The Political Cesspool - James Edwards - Radio Show Hour 1

Dec. 14, 2025 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards

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Radio Show Hour 1 – 2025/12/13

As 2025 draws to a close, we return to a duo whose joint appearance in January set the stage for an unforgettable run throughout the year. Steve King and Lew Moore team up once again this hour to offer year-in-review perspectives that you don’t want to miss!
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	You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
	The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
	And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
	Said the night wind to the little lamb.
	Do you see what I see?
	Way up in the sky, little lamb.
	Do you see what I see?
	A star, a star, dancing in the night with a tail as big as a cock.
	With a tail as big as a cot.
	Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, once again to TPC.
	It's our live broadcast for Saturday evening, December the 13th.
	I'm your host, James Edwards, along with Keith Alexander, now just days away from Christmas.
	Merry Christmas to you all once again.
	It won't be the last time we say it before the 25th, but we do want to begin the show with that greeting as we welcome back a dear friend, former Congressman Steve King.
	As 2025 begins to draw to a close, we're going to return this hour to a duos whose joint appearance on the program back in January really did set the stage for an unforgettable journey throughout this year for those of us associated with this show.
	And so Steve and Lou are going to be back this hour to offer you a year in review perspective that you don't want to miss.
	And so it begins right now with the former Congressman himself, the great and good Steve King.
	Steve, welcome back.
	Thanks a lot for having me back, James.
	And I always enjoy doing your program, and I really appreciate the way you bring good people together and do events and keep the message out here across America from the perspective of the South.
	And, you know, I'm what they call me, what is that, a kind of a Dixie Yankee.
	You're a copperhead.
	Okay.
	A copperhead, not a carpetbagger.
	I'm all about states' rights and the Constitution, and I just see the spirit of the South.
	And you know that I've stood up and defended the South a number of times in the United States Congress.
	Oh, you sure have.
	In fact, one of your appearances a few years ago, a couple years ago, there was even an article written about that had you wearing a Confederate jacket and the superimposed image, I believe, on one of these left-wing blogs that has now gone to function.
	We keep outlasting our competition in many ways now in our 21st year.
	Well, I'll tell you, though, Steve, I appreciate that.
	I was looking back on some of our previous collaborations with you on this program.
	The very first time you appeared on this show, and I remember this now.
	I mean, Christmas is just such a good time to stalk to Steve King.
	Your first appearance on the show wasn't entirely that long ago, but it was in the Christmas season, November the 26th, 2022.
	So a little over three years ago now.
	And I just remember that show, and it was really just sort of like your story, your story from Congress, some of the behind-the-scenes stories.
	We talked about your book and its contents.
	And I just remember really having a very fond affection for you after that program, certainly greater than I had, which was already strong going into it.
	And the rest is history.
	And as you mentioned, we've done a lot together over the last three years.
	And I'm better for it.
	And I think the cause is better for it as well.
	And Lord Welling, we'll do more, James.
	Amen.
	Well, this was it.
	And I'll bring this up when we layer Lou Moore in with us at the bottom of the hour.
	But if we go back to that program of January the 18th of this year, it was the Saturday before Trump was sworn in.
	So he would have been sworn in two days later, obviously, on January the 20th.
	And I asked both you and Lou, what was Trump's ceiling?
	What was his floor?
	Will he hit the ground running?
	How might the first 100 days play out?
	Will we see early pardons?
	Those were some of the questions that you delivered an informed opinion, an expert analysis on.
	Now, of course, it's all a retrospective.
	We look back on the year.
	And so I would ask you to begin there.
	We're no longer forecasting what may be.
	We are looking back on what has been, at least up to and through this first year of his second term in office.
	How do you grade the administration at the end of 2025?
	Oh, my.
	I just remember when Trump was inaugurated just a couple of days after the program you represented that 20th of January of this year.
	And he just went through the pump and circumstance, the ceremony, the parade, all those things were stellar.
	Of course, Trump was a showman, and it was going to be right.
	But then he just tooled his way over there to the White House and sat down doing executive orders.
	And I sat and watched him.
	The signing executive order was like a rolling press conference that he would be, he was answering questions from the press while he was signing executive orders.
	He would look up and ask staff, what's this one do?
	Oh, yeah, that's a good one.
	He'd tell the press why.
