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	Oh.
	Thank you, Dr. Gawker.
	Sorry, I don't have my... Normally, I can do it in the morning.
	I don't have as much heft in the afternoon.
	How are you?
	Good to be with you.
	My name is Chris Stegall.
	In for Dr. G today, who is away, I believe, doing some family business.
	Always a thrill to be with you.
	I'm from Seb's affiliate in Philadelphia.
	You know, the center of the political universe, home to Josh Shapiro.
	We'll get into that a little later today.
	But you know the number.
	That's the same.
	And I'm going to want to hear from you today at 833-33-GORKA.
	That's 833-334-6752.
	We've got a lot to unpack today.
	I'm glad Congressman Matt Gaetz will be with us coming up in just a bit.
	I think I'd have to jump off with the press conference today from Ronald Rowe, the new Secret Service Director, who to me, um, boy, if ever you were gonna pick a guy from Central Casting to play someone who, oh, I don't know, hits his family.
	Sorry.
	That's just how he comes off to me.
	He just looks like a hothead who maybe drinks too much.
	I don't like the guy.
	I get bad.
	In many ways, I agree with Julie Kelly.
	He's much worse than that Kimberly Cheadle woman.
	Doesn't look like he cares a whole hell of a lot.
	I will say that it seems he's prepared to at least Give the local cops a break.
	And I think it's because the local cops have been popping off lately.
	They don't like in Butler, Pennsylvania.
	You've got two county police units.
	You've also got the state police of Pennsylvania.
	And these three police units have been pretty vocal when the Secret Service Director Cheadle tried to throw them under, said it was their fault.
	They didn't tell them.
	This guy came out today and said, OK, OK, don't blame the local cops.
	It was our fault.
	Damn straight it was your fault.
	And to any suggestion that local law enforcement... You know, there's a Washington Post story out this week, folks, and I don't know that many people even covered it, and I'm going to have to go back and dig it up.
	But the lone story that I saw written about this appeared in the Washington Post of all places, and it said that had it not been for one of the local law enforcement agents taking a shot at this guy on the roof, that kind of distracted him. That basically took him off
	his shot, off his mark, and then that allowed a sniper to take the shooter out off
	the roof.
	Now again, that was a Washington Post report. I haven't seen it since.
	But it's remarkable because today's press conference effectively he said,
	we didn't have any communication with local law enforcement that day.
	Secret Service in no way, shape, matter, or form had any means of communicating with local law enforcement.
	So if you're keeping track with this, and it's hard to because they're all over the map, they were blaming, blaming, blaming local law enforcement, and today it's not local law enforcement's fault, but Uh, you should know that we had no contact with them whatsoever, and so we didn't know about the guy, and we didn't know he had a gun.
	Now, what's the problem with that?
	Well, there's an obvious one for me, and any of you that have been following this story, you know it.
	That's the video that we see.
	You know, you have snipers stationed all around this place, two certainly within line of sight.
	They say maybe there was a tree blocking one, but you know, you presume you have law enforcement stationed that are looking out around the perimeter.
	I mean, I'm no Secret Service guy.
	Bongino's been doing an outstanding job kind of bringing this from that perspective, but I think anybody with a brain understands a few things about how you do this.
	And to me, when you show up and you're trying to secure a place for a President of the United States to speak, ask any knuckle-dragging moron on the street, how do you secure this place?
	And the first thing I think most people would say is, well, we've got to get a secure area, a perimeter.
	I think everybody understands you've got to create a perimeter, right?
	And so, What do you do when you're considering a perimeter?
	Well, you've got to consider the buildings involved, don't you?
	Trees, high points, water towers.
	I mean, if there's one thing I remember from school, it's the story of Lee Harvey Oswald and the book depository.
	Now, again, I don't mean to open that Pandora's box, but I'm just saying, from my earliest years of talking about assassinations, That was one thing I understood.
	Oh, guy up in a building shooting down.
	So you assume that if someone's going to shoot at the president, they're probably going to shoot at him from an elevated position.
	Now, again, I don't think this takes marksman stuff or police background.
	This is just common sense.
	Moron guy who's talking on the radio.
	OK, I don't.
	And I think most of us could figure this out.
	And so you look around and you say, OK, where could somebody shoot at the president?
	Well, there's a building there, and there's a water tower there, and there's trees over there.
	All right, who has a clear line of sight?
	Well, that roof has a clear line of sight, that water tank, whatever.
	And then you assess, okay, how far away is that building or that roof?
	Can they get off a clean shot?
	Is that too close?
	Now, here's another thing I know.
	I'm no expert marksman, but I know this.
	I know that a rifle can be easily fired by somebody that has just a little bit of training.
	You can hit a mark from 150 yards.
	That's no hill for a stepper, somebody that knows their way around a firearm.
	And so it's, again, just common, simple, dopey old me here talking, and you can certainly dial me up if you disagree.
	Don't you look at a rooftop with a clear line of sight to the president's podium, 150 yards away, and immediately anybody with a brain says, well, that seems like a place a guy could hang out to shoot.
	Now, we're supposed to believe that trained Secret Service professionals showed up that day and said, eh, I'm sure that's fine.
	Let's just leave that roof.
	He couldn't answer why there weren't Secret Service stationed on that roof.
	He was very quick to say, don't blame local law enforcement.
	Yeah, I bet he's saying don't blame local law enforcement because they're not having it.
	They don't want to be patsies in this thing.
	And every time they've tried it, the local folks keep popping off saying, don't you pin this on us?
	In fact, they say that Secret Service told them not to text, told them what not to do, but never had any communication with them once the event got underway.
	That does seem consistent with what he's saying.
	That Secret Service and the local police weren't talking at all.
	That seems amazing.
	Okay, so you have an area that wasn't properly secure from the jump, a building with a clear line of sight, unguarded, 150 yards from the podium.
	That, folks, that alone, before we ever talk about who the shooter was, where people were stationed, how many shots they got off, all this other stuff, I don't need a Zapruder film To go with the very basic facts of this story, and the basic facts are a very basic area that should have been secure from a very basic distance wasn't.
	And you will never convince me that professionals who provide security detail for our highest valued assets in the country are that slipshod.
	I cannot be convinced of that.
	It makes no sense.
	And so, what I keep coming back to is, until somebody provides something that makes sense to me, I'll just say it this way.
	This was allowed to happen.
	This was permitted to happen.
	Now, you can fill in the blanks from there.
	I don't know the particulars, and it doesn't sound like this guy is going to tell us anytime soon.
	And if, in fact, they figure out that people involved need to be disciplined, he's already told us.
	We have the audio today.
	Here's a little bit from this press conference that just wrapped up before the show started.
	Ronald Rowe.
	Secret Service Director asked if they're gonna be heads rolling.
	Is anybody gonna be responsible for this?
	You're gonna fire people?
	And are you gonna tell us if you do?
	Take a listen.
	I need to ask you, since you testified, has anyone been suspended with or without pay?
	Has anyone been fired?
	And will you tell us, as people are disciplined along the way, or is this something we're going to need to just constantly be asking, or will you update and tell us five people have been fired?
	Six people?
	Seven people?
	What can you tell us?
	Sure.
	Thank you for that question, David.
	As I said in my opening statement, there are going to be, uh, there's the Mission Assurance Review.
	Uh, if, that Mission Assurance Review is looking into if there were policy violations.
	At that point now, if in fact there were policy violations, at that point now it'll go into a parallel path of a disciplinary type of investigation.
	Right.
	So now, you're never gonna get to know who fell down on the job and why it was allowed to happen.
	Congressman Matt Gaetz with his thoughts next on America First.
	I'm Chris DeGaulle in for Seb.
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	Welcome back to America First.
	I'm Chris Stegall.
	In for Sebastian Gorka today.
	Thrilled to jump right in on this Friday Conversation with Congressman Matt Gaetz from Florida's Fightin' First.
	Congressman, glad to have you, sir.
	We were just talking about this Ronald Roe press conference that wrapped up not too terribly long ago.
	I know you were watching it.
	What do you make of that?
	Welcome in.
	Thanks for having me.
	It certainly raises more questions than answers.
	The lack of real chain of command here when it comes to the local officials and state officials and Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security seems to be all kind of disjointed.
	And I think the Secret Service is trying to put on a bold face here.
	But the reality is we've had systemic failures.
	I think that we've got to look at this for the benefit of really not just the current candidates for federal office, but in the future, we've got to have a better system than this.
	You know, look, I hate going to dark places or conspiratorial places, but here's what I said.
	How is a building—I just, on a very basic security level—I'm a nobody.
	I'm a talk show host.
	I don't know anything about security.
	And if you said, secure this area for Donald Trump, I'd say, OK, well, we can't have a rooftop 150 yards in clean sight of him, unguarded.
	That just seems so obvious, right?
	And, you know, I'm with you.
	I don't want to immediately jump to any presupposition that people wanted harm to come to Donald Trump.
	That is an ugly thing to consider.
	And I've not seen evidence of that.
	I've seen evidence of growth, negligence, malfeasance.
	The fact that you had people in the building but not on the building seemed to be strange.
	And then just the repeated warnings from the crowd.
	I mean, you think, in those circumstances, if there's the prospect of danger or assassination,
	you would immediately get President Trump off the siege, not just to protect him, but
	to protect everyone else.
	And the grave tragedy here is we lost Cory Comperture as a consequence of, I think, not
	acting fast enough on what we were seeing.
	I know Donald Trump has said, hey, we're going to keep doing outdoor rallies, even though
	the Secret Service said they recommend he no longer do that.
	Is that the right call?
	Yeah, I don't think you give the assassin a veto.
	I don't think you do things according to what the most dangerous among us, those who would
	want to inflict terror on our democracy, would try to prescribe for us.
	And this wasn't a case where being outdoors created the vulnerability.
	It was massacring the buildings within line of sight and line of shot of the president,
	the former president of the United States.
	That was the problem.
	So I think that the Secret Service trying to blame the outdoor venue is more a part
	of them trying to deflect than actually address the problem and develop better protocols.
	Isn't it a strange time when that story...
	Isn't the year's worth of news?
	I mean, you would think that event would be the story of the year, at least.
	And it's like two or three stories deep now.
	It is astonishing what's happening in this presidential cycle.
	But just think about what we've encountered this election.
	We've had 34 felonies.
	We've had the sitting president of the United States drop out of the re-election contest.
	We've had an assassination attempt.
	We've had a last-minute swap, like a Mississippi Square dance, where they subbed in Kamala Harris in the absence of any primary or voting process.
	And I think historians are going to study this as a pretty raucous election on all fronts.
	The fundamentals, though, remain the same.
	It's going to be a few states.
	You're from one of them, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Georgia, Arizona.
	These are the states that are going to define the election.
	And right now, what we're seeing in polls is that Kamala Harris has a pretty hard ceiling in a lot of those places, because folks have observed her embrace of the most radical features of the Democrat agenda.
	It was her tie-breaking vote that gave us high prices, and see where the borders are when we left the border open.
