Prices, in particular for groceries, are still too high.
The American people know it.
I know it.
They talk about small government, small enough to be in your bedroom, small enough to be in your exam room, small enough to be in your library, telling you the things that you should make decisions about.
Mind your own business.
The clock is ticking.
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It is critical.
When you think about where we were, this was Donald Trump.
And when you look at Donald Trump and JD Vance, since Kamala Harris has become the nominee, presumptive nominee for the Democrats, he has done one interview with her security blanket, Tim Walz, last night between Donald Trump and JD Vance.
This was their 36th interview, multiple press conferences included.
In a way, right now, they are running with a ghost against a ghost.
Somebody that is hiding, the media is protecting, big tech is helping.
You got powerful institutions.
God only knows what the deep state is up to this time.
Although we do have some evidence of what that is about today.
I'm not sure what to make of this whole, you know, the DOJ alleging yesterday that Russian President Vladimir Putin, who came out and endorsed Kamala Harris.
There's not any questions about it now, who he wants to win, and probably for obvious reasons.
But anyway, they put out a, you know, yesterday alleging that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered several Russian companies to target Americans through the use of influencers and social media pages to spread propaganda and interfere with the election.
And this is the bizarre part of it.
The disinformation topics that are apparently part of the Russian campaign include record inflation.
Well, we've experienced record inflation under Harris and Biden.
That is called the truth, unaffordable food prices.
Well, food prices are up dramatically under Harris and Joe Biden.
I mean, if you look at it, for example, mortgage rates were up to 7.75% under Donald Trump at average 2.77%.
Personal savings up a whopping 385% under Donald Trump, down 73% under Harris and Biden.
If you look at credit card delinquency, it was down 11% under Donald Trump.
It's up 50% under Harris and Biden.
If you look at real wages, I mean, 8.2% savings under the President Trump years and minus 3.9% under Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.
I mean, those are dramatic numbers that impacts the lives of you, the American people.
So why would record inflation or talking about record inflation, unaffordable food prices on essential goods be anything other than the truth?
Or if somebody focuses on, you know, diversity, equity, inclusion stories or woke stories, apparently, oh, that might be part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
It's like, here we go again.
It is beyond ridiculous the list of items that the weaponized DOJ of Biden and Harris has legitimately screwed up on.
Another one that they selected is crimes committed by Harris-Biden unvetted illegal immigrants.
Multiple stories about this that we have in our list today.
And if you really want to talk about foreign influence and corruption, why has nobody examined Vice President Tim Walz and the years that he spent promoting a research facility that collaborated with the Chinese military, with a Chinese military company?
You know, we have apparently a Hunter-Biden tax case is continuing amidst a plea drama.
You know, maybe a plea deal is in the making.
We don't know yet.
But jury selection is supposed to be beginning today in downtown Los Angeles.
And prosecutors in the original 56-page indictment said that Hunter intentionally avoided paying $1.4 million in taxes that he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019.
Remember, the statute of limitations ran out in those very important, very profitable barisma years.
Anyway, during that time, prosecutors say Biden earned more than $7 million, including work for Burisma, but that was at the end of the Burisma years.
Anyway, Holdings Limited, you know, now bankrupt Chinese company, the CEFC, and a Romanian oligarch facing bribery allegations.
If you want to talk about other examples that the DOJ apparently is not investigating, we had earlier this week a former aide to the New York governor, Kathy Hochl, unmasked by the feds as a clandestine Chinese operative and the arrest of an unregistered Chinese spy who worked in the government in the latest spy scandal.
And if you want other cases, in that case, an unregistered spy who worked with the government hit high-powered, high-ranking politicians with access to classified intelligence, the late California Senator Dianne Feinstein among them.
Eric Swalwell, for example.
In August, New Jersey, Senator Bob Menendez resigned after foreign bribery convictions.
And the DOJ announces these charges yesterday against Russian nationals over accusations of election meddling.
It remains pretty unclear what actions are being taken to hold another prominent election interferer, Iran, accountable.
And that, to me, is a big story as well.
That, of course, they're not paying attention to.
It's like, what is this now 2.0?
Here we go again, every election.
Vladimir Putin.
Oh, Vladimir Putin, less than a day after this Biden-Harris DOJ trying to, I guess, maybe that relaunched 3.0 of their Russia gate hoax against Donald Trump.
Vladimir Putin gives a full-throated endorsement.
This was in Newsweek, of Comrade Kamala Harris.
