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Universities Across America Mock Charlie Kirk’s Assassination · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee. On the banks of the mighty Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: It's America's conservative blowtorch.
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  Speaker 2: That's us.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Our love is American.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Todd Stern Show. Great to have all
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  Speaker 2: of you with us today. And what a scene in Dallas, Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Thousands of Republicans, thousands of America First conservatives gathering last
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  Speaker 2: night for the opening session of this two-day Republican midterm convention.
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  Speaker 2: And it is right now living up to everything it
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  Speaker 2: promised to be. President Trump in rare form. The president
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  Speaker 2: bringing down the House, a lot of cheers and, quite frankly,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of great speeches and a reminder that the
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  Speaker 2: base of the party and the bench of the Republican
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  Speaker 2: Party is very, very deep. Now, the question is, will
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  Speaker 2: this move the needle? That is ultimately the big question.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the goals last night, and we'll hear
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  Speaker 2: this again tonight or night two of the convention, the
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  Speaker 2: goal was to really unite around a central message. And
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  Speaker 2: Congressman Brandon Gill from Texas, whose father-in-law, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: is Dinesh D'Souza, Brandon Gill really did a terrific job
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  Speaker 2: of framing what this election is really all about.
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  Speaker 5: They sometimes call themselves socialists. Some even call themselves communists.
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  Speaker 5: but most of them simply go by Democrats. They're the
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  Speaker 5: ones who will tell you that your love for America
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  Speaker 5: is nothing but bigotry, that our heritage is rooted in
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  Speaker 5: white supremacy, and that your Christian faith is patriarchal and
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  Speaker 5: needs to be dismantled.
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  Speaker 2: That's extreme.
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  Speaker 5: They're the people like Democrat congressional nominee Daria Eliza Chevalier
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  Speaker 5: who tweeted, quote, I forgot to get napkins, so I
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  Speaker 5: just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.
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  Speaker 5: And later said, quote, this country is a effing disgrace.
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  Speaker 6: That's extreme.
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  Speaker 7: That's extreme.
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  Speaker 5: They're people like Democrat congressional nominee Claire Valdez, who described
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  Speaker 5: American foreign policy as one of, quote, white supremacy and
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  Speaker 5: capitalist exploitation.
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  Speaker 2: That's extreme.
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  Speaker 5: And here in Texas, we have James. God is non-binary.
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  Speaker 5: There are six genders. We need to dismantle capitalism, Tallarico.
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  Speaker 5: It's somebody who will hollow out your most deeply held
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  Speaker 5: Christian faith and wear it like a skin suit.
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  Speaker 2: That's extreme.
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  Speaker 5: And now as we near the 25th anniversary of 9-11,
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  Speaker 5: Democrats are nominating Abdul Rahman Mohammed El-Sayed. An extremist who
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  Speaker 5: sympathized with terrorists and who campaigned with a man who
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  Speaker 5: says America deserved 9-11. That's extreme and deplorable. Now we
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  Speaker 5: have to admit that every party has their crazies.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt about that. And there are a lot of
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  Speaker 2: crazies on the Democrat side of the aisle. Well, the
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  Speaker 2: crowd cheering and in great spirits last night. And one
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  Speaker 2: of the individuals there was sort of a who's who
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  Speaker 2: in Republican politics is our next guest. He is the
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  Speaker 2: Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, also running to be
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  Speaker 2: the next governor of the great state of Mississippi, Andy Gibson.
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  Speaker 2: Commissioner Gibson, good to have you with us. And what
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  Speaker 2: was your reaction to what you heard last night at
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  Speaker 2: the convention?
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  Speaker 8: Todd, it's great to be back with you. The crowd
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  Speaker 8: here was electric.
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  Speaker 9: We're looking forward to another night tonight, but I think
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  Speaker 9: the president and all the speakers, including Congressman Gill, did
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  Speaker 9: a great job explaining what is at stake in these
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  Speaker 9: elections November 3rd. They want to take us back, the Democrats,
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  Speaker 9: due to redefining gender and putting boys and girls sports.
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  Speaker 10: They want to They want to.
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  Speaker 9: Redefine the values of our country. And now they've teamed
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  Speaker 9: up with the socialists and the communists, and we cannot
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  Speaker 9: afford to sit.
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  Speaker 8: Back on our laurels.
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  Speaker 9: We've got to get out and we've got to vote
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  Speaker 9: and vote conservative and vote Republican Tuesday, November 3rd. A
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  Speaker 9: lot is at stake here. The future of our country
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  Speaker 9: is at stake. And that's really what the gist of
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  Speaker 9: last night was. And the president topped it off with.
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  Speaker 11: A great.
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  Speaker 2: Commissioner, what we're going to do here, guys, is we're
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  Speaker 2: going to try to reset, and we're going to try
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  Speaker 2: to get the commissioner back on. We've got a very,
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  Speaker 2: very bad connection, and we'll work on getting that. But again, guys,
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  Speaker 2: if we can get him back by phone, that would
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  Speaker 2: be great. That's, again, the Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce,
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  Speaker 2: Andy Gibson. He is also running to be the next
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  Speaker 2: governor of the state of Mississippi. You might remember the commissioner,
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  Speaker 2: he made national headlines during the state fair at the
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  Speaker 2: Washington Mall where he was serving up hot, fresh biscuits
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  Speaker 2: there in the Mississippi booth. and quite frankly became one
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  Speaker 2: of the most popular booths there at the fair. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, another interesting thing President Trump said last night
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  Speaker 2: at the convention, basically saying if you vote Republican, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to be getting a $ 5, 000 check in the mail.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: What we're doing is because we've done so well and
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  Speaker 4: because our country is making so much money that only
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  Speaker 4: I can make this promise to you. And here is
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  Speaker 4: my promise. If the Republicans win the House of Representatives
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  Speaker 4: and the United States Senate, both of them, because of
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  Speaker 4: our economic, tremendous economic success, like in history we've never
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  Speaker 4: had anything like what's happening, but because of our tremendous
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  Speaker 4: strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend to
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  Speaker 4: every adult citizen in the United States of America for.
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  Speaker 7: $ 5, 000.
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  Speaker 2: All right, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. You've
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  Speaker 2: got President Trump saying, if you vote Republican, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to get $ 5, 000. Now, there's a caveat. Only Congress can
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  Speaker 2: actually authorize that $ 5, 000 payment, which would be, what, about
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  Speaker 2: a trillion dollars if every single American taxpayer got one
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  Speaker 2: of those checks. Also, you might recall, the president promised,
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  Speaker 2: what is it, a $ 2, 000, $ 2, 000 or $ 3, 000 tariff dividend check.
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  Speaker 2: The American people still waiting for that check. And the president,
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  Speaker 2: and this is something you're going to hear in the media,
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  Speaker 2: and you need to understand the reality of it. that
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  Speaker 2: they're going to say the president also promised a $ 5, 000
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  Speaker 2: rebate when it came to the Doge funding cuts. The
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  Speaker 2: president did not promise that. He did say it was
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  Speaker 2: a good idea, but he did not promise that. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the president saying,
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  Speaker 2: if you vote Republican, you're going to get money in
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  Speaker 2: your pocket. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 8: That's 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: And I do believe we've established phone contact with Commissioner Gibson.
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  Speaker 2: Good to have you back with us. I'm just curious,
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  Speaker 2: from an agriculture standpoint, the administration got quite a lot
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  Speaker 2: of heat a couple of weeks ago with the announcement
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  Speaker 2: that they were going to be bringing in beef from
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  Speaker 2: foreign countries. Curious to hear what cattle farmers thought about that.
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  Speaker 2: And it seems as though the Trump administration is trying
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  Speaker 2: to reach out and make amends there.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, Todd, and look, we've not had a more friendly
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  Speaker 8: administration for the agriculture and farm community than President Kopp
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  Speaker 8: and Secretary Brooke Rollins. They've done a lot of great
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  Speaker 8: work to try to cut off a lot of farm product.
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  Speaker 8: There was a little bit of a ruffle, I guess,
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  Speaker 8: with this announced import of farm beef. I understand why
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  Speaker 8: the president did that to try to, in the near term,
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  Speaker 8: lower prices in the grocery store. However, the answer... is
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  Speaker 8: to rebuild our American beef herd. And I'm really encouraged
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  Speaker 8: by what not only the president, but USDA Secretary Rawlins
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  Speaker 8: accomplished last week. In fact, we had a call the
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  Speaker 8: day before yesterday with Secretary Rawlins about the initiative to
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  Speaker 8: rebuild our American beef herd. It's going to take some time.
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  Speaker 8: It's going to take at least two years to rebuild
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  Speaker 8: the beef herd of this country to where it needs
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  Speaker 8: to be. We're at the lowest level since, I think, 1946.
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  Speaker 12: So.
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  Speaker 8: Through some USDA risk management programs there's incentives for farmers
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  Speaker 8: to hold those heifers that will grow into cows and
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  Speaker 8: have more calves. And that's where we need to be.
