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Rep. Chuck Edwards - October 2nd, Hour 2

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	All right, Leonard Skinner's simple man, that can only mean one thing on this radio program.
	All things self-proclaimed simple man that means all things Bill O'Reilly, all things Bill O'Reilly of BillO'Reilly.com.
	So the vice presidential debate is now in the books, the only one for this election year.
	We're 34 days out of election day.
	And we now have early voting going on in very important states.
	We've got the Mideast on the verge of an all-out war.
	I don't really see much much help from Biden and Harris on what is an important issue of our time.
	Of course, Zelensky gets another $8 billion.
	We had a train wreck, I think, of a vice presidential candidate last night.
	I don't think I've ever seen a candidate running for high office a nervous wreck the way Tim Walls was last night.
	And then of course caught in a lie about where he was during the Tiananmen Square massacre, and that's only the beginning of his troubles.
	And um, but anyway, he was pretty unsteady, even the New York Times is saying so, even fake news CNN is saying so.
	Even the post-debate polls are all saying so.
	Uh unsteady would be a charitable way to do it.
	Um I'm a knucklehead.
	I don't think I've ever heard anybody describe themselves word of the day, Bill O'Reilly and Knucklehead.
	We're going to get to him in a second.
	Uh forced to correct his uh record on whether he was in China for the Tiananmen Square protests, and then I've become friends with school shooters.
	Okay.
	Uh that's an interesting line on top of you know the media angle of this, which is the most obnoxious arrogance, smug, biased, uh abusively biased moderators you'd ever see in a long time, but I thought one of the best moments of the night was J.D. Vance just saying, excuse me, you're not following your own rules.
	I'll answer the question.
	Anyway, all things simple man Bill O'Reilly.
	Gotta give a lot of kudos to Bill O'Reilly on his new book, debuted number one again on the New York Times bestseller list.
	This drives the New York Times nuts every time they have to do it.
	Uh it is confronting the presidents, no spin assessments from Washington to Biden.
	I've read it cover to cover.
	It's a great book.
	It's educational, it's informative.
	It's a it's an easy read.
	You're gonna learn things you never knew before about past presidents.
	And uh anyway, Mr. O'Reilly, sir, congratulations.
	The New York Times.
	I think they're vomiting in the bathroom every time they have to put you up at the top of that list.
	I disagree.
	I think it's a joy to see my name at the top of this on Sunday.
	You know, this is the 19th time that's happened, Hannity.
	So they've got it.
	I've only written four books.
	I've only had four number one bestsellers.
	You're way ahead of me.
	You're kicking my ass.
	I'm ahead of everybody.
	The second guy Oh, God, here we go.
	I'm just giving you the facts, man.
	Second guy's Woodward, he's 15.
	I'm at 19.
	But anyway, uh part of the success is due to you, because you have a tremendous audience, and if you say you like a book, because they know you don't read that many books, you're too busy kicking people in the groin.
	I mean, it's hard to do both.
	Hard to read the same time.
	Read a book.
	It helps the books out.
	Uh, let's get you no spin take on last night's debate.
	Okay, so there's gotta be a yardstick for people to evaluate a winner and a loser in a vice presidential debate.
	And the yardstick that I bring as a historian, not a journalist, as a historian, is two categories.
	Number one, who helped their ticket more?
	And number two, who came off as more presidential?
	Because that's what a vice president is.
	I wrote a message of the day earlier this week.
	I said we have some terrible vice presidents who became president, and it was just so crazy how bad they were.
	We've got some good ones, too.
	Um, but you gotta be careful.
	Now, on that yardstick, Vance won the debate, and it wasn't close.
	But here's something interesting.
	When CBS took their snap poll right after the debate ended, it came out, Vance won, but only by one point.
	I think it was 4746.
	Uh, and that's because people believe what they want to believe.
	Um they vote emotion.
	They don't vote facts.
	This is why I wrote defending the president, give you facts.
	But people most, I believe, vote emotion.
	Now, why did J. D. Vance advance pardon the pun uh his ticket more than Walls for this reason?
	He humanized himself.
	The corrupt corporate media in America has succeeded in demonizing both Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.
	You would agree with that, right?
	I totally would agree with that.
	All right.
	And this is not an accident.
	All right.
	This is Saul Olinski.
	You make your opponent the devil.
	And that's what they have done.
	And now people saw Vance.
	He saw his composure.
	They saw he was polite to his opponent, Walls.
	They saw he wasn't a wuss when Margaret Brennan, which was absolutely outrageous what that woman did, but not surprising.
	Not surprising.
	Um when she falsely fact checked him.