	That seems to be a pretty searing critique of her candidacy that is in the mind of voters.
	This isn't your first rodeo politically, so I think you have a kind of a cool eye about this.
	There are a lot of people I know from my audience who are jittery, you know, congressmen.
	Now they see this as it's been called sugar rush of constant Kamala Harris, positive glowing, Hollywood glitz, tons of money, lots of social media.
	And I think everybody was feeling great.
	I know you were at that convention.
	Trump came off looking great.
	The convention was beautiful.
	It spoke to everyday Americans.
	And then we got treated to this Hollywood show business phony and I think it has some of us a little unnerved.
	So talk to me like a coach here entering the fourth quarter.
	Should we be nervous?
	Look, we have to assume that this is a different race than we were running it before, right?
	And the reason for concern is that Kamala Harris is starting to reconstitute some of the features of the Obama constituency, the Obama coalition.
	For example, when Joe Biden was the Democratic nominee, we were only losing by about 6 or 8 percentage points among voters under the age of 30.
	Now we risk losing those voters by maybe 28 points, right?
	So she's been able to reconstitute some of those coalitions, but at the end of the day, it's about how the voters are perceiving this in the swing states.
	And that's why really aggressive work to chase down every ballot will probably determine the winner.
	You know, in Pennsylvania, you've got indiscriminate ballots being mailed out to people who didn't ask for them.
	That creates millions of ballots for potential fraud, and to be diligent about that is going to be really, really essential in a presidential contest that will likely be closer than the contest had we been running against the nursing home patient.
	Do you feel good about the campaign in terms of its operations?
	You know, this is always that time where people start questioning messaging, money spent, ad dollars.
	You know, they compare Kamala Harris's spent gazillions of dollars on social media to Trump's only this much.
	Where do you handicap that right now?
	If this race comes down to operational competence, Donald Trump will win, because Suze Wiles,
	Chris LaCivita, Jason Miller, the triumvirate that runs this campaign, they are professionals,
	they are very capable, and they're doing a great job right now.
	We aren't going to win the same way Democrats do, by romancing the media.
	Instead, you see Donald Trump confront them.
	He's willing to go into hostile environments, whether it was the Black Journalist Convention
	or even the convention of the Libertarian Party, an opposing political party.
	He showed up to their convention, and Donald Trump is ready to make his case anywhere and
	everywhere.
	I think back to the point you were making about the glitz and glamour and Hollywood
	feature of Kamala Harris' candidacy, that starts to grate on voters in the middle of
	And I think the authenticity and the willingness to confront any political problem showcases Donald Trump's ability to confront the nation's problems, problems which Kamala Harris has contributed to greatly.
	Will they be able to keep her from speaking?
	We saw last night she spoke on the tarmac for the first time unscripted since she became the candidate, and it was a disaster.
	She cannot freewheel or speak without a prompter.
	Are they going to try to keep her on a prompter, and will they succeed at that?
	It looks like that's the plan, right?
	12 days into her kind of coronation here, and we haven't seen the first press conference.
	I mean, Donald Trump does press conferences on the fly.
	He takes tough questions.
	You may not like the answers, you may love them, but he gives it to you straight.
	Kamala Harris is creating a curated candidacy, and I think the reason is because she's a machine candidate.
	California is a Democratic Party machine state, and she came through that machine as an Attorney General candidate, as a U.S.
	Senator, and now as their presumptive nominee, and those type of candidates don't go freewheeling often.
	Congressman Matt Gaetz, always grateful for your time here on America First.
	It's a pleasure to talk to you, sir.
	Thanks so much.
	Take care.
	You know the number.
	833-33-GORKA.
	Love to hear from you.
	My name's Chris Stegall.
	Infra-Seb today on America First.
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	Welcome back.
	America first.
	Chris Stegall from Philadelphia's AM99 to the answer.
	A proud Salem and Seb Gorka affiliate from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
	Glad to be in for Seb today, taking a day off to be with family.
	He'll be back with you on Monday, but I'm glad to be with you and our phone number is 833-33-GORKA.
	If you want to weigh in today, the number's the same.
	The host is a little different today.
	So, come on in.
	Let's go right to the phone, in fact.
	I would love to talk to you about some of this Secret Service stuff that's just come up today, or whatever else is on your mind.
	Stephen, let's start in New Jersey with you, sir.
	Welcome to America First.
	I'm Chris, in for Seb today.
	Hi.
	Hey, how you doing, Chris?
	People got to remember, you complained to the Secret Service all day.
	It was a colossal eff up, right?
	But at the end of the day, they The local police said that they were going to security out of perimeter.
	Secret Service should have definitely secured that roof.
	When you have a counter sniper team, you have two people, a shooter and a spotter.
	Both of them are snipers.
	One team member could have went and looked for this Let me rein myself in.
	Could have looked for this guy while the other team members stayed on the window, which had a perfect line of sight of the entire roof, Chris.
	And everybody is overlooking this.
	I'm a professional at this, Chris.
	You can't tell somebody who's done this that local police did not drop the ball.
	It's infuriating, Chris.
	It doesn't make sense.
	Well, I don't know.
	I mean, local police may have dropped the ball.
	I certainly won't excuse them, but I don't know that anybody should not be able to see a roof unguarded from 150 yards away as a problem.
	That just seems like textbook, isn't it?
	It's very textbook, but we want the truth, Chris.
	The problem is, you don't know the heart of every law enforcement officer in this country.
	Yeah, I know cops who hate that man, who want him dead, Chris.
	Look, I mean, I can't know.
	You're right.
	I can't know motives of anybody.
	But that's the thing.
	All I can go off of, and I appreciate the call, Stephen, all I can go off of is what is obvious.
	And what is obvious is there were mistakes that are as plain as the nose on our face.
	We saw a man running around on the roof from another perspective.
	That makes no sense.
	I mean, that you could literally see your perch to do nothing but be a sniper and look out.
	And there's a guy running around on a rooftop for, you know, two minutes almost before he fires a shot.
	That also doesn't make sense.
	So, I can't know the hearts and heads of any of these people.
	This new Secret Service Director says he's not going to tell anybody who he's punished and for what reason, if in fact he ever does.
	So, if nobody's going to take any responsibility, then the vacuum is going to get filled with conspiracy.
	And for the rest of our days, we're going to treat this Much like we have the Kennedy assassination.
	Thankfully here, in this case, we don't have the target dead.
	And I hate saying it this way, but I think a lot of people are wondering, well, not yet we don't have a dead president.
	But I hate even going there.
	You don't want to.
	But questions must be asked, and they're going to keep being asked.
	Like Ron in Kansas.
	He has some.
	I'm christened for Seb today.
	Ron, welcome in.
	Yes, sir.
	I want to make two quick points.
	Number one, uh, I know Trump don't like her personality and that's a good thing because she has none and Trump's a hell of a guy, but we ought to stay focused on the policies.
	Uh, she's given him every piece of ammunition to work with.
	I mean, he's got a lot to pick from.
	She's just lousy in every direction.
	So you're talking about messaging.
	You're getting a little worried that Trump's not messaging correctly.
	Well, sometimes I understand his frustration because he's for us, but you got to stay focused.
	And she's in there for one simple reason.
	They want to throw you off her trail.
	You're trailing a bunch of cows.
	You're trying to find them.
	Somebody, something else is trying to throw you off your main goal.
	We're trailing her.
	She's the problem with all of our policies.
	They threw her in there because she's nice to look at.
	She's so wonderful.
	But it's trying to throw us off from the fact that she's just completely incompetent and she's just another puppet.
	Thank you, my friend.
	Glad you called, Ron in Kansas.
	Again, if you want to get in here today, I'll hear it.
	We've got a lot more to unpack.
	I have some audio.
	Kamala's first.
	Non-written, non-scripted remarks.
	They came last night after this prisoner swap, which I think we all understand was well-timed to make Grandpa and Kamala look like they were great diplomats who did something big and impressive.
	It also took, did you notice, it took the 9-11 masterminds Being spared right off the front page.
	So nothing is an accident.
	Everything happens for a reason.
	You understand that.
	Seb understands that.
	That's why you're here.
	So I'd love to keep talking about this with you.
	We've got that audio from Kamala Harris.
	And again, it's just clear, when scrutiny comes for this woman, she can't stand it.
	She will not be able to stand up.
	This idea that Trump would be afraid to debate her?
	Not after you hear this.
	If you haven't yet, sit tight on America First.
	Chris Stegall in for Seb today.
	you you
	Bye.
	Welcome back to America First.
	Chris Stegall in for Seb today.
	I come from Pennsylvania, bearing gifts.
	And maybe Josh Shapiro.
	We'll see.
	Tuesday is supposed to be the big announcement for Cacklebridges, as I call her.
	The Cackler, as Seb calls her.
	Again, I'm filling in for Seb today, who's away on some family business.
	But I will tell you that it is all eyes on Pennsylvania, and a lot of people are pretty freaked out.
	about this guy called Josh Shapiro.
	Those of you not in Pennsylvania, you may not know as much about him, but in Pennsylvania he has a track record of winning, winning, winning politically.
	However, he comes with problems, and we're going to unpack those a little later in the show, so don't go anywhere.
	Let's head to Columbus, Ohio, and talk to Darla, who's called America First.
	Darla, Kristen for Seb Today.
	Welcome in.
	Oh, thank you.
	This may be a little off topic, but I couldn't help but, you know, I watch all the rallies and there's so many people there.
	I certainly hope that we have tables set up for people to register to vote.
	Especially, you know, I've heard the hunters are not registered to vote, a lot of them.
	And those of all people who own guns need to register.
	And the gun shops, it wouldn't take much to set up a table where they can register to vote right there.
	And I heard on another talk show yesterday a great idea for a t-shirt.
	It's not my idea.
	But the guy phoned in and said, everything was better with Trump.
	And it's really a good motto, I thought.
	So I thought I'd pass that on.
	And also in Columbus, Ohio, there's an organization called Americans for Prosperity.
	So please go and check that out.
	Americans for Prosperity.
	They are Americans for Prosperity.
	They have state chapters all across the country.
	They're fantastic.
	But Darla, let me ask you, since you're a Buckeye, Is that right?
	You guys are Buckeyes, right?
	I didn't screw that up.
	I was born and raised where hunters are.
	That's why I'm...
	So let me ask you about J.D.
	Vance, your senator.
	Are you happy with this pick?
	Do you have any misgivings now that it should have been someone else?
	I hear sometimes people say, ah, now I'm not so sure with Kamala, maybe it should have been somebody else.
	Do you like your senator as the beat pick?
	Well, after hearing about him, yes I do.
	And I think it's important.
	This is Trump's second time around, and he needs somebody that will back him.
	And there's so many ideas that they agree with.
	He does not need anybody.
	You know, not agreeing with him and causing problems.
	I think they're very much aligned and very much attuned.
	And I think under bad circumstances that J.D.
	Vance would do very well.
	He's very well spoken.