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  Speaker 8: And I want to applaud President Trump for those actions,
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  Speaker 8: Secretary Rawlins. We all know we've got to wean off
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  Speaker 8: of this foreign product. That's what's killing our country, foreign food,
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  Speaker 8: foreign products, But the long-term answer is to rebuild the
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  Speaker 8: American beef herd, and that's the direction we're headed. I'm
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  Speaker 8: proud to support that.
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  Speaker 2: Commissioner, what do you hope to see coming out of
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  Speaker 2: the convention? Tonight's the last night, and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people are wondering if this is going to be enough
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  Speaker 2: to get Republicans across the finish line.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, it's definitely better than doing nothing. I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 8: you know, I attended the 24th convention when everybody said
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  Speaker 8: that President Trump could never be reelected, and Of course,
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  Speaker 8: the good Lord intervened, and the people of America did,
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  Speaker 8: and thank God that Kamala Harris is not the president
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  Speaker 8: of America. I can only imagine how bad it would
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  Speaker 8: be under her awful administration. So I think the idea
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  Speaker 8: here is to build that momentum among Republicans. We cannot
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  Speaker 8: afford to sit this out. Too much is at stake.
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  Speaker 8: The future of this country, these Democrats that are on
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  Speaker 8: the ballot today have combined Democrat socialism, communism, Marxism with
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  Speaker 8: radical Islam, and the future of this country is at stake.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to get out.
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  Speaker 13: We've got to vote.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to.
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  Speaker 8: Make sure that the radical left does not get a foothold.
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  Speaker 8: They're already getting a foothold in some states and territories
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  Speaker 8: and some cities in our country, but we cannot let
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  Speaker 8: them get that foothold in Congress. So that is the message.
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  Speaker 8: The message is mobilize, get the word out, vote November 3rd.
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  Speaker 8: Don't sit this out. If you do, These Democrats are
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  Speaker 8: going to take our country down a socialistic path, and
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  Speaker 8: we cannot allow that to happen.
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  Speaker 2: No, we cannot. All right, Commissioner, we're going to have
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  Speaker 2: to leave it there. We'll definitely get you back on
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  Speaker 2: to talk Mississippi politics and your race for the governor.
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  Speaker 2: Where can people go, Commissioner, if they want to get
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  Speaker 2: more information about you and your campaign?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 8: My campaign website is real simple. It's my name, Andy Gibson.
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  Speaker 8: That's Gibson with a P. Not a P, but a P.
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  Speaker 8: Gibson with a P. Andy Gibson dot com. And you've
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  Speaker 8: got all my platform and information. And look, I'm just
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  Speaker 8: a very, you know, I'm a solid conservative. I believe
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  Speaker 8: in conservative principles and I believe in our faith and
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  Speaker 8: the future of our country. So that's where we're headed
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  Speaker 8: and look forward to talking again about it.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Mr. Commissioner, thank you very much, and have
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  Speaker 2: fun tonight at the convention. Again, ladies and gentlemen, we
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  Speaker 2: had Commissioner Andy Gibson on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we're going to take a break here. Folks,
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  Speaker 2: did you watch the convention last night? Your take, your
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  Speaker 2: initial thoughts, and is this going to be enough to
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  Speaker 2: get the Republicans across the finish line in November? 901-260-5926
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  Speaker 2: This is the Todd Starnes Radio Show, and we are
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  Speaker 2: covering a lot of big stories today. Of course, it
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  Speaker 2: is also the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to take you live to Phoenix in just
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  Speaker 2: a few moments. We'll be talking with one of the
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  Speaker 2: TPUSA leaders, about today and the significance of today. I
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  Speaker 2: will say this, that there is a lot of ugly
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  Speaker 2: out there, and I'm talking about really nasty things that
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  Speaker 2: are being written about Charlie Kirk on many university campuses
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  Speaker 2: around the nation. They are actually holding celebration parties celebrating
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  Speaker 2: the fact that Charlie Kirk was killed. This is unacceptable.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a lot of outrage over that, as well
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  Speaker 2: there should be. These kids belong in mental institutions, not
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  Speaker 2: institutions of higher learning. But it's a very disturbing situation.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be talking to TPUSA about that in
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  Speaker 2: just a little while. I want to go back, though,
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  Speaker 2: to the convention last night. And, you know, one of
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  Speaker 2: the things, and we're still waiting for the ratings to
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  Speaker 2: come out, and we'll get that in hopefully sometime during
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  Speaker 2: the show. They'll release the numbers. The big challenge here
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  Speaker 2: is the audience. Were people actually watching last night? Again,
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  Speaker 2: the problem, you had the NFL. You had an NFL
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  Speaker 2: game last night. You've got a lot of other things
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  Speaker 2: that are going on. on a Wednesday night. At least
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  Speaker 2: in the southern states, you've got a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: at church on Wednesdays, and that's still a thing in
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  Speaker 2: the southern states. So the question is, who exactly was
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  Speaker 2: watching last night? And the same thing tonight, we've got
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  Speaker 2: another NFL game, college football games as well, and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of high school sports. So the timing of all
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  Speaker 2: of this, again, with the anniversary of Charlie Kirk's assassination,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought, They did a terrific job covering that
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  Speaker 2: in the convention last night. But the problem is we
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  Speaker 2: need to get the message out. And it was a
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  Speaker 2: great message last night. I'll say this, President Trump was
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  Speaker 2: in rare form. He was cracking everybody up. As a
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  Speaker 2: matter of fact, I want you to listen to President
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  Speaker 2: Trump as he was talking about James Tallarico, cut 31.
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  Speaker 4: He described himself as a person who hates Christianity, says
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  Speaker 4: that God is transgender. He called the American flag a
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  Speaker 4: complicated symbol of hate, claimed that the Ten Commandments are
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  Speaker 4: a form of fascism. And when he was asked what
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  Speaker 4: he loved most in the world, he said, I love
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  Speaker 4: transgender children, which he was also somebody that hated eating meat.
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  Speaker 4: But he ran a campaign to beat meat. He called
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  Speaker 4: it beat meat. I don't know what the hell he
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  Speaker 4: meant by that. These people are going to tell me,
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  Speaker 4: what the hell is he? He wants to beat meat?
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  Speaker 4: But it was bad for his image, so he started
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  Speaker 4: eating meat. And he recently... It's getting worse. I'm getting
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  Speaker 4: myself in trouble. It's getting worse. But he was recently
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  Speaker 4: seen having a barbecue and eating a lot of meat.
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  Speaker 4: But that's what happened. He ate it and then he
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  Speaker 4: was seen running backstage to a room and throwing up
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  Speaker 4: all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't like meat.
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  Speaker 4: He also loved wearing masks, and he was seen wearing
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  Speaker 4: a mask just a short number of months ago. Any
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  Speaker 4: guy in Texas that's wearing a mask a few months ago,
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  Speaker 4: this is not.
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  Speaker 2: Going to be your senator. It's not going to work out.
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  Speaker 3: Not going to work out.
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  Speaker 4: So getting back, freedom-loving patriots of Texas are going to
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  Speaker 4: defeat Talafrico and elect Ken Paxton to protect the Lone
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  Speaker 4: Star Star.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Mr. President. That's beating me. No, we can't.
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  Speaker 2: We're not going there today. It's a family-friendly show, Mr. President,
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  Speaker 2: a family-friendly show, sir. All right, we've got to take
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  Speaker 2: a quick break. Coming up, we're going live to Phoenix, Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: Our telephone number, by the way, 901-260-5926. If you want
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  Speaker 2: to weigh in on last night's convention, how do you
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  Speaker 2: think the Republicans did last night?
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  Speaker 6: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Todd Stern Show. Well, it was one
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  Speaker 2: year ago today that Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning
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  Speaker 2: Point USA, was assassinated in Utah at a TPUSA event.
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  Speaker 2: And today the nation mourns and remembers. Unfortunately, there are
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  Speaker 2: a good many people around the country who are using
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  Speaker 2: this one-year anniversary to attack Charlie Kirk. A number of
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  Speaker 2: universities are holding Charlie Kirk look-alike contests. Also, at the
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  Speaker 2: University of Tennessee in Knoxville, flyers went up just over
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  Speaker 2: the past couple of days promoting some sort of a
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  Speaker 2: party event. to commemorate and to celebrate the assassination itself.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I want to read to
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  Speaker 2: you what was on what they called the Kirk-aversary party
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  Speaker 2: mocking the death of Charlie Kirk. Quote, we will celebrate
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  Speaker 2: the first new year, a.k.a. after Kirk. That's what was
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  Speaker 2: on the poster, not associated with jerk for Kirk. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I reached out to the University of Tennessee at Knoxville,
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  Speaker 2: and they were just as horrified by these flyers as
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  Speaker 2: we were And the university came out with a statement strongly,
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  Speaker 2: strongly condemning the message and the activity. They say no
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  Speaker 2: official group on campus has claimed responsibility, and they're trying
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  Speaker 2: to figure out who was responsible for putting up those posters.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a good thing. I mean, it is a
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  Speaker 2: fine response from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. But ladies
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  Speaker 2: and gentlemen, this is simply unacceptable. This is flat-out depravity.
