they are not going to respect who the American people decided to elect as president of the United States and put in these positions as head of the departments that they work for. If they're not going to do that, they shouldn't be working there, certainly not in policy positions, which is what this is limited to. So it's not trying to fire the people who are taking care of the buildings or securing the buildings. They're bureaucratic policymakers. So they are people that still have to do with inputting policy. And it shouldn't take, as it does right now, and we know this from our work with people like Lois Lerner, it shouldn't take the potential of criminal policy. conduct to have to remove a bad employee. Certainly that's not how the private sector works and it's not how the public sector should work either. If they are thwarting the will of the American people by disregarding the instructions of the president or the president's executive, basically cabinet, then they should be gone. They should be removed from that position. But we know, Will, that is going to be a massive lawsuit. So the ACLJ team Here upstairs, before I was in the radio studio, we began working on putting that team together.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's right, Jordan. And as I look at these executive actions that were taken yesterday, I kind of put them in two categories. You have a lot on the border and securing the border, which is clearly a mandate of the American people, and then draining the swamp, getting rid of the deep state, whether it be the executive order on ending censorship or or the ones that are more directed towards the hiring practices, the merit-based system, telling people they have to come back to work. And those are all things that both sides, both the border and the draining the swamp category, I think will get a flurry of lawsuits as we're already seeing. And while the one on Doge that was filed minutes after Trump was sworn into office, it's trying to focus in on a 1972 law And it's filed by a group called National Security Counselors. And what they're saying is that Doge meets the requirements to be considered a federal advisory committee, which is a legal entity regulated to ensure the government receives transparent and balanced advice. And they are required to have fairly balanced representation, keep minutes of meetings, allow the public to attend, file a charter with Congress and more. which they're alleging in this lawsuit that doge hasn't done i feel like this one could have been a premature lawsuit and that's why we want to get in on it early because you look at this and they're making these assumptions however doge is just an idea until the president becomes president yet they file the lawsuit minutes after he takes office he can't establish something before he's president he can't do all these necessary requirements before he's president so they're making the assumption that it won't be under that class of a legal entity a federal advisory committee maybe it will uh they're also telegraphing maybe things that they could get around this but i feel like this lawsuit is one that we need to get on early because it could be a pretty quick win where some of the others you know the deep state is going to fight hard about going back into the office being able to be fired those lawsuits are coming too But you can't just let one slip away in these early stages. And that's what we're prepared to do.
SPEAKER 07 :
Really, this is what the person on the Doge complaint is complaining about. It's so Washington, D.C. that this is the complaint, if I can just get it out. It says that the panel is breaking a 1972 law that requires advisory committees to the executive branch to follow certain rules on disclosure, hiring, and other practices. Like you said, Will, we're not at that point yet of Doge. From what I know, Elon Musk has not been paid anything. They might have people who... have been working on the outside during a transition that was being paid for, not by the federal government, by the way, but by, again, it's a mix of dollars that every incoming administration can receive. And there may have been teams that were working on, okay, what is this going to look like? Is this going to be something outside or inside the government? I think we're still waiting to get the exact answers on it. But the lawsuit's saying is... You can't have it because they want the disclosure, they want the hiring, they want it all to be basically available by FOIA. I'm not saying ultimately it wouldn't be, but usually commissions within the White House and work that is inside the White House is not subject to FOIA. So while they're talking about the record keeping, if this is an advisory committee, depending on what level it is to the president of the United States, the FOIA angle is very difficult for these legal organizations who, again, are just trying to make trouble. in the first 24 hours of President Trump's second presidency. A lot of these are premature, but like you said, Will, we know voters were encouraged by these. They want to see action. They want to see what someone like Elon Musk and his brain can do when looking at a department and you know that half these buildings are still empty in Washington, D.C., But you should imagine that in all the empty chairs you see in those pictures, in every empty floor, there's a person being paid, working from home, and that's their chair. And that's their desk. And that's their building. So that is what we're trying to get a handle on first in Washington, D.C., is making sure that making absolute sure that Washington gets back to work and those that don't can't just have a free ride here. And so a lot of those executive orders, you know, they fit together on two things, Will, getting things back to work and then protecting Americans again. I even believe there's going to be lawsuits on sending military to the border. Though the president certainly has, I think, the power, especially if the states concede. So I think most of those states will. Some might not. That's not as big of an issue. But you could see a California or some others on the left trying to say, well, this is you're trying to put. know federal martial law on our state's borders but in fact our borders are not controlled and governed by states or state laws they are governed by the federal government it is article one of the constitution and this is again a role outside of the states but even that idea of let's send some military Get some plans there so that the fentanyl stops and the human trafficking stops. And you see these kind of dual tracks of a government that works for its people. And how does it work for its people? One, it's by getting inflation under control, getting the economy back on track. And then second... is protecting the American people from the poorest border, which is killing Americans with fentanyl, which is making us a leader in sex trafficking around the world. These are not issues where we want to be number one in, and it is why the ACLJ will, this morning on, we're ready to fight, and we already are.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's right. That's right, Jordan. And if you look at these two different categories, as we talked about, both the border and the government efficiency, these lawsuits are trying to make America less safe and to try to make America less efficient, trying to protect wasteful spending. But we at the ACLJ, it is time for a big change. And that's why you can take urgent action. Go to ACLJ.org slash sign and become an ACLJ champion as well. We are going to work in tandem with Doge and these government agencies to cut funding for the efforts. We will defend these actions in court. Go to ACLJ.org slash sign and sign the petition.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right. Welcome back to Sekulow. So it is here. President Trump has been inaugurated. And this is, again, day one, really, of his work began right after he was inaugurated. You know, that's the kind of president he is working on those executive orders. We've been working through some of those as well for you, looking at ones that we think we need to be prepared to help the Trump administration defend. Lawsuits are already being filed against the administration. But You do want to take a moment and I think understand what has happened in the last 24 hours in the United States and how it impacts the world. I mean, a huge shift in the issues, the way we see our leaders see the world, who will be advising them, the team that President Trump is building, the... the reaction from world leaders. I mean, all of this is going to be something we keep a close eye on, obviously, and work closely with here at the American Center for Law and Justice. But there has been a massive change in Washington, D.C. It was clear, even though the streets were pretty empty because it was so cold, that people are excited because they remember the what President Trump was able to get done in four years. And now that we kind of have this list of goals that he's been talking about, not just for the last campaign cycle, but since he was in office, that he is ready to implement and go for. I know that we've got a lot of phone calls coming in. If you want to talk to us, 1-800-684-3110. Will, let's go to the phones.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and Jordan, I know we saw that one of these orders undid 78 executive actions of President Biden. So a lot of that is being left behind. It's a new day. So we're not going to focus too much on the work of Joe Biden. But Beverly does have a call on line one that I think we should get into. A lot of these pardons happen. right before the inauguration. And yesterday we focused on the inauguration, didn't really get time to talk about that. So I think it'd be good to answer Beverly's question from Oklahoma. You're on the air.
SPEAKER 01 :
Hi, my question is, I thought pardons were for people who had already been convicted of a crime. I didn't know you could give a pardon to a person that hadn't even been arrested for a crime.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, the pardon power is very broad. It only relates to federal law. And you saw with Joe Biden issuing those pardons to family members, including pardons he said he would never release. So that included Hunter Biden. But also his brother. And Will, I mean, the situation here is that so long as it's somehow probably connected to the work of President Biden, and I think that's likely why he did it, is all those investigations that have been going on and that could be restarted. Because now that he's out of office, remember what they did to President Trump. in his family when they were out of office. So he's now gone forward. And I think it's interesting because they practiced extreme lawfare against President Trump, right? I mean, extreme lawfare. We're talking state courts and bookings and having to take mug shots. So you had three states, three federal U.S. attorneys coming after him. You had the Mueller, you had the two impeachments. And you know what Joe Biden's figuring out? You know what? We were pretty horrible to this guy. And he's now in charge of the U.S. government. And if the theory holds that what my Department of Justice was doing to him is okay, well, I guess, you know, if his Department of Justice and Pam Bonney believe that there was more criminal conduct there, now that I'm not president and... won't have some of those immunities right off the bat, that President Trump actually went to court and fight for all presidents, that, you know what, I'm in jeopardy and so are a lot of members of my family because of what the left has done to our legal system.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's right. And also to Beverly's question about someone doesn't have to be convicted to get receive a pardon. You also remember Joe Biden gave that broad pardon to Hunter Biden after the election that included 10 years back when Joe Biden was vice president of things that he may or may not have done. It was very wide sweeping pardon. But you also look at these preemptive pardons that wouldn't consider anything future looking. But you look at the pardon for Dr. Fauci, you look at the January 6th committee, those preemptive pardons, once again, that Biden criticized when it was talked about and thought of that Trump might do after Biden. the 2020 election, but he didn't do. They went after Trump for this concept that he may do these preemptive pardons, but he wasn't the one that did it. In the end of the day, the one who now set this precedent is President Biden, who came forward and gave these broad sweeping preemptive pardons to members of his family, as well to members of the January 6th committee, as well as to Dr. Fauci and some others. Interesting, Jordan, because one thing the president did, he fulfilled a campaign promise is he issued on the first day 1500 pardons for those involved in the January 6th scenario. And what I think Joe Biden actually did, I didn't think that was going to be a day one pardon from President Trump. I thought maybe they would get in, they'd look at it and find the right timing. But in reality, I think Joe Biden gave Trump the go ahead. go forward because of his pardoning activity these last few weeks of his presidency, including minutes before he was no longer president when he pardoned his family. Donald Trump was already in the Capitol. The ceremony had started when the White House pushed out that pardon notice to the members of the family. So I think at that point, all bets were off in the one who set the precedent for these kind of pardons, which the Constitution very broad on, but scholars like to point to the traditions that presidents have had and the norms. The Constitution doesn't set those norms, but Joe Biden's the one who now set precedent for for very broad, wide-weeping pardons that are extremely political if you look at them on their face. And I think that's what we saw play out over the last 24 hours.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, absolutely. I think what we are seeing through those pardons, too, I mean, the 1,500 people, is that these people have already served, for the most part, years in prison. Some of their prison sentences were just outrageous based off the conduct. 22 years, 18 years. um it's just the sentences really did not match uh the crime uh of trespassing and um they you know were others were some were treated differently than others but but again when you saw the kind of who got what sentence i mean it was kind of randomly someone would get 14 another person would get 22 so president trump i think again The left is going to always – there's always going to be the Adam Schiff's with the world. That is still their obsession even though he's now in the U.S. Senate. But you know what President Trump is saying? Listen, Joe Biden is pardoning his entire family from future actions and future investigations. People that have already spent four years in prison for – illegal act of trespassing, certainly committing crime, but for over four years, it's time for them to go. And that's exactly what he did by issuing those pardons. I think a lot of families would be very excited to be reunited with their loved ones again, who were not imagining this kind of horror because of where they happened to be, maybe at the wrong place at the wrong time. Support the work of the ACLJ as well. We're going to get to work on a lot of these cases with the Trump team. Donate today. We've got to have the attorneys ready to go as they are at ACLJ.org. We'll be right back from Washington, D.C.
SPEAKER 04 :
Let's sing it tonight. Keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever. This is Sekulow. And now your host, Jordan Sekulow.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right, welcome back to Sekulow. As you can see, we're in Washington, D.C., attended some of the inauguration festivities. This week, it's been a big inaugural week from Monday to Monday for, one, our ACLJ colleague, J.B. McCuskey, coming to West Virginia. Attorney General just a week ago and was excited to be at his inauguration on what was a pretty cold day in Charleston, West Virginia, but the inauguration was still outside. I don't think it was too many degrees below freezing. And then in my second home of Washington, D.C., it was, I think we were walking into one of the inaugural balls last night, somewhere around 19 degrees or 18 degrees. And you know what that hasn't done? It has not slowed down the work of this administration to get right to work on fixing some of the wrongs you can do right away through executive order and also getting those key people in place. You might have seen with Secretary Rubio that vote 99 to 0. So again, we're starting to get leaders to their departments to really... take control, not just of the White House, but of the massive departments within the executive branch. And, Will, I want to keep taking people's calls at 1-800-684-3110 because things looked a little different yesterday. I mean, it was, you know, an inside swearing in, so you had a much smaller crowd. You've got, you know, you... So what you saw outside here, and it looks kind of like a martial law zone, wasn't really necessary because lots of people didn't come into the city because there wasn't going to be anything outside. And so it was a bit different of a day. And I will tell you, security still, as people can imagine, is very high when you have these transfers of power. Lots of former presidents here and other world leaders. But I think what was unique is that... with President Trump is that with all that work he had to do yesterday of starting early with breakfast and teas in the White House and the this and the that, I think really what was first on his mind was when he could sit down and get to work and start signing those executive orders. And that's exactly what he did, which is make good on those campaign promises.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's right, Jordan, and we're going to get to call here in just a second, but you mentioned Senator Rubio, now Secretary of State Rubio, after being confirmed 99-0, he didn't vote for himself. So that is our first cabinet member that is there, confirmed unanimously, but also moved out of committee are John Ratcliffe, Pete Hegseth, and Kristi Noem. So we expect votes on them soon to be CIA Director, Secretary of Defense, and Department of Homeland Security Secretary. But let's go to Michael in Florida on line two. Michael, you're on Seculo.
SPEAKER 06 :
Gentlemen, I just wanted to say that of all the Mondays in the past four years, yesterday was far and away the best.
SPEAKER 03 :
Michael, I think a lot of people had that feeling. Many people dread a Monday, but I saw a lot of memes going around saying the one Monday everyone is happy to be here is this Inauguration Monday. And Jordan, how was it to be there in the city?
SPEAKER 07 :
Um, you know, it's nice when you're in, it's a bit because of the weather. So, um, and, and the fact that, you know, a lot of things closed down here on inauguration day because it's just too hard to move around. Uh, but because of the weather, uh, you weren't on the streets as much. There weren't as just mass people everywhere. So there was a protest, there was a protest zone, but you like had to like drive to it to get to it. So, um, and yeah, it was again not like they thought it might be because of the weather so it was kind of unique in this transfer of powers the Biden liberals were gone and the Trump team was back in Washington D.C. and so when you walked into hotel lobbies again and places like that you recognize the people that you've worked with and you see the smiles on people's faces because again it's happy warriors going to work for the American people to make their lives better
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That's right, Jordan. As we come to a break here, we have Jeff Balaban, who is in Jerusalem, going to share a little bit about what it was like in Jerusalem yesterday when we come back, as well as an update on the three Israeli hostages that were released on Sunday. You don't want to miss it. Stay tuned and go ahead and sign our petition as we fight back against the new lawfare of the left. Go to ACLJ.org slash sign.
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All right, welcome back to Secular. We are taking your calls too at 1-800-684-3110. I'm in Washington, D.C., been doing a lot of travel the past seven days. Again, all positive to see friends and allies taking on new positions in these inaugurations happening in states and, of course, in Washington, D.C., and not just President Trump yesterday. But to see Pam Bondi there, to see Tulsi Gabbard, to see Senator Rubio, the list goes on and on. It's an exciting moment to know that a lot of people that we've worked closely with, Governor Noem and others, that so many of the issues, whether it was Homeland Security, whether it was the Department of Justice, the FBI with Kash Patel, that we have... been having to fight on your behalf. And I mean, they have come after conservatives, these radical traditionalist Catholics, and tried to hide the ball from the American people, that that is not going to be done anymore. And that there are people now being put in place who are not only going to do the right thing, but are going to ensure that the bad actors are removed. And that was an important part of the president's executive orders that he signed yesterday, especially on the one making it easier for these civil servants to be reassigned or removed from their positions if they refuse to carry out the policy of our nationally elected leaders like the president and his cabinet they shouldn't have to commit a crime to be removed if they don't want to follow the directions they should be fired or moved to a division that doesn't have policy making authority now will there be lawsuits on that sure are there already lawsuits being filed on some of these executive orders yes are we going to fight back against them Yes, we will. But I also want to give you an update on Israel, because the foreign policy implications of bringing in a new president, we already started to see with this deal between Israel and Hamas. Remember, President Trump saying he thinks a lot of these conflicts will be coming to a close as soon as he's president. I want to go to Jeff Balbon right away, who oversees ACLJ Jerusalem. And Jeff, in part of that three-part plan with Hamas, the first hostages were were released by Hamas that was tied to this plan and then two of them were individuals who we worked with them and their families and thankfully these are two who are going home alive.
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Yeah, yesterday was an extremely emotional day here in Israel. The whole country feels very, very small. The whole country feels very, very involved. Every life really matters here. And their names are known, their pictures are known. Everywhere you go here, you see pictures of the hostages, dead and alive. And to see these three women come home, as you point out, two of which we actually advocated for during this past 15 months, see them come home alive, even though obviously their stories are brutal and painful. And even though the deal is a brutal and painful deal, this clearly would not have happened had it not been a change in administration. And there's tremendous gratitude for their lives, for them coming home to their families. And it was just announced very recently, just in the last hour or two, four more are being released this coming Saturday. They're doing this on Saturday, which is the Sabbath here, but they have not announced the names as of the last reports.
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And Jeff, as we look... Oh, go ahead, Jordan. Go ahead, Will. Go, go ahead. Yeah, Jeff, you mentioned that it's a new day in a new administration, and I did want to pick up on that a little bit because you're back in Jerusalem. You had been here for the holidays back in Israel, and you actually went to some festivities last night, and you saw the celebration. The people of Israel know... that it is a new day with their ally in America. And as we watch the TV, we know that Elise Stefanik is currently before the appropriate Senate committee for her nomination to be the ambassador to the UN. She's speaking very highly about how aggressively she's going to work to defend Israel there. But go through a little bit of what it was like in Jerusalem yesterday on what you would normally not think of as something that people in another country would be having parties and festivities surrounding the inauguration of a different nation's leader.
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Well, look, the relationship that Israel has with the United States really is a unique relationship. It's very special. It's beyond merely just the interests. It is the interest, but it's also just the values that are shared. And there's a sense of community, one country with the other. You know, the only 9-11 memorial anywhere in the world that has the names of the people who were killed in 9-11 in America is here in Israel, actually in Jerusalem. So this... Yesterday, let's put it this way, walking up to a big event in Jerusalem, huge posters, huge billboards outside congratulating Donald Trump saying, we love you. There you go. So that is at the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem. And as I'm walking up, I hear the strains of proud to be an American blasting in the streets and walk inside and there's a watch party. Oh, there you go. And... uh people were dancing to ymca and then there's a watch party and in addition to what everyone saw in america that special guests come by video they had mike huckabee the incoming ambassador god willing uh who's a huge supporter of israel and also sends a message there you go there's a picture of mike huckabee on the screen We were watching. They had David Friedman, the former ambassador, who's also well-loved and obviously a close friend of the president's. And so there's a real feeling of optimism going forward. And again, it's a very emotional and difficult time here in Israel, and it has been for a while. And even while this process is difficult, there's a tremendous feeling that there's a new day with President Trump. We're looking forward to peace breaking out once again in the Middle East instead of war, which is exactly what happened when President Trump was president the first time, the Abraham Accords. And that's what the hope here is and the anticipation here is in Israel.
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Yeah, I mean, Jeff, I saw it again yesterday at the events really leading up to the inaugural all weekend, the excitement level from just all of the folks who work on these issues, whether it is Israel, other conservative issues, policy issues, that finally we've got people in place that are going to be put in place, not just at the White House, but in the various departments. who not only share our views, but maybe have gone through this ringer once already in the first Trump administration and maybe have moved up the ladder and are ready to go into either relaunching some programs that were already working and really... reworking our relationships with nations like Israel. And the idea that this relationship that was getting a bit nasty between the Biden administration and the Israeli government, that this is a new day for America and Israel. It shouldn't have to be like that. It shouldn't be a partisan issue. It certainly has become one for the left. And maybe in their after actions report, they'll realize that It's probably not good siding with Hamas over Israel during an election year.
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Well, in Israel, it's extremely important. And I hear this over and over again from in the government, from in the Knesset, which is the parliament here, tremendous concern that they don't want this to be a partisan issue. They want, they are America's friend. They want both sides in America to be Israel's friend and they need it. And yes, this has been a very difficult period. You know, Biden did not treat them nearly as well. And there's a history, but this really started with President Obama. And again, that was the Obama-Biden administration, where the policy from both sides, meaning Democrats and Republicans, numerous presidents had no sunlight or no daylight between Israel and America, that Israel knew what to expect and America knew what to expect in the region. And that was broken. And there was fear that a Harris administration would be even worse. So going back now to a president who showed his great friendship and his understanding and a true breakthrough. A lot of people didn't understand why he would not have gotten a Nobel Prize for the amazing piece that he brought to the Middle East. And so there's a lot of anticipation that will happen again. And that's why we work on this. That's why we work on this here today. in Israel and in Washington to help bridge those communications. And by the way, you mentioned earlier Elise Stefanik and other signs of early help is the president's view on UNRWA, on the UN agency that keeps this horrible situation of basically they teach Palestinians to hate Israel. They're the ones who run those schools. They raise the terrorists. And then it was found out that they were actually involved. Many UNRWA employees were involved in the horrors of October 7th, in those atrocities, and that their bases were used in Gaza to harbor terrorist material and weapons. And so, you know, the president sees this clearly and there is a new day already dawning starting day one. Thank God.
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Jeff, thank you so much for joining us today and for that great report and for also showing us what it looked like there. But, you know, our work doesn't end as well. Just as there are lawsuits fighting against the actions of the new administration, you know that even if the president tries to move funding away from things like UNRWA and from the United Nations in certain ways, The left is going to try to sue over that. The left decides that they are textualist when it comes to the law as soon as it's a Republican or a conservative in office. All of a sudden, that's when the law matters and they're going to try to find obscure 1970s laws to bring lawsuits about things like Doge or no, you didn't move that money. Specifically, properly, you have to keep funding UNRWA even though they are supporting terrorism, training terrorists, and actively engaging in terrorism in some cases. But we're not going to stand for it. We uphold the law. We fight to uphold the law. We believe in the rule of law here. And we're going to keep doing that. And that's what we're going to do under a new administration as the lawfare continues. The lawfare against President Trump in his personal life may be over for now. But they're now focusing all that energy on his administration, trying to stop him from restoring what the voters put him in office to do. And you can join us. Go to ACLJ.org slash sign to sign our petition as we move forward and fight back against the left's new chapter of lawfare. Join us. ACLJ.org slash sign.
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Welcome back to Secular.
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We got a lot of calls to get to. Will, let's get right to them. That's right. We're going to go to John calling from Washington State. He's watching on YouTube. He's got a question about the birthright citizenship executive order. John, you're on the air.
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Yes. The birthright citizenship, in my opinion, I do believe it should be limited to those who are here lawfully, like people on a visa or or on a other green card, not someone that has brought their children or brought a pregnant wife across the border and that child being born in the US getting immediate citizenship. I think there should be some other kind of limitations like spelled out in the executive order.
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That's right, Jordan. So the title of it, and then I'll get your thoughts on it, but just for the audience as well, is Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship. And it says the privilege of United States citizenship does not automatically extend to persons born in the U.S. when one, the person's mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident. or two when the person's mother the person's mother's presence in the u.s at the time of said person's birth was lawful but temporary such as but not limited to uh under the auspices of the visa waiver program or visiting on student work or tourist visa So it's not as the news wants you to believe that it is an ending of birthright citizenship. It's saying that in these categories, if it's an illegal immigrant who comes over to have a child, they are doing that to try and get the citizenship for their child. Or if it's something like a tourist or work visa where they're not really meant to be here a long time, it should invest in that way. The ACLU is already sued. But Jordan, what are your thoughts?
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Well, I think that, and the way this works, too, is it looks at the mother, but it also looks at the father. So if the mother, for instance, is here illegally, and the father is not a citizen or is not a lawful permanent resident, so you don't have to be a citizen, but even a green card holder. So if the mother is here illegally and the father has no status at all, then you would not get birthright citizenship. If the father does have... lawful residence not citizenship but lawful residence like the green card you would still get U.S. citizenship even that would correct the issue with your mother either not having being here legally or not having a long-term visa like permanent residence like a green card and so that they look at that both from the aspect of again are you looking at with the citizenship angle and you look at it from the mother's side or the father's side. So again, it can be corrected. So you look to both parents, and then you can determine whether or not under these new definitions and more clarified definitions, if you meet birthright citizenship. One of the things they're trying to get a hold on is birth tourism. You see that a lot in places, one place where I live, like in South Florida, where people would plan, pregnancies and plan to be in the United States if they had the resources around the time they would have their child so that even though they had no citizenship whatsoever and no permanent residence in the U.S., that their children would forever be U.S. citizens. And so that would prevent some of those activities. Of course, this is going to be challenged. But what we do know is that if Congress gets in and backs up the president, on some of these executive orders. When it's Congress plus the president, that is a very strong case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. So I think a lot of these executive orders are saying, this is what we want to get done. Congress, you need to come aside and you need to start passing similar language. So it's not just relying on who the president is that determines who's going to get citizenship in America, that our laws are going to catch up to the realities that we have to deal with.
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That's right. We're going to go back to the phones. We've got James calling from Tennessee. James has a question that we're seeing kind of a trend in as well. It's about back to that pardon issue. James, you're on the air.
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Uh, yeah, you guys, uh, in reference to the pardons, uh, let's say for instance, Dr. Fauci, uh, he is, he's a federal pardoned, but that does that include that, uh, North States, for instance, Tennessee, can Tennessee AG, uh, put, put him through court because he, right now he's being a pardoned. He doesn't have the fifth amendment, so he has to talk. Correct.
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Well, so it's kind of a two-part question, James, and I'll get Jordan's follow-up on that. One, could a state theoretically bring a charge against someone like Dr. Fauci if they committed a violation of the law of that state? I think a lot would depend on that, but I'll get your take in a minute. But also, the second is what a lot of people are pointing out, that especially before the congressional committees that want to investigate things like the origins of COVID— if that threat of prosecution is taken away from someone like dr fauci because of under federal law they to some degree lose the ability to claim fifth amendment protection because there is no jeopardy of them incriminating themselves if they've already been pardoned of that hypothetical crime jordan what are your two thoughts on those angles you
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the question is though is that if the state which again the pardon doesn't apply to state laws can find any jurisdiction do you still rely on that when you are testifying to say that you know what I could be incriminating myself because while it's clear the federal government Has pardoned me and made this speech clear. And so that's been lifted. If states are showing any interest in taking action against him individually, would he try to use that? And then, of course, that ends up usually getting litigated. are colors right usually when you get this kind of pardon in a federal direction and it's a singularly kind of federal case or situation that means that you can no longer rely on that not to answer questions in a court of law or a congressional hearing because it cannot be used against you to prosecute you this is a little different because you have officials here whose acts not only impacted the federal government, but of course they impacted citizens in states around the country. And we'll just see. There's always got to be a balance here, but we'll see. how people, and this is about Republicans, but how they look in the past and how they look forward and how much time do we want to spend looking backwards and how much time do we want to spend looking forward at getting things accomplished and not just beating up on those who thankfully are no longer part of the government.
