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Speaker 2: I guess, as it turns out, ed we weren't going to invade Greenland after all? Does that surprise you. We were not going to storm Greenland. We were not going to bomb Greenland. In the submission? Are you shocked, Chris?
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Speaker 8: I don't know how. I'm smarter than a lot of world leaders, but I'm not shocked that we are not going to invade Greenland.
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Speaker 2: Why don't people why it's been ten Donald Trump has been on the political stage for more than ten years, now eleven years? Do we really not understand how the man operates? By now? Are there people that still think he was serious when he's I mean, even I, one of his biggest fans, said repeatedly, have I not on this show? We're not invading Greenland. I've literally had to say that because there are people just in hysterics that they think we're going to go storming into the island and just conquer it. And I've continued to say over and over again, Donald Trump has no intention of invading Greenland. We're not going to conquer Greenland. That's not what we're doing here. And sure enough, yesterday it came to fruition. What Donald Trump wanted all along was a deal, and he had the leverage to make and that's exactly what went down. Even the NATO Secretary General. This Mark Root. This is the guy that called him daddy, isn't it? They like this Mark Root? Ruti Root? Are you tte he likes Trump? Keeps kind, keeps kind. I think the last time they got together called him Donald daddy, dear Donald, and Trump reminded everybody in the room of that. By the way, yesterday during his speech, as the show was wrapping up, Trump took to the stage and he reminded everybody there, Yeah, I know how you people love me. I believe what was it last time we got together, It was called daddy. If memory serves this guy, the NATO Secretary General not backing away, give me number twenty six here on Greenland.
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Speaker 5: So statements from me will not add to anything here. And when it comes to the Arctic, I think President Trump is right. Other leaders in EDSA are right. We need to defend to Arctic. We know that the sea lanes are opening up. We know that China and Russia are increasingly active in the Arctic. There are eight countries bordering the Arctic. Seven are a member of NATO. That's Finland and Sweden and Norway and Denmark, Iceland, Canada and the US and there's only one country bordering on the Arctic outside NATO, and this is Russia. And I would argue that as a ninth country, which is China, which is increasingly active in the Arctic region. So President Trump and only isn't right. We have to do more there. We have to protect the Arctic against Russian and Chinese influences. That's exactly what Natal ambassadors designed us to do in September. We're working on that, making sure that collectively will be defense the art.
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Speaker 2: Oh, he just said, daddy's right. I stand with daddy. And then they came out not too terribly long after that and said, oh, Mark and I have struck a deal. Daddy's home and we're going to do this thing. People were shocked. People were slack jawed because all the Europeans had been puffing up ahead of the President's speech yesterday. Are gonna do any damned thinking what if I think the little Finland guy, the little Finnish twerp in, wasn't he the guy that said F bomb f you Donald Trump from his legislative chambers there in Finland wherever that is. They were all very very tough, and then they show up in the NATO Secretary General said he's one hundred percent right, and we're doing a deal. Stocks rally after Trump announces framework on Greek You know, I am not an institutional investor. I am not a financial advisor. But if you were stupid enough to think, if you were selling in a panic because you were stupid enough to think Donald Trump wasn't going to go to invade Greenland and go to war with Europe, it sounds to me like this Greenland deal is basically we provide security for the big island and you'll basically need to work with us in turn to handle over the rare earth minerals that we dig out of the ground.
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Speaker 2: Here's the deal. We'll protect it. You sell us what's here. We're good. We don't need to run the place, we don't need to own it, we don't need to take it over. We just want what's in it, and in turn, we'll protect it and make sure that the goons in the other hemisphere don't take it over because they're circling right now. They want it. We're not gonna let them have it. And we want what's on this island so we can bring a team here. You sell us what's on this island without us having to take it over, We'll also protect it. Deal sounds good to me. An old mark routie root, he said, sure, daddy, whatever you want. Trump secures outlines of a Greenland deal. Now economics will have to win over its people. The World Economic Forum conference became Donald Trump's Greenland gambit, and now a framework deal has been reached for the United States to play a larger role inside the world's largest island. The President announced, b't a very productive meeting that I had with the Secretary General of NATO. We have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and in fact the Arctic region. The early descriptions did not specify the terms of the deal or whether Trump had achieved his stated goal of full acquisition. Of course, he achieved his stated goal, and he achieved his stated goal without firing a shot, without invading, without launching anything, without doing anything. He didn't even have to level tariffs. He pulled back on those. And by the way, I'm going to make this case a little later in the show. This affirms, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the inherent article to power of the presidency when it comes to tariffs. Do you understand what just happened with Greenland is a direct result of Donald Trump's use of tariffs. Do you understand that this deal was reached because Donald Trump used tariffs, not bullets, not troops, not air mission. Donald Trump deployed the thing that is arguably one of the most powerful tools a president has at his disposal, without death, without bloodshed. I have been making this case for weeks. It's why this is exhibit A. If I were Trump's attorneys and there were still the opportunity to argue this before the Supreme Court, and I hope the Supremes are watching this yesterday is a perfect example of the importance of the Article two powers that I believe tariffs exists under. For the President of the United States, this is no different than a naval blockade. Think of what he managed to achieve for the strength and the security of the Western hemisphere and the betterment of the country without a single bullet being fired. Think of it a financial instrument. He threatened, and then all of a sudden it was okay, we'll talk, And he said, okay, good enough, then I'll pull off on my tariff plans. Tara, where are the peace sticks. Where's the celebration. You know, Donald Trump is at present right now as we speak, celebrating something he's put together called the Board of Peace. And you know what CNN is doing, mocking it that most European leaders aren't a part of it. Small gathering. Really fifty some lesser nations joining President Trump's Board of Peace.
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Speaker 3: Ha ha ha.
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Speaker 2: The Europeans really don't have any time for Trump.
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Speaker 9: Ha ha.
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Speaker 2: He's literally calling this the Board of Peace. Join me in a new global alliance that says, you will strengthen your country. I'll strengthen mind national sovereignty and free peoples and stronger economies for all of us, mean safety and security for all of us. And we're not going to engage in combat and warfare and global domination. We're not going to do it. Join me and the new Board of Peace. And CNN thinks it's funny that you'res are sneering at him. Think of where we are. You hate Donald Trump so much you can't acknowledge that he is reorganizing the entire globe without firing a shot. He is strengthening our security at home, our economics, standing here at home, securing our borders here at home, cracking down on illegal aliens taking advantage, fraudulently blowing our taxpayer dollars, and in many cases raping, pillaging, murdering, funneling drugs, trafficking human beings, child sex, trafficking. He's cracking down on all of these things simultaneously at the same time. And can you imagine your hatred of him is so great. You're sitting on your little cable show this morning, going look at all of the low level countries attending his little board of peace, the really important ones like McCrone aren't there, how small, how very small. So he takes over Greenland. He's a bully. He in fact doesn't do that and gets what he wants. And he's a weekly got to pick a lane, President Trump. In this deal yesterday from Just the News, the framework might establish shared NATO governance or a Special Arctic Security arrangement where the United States leads operations and investments in Greenland with Allied contributions to counter threats from Russia and China while preserving Danish formal ties. Well, what do you know, it turns out we don't have any interest in conquest over Greenlander. Planting the American flag on Greenland, or colonizing Greenland, or whatever it turns out. We just want to make sure we have a military base of operations there to defend that turf, to make sure China and Russia aren't up to no good meddling in our hemisphere. In exchange, we keep it protected. The Danes get to call it theirs, and all we want in exchange for it a little bit of what they have underground that they can't get to themselves, the rare earth minerals. Sounds like a winner to me, Ed, I mean, I don't know about you, but to me, it sounds like the Dames made out fantastically. Yeah, I think so.
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Speaker 8: I don't understand where it was Germany when we started this week. Think about what's happened up to this point. Germany was sending troops right the rest of Europe was converging on Greenland.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: No, I think that Trump struck a deal that works for everybody, as he intended all along.
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Speaker 2: It's like, I don't know, I don't know how to put it. You feel threatened in your neighborhood, and I say, I've got an elite security force d and what I'd like to do is move in next door to you, and I will supply you with complete fortified secure of your home to make sure there is no threat that will invade or take over your home or your neighbor. We don't want to move into your house. We will be your neighbor, though, we're probably going to lease some space next door. In exchange, we'll protect your house and you know, we'd like a meal or two every week? Do you mind cooking it? And we're going to give you all the security you want. All we'd like in exchange is maybe you cook us one of those delightful meals from your grocery supply every now and again. Do you mind me? You know, I don't even know how to. It's like the service we're providing in just protecting the turf unto itself is a tremendous expense and gift to the Europeans, and they'd be fools to turn it down. It's in of course, our interest to make sure that this hemisphere is not swallowed up by a meddling China and Russia and those sea lanes that are continuing to open wider with the snow melt and the ice melt. We've established that as well, So there is a geopolitical reason for this. But in turn, all we're asking for payment is a little bit of the goodies under your ground here that you're certainly not doing anything with. You get a few people fishing off your coast, you're not doing anything with this hunk of land, which, by the way, Trump reminded everybody yesterday, I'm not really sure why we gave this back to you to begin with. I don't think we've got a lot of time to play this now. In fact, we don't. I won't rush it, but when we get back i'll play for you. Some of his comments on this from Davos yesterday, it was hilarious. He was reminding the Europeans that, you know, the damn thing was ours to begin with after World War Two. I mean, we had control of the thing, and we gave it back for some inexplicable reason. But I wasn't around for that, So it was just insult after insult yesterday. And I know that gives the editorial boards of our esteemed publications around the country heartburn and embarrassment, but I thought it was delightful for in a minute, here we are in the relief factor studios this morning, looking at you Cleveland. We've got a camera mount it in our we We've got so much money slushing around here. The success of the show has been so great. They said, stickall, how do you want to spend all these piles of money you've just got to burn? And I said, let's let's mount a car on somebody's dash in Cleveland and just turn it on occasionally. And so that's that's what we've done. What do you think Thanks for listening on the answer there in Cleveland, if you're watching on the Salem News channel, That's that's what we've done.
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Speaker 7: We've just we've.
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Speaker 2: Mounted a car to one of our Cleveland staff, a camera to one of their hoods, and they're driving around Cleveland. I thought that was a good use of money. Telephone number eight five five fives to call if you want to get into You're ready for the polar vortex. In their d everybody's said about the polar vortex, We're either going to get one inch or ten feet of snow, and it's going to come either right now or Sunday night, or maybe somewhere in between. The temperature will drop anywhere from minus one hundred to thirty, so get ready or not.
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Speaker 8: I am worried about that. To be honest, I used to man. I used to be able to shovel snow. I was a warrior. I could be outside all day messing around with the snow. If we're talking about polar vortex, and now the thing is freezing, so like I clear the snow out on step one, then it continues to fall, then it gets cold and freezes over.
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Speaker 2: I have a problem with that. That could be bad. We're bringing in big JOBASTARTI today to talk about it. I don't know. I joke, but it's like, I, you know, this forecast has changed about thirty times, millions racing for massive winter storm packing snow, and I it's January, folks, I don't know. This is like heat in July. I get, I don't know. Weather stories on balance sort of bore me. But when the media decides they're Trump must be doing too much, well, the things are looking ugly for the Democrats up in Minnesota, so they've got to shift to a weather hysteria story. Polar vortex. Millions could be on the cold and I'm like, well, it is it is January. I mean they were it is what happens in January.
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Speaker 8: I know the media was definitely banking on a Greenland invasion that that just didn't come through.
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Speaker 2: So as we get to this, I thought we were going to invade Greenland or something that Don Lemon was going to cause a meltdown. I thought ICE agents were going to be assassinating people in the streets in Minnesota. It's all backfiring on us quick. What do we do polar board tex So? Anyway, President Trump yesterday at this speech in Davos, we were smack in the middle of it. As we were wrapping up the show yesterday morning. Take a listen to this number thirty eight.
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Speaker 10: We want strong allies, not seriously weakened once.
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Speaker 1: We want Europe to be strong.
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Speaker 10: Ultimately, these are matters of national security, and perhaps no current issue makes the situation more clear than what's currently going on with Greenland. Would you like me to say a few words of Greenland. I was going to leave it out of this speech, but I thought I think would have been reviewed very negatively. I have tremendous respect for both the people of Greenland and the people of.
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Speaker 1: Denmark, tremendous respect.
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Speaker 10: But every NATO ally has an obligation to be able to defend their own territory. And the fact is, no nation or a group of nations is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the United States, where great power, much greater than people even understand.
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Speaker 1: I think they found that out two weeks ago in Venezuela.
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Speaker 10: We saw this in World War Two when Denmark fell to Germany after just six hours of fighting and was totally unable to defend either itself or Greenland. So the United States was then compelled we did it. We felt an obligation to do it, to send our own forces to hold the Greenland territory and hold it. We did a great courts and expense. They didn't have a chance of getting on it, and they tried. Denmark knows that we literally set up bases on Greenland for Denmark. We fought for Denmark. We weren't fighting for anyone else. We were fighting to.
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Speaker 1: Save it for Denmark, big beautiful piece of ice. It's hard to call it land, it's a big piece of ice.
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Speaker 10: But we saved Greenland and successfully prevented our enemies from gaining a foothold in our hemisphere. So we did it for ourselves also, and then after the war, which we won, we won it big Without us, right now, you'd all be speaking German and little Japanese.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps after the war we gave Greenland back to Denmark. How stupid were we to do that? But we did it.
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Speaker 2: There's not a word of it that's untrue. There's not a word of it it's untrue. You may not like it, it may make you feel uncomfortable, you may think how insulting is any of it?
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Speaker 1: Untrue?
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Speaker 2: Not a word of it, and these uppity Europeans need to be reminded of it. You sit here in this room because of our work, make no mistake about it. You enjoy what you enjoy today because we did the heavy lifting kids, not that long ago, not even a hundred years ago. So this mouthy little Finnish president, stub Stubby shows up and pops off that, oh we can handle our own defenses. He's called out and mocked to his face about that number twenty five.
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Speaker 11: First is a direct answer to the question of this panel. Can Europe defend itself? My answer is unequivocally.
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Speaker 2: Yes, without the Americas.
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Speaker 11: Without the Americas, I mean, how we look.
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Speaker 1: But you're relying on them for these key elements.
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Speaker 9: How would you do it at scale and at duration with.
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Speaker 11: An assumption that the United States would cut off completely any kind of work. Well, if we look at the defense composure of Europe buying large and a country like Finland, So how do we do it? We have conscription one million, have done it. We can mobilize two hundred and eighty thousand soldiers within weeks.
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Speaker 1: We have sixty two f eighteens.
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Speaker 11: Their next question is going to be do they fly?
