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| While Japan's trailblazing first female prime minister, Senai Takaichi, an iron-willed firebrand, barrels ahead like a Shinto storm, slapping together a deportation ministry faster than you can say. | ||
| Bansho, the sniveling, pearl-clutching Irish government celebrates while Ireland is thrown into a full-scale rage. | ||
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I want to condemn in the strongest possible terms the violence we've seen this evening against members of Angarda Shirkana in City West. | |
| I want the people involved in that violence to know that they will be met with a very forceful response from Angarda Shirkana and our criminal justice system. | ||
| People went to City West this evening for the purpose of weaponizing a criminal event that happened yesterday. | ||
| The Gardi should be praised for the fact that they have an individual before the courts in respect of that alleged criminal offence. | ||
| So rather than attacking Angarda Shirkana, they should be praising them. | ||
| But I want the people to know that if they continue to be involved in violence, the force will meet them with a very strong response. | ||
| See all that you're stalem protesting. | ||
| It's doing no good. | ||
| Colonial politicians is doing no good. | ||
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Now is the time to stand up and start and move these f ⁇ ers on. | |
| Allegedly, a migrant at a huge urban refugee camp that the Irish government set up in Dublin allegedly raped a 10-year-old girl at that refugee camp. | ||
| Now, this 10-year-old girl was in state custody, so she was a ward of the state. | ||
| How did a 10-year-old girl find her way from being a ward of the state to the refugee camp and being allegedly raped there? | ||
| It's so shocking. | ||
| And how did the alleged rapist, how was he there too? | ||
| He came to Ireland, according to reports, six years ago and was ordered deported. | ||
| He was ordered out. | ||
| His asylum claim was rejected. | ||
| He was ordered deported, but he was still in Ireland, not just in Ireland, at that government refugee camp. | ||
| The Irish government itself didn't even take its own deportation orders seriously. | ||
| Now, I landed, and there's a lot of newspapers in Ireland that they probably got, you know, five or ten of their own newspapers, which is quite a big bit for a country of just five million. | ||
| Only the Irish Daily Mirror covered this story, and they covered it big on their front page. | ||
| Child raped at asylum hotel. | ||
| Over half a million souls have poured across Ireland's borders since 2008 alone. | ||
| A country of a population of only five and a half million enduring a relentless 80,000 plus annual deluge of immigrants since 2024, based on official data from Ireland's Central Statistics Office. | ||
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This organization is ready to sponsor your trip. | |
| If you're coming from a non-EU country, you get 4,710 euros. | ||
| This money is made to cover your accommodation and flight tickets. | ||
| That's not all. | ||
| Your visa fee resistation fees also covered. | ||
| This is basic arithmetic that this government fails to understand and it's very frustrating for the people right across the country. | ||
| And if we look at the numbers, Minister, we look recently this week in the last number of weeks, students across Ireland have found it incredibly difficult to find accommodation. | ||
| And then when you drill into the numbers, we see that the international student cohort, the universities, are engaging in a very expansionist approach. | ||
| Over 40,000 international student visas. | ||
| That is over 30% increase over the past four years. | ||
| If we look at working visas, last year almost 40,000 working visas. | ||
| If we go back 10 years ago, Minister, that figure was about 10,000 per year. | ||
| And obviously, we all are very aware of the massive acceleration and surge in relation to the IPAS numbers. | ||
| So, Minister, it is very, very simple that the capacity of the economy is simply unable to cope with this huge level of increase. | ||
| You have no plan in relation to this, and you have created chaos. | ||
| Chaos in housing, chaos in services, chaos for the wonderful families and young people across Ireland. | ||
| It is unacceptable. | ||
| And essentially, your policy amounts to pouring a gallon into a pint. | ||
| And it's unsustainable, Minister. | ||
| Crimes metastasizing, thefts blooming 48% since the pandemic haze. | ||
| Ireland's streets, once echoing with ancient bonfires and feasting in the misty heartlands of Longford, now reek of imported mayhem, gutted by cowardly New World Order sycophants, betrayers of the old blood. | ||
| History's bonfire will roast your spineless hides eternal. | ||
| Mark my words, the ghosts of air are... | ||
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Tuned in to the American Journal with your host, Brianna Morello. | |
| Welcome to the American Journal. | ||
| We're excited that you're joining us today. | ||
| Happy Friday, everyone. | ||
| Would you kill me if I said Friday? | ||
| Probably would. | ||
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Probably turn off the show, but we'll keep it straight with you. | |
| Happy Friday, folks. | ||
| I'm excited that you're all joining us today. | ||
| A lot going on in the world. | ||
| A lot just happening now. | ||
| We're trying to play catch up on because, well, the Secretary of War, Mr. Pete Hedseth, just posted on X that there was another narco-terrorist taken out. | ||
| Now, this one has to do with Trende Diagua. | ||
| They apparently overnight, at the direction of President Donald J. Trump, used lethal force to take down this vessel, which apparently was carrying, according to them, drugs. | ||
| Six men, narco-terrorists, were on board. | ||
| According to them, all six of these terrorists were killed and no U.S. forces were harmed. | ||
| Now, this just renews President Trump's commitment to going after these narco-terrorists who are destroying our country, trying to kill our people. | ||
| And as you could see there, they're taking them out. | ||
| And folks, it's been quite fascinating sitting back and watching all of this happen because I think they're up to number nine now, it appears, nine. | ||
| And I'd have to say, I don't think that they've ever been debunked as these people are narco-terrorists. | ||
| No one's really pushing back and saying you actually killed innocent people. | ||
| I know that was something that Senator Rand Paul was concerned about, but it seems like so far that the Trump administration has been extremely accurate in the information that it's been given and it is carrying out these strikes thoroughly. | ||
| And so we'll continue to watch as it develops. | ||
| But again, it looks like they have officially taken out TDA terrorists, six of them, trying to bring drugs allegedly to the United States. | ||
| All six are dead. | ||
| I also want to talk about talking about drugs right now. | ||
| I also want to talk about how President Trump is going to be meeting with the leader of China, Mr. Jiji Ping, is going to be meeting next week during President Trump's China trip. | ||
| They're supposed to meet in South Korea. | ||
| And it should be interesting, folks, because ultimately here, there's a lot that we got to discuss with China. | ||
| A lot. | ||
| Now, obviously, tariffs are going to be on the mind front and center because there's a lot of trade tensions. | ||
| But I'd like to see President Trump also address the drug issue because the drugs aren't just coming and being made in Venezuela. | ||
| They are being shipped, the pieces that are used to make these drugs, for fentanyl specifically, from China. | ||
| And then they are made in Venezuela, other countries as well, and brought to the United States. | ||
| So if you want to stop the supply, you got to go after China. | ||
| And so I'm sure President Trump will do just that. | ||
| But as you mentioned, President Trump is really taking on the fight when it comes to these drugs. | ||
| And yesterday at the White House, he held a White House roundtable with officials discussing the Homeland Security Task Force, arresting cartel members and dismantling trafficking networks. | ||
| Now, Trump established a task force via executive order on January 20th, directing the effort to end the cartel's presence, human trafficking, smuggling, and focusing on children as well, children-related offenses. | ||
| So President Trump holding this meeting, and Pam Bonnie was there, Christy Noam, Stephen Miller, and others were all there to kind of give their highlights as to what they've been working on since this administration put this board together, this committee together. | ||
| We're going to take a listen to clip one because that's where the president is saying he won't stop until the cartels are completely wiped out. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
| Under the Trump administration, we're finally treating the cartels as the core national security threat that they really are. | ||
| The cartels are waging war on America. | ||
| And just as I promised in the campaign, we're waging war on them like they've never seen before. | ||
| All you have to do is turn on your television and you'll see what's happening to them. | ||
| Past administrations have tried to mitigate this threat, and our objective is to eliminate it. | ||
| We're not mitigating, we're eliminating, we're getting them out. | ||
| The bad ones we're putting in prison, we hate to do that because that means we're stuck with them for 50 years or more. | ||
| In recent weeks, our Homeland Security Task Force has seized more than 70 tons of deadly narcotics along with more than 1,000 illegal guns. | ||
| And that's just recently. | ||
| This is already the most successful anti-cartel and anti-gang operation in American history. | ||
| And it's just getting started. | ||
| We have incredible people. | ||
| A lot of them are in this room with us today, and it's an honor to have them. | ||
| But we're going to not stop until the threat has been fully and completely eradicated. | ||
| President Trump living up to that campaign commitment. | ||
| We're very thankful for that. | ||
| The drug cartels have unleashed fatal amounts of fentanyl into our country, thousands of Americans killed each year. | ||
| And it is incredible to hear him talk about that. | ||
| But it wasn't just him. | ||
| DHS Secretary Chrissy Noam also confirming that thousands, thousands of terrorists have been arrested. | ||
| You're going to listen to that in clip two. | ||
| And this is really important. | ||
| So pay attention. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
| Everybody around this table is so honored to be here to work with you to destroy these terrorists that have been killing Americans for years and getting rich off of it. | ||
| I'm so proud of the work that was done just in the September surge. | ||
| You referenced that earlier. | ||
| We had over 400 operations that went down in those first 43 days of the Homeland Security Task Force in operations that brought, as Pam referenced, 3,200 terrorists to justice, got them off the streets. | ||
| Sir, we also have had over precursors and chemicals that were brought in. | ||
| We've had the work at the southern border. | ||
| We've got Border Patrol here at the table with you. | ||
| Fentanyl has been cut down by 50% coming into this country over our borders. | ||
| We've continued to work not just nationally, but internationally and on our maritime borders as well. | ||
| The ICE agents, they have so much violence against them and threats against them, sir. | ||
| They get up every day ready to work with this task force to be able to keep people safe. | ||
| And then we've got Coast Guard who's been doing just a ton of our incredible interdictions out on the seas and the waters in cooperation with operations that you've targeted in the Caribbean with the Department of War. | ||
| Chrissy Noam's not over exaggerating when she's telling you if these agents are under attack, folks, she is being truthful. | ||
| The cartel is putting bounties on our heads. | ||
| We know that. | ||
| But we also know that our fellow Americans don't understand the mission. | ||
| In fact, they think that they are somehow, some way helping other people out by doxing and also disclosing the details as to where their locations are. | ||
| When ICE is conducting raids or arrests, they are putting out their information so that people who are in the area nearby who may not feel so passionately about ICE helping purge these illegals from our country could get involved, help stop ICE. | ||
| Now, just a few moments ago, I was getting ready for the show, and I got a notification on my ring doorbell app. | ||
| And here's the notification here. | ||
| As you can see, someone in Florida is now telling the rest of our neighbors that ICE is by racetrack and Home Depot by SAFE. | ||
| So they're disclosing the location of ICE agents that are looking to arrest illegal aliens in the area. | ||
| Now, I saw that obviously and reached out to DHS to make them aware of this. | ||
| But the ring doorbell app is also being utilized to disclose their personal information. | ||
| Folks, this is extremely dangerous. | ||
| We know that there's active threats against ICE agents. | ||
| We know that they tried carrying it out. | ||
| We saw it happen in Dallas. | ||
| The sniper tried to shoot and kill ICE agents instead, though. | ||
| They ended up killing three migrants instead. | ||
| So when we tell you that they are under threat, they are under threat. | ||
| Now, I'm going to be reaching out again to the Florida Attorney General's office regarding that post that went out because there needs to be something done. | ||
| You cannot sit here and continue to post these things online. | ||
| Now, get it, we do believe in free speech, but that's not free speech. | ||
| They're literally going after these people and having their lives at risk. | ||
| If you have a member in law enforcement, you know, you know what they're doing here. | ||
| It's absolutely disgusting and it's infuriating too, because again, they're being doxxed online. | ||
| We saw, I saw, told you this, my researcher found thousands, over a thousand, we'll say roughly, of personal details regarding DHS employees, DOJ employees, and FBI employees, all of their information put online. | ||
| Names, addresses, phone numbers. | ||
| It's at what point do we stop with this? | ||
| Because we've seen it. | ||
| It doesn't end. | ||
| They don't stop when someone loses their lives. | ||
| Someone or multiple people, they don't stop. | ||
| It's absolutely disgusting that we have our fellow Americans who don't understand the mission here. | ||
| They don't understand. | ||
| And again, I keep telling you, I'm getting all these updates from DHS. | ||
| They are arresting and trying to deport rapists and murderers. | ||
| We were flooded with thousands, thousands of them, thanks to the Biden regime. | ||
| The Biden regime knowingly released them into our country. | ||
| We know that for a fact. | ||
| I was able to prove that to you by telling you all an exclusive report that all they had to do was show their sex defender papers to get on commercial airlines. | ||
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They didn't even need a photo ID. | |
| Folks, they knowingly put rapists into our country. | ||
| And if you think, oh, these are just day workers, just people trying to make some off the books money, help mow your lawn. | ||
| It's not the case. | ||
| They pick up these roles to make a living here in this country. | ||
| But the reality of it is they are hardened criminals. | ||
| I see it time and time again. | ||
| Now, it's interesting because yesterday, the deputy AG Todd Blanch, who we've been very, very critical on this show, I know Alex has as well. | ||
| Because Todd Blanch has been stepping over a lot, according to our sources, and preventing a lot of great things from happening. | ||
| But yesterday, he did warn California Governor Gavin Newsom and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi that they face arrests if they try to prosecute or issue threats. | ||
| They'll be prosecuted, these two, if they issue threats to ICE agents. | ||
| Now, they're threatening to arrest ICE agents. | ||
| That's the threat here. | ||
| And so Blanche is going after them and saying, if you even try that, we'll go after you guys. | ||
| And again, this is necessary because these people are intentionally. | ||
| And it's so crazy to me. | ||
| I mean, it's like, how do they not, I mean, they know it. | ||
| They know that Barack Obama was the leader when it came to deportations. | ||
| They were fine with that. | ||
| They didn't care when Joe Biden was deporting people either. | ||
| Now, I know you're thinking he was deporting people. | ||
| Yeah, he did. | ||
| Not a lot. | ||
| Brought in millions, but there were some that did face deportations. | ||
| So when you look at the letter, it cites exactly what crimes they will be accused of. | ||
| And it was sent over to several Democrats, four of them in total. | ||
| And it's signed by the Deputy Attorney General. | ||
| Now, interesting enough, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is also stepping things up a little bit. | ||
| He decided yesterday to announce that he is beginning a commission to target federal agents as if things couldn't get anywhere. | ||
| So you're going to hear that in clip three. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
| Today I'm signing an executive order creating the Illinois Accountability Commission, a body dedicated to truth, transparency, and justice. | ||
| The commission will be charged with three core missions. | ||
| One, creating a public record of the abuses. | ||
| Two, capturing the impact on families and communities. | ||
| And three, recommending actions to prevent further harm and to pursue justice. | ||
| The federal government has chosen to treat the people of this country as an adversary. | ||
| It is pushing the boundaries of its authority, terrorizing our communities, and disregarding legal and moral accountability in the process. | ||
| We will not meet intimidation with fear. | ||
| We will meet it with truth. | ||
| We can either let these abuses become our new normal and abandon the rule of law and our democratic values, or we can pursue real justice and accountability and transparency. | ||
| We can do the work so those who break the law are held to account. | ||
| So this chaos will stop. | ||
| And so nothing like it ever happens again. | ||
| Illinois is choosing our path. | ||
| And I hope others who believe in the Constitution and the promise of America join us in doing so. | ||
| Did you hear that? | ||
| He's going to go after and hold those accountable for breaking the law, breaking the law. | ||
| When they want to enforce it, they select which laws they want to enforce. | ||
| And so Pritzker, what we could just call Pricker, is like a little obnoxious. | ||
| He's not even little. | ||
| I shouldn't say that. | ||
| He is an obnoxious human being. | ||
| You cannot sit here and hand select which laws you want to abide by. | ||
| And that's what they're doing. | ||
| Federal agents aren't just coming into your communities because, well, they just want to. | ||
| They're coming into your communities because people have broken the law. | ||
| Violent criminals have broken the law. | ||
| And you think because Chicago has become such a cesspool with gang crime that he would welcome some assistance, but no, no. | ||
| In fact, he just wants them to continue to kill. | ||
| And again, why do we even care about it? | ||
| Why do we even care about it? | ||
| Because the most part, they'll tell you that, oh, this doesn't affect you guys. | ||
| Why do you guys care on the right? | ||
| We care because we care about human lives. | ||
| And the reality of it is, is, yes, these are heavy blue districts that are dealing with the surge of violence, but the federal government doesn't care. | ||
| You see, unlike Joe Biden and what he did with FEMA, we don't just hand select who we're going to protect and who we're going to save. | ||
| We apply the resources equally based on need. | ||
| And then he mentions that he's going to be collecting the information of those who have been victimized by the federal agents coming in to collect illegal aliens, dealing with the families and what kind of grief it's caused on them. | ||
| Is he doing that for victims? | ||
| How about the little girls who were raped while they were being brought into this country illegally? | ||
| While they were brought through the jungles and they were gang raped, what are you going to do about that? | ||
| You could collect that data? | ||
| You got to collect that information? | ||
| No, of course not. | ||
| Of course not. | ||
| They look the other way on all of that. | ||
| When you bring them into our country and they commit crimes like murder, robbery, rape, what do you do then? | ||