	You know, if he would have to step up and be president, he's very well spoken.
	Darla, I gotta tell you something.
	I couldn't agree with you more, and I'm grateful you called.
	As far as I'm concerned, J.D.
	Vance is a surgeon.
	I mean, just, I think they're terrified of him.
	You know, since he has been the Veep pick, we've heard him called names quite a bit.
	Mainstream media likes to throw bombs at him.
	What they don't do is talk to him.
	It's almost like they're afraid to put a microphone in front of his face, and if they do, when they do, like for instance when he went to the border this week, devastating.
	And even though he was there to call attention to the wide open border, which is a huge problem, it was amazing this sniping little twerpy reporter comes up and goes, what do you think of Donald Trump making comments about Kamala being biracial?
	You have biracial kids, what do you think of that?
	And J.D.
	Vance, rather than get persnickety about it and irritated, hey, I'm here to talk about the border and you're asking me this, he just went right at it.
	Headlong into it and said, she's a phony.
	She's an absolute phony.
	Trump was right to point it out.
	Heritage is one thing, but to put on airs and to be a complete fraud, that's another.
	So let's get to it for a second before I run out of time.
	I've got to play this for you because you've got to hear it.
	I know a lot of us are starting to feel like, wow, she is an unstoppable buzzsaw.
	Big, soaring speeches and laugh lines and applause and celebrities and all this money.
	And you're starting to think, I don't know, maybe this is like Obama in a skirt or pantsuit all over again.
	Not if she's left to her own devices, folks.
	Last night during this prisoner swap on the tarmac with the old husk wandering around staring into the ether, she steps up to the microphone and they ask her to comment on this and I want you to listen very closely to this person we call the vice president when she has no script, no teleprompter, and no real prompting on what question is coming.
	Just take a listen.
	This is just an extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy and strengthening alliances.
	Fellas, did you hear that?
	Understanding the strength that rests in understanding?
	Was that inglês?
	Understanding that could could we just one more time because I feel like I don't speak commonly yet
	Could could we hear that once more just for people in the back that maybe didn't hear it
	This is just extraordinary to the importance of having a president who understands the
	power of diplomacy and understands the strength
	that rests in understanding
	Diplomacy and strengthening alliance strengthening strong understanding the
	Testament to the power of the strength of the understanding of the strength of the understanding of the strength glitch
	glitch glitch glitch glitch which is a very good thing.
	The woman is a stone-cold moron.
	Sorry, she is.
	She doesn't know what she's talking about.
	She's completely out of her depth.
	Have you seen her answer the question about what are you going to do about inflation from a couple of years ago?
	We might have to dig that back out of the archives, fellas, when we get back from break, because when she's left on her own to answer real questions about substantive issues that you and I care about, Nothing.
	Blank slate.
	Vacant.
	Nobody's home.
	Worse than the husk, in many ways.
	I mean, for once, that vacant, empty face of his made sense because we were all feeling the same way trying to listen to that.
	833-33-GORKA.
	That's the number today.
	If you want to get in on this Friday edition of the show, we're going to get a little more into her potential running mate.
	Coming up as well.
	Will it be Josh Shapiro?
	A lot of people believe so.
	He has a lot of problems, though.
	And you may not know what they are.
	A lot of people say, oh, he's Mr. Moderate.
	Well, not so fast.
	There are people that are pretty unhappy with him.
	And they're not on the right.
	They're progressives.
	I'll just give you a hint right now.
	They're calling him Genocide Josh.
	No kidding.
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	Chris de Gaulle and Persebde Day. Glad you're here.
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	you you
	Oh, no.
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	I'm here to give you a pep talk today, I guess.
	At least, that's what I was feeling this morning on my morning show in Philadelphia.
	Chris Stegall in for Seb today from Philadelphia's AM99 to the answer.
	A proud Gorka affiliate.
	In the birthplace of real democracy, our real republic, and I am so honored to be here, first of all, but I also want you to know that I get the sense, at least from my audience, and I don't know about this one, I don't want to speak for Seb or anyone in this audience, but I will say, I get the sense that there are people that are starting to get nervous.
	I get the sense that there are people that are starting to get a little dispirited.
	Trump voters who were feeling great a couple of weeks ago when it was Trump versus the husk, feeling great about obviously that he survived a terrible, terrible event that he ended up really making lemonade out of as he often does.
	Fight, fight, fight became this great rallying cry.
	And I think some people are freaked out.
	They see this buzzsaw of promotion and publicity and glowing, gushing coverage and celebrity and they think to themselves, oh no, oh no, it's Obama again.
	The problem, folks, with that is she's not Obama because Obama was a blank slate.
	This person has a resume.
	This woman has been affiliated with one of the most Unbelievably, if you want to call it failed, I would call it destructive, personally, purposely destructive Marxist regimes that we've ever lived under.
	She owns it, lock, stock and barrel, from the border to the economy to all of the chaos that's going on around the world.
	This is hers.
	This is her resume of failure, not to mention She has been sitting on and covering up this failed old husk who's not been running anything and is clearly diminished and wasn't able to do anything to begin with.
	She's been covering up his incapacities.
	So the question is, are we going to get the chance to actually ask her questions?
	Will people push to get that done?
	And so that's what makes people nervous all the time.
	They say, I wish Trump would just stay on the issue, stick to the issues.
	Well, sometimes it takes some unconventional stuff to get people derailed.
	Like this week, you know, when he went to the National Black Journalists and he said,
	I, I don't know.
	Is she, is she black?
	Is she Indian?
	I mean, she's always been Indian.
	Then I hear she's black all of a sudden.
	If you were listening to that crowd and I was telling, uh, my audience today about this as well as, uh, in my podcast, if you want to check it out, I kind of read, uh, you can hear me tell this whole story at length this week.
	I took the response of that audience that primarily black audience to Trump.
	Not as jeering him or booing him, I took it as them really laughing with him.
	Laughing at the fact that he pointed out, and what he did was plant a seed in that moment.
	He took a very unconventional moment for him in a hostile place, and he went in an unconventional way and said, I don't... Who is she?
	Black?
	Indian?
	I always thought she was Indian.
	Well this, we're told, was outrageous.
	How dare he?
	But it changed the conversation, didn't it?
	It made them get defensive and prickly, and it put inside the minds of people for the first time, they started thinking, you know what?
	That's right.
	Is she really?
	I mean, she's playing up to us now as black, but I don't know, has that always been the case?
	Trump has a way of getting people to talk and think, and it may not always be conventional, and it may not be the way you do it, but now, if ever there was time for unconventional warfare, it is this time.
	Chris de Gaulle in for Gorka today.
	This is America First.
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	Welcome back to America First with me, Sebastian Gorka.
	You've heard it before, there are known unknowns and unknown unknowns.
	And then, there's Chris de Gaulle.
	Philadelphia's AM 990, the answer.
	And we're delighted to have him with us today.
	Well, thank you, Seb.
	I'm delighted to be here.
	Very, very glad to be here.
	I'm Chris Stegall, in for Seb, as he said, and my home base is Seb's affiliate in Philadelphia, AM99 to the answer there.
	Thrilled to be with you.
	Seb and I have had some fantastic times in the last year or so.
	We had a great cigar night in Philadelphia.
	Those of you who just recently joined us on our Alaskan trip, so many great listeners.
	I met so many Sebastian Gorka.
	Listeners on that trip.
	So it was an honor to get to spend time with you and our colleague Mike Gallagher, our friend Jen Horn out there in L.A.
	So much fun.
	Got to spend time with the whole Gorka clan.
	So it's a real thrill to be here with you today.
	And the number remains the same if you want to get in on the show.
	833-33-GORKA.
	833-33-GORKA.
	Coming up, we're going to get into a little bit of Josh Shapiro.
	Since I'm here representing Pennsylvania today, I know a lot of you are maybe wondering about Cacklebridge's pick for VP.
	And a lot of people are thinking odds on favorite going to be Josh Shapiro.
	He does not come without his baggage.
	And so we will tackle that a little bit later.
	But I wanted to spend a little more time kind of talking about Kamala Harris in general and who she is.
	Because I don't think in all of this Carrying on about her concerts and her soaring rhetorical speeches and you know of course the given that they try to distract you with conversations about something Trump said.
	What we know about this person is she's not capable She's not accomplished.
	She was, as you've heard a thousand times, the dead last loser, the first to drop out of a Democrat primary just three and a half years ago.
	No one wants this woman.
	No one wanted her.
	It was an arranged political marriage with Joe Biden, and now we've just been handed this woman.
	All of us have.
	Democrats, too.
	For you Democrats who are honest with yourselves about this, you must be a little irritated.
	I mean, you talk to some real progressives, serious progressives, you know, your Bernie bros, your AOCs, you might remember when it was pretty clear that the husk was not going to come out from under wherever they had him trapped in his house.
	Um, it was pretty clear that they were going to hand this off.
	And at the time they said, you better not just assume we're going to go along and get along if you make it her.
	I think that attitude still exists.
	And I believe that this country and Democrats are full of people that don't like this woman, still don't think she's the real deal.
	Maybe they don't vote.
	I'm not saying they'll go vote Trump, but I'm not convinced that there's an enthusiasm for this woman.
	I think you and I are being sold that there's an enthusiasm for this woman.
	Because every time she's had the chance to speak on her own about real issues that matter to you and me, Well, this is how she handles it.
	Just take a listen to Cut10 as she discusses inflation from a couple of years ago and what she intends to do about it.
	What else are you going to do to fix this problem with inflation?
	Alright, thank you.
	Well, let's start with this.
	Prices have gone up and Families and individuals are dealing with the realities of that bread costs more, that gas costs more.
	And we have to understand what that means.
	That's about the cost of living going up.
	That's about having to stress and stretch limited resources.
	That's about a source of stress for families that is not only economic, but is on a daily level something that is a heavy weight to carry.
	So it is something that we take very seriously.
	Very seriously.
	And we know from the history of this issue in the United States that when you see these prices go up, It has a direct impact on the quality of life.
	Awww.
	Blink, blink.
	What was that?
	She restated the definition?
	Apparently that was her answer to what are you going to do about inflation?
	She told us what it was and how it hurts families.
	No, you were asked what you were going to do about it.
	She gave you a two-minute dissertation on what it is by definition and how it hurts you.
	We know that.
	You're responsible for it.
	You and your administration.
	What are you going to do to fix it was the question.
	And again, when she's left alone.
	I can't stop playing this.
	I'm sorry.
	I don't mean to bore you with it.
	Cut 9.
	Just last night, for the first time since she's been named the new Queen of the Democrat Party, this is the first time she spoke on her own, without a teleprompter, about a prisoner swap.
	And it's going to sound very similar to what you just heard her say about inflation.
	Take a listen.
	This is just extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy and strengthening alliance.
	You know what it reminds me of?
	Did you ever... I'm guilty of this.
	You know, I put off doing schoolwork.
	I wasn't the best student, I won't lie to you.