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Speaker 2: All right, that's enough, that's enough. Yeah, okay. If you think Finland can beat China, if you think Finland can take Russia on its own, then I don't know what to do. I can't help you. You're not paying close attention if you think that's true. Listen, this is the formalization of a new era of American power. It is leverage without bloodshed. I said this yesterday. It's dominance on our terms. And that is why the Supreme Court has got to affirmedim tariffs as an article to power of the presidency, because it is among the most potent instruments of foreign policy and national security in the executive arsenal period. Full stop. These are economic weapons that achieve a strategic objective, and we didn't have to fire a single shot. That's the truth of what happened over the last couple of days with Greenland. Again, I went over this. This is just like a naval blockade, isolating an adversary. It compels compliance without coercion. There is no war. Tariffs impose disciplined economic pressure that forces negotiation. It deturs aggression, It protects our interests, and it's most importantly, it spares lives. This Greenland framework secured only after credible tariff threats brought NATO to the table. It proves in real time, and I hope if the Supreme Court is paying attention, this proves in real time that leverage, when applied through trade policy, unlocks our access to critical minerals. We want it blocked Chinese and Russian encroachment and strengthened alliances without deploying troops or risking conflict. You strip the president of tariff authority, and you unilaterally disarm the executive in a great power competition. You invite provocation from adversaries who know America's hands are tied in the future, and you make actual war more likely by removing the very tool that substitutes dollars for bullets and prevents bloodshed. You know, when you look at police work and greenland, they look unrelated until you understand the economics of security. This makes total sense, is what I was just saying to Eddie. Globally, more than eighty percent of world trade by volume moves across the ocean. And so when shipping lanes and airspace are secure, goods flow, prices stay, stables, supply chains hold, Investment thrives. But when piracy and conflict and instability takes over, the effects are immediate. You get higher costs and disrupted delivery and frozen capital and economic pain everywhere, And that very same principle applies here at home. Safe streets create thriving local economies. When neighborhoods are secure, people shop, people dine out, people travel freely, They start businesses, They invest in homes, Property values rise, jobs multiply, communities grow. Safety is not optional. It's the oxygen that economic life needs to breathe. Europe needs it just the same as us. When safety collapses, fear takes over, commerce freezes, businesses, flee, investment dries up and then decline. Begins to spread, just as surely as a block straight or a pirate infested water can paralyze global trade. This is very simple to understand, folks. It was a master stroke by Donald Trump. The Supreme Court must affirm his ability to use tariffs. It saved lives, period. More in a minute. Do you know why they don't like the Board of Peace because they don't want to supplant their little Nobel Peace Prize, which they continue to snub Trump on. So he's creating his Board of Peace because he's like, well, I don't know, I don't know what the Peace Prize means. I've ended eight wars, I've thrown a detestable drug running goon out of Venezuela and nobody's died. And I don't know what peace means to you Nobel Prize people. But I'm creating my own peace board. That's why Europeans don't like it. They've always been the ones to dictate and determine what peace means and what peace looks like. President Trump has done more to ensure peace and stabilize the globe than probably any modern American president. It's not even close. Again, he's trying to minimize death folks, telephone number eighty five to five. Stigall is the telephone number eighty five five seven eight four forty two fifty five. If you'd like to reach me, you can also head over to Chrisstigall dot com to find me on social media, as well as my three times a week newsletter, the HRUMPF Society Chris Stigall stig a l l dot com. It's pretty simple to understand. Just like local police protect the neighborhood and the everyday economy in your community, strategic control of places like Greenland protect America's northern approaches, emerging Arctic shipping routes, critical Atlantic choke points, and it safeguards our national prosperity as well as frankly Europe's in an era of superpower competition. So whether it is the block outside aty's door or whether it's a passage to the Arctic frontier, security is not a luxury, it's not a social preference. It is a force multiplier. It makes everything else possible when people feel unsafe. When people feel unsecure, depletion erosion, shuttered businesses, shuttered homes, the economy seizes. The opposite happens when people and regions feel secure and stable. That's what Donald Trump has achieved in the last twenty four hours, again without firing a single shot. And the man deserves credit for that, and of course they don't want to give it. The left is actually hardy har harring that he didn't in fact get to take over Greenland. I see people that hate this guy so much. They think it's funny that he didn't actually get to seize Greenland. They think that somehow you and I will be disappointed that he what is it? Rush always used to say this about Trump, and I'm gonna screw it up. He always used to say, you should never take Trump literally, but you should always take him seriously. I think that's what he said. I think that's how he said it. And it's just true if by now you don't understand taking Trump literally when he says, well you'll see, wait and see. I guess we'll do what we got to do for Greenland. That it has always for over ten years now, it has sent people off the cliff. He's going to invade Greenland while the rest of us and you can go back and rewind the show after show I've done here over the last weeks in which I have said he's not invading Greenland, he's serious about wanting access to it. He's serious about wanting to control military installations there. It's like get Mo in Cuba. Think of it that way. That is a military installation on an island that we don't control, but we have some sovereign territory on that property that is ours. That's what we want from Greenland. We're not interested in taking it over, even though we probably, as Trump said, I'm not really sure why we ever handed it over to begin with, but we do want to have military installations there to make sure nobody gets up aty in this region. Just let them know we're here. So you give us a few military bases and an exchange for that cost, we'd like a little bit of what's under the ground here. Win win win for everybody. Nothing negative about any of this. How you could contort this in what clever, creative way you could contort this as a loss or a bad thing or an embarrassment. And yet if you're wired to hate Trump, that's what you tell yourself today that somehow this was an embarrassment and we look bad on the world stage. Sincerely, I'm not above criticizing Donald Trump if warrants it. But how you see this as anything but just a devastating success is sincerely beyond me. I mean, I'm all ears. If you'd like to make the case eight five fives to galls the telephone number sit tight moren a minute. Yes, I know it's the holidays. I know this is not a time of year most people think about losing weight. But you know, our executive producer, Fast Eddie is doing it. He's using PhD Weight Loss right now as a weight loss tool through the holiday season. It can be done. And you know how, I know in just two weeks time. Right now as we speak, he's on the program, and the first two weeks of the program he's already dropped eight pounds. Now you know I told you the reason he's doing it, because I told you I lost forty pounds in under four months earlier this year. Eddie said, I want to try it. I said, it's almost the holidays. He said, I don't care. I want to try it. And he's lost eight pounds in two weeks time. He works with his counselor the same as I work with my counselor. I've kept the weight off. I'm going to probably go for another twenty in the new year. But the point is right now, I've hit idle on purpose. I'm maintaining my weight loss because my counselor at PhD Weight Loss has taught me exactly what I need to do to maintain, maintain, and then when I want to re engage and kick it into full gear and start losing more in the new year, I can. The best part about PhD Weight Loss this time of year is they're very well aware this is a hard time to get people motivated to lose weight. But if you find yourself motivated like fast Eddie is, they're going to give you a heck of a deal.
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Speaker 3: Right now.
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Speaker 1: Or not.
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Speaker 2: The line has shifted. They always do this every weather forecast. Where there is supposed to be precipitation, the line always shifts. There's always a line, and it moves about thirty times. And then you stare at the map trying to figure out where you live on that line. My above the line? Am I below the line? While I get the ice, while I get the snow. We play this game. We'll bring in Big JOBUSTARTI to give us the latest on it. How much are we going to expect? The cold is supposed to be pretty intense too so anyway, but right now it looks like a lovely start to the day. Get out there and enjoy it. I think the bulk of it is supposed to come Saturday, not tomorrow, right I think we're going to get through most of tomorrow and the commute before all hell breaks loose, I think, is what I heard. I don't follow the weather closely. Christine gets mad at me because I'm the guy that will walk outside and go, WHOA, it's cold, and she go, yeah, the temperature drop thirty degrees, didn't you know. No, Oddly, for all the news that I consume in the course of a week, I don't watch the weather even a little bit. I'm always surprised by it always. Anyway, eight five five stigalld is the telephone number if you'd like to get in here. G Love just sent me a story this morning. Our technical director. He was very interested to note, and I don't I think he was taking a shot at fast Eddie for his thick waistline that is becoming less thick thanks to PhD weight loss. You know, Eddie and I have been losing weight together now for a while. Adds down twenty five pounds. I'm down over forty from last year, so we're, you know, a good sixty plus pounds down and falling. And then g Love sent me a Washington Post story this morning that said they specifically credit it to the shot. Now, I want you to know we don't do that. PhD weight loss has nothing to do with the shot, and I'm not attacking you. If you do the shot, don't send me the emails whatever. I mean, you do you If that helps you, fine, I just I think there's a lot about that shot. We still don't know, and I would just say that there are ways to lose weight without it. But for some of you, you feel it's either necessary or useful or whatever. I've got people in my family that swear by it, so I'm not attacking you. But anyway, it's interesting that the Washington Post says it's because of those shots that US airlines are going to save a bunch of money. Why now, I think you could say the exact same thing about PhD weight loss. I don't think it has to be about the shot. The point is people are losing a bunch of weight, and that means airlines are saving something like five hundred This is the Washington Post report, five hundred eighty million dollars in fuel costs per year, Fast Eddie. Because we're less fat now, five hundred eighty million dollars and fuel costs. I wonder if that will be passed along to the ticket buyer. Oh, I'm sure it will be.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, But we're less fat, that's the good news, and as such, we're burning less fuel.
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Speaker 7: That is a good thing.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely. The climate h climate change folks have to be happy with that, right, especially as everyone's flying in out of Davos.
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Speaker 2: Well, look, they want us eating bugs too, so that would keep us thinner, they less meat less hooves and all this stuff that they get so wound up about. No, in the look, in the in the climate wackos perfect world, we're all eating bugs and we're not flying at all. Well, you can fly if you, John Kerry, just not us unless you that's right, No, that's right. But anyway, congratulations, you're burning less fuel out there now thanks to your weight loss, which is good news. Eight five five stigall is how you get here. I have some stories, by the way, a little later I will get into about the whole climate change scam. It's completely eroding. I mean, it's completely falling apart. In fact, I didn't intend to talk about this here. Trump went on a riff yesterday. This might be my favorite yet. He says about China. He goes, you know, China's over there making all these stupid windmills. And this is one of the great points. This is such a basic, easy point ed. All the morons that are installing all these big, ugly wind farms, these huge, hideous wind farms. Now again the people that own the land they sit on. Good for you, Yatzi, you hit the jackpot. I mean, if I owned a big track of land and they said I want to stick these big, ugly things in your land and pay you so much per I'll catch the checks. Not gonna lie. It's probably pretty tempting, probably making more than farming it. But the truth of the matter is they're ugly and they're ineffective, and these things rot and they rust and you got to replace them. They're certainly not carbon neutral or whatever. But Trump makes the best point about these yesterday. I absolutely adore this. Listen to number thirty five, go ahead.
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Speaker 1: Windmills. All over Europe.
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Speaker 10: There are windmills all over the place, and they are losers. One thing I've is that the more windmills the country has, the more money that country loses, and the worst that country is doing. China makes almost all of the windmills, and yet I haven't been able to find any wind.
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Speaker 1: Farms in China. Did you ever think of that. That's a good way of looking at this.
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Speaker 7: More.
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Speaker 1: China's very smart.
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Speaker 10: They make them, they sell them for a fortune. They sell them to the stupid people that buy them, but they don't use them themselves. They put up a couple of big wind farms, but they don't use them. They just put them up to show people what they could look like. They don't spend, they don't do anything. They use the thing called coal mostly, but.
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Speaker 1: China goes with the coal.
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Speaker 7: They go with.
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Speaker 1: They're starting to look at nuclear.
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Speaker 2: Do you remember the Ricky Gervais Golden Globe speech a few years ago. This was the political equivalent of that. He just looked all of these uppitty Europeans in the face and said, you know how stupid you are with these wind farms, right? You're buying them all from China. They're all too happy to make them. Do you think they use them for their own power needs? No, you dopes buy them and stick them in your ground. They rot and rust and they don't do a damn thing. All the while China cashes the checks and builds more coal fire power plants. You dummies, says it right to their faces. It's delicious. The fact of the matter is this is what makes Donald Trump so important at this time in history, not just for us, but for the globe. Who is saying that out loud on the global stage with that size microphone. Who's saying it? Nobody? He is, and it's working. Listen to me, it's working. From the daily signal, the perpetual climate panic machine collapses, global warming has gone cold as an issue despite decades of pact. Well, what are we talking about right now? Fascinating? What did I just say? We're waiting for the polar vortex. We're going to be treated to the next forty eight to seventy two hours of hysteria about how violently cold it's going to get in January.
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Speaker 9: Right?
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Speaker 7: Oh?
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Speaker 2: Yes, uh huh. Hard to sell that we're warming and cooking ourselves and the polar vortex, isn't it?
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Speaker 1: Yes?
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Speaker 8: And also to the people up in Massachusetts who are going to freeze should this bear down on us, this polar vortex. Stop voting for Democrats and hampering your freaking energy policy.
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Speaker 7: Unreal.
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Speaker 2: Global warming has gone cold as an issue, to Eddie's point, despite decades of panic predictions of doom, It's never been a high priority for voters, and Donald Trump's bold expressions of climate denial were not punished by voters. The media is still sound allied with the green New Deal pushers, but the thrill is gone, writes Tim Graham at The Daily Signal. Last November, leftists blasted ABC, CBS, and NBC for barely touching the Global Climate Summit in Brazil. Now, axios dot com posted an analysis by somebody called Amy Harder on this trend titled quote the World's greatest climate collapse Greenpeace Gang Beware. The last year has seen an epic reversal that spread quickly from governments, to boardrooms to pop culture. Not only has Trump dismissed climate panic, but it's noted now that Canada's Prime Minister Mark Karney, wants, one of the world's most vocal climate advocates, is now repealing some of his country's climate policies. The British Prime Minister Tony Blair also issued a memo questioning the wisdom of pursuing net zero emissions policies. That is the former prime minister. As you know, he questioned the wisdom of net zero policies. Then there's billionaire Bill Gates, an unelected global leader. He circulated a memo criticizing the climate movement while shifting much of his money and focus back to public health. Just four years after publishing a book called Quote How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, a bestseller that drew gushy reviews from all the mainstream. With Trump in office, Ford pulled back sharply from its plugin car coll fired cars what I like to call those, shifting focus to more popular and profitable hybrids and gas vehicles due to slowing ev demand. Europe scaled back its planned to ban gas powered cars in the next decade, and softened climate disclosure rules. The Axios analysis claimed even Hollywood is tiptoeing away, swapping climate angst for oil swagger, as seen in the new show It's a hit show apparently, which I have still not seen land Man. People are begging me to tune into it. Billy Bob Thornton I have played a clip of it before. He does a great riff in season one of land Man about the myth of the spinning propellers providing more energy in a more profitable way than good old fashioned oil does. Also this from the Press Gazette in the United Kingdom. The UK's National Press published more articles in twenty twenty five opposing action to mitigate climate change than supporting it. Nearly one hundred UK newspaper editorials opposed an increase in climate action. It was never serious, it was never real, it was always made up. The people didn't believe it. And in the middle of a polar vortex, when your energy costs her through the roof, it's a really tough cell. And Trump mocked all those little pipsqueaks to their faces over it. Good for him. Oh, that's right. We were supposed to get some kind of electromagnetic storm or something this week. I'm watching on the Salem News Channel one of our cameras we've got on time laps from fort Yukon, Alaska. Apparently you could see all the pinks and greens and stuff earlier in the week, right, I think, I'm not entirely sure that's another one of those. I thought we just had one of those, But apparently there's another one where you can see the northern lights. Yeah. Now, I don't know if that's live. That's not live, is it. That's time lapse photography of the Northern lights I think earlier in the week up there. But anyway, apparently you could see them pretty spectacularly earlier in the week. I still don't really understand the phenomenon that's another one of those things that everybody. I mean, I think it's gorgeous and interesting in all that, But I mean there are people near me that will go out and stand in the middle of a field like they're waiting for the great pumpkin, for this thing. I don't know. Does that make me unappreciative of nature? Whatever? I mean? I'd like to think I'm full of awe and wonder, but I don't know. Eleven thirty twelve o'clock at night, I'm just not going to go stand in a cold beanfield in the dark waiting for you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 8: I think everybody has their thing and the things that they like. You know, you like trout fishing. You have a nice, nice lake, nice stream, yes there, and that's where you find peace and tranquility in nature.
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Speaker 2: That's that's true. You don't have to freeze everybody their own. We have cameras yet the sale the news channel, right, that's right. I can see it later. We've recorded it and documented it, and I'm glad somebody else did it for me. It's right. We're going to talk with John Solomon here in just a little bit. He's the founder and editor in chief of Just the News. He wrote a piece that caught our attention a little earlier in the week or late last I don't remember which. He said that he knows that DJ It's been a source of real frustration for a lot of you. I know, I hear from you. I share it. I get it. Everyone wants We were talking to Ed Morsey about it yesterday. Everyone wants to see swift action people. And I'll be honest with you, I want to see Don Lemon and leg Irons. I want to see Don Lemon roused it out of his holm and arrested just like Mark Hawk. I do. I desperately want it, and I want it to have happened the day he stormed into that church. But we have to remind ourselves that in order to build a credible case in a court of law, a court of law that, depending on the venue and the judge, will make it incredibly difficult for the Trump Department of Justice to actually achieve justice, they have to have a pretty ironclad case built. John Solomon says that he believes they are at present working on cases related to election integrity and the like Biden era stuff. Twenty twenty election fraud stuff that you and I don't know, we haven't heard about, but they have been working diligently on and they're going to unleash it very very soon. Interestingly too, Dan Bongino will start back on his regular show at the beginning of February, which you know ed I have maintained. Dan Bongino returned to the air, and I'd say this to him were he here. I'm not speaking out of school here. I think Bongino left is the number two guy at FBI, because I think the calculation in Team Trump was, brother, we need you out there on the front lines communicating more than we need you in here, So we need you to get back out there and start swinging for the fences. I think that's what he's going to be doing. Come to the beginning of February, and if what John has to say about DJ is coming, that's going to be an interesting one two punch with Bongino leading the messaging on the on the radio and across the country. Anyway, that's up next. Sit tight, all right, it's good to welcome back. We don't get to talk to him nearly enough. Big fan of his work. We reference just the news regularly as a resource on this show. It's must read all the time. John Solomon is the founder and editor in chief of the outlet just Thenews justinnews dot com. John, good to see you again. Good morning, Yeah, good morning, Chris.
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Speaker 7: Good to be with you.
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Speaker 2: It's been a bit and I'm glad to have you on a really important day like this one, because while a lot of people are talking about Davos, understandably so there's always a lot going on. But I don't want anybody to miss the testimony of Jack Smith today. I know you're going to be keyed in on that.
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Speaker 7: Oh for sure.
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Speaker 10: You know.
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Speaker 7: He's the face of what Republicans sy as a weaponization machine. Back in twenty fourteen, he was a guy working with Lewis Learner to figure out how they could target conservative nonprofits. A decade later, he's a guy that's bringing two indictments against President Trump in the middle of a twenty twenty four election, the Democratic leadership going after the key Republican opponent, and in between he defines the sort of tactics that people see as weaponization as abuse of the government system. And yesterday we just had another story that shows how bad this system still is and we went through Russia collusion. We did the Christopher Steele debacle, the MI six agent paid by Hillary Clinton who submitted a completely unverifiable dossier, and President Trump was put under comeal investigation with that, and then Chris Ray came in as the FBI director, said, Okay, there's a bad moment aberration. We're fixing it. We have new informant rules. We're not going to let foreigners influence elections that could have impact it actily investigations that can impact an election. We're not going to have politically biased informants in political investigations. And we're certainly never going to let one of our confidential human sources acknowledge that they're working for us, because that violates the contract. Those are the reforms that the FBI claimed that they put into place after Russia Collusion. But what we discovered yesterday is an investigation that directly involved Jack Smith. He took it over at some point, the January sixth investigation and the so called Arctic Cross investigation. They hired a group called the Sedition Hunters. This is a group that is overtly anti Trump. It has an enormous anti Trump, anti conservative bias. So Check one on Christopher Steele two point zero. This is a group that the FBI was aware was viewing using foreign resources. Are the emails we saw inside the FBI show the agents knew that this group was actually using software in Great Britain with people centered in Europe to identify potential defendants for the FBI in the January sixth and artic Croft's investigation. Checkbox number two Christopher Steel two point zero. And then all you have to do is go to the Sedition Hunters Twitter site or website and you will very quickly see they openly boasted that they were working with the fpaid. Now, why is that a problem. According to the documents we saw, the FBI paid members of that group one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to be confidential human sources and those two investigations. Check box three. This is a Christopher Steele two point zero scandal. The FBI director told us yesterday the hiring of the Sedition Hunters members as confidential apartments violated the rules. It was an abuse, it was a domination, and he's fired the people who ran that part of the investigation. He's also doing it added to find anyone else who should be held accountable. Well, it was Jack Smith who authorized in his office that authorized some of those paints at least twenty thousand dollars, maybe more. So that's going to be one of many questions that come up to them in the interrogation of Jack Smith on Tapol Hill by the OUTSTUDITIONAR Committee.