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  Speaker 2: And many of these students who are fomenting this evil,
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  Speaker 2: these people are depraved, and they belong in mental institutions,
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  Speaker 2: not institutions of higher learning. Well, I want to go
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  Speaker 2: right away to our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. I told
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  Speaker 2: you we would take you live to Turning Point USA
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  Speaker 2: headquarters in Phoenix. Mason Guerra joins us live. Mason, first,
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  Speaker 2: good to have you with us, and I just want
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  Speaker 2: to get your reaction initially to these evil things that
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  Speaker 2: are happening at some campuses around the nation.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, thank you again for having me today, Todd.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very thankful to be here.
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  Speaker 14: My reaction to these things, honestly, it's incredible to see
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  Speaker 14: the lack of empathy that people are able to have
• 21:57
  Speaker 14: for another person. It's obviously just some sort of evil
• 22:02
  Speaker 14: spirit that is causing people to be this way.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: You know what, guys? We're going to try to reset
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: here with Mason. We've got a bad connection. Ladies and gentlemen,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: my extreme apologies for that. but we will certainly try
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: to regroup and circle back on that. But again, when
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: you see, and I think Mason is right, this is
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: nothing more than an evil spirit. This is demonic, and
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: we are dealing with great evil in this country. I
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: would contend this is one of the reasons why we
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: need more churches engaged in the culture. We need more
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: men and women of faith. We need pastors that are
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: willing to address these issues more from the pulpits of America.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: And if we don't do that, this evil is going
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: to continue. But it's important to get out there, and
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: it's also important to make sure, ladies and gentlemen, that
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: we have a voice and that we condemn this outrageous behavior.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Let's just step aside from Charlie for just one moment
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: and illustrate what life is like under a communist regime.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Right now in America, we are watching the early stages
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: of the communist takeover. Now, back in 2015, a survey
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: was conducted by Pew Research. That survey conducted by Pew
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Research showed that a majority of millennials believe there should
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: be limitations on free speech. Let's fast forward to just
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago when Gen Zers were asked
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: that same question, and Gen Zers, a shocking number of
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Gen Zers, said it was okay to use violence to
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: silence speech that you disagreed with. And now here we
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: are where conservatives and Christians are literally coming under attack.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: They're being assassinated simply for having a viewpoint that you
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: might be opposed to. Ladies and gentlemen, this is exactly
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: what the communists did, exactly what the communists did. They
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: slaughtered their enemies. And by the way, when you've got
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: folks like the communists and they're out there looking at
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: people like Charlie Kirk, they don't see Charlie Kirk as
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: an American citizen. They see him as the enemy. 901-260-5926,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: our telephone number. We're going to take a quick break
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: and try to reconnect with Phoenix. We'll be right back.
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody. It's the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Let's
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: get right back to our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Mason
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Guerra joining us from Turning Point USA headquarters. Mason, good
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: to have you with us. We were talking before the
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: break just about the evil that's out there. I really
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: do think this is a spiritual issue facing the nation
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: right now. What say you?
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  Speaker 15: Yes, I absolutely agree with you, Todd. This has to
• 25:03
  Speaker 15: be some sort of evil force that is falling upon
• 25:06
  Speaker 15: people to cause them to act in such a despicable way.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Let's talk, Mason, real quick about what's happening there at
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: TPUSA headquarters. We understand all the staff have been gathered there,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: brought in. What's happening there today?
• 25:20
  Speaker 13: Yeah, absolutely.
• 25:21
  Speaker 15: Today is a time of mourning for a lot of us.
• 25:25
  Speaker 15: It's a time of remembering everything that Charlie did for
• 25:29
  Speaker 15: this country. And we're here to comfort one another. We're
• 25:32
  Speaker 15: also setting up booths, one of them being Fly the Flag,
• 25:35
  Speaker 15: helping people register to vote from the community. And it's
• 25:38
  Speaker 15: honestly just participating in the community, talking to people about Charlie,
• 25:43
  Speaker 15: about who he was, about what he did, and remembering him.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: This is new to you, Mason. We had you on
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: the show a few days ago. What has that experience
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: been like meeting other TPUSA-ers, and what is the mood
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: there at headquarters today?
• 26:00
  Speaker 15: It's definitely a solemn mood, but one filled with good
• 26:03
  Speaker 15: memories for sure. Being new to Turning Point, I have
• 26:08
  Speaker 15: felt incredibly welcomed. I'm sure that it's part of the
• 26:11
  Speaker 15: spirit that Charlie was trying to foster here, as it
• 26:14
  Speaker 15: feels like it's one big family and we're all just
• 26:16
  Speaker 15: coming back for a reunion.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Well, it's good. Now, take us through, will there be
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: a program, any public events happening there at TPUSA today?
• 26:29
  Speaker 15: It will mostly just be an open area where people
• 26:32
  Speaker 15: will be talking about Charlie. We'll have a video streaming,
• 26:35
  Speaker 15: and then a lot of the event that is happening
• 26:37
  Speaker 15: on will be centered around the Utah Valley University stream
• 26:43
  Speaker 15: as well.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, Mason, we certainly appreciate you joining us today,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: and I know a lot of people are praying for
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: TPUSA and the team. Just a difficult, sad day for many,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: many around the country. Mason Guerra, thank you. 901-260-5926, our
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: telephone number, that's 901-260-5926, as we remember the life and
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: the legacy of Charlie Kirk. And I will say it's
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: been encouraging to see young people still getting involved in TPUSA.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: The question is, how long will that continue? How long
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: will that last? That's the big question. And a lot
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: of it has to do with the Republican Party. And
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: so many young people got involved in Republican politics after
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: the assassination. And many of those young people are now
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: very disappointed in the Republican Party. And look, it's all
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: about messaging. It's all about getting out there and talking
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: about the issues and not talking down to the young
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: people of America. And I think that's what a lot
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: of people have done. They've talked down to the young
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: people of America. These kids are coming out of college.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: They're looking for jobs. They can't find a job or
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: they do get a job and the jobs are not
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: paying a lot of money as a result of whatever.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: You know, the president's out there talking about how great
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Wall Street's doing, but there is Wall Street and there
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: is Main Street. And the question is, how is Main
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Street doing? That's the big question. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. This segment of the Todd Stern Show brought
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: to you by our friends at Newsmax. And again, the midterms.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Almost here, Republicans could be in trouble. The polls are
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: showing that Democrats lead in key races. Rob Fenerty tonight
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: on Newsmax reveals the growing threat from DSA and the
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: radical left. With less than 60 days to go, Fenerty
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: says it's time for the GOP to hit the panic button.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: The House may go, control of the Senate up for grabs.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Americans are angry. Gas prices, mortgage rates, health care, out-of-control
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: national debt. And Finnerty tonight is going to reveal the
• 29:08
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• 29:11
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  Speaker 2: watching today. It takes just minutes to do that. Let's
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: go to the phone lines here. Mike in Clear Lake City, Texas,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: listening to us on Patriot Talk 920.
• 29:31
  Speaker 16: Hi, Mike.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: What's up?
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, hello, Don't get me wrong. We're voting come November.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: We're voting red. But what over the last two years
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: has the Republican Party done to deserve to be the
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: majority party?
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I'm hard-pressed to give you an answer for that, Mike. Look,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: there is a reality here, and I'm a pretty pragmatic guy.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump needs Republicans. Even if they're not doing anything,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: at least they're not going to impeach the guy. So that's,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, for me, if I'm looking for a reason,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: that's the reason. But I don't think, have they given
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: you a reason to go and vote?
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Well, no, because, I mean, other than the big, beautiful bill,
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: there's a whole list of things they haven't done, like,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: you know, passing the SAVE Act, confirming President Trump's judicial nominees,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: codifying his executive orders. I mean, the list goes on.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: So like they're never on the offensive. They're always just,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: you know, occupying their offices. They don't really think outside
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: the box and take the fight to the Democrats.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Well, all the things you said were true. I thought
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: it was interesting. President Trump yesterday, and he talked about
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Kim Paxton, he was pretty brilliant in the way he
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: did it because he explained that Kim Paxton is probably
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: not the greatest candidate in the world, but he is
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: the greatest attorney general in the country. But again, when
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: you hear some of these candidates out there, Kim Paxton
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: did not compel me to vote for Kim Paxton. As
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: I was listening to that speech yesterday, I'm like, That's it?
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: That's all the guy's got?
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, to me, he's not what you would consider,
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: you know, a politician from the point of, you know,
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: excelling yourself to the public. But behind closed doors in
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: his job as Attorney General, he definitely gets the job done.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: But the biggest problem I have with the Senate is,
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: you know, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rick Scott, they want
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: to whine, cry, and complain in front of the cameras
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: how they can't get anything done because of John Thune,
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: but I don't see any of them. using the tools
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: at their disposal to see to it he's replaced with
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: an America first, you know, Senate majority leader.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Look, it's a fair point. They have not done anything
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: to remove Thune. By the way, he was not well
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: received last night. Trump mentioned his name, and the crowd
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: just went bonkers, booing and everything. I think the American
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: people are on to John Thune, and they realize what
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: that guy's really all about.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: Well, he wouldn't let President Trump make any recess appointments.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, my gosh, how can you just stand back
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: and not do anything and then ask for the vote
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: of the people?