	He went right back at her, forcing her and CBS because they were humiliated.
	That's why they cut the mic.
	They were humiliated.
	And everybody saw it.
	No spin.
	So the normalcy and the humanity that Vance accomplished in the 90 minutes help the Trump pick final.
	I agree.
	I agree with every point you're making so far.
	Continue.
	Okay.
	If you're and by the way, I just wanted to say for the record, I do not consider you a knucklehead.
	Well, you should.
	Because I believe I don't consider you a knucklehead.
	And I know you've never lied about being in China during Tiananmen Square.
	I'll get and I don't I and I don't think your friends you've become friends with school shooters.
	I don't think any of that has ever happened in your life.
	I'll get I'll get to Walls.
	My take on Walls is a little bit different than yours.
	Um if you're in Tehran right now, who do you want to go up against?
	JD Vance or Tim Walls.
	Is that a hypothetical you really want me to answer?
	Or we know the answer.
	Everybody listening to us, all the millions of Hannity radio listeners just answered the question.
	Walls looks like the uncle that you gotta get out of the house in under two hours.
	He's gotta visit.
	But he's got a two hour limit.
	You gotta get him out.
	That's it.
	You've maxed out you can't handle it anymore.
	Right.
	That and so you can see if something happened to President Harris that Walls would be president and Putin.
	What Putin's gonna giggle.
	I don't think Putin's ever giggled in his entire life.
	But if Walls were president, he would giggle.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, America.
	Not that Walls is a bad man.
	I don't think he is a bad man.
	I think he's a uh radical leftist.
	Uh he certainly fabricated his experience in China.
	There's no doubt he did, but that's not the first time politicians are fabricated.
	Well, but he also fabricated his rank.
	He he fabricated it being in a war zone.
	You know what?
	You know what frustrated me, and I don't know if this frustrated you.
	He was not asked about feminine hygiene products in boys' bathrooms.
	He was not asked about gender-affirming care for children, uh, as it relates to without parental consent.
	Uh he wasn't asked about the new Green Deal, which Kamala co-sponsored, wasn't asked about government health care for all, no private insurance.
	And I wish J. D. would have brought up.
	I mean, I'm not being critical because I thought he did a phenomenal job.
	I think the American people were introduced to a very warm human being with an incredible life story, uh, who graduated at the top of his class in Yale, and it showed.
	Uh, but I do wish he would have talked about the dozens of dead Americans because of Harris Walls, uh, Harris Biden illegals, those that have been raped, including children by Harris Walls illegals, those that have been victims of violent crime.
	I wish he would have talked about the terrorists that we now know are in our country, all the known murderers and rapists that are now in our country because of their policies and the fact that they want free housing, food, health care, education, sex change, uh surgery and taxpayer expense On top of uh amnesty, and and those are issues I really would have liked answers to.
	But the Trump uh campaign is not emphasized those issues the way it should.
	Now, I don't fault J.D. Vance for not bringing them up.
	I think you're right, he would have been more effective if he had zeroed in on some of the cat catastrophic consequences of the open border.
	But uh and better presentation would have been for Vance to just keep it as simple as this, because the moderators are never going to answer the questions, ask the questions that you've suggested, never in a million years.
	But that's what the network of this is now.
	Yeah, but by the way, you're never supposed to answer their question, as Reagan used to say, and you're a historian.
	You answer the question you wish they asked, not the one that they asked.
	So if I'm Vance, I turn to uh Walls and I say, um, can you tell me one thing that has helped the country by three and a half years of this open border?
	And then I throw a stat at him that more foreign nationals have crossed into this country, okay, in one year to uh 2023 than in four years of Trump.
	Gotta hit him with that between the eyes.
	So tell me why we have this.
	Wells couldn't possibly tell him why.
	So he couldn't explain.
	I I want apologies to the Americans that have been victims of these crimes.
	I don't know if you saw the other night on TV.
	Yeah, I but that's Trump's responsibility.
	So if Trump would just have been effective during the debate, but I I want your analysis.
	Go ahead.
	But you gotta cut Vance a little bit of slack because he's up there for the first time.
	He's got three against one.
	All right, he's thinking on his feet quick.
	Um, and he's basically putting himself, it was more about Vance's demeanor than policy.
	And it was it was clear to me that that's what Vance went in with.
	He's he was gonna go in and crush the demonization of him.
	And he succeeded a hundred percent.
	It's up to Trump to make the points that you're making in a methodical, disciplined way.
	And so far, Donald Trump has not done that.
	But he's got he's done it in certain environments and not in others.
	And with the one debate, I think he could he could have brought up a lot of these issues himself also.