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Speaker 2: John Solomon again, founder and editor in chief of Just the News just thenews dot com, where you will read the best reporting on this there he is period full stop. Your assessment of Chris Ray now at this point, was he willfully ignorant? Was he lying? Did he not know? Genuinely didn't know what was going on underneath his nose complicity? I mean, how do you how do you review his job now he's at the post?
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Speaker 7: Well, there is clearly he's the guy that kind of skated because most of the Republicans have targeted all their ire James Cobey, there's plenty of good reasons for them. He started Russia collusion, he exonerated Hillary Cliftland, he met authority. He clearly set up President Trump for a obstructed investigation by basically keeping book on him and luring him into conversations and then writing memos that he would lead to the media. But Chris Ray's tenure, which was twice as long as James Cobe Combs less than three years. Ray was seven years, has far more troubling episodes of a continuation of the weaponization. He was supposed to be the end of the weaponisation. He was supposed to be the reformed guy. But now what we know. They targeted parents at school boards on his watch, just because they wanted to raise concerns about the children's education. They treated him as domestic theroists. They determined that Catholics who went to ladinmash should be investigated as domestic extremistic because they chose an old form of Catholic faith. They pulled the security clearances of FBI agent after finding out that they were or they were vetting them to find out if they were pro Trump or pro Second Amendment. If they were, they were in grave danger of losing their security clearances. And then the entire Arctic Frosts investigation, which a lot of people see as Russia collusion two point zero. Certainly now we have a Christopher Seal two point zho and part of that with the informant situation that all happened on his watch. The sad part is Republicans have done very little to really question him hard. I think he's going to come into focus, and I think he has several potential liabilities. One is, we don't know because there hasn't been enough investigation how much he signed off on these most heinous of examples of abuse and weaponization, because the questions haven't been asked, he hasn't put before grand jury. When he was on the Capitol Hill, he generally got treated with kate gloves, even with Republicans. Secondly, the testimonies and assurances he gave Congress appear to be inaccurate on several fronts. He's a person who could potentially face false testimony charges if the evidence give you a show that he knew what he was saying was wrong. And then I think thirdly, we do not know what sort of interactions he had with Jack Smith, with the Biden white House, where there is pretty clear evidence that the FBI was conspiring with the Biden White House to go after President Trump in both the classified documents case in January sixth. We have direct communications something I broke about three years ago. That is an area of rich investment. If Chris Ray was going over to the Biden White House to concoct the cases, he's in big trouble.
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Speaker 2: And John you know this. I know you hear it more than anybody else. People in this audience right now are saying, good grief. If John Solomon knows all of this, then why in the world aren't we seeing charges broad Why where is Pam Bondy? What's going on? How do you answer that? Exactly? Because there's video of you from a while back, and I've been improperly crediting it as recent. It is not recent. It's a little older. But it's a you saying that you believed that there were things, or you had heard that there were things going on behind the scenes in DJ and FBI that we just don't know quite yet. Do you still believe that's so? Is there stuff coming that we just don't know because it takes time to build a case. What do you say?
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Speaker 7: Well, listen, I would say that the Trump Justice Department was quite slow to get into a prosecuted position, not the the FBI under cash Hotel, very quickly started turning up this evident. Some of these documents that I just reported this week, I turned over to Justice months ago, so people know that these allegations were substantiated. The Justice Department went through a very tumultuous period. Lots of people left, lots of people got fired because they were viewed as destators, and the process to restaff up was incredibly slow. And so you had about forty percent of the Justice Department trying to not only do its normal work and a weaponization investigation, but also, you know, take on new things like crime and cities like Washington, DC and Memphis. And so they stretched themselves thin. They made a lot of promises without the resources to back them up. Over the last few months they've gotten resourced. Uff here are things that are irrefutable. They are now actually been confirmed. In March of twenty twenty five, Cash Bettel wrote a memo to the Justice Department laying out a grand conspiracy case if you could look at the period from twenty fourteen, which was the IRS targeting of conservative groups all the way to the Jack Smith investigations in Florida in Washington as one ongoing conspiracy to deprive President Trump and his followers of their civil liberties. And it laid out a decade of overt actions if you ever covered a mob case. Conspiracy cases are made with overt actions and they allow you to go back and charge crimes that are outside the normal statute of limitations if you could show it's one continuing operation that got the attention in the summer of last year of Pambondi. They wanted to look at more documents evidence. They want to get a few US attorneys, because you can't do this unless you have US attorneys. You've seen what's happened in Virginia, New Jersey where we still don't have chief federal prosecutors in place a year into the Trump administration, and that's on the White House. That's bad management of the White House in the Senate confirmation process. But in the fall, Pambody signed off on an investigation to look at this as a grand conspiracy and they looked at the final crimes, crimes that are believed to have been committed in Florida and said, you always put a conspiracy case in the place where the most recent crimes occurred. And starting on January twelfth of this year, so just a little over a week ago, a federal grand jury in Fort Pierce, Florida, under the direction of the Miami US Attorney has begun submitting all of this evidence to gen jurors to see if they could make criminal charges. And that's where we're at.
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Speaker 2: John, If I may, I don't mean to be greedy with your time, but could I hold you for one more segment? Do you have a moment?
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Speaker 7: Sure?
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Speaker 2: All right, John more with John Solomon. It's a rare treat to get to talk to you this hour, so I'm going to hold you for one more. Thank you, John Moren. A minute, beautiful look at sunrise in Cincinnati this morning. Thanks for listening on the Ticket and hundreds of great radio stations like it all over the country. We're thrilled to have you aboard. Thanks for watching on the Salem News Channel too. Grab that app, it's free, you can take it along with you and watch or listen wherever. And subscribing to the podcast, the christaglf Show Podcast, Thanks for your support there. That thing's growing by leaps and bounds. Just looked at the numbers this week. More people who are listening to that podcast this year now these first couple of weeks in the twenty twenty six than all of last year. So glad you subscribe to that if you want to get caught up and catch up on conversations like we're having the day with John Solomon, and we're always grateful when he makes time for us, founder and editor in chief of Just the News. We're talking about Jack Smith on Capitol Hill today, and John, I just had to wonder and hold you over. If you were sitting there before Jack Smith today and you had the microphone, the first question you ask him would.
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Speaker 7: Be what were your conversations with Merrick Garland and President Biden concerning the pursuit of President Trump when you were appointed in twenty twenty two. I think that's the first question. Was there a political origin to something that should have been an organic criminal case. There's pretty strong evidence that the White House was involved. That's unprecedented, and I think that that is the question that the American people know. If Joe Biden sicked Jack Smith and the FBI and the President, we need to know that and we need to much like the Watergate era fifty six years ago, we need to get right with it as the American public. So that's question number one for me.
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Speaker 2: Do you think this is something I've puzzled over a time and again as people get irritated and they don't feel justices being served and people are being punished swiftly enough. I've always maintained that there can't possibly be anybody more interested in getting to the bottom of all of this than Trump himself after a home raid and asassination attempts and being dragged through multiple kangaroo courts. I mean, can there be anybody more interested than President Trump? Or is he sort of a transactional guy that's like, well, that was then and this is now, and he's truly just handed it off to Bonda.
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Speaker 7: Oh No, he's dialed in. This is personal to him. And you know what, I've had some really profound conversations with the President, and you know, we see the bravado guy on screen, but he is a very deep thinker and a thoughtful person. He looks at things strategically, and he has sent to me on multiple occasions, both privately and interviews on my show, that he wants to sell this and punish the people who went after him, because he does never wants another president or another candidate for president, to go through what he did. He realized it turned America from free elections to banana republic elections and he doesn't want. He wants to make such a stunning defeat of this that no other candidate in American history will go through what he went through. And I think he is I have that on the record, and I know he means it. He said to me privately when the cameras are off. He is absolutely committed, and it's oftentimes very frustrated that the system moves slower than he would like to see. I do think it's ramping up. I think we could see some indictments in the next few weeks in Minnesota for the fraud, including state officials who might have looked the other way, i e. A Governor Wallas or Keith Ellison. I think you will see some indictments soon for the groups that provide both financial and logistical support to those who are blocking ICE from carrying out lawful federal enforcement matters. And then I think there's a strong possibility you will see some indictments come out of that Florida grand jury. There are going to be some attempts to indict people in Washington, d C. It's not going to stick. You're not going to get convictions in DC. There's a ninety five percent Democrat jury poolm but some cases are going to have to be brought there. People may get acquitted. That will be frustrating to the American people. But we have a political jury nullification problem in some of the big blue cities right now, and that's very deeply concerning to people who look at the legal system. But Florida in Minnesota, I think will be the first machinery to create consequences and potential convictions of people who have used our systems.
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Speaker 2: Do you believe that President Trump still has faith in Attorney General Bondi and should he? Based on what you see just briefly, I think.
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Speaker 7: He vacillates, as you see in some of his tweets or his truth social posts. I think he likes Pam Bondi personally, he's frustrated that not more has been done. I think he's been briefed in recent weeks on the move to get to a prosecuted position. One of the tricky things was making sure before you start the grand jury in Florida, you could absolutely make the case that it should remain there, that it doesn't get removed to DC. A lot of the things that happened against President Trump occurred before twenty twenty, which of course would mean they're outside the statue of five year limitations and occurred in Washington, d C. What the Justice Department had to do was make a meaningful and serious review of the evidence to show that what happened in Florida was connected to what happened all the way back to when they were opening up Operation Crossfire Hurricane and hanging in a fake Russian shingle on Donald Trump's campaign house. And so that took some time, some legal vetting, and I think now that that has been made, you got a very capable team in Florida. This Miami US Attorney's the career people around the US Attorney in Miami. They are grizzly prosecutors. You go after mobsters and drug dealers. They're going to bring this case. They're going to be able to go up against the two thousand dollars an hour democratic lawyers in Florida and potentially make some strong cases.
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Speaker 2: Johnsholloman, you and I don't talk often, but here's what I've always said. The moment mar A Lago was rated was was the game changer moment for me. That was the moment in American history that I point to and say, if that's allowed to stand, we've lost it all. Agree or disagree just ten seconds.
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Speaker 7: Couldn't agree, Martha, You're right on the money. That visual will never be lost in people's mind. We rated a president's home, the opposition rated the president's home. That's what they do in Banana republics.
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Speaker 2: He's John Solomon, and there's nobody better. We're so grateful for his wisdom. Founder and editor in chief at just Thenews justinews dot com. Follow him on X at j Solomon Reports. Thank you John so much.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I love the show, Chris, thanks so much.
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Speaker 9: Oh, it's great to talk to you too. I this is a big storm. This is you know, they've A couple of days ago, the entire meteorological community called onto the reality of what. You know what we've been talking about WeatherBell. If you looked at our forecast for the winter August twenty ninth, we stress six factors as to why the winter could turn extreme and why the temperature forecast we have for the winter. You look at it, that's cold, but not that cold. The way it was going to get there was very important. It was like a roller coaster ride, and we were stressing this and now you know, we had the first shot of cold came in to the northern plains into the northeast for late November into December. Much of the rest of the country has had no winter, but now everything is cracking down. And to be blunt about it, the overall pattern looks very similar to February twenty ten here for the rest of the way in and that was the year we labeled snow Mageddon, and for good reason. So the worst of the winter for the United States is in front of us. And it's interesting. You know, my job is my job is I advise a lot of energy companies, a lot of hedge funds. I don't play the markets. I don't do anything like that. I just give him the best advice I can on the weather. And the meteorological community or whoever was whoever was advising the natural gas community has totally got caught off guard because the price of natural gas has almost doubled over the last three days, which means that the natural gas futures means that the people were just thinking it wasn't going to get cold, and so you know.
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Speaker 2: When it's been joti to that point, it's been very mild. But here's what I This is just an observation and there's no science behind it. So you tell me if it's if it's incorrect in my.
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Speaker 9: Observation the way you are, Chris, it hasn't been mild in the Northeast. It's been mild across the plains, so you know some people that have had winter.
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Speaker 2: And so to that point, you're saying that maybe the worst of the winter is still ahead of us.
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Speaker 9: Is that Yes, it is?
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Speaker 2: But is that typical or no? Because to me, in my opinion, just what I've observed, it seems that the harshest stuff seems to come later. I think everybody has this romantic idea of a white Christmas and all of that, but that always seems to be more mild. It's the really big pounding in February that we can often expect now right February and Marching.
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Speaker 9: Well, it depends. I mean, you know the weather the past ten winters, since the winter of fourteen fifteen, with the exception of the Texas winner in twenty one, it's been very mild across the United States. So no, that's not necessarily true. Last year was the first time the January and February broke cold back to back like that. They show you how warm it's been New York City had all three winter months last year below normal for the first time since two thousand and ten, maybe, and they're going to be that way this year. So while you're correct that they you know, we'll usually get our bigger snowstorms later in January and February. The fact is the normals are coming up this time of the year. They start coming up. But what we're going to find is relative to normal by far, the worst, worst, the coldest weather for the country. You know, the telling clients we could get a freeze in Florida in ten days. This storm is storm number one. We could have a blizzard on the East coast later next week, and then once we'll probably get a bit milder across the secral part of the country for a while. But it looks to me like mid and late February. It's you know, Garth Brooks, you know wolf weather. You know, I call it an American pie February where February made me shiver with each weather report I deliver.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm not. I'm not sitting here. It's interesting you introduced me, you know, my whole climate, my whole climate situation, isn't I think most of this stuff is ridiculous, and I try to downplay it, but this is a huge weather event. I mean, this is a crypt wing storm. When you have ice in Dallas and Little Rock and Nashville, Richmond, all those cities are going to get shut down for a couple of days from sleep and freezing rain. And then to the north of it, you have a swath of ten to fifteen inches of snow that starts at Tulsa and goes up into through much of Pennsylvania and Boston. I don't know why they're driving the south of Boston. I don't believe that.
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Speaker 9: I think I've told my aunt, my aunt in New England and my cousin that they're getting ten to fifteen inches of snow Sunday night and mondays. Whoa yeah, anyway.
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Speaker 2: But you're predicting ten to fifteen inches of snow by Monday morning in Boston.
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Speaker 9: Well, Sunday night Monday. The storm will end during the day Monday, but they should have ten to fifteen inches of snow from this storm coming up so and Philly. I think, for instance, Philly probably gets ten and the changes over the sleep freezing rain for a while in New York City is going to be on the border line there. There'll be ten to fifteen in the north, from western the city five to ten to the south. I mean you could if you want, you could, you know, ask me any town you want, I'll give you. I'll give you a snow forecast for it, because it so well.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you it's often right. The ice, that's always what you know. Particularly to our south. We've seen it in places like Texas where it just can cripple a community. Where's the ice do you think going to hit most prevalent? Some big cities you think are going to be dealing with ice.
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Speaker 9: The rain is going to be from Landman areas in middle of Odessa through Dallas, Little Rock. Little Rock's gonna be freezing rain and sleet, Shreeport, freezing rain in sleep Waco, a lot of freezing rain. Nashville, where Nashville's become sort of the center of an argument over there. You know, I heard a guy in Fox they say it's two thirty inches of snow's coming. No, Nashville might get a couple of inches of snow, but basically sleep freezing rain. Charlotte, Winston, Salem, Greensboro, Raleigh. Raleigh gets something for you. Rally gets some freezing rain. I don't think it's as bad as it is further west and north Richmond looks like it's a shutdown storm. DC will probably snow up to ten inches and then change over some sleep freezing rain for a while, and then that'll that sleep freezing rain will be up the I ninety five quarter, but it'll snow a whole heck of a lot. The old timers, like my dad used to say to me, it always sleeps at the height of the Great One. So folks, you folks that hear a couple of pings of sleep with this from northern Oklahoma to New York City, even maybe the Providence, it might sleep a little bit, you're gonna have a pile of snow before that for that change. You know, my company, what about we've been on January twelfth, we said the lookout for this. As you can see, this is the only feature of the entire winter that's coming in through southern California. Now southern California. It got blasted with rain, but all those systems lifted straight northward. They never came eastward. You see what I'm saying. They hit California, went north. This is the classic southern branch feature attacking a huge Arctic high that's extending from the Dakotas to New England. And so this is how you get these kind of systems we had. You know, if you were in Philly, for instance, in February two thousand and three President's Day storm was a lot like this where you had the big high to the north and the low pressure came out of the Gulf of Mexico and tried to attack the high.
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Speaker 2: So you like the classic Look, give me the timing on this, Joe. When can people expect this weather to hit?