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you this. What do you think about
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: this $ 5, 000? Some people are calling it a, well, one
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: of the Newsmax hosts called it a bribe. What do
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: you think about the $ 5, 000? I don't.
• 32:30
  Speaker 17: Know.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: I think that's President Trump's way of thinking outside the
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: box and yanking certain people's train.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: Hmm.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll see if that works. I mean, look, ultimately
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: that's got to go through Congress, and I think a
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: lot of people are still waiting to see those doze checks,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: and they're still waiting to see the tariff dividends.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: When do we start paying down the national debt?
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Well, that, my friend, is the million-dollar question, because we're
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: spending money like Democrats right now.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: I know, but he talks about all the revenue coming in,
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: the investment in the country and so forth. You know,
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: is there an actual plan to get to a certain
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: point where all this revenue is actually applied to the debt?
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a great question, Mike. I don't think
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: either party is actually serious about doing that, to be
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: honest with you. Because we're going.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: To collapse financially from within. I mean, you can't just
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: keep going.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Well, it's like wanting to pay. Let me ask you this.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: What do you think about the idea Trump wants to
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: pay stay-at-home moms?
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. That kind of makes me uncomfortable
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: because you can't say, you know, which I understand the
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: premise behind and the point. Yes, a great thing for,
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: you know, the family and all like that. But how
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: can you give them money and then say, you know,
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: all these women on welfare that have multiple kids, they
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: shouldn't get any money. Hmm.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Or, and again, it's like the Trump accounts for the babies.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: It's like this is, you know, we are forcing Americans
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: to be dependent upon the government for a handout. That's
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: what gets me. That's my point.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: He's going to give all this money away, but it
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: won't do us any good if the country collapses financially
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: from within because of the debt. Mm-hmm.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: It's a fair point. Mike, thank you for the call. Look,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: it's a fair point. And Republicans, you're going to have
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: to come to terms with this because the Democrats, you watch.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: The Democrats are not going to be complaining about any
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: of this because the Democrats, they want the American people
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: to rely on the government for a handout. That's what
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: this is all about. Let's go back to the phones.
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: 901-260-5926.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Robert in Georgia.
• 34:47
  Speaker 18: Hi, Robert.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: What say you?
• 34:53
  Speaker 19: Hey, good afternoon, Mr.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Todd.
• 34:56
  Speaker 19: Life is good.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Well, it's going to get better. Trump wants to give
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: all of you folks big checks.
• 35:04
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 35:05
  Speaker 19: And my point is that under Biden's administration, they let in, like,
• 35:11
  Speaker 19: we don't know whether it was 5 million or 25
• 35:15
  Speaker 19: million people. But, sir, they're feeding those people. They're housing
• 35:18
  Speaker 19: those people. They're clothing those people.
• 35:21
  Speaker 16: You know, and how many trillions a year.
• 35:25
  Speaker 19: Does it cost us taxpayers to take care of all
• 35:29
  Speaker 19: of those? And I'm not trying to be hateful about it.
• 35:32
  Speaker 19: I'm just trying to be factual.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: No, it's these are this is a legitimate concern. And
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, we'll pull these numbers. We
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: talked about this and actually gave hard data. Well, at
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: least the best hard data we could find on how
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: much the illegals are costing us. You know, last night
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: I was on Carl Higby's show on Newsmax, and we
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: were talking about this. And the big issue is that
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: all of these illegals, like 70%, I think well over 70%
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: of every illegal alien in the country is actually getting
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: some form of welfare. And that is costing us just,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: it's an outrageous amount of money, Robert, an outrageous amount.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: So now we want to take the hard-earned money. of taxpayers,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: and we want to give it to moms who stay
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: at home. We want to give it to people who
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: are having babies with the Trump accounts. We want to
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: give taxpayer money to what? Well, $ 5, 000 to all of
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: us if we just go and vote Republican in the midterms.
• 36:42
  Speaker 16: I am 74 years old. I've had a great life.
• 36:48
  Speaker 16: I've worked every day that I was able to until
• 36:51
  Speaker 16: I retired. And these people that are illegal come into
• 36:56
  Speaker 16: my country that don't love my country.
• 36:58
  Speaker 20: They get more money a.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Month than I do.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, no doubt about it. No doubt about it. So 25,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: are you ready for this one, Robert? 25% of all
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: the Mexicans living in the United States, 70% of them
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: rely on welfare. 19% of Guatemalans. live in the United States,
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: not Guatemala. They live here. 77% are on welfare. 12%
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: of all Nicaraguans live here. 75% rely on welfare. And
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: then 12% of all Haitians live here. You ready for this? 53%
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: rely on welfare. That's what we're talking about. Robert, I
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: got to run. Good call. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: We're taking your calls coming up next.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.
• 38:16
  Speaker 21: That's us, that's right. I love this American ride.
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: Todd Starrs.
• 38:25
  Speaker 14: Oh, yeah.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: And hello, everybody. Welcome to Hour 2 of The Big Show.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Great to have you with us. Wow, we have got
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: a lot going on today. The one-year anniversary of the
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: assassination of Charlie Kirk. Also, Republicans are gathering in Dallas,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Texas for night two, day two of their big convention.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: We'll be taking you back live to Dallas a little
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: bit later on in the program. Before we do that, though,
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: I do want to go to the phone lines. Patty,
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: listening to us from North Carolina, WSIC, wants to weigh
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: in on the Republican convention. Hi, Patty. What's on your
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: mind today?
• 39:07
  Speaker 18: Hey, Todd.
• 39:08
  Speaker 22: I just want to say two things before I speak.
• 39:10
  Speaker 22: I want to say, you know, God bless Charlie Kirk
• 39:15
  Speaker 22: and Erica and the family.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: I miss them.
• 39:20
  Speaker 22: And God bless the USA, because I was there.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: I was in.
• 39:23
  Speaker 22: Jersey City that day when that happened. I remember that
• 39:26
  Speaker 22: clear as yesterday.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: So.
• 39:30
  Speaker 22: when I hear people saying, and I do hear people
• 39:33
  Speaker 22: saying it was like made up. Todd, I actually hear
• 39:37
  Speaker 22: people saying that.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Well, Patty, I don't know what to say. Those people
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: are idiots. I really, I mean.
• 39:45
  Speaker 10: Well, I.
• 39:46
  Speaker 22: Mean, it's sad. It's sad that actually people... Todd, you
• 39:50
  Speaker 22: were right before.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: These people need to go away.
• 39:53
  Speaker 22: They need to.
• 39:54
  Speaker 17: You know what?
• 39:55
  Speaker 22: They should take everybody and put them on an island somewhere.
• 39:58
  Speaker 17: I'm not kidding.
• 39:59
  Speaker 22: These people are unhinged. And if they get in, if
• 40:03
  Speaker 22: they take over the House and the Senate, you can
• 40:06
  Speaker 22: kiss everything goodbye. The border's going to be wide open forever.
• 40:10
  Speaker 22: Everything is going to be, whatever Trump is, I mean,
• 40:14
  Speaker 22: he's done a lot of work. Four years of Joe
• 40:20
  Speaker 22: Biden and Kamala Harris, they ruined this country four years
• 40:26
  Speaker 22: of it. It's not going to be overnight. It's going
• 40:29
  Speaker 22: to take a while. And, you know, I just, I
• 40:35
  Speaker 22: don't know. I'd rather pay a little bit more and
• 40:38
  Speaker 22: be safe then have these idiots get in there. Am
• 40:42
  Speaker 22: I right?
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Patty, I'll say this. I heard similar talk back when,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: you know, right after 9-11, and, you know, you had
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: George W. Bush and the Republicans saying, well, you know what,
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: we all want to be safe, so you're going to
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: have to give up some of your civil liberties if
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: you want to be safe. And now going into an
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: airport anywhere in America is like trying to enter North Korea.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: They said the same thing. The Trump administration, back during
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: the early days of COVID, guys, you know, if you
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: want to be safe, you're going to have to surrender
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: some of your civil liberties. And the American people said,
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: take whatever you need to, Mr. President. I do find
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: it ironic that the party most responsible for taking away
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: our civil liberties is, in fact, the Republican Party. And
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: that's a sad reality, unfortunately. Patty, I've got to run,
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: but thank you for that call. I want to go
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: right away to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, say hello
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: to Todd Benjamin, a senior research fellow for Border Security
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: and Immigration. at the Heritage Foundation. Todd, good to have
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: you with us. And you've written a really powerful piece
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: on the 25th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. And I'm
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: just curious, what do you think the most relevant truth
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: is from that day?
• 42:04
  Speaker 23: From my perspective, and I'm old enough to remember, I
• 42:07
  Speaker 23: was a reporter for the Dallas Morning News on 9-11.