	And and that hasn't happened.
	Now, I do see the ads that are running, and they do make a lot of these points.
	And that's another effective way of communication and a campaign.
	Look, I hope he's listening to this radio show.
	I don't know whether he listens to radio or not.
	But Donald Trump has got to do it himself.
	No ads, no Vance.
	He's got to look in the camera somewhere along the line, and you can record this ad and run it and say, look, I know some of you don't like me, and I know I've made mistakes sometimes rhetorically, but this situation that we're faced with in America is out of control.
	When a young woman like Lakin Riley can be murdered by a Venezuelan criminal who never should have been here, and the president of the United States, Joe Biden, doesn't even call the Riley family, nor does the vice president Kamala Harris.
	You know something is wrong.
	That's all he has to do.
	Personal, personal, personal.
	If Trump does that in the next four and a half weeks, put the rallies aside, cut ten spots, personal spots.
	He'll win by five points.
	I think you need to give him a call.
	I think on top of being in media and all having your media massive media empire and being a historian, maybe maybe you should take on the role of political advisor as well.
	You have time for that job.
	He's got my number, and if he's got my number, call me.
	Call Bill O'Reilly.
	I don't intrude.
	I don't do that.
	But if Bill do you remember the debate where he goes, if somebody would call Sean Hannity, Sean Hannity knows, ask Sean Hannity.
	Sean, but you remember that debate, and I'm sitting in the spin room that night, and I'm like, everyone's looking at me like, oh no.
	I then spoke to Sean Hannity, which everybody refuses to call Sean Hannity.
	I had numerous conversations with Sean Hannity at Fox, and Sean Hannity said, and he called me the other day, and I spoke to him about it.
	He said you were totally against the war, because he was for the war.
	They don't like me that much in the media, Bill.
	What's up with that?
	You're just too handsome for them, that's got to be jealousy.
	It's my hair, right?
	Isn't that what it is?
	The hair going on.
	You got the handsome, you got the radio, you got the TV.
	I mean, they're all jealous of you.
	I wouldn't worry about that at all.
	But I want you to tell Trump, because I know you speak to him, exactly what I just told you.
	Personal.
	Okay.
	All right.
	You got no, I agree.
	I think you're giving good advice.
	Bill O'Reilly, we do appreciate you being with us.
	We appreciate your analysis.
	Always fun.
	Thanks for having me in, Sean.
	Appreciate it.
	Uh, we watched 200 ballistic missiles fired from Iran.
	Well, by the way, simultaneously, Iranian weapons were being fired, fired from the north out of uh Lebanon by Hezbollah after the killing of the 32 year uh 32 year terrorist.
	Oh, that was praised by the AP in the New York Times, uh Nasrallah.
	And anyway, so earlier today, Joe Biden he you know admitted a couple of things that I find shocking.
	I happen to know for a fact that Donald Trump has spoken to Prime Minister Netanyahu, uh, and uh I got my sources telling me the call went amazingly well, and that Prime Minister Netanyahu has Donald Trump's full support to win the war against radical Islamic terrorists that are clearly out to destroy them.
	They are now in the midst, as little country as they are, the size of New Jersey of fighting a forefront war, and that would be Hamas out of Gaza in the south, Hezbollah out of the north in Lebanon, the Hoody rebels out of Yemen, uh the all the one thing all three of those groups have in common, and and Islamic jihad along with Hezbollah out of Lebanon.
	That one thing they have in common is their weaponry is all being supplied by Israel.
	Um their weaponry is all being supplied by Iran.
	Now Iran is directly engaging themselves.
	That makes it a forefront war.
	Joe Biden is now working to protect Iran's nuclear weapons program from any potential air strike by Israel.
	Now, the last time that Iran fired directly into Israel, remember Joe Biden and Kamala Harris abandoned, abandoned Israel and said, No, any offensive strike back, uh any retaliation on your part is not going to be supported by the U.S. And that they'd only they'd only stop missiles from landing or help them stop missiles from landing.
	Well, that is that is such a naive approach to radical Islamic terrorism.
	Now I know those are words that Kamala Harris says you need to be courageous enough never to use, like illegal alien.
	So Joe Biden is now working to protect Iran's nuclear weapons program.
	Now, this is what frustrates me.
	When you look at the radicalism that is Iran, and and let me be very clear to you lunatics on the left that chant from the river to the sea and and you're pro-Hamas.
	Um, I I urge you to to maybe take a little vacation.
	Go to Iran and go still go live in Iran for a while.
	And if you're a woman, you know, you know, try and wear the clothes that you wear in the United States and Iran and see how that works out for you.