And anyway, Putin said, speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum somewhere, Putin said Russia's favorite was formerly President Joe Biden, who withdrew from the race, but his country would now support Harris.
I told you our favorite, if you can recall, it was the current president, Mr. Biden.
He was removed from the race and recommended all of his supporters support.
We now recommend all of his supporters support Harris, so we will do the same.
We support her.
And he said, ultimately, the choice is up to the American people.
We respect the choice, he added.
As for favorites, it's not up to us to determine that.
After all, the choice, it's the choice of the American people.
He said, Harris laughs so expressively and infectiously, she must be doing well, obviously mocking her.
And he added, Trump has introduced such a number of restrictions and sanctions against Russia that no president had ever introduced before.
And if Ms. Harris is doing well, then maybe she'll refrain from those kind of actions.
I mean, and then you can go back and see how, but I have no idea what this means.
So if you talk about the bad economy, record inflation, which is true and real, they're claiming this is Russian disinformation.
By the way, it was the government that used Hillary Clinton's bought and paid for Russian disinformation dossier that they were warned not to use for the basis of four FISA warrant applications.
Anyone get held accountable for that?
If you talk about woke, diversity, equity, inclusion, is that included?
If you talk about all the crimes committed by nearly 11 million Harris Biden unvetted illegal immigrants, oh, excuse me, you're not allowed to talk about that?
That at all?
Tim Walz, longtime vocal supporter of this medical research institute, a firm labeled by the Pentagon as a Chinese military company with Chinese officials and paying for trips to China.
I mean, I think he went on some, what, 20, 30 trips to China, undeterred by this Russian interference and U.S. allegations.
New York Post had a good editorial today, you know, going into this.
You know, this, and by the way, let me be very clear: the idea that there are maybe some people that call themselves conservative that think Putin is anything other than pure evil, I don't understand.
He invaded a sovereign, innocent country and he has slaughtered innocent people.
That is by every definition evil.
Now, where conservatives often split is how, you know, why didn't Joe Biden force Europe to protect their continent before sending all these hundreds of billions of dollars over there?
Why did he put handcuffs on Ukraine in terms of their ability to win the war like he wouldn't allow Poland to give the MiGs in the beginning or wouldn't allow cluster bombs to be used?
If they're fighting a war, you fight the war to win the war and end the war.
And I think the Ukrainians have shown themselves to be, you know, have shown great courage and valor and far more resilient than I would have ever anticipated they'd be and effective against the Russian military might.
I mean, I've seen nothing but a lot of weakness out of Russia.
But make no mistake, Putin is evil.
And if America wants to support them, well, Ukraine happens to be one of the most mineral-rich countries in the world.
We should sell them the weapons if we want to support them.
Not give them the weapons that we can't afford to give them.
Israel's willing to pay for weaponry.
I'm a big supporter of Israel.
They have their right to win their war against evil in their region against radical Islamic terrorists, which Kamala Harris doesn't want you to say.
I mean, by the way, over at Meta, did you see this?
They declared the rallying call from the river to the sea that's used by these pro-Hamas protesters.
They're saying it's not hate speech.
It means wipe Israel off the map.
How is that not hate speech?
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
That's not hate speech, according to Meta's board with the announcement yesterday arguing certain uses of the slogan can express solidarity with Palestinians without calling for violence or exclusion.
From the river to the sea means wipe Israel off the map, you morons.
There is good and there is evil in this world.
And some of the world's worst actors would include the Iranian mullahs.
It would include their proxy terrorist groups, Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in the north, and Lebanon, the Houthi rebels, and all the other proxy fights.
And they got rich under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who ignored the sanctions that have been placed on them and gave sanction waivers and wanted to give $6 billion in a ransom payment.
I mean, that's supporting radicalism, but don't say radical Islamic terrorism.
You need to show courage.
And the same thing with, you know, all of these conflicts.
They just appease the most radical, extremist, authoritarian, totalitarian regimes ever.
And now, you know, here we are.
We're back to this again.
I don't know.
I just, it's really unimaginable to me, but it's not surprising to me.
We've got a lot of poll numbers we're going to get to today.
Kamala Harris supporters are demanding that she keep her promise to force Americans to pay for reparations.
Trump last night at the town hall, and we'll talk, we're going to play this for you, but I mean, he's warning these economic policies could lead to a depression, unrealized capital gains, increasing the top marginal rate, largest tax increase in the history of the country in the world.
That's dangerous for every American.
Oh, and Kamala has a new hire, a director on her campaign, attacked, you know, white Christians, claiming that America is an imperial cult and a bloodthirsty beast.