	All I ever really wanted to do was get into broadcasting.
	School was just boring as all get-out to me.
	And so maybe I'd have a paper to do, or a speech to write and deliver, and I'd put it off, and I'd put it off, and I'd stay up really, really late to do it, and I wouldn't have really done much research on it, and then I'd just get up and talk in circles and try to run the clock out.
	You know, kids, this sounds like a grade school kid trying to give a speech on a subject that he or she did not prepare for at all.
	Just using words.
	It's remarkable.
	And every time she's asked a tough question, to comment on it, that's what she does.
	She just uses words, plucks them out of the sky, strings them together, restates them, rephrases them.
	It's amazing.
	I've been calling them the Kamala moment of Zen.
	I know that's a bit that a lot of people have been doing out there now, but you've heard them.
	I mean, I'm sure Seb has an arsenal of all of these moments where she's just been left to discuss.
	You know, Russia is a country next to Ukraine.
	It is bigger than Ukraine.
	This is not a smart, accomplished, capable person.
	And the question is, is anybody going to make her show herself?
	I think not.
	They're going to try to keep giving her platitudinal speeches like Obama used to deliver.
	Soaring rhetoric.
	This is the moment when the rise of the oceans will slow!
	And our planet will heal!
	And they'll have yelling, screaming, fawning arenas.
	But if she had to answer, hey, what are you going to do about global warming?
	Even if I believe that was a thing.
	You ask her that?
	I would love to see Kamala Harris answer, off the cuff, on her own, how she plans to handle climate.
	She couldn't do it.
	Not to mention, she's an absolute radical nut.
	So not only is she unaccomplished and not particularly bright, she's a radical nutball.
	I don't know how it is that we just found this audio, but this is Kamala Harris back in 2017, angry that people were saying Merry Christmas.
	No kidding.
	Watch.
	And when we all sing happy tunes and sing Merry Christmas and wish each other Merry Christmas, these children are not going to have a Merry Christmas.
	How dare we speak Merry Christmas?
	How dare we!
	What we're talking about here is an unimpressive, unaccomplished, radical person who needs to
	be defined to a lot of people who don't know this about her.
	And And is the Trump team doing it?
	Well, I think they've been doing so on social media.
	They got a new ad out today.
	Take a listen to this one.
	This is on Bidenomics.
	They've put her own words together, and this is the kind of stuff we need to see more of.
	Take a listen here.
	Cut 11.
	Bidenomics is working.
	Meanwhile... Most renters feel like they will never be able to own a home.
	The typical starter home is now worth more than $1 million.
	For many buyers, that means achieving the American dream of owning a home is increasingly difficult, if not impossible.
	Listen to this stat.
	Since 2020, food prices have increased 26% and we are all feeling it when we go grocery shopping.
	It's working. It's a term we're very proud of, I must tell you.
	Gas prices are on the climb across the US.
	Bidenomics is working!
	are nowhere near the levels they were at in 2020.
	And Vitanomics is working.
	If you get three consecutive monthly readings on job gains that are less than $125,000,
	I'm beginning to smell a recession.
	Vitanomics is working.
	It's working.
	So, yeah, that is the new MAGA ad that just dropped today, and it's well-timed, as we speak, to be released.
	Today, the Dow is now down 600 points.
	The jobs numbers came in well below what was expected today, and the Nasdaq is now officially in what's known as correction territory, folks.
	So, this woman's responsible for it.
	This administration is responsible for it.
	At some point, reality is going to set in, and people are going to look around and say, what the hell is going on?
	If they're not already, I can't believe they wouldn't be paying what they're paying for gas and groceries.
	Now we're going to start seeing that people have basically, as our friend Kurt Schlichter said, hey, congratulations, Bidenomics has cost you another chunk of your retirement savings, if you're holding a 401k or what have you.
	Stocks dive on weak jobs report.
	Recession fears now are the reports.
	Thanks, Kamala.
	I'm Chris, in for Seb today.
	This is America First.
	Glad you're here.
	To be continued...
	Thank you.
	Great to be along with you today.
	Chris Stegall filling in for Seb on America First.
	You know the number.
	It remains the same.
	833-33-GORKA.
	And you know, Gorka likes to remind you, and I do too.
	I mean, we are the freest nation on the earth, and we're grateful to God for that.
	We remain free.
	Very simply because we have the right to bear arms, and no other company in America personifies that right more than Kahr Firearms Group.
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	Hope you will, too.
	We'll talk with John Lott a little later in the show as well on the very subject.
	of guns today.
	Mayor Pete telling some lies about that, so we'll get into it coming up.
	833-33-GORKA is the number.
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	Let's head back to the phones on this Friday.
	John's been waiting patiently in San Diego.
	John, I'm glad you called.
	Chris in for Seb today.
	Hello.
	Hey, Chris.
	How you doing?
	Doing great, sir.
	Thank you.
	This 140,000 job number that came out today, it's worse than you think, because normally, if you've ever paid attention, When they come out with the job numbers, it's always seasonally adjusted.
	And that's because in November, you get a bunch of extra hiring for Christmas.
	In January, you get a bunch of people fired.
	And the average is down.
	Well, in July, that's the month after every year, 4 million students leave school permanently and enter the workforce.
	and this was not seasonally adjusted. Not one of the times that the news said it did they say
	seasonally adjusted. This was an actual number. This is a raw number and it never should be
	anywhere this low. And that means to you for those of us who are non-economists, I mean I gather
	that's why we see the market reacting like this right now down 600 as you and I talk, 610?
	Oh absolutely because realistically in July you would get close to a million jobs and then they
	average that over the year and then they take away a hundred thousand and put it to each every month
	so that it looks more uniform and it averages out normally.
	This is not what happened this month.
	Wow, and it won't surprise you to note that as I monitor the cable news channels today, Fox is talking about it, Kabuto is, MSNBC and CNN are talking about the prisoner swap win for Biden and Kamala and Josh Shapiro.
	That's what they're talking about.
	This economy story, in other words, what you're saying, John, in San Diego, this has you really concerned and you feel like nobody's talking about it.
	Well, nobody seems to have caught on to the fact that the way it was reported, this is a raw number and it's never this low on not mid-July.
	This is the biggest hiring month of the year because this is when all the kids are out of school last month, you know, and that's, you know, it's 4 million kids every year.
	They're entering the workforce.
	July is the biggest hiring month of the year always.
	Wow.
	And so that tells you then that there's more to come and it's going to be worse if we don't have high employment, seasonal employment for kids right now.
	You think that only bears worse news coming?
	It's going to be a bad summer.
	Very bad summer, which is good for Republicans, unfortunately.
	Yeah.
	60,000 jobs shy of what they were projecting, by the way, this month.
	60,000 shy.
	Short.
	Less than.
	John, great point.
	I agree with you.
	Clearly, people that know the markets, they're all running for the doors.
	So, I mean, to be down 610 points Keep a watch on it.
	We will see where that goes.
	I appreciate it, John.
	Let's go to Orlando next and talk to JJ.
	Hey, JJ, I'm glad you called.
	I'm Chris in today for Seb.
	Hi.
	Hi, Chris.
	Yes, I just wanted to say that clip that you played of her saying, how dare you say Merry Christmas?
	That just proves that she's a Marxist Grinch.
	That statement, like, if some kids somewhere aren't going to have a good Christmas, then all kids everywhere should not be able to be robbed, you know, should be robbed of the joy of Christmas.
	You know?
	You know, it's a very, isn't it an interesting, and in fact, I want to play it again, JJ, if I could, for people that missed it or didn't see it for some reason, because I think it's instructive.
	This is another peek behind the curtain of who this really is, JJ, and then I want your comments.
	Here she is talking about Christmas.
	And when we all sing happy tunes and sing Merry Christmas and wish each other Merry Christmas, these children are not going to have a Merry Christmas.
	How dare we speak Merry Christmas!
	How dare we!
	Now, a lot of people initially, I think, took that somewhat out of context and they said, oh, she's just saying how dare we say Merry Christmas.
	No, she was in context saying we shouldn't say Merry Christmas when all these poor illegal alien children are in the country and they're not having a Merry Christmas.
	Now, yes, there's context to that.
	But to your point, J.J., what you heard her saying is, we ought not celebrate or enjoy or recognize Christmas if anybody's having a hard time.
	Right?
	Is that about what you heard?
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	And can I say something else, Chris?
	Please.
	She keeps talking about freedom now, suddenly.
	And, you know, they also like to use the word oppression.
	They're going to shave us all from oppression.
	She is With her Christmas comments, I wrote down to a friend, she's a freedom of religion oppressor who's supposedly fighting for freedom and against the boogeymen of oppression.
	Yeah, and I think she's going to have a very hard time selling the freedom for women when we're watching in real time Olympic athletes being beaten to hell by men pretending to be women, don't you think?
	That's a problem for her.
	Oh, she tries to be on every side of every issue and I don't understand why she gets away with not giving any explanation on all her flops.
	Hopefully she's going to meet her match and somebody's going to hold her accountable.
	I think Trump will in a debate.
	I really do.
	I'm optimistic about it, JJ.
	Thanks for the call.
	Let's go to William in New York next.
	William, glad you called.
	Welcome in.
	Hello, Chris.
	How are you on this blessed Friday?
	I am well, my friend.
	So glad to hear from you.
	How are you?
	Thank you, Obama.
	I'm fine.
	The country's going to heck, but I'm doing just fine.
	We're fiddling.
	You made some great points about the National Association of Black Journalists.
	And that, to me, was Trump being Trump.
	And that's great.
	And putting things on X and these other websites to show what Harris really is, that's terrific.
	But The opportunity for Trump to do something like he did the other day is not something you can just plan for.
	You can't just invent it.
	It just doesn't organically grow.
	They have to invite you to these things.
	I think there's still the necessity of staying on message, because when I do the math, I see six or seven swing states and a handful of voters in each of those states.
	And while some of those people are very entertained by Trump's dick, If you are independent or you're undecided at this point, what is going to swing you one way or other?
	And to me, it comes down to, are your communities safe?
	Do you understand what immigration is doing to you?
	Do you understand what the border is doing to you?
	Do you understand what prices are?
	And just, I would harp over and over, you know, border crime inflation.
	And maybe it's not Trump alone that does that.
	I think we have to do this when we interact with people.
	I think over and over, it's just You think the border is safe?
	Yeah.
	I just, with limited time, I want to ask you, I hear from New Yorkers more than most on this issue of immigration.
	And I am hearing New Yorkers saying, you know, they're in barbershops, they're at the store and they're saying they're fit to be tied on immigration.
	Is that true?
	Could we see him making real inroads, Trump being in New York?
	My French kid was attacked yesterday in a suburb.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Well, there's your point.
	There's the point made.
	And I'm so sorry to hear it.
	I hope your friend's child's well.
	I'm grateful you're listening.
	My name is Chris Stigall, in for Seb today on America First.
	Music.
	Oh boy.
	Oh boy.
	It's getting interesting out there.