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Speaker 9: Well, it depends again, it depends on where you are. Let me just let me get my timing down here. I think you're in the you know, Friday night, Saturday, you're in the second things from Texas up in the southern Kansas, all right. So if I go to Saturday evening, the front edge of the snow is getting to Pittsburgh, the front edge of the ice is to Chattanooga. Little Rocker is probably already shut down by that time. Dallas is getting some ice. And let's say we go to Sunday morning this storm, there should be heavy snow occurring from Oklahoma, through southern and central Indiana, southern and central Ohio into Pennsylvania, d c Front edge of snow to New York City. Lots of ice through the Carolinas, a strip of ice through Kentucky and and down into the Mississippi Valley and the Shreetport. And you know this storm will be in Kentucky. The center will try to come up through eastern Kentucky. And you know, in the words of the Three Stooges, what bread in old Kentucky makes a crummy here. So think about that.
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Speaker 2: So the bulk of this, the bulk of this is Saturday. You think Friday night, Saturday.
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Speaker 9: Sunday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, bye okay, bye okay. By Sunday evening it's snowing uh through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, into southern New England. Monday morning, Uh, that's when the storm begins to exit. Will be over in New York City. Uh, just some flurries left back through Sylvania. Still snowing in Boston, but it ends quickly snow at seven by eleven.
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Speaker 2: That's good to know. I mean, at least it sounds like the bulk of this will be dealing with over the weekend, so Monday it'll be a little more clear for the commute. But follow all of this because he's going to be watching it on X at Big Joe Bastardi. He is the chiefcaster at weatherbill dot com. Joseph, it's been too long. Let's have you back soon. Thanks for the update, My man boy live look at Buffalo.
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Speaker 7: New York.
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Speaker 2: And I will say Aaron McGuire, our friend who you know, came on the show Mondays with McGuire Big Buffalo Bills fan fastening. She said in a sub stack that she posted, she is furious because I guess, and I wasn't following it closely. I guess the general manager and the owner for the Bills, right after they fired their head coach, held a press conference and just made a mess of things. And now Bills fans are just furious because they did. It appears that they don't know what they're doing there in the front office. They've got they've built this brand new stadium, they got Josh Allen who's never been victorious and on his way to a Super Bowl, and now they have no head coach after ten years, and he's pretty well liked, and so now they think there's a real mess in Buffalo out there, and Aaron is just fit to be tied. Nothing she wanted happened.
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Speaker 8: I understand, Chris, But the problem is Buffalo, the Buffalo Bills will always have a massive fan base. There will people like It's just like Philly people will always fork over massive amounts of money to see them by their gear whatever.
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Speaker 2: So if I.
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Speaker 8: Feel bad, I really feel bad for you Bills fans. Believe me. I really wanted you to get it done this season. But if they've made a mess of things in the front office, it's not the problem is they've never felt the pain, right like, they never never felt the monetary pain of the people.
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Speaker 2: It's true because they love their football up there. Back to Davos where Citadel CEO Ken Griffin went both barrels on the husk, the former administration, the Biden Ministry and the miss inherited here by President Trump, and the miss the Globe really inherited under Joe Biden listened to this at number thirty three.
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Speaker 12: You cannot imagine how painful it was each and every day under the biod administration to look at what new crazy proposal was being put into place to solve a problem that didn't even exist. I mean, our constant friction at Citadel with the government across unteen different aspects of our business was exhausting. And to have that literally end on one day, Election Day, just gives you so much energy, as if shore to go back and build your damn business. So the biggest sea change I've seen across American executives has been just like the.
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Speaker 2: Giant side relief.
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Speaker 12: I can now go and focus on building my business. And that prior administration, you know, we happen to be a creditor of Spirit. Their merger with Jet Blue was stopped spirits and bankruptcy.
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Speaker 1: Today, there were.
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Speaker 12: So many decisions that were so poorly thought out in terms of economic consequences. It cost the US economy dearly. I cannot emphasize that enough. And so the Trump administration is making slow progress on deregulation thus far, but the end of the regulatory onslaught has been just an extraordinary boom for American business.
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Speaker 2: Did you hear that anywhere? If you're listening to the show, congratulations you did? But did most media outlets play that for you? Yesterday? What a devastating, blistering takedown of what we lived through. And by the way, the inflation that we're experiencing because of government largesse grotesque spending, which was huge, huge fraud was born of that. That's what we're living right now in Minneapolis. That was uncovered over at redline dot Com. War Department breaks down just how much money Biden administration telework policy wasted. The report from the War Department sent a letter to twenty four government agencies requesting a review of the issues involved with telecommuting. The Inspector General revealed that at least six hundred and sixty five thousand dollars was spent questionably on locality pay, that whole COVID lockdown era, that worked from home era crap, all that slush fund money. This country was raked over the coals.
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Speaker 7: You know.
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Speaker 2: I tell you that when we talk about matters of faith on this show, there is someone that I almost always think of first, and someone that when she has available time to come on and discuss it, she's who I want to have on the show, and she was good enough to make time for us today. She's a reporter over at the Daily Wire. She writes on matters of faith and culture. Quite often there She's written a book, a brilliant bestseller called Shepherd's for Sale, How evangelical leaders traded the truth for a leftist agenda. That's kind of how I got to know Megan Basham, who's back with us and has written a piece at the Daily Wire on this disruption raid really by a bunch of goons and thugs up in Minneapolis of a church service and the people involved there, as she's gone on to report, have been involved in the harassment of Pete Hagsith and his flock there in the DC area too, And so anyway, because she's written about that, and I just had a ton of questions for her, just as we talk about this new era of leftists storming churches, where does that leave us? Megan Basham, Welcome back man, Good morning, good morning.
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Speaker 4: Thanks for having me. Chris, it's always to be here.
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Speaker 2: Likewise, thank you so much. You do this with a delicacy. And now you're always you're always blunt and you tell the truth, but you're never is You're never harsher or strident about it, and I appreciate it because what I saw over the weekend made me angry, really angry, and as a Christian I had to keep taking breaths and trying to remind myself to not turn into my old self and just start going bombastic, bomb throwing, vicious. To see children crying and women being harassed while they're just sitting there trying to worship on a Sunday over politics, Really, Megan, it's tough to watch. How did you process it?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? Probably I felt the same. And what was so astonishing to me was I was familiar with this church. I don't know them well, but a good friend of mine helps plant it and was the pastor there for about eight years, so I was well acquainted with this church. And one of the things I know about it is that this is not what you might think of as a highly politician church. It's not a culture warring church. I mean, certainly we know pastors on both left and right who are happy to get out and appear at rallies and write up of a political nature and things like that, and this was not that kind of church. You know, they very much don't get involved in that sort of thing. But there are you know, a sound found Bible believing church that preaches the word. So the only reason that these protesters targeted them was because they have a pastor on staff who also serves as an ice official, which you know is a biblical thing to do, to be a law enforcement officer and help keep the peace and keep law and order. And so that was why they targeted as church, And that was what was so astonishing to me, is to say, you know, it's not like they picked someone where you'll see a pastor who appeers at a lot of Trump rallies or something. And then the manner in which they did it. Getting a little more information now, apparently they went in and sat through half the service and then halfway through got up and created that appalling disturbance that you saw. So the idea that you would sit there and listen to someone preach and be there through the praise and they're singing, and then get up and make that kind of disruption, I don't know what's call it other than just.
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Speaker 2: Evil, yes, And some of them, you know, particularly this I don't know, the guy with the knit cap that looked like he'd been pulled out of somebody's drain. Just just a there's a vicious, evil looking guy. And by the way, it is evil. And as I said, as a believer, my pastor ironically on Sunday happened to preach on life, but also he kind of deviated for a bit and more or less made the point that as Christians we can bank on this sort of thing. It's biblical, it's always been, and it's coming, and it will probably come in greater velocity. If you're a believer. This is the sort of thing you should sort of gird yourself for now because it is real. And I suspect it won't get better.
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Speaker 4: I'd say, yeah, I think that's true. And what part of the reason that it's not going to get better is because certainly on the ground in Minnesota, Tim Walls and governor and Mayor Jacob Fry are not doing anything to make it better. One of the things that was astonishing to me about this entire case was the fact that police were present, I guess outside of the church or they said they were monitoring, and they didn't arrest anyone. And the reason Attorney General Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said he did not arrest anyone was because he was trying to balance free speech rights with religious rights to worship. Well, you know, obviously that argument falls apart completely in light of the law. You don't have a right to storm into a church and cause a disturbance. If they had wanted to protest out on the sidewalk on a public space, that was their right, but they did not have the right. It is absolutely illegal to bust into the church in the way that they did, both under the Face Act and under state regulation. And so, you know, just really tells you something that the local police officials chose to do nothing. So hopefully the federal authorities will act. But you know, one of the things that struck me about this, Chris, was that in trying to defend this as free speech, you also heard these protesters claiming sort of the Christian high ground and what they did, and that to me was sort of crossing and upsetting rubicon. So if we can't agree, because I think there was a time on both the left and right that we would all go, you shouldn't do what they did. You shouldn't go into any church and disrupt the surfaces and scream in the faces of the parishioners and make the kids cry. Which you know, if you see these videos, I'm not really doing them justice for how disturbing they were, but that we no longer. Apparently I'm both left and right agree that that's not an okay thing to do, and that is disturbing to me that we've crossed that rubicon. But then also this notion that they felt sanctioned to do what they did by Christianity was insane. Like you heard the guy saying, well, I'm just in here flipping tables Jesus did, And you know, one I go, okay, we can go over all of the reasons that what you're doing is nothing like Jesus. But beyond that, I think there was an era in the left, you know, where the left would more just sneer at and disdain faith and Christianity, and we're in a new day where they're not doing that anymore. Now. What I think they're trying to do is appropriate the name of Jesus for radical left wing activities. And so that's what's astonishing to me. And you will see the same guy, the same guy who said I'm flipping tables like Jesus out in front of Texas church. As you said, he has targeted church as before, and he's screaming obscenity, screaming the F word, screaming other just vile profane language that I peak. So the idea that's behaving like Jesus is not joke.
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Speaker 2: Megan Basham again with the Daily Wire bestseller, and I couldn't more recommend it this book to you. This is where I want to go next in the conversation. It's called Shepherd's for Sale. How evangelical leaders traded the truth for a leftist agenda. Rafael Warnock, that vile guy who claims to be a reverend himself, who's also a United States Senator. He and another lady who is a member of Congress, a Democrat out in Arizona whose name I don't even care to remember, but I've now heard two members of Congress in the last twenty four hours, Meg say very similar to what you just said. Well, you know, what they're preaching inside that church is not the Jesus that I know. And I thought, oh, okay, So we are as you said, and we're in a new place where the Democrats are now going to tell us what churches are allowed to say, and if it doesn't, if it doesn't jive with what they believe Jesus is about or what they believe Christianity ought to be espousing, Well, then they feel inclined to go in and start disrupting services. That is a new as you say, it's a new place we have not been as a country. But to hear supposed church leaders like Warnock say it, and here's my question, this is where church leadership that's been compromised for a lot of years. And that's what your best seller was written about. This is where leadership matters. Who is heading their flocks in your church and other churches around the country. It's time to take stock of who's in the pulpit. I think at everyone's church.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely. And as much as I would look at say a mainline church that's straped in black Lives Matter flags and rainbow flags and say that as a whitewash tomb that is not a place where Christ is preached or the Holy Spirit is present, I believe I would still not say you can go in and disrupt their services and scream in the faces of their church members as we saw. So I don't think you would ever see any true Christian behave like that. And you know, part of what part of what was a little bit sturbing to me. It's so disturbing. Let's say, maybe what I want to issue a word of caution for because you know, I love this church in the Twin Cities, Citi's Church. It's a wonderful church. I know that people who planted it, but as I said, Rafael Warnock could not be more wrong about this not being a place where christis preach. It's a very solid Bible believing, Bible preaching church. And I think everyone saw the viral clips of how well the pastor of that church handled himself in trying to deal with Don Lemon picking a microphone in his face while trying to get these protesters out of his church and trying to take care of the flock under his authority. So you saw him do all of that really well. But you know, part of what concerns me a little bit is that we did have, in a way some Southern Baptist leadership contributing to the atmosphere around targeting Ice. Back in April, you saw some leaders within the Southern Baptist TCH issue this press release kind of condemning Ice for allegedly going into churches or saying that Trump administration is causing confusion among churches and fear among churches. And it was kind of a false narrative that had been ginned up by the legacy media because ICE has not rated any churches. The legacy media has used that term, but that would suggest that they did what these protesters did, which was bust in and cause chaos and make people cry and upset people. They have not done that. There have been some cases where ICE has been out in the parking lot of a church and has worked respectfully with the pastors of those churches to say, we know this is a person we want to interview, or you know, they have asked people to come out to the parking lot where they are, but they've done nothing like these protesters. And so it was a little upsetting to me to see back in April this this statement from some Southern Baptist leaders, including the EROLC, which we've talked about before, giving aid and comfort to this false narrative. And I think that is part of what contributes to the targeting that we saw of Cities Church because an ICE official is a pastor there, so they've really demonized ICE, and it was upsetting to me to see my own leadership contributing to that demonization of law enforcement officers who are doing the work that they are empowered to do, which is enforced the law. We cannot have chaos, we cannot have no enforcement of immigration law. So I was grateful to see that, Yeah, that I is doing that work. But just on top of that, the one more little wrinkle is these were Black Lives Matter affiliated protesters that were in that church and causing that disturbance. And that's the other thing is I think when I look back at those of us within the church who played foot seat with Black Lives Matter, I think, now we see why you don't do that.
01:34:47
Speaker 7: Amen.
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Speaker 2: Amen, she's making Basham at the Daily Wire Shepherd's for sale the must read best selling book, and she's written and we'll continue to write extensively on issues like these. If you care about them, there's nobody better than Megan Basham. Be a s h A M. Meg Basham on X. Great to catch up with you, Meg, you two.
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Speaker 4: Thanks for having me, Chris.
01:35:08
Speaker 2: It's deadly programming.
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Speaker 7: Note.
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Speaker 2: Next week we expect to hear from the head of the Southern Baptist Convention, Albert Mohler, a brilliant man and I'd love to get his take on this, and you can expect that he will be very candid in what he has to say about it. Instant latereadline dot com China expanding their crackdown on Christian churches not controlled by the communist Chinese government. It's worth a read over at readline dot com and it's where these goons would love to take us. Believe me, churches be unnoticed. Street tough Scott Bessett in Davos always a favorite. Give me number twenty four, Paul, if you please.
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Speaker 13: I think it's very, very ironic that you Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman Sparkle beach Ken maybe the only Californian who knows less of about economics and Kamala Harris. He's here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy Alex Soros, and the Davos is a perfect place for a man who, when everyone else is on lockdown, when he was having people arrested for going to church, he was having on thousand dollars a night meals at the French laundry. And I'm sure the California people won't forget that. And I can tell my message to Governor Newsom is the Trump administration is coming to California. Where you're going to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse. And I was told he was asked to give a speech on his signature policies. But he's not speaking because what of his economic policies brought outward migration from California, a gigantic budget deficit, the largest homeless population in America, and the poor folks in the Palisades who had their homes burned down. He is here with the global elite while his California citizens are still homeless.
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Speaker 1: Shame on him.
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Speaker 13: He is too smug, too self absorbed, and too economically illiterate to know anything.
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Speaker 2: Folks, that's the Treasury Secretary. Wow, these guys did not tiptoe into Davos. They stormed the stage and delivered a no holds barred takedown of the global elite, including the elite in our own country. Trump's addressed to the World Economic Forum. If you didn't hear it, he touted America's roaring economy, crushed inflation, secured borders, and record breaking markets. Trump called out Europe's declined their faces. He demanded fair deals from NATO allies. He boldly pushed for US control of Greenland for strategic security without force, but with unmistakable strength. It was a direct challenge, as you just heard Besson say, to the jet setting crowd that lectures the world while living in luxury, exposing their hypocrisy and putting America first for a change. It reminded me of Ricky Gervais's final Golden Globes performance in twenty twenty. If you didn't see that monologue, you should go back and watch it. It's epic. He shredded Hollywood's elite, their ties to Epstein, their private jet global warming preaching, the fake virtue signaling. He shredded them to their face. Remember he said, accept your little award, thank your agent at f Off. He declared, right to their faces. He dismantled their moral preening in just minutes of brutal honesty. The parallel to yesterday and Trump in Davos hits hard. Gervase, like Trump, used raw, unapologetic truth to dismantle these insulated power structures that have driven the conversation for far too long globally and certainly in this country. Trump's economic and foreign policy dominance mirrored that firebomb that Gervais delivered years ago at the Golden Globes. Each of them, exposed elitist fraud and ignited a populist rage. What makes moments like these more rare and extremely powerful when they happen. What makes it so rare is this few men of real authority or authenticity stand before their peers, the very crowd that claims to speak for you and me and the citizens of the world. Very few will actually stand before their peers and dress them down. So mercilessly they remind these elites that they've lost the plot entirely. The people who pay their salaries, fund their empires, sustain their lifestyles. They've been forgotten and sidelined and dismissed. And that betrayal is an outrage. It's an outrage that we cannot and we will not continue to tolerate and accept indefinitely. It was a coup, it was a triumph, and I quite frankly, I don't care what anybody says. You call me a sick offen if you want. What we're watching out of this president is the most exciting thing that we've lived through. Certainly since I've been voting in my adult life. We've never seen a transformative figure like this, and it's all done in a peaceful way, yet at the same time asserting strength. This is a special time in history. It's not to be forgotten. I hope you have a great day and we will be back to kick off the weekend tomorrow on Friday. So that's a wrap for another Christagall Show podcast. Thanks for committing to it listening to it all the way through. You're a fighter. I like that about you. Hope you'll leave it a five star review and a written review. Apple Podcasts, Spotify. We'll see you next time here on The Christagall Show Podcast. The Chris de gaul Show Podcast
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Speaker 2: I guess, as it turns out, ed we weren't going to invade Greenland after all? Does that surprise you. We were not going to storm Greenland. We were not going to bomb Greenland. In the submission? Are you shocked, Chris?