• 42:12
  Speaker 23: covering the FBI, and of course American Airlines was headquartered there,
• 42:16
  Speaker 23: so I was sucked into that whole case and the
• 42:19
  Speaker 23: investigation and everything as a reporter. To my mind, the
• 42:24
  Speaker 23: most important thing to remember on the 25th anniversary is
• 42:29
  Speaker 23: why they did it. And the answer to that is
• 42:33
  Speaker 23: Islamist theology, a certain strand of it. that motivated all
• 42:40
  Speaker 23: 19 of these hijackers, one of whom was recorded on
• 42:45
  Speaker 23: a cockpit recording device in Flight 93, screaming, Nine different
• 42:52
  Speaker 23: times in six seconds as the plane nosedived to its
• 42:57
  Speaker 23: end with 40 victims on it. That tells you what
• 43:01
  Speaker 23: was in their minds, off the very forefront of their minds,
• 43:05
  Speaker 23: when they did these attacks. The reason... It's important to
• 43:09
  Speaker 23: really remember the underlying motivation for these attacks is that
• 43:16
  Speaker 23: that motivation persists to this day and remains a very
• 43:21
  Speaker 23: potent threat to the United States and really the whole world.
• 43:25
  Speaker 23: It's a Sunni Wahhabist Islam that is absolutely... the foundation
• 43:35
  Speaker 23: to those attacks and almost every attack around the world
• 43:39
  Speaker 23: since then by Sunni Muslims. And people will deny it.
• 43:44
  Speaker 23: You won't hear this. You won't hear anybody talk about it.
• 43:48
  Speaker 23: When they, aloha Akbar, as they're pulling the trigger, media
• 43:52
  Speaker 23: will downplay that or ignore it. They'll cite mental illness.
• 43:57
  Speaker 23: There's a lot of denialism. We've politicized 9-11 to such
• 44:02
  Speaker 23: a terrible extent that we are undercutting our ability to
• 44:06
  Speaker 23: prevent the next one.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: I'm just curious, the underlying motive to this, we had
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: a report a few days ago that many schools are
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: teaching a very contrary narrative to what actually happened on 9-11,
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: portraying Muslims as the victims here and the United States
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: as the aggressor. The United States, of course, Hassan Piker
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: out there saying that America deserved 9-11. What do you
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: make of all of this?
• 44:36
  Speaker 23: Well, that is the dangerous revisionism, historical revisionism that I'm
• 44:41
  Speaker 23: talking about here that's underway. That is denialism in its
• 44:48
  Speaker 23: purest form when you see that. So my column about this,
• 44:53
  Speaker 23: which is making a lot of headway, thankfully, spends a
• 45:00
  Speaker 23: lot of time with the 9-11 Commission Report 2004. That
• 45:06
  Speaker 23: is the official bipartisan U.S. government history of 9-11. And
• 45:14
  Speaker 23: I excerpt extensively from the 9-11 Commission Report about who
• 45:19
  Speaker 23: did this and why they did this. And these are
• 45:22
  Speaker 23: the investigative, official investigative findings of that bipartisan commission. It's
• 45:28
  Speaker 23: largely forgotten. Nobody likes to talk about that book. You're
• 45:31
  Speaker 23: not going to see that book anywhere probably, uh, outside
• 45:35
  Speaker 23: of maybe conservative media or something like that, but it's
• 45:40
  Speaker 23: still pertinent.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: It stands.
• 45:42
  Speaker 23: It, it has never been knocked down or undermined factually. Uh,
• 45:48
  Speaker 23: and so you can go to my column at the
• 45:52
  Speaker 23: Daily Signal, Todd Binsman, 25th anniversary. If you Google that,
• 45:56
  Speaker 23: you'll find it.
• 45:57
  Speaker 10: And, and I've got the.
• 45:58
  Speaker 23: Links right to the Islamist, uh, reason why they did
• 46:03
  Speaker 23: this that persists to this day. When you engage in
• 46:08
  Speaker 23: denialism and revisionism, you undermine the ability of the American
• 46:15
  Speaker 23: machine that we built to counter more of this from
• 46:20
  Speaker 23: happening for history to repeat itself. And that's the main
• 46:24
  Speaker 23: problem with it.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: You know, it seems to me when you, I know
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: over the past, wow, four or five days, you've had members,
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: family members of those who lost loved ones on 9-11,
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: and they have launched petition drives telling Mayor Mamdami to
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: stay away from the events of that day. A lot
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: of people say, oh, well, they're just being Islamophobic, but
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: that's not it at all. This guy has some very
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: disturbing ties to radical Islam. and those who want to
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: hurt this country. So I don't know about you, but
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: I have great sympathy for the families here in this.
• 47:03
  Speaker 10: And I agree.
• 47:04
  Speaker 23: I mean, listen, I'm going to be watching eagerly all
• 47:09
  Speaker 23: of the different memorials and memoriams and retrospectives about the attacks,
• 47:18
  Speaker 23: and I hope that your audience will too, to just
• 47:22
  Speaker 23: make note of how they strenuously weave their way around
• 47:27
  Speaker 23: having to talk about why they did it. It's such
• 47:30
  Speaker 23: a basic, it's such a basic part of any kind
• 47:35
  Speaker 23: of a, of a memorial to a terrible event. You know,
• 47:39
  Speaker 23: when we talk about Pearl Harbor, it's always the Japanese
• 47:44
  Speaker 23: Imperial leadership that did this. And here's why they did this.
• 47:48
  Speaker 23: and why we went to war against it. And everybody
• 47:51
  Speaker 23: understands to this day, nobody really tried to suppress why
• 47:58
  Speaker 23: they attacked Pearl Harbor.
• 48:00
  Speaker 10: They admit it.
• 48:01
  Speaker 23: It's in the history books. And we're at risk in
• 48:05
  Speaker 23: this case of a whole generation, this generation, the younger generation,
• 48:10
  Speaker 23: and the next one, and the next one of just
• 48:12
  Speaker 23: forgetting all about or having it confused about why they'd like,
• 48:17
  Speaker 23: maybe it was Israel or it was something else or
• 48:19
  Speaker 23: some policy. We brought it on ourselves. We did not
• 48:23
  Speaker 23: bring it on ourselves. This brand of theology requires that
• 48:30
  Speaker 23: they spread a global caliphate by force, by the sword,
• 48:37
  Speaker 23: under Sharia law. That's their ideology. That's the theology. And
• 48:40
  Speaker 23: anybody that stands in the way of that is worthy
• 48:43
  Speaker 23: of death. And the 9-11 Commission report, the writers said
• 48:49
  Speaker 23: there is no negotiating with this at all. There's no policy.
• 48:52
  Speaker 23: There's nothing that we did or didn't do. It's just
• 48:56
  Speaker 23: that we're America, mostly Judeo-Christian, and that's a problem for
• 49:03
  Speaker 23: that theology. They must have a war with us and
• 49:07
  Speaker 23: win that war and then keep going. We stand in
• 49:10
  Speaker 23: the way of their aims.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: I'm wondering, as much as we're focusing on the 25th
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: anniversary of 9-11, going back to border security, we know,
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: and I've had... a number of members of Congress on
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: this radio program tell me it's not a matter of
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: if but when we have more attacks inside the homeland.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: And the reason why is because a lot of these
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: radical terrorists were able to breach our borders. Do those lawmakers,
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: do they have valid concerns here?
• 49:39
  Speaker 10: They do not.
• 49:41
  Speaker 23: In October of 2024, not even two years ago, a
• 49:46
  Speaker 23: border crosser from Mauritania came over from Tijuana into San Diego,
• 49:51
  Speaker 23: made his way to Chicago, and conducted a bona fide
• 49:55
  Speaker 23: jihadist terror attack against the Jewish community there, shot a
• 50:00
  Speaker 23: Jewish man while he was walking, engaged in a massive
• 50:05
  Speaker 23: gun battle with the police, was wounded, charged with terrorism,
• 50:10
  Speaker 23: In this country, he was a border crosser, illegal border
• 50:13
  Speaker 23: crosser from Mauritania. We have had thousands of Mauritanians enter
• 50:18
  Speaker 23: into the country and they're still here over the border,
• 50:21
  Speaker 23: as well as illegal immigrants from countries of terrorism concern
• 50:26
  Speaker 23: where terrorist organizations are very powerful and operating. And we
• 50:32
  Speaker 23: don't really know where they are or who they are
• 50:35
  Speaker 23: or when the next Mauritanian is going to strike. in
• 50:39
  Speaker 23: the United States. But thankfully, we do have a very
• 50:43
  Speaker 23: good counterterrorism infrastructure in this country that was built because
• 50:49
  Speaker 23: of 9-11. It's still effective. We are still indicting and
• 50:53
  Speaker 23: prosecuting Islamic terrorists left and right. You don't hear about
• 50:58
  Speaker 23: those because nobody hears it when there's no boom. But
• 51:02
  Speaker 23: the Justice Department has been steadily busting these guys for years.