	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Stegall in for Seb today.
	Welcome into America First.
	Glad to be with you.
	I'm from Philadelphia, Seb's affiliate at AM 990 The Answer, where things have just gotten interesting, folks.
	This just came down today.
	The mayor of Philadelphia, her name is Sherelle Parker, and it appears either she has inadvertently or purposely, I guess you get to decide whether or not this was an accident or on purpose, Some suggest it's an accident.
	We were just talking about it during the break.
	Some think that she's doing it on purpose because they're having some concerns, maybe, about little Josh Shapiro, the pocket-sized governor of Pennsylvania.
	You know, most people say he is the odds-on favorite to be Kamala Harris's pick for VP.
	She was going to be in Philadelphia on Tuesday to make the announcement.
	A lot of people read into that.
	The campaign kept saying, don't read too much into that.
	Well, This video that Sherelle Parker posted on X today, you can listen to it and judge for yourself, but it looks like she's let the cat out of the bag.
	It's Shapiro.
	We don't have to wait till Tuesday.
	Here's the ad.
	Oh, I'm sorry, we don't have the ad yet.
	We will get the ad in just a little bit.
	And once we get it, I'll play it for you.
	But nevertheless, it's a montage of people.
	We do have it now.
	All right, let's take a look.
	Philadelphia, we got work to do.
	We're ready to rumble, y'all!
	I'm Mayor Sherrell Parker, here with leaders from across our region.
	Kamala Harris is on the road to victory.
	And the road goes to Pennsylvania.
	And in Pennsylvania, we're united behind her.
	The woman that's tough and can lead.
	Are we ready to fight for it?
	She is the right person at the right time for this job.
	It's going to do right by labor.
	It's going to do right by working people.
	And I can't think of a better partner than our Governor Johnson.
	His policies have not only supported the working class, but have set standards for progressive leadership that benefits all citizens.
	Building up your building trade.
	IBEW for Kamala Harris.
	Montgomery County.
	Bucks.
	Delco.
	Chester.
	Northeast.
	South Philly.
	North Philly.
	We're getting behind Kamala Harris.
	Kamala Harris.
	Kamala Harris.
	Kamala Harris for president.
	And Josh Shapiro.
	Josh Shapiro.
	Josh Shapiro for vice president.
	Now we need you.
	Let us and Kamala Harris know you stand with her.
	Together we can do this.
	We are one city.
	One region.
	Okay, okay.
	PA for Kamala was the website.
	That is going to be a Pennsylvania-exclusive ad, but that ad was just placed on Mayor of Philadelphia Sherrell Parker's ex-account today.
	Now, we were just talking about this during the break.
	Fellas, let me ask Jeff.
	Jeff, you think, when I said, oops, look at what Sherrell Parker did, you said, Now, not an accident.
	Why do you say that?
	Because if you believe the reports that we're talking about, Shapiro's got a little bit of a problem with a hush money case, and there's reports that they may be dropping him because of that.
	I think that if you've already been selected and they're kind of going back and forth, maybe have your buddy in Philly tweet out that video that gets already a done deal.
	Okay.
	So you think this is Democrats trying to get out in front of this to blunt any talk of him being dropped by her.
	Like maybe that people were leaning on her and they were concerned about it.
	So this is like a pre-campaign for him.
	I don't think that could possibly be a mistake.
	I don't think that she could actually do that.
	And it still has not been deleted.
	It's still up there.
	It just went on her Twitter account.
	Oh, that's a good point, too.
	So it's still up.
	And know what the best part about that is?
	That's, like, over a minute long, there's not one policy in there.
	It's just that she's great, she'll fight for us.
	There's not one thing it said that she would do as president.
	This is all, I mean, it's total veneer, right?
	This whole campaign.
	Has there been a single policy element to it yet that you know of?
	What are we, 13, 14 days into it?
	Has any policy been discussed?
	What I still can't get over is that she, no one voted for her.
	So you think they would roll her out with a bunch of press conferences, interviews, that type of stuff.
	She hasn't done anything.
	Just a couple of small events off the teleprompter.
	Then she took the one question yesterday and she went back to old Kamala.
	Yep, yep.
	Well, so it looks like it's him.
	And what's going to be fascinating about it is, do you think, how big and bad is this progressive element?
	We're going to get into it a little more coming up, but there's an ex-account right now that says, no genocide Josh.
	They've written an open letter to her.
	You'd better not.
	Progressives demand somebody better than Josh Shapiro.
	How big an element is that in the Democrat Party?
	I don't know because I'm not a Democrat, but do you think that's a problem for them, particularly upper Midwest?
	Maybe.
	I think what's more of a problem is the guy isn't very well known.
	He's only been a governor for less than two years.
	I don't think he's that well known in Pennsylvania.
	It's not like a guy that's been there for eight years that runs the state.
	Somebody like Rendell back before.
	I don't think he has the power that they think he does.
	And nationally, he's not known very well either.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's exactly right.
	And he ran in a year where Republicans were in a mess, didn't have great support.
	The Republicans didn't.
	It was a mixed-up, crazy time in Pennsylvania, and he kind of ascended.
	And so everybody thinks, wow, look at how well he overperformed compared to Joe Biden, even.
	So that means he's going to rack up those same numbers.
	I'm not convinced.
	So I'll just say this, folks.
	This is the home of the Riley Gaines story.
	This is the home of a bunch of anarchists on the campus of Penn.
	Anti-Jewish anarchists.
	Yeah, this is the home of the Hush Money story, and a murder trial that he may be involved with.
	We'll get into all of that coming up.
	I'm Chris in for SEB Today.
	Thank you.
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	He carries with him every day, and you should too.
	We bring in on this Second Amendment Friday our great friend.
	He is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, John Lott.
	Mr. Lott, it's a real pleasure to catch up again, sir.
	Welcome in.
	It's great to talk to you again, Chris.
	Thanks for having me on.
	So I guess I'll ask you first, you know, Pennsylvania now seems to be kind of the center of the
	universe politically.
	Of course, in fact, I think literally today, if my calendar is right, this is where Benjamin Franklin famously delivered the line, a republic if you can keep it.
	Literally this day, many historians attribute it to.
	Looks like Josh Shapiro is going to be the pick.
	This is also the state where Donald Trump nearly lost his life.
	There's a lot of energy going around in Pennsylvania.
	And by the way, this is a gun story as much as it is anything else.
	So just wanted your thoughts on it.
	Right.
	Well, I mean, I think if Kamala Harris wins, she'll be the most anti-gun president that we've had, which is saying quite a bit given that Biden has been the most anti-gun president up to this point.
	But she ran in the 2020 presidential race to his left on a range of issues from confiscating guns to being able to go and use executive orders to be able to go and do that.
	I don't think Shapiro's SVP is going to in any way ameliorate her positions on that or the types of things that she's going to do.
	So, you know, everything from fracking to hopefully her extreme views on many other things will still make it difficult for her to carry Pennsylvania even with Shapiro there.
	They're both, John, you know this, they're both known as prosecutors, top cops, you know, Kamala the AG, he was the AG.
	They're going to run as law and order Democrats.
	You buying that?
	Well, hardly.
	I mean, you can just have all sorts of videos about her calling for defunding the police, her supporting zero bail for people, criminals, her supporting left-wing judges who have released many criminals from jails over the last few years.
	You know, It's her trying to raise bail to get BLM demonstrators, rioters, out of prison, no matter what offenses that they had created or what damage that they had done or harm that they had done.
	You know, she can go and claim now that she's a tough prosecutor, but people just have to go back and pull up video from her.
	Look, she was a Soros-type prosecutor before Soros got involved with making donations to district attorneys.
	But she was district attorney in San Francisco.
	I think anybody who looks at her record there would have to say that she was well to the prosecutors and district attorneys nationwide and surely
	the same thing happened when she was Attorney General for the state of
	California. I mean she was interested in trans rights. Major cities John Lott,
	major cities like Philadelphia, like San Francisco, like Los Angeles, they're
	awash in crime and filth and depravity.
	We have seen riots, the George Floyd riots, which people like Shapiro and Kamala marched in and excused and said we've got to give them the space to destroy.
	I mean, these people are anything but tough on crime.
	And, you know, what's interesting is I keep hearing people like Pete Buttigieg and others saying, hey, crime's actually down.
	They're going to go out there and say crime's actually down.
	It was worse and higher under Trump.
	Gun crime is down now.
	So what of that?
	You study this for a living.
	Tell me.
	Right.
	Well, you know, either they just don't understand the crime data or they don't mind lying on it.
	Look, there are two different measures that we have of crime.
	There's the FBI data counting the number of crimes reported to police.
	And then you have the Bureau of Justice Statistics data on the national crime victimization data, which counts total crimes reported and unreported.
	And while the FBI data, the reported crime data, has shown some drop in violent crime, it fell by 2% in 2022, for example.
	The national crime victimization data showed a 42% increase in violent crime that year.
	And it had increased in 2021, even before that.
	And so it's gone up massively in terms of total crime.
	And I think most people, if you were going to go to them and say, do you want to look at just the number of crimes reported to police, or do you want to look at total crime, would want to look at total crime.
	And the reason why those two numbers have diverged is that law enforcement has collapsed in this country.
	You look at cities over a million, like Philadelphia.
	What you find is that in the five years before COVID, 44% of violent crimes result, reported violent crimes result in arrest.
	It started falling in 2020, and by 2022, only 20% of reported violent crimes result in arrest.
	Seventy percent of reported violent crimes result in arrest.
	That's over a 50 percent drop.
	And if you look at total violent crimes, only 8 percent of those result in arrest, and only
	1 percent of total property crimes result in arrest in those large cities.
	You know, and just because somebody's arrested doesn't mean that they're charged, let alone prosecuted or convicted.
	And so I don't know how you can say anything other than law enforcement's collapsed, and that's the reason why violent crime has increased.
	But it also explains why a lot of people have given up reporting crimes to the police.
	We've known as researchers for decades that the rate that people report crimes to the police is partially related to whether they think anything's going to happen, whether people are going to get caught and convicted.
	It also has demoralized the police.
	If you think that these guys aren't going to be convicted, it also works to reduce their efforts to go and arrest these guys.
	This is another one of those things, John Lott.
	Much like the economy, I don't know how these people are going to run away from crime and pretend like they're big law enforcement officials, when of course they're not.
	John Lott, Crime Prevention Research Center, thank you for your brilliance as always.
	Quick break here.
	Chris Stegall in for Seb on America First.
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	So let's go to John in Denver, Colorado.
	John, I'm glad you called America First.
	I'm Chris.
	Welcome in.
	Thanks.
	Thanks, Chris, for taking my call.
	Yeah, I just wanted to, I'm probably singing to the choir here.
	But I just wanted to point out to people that Kamala, in my estimation, is the master chef of the word salad.
	That's pretty good.
	She is a salad bar, isn't she?
	I mean, I've never heard anybody spin words like she say a hundred words and not really say anything.