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Speaker 8: I don't know how. I'm smarter than a lot of world leaders, but I'm not shocked that we are not going to invade Greenland.
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Speaker 2: Why don't people why it's been ten Donald Trump has been on the political stage for more than ten years, now eleven years? Do we really not understand how the man operates? By now? Are there people that still think he was serious when he's I mean, even I, one of his biggest fans, said repeatedly, have I not on this show? We're not invading Greenland. I've literally had to say that because there are people just in hysterics that they think we're going to go storming into the island and just conquer it. And I've continued to say over and over again, Donald Trump has no intention of invading Greenland. We're not going to conquer Greenland. That's not what we're doing here. And sure enough, yesterday it came to fruition. What Donald Trump wanted all along was a deal, and he had the leverage to make and that's exactly what went down. Even the NATO Secretary General. This Mark Root. This is the guy that called him daddy, isn't it? They like this Mark Root? Ruti Root? Are you tte he likes Trump? Keeps kind, keeps kind. I think the last time they got together called him Donald daddy, dear Donald, and Trump reminded everybody in the room of that. By the way, yesterday during his speech, as the show was wrapping up, Trump took to the stage and he reminded everybody there, Yeah, I know how you people love me. I believe what was it last time we got together, It was called daddy. If memory serves this guy, the NATO Secretary General not backing away, give me number twenty six here on Greenland.
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Speaker 5: So statements from me will not add to anything here. And when it comes to the Arctic, I think President Trump is right. Other leaders in EDSA are right. We need to defend to Arctic. We know that the sea lanes are opening up. We know that China and Russia are increasingly active in the Arctic. There are eight countries bordering the Arctic. Seven are a member of NATO. That's Finland and Sweden and Norway and Denmark, Iceland, Canada and the US and there's only one country bordering on the Arctic outside NATO, and this is Russia. And I would argue that as a ninth country, which is China, which is increasingly active in the Arctic region. So President Trump and only isn't right. We have to do more there. We have to protect the Arctic against Russian and Chinese influences. That's exactly what Natal ambassadors designed us to do in September. We're working on that, making sure that collectively will be defense the art.
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Speaker 2: Oh, he just said, daddy's right. I stand with daddy. And then they came out not too terribly long after that and said, oh, Mark and I have struck a deal. Daddy's home and we're going to do this thing. People were shocked. People were slack jawed because all the Europeans had been puffing up ahead of the President's speech yesterday. Are gonna do any damned thinking what if I think the little Finland guy, the little Finnish twerp in, wasn't he the guy that said F bomb f you Donald Trump from his legislative chambers there in Finland wherever that is. They were all very very tough, and then they show up in the NATO Secretary General said he's one hundred percent right, and we're doing a deal. Stocks rally after Trump announces framework on Greek You know, I am not an institutional investor. I am not a financial advisor. But if you were stupid enough to think, if you were selling in a panic because you were stupid enough to think Donald Trump wasn't going to go to invade Greenland and go to war with Europe, it sounds to me like this Greenland deal is basically we provide security for the big island and you'll basically need to work with us in turn to handle over the rare earth minerals that we dig out of the ground.
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Speaker 7: There.
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Speaker 2: Here's the deal. We'll protect it. You sell us what's here. We're good. We don't need to run the place, we don't need to own it, we don't need to take it over. We just want what's in it, and in turn, we'll protect it and make sure that the goons in the other hemisphere don't take it over because they're circling right now. They want it. We're not gonna let them have it. And we want what's on this island so we can bring a team here. You sell us what's on this island without us having to take it over, We'll also protect it. Deal sounds good to me. An old mark routie root, he said, sure, daddy, whatever you want. Trump secures outlines of a Greenland deal. Now economics will have to win over its people. The World Economic Forum conference became Donald Trump's Greenland gambit, and now a framework deal has been reached for the United States to play a larger role inside the world's largest island. The President announced, b't a very productive meeting that I had with the Secretary General of NATO. We have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and in fact the Arctic region. The early descriptions did not specify the terms of the deal or whether Trump had achieved his stated goal of full acquisition. Of course, he achieved his stated goal, and he achieved his stated goal without firing a shot, without invading, without launching anything, without doing anything. He didn't even have to level tariffs. He pulled back on those. And by the way, I'm going to make this case a little later in the show. This affirms, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the inherent article to power of the presidency when it comes to tariffs. Do you understand what just happened with Greenland is a direct result of Donald Trump's use of tariffs. Do you understand that this deal was reached because Donald Trump used tariffs, not bullets, not troops, not air mission. Donald Trump deployed the thing that is arguably one of the most powerful tools a president has at his disposal, without death, without bloodshed. I have been making this case for weeks. It's why this is exhibit A. If I were Trump's attorneys and there were still the opportunity to argue this before the Supreme Court, and I hope the Supremes are watching this yesterday is a perfect example of the importance of the Article two powers that I believe tariffs exists under. For the President of the United States, this is no different than a naval blockade. Think of what he managed to achieve for the strength and the security of the Western hemisphere and the betterment of the country without a single bullet being fired. Think of it a financial instrument. He threatened, and then all of a sudden it was okay, we'll talk, And he said, okay, good enough, then I'll pull off on my tariff plans. Tara, where are the peace sticks. Where's the celebration. You know, Donald Trump is at present right now as we speak, celebrating something he's put together called the Board of Peace. And you know what CNN is doing, mocking it that most European leaders aren't a part of it. Small gathering. Really fifty some lesser nations joining President Trump's Board of Peace.
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Speaker 3: Ha ha ha.
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Speaker 2: The Europeans really don't have any time for Trump.
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Speaker 9: Ha ha.
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Speaker 2: He's literally calling this the Board of Peace. Join me in a new global alliance that says, you will strengthen your country. I'll strengthen mind national sovereignty and free peoples and stronger economies for all of us, mean safety and security for all of us. And we're not going to engage in combat and warfare and global domination. We're not going to do it. Join me and the new Board of Peace. And CNN thinks it's funny that you'res are sneering at him. Think of where we are. You hate Donald Trump so much you can't acknowledge that he is reorganizing the entire globe without firing a shot. He is strengthening our security at home, our economics, standing here at home, securing our borders here at home, cracking down on illegal aliens taking advantage, fraudulently blowing our taxpayer dollars, and in many cases raping, pillaging, murdering, funneling drugs, trafficking human beings, child sex, trafficking. He's cracking down on all of these things simultaneously at the same time. And can you imagine your hatred of him is so great. You're sitting on your little cable show this morning, going look at all of the low level countries attending his little board of peace, the really important ones like McCrone aren't there, how small, how very small. So he takes over Greenland. He's a bully. He in fact doesn't do that and gets what he wants. And he's a weekly got to pick a lane, President Trump. In this deal yesterday from Just the News, the framework might establish shared NATO governance or a Special Arctic Security arrangement where the United States leads operations and investments in Greenland with Allied contributions to counter threats from Russia and China while preserving Danish formal ties. Well, what do you know, it turns out we don't have any interest in conquest over Greenlander. Planting the American flag on Greenland, or colonizing Greenland, or whatever it turns out. We just want to make sure we have a military base of operations there to defend that turf, to make sure China and Russia aren't up to no good meddling in our hemisphere. In exchange, we keep it protected. The Danes get to call it theirs, and all we want in exchange for it a little bit of what they have underground that they can't get to themselves, the rare earth minerals. Sounds like a winner to me, Ed, I mean, I don't know about you, but to me, it sounds like the Dames made out fantastically. Yeah, I think so.
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Speaker 8: I don't understand where it was Germany when we started this week. Think about what's happened up to this point. Germany was sending troops right the rest of Europe was converging on Greenland.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: No, I think that Trump struck a deal that works for everybody, as he intended all along.
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Speaker 2: It's like, I don't know, I don't know how to put it. You feel threatened in your neighborhood, and I say, I've got an elite security force d and what I'd like to do is move in next door to you, and I will supply you with complete fortified secure of your home to make sure there is no threat that will invade or take over your home or your neighbor. We don't want to move into your house. We will be your neighbor, though, we're probably going to lease some space next door. In exchange, we'll protect your house and you know, we'd like a meal or two every week? Do you mind cooking it? And we're going to give you all the security you want. All we'd like in exchange is maybe you cook us one of those delightful meals from your grocery supply every now and again. Do you mind me? You know, I don't even know how to. It's like the service we're providing in just protecting the turf unto itself is a tremendous expense and gift to the Europeans, and they'd be fools to turn it down. It's in of course, our interest to make sure that this hemisphere is not swallowed up by a meddling China and Russia and those sea lanes that are continuing to open wider with the snow melt and the ice melt. We've established that as well, So there is a geopolitical reason for this. But in turn, all we're asking for payment is a little bit of the goodies under your ground here that you're certainly not doing anything with. You get a few people fishing off your coast, you're not doing anything with this hunk of land, which, by the way, Trump reminded everybody yesterday, I'm not really sure why we gave this back to you to begin with. I don't think we've got a lot of time to play this now. In fact, we don't. I won't rush it, but when we get back i'll play for you. Some of his comments on this from Davos yesterday, it was hilarious. He was reminding the Europeans that, you know, the damn thing was ours to begin with after World War Two. I mean, we had control of the thing, and we gave it back for some inexplicable reason. But I wasn't around for that, So it was just insult after insult yesterday. And I know that gives the editorial boards of our esteemed publications around the country heartburn and embarrassment, but I thought it was delightful for in a minute, here we are in the relief factor studios this morning, looking at you Cleveland. We've got a camera mount it in our we We've got so much money slushing around here. The success of the show has been so great. They said, stickall, how do you want to spend all these piles of money you've just got to burn? And I said, let's let's mount a car on somebody's dash in Cleveland and just turn it on occasionally. And so that's that's what we've done. What do you think Thanks for listening on the answer there in Cleveland, if you're watching on the Salem News channel, That's that's what we've done.
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Speaker 7: We've just we've.
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Speaker 2: Mounted a car to one of our Cleveland staff, a camera to one of their hoods, and they're driving around Cleveland. I thought that was a good use of money. Telephone number eight five five fives to call if you want to get into You're ready for the polar vortex. In their d everybody's said about the polar vortex, We're either going to get one inch or ten feet of snow, and it's going to come either right now or Sunday night, or maybe somewhere in between. The temperature will drop anywhere from minus one hundred to thirty, so get ready or not.
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Speaker 8: I am worried about that. To be honest, I used to man. I used to be able to shovel snow. I was a warrior. I could be outside all day messing around with the snow. If we're talking about polar vortex, and now the thing is freezing, so like I clear the snow out on step one, then it continues to fall, then it gets cold and freezes over.
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Speaker 2: I have a problem with that. That could be bad. We're bringing in big JOBASTARTI today to talk about it. I don't know. I joke, but it's like, I, you know, this forecast has changed about thirty times, millions racing for massive winter storm packing snow, and I it's January, folks, I don't know. This is like heat in July. I get, I don't know. Weather stories on balance sort of bore me. But when the media decides they're Trump must be doing too much, well, the things are looking ugly for the Democrats up in Minnesota, so they've got to shift to a weather hysteria story. Polar vortex. Millions could be on the cold and I'm like, well, it is it is January. I mean they were it is what happens in January.
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Speaker 8: I know the media was definitely banking on a Greenland invasion that that just didn't come through.
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Speaker 2: So as we get to this, I thought we were going to invade Greenland or something that Don Lemon was going to cause a meltdown. I thought ICE agents were going to be assassinating people in the streets in Minnesota. It's all backfiring on us quick. What do we do polar board tex So? Anyway, President Trump yesterday at this speech in Davos, we were smack in the middle of it. As we were wrapping up the show yesterday morning. Take a listen to this number thirty eight.
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Speaker 10: We want strong allies, not seriously weakened once.
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Speaker 1: We want Europe to be strong.
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Speaker 10: Ultimately, these are matters of national security, and perhaps no current issue makes the situation more clear than what's currently going on with Greenland. Would you like me to say a few words of Greenland. I was going to leave it out of this speech, but I thought I think would have been reviewed very negatively. I have tremendous respect for both the people of Greenland and the people of.
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Speaker 1: Denmark, tremendous respect.
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Speaker 10: But every NATO ally has an obligation to be able to defend their own territory. And the fact is, no nation or a group of nations is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the United States, where great power, much greater than people even understand.
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Speaker 1: I think they found that out two weeks ago in Venezuela.
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Speaker 10: We saw this in World War Two when Denmark fell to Germany after just six hours of fighting and was totally unable to defend either itself or Greenland. So the United States was then compelled we did it. We felt an obligation to do it, to send our own forces to hold the Greenland territory and hold it. We did a great courts and expense. They didn't have a chance of getting on it, and they tried. Denmark knows that we literally set up bases on Greenland for Denmark. We fought for Denmark. We weren't fighting for anyone else. We were fighting to.
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Speaker 1: Save it for Denmark, big beautiful piece of ice. It's hard to call it land, it's a big piece of ice.
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Speaker 10: But we saved Greenland and successfully prevented our enemies from gaining a foothold in our hemisphere. So we did it for ourselves also, and then after the war, which we won, we won it big Without us, right now, you'd all be speaking German and little Japanese.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps after the war we gave Greenland back to Denmark. How stupid were we to do that? But we did it.
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Speaker 2: There's not a word of it that's untrue. There's not a word of it it's untrue. You may not like it, it may make you feel uncomfortable, you may think how insulting is any of it?
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Speaker 1: Untrue?
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Speaker 2: Not a word of it, and these uppity Europeans need to be reminded of it. You sit here in this room because of our work, make no mistake about it. You enjoy what you enjoy today because we did the heavy lifting kids, not that long ago, not even a hundred years ago. So this mouthy little Finnish president, stub Stubby shows up and pops off that, oh we can handle our own defenses. He's called out and mocked to his face about that number twenty five.
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Speaker 11: First is a direct answer to the question of this panel. Can Europe defend itself? My answer is unequivocally.
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Speaker 2: Yes, without the Americas.
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Speaker 11: Without the Americas, I mean, how we look.
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Speaker 1: But you're relying on them for these key elements.
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Speaker 9: How would you do it at scale and at duration with.
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Speaker 11: An assumption that the United States would cut off completely any kind of work. Well, if we look at the defense composure of Europe buying large and a country like Finland, So how do we do it? We have conscription one million, have done it. We can mobilize two hundred and eighty thousand soldiers within weeks.
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Speaker 1: We have sixty two f eighteens.
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Speaker 11: Their next question is going to be do they fly?