	He'd sign it with the flourish of the signature that he has.
	It's unique, and it takes a little while for him to write his name out the way he does.
	But it's executive order after executive order.
	And he put a whole lot of Joe Biden's agenda back in the bottle during that first, I'll say 36 hours.
	And I don't know whether he slept the night before or not.
	He'd have a little trouble doing it.
	I would think you're about to swear in for the second term of your presidency.
	But in those 36 hours, he signed executive orders and took care of almost all of my wish lists.
	And I'm looking around thinking, well, what do I want now?
	And it was just a powerful show of undoing the calamity that we had endured over the previous four years.
	And I thought that he might more or less take his foot off the throttle and cruise through this.
	But that was just get this clutter out of the way.
	I'll put the hammer down.
	And he's had the hammer down all the way through since.
	This is amazing to me what this man has accomplished.
	And I'm not completely satisfied.
	I said I was, but now, you know, I've had a little time to digest this.
	And there's a few things I'd like to see done yet.
	But it's an extraordinary run.
	The first 36 hours of our presidency was the most impactful of any that I could ever think of.
	And this second term of Donald Trump, Trump 2.0, many of us are, at this point, thankful that they stole the election in 2020 because it was four years for Trump to set the stage for what he's doing now.
	And he is a far more effective president than I think he would have been if he'd just been reelected in 2020, James.
	We have said that before, I think, several times, Keith and I have.
	It is a very astute and honest observation.
	And I just want to tell you folks, coming up in the second and third hours tonight for my newspaper feature in the last issue of the year of the American Free Press, we have interviewed 14 lifers, 14 scholars, academics, activists, former elected officials, you name it, that all have skin in the game.
	And it is very interesting.
	I asked each of them to give Trump a rating on a 0 to 10 scale and then two paragraphs to justify their rating.
	And it got so interesting, the editors lifted my ceiling to it's going to be a four for me.
	And James, I lost you.
	He drifted away from me.
	I don't have anything around.
	I've got none of James' audio.
	I don't know if you have mine.
	Looks like we lost connection there for a second, Congressman King.
	That does happen from time to time when it's live radio.
	But I was just saying, it was such a fast start and a flurry to the administration that we had decided to do a conference.
	I called you.
	You were the first person I called.
	I said, if I put together a conference, would you come speak at it?
	You said yes, and then everybody else we wanted to have there said yes.
	I thought we needed to tap into this and put capable people, smart people in a room to see what can we do with this momentum.
	And that was the conference we had back in May.
	And there's been some ups and downs and some fits and starts.
	It hasn't been an entirely an A-plus.
	But as you say, compared to the alternative and compared to previous administrations going back 100, 150 years plus, this is a time for, especially now, another strong movement from the administration on the situation with the Somalis in Minnesota.
	Some people were saying last week was Trump's best week in office yet.
	So again, back to you before we go to the break.
	Well, yes, and boy, there's so much that has happened in this past year or two, and Trump's been tested in many, many ways.
	We all saw what happened when he was his first term in 2016.
	And I just reiterate this for your listeners, but this is my view of what I'm saying.
	I believe to be fact, and I think I can prove it.
	But we had, this is what I do know, is that when Trump won the election in 2016, the Democrats had secured the Occidental Mandarin Hotel in Washington, D.C., presumably to plan and plot what they were going to do with the anticipated Hillary presidency.
	Hold on right there.
	We've got to pick a quick break.
	We're going to let you pick it up right there.
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	Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy Do you hear what I hear?
	Ringing through the sky, Shepherd Boy.
	Do you hear what I hear?
	A song, a song high above the tree with a voice as big as the sea.
	With a voice as big as the sea.
	I tell you what, folks, there is nothing that makes me sweat more immediately than when I look across the studio.
	I see Liz through the glass waving her arm saying we got to do a quick computer reboot because I know we just went, we're playing emergency bumper music for a few seconds there.
	But nevertheless, we are back.
	Hey, it's Christmas time.
	Put on a sweater, get cozy.
	Maybe make you a glass of ice, pour a little fine whiskey on it, sit back and enjoy this hour with Steve King, steveking.com.
	Steve, we are back now.
	And 5x5, you were telling us a story before we had to take that abrupt break, and I want to give you the opportunity to continue on.