	Yeah, remember that thing they used to sell on the infomercials, the salad shooter?
	That's what she is.
	She's the salad shooter.
	She spits it out fast.
	A lot of words.
	Thanks, John.
	Good one.
	Let's get to Philadelphia, my home base.
	Talk to Mark.
	Hey, Mark, what do you think of the news?
	It turns out it looks like it's going to be Shapiro, courtesy of the mayor there.
	She leaked it out early.
	Yeah, I think it's right on.
	Listen, originally I'm from Missouri.
	I'm a Missourian Ozarkian.
	And the thing is, when Shapiro got elected, I said, this guy's being groomed to be a president.
	And by the way, for people who don't know, Shapiro is not a common folk.
	He was raised a privileged kid and well-to-do in the main line in Philadelphia.
	And by the way, I recently lived in Harrisburg for a short bit, and I live right down the street from the governor's mansion.
	You know who does not live in the governor's mansion for Pennsylvania?
	Josh Shapiro doesn't live in the governor's mansion because his mansion is bigger than the governor's mansion.
	So are you suggesting Governor Shapiro's inauthentic?
	Is that what you're saying, Mark?
	Yeah, he's inauthentic.
	And by the way, Kamala is a chameleon.
	She doesn't know how to thank or speak.
	She's reading from a script, and her husband's her puppeteer.
	That's my take on that.
	And I think this is all by design before, you know, when they set up Biden to come in.
	They already knew he wasn't 100% there.
	So it's all a setup.
	So, bottom line this for me, Mark, do you think that the pick of Shapiro seals Pennsylvania's fate for her?
	Yeah, I think, well, yeah.
	I don't think she's going to win, but the thing is, I don't know.
	I don't know if people, if people are going to elect her, go for her, they're not thinking themselves.
	Right.
	Alright my friend, I gotta run because I'm up against it.
	I'm glad you called.
	We're going to see, just getting started here on America First.
	We'll get into more of Shapiro next.
	Thanks for watching.
	Bye.
	We'll see you next time.
	Welcome to America First with Sebastian Gorka and our special guest host who thinks he can do a credible impersonation of my accent.
	The one and only Chris de Gaulle.
	I can do it in the morning.
	This time of day I can't do it.
	In the morning I can do it.
	When I've got that kind of grovelly first woke up thing.
	Good to be with you.
	Coming to you from Seb's affiliate in Philadelphia, where now the political universe has been centered yet again, as the word is, Josh Shapiro is going to be Kamala Harris's pick for Veep.
	The thinking was that this would wait until next week, but Sherelle Parker, the mayor of Philadelphia, has posted on her Twitter page, her ex-account, a full-blown minute and some change, Josh Shapiro Kamala Harris pep rally ad encouraging Pennsylvanians to vote for the ticket.
	So, that brings us to ask the question, were they planning on this all along?
	Have they been prepped and ready?
	Are they getting out in front of this now and for what reason?
	Are they going to run into a buzzsaw of criticism inside their own party?
	There's a lot to consider here.
	I'm not sure that the road is going to be as easy as many people think.
	Once some scrutiny is put on people like Josh Shapiro, here to talk about it, another Josh, Josh Mann.
	He is the managing editor of a fantastic news publication.
	I hope you'll check out if you haven't been to readlion.com.
	It's the Lion, readlion.com.
	Josh is the managing editor there.
	They do a lot of great news stories on culture, on education, certainly on breaking news and opinion.
	And one of the things he's been working on.
	Is on Shapiro and some financial ties in Pennsylvania.
	But before we get into that, Josh, I welcome you in and I'll ask you broadly.
	There are financial issues going on across many states with Democrats right now and Act Blue.
	And I wonder if we could jump off there before we talk about Shapiro specifically.
	Absolutely.
	Both the story in Pennsylvania and this Act Blue story smell a lot like money laundering.
	And so what we've got with Act Blue is a Democrat-supporting PAC, Political Action Committee, that Marco Rubio said on a podcast recently is basically, he suspects, is fraudulently accepting donations from Donors are we actually don't know who they are and that's part of the problem.
	In fact, it's even caused the Virginia Attorney General today to issue a letter demanding that act blue giving act blue 10 days to explain.
	How do they keep track of their donors?
	So if you want to donate Uh, to, uh, one of the campaigns, including Kamala Harris.
	You don't have to use your credit card CCV.
	Um, you don't have to provide the kind of information that helps track who donors are and helps keep, uh, such political, political action committees compliant.
	And so that's a big problem.
	And, uh, it's in the tune of a hundred, hundreds of thousands of dollars already.
	And the AG there in Virginia says it looks, it looks very suspicious.
	And there are multiple investigations into this, as I understand it, across many states.
	It's not just Virginia, right?
	That's right.
	Act Blue has chapters or affiliates in most states, and so it's something that needs to be looked at everywhere that this political action committee is operating.
	And it's not the only accusation we have against a Democrat-aligned political action committee.
	Yeah, well, moving to specifically Pennsylvania and Josh Shapiro.
	There's a lot about him that I think we're going to start discussing in more detail.
	I'm sure you'll have.
	I know Seb will have here on the show.
	We'll certainly have it on my show.
	But at ReadLion.com, you just coincidentally had a story this week about Shapiro and his rise to governor in Pennsylvania and where the money came from for that.
	Tell us about it.
	Yeah, so you'll remember a candidate Shapiro in 2022.
	He was actually he came out pro school choice, which was a bit surprising and then kind of had a change of heart once he got in the governor's office.
	Well, the Freedom Foundation, which is kind of a union watchdog, has just released information and filed complaints against the Pennsylvania State Education Association.
	Now, in Pennsylvania, a union cannot give to a political campaign from its general funds.
	In other words, you don't want regular members union dues going straight to a political candidate.
	Directly or indirectly, it's against the law.
	However, what the Teachers Union did was they moved it first to basically a political slush fund called Fund for Student Success, and then they sent it to this Democrat-aligned PAC called the Democratic Governors Association to the tune of $1.5 million.
	Then that Democrat-aligned association gave $5 million to the Shapiro campaign.
	My oh my, that's a lot of dough. So yeah, as you said off the top,
	sounds like we're scratching at the surface of some money laundering going on.
	Hard to know where that'll lead. Hopefully some red state governors and attorneys general will
	start digging. You can imagine in Pennsylvania and blue states or purple states, they're probably
	not going to be as eager to get to the bottom of it.
	But again, another story you have at ReadLion.com, and if you haven't been to this website, I'm telling you, it's a destination for news reading.
	You'll love it.
	Josh and his team do great work there.
	You did a really interesting piece.
	As the Secret Service Director spoke today, The new Acting Secret Service Director spoke today about more details, things they've learned, and what they don't intend to share with us.
	Is anybody going to lose their job?
	He says they're never going to share that publicly.
	But interestingly, one of the things that you uncovered at the Lion was a story about the shooter himself and what might have, and I say might, but again we don't know anything about this story, so the might is highly possible, what you've uncovered there.
	That's right.
	I mean, we don't know much about the situation.
	We still don't have the motive, at least according to federal agencies.
	And it's amazing.
	Christopher Wray, the FBI director, testified recently.
	Then we had the deputy director of the FBI, as well as The former Secret Service director, Kimberly Cheadle, who finally resigned after 10 days, and then now the acting director.
	And yet they still don't seem to know the motive of the shooter.
	But what Christopher Wray said when he testified was that something happened around July 6th.
	That's a Saturday, and that's the very day that Thomas Matthew Crooks registered for the Trump rally.
	And he said something seemed to happen then where he took special interest in the former president.
	And so what we did was we simply looked at what was going on around his hometown at that time, and what we found was mind-boggling.
	The California governor, Gavin Newsom, was stumping for Joe Biden two miles north of the shooter's home the very weekend that the shooter snapped.
	Now, we don't know if the shooter was at that rally.
	In fact, I just spoke with Project Oversight at the Heritage Foundation, hoping that maybe the device ID data that they had somehow collected about Thomas Matthew Crooks and People in his residence might shed light on this, but unfortunately they couldn't give me any data on that.
	But what we know is that within two miles of his home, you had Gavin Newsom warning people about how dangerous Trump was.
	He was standing in front of red stop Trump signs.
	He was using incendiary rhetoric such as darkness and light, democracy hangs in the balance, that sort of thing.
	And certainly the local news was covering this and also pointing to the fact that Trump
	would be nearby in just a week's time.
	Now Christopher Wray, the FBI director, also said in his testimony that this shooter did
	have, there was evidence that he was looking for news about these things.
	And so it's at least an important circumstantial bit of evidence, especially in light of the
	fact that we don't have any motive, at least that's being shared by federal agencies.
	and he's a great guy. He's a I mean, you're really not hearing anything about Matthew Crooks.
	It's like we've just moved on and pretended he didn't even exist.
	He's dead and gone, and we're not talking about motive.
	So, good for you guys at The Lion for writing that story.
	Huge.
	Also, like I say, you guys write culturally about a lot, and one of the things that I know you've been writing about, you and some of your contributors, Is on the Olympics this week.
	To be honest with you, when I saw the Last Supper mockery, I'm not inclined to watch it anyway, but I certainly am not now.
	And then there's been more.
	There's controversy now about women getting, you know, their clocks cleaned by biological men.
	It's a mess.
	What have you guys been writing?
	That's right.
	I mean, it really, in women's boxing, it really kind of blew up on social media when Ameen Khalif, an Algerian boxer, was fighting against the Italian Angela Carini.
	And Angela Carini forfeited the fight after 46 seconds because she got struck so hard by the Algerian.
	Now, what's interesting is the Algerian was actually disqualified a year ago.
	Late last year by the International Boxing Association because her testosterone levels were so high and somebody from that organization told Russian media that she had XY chromosomes which would make her biologically male.
	Now there's speculation that perhaps this athlete is intersex or has some kind of disorder that she was born with and that may well be the case but the fact is That the IBA, after careful scrutiny, disqualified her and another competitor in the Olympics, the Taiwanese boxer who's just won today, I think, from competition because they ruled that the testosterone levels were simply unfair.
	And so we covered this and, you know, there was a couple of researchers at Duke Law School who looked at the results of biological men versus biological women.
	Across a number of track events and pole vaulting, jumping events.
	And what they found was the obvious, by the way.
	But what was also striking was that... Josh, I hate to cut you off, my friend.
	I'm awfully sorry to interrupt you.
	But all of that story, you'll continue to read it at Readline.com.
	Fantastic work.
	I appreciate you, Josh.
	We've got to take a quick break here on America First.
	We'll be right back.
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	you you
	glad to be with you today on this friday edition of america first
	Seb, taking the day off.
	My name's Chris Stegall, filling in for Seb today.
	Real thrilled to be with you.
	Hope, if you can, you want to get in.
	I'd love to take your calls and comments before we wrap up the show today.
	833-33-GORKA.
	833-33-GORKA. That's 833-334-6752. We'll get to your phones coming up here very, very shortly.