| Do you collect that information? | ||
| Do you gather a committee together and have them go out there and tell their stories? | ||
| Of course you don't. | ||
| You see, this is the difference now with this new Democratic Party. | ||
| It's new. | ||
| It's not the party that most people knew 10 years ago. | ||
| Maybe we just didn't see it in front of our faces. | ||
| But I have to say, there is a massive amount of communists that have completely taken over and they are crime ridden. | ||
| They, in fact, are advocating for criminals, not the victims. | ||
| There should be common ground in this country. | ||
| We could all agree that rapists, murderers, and people who are committing very violent crimes are horrible people and have no place in society. | ||
| But with this Democratic Party, they find themselves being advocated for. | ||
| Why is that? | ||
| You know, Pritzker is the scumbag who is making millions and millions of dollars, has no care in the world for your personal safety. | ||
| He's too wealthy. | ||
| He could pay for personal security. | ||
| He doesn't care. | ||
| He's made the streets of Illinois unsafe. | ||
| And it's heartbreaking because there are so many great people who live in that beautiful state. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| They just have to deal with it now because they have been elected a horrible human being. | ||
| It's gut-wrenching, but still, the DOJ says that they're not backing down from this fight. | ||
| They say it. | ||
| I haven't seen action, so I won't overcommit on that one. | ||
| I won't sell you on that one. | ||
| But so far, they say that they are going to hold those accountable on the left. | ||
| And Pamboni, doing her normal Fox News, hit yesterday in clip four, said that it's not just obviously Pritzker who's going to go after. | ||
| She's also going to go after Nancy Pelosi. | ||
| And actually, based on the AG's letter that you saw, the Deputy AG's letter that you just saw on your screen, she's telling Pelosi to preserve her records. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
| You cannot disclose the identity of a federal agent, where they live, anything that could harm them. | ||
| Pritzker, same ballgame with him. | ||
| And, you know, Pelosi got a letter today from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. | ||
| So did Brooke Jenkins, that DA in San Francisco. | ||
| We told them, preserve your emails, preserve everything you have on this topic, because if you are telling people to arrest our ICE officers, our federal agents, you cannot do that. | ||
| You're impeding an investigation. | ||
| And we will charge them if they think I want they have not met me because we will charge them if they are violating the law. | ||
| We will protect our federal agents. | ||
| They're out there working nonstop. | ||
| You're showing right now during a shutdown, these people are out there working to keep Californians safe. | ||
| Yet you've got Pelosi out there saying to obstruct their investigation, you can't do it. | ||
| You can't do it. | ||
| I would like to see some actions behind those threats. | ||
| We hear time and time again that the DOJ isn't afraid to arrest these Democrats, but time and time again, they aren't really arrested. | ||
| They aren't really charged with the crime. | ||
| If they are temporarily, those charges are walked down very, very quickly when no one's looking. | ||
| So again, it sounds good, but back it up. | ||
| Let's see some action from the DOJ. | ||
| Because right now, the left is just laughing at you. | ||
| You see, the left has all the funding to pay their bail, pay their legal fees. | ||
| The lawfare that was done to the right won't affect those on the left. | ||
| We filed criminal charges against them. | ||
| They have all the Soros funding that they need to free themselves and not feel affected by any of this. | ||
| So if Bondi's serious, why not just go out there and start doing it now? | ||
| Start doing it now. | ||
| We're tired of hearing these soundbites. | ||
| We want action. | ||
| We want action. | ||
| And speaking of that, I want to turn to an update on the Arctic Frost investigation that's being currently carried out by Senator Chuck Grassley. | ||
| He updated us yesterday on the very latest regarding this. | ||
| Now, this is the so insane to me. | ||
| This is Jack Smith who was going out there and was doing his best to try to go after President Trump. | ||
| And during that process, he did somehow, someway, get the phone records, the communications of senators with the White House, with President Trump. | ||
| And I believe we're up to nine now because Ted Cruz was just recently added to that list. | ||
| But according to Senator Chuck Grassley, those who signed off on Arctic Frost were FBI Director Christopher Wray, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monica, Monaco, Attorney General Merrick Garland as well. | ||
| So those three are the three who signed off on Arctic Frost. | ||
| Where's their subpoenas? | ||
| Are we dragging them in front of Congress? | ||
| Crickets. | ||
| You see, Senator Chuck Grassley is the only one who's fighting. | ||
| He's the only one that I see in the Senate right now who is still putting up a fight. | ||
| And that guy's like 80 plus. | ||
| I mean, how are we relying on just one person to hold all of these people accountable? | ||
| Chuck Grassley keeps putting up the receipts for all of this. | ||
| And it's been fascinating to sit back and watch as he goes through it, as he sifts through it and what he uncovers. | ||
| But again, he is a one-man band at this point. | ||
| So we call a news reporter in local news when you go out there by yourself and you're the camera person, you're the producer, and you are the on-air talent. | ||
| One-man band. | ||
| That's exactly what Chuck Grassley is. | ||
| Very few are willing to step up to the plates and go after these horrible people. | ||
| And we'll just keep sitting back and waiting, I guess, because I don't know what else to do. | ||
| We want arrest. | ||
| We want these people to be prosecuted. | ||
| We want accountability. | ||
| We want to make sure that with the next administration that comes in, if it is a Democrat, that this stuff isn't done again, because they will fear prosecution. | ||
| And that's not what's happening right now. | ||
| That's not what's happening right now. | ||
| And so we're just keep sitting back and watching. | ||
| But again, I'm going to keep holding their feet to the fire on this. | ||
| We have to. | ||
| It's our responsibility. | ||
| This is what we voted for. | ||
| We voted for accountability. | ||
| We voted for these individuals who have destroyed this country, these deep state operatives, to be held accountable. | ||
| And you and I both will not sit here and continue to allow just another term or another presidency go to waste. | ||
| We need to make sure this doesn't happen again. | ||
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You're tuned in to The American Journal with your host, Brianna Morello. | |
| Watch it live right now at band.video. | ||
| Welcome back to the American Journal. | ||
| We're excited that you're all joining us today. | ||
| We also have a great guest on the line who's going to be joining us in just a few moments. | ||
| But I wanted to talk a little bit about the government shutdowns. | ||
| I think we're like 23 days into this at this point, and we're well over the second longest shutdown in American history. | ||
| And it's all because Democrats are holding out because they don't want you to get away with not funding their illegal aliens. | ||
| They want illegal aliens to get free access to health care. | ||
| And that is the reason why they are holding out. | ||
| And it's not just that. | ||
| There's other outrageous things that they want funding for. | ||
| But thankfully, Republicans are beginning to hold the line and they're refusing to do just that. | ||
| President Trump making it very, very clear that he will not be supporting any type of funding for illegal aliens. | ||
| And we're thankful for that. | ||
| But, you know, Democrats still aren't stopping. | ||
| Even though, even though this is affecting funding our ICE agents, they love our TSA agents. | ||
| So our TSA agents as well that they claim to love, because I see them talking about that on the cable news. | ||
| And also our military. | ||
| This affects everyone within our federal government. | ||
| For some reason, they just don't care enough to come to the table and give up their illegal alien stance. | ||
| And it's outrageous. | ||
| But President Trump yesterday in clip 13 had some great news for the American people. | ||
| And apparently there is one billionaire who wants to remain anonymous, but he just recently sent over a check to fund our military. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
| And a friend of mine talking about donors, a friend of mine, a man that's great. | ||
| I'm not going to use his name unless he lets me do it. | ||
| Susie can tell you about this, but he was, he called us the other day and he said, I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. | ||
| I'd like to contribute, personally contribute any shortfall you have with the military because I love the military and I love the country and any shortfall, if there's a shortfall, I'll contribute it. | ||
| And today he sent us a check for $130 million. | ||
| Do you share who that is? | ||
| I would love to tell you he deserves. | ||
| He doesn't really want the recognition, if you want to know the truth. | ||
| But he gave us a check for $130 million. | ||
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And that's going to go to the bottom. | |
| Which was sort of a shortfall. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that's going to go to the military. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What's your husband? | ||
| Incredible news. | ||
| Sounds like that man is a patriot. | ||
| I'd love to hear his name. | ||
| Joining us to discuss is a great congressman from the beautiful state of Missouri. | ||
| Joining us is Eric Berlgson. | ||
| He sits on the House Oversight Committee and Transportation Committee. | ||
| He's also the host of the Fresh Freedom podcast, which is available everywhere. | ||
| Your podcast are Congressman. | ||
| I want to thank you for being here today. | ||
| We're excited to have you back on the show. | ||
| I know I've had you on my podcast before, so it's an honor to have you here. | ||
| It's great to hear that President Trump has been able to get some type of funding for the members of our military right now. | ||
| Obviously, that's a massive check. | ||
| Your reaction to hearing the news about a billionaire willing to put up some cash to make sure that our members of our military have something to hold over the roofs over their head and keep food in their bellies. | ||
| Yeah, Brianna, great. | ||
| Thanks to be thank you for letting me come on. | ||
| This is really amazing. | ||
| It's remarkable. | ||
| And I wish I knew the name of the individual so I could profusely thank him so that America could thank him. | ||
| And it just kind of underscores that there's really two Americas right now. | ||
| You have the Democratic Party who doesn't want to fund the military. | ||
| They don't want to fund the police. | ||
| They had an opportunity just yesterday when Ron Johnson's bill came to the floor to actually fund the workers that are essential to make sure that their salaries were paid. | ||
| The Democrats, same Democrats that have been voting to keep the government shut down 11 times, those same Democrats voted against this simple, simple, very reasonable, logical thing, which is to just at least pay the salaries of these vital workers, whether it's TSA agents or air traffic controllers, people in the military, and on and on. | ||
| And yet that's where the Democratic Party is. | ||
| And the reason is Kathy Clark, who is the whip for the House Democrats, really said the quiet part out loud. | ||
| When she was being interviewed, she said that this is really the only leverage point that they have. | ||
| So really, you're saying the military personnel and their paychecks is simply a pawn, that the TSA agents, that the air traffic controllers, their salaries is really just a point of leverage. | ||
| That's disgusting. | ||
| And I think, I hope the American people see it for what it really is. | ||
| Yeah, no, it is disgusting. | ||
| And it's kind of strange, right? | ||
| Because we're watching as Speaker Mike Johnson and others are having to defend government welfare and those who are not going to be getting food stamps like they thought. | ||
| I know there's a lot of posts that are going up on TikTok and people explaining what they're currently going through based on their food stamps and this government shutdown, what it means for them. | ||
| What is it like to see Republicans on the other side of all of this kind of defending government welfare at this point? | ||
| Yeah, I'm not a big fan of that. | ||
| I think that government welfare is really crappy aid to the poor. | ||
| It's ineffective, it's expensive, and it really often misses the mark in getting the proper aid to the people that need it. | ||
| Private charity does a whole hell of a lot better of a job with less money. | ||
| So for example, in my district, we have Convoy of Hope. | ||
| They're stepping in to provide food to military veterans or military individuals and their spouses and families. | ||
| They're stepping in to fill the gap when the federal government has, as they failed to do. | ||
| And the truth is, people should stop looking to government for the solution to their problems, look to their neighbors, look to themselves, look to their family. | ||
| And when it comes to charitable aid, let's let charities do the role of charity because they're the ones that do it well. | ||
| Government doesn't do anything well. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, that's true. | ||
| They don't do anything well. | ||
| And I think that's a great point to bring up. | ||
| And I think people need to lean on that. | ||
| The videos we were showing them yesterday, there's a bunch of people posting TikToks and they're upset because they're getting cuts to their food stamps. | ||
| And one individual was even like, I don't want to work. | ||
| I have kids. | ||
| And it was a man too, which was appalling to me. | ||
| And so I just don't understand how this is. | ||
| And then one of them was upset because I think the hour requirements went up to apply for his food stamps. | ||
| So again, it's just these people need to be forced to work. | ||
| Otherwise, they're relying on us. | ||
| And there are these great charities that do great work, but there are also some who are taking advantage of these exemptions that they get. | ||
| And so it's time you make them work for whatever type of incentives that they're receiving currently. | ||
| So I'm all in on that. | ||
| I want to switch gears up a little bit because there's a lot of issues going on right now in our country in regards to federal agents being doxxed online. | ||
| You know, I just was getting ready for the show and was kind of flawed. | ||
| I was just, I was floored when I looked at my phone and I saw that there was a ring doorbell notification that was sent out to an ICE raid that was taking place near me. | ||
| And somebody was putting up the address and the location of what the details were to that ICE raid in Florida, my Florida address. | ||
| And so these are issues that are going on often. | ||
| I just also recently found that on social media, there was a lot of agents being doxed on the dark weather's agents being dock doxed as well, DOJ, FBI, DHS employees. | ||
| FBI Director Cash Patel has been talking about this. | ||
| And in Clip 14, he's now talking about arresting those who are doxing these agents. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
| These application companies and have these apps actually deleted and permanently removed. | ||
| That's the immediate solution. | ||
| But if these people continue to endanger the lives of law enforcement, you bet this FBI is going to chase every single one of them down. | ||
| No one is allowed to touch a cop on my watch and no one's going to touch a cop on our watch. | ||
| And on the off chance that they do or participate in a scheme via an app or otherwise that does so, they will find themselves in handcuffs, just like so many of those that have tried to hurt law enforcement in the past. | ||
| But now law enforcement is so well respected thanks to President Trump's leadership and the establishment of this Homeland Security Task Force. | ||
| The American people are seeing what cops can do when you let them be cops. | ||
| Congressman, we hear these threats being made by the FBI director, obviously, to those who do try to target cops. | ||
| We've heard it before for the DOJ just yesterday, the deputy AG also sending a letter to lawmakers in California as well who are threatening federal agents. | ||
| Are you happy so far with the actions that have been taken up by the FBI and the DOJ to protect our federal agents? | ||
| They're doing a lot better job than they did under Joe Biden. | ||
| You know, we could always do more, but and I'm glad that Cash Patel is at least having an aggressive posture in this role because it's the right thing to do. | ||
| I mean, these men and women who sign up to keep us safe, whether they're an ICE agent or someone that's working with the FBI or Department of Justice in some capacity, they're the ones risking their lives. | ||
| And it's shameful that you have citizens or individuals who want to aid and abet criminal activity by either posting their activity online, as you saw, as you demonstrated, or by doxing these individuals. | ||
| I think that the FBI should throw the book at these individuals because we need to return to a place where we all respect our law enforcement. | ||
| They're the ones risking their lives, taking very meager salaries in order to do so, just to keep law and order and to keep society safe. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I think that's the big issue here is because these people have been putting their lives on the line. | ||
| And our ICE agents are getting the worst of the worst. | ||
| I know that's a saying that the DHS is pushing out there these days, but I'm getting the emails. | ||
| Every single day, we're seeing dozens of pedophiles, murderers, and people who were intentionally dumped into our country by the Biden regime from foreign countries being picked up and scooped up by ICE. | ||
| And we're thankful for that because they put all of our lives at risk. | ||
| Speaking of that, I know you're on the Transportation Committee, so I kind of wanted to get your say on this one too. | ||
| In Clip 15, we're learning more about Gavin Newsom and how he has allowed illegal aliens to secure commercial vehicle licenses. | ||
| Now, we've recently seen two fatal truck driver incidences, accidents, where these truck drivers who are not supposed to be in the country but are, were able to receive their CDLs in California and sadly have killed so far half a dozen people in just those two accidents alone. | ||
| Let's take a listen to the Clip 15. | ||
| A federal audit found California had issued 62,000 CDLs drivers who entered illegally, John, who do not have a permanent legal status as required by the feds. | ||
| California sanctuary laws prohibit asking applicants their immigration status. | ||
| Governor Newsom said there's not a problem. | ||
| Back to you. | ||
| Did I hear you right? | ||
| Did you say 62,000? | ||
| That's correct. | ||
| Goodness. | ||
| It's a federal audit. | ||
| It's pure insanity. | ||
| I don't understand how it's even possible, but that's what's going on right now in California. | ||
| We're also seeing that New York has given drivers licenses. | ||
| We found two of them. | ||
| I think one was even in your home state when it was recovered during a raid of just people being given driver's licenses who are illegally in our country and they don't have a first name. | ||
| So New York State put no name on the first name line. | ||
| This has put all of our lives at risk. | ||
| And even Bill Menugen from Fox News updating us on that Florida accident with that illegal from India saying that this person had allegedly failed his CDL test 10 times in two months. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| That is so insane. | ||
| And then on top of it, he was unable to speak English, but they somehow said that he was proficient in English. | ||
| What the heck is going on here? | ||
| Because this just seems to be like a massive issue, possibly one that was even worse, but we never heard about it under the Biden regime. | ||
| This is really horrible. | ||
| It's horrible in many ways. | ||
| Obviously, we have the safety issue. | ||
| I mean, this Hergender Singh guy, as you said, failed his CDL test 10 times. | ||
| And you saw the footage whenever he did the illegal U-turn in Florida, which killed three people. | ||