	Well, yes, I want to just bring a little bit of the history up to speed and how we got here.
	2016, Trump won the election on Tuesday in November and the Tuesday of November.
	And the following weekend, the Sunday, the Democrats, the power Democrats across the country, operatives and electeds, came to, I call it always the Occidental Mandarin Hotel, but I think Occidental might have been the name of the grill.
	Anyway, it's technically the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.
	And they had secured the entire hotel Democrats did.
	And their plan was for them to strategize on how they were going to exploit the anticipated Hillary Clinton presidency.
	George Soros headed that up and all those operatives in there, but they kept it going when the Trump had won.
	They just changed their agenda to how do we prevent this president from ruling?
	How do we frustrate him?
	How do we time down?
	And what came out of that was every weekend from then until the inauguration, the first inauguration of President Trump, we had demonstrations in most all of the major cities in America, all across the board.
	And on January 20th, his inauguration, they had over a million women in those silly pink hats that they had knitted on the way.
	Plane tickets were bought by Soros and company.
	It was over a million.
	I had to wade through that, my wife and I.
	And they were banging signs off our car and cursing over there.
	It was awful.
	That's what was going on.
	But in that meeting, out of that came, this is now what I believe, and we saw it happen.
	We're going to frustrate this president.
	We're going to impeach him.
	We're going to tie him down.
	We're going to bring lawsuits down.
	We're going to tie him up so that he can't function as a president of the United States.
	And that part of that was the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax, the crossfire hurricane agenda is what it was actually called.
	And they tied him up through a lot of that.
	He still did a good job of governing in the face of all that, but they impeached him twice out of that, if you remember.
	And I think in that hotel that weekend, they decided what the deadline was for them to impeach Donald Trump before he ever swore into office.
	They determined to impeach him.
	He went through all of that, and then they stole the election in 2020 from him.
	And I don't hold back when I say that.
	Seven or eight different ways they stole that election from him.
	Now, this is a man who doesn't, he gets knocked down, maybe.
	I'm not sure he goes all, he might take a knee, but he doesn't really ever go face down or on the mat.
	He gets back up again, and he spent four years figuring out how he was going to take these people on.
	And so, through that period of time, when he won Trump 2.0, when he won here in this past year and became and was inaugurated in January of this year, this man knew exactly what he wanted to do.
	He understood that some of the people that he had appointed and Trump 1.0 the first term, some of those people were Democrats.
	He thought they were patriots.
	They were not.
	And some others he thought were conservatives and they were not.
	And so as they undercut him, ignored his orders or whatever they did, he decided he's going to have loyal people.
	And look what he's put together for a cabinet.
	It is an awesome, powerful cabinet of people that are determined.
	And they're executing on the mission that he's put together throughout this time.
	And we've got things that are happening that are so powerful, so extraordinary, that America is actually turned on this pivot now.
	And we're moving towards the Constitution.
	We're moving towards God-given liberty.
	The fiscal responsibility seems to be a ways away, but a bold American future is being laid down by Donald Trump.
	And he's not going to have time to get this all done, but he can lay the foundation so it does get done.
	So I'm really thrilled with what he's accomplished, secure the border in one thing.
	And then just being a strong foreign policy advocate is worth a lot.
	So I'm very happy with what I've seen him do.
	I'd have some advice for him if he and I were talking on what I want him to do next.
	But as it is, he's done a lot and he's got good people in place to think that the border security is virtually, and I use that word virtually instead of literally virtually secure without illegal crossings coming into the United States of America.
	And the birthright citizenship piece of this thing, which always was a huge mistake, and I brought legislation to end birthright citizenship clear back in the first decade of this millennium.
	I'll put it that way, maybe 2007 or so.
	He's done so by executive order.
	Now the Supreme Court has decided that they granted CERT and they're going to hear that case.
	That would be huge with the millions of babies that are born on American soil to people who are, I'll say, lined up to undermine the American civilization.
	They should not be American citizens.
	And I think we'll get a decent rule on that sometime by about June, James.
	Well, let me say this: Steve, this is Keith.
	You were talking about how, in contrast to the first Trump administration, he has loyalists in his staff.
	I think what's even more telling is that he has very competent people on his staff that have determined where things have gone wrong and how to make them go right.
	That is, and he's thinking outside of the box.