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Speaker 2: All right, that's enough, that's enough. Yeah, okay. If you think Finland can beat China, if you think Finland can take Russia on its own, then I don't know what to do. I can't help you. You're not paying close attention if you think that's true. Listen, this is the formalization of a new era of American power. It is leverage without bloodshed. I said this yesterday. It's dominance on our terms. And that is why the Supreme Court has got to affirmedim tariffs as an article to power of the presidency, because it is among the most potent instruments of foreign policy and national security in the executive arsenal period. Full stop. These are economic weapons that achieve a strategic objective, and we didn't have to fire a single shot. That's the truth of what happened over the last couple of days with Greenland. Again, I went over this. This is just like a naval blockade, isolating an adversary. It compels compliance without coercion. There is no war. Tariffs impose disciplined economic pressure that forces negotiation. It deturs aggression, It protects our interests, and it's most importantly, it spares lives. This Greenland framework secured only after credible tariff threats brought NATO to the table. It proves in real time, and I hope if the Supreme Court is paying attention, this proves in real time that leverage, when applied through trade policy, unlocks our access to critical minerals. We want it blocked Chinese and Russian encroachment and strengthened alliances without deploying troops or risking conflict. You strip the president of tariff authority, and you unilaterally disarm the executive in a great power competition. You invite provocation from adversaries who know America's hands are tied in the future, and you make actual war more likely by removing the very tool that substitutes dollars for bullets and prevents bloodshed. You know, when you look at police work and greenland, they look unrelated until you understand the economics of security. This makes total sense, is what I was just saying to Eddie. Globally, more than eighty percent of world trade by volume moves across the ocean. And so when shipping lanes and airspace are secure, goods flow, prices stay, stables, supply chains hold, Investment thrives. But when piracy and conflict and instability takes over, the effects are immediate. You get higher costs and disrupted delivery and frozen capital and economic pain everywhere, And that very same principle applies here at home. Safe streets create thriving local economies. When neighborhoods are secure, people shop, people dine out, people travel freely, They start businesses, They invest in homes, Property values rise, jobs multiply, communities grow. Safety is not optional. It's the oxygen that economic life needs to breathe. Europe needs it just the same as us. When safety collapses, fear takes over, commerce freezes, businesses, flee, investment dries up and then decline. Begins to spread, just as surely as a block straight or a pirate infested water can paralyze global trade. This is very simple to understand, folks. It was a master stroke by Donald Trump. The Supreme Court must affirm his ability to use tariffs. It saved lives, period. More in a minute. Do you know why they don't like the Board of Peace because they don't want to supplant their little Nobel Peace Prize, which they continue to snub Trump on. So he's creating his Board of Peace because he's like, well, I don't know, I don't know what the Peace Prize means. I've ended eight wars, I've thrown a detestable drug running goon out of Venezuela and nobody's died. And I don't know what peace means to you Nobel Prize people. But I'm creating my own peace board. That's why Europeans don't like it. They've always been the ones to dictate and determine what peace means and what peace looks like. President Trump has done more to ensure peace and stabilize the globe than probably any modern American president. It's not even close. Again, he's trying to minimize death folks, telephone number eighty five to five. Stigall is the telephone number eighty five five seven eight four forty two fifty five. If you'd like to reach me, you can also head over to Chrisstigall dot com to find me on social media, as well as my three times a week newsletter, the HRUMPF Society Chris Stigall stig a l l dot com. It's pretty simple to understand. Just like local police protect the neighborhood and the everyday economy in your community, strategic control of places like Greenland protect America's northern approaches, emerging Arctic shipping routes, critical Atlantic choke points, and it safeguards our national prosperity as well as frankly Europe's in an era of superpower competition. So whether it is the block outside aty's door or whether it's a passage to the Arctic frontier, security is not a luxury, it's not a social preference. It is a force multiplier. It makes everything else possible when people feel unsafe. When people feel unsecure, depletion erosion, shuttered businesses, shuttered homes, the economy seizes. The opposite happens when people and regions feel secure and stable. That's what Donald Trump has achieved in the last twenty four hours, again without firing a single shot. And the man deserves credit for that, and of course they don't want to give it. The left is actually hardy har harring that he didn't in fact get to take over Greenland. I see people that hate this guy so much. They think it's funny that he didn't actually get to seize Greenland. They think that somehow you and I will be disappointed that he what is it? Rush always used to say this about Trump, and I'm gonna screw it up. He always used to say, you should never take Trump literally, but you should always take him seriously. I think that's what he said. I think that's how he said it. And it's just true if by now you don't understand taking Trump literally when he says, well you'll see, wait and see. I guess we'll do what we got to do for Greenland. That it has always for over ten years now, it has sent people off the cliff. He's going to invade Greenland while the rest of us and you can go back and rewind the show after show I've done here over the last weeks in which I have said he's not invading Greenland, he's serious about wanting access to it. He's serious about wanting to control military installations there. It's like get Mo in Cuba. Think of it that way. That is a military installation on an island that we don't control, but we have some sovereign territory on that property that is ours. That's what we want from Greenland. We're not interested in taking it over, even though we probably, as Trump said, I'm not really sure why we ever handed it over to begin with, but we do want to have military installations there to make sure nobody gets up aty in this region. Just let them know we're here. So you give us a few military bases and an exchange for that cost, we'd like a little bit of what's under the ground here. Win win win for everybody. Nothing negative about any of this. How you could contort this in what clever, creative way you could contort this as a loss or a bad thing or an embarrassment. And yet if you're wired to hate Trump, that's what you tell yourself today that somehow this was an embarrassment and we look bad on the world stage. Sincerely, I'm not above criticizing Donald Trump if warrants it. But how you see this as anything but just a devastating success is sincerely beyond me. I mean, I'm all ears. 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Speaker 1: Or not.
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Speaker 2: The line has shifted. They always do this every weather forecast. Where there is supposed to be precipitation, the line always shifts. There's always a line, and it moves about thirty times. And then you stare at the map trying to figure out where you live on that line. My above the line? Am I below the line? While I get the ice, while I get the snow. We play this game. We'll bring in Big JOBUSTARTI to give us the latest on it. How much are we going to expect? The cold is supposed to be pretty intense too so anyway, but right now it looks like a lovely start to the day. Get out there and enjoy it. I think the bulk of it is supposed to come Saturday, not tomorrow, right I think we're going to get through most of tomorrow and the commute before all hell breaks loose, I think, is what I heard. I don't follow the weather closely. Christine gets mad at me because I'm the guy that will walk outside and go, WHOA, it's cold, and she go, yeah, the temperature drop thirty degrees, didn't you know. No, Oddly, for all the news that I consume in the course of a week, I don't watch the weather even a little bit. I'm always surprised by it always. Anyway, eight five five stigalld is the telephone number if you'd like to get in here. G Love just sent me a story this morning. Our technical director. He was very interested to note, and I don't I think he was taking a shot at fast Eddie for his thick waistline that is becoming less thick thanks to PhD weight loss. You know, Eddie and I have been losing weight together now for a while. Adds down twenty five pounds. I'm down over forty from last year, so we're, you know, a good sixty plus pounds down and falling. And then g Love sent me a Washington Post story this morning that said they specifically credit it to the shot. Now, I want you to know we don't do that. PhD weight loss has nothing to do with the shot, and I'm not attacking you. If you do the shot, don't send me the emails whatever. I mean, you do you If that helps you, fine, I just I think there's a lot about that shot. We still don't know, and I would just say that there are ways to lose weight without it. But for some of you, you feel it's either necessary or useful or whatever. I've got people in my family that swear by it, so I'm not attacking you. But anyway, it's interesting that the Washington Post says it's because of those shots that US airlines are going to save a bunch of money. Why now, I think you could say the exact same thing about PhD weight loss. I don't think it has to be about the shot. The point is people are losing a bunch of weight, and that means airlines are saving something like five hundred This is the Washington Post report, five hundred eighty million dollars in fuel costs per year, Fast Eddie. Because we're less fat now, five hundred eighty million dollars and fuel costs. I wonder if that will be passed along to the ticket buyer. Oh, I'm sure it will be.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, But we're less fat, that's the good news, and as such, we're burning less fuel.
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Speaker 7: That is a good thing.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely. The climate h climate change folks have to be happy with that, right, especially as everyone's flying in out of Davos.
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Speaker 2: Well, look, they want us eating bugs too, so that would keep us thinner, they less meat less hooves and all this stuff that they get so wound up about. No, in the look, in the in the climate wackos perfect world, we're all eating bugs and we're not flying at all. Well, you can fly if you, John Kerry, just not us unless you that's right, No, that's right. But anyway, congratulations, you're burning less fuel out there now thanks to your weight loss, which is good news. Eight five five stigall is how you get here. I have some stories, by the way, a little later I will get into about the whole climate change scam. It's completely eroding. I mean, it's completely falling apart. In fact, I didn't intend to talk about this here. Trump went on a riff yesterday. This might be my favorite yet. He says about China. He goes, you know, China's over there making all these stupid windmills. And this is one of the great points. This is such a basic, easy point ed. All the morons that are installing all these big, ugly wind farms, these huge, hideous wind farms. Now again the people that own the land they sit on. Good for you, Yatzi, you hit the jackpot. I mean, if I owned a big track of land and they said I want to stick these big, ugly things in your land and pay you so much per I'll catch the checks. Not gonna lie. It's probably pretty tempting, probably making more than farming it. But the truth of the matter is they're ugly and they're ineffective, and these things rot and they rust and you got to replace them. They're certainly not carbon neutral or whatever. But Trump makes the best point about these yesterday. I absolutely adore this. Listen to number thirty five, go ahead.
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Speaker 1: Windmills. All over Europe.
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Speaker 10: There are windmills all over the place, and they are losers. One thing I've is that the more windmills the country has, the more money that country loses, and the worst that country is doing. China makes almost all of the windmills, and yet I haven't been able to find any wind.
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Speaker 1: Farms in China. Did you ever think of that. That's a good way of looking at this.
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Speaker 7: More.
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Speaker 1: China's very smart.
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Speaker 10: They make them, they sell them for a fortune. They sell them to the stupid people that buy them, but they don't use them themselves. They put up a couple of big wind farms, but they don't use them. They just put them up to show people what they could look like. They don't spend, they don't do anything. They use the thing called coal mostly, but.
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Speaker 1: China goes with the coal.
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Speaker 7: They go with.
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Speaker 1: They're starting to look at nuclear.
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Speaker 2: Do you remember the Ricky Gervais Golden Globe speech a few years ago. This was the political equivalent of that. He just looked all of these uppitty Europeans in the face and said, you know how stupid you are with these wind farms, right? You're buying them all from China. They're all too happy to make them. Do you think they use them for their own power needs? No, you dopes buy them and stick them in your ground. They rot and rust and they don't do a damn thing. All the while China cashes the checks and builds more coal fire power plants. You dummies, says it right to their faces. It's delicious. The fact of the matter is this is what makes Donald Trump so important at this time in history, not just for us, but for the globe. Who is saying that out loud on the global stage with that size microphone. Who's saying it? Nobody? He is, and it's working. Listen to me, it's working. From the daily signal, the perpetual climate panic machine collapses, global warming has gone cold as an issue despite decades of pact. Well, what are we talking about right now? Fascinating? What did I just say? We're waiting for the polar vortex. We're going to be treated to the next forty eight to seventy two hours of hysteria about how violently cold it's going to get in January.
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Speaker 9: Right?
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Speaker 7: Oh?
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Speaker 2: Yes, uh huh. Hard to sell that we're warming and cooking ourselves and the polar vortex, isn't it?
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Speaker 1: Yes?
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Speaker 8: And also to the people up in Massachusetts who are going to freeze should this bear down on us, this polar vortex. Stop voting for Democrats and hampering your freaking energy policy.
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Speaker 7: Unreal.
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Speaker 2: Global warming has gone cold as an issue, to Eddie's point, despite decades of panic predictions of doom, It's never been a high priority for voters, and Donald Trump's bold expressions of climate denial were not punished by voters. The media is still sound allied with the green New Deal pushers, but the thrill is gone, writes Tim Graham at The Daily Signal. Last November, leftists blasted ABC, CBS, and NBC for barely touching the Global Climate Summit in Brazil. Now, axios dot com posted an analysis by somebody called Amy Harder on this trend titled quote the World's greatest climate collapse Greenpeace Gang Beware. The last year has seen an epic reversal that spread quickly from governments, to boardrooms to pop culture. Not only has Trump dismissed climate panic, but it's noted now that Canada's Prime Minister Mark Karney, wants, one of the world's most vocal climate advocates, is now repealing some of his country's climate policies. The British Prime Minister Tony Blair also issued a memo questioning the wisdom of pursuing net zero emissions policies. That is the former prime minister. As you know, he questioned the wisdom of net zero policies. Then there's billionaire Bill Gates, an unelected global leader. He circulated a memo criticizing the climate movement while shifting much of his money and focus back to public health. Just four years after publishing a book called Quote How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, a bestseller that drew gushy reviews from all the mainstream. With Trump in office, Ford pulled back sharply from its plugin car coll fired cars what I like to call those, shifting focus to more popular and profitable hybrids and gas vehicles due to slowing ev demand. Europe scaled back its planned to ban gas powered cars in the next decade, and softened climate disclosure rules. The Axios analysis claimed even Hollywood is tiptoeing away, swapping climate angst for oil swagger, as seen in the new show It's a hit show apparently, which I have still not seen land Man. People are begging me to tune into it. Billy Bob Thornton I have played a clip of it before. He does a great riff in season one of land Man about the myth of the spinning propellers providing more energy in a more profitable way than good old fashioned oil does. Also this from the Press Gazette in the United Kingdom. The UK's National Press published more articles in twenty twenty five opposing action to mitigate climate change than supporting it. Nearly one hundred UK newspaper editorials opposed an increase in climate action. It was never serious, it was never real, it was always made up. The people didn't believe it. And in the middle of a polar vortex, when your energy costs her through the roof, it's a really tough cell. And Trump mocked all those little pipsqueaks to their faces over it. Good for him. Oh, that's right. We were supposed to get some kind of electromagnetic storm or something this week. I'm watching on the Salem News Channel one of our cameras we've got on time laps from fort Yukon, Alaska. Apparently you could see all the pinks and greens and stuff earlier in the week, right, I think, I'm not entirely sure that's another one of those. I thought we just had one of those, But apparently there's another one where you can see the northern lights. Yeah. Now, I don't know if that's live. That's not live, is it. That's time lapse photography of the Northern lights I think earlier in the week up there. But anyway, apparently you could see them pretty spectacularly earlier in the week. I still don't really understand the phenomenon that's another one of those things that everybody. I mean, I think it's gorgeous and interesting in all that, But I mean there are people near me that will go out and stand in the middle of a field like they're waiting for the great pumpkin, for this thing. I don't know. Does that make me unappreciative of nature? Whatever? I mean? I'd like to think I'm full of awe and wonder, but I don't know. Eleven thirty twelve o'clock at night, I'm just not going to go stand in a cold beanfield in the dark waiting for you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 8: I think everybody has their thing and the things that they like. You know, you like trout fishing. You have a nice, nice lake, nice stream, yes there, and that's where you find peace and tranquility in nature.
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Speaker 2: That's that's true. You don't have to freeze everybody their own. We have cameras yet the sale the news channel, right, that's right. I can see it later. We've recorded it and documented it, and I'm glad somebody else did it for me. It's right. We're going to talk with John Solomon here in just a little bit. He's the founder and editor in chief of Just the News. He wrote a piece that caught our attention a little earlier in the week or late last I don't remember which. He said that he knows that DJ It's been a source of real frustration for a lot of you. I know, I hear from you. I share it. I get it. Everyone wants We were talking to Ed Morsey about it yesterday. Everyone wants to see swift action people. And I'll be honest with you, I want to see Don Lemon and leg Irons. I want to see Don Lemon roused it out of his holm and arrested just like Mark Hawk. I do. I desperately want it, and I want it to have happened the day he stormed into that church. But we have to remind ourselves that in order to build a credible case in a court of law, a court of law that, depending on the venue and the judge, will make it incredibly difficult for the Trump Department of Justice to actually achieve justice, they have to have a pretty ironclad case built. John Solomon says that he believes they are at present working on cases related to election integrity and the like Biden era stuff. Twenty twenty election fraud stuff that you and I don't know, we haven't heard about, but they have been working diligently on and they're going to unleash it very very soon. Interestingly too, Dan Bongino will start back on his regular show at the beginning of February, which you know ed I have maintained. Dan Bongino returned to the air, and I'd say this to him were he here. I'm not speaking out of school here. I think Bongino left is the number two guy at FBI, because I think the calculation in Team Trump was, brother, we need you out there on the front lines communicating more than we need you in here, So we need you to get back out there and start swinging for the fences. I think that's what he's going to be doing. Come to the beginning of February, and if what John has to say about DJ is coming, that's going to be an interesting one two punch with Bongino leading the messaging on the on the radio and across the country. Anyway, that's up next. Sit tight, all right, it's good to welcome back. We don't get to talk to him nearly enough. Big fan of his work. We reference just the news regularly as a resource on this show. It's must read all the time. John Solomon is the founder and editor in chief of the outlet just Thenews justinnews dot com. John, good to see you again. Good morning, Yeah, good morning, Chris.
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Speaker 7: Good to be with you.
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Speaker 2: It's been a bit and I'm glad to have you on a really important day like this one, because while a lot of people are talking about Davos, understandably so there's always a lot going on. But I don't want anybody to miss the testimony of Jack Smith today. I know you're going to be keyed in on that.
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Speaker 7: Oh for sure.
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Speaker 10: You know.
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Speaker 7: He's the face of what Republicans sy as a weaponization machine. Back in twenty fourteen, he was a guy working with Lewis Learner to figure out how they could target conservative nonprofits. A decade later, he's a guy that's bringing two indictments against President Trump in the middle of a twenty twenty four election, the Democratic leadership going after the key Republican opponent, and in between he defines the sort of tactics that people see as weaponization as abuse of the government system. And yesterday we just had another story that shows how bad this system still is and we went through Russia collusion. We did the Christopher Steele debacle, the MI six agent paid by Hillary Clinton who submitted a completely unverifiable dossier, and President Trump was put under comeal investigation with that, and then Chris Ray came in as the FBI director, said, Okay, there's a bad moment aberration. We're fixing it. We have new informant rules. We're not going to let foreigners influence elections that could have impact it actily investigations that can impact an election. We're not going to have politically biased informants in political investigations. And we're certainly never going to let one of our confidential human sources acknowledge that they're working for us, because that violates the contract. Those are the reforms that the FBI claimed that they put into place after Russia Collusion. But what we discovered yesterday is an investigation that directly involved Jack Smith. He took it over at some point, the January sixth investigation and the so called Arctic Cross investigation. They hired a group called the Sedition Hunters. This is a group that is overtly anti Trump. It has an enormous anti Trump, anti conservative bias. So Check one on Christopher Steele two point zero. This is a group that the FBI was aware was viewing using foreign resources. Are the emails we saw inside the FBI show the agents knew that this group was actually using software in Great Britain with people centered in Europe to identify potential defendants for the FBI in the January sixth and artic Croft's investigation. Checkbox number two Christopher Steel two point zero. And then all you have to do is go to the Sedition Hunters Twitter site or website and you will very quickly see they openly boasted that they were working with the fpaid. Now, why is that a problem. According to the documents we saw, the FBI paid members of that group one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to be confidential human sources and those two investigations. Check box three. This is a Christopher Steele two point zero scandal. The FBI director told us yesterday the hiring of the Sedition Hunters members as confidential apartments violated the rules. It was an abuse, it was a domination, and he's fired the people who ran that part of the investigation. He's also doing it added to find anyone else who should be held accountable. Well, it was Jack Smith who authorized in his office that authorized some of those paints at least twenty thousand dollars, maybe more. So that's going to be one of many questions that come up to them in the interrogation of Jack Smith on Tapol Hill by the OUTSTUDITIONAR Committee.