| He had no remorse. | ||
| There was no impact on him whatsoever. | ||
| He seemed to just be at ease with what just happened. | ||
| You've got, so you have the safety issue that continuously happens. | ||
| And then you've got this economic issue, because when you talk to U.S. truck drivers and when you talk to U.S. trucking companies that are law abiding and they're not using illegal aliens, the market is not good for them because the market is being flooded with all of these illegal aliens coming in and foreigners coming in to drive our semi-trucks. | ||
| So they're suppressing the wages. | ||
| They're suppressing the market. | ||
| And I'm glad that this administration is going to step in. | ||
| I think that we're able to withhold some funds from these states, withhold their transportation dollars, and we should withhold their transportation dollars until they clean up their system and make sure that every person that is getting a driver's license, whether it's CDL or otherwise, should be here lawfully. | ||
| What can be done on the federal level? | ||
| Because I know it's left up to the states to hand out these driver's licenses and to work with their DMVs to do just that. | ||
| But what can be done on the federal level to prevent states like New York from giving driver's licenses to people who they don't even know their first name? | ||
| I mean, they're literally handing out driver's licenses. | ||
| And this was the big issue that some of the DMVs in upstate New York raised, that they didn't have a way of vetting the documents that they were receiving. | ||
| And New York State was saying, just give it to them anyway, even if you can't validate whether these documents are authentic. | ||
| Is there anything that could be done on the federal level to prevent these states from doing this? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I mean, we give these states billions and billions of dollars for their infrastructure system. | ||
| And so, look, Congress's real power is the power of the purse. | ||
| So we need to be withholding the money that, you know, whether it's money for roads and bridges, we send billions of dollars to New York. | ||
| We send, you know, tens of billions to New York and California. | ||
| We should withhold that money because that's what bureaucrats listen to is dollars. | ||
| And so the only way to get them to fix their system is to threaten the money. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that needs to happen. | ||
| It's so upsetting to see this continue on. | ||
| But Congressman, we're thankful for all the work that you're doing. | ||
| And thank you for joining us today. | ||
| Again, I want to remind our audience that you do host the Fresh Freedom podcast. | ||
| So head on over to your favorite podcasting platforms and make sure you subscribe to that. | ||
| Thank you for being here, sir. | ||
| We will have you back on soon and we appreciate your insight. | ||
| So thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| All right, folks, we're keeping our eye on a lot going on all around the country right now. | ||
| Not sure if you heard about this, but there was apparently, and it kind of like feels a little bit like a old mobster movie, but there was a big bus yesterday that the FBI director in Clip 5 had no problem calling out and detailing for us yesterday. | ||
| It has to do with the NBA and the Italian mafia apparently running some illegal gambling ring. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
| To announce a historic arrest across a widesweeping criminal enterprise that envelops both the NBA and La Casa Nostra. | ||
| The men and women up here standing with me represent a small portion of the leadership team that brought profound justice in an era that needed it more than any. | ||
| I'll just highlight some of the details in the case and the FBI work, and then you'll hear from the others. | ||
| But as you now know, individuals such as Chauncey Billips, Damon Jones, and Terry Rozier were taken into custody today, former current NBA players and coaches. | ||
| What you don't know is that this is an illegal gambling operation and sports rigging operation that spanned the course of years. | ||
| The FBI led a coordinated takedown across 11 states to arrest over 30 individuals today responsible for this case, which is very much ongoing. | ||
| Not only did we crack into the fraud that these perpetrators committed on the grand stage of the NBA, but we also entered and executed a system of justice against La Casa Nostra to include the Bonano, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucasi crime families. | ||
| And you'll hear more about those details today. | ||
| The charges and the arrests that were taken down across this country range from wire fraud, money laundering, extortion, robbery, illegal gambling. | ||
| This FBI will leave no room for any perpetrator of crime across this country. | ||
| You hear a lot about our work of defending the homeland and crushing violent crime. | ||
| Well, this work is also representative of a colossal portion of the FBI's mandate to keep America safe and to keep our entertainment industry fair and secure. | ||
| Oh, that's got to fire you up. | ||
| They might have been intentionally, what, throwing games, maybe? | ||
| I'd like to see the evidence on that, but it would be very, very interesting to see. | ||
| Well, the FBI also went into great detail in regards to how the Italian mafia was kind of involved in all of this in clip six. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
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Three of the named defendants are charged for their alleged roles in both schemes. | |
| This alleged illegal gambling operation hustled unwitting victims out of tens of millions of dollars and created a financial pipeline for La Cosa Nostra to help fund and facilitate their organized criminal activity. | ||
| Victims were attracted to play alongside well-known professional athletes and coaches like Chauncey Phillips, only to be unknowingly deceived through rigged shuffling machines, fixing the odds in their favor, as alleged, and as you just heard from the U.S. Attorney's Office. | ||
| This alleged scheme wreaked havoc across the nation, exploiting the notoriety of some and the wallets of many to fund the Italian crime families here in New York. | ||
| I didn't even know that we still had the Italian mafia in New York. | ||
| I thought those days were long over, but apparently that is not the case. | ||
| Apparently, the scheme laundered millions via crypto and shell firms, and it also included violent robberies. | ||
| That's what they're alleging. | ||
| Prosecutors are seeking decades in prison, and the NBA vows zero tolerance amid the conservative calls for stricter athlete vetting. | ||
| I don't know how you vet these people. | ||
| You just hope that your athletes aren't throwing games intentionally. | ||
| It's pretty messy right now in the NBA. | ||
| I would like to know a little bit more about this before I go all in. | ||
| It sounds like there's more here, though. | ||
| The NBA thing is more salacious. | ||
| It's more interesting. | ||
| So I think that's what's going to catch the headlines. | ||
| But again, I don't know how this was all going on for such a long period of time. | ||
| What else was involved here? | ||
| Because it's hard to believe it was just gambling. | ||
| So we're going to continue to follow it as it develops. | ||
| But again, this is really interesting. | ||
| Now, in clip seven, we could play this too, because this was flagged for us. | ||
| The allegations of this bus was political against the NBA. | ||
| That's the allegations being made. | ||
| Let's take a listen. | ||
| Hey, down the street. | ||
| By the way, this was so wild. | ||
| Stephen A. Smith, the sports commentator, suggested that this was revenge from the president for all the kind of left-wing activism of the NBA. | ||
| Your response to that, 15 seconds. | ||
| I'm the FBI director. | ||
| I decide which arrests to conduct and which not to conduct. | ||
| That may be the single dumbest thing I've ever heard out of anyone in modern history. | ||
| And I live most of my time in Washington, D.C. It's right up there with Adam Schiff. | ||
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We arrest people for crimes. | |
| I mean, that was pretty good. | ||
| Give him that. | ||
| Okay, so Stephen A. Smith, yeah. | ||
| He likes to come off as a moderate. | ||
| He was always a far lefty, from what I recall back in my sports days listening. | ||
| So it's interesting to hear him try to shift and now go after President Trump and say that was politically motivated, laughable. | ||
| But more interesting is the fact that Stephen A. Smith has alluded to the fact that he thinks he's going to run for president potentially in 2028. | ||
| So that's probably why he's throwing that out there. | ||
| Again, it's a swinging of myths. | ||
| That's what we'd say in the baseball world. | ||
| Let's talk a little bit about that murder that took place in North Carolina, that egregious, egregious murder. | ||
| DeCarlos Brown Jr., he is the one who was seen on footage stabbing to death that Ukrainian refugee, Iranian Zaruski. | ||
| Now, she sadly obviously passed away. | ||
| She was a refugee from Ukraine, just leaving her shift at a pizzeria that she was working at. | ||
| In clip eight, AG Pamboni is now saying that they intend on trying to go after him with a death penalty. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
| Yeah, Jesse, we were able to charge that monster with murder on mass transit. | ||
| That's how we were able to get federal jurisdiction. | ||
| He has been indicted. | ||
| And of course, I will, I plan on signing a warrant to seek the death penalty in that case. | ||
| He had been arrested 14 times, Jesse, as you know, and should have been in jail when he murdered that beautiful, innocent young woman. | ||
| Yeah, he should have been in jail, but he wasn't. | ||
| That's what happens with these prosecutors, these judges. | ||
| They don't really care about victims and trying to protect individuals on the streets. | ||
| But it's important to note, I want to keep highlighting this, that DiCarlos does suffer from schizophrenia. | ||
| It's well documented. | ||
| His sister has spoken out about it, said that she was also once the victim of his schizophrenia. | ||
| There was also the jailhouse phone call that he made to his sister where he detailed he doesn't remember stabbing her and then said, you know, who just goes and randomly stabs someone, even though she didn't say anything to me. | ||
| Sadly, that seems to be the case, though. | ||
| He was apparently suffering from mental illness. | ||
| And although it doesn't excuse his activity, his behavior, the murder that he carried out that day, the reality of it is, is I know, you know, the AG is saying that she's going to pursue the death penalty here. | ||
| I don't see the death penalty holding up, though. | ||
| We all know in this country, we do have sympathies for those, not we, I shouldn't say, but some do have sympathies for those who are suffering from mental illness. | ||
| And so they might have more sympathy there and say that he's not capable of standing trial or he shouldn't be eligible for the death penalty. | ||
| So we'll continue to see as this all kind of goes through the courts. | ||
| But ultimately, yeah, she's saying that they're going to go for the death penalty here. | ||
| It just might be a hard one to land given the fact that he does have a documented history of schizophrenia. | ||
| I want to tell you straightforward and not sell you a dream that that's what's going to happen here. | ||
| It's very likely that it actually might not happen. | ||
| So we tell you the truth here on Inforz, of course. | ||
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| Welcome back to the American Journal. | ||
| We're going to We're proud of you on the show today, folks. | ||
| We're glad to have you here. | ||
| We are heading into the second hour of the program. | ||
| Thanks for jumping on with us, of course. | ||
| A lot happening here in the news world. | ||
| We're going to keep you in touch with, of course. | ||
| We have two guests joining us as well in the show. | ||
| Yesterday, I sat with a man named Frank Wright. | ||
| He joined us. | ||
| He had a lot to say in regards to surrogacy. | ||
| There's a lot of things we probably didn't know about surrogacy. | ||
| I didn't know about surrogacy, and there's a lot of alarming things about it. | ||
| So Frank Wright has been doing a lot of great independent journalism on that front, and he joined me yesterday to talk about it. | ||
| So we look forward to playing that for you. | ||
| I'll also be joined by a retired ATF assistant director, Rich Marianos. | ||
| He'll be joining the show because I keep hearing about vapes, but the specific vapes that are everyone's saying are extremely dangerous are the ones that are coming in illegally from China. | ||
| And we have a lot of them. | ||
| And I know RFK Jr. has sounded off about it. | ||
| Dr. Makari has sounded off on it. | ||
| We've also heard Pam Bonnie talking about it as well. | ||
| And so I wanted to get him on the show today to talk a little bit about that. | ||
| I want to talk about, is it really dangerous? | ||
| And we also had a really interesting poll that was just recently put out, which shows that it's kind of like a bipartisan thing, that most Americans actually want the federal government to go out there and to crunch down on these Chinese vapes. | ||
| So we look forward to having him on the program this hour to discuss just that. | ||
| But there's a lot more that we're going to be talking about too when we kick off officially the second hour of the show. | ||
| As many of you guys know, we do this like little teaser before we kick off the next hour. | ||
| Adam Schiff, according to mainstream reports, he might not be criminally prosecuted. | ||
| The investigation into him has stalled. | ||
| So we'll give you the latest on that. | ||
| Plus, Congressman Tony Gonzalez, that is the name I've heard quite often, even before moving to Texas. | ||
| A lot of Texans don't like him. | ||
| They've had a lot to say about him. | ||
| He's received a lot of challenges for his congressional seats. | ||
| There's a lot of people fear and they've alleged that he is corrupt. | ||
| But the Daily Mail has dropped a massive allegation on him after one of his staffers killed herself. | ||
| The details behind that are insane. | ||
| So we'll outline the allegations he's currently facing. | ||
| The Daily Mail even asked him about it and he didn't even push back, apparently. | ||
| Daily Mail saying he didn't even want to debunk their report. | ||
| So I'll bring you the latest on that because that is insane. | ||
| Also, we'll be discussing White House renovations because the left is lying about it. | ||
| President Trump came out like months ago and was saying that he was going to pay for the renovations for the ballroom and he'll find his own donors and not to worry about it. | ||
| It's not going to be forced onto American taxpayers. | ||
| But Democrats, of course, because they have to make him look like a villain, are out here saying that this is actually going to be a quote pay to play scheme. | ||
| Now, Democrats know a lot about that, especially those in New York, because I've reported on them. | ||
| So it's interesting to hear people like Hakeem Jeffries pretend to call it out. | ||
| So I'll bring you the latest on that front. | ||
| It's just so insane that they continue to sit there and to attack. | ||
| And speaking of attacks, yesterday we made the announcement that I will be going to the Pentagon for the very first press briefing. | ||
| But most importantly, I will be covering their press conferences. | ||
| I will be covering the beat of the Pentagon. | ||
| And it's interesting because, you know, I'm excited as an independent journalist. | ||
| This is something that I've always wanted to do. | ||
| And so this will be exciting for me. | ||
| But the mainstream media is not very happy. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| I was attacked yesterday after making the announcements. | ||
| Good thing they used a good photo of me, though. | ||
| I appreciate that. | ||
| And they're not happy because they think that this is really unfair. | ||
| Now they bowed out of the White House. | ||
| I'm sorry, the Pentagon. | ||
| They didn't want to sign an agreement, which I read. | ||
| It is not, it is not what they say it is. | ||
| And I actually have no problem posting it. | ||
| I will post it, in fact, because they're lying to you. | ||
| We don't have to get anything approved. | ||
| I don't get anything authorized because I quit Fox because they wanted me to take a vaccine. | ||
| They even offered me to pay me and to put me on air. | ||
| And I said no to that. | ||
| You think I'm going to sit here and now all of a sudden not push back? | ||
| But those are the allegations we were facing yesterday. | ||
| So I'll address that in the second half of the show. | ||
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| Welcome back to the American Journal. | ||
| We're excited to have you here today. | ||
| A lot happening, a lot that I wanted to bring up to your attention. | ||
| And so we're excited that you're here and joining us. | ||
| Like I said, later on the program, I'm going to be having in the next half an hour, I'm going to be having a retired ATF assistant director on the program because I've been hearing a lot about these Chinese vapes. | ||
| Americans are a little concerned about this. | ||
| And it's not just Republicans. | ||
| It's also affecting Democrats. | ||
| We actually have a new poll that suggests that this is actually something that both sides can actually agree on. | ||
| And so I'll have him on to discuss just that because it's like RFK Jr., Dr. Marty McCarry, who runs the FDA now, and AG Pamboni all going out there right now and saying this is a fight that's worth taking up. | ||
| And so we look forward to having him on the show to discuss just that. | ||
| But speaking of fights, we've got to talk a little bit about Congressman Adam Schiff because Adam Schiff, as many of you guys know, is under investigation for allegations facing mortgage fraud. | ||
| But Democrats say that the senator, Senator Adam Schiff, that he is not guilty of this. | ||
| Now, here's the thing. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I'm going to read your report from NBC and I only bring your reports and then tell you the sources because I want you to know what they're saying on the other side. | ||
| So don't bash me because this is NBC. | ||
| But this is what NBC News is saying. | ||
| They're saying that right now, according to four sources familiar with the matter, that the investigation has stalled out. | ||
| Maryland federal prosecutors, after months of investigating, have not gathered sufficient evidence to file charges, according to these sources, of federal law enforcement officials say that the probe has come to a standstill. | ||
| Now, attorney, the U.S. Attorney Kelly Hayes, leading the investigation, apparently met with AG Deputy AG Todd Blanche this week to discuss the next steps in the matter that is according to their report. | ||
| The meeting concluded with Hayes' instructions of how they're just not going to have enough evidence, apparently, to land an indictment. | ||
| One source noted that no final decision, though, has been made. | ||
| And of course, all sources spoke anonymously to NBC. | ||
| So let's talk about this for a little bit. | ||
| Number one, again, it's NBC News. | ||
| So that's that. | ||
| Number two, I would say this. | ||
| Adam Schiff, obviously, it's very easy to prove if somebody committed mortgage fraud. | ||
| I don't understand how you wouldn't be able to do that in a criminal courtroom, how you can't show enough evidence of that. | ||
| You just need the documents and you just need to show that he's not there full time. | ||
| I know when I was listening to Adam Schiff make his rebuttal trying to defend himself, Adam Schiff said, it's normal for lawmakers to have two sets of homes. | ||
| But the difference is whether you claimed primary residency in your Maryland home and another home, possibly, to get a reduced rate, to save money. | ||
| Now, did he do that? | ||
| We're going to have to wait and see. | ||
| We're going to wait until we see all the documents. | ||
| Hopefully they do come out. | ||
| You know, it's a common theme in Democrats. | ||
| It's so funny. | ||
| They'd love to go after President Trump, but they had no problem sitting there and saying with a straight face that, oh, this is something common. | ||
| Everyone does this. | ||
| Nobody goes and gets indicted or gets prosecuted for this. | ||
| Well, that doesn't mean it's fair. | ||
| That doesn't mean it's justifiable. | ||
| And so Adam Schiff, someone who is obviously gunning for President Donald Trump, who was a part of a lot of fake hoax and continues to go out there in the mainstream media and lie every single day about the president of the United States, he's not happy with what's going on right now. | ||