Guy's name, Progressive Reverend Jennifer, her name is Jennifer Butler, brought onto the court of people of faith on the Harris Walls ticket.
She has argued that white supremacists have hijacked Christianity and the Christian faith, now runs a program seeking to root out purported white nationalism from Christians.
Today we face fundamental threats of democracy.
He goes on to say, who stole my Bible in 2020?
The wealthy and overwhelmingly white, and those who are systematically economically disadvantaged are people of color, and goes on to talk about the imperial cult of the United States of America.
Unbelievable.
Well, I guess she fits in with the party of radicalism that now Liz Cheney is supporting.
But no, most Christians I know believe that we're all created by the same God.
And I say that as a person that is of the Christian faith and that we realize that we are sinners, that we have all fallen short, and we ask for God's mercy, healing, and something called repentance to change one's heart from the Latin.
I can't stand when Christianity is so misunderstood and distorted by people for political gain.
All right, some very interesting things happen in Los Angeles.
Hunter offered to solve his criminal tax trial through what's known an Alpha plea, which he would plead guilty to nine charges but maintain his innocence to the underlying conduct.
This apparently took the prosecution by surprise, and they appear to be taken back.
And apparently, they're not going along with it.
So those, I guess, discussions are ongoing.
A top Justice Department spokesperson has now come out ripping Alvin Bragg for waging lawfare against Donald Trump just to further quote his own political ambitions.
He was on a hidden camera.
Nicholas Bias, chief spokesman for the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office, recorded tearing into the prosecutor.
I think the case is nonsense, he went on to say.
Yeah, we'd known that for a while.
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It's game time, 61 days till Election Day.
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It's a guarantee it will increase conservative turnout.
Many states have challenged laws, and integrity measures have been won almost every time.
Not what we want, but we certainly, it's not the same situation that we had in 2020.
So, you know, with COVID and partisan observers, never got to watch the vote count, et cetera, et cetera.
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The other issue, we mentioned Hunter Biden's attempt to plead guilty while maintaining his innocence, not seeming to go over pretty well today.
You've got this top Justice Department spokesperson ripping Alvin Bragg.
Honestly, this case is nonsense.
Secretly recorded, tearing into this prosecutor for blind ambition and political ambition.
And anyway, the edited clip was released on social media today.
The identity of the woman who secretly recorded the exchange wasn't made public, but anyway, love to interview that guy.
We had the Justice Department, as you know, brought another case in the D.
This is the D.C. case, the January 6th case.
And I thought there was a Justice Department rule that said you're supposed to prevent prosecution and prosecutors from doing anything that might impact the outcome of an election with at least 60 days before Election Day.
Well, not in this weaponized DOJ environment we have because the D.C. judge overseeing Donald Trump's case in D.C. just announced that it doesn't matter how close we are to an election.
She's proceeding full speed ahead.
And prosecutors apparently will be able to present the most damaging evidence they can dream up right until Election Day.
Political wire.
The imminent presidential election will have no bearing on the schedule of Donald Trump's criminal proceedings for seeking to subvert the last one, according to the judge.
The electoral process and the timing of the election is not relevant here.
This court is not concerned with the electoral schedule.
The judge appears inclined to give prosecutors a chance to pretty much lay out their side, their evidence against Trump within the next few weeks, which is a timeline that would perfectly coincide with the rampump of early voting in the critical final weeks of a presidential campaign.
Wow.
These are unbelievable times.
You see the powerful institutional forces that are at work here?
You know, now we got Russia hoaxed 5.0.
Pretty unbelievable.
But let's ignore all the other allegations.
Let's ignore Tim Walz.
Let's ignore all the other people and Bob Menendez.
Let's ignore that Vladimir Putin endorses Kamala Harris.
How many trips did Tim Walz take to China for crying out loud?
Let's forget that the former aide to the New York governor just unmasked by the feds as a Chinese operative or the arrest of an unregistered Chinese spy that worked in the government in this high-ranking political access to Intel with Diane Feinstein, who passed away and Eric Swalwell.
Unbelievable.
And then we have big tech involved.
You can say from the river to the sea, and it's not hate speech.
That means the destruction of Israel.
Meanwhile, Jewish students at the City University of New York berated by a masked anti-Israel protester who blocked the entrance of a kosher deli in New York, hurling remarks at them.
Columbia students target, quote, war criminal and Israel global propagandist Hillary Clinton with a sit-down protest, and it goes on and on.
Is the DOJ going to take actions against Iran?