• 51:07
  Speaker 23: But some of them are getting through, like this jihadist
• 51:11
  Speaker 23: over the border, and lots of legal non-immigrant visa fraud
• 51:17
  Speaker 23: as well. Lots of terrorists have come in, not by
• 51:21
  Speaker 23: the border, but on different kinds of visas, student visas
• 51:24
  Speaker 23: and whatnot, and have gone on to commit heinous terror
• 51:28
  Speaker 23: attacks without getting caught first.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: All right, Todd, we're going to have to leave it there,
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: but again, it's a terrific piece. Folks, Visit DailySignal.com and
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: you'll see Todd's work there. Again, DailySignal.com. Todd, thank you
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: for coming on the show today. Appreciate it.
• 51:47
  Speaker 10: Thank you for having me.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: All right. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. This is
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: the Todd Stern Show. All right, let's get right to
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: the phone lines. We are going to the state of Georgia.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Corey is listening to us on WDUN.
• 52:16
  Speaker 11: Hi, Corey.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: What's on your mind today?
• 52:18
  Speaker 24: Hey, I was thinking about 9-11. And before I do that,
• 52:23
  Speaker 24: I actually got to meet you once at Truett McConnell
• 52:26
  Speaker 24: up here. We were hosting an Oliver North funded thing.
• 52:30
  Speaker 24: Our Trail Life troop did the flags for you guys.
• 52:33
  Speaker 24: And that was kind of cool.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: I remember that.
• 52:36
  Speaker 17: No, no, no.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: I remember that event. And what a great night. Raised
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: a lot of money for scholarships for kids. And let
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: me tell you something. Those Trail Life USA guys, they
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: did a terrific job.
• 52:46
  Speaker 13: Oh, they did.
• 52:47
  Speaker 24: I'm so proud of them. But my comment was that,
• 52:51
  Speaker 24: you know, I was looking back at 9-11. You know,
• 52:54
  Speaker 24: I remember that well. But that was 25 years ago.
• 52:58
  Speaker 24: Zoran Mandami was only nine years old. He doesn't remember that.
• 53:03
  Speaker 24: And I think anybody that's like 30 years old or younger,
• 53:09
  Speaker 24: they have no memory of what 9-11 is. To me,
• 53:12
  Speaker 24: it's like the invasion of Pearl Harbor that got us
• 53:17
  Speaker 24: into World War II. I don't remember that. I know
• 53:20
  Speaker 24: that because of history, but I don't remember it. I
• 53:24
  Speaker 24: wasn't even born. And I think that's a lot of
• 53:27
  Speaker 24: the problem that we have today. in our society is
• 53:30
  Speaker 24: that the kids don't remember because they have no memory
• 53:33
  Speaker 24: of it. And that's something I just wanted to bring up,
• 53:37
  Speaker 24: you know, that until you have an emotional or physical
• 53:42
  Speaker 24: tie to something, how can you really remember it if
• 53:47
  Speaker 24: we don't teach it right? And you brought up earlier,
• 53:50
  Speaker 24: that's what's going on in some of the systems is
• 53:52
  Speaker 24: we're not teaching it right.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: Well, no, we're not, and we're teaching a sanitized version
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: of what happened and the idea that America was somehow
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: responsible or deserving. And that is just outrageous, and that's
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: the issue for me with Mamdami is the people that
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: he surrounds himself with are clearly anti-American. When he signed
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: the proclamation a few days ago commemorating 9-11, he gave
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: the pen he signed that to to the attorney– of
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: some of the terrorists. This is unacceptable. And look, those
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: families have every right to demand that he stay home
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: and not attend. Mandami's not going to do that. We
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: had Congressman Randy Fine on the show yesterday, and he
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: said it's very simple, that he's basically going to thumb
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: his nose in the faces of those who lost their families.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: And I think that in and of itself is a tragedy.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: But you're right, Corey. Education is a big part of that.
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Let's go to North Carolina. German Shepherd is
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: on the line. Hi, German Shepherd.
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: Gee-zaloo, Tom.
• 55:01
  Speaker 20: Todd, it's good to hear from you and talk to
• 55:04
  Speaker 20: you on the show. I didn't watch the rally yesterday.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: Whoops, did we lose German Shepherd?
• 55:17
  Speaker 20: Democrats, yes, sir.
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: All right, we got you back, Sherman Shepard.
• 55:22
  Speaker 20: I'm sorry. I was listening to the senator from Pennsylvania
• 55:29
  Speaker 20: and his video, and Democrats are just going to prove
• 55:34
  Speaker 20: that they're not a big tent for reasonable people. They're
• 55:38
  Speaker 20: just a big tent for communists that want to destroy
• 55:42
  Speaker 20: our country, and thank you for playing the national anthem today.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate you saying that. We do that every
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: day on our app. Every day at noon, we play
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: the national anthem, the Star Spangled Banner, and we invite
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: everybody to stop whatever they're doing and stand at attention,
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: place their hand over their heart, and sing along. And so,
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: German Shepherd, thank you for that. 901-260-5926, our telephone number.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Starnes Show. All right,
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: welcome back. Coming up in just a matter of moments,
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: Speaker Mike Johnson joins the program. The House Speaker will
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: call in, and we'll have a good chat. The Speaker
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: in Dallas for the big RNC convention. Let's go to Texas.
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: John listening to us on Patriot Talk 920. John, what's
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: on your mind?
• 57:05
  Speaker 25: I just wanted to tell you, if you vote for
• 57:07
  Speaker 25: the Dems and they win... They're going to steal $ 5, 000
• 57:13
  Speaker 25: from you, plus a lot more. And that's a fact.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: So your argument is, at least if the Republicans win,
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: they'll steal less.
• 57:30
  Speaker 25: No, I'm for the Republicans.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: No, but what I'm trying to say here is, are
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: you okay with getting a $ 5, 000 check from Uncle Sam
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: if the Republicans win?
• 57:43
  Speaker 25: I'm okay. And also, the House and the Senate have
• 57:48
  Speaker 25: to vote on that. They've got to approve it. Trump
• 57:51
  Speaker 25: just can't sign off on it.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: No, but he let that part out yesterday, but the
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: gist of it is, with a Republican-controlled House and Senate,
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: the implication is that they would approve this $ 5, 000 payment
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: to all you folks.
• 58:05
  Speaker 25: I would be all right if everyone approves it.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: You're okay. Are you okay with paying moms to stay
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: at home?
• 58:17
  Speaker 25: Well, if Yeah. I mean, everyone that's an adult.
• 58:25
  Speaker 13: Gets it.
• 58:26
  Speaker 25: But he also said you have to spend it in
• 58:29
  Speaker 25: the United States. So it's going to go right back
• 58:31
  Speaker 25: into the economy.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: I see. And what about the money to the babies?
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: So we're giving out what babies, a $ 1, 000 trumpet. Who's
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: paying for all this, John?
• 58:42
  Speaker 25: Well, I know it's coming out of our taxes, but
• 58:48
  Speaker 25: I mean, If he's still getting tariffs, it's got to,
• 58:53
  Speaker 25: you know, retrofund in a way. All this is retrofunding.
• 58:59
  Speaker 25: And with the taxes that we are paying should cover
• 59:03
  Speaker 25: all that. You know, if the economy gets booming and
• 59:08
  Speaker 25: with all the money that he's invested or the companies
• 59:10
  Speaker 25: are investing in AI and the other manufacturing going on,
• 59:15
  Speaker 25: all this should start, you know, and all the work
• 59:19
  Speaker 25: comes back and America starts performing. you know, it should
• 59:24
  Speaker 25: come out, we should come out on top of it.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: So, and Trump did, and John Trump did say that $ 5, 000,
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: you've got to spend that in America. You can't go
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: to Canada, right? You can't go, you've got to spend
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: that money in America.
• 59:40
  Speaker 25: Right.
• 59:40
  Speaker 13: He said, he did say that.
• 59:41
  Speaker 25: And also, he didn't say if you vote Republican, he
• 59:45
  Speaker 25: said if you win, if the Republicans retain the House
• 59:51
  Speaker 25: and the Senate.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 59:53
  Speaker 25: No, no, no. He wouldn't try to get... He's trying
• 59:56
  Speaker 25: to get the vote, but he didn't.
• 59:57
  Speaker 13: Say if you vote.
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: John, come on. I didn't fall off a turnip truck,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: my friend. You know, you and I both know exactly
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: what the president was doing last night. But here's my point. John,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: if I get a $ 5, 000 check from the government, who
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: does the government think they are to tell us what
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: to do with that money?
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 22: Well, I.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: It's a conundrum, isn't it, John? It's a conundrum.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 25: I don't know how they're going to enforce it with
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 25: a credit card, and it's only going to be a
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 25: certain type of card, and it's only going to be
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 25: accepted in America. How they do that, I don't know
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 25: how they would do it.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: Well, here's my point, is that when you start taking
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: money from the government, the government's going to tell you
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: what to do with that money, and they're going to
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: think they have a right to tell you what to
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: do with that money. I've got a big problem with
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: all of this, John, a big problem. First of all,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: we don't have the money to be giving people. We
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: need to be paying down our debt. We've got a
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: lot of debt, and instead of passing that along to
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: the next generation, why don't we use that money if
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: it's there and use that to pay down the debt?