| And he's playing the victim, of course. | ||
| But if he did commit this crime, he needs to be held accountable. | ||
| So I'd like to see what they're looking at. | ||
| I wish we could, but obviously we don't get access to that. | ||
| But it's a very easy case to prove if he in fact did that. | ||
| Now, again, we're going to be following this because the standstill doesn't sound good to me. | ||
| I would love to see Adam Schiff held accountable if he did commit a crime. | ||
| That's the difference, though, folks. | ||
| We don't sit there and intentionally go after our political opponents with no crimes at all or no evidence of a crime at all. | ||
| We don't cook up evidence. | ||
| That's not us. | ||
| So if Adam Schiff did in fact commit a crime regarding mortgage fraud, yeah, I'd like to see him indicted. | ||
| I'd like to see him prosecuted. | ||
| And I'd like to see what the DOJ has against him. | ||
| Okay, this story I was waiting a little bit on, okay, because I hate doing these types of stories only because I want to give everyone the chance to speak out in their own defense. | ||
| Congressman Tony Gonzalez, that's a name you've probably heard before. | ||
| A lot of Texans don't like him because they think he's a rhino. | ||
| They've always accused him of things, but I have never seen any evidence of it. | ||
| So when this allegation came out there from the Daily Mail, I held back and waited. | ||
| But apparently, according to Daily Mail, the congressman is not, is not pushing back on the allegations that are being made. | ||
| Now, it has a bit of a sadder tone to this. | ||
| There was apparently a staffer who he was allegedly having an affair with. | ||
| Now, apparently, that staffer, and this is really, really sad. | ||
| She went home to her house in Texas. | ||
| And by the way, Tony Gonzalez is married, so this is insane. | ||
| And apparently set herself on fire with gasoline. | ||
| This happened at her home in Uvalde. | ||
| Now, she died on September 14th. | ||
| Again, they're saying that she set herself on fire. | ||
| They're saying that she began a romantic relationship with the congressman back in November of 2021 after she joined his staff. | ||
| The Daily Mail has posted photos of the two when they met with Elon Musk. | ||
| But again, I'm going to remind you, these are allegations. | ||
| These are allegations. | ||
| Now, sadly, she's deceased, and I hate to talk about this type of a story in that angle, but, you know, the Daily Mail says they approached him, but he did not respond to the Daily Mail's request for comment and declined multiple opportunities to deny the allegation. | ||
| So this is quite strange, I must say. | ||
| This is very, very strange. | ||
| Now, there's been several Republicans in the state of Texas looking to replace him, but he's had like a death grip on that congressional seat for some reason. | ||
| And it's weird because I've always heard negative things about him personally in regards to just the way he runs, just the way he runs his office, how he's abandoned his constituents. | ||
| Lot of people fired up and angry, but for some reason he's able to get elected and re-elected. | ||
| I've never understood it. | ||
| There's been some great people who have ran for his seat too up against him, great Republicans, great conservatives, and they've not been able to land the seat. | ||
| But now it looks like the Texas GOP, specifically the county itself, they're looking to kind of gear up to replace him. | ||
| Unnamed political operatives told the Daily Mail that the White House and a Republican National Committee have approached at least two San Antonio Republicans to run for his seat. | ||
| And they're floating around a couple of names: Grant Moody and Kyle Sinclair. | ||
| Kyle Sinclair is a local GOP vice chair. | ||
| And Grant Moody is a part of a GOP county commissioner, is what his role is specifically. | ||
| In Becks, I barks. | ||
| I believe that would be. | ||
| I don't even know. | ||
| But anyways, folks, interesting enough, that's what's going on right now. | ||
| Not sure how to feel about it. | ||
| Again, these are allegations being made, so you don't want to jump the gun on this, but you do want to say the truth about Tony Gonzalez. | ||
| I know a lot of people have not been happy with him. | ||
| A lot of people have been calling him out. | ||
| And so we'll see. | ||
| We'll see if this is true. | ||
| Again, when you don't deny it, and if the Daily Mail is accurate and they say that they asked him and he won't deny it, if you don't deny it, then we've only got one avenue to go down. | ||
| And that is that it's true. | ||
| And you're a married man, sir. | ||
| So it's not looking good for him. | ||
| It's not looking good for him. | ||
| And apparently she was also in a relationship. | ||
| I don't know what the status of it was at the time of her death. | ||
| But it was absolutely devastating in an awful, awful way to lose a loved one. | ||
| I want to turn to a story that's really got the left on hinge right now. | ||
| Let's talk about the White House renovations because I keep joking about it. | ||
| I think it's hilarious that they're just so upset about it. | ||
| President Trump has been very clear that American taxpayers are not paying for the renovations. | ||
| And they're not happy about it. | ||
| They're not happy. | ||
| And so right now we have people like in clip nine, Hakeem Jeffries, who's going out there and saying that this is all just a pay-to-play, a pay-to-play, can't speak today, it's Friday, pay-to-pay scheme. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
| Any executive authority. | ||
| And more likely, this is part of what Donald Trump has been doing since day one of his presidency, running the largest pay-to-play scheme in the history of the country and probably soliciting donations from people who've got business before the United States government. | ||
| And all of this is going to have to be investigated. | ||
| It will. | ||
| All of this will have to be uncovered. | ||
| It will. | ||
| And these people are going to be held accountable no matter how long it takes. | ||
| That's going to be the reality of the situation. | ||
| And that's our warning to all of these people participating in this scheming to manipulate taxpayer dollars and, of course, to destroy the people's house. | ||
| The White House belongs to the American people. | ||
| It doesn't belong to Donald Trump. | ||
| Okay, so it's pretty insane to sit here and listen to that. | ||
| If you're only listening to the left media, you wouldn't know that the president said, again, that he was going to be coughing up the expense, that the American taxpayers aren't going to pay for it. | ||
| And he's already made good by that. | ||
| He has won so far settlements that are going towards the construction. | ||
| He is also pulling in private donations as well. | ||
| So again, what are they talking about? | ||
| Well, obviously it's nonsense, but you can't stop the freak outs. | ||
| And in clip 10, CNN is doing just that. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
| With this project, well, very thorough right now. | ||
| And you can see the live pictures of the demonstration going on. | ||
| As you mentioned, you know, historical preservation groups, architectural preservation groups, they are just apoplectic about this. | ||
| The National Trust for Historic Preservation has called for an immediate pause on the demolition. | ||
| As we show you these before and after pictures, the before pictures are on your left, those images on your left, are before the demolition started. | ||
| And look at the stark difference. | ||
| The demolition images right now on the right-hand side, it is really stark. | ||
| The National Trust for Historic Preservation wrote to the National Park Service and to the administration a letter that said that what you're seeing going on on the right-hand side there, all that demolition is going to, quote, overwhelm the White House itself. | ||
| We should point out, just this addition is going to be about 90,000 square feet under President Trump's proposal. | ||
| The White House itself is 55,000 square feet. | ||
| That's what the National Trust for Historic Preservation is talking about. | ||
| Again, they're spewing lies. | ||
| They're hoping you're dumb as you're as dumb as they are. | ||
| But if you've been paying attention, you know, that's not the case. | ||
| There's also been renovations done in the White House for quite some time now, and they don't want you to know about it. | ||
| But thankfully, the press secretary is doing just that. | ||
| She's letting the American people know that this isn't something that's new. | ||
| And she outlines it for you in clip 11. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
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Sounds like the answer is yes. | |
| He can tear down whatever he wants. | ||
| And then, secondly, I mean, we just, that's not what we're saying. | ||
| That's a legal opinion that's been held for many years. | ||
| No, it's something that presidents have done for years and years. | ||
| In fact, I have some photos here. | ||
| Thank you, Pat, to show you the construction that's taken place on the White House grounds. | ||
| This is the construction of the West Wing in 1902. | ||
| Look at this, the construction of the West Terrace in 1902. | ||
| These images look quite similar to what you and the American people are seeing today, the construction of the East Terrace as well. | ||
| Look at the construction of the West Wing expansion in 1934. | ||
| So, look, this is a legal opinion that's been held for many years. | ||
| Look at this is 1950. | ||
| It looks a lot like what you were seeing today. | ||
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Can he demolish anything he wants? | |
| What do you think that rubble is? | ||
| How did that rubble get there? | ||
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Right, so I'm asking. | |
| Yeah, they're not very bright, these people. | ||
| They're actually some of the dumbest human beings on the face of this earth. | ||
| And it's great to see the press secretary have all the receipts that prove that they are just trying to lie to the American people. | ||
| But it's not surprising. | ||
| This is what they do. | ||
| They're hoping. | ||
| They're hoping that you don't do your digging into any of this. | ||
| And the mainstream media doesn't really do that. | ||
| They're not really diggers. | ||
| They don't want the truth. | ||
| They just have a narrative to spin. | ||
| They're looking to do just that. | ||
| And so it's insane to sit back and continue to watch what they're doing because they know what they're doing. | ||
| They know what they're doing. | ||
| You know, President Trump, again, we're going to play clip 12 for you because he's continuing to tell them, and they're ignoring this, of course. | ||
| He's continuing to tell them that this is not going to fall on American taxpayers. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
| Millions of dollars. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, I also give, you know, I give a lot of money to the White House. | ||
| The White House is, as you know, I give my salary and I usually like to steer it to the White House because this house was a little bit abandoned. | ||
| First of all, for four years, you had a guy walking around that didn't know where the hell he was. | ||
| And this house was not taken care of the way it was supposed to be. | ||
| I take very good care of property. | ||
| I was very good at that. | ||
| And you'll notice the floors downstairs. | ||
| I paid for them. | ||
| Marble, the most beautiful marble you've ever seen. | ||
| The white floors down in the palm room, which were they look like they came out of, I don't want to lose because they're big supporters of mine, Home Depot. | ||
| So I'm not going to say bad, but they did come out of a box from Home Depot about 30 years ago. | ||
| They were all broken. | ||
| Now they have the most beautiful floors, the most beautiful lights and chandeliers. | ||
| I think most of you, Brian, you've seen that, right? | ||
| How beautiful is that? | ||
| And I take care of it. | ||
| So President Trump telling you again that he has been taking care of the White House because they have neglected it. | ||
| Isn't it funny, though, to sit back and listen to that and then they give you that narrative as if it's not happening? | ||
| Folks, how is he going to get $200 million if he hasn't had that allocated any piece of legislation? | ||
| He's not just going to steal it from something and reshipped it on over. | ||
| So when Hakeem Jeffries tells you that this is just a pay-to-play scheme, he doesn't know what he's talking about. | ||
| But folks, it's not surprising. | ||
| This is what they do. | ||
| This is the only way they're able to get their base enraged. | ||
| They are intentionally trying to enrage them to the point where they think that this is actually happening, that President Trump has since shifted funding over from something, I guess. | ||
| They don't even explain what they mean by it. | ||
| And they're putting it towards these renovations. | ||
| Yes, the White House is dingy. | ||
| I could tell you something, folks. | ||
| I went to the press pool for the White House one day, and I was shocked to see, first of all, first off, the small room that it's in, but it smells like mildew. | ||
| So that could probably use some renovations. | ||
| Maybe that's the reason why all these reporters aren't very kind because they've been sniffing the mildew smell for too long. | ||
| The reality of it is, the White House does need renovations. | ||
| And if you haven't been there, well, I've been lucky not to be there, but if you haven't been there, you probably don't know that. | ||
| But there's a lot of issues with the White House, and President Trump is looking to fix it. | ||
| Obviously, as someone who has built several beautiful buildings and structures, of course, he's going to do just that. | ||
| So the outrage, of course, is all fake. | ||
| It's all fake, but not surprising. | ||
| Again, folks, we're not surprised at all that this is what they're doing. | ||
| And again, we're going to keep watching it. | ||
| I want to bring your attention to something else because this one's interesting. | ||
| I just got this alert right now. | ||
| So I was actually in between the sound bites kind of looking through the information to bring it to you. | ||
| But Tish James, the New York Attorney General, the one who has been criminally indicted for being a scumbag, she has just put out this press release on her website right now. | ||
| And I want to bring this to you because it just shows, again, we have more criminal Democrats looking to help their criminal allies. | ||
| The Attorney General has just launched a portal to collect photos and videos of ICE activity in New York. | ||
| Again, they are looking to help dox federal agents because they're not happy with them. | ||
| That's what you see here. | ||
| New York Attorney General Tish James encouraging New Yorkers to submit videos and other documents of federal immigration enforcement actions in New York following yesterday's immigration and customs enforcement raid. | ||
| Now, again, this looks actually like this was came out on the 22nd, but we just got the push notification now for this. | ||
| Tish James, obviously not very happy with what's been going on. | ||
| She is one of the many, and this probably flew under everyone's radar that she did this. | ||
| But how did she build a portal? | ||
| Oh, probably using New York taxpayer funding to build that portal because portals don't build themselves. | ||
| So she's somehow, some way going to create this application, this app, I should say, for people to dump all this information in there. | ||
| Every New Yorker has a right to live without the fear or intimidation. | ||
| Again, she's so full of it. | ||
| If you witnessed and documented ICE activity yesterday, I urge you to share the footage with my office. | ||
| So what's she doing? | ||
| Well, she's here and she did this during the BLM riots too. | ||
| So let me remind you of that. | ||
| She went after the NYPD, which was getting the New York City's getting destroyed by BLM terrorists. | ||
| So what did she do? | ||
| She had them come together and give her all the evidence possible for the NYPD making arrests. | ||
| And then she helped them sue. | ||
| And they were coughed up, I think it was like millions of dollars in the settlement agreement, those BLM terrorists they received. | ||
| So now what she's doing is she's trying to help out those who are illegally living in our country who are being, or the protesters who are also not protesters, I should say. | ||
| Remember that video that we saw with the guy getting his mask taken off his face for trying to stop ICE agents from doing what they were doing? | ||
| They also assaulted, according to DOJ, they assaulted federal agents that were there that day. | ||
| So this is what they're doing. | ||
| And they're not even hiding it from you guys. | ||
| They're not even hiding it from you. | ||
| It's just so frustrating to sit here and to watch these lawless cowards continue to go on and do just this. | ||
| Do what you see on your screen. | ||
| Federal agents are taking the worst of the worst. | ||
| And we went through the list. | ||
| I posted it on Axe. | ||
| The eight illegal aliens that were arrested, they did, in fact, have criminal records. | ||
| They even got violent with an independent journalist who was simply just trying to film the streets of New York City. | ||
| What you can do, this African illegal alien wasn't happy with him and did, in fact, try to assault him and did threaten him on footage. | ||
| He was arrested during that raid, thankfully. | ||
| But again, this just highlights what's really going on in this country. | ||
| And I don't think people really understand as to what specifically they're doing. | ||
| They are trying their very best to go after ICE and to target them. | ||
| And it's crazy because they love federal agents when they were using the FBI to target their political opposition, but now they don't like them anymore. | ||
| They don't like ICE. | ||
| They don't like DHS. | ||
| They are against all of it now. | ||
| Isn't it funny when they're not weaponizing these agencies, how they don't like them? | ||
| You know, none of them are outspoken at all when it came to Barack Obama using these agencies to deport millions and millions of illegal aliens. | ||
| And he, in fact, knew that this was an issue. | ||
| Now, since that things have changed, they realize that this is actually a voting base for them. | ||
| And so they are all on board with this and they are prioritizing these illegals. | ||
| But again, this is what's going on right now. | ||
| Democrats are working to actively target ICE agents. | ||
| And it's insane to me. | ||
| It's absolutely insane. | ||
| It looks like this portal is going to be used probably to go after ICE agents, possibly try to find them, possibly try to arrest them. | ||
| Definitely trying to sue DHS. | ||
| But again, you know, we're going to keep following this. | ||
| We're going to keep following the violence on the left and what they've been doing lately because this is insane. | ||
| This is the resources that are being allocated in New York State right now. | ||
| The Attorney General, instead of defending New Yorkers, has decided that this is a fight she's going to pick up. | ||
| This is why. | ||
| This is why it's so dangerous to have a political activist occupying the AG role in these states. | ||
| It's just, it's pure insanity. | ||
| We've never actually seen anything, I think, like this at a state level, an attorney general doing her very best to go after those who are just trying to arrest the worst of the worst. | ||
| It's pure insanity. | ||
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Welcome back to the American Journal. | |
| We're excited that you're joining us today. | ||
| This is a topic I've wanted to talk about for quite some time. | ||
| As many of you guys know, I am a Maha enthusiast, and this was something close to my heart because I have a lot of friends out there, and I won't call them out by name, of course, who do use vapes. | ||
| But I always say, do you know where your vape is coming from? | ||
| And in fact, most people don't know whether it's a Chinese vape or not. | ||
| And as many of you guys know, we talk about the Chinese threat here on this show quite often, but there's a lot of health issues that you should be concerned about. | ||
| Now, as you know, one of our favorite people to discuss on this program, RFK Jr., is really taking this issue head on. | ||
| And in clip 16, he's calling out the threat of these Chinese vapes. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
| Get sicker. | ||