Because as they announce these charges, where's the Attorney General on the issue of Tehran specifically attempting to compromise former President Trump's campaign to avoid an election outcome that it regards against their best interest?
Just ask yourself from a common sense standpoint, who do you think these foreign leaders prefer as president?
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, or Donald Trump?
Donald Trump, who stopped the Nord Stream 2 pipeline?
Donald Trump, who put all the sanctions on Iran, Donald Trump, who put all the tariffs on China because of their unfair trade practices and intellectual property theft.
Who do you think they prefer?
I think it's pretty obvious.
Anyway, so Kamala Harris's supporters are demanding that she keep a promise now to force Americans to pay reparations.
You know, we're going to play my town hall from Harrisburg last night.
The people of Harrisburg are just amazing.
It was so fun last night.
I was so much fun.
Linda got to meet the president yesterday for the first time.
She'd never met him before.
And your whole family got to meet them.
Anthony and Liam and all the kids got to meet him.
It was great to see Lauren again and your brother.
They were there.
We brought everybody.
I mean, we did.
We filled out the whole first row.
The whole first.
Well, I'm not going to lie.
Your team was amazing.
And Scott over at Box is just a rock star.
And we're getting there.
Patience is a virtue.
And he was so kind.
And I was like, listen, if you can make it happen, we can have that front row.
Like, I would be so grateful because we're bringing the kids.
So we had Livy there.
We had Anthony Joseph there.
We had, you know, my husband, Anthony.
We had Liam there.
Lauren and Don.
This is going to take up the whole half hour of the family list.
Go ahead.
It was a lot.
And then Jeff Lord was there.
And, you know, McCormick was there.
Jeff Bartos was there who's on today.
He's awesome.
Just, you know, great people.
And so, but you definitely, I mean, we talked about it yesterday, and I was saying very clearly, I'm like, you know, I have never met Trump.
I've been on the show 19 years, and it's just phenomenal.
Like, you know, I've been in the proximity, I've been on the Secret Service list a gajillion times.
I always get passed over because they've got too many people or there's not enough time.
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, no worries.
You know, another time, another time.
And then I was like, you know what?
I'm like, I would just love to meet this president.
I'm like, I really would.
Once you express that to me, because I don't keep track of these things, as you know, how my mind works.
I'm like, oh, I'm going to fix that.
And I asked you, would you mind coming?
First, I introduced you to the crowd, and I was very happy you got a very warm reception in your home state of Pennsylvania.
Were you anticipating booze?
I mean, you seem surprised.
A couple.
That might be a couple.
But no, I wasn't expecting booze.
And then I said, would you mind meeting my radio producer?
Now he knows your voice.
You've spoken to him.
I have.
Katie talks to him more now these days, but it's been, it's just been, it was just honestly, only one other person ever took my breath away like that.
And that was God Russ His Soul, Alex Trebek.
And when I met him in person, he came in this too.
I mean, I love that, man.
I watched Jeopardy for years.
But anyhow, I don't, I don't take your breath away.
I mean, fortunately, I get to see you every day.
I'm very blessed, you know?
Although the crowd went crazy last night, you hardly ever get to see me.
The crowd.
But I did for a long time.
But the crowd had a very enormous reception until Trump walked in, and I'm like, oh, I can't come back.
I mean, honestly, I thought that even, you know, I know you're going to be showing some of these awesome people tonight asking their questions on the show.
But I mean, they were so sweet.
They were like, we're so happy to have you both here.
We're so happy to be here with both of you.
We're so happy that you're giving us a voice because, you know, Kamala, you know, she shuffles out all the real people and brings in paid actors so that they can have fake conversations about fake news.
I mean, there's nothing real about it.
And then he comes in and you come in.
But I mean, even if she did, it would be all paid actors anyway.
I mean, they put in these ads.
It's ridiculous.
They're paying people by the hour.
And I do all of this work and all of this preparation for the interview with the president.
And I just, at some point, I just dropped my notes.
I'm like, this is a waste of time.
I mean, listen.
And I make the same mistake every time.
I mean, because he had a lot to say.
He was very dialed in, I felt last night, very on message.
He was funny.
He was in a funny mood.
Oh, did you see this?
I love this.
This is pretty funny.
We have the relatives of Tim Walz all backing Donald Trump, and they have walls for Trump, and including his brother.
Yikes.
The weird part about that is the first time I saw that was yesterday.
And I honestly, because there is so much fake news out there, I was like, I got to find this from like five different sources because I don't believe it.