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That's right. And we are running short on time. But our three callers, Bob, Hallie and Joseph, thank you so much for calling. Very similar in line with that. A lot of people are interested in what happens to those officials that are, you know, still have questions lingering about some of their conduct. But I think we gave a good overview. Now we'll see what Congress does and we'll see what states do. But also, it can't be lost. Sometimes you have to look forward because if you get stuck looking on the past, sometimes you get caught up in it. and then you can't get forward with the work that we need to. And you know that the left is already trying to stop that work. They're filing lawsuits. The ACLU and states are suing against this clarification on birthright citizenship. This group, National Security Counselors, are suing over the Department of Government Efficiency. They'd rather a more inefficient government be left in place. That's effectively what their lawsuit is asking for. I can't think of a single human that really wants a less efficient government, except for those on the left that will sue over it. But you can join us today as we get to work. As Jordan mentioned, he's in D.C. He's working with our legal team, crafting the plan. You be a part of it. ACLJ.org slash sign and join us today.
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Earlier today, first full day of Trump's presidency, and guess how it got kicked off? Well, they had the prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral, which is a fake church full of fake Christians and people dressed up like bishops who, I mean, even Satan can quote scripture to cite Shakespeare. And I just want to play for you what was unleashed. His first thing on his first full day, he's sitting there with his wife, with the vice president, with the vice president's wife, second lady. Listen to this. This happened at the prayer service in a supposed church.
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I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives. And the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, they... They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, wadara, and temples. I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away and that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here.
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For the love.
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Our God teaches us.
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You know what? He also says, give to Caesar what is Caesar and give to God what is God's. And he also extols people to follow the laws of the land and listen to your leaders. He also says that, too. It's not an unjust law. This woman, first off, this is why I don't like women preachers. I don't like women bishops. And I don't think women have any place in wearing these robes and standing in front of a congregation and running their mouths like this. This female is the exact type of female that Paul was talking about when he said to be silent in the church, ladies. That woman right there. Give me a break. You know what? I want to go back to John 2.15 for just a moment. When Jesus talks about in the Gospels, when the Gospels talk about Jesus making a whip out of cords and just unleashing and driving all these people out of the temple courts. And it even says that both sheep and cattle. He scattered the coins of the money changers. He overturned their tables, Matthew 21. He cast out everyone that was buying and selling in the temple. He overthrew the tables of the money changers. He flipped over the seats of those who sold doves. And he said, my house will be called a house of prayer and you have turned it into a den of thieves. This is the type of person about whom Christ was talking about. Right here. speaking unbiblical untruths and trying to put it behind the veneer of scripture from the pulpit. Shame on this devil woman. And I'm going to tell you her punishment when she dies. will be more than you can imagine because you remember scripture also, those that lead these ones astray, it would be better for them to have a millstone tied around their neck and thrown into the depths of the sea because shepherds and people who aspire to such a position are called to a high standard. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. And in this fake church, this church is nothing more than a coffin for a dead non-existent faith that they do not practice there. That church is a giant coffin. It looks real pretty, has its big columns, has its paintings, its mosaics, its statuary. But it is as alive as a cemetery. And don't think for one second that flipping over the money changers tables is an analogous to what this woman is doing. Oh, believe she is absolutely commercialized church. She is absolutely commercialized faith. She has politicized it. Let's pause for a moment about and let's think about it from this angle. The lives of the youth that you are ruining because you have a problem. pederast fetish with cutting off their breasts and their penises and taking chunks of meat from their thighs to turn it into a meat sickle that they pretend is a male copulatory organ. Let's talk about unnecessary cosmetic surgery, what these people do to themselves that make it to where they have to be on medicine for the rest of their lives and the ideology for which this demonic woman is advocating is targeting the youth. Let's spare maybe a little bit of sympathy, woman, for the children whose lives are irrevocably ruined because the adults in their lives are chasing activism, advocacy, and adjacent fame through that path than actually parenting and taking care of their kids. This is evil. I would have stood up and walked right the hell out of that church service. I would have gotten up and walked right out. I kind of wish Vance and Trump had done so. There's no way. I will not sit and listen to false doctrine. I will get up. I don't care if I'm in church or not. I will get up and walk out. And I'm going to tell you something. For the men that are in that church, they must be eunuchs. Because this is all they could get was her. There weren't enough men to do this. There weren't enough men who are trustworthy in the eyes of God to step up and take this position. So these eunuchs had to send out this devil priestess? Seriously? To spit this poison at a so-called national prayer service? And everyone's expected to sit there and be polite because we're pretending that it has anything to do with God or faith? I don't know what faith she subscribes to, but it's not anything that I've read in the Bible. She's preaching the perversion and abuse of minors as something that should be celebrated and protected. That's what a groomer would say. A groomer would say, no, no, no. These kids want it. They want it. We've got to protect that, you know, because they want it. Every adult should be looked at with a suspicious eye that says anything remotely near that, like what she's done here. I have zero courtesy for her. I have zero mercy. She should be run out on a rail like Elijah Lovejoy. Shame on her to do it. And well, it's not a house of God anymore. It's a den of thieves because she's commercialized it and politicized it such. I really wish POTUS would have got up and walked out. I wish that he would have gotten up and walked out. And then this white demonic priestess runs down a list of chores that she apparently thinks only people who immigrate or who come to the United States do. What in the racist world is this woman talking about? Now, I know the left is racist. The most racist people I've ever met have been on the left. I've seen some of them on my own famed family. I don't have nothing to do with them. They're on the left, like she is. And she gets up there and talks about, you know, they clean this and they do that. And, you know, it's a wow. Imagine being this female and you are so ensconced in your ivory tower that you don't know that people who aren't white can come to the United States and, oh, I don't know, create businesses. Some of them are a hell of a lot more successful than she or her family could ever aspire to be. And they come here legally because they're not dumb. They come here legally and then they add to the great American fabric and they add to the tax revenue and they add to the skill set. And they bring their own animating spirit, animated spirit of liberty. But all she sees is white and brown, white and brown. That's all she sees. She is the definition of an evil white racist. And the fact that she's in those robes, look at those stupid superfluous robes that she's wearing. It is a joke. It makes a mockery of church. It makes a mockery of Christ. It makes a mockery of faith. And this is what they did. This this is the prayer breakfast. This is how POTUS and the vice president are expected to start their first day. I don't have enough nice words. I will say Vance's face is pretty funny. Did you see Eric Trump's face? At one point, Eric Trump, you could tell. My gosh, if ever there was a time when a thought bubble almost appeared like in real life over someone's head, it almost like apparated out of the ether and perched itself over Eric Trump's head because you could almost read his thoughts on his face. He just said, you can see it. I watched the whole, every time it panned to him, I was looking at his face. I'm like, oh my gosh. But I would have gotten up. I would have gotten up unceremoniously and I would have walked right out. I would have walked right out of that service. I really wish that POTUS and the vice president would have done so. Because they don't they don't deserve to sit there like that and listen to that, nor does anyone else. And I'm not going to sit there and pretend that that has anything to do with faith or Christ or anything. I'm not going to sit there and pretend any of it. If you're going to spew that poison to me from behind the pulpit, that's not church. That's a that's that's a. Not even a political rally. You're just spitting poison and evil. I'm not going to pretend that we're doing this in the context of church. No, I'm out. I'm not fellowshipping with that. I'm not taking part in that. I'm out. Not a church at all. No, that was a demon wearing sloppy robes. Masquerading as a shepherd. She's a trans shepherd. We've got a lot more on the way. Oh, I have more things I could say about it, but I'm trying to rein myself in. With everything going on in the world right now, the economy, conflicts, the open border, spiraling national debt, the devastating inflation, it's critical that you have a plan for diversifying and protecting your savings. And that's why so many, including myself, have turned to precious metals like gold and silver. to help protect our savings. And I've partnered with the top-rated precious metals company, GoldCo, to make that happen. It's a great company with a great reputation, and they could not have made the process any easier. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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Oh, yeah. All right. So champagne sales have sunk because people don't want to celebrate. You know what? Because they haven't they haven't discovered spritzes. They haven't discovered things like a limoncello spritz or a French 75, which is named actually after 75 millimeter guns are used in World War One. But I digress. The champagne sales have sunk because people don't want to celebrate anymore. People aren't in the mood to say cheers. It's literally a study that came out. People are just like, they don't feel like super celebratory. And they said champagne sales are down across the board. Is it a generational... Steve, do you like champagne? Is it a generational thing? Well, you can get some dry... Yeah, I agree with you. Most of it's like... It's like drinking syrup. But, yeah, I don't know. It's interesting. A man pours his relative ashes in the mother's toilet. Oh, for the love. Okay, there's... Memphis, a man was arrested because police say he broke into his mother's home and poured a relative's ashes in her toilet. Police responded. Adele Totten had broken into a window, entered her home and took the cremated ashes of a deceased relative, dumped him in the toilet. And then he took some stuff from the apartment as well. He's been charged with aggravated burglary. Here's the other thing. And abuse of a corpse. I didn't know that that's a charge that you could have applied to you if it has to deal with ashes. Not that I was planning on doing anything, but that's just an interesting bit of trivia to know. You know, anyway. Women or a woman intentionally started a house fire with Takis chips. Now... These are not that spicy. Come on. She's accused of using Tacky's chips to start a fire with three other people inside. Now she's going to prison. Patricia Williams, first degree arson. It was last year in Greene County. She's just been sentenced. And she said that she used the chips because she knew they would support the combustion because of the grease content. And guess what? She was correct. Man, how do you feel about those? I mean, nobody was killed in the fire, but still, good heavens. That poor chip company. A brain surgeon was let go by the hospital because he allowed his 13-year-old daughter to drill a hole into the patient's skull. There's certain things that you should not be. Take your daughter to work day. This was in Austria. A 33-year-old man was flown to the hospital with serious head injuries in an Austrian forest. They did surgery. And then the unnamed neurosurgeon is alleged to have allowed the teenage daughter to participate. They got in trouble.
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And I just want to say thank you for making it happen. Thank you.
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Now, here's what the media did. He's excited, right? Did you see him walk in? to the event. God love him. I know he sends rockets to space and he does all this cool stuff. But one of the cool things that he can't do is dance. And he comes out and he's so excited. You can see how excited he is. And he's dancing and it's hysterical. And the video's everywhere. So then he gets up and he's, you know, he's a hands, arms mover. I get that. I am too. It's just how he is. He's just excitable. This is what CNN, Audio Soundbite 22, this was the narrative they were pushing hard yesterday.
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I just want to look at that salute that he gave again. Just if anybody missed it, we'll just show it again. He's just wrapped up here. You can hear the. All right. So we just we just showed that we just showed that. Right. It was quick. I think our viewers are smart and they can take a look at that. But it certainly was. It's not something that you typically see in American political rallies. Put it that way. No, no, it was not something that you usually would see. And it was quick, as you point out. It was very quick, but it was it was in a moment of intensity for him as he came out dancing. And then he did that. He is a hero here.
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And I just want to say thank you.
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This is what they're doing to him. This is what they're doing. They're like, you see that? He's not giving a Nazi salute. You absolute idiotic bitches. I'm sorry for those of you who have very delicate... ears and you're like, Dana, don't say that word. They deserve it. Because when you're going to impugn someone's character that way, you deserve to have brimstone thrown right back in your face. And they know it's false and they're saying it anyway. They're trying this stuff again. I'm going to tell you people something. I've been doing this stuff since the beginning of, before the Tea Party. Kicking off the Tea Party back in 2008. I am so tired of the everything I don't like is Hitler stuff. If that is all the analysis that you can offer, you're too stupid and ditzy to be on air to offer political analysis. It's shameful to watch other. I want women to succeed. I want women to be viewed as smart. But when these broads get on TV and they say stuff like this, you ain't doing me a lot of favors. You're not doing women a lot of favors. This is stupid, petty Karen nonsense, right? He's excited. He's saying hi to everyone. He's not giving a Nazi salute, you fetishists. Of course, these are the people that make apologies for Hamas, right? They're apologists for Hamas, but they want to see Hitler and everyone else. Not everything is Hitler, but they have no idea how to cope. They have no idea. So you know what they're doing? Have you picked up on the difference in how they're interpreting this this time around as compared to last time around? In the statement that she made, you don't see this at a political rally, and everybody went wild for it. And I don't believe that I'm reading too in between the lines on this. It honestly seemed to me like they were trying to impugn the characters of all of you. I mean, he touches his heart and throws it to the audience. That's what he was doing. Everybody claps. And these women, they're not just impugning Musk. They're impugning all of the people, the characters of all the people there and you watching at home. They're impugning. They're doing that for you watching at home. I am. I'm going to tell you something. If they start doing this, I'm going to go back to the Anthony Weiner days and I'm just going to go crazy A-double snakes wild on some of these people. And some of them need to be confronted because this is ridiculous. I'm not doing this anymore. My gosh, they've tried this nonsense six ways to Sunday. And it's too much. But that was the narrative. They were pushing. It was trending. Oh, my gosh. Everybody was like a talking point went out. You realize that you've got city members of Congress who are Democrats who literally played at whites-only golf courses until like maybe a decade ago? Ask Sheldon Whitehouse about that. Hell, Hillary Clinton was on stage. You know her husband? Bill Clinton played at a whites-only golf course and the New York Times in the 90s found out. The 90s found out quite by accident and ran that hit piece on him. It hurt him. interestingly you've never had a republican come out with a story like that but there are scores of democrats that have if you want to have a discussion about bigotry fascism you know all that nonsense there you go i'm just so tired of it this is all i've heard this is all i've heard forever and i'm just i'm so tired of it find a new line of attack but this is what they did all day yesterday oh my gosh you Because he's a powerful new weapon. Now, I want to caution everybody here. Again, and it's the Boromir test. I was watching the event inside when he did his, he gave his speech and he had the swearing in. Someone said he didn't, one of the gaps was that he forgot to put his hand on the Bible. I think he meant to. I mean, he had his grandmother's Bible and then he had Abraham Lincoln's Bible. So he had two Bibles for good measure, but they said he forgot to put his hand on the Bible. But I was looking at all the techocracy that was assembled. I mean, you had everybody there. I want to be real careful. They were standing in front of members of Congress, too, which I thought was optically interesting. But I want to caution people. Don't trade big government in for big tech. There's a limit. You've got to keep people on a short leash. This is something that has to be watched. There's a balance that can be kept. But it's a fragile balance. But it must be kept. But the way that the media was going about this last night, this is what PBS said. PBS tweeted this. They said billionaire Elon Musk gave what appeared to be a fascist salute Monday while making a speech at the post inauguration celebration for President Donald Trump in the Capital One Arena. That is legit what they said. They wrote this. This is again, PBS, PBS. We pay them. I pay an ungodly amount of taxes to the point where I can't hire more people because I got to give it to the government to do this stupid nonsense. They write, quote, some elections are important. Some are not. But this one, this one matter. They quote Musk. And then they said he puts his hand on his chest and then raises it in a salute similar to the Sieg Heil salute used by Nazis at their victory rallies. He touched his heart and threw it out to the audience. That's what he did. These people are asinine. Asinine.
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And as of today, TikTok is back.
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So, you know, I did a little TikTok thing. We have a guy, TikTok Jack, he's a young kid, like 21 years old. And we hired this guy and I went on TikTok. Can you believe what I'll do to win an election? And we went on TikTok. And Republicans have never won the young vote, the youth vote. They win a lot of votes, but they never won the youth vote. We won the youth vote by 36 points. So I like TikTok. I like it. I like it. A rich person has called me about TikTok.
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He wanted to block TikTok. Why did it change your mind?
SPEAKER 12 :
Because I got to use it. And remember, TikTok is largely about kids, young kids. If China's going to get information about young kids, I don't know. I think, to be honest, I think we have bigger problems than that. But, you know, when you take a look at telephones that are made in China and all the other things that are made in China, military equipment made in China, TikTok, I think TikTok is not their biggest problem. But there's big value in TikTok if it gets approved. If it doesn't get approved, there's no value. So if we create that value, why aren't we entitled to like half?
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Well, he makes a point. I mean, I get what he's saying here. But, you know, the idea of forcing I mean, that's the that's going to be the big debate is forcing the. sale of a company to the United States government. And to do that, you know, that's a pretty big, that's a pretty big thing. That's going to be a debate that comes up as we go. Because remember, as I said yesterday, it was supposed to be a temporary reprieve, not a permanent one. So we're, you know, we'll watch and we'll kind of see. And, you know, all of that. We'll, you know, we'll wait and see how the debate goes. But that's going to be, I mean, Gen Z was happy. It looks like they were happy. But, you know, you can't look at the short-term payoff. This is a super nuanced issue. And I still get all sides of it. But we're going to dive into that. We're also going to dive into all of the executive orders issues. that the President of the United States signed yesterday. So welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you, top of the first hour. And it's an insanely overwhelming busy day because we're getting ready for SHOT Show as well and following all of the latest with the news. And there's a flurry of 200 executive orders. And then, of course, you had all of the inaugural events last night. And in the freezing cold, I hope nobody gets sick. I hope everybody stays well. It's freezing. It's freezing. And then we got the polar stuff. We got the winter warning that's slated. Check this for the coast of Gulf of America. Oh, by the way, I don't know if you saw this, but Ron DeSantis of Florida is the first elected official, the first governor, to actually use Gulf of America in official documentation. He used it. Let me pull this up. Forgive me. Because if you guys saw how many windows I have open on my desktop, you would stroke out. You guys would. Especially some of you out there who were like, I don't know how you can keep all those windows open, Dana. I get emails daily from you neat freaks. God love you. But DeSantis had actually tweeted out a proclamation and it was like an energy thing. But he used the phrase Gulf of America. And I read it. I read it without without like someone saying, oh, it's the first time he used it. Right. I read it and I stopped for a minute. I was like, wait, what? Because at first I just read it over and I was like, yeah, my mind was like, sure. And then I went back and I'm like, oh, it's Gulf of America. It's the first time it's being used. So the events last night, the pageantry, as I said, I love the pageantry that we do. I love the pageantry of the United States and these events. It's fantastic. Then we have the cabinet. We've got a lot of confirmation votes today. It is official. Marco Rubio has been confirmed as Secretary of State. I mean, I have so much. This is I got to tell you guys the actions of the administration. It's like drinking water out of a hose. Lorraine and I are just treading water. I was talking to a friend of mine who's a reporter. God love her. And she's been on the show before. And I said, oh, how did you do? Because you had the inaugural events and she went to one media party and I just couldn't go. I can't go to the, not that I don't like balls, but it's cold and you're in evening wear and it's just not my scene. And I was talking to my friend and she said, I go, did you get any sleep? And she said, no, she was doing a lot of, she wrote a 1500 piece book bit on her phone. She had to go from, she was part of the press pool there when the president was at the White House. And then she and others had to do a quick change-a-roo and get to one of the balls. And she was writing all these stories on her phone. And I said, so did you sleep last night? And she's like, no one who works in media, and she goes, especially if they're conservative leaning, slept last night. She's like, she said, I filed no fewer than 11 stories. She filed 11 because the the executive orders, there were so many. Then you have the I mean, it was obvious that Rubio has had the votes. It's obvious that Hegseth has the votes. And so all of the transition is her. She's like, I filed 11 stories. There was a friend of mine sent me a picture of their colleague who was basically asleep in a hallway somewhere like, oh, my God. I mean, it's just crazy. Oh, my gosh, it's crazy. But it's good. It's like a good crazy. And we're going to go over some of these. I'm not going to go, I don't think you want me to go over all 200. I mean, I can, but I want to touch the big ones. I want to hit the big executive orders that are going to have either an immediate impact on you as it pertains to your bills, your cost of goods. uh your kids i want to we'll touch on those immediately also trade or natsec that's another another thing i we're going to touch on because there's just so many now you also have the issue with the raids right so i i used the image that i used last night on substack i don't know if i've ever gotten so many comments on um an image that i used for headlines you know it's just like a headlines It's what the subscribers get every morning. And they said this is the most perfect image ever. And it's Tom Homan. He's got red eyes. And he's like, you know, commence deportations. Commit. Initiate the deportation. Mass deportation. Because that's, you know, he's going through and he's saying, look, if you are here illegally, you have no documentation. You're here illegally. You've got to go. And I don't think that there's anything wrong with that. I mean, if people are offended over that, dear heavens, don't look at what the Irish do. For the love, do not look at what the Irish do. It's bad. I mean, not bad, but they're like hardcore. So Chicago police said that they're not going to assist in Trump's ice mass deportation raid. They're not going to assist in that. And then you have the I'm looking at all this other you. There's some other blue states or what they would call, you know, their sanctuary states. They're all kind of saying the same thing. They're like, oh, we're not going to assist in these. But this is where the AGs come in. And at some point, and in fact, it may be at SHOT Show this weekend because I know that there's some AGs that are going to be there. I mean, at some point, it establishes a precedent, correct? I spoke with a... a friend of mine who works in con law last night, and I said, I need you to explain this to me like I'm 10, because I feel like with enough of these cases, particularly coming from some of these red state AGs, you know, if you're arguing it through the perspective of being a NATSEC issue, a national security issue, then, you know, surely you can see that this might establish a precedent. And so that's, you know, that's something else that there's just so much to look at and I'm so pleased with it, but it's like drinking from a spigot and pray, pray for Juan because Juan's got to go to SHOT Show, cover all that. And then he's got to cover the millions of, the millions of, of the executive orders that are coming out and the immediate, the immediate, policy implications that those have. Like with the immigration, that's something that happened immediately. So a friend of mine was talking about the CPB app, and it schedules this. It'll schedule for you your court date, right? Like with your immigration judge, et cetera, et cetera. So all of that was getting canceled. Like a lot of those were canceled last night. And there was video of these people that entered illegally. They thought they got in after the deadline and it, you know, just wasn't happening. And they had their appointments canceled. So they're all freaking out. So, I mean, this is just, I've never seen anything like this. I've never seen a president of the United States at a rally immediately go through and say, Oh, Yeah, I want to sign these executive orders right now. Let's just do it right now. He did it at the rally last night. I don't know if you saw this. I think we got audio of this. He immediately was like, yeah, we're going to sign all of these here at the event. At the event. We're doing it at the event. So it was a big deal. Hang on, I'm looking over. We have 11,000 audio soundbites. God love it. So, ooh, do, let's, yeah, star five, star five. So the executive, one of the executive orders was withdrawing from the World Health Organization. Forgive me, I'm looking down at all of my notes and all of my soundbite numbers. Listen.
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Or nine. I can live with most of them. They took a very safe route. They don't have any bad ones up there.
SPEAKER 08 :
Withdrawing from the World Health Organization.
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Ooh, that's a big one. I can live with most of them.
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And then we have this. That was five. Then we've got nine. Listen to this. So this was I love the guy. I don't know who the guy that that was his aide that was right there who was like, yeah, this is what this one is. He noted that this is the order about mandating federal workers showing up in person, ladies and gentlemen, for work. Listen, audio soundbite nine. You got to show up to work.
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Sir, the next item, as you announced in your speech, is a requirement that federal workers return to full-time, in-person work immediately.
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So he starts at the rally signing all of these executive orders. Then he goes to the Oval Office, and they already have his challenge coins and his photos up. I'm looking at a picture. They have the whole shelf of his challenge coins. Then he signed... Over 100 there. I think he signed... Literally, people lost count. Sometimes I hate asking journalists to get confirmation on stuff because they give me different numbers. And then he... Oh, I want this. I know we've got to get moving for a break, but audio soundbite 10, please. This was a big one. Listen.
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First, we have a list of pardons and commutations relating to events that occurred on January 6, 2021. Okay, and how many people are in this? I think this order will apply to approximately 1,500 people.
SPEAKER 12 :
So this is January 6th. These are the hostages. Approximately 1,500 for a pardon. Yes. Full pardon.
SPEAKER 08 :
Full pardon or commutation?
SPEAKER 12 :
Full pardon. We have about six commutations in there where we're doing further research. Okay. Nice to see you.
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That's a big deal. I want to dive into this because I've gotten, I've gotten some emails from some of you who are like, well, I don't think that all of them should have been pardoned. I want to talk to you about that coming up. That's going to be one of the big things that we dive into next break. Uh, because I have an explanation for you. That's going to make sense. And I need you, you're going to need to understand this. Uh, although I think a lot of you are in agreement with me. So we're going to get into all of that. I have so much for you. I'm going to try my hardest to get through everything today. Uh, Tonight, if you're a Substack subscriber, you need to sign up today because I'm doing a massive deep dive on all of this stuff. I'm about three quarters of the way through. And I need you to bookmark it because it's going to be all the executive orders, how it's going to affect you, when it's expected to be implemented. So stay tuned for that because that's coming out on Substack tonight because there's so much here. It's going to take a couple of days to go through. But this is stuff you're going to be so excited about. I love giving you great news and just sending you through like an exuberant week. I'm very excited about this. So bear with me. I have a lot of stuff. We're drinking out of a faucet today. We're a fire hose today, right? It's like Gen X drinking hose water. On January 24th, as the nation comes together for the March for Life, Preborn proudly stands in solidarity with the movement, reaffirming their dedication with the sanctity of Life Month and the protection of every unborn child. And more great news, the abortion pill reversal treatment is giving women a second chance to choose life, bringing babies back to life and empowering women. Join Preborn Ministries in supporting women in their darkest hours. With God's love and free services, Preborn's network of clinics are ready to help women choose life. And help start the new year right by supporting life just for $28. Just $28. You can provide one ultrasound with a gift of $140. You can help rescue five babies and your donation can make a real difference. And if you're able, consider a leadership gift to save babies. A $5,000 donation sponsors Preborn's network for 24 hours, rescuing 200 babies. Donate securely at preborn.com slash Dana. Just dial pound 250 and say the keyword baby. That's pound 250 baby or donate securely at preborn.com slash Dana. Donate today for the sanctity of life at preborn.com slash Dana.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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All right, so life-threatening cold weather to expand southward across the nation, impacting 235 million people, numerous counties. Look, it's cold. Get y'all's French toast supplies. Yens all don't need no more than a loaf of bread. So let's not, like, be buying up the whole bakery. It's going to be all right, but it's going to be cold. Get them coats out. We got that. I went long last segment, but I'll make it up to you. Exec orders next. It is a big week, and we're not just talking about Inauguration Day. Caltech has officially unveiled their brand new pistol, the PR-57, and it's causing a huge buzz. Over a million views on the release video already, and you need to see why. Visit caltechweapons.com slash Dana today, right now. Check it out. It's the Kel-Tec PR57. It's a revolutionary compact concealed carry pistol chambered in 5.7. It's ultra-lightweight, 20-round capacity. And here's what's the kicker. It's a unique top-loading design. It's slim, simple, and practical. You're not going to have a magazine. In fact, the PR57 loads directly into the grip. It's a rotary barrel design, and it reduces weight by 40% compared to the other 5.7 millimeters on the market. And it's not just innovative. It's built for real-world performance with ease of use in mind. So for a limited time, you can win your own Kel-Tec. Just head over to Kel-TecWeapons.com slash Dana. Enter their SHOT Show Week giveaway right before midnight Thursday, January 24th. That's a deadline. The winner, I'll announce it live on air. The winner, Friday, January 25th. So don't miss your chance to own the future of concealed carry. Visit Kel-TecWeapons.com slash Dana. Kel-Tec. Innovation performance made in the USA.