| And we're putting an end to that between August 1st and August 14th in partnership with the ATF. | ||
| FDA did purchases at distributors in five different states in Illinois, New Jersey, North Carolina, Arizona, and we did more in California and Florida with ATF. | ||
| ATF actually went to 14 different retailers. | ||
| Our agency went to five different distributors. | ||
| And the result is today we are doing raids, these kind of operations across the country. | ||
| Well, that's good news. | ||
| Something the American people want to hear. | ||
| Now, RFK Jr., Dr. Marty McCary, who runs the FTA, and AG Pambondi held a press conference last month on this issue. | ||
| And they were digging into this and trying to warn the American people about how severe it is. | ||
| And most Americans actually get it. | ||
| And it's kind of a bipartisan issue. | ||
| And I saw this poll over on Breitbart. | ||
| I thought this was amazing. | ||
| So take a look at these numbers. | ||
| 80% of swing state district voters back seizing illegal Chinese vapes. | ||
| Now, it's interesting because Trump's enforcement actions against illegal Chinese vapes is a bipartisan 80-20 winner when it comes to that. | ||
| And that is quite fascinating. | ||
| 87% of Trump 2024 voters support enforcement of illegal Chinese-made vapes. | ||
| And 78% of Kamala Harris 2020 voters also support the enforcement of just that. | ||
| So joining me to discuss is Rich Marianos. | ||
| He's a retired ATF assistant director and the executive director of Tobacco Law Enforcement Network. | ||
| And he joins us now. | ||
| And it's an honor to have him on the show today because this is something I've been wanting to talk about for quite some time now. | ||
| So thank you for being here, sir. | ||
| We appreciate it. | ||
| I just wanted to get your reaction to the Trump administration taking this on as a big issue, but also seeing the fact that voters, both Kamala Harris voters and President Trump supporters, really back the administration going after this. | ||
| Thank you so much, Brianna, for having me. | ||
| And I applaud the administration for jumping in right now because the water is warm. | ||
| This is the new face of organized crime right now, and it's happening right under our nose. | ||
| And this initiative, especially the one outside Chicago where the $250 million worth of Chinese criminal vapes were seized, is a great effort. | ||
| It's a great start to go after one of our biggest threats to national security. | ||
| And it's the Chinese government who is manufacturing these illegal devices, shipping them to the United States and selling them at retail locations illegally. | ||
| And it's getting in the hands of our kids. | ||
| And what the public needs to understand is these vapes are illegal from the start. | ||
| They're contraband. | ||
| They're not used for tobacco harm reduction. | ||
| They're not regulated by the FDA. | ||
| They're criminal products designed for criminal use. | ||
| And they're being sold at these vape shops, which I call these days licensed crackhouses because it's not only the vapes, it's all the synthetic narcotics that's being distributed out of them, in which some of these owners are carrying guns. | ||
| They're money laundering. | ||
| They're selling narcotics. | ||
| And it's a big, big problem around the country. | ||
| And I thank you for bringing this to your viewers' attention. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, no, it is a big issue here. | ||
| And it's amazing. | ||
| I mean, we could rarely agree on both sides of the aisle on an issue, but this one is something that everyone could agree is a major one. | ||
| And we heard the Attorney General Pam Bonnie discuss this. | ||
| And I wanted to play how she outlines the criminal element to all of this. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
| So many think or thought that these were legal. | ||
| They are not. | ||
| And we're going to tell you why. | ||
| Earlier today, pursuant to search warrants issued by federal courts, U.S. Marshals began seizing hundreds of thousands of units of illicit vaping products at locations across the United States, including here at Midwest Goods in this suburb of Chicago. | ||
| Many of these products, many of these products, were smuggled in from China, circumventing regulations. | ||
| They often contain undisclosed or untested chemicals, which fail to meet FDA safety standards. | ||
| We're also finding they evade proper labeling and marketing regulations. | ||
| It's clear many of these products are being illegally brought into America. | ||
| They're targeting children, young adults, college students, and even members of our military. | ||
| They're labeled as cotton candy, bubblegum, and fruit loops, among others. | ||
| These dangerous vapes are being sold near our bases, our military bases, our schools, and they are exposing our children and service members to serious health risk from untested chemicals. | ||
| Okay, Rich, I want to hover over what she just said there a bit because she said that members of our military are being targeted with this. | ||
| And that's something that to me sounds like a national security threat, given the fact that the Chinese are purchasing land near our military bases and they've been doing a lot to target our military here. | ||
| So I want you to kind of focus on that angle here. | ||
| How is or how are these Chinese vape companies targeting members of our military and why is it so dangerous? | ||
| Well, they're not the legal vapes. | ||
| That's something that's important is there are 40 different vape products that are regulated by the FDA for tobacco harm reduction. | ||
| And I have to applaud the administration for identifying those that take on that big problem. | ||
| The other ones, the illegal ones that are being sold at these vape shops, it gives these young adults, and I say young adults between the ages of 16 and 25, the ability to buy these products that are extremely addictive to the tune of some 500 to 5,000 puffs of nicotine that our military will use, our young adults use, that become an addiction where they cannot seem to get off these things. | ||
| And it's the equivalent to cartons and cartons of cigarettes, which is not healthy. | ||
| And I'm not a doctor, but I think we've all realized since 1964 with the Surgeon General that extreme amounts of nicotine don't work. | ||
| And these illegal Chinese products continue to proliferate our young adults, our military, and our at-risk population, which are children. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, here's my question for you on that, too. | ||
| I know you're making the difference between Chinese vapes and those that have been approved and that are American approved, I should say. | ||
| How does Americans who are shopping at these vape shops, how do they spot a Chinese vape? | ||
| Is there any clear indicators that they could kind of figure out on their own? | ||
| Well, the easiest way is the FDA has a list. | ||
| You just download it and take a look at it and it'll tell you the legal and illegal, the legal products, I should say, so you know what is good and what is regulated, okay? | ||
| And what has been given the authority for people to use for getting away from cigarettes. | ||
| But from reputable people, we're not talking about mom and pop stores, okay? | ||
| And that's the differ that needs to be differentiated that we're not going after with working with law enforcement, the mom and pop people that are following the law. | ||
| Everyone that law enforcement is looking at are these illegal criminal vape shops, okay? | ||
| ones that are carrying guns, money laundering, selling other narcotics. | ||
| Just in Laredo, Texas, during the past month, we found one vape shop that was digging a tunnel across the border to smuggle things in. | ||
| These are hardened career criminals, high-value targets that are involved in this operation, and we need to pay attention to it and go out there and disrupt the marketplace. | ||
| Be the police in this case. | ||
| Go after these individuals and take them out of commerce so we can protect the legitimate marketplace and get people away from combustible cigarettes. | ||
| That is crazy. | ||
| I did not know about this story and I'm pretty on the ball with a lot of this. | ||
| That just was, that's just shocking to me. | ||
| And I'm glad you just brought that to our attention. | ||
| I want to also play clip 18 for you because I thought this was also really interesting. | ||
| RFK Jr. saying that the Biden regime delayed approving American vapes, which allowed the Chinese vapes to flood into our markets. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
| Left by the failure to timely approve U.S. products, Chinese products flooded the market. | ||
| And those products, there are now 9,000 brands of e-cigarettes being sold in this country. | ||
| Only 27% have FDA approval. | ||
| They're coming from China. | ||
| This is a typical one. | ||
| It's designed to attract children. | ||
| It's pina colada flavored. | ||
| It's made in China. | ||
| And this is pretty typical. | ||
| And these include all kinds of contaminants, including formaldehyde and THC and things that we don't know about because there's been no FDA approval. | ||
| Rich, I wanted to get your take on this before you go. | ||
| I wanted you to tell us what are some of the great things that you think the administration is doing right now. | ||
| And is there room for improvements? | ||
| Enforcement, enforcement, enforcement. | ||
| Jumping in because the water is warm at the highest levels with the Attorney General to understand that we need to disrupt the marketplace. | ||
| We need to get involved in all levels from local police officers in uniform to high federal executives that can develop a strategic plan and put money into this effort and begin to turn the tide. | ||
| This is nothing, this is very similar to our drug crisis, how fast it's infiltrated our population. | ||
| I assimilated to crack cocaine. | ||
| Overnight, it became an epidemic and a problem. | ||
| It is the same thing here. | ||
| You can see the parallels. | ||
| But what we have now is the knowledge, the skills, and ability with working with law enforcement to go after this and take an aggressive stance on locking these people up. | ||
| And it's the criminals we want to lock up. | ||
| Protect the mom and pops that are doing things right. | ||
| Keep them in business. | ||
| Keep their store owners working, their cashiers working. | ||
| That's not the idea here. | ||
| But those criminals that are involved in assisting Chinese that are assisting organized crime, find them, identify them, collect the guns, collect the illegal proceeds, collect the vapes, the illegal narphotics, chain the doors and put them in jail. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| And I like the idea. | ||
| Well, I like what you just said there too. | ||
| It's important to protect the small businesses, not go after them. | ||
| We're all in favor of that. | ||
| Rich, thank you for joining us today. | ||
| I just learned a lot from you on this subject. | ||
| And I am very honored to have you in the program today. | ||
| So thank you. | ||
| We would love to have you back on as well. | ||
| The honor is all mine. | ||
| And I'm glad that you gave me this opportunity and I wish you well. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Same for you, sir. | ||
| We appreciate it. | ||
| Folks, a lot happening around the world. | ||
| It was an honor to have him on the show today just to kind of walk us through it. | ||
| It's really hard to tell what are these Chinese vapes. | ||
| And we really need to be careful with that. | ||
| So that was good to get out there. | ||
| And I love a good Maha story. | ||
| I love a good Maha story. | ||
| If you ever see a Maha story that you want to put on my radar, tag me on X. I would love to have it on this show. | ||
| All right, folks, I want to talk a little bit about the controversy that happened apparently yesterday. | ||
| Many of you guys know we made a very big announcement and not many people were happy about it. | ||
| That announcement being that I, as an independent journalist, will now be covering the Pentagon. | ||
| Now, this is all because the mainstream media decided to protest an agreement that I have read thoroughly. | ||
| Now, I've read through it. | ||
| Everything they're telling you is not true. | ||
| In fact, you could read it for yourself. | ||
| The New York Times posted it on their website, but I'll do the same so you guys could see it. | ||
| So we're not sitting here pretending like it's a state-run media thing. | ||
| We don't participate in that. | ||
| I don't participate in that. | ||
| And I would never. | ||
| As somebody who quit her job at Fox because of the vaccine mandate, I was offered money. | ||
| I told you that to get the vaccine by a certain deadline. | ||
| I was also told on the phone that I was going to potentially, I mean, not potentially that I was going to. | ||
| I was in line to be on air if I just submitted an exemption. | ||
| And I didn't do that because I thought it was wrong. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So nothing has changed here. | ||
| No one can control my content, my reporting, none of that. | ||
| And I want to be as clear as possible too on this front. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I have been critical of the Department of War when they had that meeting just a few weeks ago with the guitar official. | ||
| I called it out on X, did it multiple times, called it on the show. | ||
| I also reported about somebody who I've deemed as questionable within the Pentagon, very close to the Secretary of War, Pete Hedseth. | ||
| So, again, they're not just giving these credentials out, the people that they deem as favorable, they're giving them out to people who have been doing the work over the last five years who have been uncovering corruption under the Biden regime. | ||
| Now, again, I've been one of them. | ||
| I'm literally suing the government and still am, because it doesn't matter that it's the Trump administration now. | ||
| I still want to hold the government accountable for their actions. | ||
| So, the firestorm that was kicked up last night on X and other platforms, the articles that were posted online about me, InfoWars, it's all garbage. | ||
| It's all garbage. | ||
| I've never lied to you, never lied to the American people, never lied to my audience. | ||
| I'm independent, which means if I lose my credibility, it's all gone. | ||
| There's no big mainstream media outlet behind me, it's just me. | ||
| So, here's the thing here: okay, yesterday I saw what was it, the New York Times go after me, saw WAPO, believe it was also Politico, the rap, which I've never heard about, but apparently it's pushed out on the wire to a bunch of different websites. | ||
| By the way, that rap story, that so-called reporter didn't reach out to me for comment, even though my email is accessible. | ||
| So, I DM'd him on Twitter yesterday, told him he got it wrong, made him correct it. | ||
| He corrected a little bit of it. | ||
| But again, they just want to demonize Alex Jones. | ||
| Again, I'm an independent journalist, independent, working for myself, but they don't seem to understand how that works because they work for the corporate media outlets and they don't have a following, they don't have an audience. | ||
| When I was actually going through the individuals who are going after me on X and kind of sifting through their X accounts, I was shocked because a lot of these people didn't have followings and they're all mainstream. | ||
| These are the ones I'm going to focus on the mainstream ones. | ||
| They don't have any followings on social media, they could barely scrape up like less than 10,000 followers. | ||
| They're not getting interactions. | ||
| What does that tell me? | ||
| That tells me that their audience isn't tuning in for them. | ||
| They go to the Washington Post to read something. | ||
| Maybe they're also losing subscribers. | ||
| So, keep that in mind. | ||
| But they go to these outlets to read stories, but they're not following through with the writers because they themselves are not people that the audience isn't impressed by them. | ||
| So, they're upset because the White House, sorry, the Pentagon is now swiping and saying, Listen, you don't want to come into work anymore. | ||
| You don't want to sign this agreement? | ||
| Fine, cool. | ||
| We'll just find other journalists that want to have access. | ||
| And for so long, we have been blocked out of having access to any of these agencies. | ||
| I've reached out for comments several years from now, asking for simple things, comments on things that should be simple to turn over. | ||
| And they have either ignored me or attacked me for doing just that. | ||
| So, I am excited that we're going to get access. | ||
| Again, I have grilled the Pentagon, I have grilled them. | ||
| So, it's not going to be softball coverage, it's going to be honest reporting, something that they're incapable of doing. | ||
| They've been the ones acting as the mouthpiece for those on the left. | ||
| And so, yeah, we're going to have it. | ||
| I'm going to go because I'm independent, cover what's going on in the Pentagon, and then I'm going to talk about it on this show. | ||
| I'm also going to talk about it on my website, independentnewsroom.com. | ||
| That is my personal website where I drop exclusive reports. | ||
| That's where you go, sign up for free, enter your email address in, and you get my reports directly to your phone, to your emails, independentnewsroom.com. | ||
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But they don't like that, they don't like that. | |
| And so, the cheap attacks, the going after Alex, the what are you doing? | ||
| These are the people that said that the Pentagon is trying to infringe on the First Amendment. | ||
| I guess the First Amendment only applies to those in the corporate media world, not the rest of us, not the rest of us. | ||
| See, I remember when it was the pandemic and all these outlets, these same outlets that walked out because they want to be independent from the government. | ||
| They don't want the government to contain their coverage. | ||
| Those were the same jerk-offs who sat there and knowingly allowed their outlets to take in money from HHS under the Biden administration to spin their coverage on the COVID jabs. | ||
| How do I know that? | ||
| We know that through a FOIA request done by the Blaze. | ||
| The Blaze did the FOIA requests. | ||
| And all of the outlets, pretty much all the outlets that are coming after me, are the outlets that are listed in this FOIA as receiving money from the government to promote the jabs. | ||
| So, what are you talking about? | ||
| Now, all of a sudden, new administration, not a Democrat, you want to pretend like you guys are falling on the sword for the First Amendment. | ||
| They didn't care when we weren't given access. | ||
| They didn't care when DHS was sending emails to ICE about me saying don't give her comments or lie to her. | ||
| I have the writing, I have it literally in writing. | ||
| When they said lie to her, don't tell her the truth because she's not a favorable reporter. | ||
| What the heck does it mean to be a favorable reporter? | ||
| Oh, they're the favorable reporters because they're lying. | ||
| So, now we get the online attacks happening, they're trying their very best to discredit my work. | ||
| I'm the only one with the cojonas who went out there and told you all of the truth about how bad it was getting within our government. | ||
| I told you when Tulsi Gabbert was added to a terror watch list over at TSA, the outlets that walked out of the Pentagon didn't have the cojonas do the same reporting that I did. | ||
| That I did. | ||
| I called Tulsi Gabbert's team and told them that she was added to the terror watch list and handed over the information that I had. | ||
| All those big networks that participated in this photo opportunity. | ||
| Well, guess what happened? | ||
| They didn't report on it when Tulsi was added to a terror watch list. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because they didn't want to, they didn't want to piss off the Biden regime. | ||
| And so, when they attack me, when they sit there and they tell you that, oh, we're all just a bunch of conspiracy theorists, you're lucky I don't see you. | ||
| They're intentionally trying to discredit me. | ||
| It can't work, it can't work, it won't work. | ||
| I have proven my worth to our audience, to my audience, and others. | ||
| So, it's not going to happen the way that they think it's going to happen. | ||
| We will have access because I, as an independent journalist, am going into the Pentagon for the very first presser, and I'm going to be there asking questions. | ||
| And isn't it pretty disgraceful that they think that our audience isn't entitled to have some type of voice in the room to address their concerns to the Pentagon? | ||
| My audience apparently isn't privileged enough to have that level of access. | ||