	For example, you know, you were talking about, you know, what he has been doing with, well, think, for example, remigration.
	Think about ending birthright citizenship, things like this.
	These are things that just never would have occurred to George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush or any of these typical Republicans.
	Would never have even considered doing that.
	But all of these things are necessary.
	They're the strong medicine that we need if we're going to recapture our country.
	Our country basically is in the hands of traders at the present time.
	If we play by their rules, we will not win.
	I surely agree with that, Keith.
	And, you know, I went face to face with George W. Bush and some of his people, particularly Carl Rove, on that, especially on the immigration issue back in those years.
	And I remember sitting in the west wing of the White House, and I've got Carl Rove across the table from me.
	And I'm telling him, we need to move this bill that I called it the New Idea Act.
	And I wrote it that way because they always say there's nothing new.
	Nobody has any new ideas and nothing new under the sun.
	You're always just repackaging something.
	So I thought, no, this is a new idea.
	I'm going to call it that.
	But the new idea stood for the, and the acronym was for the new illegal immigration idea, new illegal deduction elimination act.
	In other words, what it said was that anyone who is hiring illegals, if they're paying wages or benefits to illegals, those benefits and wages are not tax deductible.
	And you can use E-Verify and have a safe harbor.
	But meanwhile, when the IRS comes in, let's just say you've got a little old company and you paid a million dollars in wages for 10 years.
	The IRS comes in and says, well, we're going to run your employees through E-Verify.
	Oh, whoops, a whole bunch of them don't qualify.
	And now all those Schedule C business expenses are now taxable income for you.
	Sorry.
	That would make a huge difference.
	And Carl Rove just said, that's, you know, what did he, I remember what the word he used is that would be a nuclear bomb to drop something like that on.
	He did surely not want to see a piece of legislation that would help clean up the illegal workforce.
	Well, Trump's gone beyond that by a fair amount, although they haven't picked that idea up yet.
	I'm happy with what they've done.
	And Tom Holman deserves all kinds of accolades.
	And Christy Noam, it's amazing to me.
	I served with Christy Noam, and during those years, I knew her very well.
	And I enjoyed her.
	I liked her personally.
	We had a couple of disagreements on policy side that I think she should have had a little better perspective on.
	We're always like that.
	But I did not think she had the capabilities to be this strong for be the secretary of Department of Homeland Security.
	And I think that she is rocking it pretty good.
	And now they put her before Congress and beat up on her before Congress and she says, well, I take your criticism as compliments.
	That's poise.
	So good for that.
	But Tom Holman is the engine under the hood.
	And you might say that Christy Noam's a hood ornament.
	Folks, over the course of the next two hours, you are going to hear from 14 tried and true contributors to this program, regular guests, to be sure, but very accomplished people in their own professions.
	And every issue will be examined.
	The lowest grade Trump got out of this panel of 14 was 4 out of 10, the highest 10 out of 10.
	What was the aggregate?
	What was the average?
	We'll tell you.
	It covers every issue you want to have us touch on tonight.
	But right now, you are listening to a man who served in Congress for 18 years.
	He knows all the players.
	He knows Trump.
	When he spoke at our conference, we had a picture of him and Trump together.
	So to have the perspective of a man who has been there, has been there recently, was there for almost 20 years is just, you know, for a political talk radio program.
	It's valuable.
	So, Steve, with about a minute remaining, and I would say this, The steal of 2020, God's will be done, because he did come back with, I think, a lot more blood in his eyes or whatever, or his wherever, as he said that one time with Megan Kelly.
	He did come back with a vengeance, with a righteous vengeance.
	And this is a different field than the first administration and far superior to it.
	I think that's just exactly the right expression, the righteous vengeance that Trump came in with.
	And look at the people that he put in the cabinet.
	I mean, Pam Bondi out of Florida.
	I actually didn't think she was going to be as strong as she's turned out to be.
	Kash Patel, you know, I got to know him through that, through those battles in Congress when he was the staff for Devin Nunes on the Select Committee on Intel, and they gave him privilege to look at the operations that were going on there.
	That's that one.
	But Pete Hague says, and I know it's ticking down here, but we should circle back to Pete.
	He gave a terrific speech that would challenge that of Patton.
	Yeah, we did cover that at the time, a couple of months ago.