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God bless America. God bless America. I'm telling you what, I had a... Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. The bottom of this first hour. This is it. I love this, especially in government documents. And I was thinking about this executive order last night. So I have a college kid who is getting an apartment for his junior year in school. So he's having to sign all this stuff. and go through all the documentation. And I don't know, am I crazy? Or do they ask for a hell of a lot more for that stuff? Then I sound like I'm a million years old. It feels like they ask a million more things than when I was younger and doing all the same stuff. And I was thinking about the president's executive order because my youngest was like, when does that kick into effect? Because they had all of these government, it was like the federal equal housing thing, and it had all this gender language in it. So it's an equal housing opportunity document. It was a federal document that you had to read. And then you clicked and said, I read it. And that was with the application out of all of these things. And it was mentioning gender in it. And it said, I was looking at some of the questions. It was saying, well, what is your gender preference? And your gender preference. And then are you opposed to having, you know, a roommate that because for one of them, they try to pair you up with a roommate. Now, my college age son is so conservative. He will make you look like a communist. It is. You can't be surprised. He's super conservative, very cerebral. He is not a people person. God love him. He's a George Carlin, right? He's a young adult George Carlin. And he's like, I'm not down for any of that. I'm not down for it. It's ridiculous. It's so ridiculous. And I was thinking about all of this, right, as he said. So when does Trump's executive order kick into gear? Well, it looks like that's going to be something that's pretty immediate, according to the language of one of these executive orders. Now, this is important because as and Lorraine caught this, I had bookmarked this and totally forgot about it. And Lorraine's reminding me of this from Robbie Starbuck. He was saying that the FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, has just announced the complete obliteration of DEI at the FCC. So if you remember when Brendan Carr was the commissioner under Trump, right, the first term. It was more of a concerning, a conservative-leaning Federal Communications Commission. So they were able to hold all of this stuff back. Biden comes in, Carr's demoted to just being on the commission because he's a Republican, and they have a liberal take over as the chairman. And that's when they started in implementing DEI from their strategic plans. They incorporated as part of their budget a fiscal allowance for what are they? What are they are like a DEI department head chair or like DEI chair, something like that. So they had a they got like a DEI apartment in the FCC. I have no idea what that has to do with communications and broadcasting, but I digress. They had this equity plan. They had DEI incorporated as part of their economic reports as to where tax money was going. And then their performance plans, which charted the progress that they were making, they had DEI in... I mean, it's in everything. When you incorporate DEI into your operations for work... You are literally incorporating racism into it. And Brandon Carr just blew it TF up. It's gone. He had a two-page statement. And he says that in the very first section of the Communications Act, Congress stated that it created the FCC for the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce. And he basically goes on to ask, what the hell does DEI have to do with this? So then bold letter, bold bullet points. He's like, this is done. He just Javier Malay all of it. All of it. Brilliant. Couldn't be happier. Brendan Carr. If I were president of the United States, I'd give Brendan Carr a medal. A freedom medal. I would. I'd give him one of them fancy medals. Because he deserves it. He fights them tooth and nail. That's his whole job. He goes into work every day and it's just a battle. So this is amazing. I have... To touch on a couple of quick things, and we're going to get into some of these executive orders. The acting FBI directors resigned hours after he took over the role. Chris Wray said he was going to resign as the temp director of the FBI. Kash Patel obviously already announced as the replacement. So Trump was pledging to, I mean, he was going to fire Wray at first opportunity, which is completely understandable. So then he was going to leave Deputy Director Paula Bates. to assume the role of the acting FBI director so that you have some kind of continuity until you get a new one. Then Abate quit the second he took over. I feel like Ray and Abate were not in communications. So he's gone. So then now immediately when that happened, Trump was ready. And within 12 minutes, he had replaced Ray in a bait from what one of my sources said. It was like 12 to 15 minutes with two other well-respected FBI leaders in the field. So they're ready for everything. I got to tell you, when Trump ran the first time, I like Trump and I know him personally. I've known him longer than a lot of people in media. I've known him for over a decade. And he's always been incredibly generous and they've always been incredibly kind. And I do not have a negative thing to say about the Trumps, even if I don't even if I don't agree with everything that they do. That said, in the beginning, I had written an editorial where I was questioning his Second Amendment issues because he didn't have a record. Oh, my gosh. People lost their minds over that. I never said I wouldn't support him in a general election. This was the primary. I said, you know, I got some questions because he doesn't have a record on guns. And this is a big deal. And I was really focused on the due process aspect of it as well. And I questioned him on this. I'm like, I can't. I always go for governors typically. Like it's a primary 2016. I think Trump or I think Snoop Dogg, by the way, doing a video where he's shooting Trump in the head was like a way worse than writing an editorial talking about why you were questioning someone's Second Amendment issues during the primary. But I digress. And it felt like the first term in 2016 was bumpy. And I felt like there were a lot of cooks in the kitchen that wanted different things. I have to say what I am seeing with the second term is entirely different. It seems disciplined. They are ready to rock. He knew. I don't know if you watched the full video of him sitting at the Resolute desk because there's a video out there that's like 40 something minutes long. And the guy is, his aide is handing him executive order after executive order to sign. And he mentions it and then Trump expounds on it. You know, for like a couple of minutes each time he signed it. He knew each one of these. Signed it. You should have seen the desk after he was signing everything. I mean, it was just stacked up like to his head. Very disciplined. And you can tell... because now it's not their first rodeo, that they were ready for every curveball. It's almost like they anticipated, oh, Ray's going to kick it over to a bait and then he's going to resign. They anticipated that resignation. They're ready to go. They have continuity. They've got an interim. Patel is waiting a confirmation hearing in the Senate. And I feel like Democrats are so overwhelmed right now with everything that they've done just in the first 12 hours that I get the sense that they're not going to put up as much of a fight for these nominees as you would expect. Because this is a Sun Tzu tactic to completely overwhelm them with action to where they have to step back, reevaluate, and only immediately first deal with what they think might be the most important. And with that, I think they're going to target birthright citizenship. And I think they're going to fight him on some energy stuff. One of the executive orders that he had yesterday, Paris Accord, we're out. Now, Democrats, let me warn you, Democrats are going to say, oh, it's horrible that he pulled out from the Paris Accord. They treat it like a treaty, but it was never ratified. So it's not a treaty. It's treated like one, but it wasn't ratified. So it's I mean, I don't know how you can argue that that's binding. When you do stuff with an EO, guess what? It can be undone with an EO. So that's the other big thing that I think they're going to fight him on. The third thing, now coming up, we're going to get into two media narratives. Because they're already starting with their BS. The first thing that they were starting was Elon Musk being all excited and throwing his arms around everywhere last night. And then they try to create a narrative out of that. That's number one. Number two, the issue, particularly as it pertains to some of the J6 pardoning, they're even trying to convince moderate Republicans that this is a bad thing. I will caution you on that, though, really quickly before we get into days of these United States. Even the most worst offense for the worst offense, because there were people who are breaking up the house that my tax dollars pay for and that pisses me off. They were so few, though. Everyone else literally was walking between velvet ropes. It was nothing like when Democrats took over the Hart Building or when they set bombs in the 60s, the Weathermen. You know they bombed part of the Capitol, right? The guy who launched Barack Obama's campaign in his living room, he was the head of a group called the Weathermen that was like legit bombing parts of the Capitol. Anyway, the J6 thing that they're trying to argue, the worst offense... The person who is serving their sentence for the worst offense for J6 is already four times worse, and I'm going to dive into this study, than what BLM, anybody BLM, including the arsonist, have served or done. That is why there is no standing for any of it. Regardless whether or not you think that they deserve tougher punishment, Democrats once again got over their skis. They poisoned any potential jury pools were to go to a jury trial. They omitted information from defense, which immediately invalidates. They withheld so much information. They refused to cooperate with the defense. They were fabricating entire scenarios involving some of these J6 people so that they could justify charging them with an elevated offense. None of this was fair, nor was it just. Punish people for their offenses appropriately. But that is not what happened here. And there is not an exception to that rule. There's not. We're going to talk more about that. That's why. I don't have a problem with any of the pardons. And you know what? You know who set the standard on that, guys? Ladies and gentlemen, you know who set the standard on that? Biden. When he pardoned his whole family. Two minutes before Trump took his oath. We're going to talk about that a lot more. I've got so much audio for you. We're going to dive into some of the TikTok stuff. We've got that. We've got the media malpractice and two narratives you need to watch out for. One of them they're already building. So you don't want to miss a single bit of it. We've got a super packed show as we move. 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Strangers who, in the face of that stranger, they see a neighbor. These are folks who understand the strength and the value of community, which is everyone coming together with a shared sense of purpose and identity as a community of people. And I just wanted to come by, most importantly, to thank them, those who have volunteered and have brought people together and have sacrificed so much, and our firefighters. And I mentioned to these firefighters the fact that California firefighters, time and time again, prove themselves to be the best.
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Is it mean to make fun of her now? Wait a minute. Note to self, when did you care about being mean? I don't know. She was speaking in L.A. in front of Los Angeles Fire Department folks. I don't know. I don't get her. She still is not going to. She just needs to fade away. Fade away. Because at this point, she's irrelevant. She's done. She's an embarrassment. And what's more, I cannot believe that we blew our shot at the first female vice president with her. With a woman who was so damn unqualified and unprepared for the role. It's really frustrating because it just makes it that much harder for like a Margaret Thatcher, like a real decisive, accomplished, strong woman. to make that same run in the future. So coming up, the big media narrative. They were trying to go to Elon Musk last night and they used the Hitler-Godwin's law thing. We're going to talk about that. I've got some big executive orders. And then the ones that are immediately already facing legal challenges. I'm going to break those two down for you as well. We have so much to get you set up with as we approach midweek. More of The Dana Show second hour on the way. Stay with us. As we move, of course, our partners over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service that is out there. And Patriot Mobile wants to save you money, and they also want to save your money from going to the things that you vote against every time you're at the ballot box, like DEI or... I don't know, gun control or abortion on demand funded by the taxpayer. And that's the thing with Patriot Mobile. I mean, you're getting the best coverage. You're always going to be getting the best coverage. It's always easy to get a hold of somebody at Patriot Mobile as well. And they have seamless switching. So right now you can get a free month of service using promo code Dana. Just visit Patriot Mobile dot com slash Dana. Or call 972-PATRIOT. And this is, again, nationwide coverage you can trust. They operate on all three major networks, so you're connected wherever you go. Seamless switching. They have a 100% U.S.-based customer service team. You're helping to create and maintain U.S.-based jobs. And they're dedicated to making your switch easy. You can keep your number, your phone. You can upgrade. You can change it. It's entirely up to you. I mean, it's never been simpler to switch. So visit PatriotMobile.com slash Dana or call 972-PATRIOT and get that free month of service with promo code Dana. Switch to Patriot Mobile today and defend freedom every time you text or tell someone justifiably that they're wrong on the internet. PatriotMobile.com slash Dana, 972-PATRIOT.
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I have to say, I'm looking at this crowd. I do not see many people of color. Does anybody else besides me observe that? I'm fascinated by why that is.
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There goes Gayle King immediately trying to inject race in this, as you knew she would. So ridiculous. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We are at the top of the second hour. That's one of the media narratives that has kicked up. And it is... You knew it was going to happen. The other one, and I threw you a last-minute link, Juan, in the audio channel. The other one is this... This story with Elon Musk. So first, welcome Dana Lash with you. Top of the first hour. I listen coast to coast. Channel 347. DirecTV is the simulcast. The chat's over at Rumble. Find us at Substack. Chapter inverse. So I'm pulling up my audio here. So this the first one I'm going to play for you. This is bear with me. OK, so I actually know we have it. I think this is 22. I think I doubled you. Bear with me, everybody. Your girl's got a lot of info. So this was CNN. So this is audio. Let's do 21 first. This was the original. And then I want to do the CNN interpretation of it. Try that.
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And I just want to say thank you for making it happen. Thank you.
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Now, here's what the media did. He's excited, right? Did you see him walk in to the event? God love him. I know he sends rockets to space and he does all this cool stuff. But one of the cool things that he can't do is dance. And he comes out and he's so excited. You can see how excited he is. And he's dancing and it's hysterical. And the video's everywhere. So then he gets up and he's, you know, he's a hands, arms mover. I get that. I am too. It's just how he is. He's just excitable. This is what CNN, Audio Snowbite 22, this was the narrative they were pushing hard yesterday.
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I just want to look at that salute that he gave again. Just if anybody missed it, we'll just show it again. He's just wrapped up here. You can hear the. All right. So we just we just showed that we just showed that.
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Right. It was quick. I think our viewers are smart and they can take a look at that. But it certainly was. It's not something that you typically see in American political rallies.
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Put it that way. No, no, it was not something that you usually would see. And it was quick, as you point out. It was very quick. But it was it was in a moment of intensity for him as he came out dancing. And then he did that. He is a hero here.
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This is what they're doing to him. This is what they're doing. They're like, you see that? He's not giving a Nazi salute. You absolute idiotic bitches. I'm sorry for those of you who have very delicate... ears and you're like, Dana, don't say that word. They deserve it. Because when you're going to impugn someone's character that way, you deserve to have brimstone thrown right back in your face. And they know it's false and they're saying it anyway. They're trying this stuff again. I'm going to tell you people something. I've been doing this stuff since the beginning, before the Tea Party. Kicking off the Tea Party back in 2008. I am so tired of the everything I don't like is Hitler stuff. If that is all the analysis that you can offer, you're too stupid and ditzy to be on air to offer political analysis. It's shameful to watch other. I want women to succeed. I want women to be viewed as smart. But when these broads get on TV and they say stuff like this, you ain't doing me a lot of favors. You're not doing women a lot of favors. This is stupid, petty Karen nonsense. He's excited. He's saying hi to everyone. He's not giving a Nazi salute, you fetishists. Of course, these are the people that make apologies for Hamas, right? They're apologists for Hamas, but they want to see Hitler and everyone else. Not everything is Hitler, but they have no idea how to cope. They have no idea. So you know what they're doing? Have you picked up on the difference in how they're interpreting this this time around as compared to last time around? In the statement that she made, you don't see this at a political rally, and everybody went wild for it. And I don't believe that I'm reading too in between the lines on this. It honestly seemed to me like they were trying to impugn the characters of all of you. I mean, he touches his heart and throws it to the audience. That's what he was doing. Everybody claps. And these women, they're not just impugning Musk. They're impugning all of the people, the characters of all the people there, and you watching at home. They're impugning, they're doing that for you watching at home. I am, I'm going to tell you something. If they start doing this, I'm going to go back to the Anthony Weiner days and I'm just going to go crazy A-double snakes wild on some of these people. And some of them need to be confronted because this is ridiculous. I'm not doing this anymore. My gosh, they've tried this nonsense six ways to Sunday. And it's too much. But that was the narrative. They were pushing. It was trending. Oh, my gosh. Everybody was like a talking point went out. You realize that you've got city members of Congress who are Democrats who literally played at whites-only golf courses until like maybe a decade ago? Ask Sheldon Whitehouse about that. Hell, Hillary Clinton was on stage. You know her husband? Bill Clinton played at a whites-only golf course and the New York Times in the 90s found out. The 90s found out quite by accident and ran that hit piece on him. It hurt him. Interestingly, you've never had a Republican come out with a story like that. But there are scores of Democrats that have. If you want to have a discussion about bigotry, fascism, you know, all that nonsense. There you go. I'm just so tired of it. This is all I've heard. This is all I've heard forever. And I'm just so tired of it. Find a new line of attack. But this is what they did all day yesterday. Oh, my gosh. Eli. Because he's a powerful new weapon. Now, I want to caution everybody here. Again, and it's the Boromir test. I was watching the event inside when he did his, he gave his speech and he had the swearing in. Someone said he didn't, one of the gaps was that he forgot to put his hand on the Bible. I think he meant to. I mean, he had his grandmother's Bible and then he had Abraham Lincoln's Bible. So he had two Bibles for good measure, but they said he forgot to put his hand on the Bible. But I was looking at all the techocracy that was assembled. I mean, you had everybody there. I want to be real careful. They were standing in front of members of Congress, too, which I thought was optically interesting. But I want to caution people. Don't trade big government in for big tech. There's a limit. You've got to keep people on a short leash. This is something that has to be watched. There's a balance that can be kept. But it's a fragile balance. But it must be kept. But the way that the media was going about this last night, they're going to, this is what PBS, this is what PBS said. PBS tweeted this. They said billionaire Elon Musk gave what appeared to be a fascist salute Monday while making a speech at the post inauguration celebration for President Donald Trump in the Capital One arena. That is legit what they said. They wrote this. This is again, PBS, PBS. We pay them. I pay an ungodly amount of taxes to the point where I can't hire more people because I got to give it to the government to do this stupid nonsense. They write, quote, some elections are important, some are not. But this one, this one matter. They quote Musk. And then they said he puts his hand on his chest and then raises it in a salute similar to the Sieg Heil salute used by Nazis at their victory rallies. He touched his heart and threw it out to the audience. That's what he did. These people are asinine. Asinine. Now, here's a bit of news that'll make you feel better. You know, all of the Intel officials that signed that letter claiming that the Russian laptop was not disinformation or that it was disinformation, that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. They lied to you. They knew that they were lying and they signed it anyway. Well, with a stroke of his pen, Trump revoked all their security clearances. Oh, that was good. Revoked all their security clearances. So that'll make you happy. See, we got some stuff that's going to make you happy today with some of these executive orders. That's a big deal. And I think if you're lying to the American people, you should not have a security clearance. You absolutely shouldn't. The other thing he did, effective, I think now, is withdrawing the Paris Agreement. From the Paris Agreement, it is effective immediately. It's called Presidential Actions Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements. And it goes into effect immediately. So we are out of the Paris agreement. Remember, they were trying to treat that as a treaty, an unratified treaty and expecting you to accept that it has like the same scope and strength. And it doesn't. The other thing, delivering emergency price relief for American families, defeating the cost of living crisis. So this says, quote, I hereby order. the heads of all executive departments and agencies to deliver emergency price relief consistent with applicable law to the American people and increase the prosperity of the American worker. And by the way, Cyborg, we're going to have a piece on this coming up shortly on Substack about these executive orders. They also gave him, he's got the hiring freeze that he signed. It is a hiring freeze until the administration is fully in place, effective immediately. Within 90 days of this memorandum, the director of OMB said, and consultation with the director of DOGE, etc., they're going to submit a plan to reduce the size of federal government's workforce through efficiency improvements and attrition. They also have a regulatory freeze. This is a big one. Regulatory freeze pending review. They're not going to propose or issue any rule in any manner, and this pertains to energy too, including by sending a rule to the Office of the Federal Register until a department agency head appointed or designated by the president has reviewed it and approved it. They demanded that everybody return to work. That's an executive order. Ending the weaponization of federal government. They're going to review, audit all the activities of the departments and agencies exercising civil or criminal enforcement. Restoring freedom of speech. Ending federal censorship. That one is kind of broad, and I don't know how effective that is because it's just literally affirming 1A, which you really shouldn't need an EO to affirm that. Here's the other one. Quote, initial rescissions of harmful executive orders and actions. With this order, Trump rescinded every single one of Biden's 78 executive orders. All rescinded. Now coming up, I'm going to give you something to get really excited for. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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Oh, yeah. All right. So champagne sales have sunk because people don't want to celebrate. You know what? Because they haven't they haven't discovered spritzes. They haven't discovered things like a limoncello spritz or a French 75, which is named actually after 75 millimeter guns are used in World War One. But I digress. The champagne sales have sunk because people don't want to celebrate anymore. People aren't in the mood to say cheers. It's literally a study that came out. People are just like, they don't feel like super celebratory. And they said champagne sales are down across the board. Is it a generational... Steve, do you like champagne? Is it a generational thing? Well, you can get some dry... Yeah, I agree with you. Most of it's like... It's like drinking syrup. But, yeah, I don't know. It's interesting. A man pours his relative ashes in the mother's toilet. Oh, for the love. Okay, there's... Memphis, a man was arrested because police say he broke into his mother's home and poured a relative's ashes in her toilet. Police responded. Adele Totten had broken into a window, entered her home and took the cremated ashes of a deceased relative, dumped him in the toilet. And then he took some stuff from the apartment as well. He's been charged with aggravated burglary. Here's the other thing. And abuse of a corpse. I didn't know that that's a charge that you could have applied to you if it has to deal with ashes. Not that I was planning on doing anything, but that's just an interesting bit of trivia to know. You know, anyway. Women or a woman intentionally started a house fire with Takis chips. Now... These are not that spicy. Come on. She's accused of using Tacky's chips to start a fire with three other people inside. Now she's going to prison. Patricia Williams, first degree arson. It was last year in Greene County. She's just been sentenced. And she said that she used the chips because she knew they would support the combustion because of the grease content. And guess what? She was correct. Man, how do you feel about those? I mean, nobody was killed in the fire, but still, good heavens. That poor chip company. A brain surgeon was let go by the hospital because he allowed his 13-year-old daughter to drill a hole into the patient's skull. There's certain things that you should not be. Take your daughter to work day. This was in Austria. A 33-year-old man was flown to the hospital with serious head injuries in an Austrian forest. They did surgery. And then the unnamed neurosurgeon is alleged to have allowed the teenage daughter to participate. They got in trouble. Big time trouble. Stick with us. We got a lot more on the way. The energy being unleashed by some of these executive orders. Next, the burn a gun is all about diversifying your weapons array. I'm not going to tell people not to carry. In fact, I encourage you to carry. I encourage you to go get your concealed carry, go and, you know, have fun at the range on the weekends. I have zero problem using lethal force to protect myself or my family. But there are times and I have friends that have lived this life. You know, they do everything right. They go and they get their, you know, LTC that they have to get when they're in New York or in D.C. But because of the nature of their job, they have to go to a lot of places where it's either private property, gun-free zone or a municipal restriction zone. And as a result, they don't want to be left completely defenseless, especially because these areas also coincidentally happen to be high crime. Both of my friends that I know did this. They got the Berna SD independent of each other. That's Berna's best selling self-defense option. It shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can deter threats from up to 50 feet away. And they have different models, but the Berna SD is the most popular. And it's a good addition, you know, just to your diversified self-defense weapons array, as I said. And there's no, they don't care about gun-free zone signs. I mean, Berna gun, if it had a middle finger, it would give one to the gun-free zone signs. No background checks, no permits. They can ship it right to your door. No waiting period. So you don't ever have to be made defenseless by anybody. And that's where Berna comes in. This is the perfect time to reevaluate your self-defense options going into the new year. Visit Berna.com slash Dana. That's B-Y-R-N-A. Berna.com slash Dana to get 10% off your purchase.
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This next order relates to the definition of birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment of the United States.
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That's a good one. Birthright. That's a big one.
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What about that one in the court? That one might be.
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Could be. They think we have good grounds, but you could be right. You'll find out. It's ridiculous. We're the only country in the world that does this with birthright, as you know. And it's just absolutely ridiculous. But, you know, we'll see. We think we have very good ground.