| That's what we're dealing with, these mainstream media hacks. | ||
| You see, they don't want you to have a voice at the table, they would hate you to have that voice. | ||
| All they have to do if they want to come back in is to sign that agreement. | ||
| And the agreement that they're telling you about, they're lying to you. | ||
| They are lying to you. | ||
| If the Pentagon were to toss you out for doing an unauthorized report, you could sue them because that is a violation of your First Amendment rights. | ||
| So, that's not what we're talking about here. | ||
| And the Pentagon knows that what they're talking about specifically here, and let me just make it as clear as day, give you to you, simple and cut and dry. | ||
| They are talking about reporters who do not disclose the fact that they are reporters roaming around the Pentagon. | ||
| What they've done now is they've limited to where they could go. | ||
| They're also requiring their work credentials. | ||
| That's something that's normal. | ||
| I worked in Major League Baseball, I always had to have my credentials displayed when I was walking around the ballparks. | ||
| That's normal, and they don't want you going out there and getting unauthorized information. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| That means information that's not being solicited, that's not being, I should say, it's not being up to the people who you're speaking to. | ||
| They don't know that they're talking to a journalist, ultimately. | ||
| So, you're disclosing personal, they're disclosing information regarding the Pentagon, not knowing that they're talking to a journalist. | ||
| That is unauthorized. | ||
| It's not that the comms team has to give you the information, that's not what they're saying to you. | ||
| And I ask specifically now, let's say if any of you guys seem to think that it's different, you seem to think that that's not the case. | ||
| Well, let me tell you something. | ||
| If the Pentagon were to tell me that I need approval from their comms team to release a story, I'm going to shoot it to you straight. | ||
| I'm going to tell you that's happening. | ||
| But I've spoken to them, I've had these conversations, I've outlined my concerns, and they told me that what I'm saying in the media is not true. | ||
| And then they sent me over what they were talking about. | ||
| They sent me the document, and I read it. | ||
| So, I've read it with my own eyes. | ||
| I've spoken to them, I've addressed these concerns, and I've been assured that this is not the case, that what you're hearing them talk about is not the case, that they are being misleading intentionally. | ||
| That, in fact, this has been the rule within the Pentagon for quite some time now, and they just have never put it in writing, is what I was told by someone else. | ||
| Now, again, I didn't work at the Pentagon, so I can't confirm that. | ||
| But the outrage, it's just the photo op of all them taking their boxes out and leaving. | ||
| It's just dramatic. | ||
| It's just dramatic. | ||
| I was actually shocked to hear that they were able to walk around the Pentagon. | ||
| I had no idea that was even a thing. | ||
| I figured just the press room, and that's it. | ||
| You leave because in the White House, at the time, I did go to the White House press pool. | ||
| You just went to the area where the press conference is happening, and they have a desk set up for the journalists there, and that's it. | ||
| You can't just stroll around the White House. | ||
| So, again, I think they're lying to you. | ||
| I look forward to bringing you those reports as an independent journalist. | ||
| And I will utilize this platform and other platforms to bring it to you, independentnewsroom.com as well, is where I'll get it directly sent to your phone. | ||
| If you just sign up for the emails, it's free. | ||
| Subscribe, and that's how we stay in touch. | ||
| So piss off to the corporate media and all the nonsense you guys were putting out there yesterday. | ||
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| Welcome back to the American Journal. | ||
| Third hour of the program. | ||
| It's just flying by. | ||
| We got a ton of stuff coming your way. | ||
| A ton of news stories dropping, of course. | ||
| And I've got my interview with Frank Wright. | ||
| He joined me yesterday in the studio. | ||
| We did an incredible interview regarding surrogacy. | ||
| And there's a lot you need to know about that, plus artificial wombs. | ||
| Wombs can say it. | ||
| Wombs. | ||
| Folks, I have a Long Island accent and I try to hide it. | ||
| So, in case you hear this, stumbling over the words, it's the dictation class that they took over the years. | ||
| So, you don't have to hear every vowel get dragged across this table every day. | ||
| I did it for you. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Long Island Accent's not that glamorous, not that glamorous at all, but thank you for sticking with me. | ||
| Of course, a lot to dive into. | ||
| Frank Wright interview will play that for you in just a few moments. | ||
| But we also have a lot that we're going to be talking about, specifically about breaking news regarding Medicaid services and how the Fed has identified a lot of fraud. | ||
| They're specifically being spent on about a billion dollars being spent on six throughout six Democratic brand states regarding legals and healthcares. | ||
| I've got that soundbite coming your way after the right interview. | ||
| We've also got a lot in regards to Hunter Biden laminates Kamala Harris's painful book. | ||
| Well, that's going to be interesting. | ||
| And he also implies that Joe picked Kamala because gem roll, please. | ||
| She's black. | ||
| I'll have that story for you in a little bit, too. | ||
| That's coming to us from Hunter Biden. | ||
| We also have a lot more going on as well. | ||
| The LIRR kind of wanted to talk about that too in the show. | ||
| A lot of corruption issues related to that. | ||
| So I will bring you that also because there's a news story that shows that there's a lot happening there with the scandal and that. | ||
| The only reason why I want to sound off on that, and that is another highlighting of bad government, bad government. | ||
| No one tracks the LIR is just like one of the biggest scams. | ||
| And I'll break it down for you why. | ||
| I used to have to ride it. | ||
| I didn't have to. | ||
| I drove in for the most part, but every like once a week, I try to like not drive. | ||
| It took me about two hours to drive into New York City, even though I live like 30 minutes away. | ||
| And so I take the train into the city, and it was the most expensive ride ever. | ||
| It's about $500 a month for a ticket. | ||
| It's supposed to be clean, but it's not. | ||
| And then they just keep saying we need more money, we need more money, the MTA. | ||
| And then it turns out that their employees are not being very honest. | ||
| And we have a new story about that. | ||
| We also have JD Vance responding to Jen Saki's remarks about his wife. | ||
| So HUP will also play for you, of course. | ||
| And the press secretary, actually, because we had an American rancher on the show yesterday. | ||
| Let's play clip 22 for you. | ||
| Let's do that right now, actually, because this is the press secretary responding to the story regarding American ranchers and the beef prices. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
| How will the Trump administration support those farmers? | ||
| Look, the president hears those concerns. | ||
| He addressed them yesterday himself. | ||
| President loves our ranchers and our ranchers love our president. | ||
| And in fact, the president did a lot for them in his first term here. | ||
| They are struggling because of the many horrible policies of the previous administration. | ||
| President loves our ranchers and he also loves American consumers and he wants to do right by both. | ||
| So the immediate solution to the problem of the rising cost of beef, president wants to bring that down as we have to increase our supply. | ||
| And so that's what he's doing with respect to these imports. | ||
| See, okay, so you hear that outline there. | ||
| Now, yesterday we had a rancher on the show who also owns a butcher shop in Texas, and he made a bunch of allegations about this company called Wild Fork. | ||
| Now, they're a nation brand company all around the country. | ||
| But apparently, I just learned that they were Brazilian. | ||
| And he made a lot of allegations. | ||
| I reached out to Wild Fork for a comment on all of this, specifically the company that owns Wild Fork. | ||
| And I invited them on the show. | ||
| I did not hear back. | ||
| I sent them an email. | ||
| We also called. | ||
| I let the voice message. | ||
| And they did not respond. | ||
| So I'll keep following up on that. | ||
| But there's a lot of issues with our cattle ranchers right now in regards to beef prices. | ||
| And President Trump trying to find creative ways to bring down those prices by bringing in imports from other countries like Argentina. | ||
| But we're going to keep our eye on just that as an important issue, folks. | ||
| So we look forward to that. | ||
| All right, folks. | ||
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| my interview with Frank Wright coming up next. | ||
| Welcome back to the show. | ||
| President Trump has been very committed at making IVF affordable for Americans. | ||
| It's something that his administration has made a priority. | ||
| And he held a press conference earlier in the month just detailing that and how he plans on carrying out that campaign promise. | ||
| But there's a lot of people who are very concerned about surrogacy here in the United States and think now it's time to jump on the issue because folks, obviously there are people out there who are looking to abuse surrogacy and it's something that's worth the discussion. | ||
| I wanted to play a little bit of background for you guys in clip one as to the history of surrogacy and the dollar amount that's connected to it. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
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Egg freezing technology, Northwell's Dr. Singer thinks, will get better and better. | |
| Do you think that one day virtually every young woman will do this? | ||
| It would be routine. | ||
| I really do think so. | ||
| Once it's going to be affordable, covered by insurance, I'm a big believer that egg freezing and IVF is going to be the way our next generation will expand. | ||
| I think that having timed intercourse or unprotected intercourse for reproduction is going to be falling out of favor in the next generation or so. | ||
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What did you just say? | |
| I said that sex is going to be for fun and for pleasure, but most likely in a generation from now, when couples want to have kids, most likely they're going to be using artificial reproductive technique. | ||
| You'll have frozen eggs. | ||
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Wait, are you saying that we won't have sex to have children? | |
| I'm sure my two-year-old will ask me, mom, dad, you had unprotected intercourse. | ||
| What about chromosomal abnormalities, miscarriages, twins? | ||
| What were you doing? | ||
| Russian roulette. | ||
| Yeah, it's disturbing, but this is what's going on right now in our country, and it's worth your attention. | ||
| Joining me to discuss is Frank Wright. | ||
| He is a fearless journalist and a commentator. | ||
| And he has a great sub stack that I highly recommend you all check out, FrankReiter.com. | ||
| He's also a contributor for LifeSight News. | ||
| And he joins us today to discuss surrogacy, which is a topic that we rarely hear about, but it's definitely worth our attention. | ||
| So Frank, thank you for joining us in studio today. | ||
| We're excited to have you on. | ||
| Well, thank you for having me. | ||
| Well, we wanted to talk about surrogacy with you because obviously this is your beat. | ||
| You're very focused on this and you want to bring a lot of attention to it and we're very appreciative of that. | ||
| So break down the we have kind of like in the United States, it seems like it's getting a lot of attention right now, surrogacy. | ||
| So break down what the overview of surrogacy is here in the United States, a little bit more background information on it, and what you think is so alarming about how trendy this is suddenly becoming, I guess I could say. | ||
| Well, there's a very big difference between the reality of surrogacy and the way it's presented in, well, increasingly well-presented, soft-focus, mass marketing issues. | ||
| So it is a kind of altruistic business that's providing children to people who couldn't otherwise have them. | ||
| But a closer look at this, and it reveals an extremely dark present, past, and future, which involves something that could only be described as the factory farming of humans. | ||
| It also does provide cover for known and identified child trafficking operations within the United States and internationally. | ||
| And the international legal picture is becoming extremely critical of surrogacy with organizations such as the European Union and the United Nations pointing out that it closely resembles human trafficking and is in fact a form of slavery. | ||
| But finally, it takes, I think it comes to a very odd situation where we're taking moral lectures from the UN to point out bluntly that the sale of children is a crime. | ||
| Now, fundamentally, that's what this business reduces to. | ||
| And it's horrendous. | ||
| And the more you look into the details of it, the less it resembles those very well-presented marketing websites, which are all, I would point out, like surrogacy.com. | ||
| These are all produced by the people who are in the business of creating and selling babies. | ||
| And I would stress to viewers that the United States is largely the only place in the world where anyone on earth can come and buy a baby. | ||
| And they do. | ||
| There are no background checks. | ||
| And the baby business, especially to selling to LGBTQ couples, is booming. | ||
| Yeah, and I covered the story of those two Georgia men who are now going to be in prison for the rest of their lives. | ||
| And they didn't, it wasn't surrogacy, I believe it was adoption. | ||
| And that caught national attention because of the abuse that those young children had to endure. | ||
| So this is something that a lot of Americans are concerned about and they want to keep their eyes and focus on this. | ||
| You've seen it on a global level, though, obviously. | ||
| You've been following this all around the world specifically. | ||
| What have you seen around the world that you think is very insightful that the American people should know about surrogacy? | ||
| Excuse me. | ||
| Well, the chief problem is, is that it is being increasingly shut down across the world. | ||
| For example, in 2022, the Russians prevented people from going abroad and buying babies and they prevented people from coming to Russia to buy them. | ||
| Recently, Slovakia in Europe, a very tiny country, has written into its constitution that this is a crime. | ||
| Italy has banned all forms of surrogacy for the same reason. | ||
| And that's because it is a grave offense to human dignity. | ||
| And it effectively reduces children to a consumer product, to say nothing of the appalling conditions that you sometimes find the women in. | ||
| In the UN report that came out in July, there's reports of women being forced to give birth in handcuffs. | ||
| There's reports of women in places like the nation of Georgia, the country of Greece and Cambodia who've been forcibly injected with hormones. | ||
| You can see that this is an obscene industry that's growing in popularity, if you like, for people who are monetizing it, because it's currently estimated around $22 billion worldwide. | ||
| But the market's set to grow to around $200 billion by 2034, powered by a technology that basically promises to dissolve the family entirely and completely remove women from the production of human life. | ||
| Yeah, and we're going to talk about the artificial womb next, but I wanted to also ask you, for those who may be struggling to conceive, a lot of them do rely on surrogacy. | ||
| Is there a safer way to do surrogacy that you would support, or altogether, should we just completely not support it at all? | ||
| Well, if you look at what the Russians have done, for example, the Russians have limited surrogacy completely to exactly those cases. | ||
| They've said only where it's a heterosexual couple that desperately want a child and only where they are Russians and they're not international baby customers and they're not people trafficking them. | ||
| So that has been severely restricted. | ||
| But you see, that doesn't match the American model, which is one for maximal profit. | ||
| And what the American model is doing is effectively capitalizing on the fact that it's increasingly banned worldwide. | ||
| If it were restricted only to people who are desperate to have children, we wouldn't be having this discussion today about surrogacy because it would be very small scale. | ||
| There'd be much less limited demand. | ||
| If you look into the reality of it, whenever they present you with these images, what they're really doing is they are looking for increasingly the LGBTQ market, which is an extremely lucrative market. | ||
| And when you see attempts to permission further liberalization of laws, for example, in the United Kingdom and Australia now, there are moves by the surrogacy industry to basically permission commercial surrogacy, so directly buying babies. | ||
| And the reason why they're saying they're going to do this is because of something that they call social infertility. | ||
| It's a very effective marketing term. | ||
| And what they're telling you that means is this is to give babies to people who are infertile and they desperately want children. | ||
| But what that actually means in practice is homosexual men and transgender men. | ||
| And they call that social infertility. | ||
| And why do they want to do that? | ||
| Because it's an enormous market. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So the real obscenity of this is, is that it actually is replacing the human family, replacing the traditional family, and replacing the value of human life with price. | ||
| Yeah, and it's deeply concerning. | ||
| And for our audience, I wanted to also highlight how this is being abused. | ||
| We've seen cases of surrogacy being abused. | ||
| But in clip two, you're going to hear about how these Chinese, I don't know if they're nationals or if they're American nationals, but we have this clip and it's very disturbing about how 21 children were discovered. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
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Seven on your side investigates a case of child abuse that could lead to a wider investigation tonight. | |
| It involves 21 children, all linked to the same couple in Arcadia. | ||
| Eyewitness News reporter Rob Hayes live with the details. | ||
| Rob? | ||
| Yeah, Mark, 21 children all living inside this house, all of them from surrogate moms. | ||
| 17 of them were three years old or younger. | ||
| Now, we tried to talk to the folks who live here, but the front gate's been locked all day. | ||
| That didn't stop the police from getting in, though. | ||
| It's a house that looks like a castle, but it's under investigation for being a possible factory, a baby factory. | ||
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We believe that it extended beyond our city and into possibly other parts of the country and maybe internationally. | |
| Arcadia police stumbled upon this house on Camino Real Avenue while investigating a child abuse case. | ||
| A two-month-old suffering a traumatic head injury. | ||
| After getting a search warrant, detectives seized security cameras from inside the home and made some alarming discoveries. | ||
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We discovered numerous children, 15 children, to be specific, ranging in ages from two months old to 13 years old. | |
| Many of the children were birthed through surrogacy. | ||
| And then the male and female at the residence took legal guardianship of those kids. | ||
| Six other kids, investigators say, had been moved to other homes. | ||
| All 21 of the kids confirmed to be the children of this couple, 65-year-old Guajun Shen and 38-year-old Sylvia Zhang. | ||
| They were arrested for felony child endangerment, but later released. | ||
| Police have also issued an arrest warrant for their nanny, 56-year-old Chun Mai Lee. | ||
| Investigators say after looking at the surveillance video, she is the main suspect in the child abuse case and is still on the loose. | ||
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The discipline, both verbally and physical, was severe to the point where, again, it supported the beliefs that child abuse was occurring inside the home. | |