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Speaker 2: John Solomon again, founder and editor in chief of Just the News just thenews dot com, where you will read the best reporting on this there he is period full stop. Your assessment of Chris Ray now at this point, was he willfully ignorant? Was he lying? Did he not know? Genuinely didn't know what was going on underneath his nose complicity? I mean, how do you how do you review his job now he's at the post?
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Speaker 7: Well, there is clearly he's the guy that kind of skated because most of the Republicans have targeted all their ire James Cobey, there's plenty of good reasons for them. He started Russia collusion, he exonerated Hillary Cliftland, he met authority. He clearly set up President Trump for a obstructed investigation by basically keeping book on him and luring him into conversations and then writing memos that he would lead to the media. But Chris Ray's tenure, which was twice as long as James Cobe Combs less than three years. Ray was seven years, has far more troubling episodes of a continuation of the weaponization. He was supposed to be the end of the weaponisation. He was supposed to be the reformed guy. But now what we know. They targeted parents at school boards on his watch, just because they wanted to raise concerns about the children's education. They treated him as domestic theroists. They determined that Catholics who went to ladinmash should be investigated as domestic extremistic because they chose an old form of Catholic faith. They pulled the security clearances of FBI agent after finding out that they were or they were vetting them to find out if they were pro Trump or pro Second Amendment. If they were, they were in grave danger of losing their security clearances. And then the entire Arctic Frosts investigation, which a lot of people see as Russia collusion two point zero. Certainly now we have a Christopher Seal two point zho and part of that with the informant situation that all happened on his watch. The sad part is Republicans have done very little to really question him hard. I think he's going to come into focus, and I think he has several potential liabilities. One is, we don't know because there hasn't been enough investigation how much he signed off on these most heinous of examples of abuse and weaponization, because the questions haven't been asked, he hasn't put before grand jury. When he was on the Capitol Hill, he generally got treated with kate gloves, even with Republicans. Secondly, the testimonies and assurances he gave Congress appear to be inaccurate on several fronts. He's a person who could potentially face false testimony charges if the evidence give you a show that he knew what he was saying was wrong. And then I think thirdly, we do not know what sort of interactions he had with Jack Smith, with the Biden white House, where there is pretty clear evidence that the FBI was conspiring with the Biden White House to go after President Trump in both the classified documents case in January sixth. We have direct communications something I broke about three years ago. That is an area of rich investment. If Chris Ray was going over to the Biden White House to concoct the cases, he's in big trouble.
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Speaker 2: And John you know this. I know you hear it more than anybody else. People in this audience right now are saying, good grief. If John Solomon knows all of this, then why in the world aren't we seeing charges broad Why where is Pam Bondy? What's going on? How do you answer that? Exactly? Because there's video of you from a while back, and I've been improperly crediting it as recent. It is not recent. It's a little older. But it's a you saying that you believed that there were things, or you had heard that there were things going on behind the scenes in DJ and FBI that we just don't know quite yet. Do you still believe that's so? Is there stuff coming that we just don't know because it takes time to build a case. What do you say?
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Speaker 7: Well, listen, I would say that the Trump Justice Department was quite slow to get into a prosecuted position, not the the FBI under cash Hotel, very quickly started turning up this evident. Some of these documents that I just reported this week, I turned over to Justice months ago, so people know that these allegations were substantiated. The Justice Department went through a very tumultuous period. Lots of people left, lots of people got fired because they were viewed as destators, and the process to restaff up was incredibly slow. And so you had about forty percent of the Justice Department trying to not only do its normal work and a weaponization investigation, but also, you know, take on new things like crime and cities like Washington, DC and Memphis. And so they stretched themselves thin. They made a lot of promises without the resources to back them up. Over the last few months they've gotten resourced. Uff here are things that are irrefutable. They are now actually been confirmed. In March of twenty twenty five, Cash Bettel wrote a memo to the Justice Department laying out a grand conspiracy case if you could look at the period from twenty fourteen, which was the IRS targeting of conservative groups all the way to the Jack Smith investigations in Florida in Washington as one ongoing conspiracy to deprive President Trump and his followers of their civil liberties. And it laid out a decade of overt actions if you ever covered a mob case. Conspiracy cases are made with overt actions and they allow you to go back and charge crimes that are outside the normal statute of limitations if you could show it's one continuing operation that got the attention in the summer of last year of Pambondi. They wanted to look at more documents evidence. They want to get a few US attorneys, because you can't do this unless you have US attorneys. You've seen what's happened in Virginia, New Jersey where we still don't have chief federal prosecutors in place a year into the Trump administration, and that's on the White House. That's bad management of the White House in the Senate confirmation process. But in the fall, Pambody signed off on an investigation to look at this as a grand conspiracy and they looked at the final crimes, crimes that are believed to have been committed in Florida and said, you always put a conspiracy case in the place where the most recent crimes occurred. And starting on January twelfth of this year, so just a little over a week ago, a federal grand jury in Fort Pierce, Florida, under the direction of the Miami US Attorney has begun submitting all of this evidence to gen jurors to see if they could make criminal charges. And that's where we're at.
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Speaker 2: John, If I may, I don't mean to be greedy with your time, but could I hold you for one more segment? Do you have a moment?
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Speaker 7: Sure?
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Speaker 2: All right, John more with John Solomon. It's a rare treat to get to talk to you this hour, so I'm going to hold you for one more. Thank you, John Moren. A minute, beautiful look at sunrise in Cincinnati this morning. Thanks for listening on the Ticket and hundreds of great radio stations like it all over the country. We're thrilled to have you aboard. Thanks for watching on the Salem News Channel too. Grab that app, it's free, you can take it along with you and watch or listen wherever. And subscribing to the podcast, the christaglf Show Podcast, Thanks for your support there. That thing's growing by leaps and bounds. Just looked at the numbers this week. More people who are listening to that podcast this year now these first couple of weeks in the twenty twenty six than all of last year. So glad you subscribe to that if you want to get caught up and catch up on conversations like we're having the day with John Solomon, and we're always grateful when he makes time for us, founder and editor in chief of Just the News. We're talking about Jack Smith on Capitol Hill today, and John, I just had to wonder and hold you over. If you were sitting there before Jack Smith today and you had the microphone, the first question you ask him would.
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Speaker 7: Be what were your conversations with Merrick Garland and President Biden concerning the pursuit of President Trump when you were appointed in twenty twenty two. I think that's the first question. Was there a political origin to something that should have been an organic criminal case. There's pretty strong evidence that the White House was involved. That's unprecedented, and I think that that is the question that the American people know. If Joe Biden sicked Jack Smith and the FBI and the President, we need to know that and we need to much like the Watergate era fifty six years ago, we need to get right with it as the American public. So that's question number one for me.
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Speaker 2: Do you think this is something I've puzzled over a time and again as people get irritated and they don't feel justices being served and people are being punished swiftly enough. I've always maintained that there can't possibly be anybody more interested in getting to the bottom of all of this than Trump himself after a home raid and asassination attempts and being dragged through multiple kangaroo courts. I mean, can there be anybody more interested than President Trump? Or is he sort of a transactional guy that's like, well, that was then and this is now, and he's truly just handed it off to Bonda.
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Speaker 7: Oh No, he's dialed in. This is personal to him. And you know what, I've had some really profound conversations with the President, and you know, we see the bravado guy on screen, but he is a very deep thinker and a thoughtful person. He looks at things strategically, and he has sent to me on multiple occasions, both privately and interviews on my show, that he wants to sell this and punish the people who went after him, because he does never wants another president or another candidate for president, to go through what he did. He realized it turned America from free elections to banana republic elections and he doesn't want. He wants to make such a stunning defeat of this that no other candidate in American history will go through what he went through. And I think he is I have that on the record, and I know he means it. He said to me privately when the cameras are off. He is absolutely committed, and it's oftentimes very frustrated that the system moves slower than he would like to see. I do think it's ramping up. I think we could see some indictments in the next few weeks in Minnesota for the fraud, including state officials who might have looked the other way, i e. A Governor Wallas or Keith Ellison. I think you will see some indictments soon for the groups that provide both financial and logistical support to those who are blocking ICE from carrying out lawful federal enforcement matters. And then I think there's a strong possibility you will see some indictments come out of that Florida grand jury. There are going to be some attempts to indict people in Washington, d C. It's not going to stick. You're not going to get convictions in DC. There's a ninety five percent Democrat jury poolm but some cases are going to have to be brought there. People may get acquitted. That will be frustrating to the American people. But we have a political jury nullification problem in some of the big blue cities right now, and that's very deeply concerning to people who look at the legal system. But Florida in Minnesota, I think will be the first machinery to create consequences and potential convictions of people who have used our systems.
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Speaker 2: Do you believe that President Trump still has faith in Attorney General Bondi and should he? Based on what you see just briefly, I think.
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Speaker 7: He vacillates, as you see in some of his tweets or his truth social posts. I think he likes Pam Bondi personally, he's frustrated that not more has been done. I think he's been briefed in recent weeks on the move to get to a prosecuted position. One of the tricky things was making sure before you start the grand jury in Florida, you could absolutely make the case that it should remain there, that it doesn't get removed to DC. A lot of the things that happened against President Trump occurred before twenty twenty, which of course would mean they're outside the statue of five year limitations and occurred in Washington, d C. What the Justice Department had to do was make a meaningful and serious review of the evidence to show that what happened in Florida was connected to what happened all the way back to when they were opening up Operation Crossfire Hurricane and hanging in a fake Russian shingle on Donald Trump's campaign house. And so that took some time, some legal vetting, and I think now that that has been made, you got a very capable team in Florida. This Miami US Attorney's the career people around the US Attorney in Miami. They are grizzly prosecutors. You go after mobsters and drug dealers. They're going to bring this case. They're going to be able to go up against the two thousand dollars an hour democratic lawyers in Florida and potentially make some strong cases.
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Speaker 2: Johnsholloman, you and I don't talk often, but here's what I've always said. The moment mar A Lago was rated was was the game changer moment for me. That was the moment in American history that I point to and say, if that's allowed to stand, we've lost it all. Agree or disagree just ten seconds.
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Speaker 7: Couldn't agree, Martha, You're right on the money. That visual will never be lost in people's mind. We rated a president's home, the opposition rated the president's home. That's what they do in Banana republics.
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Speaker 2: He's John Solomon, and there's nobody better. We're so grateful for his wisdom. Founder and editor in chief at just Thenews justinews dot com. Follow him on X at j Solomon Reports. Thank you John so much.
01:06:32
Speaker 7: Yeah, I love the show, Chris, thanks so much.
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Speaker 9: Oh, it's great to talk to you too. I this is a big storm. This is you know, they've A couple of days ago, the entire meteorological community called onto the reality of what. You know what we've been talking about WeatherBell. If you looked at our forecast for the winter August twenty ninth, we stress six factors as to why the winter could turn extreme and why the temperature forecast we have for the winter. You look at it, that's cold, but not that cold. The way it was going to get there was very important. It was like a roller coaster ride, and we were stressing this and now you know, we had the first shot of cold came in to the northern plains into the northeast for late November into December. Much of the rest of the country has had no winter, but now everything is cracking down. And to be blunt about it, the overall pattern looks very similar to February twenty ten here for the rest of the way in and that was the year we labeled snow Mageddon, and for good reason. So the worst of the winter for the United States is in front of us. And it's interesting. You know, my job is my job is I advise a lot of energy companies, a lot of hedge funds. I don't play the markets. I don't do anything like that. I just give him the best advice I can on the weather. And the meteorological community or whoever was whoever was advising the natural gas community has totally got caught off guard because the price of natural gas has almost doubled over the last three days, which means that the natural gas futures means that the people were just thinking it wasn't going to get cold, and so you know.
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Speaker 2: When it's been joti to that point, it's been very mild. But here's what I This is just an observation and there's no science behind it. So you tell me if it's if it's incorrect in my.
01:10:39
Speaker 9: Observation the way you are, Chris, it hasn't been mild in the Northeast. It's been mild across the plains, so you know some people that have had winter.
01:10:48
Speaker 2: And so to that point, you're saying that maybe the worst of the winter is still ahead of us.
01:10:54
Speaker 9: Is that Yes, it is?
01:10:56
Speaker 2: But is that typical or no? Because to me, in my opinion, just what I've observed, it seems that the harshest stuff seems to come later. I think everybody has this romantic idea of a white Christmas and all of that, but that always seems to be more mild. It's the really big pounding in February that we can often expect now right February and Marching.
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Speaker 9: Well, it depends. I mean, you know the weather the past ten winters, since the winter of fourteen fifteen, with the exception of the Texas winner in twenty one, it's been very mild across the United States. So no, that's not necessarily true. Last year was the first time the January and February broke cold back to back like that. They show you how warm it's been New York City had all three winter months last year below normal for the first time since two thousand and ten, maybe, and they're going to be that way this year. So while you're correct that they you know, we'll usually get our bigger snowstorms later in January and February. The fact is the normals are coming up this time of the year. They start coming up. But what we're going to find is relative to normal by far, the worst, worst, the coldest weather for the country. You know, the telling clients we could get a freeze in Florida in ten days. This storm is storm number one. We could have a blizzard on the East coast later next week, and then once we'll probably get a bit milder across the secral part of the country for a while. But it looks to me like mid and late February. It's you know, Garth Brooks, you know wolf weather. You know, I call it an American pie February where February made me shiver with each weather report I deliver.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm not. I'm not sitting here. It's interesting you introduced me, you know, my whole climate, my whole climate situation, isn't I think most of this stuff is ridiculous, and I try to downplay it, but this is a huge weather event. I mean, this is a crypt wing storm. When you have ice in Dallas and Little Rock and Nashville, Richmond, all those cities are going to get shut down for a couple of days from sleep and freezing rain. And then to the north of it, you have a swath of ten to fifteen inches of snow that starts at Tulsa and goes up into through much of Pennsylvania and Boston. I don't know why they're driving the south of Boston. I don't believe that.
01:13:23
Speaker 9: I think I've told my aunt, my aunt in New England and my cousin that they're getting ten to fifteen inches of snow Sunday night and mondays. Whoa yeah, anyway.
01:13:33
Speaker 2: But you're predicting ten to fifteen inches of snow by Monday morning in Boston.
01:13:39
Speaker 9: Well, Sunday night Monday. The storm will end during the day Monday, but they should have ten to fifteen inches of snow from this storm coming up so and Philly. I think, for instance, Philly probably gets ten and the changes over the sleep freezing rain for a while in New York City is going to be on the border line there. There'll be ten to fifteen in the north, from western the city five to ten to the south. I mean you could if you want, you could, you know, ask me any town you want, I'll give you. I'll give you a snow forecast for it, because it so well.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you it's often right. The ice, that's always what you know. Particularly to our south. We've seen it in places like Texas where it just can cripple a community. Where's the ice do you think going to hit most prevalent? Some big cities you think are going to be dealing with ice.
01:14:22
Speaker 9: The rain is going to be from Landman areas in middle of Odessa through Dallas, Little Rock. Little Rock's gonna be freezing rain and sleet, Shreeport, freezing rain in sleep Waco, a lot of freezing rain. Nashville, where Nashville's become sort of the center of an argument over there. You know, I heard a guy in Fox they say it's two thirty inches of snow's coming. No, Nashville might get a couple of inches of snow, but basically sleep freezing rain. Charlotte, Winston, Salem, Greensboro, Raleigh. Raleigh gets something for you. Rally gets some freezing rain. I don't think it's as bad as it is further west and north Richmond looks like it's a shutdown storm. DC will probably snow up to ten inches and then change over some sleep freezing rain for a while, and then that'll that sleep freezing rain will be up the I ninety five quarter, but it'll snow a whole heck of a lot. The old timers, like my dad used to say to me, it always sleeps at the height of the Great One. So folks, you folks that hear a couple of pings of sleep with this from northern Oklahoma to New York City, even maybe the Providence, it might sleep a little bit, you're gonna have a pile of snow before that for that change. You know, my company, what about we've been on January twelfth, we said the lookout for this. As you can see, this is the only feature of the entire winter that's coming in through southern California. Now southern California. It got blasted with rain, but all those systems lifted straight northward. They never came eastward. You see what I'm saying. They hit California, went north. This is the classic southern branch feature attacking a huge Arctic high that's extending from the Dakotas to New England. And so this is how you get these kind of systems we had. You know, if you were in Philly, for instance, in February two thousand and three President's Day storm was a lot like this where you had the big high to the north and the low pressure came out of the Gulf of Mexico and tried to attack the high.
01:16:20
Speaker 2: So you like the classic Look, give me the timing on this, Joe. When can people expect this weather to hit?
01:16:27
Speaker 9: Well, it depends again, it depends on where you are. Let me just let me get my timing down here. I think you're in the you know, Friday night, Saturday, you're in the second things from Texas up in the southern Kansas, all right. So if I go to Saturday evening, the front edge of the snow is getting to Pittsburgh, the front edge of the ice is to Chattanooga. Little Rocker is probably already shut down by that time. Dallas is getting some ice. And let's say we go to Sunday morning this storm, there should be heavy snow occurring from Oklahoma, through southern and central Indiana, southern and central Ohio into Pennsylvania, d c Front edge of snow to New York City. Lots of ice through the Carolinas, a strip of ice through Kentucky and and down into the Mississippi Valley and the Shreetport. And you know this storm will be in Kentucky. The center will try to come up through eastern Kentucky. And you know, in the words of the Three Stooges, what bread in old Kentucky makes a crummy here. So think about that.