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Yeah, and he's not wrong. I mean, he does have a very he has very good ground on it. We're going to talk a little bit about that because that's one of the. executive orders that i think that they're going to have uh some legal action over and in fact that's uh i was looking at some of this they were i mean they've already started with it i if you get the newsletter i told you that they were already filing suits this that you know it's just one of the things that's what they're going to do that's what they're going to do you just have to acclimate yourself to that welcome back to the program dana lash with you and uh this is We're going to dive into this, and we're going to dive into this bishop that was apparently ranting about transgender rights at the Day of Prayer thing. I don't know if you guys saw that. We're going to touch on that here coming up. But this EO, and I'm pulling up some of the few other things. This... Idea of birthright citizenship. I think you have to have a complete people need to have a complete understanding of what the 14th Amendment is. You know, the 14th Amendment was about uniting the country following the horrors of the Civil War and people who were free in this country that were citizens were citizens. I mean, it was ultimately what it was about. I mean, there's. The idea that someone can come to the United States and not be here legally and then have a child after entering legally and that grants them citizenship, I think has been a misinterpreted bastardization of the 14th Amendment. And the reason being, and forgive me, I'm pulling up my notes here because I wanted to pull up the 14th Amendment for this one particular phrase. When it gets into the jurisdiction thereof is the big thing. It says that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. Now this is again following the abolishment of slavery. That's a very important phrase subject to the jurisdiction thereof, meaning that you as you're following your you are eligible to be under the protections of the United States. There are some who like to say, well, this also covers people who might be in the country illegally, you know, on their journey. It covers them, too. But there's less of a legal precedent for that. So this is going to turn into a legal fight. But I feel like that phrase makes it quite clear. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Citizens are subject to the jurisdiction of the state or the country in which they have citizenship. That's my interpretation and has always been my interpretation of this. I mean, it's just asinine to think that I could go to Ireland and have a baby in Ireland and my baby's an Irish citizen. You know, the example, an example that you could give is, you know, what if you just have people who decide to send all of their, you know, say that your country's under attack and instead of firing weapons or sending over, you know, armed drones, you just send over a bunch of pregnant women and they have babies and you just immediately start doing it like that. I mean, don't think that that's not out of the realm of possibilities in this human epic because it absolutely, this epoch, it absolutely is. So that's how I view this. And I think he's completely fine with this order. The other order that I think that is going to get, that I've already seen getting pushback is this with J6. Now, let's talk for just a minute about the J6 stuff. First and foremost, and I retweeted one of my friends on this, Daniel Horowitz. He said, quote, the lead guy who burned down the Minneapolis police station got 27 months. The very worst J6ers got four years. And that, he adds, is if you believe the government side of the story, where they have demonstrably lied, by the way. fabricated accusations, withheld evidence that actually worked in favor of the defendants as it pertains to their culpability or lack thereof. And they lied about the defendants. They've already paid for what they did beyond, as Horowitz says, what any career criminal did during the BLM. The people who are like, oh, it was interfering with the election process. I don't think it interfered with the election process. I mean, you have people, the most violent of the J6ers already served more time than any of the BLM folks. I'm not saying that. The people who are literally examining the sentences and doing the analysis on all of it are. And I'm saying, because the facts are there. The facts are there. I mean, it's, So, of course, I absolutely feel that they should be pardoned. I think the whole damn thing, pardon all of it. Because the people who are the most violent, like I said, and like others have said, they already served their time. They already served their time above and beyond. I mean, way more so than the Occupy Wall Street people or, I mean, go on and on. But this is – you have to think that they got a fair deal from the get-go, and I don't believe that they did. I mean, there's a ton of – there's a lot of examples of them outright just withholding evidence or fabricating things, fabricating evidence. So, I mean, I don't – I don't have a problem with any of it. And I think people need to just, you know, come on. All of this, by the way, got thrown sideways when you had Joe Biden pardon his whole famed family. That changed the game. That changed the calculus. He pardoned his whole family. That we were told we're not guilty of any crimes at all whatsoever. But pardoned his whole family. Why do you need a pardon if you haven't done any crimes? I mean, that's, that's, it doesn't make any sense. Why? But this idea of going harder on them because they were conservative and ultimately that's, I mean, imagine if they had murdered a couple of FBI agents. Hmm. Yeah. Like some of the people that Joe Biden just literally pardoned. Joe Biden pardoned people who murdered cops. You know, they were already trying to be all back to blue and stuff. And they tried to sit here and act like, oh, these officers on J6. There was not a single defendant that assaulted a police officer who was pardoned or had their sentence commuted, by the way. That's one of the things Trump did not do. If they were on, if they had absolute concrete evidence of them assaulting an officer and being the provocation, then they did not receive a partner commutation. Everybody else did. But imagine, like I said, I mean, if you look at some of the people that Joe Biden was pardoning, I mean, actual cop killers. So the way that they went about this, the way that they they treated these people, it was a two tier system of justice. And it it put a question on every single conviction because it was so biased. There's no way that, I mean, every single prosecutor and judge was after these people. I mean, you have this guy, when you have Leonard Peltier, who is pardoned, he murdered two agents, Jack Collar and Ronald Williams, murdered two FBI agents. But he gets pardoned. But they were they wanted to go harder on the J6 people than even that. The I like I said, I am completely I mean, I don't. The idea that of this two tier system of justice is not an idea. It's a reality. Compare the Occupy Wall Street. Compare Antifa. Compare Black Lives Matter. Look at some of the sentences those folks got. And then look at this. I mean, there were 20 year sentences that were given out for people who are nonviolent offenders in J6. It's crazy. And it was an absolute complete witch hunt. I personally know people who they initially were looking to bring charges against that weren't even in D.C. They were scouring social media. And if they had like DC Post or it looked like they were there that day, they got a visit. And I had two friends that had this exact thing. One of them talked about it a little bit. One of them really didn't because they're more behind the scenes. They work as like a political operative. craziness. Remember they were trying to go after this elderly woman who wasn't even there? She was going to go, but she ended up not going that day. I don't even know how they... There are so many insane stories that we could finish the show talking about, but bottom line is I have zero issue with this because these people did their time. They did their time. They paid fines if they were cited. They did their time. That's what... 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Did God bless the United States of America? Pastor Alan Jackson says yes.
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I believe God has blessed this nation, that he's called it into existence. It isn't perfect. There's no such thing as perfect. We continue as we lean towards the Lord to make improvements. There is no greater expression of liberty and freedom amongst civilized human beings than we've seen from our own nation in the last 250 years.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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So cops in Coconut Grove are seeking a thief who was wearing a Jesus Save shirt. But not him because he committed a crime. I mean, of all the things to wear while you're committing a crime, that shirt. Okay, this is in Miami. They're seeing a man caught on camera wearing a Jesus Save shirt. He was stealing, which pretty sure Jesus doesn't like. And they have got him on camera showing up to homes at like one in the morning. and he stole one victim's vehicle. And they said that the Miami police are looking for him. I mean, it should be easy to spot him. He's in that same shirt in all the video footage. A Florida storm drain trapped a 10-foot gator and triggered an urgent rescue response. And a storm drain. Oh, my gosh. It makes me think of that scene from It when the little kid's there and he's going to float his little sailboat. And you've got It that's like right there in the storm drain. This gator, 10 feet. It was in Cape Coral. It took an urgent rescue operation. 10-foot, 6-inch gator stuck in this culvert. And the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ones got the photo. Can you imagine that popping out? Like, what's up? He was stuck, though. They had to use a winch to lift the storm drain lid and then let the gator, let the gator go. They secured it on the truck and took it and just and let it released it in a safe area. Safe for the gator. Anyway, not probably for us, but that's OK. Let's see this. Florida man was arrested because he was lurking around a bus stop. You know, that's a way that is a way to get beaten to death by an angry mom, either with a shotgun or a flip flop or both. Deputies arrested a Florida man because he was caught creeping at a children's bus stop. Polk County Sheriff's Office identified 37 year old Jonathan Lewis, who is a registered sex offender. He's being charged with violation of probation for failure to register. And he loitered within 300 feet of kids. No reason to be there. He just creeping. And they took him into county and they booked him into a jail, Polk County Jail. He looks like a predator. And he's been a registered sex offender. He had a convention in 2004, a conviction. And they said that he was standing amongst the small children and everyone, the witness said something was not right. And so they called the police. and deputies learned that he lived near the school, but he had no kids who went there, didn't know any of the kids who went there, couldn't give him a reason as to why he was hanging out amongst the kids at the bus stop, because he's being a pervert. Why is he living? Honestly, you're a child. Molester dot. You should be put to death. I am 100 percent for the immediate execution of all child predators. All of them. This guy, it is a failure of our justice system that this guy breathes. Moving on this Florida man story. He's a dirty burglar. He doesn't like robbing homes dirty. Apparently he broke into someone's home and took a shower. In Okaloosa County, they got a phone call from a Destin homeowner at 530 in the morning on a Saturday saying a man broke through her glass bedroom door and she was able to hide in the bathroom and call for help. And they found when Okaloosa County Sheriff's deputies arrived, they found 27-year-old Harrison Lee taking a shower inside her main bathroom. She was in the guest bathroom. He was in, I guess, the master, the bathroom on the side of the master bedroom. Or you can't say master anymore, can you? Because everyone's stupid. But anyway, he was in the master bathroom taking a shower. And they showed up and they led him away in handcuffs. He only was wearing a towel around his waist. He has been charged with burglary to an occupied dwelling, criminal mischief. Thankfully, no one was injured. But that woman had to be pretty terrified. Can you imagine like you're going you're you're sleeping and a guy busts up in your bedroom? You run to hide and then he goes and takes a shower. He's in your shower. I'd have to clean my shower before I could use it again. That's nasty. That's just so nasty. Also, got a couple of other things. A Florida woman is charged with attempted murder because she stabbed a man in his male copulatory organ. Let's put it like that. Stabbed him in his male copulatory organ. And witnesses said he was causing problems at the bar, calling the bartender vile names, being belligerent. It was at a tavern called Big Ugly Fish. And the woman, who's also a registered nurse, She pulled a knife on him after because they couldn't subdue this guy. Stabbed him. He's 63 years old. She fled on foot. So or he fled on foot. So man alive. I tell you, we have a lot more on the way. Third hour coming up. Stick with us like drinking from a fire hose today. 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That's pound 250 baby or donate securely at preborn.com slash Dana. Donate today for the sanctity of life at preborn.com slash Dana. Welcome back to the program. The you can watch the show, by the way, all channel 347 DirecTV if you're listening terrestrially in a state near you. And you can also find us chat at Rumble X, all kinds of good stuff. So you don't want to miss. All right. So earlier today, first full day of Trump's presidency. Guess how it got kicked off. Well, they had the prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral, which is a fake church full of fake Christians and people dressed up like bishops who, I mean, even Satan can quote scripture to cite Shakespeare. And I just want to play for you what was unleashed. His first thing on his first full day, he's sitting there with his wife, with the vice president, with the vice president's wife, second lady. Listen to this. This happened at the prayer service in a supposed church.
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I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives. And the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, and temples. I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away and that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here.
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For the love.
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Our God teaches us.
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You know what? He also says, give to Caesar what is Caesar and give to God what is God's. And he also extols people to follow the laws of the land and listen to your leaders. He also says that, too. It's not an unjust law. This woman, first off, this is why I don't like women preachers. I don't like women bishops. And I don't think women have any place in wearing these robes and standing in front of a congregation and running their mouths like this. This female is the exact type of female that Paul was talking about when he said to be silent in the church, ladies. That woman right there. Give me a break. You know what? I want to go back to John 2.15 for just a moment. When Jesus talks about in the Gospels, when the Gospels talk about Jesus making a whip out of cords and just unleashing and driving all these people out of the temple courts. And it even says that both sheep and cattle. He scattered the coins of the money changers. He overturned their tables, Matthew 21. He cast out everyone that was buying and selling in the temple. He overthrew the tables of the money changers. He flipped over the seats of those who sold doves. And he said, my house will be called a house of prayer and you have turned it into a den of thieves. This is the type of person about whom Christ was talking about. Right here. Speaking unbiblical untruths and trying to put it behind the veneer of scripture from the pulpit. Shame on this devil woman. And I'm going to tell you her punishment when she dies. will be more than you can imagine. Because you remember scripture also, those that lead these ones astray, it would be better for them to have a millstone tied around their neck and thrown into the depths of the sea because shepherds and people who aspire to such a position are called to a high standard. Unbelievable. And in this fake church, this church is nothing more than a coffin for a dead non-existent faith that they do not practice there. That church is a giant coffin. It looks real pretty, has its big columns, has its paintings, its mosaics, its statuary. But it is as alive as a cemetery. And don't think for one second that flipping over the money changers tables is an analogous to what this woman is doing. Oh, believe she is absolutely commercialized church. She is absolutely commercialized faith. She has politicized it. Let's pause for a moment about and let's think about it from this angle. The lives of the youth that you are ruining because you have a. pederast fetish with cutting off their breasts and their penises and taking chunks of meat from their thighs to turn it into a meat sickle that they pretend is a male copulatory organ. Let's talk about unnecessary cosmetic surgery, what these people do to themselves that make it to where they have to be on medicine for the rest of their lives and the ideology for which this demonic woman is created. advocating is targeting the youth. Let's spare maybe a little bit of sympathy, woman, for the children whose lives are irrevocably ruined because the adults in their lives are chasing activism, advocacy, and adjacent fame through that path than actually parenting and taking care of their kids. This is evil. I would have stood up and walked right the hell out of that church service. I would have gotten up and walked right out. I kind of wish Vance and Trump had done so. There's no way. I will not sit and listen to false doctrine. I will get up. I don't care if I'm in church or not. I will get up and walk out. And I'm going to tell you something. For the men that are in that church, they must be eunuchs. Because this is all they could get was her. There weren't enough men to do this. There weren't enough men who are trustworthy in the eyes of God to step up and take this position. So these eunuchs had to send out this devil priestess? Seriously? To spit this poison at a so-called national prayer service? And everyone's expected to sit there and be polite because we're pretending that it has anything to do with God or faith? I don't know what faith she subscribes to, but it's not anything that I've read in the Bible. She's preaching the perversion and abuse of minors as something that should be celebrated and protected. That's what a groomer would say. A groomer would say, no, no, no. These kids want it. They want it. We've got to protect that, you know, because they want it. Every adult should be looked at with a suspicious eye that says anything remotely near that, like what she's done here. I have zero courtesy for her. I have zero mercy. She should be run out on a rail like Elijah Lovejoy. Shame on her to do it. And well, it's not a house of God anymore. It's a den of thieves because she's commercialized it and politicized it such. I really wish POTUS would have got up and walked out. I wish that he would have gotten up and walked out. And then this white demonic priestess runs down a list of chores that she apparently thinks only people who immigrate or who come to the United States do. What in the racist world is this woman talking about? Now, I know the left is racist. The most racist people I've ever met have been on the left. I've seen some of them on my own fam damley. I don't have nothing to do with them. They're on the left. Like she is. And she gets up there and talks about, you know, they clean this and they do that. And, you know, it's a wow. Imagine being this female and you are so ensconced in your ivory tower that you don't know that people who aren't white can come to the United States and, oh, I don't know, create businesses. Some of them are a hell of a lot more successful than she or her family could ever aspire to be. And they come here legally because they're not dumb. They come here legally and then they add to the great American fabric and they add to the tax revenue and they add to the skill set. And they bring their own animating spirit, animated spirit of liberty. But all she sees is white and brown, white and brown. That's all she sees. She is the definition of an evil white racist. And the fact that she's in those robes, look at those stupid superfluous robes that she's wearing. It is a joke. It makes a mockery of church. It makes a mockery of Christ. It makes a mockery of faith. And this is what they did. This this is the prayer breakfast. This is how POTUS and the vice president are expected to start their first day. I don't have enough nice words. I will say Vance's face is pretty funny. Did you see Eric Trump's face at one point? Eric Trump, you could tell. My gosh, if ever there was a time when a thought bubble almost appeared like in real life over someone's head, it almost like apparated out of the ether and perched itself over Eric Trump's head because you could almost read his thoughts on his face. He just said, you can see it. I watched the whole, every time it panned to him, I was looking at his face. I'm like, oh my gosh. But I would have gotten up. I would have gotten up unceremoniously and I would have walked right out. I would have walked right out of that service. I really wish that POTUS and the vice president would have done so. Because they don't they don't deserve to sit there like that and listen to that, nor does anyone else. And I'm not going to sit there and pretend that that has anything to do with faith or Christ or anything. I'm not going to sit there and pretend any of it. If you're going to spew that poison to me from behind the pulpit, that's not church. That's a that's that's a. Not even a political rally. You're just spitting poison and evil. I'm not going to pretend that we're doing this in the context of church. No, I'm out. I'm not fellowshipping with that. I'm not taking part in that. I'm out. Not a church at all. No, that was a demon wearing sloppy robes. Masquerading as a shepherd. She's a trans shepherd. We've got a lot more on the way. Oh, I have more things I could say about it, but I'm trying to rein myself in. I've seen the amazing changes Relief Factor has made for so many people. And I've seen it firsthand through my husband, Chris's pain relief from using Relief Factor. Right now, it's easy to give their product a try because Relief Factor makes it painless. Thank you. It helps reduce or even eliminate it. It's safe to take daily, and in fact, the longer you take Relief Factor, the more effective. Whether it's neck, back, joint, or muscle pain, Relief Factor can help. Over 1 million people have turned to Relief Factor. Give Relief Factor a try. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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All right, so let's see. First up, because we still haven't even gotten through a quarter of these questions. Executive orders. Yeah, forgive me. I'm like trying to pull this thing up and it's not wanting to open. I do know that the one of the executive orders was the revocation of the clearance of those, as I mentioned, those 51 former intelligence officials that had their security clearances revoked. Fifty one of them. And if you remember, those are the ones that had signed that letter stating that the laptop was just some Russian misinformation. Well, every single one of those so-called security officials, they all had their information. security clearances revoked. So that's that's pretty that's pretty unbelievable. I'm trying to get the other ones for you. And this is freezing. I'm going to probably put a 12 gauge up to this monitor. Let's see here. Yeah, I don't have it right now. We're not I'm not going to be able to pull this up. Unfortunately, let's go to a couple of other things that I got, though, on the side. This doctors are worrying that iodine deficiency, it's a dietary problem from the past is coming back. Are they waiting for radiation? I don't know. Retirement experts are saying do not retire because there's a retirement crisis apparently now. Well, it's because the government needs everybody to work because they won't stop spending. That's another big part of it that's fueling this entirely. In addition to that, we've got what a ski resort slogan is banned ahead of a World Cup in Germany because they're saying that it's going to offend the Brits. What is the name of the ski resort? It's called Wank. And their slogan is, I love Wank. That's what it is. It's called Mount Wank. It's actually quite funny, but I can see they're trying to keep it classy, I guess. I get it. All right. A heart doctor reveals a five minute at home test that can actually spot cardiac conditions. I don't know if I necessarily necessarily believe that. I know that the cardio mobile thing is legit. And when I had an issue that turned out to be nothing some years ago, the cardiologist that I saw told me to get that. And he said it's even more accurate than, like, your Apple Watch, which, you know, could be helpful, but that's, like, super accurate. But this one, they said that, you know, you can do it. You just listen to your body, your rest, your heart rate, all of that. Duh. Stick with us. We've got more in store. All Family Pharmacy, you just need to bookmark this website. I have never been to a website where they make it easier to get the medicines that you need. And look, for, like, I get it. If you want to go to a doctor or anyone, they have doctors that are on their staff that you can actually talk to. So for instance, when I over Thanksgiving, I was getting super sick. I had sinusitis and it was turning into strep and I had people coming on. I was hosting for Thanksgiving. I don't have time for this. So I went on All Family Pharmacy's website, allfamilypharma.com. And I use my own code name. I'm not going to even lie about it. I dropped my own name and I got it discounted for 10% off. It's all familypharma.com slash Dana. And I was able to get my azithromycin because if I were to go to my doctor, that's the exact same thing they're going to prescribe me. This ain't my first rodeo. And then I had it overnighted. Got here at 9 a.m. 9 a.m. I ordered this stuff at like 7 o'clock last night. So it was amazing how quickly that they got it there. Anything that you need. This is a must have when you're traveling. They have everything. Ivermectin, which I take ahead of big events for the antiviral properties. But they have all kinds of reliable options for a variety of health needs. Be prepared. Skip the hassle. And here's the kicker. Big thing. Big, big, big. Their stuff is made in the USA, not China. So you hear about a lot of antibiotics being made in CCP China. Not these. It's all USA. So you do not have to worry about outsourced products. You're getting good quality, safe material. Visit allfamilypharma.com slash Dana. Get 10% off using promo code Dana10. Don't wait. Make sure that you're always prepared. Protect yourself and your family. Allfamilypharma.com slash Dana. Code Dana10 to save 10%.
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And as of today, TikTok is back.
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For now. I don't know. That's going to be one that we talk about later. I don't know about that. I was not sure about that one. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you. I will say, I'm looking at all of these because they... So they brought... So he went on stage and he signed a bunch of executive orders. Then he went to the White House and signed a bunch of executive orders, 200 in total. And they went through... There's video literally for every single one. So I don't want to play all of them for you. I do want to talk to you about the energy one. This is... I mean, it's not my birthday yet. Come on, guys. It's not even my birthday. It's declaring a national energy emergency. And so in this, he's looking to unleash America's energy potential. Now, do you remember his first term there for a while? And then he left office and Biden came in. We were actually in that exporter. We were outpacing the Saudis. And so he signed several contracts. executive orders as it pertains to energy. One of those was the declaration of a national energy emergency. That's number one. And that's going to address energy prices, looking at energy prices and all of this other stuff. Also looking to all of the different ways for energy affordability and And by declaring it a national energy emergency, the government can invoke the special powers granted to it through the Defense Production Act. You'll notice that that was something that came into play during the coronavirus. That means that energy projects will get priority and all of the resources to get this done. It all gets prioritized to get faster relief. cutting environmental regulations, and reducing the regulatory overhead for a lot of this stuff, particularly as it relates to household efficiency standards and electric vehicles. Now, some people may think that the household efficiency standards aren't that important, but if you're not one of those people that has to go out and get a brand new furnace or a brand new water heater, and it's going to be, I'm not joking, it's two times more expensive than it was. I know that because I had to replace my furnace and now I wish I would have like, I feel like I should have just froze out and waited and frozen to death and then waited for these executive orders. I had to do that a year ago and it's so much more expensive and they don't work as well. It's so stupid. But that is that's going to provide immediate relief. You're also going to see a streamlined approval process for all of those energy products, all the stupid red tape that they throw out. And I think that that would probably help with regards to maybe the expansion of refineries. Here's the other thing. Do you remember the executive order that Biden levied on LNG, right? Liquified natural gas. This undoes all of that. Well, he already reversed all of Biden's. Executive orders anyway, but he also this order specifically lifted the moratorium that Biden had placed on new licenses for LNG, the exportation of LNG. And so the Department of Energy can now they are now ordered to resume exportation. processing those applications, uh, for those, uh, permits for exporting LNG. And they're wanting to boost the energy production and support the, you know, obviously economic growth with all these LNG exports. Think about it. Here's how this plays into national security. One of the some of these NATO countries and energy has been this. Germany relied on dirty Russian gas for a very long time. And some other parts of Europe were as well. And this to get cleaner, because the United States, before stupid environmental regulations even had any part in it, just by way of making sure that they always have an environment that they can use and coexist with and get gas and oil from. Oil and gas companies have already implemented environmentally friendly and it's simultaneously business friendly because it preserves, again, the business standards that it's the cleanest, most efficient extraction that you could get. It's just miles advanced, miles more advanced than what, that's why they call it dirty Russian gas. To have that kind of gas and be able to provide that for our allies in Europe or elsewhere, that immediately eliminates the dependence that these nations like Germany have been having on geopolitical opponents like Russia or China, etc. So that helps also in a national security way as well, boosting that production, supporting the economic growth by facilitating the expansion of those lng exports and they want to also by doing this by getting rid of this red tape there's so much more innovation that can be done in the sector and that's what they're hoping to encourage uh this is another big one utilizing alaskan resources this was a major order and it looks at all of the natural resources in alaska and oil gas timber and this order specific uh mineral other minerals uh even seafood uh this they're going to uh to open up that for exploration and use those resources in Alaska for that purpose. We've withdrawn from the Paris Climate Agreement. Everyone's always tried to call it an accord or a treaty. It's not a treaty. It was never ratified. The process for this isn't going to be as immediate. This whole process apparently It takes a year to withdraw. I don't know. The administration, in the meantime, is using this to formulate a new strategy that actually addresses legitimate environmental concerns and preservation, but also keeping in mind national security and the American economic crisis. Goals all in mind. So that's and they were right in that the Paris Accord was a joke. It was entirely one sided. It was economically idiotic and burdensome. I mean, it didn't do anything with regards to climate change because the biggest polluters were not even part of it. The biggest polluters are China and India. The biggest polluter is China. China is not even part of it. The United States is only a fraction of even some of the other countries in Europe in terms of pollution. gases and any kind of pollution or anything to that effect because the United States has already taken steps to address it without having any kind of oversight like this. So this is stupid. It put all the burden on the United States. Like the United States, if you guys just have everyone live without electricity, tiny homes and eating bugs, the rest of us can go on living normally because you're going to take one for the team and not contribute to greenhouse gases by doing all of this stuff. It's asinine. So, you know, I'm glad that this is something that we've done. So, also, let's see here. The wind leasing. And I'm looking at all of my notes here. The executive order, folks, on wind leasing. This is withdrawing. It's a temporary withdrawal of... windmills and exploration and the leasing of the land for those purposes. It's the Outer Continental Shelf and it mandates they want a whole overhaul. They want a huge review of the leasing practices undertaken by the federal government for wind projects. There's a lot of cronyism in there. So, you know, I mean, that's It's interesting because Democrats love it, but Democrats have also fought against wind projects, most famously the Kennedys, because they were going to put a slate of windmills up. I don't know if you guys remember this. That was going to actually be visible from Teddy Kennedy's house. And Teddy Kennedy lobbied against it for years and killed the project because he just didn't want it by his house. He doesn't care if it was by yours. He doesn't care if it's killing whales somewhere, chopping up birds anywhere else. He just didn't want it by his house. So super, super interesting. This is a great thing for US energy. Energy is key to reviving the American economy, to unleashing our potential. We have so many resources and we have so many great processes in order to do it. We just have to be able to be allowed to do it. We don't need to fabricate all these stupid restrictions anymore. as a way to appease our enemies i mean that's what you would do if you were working for our geopolitical foes you would come up with all of these same dumb restrictions uh that absolutely do nothing but drive up the cost of energy and make it more scarce and make our allies have to rely on our geopolitical foes for their energy sustenance this this changes it this changes all of it if you do this and cut government spending oh my gosh Boom. A boom. It'd be amazing. It'd be huge. Make tax cuts permanent. Oh, make that your first step. Then abolish the IRS. What? I feel like that Vince McMahon meme where he's got three stages of elation. You know, we're getting up to the last one. So these are all huge. The energy executive orders are, I mean, they're just, they're incredibly important. And so this is, I mean, he's doing all the right things right out of the gate. And so I'm pleased with us. I'm pleased with us. And right out of the gate, he's doing it. This, you know, we told you about, I think I might write about this later, this bishop, this diocese in Washington that gave that speech where they were going on about trans this and trans that, insulting the president too at a national prayer service. I'm still so angry about that. I'm already getting emails about this from you, from a lot of you out there who are livid. Some of you didn't know that that happened this morning. You guys didn't. I had it playing and I was doing a million things and getting ready for the show. And I heard some of what she was saying and it stopped me in my tracks because I thought, wait a minute, I thought I was streaming the prayer service. And I thought maybe, I don't know, something happened and it went to a dumb Marxist channel. I don't know. I turned to look and it was still the prayer service. And The Lorraine reminds me, reminds me to this bishop. Let me go back. Marian booty. buddy whatever she's this uh bishop of washington since 2011 what a joke uh and she also loathes trump with the burning passion of a thousand suns and has gone to rallies and done all this stuff and uh she's you know your your quintessential like npr annoying white progressive female and Yeah, that actually happened at the National Prayer Service. One of you emailed and said that happened at the prayer service. Second sentence right in front of the president and the vice president and our cabinet. Question mark. Yes, it did. Yes. So that was like her little dig that I just don't know if you're planning all of this stuff. And I just I'm not I'm not coming down on anybody. But I am saying you got to watch out for this stuff. Like this woman is is a well-known Trump hater. Not just Trump hater. She hates God. You don't preach what she's preaching from behind the pulpit and and love God. You don't lie like this and subvert scripture like that. Why would you allow the president and vice president? Why would you say it's OK for you guys to go here and subject yourself and the whole country to this? This stuff lost at the election. We don't need to hear it anymore. America voted against it. We don't need to hear it in these fake Christian, you know, pretend service things that make a mock. We don't need to hear it anymore. So we need to make sure that those kind of optics don't ever happen again. That never happens again. The expediting delivery of energy infrastructure. This is another. This is part of one of those executive orders to facilitating all of that. They're looking at every lawful emergency, all relevant emergency, every agency, every supply chain, everything for this. You know what it feels like? It feels like nobody did the books for the last four years. Nobody did inventory for the last four years. I don't even think Democrats did inventory of the damage that their policies caused. And it sort of feels like they're going in and blowing the dust off the books in a way, doesn't it? It's almost like this. It feels like this stuff hasn't been looked at in forever. I don't know. The whole thing is just wild to me. But, you know, I'm telling you, ReadyWise is such a great company because, first off, it's really important to me, especially like with WuFlu and everything got locked down. I don't want Chinese anything. I don't want foreign anything with like super important products. And that also applies to my survival food. ReadyWise is all U.S. ingredients. Everything is here in the U.S. And they send the U.S. ingredients to a U.S. plant where they prepare and pack it. And then they send it to you. They also have a team of in-house culinary experts. So they make sure that your caloric needs are met. 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roadblock in America's future, man. I can't believe it. We're actually hearing rumors, and I think you like this, Democrat. Fetterman might actually switch parties, we're hearing. Now, I don't know if that's true or not, but that's something that's been kicked around a little bit today.