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: The idea that all of a sudden we're going to
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: fork over, what, $ 9, 000 for stay-at-home moms or stay-at-home parents, again,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: Why are we doing this? Why are we involving the
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: government in what happens in our homes? Bad things happen
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: when the government comes into your house like that. John,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: I got to run, but thank you. Look, this is
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: a challenge for a lot of people, a lot of people,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: because these are not Republican concepts, right? We're heading down
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: a really squirrely road right now, ladies and gentlemen, a
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: squirrely road. But then again, maybe this is what America
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: First Movement wants. They want more cash from the government.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: They want the American people to be more reliant upon
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: the government for whatever they need. That's not me. I
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: want the government out of my life. All right, 901-260-5926,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: our telephone number. As mentioned, I had a chance to
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: sit down with Speaker Mike Johnson. He's in Dallas. Here's
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: a little bit of that conversation. Well, on the Patriot
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: Mobile Newsmaker line, let's go right to Dallas, and Speaker
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: Mike Johnson joins us.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 8: Mr.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: Speaker, we understand a lot of excitement and a lot
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: of Republicans are there in Dallas. What is the mood?
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: Boots on the ground.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we're going to have a packed house.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 10: Super exciting.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 7: The first ever midterm convention for our party. It was
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  Speaker 7: the president's bold vision that he had. He came up
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  Speaker 7: with the idea around Thanksgiving last year, and now it
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  Speaker 7: all comes together.
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  Speaker 10: It's so exciting.
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  Speaker 7: It really is, Doug, to have a packed house here
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  Speaker 7: at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, on the
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  Speaker 7: eve of what will be the most fateful midterm election
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  Speaker 7: of our lifetimes, the most pivotal one ever. We're going
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  Speaker 7: to draw attention to that. This is going to be
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  Speaker 7: a great event.
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  Speaker 2: We've spoken to a lot of lawmakers who are in Dallas,
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  Speaker 2: and they keep mentioning two issues. One of them is
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  Speaker 2: the rise of political Islam, and the other is the
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  Speaker 2: rise of DSA and the communist movement in America. How
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  Speaker 2: concerned should Americans be, and is that going to be
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  Speaker 2: enough to propel them to the ballot box in November?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I tell you, there's two things. If you look
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  Speaker 7: over history, there's two things that motivate voters in a
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  Speaker 7: midterm election. There's not a president at the top of
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  Speaker 7: the ticket in name. He's there Certainly in spirit, the
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 7: America First agenda is on the ballot, but this isn't
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 7: a presidential year. So two things that make people turn
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 7: out in the midterm, usually anger is a big motivating factor.
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  Speaker 7: And that's why the historic trend is the party that
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 7: is not in the White House is upset about losing
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  Speaker 7: that election. They come out two years later and they
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 7: take House seats away from the sitting president. The other
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 7: motivating factor is fear. And there is a legitimate fear
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 7: right now of what we've seen happening to the Democrat Party.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 7: The Marxist-Communist takeover is very real. And it's not just
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 7: a New York City thing. People are seeing it all
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 7: around the country. That is motivating to our side. They
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 7: don't want to turn over the greatest nation in the
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 7: history of the world on its 250th birthday year to communists.
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  Speaker 7: We're not going to do that. But that is the
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 7: contrast election that is presented in just about 55 days
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  Speaker 7: from now. I think the American people are going to
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 7: do the right thing. I think we can trust them.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think they want to go down that dark,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 7: dangerous road. It is a dark and dangerous road.
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  Speaker 2: And yet, at least through the primaries thus far, it
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: appears that the Republican vote has been dampened just a bit.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: And there have been people talking about things like the
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: war in Iran, higher gas prices, affordability issues. What's the
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: messaging that needs to come out of Dallas to get
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: everybody on the right page here?
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  Speaker 7: Well, it's about our record. As we say, it's record
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  Speaker 7: over rhetoric. And over the past two years, Republicans and
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 7: President Trump have fulfilled our promises. We delivered common sense
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 7: wins for every family. You'll hear a lot about that,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 7: you know, touting our incredible record of success for hardworking families,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 7: the largest middle and working class tax cut ever. We
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 7: prevented the biggest tax hike in American history. We have
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 7: the lowest violent crime in 126 years under Republican leadership.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 7: We got The lowest level of illegal border crossings in
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 7: a half century. And you know this, Todd, there's not
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 7: been one illegal alien released into the country in 15
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 7: straight months. We have a tax advantage investment account for
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 7: every American child, the first ever nationwide school choice program.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 7: By the way, the biggest decrease in prescription drug prices
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 7: in over 60 years. And by way of reminder, every
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 7: Democrat in Congress voted against everything that I just told you.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 7: It's a Republican majority in President Trump that did this.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 7: So we have more to do on the economy. The
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 7: president inherited the worst inflation in 40 years from Joe Biden.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 7: We've been turning that down. Lots of the economic indicators
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 7: are great. The jobs or numbers are as good as
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 7: they've ever been. Stock market record highs. There's more jobs
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 7: and opportunity for more people. And the wages are up
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 7: more than 3% since President Trump took office. But we've
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 7: got to get gas prices back down to planet Earth.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 7: And there's a plan in place to do that. It
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 7: has a lot to do with what's happening in the
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 7: Strait of Hormuz, and I think allied countries are going
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 7: to step in and assist with policing that to keep
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 7: it open for commerce, and that will bring relief at
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 7: the pump. So the big question is, though, in the
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 7: contrast election, do you want to turn it over to Democrats?
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  Speaker 7: Because their solution is more big government, higher taxes, and
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 7: less freedom. I don't think that's what the American people
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  Speaker 7: are down for.
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  Speaker 2: You are in Dallas. The majority leader, we understand, is not.
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  Speaker 2: What should we read into that?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I think Leader Thune is here. I think he's
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 7: doing some fundraising events and a lot of the events
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 7: that are adjacent to the convention itself. He said in
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 7: his own words that he wanted to yield the floor,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 7: the speaking times, so to speak. There's only two nights
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 7: and there's limited slots to highlight and feature some of
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 7: the great candidates that we have for the Senate and
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 7: the House around the country. I thought that was selfless
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 7: on his part. You'll hear a broad array of diverse voices,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 7: these extraordinary candidates we've recruited from coast to coast. The
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 7: House races are big. The Senate races are big. And
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 7: it's a big election for everybody. So he's here. I
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 7: think we got all hands on deck here. But we
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 7: do have a lot of our candidates still back home
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 7: in their districts because that's the best place for them
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 7: to be right now. So it was an individual decision
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 7: on behalf of all the members. But we got a
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 7: great collection of them here, a great sampling for the
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 7: American people. And I think they're going to be excited
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 7: when they see this.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: Speaker Mike Johnson joining us from Dallas. And Mr. Speaker,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: you were kind enough to write a very nice endorsement
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: of my new book, which just came out about two
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: weeks ago, The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America. And
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: I think I'd like to think that needs to be
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: the message here, just a reminder of the incredible things
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: that this president has been able to accomplish in just
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: the first two years of his presidency, this second go around.
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  Speaker 10: Exactly.
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  Speaker 7: Great book, Todd. Thanks for writing it. I was happy
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 7: to give an endorsement statement of that because that is
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 7: the message. I mean, there's a false narrative out there
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 7: in the mainstream media, of course, that can't stand Donald Trump.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 7: And Trump derangement syndrome is a real thing, and it
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 7: affects every Democrat in Washington. And so the record speaks
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 7: for itself. And the more that we can remind Americans
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 7: that elections truly do have consequences, the more I believe
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 7: they're going to err on the side of common sense
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 7: and not crazy. And that really is the contrast that's
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 7: being presented right now.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: In the shadow of all of this, Mr. Speaker, we
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: have the one year anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: I know there are a lot of young people that
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: have jumped into the movement as a result of that horrible,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: horrible day. What message do you have to those young
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: conservative kids that are out there taking a public stand?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I love that. I mean, we miss Charlie. He
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 7: was a singular voice, a special talent. He's an irreplaceable person.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 7: But what he inspired in everybody else is the necessity
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 7: of speaking with clarity and conviction and consistency. That's what
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 7: Charlie did so well. He was the quintessential happy warrior,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 7: as I remind everybody all the time. and you and
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 7: I knew him well, Todd, and he was a good
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 7: friend of mine. Charlie did it with the right motivation.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 7: He loved America. He loved biblical principle. He went out
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 7: every day to defend those things, the truth, and we
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 7: need more of that. We need it now more than ever.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 7: And in the spirit of Charlie and with the legacy left,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 7: I truly do hope that a lot of young people
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 7: will pick up that mantle and carry it on.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: And finally, Mr. Speaker, the 25th anniversary of the 9-11
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: terror attacks, there has been quite a bit of controversy
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: surrounding the mayor, Zoran Mamdami. Thousands of families are urging
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: him to stay away. And even some members, Republican members
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: of Congress are joining in with that call as well.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: What's your take on that controversy surrounding the memorial service?