	And even had the Patton the background and everything.
	We'll be right back.
	Stay tuned.
	A little more coming up.
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	It's Danny, James's wife, just dropping in again to say hello and to thank you for all you do to keep the work of this program going.
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	Absolutely beautiful music.
	What a beautiful song.
	What a powerful rendition of Do You Hear What I Hear.
	Folks, I have been on the radio now for 21 years and I vividly remember the program that we have already cited earlier tonight.
	That is the program of January the 18th of this year.
	On that night, we had for the full hour Steve King, and then we layered or brought into the conversation at the half hour mark Lou Moore.
	Lou is of course the former campaign manager for Ron Paul's presidential bid in 2008, spent years in Washington himself as a congressional chief of staff.
	He knows the game.
	He knows the players.
	He's a political savant.
	And what we were doing there, two days shy of the inauguration this year, was sort of just giving predictions, making predictions for how Trump 2.0 would go.
	Now, here we are at the end of the year, and we're doing the exact same thing, bringing in Lou halfway through this conversation and adding him to this discussion with Steve King.
	And with that having been said, and that stage now having been set, Lou, welcome back.
	You're on with Steve King.
	Thanks.
	Thanks, James.
	And hello, Congressman.
	It's always great to be on with you.
	Well, as I said, gentlemen, it was that show earlier this year that set in motion a chain of events that led to us having a conference in May.
	I have never put an event of that magnitude on in such a short timeframe.
	I had endeavored not to have a conference this year.
	It wasn't until we saw how Trump hit the ground running that I thought we needed to get some good people in a room and figure out how we can use this current momentum to benefit the cause.
	And so we had Steve King speak there.
	We had Lou Moore speak there.
	We had Philip DeWinter come over from Europe, sitting member of parliament in Belgium, Nick Griffin, former member of European Parliament.
	We had aspiring candidates.
	We had some of our regulars here on the program, movement lifers, as I called them.
	We had others.
	We had Steve Stockman, former congressman, now running again.
	We'll talk about that in a moment.
	And so, yeah, it was just an incredible year, gentlemen, that you both played such an integral part of.
	And that having been said now and repeated, Lou, let's get to your most recent podcast on your hour of decision program, which is also broadcast here on the Liberty News Radio Network.
	It was Trump's midterm problem.
	He must deliver.
	Why don't you serve a volley here and we'll let the congressman return it?
	What are you seeing now?
	I mean, everybody is generally positive over how things have gone this year, but yet still perhaps storm clouds gather.
	Yeah, well, thanks, James.
	Yeah, so that's true.
	But Trump, you know, he's delivered on a lot of things.
	He's also made a lot of big promises.
	And he is a grassroots politician.
	He has to keep energy moving through his base.
	And the most difficult thing for him to have done, to do, we've seen historically now, is to get his base energized when he is not on the ballot.
	And that has to happen next year because otherwise he's going to go right back into the impeachment circus if the Democrats take control of the House.
	In my opinion, I don't think they've got a real good shot at the Senate, but they have an excellent shot at the House.
	And that has to be prevented at all costs for Trump to move his agenda forward.
	And in order to do that, he has to fire up his base, make the case for them to go and work for or at least vote for some really subpar individuals, which fill the Republican ranks, in my opinion, in the House of Representatives.
	And that's a tall order.
	That's all a tall order.
	This is Keith.
	Lou, let me ask you this.
	What are the margins in the House and in the Senate?
	And also, what weak hitters do you think need to be replaced in the lineup?
	Well, in the House, that would take me about an hour, Keith, to go through.
	But I would start with all of the leadership, certainly, in the House, and principally with the Speaker.
	You know, I'm a little embarrassed.
	I think we have a six-vote margin in the House right now.
	It changes because people are leaving and things are happening.
	It's a very slim margin in the House.
	In the Senate, I believe it's a six-seat difference in the Senate.
	But the thing is, the House, every seat is up next year in the House.
	It's all up for grabs.
	And the Senate, it's only a third of them.
	And so then you have to start looking at the map.
	And between the majority we have now and the electoral map, most people who have an idea of what's going on back there believe that we are going to be able to hold the Senate, but that we, being the Republicans, some days I affiliate with them, other days not so much.
	But the House is totally up for grabs.