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Well, if Fetterman doesn't switch parties, I know some place called the WWE that he could be great at, brother, just as long as he keeps that hoodie on.
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One of my favorite things about that, my friend Jesse noted that apparently Hulk Hogan had sleeves on his jacket. but they took them off and left his sleeves in the floor right there where they were just left his sleeves in the floor. So I'm like, that's like a take that. Give it to your kids one day. These are Hulk sleeves. This is too funny. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We are wrapping up this third hour now. Tomorrow, beginning tomorrow, I'm going to be broadcasting from SHOT Show. In Vegas. We've got some crazy stuff. Special guests. Because everybody goes there. It's not just gun stuff. You've got film and TV because prop masters go out there. They look for firearms that they can place into different movies. Plus, there's a lot of policy that affects every industry, not just that variable specifically. So it'll be a lot of good discussion. But yeah, that was funny. His sleeves were on the floor. They just were left there on the floor. The president has said that he's apparently expected to visit L.A. this week and survey the fire damage. They haven't given an ETA on that or any kind of specific time, but they just said he's expected to this week to go and do that. And in the meantime, you know, you've had people like Gavin Newsom, who's been begging and just, well, he said this, audio soundbite 25, listen.
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I take us, I get it. I'm not naive. I get the California derangement syndrome. I've been living with that for years and years. New scum. And I'm saying seventh grade. I remember the guy on Baltimore Avenue that called me new scum. I was in seventh grade.
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Oh my gosh, he's making this up to be a pity thing about himself. He ends up going, yeah, you know, Trump, come help me. You know what? You guys have done way worse. Stop it. You're going to act like a little name calling. I mean, this is politics. Stop. Come on. All right. That does it for us today. We got today in stupidity, Steve, if I didn't take your time away.
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No, we got some time here.
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Okay.
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This might be the last thing we hear from Biden for a long, long time. And he's going to be the last to dance a bit here. So you interpret what he said here. Go ahead, Juan.
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We're not leaving the fight. all you can. Stay engaged in all the ways you can. Whether it's in public service, the private sector, philanthropy, academia, running for office yourself. Just as I've said, of the laws we enacted, our seasons are going to grow.
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I have no idea what the hell he's saying here. And I don't think he does either. Yeah. That does it for us today, folks. Have a wonderful rest of your evening. I'll be back behind the mic with you tomorrow from Vegas. God bless.
Today, renowned guests like Hans von Spakowski and Larry Taunton weigh in on the sudden shifts in U.S. policy and global reactions. Explore the implications of recent pardon decisions and what it means for long-term governance as the Trump administration sets new precedence.
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from the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, D.C., bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and soundbites into conversations with our nation's leaders and newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heiss.
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Well, good afternoon and welcome to this Tuesday edition of Washington Watch. Thanks so much for being a part of the program. I'm Jody Heiss, a senior vice president here at the Family Research Council and president of FRC Action. And I am filling in today for Tony as he was unable to get in due to inclement weather. He should be back in the seat tomorrow. So, again, welcome to the program. We've got a lot to cover. President Donald Trump wasted no time on his first day back in the office yesterday. He signed a wave of executive orders in both the Oval Office as well as at the Capital One Arena, where thousands of Trump supporters gathered following his inauguration.
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The first item that President Trump is signing is the rescission of 78 Biden-era executive actions, executive orders, presidential memoranda, and others.
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By the way, Capital One Arena is literally just a few steps away from the D.C. Office of Family Research Council. And what an incredible start he had. Travis Weber will be joining me to unpack some of those executive orders. And also we'll be discussing some of the executive orders that we would like to see the president sign in coming days. And then I'll also be joined in a little while by Oklahoma Congressman Josh McKean to get his take on some of those executive orders, including the one to end the weaponization of government against political adversaries. Of course, this is something that the Biden administration was notorious for, even as it claimed that justice was blind. And speaking of justice, if the two-tiered system of justice we saw during the Biden administration was not already crystal clear, now the former president added an exclamation point to all of that. You may have heard about this, but literally just 22 minutes before leaving the office with preemptive pardoning of his family members, he signed 22 minutes before he left office. Even many Democrats were critical of that move.
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I'm not a fan of these pardons, right? I wish he didn't feel that he needed to do that. It's a shame that this has happened, but I'm not a fan of the pardons because now the precedent is set.
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That was Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz yesterday during a CBS News interview. So what is the precedent that former President Biden has set? That's a huge question, and I'll be joined later by Heritage Foundation's Hans von Spakowski to discuss that important issue. Meanwhile, in Switzerland, the World Economic Forum is holding its 55th annual gathering. And how will the new Trump administration affect the conversations that will be going on there? Well, Larry Taunton will be joining me from there and just a little bit later in the program to discuss that. So as usual, we've got a lot coming your way, no lack of news to report, and we want to bring as much of it as we can. If you happen to miss any portion, of course, the website, TonyPerkins.com, you want to keep that handy as both this and multiple other programs are available there for you. So keep that website handy, TonyPerkins.com. All right, let's jump into the top stories for today. It's only day two of the second Trump administration, and his White House's website already has five pages, five pages filled with various executive orders that he's already signed from yesterday. So which orders did he sign? And how will he be working with Congress to execute his agenda? These are important questions. And joining me now to discuss this and more is Congressman Josh Burkine. He's a member of the Homeland Security Committee as well as the Budget Committee, and he represents the 2nd Congressional District of the great state of Oklahoma. Congressman Burkine, welcome back to Washington Watch. Great to see you, my friend. Thanks, Charlie. Good to be with you. All right. So we have lots and lots and lots of executive orders that have already taken place and signed by President Trump. It's just day two. So what were some of the most pressing ones that he needed to address as soon as possible that he jumped on?
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Yeah, look, I think that energy dominance, a return to that, and the number of executive orders that are trying to return us back to common sense so that we'll utilize the gold that's under the ground, as he likes to call it, versus things that are unreliable and that often take taxpayers to subsidize tax collection of monies, then to prop up industries like wind and solar. Sadly, that's where this administration has been moving, and Trump is correcting that. And then, of course, the border issue. the number of executive orders to end the catch and release. By law, the Immigration and Nationality Act says that they are to be detained until there is a decision, an adjudication, and this administration has opened up the floodgates of catching them, released them in the interior, and the professionals call that notice to disappear. It used to be known as notice to appear for a court hearing. They flippantly call it notice to disappear, and we all know what that implies. And then, you know, up to 12 years, these people are going to be embedded and then hide when they know that their asylum claim is fraudulent anyways. Why not just break one more law in addition to coming in illegally? In addition to that, you've also got the Remain in Mexico policy, widely popular. The physical barriers that by executive order, Biden stepped in a few days after taking office and by his pen, like a king, He overrode the will of Congress, who had voted, and it was signed into law previously, for 200 mile of physical barriers. Biden took his pen and unconstitutionally undid that. President Trump is restoring what we all know to be truth. Physical barriers work. Senator Biden said that 10 years ago. I'm quoting him almost verbatim. When he was a senator, Joe Biden said, the reason why we like physical barriers and we employ them is because of the drugs that are coming in between the pores. ports of entry. And then just the myriad of 60 plus different decisions that this administration will have to undo, that's how many decisions that by his pen Biden created havoc in the largest mass importation of illegals coming across our southern border. And so we're not done.
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Wow. You mentioned so many issues there. I wish we could kind of go one by one through all of that. But you prefaced it all by talking about common sense. That seemed to be such a major underpinning of everything from yesterday. It's like, let's return to common sense, which obviously implies, and we've all seen it. We've watched it for the last four years. It seems as though every major decision that the Biden administration made put forth was based on just the opposite of common sense. So what are you anticipating as we go forward? I mean, you just mentioned a lot of things that President Trump already has implemented and signed executive orders, reversing a lot of things. What are you kind of a 30,000 foot view anticipating the next four years under the Trump administration, particularly as it relates to just common sense? What can we expect?
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I think you can expect the contrast. You know, I think we all watched as whatever President Trump was for previously as 45. This administration just prior to him coming in as 47 was the contrast came in and undid every bit of that. Now, President Trump is coming back in and reversing it all. And I look forward to seeing that happen. I would love to see us lock in once and for all. the Article 1 powers that say, you know, you as a former member of the House know well that all legislative powers can be vested in the Congress. So we didn't have this constant ping pong battle of Democrat versus Republican utilizing executive orders when our founders would have said that's never where we intended. But the president has no choice. Biden has created these problems all by executive order, specifically to the border I'm referencing. And so President Trump has to come back in, undo those. I'd like to see us right-size our government back to constitutional bounds. I say this often. George Washington issued eight executive orders. And now we're at a place where, on average, every president is having to issue 200 or more in the last 20 and 30 years. We need to return back to a place to where this is not constantly occurring and where we can have stability.
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I think that is an excellent, excellent point, Congressman Burkine. What's it going to take to get there? What type of action does Congress need to put forth to reassert the authority that the Constitution gave it and that over the years has been surrendered to the White House?
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Well, Jody, we've all heard the term parchment barriers. It's kind of a founding father era discussion where they said, if you have people that aren't really in their hearts beholden to integrity, these things we write down by law, they're just parchment barriers. The Magna Carta written in 1215 was just a parchment barrier. Many kings that came after began to not abide by it. As John Adams in our founding era said, we will be a nation of laws, not a nation of men. And so we've got to return there. Article 1, Section 1, all legislative powers to be vested in the Congress is sufficient. But sadly, we've had Supreme Court decisions that do not abide by that. And so I actually am working on something. It's called the Bridal Act. Kat Kamik's got a measure called the Rains Act that would put bureaucracy back into a place of restraint. And there's actually a place in the federalist papers that talk about the whole reason that the founders had impeachment was it was to be a bridle in the hands of the legislative bodies to be used upon the executive servants of the government. And in tandem with that, George Mason, founding father, he and the Constitutional Convention said, we've got to add this term, high crimes and misdemeanors, Because there's only treason and bribery until George Mason insisted upon that. If you go back and look at that discussion, he said, because we'll have people who won't abide by the Constitution. And the parchment barrier won't keep them from doing things that integrity should. And so I'm working on a measure, again, called the Bridal Act that would put a lockdown, kind of like what the RAINS Act does for federal agencies, and try to apply it to executive action. And my team is working on that.
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Sounds like an outstanding piece of legislation in advance. Thank you for your leadership on that. We certainly want to be keeping a pulse on it as it goes forward. We've only got a couple of minutes left here. How do you anticipate the Republican Party, the majority, now both in the House and the Senate, to work with the White House on President Trump's priorities?
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Look, I look forward to so many of the things that he's talked about. Of course, anybody from Oklahoma too knows that I have extensively been so concerned when I talk to Oklahomans about our deficit spending. And the highlight to me is Russ Vogt at OMB. And Russ is someone that has been a champion in the past under the Trump administration of trying to right-size government spending. And I just had a conversation with the incoming Treasury Secretary nominee. And I know Russ is in those conversations. That excites me. We've got to have people that are paying attention to the bond market and understand what's happening when we're trying to go and make sure people want to invest in the full faith and credit because of the deficit spending, because we've gone from AAA to AA plus of two of the three rating agencies that are notable. And we have a problem because investors, when they have a choice between us or Australia, are wondering, this is a sad reality right now, they are wondering, will America make good on its promise? Will this bond be really what it's designed to be, a full return on my investment? And so we've got to stabilize that. We've got to make sure we're in our 10-year securities. We get back into a range that is not costing us $950 billion. When you hear people talk about our interest payments costing more than what we spend on veterans, our defense, our total defense, flush down the toilet, just interest payments, you know in your era, we were running $300 billion on interest payments because of a much better interest environment.
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Congressman Josh Birkin, thank you so much for joining us on Washington Watch. Wow, it's going to be an exciting time. Thank you for your leadership on it. All right, friends, don't go anywhere. We've got a lot more to cover, specifically all these terrible preemptive pardons. We'll be back in a moment.
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Well, good afternoon. Welcome back to Washington Watch. I'm your host, Jody Heiss. An honor to be sitting in today for Tony, who should be back in the saddle tomorrow. But thank you for being a part of the program today. All right, just 22 minutes before he left office yesterday, former President Joe Biden issued preemptive, unconditional pardons for his siblings and their spouses, blanket immunity. for any non-violent offenses they might have committed since 2014. It's just stunning. This move was not only criticized by Republicans, but also Democrats.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's a shame that this has happened, but I'm not a fan of the pardons because now the precedent is set from now into the future. Four years from now, I mean, it's a long time from now, obviously, but if President Trump feels that he wants to pardon his family on the way out the door, right, now Democrats can't say anything about that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Wow. So what precedent literally has been set through all of this? Well, joining me now to discuss this is Hans von Spakovsky. He's a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Previously, Hans worked at the Justice Department as counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Hans, welcome back to Washington Watch. We really appreciate you coming on. Sure. Thanks for having me. All right. So let's just begin with this. What can you tell us exactly who was pardoned with this last ditch effort 22 minutes before leaving office? Who was pardoned and what were they pardoned for?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, basically, it was the Biden family. Everyone and anyone who may have been and probably was involved in earning the $20 million from foreign sources that has been a subject of investigation, as you know, by the U.S. House for quite a while. And no crimes were specified. The pardon basically says any and all crimes that they might or could be charged with during that specific period of time. This is unprecedented. I don't think this has ever happened in our entire history. Pardons and commutations are given to people who have already been indicted and convicted. AND SO WE'VE NEVER HAD THIS BEFORE. ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW WHO ACTUALLY MADE ONE OF THE BEST COMMENTS ABOUT THIS? WAS PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN. HE WAS ACTUALLY INTERVIEWED IN Because back then, people were saying that outgoing President Donald Trump might do this. And he criticized this, saying, you know, the whole world looks at our legal system. This would create a terrible precedent and, in essence, would make people lose faith in the adherence of our country to the rule of law. And he said he would never do it. That tells you a lot about Joe Biden, doesn't it?
SPEAKER 10 :
It certainly does. So, all right, I've just got to ask you, this has been so disturbing to me. Is the president actually allowed to do this? And what I know, I know the president can pardon, but... What you just brought up, here we have a part of people who have not been convicted, have not been charged, not been indicted. It's just kind of a blanket immunity. If they ever did anything, does this not set potentially a stage where any administration can come in and direct whatever criminal activity to take place to accomplish whatever crime whatever administration may want to accomplish, and then just basically say, don't worry about it. We're just going to give everybody an immunity when it's all said and done. Is that kind of precedent a real potential threat?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, that is exactly what it does, and that's why this should not have been done. Unfortunately, there's really not much that can be done about it. If you look at the president's pardon power in the Constitution, it's Article II, Section 2, it's virtually unlimited. And we've never had this happen before because, quite frankly, I don't think we've ever had a president as corrupt as Joe Biden and his family. And so it never occurred to anyone to do something like this. And there were never circumstances that led to this kind of thing happening. But it does set a terrible precedent. Future presidents could use this. to immunize all kinds of illegal criminal behavior. And I don't think that's the kind of country we want to be living in.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, absolutely not. So what needs to take place, what can take place to put a stop to this now to ensure that this type of thing is not a possibility in the future? I mean, like you said, we can't live in a country where we potentially have corrupt administrations that they can then cover up the behavior with a pardon.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, there's a couple of things to remember here. The only way you could change this is to, frankly, amend the Constitution. You'd have to amend the pardon power and put some limitations on it. But keep in mind, like I said, a couple of things. This only extends to federal crimes, okay? A president cannot pardon anyone for state crime. So if a state crime has been committed, these members of his family could still be prosecuted. The other thing it does is it doesn't hamper transparency and public disclosure through continued investigations by Congress. If the House wants to continue its investigation of the Biden family, and frankly, their skullduggery with these wealth transactions profiting off of the official positions of Joe Biden as the prior vice president, the one thing this does is take away the ability of any member of the Biden family, if they're subpoenaed, to come testify from asserting their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination because they've been pardoned. So they can't raise a Fifth Amendment defense. They have to answer questions. And that kind of investigation could hopefully lead, like I said, to more disclosure of the shenanigans that the Biden family engaged in.
SPEAKER 10 :
Wow. Well, that's encouraging to hear that, number one, this only applies to federal crimes, not state crimes. So there's probably something there if the investigations want to go further and that the investigations of Congress are not hampered. by this. Great, great points. Thank you so much, Hans von Spasskowski, Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Always great to see you, and we're deeply grateful for you unpacking what's happening here. Thank you, sir.
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Sure. Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER 10 :
Always good to. All right, friends. Wow. We've got a lot happening in this program and there's a lot more still to come. After the break, I'm going to be joined by Larry Taunton, who is going to be joining us from Switzerland. Yes, he's at the World Economic Forum. And how has the new Trump administration affected the global conversations going on there? Well, that's up next. So stick around. We'll be right back.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm your host today, sitting in for Tony. I'm Jody Heiss. Yesterday, on his first day back in office, President Trump took aim at the globalist institutions. like the World Economic Forum, for one. He signed an executive order that underscores his administration's stance against policies that these elites seem to champion. And, of course, Trump has long criticized the forum for advancing agendas that, in his view, undermine our national sovereignty and agendas that impose unfair economic burdens on American taxpayers. And as part of this push, Trump signed an executive order withdrawing, yes, withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord, which he and many others have criticized for its weak enforcement mechanisms and disproportionate demands that it has on the U.S., especially when you compare to countries like China. So what does this mean for Trump? environmental policies? What does it mean for global leadership and the growing influence of institutions like the World Economic Forum? Well, joining me now to break it all down is Larry Taunton. He's the executive director of the Fixed Point Foundation. Larry, welcome back to Washington Watch, and thank you for joining us from Switzerland.
SPEAKER 11 :
It's a pleasure to be with you.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right. So what are you hearing and what are you learning from the World Economic Forum so far? And specifically, how does it all align with or conflict with the priorities that the Trump administration has?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, let me begin by saying something about my strategy here. Now, you have a variety of reporters, conservative and otherwise, who are here, and they're here with their news teams, with their camera crews, and they are ambushing, in some cases, some of the people who are speaking at the forum. My approach is completely different. I just pretend to be a weffer. That's what they call themselves, weffers. They refer to the meeting itself as the weff. And I just walk into every building like I own it and sit and listen to what they're saying. And the result of that is they tend to speak to you much more freely and openly. And I would say that this year, this is my third year in a row to attend, that what you're hearing is panic.
SPEAKER 10 :
Because of Trump? Panic because of what specifically?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, the globalist agenda, yes, because of Trump, the globalist agenda hangs by a thread. And that is because the United States has really been the keystone to the globalist agenda. If the US falls, all other smaller boats are swamped. And we, of course, have been trending in that direction. But in November, that all took a massive swing in yet another direction. And of course, in the last 24 hours, Donald Trump has been inaugurated as president of the United States. And so far, he's done the things that he said he was going to do. And that is chiefly not simply take a... let's just say, a non-globalist position. He has taken a fierce anti-globalist position. And they see that as though he's some sort of hayseed and backward and somebody who just really doesn't understand what's good for mankind. But the World Economic Forum really isn't concerned with mankind. They're all about saving the planet and, of course, power.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep. And Trump, you're exactly right. I mean, Trump, he recognizes that these elites, as you just described them, they have their own agenda. They have their own interests. And that cuts against our own national sovereignty and our own economic freedom and sovereignty. Trump is just pushing back majorly against, and we saw it yesterday. So how does Trump's approach challenge the influence of institutions like the forum? I mean, you said they're panicking, but this is going to, the United States carries so much of the weight behind these. And now that we're, you know, cutting it off, that's going to be a major challenge for them to overcome, won't it?
SPEAKER 11 :
Absolutely. I mean, let's just take one issue, one that I have spoken about on this show before, and that's immigration. As Tony would know and others involved with Washington Watch, I have been tracking, following, accompanying some of the caravans that have been making their way to the United States border from all over South America through Darien Gap up to Mexico City and then ultimately to the last jump off to the U.S. border. Now, how does that relate to the WEF? Well, you see, the WEF, globalist as they are, they're all on board with the whole open society agenda, which essentially means open borders. And so Trump coming into office, what is the first thing that he says he's going to do? He's going to close the borders. and he's going to enforce a sensible immigration policy. Well, just an issue like that is, I mean, that's just one of many. That issue imperils their agenda. And part of their agenda in open borders is destabilization of a country like the United States and to change overnight the social, political, and infrastructural nature of the United States. And yet here's Trump who comes along and says, not only am I not a globalist, I'm an American patriot. And we're not going to have any more of this kind of nonsense. So you can imagine the kind of panic that is felt at a place like the World Economic Forum. Now, they're all trying to pretend like whistling through the graveyard like this maybe isn't, this is just perhaps a blip on their radar. But of course, it's a great deal more than that, and they know it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Wow. Oh, and withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord also. I mean, it's just huge. Yeah, huge stuff here. Well, listen, Larry, I want to thank you so much for joining us. We're definitely going to have to bring you back and discuss some of this some more as all of this unfolds. There's so much taking place. But Larry Taunton, executive director of Fixed Point Foundation, thank you so much for joining us on Washington Watch.
SPEAKER 11 :
Absolutely. It's always good to see you guys. Thanks for having me. You guys take care and keep up the good work.
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You too. All right, friends, much more coming your way on Washington Watch. Don't go anywhere. We'll be back in just a moment.
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Good afternoon. Welcome back. Welcome back to Washington Watch. I'm your host, Jody Heiss, sitting in today for Tony, who should be back in the saddle tomorrow. Before I go to my next guest, I want to, again, encourage you to get involved with moving important policies forward during this new Trump administration. And, friends, we have a tool for you that's going to enable you to do just that. So I want to encourage you to get our first 100 days toolkit. Now, this toolkit is going to equip you with the tools you need to find out your members of Congress. to support key legislation, to get insights on nominees, how to pray effectively, and so much more. Friends, there's nothing else like this out there. And you have an opportunity right now to access the first 100 days toolkit. You can do so by simply texting the word toolkit, that's one word, T-O-O-L-K-I-T, toolkit, to 67742. I encourage you, get your toolkit, and let's all be involved in helping this 100 days be all that it can be. All right. Yesterday, on his first day back in office, President Trump wasted no time. As you know by now, He signed a wave of executive orders aimed at fulfilling key campaign promises and at the same time reversing policies from the Biden administration. And earlier in the program, of course, we discussed some of the executive orders that he's already signed. And while we cannot in any way cover them all, we do want to highlight certain ones that address specific concerns that we have here at the Family Research Council. So joining me now to unpack some of them is Travis Weber. He's vice president for policy and government affairs here at FRC. Travis, thanks so much for joining me today on Washington Watch.
SPEAKER 13 :
Jody, it's good to be with you.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right. So we've got a batch of executive orders. It's quite in contrast, if you will, from the Biden administration, whose officials literally struggled to define what a man and a woman are. Correct. I mean, we're going in a different direction right now.
SPEAKER 13 :
No, Jody, we really are. President Trump has wasted no time in rolling out a number of executive actions starting yesterday, and I expect we'll see more in the days to come. These actions are focused on what we might expect, areas that he's highlighted a lot during the campaign, law and order, national security, the border. the economy, but there's also an overriding sense of kind of resetting and realigning America to where she should be. I think many will feel that America's gotten off the rails in recent years. We've been a nation in decline as as our leaders, including the Biden administration, have led us languished and have failed to effectively lead the nation where we should be going. And so, you know, a lot of President Trump's actions are resetting or starting the process of resetting America on the course she should be. And that comes in the areas economy, energy, you know, resetting America first priorities at home, but also abroad. There's a couple executive orders that have been issued regarding international matters, foreign affairs. And one of those is making sure that we have an America first foreign policy, one that serves our interest and not the interest of diplomats or elite global circles to the detriment of the American people who do not know what is being discussed by those who are supposed to be representing them. you know one area is is the world health organization so he's president trump has now issued an order saying that he intends to start the process of withdrawing from the world health organization a process he started in his first term that biden reversed and now trump's going to start once again and so um you know this is an issue that's that is familiar to many we were at the world health assembly in geneva last may where we were tracking the pandemic agreement which is concerning from the perspective of sovereignty being eroded as global bodies, including the World Health Organization, aggregate power to themselves. So hopefully this will be a reset in this area of the World Health Organization and other UN entities, in addition to resets of other areas like foreign aid, foreign policy, which we'll see implemented in the days to come.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes, and I want to talk about some of those, but there's no doubt, Travis, FRC has been closely tracking the World Health Organization, particularly since COVID. And quite frankly, so many have contacted us and been in touch with us. It seems like the whole country is concerned about the World Health Organization. No doubt the U.S. has been... propping it up in many ways for a long, long time. So as President Trump now comes in beginning the process, as you describe, of resetting and really starting the process of withdrawing us from the World Health Organization, what impact would that have both on the United States and on the World Health Organization as a whole?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, well, the WHO put out a statement saying that they're disappointed in the president's decision. The US is a massive funder of the WHO. Their own livelihood is on the line. But that should help them see clearly that they need to pay attention to what the United States is the U.S. perspective on the WHO and what it wants to do. This is part of the problem, Jody. We have these bodies like the WHO. They're designed for a purpose that no one would really argue with. We need to have nations have a mechanism to prevent diseases that cross borders. Okay, a lot of people will get that. But then it goes off the rails at some point. under COVID, what we saw were abuses by governments in the areas of freedom, religious freedom, free speech. There were a lot of censorship and individual rights were suppressed in many places globally. And instead of that being a topic that's discussed at the World Health Assembly, they're discussing what they could do to increase their power, increase their ability to exert control over the next policy response, which is going to be named in the name of safety, but it's control. And the discussions of rights and freedom and the violations of THE WHO POLICIES WERE IMPLEMENTED. WE'RE NOT DISCUSSED AT ALL. SO, YOU KNOW, JODY, THIS IS, YOU KNOW, THEY NEED THE PEOPLE AT THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND BODIES LIKE THAT TO UNDERSTAND THAT THEY'RE ACCOUNTABLE TO THOSE WHO ARE FUNDING THEM, THOSE WHO ARE GRANTING THEM THEIR AUTHORITY. It's nation states who've agreed to the WHO, who are part of the WHO, including the U.S. So Trump is going to withdraw. And certainly there are going to be discussions. Part of the WHO executive order says that the means or the ends to which the WHO, the goals of the WHO, in so many words, there are other ways we can accomplish what we are trying to do in the WHO. So this is going to be an important discussion. And it's going to be important for us to continue to have to watch what's happening, though, because we don't want the same violations, same sovereignty erosions to take place in another way.