	If you happen to be part of the LGBTQ community, go to Iran and see what happens if they find out that that is your that that that is your orientation.
	See how that works out for you.
	Because if you're gay and lesbian, they're gonna put you on the top of a roof and throw you off the roof, and they're gonna murder you.
	And if you're a woman and you don't follow their very stringent Sharia law, uh, you probably will be beaten or worse, or thrown in prison.
	You know, I find it amazing the the level of ignorance by these people that claim to have a monopoly of of compassion for women's rights, LBGTQ rights, etc., etc.
	Because they don't.
	And they have no understanding, and that would the same would apply to Gaza, the same would apply to Lebanon, the same would apply to any of these countries that have some version of Sharia law.
	So Biden is asked today about whether or not he talked to Prime Minister Netanyahu, who he has not, and now he's demanding that it and warning Israel not to take out Iran's nuclear weapon sites.
	What he's not understanding, and remember, this is the guy we got to go back in history here.
	Iran was on the verge of bankruptcy because Donald Trump enforced oil sanctions on Iran and forbid them from selling their oil on the world market.
	That was that was Donald Trump.
	They were going bankrupt, and the regime was probably on the verge of collapse at Donald Trump gotten a second term.
	Remember, it was the Harris Biden administration that granted waivers, so tens of billions of dollars in energy money can flow in from countries like Iraq and elsewhere.
	It was the Harris Biden administration that wanted to give six billion dollars in a ransom payment themselves to Iran.
	Well, now that they've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars, well, that is now embolden them to continue what they do best as the number one state sponsor of terror, and that is provide weaponry to radical Islamic terrorist groups around the region and around the world, and and now we we see the net result of that.
	They're providing Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, the Huti rebels, Hamas and Gaza, and apparently even supporting assassination squads that are in our country, as has been widely reported, targeting Donald J. Trump.
	Now, if you want to bankrupt Iran and Iran and Iran is firing missiles at your country, the single best thing you can do to bankrupt them is take out their refineries and their ability to sell oil on the world market.
	That to me would be target number one.
	If you want to end the threat of a possible nuclear-armed Iran, well, then the next big target is their nuclear sites.
	And this is Joe Biden when he was asked about this today, about whether or not he would support Israel.
	Here's Joe's response.
	Do you support an attack on Iran's nuclear sites by Israel?
	The answer is no.
	And I think there's things...
	We'll be discussing with the Israelis what they're gonna do.
	But all seven of us agree that they have a right to respond, that they should respond in proportion.
	Sir, can I ask you, what is your advice to Israel as far as how they should respond to this right now?
	I believe that we're giving them that advice.
	Okay, when will you talk to BB?
	Well, I we've been talking to Bibi's people the whole time.
	And it's not necessarily talk to BB.
	I'll probably be talking to him relatively soon.
	Well, I know Donald Trump talked to Bibi for at length yesterday for a significant period of time.
	How interesting that the presidential candidate for the Republicans can get there, and he did get President Trump's full support.
	Now, the idea, and this is where things went awry on day one with Ukraine and Zelensky.
	Once they decided, and they what they've spent now two hundred billion taxpayer dollars, they spent next to nothing supporting Israel in their battle against Iran and their proxies.
	I mean, you know, they've given what less than twenty billion dollars compared to two hundred for Zelensky, and Zelensky could easily be paying American America for the weaponry with the minerals that they have all throughout the country.
	They're a very mineral rich country.
	And Joe and Kamala, that's not an idea that ever crossed their brains.
	But the idea that you would say, no, no, they can't do that.
	Well, that's like telling Zelensky they can't take the 28 MiGs that Poland was offering at the start of the conflict after Putin invaded Ukraine.
	Remember, Joe Biden said, Well, what's the response gonna be?
	They're they're building up their military along the Ukrainian border.
	He goes, Well, it might just be a minor, it depends if it's a minor incursion.
	What do you mean a minor incursion?
	You're entering a sovereign country, you're killing innocent men, women, and children.
	That's not a minor incursion.
	This has become a full blown out wal war, and then you're telling Zelensky that he can't fight an air war, telling him he can't use certain weapons and throwing, you know, hundreds of billions Of dollars at Ukraine and God knows where all the money went.
	And meanwhile, Europe is not stepping up and doing their fair share of protecting their continent.
	They're not a member of NATO.
	There's been no accountability.
	And I'm sorry, what Joe Biden thinks about what Israel's response is meaningless to me.
	And I can tell you right now, I've known Bibi for 30 years.
	It is meaningless to Bibi Netanyahu.