	And, you know, it's been weak leadership, no agenda, performative at best as far as support for President Trump.
	And, you know, there's not a lot for a MAGA people to vote for there.
	And plus, they just don't come out.
	They are the voter that comes out when their guys on the ticket.
	A lot of them historically have not been voters.
	That's been Trump's strength, that he can draw on these people and overwhelm the establishment as he's done now a couple of times.
	But the weakness is it doesn't work out so well when his name is not on the ballot.
	Well, you know, Lou, I'm thinking back about all of the activities that we've had that seem to be making a change, seem to be breaking ground.
	They're all executive orders.
	They're all being done by the bureaucracy.
	It's like the legislature, the legislative branch is just basically there and not doing anything.
	They're not starting any initiatives, and they're not showing a lot of leadership.
	Well, you know what, Keith, to your point, it just so happens we have a former congressman who could be wonderful to get his opinion on this.
	Congressman, I want to read this from Lou's notes and give you the last word this segment.
	We got one more segment of all of us together, but this is from Lou's most recent podcast, which you can find at LibertyNewsradio.com.
	He writes, Trump must go bold in two areas to re-energize his base enough for it to affect the elections in the midterms.
	He must cast his feckless Attorney General aside.
	So he doesn't share your opinion necessarily of the AG and aggressively prosecute all leading deep state actors involved with persecuting him and his followers.
	He must also retool the mass deportation effort by arresting all the Democrat leaders fomenting rebellion and disobedience to law and destroying the funding network of NGOs fostering this insurrection invasion of our land.
	Congressman King, respond to that.
	And to Keith's point, what can the legislative branch do to be more of an assist to some of the things we're seeing out of the Oval Office?
	Well, I think Keith's point and Lou's concerns do hold up.
	They're legitimate and worthy of serious consideration.
	It does seem like the House of Representatives hasn't been proactive and that they are more or less seeking to move a Trump agenda, but not very aggressively.
	And it's tied down with so few votes of margin.
	And so I think Mike Johnson's a good man.
	I served with him.
	I called him.
	I named him as the future Speaker of the House October 4th of that year, well before he was ever nominated, because I thought he was the guy most capable that hadn't made enemies out of if you ticked off five people in that conference, you couldn't be Speaker.
	And he was that guy that could make that.
	Deep State.
	Oh, boy, the deep state piece of this thing is so big and so important and so huge.
	And here we are with just the midterm elections around the corner, a little less.
	That is huge.
	So if you look at what is sitting there, we have the crossfire hurricane agenda that's out there.
	That was the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
	And as soon as James Comey shielded Hillary Clinton on the 5th of July of 2016, they flipped that around and said, well, Trump is an agent of Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
	And they ran that whole scam that was called Crossfire Hurricane, impeached him a couple of times.
	And then they have this pivot that came along under Biden, which was their surveillance state of legislators and anybody that's a player and over 200 surveillance of top leaders.
	And I don't know if I'm on that list or not.
	I think maybe not because they might have considered they'd already killed me off.
	This corruption that's there.
	Mike Davis is a leading voice on this.
	And he was the Senator Grassley's counsel on the confirmation of Trump's three Supreme Court justices that were nominated and confirmed.
	But he says this, that this thing is so corrupt, it's so big.
	The evidence is there for it that if you're comparing Crossfire Hurricane and Arctic Frost and this whole scheme that's going on now for six or more years, if you're comparing that to Watergate, you're comparing your bathtub to the ocean.
	That's how big it is.
	But they've got a year to get this thing moving.
	They need indictments and they need to have grand juries.
	So that's the thing that's most important to clean the corruption out of this, to get rid of the deep state, lock them up in Stripe of Sunshine, do the perp walks with them.
	Let's see some handcuffs.
	And if they can't get that done, the American people are going to say, well, you're just some more bluffing going on here.
	And we want to see results.
	If not, I'm afraid we do lose the majority in the midterm.
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	James Edwards, Keith Alexander, Steve King, and Lou Moore.
	Steve, quick question for you, and I don't want to put you on the spot here, but this may be, even after all these years and all these appearances, the most important question that I've ever asked you.
	Have you heard a good live rendition of Mac the Knife lately?
	I've heard only one good one in my whole life, and it was in Greenville, South Carolina.
	I'm so grateful that I had my cell phone up and recorded it all, and it was glorious, James.