SPEAKER 10 :
Absolutely. You also mentioned a moment ago, if we can transition on the topic of foreign aid, there's no question President Trump has had his eye on the foreign aid that the Biden administration has been doling out. So what does the Trump executive order on foreign aid do?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, so Jody, this just pauses foreign aid for a period of time until the whole system can be reformed. And I think this is really welcome because I just want to actually read from this order. I have it in front of me here. It says that U.S. foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values. They serve to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse of to harmonious and stable relations internal to those countries. And so this makes an important point. Certainly this language is getting at what we have been doing over the past number of years promoting LGBT ideology and gender ideology, radical abortion positions, climate positions globally, including in places that are repelled by our insistence on pushing these policies on them, places like Africa and Eastern Europe, and places that were also competing with China. So we're shooting ourselves in the foot by promoting these ideologies in these places. So certainly this language is getting at Guys, we need to stop this. Let's pause. Let's reassess. Is U.S. foreign aid serving American interests? And certainly with this 90 day pause in U.S. foreign aid that the executive order articulates, we hope to see instead of. you know, bad policies, which we need to see a rollback, a de-woking of our foreign policy gets us back to neutral. In place of that, we want to see foreign aid used to promote values that serve our interest in being a beacon to the world, a shining city on a hill, promoting true human rights, freedom, religious freedom, and life and family, and family flourishing everywhere we can see fit. So, Jody, that's my hope and prayer for what will happen under this executive order.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right, so that's a great point. So it's both and. So in addition to President Trump having executive orders getting rid of some bad programs, some, in this case, bad foreign aid programs, there were also some good foreign aid programs that the Biden administration stopped, put a hold on, that probably President Trump should restore. Any comment on that?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, well, so we had in the last administration, there was a large effort to promote religious freedom globally. And this was so well received and so needed by those suffering persecution around the world for their faith, Christians and others. And the ministerial to advance religious freedom that was run in the State Department is an example of this. There were human rights efforts, efforts that expanded and displayed globally the founding ideals of America. You know, we're coming up on the 250th anniversary of American independence. And so, Jody, this is an opportunity to bring some of those out again, bring them into the light so that America may be a blessing both to its people at home, but to all people who desire freedom around the world.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, looking ahead, let me just put this. I actually had Congressman Josh Perkin on with me a little bit earlier in the program, and he actually mentioned the Mexico City policy. So looking ahead, I mean, no doubt there's going to be a number of additional executive orders that are going to find their way to President Trump's desk. And one of those may be the Mexico City policy. So tell us about that. First of all, explain real quickly what the Mexico City policy is. And do you, by any way, maybe expect that to happen this week? Is that one of those going to be a priority?
SPEAKER 13 :
We hope so. You know, certainly this one falls within the spirit of what President Trump's already articulated with resetting foreign aid, resetting foreign policy priorities. And it's one that he issued the first time around. President Biden revoked it. AND WE HOPE HE ISSUES IT AGAIN. WHAT IT SAYS IS U.S. FOREIGN ASSISTANCE SHOULD GO TOWARDS PROTECTING AND PROMOTING LIFE AROUND THE WORLD, SHOULD NOT BE USED TO PROMOTE ABORTION. AND SO THIS ALSO FITS WITHIN THIS DEWOKING OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY. WE SHOULD NOT BE PUSHING ABORTION ON ANY COUNTRY. And it's even more egregious when it's done in a way, done in these countries that are saying we don't want this and feel coerced by America. So that Mexico City policy executive order is one that is a healthy and needed part of what we already saw started by the president yesterday with this resetting foreign aid executive order. And I do hope it's issued again because many countries around the world, including African countries, including countries in Eastern Europe who do not want to be coerced by the U.S., WOULD BENEFIT FROM THE CLARITY THAT EXECUTIVE ORDER BRINGS, WHICH THE ORDER BASICALLY PROVIDES THAT U.S. FOREIGN ASSISTANCE FUNDS CANNOT GO TO ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROMOTE OR PERFORM ABORTIONS OVERSEAS. IT SHOULD BE A NO-BRAINER, BUT UNFORTUNATELY BIDEN WAS INSISTENT ON AND HIS ADMINISTRATION INSISTENT ON PUSHING this around the world. So we hope President Trump will be part of de-woking our foreign policy. We need to put that in place again and see that no U.S. taxpayer dollars are pushing abortion on foreign countries. In addition, we should not be pushing LGBT ideology, any social policies that are offensive to these local cultures of these countries around the world.
SPEAKER 10 :
De-woke. De-woke. I love that. That kind of puts it all in perspective right there in one simple term. All right, Travis Weber, are there any other executive orders that the president has signed or has promised to sign that you think would be of particular interest and concern to evangelicals?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, I mean, Jody, we've seen a number of good orders signed so far. In addition to the ones that I've already mentioned, there's one that also resets, you know, says the U.S. foreign policy should be an American first foreign policy. So we have some good foreign policy EOs. THERE'S ONE THAT CLARIFIES THAT MALE AND FEMALE BIOLOGICAL REALITY SHALL BE THE POLICY OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. SO TRUMP HAS ROLLED BACK A NUMBER OF HARMFUL BIDEN EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND HE ISSUED THIS BIOLOGICAL REALITY EXECUTIVE ORDER CLARIFYING THROUGHOUT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, EXECUTIVE The policy will be guided by the reality that we are male and female. So part of that order significantly also says that U.S. federal funds should not go to funding gender ideology. This is very significant because it gets at the question of how the U.S. tax dollar is being used. U.S. tax dollars should not be going to fund these ideologies at home or abroad. And so this is a very encouraging part of the executive order. We'll have to keep an eye on that to see that it's fully implemented. And certainly, in effect, this is a no taxpayer funding for gender ideology. executive order. So that's a very encouraging one. It's quite lengthy. There's other provisions in there mentioning the need to protect women in prisons and other contexts in which gender ideology has harmed women. Jody, there are a number of other orders dealing with a lot of law and order issues, national security issues, the border. I think helpfully really kind of putting America back on the rails to give us a chance, clear the rubble So the American people can live up to their potential, can exercise their freedom, and the American church can live out its role in a robust way, seeking to bless the country and pray for the country as President Trump kind of clears the way by clearing the pathway ahead.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you so, so much, Travis Weber, Vice President for Policy and Government Affairs here at FRC. Excellent information. Thank you for joining us. Thank you, Judy. All right, friends, you've heard a lot, and I want to encourage you, each of you, be praying for this next 100 days is critical. Thank you for joining us today on Washington Watch. Tony should be back in the chair tomorrow. Have a great evening. We'll see you.
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Explore the flux in technology stocks, with Apple at the forefront of the discussion. Learn about significant stock moves influenced by insider knowledge, as Bill Gunderson navigates through earnings season highlights. From major collapses in the tech sector to strategic stock holds and sells, this episode provides a comprehensive overview of the current market climate alongside expert insights into potential trends and future forecasts.
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He's been seen on CNBC, the Fox News Channel, and the Fox Business Channel. His articles can be found on MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, thestreet.com, and many other places. He's the author of the weekly Best Stocks Now newsletter and the inventor of the Best Stocks Now app. He's president of Gundersen Capital Management. Here is professional money manager Bill Gundersen.
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And welcome to the Best Docs Now show with professional money manager. Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management, and I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst. And we are off to kind of a sluggish start in the market here so far today, although the futures were looking pretty good. And then once it opened up, it wasn't quite as good, but it's okay. We'll take it. On President Trump's first full day in office, the Dow is up 247 points. which translates to 57 basis points. It is helped along by 3M today, the pride of Minnesota. The NASDAQ, however, is down 11 points today, which is just 7 basis points. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 is up 23 points. to 6,020 a lot of big tech stocks were doing okay last time i checked russell 2000 having a very good day good day for small caps they are up 1.15 percent right now the bond market is pretty quiet down a couple of basis points here so far With a lot of talk yesterday, a lot of executive orders, which we'll get into, a lot of new plans. 4.58% right now is where the 10-year, actually it's up a few basis points right now. And last but not least, Bitcoin is having a bad day. It's down 3,800. uh... right now so welcome to today's best stocks now show with professional money manager bill gutterson president of gutterson capital management well barry we gotta go back uh... to where we left off it seems like uh... an eon ago uh... that the market uh... was open although it's just been three days we finished up uh... last week that that was up three thirty five The S&P was up 59. The NASDAQ was up 292 as we had a huge day on Friday. And I'm going to say that what saved the day there for the markets and the NASDAQ were the cool inflation numbers. That was definitely the headline for last week because it looked like the market was rolling over and getting ready to correct even further. The Dow was down about 6%, 7%. And it looked like the NASDAQ and the S&P were going to follow. And then along came a cool, a decent PPI report. But it was the CPI report on Thursday that really sent the market hurling higher and staving off a correction or putting off a correction for now and even kind of broke that trend line, which was starting to point down there early last week.
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And had the market, actually had the market price in one more rate cut for 2025. So, I mean, who knows if those numbers will be right. But that inflation report, some mild inflation reports last week really brought the 10-year treasury down, I think, around 15 to 18 basis points.
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Yeah, so you can see how one report, of course, it cuts both ways. I mean, one report can really impact the market. both to the upside and the downside and it saved the day last week in the market and turned the market around. Okay, well we had a little bit happen here yesterday. I would say a seismic shift in many ways.
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It went very smooth, didn't it?
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Well, yeah, I mean indoors and place to place, very well choreographed, timing good. There was definitely a lot of transparency in the Oval Office as the reporters sat there and asked Trump just about any question they wanted. And he was there to answer their questions. It was like coming into my living room and ask me anything you want. And the reporters were like, wow, they couldn't believe it. I don't think President Biden did that once during his entire administration. Anyways, and we've got a slew of executive orders. I don't even know where to begin on that, but a lot of them will impact the market. There's no question about it. Government spending definitely comes under fire. A regulatory freeze prevents bureaucrats from issuing any more regulations. until the administration has full control of the government. Okay, no more regulations, the small caps like that. A freeze on federal hiring, except military personnel. He took away the clearance of all the people that signed the Russia collusion letter, including a couple of bigwigs out there. I saw Leon Panetta was on that list. And the old, let's see, Brennan. Brennan was on that list also. They lose their security clearance. A directive on inflation directing every department in the government to be mindful of inflation and rising costs and see what they can do to reduce costs in their own little department. withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords, no more 50% EV cars by 2030, which is just five years away. That wasn't going to happen anyways. Well, there was a mandate.
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You had to make people buy them, I guess.
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That has been a struggle to get people into electric vehicles, especially forcing them. Exiting the World Health Organization, declaring an emergency at the Mexico border, which I think you're going to start to see deportations today. We'll see how that goes.
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Cartels, listed cartels as terrorist organizations.
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Terrorist organizations. You know, I've been to Mexico many times in my lifetime. I've seen... bodies hanging from overpasses, you know, their bodies marred by the drug cartels. They're a vicious group of people. And I do think that they will fight back. The woke culture comes under fire. And ironically, you know, today is the first day of the World Economic Forum, the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. And I would just say that, boy, I mean, their whole agenda has suffered a very, very severe blow. You know, maybe their ideas are still popular in Europe, but they got a big resounding thumbs down here in the U.S. And they'll have to regroup on a lot of things. Mexico and Canada can expect tariffs on February the 1st. And now Canada has kind of changed their tune, saying, well, we're going to fight back with tariffs of our own. And, of course, Mexico is really under fire with, number one, remain in Mexico, number two, sending the people back to Mexico, even though... They're from other countries. And then the heavy tariffs and the war on their drug lords. So, boy, I'll tell you what, a lot happened.
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And the pesos under fire as well pretty significantly.
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Really? Okay, I haven't. That's not one thing I look at every morning is where the peso stands or the ruble. But I would imagine that would hurt. I'm sure the wind energy stocks are not doing very well today as well. That's been ditched for now. And, you know, I don't know if his numbers were right, but he's claiming that 28 whales have died from the wind platforms in the ocean. And I don't know if that's true or not, but... You know, save the whales. And also, it's not real good for birds if birds fly in there. So he halts all leasing, just like Biden halted all leasing for drilling in the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean. Huge swaths of land, water, under deep sea water from drilling. Trump turns around and halts leasing and permitting for wind energy. What's that leave? Nuclear, I guess. The nuclear stocks are having a very good day today, once again. I'm seeing some of the smaller ones, especially like Oklo and SMR, Nano, Vistra. After the big fire in California, that didn't seem to hurt. Their own fire, not the wildfires, but Vistra's plant had a fire. That didn't seem to impact the stock too much, however. And I think nuclear is probably going to have a pretty good future along with the oil. Oil is definitely going to have a good future. Not so much the price of oil. Liquid natural gas is going to be a big winner, LNG. Oil is down today to $76. It was approaching $80. And now all of a sudden with the threat or the promise, the almost certainty of a lot of supply coming online and Trump using that as a bargaining chip, if you want to do business with the U.S., you've got to buy our oil from us and other products that we produce. Okay, when we come back, we've got quite a bit actually to talk about today on this Tuesday. We've also got, I believe, 40 S&P 500 companies reporting earnings this week. Let's take a look at where we are on earnings season. We'll be right back.
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Thank you.
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And welcome back here to the second quarter of today's Best Stocks Now show. The worst chart I've seen so far today, and that explains... Sometimes you take a look at an index like the NASDAQ and you say, why is it down when so many of these really good stocks in the NASDAQ are having a pretty good day? Well, one of the major players in the index, Apple... is down 3.6% today. Man, I've been warning about Apple for a long time, how it's time to change the CEO. I'm sorry. Even, who was it, one of the big tech CEOs also said... Zuckerberg.
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Zuckerberg, wow. Basically just said he was, you know, just not, essentially not innovative. Exactly. Which we've said a good bit. I've said it many times.
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Their sales in China down 19% year over year. That doesn't bode well for their earnings report coming up. Apple will report earnings on January the 30th. The Granite Shares does have an inverse Apple ETF. I don't know if it's leveraged or not. I don't think it is. I want to say it's one-to-one on the downside. That's the way you could hedge Apple. There are people out there with huge gains in Apple, right?
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And they don't want to sell it. Right. I mean, those folks always call it kind of a cost-basis jail, right? Capital gains jail. Almost something would have to really change with the stock for you to sell it. But I do think it's interesting. I see underneath Apple a news story here. From today, earlier this morning, it says, Nancy Pelosi discloses buys of Alphabet and Amazon. I saw that. And sells Apple. Yeah.
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Well, I mean, that means she's already done it before this, probably. She probably heard those China numbers, not through the grapevine, but through channels that we don't have access to. But I am happy that she bought two of our stocks. What did she buy? She bought Amazon.
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Amazon and Alphabet, and then sold Apple.
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Okay, well, yeah, and there was a few others in there, too.
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Yeah, I was just looking at it.
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That was the headline. Yeah. Okay, so anyways, yeah, the Nancy... There's a guy on... There's a guy on X that he's built his whole website and his information channel on what the insiders, the way insiders, the people in government are buying and selling. Like Nancy Pelosi has a terrific track record as a money manager, so he does always disclose. Now, back to Apple just for a minute.
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Yeah, she's in the wrong business. I know.
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Yeah, but if she wasn't in the business she was in, she wouldn't have the information, even from a hospital bed somewhere with a hip replacement. Anyways, all of a sudden a big chunk of Apple showed up at our firm. And that's what happens when somebody transfers their portfolio to us. All the stocks come over in kind. And I hadn't had a real chance to look at it the last time I mentioned that. And I said, well, I've got to look at that because there may be huge capital gains in that stock, which would be devastating to somebody to just sell it. But it was in an IRA rollover, Barry, so guess what I did with it? Kerplunk. Yeah, I mean, I don't like the stock at all. I kept just a little bit just to see if Apple can turn the ship around, but it doesn't look like it. In the biggest company race, Apple is down to $3.3 trillion. And NVIDIA, well, they're about tied right now. In fact, I think NVIDIA has now taken the lead. Let's see where Microsoft is. Not that it really matters. Microsoft is no behind at $3.2. And then the fourth player in the race is the fourth player. It's NVIDIA. Maybe it's a three-horse race.
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It might still be. I mean, LVMH was up there, but it's gone down a bit.
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Yeah, it's the biggest one in Europe. Okay, now let's take a look here at some other things that are taking place here today. This is earnings season. And we are getting earnings starting today, this morning. We've had quite a few companies report. And I'll give you an update when we begin the second half of the show. I'll give you an update on where we're at so far in earnings season. Are we off to a good start? Are we off to a bad start? So-so start. Well, you'll be surprised, I think, when you hear the start that we're off to so far. Okay, the other thing I thought was, you know, bringing in the, on the world stage, the Middle East is definitely front row center because he actually had spent some time, you know, talking about having his Middle East envoy speak on the plans there. The Houthis are going to end their attacks on Western ships in the Red Sea, But they're going to continue to attack Israeli ships. Well, I would say good luck with that. Because I think if they go ahead and continue to attack Israeli ships, there's going to be hell to pay over there. The other buys by Nancy Pelosi. Oh, she also tweaked her holding in NVIDIA. Let's see, did she buy more Nvidia? I think she did. Let's see. On Amazon, yes, according to the blah, blah, blah. Okay, so anyways, yeah, no, that's pretty much it. Nvidia, she sold 10,000 shares on December 31st. She bought Palo Alto. Yes, Palo Alto, P-A-N-W. Okay, now, write this one down.
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Did you know she holds between $1 million and $5 million worth of Palo Alto?
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Yeah, and that's just a small position in her portfolio. But here's one for you, Tempus A.I., T-E-M. I don't know if that's in the app. That's a real small AI healthcare company. TEM. TEM. Okay, there you go. Let's just take a look at the chart.
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And Vistra, too, by the way.
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Tempest AI is up 36.1% today. Okay? So, you know, not only just her moves move these stocks. Okay? I mean, it's like when Warren Buffett buys. Yes, and she bought Vistra. So we're on the right side of that Pelosi trade, too. Now, MicroStrategy, they float shares. They do secondary offerings. They keep floating shares. And what are they doing with the proceeds? They're buying more Bitcoin. So, you know, there's a house built on sand. The foundation is sand as far as I'm concerned. It's basically you're investing in Bitcoin when you invest in microstrategy.
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It's a levered play, essentially a leveraged play on Bitcoin.
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Yes. Okay, now one of our stocks is getting a downgrade today. This is one of our worst. It's down 8.3%, but, man, has it been a big winner. Astera Labs, A-L-A-B, which is in the AI infrastructure space, a big player in that space, and we own it in our – In our emerging growth, we bought it there first just to see. It was kind of like a AAA stock, AAA baseball, or AA. Then we promoted it to AAA. We doubled down. We added it to the ultra-growth portfolio, and it's had a heck of a run. A little downgrade today. We'll get into earnings when we come back.
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This is Bill Gunderson. Thank you for tuning in to today's Best Stocks Now, Best Inverse Funds Now show.
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Now, back to the second half of the show.
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And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Docs Now show. Take a look at the earnings season so far.
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We're just barely underway. Let's take a look at the market. The Dow right now is up 257 points. A lot of that's triple M, 3M, which we'll get to in a minute. The NASDAQ has turned positive. It's up 15. If it weren't for Apple, it would be a lot better. The S&P is up 40 basis points right now. Now, as far as earnings season goes, we've been saying this ad nauseum. We don't have an earnings problem in the market. How much to pay for those earnings is the debate that takes place every day in the market. Some days they're willing to pay any price, it would seem, for equities or Bitcoin or whatever the asset class may be. And other days, just like that CPI news set the market on fire, don't forget a bad report. I mean, I think it was the previous week that the Strong Jobs report, too strong, We can't have that set the market into correction mode or headed towards correction mode until the CPI turned it around. And I think you can say, I don't have any kind of research to back this up, but I do think that when the market is trading at a high multiple, It's just logical that it's going to be more volatile. Little things like jobs reports, little things like CPI reports, people are really keyed in on that, watching it very, very closely because they know they're sitting on somewhat of a tinderbox with high PE multiples. Now, 9% of the companies in the S&P 500, so 45 companies, have reported so far 79% have reported a positive earnings surprise, and 67% have reported a positive revenue surprise, which is about in line, especially during a bull market like we've had since 2009. We've had a bull market in earnings since 2009, and every week I make sure to put that chart of earnings, that is right front row center, center pretty much, in the newsletter, and The earnings chart that explains the market more than anything I can use to explain why the market has gone up since 2009. There was only one dip. in there and that was 2020 the covid year and uh right towards uh we had just a little bit of a of a downdraft in 2019 and then earnings have been going up ever since and we're looking for record earnings in 2024 which ended 21 days ago and that's what's being reported right now I can't tell you how much the S&P made in 2024 until they're done reporting those earnings. But it's expected to come in somewhere just under $250 per share. This year, we're looking at about $270 per share. And then 2026, which obviously is way out there on the horizon, but analysts have over $300 per share projected. So you can't really look at that and be too negative on the market because earnings drive the market. The question is, how much are those earnings worth? How much are investors willing to pay? Well, over the last five years, the average has been around 18 to 19. Over the last 10 years, it's been closer to 18 times. And right now, we're up near almost at 22 times earnings right now. for the S&P 500 and you say, well, where does that fit? Over the long haul, well, that's another chart I put in the newsletter every week. You've got to go back to October, July, October, late 2022. That was the year after COVID when everything, when all that money was sloshing around. They did run the price to earnings, the P.E. ratio of the S&P 500 up to 30. And then, of course, it went down to 17.5 after that with the Fed raising interest rates in 2022. And then we've been climbing ever since, since July. And the P.E. ratio is now, the P.E. ratio, this is looking backwards, 27.4. So 30 was the high before the big downdraft in 2021. But again, that's when the Fed was moving against the market by raising rates. And right now the Fed has at least got a little wind at our back with no more rate hikes. Although there is one firm out there calling for a rate hike this year. But most people wouldn't expect that. and of course we're at twenty we we got up to twenty eight point five we've come down one point in the p e ratio uh... that helps a little uh... and uh... you know but we still keep in mind that we still are trading uh... at a very high at a very high valuation ratios uh and you know when when that really comes to the four and is put up there on the marquee is when interest rates rose rise like they did a couple weeks ago yeah and we're already back to 4.56 at the moment down uh down nine basis points on the on the treasury uh today so that's almost probably a close to a quarter point in the last year yes all of a sudden two trading days interest rates have started to head down i think it's the hawkish talk on spending
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When it hit 4.8, I mean, it was funny. I mean, that was kind of the most thing. We were kind of of the mind that 4.7 was kind of that resistance number where if it went above, we were a bit worried. And it did touch 4.8 and literally hit that number and has been going down ever since.
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I didn't think anything would stop it until it got to 5. But it finally did halt at 4.8. And now we're back to just below 4.6. So we have come down about a quarter of a point. And that's helped the market, obviously. Okay, let's take a look at, well, 3M obviously is a S&P 500 company. Their earnings will get added into those S&P 500 earnings. 3M comes in with earnings growth. You know, it's just hard for me to get excited. Sales growth is 0% at 3M, 0%. They've been mired at about $6 billion a quarter in sales for a long time. There's no growth. It's a non-growth company. Over the last five years, 3M's growth negative 5% per year if you annualize that. And their earnings growth, they beat, they came in with $1.68. They beat their earnings, but that's 31% lower than last year. So you've got to put that into context. Now, as far as the Best Stocks Now rating ranking system and my preference for stocks goes, 3M does not have the criteria that I want to see. Now, it's a very heavily owned company. You get an account from Morgan Stanley or Merrill Lynch, and it's more than likely going to have 3M in the portfolio. It's not even a $100 billion company, which in today's world kind of makes you a large cap. I think a mega cap is kind of after $100 billion. It's $79.6 billion, which is nothing to sneeze at. But it's no growth. And I've said many times, stocks follow earnings. Stocks follow earnings. And without that growth in there, you know, at least 7%, 8%, 9%, it's very hard for the stock to go up because of the lack of earnings growth. Okay, the other one that has reported is one that we're associated with. Our, what do you call it?
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Schwab.
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Schwab is our custodian, okay. So, you know, there's where your money is actually deposited. They're the bank. They're the gatekeepers of, you know, who gets into your account, who does what, et cetera. Schwab has become probably the biggest custodian of all. They're twice the size of 3M. They're not in the Dow. They had a pretty good report. In fact, their sales were up 6%, and their earnings were up 49%. So Schwab obviously is assimilating that Ameritrade purchase that they made. I remember when I was with Scottrade in St.
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Louis. Scottrade, whenever TD Ameritrade bought them.
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Yep, and then I ended up with Schwab at the end of the day. So Schwab isn't on my radar. I mean, Schwab's in the financial sector, but Schwab did have a good report. That'll go into the S&P 500 aggregate. And Schwab is up 4.2% today. So we're off to a good start. After a very good start, I would say the banks got us off to a very good start. And we're continuing on that path at least the first full day of trading this week. We'll be right back.
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Where you want to go, do what you want to do.
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We're in forever.