	Because if Prime Minister Netanyahu feels that they are on the verge of nuclear capability and that they may be getting nuclear warheads that will be targeting them.
	They eventually will target us, but the first target is going to be Israel.
	Then BB has a responsibility.
	And this is a mindset that the left has that I I frankly will never be able to wrap my mind around.
	If you are attacked, let's say America's attacked, you lose the equivalent of 40,000 Americans in a day.
	Because that's what October 7th of last year was all about.
	We're five days away from that anniversary.
	Imagine that.
	Five days away.
	And I'm just imagine losing 40,000 Americans, thousands of Americans taken off American soil as hostage.
	And you're telling me that we wouldn't use any means necessary to defeat that enemy that killed that many people.
	91101.
	We got involved.
	I think things were not handled properly in so many ways in retrospect.
	But you know, we can't go backwards.
	But I I think wars have to be fought to be won.
	Otherwise, why are you bother fighting them at all?
	It doesn't make sense.
	All right, quick break.
	We'll come back.
	We'll hit the phones, 800-941 as we continue.
	All right, let's get to our busy phones, get an update out of North Carolina.
	Let's say hi to Jamie, North Carolina.
	Jamie, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Our prayers are with all our friends in North Carolina.
	Wow, especially on the west coast of uh, you know, Asheville, Boone, North Carolina, those areas.
	Uh I mean, thank God Donald Trump got there and is partnering with uh Elon Musk to try and get communications for the people of North Carolina.
	We don't we don't even know if people's lives are in jeopardy right now.
	Absolutely, Sean.
	I appreciate you taking my calls so that we can have a voice here in North Carolina because we've we've definitely been silenced.
	Um, you know, right now in North Carolina, we've got a disaster that's beyond anything that we've ever seen in our area, and really beyond anything ever seen, even in our country, since uh Hurricane Katrina.
	And in this situation, uh we've we've got a governor who who is a Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, who has been completely incompetent and absent.
	Here we are in the midst of a complete tragedy and travesty in our state, and Roy Cooper is nowhere to be found.
	He is absolutely absent.
	Um there was no preparedness for the storm.
	We need to none.
	There was uh and I remember I had Governor DeSantis on the the day before the hurricane hit Florida first, and he had over 30,000 trucks to put power back up staged in areas just outside where the hurricane was going to hit, ready to jump into Florida and handle things.
	And they've been they've been doing a great job in Florida, they've been doing a great job in Georgia, you know, and it's been hard for everybody.
	Nobody prepared for a thing in North Carolina.
	Nothing.
	Nothing was done.
	The rivers, the lakes were not lowered.
	Um even the local meteorologist told us on Monday what to expect and what was coming, and there was no motivation, there was no movement of any state resources or or federal resources at that point at all.
	Um right now the the National Guard um is some is here, but it's very limited.
	Um state resources are not president.
	Um, but by the grace of God and through the resilience of North Carolina people, we did not wait on the government.
	So what you see here happening now is private citizens, nonprofit organizations like Samaritans Purse and the Baptist um disaster response teams.
	Um they've moved in and they've mobilized.
	We've got private pilots with private Helicopters, and they're gathering at local um airports such as in in Hickory and Statesville and Lincoln areas, gathering goods, gathering teams, going in and actually rescuing people off of their rooftops.
	Uh this is this is a week later.
	Yeah.
	And I I made a donation of Samaritan's Purse just for this very purpose, to be very honest with you.
	I'm so uh based on everything I've heard, and I've talked I talked to Tom Tillis today, uh Senator Lindsey Graham has been very active helping North Carolina.
	Uh also uh Senator Ted Bud is going to be on TV tonight.
	Uh I'm running out of time, but I can only say this.
	Um I'm grateful that Donald Trump was able to get Elon Musk, and they're moving as quickly as they can.
	I got an update this morning on it to get Starlink communication so that people will be able to get in touch with emergency workers if they need it.
	Uh I've spoken privately and on air with uh with Franklin Graham.
	They're doing a great job.
	And I just urge people if if you know let's get the Starlink up as quickly as we can, you know, re-establish some communication form.
	Uh I think it's up in most areas.
	There were one or two areas that still needed it.
	And uh and just try and get people the help that they need.
	I mean, some people's lives still probably are in jeopardy, and they need basic necessities, even water and food, and and I'm so worried about everybody.
	But listen, I have to run only because of the constraints of time.
	Please forgive me, but know that our friends in North Carolina have not been forgotten.
	SamaritansPurse.org.
	If if you want to make a donation, you can earmark it to Hurricane Relief Help if you want.
	Um anyway, hang in there, my friend, and all our friends at North Carolina.

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