	But I wanted to bring my friend Josh Mann back because I rudely kicked you off in the last segment and I thought, well, we don't have to do that.
	There's no rush.
	It's Friday.
	You've got much to say.
	You were good enough to come in.
	So I thought we'd hang around for another segment.
	Thanks for sticking around.
	From the Lion, ReadLion.com.
	Josh, he's the managing editor there.
	This is a site, by the way, if you don't know it, it's a Destination News site.
	I hope you'll mark it and keep it bookmarked and check it out because you guys write about everything from faith to the culture to courts, stuff going on in state capitals, a little bit of politics, breaking news certainly, education, hugely important on this site, talking about school choice issues and where those stand in different states.
	It's a must-stop read, I think, at Readline.com.
	But Josh, you guys were talking specifically about the Olympics, and I cut you off there on the story that this boxing story is not the only one.
	The Olympics are actually chock-a-block with biological men pretending to be women.
	Yeah, it's incredible.
	And we were just referring to this Duke study that was done by a couple of law professors who basically stated the obvious, but they culled a lot of data from 2017 where they looked at the results of top elite men and women in various races and jumping events.
	And they found that men outperformed women by at least 10% or more.
	And in fact, what was really striking was that boys under 18, I mean, boys, which are males under 18.
	Frequently, not this is it wasn't exceptional, frequently beat elite women in those sports as well.
	And they just made the simple point that what we all know that there are extreme biological differences between males and females.
	And so when we're thinking about fairness and competition, which is what we want from the Olympics, you know, cue the doping controversies, then we really have to take these things seriously.
	Even if we want to have compassion for some of the athletes who Who may have been born with certain conditions, and that's an even separate issue from the likes of Leah Thomas or other trans athletes who were born male, who I certainly think should be banned from female competition.
	You know, it's kind of interesting, the timing on these stories and this news at your site, because you also hosted live in person, and I was privileged to have a part of it.
	Riley Gaines was your guest, and you guys at The Lion Covered Her visit, which I can tell you was raucous.
	The crowd reaction to Riley Gaines and what she says is her very, very simple, almost she's humble about it.
	She doesn't understand why it elicits such applause, but you were there, you saw it.
	People are rabid for the truth right now and she's telling it.
	Yeah, when she was introduced, she walked in and the standing ovation, I have never seen a standing ovation happen so abruptly, quickly, and uniformly across an audience.
	There were over 300 people there.
	Just Because I think they felt like this is a woman of courage who, she may have a simple message, but she's bravely sharing it.
	And she certainly had her share of blowback and even some dangerous situations she's faced.
	Her own personal safety she's putting at risk.
	And to that, you know, when you talked to her and you asked her about it, she said, I'm not courageous.
	I'm just stating the simple fact that men and women are different, that males and females are different.
	It might be simple, but it takes a lot of courage.
	Strangely enough, in the time we live in now, maybe not so much 10 years ago.
	But today, for some reason, among some, it's an unpopular opinion.
	But I think the tide's starting to turn.
	We're watching Europe actually get out ahead of America in terms of hitting the brakes on some of this radical trans ideology.
	And, you know, we were talking about Gavin Newsom, something that everyone in California should understand, and one of the things, you know, I see behind you, the Herzog Foundation, if you don't know it, maybe look into that too.
	I strongly encourage, on this issue, if it matters to you, Title IX this week, these new rules that just went into effect.
	Guys like Gavin Newsom are telling school teachers in California that they cannot legally, if they don't want to, they don't have any legal obligation to share with parents if kids are coming to them, keeping secrets about gender confusion or different pronouns.
	There is this government-sanctioned secrecy going on between public school teachers and students from parents, making parents the enemy.
	This is why school choice has got to happen, Josh Mann.
	Yeah, parents should be outraged, and they are, even in California.
	It's incredible how the state is overreaching there, and just yesterday, as you said, the Department of Education, the Biden administration's Title IX rules took effect.
	There are temporary injunctions from numerous jurisdictions at this moment. So 26 out of 50 states can't
	actually, the rules are unenforceable because there's pending litigation. So
	half the the US right now doesn't even have to conform to these silly rules
	because a lot of courts are saying yeah this probably isn't lawful.
	And so hopefully as that litigation plays out, we'll see more courts saying, yeah, we can't do that.
	Parents have rights.
	And, um, you know, the presidential administration, Biden and Harris can't just tell us and force schools to basically allow, uh, students to use whatever bathroom locker room or sport that they want, uh, just by declaring what their gender may be that day.
	There are a number of governors across the country.
	You know, one of the governors that I was really cheering for and kind of, I mean, not that I have any problem with J.D.
	Vance, but I secretly was rooting for Sarah Huckabee Sanders as Trump's beat pick.
	She is one of those exemplary governors, as well as Kim Reynolds in Iowa.
	There are some governors really leading on this issue of letting parents, families have universal school choice.
	That is taking the tax money, That states would spend on students and give it to families and let families decide where they want to spend those dollars.
	Either at the public school, the Christian school, homeschool.
	This seems to be gaining momentum.
	In my view, this is how you save the country, Josh Mann.
	You guys cover a lot of this at ReadLion.com.
	Yeah, Sanders and Reynolds both are incredible governors who led on this issue, who pushed their own legislatures to get this passed for parents.
	And when you look at the polling data, not just in Iowa and Arkansas, but across the nation, you see that this is what parents want.
	They want options.
	They want choices.
	And so Arkansas and Iowa got it done.
	Hopefully more states will follow.
	Because I think parents are the best decision makers for their children, their child's education, and certainly that's what we believe here at the Herzog Foundation.
	Well, you do great work.
	And I gotta tell you, everybody that's concerned about this issue, school choice, all these great news stories, I hope you will go to ReadLion.com.
	And if you're interested in Christian education, starting your own Christian school, maybe learning how to homeschool, you're just thinking about it.
	We're entering that time of year where parents are starting to think about their kids and where they're going to go to school, maybe.
	And maybe you're thinking, I don't want to send them back on the bus to another year of public school.
	A lot of options.
	This is a personal passion of mine, my wife's, the work Josh does at the Lion.
	So, great news stories, great resources at ReadLion.com or go to the HerzogFoundation.com, the parent foundation that underwrites The Lion.
	Josh, great to talk with you.
	Thanks so much.
	I hope you have a great weekend.
	Thank you.
	You too, Chris.
	Now, if you want to get in on the conversation today, I've still got plenty of show and plenty of time, and so I hope you'll come on in.
	A line open for you at 833-33-GORKA.
	What's on your mind today, now that it appears It's going to be Josh Shapiro.
	It appears.
	That's the news today.
	The video was leaked, and leaked a little prematurely.
	Sherelle Parker, the mayor of Philadelphia, has let the cat out of the bag.
	Little Josh, as I call him, is going to be the VPIC.
	A lot of people figured as much.
	But, you know, he does have his issues.
	He has pretty substantial issues with a hush money situation, using government money to pay off a woman after one of his aides had harassed her.
	There's a very, very shady story about a woman who lost her life to what many people believe was a murder, but got Whitewashed as a suicide.
	It happens the suspect is a buddy of Josh's.
	And there are other problems.
	He happens to be Jewish.
	And you know how much the left hates Jews.
	So we'll talk about it coming up on America First.
	Thank you.
	Hey, welcome in to America First.
	My name's Chris Stegall, in for Sebastian Gorka on this Friday.
	Thrilled to have you along.
	And you know the number, but if for some reason you've forgotten it, it's 833-33-GORKA.
	833-33-GORKA.
	33 Gorka, love to hear from you as we wrap up the week on what's been a busy one, and it will continue to be.
	It appears the Secret Service agent, the head of the Secret Service, he gave a press conference today and basically said, I don't know anything more than I already told you, and I'm not going to tell you if I punish anybody or fire anybody, but don't blame the local law enforcement any longer.
	That was basically what I took from it.
	He doesn't want you to blame the local cops anymore.
	Other than that, we didn't get much from it.
	Also looks like today it's official that Josh Shapiro is going to be Kamala Harris' running mate and a lot of people in Pennsylvania are now beginning to wonder if that means Pennsylvania goes away for Donald Trump.
	I'm not so sure that's the case.
	I am not there yet.
	I'm not convinced that Josh Shapiro is the The guy that not only seals up Pennsylvania, but I'm not so sure this doesn't mean real problems.
	You know, Michael Moore is really sweating it out there.
	Michael Moore said that this pick of Shapiro could be very problematic with young people.
	He does not like that Shapiro has spoken out against all the campus violence, and he's very, very concerned about the Muslim-American vote in the Upper Midwest.
	Said another way, not that every Muslim is an anti-Semite, but many anti-Semites are college kids and Muslim.
	So, this is something the Democrats are going to have to deal with.
	I don't know.
	I guess the Democrats have calculated that they can weather this, that these progressive groups are not going to be the problem that maybe many of us think.
	They'll be, but then there's some other things.
	He has some hush money stories and crime stories to go along with, uh, for him.
	So we're, we're going to spend, I'll just tell you this.
	If Pennsylvania and this Josh Shapiro stuff interests you, I'm sure Seb is going to spend more time on it next week, but, uh, you can always check out my show and I hope that you will check out chrisstigal.com.
	You can catch my podcast every day.
	Uh, if you're around and you want to stream in the morning, uh, Seb's affiliate there in Philadelphia is where I work, doing mornings on Philadelphia's AM 990, The Answer.
	Check that out.
	And of course, The Harumph Society.
	The Harumph Society is my three times a week newsletter, and I think some of the greatest conversation for conservatives is going on there.
	I mean, I work pretty hard to give you some news and stuff that I don't always get to on the show, but it's the comments section of The Harumph Society where you will make great friends.
	And I just put up a new newsletter today, so go check it out.
	Hope you'll join us.
	30 bucks for the whole year.
	It's great fun, great conversation.
	Go to the Harumph Society.
	It's linked at Substack at ChrisStigall.com or if you're already on Substack, just look up the Harumph Society.
	All right, let's head to the phones.
	Again, number 833-33-GORKA.
	We go, in fact, to Philadelphia, my home base, and talk to Chris.
	Hey, Chris!
	Glad to have you.
	Welcome in.
	Hey, Chris.
	Love you, man.
	Anybody who listens to Gorka knows that the last hour on Fridays is just making movies great again with Mr. Reagan.
	So since you're a 90s kid, can you throw in two nominations for your favorite movies from the 90s?
	Oh yeah, I've seen a million times.
	the 90s. That is, uh, well, there's there's one head and shoulders above the rest. And for me,
	that's Tommy boy. Tommy boy with, uh, uh, David Spade and Chris Farley. That's my favorite. You
	seen that one? I hope you have. Oh, yeah, I've seen a million. I don't think they've done that.
	And that's a good, that's a good one to go for. Yeah, that's that's my favorite. Um, uh,
	Man, if I had to name a second 90s... I gotta stay in the 90s, because if you're a regular listener to the show, you know, and based on the Harambsa side of my newsletter, my favorite movie is, of course, Blazing Saddles.