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And welcome back here to the final segment or the Best Docs Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunnarsson. Snow in Texas. I'm getting some photos from the Austin, Texas area of snow on the road. And I mean a lot of snow on the road. We're supposed to have snowmageddon here. In Charleston and on up to Myrtle Beach area tomorrow. Well, a seismic shift hit the market here. I mean, you couldn't be any further apart in ideology. The biggest change I've seen from one to another, I guess you have to go back to the last election when it went the other way. We were like a pendulum. We go back and forth. So a good thing to do on a day like today is to look inside the market. The parts. How are the parts? Where are we seeing the moves in the market? Are there any telltale signs? Or has that already all been built into the market? I'd probably lean more in that direction. Everybody already knew pretty much what executive orders he was going to sign, which industries, which sectors he was going to help, which ones that would be hurt by the shift in policies. So let's just look at the Dow real quick. We know why 3M is up. 3M is up 3.9% today because of a very good favorable earnings report. A very impressive chart today and a breakout on the upside. I don't know if this bodes well or not. Raytheon, RTX. which is a member of the Dow. Raytheon is breaking out. That's probably the best chart in the Dow today. It's up 2.8%. I guess we'll be selling a lot of American-made missiles from Raytheon to foreign countries that need their Their technology. Caterpillar's also having a good day, up 2.8%. I think America's open for business. We've got Caterpillar's over here. We've got Raytheon missiles over here. And don't forget Boeing airplanes. Boeing is having a very good day. It's up 2.4%. and not a bad chart, actually, on Boeing. That's the best chart on Boeing I've seen in quite some time. And then you go next to Home Depot, which is having a nice move here today, and then Walmart having a very nice move. On the downside in the Dow, Apple. Apple is your stinker today, down 4% right now. That's a pretty big move for that stock. Yes, there was a downgrade on Apple. There was Nancy Pelosi news selling her Apple.
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She downgraded Apple.
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Bill Gunderson sold all the Apple. We might still have a little bit that I kept just in case, okay, in one or two portfolios. And thirdly, their sales down 18% as Huawei... has really taken over the market there. I'm sure there's a lot of Apple technology in those Huawei phones, right, that through reverse engineering or whatever, I don't think they worry too much about patents and all that kind of thing over in China. but Apple is definitely the loser there. And then the oil stocks are actually down today, and here's the reason why. I mean, a lot of that was built in, that Trump was going to do a lot of things that would really increase America's output, number one. So that still bodes well for the equipment and the picks and shovels, but the actual oil companies themselves, that drives down the price of their product. when you increase supply. So you see down a little bit today in Exxon Mobil and also in Chevron. Now as we look inside the tech, When we look inside the NASDAQ, I don't think big tech is really quiet today. The leaders in the NASDAQ, Ulta Beauty up 4%, Dollar Tree up 3.4%, Seagate. I saw somebody saying Seagate is their top pick. today, one of the big firms. It's up 3.3%. Western Digital, which is a competitor to Seagate, is up 2.6%. I don't see big tech. Intel's up 1.7% because there's still talk of a potential buyer out there for Intel. I don't know that I see that. Google was breaking out to a new all-time high. It's pulled back a little. It's up 1.5%. I know their CEO and most of the big tech CEOs were at the inauguration yesterday. You had Google. You had Apple. Tim Cook was there. You had Bezos there from Amazon. Of course, you had Elon Musk there. You had the CEO of Microsoft there. They want to be in Trump's good graces, I guess, and put in a showing. Okay, on the downside... walgreens is getting taken apart just when you thought it was a value play uh i don't know they've warned or something it's down 13.2 percent today and tesla is down 3.1 percent today i would have to say that might have something to do with the executive order on the ev right yeah instead of 50 ev cars on the road i mean right now i think it's six five five to seven percent somewhere in there You'd have to have a heck of a lot of sales in electric vehicles to get to, well, that's been rescinded now. So that, I'm sure, is hitting Tesla a little bit. And then as we look at the S&P 500, not really seeing anything that really sticks out to me. I will say one that is catching my eye because it's breaking out. I like breakouts. That tells me that potentially a new uptrend is underway. It seems to be joining the nuclear list, and that is NRG Energy. It's a Texas utility. It competes with Vistra. It's out of Houston, and I believe Vistra is in Dallas.
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We owned it maybe two and a half, three years ago for some reason.
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You know, I don't see the growth potential, but the market seems to see something I'm not seeing, and you never want to ignore that when you see the price action as good as it is. in NRG. Okay, well, we're out of time. I've got a full day of charts and money management and all kinds of things to do here today. The four-week trial is still going strong, I can tell you that. I'm in contact all throughout the day with folks. whatever i can find that looks good and a teaching moment if i can and of course if you want to just say you know what i'd rather have gunderson's team manage it i don't have the time give us a call set up an appointment at 855-611-BEST 855-611-BEST have a great day everybody
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Christian Problem Solving
and
Practicing Your Christianity
are other books. These are all
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information to offer you and we are so grateful that we can do this. Our Father has provided all
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that have prayed for us, sent us requests and sent us Christmas cards and letters over the
holidays. Thank you. Now let’s get into what we want to study today. I want to talk about
something I haven’t talked about before. I want to talk about being a soul winner. I mention soul,
not body. It doesn’t do you any good to save the body because the body is going to perish
eventually but the soul will never perish. God wants to deliver souls and so He wants you to be a
soul winner. In Proverbs 11:30,
“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who is wise
wins souls.”
Another passage that I love is Luke 15:7,
“I tell you that in the same way, there will
be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who
need no repentance.”
Whenever you win an individual to Christ, when you win a soul and you
deliver that soul from the Lake of Fire, there is a party in heaven, joy in heaven because you did
your job. As we enter into the year 2025, I'd like to issue you a challenge about this, okay? As
you know, I've always encouraged you to study God's Word under the ministry of a well-
qualified pastor. In doing so I've used the illustration of a FLOT line in your soul to stop the
sources of outside adversity from becoming the source of stress related sins on the inside. Sins
like worry or self-pity or even fear will neutralize your spiritual life and cause you to be
unproductive.Your spiritual life is designed by God to be self-sustaining and reproductive. The
physical life and the spiritual life are totally different but both share many of the same traits. One
of these traits is the ability to reproduce. Just as a husband and wife have the ability to produce
children, we as believers have the ability to reproduce as well. Notice what Paul the apostle said
in 1 Timothy 1:1-2,
“Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our
Savior, and of Christ Jesus, who is our hope, to Timothy, my true child in the faith.”
Although
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Paul is not the individual who led Timothy to Christ, he did consider himself to be the spiritual
mentor and a father figure, actively guiding Timothy and encouraging him in his Christian life.
On the other hand, both Paul and Timothy led many individuals to the saving knowledge of faith
in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. In Acts 16:13-14,
“And on the Sabbath
day we went outside the gate to a riverside, where we were supposing that there would be a place
of prayer; and we sat down and began speaking to the women who had assembled. A woman
named Lydia
[the name of my wife by the way]
, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple
fabrics, a worshiper of God, was listening and the Lord opened her heart to respond to the things
spoken by Paul.”
Paul led Lydia to Christ as an individual soul winner. Again in Acts 18:24-26
we find Paul witnessing to Aquila and his wife Priscilla whom he led to Christ. These two
eventually witnessed to Apollos who was an interesting individual. He knew about the Lord and
the baptism of John, but he did not have the whole picture of what really had transpired. In this
passage,
“Now a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to
Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures. This man had been instructed in the way of the
Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning
Jesus, being acquainted with the baptism of John; and he began to speak out boldly in the
synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him
the way of God more accurately.”
In my early days as a new Christian, I was encouraged to
witness to people. I even went to retreats where we went out on the streets and we witnessed to
strangers with the intent of leading them to Christ. We used a little pamphlet from Campus
Crusade called
The Four Spiritual Laws
and we were supposed to interview people and
eventually go through the four spiritual laws with them. This is something that I did in the early
days of my Christian life. Actually, there was more emphasis on witnessing to people than Bible
study and the need for spiritual growth. When I got saved, this is the way it was. I was really
never comfortable with these public approaches to strangers, much less the testimonies that were
given at night where people would stand up and brag about how many they witnessed to that day.
I personally have led many individuals to Christ in both public and private situations and I can
assure you, it is amazing to see a lost person ask God to save them. If it wouldn’t violate people's
privacy, I could tell you who they were. There have been some amazing opportunities. Let’s go
over some important things for us to understand when it comes to witnessing. When this
witnessing study is concluded on being a soul winner, then I trust you will make it a priority in
your prayer life every day to ask God to lead you to a lost individual so that you can give them
the gospel and have an opportunity to lead them to Christ. Acts 1:8 says,
“But you will receive
power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”
I heard
someone say, “Jerusalem and Judea are your house and your neighbors and Samaria is the bad
side of town.” The Holy Spirit comes upon you at salvation. One of the ministries that God does
is to indwell you with the Holy Spirit, seal you with the Holy Spirit and fill you with the Holy
Spirit. You have the ability to be a soul winner based on the power of the Holy Spirit in you and
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the dynamics of the Word of God in your soul. Let’s get some principles about being a soul
winner, what it means and what it doesn't mean. 1. Every believer in Jesus Christ is in full-time
Christian service. It’s not a matter of dedicating to full-time service. It’s simply a matter of
believing in Christ. When I first got saved, there would be revivals that I would attend and
preachers would give an invitation for people to dedicate themselves to full-time Christian
service. “Why don’t you come up and give your life to full-time Christian service?” I've seen
people say, “I feel like God's calling me to be a missionary. I feel like God’s calling me to be a
preacher. I feel like God’s calling me to be a youth director” and they say they’re going to give
their life to full-time Christian service. Actually, we are all in full-time Christian service once we
believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are mandated to share the gospel, to give the Word of God,
to lead people to Christ. We are mandated to be soul winners. 2. Christian service is related to
your royal ambassadorship. You are an ambassador for God. You may not think of yourself this
way, but you are a royal ambassador. Every one of us, as believers, is an ambassador
representing God to a lost and dying world. Where did I come up with a concept like this? 2
Corinthians 5:20,
“Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an
appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.”
This should be your
testimony. You are an ambassador for Christ. Your job is to win people to the Lord Jesus Christ,
to reproduce. This is why God left you here; not just to take up time and take up space. It’s so
that you personally can lead individuals to Christ. Don't think you can’t do it. All you have to do
is ask a person this one simple question, “If you died today, do you think you will go to heaven?”
Then off you go based on what they say. 3. The Church Age believer has two areas of
responsibility in witnessing. One is the witness of our life. 2 Corinthians 3:3 says,
“Being
manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit
of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.”
Your life is a testimony
to the Lord Jesus Christ. Your consistent service to God, your consistent spiritual growth, your
consistency in living your faith the way you're supposed to is a witness to people and will win
people to Christ because you are being watched. Whether you know it or not, you are being
observed. When you fail, when you blow it, when you talk about how you love the Lord and
you’re a Christian and you’re going to obey God and then you go out and do something wacky,
people see you do this and you lose your testimony of life. There's also the testimony of the lips,
the witness of the lips. This is the second area of responsibility. This witnessing is the royal
family communication of the gospel to the unbeliever on a personal, individual basis. It’s called
personal evangelism rather than mass evangelism. I’m an evangelist. I have spoken in many
places that I have had the privilege to give the gospel to thousands of individuals in thousands of
meetings, assembly programs, schools, churches or wherever. This is mass evangelism. But I’ve
also had the privilege to do personal evangelism. You may not have the gift of evangelism like
me, but you have the responsibility to be a personal evangelist for God. This is an informal,
conversational type of evangelism where one individual communicates the truth of the gospel to
another individual. This is your job as a soul winner. You are to witness for the Lord Jesus Christ
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and to win people to Christ so that their soul will be delivered. 4. There are many false issues
related to the gospel. Here’s one. Don’t fall for this. Sin is never an issue in salvation. You have
to remember this. You don’t get saved because you quit sinning. All sins were paid for on the
cross, complements of the grace of God. This is why 2 Corinthians 5:21 says,
“He made Him,
who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in
Him.”
Your sin is not an issue. You may say, “I'm a drunkard. I'm addicted to pornography. I’m
an adulterer” or whatever. This is not an issue with you getting saved. In Colossians 2:14, the
issue is Jesus Christ and the gospel is the only thing that is pertinent to the unbeliever. Don't
make an issue out of their sin. Don’t make an issue if you’re talking to someone, “Brother,
you’re smoking you’re going to go to hell if you smoke that cigarette.” That's dumb. It’s not
what the Bible says. Don't make an issue out of sin. Make an issue out of Christ, the Person who
died for every sin. All sins were dumped out on Him on the cross including your sin and my sin.
Even if we quit sinning today, we would not go to heaven without Christ because He said,
“I am
the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me”
(John 14:6).
Telling someone they need to quit sinning is not going to get them saved. Don’t make an issue
out of this. Another false issue related to the gospel is don't argue, don't beg and don't try to
persuade anybody to believe. Just let the unbeliever make his own decision. You need to avoid
false issues such as salvation by works. “Do you want to get saved? Then you’ve got to give up
something.” Observing some sort of taboo or some other legalistic standard is not how people get
saved. Nothing is accomplished toward salvation by persuading an unbeliever that he must give
up his sins or change his behavior pattern or join a church or be baptized. These are not what
save you. This is why Paul said,
“For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel,
not in cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void”
(1 Corinthians
1:17). He said in Romans 1:16,
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God
for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.”
The most
powerful weapon you have is the gospel. The death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus
Christ can change a man's life when he understands what Christ did for him. When he
understands how God loved him, how God so loved the world, remember John 3:16. When you
share with him that he can have a new life,
“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come”
(2 Corinthians 5:17).
People need this. People want this. They rejoice at this. If you tell them this, you can have a
phenomenal opportunity in leading individuals to Christ and being a soul winner. But don't try to
force a decision. Don't try to demand that they join something or fess up something. This is the
job of the Holy Spirit. You avoid any begging them, any emotional public invitations and
remember to respect the person’s free will. I have led hundreds of people to Christ in public
assemblies without giving public invitations. I’ll share this with you. One time I was at a school
speaking and the principal asked me if I would give up one of my five days to speak and I did.
There was a local evangelist in town speaking at a local church and he came in and he spoke. I
was in the gym listening to him and he gave a public invitation to get kids to come forward and
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promise they were never going to sin again, to publicly come down and invite Christ into their
life. You don't have to do this to lead people to Christ. Many of these kids went back up in the
bleachers and continued to be the same person the next week they were before I got there and he
got there. Public invitations don’t save people. What saves people is believing in the Lord Jesus
Christ. If you make this clear to people, they will respond. You’ve got to avoid the pitfalls in
witnessing. You can’t argue with people. You are here to give information, not argue. If you get
into a conversation with someone about the Lord Jesus Christ and they want to argue, just tell
them, “Have a nice day.” You make decisions based on pistisism which is faith or you make
decisions in your life based on empirical data or you can make decisions based on some sort of
rationalism. When someone rationalizes that they are smarter than God and smarter than the
Bible and when they say the Bible is disproved by some kind of scientific data, don't argue with
them. You are not going to change their mind. Just give them the gospel and let the Holy Spirit
do the work. You planted the seed, get out of the way. Don't argue over the validity of the truth.
If you can deal with people alone, always do it. Don't deal with them in a crowd. If you can get
them in a personal one-on-one, this is what you need to do because witnessing in front of other
people creates false issues. You can even embarrass people, that they’ll lose their prestige or that
they’ll be heckled because you preached to them and you caused them to do something publicly.
Just give them the gospel. Give them the good news. Tell them they can start their life over
again. Tell them Christ died for their sins. Tell them salvation is free, it doesn't cost anything.
Here's something else to remember. A high IQ is not necessary to witness for Christ, especially to
those who have a high IQ. You don’t have to be a genius to share the gospel with a genius. It’s
not necessary. The most powerful thing you have is the gospel message. It’s not about your IQ.
It's about what the gospel is and what the Holy Spirit does with it. The Holy Spirit takes the
Word you give and plants it into their heart and convinces them of their need to believe in Christ.
He convicts them of their need so don't worry if somebody is smarter than you or has a higher IQ
than you. Don't be afraid to talk to them and do not ever brag about your experiences in
witnessing. Don't ever get into this. I've been around people who said, “I witnessed to 15 people
today” and they brag about it. They brag about who they talked to. “I talked to a guy in the
restaurant. He was my waiter and I made him quit waiting on tables while I gave him the
gospel.” I’ve seen this happen. Don’t brag about what you have done. Just give the Word of God.
If it’s in printed form, personal form or however you do it, just give it and get out of the Holy
Spirit’s way. A lost person who is not a Christian is spiritually brain-dead. Romans 8:5-6,
“For
those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are
according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death,”
spiritually
brain-dead. Only the Holy Spirit can enlighten him. Only the Holy Spirit can overcome the
spiritually brain-dead individual. We have a word for this in theology called common grace.
Once a lost man hears the gospel and understands the issue, then his choice is to accept Christ. If
he does, it’s called efficacious grace. Common grace and efficacious grace take place at the
moment of salvation. The Holy Spirit requires you to give accurate information to the lost
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individual in order to do His job. In John 16:8-9,
“And He
[the Holy Spirit]
, when He comes, will
convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; concerning sin, because they
do not believe in Me.”
That’s the problem right here, the sin of unbelief. It’s the unpardonable
sin. If you reject Christ as Savior, there's no way to be pardoned. We cannot get in the way of the
Holy Spirit when witnessing for Christ by begging someone to accept Christ or by arguing with
someone about it. We just need to make the issue clear and get out of God's way because it is the
ministry of God the Holy Spirit alone that can break through to the spiritually brain-dead lost
man. Being saved, salvation, is by faith alone in Christ alone. It has nothing to do with giving up
something or trying to make other people over into the kind of person you want them to be. In
witnessing people often want the unbeliever to change their habits, their personality or something
else as a part of the gospel. This has nothing to do with the gospel. They don't have to quit
dressing weird if they want to get saved. Sometimes missionaries try to convince the natives that
they’ve got to dress like the English people dress. Now that they're saved, they’ve got to quit
dressing like they used to dress. Don't try to change someone's habits. Anything the spiritually
brain-dead unbeliever can do is not the way of salvation. Unbelievers can give up all sorts of
things and still not be saved. Another thing you need to remember, there are false issues in
salvation. I’ve heard this from many different people. Commitment Salvation is when people tell
you that you’ve got to believe in Christ and commit your life to Christ. This isn’t true.
“Believe
in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved”
(Acts 16:31), period, over and out. You can't commit
your life to Christ. You don't know what you're going to do. You can say, “I want to be saved. I
want to accept Christ as my Savior. I want to follow Him to the best of my ability,” but don't set
yourself up for failure by committing your life to Christ and then two weeks later you sin and
fail. You think it didn't really work. Then there's this thing called Lordship Salvation where
people say, “You’ve got to make Him Lord of your life. If He’s not Lord of everything, He’s not
Lord at all. You’ve got to make Him Lord of your life.” He’s Lord whether you make Him Lord
or not. He is THE Lord Jesus Christ. When you believe in Him, this is all that’s necessary. There
is no such thing as Morality Salvation, being good, earning it. It doesn't work this way. There is
no such thing as Ritual Salvation, believe and perform certain rituals, or Emotional Salvation.
That you’ve got to get emotional, cry and feel sorry. I remember a story about a guy praying with
a friend of mine who said, “You know, I just don't feel anything” and my friend whacked him on
the head. He said, “Why did you do that?” “Did you feel that brother? Now pray.” I thought that
was cute. Walking down some aisle, inviting Christ into your heart, is a distortion of the gospel.
Anything the spiritually dead unbeliever can do is not the way to salvation. Unbelievers can give
up all sorts of things and still not be saved. Revelation 3:20,
“Behold, I stand at the door and
knock”
is written to believers out of fellowship. You don’t invite Jesus into your heart. Scripture
verifies what is necessary. What's necessary is 1 John 5:11-12,
“And the testimony is this, that
God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who
does not have the Son of God does not have the life.”
This is the issue. In order to be an effective
witness for the Lord Jesus Christ you must lift Him up. John 12:32 says,
“And I, if I am lifted up
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from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.”
The true issue for us as we talk to people is
Romans 4:5,
“But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly,
his faith is credited as righteousness.”
That's all it takes, faith alone in Christ alone. A mature
believer may find opportunity in leading a young believer to the source of accurate Bible
teaching. Try to get them under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor, to be hungry for truth and
to grow in the grace and knowledge of their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Sometimes we witness
to give the gospel. Sometimes we witness to give the importance of spiritual growth and spiritual
stability. God wants you to be a soul winner. I hope and pray today and tomorrow that God will
give you the opportunity to talk to a lost individual and share the gospel with them. Thank you
for listening to The FLOT Line. We’ll come back next week, same time, same place. We
appreciate your prayers.
This episode delves into the vital conversation with Lewis from High Five Plumbing about managing home systems during cold snaps, while also touching on the day's inauguration events. Learn practical solutions for safeguarding your plumbing, and find out how recent political shifts might impact the broader landscape. This comprehensive episode offers both valuable home advice and timely political insights.
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SPEAKER 17 :
All right. Happy Monday, everybody. It is a great day. I'll talk more about an inauguration in just a little bit as we get rolling through today's program. Of course, three full hours to get things started off, though. We've got Lewis calling in from High Five Plumbing and Electrical. Lewis, welcome. How are you, sir? I'm doing fantastic. How about yourself? Always a joy to talk to you, of course. And you're on the electric side for Hive. Or I assume, you know, I haven't spoken to you directly, but I assume that's what you're doing, Lewis.
SPEAKER 16 :
You know what? I'm kind of... I help with all three trades. Okay. So the heating side, plumbing, and electric. All right.
SPEAKER 17 :
So you're across the board. All right. Well, on a day like today or this weekend, which I'm sure you guys have been extremely busy because of all of the things that go on in regards to the cold weather when that happens. And, I mean, Lewis, where do we start? I mean, when the cold weather hits, problems are going to come up.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, that's without a doubt. That's usually when they arise. And typically, you know, starting with plumbing, obviously the obvious one is frozen pipes, something freezing in the house. And, you know, surprisingly, it happens with both your drinking water, like the supply, but also the drain. Like you'd be surprised how many people call, like, hey, something's going on, things are backed up. Well, you've got – there's ice damming happening there. So, yeah, we get a lot of that. We're bombarded with those types.
SPEAKER 17 :
For those listening where, I mean, yes, most likely going to need some sort of professional help, is there anything they can do on the front side to try to help with that? I mean, let's say, for example, they find they've got a frozen pipe. What should they do, Louis?
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, so if you've got a frozen pipe, it kind of depends on where the location of it is, right? So typically, like if it's – a majority of ones are going to be your outdoor spigot.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 16 :
If you can kind of open up just a little bit to where if it starts to thaw, it will – or if it starts to expand, it has somewhere to go. Because the problem is what happens is – these pipes start to freeze, right? Once they're frozen, once it keeps going like what we're experiencing right now, we have prolonged days of sub-zero temperatures at night, and it doesn't really get above freezing during the day. As it's getting colder and colder, that ice expands and expands. If it has nowhere to go, it's going to break the pipes. And you won't know that until it's thawed. So right now we're getting lots of calls with people not having any water. Here in a day or two, we're going to get a whole bunch of calls with people that they have too much water in places they don't want it.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, that's the fear. And for those of you that maybe are in – and I know, Lewis, this is really hard because a lot of folks know their home really well. Some don't really know it much. Some are pretty handy. Some are not. And the reality is, you know, if you've got the ability to shut some of that water off in those areas where you know you've got a frozen pipe, you know, that's great. But, Lewis, as you know, in a lot of cases, you can't isolate it that way.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, no, and so what we usually tell people, some of the basic things are if you can keep your heat up a little hotter in the house, you know, just because that will do a little bit more as far as hopefully getting a little bit, just that little extra heat to those areas that are usually a little bit more cool. Maybe your insulation, if it's an older house, the insulation's been moved around or something, or it's not encompassing those pipes where it needs to. Turn that heat up in your house a little bit. You've got cabinet doors. Open up the cabinet doors, especially at night, so you'll get some of that warmer interior heat air, hopefully circulating some of the areas where it's not circulating. Any little bit will help at those times. And even at night, if you know you have some problem areas, some people have had some issues in the past. leave the water dripping in as many of your spigots or your faucets and things like that as you can. Those little things will go a long way.
SPEAKER 17 :
I was looking at some of the neighborhood Facebook posts and stuff over the weekend, and one of the things that came up was just, you know, what do you keep the temperature of your house right now to try to accommodate everything and then still save money and so on. I mean, man, Lewis, some of these people keep their houses at a stage where, holy cow, I would freeze to death. And on top of that, I think some of the things you just mentioned might become – a larger problem so if you're somebody out there that you know you're on a budget and i get that lewis i get you get the fact that it's expensive to keep the home a little more warm on the same token repairs aren't cheap but your water example would be one where you know a little bit of water use which you're not going to have that much with just having it you know trickle through that that little bit of movement makes all the difference in the world and if you're on a budget and you can't have the higher heat we'll at least do that
SPEAKER 16 :
Absolutely. If you're talking about the budget, I mean, we're talking, you know, maybe about four, three to four, five days ish max of keeping your heat cranked a little bit higher and keeping that water flow a little bit. That little additional, you know, expense on your utilities is going to save you a lot because a flood repair. I mean, there's no cheap way to take care of that.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, and that's where it even gets in, in some cases, depending upon how bad it is. You could get into insurance claims and deductibles and all sorts of other things. You just don't want to go down that path at all, and it's not a good situation, Lewis, as you know. So we try to avoid that at all costs.
SPEAKER 16 :
100%, yeah. Plus, you can ruin some of your possessions. There are lots of things people don't think about when they don't want to turn their thermostat up maybe four or five degrees.
SPEAKER 17 :
Now, here's a thought, too, for some folks that maybe have had a history in some areas of having some troubles along those lines. And space heaters, while they're great, you know, depending upon the type and so on, I'm not always a huge fan of Lewis. They can have as many issues fire-wise as any. As maybe, you know, again, some cases don't even want to go down that path. So here's a question I've got. And this is just something I was going to throw out today while you're here, because you guys are on the electric side as well. Depending upon, you know, that person, their home and what the history is, would Would they be – in some cases, would they be well off to have you guys out and install some sort of a permanent electric baseboard-type heat in that area to where no matter what, that particular area is always on some sort of a safety valve, quote-unquote, if you would? In other words, you're not going to set that thing so it's running at 80 degrees, but if the temp dropped to a certain – temperature, that baseboard heat, electric heat would then come on, and at least that particular area wouldn't have some of that freezing that might go on. Is that something somebody could get you guys out and do?
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And modular homes, we actually do a lot of that with modular homes. Sometimes underneath the house, we'll put something like that. If you do have a history of frozen pipes, also some heat tape. So heat tape is really good where we could just run that just along your pipe wherever it's exposed, and that will absolutely keep the pipes from freezing. So there's lots of things we can do. Each situation is going to be different. It's important just to get us out there so we can give you evaluations, see what's going to make the most sense for your house and your budget.
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Likewise, sir. Thank you very much. You betcha, Lewis.