| Sources tell us of the 21 children, 17 are three years old or younger. | ||
| So where did all these kids come from? | ||
| That is what the FBI is trying to figure out. | ||
| The Bureau refused to comment on the case, but Arcadia police confirmed that their detectives are working with the FBI. | ||
| Arcadia's investigation, though, determined that the children are the product of a surrogacy operation owned, you guessed it, by Zhang and Shen. | ||
| It's horrific. | ||
| It's disturbing. | ||
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It's, you know, it's damaging emotionally. | |
| Kayla Elliott is one of the surrogate mothers hired by Zhang and Shen. | ||
| She says they told her they only had one other child. | ||
| She's now hoping to get custody of the child that she bore for the couple. | ||
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These agencies were supposed to trust them and follow their guidance and, you know, come to find out. | |
| Obviously, this is disturbing in itself. | ||
| And this is just so gut-wrenching to hear all these details. | ||
| But I mean, I got to ask Frank, is this a rare case or is this going on quite often? | ||
| Well, if you look up the case of Kayla, that's the woman who is a surrogate in that video. | ||
| Later on in that video that she gave to Callie Fell, she explains that there's a second case as well. | ||
| And it wasn't discovered by authorities. | ||
| It was discovered by the surrogates themselves, who horrifyingly found that the people that they were supplying the babies to had a number of babies over a year, between 9 and 11 in one case. | ||
| And this raised alarm bells. | ||
| And then a second case has been discovered. | ||
| Both of these have been discovered in the United States around June and July of this year. | ||
| They're not the only ones. | ||
| And I would point out as well that shockingly, although this is clearly a case of human trafficking, the surrogacy agency that you just saw in that clip is still continuing to operate. | ||
| All they did was change the name of the business, and they're still in business now. | ||
| That's extremely disturbing. | ||
| But it's not surprising. | ||
| We've heard stuff like that before. | ||
| And so there needs to be action taken on that front because I don't understand how they could so recklessly do something like that. | ||
| I know it's more speculation because we might not have any proof of it yet since this is kind of early on, it sounds like. | ||
| But do we know what they're doing with those children? | ||
| If you do look into the case, you can see that the intention was to supply the surrogate children, because not all the children in that report were surrogate children, to overseas customers in China. | ||
| Now, to speak to what you said, how can this be happening? | ||
| This goes back to how this industry began in the 1990s. | ||
| And it began with a ruling in 1993 in a California court that basically classified human life as the property of the person who commissions the baby. | ||
| They call it commissioning. | ||
| So if you go to a surrogacy agency and you pay them because you want a baby, from the moment that that egg is fertilized, it is your property. | ||
| The mother who bears it has no rights. | ||
| They don't even call the surrogates mothers. | ||
| They call them gestational carriers. | ||
| And in several cases that you can look into, horrifying cases really, where the babies are going to be supplied to people who are definitely going to neglect or even abuse them, the mothers attempt to get them back and the courts say, well, you can't because that person owns them. | ||
| Well, around the world, we have a population problem right now. | ||
| And the solution for so many is what they're pointing to is usually IVF and possibly surrogacy. | ||
| How do we overcome the population issue? | ||
| because there are so many people now, especially with the COVID vaccines, who are dealing with infertility issues. | ||
| Well, I think it's important to look at other measures such as what's taken place in Hungary, which is the only developed country in the world to effectively reverse the massive decline in live births. | ||
| And it has done. | ||
| And it's done that by giving tax breaks to families and banning LGBTQ propaganda and refusing people access like that to these services, basically protecting the family and then giving financial rewards to people who have families to make it possible to have one. | ||
| Because even in a country like Britain now, it can be an impossible dream to think of even to afford to have children and to have a home to live in. | ||
| Now, last week, the Polish government said, if you have two children, they're going to abolish income tax forever for you. | ||
| This is extremely helpful. | ||
| I mean, where people are infertile, it doesn't speak to that. | ||
| But the broader problem of the population decline in the West is not a problem of infertility. | ||
| It's a problem of people being simply unable to afford to have children and being basically raised in an environment that's expressly anti-family and anti-child. | ||
| And then hopefully later in life, if you can get the money together, you can go to a baby factory and simply buy one is the answer that we're being presented with. | ||
| Yeah, and that's the scary part in all of this. | ||
| You know, it was a conspiracy to talk about artificial wombs, but it sounds like that's what's actually going on right now. | ||
| Can you break down what you found in your research in regards to all of this? | ||
| Because I've got this flag for me, this fake news, world's first pregnant robot. | ||
| What's going on here? | ||
| Well, first of all, if you say that there is a kind of human factory farming future, if you make these outlandish claims, people have, and after my interview last week, say people said on Twitter that this was just nonsense. | ||
| There's published scientific evidence for this. | ||
| But it's also interesting when something as shocking as this is real and it is real, there's also fake news that's been injected into the mainstream. | ||
| So people can point to the fake news and say, oh, look, it's nonsense. | ||
| Now, the first fake news story that came out about this was a Chinese robot. | ||
| There's a picture of it. | ||
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| It's supposed to be some kind of like robo mummy or something with a robotic womb, which is clearly absurd. | ||
| So critics can say, oh, look, you believe in that. | ||
| You're an idiot. | ||
| That's not real. | ||
| However, if you look at the British Medical Journal, they've published a book on what's called exogenesis, which is the name of generating human life outside the body, i.e. | ||
| in a laboratory and in an artificial womb. | ||
| The British Medical Journal also says that artificial wombs are coming. | ||
| At Duke University in the United States, there's an Israeli scientist who's running a program called Extent, which are actually making artificial wombs now. | ||
| And they say that they're going to give a better chance of life to babies born prematurely, who can then be put into them and to continue to gestate. | ||
| But you can see where this is going. | ||
| Dr. Thomas Singer, in that earlier clip, when he was talking about people not having sex to produce children, that's what he means this is leading to. | ||
| This is leading to a post-human future where there is absolutely no mother involved. | ||
| Because again, in the United States this year, and it's a journal that's been published in the journal Nature. | ||
| This is a scientific research paper. | ||
| It's not speculative. | ||
| There's evidence for all this that they can now create human eggs from male skin cells. | ||
| So you can take skin cells from a man and create an egg and then fertilize it in a glass jar and then potentially incubate it in an artificial womb. | ||
| And so you can produce human life without any women involved at all. | ||
| Totally motherless, completely impersonal, takes place in the laboratory. | ||
| And of course, it's much cheaper than gestational surrogacy because you don't have to pay any women to carry the baby. | ||
| That's absolutely horrifying. | ||
| And, you know, we often, I would joke and say that they're trying to replace women because we've seen all these machines, these robots that are popping up now. | ||
| There was one that could actually cook. | ||
| And I was joking and saying, oh, this is going to replace me. | ||
| There goes my job. | ||
| But I mean, this is really going to replace us. | ||
| And it's really horrifying when we look back at this and we see that this is our future potentially. | ||
| I know before we started, you and I were talking about what we could do politically to put a blockage to all of this here in the United States. | ||
| Break it down for our audience. | ||
| What could be done now to make sure that this isn't our reality? | ||
| Well, you can write to your state legislators. | ||
| You can find out why this is an issue. | ||
| And if you'd like to find out what you can do, you can get in touch with the politicians, your elected representatives, and ask them why they are partnered with this industry. | ||
| You can show them the evidence that I've presented to you. | ||
| For example, the 30 years of legal commissioning in the United States that effectively reduces human life to a consumer property, which is a scandalous precedent. | ||
| And it allows for these situations like these obvious child trafficking rings to take place permissioned by the law because the law, it now sees artificially gestated human beings as something that people own. | ||
| So it's no business of the court about their welfare. | ||
| This is actually the legal situation in America. | ||
| This is why I wrote an article last week on Substack, which is a brief guide for anyone who wonders what's all the fuss about. | ||
| It's called Surrogacy, America's National Disgrace. | ||
| And it explains why this is the national disgrace of America. | ||
| And although that's a terrible thing to say, and I wouldn't say it unless it were true, one thing I would like to stress is that every time I've put this before Americans, they have been scandalized. | ||
| Americans are good people, and this is evil. | ||
| And once you recognize it, I think it can be stopped, and I think it will be. | ||
| Yeah, well, Frank, I'm sure our audience is fired up right now and looking to do just that because this is right up our alley. | ||
| We don't want to see a future where that's taking place. | ||
| So I want to thank you for joining us today in studio. | ||
| It's incredible to talk to you and learn so much about us. | ||
| Frank Wright, thank you for being here. | ||
| Again, folks, head on over to his sub stack. | ||
| It is frankwriter.com. | ||
| That's W-R-I-G-H-T-E-R.com. | ||
| You are also a regular contributor to LifeSight News, and we appreciate all your great work. | ||
| So thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you for giving me a platform. | ||
| It's a vital issue. | ||
| I'm telling you, with better public awareness, this can be stopped. | ||
| This evil can be brought to an end. | ||
| Yeah, well, we look forward to that. | ||
| So thank you. | ||
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| It was an honor to have Frank in studio yesterday and I learned a lot. | ||
| So that's always good. | ||
| So thank you for him for coming here, of course. | ||
| I wanted to turn you over to some breaking news. | ||
| New York AG Tish James just appeared in a Virginia courtroom. | ||
| Letitia James pleaded not guilty on federal charges regarding those two felonies she's facing on bank fraud and false statements. | ||
| Again, she is claiming that she is the victim in all of this. | ||
| And there's nothing to see here, of course, but Tish James, she made her way to a courtroom. | ||
| And I love this, right? | ||
| Because she was grilling President Trump during her civil huntdown of him during his campaign days. | ||
| And she was there glaring at him. | ||
| And so it's good to see her now in that same seat. | ||
| So we'll continue to follow it, of course, as it unravels. | ||
| But that is the breaking news that we have for you. | ||
| We also have more breaking news and we'll play a clip for you. | ||
| But it looks like President Trump has announced the immediate end to all trade negotiations with Canada. | ||
| Take a listen to clip 26. | ||
| Okay, we just need one moment for that one, but ultimately, let me go give you the rundown. | ||
| It looks like they have temporarily put a pause on those negotiation tips. | ||
| They're averting, obviously, that we don't know the exact reasoning behind it. | ||
| We're ready? | ||
| Okay, we're ready. | ||
| Let's take a listen. | ||
| When someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. | ||
| And sometimes for a short while, it works, but only for a short time. | ||
| But over the long run, such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer. | ||
| High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. | ||
| Then the worst happens. | ||
| Markets shrink and collapse, businesses and industries shut down, and millions of people lose their jobs. | ||
| Throughout the world, there's a growing realization that the way to prosperity for all nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition. | ||
| America's jobs and growth are at stake. | ||
| Okay, so President Trump isn't happy about a lot right now. | ||
| And I wanted to actually play that for you, too. | ||
| That was an ad, the Canadian ad on tariffs that he wasn't happy with. | ||
| But there's also this Truth Social post now that I remember because I posted it this morning. | ||
| We'll bring it to you in just a few moments when we come back from this quick break, so it'll go anywhere. | ||
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Welcome back to the American Journal. | |
| Happy Friday, everyone. | ||
| We're excited that you guys are joining us today with us because there's a lot going on in the world. | ||
| We're trying to recap all the headlines. | ||
| And I've got a list of stories I'm going to be working my way through over the next 24 minutes. | ||
| So thank you for joining us today. | ||
| As I just told you guys before the break, President Trump has decided, I guess, to just hold off on negotiation talks with Canada for right now. | ||
| And it probably has a lot to do with this post that he made earlier this morning on Truth Social. | ||
| He called Canada out for allegedly cheating and they got caught that they took out in a fraudulent big buy ad saying that Ronald Reagan did not like tariffs when he actually loved terrorists for our country and its national security. | ||
| He goes on to say that Canada is trying to illegally influence the United States Supreme Court in one of the most important rulings in our history. | ||
| So again, he's calling out Canada not happy with what they have done thus far, trying to spew propaganda here in the United States. | ||
| And so he's not going to sit here and continue on with the trade negotiation talks for now. | ||
| And he has since halted those. | ||
| Let's talk about what else is going on right now. | ||
| Democrats are loving just pouring money into Medicaid and other services for illegal aliens because those are their new voters. | ||
| They've decided. | ||
| The administration for Medicaid Services, Dr. Oz, says that the Fed has identified over a billion dollars in federal taxpayer funds being spent by six Democrat-run states on health care for illegal aliens. | ||
| Take a listen to Cliff 24 as he details just that. | ||
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You know, there have been accusations by the Democrats that that's not really a thing, that money from the federal government is not going to illegal immigrants. | |
| Maria, just in the last few months, in the few states that we've examined, less than half a dozen, we've identified more than a trillion, I'm sorry, more than a billion dollars with a B, more than a billion dollars of money, federal tax dollars that have gone to illegal immigrants. | ||
| We're actually calling that money back from those states now. | ||
| But the fact that that could still happen is very frustrating to all of us. | ||
| And why would you want to repeal that after all the work that was put into ensuring that these programs that work so well for vulnerable populations would remain intact financially? | ||
| Isn't that interesting? | ||
| Because these were the same people telling us that they're not holding up the federal government for this reason alone. | ||
| Obviously, they have a lot of illegal aliens that they want to continue to support in their countries or in their states, and they don't want to send it back to their countries. | ||
| And that's what's going on right now in this country. | ||
| And I'd say it's frustrating that we have to fight this battle, but it's one that's worth fighting. | ||
| And we must carry on with that. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Hunter Biden obviously is not very happy with Kamala Harris because Kamala Harris has a book that she's been trying to push out and she's, you know, not being too kind to her former running mates. | ||
| And, well, he was asked, Hunter was asked about Kamala during what looks like a three-hour interview for a Substack platform. | ||
| And according to this New York Post article, Hunter Biden was very blunt about how she feels about how he feels about her and said that her race played a key role in her father's decision to tap her as the vice president. | ||
| Also adding, I didn't read it. | ||
| Talking about the book. | ||
| I didn't read. | ||
| I really didn't. | ||
| I'm just disappointed. | ||
| I've had some of the things I tried to block it out. | ||
| I was going to say, I'll have to admit, it's personally painful for her to, in a book, try to distance herself and take what I would call the easy path to distance herself to what I guess she thinks is the biggest complaint about the vice president has always been is that, which I never believe, and I really mean it, that she's not authentic. | ||
| I've heard that before. | ||
| Although that was a word salad. | ||
| I think most of us understood that Kamal Harris wasn't authentic, and that's the reason why she lost the presidency. | ||
| And that's the reason why she couldn't win a primary. | ||
| So Hunter Biden, got to be a little bit of agreement here saying that Kamala Harris was only picked because she's black. | ||
| And she's not a very likable person. | ||
| Yeah, we've already known that. | ||
| So that's not a big, big surprise. | ||
| All right, let's keep going down on the list of stories. | ||
| There's a lot happening right now in regards to, let's just talk about more than a half a million federal workers missing their first paycheck as the government shutdown continues. | ||
| That paycheck obviously would have been, I believe, today, as we hit day 24 of this shutdown, and so many sadly will not be receiving that paycheck. | ||
| Now, obviously, when the government reopens, they'll get their back pay. | ||
| So that's that. | ||
| But for a lot of Americans, this is a very tough time. | ||
| I was actually honored when I saw it. | ||
| My bank, I bank with USAA, and it's one of my banks at least. | ||
| And they were so incredible to extend no interest loans to service members, active service members could apply for a no-interest loan if you're someone who is missing a paycheck. | ||
| And I thought that was fascinating that they were doing that. | ||
| And it really highlights the lack of corporate green. | ||
| I'm a big fan of that. | ||
| I am a big fan of that. | ||
| Let's talk about this. | ||
| This is interesting. | ||
| We're going to talk about how TikTok is boosting pro-Madani content in its algorithm. | ||
| Now, that's fascinating because this has a lot to do with the United States not allowing the CCP to control TikTok. | ||
| And according to researchers, they say that the Chinese app has boosted content in favor of the socialist New York City mayorial candidate, Zonray McDonney. | ||
| And that's compared to New York City mayor, potential New York City mayor, say governor, actually. | ||
| New York governor Andrew Cuomo. | ||
| I'm just citing Breibert here for you folks. | ||
| Now, they're saying that they've done the research and the research shows that they're boosting in the algorithm pro-Modani content and anti-Cuomo content. | ||
| Now, isn't that surprising? | ||
| Why would a Chinese-controlled app boost the communist candidate here in the United States? | ||
| Wonder. | ||
| No wonder. | ||
| Again, guys, this is why so many people are really doing their best to push to make sure that TikTok couldn't be controlled by the CCP anymore. | ||
| Now they claim, obviously, that they don't control it, but anything that's a Chinese company is controlled by the CCP. | ||
| So, again, this just highlights just that they are, in fact, boosting up pro-Modani, anti-Cuomo post. | ||