01:17:36
Speaker 2: So the bulk of this, the bulk of this is Saturday. You think Friday night, Saturday.
01:17:40
Speaker 9: Sunday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, bye okay, bye okay. By Sunday evening it's snowing uh through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, into southern New England. Monday morning, Uh, that's when the storm begins to exit. Will be over in New York City. Uh, just some flurries left back through Sylvania. Still snowing in Boston, but it ends quickly snow at seven by eleven.
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Speaker 2: That's good to know. I mean, at least it sounds like the bulk of this will be dealing with over the weekend, so Monday it'll be a little more clear for the commute. But follow all of this because he's going to be watching it on X at Big Joe Bastardi. He is the chiefcaster at weatherbill dot com. Joseph, it's been too long. Let's have you back soon. Thanks for the update, My man boy live look at Buffalo.
01:18:29
Speaker 7: New York.
01:18:30
Speaker 2: And I will say Aaron McGuire, our friend who you know, came on the show Mondays with McGuire Big Buffalo Bills fan fastening. She said in a sub stack that she posted, she is furious because I guess, and I wasn't following it closely. I guess the general manager and the owner for the Bills, right after they fired their head coach, held a press conference and just made a mess of things. And now Bills fans are just furious because they did. It appears that they don't know what they're doing there in the front office. They've got they've built this brand new stadium, they got Josh Allen who's never been victorious and on his way to a Super Bowl, and now they have no head coach after ten years, and he's pretty well liked, and so now they think there's a real mess in Buffalo out there, and Aaron is just fit to be tied. Nothing she wanted happened.
01:19:15
Speaker 8: I understand, Chris, But the problem is Buffalo, the Buffalo Bills will always have a massive fan base. There will people like It's just like Philly people will always fork over massive amounts of money to see them by their gear whatever.
01:19:28
Speaker 2: So if I.
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Speaker 8: Feel bad, I really feel bad for you Bills fans. Believe me. I really wanted you to get it done this season. But if they've made a mess of things in the front office, it's not the problem is they've never felt the pain, right like, they never never felt the monetary pain of the people.
01:19:46
Speaker 2: It's true because they love their football up there. Back to Davos where Citadel CEO Ken Griffin went both barrels on the husk, the former administration, the Biden Ministry and the miss inherited here by President Trump, and the miss the Globe really inherited under Joe Biden listened to this at number thirty three.
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Speaker 12: You cannot imagine how painful it was each and every day under the biod administration to look at what new crazy proposal was being put into place to solve a problem that didn't even exist. I mean, our constant friction at Citadel with the government across unteen different aspects of our business was exhausting. And to have that literally end on one day, Election Day, just gives you so much energy, as if shore to go back and build your damn business. So the biggest sea change I've seen across American executives has been just like the.
01:20:54
Speaker 2: Giant side relief.
01:20:56
Speaker 12: I can now go and focus on building my business. And that prior administration, you know, we happen to be a creditor of Spirit. Their merger with Jet Blue was stopped spirits and bankruptcy.
01:21:12
Speaker 1: Today, there were.
01:21:15
Speaker 12: So many decisions that were so poorly thought out in terms of economic consequences. It cost the US economy dearly. I cannot emphasize that enough. And so the Trump administration is making slow progress on deregulation thus far, but the end of the regulatory onslaught has been just an extraordinary boom for American business.
01:21:43
Speaker 2: Did you hear that anywhere? If you're listening to the show, congratulations you did? But did most media outlets play that for you? Yesterday? What a devastating, blistering takedown of what we lived through. And by the way, the inflation that we're experiencing because of government largesse grotesque spending, which was huge, huge fraud was born of that. That's what we're living right now in Minneapolis. That was uncovered over at redline dot Com. War Department breaks down just how much money Biden administration telework policy wasted. The report from the War Department sent a letter to twenty four government agencies requesting a review of the issues involved with telecommuting. The Inspector General revealed that at least six hundred and sixty five thousand dollars was spent questionably on locality pay, that whole COVID lockdown era, that worked from home era crap, all that slush fund money. This country was raked over the coals.
01:22:44
Speaker 7: You know.
01:22:44
Speaker 2: I tell you that when we talk about matters of faith on this show, there is someone that I almost always think of first, and someone that when she has available time to come on and discuss it, she's who I want to have on the show, and she was good enough to make time for us today. She's a reporter over at the Daily Wire. She writes on matters of faith and culture. Quite often there She's written a book, a brilliant bestseller called Shepherd's for Sale, How evangelical leaders traded the truth for a leftist agenda. That's kind of how I got to know Megan Basham, who's back with us and has written a piece at the Daily Wire on this disruption raid really by a bunch of goons and thugs up in Minneapolis of a church service and the people involved there, as she's gone on to report, have been involved in the harassment of Pete Hagsith and his flock there in the DC area too, And so anyway, because she's written about that, and I just had a ton of questions for her, just as we talk about this new era of leftists storming churches, where does that leave us? Megan Basham, Welcome back man, Good morning, good morning.
01:23:47
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me. Chris, it's always to be here.
01:23:50
Speaker 2: Likewise, thank you so much. You do this with a delicacy. And now you're always you're always blunt and you tell the truth, but you're never is You're never harsher or strident about it, and I appreciate it because what I saw over the weekend made me angry, really angry, and as a Christian I had to keep taking breaths and trying to remind myself to not turn into my old self and just start going bombastic, bomb throwing, vicious. To see children crying and women being harassed while they're just sitting there trying to worship on a Sunday over politics, Really, Megan, it's tough to watch. How did you process it?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? Probably I felt the same. And what was so astonishing to me was I was familiar with this church. I don't know them well, but a good friend of mine helps plant it and was the pastor there for about eight years, so I was well acquainted with this church. And one of the things I know about it is that this is not what you might think of as a highly politician church. It's not a culture warring church. I mean, certainly we know pastors on both left and right who are happy to get out and appear at rallies and write up of a political nature and things like that, and this was not that kind of church. You know, they very much don't get involved in that sort of thing. But there are you know, a sound found Bible believing church that preaches the word. So the only reason that these protesters targeted them was because they have a pastor on staff who also serves as an ice official, which you know is a biblical thing to do, to be a law enforcement officer and help keep the peace and keep law and order. And so that was why they targeted as church, And that was what was so astonishing to me, is to say, you know, it's not like they picked someone where you'll see a pastor who appeers at a lot of Trump rallies or something. And then the manner in which they did it. Getting a little more information now, apparently they went in and sat through half the service and then halfway through got up and created that appalling disturbance that you saw. So the idea that you would sit there and listen to someone preach and be there through the praise and they're singing, and then get up and make that kind of disruption, I don't know what's call it other than just.
01:26:07
Speaker 2: Evil, yes, And some of them, you know, particularly this I don't know, the guy with the knit cap that looked like he'd been pulled out of somebody's drain. Just just a there's a vicious, evil looking guy. And by the way, it is evil. And as I said, as a believer, my pastor ironically on Sunday happened to preach on life, but also he kind of deviated for a bit and more or less made the point that as Christians we can bank on this sort of thing. It's biblical, it's always been, and it's coming, and it will probably come in greater velocity. If you're a believer. This is the sort of thing you should sort of gird yourself for now because it is real. And I suspect it won't get better.
01:26:49
Speaker 4: I'd say, yeah, I think that's true. And what part of the reason that it's not going to get better is because certainly on the ground in Minnesota, Tim Walls and governor and Mayor Jacob Fry are not doing anything to make it better. One of the things that was astonishing to me about this entire case was the fact that police were present, I guess outside of the church or they said they were monitoring, and they didn't arrest anyone. And the reason Attorney General Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said he did not arrest anyone was because he was trying to balance free speech rights with religious rights to worship. Well, you know, obviously that argument falls apart completely in light of the law. You don't have a right to storm into a church and cause a disturbance. If they had wanted to protest out on the sidewalk on a public space, that was their right, but they did not have the right. It is absolutely illegal to bust into the church in the way that they did, both under the Face Act and under state regulation. And so, you know, just really tells you something that the local police officials chose to do nothing. So hopefully the federal authorities will act. But you know, one of the things that struck me about this, Chris, was that in trying to defend this as free speech, you also heard these protesters claiming sort of the Christian high ground and what they did, and that to me was sort of crossing and upsetting rubicon. So if we can't agree, because I think there was a time on both the left and right that we would all go, you shouldn't do what they did. You shouldn't go into any church and disrupt the surfaces and scream in the faces of the parishioners and make the kids cry. Which you know, if you see these videos, I'm not really doing them justice for how disturbing they were, but that we no longer. Apparently I'm both left and right agree that that's not an okay thing to do, and that is disturbing to me that we've crossed that rubicon. But then also this notion that they felt sanctioned to do what they did by Christianity was insane. Like you heard the guy saying, well, I'm just in here flipping tables Jesus did, And you know, one I go, okay, we can go over all of the reasons that what you're doing is nothing like Jesus. But beyond that, I think there was an era in the left, you know, where the left would more just sneer at and disdain faith and Christianity, and we're in a new day where they're not doing that anymore. Now. What I think they're trying to do is appropriate the name of Jesus for radical left wing activities. And so that's what's astonishing to me. And you will see the same guy, the same guy who said I'm flipping tables like Jesus out in front of Texas church. As you said, he has targeted church as before, and he's screaming obscenity, screaming the F word, screaming other just vile profane language that I peak. So the idea that's behaving like Jesus is not joke.
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Speaker 2: Megan Basham again with the Daily Wire bestseller, and I couldn't more recommend it this book to you. This is where I want to go next in the conversation. It's called Shepherd's for Sale. How evangelical leaders traded the truth for a leftist agenda. Rafael Warnock, that vile guy who claims to be a reverend himself, who's also a United States Senator. He and another lady who is a member of Congress, a Democrat out in Arizona whose name I don't even care to remember, but I've now heard two members of Congress in the last twenty four hours, Meg say very similar to what you just said. Well, you know, what they're preaching inside that church is not the Jesus that I know. And I thought, oh, okay, So we are as you said, and we're in a new place where the Democrats are now going to tell us what churches are allowed to say, and if it doesn't, if it doesn't jive with what they believe Jesus is about or what they believe Christianity ought to be espousing, Well, then they feel inclined to go in and start disrupting services. That is a new as you say, it's a new place we have not been as a country. But to hear supposed church leaders like Warnock say it, and here's my question, this is where church leadership that's been compromised for a lot of years. And that's what your best seller was written about. This is where leadership matters. Who is heading their flocks in your church and other churches around the country. It's time to take stock of who's in the pulpit. I think at everyone's church.
01:31:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely. And as much as I would look at say a mainline church that's straped in black Lives Matter flags and rainbow flags and say that as a whitewash tomb that is not a place where Christ is preached or the Holy Spirit is present, I believe I would still not say you can go in and disrupt their services and scream in the faces of their church members as we saw. So I don't think you would ever see any true Christian behave like that. And you know, part of what part of what was a little bit sturbing to me. It's so disturbing. Let's say, maybe what I want to issue a word of caution for because you know, I love this church in the Twin Cities, Citi's Church. It's a wonderful church. I know that people who planted it, but as I said, Rafael Warnock could not be more wrong about this not being a place where christis preach. It's a very solid Bible believing, Bible preaching church. And I think everyone saw the viral clips of how well the pastor of that church handled himself in trying to deal with Don Lemon picking a microphone in his face while trying to get these protesters out of his church and trying to take care of the flock under his authority. So you saw him do all of that really well. But you know, part of what concerns me a little bit is that we did have, in a way some Southern Baptist leadership contributing to the atmosphere around targeting Ice. Back in April, you saw some leaders within the Southern Baptist TCH issue this press release kind of condemning Ice for allegedly going into churches or saying that Trump administration is causing confusion among churches and fear among churches. And it was kind of a false narrative that had been ginned up by the legacy media because ICE has not rated any churches. The legacy media has used that term, but that would suggest that they did what these protesters did, which was bust in and cause chaos and make people cry and upset people. They have not done that. There have been some cases where ICE has been out in the parking lot of a church and has worked respectfully with the pastors of those churches to say, we know this is a person we want to interview, or you know, they have asked people to come out to the parking lot where they are, but they've done nothing like these protesters. And so it was a little upsetting to me to see back in April this this statement from some Southern Baptist leaders, including the EROLC, which we've talked about before, giving aid and comfort to this false narrative. And I think that is part of what contributes to the targeting that we saw of Cities Church because an ICE official is a pastor there, so they've really demonized ICE, and it was upsetting to me to see my own leadership contributing to that demonization of law enforcement officers who are doing the work that they are empowered to do, which is enforced the law. We cannot have chaos, we cannot have no enforcement of immigration law. So I was grateful to see that, Yeah, that I is doing that work. But just on top of that, the one more little wrinkle is these were Black Lives Matter affiliated protesters that were in that church and causing that disturbance. And that's the other thing is I think when I look back at those of us within the church who played foot seat with Black Lives Matter, I think, now we see why you don't do that.
01:34:47
Speaker 7: Amen.
01:34:48
Speaker 2: Amen, she's making Basham at the Daily Wire Shepherd's for sale the must read best selling book, and she's written and we'll continue to write extensively on issues like these. If you care about them, there's nobody better than Megan Basham. Be a s h A M. Meg Basham on X. Great to catch up with you, Meg, you two.
01:35:05
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me, Chris.
01:35:08
Speaker 2: It's deadly programming.
01:35:09
Speaker 7: Note.
01:35:09
Speaker 2: Next week we expect to hear from the head of the Southern Baptist Convention, Albert Mohler, a brilliant man and I'd love to get his take on this, and you can expect that he will be very candid in what he has to say about it. Instant latereadline dot com China expanding their crackdown on Christian churches not controlled by the communist Chinese government. It's worth a read over at readline dot com and it's where these goons would love to take us. Believe me, churches be unnoticed. Street tough Scott Bessett in Davos always a favorite. Give me number twenty four, Paul, if you please.
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Speaker 13: I think it's very, very ironic that you Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman Sparkle beach Ken maybe the only Californian who knows less of about economics and Kamala Harris. He's here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy Alex Soros, and the Davos is a perfect place for a man who, when everyone else is on lockdown, when he was having people arrested for going to church, he was having on thousand dollars a night meals at the French laundry. And I'm sure the California people won't forget that. And I can tell my message to Governor Newsom is the Trump administration is coming to California. Where you're going to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse. And I was told he was asked to give a speech on his signature policies. But he's not speaking because what of his economic policies brought outward migration from California, a gigantic budget deficit, the largest homeless population in America, and the poor folks in the Palisades who had their homes burned down. He is here with the global elite while his California citizens are still homeless.
01:37:07
Speaker 1: Shame on him.
01:37:08
Speaker 13: He is too smug, too self absorbed, and too economically illiterate to know anything.
01:37:16
Speaker 2: Folks, that's the Treasury Secretary. Wow, these guys did not tiptoe into Davos. They stormed the stage and delivered a no holds barred takedown of the global elite, including the elite in our own country. Trump's addressed to the World Economic Forum. If you didn't hear it, he touted America's roaring economy, crushed inflation, secured borders, and record breaking markets. Trump called out Europe's declined their faces. He demanded fair deals from NATO allies. He boldly pushed for US control of Greenland for strategic security without force, but with unmistakable strength. It was a direct challenge, as you just heard Besson say, to the jet setting crowd that lectures the world while living in luxury, exposing their hypocrisy and putting America first for a change. It reminded me of Ricky Gervais's final Golden Globes performance in twenty twenty. If you didn't see that monologue, you should go back and watch it. It's epic. He shredded Hollywood's elite, their ties to Epstein, their private jet global warming preaching, the fake virtue signaling. He shredded them to their face. Remember he said, accept your little award, thank your agent at f Off. He declared, right to their faces. He dismantled their moral preening in just minutes of brutal honesty. The parallel to yesterday and Trump in Davos hits hard. Gervase, like Trump, used raw, unapologetic truth to dismantle these insulated power structures that have driven the conversation for far too long globally and certainly in this country. Trump's economic and foreign policy dominance mirrored that firebomb that Gervais delivered years ago at the Golden Globes. Each of them, exposed elitist fraud and ignited a populist rage. What makes moments like these more rare and extremely powerful when they happen. What makes it so rare is this few men of real authority or authenticity stand before their peers, the very crowd that claims to speak for you and me and the citizens of the world. Very few will actually stand before their peers and dress them down. So mercilessly they remind these elites that they've lost the plot entirely. The people who pay their salaries, fund their empires, sustain their lifestyles. They've been forgotten and sidelined and dismissed. And that betrayal is an outrage. It's an outrage that we cannot and we will not continue to tolerate and accept indefinitely. It was a coup, it was a triumph, and I quite frankly, I don't care what anybody says. You call me a sick offen if you want. What we're watching out of this president is the most exciting thing that we've lived through. Certainly since I've been voting in my adult life. We've never seen a transformative figure like this, and it's all done in a peaceful way, yet at the same time asserting strength. This is a special time in history. It's not to be forgotten. I hope you have a great day and we will be back to kick off the weekend tomorrow on Friday. So that's a wrap for another Christagall Show podcast. Thanks for committing to it listening to it all the way through. You're a fighter. I like that about you. Hope you'll leave it a five star review and a written review. Apple Podcasts, Spotify. We'll see you next time here on The Christagall Show Podcast. The Chris de gaul Show Podcast