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All right, and we are back. Happy Monday. Happy New President Day. I know it's MLK Day as well, but it is also the day that Donald Trump was in J.D. Vance, Inauguration Day. And I got to watch the majority of that today, which was very fortunate to be able to do. Normally, I don't get the ability to do that, but I was able to be able to set some time aside. And some of my clients were able to work with me on that where I was able to actually watch. Otherwise, I'd normally be on the phone. Before we get into some of that, though, question of the day from Friday. What is the name of the private, all-male, historically black college located in Atlanta, Georgia, which is the alma mater of Martin Luther King Jr., Spike Lee, and Edward Moses? That would be the Morehouse College. Today's impossible question. In 1964, what was the prize motivation for Martin Luther King Jr. being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? And if you got a chance to look at or to watch the inauguration today, if you're like me, it was, in my opinion, not like a normal inauguration. In fact, Trump's speech was very much not that way. It didn't bother him one bit that the old administration was sitting literally right behind him to his left. And he just hammered him. You know, basically, it's a new day in America. We're going to move forward. We're going to call out some of the things that have not been correct. Over the past four years, we've got a crisis at the border that he's going to stop on day one, literally announced that today as to what he's national national emergency at the border. He's going to send troops down to get things handled and get things straightened out immediately. He talked about there only being two genders. A lot of this woke DEI nonsense, it's all over government, he is going to end. And on down the line he went. He did not leave hardly a stone unturned. And all I was thinking the entire time was, it's about time. Hallelujah. Now, of course, when you looked at the faces of those sitting behind him, they were not in agreement, of course. Although I will tell you that in the first room he was in, not the second one where it was mostly his supporters, but in the first room where there's a lot of dignitaries and people like that, I will say that even when people were giving him a standing ovation, most stood. There was a few hardcore Dems like, you know, Joe and Kamala that didn't stand. Schumer, some of those. But all in all, most stood. And if they were really looking at things correctly, they would all be standing. Because it is a new day. Now, as you all probably also know, there were pardons given today, early, actually several. One, of course, being for Fauci, which you just know, okay, if he did nothing wrong, why does he need pardoned? If he can stand up to a trial and stand up on his own, be accountable, answer for the things that he did, why is it such a huge issue? Well, I guess Joe probably knows more than we do, and he pardoned him. He also pardoned a lot of his own family, which, not surprised. I predicted that he would do more of his own family. What I'm actually surprised at the most is he didn't pardon himself or Jill, his wife. It really felt like he would pardon himself and his wife because his wife's as much of a ringleader in the Biden crime family as the others that he pardoned. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. And it really is the Biden crime family. You know, go look up some of the things that they have done, some of the pay to play and so on. And definitely there. So, again, great day as far as I'm concerned. I enjoyed it. In my opinion, one of the best parts of the entire inauguration, Carrie Underwood did a great job in a very weird place where the music, whoever the sound guy was, probably no longer has a job. I'm joking because I don't know, but never could get the music going, so she finally just went off on her own and did it. Good for her. But outside of that particular moment, the black preacher who was just stellar, Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, who President Trump picked out on his own. He's a black preacher in Detroit. And I tell you what, his prayer, which they put in the middle, they should have put at the end. Whoever decided the order of things, that was a huge mistake. They should have literally had him close, because that was a closer of a prayer, if there ever was one, to get the country off on the right foot. And I mean to tell you what, if that prayer, no matter whether you're a Christian or not, if that prayer didn't move you, I don't know what would. interlaced some of what MLK, you know, the day today is, and interlaced some things from Martin Luther King Jr. and so on. But just if you get a chance to go look at anything in the inauguration at all, look up his prayer and watch it, and it's moving. And I don't say that a lot. You guys know me. I'm not one typically to get moved by too many things, emotionally speaking. That one was moving. That one, when it was done, literally, I texted several people and said, I'm proud to be an American. Now, I always am. But after that prayer, definitely proud to be an American after he was done. It was that moving of a prayer that if you haven't had a chance to watch it, do so. That young man, because he's not super old that I can see, I'm guessing Charlie probably, what, early 30s or so maybe from – I didn't look him up to see what his age is, but I'm guessing early, mid-30s, something like that. In my world, that's a young man. Stellar. I mean, I'm speechless. I mean, the guy just did an absolutely fantastic job. Didn't mince any words. Again, laid things out in a prayer that should be said on a daily basis, and he was not apologetic about it whatsoever and just laid it out there. Now, were the other two prayers good? I honestly can't tell you what they even said. Because that one overshadowed the other two. I feel sorry for the last guy. I think he was a Catholic guy. I feel bad for him because you're not remembering anything he said because you were still focused on what the black preacher in the middle did. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. You have to go watch that part of it and you'll know exactly what I mean by that. And then Trump's speech was good. He did nothing that I didn't expect other than, and even when he was talking to some of his supporters in the second speech where he went to the second room because everything was moved indoors. He even said there was a lot of people that didn't want me to do this speech, didn't want me to call out some of the things in the past administration. I should be the kinder, gentler, you know, first day president and so on. He's like, no, we're going to head a different direction. We're going to tell everybody the direction we're headed. I was elected by a landslide by people that want to see this new direction. Why would I not address it? I'm paraphrasing what Trump said, but that's basically what he said. Am I right, Charlie? I mean, essentially what he said was I was elected to do these things. This is what the majority of Americans want to have happen. They want to see things go a different direction. And I'm here to make sure that happens. This administration is going to head that direction. Good for him. Good for him. Just him talking about ending this whole gender nonsense to me was just, man, what a breath of fresh air. We only have two genders. And you know what? If that steps on somebody's toes, so be it. You guys have already heard my feelings on all of that anyway, so what? Get over it. Now, there were some things that I read afterwards talking about how there are some government forms and so on that I guess now will have to be adjusted because I guess there's some forms you can put down that you, I guess, don't know what your gender is. And yeah, your passport being one of them. Thank you, Charlie. So some of those things might have to change, be fixed, whatever. Okay, so not that hard, by the way. And if you don't know what you are, you know, again, I've said this many times. If you don't know what sex you are, what you were assigned at birth, I guess, I mean, I feel bad for you, but you need other kinds of help besides the kind you're looking for. And patronizing you isn't helping you. You know, ignoring the real problem isn't helping these people. And the real problem is there's some mental things going on that they really need some drastic help with, and we should help them seek that help out. So anyways, that's another conversation probably for another day. But the five pardons Joe gave out for his family, James Biden, that's Joe's younger brother. Sarah Jones Biden, that's James's wife. Valerie Biden Owens, that's Joe's younger sister. John T. Owens, that's Valerie's husband. And Francis Biden, that is Joe's younger brother. So other than Jill and him, excuse me, other than he and Jill, he's got the Biden crime family pretty well pardoned. Because remember, Hunter was first. So he's pretty well got that part of it now dialed in. His excuse is, well, you know, this administration is probably going to come after us. And so basically to make their life a little easier, I'm just going to pardon him now. Again, I'm paraphrasing. That's basically what he said. He's worried that the Trump administration is going to come after them. And my answer back would be, well, if there's nothing there that they've done wrong, what's the problem? Or are you fearful that he'll do the same thing to your family that you did to Trump and his family? Is that your real fear, Joe? That he'll weaponize the DOJ and the FBI like you did against Donald Trump? Is that the real fear, Joe? Now, in Joe's defense, I'm not sure he knows what he's signing. I watched a video from Speaker of the House Johnson, who basically said that he has seen with his own two eyes and had conversations with Joe Biden where Joe has no idea what executive order he's even signing. And I'll get into maybe that a little bit later in today's program. Literally, Mike Johnson has said he doesn't know what he's signing. His aides are coming up with things, laying these things in front of him. He is signing them, and he has no idea what he's signing. Yeah, who's in charge? That's what Mike even said. Who's really in charge right now? So for those of you that are on that side of the aisle, I don't know how you can defend that. You've got literally and I watched it today. You've got, you know, the leader of the free world who's doing well to stay awake during President Trump's inauguration. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that he was he was asleep through part of it. And I'm not joking. As he's walking out, all I would all I was thinking is, Jill, get that man a scooter. I'm not trying to make fun, but literally get that man a scooter. Because he's struggling. I'm guessing that he's glad today's over. Now, out of everything I said along those lines, and I even sent this to my boys, Bill Clinton, he and Hillary were there, which actually they were kind of jovial, and even Hillary was actually smiling, which I was kind of surprised at. But Bill, and this is not an exaggeration, if you watched Bill Clinton during the entire ceremony, even on his way out, he was having a good time today. He was smiling, jovial. I mean, now keep in mind that if Bill Clinton were to run again in his own party, he is unelectable. He's too far to the right for most people that are on the left right now running the party. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. And not that I agreed with every single thing Bill Clinton did when he was in office. I would have taken him over Joe Biden any day, any day. I would have taken Bill Clinton over Obama any day. So Bill Clinton in today's Democrat Party, by the way, is unelectable. He's not hardcore left enough for them. Now, Hillary, that's a different situation. But Bill himself, he's unelectable. But out of everything that I noticed today, outside of all the things I mentioned a moment ago, which you'll not hear anywhere in the press, by the way. was just the look on Bill Clinton's face during the ceremony and then after on his way out, even shaking the hands of Trump's kids and so on. Honestly, Bill Clinton, to me, is still one of those guys where if you want to go to the ballgame and have a good time, drag him along. Because that's the impression that he still gives to this day. So just a side note. All right. I've got a guest joining us here. We'll talk more about this in a moment. Actually going to really get into Pete Hegseth as well here in just one moment. Stacey Washington is going to join us. In the meantime, we talked to Lewis from Hi-Fi Plumbing and Electrical a moment ago. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Also, the other pardon, of course, was General Mark Milley and, of course, Representative Liz Cheney and among others that investigated the J6 riots, which you heard Trump talk about that briefly earlier. Today as well, not during his inauguration speech that came afterwards when he was talking to really the rest of his room full of supporters, if you would, when it was all said and done. And even even he mentioned some of that. It's like, OK, wait a minute. These people came against Donald Trump and came out of that committee with a lot of literally false things, lies. No other way to say it. Literal lies like him attacking the Secret Service person. in the car they were in, in the motorcade, none of which, of course, was true. But these are things that that J6 committee came up with. And, of course, now, because of the pardon, none of them will be held accountable for any of those things that they did, even though they were flat out and out lies at that time. And Donald Trump had said that at that time that they were, and it's going to come out even more so that they were. Stacey Washington joining us now. Stacey, welcome. How are you?
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you so much for having me on.
SPEAKER 17 :
I appreciate it. You are host of a nationally syndicated Sirius XM show. Stacey on the right, author of the book Eternally Cancel Proof. Let's talk a little bit. I mean, before we get into it, I'm sure you watched the inauguration. I was talking about that just a few minutes ago. And what a great day today.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, amazing. It was incredibly historic to see President Trump after four years of lawfare and almost fighting for his very life. In fact, he was fighting for his very life. He stood there and I was trying to imagine, as I was watching, if I could even begin to approach some of the feeling that he must be having standing there and experiencing that, being welcomed into the portico. President Biden actually lifted his voice up and said, welcome home. I was kind of blown back by that. It was so friendly and unlike the actions that he took against President Trump, which leads me back to some reporting that has been coming out. It's like trickling out a little here and there that President Biden wasn't really even aware of some of the actions he took the speaker, sharing a story from over a year ago that he didn't even know he had pots, oil, or liquefied natural gas.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, the LNG, right, natural gas, that's right, exports.
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Yeah, yeah, so a really interesting day. There was a lot, for me it was emotional because I did some service for Team Trump and Trump Victory in 2020. And I just remember the sense of sadness and foreboding I had when he was not the president in 2020. And I think the Democrats and their movement would have been better off had they had President Trump of 2020, because President Trump of 2024 is a whole nother beast, a beast that cannot be unmade, a beast that they will rue the day. And I think generationally. Democrats will look back to this period of time and see a lot of places where their movement will be damaged going forward. And I think the other part that was like a mandate beyond the popular vote was to have all the social media giants who canceled Trump donate a million dollars each to the inauguration and then show up for it. They actually, you know, kind of shoehorned themselves into that tiny space where I would have expected to see other great voices, other full supporters of the president. They were there, and it was an indicator that they don't believe the Democrats are coming back in four years.
SPEAKER 17 :
I think you're right on that.
SPEAKER 04 :
I agree. They plan five years out, right? Big companies plan in five-year increments, and these people were there today, which means they don't think they're going to be ushering in a Democratic president in four years. So it was an interesting day.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, very. After, of course, what we saw over the weekend with TikTok, which I'll get into later. I haven't covered any of that yet, but I'll get into that stuff a little bit later in the program. One of the things, too, Stacey, I talked about this when I opened up and want to get your thoughts. The pastors that prayed, the rabbi and the black pastor and the priest that prayed towards the end, Number one, whoever set that lineup up did it wrong. They should have put the black guy last because he was the closer. His was the best of the three. And if you weren't moved to tears during his prayer, something's wrong with you.
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There was – well, so I've heard him pray before. And so I was expecting him to bring the fire. He did. He really was spirit-filled. He was like, this is my last chance to speak to you, so I'm going to send you home.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
It was a great time of prayer. I couldn't help but open my eyes a little bit and look at the television and see who else in the space was kind of glancing around. And I feel like there's a disconnect between some of the people in the room and how serious that was. Amy Klobuchar was executing her duties as some kind of committee person who has to do with inauguration. And I understand that it's an honor and it's a great thing to do. And I didn't want her to look sad, but I just feel like Democrats are really disconnected from the feeling of the country.
SPEAKER 05 :
They are.
SPEAKER 04 :
This was a pivotal election and it was a pivotal moment today for the inauguration to fall on Martin Luther King Day.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
With the historic level of black support for this president and a historic level of Hispanic support for this president. And then to have it happens to be my husband's birthday, which is, you know, not normally he's not normally his birthday on the inauguration, but. It was just a big day for everyone. I felt like there was so much emotional goodwill there with him today.
SPEAKER 17 :
Awesome. Well, number one, say happy birthday to your husband. So it's always a special day, of course. And I agree with you. I think there's a lot of things, you know, right now going on in the country. I think that the left, I've talked about this on my program many times. It's why they lost. They have a huge disconnect, especially with the male voter in this country, Stacey, and not just a specific, you know, like me, white male voter, but all male voters. They're just out of touch. But really, I think, Stacey, it shows that it's not only those folks are out of touch with, but to your point, they're just out of touch with the pulse of America right now. One of the things that Donald Trump started off with in his speech was just talking about from this point forward, we're going to have two genders, no more of this nonsense of multiple genders and all of this wokeness and men playing women's sports and so on. I mean, that stuff is going to end. And yet you look around the room and those things were being said. And to your point, the amount of disconnect the left has along those lines is like, Do you guys not know why you lost?
SPEAKER 04 :
So there's that, but I've actually been kind of on a – I spent about a week doing this, and I'm not ashamed of it, but I kind of was surprised at myself how often every single day for like a week – I went searching and hunting out the comments of the normal kind of lefty commentators on MSNBC and CNN. I just wanted to see what their temperature was. And I've been doing this since the election because I've been looking to see if there's a turning point. And, um, You know, former DNC chair Donna Brazile said Sunday week, she's on television, and she said there will be no resistance. We will only resist policy that we actually oppose, but we are not going to assume a stance of actual permanent resistance. That is not who the Democrats are right now. And I felt like she was giving marching orders. The only issue is, while Donna Brazile goes on the shows, and I certainly watch her clips every week, I don't believe the Democrat rank and file are listening to Donna Brazile anymore. No. They're looking for a new DNC chair. I watched that panel. That panel was full of people who were mostly concerned about genuflecting and kind of getting claps from the audience instead of truly discussing and unpacking what happened in the election. We need a viable two-party system. That's what the founders left to us. It's our heritage as a nation. And Democrats and Republicans should all believe in supporting Israel, strong national defense, You know, peace through strength, that there are two genders, that biology is real. You know, we shouldn't have an argument about climate change, which is unproven, untested science. We should not be attacking people for their for their faith. We should not be forcing gender ideology on people in either direction, whether it's, you know, adopting the kids and strapping their chest down at school. Transitioning behind their parents back or the other direction, which is to say that some children don't suffer from gender dysmorphia and that they shouldn't have counseling and have their parents supported through that so that they can make decisions as adults that aren't permanent and life altering while they're still going through puberty. So there's so much to it. But at the end of the day. Americans stood up and they said to the elites who thought they had it all locked down. They thought we got the K through 12. We have the universities. We have the unions. We have television in Hollywood. This is our country. And Americans stood up and said, yeah, but you don't really have the whole country because you don't have the voters and we're going to usher in a new era. So I still have to pinch myself. I feel like I got my favorite best Christmas present, President Trump back in office. I've just been waiting for him to go back there and And I think my favorite moment out of everything besides Melania's clothing, which is good. I'm going to be eating her up every single day. The clothes, the looks. Absolutely. But my favorite moment was Joe Biden. I guess he forgot he hated Trump. And he just said, welcome home. I just wanted to run through the television and just everybody group hug because it was so great. to see President Trump and Melania go into that door, to see them go in there and to know they're back.
SPEAKER 17 :
I agree. Let's talk a little bit. And by the way, everything you said, can't disagree with anything that you said. And I think the left has a real problem on their hands. And I think they're a faction party right now, which typically they are not. Typically they're a fractured party, I should say. Typically they're lock, stock, and barrel. They are all speaking the same language day in and day out, and they're not right now, which... by the way, is a problem on their side. We can talk about that another day. Let's talk about some of the nominations, especially Pete Hegseth, of course. That's one of the things why I wanted to have you on in the first place. And let's face it, you know, Pete is not a gifted politician. He's never really been in that end of things. Yes, he's been on TV. Yes, he knows how to speak to the camera and so on. But when it comes to the political speak end of things, That's not him. Not that that's a problem, by the way, Stacey, because I like that about him. I like the fact he's not some career politician. He'll handle things much differently. Do you think at the end of the day he'll get confirmed and has some of what I just said hurt him?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I mean, it hurts them with people who aren't as political as you and I. Right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
People who don't remember. I remember being told to my space by family members, by, you know, anybody who could talk, who was a Democrat, that I should stop talking about Bill Clinton's personal life and his marriage. If Hillary was fine with what happened in the Oval Office, then I should be fine with it, too. This is right around the time of my transition from being a Democrat to a Republican. I found what he did so disgusting. And I felt that it kind of disabled him from leading the country. But none of the Democrats felt that way. And I have to tell you. I simply said, okay, if those are the new rules, they apply to everyone. And I have since not really cared. And I'm a Christian, so I do care. I do care about our leader's morals. But I also understand that God can use anyone. He used David. He was a murderer and an adulterer. Every person in the Bible is flawed, immensely flawed. And all of us are incredibly flawed. The good news for us is we don't have access to Hollywood with cameras live in our living room and dining room and bedroom to record us as we act the way that we act, as we are ourselves. That's right. So I've taken that to heart. I've studied a lot about David's life, and I feel like for him to have been who he was in the beginning and the arc of his story, and he's laying on his deathbed, a failed father, a failed husband, and a failed leader, but still... redeemed by the grace of God, then certainly God can use Trump. And he has, and I believe he will again. But the big deal for me with Pete Hegseth is, you know why they're talking about his marriage? Because he's a double Ivy League educated man. five or six-time New York Times bestselling author. That's all they have to talk about. That's all they've got. The man is brilliant, and he's a decorated warrior, and he understands the warfighter. And I'm a veteran, and I believe I speak for literally millions of veterans when I say, rather to have a man who has been through the trenches in his marriage and has come on the other side, that understands war and has shot and killed people and been shot at better to have him at the head of the dod to bring our warfighter back up to the most excellent standard so that we can break things blow up things and win wars and command air space sea and land with efficiency better to bring him back to raise that standard whatever his marital history is between him and his wife than to have some pencil pusher out of academia ruining our military with social experimentation. And also, he doesn't believe women should be in combat. Neither do most women on active duty. That's what they don't want to talk about. How I was on active duty, I actively did not want to be in combat, and I didn't really want to be deployed. I was deployed, but I didn't really want to go to Saudi Arabia for 90 days. But I went. But the point is not that I went. It's that I wasn't in a combat role. I was in a support role. And that is. That's the truth. And nobody who's a Democrat wants to talk about it, but those screaming harpies who were whining and yelling at him like they were having a marital argument were hardly the best example for women going into combat. It was a pathetic show.
SPEAKER 17 :
You're 100% correct. And by the way, really quick, to go back to your, you know, God uses all sorts of flawed people. Don't forget that the man that led the children of Israel out of captivity was a murderer before he did that.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's right, Moses. But he was also someone who he would say, Lord, I can barely talk. I don't have to serve for this. He was kind of humble, too. So they all have these qualities. And I've met President Trump so many times. I've heard him speak over 35 times in person. I've been to the White House dozens of times. I've been to Mar-a-Lago. I've seen this man in many different situations. And what I can say is he's always very kind. He's always nice. He has a ready smile for anyone. If you feel nervous going up to him and saying, can we have a picture? He'll always put his hand on your shoulder or something, put you at ease, ask you how you are, assure you that he remembers you. How is that possible? And then take a picture with you, even when he's tired and the Secret Service is trying to pull him away. So that's a minor thing, but it's major if you meet a lot of people.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, that's a major thing, Stacey. To somebody like me, that's a major thing. And by the way, I've known other people like you that know him directly. Many, by the way. I haven't talked to anybody yet that doesn't say the same thing you say.
SPEAKER 04 :
He's so nice. And it's kind of shocking because he likes firing people on The Apprentice, which was my favorite thing. That was how I got to know Donald Trump. Me and my husband watched him as we put our little jokes to bed way back then. And so, yeah, I think people who don't like him, that's fine. I have not liked presidents before. I don't really want to like them. In fact, it's an anomaly for me. I never thought I would ever meet a president at all. The fact that God has allowed me to do this is such a glorious honor for me. But it's also an outstanding honor. example of what god will do he'll take you know a little woman from out of the midwest actually i'm super tall but little meaning not unknown and allow me to go to the white house allow me to go to rallies and allow me to go on television to talk about issues he'll if he'll do that for me he'll do it with anyone he just picks the person who's unlikely and he uses them and that's what he's doing with donald trump And if you don't like Trump, how about you just watch Melania's outfits for the next four years? There you go. You will be pleased.
SPEAKER 17 :
Good job. And by the way, I feel the same way as you. I sit in this chair, and I am about as unqualified to be here as anybody, Stacey. I'm somebody that has worked their whole life, owned businesses, never went to college. I didn't do journalism or broadcasting or anything along those lines. It's only by God's grace I sit here.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's right. It's the best way to get somewhere, actually, because then you don't have to worry about it being your thing.
SPEAKER 17 :
That's a good point. Well said. All right, I'll let you go with that, Stacey. And by the way, how do folks listen to you on SiriusXM?
SPEAKER 04 :
If you are a subscriber to SiriusXM on your phone, on the SiriusXM app, and it's channel 125. And if you don't have that, I'm on television every day at 5 p.m. on Salem. That's on your Samsung television, your Pluto app, your Roku app, 5 p.m. East.
SPEAKER 17 :
Awesome. Stacey, thank you. You're welcome back anytime. I appreciate you very much.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you. I'll come back anytime. All right.
SPEAKER 17 :
Have a great night. Stacey Washington again. Stacey on the right. And her book is Eternally Council-Proof, A Guide for Courageous Christians Navigating the Political Battlefront. And it's an Emmy-nominated – no, sorry. She's an Emmy-nominated TV personality and, of course, author and – So, Stacey, again, thank you so much for joining us. I appreciate it. Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning, yes, guys, a lot of you may be having problems right now with heat, not being able to keep up, not knowing exactly what to do next. Maybe things aren't as warm as they should be. Let's just say it that way. If that's the case, give Cub Creek a call today. Find them at klzradio.com.
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SPEAKER 17 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Okay, top of the hour. Scott Watley is going to be joining me, but he stepped into the studio here a minute or two early. He was going to be, if it was all outside and as it was supposed to be planned, you were going to be there today calling in. I was going to be there. And you were there.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I was there. You decided to come back a little early for obvious reasons. Yeah, the weather, you know, halfway through the Friday, I decided, okay, I'm going to get out early because I thought it might be – Hectic at the airport. So I catch like a 930 flight. Halfway through the flight, my phone starts blowing up with messages. It's moved inside. And I'm like, this is probably not going to be good. So then land there. Not get my bag until the next day. Right. So whole big story there, too. But anyway. Yeah, it was great hanging out there a couple of days and just went around and did visit with some people. You know, just see people. But a lot of people on the plane, man, a lot of people in red hats, man, MAGA hats and stuff. And so, I mean, it was really cool. So I would say there was a difference, no pun intended, in the air. I mean, man, I mean, everywhere you went. I mean, it was cool, you know. And so it's going to be really interesting. And, like, I heard you're opening the show. Yeah, you're fine. Today TV was great. I mean, I was glued to it this morning, too, because it was just awesome.
SPEAKER 17 :
It was. I mean, it was different. Again, like I said, like I opened up with, it's not what you would normally see in an inauguration speech. I mean, normally there's all sorts of platitudes and, you know, thank you for this and thank you for that. And, yes, we're going to do this and we're going to do that. Right. I mean, Trump, again, he's one of those guys. I think that's why he won this last election. People just want to be told what's going to happen next. How do I feed my family? How do we change the things in this country that aren't going the way they should? And who's going to do that? And he answered a lot of that even in the inauguration speech itself and, of course, did a lot more. more after that speaking to his own you know but in that that initial crowd and as I said there were a lot of people in that initial room that Scott said coming in this very thing and I should have said this their days are over and for a lot of them their days are over I mean, this administration is gone, whatever their role was, chances of them coming back even on down the road, if something were to happen even four or five years from now, do they have that opportunity again? You know, Scott, in a lot of cases, no, they don't. And I think a lot of them realize that when you're in that room today and things are finally ending, your world is now going to take a whole different, you know, it's going to go a different direction because it's not the same.
SPEAKER 03 :
And you actually come over to him a little bit more because of that, too. You did. I mean, I would.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, if you're smart, you would because otherwise you're – in a lot of cases, your political career may very well be over and you're going to have to figure out what are you going to do next. So we'll talk more about that when we come back. And for a lot of you listening, Scott's going to hang around with us here past 4 o'clock as well and was planning on having him here anyway. So we were, though, originally, again, like I said, planning on having Scott call in from a lot of the – And some things that had happened that day. But, you know, things happen, and the weather changed, and even Trump talked a little bit about that today in some of his speeches. So, yeah, we'll talk to Scott as soon as we come back, and then my son Richard will join us at 4.30 as well. But, guys, hang tight. Again, as always, great day here in the United States of America. I am proud to be an American. Not that I'm not every day, but especially today I am proud to be an American. We'll be back. Hour 2 is next. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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