I'm like, this is crazy.
This is like his whole family, but it's true.
A local Pennsylvania journalist revealed how reporters were not allowed to ask Walls questions during a campaign in Lancaster in Pennsylvania yesterday.
As per usual, we saw what happened over the weekend.
He was asked the question about, well, what do you think about all the people that were hostages murdered?
I got to go, folks.
And he doesn't answer any questions.
The House has subpoenaed Tim Walz over the massive Minnesota COVID fraud scheme, finally.
I think that Tim Walz' brother actually said it best that he, you know, his brother is 100% opposed to the vice presidential's politics and even went on to say, I'm getting a lot of feedback from friends and old acquaintances thinking I was feeling the same way that my brother did on the issues.
And I just wanted to clarify to people, I used Facebook, which wasn't the right platform, but I will say I don't agree with his politics.
And then went on to say, yeah, I could say things about my brother that would be pretty damning.
So there's something there.
You know, do I think we'll hear about it before the election?
Probably not, because that's just how corrupt the media is.
On the economy, and this is not Russia propaganda.
I can't stand Vladimir Putin and think he's evil.
However, I do believe that Ukraine should pay for the weapons if America is going to sell them to them.
And I think Europe needs to do more.
I'm very clear about that.
But I think evil does exist.
And I think Putin's invasion and killing innocent men, women, and children and wiping out entire cities in Ukraine, that is evil in our time.
And I don't care what his geopolitical ambitions and territorial ambitions are.
Mark Cuban made an odd comment.
He's an interesting guy I've debated in the past.
He says Kamala Harris's tax plan will kill the stock market, but he's still supporting Kamala Harris.
Jobs data, by the way, points to a cooling job market.
Employers slashed the number of job openings in July and fired more workers, according to the job opening and labor turnover survey at the Labor Department.
Volvo has now had to reverse their goal to make only EVs by 2030.
Some of the places in the country, Georgia, southern states, feeling the squeeze financially of Harris and Bidenomics, we call it Bidenomics, and we're proud of it.
Well, she's still proud of it.
You know, you go back to the basics here.
You know, Harris still support the, well, she still abandoned the filibuster to pass the $93 trillion Marxist Green New Deal.
He co-sponsored that bill with Bernie Sanders.
She co-sponsored the Medicare for All bill that would eliminate all private health insurance and bring in universal health care.
Does she still support it?
We don't have an answer.
He did a whopping 16 minutes and 29 seconds in the interview with fake news CNN and then lied about saying, no, I said to ban fracking, but then in 2020, I came out against banning fracking.
I don't want to ban fracking.
And then CNN had to report, no, she never said it.
So does she support banning fracking and drilling or not?
Does she still want to decriminalize illegal immigration, get free housing, healthcare, education, the path to citizenship or not?
Does she still support the tweet four days after the burning down of the precinct?
Will somebody please tell Liz Cheney about what she did in the summer of 2020?
They're not going to stop.
We're not going to stop.
They shouldn't stop.
Maybe somebody needs to tell her that.
Is she proud of Bidenomics, as she said, or not?
Does she still support, defund, dismantle, reimagine ICE and the police or not?
Does she still want you to never say radical Islamic terrorism or illegal alien or not?
Anyone tell Liz Cheney these things?
Because that's who she's supporting.
And that's the state of the race.
On the immigration front, we have terrible news out there.
You have a Blair County sheriff in Pennsylvania.
He's a big guy, spent his life in law enforcement, still can't talk about losing his son to fentanyl poisoning and an overdose without getting upset.
Can you blame him?
It's happening in small towns and big cities all around the country.
An Indiana baseball coach recalls the moment a teen girl was stabbed during a game.
Turns out it was a Harris Biden illegal immigrant.
You know, a Haitian illegal immigrant flown to the U.S. thanks to the Harris Biden parole pipeline that just flies you right in.
You don't even have to stop at the border.
Now accused of molesting a 10-year-old boy in Mansfield, Massachusetts.
Another Harris Biden illegal charge with five counts of child rape on Matha's Vineyard.
Good grief.
How many of these things have to happen before people wake up?
75% of New York City arrests are illegals.
How's that sanctuary city-state thing working out?
In my state of Florida, Rick Scott, who's running for re-election, has a Democratic challenger that refuses to disavow non-citizen voting.
I think that ought to be, you need to be in the country legally to vote.
Anyway, we have my town hall with President Trump coming up.
Then we're going to get to your calls.
We'll also look at the state of or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with Selena Zito and Jeff Vartos.