	That's the best comedy ever made, but that's from the 70s, so that doesn't count.
	And I guess, you know what, for want of a better... I guess I'm gonna have to go with, like, Austin Powers.
	I guess I'm going to have to say Austin Powers.
	I don't know.
	Is that a lame pick?
	That was a classic.
	No, no.
	Tommy's was a good one.
	Hopefully Gork will hear this and throw that in to the mix.
	I'm an SNL kid.
	I like the vintage SNL guys.
	I had the privilege of interviewing Tim Meadows not too long ago.
	He's coming through Philadelphia to do some comedy soon.
	Those guys in the 80s and 90s of Saturday Night Live, when comedy was still funny and they were making the SNL movies.
	Sandler broke off and did all those great movies.
	You know, Waterboy and Happy Gilmore.
	I mean, Saturday Night Live, those guys made a lot of... Some were horrible, but some were very funny.
	So, I'm a sucker for those guys, I guess.
	That's cool.
	Love you guys.
	All right.
	Chris, thanks.
	I'm glad you called.
	Let's go to Arizona and talk to Ken next on America First.
	833-33-GORKA if you want in here.
	Hey, Ken, welcome in.
	What do you say?
	I'm going to talk about something a little bit different.
	I'm 75 years old, and I can't remember a time in decades that America has been this weak on anything that you want to talk about.
	And is anybody paying attention to what our enemies are doing, mainly China, Russia, and North Korea?
	It is a very important point.
	China, Russia, flying and sailing off our Alaskan and Florida coasts.
	That's a real issue.
	We have talked about it on my morning show.
	Great point.
	It's America first.
	I'm going to be doing a lot of research on the subject.
	Nice bump music.
	This song featured in my favorite 90s movie, Tommy Boy.
	Come on, Eileen.
	Glad to have you here today.
	Chris Stegall in for Seb on America First.
	Pleased, thrilled, honored to be filling in today from Seb's affiliate in Philadelphia, where all... Seb is probably going to... He's going to want me back here soon.
	I bet I'm going to be back here as his guest, telling everybody about what's going on in Pennsylvania, because it seems like the center of the universe politically now happens to be there.
	We were just talking during the break about the pick of Josh Shapiro by Kamala Harris.
	And is this wise, given that you had all the rabble-rousers by the hundreds of thousands, the anti-Semites trying to break into and destroy college campus buildings?
	You had college professors and presidents saying that they needed to give them the space to destroy.
	What does that do to all these disaffected Voters that sat out in the Democrat primary didn't vote at all.
	Hundreds of thousands of them in places like Michigan and Minnesota.
	Could Josh Shapiro actually bring these anti-Semites to a boil?
	And I'm not saying they're gonna vote Trump, but maybe they just don't vote at all.
	And is that a strategy for them?
	I guess they've thought it through.
	I mean, Democrats They're always 10 steps ahead.
	They're always thinking.
	So I'm sure they've weighed the pros and cons and they figure they've got it sewn up.
	But anyway, let's go to Philadelphia.
	Speaking of, talk to Nancy about it.
	Hey, Nancy, welcome in.
	Glad you called.
	Greetings, Chris.
	You're not the Gorka man, so I guess you're the Christagol white dude.
	Yeah, guilty.
	That's me.
	White dude for Gorka.
	Here's some of one woman's views about the chameleon Kamala.
	First of all, there's no sugar high going on.
	It's her daily marijuana high, which explains most of her weird behaviors.
	Second of all, she's not choosing her vice president.
	The Democrat machine is choosing who will be anointed the vice president.
	Third, she's aligned with all of the other Democrat women who stand for terrorist rapes, as long as you can get your abortion thereafter.
	And my last comment is this.
	I and many of my female friends who have worked hard all of our lives, we have no respect for any woman who uses sex and their white or black privilege to get ahead, like Hillary too.
	Nancy, I love it.
	You always bring it.
	Nancy's a regular caller to the show in Philadelphia.
	She's always thoughtful, always pithy.
	Thank you, Nancy.
	Have a great weekend.
	Let's head out to Arizona, talk to Tom.
	Tom, I'm glad you called America First.
	I'm Chris, in for Seb today.
	Hi.
	Hi.
	I was telling the director there that I got the same feeling about the assassination attempt on Trump.
	After days of listening to everybody back and forth about it, as I had right at first.
	Right away.
	It's a setup.
	That's what explains everything.
	He was set up.
	Now let me ask you this, Tom.
	If you feel that way, and I'm not arguing with you, but given that you feel that way, do you recommend that Trump take on more security?
	Continue to do the outdoor rallies?
	Does that make you nervous?
	I think he shouldn't have depended on the Secret Service from the beginning, and that if they were doing their job, they would have had a shootout with the FBI at Mar-a-Lago.
	They're supposed to protect the guy, not let some buddy who comes up and says, I'm with the FBI, you know, where's your dress, you know?
	Yeah, and you know, Still to Come, Tom, and I'm glad you called, I remind my audience pretty regularly that Still to Come is the sentencing of Donald Trump.
	You know, we've seen him impeached twice, we've seen his home raided, now we've seen an attempt on his life, we've seen him dragged through all kinds of lawfare, court circuses, but Still to Come is a sentencing don't forget.
	And that's slated for September, and it's something that I caution everybody to kind of get your minds wrapped around.
	That's kind of looming out there.
	Nobody's talking about it, but I could imagine, you know, I know Seb just talked with, well, he's been in constant communication, of course, with both Peter and With Steve Bannon, and they both were political prisoners of the Trump era, so they don't, in no matter, in no way shape or form do those guys deny that they believe it's highly possible that Donald Trump could be next.
	I don't know.
	I hate predicting this stuff, and I hate to be a fatalist.
	I don't mean to bring everybody down, but it's kind of like Rumsfeld said about 9-11.
	The only thing that will let us down is our failure to imagine how crazy this could get.
	Our failure of imagination is the only thing that's going to disappoint us here, and it's like a fire hose every day.
	I mean, it's not been, what, a calendar month that we've gone through all of this upheaval politically?
	And we're still three months to go until Election Day, so it's going to be a wild ride.
	Let's talk a little about Trump for a minute, by the way.
	He's been out there on the stump, killing it, absolutely crushing it.
	This was pretty good.
	Let me play for you.
	Trump talking to Maria Bartiromo and Fox about China specifically.
	You know, we've seen a market dive today, huge market dive today.
	And in cut four here, you're going to see Trump say, here's why you got to elect me, because China, who's been eating our lunch financially, they're scared to death of me.
	Take a look.
	China doesn't want me to win.
	Obviously.
	Because I was kicking China's ass.
	Nobody ever beat China.
	I took hundreds of billions of dollars out of China.
	I took contracts away from China.
	I took the phone system away from China going to Italy and to other countries.
	China will do everything they can and it's one of the things that's really a little bit Nerve-wracking.
	They are putting the full force.
	They don't want me.
	They want to continue to rip off America.
	And with me, they can't rip.
	There you go.
	That's the man.
	As Trump, as Seb says, that's the boss.
	Bringing it, bringing the heat as he does.
	833-33-GORKA.
	Chris Stegall in for Seb today on America First.
	Oh, I've still got a little more time.
	I'm sorry.
	I thought we, I could have sworn I heard that we were done.
	Well, listen, while I have an extra minute, then I'll tell you this.
	If you have any desire whatsoever to continue reading about some of the commentary that I've been offering today, I would always love for you to drop by the Harumph Society.
	I was talking about it a little while ago.
	It is my three times a week newsletter.
	I'm awfully proud of it.
	I know Seb's on Substack.
	I read Seb's Substack stuff regularly.
	If you're somebody that likes some extra reading, And you'd like to come on board?
	I hope that you'll consider it.
	Run over to chrisstigal.com and check out the podcast while you're at it.
	You and I are just getting to know each other, so if you're not familiar with the show in Philadelphia, I'd love to have you aboard.
	Give you a little Pennsylvania perspective through this madness.
	Now, we'll take a break.
	833-334-6752.
	833-334-6752.
	Christen for 7, America first.
	7, America first.
	You know her.
	Remember her?
	She used to be on the Today Show.
	All smiles.
	The perky one, as Rush used to call her.
	Katie Couric is one of these leftists that's not all smiles about the Kamala Harris selection.
	She's quite worried.
	I already told you that Michael Moore is sweating the fact that the youth may be ticked off at this pick of Josh Shapiro, all the anti-Semites.
	Katie says she's concerned that Kamala and the Democrats have lost touch with the working class.
	Really, Katie?
	Yes, former Today show host Katie Couric warned this week Democrats have, quote, kind of lost working class voters and urged the party to do better to regain their trust before the November election.
	I think that there needs to be a greater connection, she said, between the working class and the Democrat party because, let's face it, the Democrats have kind of lost the working class.
	Kind of, have they?
	She goes on to say, it was never that way during all my years of covering politics.
	Well, no, Katie, it was always that way.
	They were never about the working class, but they were all about hoodwinking and lying to the working class.
	She said, you know, you had the head of the Teamsters.
	at the RNC this year.
	You have people buying into this notion that Republicans care about dinner table issues much more than Democrats do.
	And these narratives, I think, have become too deeply entrenched about liberal college-educated elites who are condescending.
	So she wants to see Kamala Harris, and I kid you not, put on a welder's hat I'm not making it up.
	That's what she said.
	I want to see her with a welding hat on, working with regular Joes.
	I'd give anything to see Kamala Harris in a welder's hat.
	Please, can we get a fund started?
	Kamala in a welder's hat?
	That's a Dukakis trap if ever I heard one.
	That's Katie's advice politically to Kamala, to connect with working folks.
	Put on a welder's hat.
	No, I tell you what, Katie, how about this?
	Let's start with this.
	How about Ms.
	Harris learn what inflation is, how to talk about it, what causes it, and what she's going to do to fix it.
	Because when she's ever left to her own devices to talk about anything, she never has anything to say.
	She's just, as a caller said earlier, it's a salad shooter.
	She's the chef at the greatest salad bar that ever lived.
	Here she is, just a couple of years ago, being asked about something that we all care about.
	Anybody who's not super rich like Katie Couric and Kamala Harris, we all care about the cost of stuff.
	What are you going to do about it?
	Here's what she said.
	What else are you going to do to fix this problem with inflation?
	Thank you.
	Well, let's start with this.
	Prices have gone up and families and individuals are dealing with the realities of that bread costs more, that gas costs more.
	And we have to understand what that means.
	That's about the cost of living going up.
	That's about having to stress and stretch limited resources.
	That's about a source of stress for families that is not only economic, but is on a daily level something that is a heavy weight to carry.
	So it is something that we take very seriously.
	Let me tell you something.
	I can't wait for the debate.
	Bring it on.
	Donald Trump versus that?
	Have a great weekend.
	Thanks to Seb and his team for being such great hosts, allowing me to sit in.
	See you again soon.
	Christagall.com.

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