| And it's not surprising at all. | ||
| Not surprising one bit. | ||
| There's a couple of sound bites I want to play for you, too, because it gives you a good chuckle. | ||
| Remember when I told you about, we talked about it earlier in the show, that Adam Schiff, apparently, according to reports that the investigation into him is kind of stalling out to mortgage fraud, I believe it was. | ||
| Well, in clip 20, President Trump just had some words for Adam Schiff, words that we all say probably on social media, but it's always great to hear the president describing him. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
| Adam Schiff is one of the lowest forms of scum I've ever dealt with in politics. | ||
| He's a horrible human being, very dishonest person. | ||
| I have no idea what's going on. | ||
| You tell me that he's going to be indicted. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You could ask Pam. | ||
| I don't know if she could say it. | ||
| Probably you are allowed to say it, but I wouldn't know about that. | ||
| I can only tell you he's a very, he's a very bad, I think he's actually a sick person. | ||
| Now it's great to hear the president being so direct, so transparent now. | ||
| I mean, he might be indicted. | ||
| He might not be indicted. | ||
| We don't know yet. | ||
| But we hope that there's accountability for Adam Schiff because mortgage fraud just seems like a slap on the wrist for what the rest of us believe he has actually committed. | ||
| So he might want to just deal with the mortgage fraud claims. | ||
| That might be the easier way out for Adam Schiff. | ||
| All right, I want to talk a little bit about the Long Island Railroad. | ||
| Okay, because there's a bunch of, and the New York Post is great reporting about this. | ||
| There's been a ton of LIRR employees accused of misclaiming their hours. | ||
| And essentially, what's happening right now. | ||
| The LIR are subsidized, and so is the MTA. | ||
| It's all the same hub. | ||
| Taxpayers are pouring money into it too. | ||
| The LIR, because they think that Long Islanders are rich, you pay more money to take the train rather than the New York City subway lines. | ||
| And they're always saying at the MTA hearings, oh, we need more money. | ||
| We need more money. | ||
| We're so poor. | ||
| And they use that to justify raising the rates. | ||
| They never will actually acknowledge the fraud that's taking place amongst their employees. | ||
| Now, there's been some criminal prosecutions for those who have misled and wrongfully charged their hours, but this is a big issue because it keeps happening. | ||
| The New York Post is alleging that three dozen LIRR employees used fake IDs in part of a scam to ditch work, but still get paid. | ||
| They were saying that one of these employees instead decided to booze up on Margarita's poolside while they were clocked in. | ||
| Now, that sounds like something easy to prove, of course, thanks to social media. | ||
| So that will probably be an easy win. | ||
| These employees included supervisors who shouldn't have been, and who should have been enforcing the law, stole countless hours of pay. | ||
| That's according to the MTA Inspector General. | ||
| It's just so infuriating because as someone who used to have to pay for this, it would hurt. | ||
| Like, I get side pains having to pay $500 a month. | ||
| It was about $500 a month, plus your parking. | ||
| Then you're still at the car payments. | ||
| You live in the suburbs. | ||
| And these people are just robbing you blind. | ||
| And every single hearing, they say to you, oh, we need more money. | ||
| We need more money. | ||
| So it's not surprising, folks, that the New York Post is making these allegations against them. | ||
| Workers sold their clone cards. | ||
| Those are their swipe cards, many of which were stashed in unlocked lockers, and even in a refrigerator that was apparently on the LIRR property. | ||
| They were able to sell this for about $40. | ||
| One employee performed work on another vehicle in exchange for a fake swipe card, according to the IG. | ||
| Hopefully, these people are criminally prosecuted because that's really frustrating, especially for someone who does rely on public transportation. | ||
| That is not acceptable, of course. | ||
| All right, we're digging into more headlines we have lined up for you. | ||
| We did talk about this yesterday in the show. | ||
| J.D. Vance, I feel so bad for his poor wife because she was under attack by the women who on the left who just hate their marriage. | ||
| They hate their husbands. | ||
| They hate their lives. | ||
| They're miserable. | ||
| And then the single women who are just so miserable, they can't find a partner. | ||
| But Jen Saki was making an awful comments saying that J.D. Vance's wife needs some saving as if she's some miserable woman who's being abused. | ||
| Take a listen to clip 21 as J.D. Vance responds to those claims. | ||
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Former Wales Press Secretary Jen Saki made some comments suggesting that your wife, the second lady, needed to be saved from you. | |
| How do you feel about comments like that being made while you're here with the second lady? | ||
| Oh, I think it's disgraceful, but of course, the second lady can speak for herself. | ||
| And I am very lucky to have a wonderful wife. | ||
| And I know, or at least I hope that my wife feels the same about me, but we are very lucky to have this journey. | ||
| I should say I'm very lucky to go on this journey with a very loving wife. | ||
| We're going to keep on serving the country together. | ||
| And I'm honored to have Usha by my side on this trip in particular, but always. | ||
| Aw, wouldn't those women kill to have a man talk about their wife or them like that? | ||
| So I just hate the hate. | ||
| You know, they're all just such miserable people hating on the Vance family. | ||
| It's so gross. | ||
| But it's not surprising. | ||
| And they love playing the fake victim card. | ||
| And so they're trying to drum up the fact that she's somehow being abused when she looks happy. | ||
| They have cute kids. | ||
| Leave them alone. | ||
| But they never can do that. | ||
| All right. | ||
| When it comes to crime, JB Pritzker, I always stop myself from saying it the way that I really want to say it is challenged on Chicago crime. | ||
| Take a listen to Soundbite 23. | ||
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Why does Chicago have the highest murder rate of all the big cities? | |
| Well, we are not in the top 30 in terms of our murder rate. | ||
| Indeed, our murder rate has been cut in half over the last four years. | ||
| And every year it's gone down by double digits. | ||
| And if you look at all of the violent crime over the last four years, they've all gone down. | ||
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17.47 per 100,000 population. | |
| Chicago is number one over Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Phoenix, Los Angeles, New York, and San Diego. | ||
| What I'm explaining to you is that. | ||
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No, you're talking about violent crime. | |
| Look, you can pull statistics up. | ||
| These are murders. | ||
| I'm explaining to you that our murder rate has been cut in half. | ||
| And very importantly, Brett, you got to hear this. | ||
| Very importantly, we've been doing the things that are necessary to bring crime down, right? | ||
| We've invested in community violence interruption. | ||
| We've invested in police. | ||
| I've added more state police than any governor in quite a long time. | ||
| It's very important that we do both of those things and more to invest in our communities so that we bring crime down. | ||
| We're doing that. | ||
| You know who's doing the opposite? | ||
| Donald Trump. | ||
| That's not what we need. | ||
| Are you buying it? | ||
| Because I'm not buying it. | ||
| I actually think he's full of it. | ||
| If you've been to Chicago, it's a beautiful city. | ||
| Great restaurants, great steakhouses, great Italian food. | ||
| But Sally, they've ruined it. | ||
| I mean, they say that they're safe areas, but are they really safe? | ||
| Take or gamble. | ||
| You see, he's sitting here pretending he's done stuff to keep Chicago safe. | ||
| I mean, come on, folks. | ||
| How many weekends with dozens of people dead? | ||
| Do you need to really understand that that's not the case? | ||
| I was actually shocked when I heard, I believe it was FBI Director Cash Ratel say that there's over 100,000 gang members in Chicago. | ||
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That's not a problem. | |
| That's an investation. | ||
| And again, you hear from the governor just downplaying everything because he's rich. | ||
| He's a multi-millionaire. | ||
| He doesn't need anything. | ||
| Guy won like $1.4 million who's forced to disclose just by gambling. | ||
| Claims he donated it. | ||
| Yeah, okay. | ||
| We'd like to see that. | ||
| But this is what they do. | ||
| And they're like, oh, we've done more than the president of the United States. | ||
| He is trying his best, but guess who's pushing back? | ||
| Guess who doesn't want federal agents? | ||
| They're protecting federal buildings, helping out, making sure that law enforcement has all the resources necessary. | ||
| That would be the state of Illinois. | ||
| It was running and governing. | ||
| So it's nonsense. | ||
| It's garbage. | ||
| It's BS. | ||
| That's what they do best. | ||
| So they do your best. | ||
| Letitia James is going to be live. | ||
| We're going to take her in one second. | ||
| She is speaking after just pleading not guilty. | ||
| We'll let you know when we're ready to go take that. | ||
| Thank you guys in the control room for that. | ||
| It's a great one. | ||
| So definitely stay put on that front as we wait for Tisha James to respond. | ||
| But she is facing allegations of obviously bank fraud and so much more. | ||
| Just went into a Virginia courtroom and pleaded not guilty. | ||
| She's claiming all the political persecution, like I promised to tell you guys before on the show, and how she detailed how this is not fair. | ||
| She was just doing her job, and she's full of it. | ||
| There she is right now, playing the victim. | ||
| Let's take a listen. | ||
| Thank you for your emails. | ||
| I want to thank you for your support. | ||
| It has strengthened my spirit and it has anchored my soul. | ||
| So, I want to thank you. | ||
| But this is not about me. | ||
| This is about all of us. | ||
| And about a justice system which has been weaponized. | ||
| A justice system which has been a tool been used as a tool of revenge. | ||
| This justice system, which has been used as a tool of revenge, and a weapon against those individuals who simply did their job and who stood up for the rule of law. | ||
| And the justice system, which unfortunately is nothing being used as a vehicle of retribution. | ||
| But my faith is strong. | ||
| And my faith is: I have this belief in the justice system and the rule of law. | ||
| And I have a job, and I have a belief in America and all of its individuals who have stood with me, not only in New York, but all across this nation. | ||
| I've heard from just about every jurisdiction in this nation who have said, stand up and be tall. | ||
| And never ever cow down or back down or break or bend. | ||
| So there's no fear today. | ||
| No fear. | ||
| No fear. | ||
| Because I believe that justice will rain down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream. | ||
| And I'm here to say that my work and my job and all that I do all throughout my public career I've stood up for the rights of New Yorkers and Americans and I will not be deterred. | ||
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That's a lie. | |
| And I will not be deterred. | ||
| I will not be able to do it. | ||
| Everybody I believe is there. | ||
| That's who you're hearing in the background. | ||
| We'll keep with this, though. | ||
| I just want to let you know who you might be hearing screaming in the background. | ||
| Because there's work to be done standing up for the rule of law. | ||
| God bless you and thank you all. | ||
| And I appreciate you. | ||
| All right, big Tish is claiming she's a victim here and she's getting a little bit of pushback on that front thanks to someone screaming. | ||
| Oh, I think that might have been Ivan, but we don't 100% confirm. | ||
| But I did see that he was there in the area. | ||
| So good on whoever that was, though. | ||
| Interesting enough, though, Tish James claiming she's a victim, did nothing wrong. | ||
| And they always talk like they're a civil rights leader, right? | ||
| Like she's over here, like pretending, I've got faith. | ||
| You really have faith? | ||
| You really have because I haven't heard her deny the actual claims itself. | ||
| She just is claiming to be a victim of a persecution. | ||
| It's worth noting, Tish. | ||
| I mean, her family has a deep, deep criminal background. | ||
| When you look at all these people who are allegedly living in the house, they are, in fact, people have been charged with heinous crimes and crimes that I would say just prove that your family is a bunch of lowlives. | ||
| But Tish James, big Tish really going out there to put on a show. | ||
| So great that we're able to bring that to you while we can, of course. | ||
| I want to talk about more things, though. | ||
| Of course, I want to take things to San Francisco because the mayor of San Francisco is being put on blast by President Trump because they're not admitting that they need support. | ||
| They don't want the president sending in federal resources to help. | ||
| And, you know, there's a surge in crime in San Francisco. | ||
| If you haven't been to San Francisco in quite some time, you're probably one of the lucky ones. | ||
| But it's sad because it is a beautiful, beautiful city. | ||
| The federal government was preparing to surge San Francisco on Saturday, but friends of mine who live in the area called last night to ask me not to go forward with the surge in that the mayor apparently is making substantial progression progress. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| So it looks like this was posted yesterday on Truth Social, it looks like. | ||
| President's not going to be going towards San Francisco with these federal resources, but there's a lot of cities that could use it. | ||
| Why not Austin, Texas? | ||
| I'm going to help them clean up their streets. | ||
| He did a great job in DC. | ||
| DC got rid of their homeless issue. | ||
| Maybe send, I know it would embarrass the so-called Republican Texas state lawmakers, but the reality of it, and the governor, who's allegedly a Republican, the reality of it is, is this place needs some cleaning. | ||
| Let's just not go after areas that are in blue states. | ||
| Let's go after cities that are ran by Democrats too. | ||
| And that's the reason what's going on in Austin right now. | ||
| You can't even, you can't even drive in the suburbs without you finding a bunch of homeless people. | ||
| And it's sad. | ||
| Yesterday, I just drove to the post office and there was sadly allegedly, I mean, I don't know if it's true or not, a mother who is sitting outside with two kids. | ||
| And it's, it's not what you want to see in your city, but it's time to clean it up. | ||
| If people need housing, get them housing. | ||
| They're scamming. | ||
| We got to get rid of them too. | ||
| If they need mental health services, get it for them. | ||
| So it's interesting, interesting to see all that. | ||
| There's another report that I want to point you to. | ||
| Apparently, President Trump is going to be notifying Congress about strikes against the cartels in Venezuela. | ||
| Now, obviously, as you guys know, we've talked about here, the president has declared a war against the drugs that are coming into this country, those who are bringing those drugs into this country. | ||
| And it just happens to be the gangs in Venezuela. | ||
| And they're not doing much to push back on it. | ||
| We started off, actually, the show by bringing you the latest vessel that was struck by the Department of War yesterday. | ||
| Last night, I should say. | ||
| Six men allegedly died. | ||
| They were apparently all associated with TDA, which is obviously now a terrorist organization. | ||
| So the president is doing what should be done, and that's responding to the attacks that are currently taking place. | ||
| All right, folks, I wanted to remind you all to head on over right now, alexjonesapp.com. | ||
| Download the app. | ||
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| All right, that does it for me. | ||
| The Alex Jones show is up next. | ||
| Have a great weekend, everyone. | ||
| We'll see you on Monday. | ||
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While other networks lie to you about what's happening now, Infowars tells you the truth about what's happening next. | |
| Harrison, I am so excited to talk to you. | ||
| I want to plug that Irish CMOS was a big game changer for me. | ||
| I was having a lot of like thermal regulation issues, like morning, severe chills and cold in the morning. | ||
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All that stopped with the CMOS because it's a thyroid issue. | |
| And the CMOS has that eye dynamic to heal your thyroid. | ||
| Isn't that amazing? | ||
| The methylene blue. | ||
| Yeah, the methylene blue life-changing. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| I don't need caffeine anymore. | ||
| Like, it's amazing, but I'm trying to be quick. | ||
| It's all right. | ||
| Hey, when you're plugging, we got all the time in the world. | ||
| I love his self-element formula. | ||
| I am an acupuncturist. | ||
| I have a master's degree in Chinese medicine. | ||
| And he's got some really good formulas put together. | ||
| And they work really well. | ||
| I really appreciate that stuff taking all of my other stuff that I've taken. | ||
| And I just take a lot of you guys' stuff. | ||
| I mean, because I love you and I want to support everything you guys are doing. | ||
| But the formulas are good. | ||
| I love the greens powder. | ||
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I've tried every different type of greens powder out there. | |
| And nothing has had as much stuff, amazing stuff packed into it. | ||
| It has like a decent flavor to it. | ||
| So the, I mean, the Optimal Human is like a daily staple. | ||
| It's good, right? | ||
| Absolutely, 100%. | ||
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| And I'm not saying that because just for you guys, but seriously, I've tried so many greens powders over the years and it really is the best. | ||
| And are we paying you, Katie? | ||
| Did we pay you to call in? | ||
| I would love to work for you. | ||
| I swear, Alex Jones Fisher is on like my mantle with all of my family pictures. | ||
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That's amazing. | |
| You know, some people call in this person. | ||
| You're paying them. | ||
| But like, no, our products really are good. | ||
| People really like them. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| Well, I accredited him to like the life-changing experience I had when I decided to leave California because I didn't want to bash Trump. | ||
| And I pushed him into Jones until I found him. | ||
| And I'm like, I gotta get into how that year. | ||
| And so I moved back home to Ohio. | ||
| And three months later, I met my husband. | ||
| And I feel like that life-changing event for me was because of listening to all the information that he gives. | ||
| He's not like predicting the future. | ||
| He's just giving you the information that's hard to find where they're telling you what they're going to do. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, now you have a three-year-old kid. | ||
| So your life's going great. | ||
| I've said it before, but with a lot of these products, like you really don't know what it's going to do for you because you might not know that you're lacking a vitamin or lacking a mineral. | ||
| And it happens all the time with iodine. | ||
| Iodine is one of those things where like, as soon as you start taking it, you're like, oh, I'm not supposed to, and I'm not a doctor. | ||
| This is not a medical claim, but people experience this. | ||
| I've heard it from my friends where they're like, I'm not supposed to be tired all the time. | ||
| I apparently just was lacking iodine. | ||
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| It's like people sort of go around thinking that that's the way their body is, but it's like, no, you're missing a key component. | ||
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| You can fix these things. | ||
| Again, I'm not making medical claims, but you can only find out for yourself what effects these things will have, the AlexJonesStore.com. | ||
| Thanks for the plug, Katie. | ||
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