	Now, for the rest of your listeners, they should know that James did at the end of the conference in Greenville in May.
	They had a band there, and more or less it got down to the informal time of that thing, a little spew song, some enjoyable time.
	And he goes, I think I'm just going to try.
	I don't know if anybody talks into this, but I'm going to try Mac the Knife.
	And I want to listen to it.
	So, yeah, you know, I stood there with my phone up.
	I enjoyed it all.
	Your listeners need to know what kind of a voice you have, what kind of a showman you are, James Edwards.
	That's something that I've seen.
	Well, some people said they, where's Mac the Knife when you need him?
	Well, you know, I just have to admit, James, I don't want to butter your bread too much, but I was so stunned by your performance that I didn't put my phone up to record.
	Hey, I got to say, my cousin who was on guitar that night, along with the piano player, he is tuned in right now.
	And he says, heck yeah, the entertainment was spectacular.
	And I think that's he's complimenting himself there.
	But hey, it was a good time.
	We have good times.
	We get serious, but we have fun.
	And I'm not even going to bring up that time in Orlando, Steve, when the janitor got on our case.
	But it's always a good time when we're together.
	And I do love you guys very much.
	Hey, with y'all both being here, before we transition and start to wrap things up tonight and plug websites and get some closing comments on current projects y'all are working on, I just want to turn the show over to both of you.
	When we have talent like this on the air together, let's just let the horses run a little bit.
	Lou, anything you want to ask the congressman?
	Any topic of conversation?
	Just the two of you want to engage in while Keith and I listen.
	Sure.
	Well, Congressman, I'd like to get your feedback.
	My contention is on this mass deportations that it's not going to really start rolling until we decapitate all of the NGOs and all of these governors that are making seditious statements.
	And I say decapitate metaphorically, of course, but we have to kind of start at the top with that rather than the bottom.
	I just wanted to get your feedback because you've been a warrior on this issue forever.
	I know you've studied it intensely.
	Well, you know, I just think that you take them on at every level.
	But when you say the NGOs, absolutely.
	And we need to drill into them.
	I have a list of at least 150 NGOs that are sucking down taxpayer money and using that to undercut our constitutional republic and many of them advancing the illegal aliens.
	So, yes, we should drag them all in and we should flush them all out into the open.
	But I'm also thinking about these things, like, for example, Minneapolis and the Somalis.
	And a few years ago, I made a trip, multiple trips around through the Middle East and went into the no-go zones and the cities across Europe.
	And that would be, oh, let's see, Paris and London and Stockholm.
	And it goes on.
	I don't know how many there were actually all together.
	I wanted to see what it was like where all that hatred poured forth and how they could be slaughtering Christians for the sake of their religion.
	Then I came home and I thought, I don't see enough of this.
	I need to know what's going on in America.
	So I spent a weekend in Dearborn and set up to examine the Muslim core that was there.
	And then I came home and I had a Friday and a Saturday that were some odd reason were open.
	Must have been because my staff needed some relief.
	Anyway, I got in the car and drove up to Minneapolis and I visited seven mosques up there.
	So I got to look at the Western European Islam push plus the U.S. and Dearborn and Minneapolis.
	And looking at what the Somalis have done for fraud up there to suck at least a billion dollars out of the taxpayers for about 80,000 Somalis and made up these scams.
	Here's what you go in there, you clean that all up.
	Doing so, you just got to crush Tim Walz and Keith Ellison and the rest of those people up there and make that happen in those places.
	Go to Portland, do that.
	When they say that we're going to fight ICE, I love the line they had.
	Minnesota's forecast is cloudy with 100% chance of ICE.
	But go in.
	You know what we need to do, though?
	This is brought to mind for me.
	We've got to get rid of all of these Republicans that say, you can't do that.
	You can't stop, for example, you can't decapitate all these NGOs.
	You can't, you know, we've got to get that type of thing purge from the party.
	Keith, to your point, and Lou, I would love your response to this and Steve, you as well.
	But you've got some hell-raising Republicans running, two of whom were at our conference in Greenville.
	One running for the state house now, another one running for Congress.
	You've got Mike Lindell, the pillow emperor, running for governor of Minnesota now against walls.
	And of course, Steve Stockman just last week announced that he's running for Congress for a third time after having served two times previously.
	So there's some interesting candidates out there.
	But we need some bulls in the China shop.
	Absolutely.
	I agree.
	I totally agree with that.
	And, you know, Steve's input is going to be more valuable than mine on this.
	But I've watched for years how an individual member of Congress, if they're the right person, they can galvanize other members and turn into a leader, even if they're not one of the official leaders of the conference or whatever.
	And that is exactly what we need, James, is real leadership.
	And people like Steve Stockman are the type that can provide that.
	Well, to give you an example on how that works, when the Senate passed this bill, I think it was called the Gang of Eight bill, 68 of them passed an amnesty bill.
	And they presumed that that's going to just move through the House, BP's cake.
	John Boehner will take that thing, and it'll be law and a heartbeat.
	And I looked at that and I thought, my gosh, we've got to kill it.
	So I wanted to set up a rally to oppose it.
	And I go down to the House admin and say, I want to secure the east side of the Capitol building out there in the plaza to do a demonstration and a rally against immigration.
	They go, well, the rules have been changed and you can't do that.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, what can I do?
	They didn't have much for answers.
	Say, well, can I do a press conference?
	And, well, yeah, you can do a press conference.
	And so I've got my day.
	I believe it was June 13th.
	I'd like to do a press conference that day.
	Is there any limit on the amount of time that it takes that we're limited on?
	No, usually they're over in 20 minutes or so.
	So there is no limit.
	Okay.
	So I rented a big old stage and whooper speakers, and I secured that place for a press conference from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. to talk about immigration.
	And if nobody had joined me, I'd been standing there alone for eight hours with a hoarse voice talking about immigration.
	But as it was, other people joined in, and General Attorney General Reagan's Attorney General Edmies III called me afterwards and congratulated me for killing that amnesty act that was coming out of the Senate.
	That's how you can make the difference.
	Somebody's got to step up and lead.
	There's no time to put your finger in the wind.
	When it's time to take the hill, don't look back and say, are you boys with me?
	You just got to go for the pinnacle of that hill.
	And if you're on the right mission, other people will be with you.
	If you get killed on the hill, well, it was still for a good cause.
	So that's one of the things people that kind of guy.
	Amen to that.
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	These guys make it easy.
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	It is great.
	It's all insider stuff.
	He really knows his stuff.
	Lou, final word to you on this one.
	And gentlemen, thank you again for helping us end our broadcasting year the way we began it.
	And that show back in January really led to a great conference and collaboration from the United States and Europe.
	I know, Steve, you and Philip DeWinter have teamed up on a couple of things since then.
	And we've got some candidates that came out of that conference.
	It's just an incredible thing that this program is involved with.
	Lou James.
	James, I can just add a second.
	Philip sent me a text.
	Philip DeWinter sent me a text at 2.25 a.m. this morning that said, will you do a video for me and then come to Europe?
	We want to do something to restore Western civilization for the world.
	So that came out of your conference.
	Congratulations, James, for your leadership.
	I was so happy.
	That was my vision is to bring people together, bring you and Philip.
	Just bring good people together and see what happens because when you bring people together, ideas and solutions do present themselves straight up.
	All kidding aside, I mean, they really do.
	And that conference, seeds planted at that conference have already begun to bear fruit, and we'll see where it goes.
	Thank you so much.
	I didn't know that, Steve.
	Thank you for telling me that.
	Lou?
	Yeah, just the climate is right for huge change.
	I mean, look at Elon Musk.
	I mean, he's putting out, we got to have remigration.
	I mean, Elon Musk is turning into a remigration warrior.
	He's posting every day now issues on the crisis of Western civilization that Philip and Steve are talking about and are working on right now to fix that problem.
	The climate's right.
	The climate's right in this country to take bold moves.
	And that's what we're saying.
	Remigration is one of these.
	I mean, I'm begging President Trump to make a couple of bold moves here.
	Oh, remigration is one of those bold moves.
	That's an idea that just would have been still born in the Bush administration.
	Lou, five seconds, go.
	You know, we got to just keep fighting.
	This is the time.
	If there's ever a time to fight, this is it.
	Well, we've got fighters.
	You've heard from two of them right now.
	Lifers indeed.
	Merry Christmas, gentlemen.
	We'll continue on in the second hour.

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