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that Mamdani has a lot to answer
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 7: for in some of his statements and his antics in
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 7: the past, the positions that he clearly holds in his
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 7: heart are antithetical to that, you know, the recognition of
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 7: that great tragedy. And I agree with them. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: I think he has inspired the exact opposite of the
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 7: things that Charlie Kirk inspired in people. And these are
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 7: times for real strong leadership. It's got to be pro-American. And,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 7: you know, I think that the people who are opposing
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 7: his presence there onto something.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, Mr. Speaker, going back to this important convention
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: in Dallas, President Trump, I think, wants this to be
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: a referendum on his presidency thus far. Is that the
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: right move to make here? Again, when he's not on
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: the ballot, sometimes Republican voters don't want to get up
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: and go and vote. So is that the right move here?
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, that's the idea. We need the base
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 7: to turn out, and President Trump is the reason for
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 7: so many of them that they will participate in the midterm.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 7: And he's making the case. Look, while my name is
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 7: not on the ballot, actually, our legacy is. The America
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 7: First agenda is. I mean, the administration is.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 10: It's all on the line.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 7: And I think it's helpful for him to remind people
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 7: that this really matters. He's going to look right into
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 7: that camera and say, you must turn out. This is
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 7: our responsibility. And if we want to defend freedom and
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 7: keep the greatest republic, the greatest experiment of self-governance in history,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 7: Now is the time to act. And so we welcome
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 7: that message, of course. And he can bring it better
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 7: than anybody. So we're excited.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Mr.
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  Speaker 13: Speaker, thank you.
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  Speaker 10: You got it.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 7: Good talkie talk.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: Wow, it has been a busy news day so far.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: Let's go to the phones. Bartlett, Tennessee. Let me just
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: say something about Bartlett before we go to Mark and Bartlett.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: What a great town. It's really a city. What a
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: great city. Lots of great stuff. The food scene off
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: the charts, and it really is this growing suburb of Memphis. Mark,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: you live in a good spot over there. Hope you're
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: doing well.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: We love Bartlett. Hey, it's great to hear Speaker Johnson.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: You know, I like him when I hear him talk.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: I don't know why I don't have the greatest feeling
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: about him normally, but every time I hear him, I
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: do like what he says.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: I understand. I get where you're coming from.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: But I was calling about the $ 5, 000. Number one, I
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: think it's wrong and bad. You can't just make money
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: out of nowhere without causing inflation. But I do think,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 3: once again, it's Trump being brilliant because the base is
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: going to vote for him. And now half the Democrats
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 3: will vote for him because they just want the money.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be. And again, the whole point of
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: this is Trump wants you to go and vote for him.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: So even though he's not on the ballot, he knows
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: that the voters are really disgusted. Do we have the
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: audio of John Thune? We'll get to that in just
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: a minute. But they booed. I mean, Trump mentioned John Thune.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: They booed, nearly booed our poor president out of the
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: arena last night.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: But, I mean, don't you think that he's not going
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: to give us the money anyway? I don't think. But
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 3: I think he's trying to trick people into crossing over
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 3: and voting for Republicans to get that money.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: Well, I... A lot of folks still waiting on the
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: tariff dividend, and there was something else. Oh, it was
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: the Doge money, but again, he didn't promise that. He
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: just said it was a good idea, but you're not
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: getting that money.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 3: Right, and then congratulations on the book, Todd. You are
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: the most entertaining show on radio, TV, or anything. I
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 3: love to listen to your show. You're entertaining. You make
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: me happy. And you just keep up the good job.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: You are just as big a voice as Charlie Kirk
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 3: or Rush Limbaugh or anybody.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: Mark, you're kind. I may have to buy you a
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: steak dinner at the side porch out there in Bartlett.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 3: I'd love it.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: Okay. All right, Mark. Hang in there. No, look, I'm serious.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: Great food over there. Side porch is where the Stearns
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: family likes to chow down. Great steaks. Anyway, I digress.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: All right, we've got more politics coming up at the
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: top of the next hour. Also, we're going to be
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: taking your calls on Charlie Kirk, the one-year anniversary of
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: his assassination. And we're going to play some audio. You know,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: all of that happened in the last hour of the
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: Todd Stearns radio show. Just a shocking thing, a shocking thing.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Mark mentioned my book,
• 1:14:36
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• 1:14:40
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• 1:14:43
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• 1:14:48
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• 1:14:52
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• 1:15:33
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• 1:15:39
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• 1:15:41
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• 1:15:46
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• 1:16:25
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• 1:16:29
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• 1:16:33
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• 1:16:38
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• 1:16:40
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• 1:16:43
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• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: a lot happening, not just here in the state of
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: Tennessee where we broadcast, but really all around the nation. And,
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: of course, Republicans gathered at this hour in Dallas, Texas.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: I want to bring into the conversation Lane Provine, a
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: great Republican political strategist and consultant. Lane, good to have
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: you with us today.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 10: Thanks for having me, Todd. Good to be here. All right.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: Well, let's just jump into it. I want to play
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: some audio from yesterday. President Trump mentioned to a very–
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: that crowd, they were fired up last night. The president
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: mentioned John Thune, the Senate Majority Leader, and here's how
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: the crowd responded.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 4: Fine person, too. And John Thune is here from the Senate.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: Where's John?
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 4: Where's John?
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 4: John is working hard. He's got great opposition. He's got
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 4: great opposition from the Democrat. Schumer and these guys are terrible.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Elaine, I don't think they were trying to buy
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: what the president was selling last night. But I do
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: think that the response to that name is one of
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: the reasons they're holding this convention, because the base needs
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: to be rallied right now. They're a little frustrated and
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: a little upset.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 27: I think that's absolutely the case. Senate Majority Leader is
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 27: a challenging job. We've all heard that it's like herding cats.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 27: And I think that's really true. Whoever the Senate Majority
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 27: Leader is, he's typically not going to be particularly popular
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 27: with the public. But obviously, he doesn't run in a
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 27: nationwide election. He runs in one state. And as long
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 27: as he's popular in that state, then he's likely to
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 27: get reelected. But it is a very difficult job in
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 27: Senator Thune's defense.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: Lane, it's unusual to hold a midterm convention like this.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think the strategy behind it is, and
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  Speaker 2: do you think it's going to work?
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  Speaker 27: You know, I think the strategy is twofold. I think,
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  Speaker 27: first of all, it's to define some of these Democrat candidates.
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  Speaker 27: like Tallarico in Texas, Al Sayed in Michigan, maybe to
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 27: a lesser extent a Nixon in Florida. Those of us
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  Speaker 27: here in Tennessee, you know, you kind of look like
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  Speaker 27: a Justin Pearson running for the House. I think that
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 27: is much of the reason behind the convention is to
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 27: define some these far-left Democrat candidates so that the voters
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 27: have a better idea of who these people really are
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 27: rather than who they want to package themselves to the voters,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 27: try to sell themselves as moderates. I think much of
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  Speaker 27: the goal of this convention is to define them as
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 27: people who are captive of the far-left. It's also designed
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  Speaker 27: to motivate Republican voters, to boost Republican turnout. So both
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 27: to define the Democrats being further to the left in
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 27: their rhetoric, and to energize Republicans and thus boost Republican turnout.
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  Speaker 27: We heard the president talk a lot about the fact
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  Speaker 27: he's not on the ballot, but encouraging his voters to.
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  Speaker 10: Vote as if he was on the ballot.
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  Speaker 27: And that is much of the objective of the convention
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 27: is to generate interest and to boost Republican turnout.
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  Speaker 2: How do you think they've done thus far?
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  Speaker 10: So far, so good.
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  Speaker 27: You know, it's a unique idea. I don't believe Republicans
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  Speaker 27: have ever had a midterm convention. And I think the
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  Speaker 27: last time the Democrats did, you and I were kids
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 27: in the 1970s. And so it's unusual, but I think
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 27: it fits Donald Trump's style. He likes the rally. He
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 27: likes the big crowd. He likes to share his mind
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 27: with those folks. And so I think this is very fitting.
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  Speaker 27: And the timing is good. Eight weeks before the election,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 27: a good opportunity to try to generate turnout, generate interest,
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 27: and motivate Republicans involved. who haven't been particularly motivated so
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 27: far in the spring and the summer of this year.
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  Speaker 2: I know that the state of Tennessee is front and center,
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: of course, redistricting, and there's a chance for the Republicans
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: to pick up a new seat. That would be out
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: of the old 9th Congressional District, where Steve Cohen was
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: the outgoing congressman there. There was some polling data that
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: came out. Elaine, one of the rules of thumbs when
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: I talk about polling, I always find out, okay, does
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: this polling company skew to the right or to the left?
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: And this is a left-wing polling company, Hart Research. And
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: they have the race with Brent Taylor and Justin Pearson.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: They have Senator Taylor at a four-point lead there. Just
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: curious to hear your thoughts on that. And again, I
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: think Senator Taylor is going to do very, very well
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: on election day. But your thoughts thus far in the race?
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  Speaker 10: I don't think the race is that competitive.
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  Speaker 27: I think it is somewhat competitive, probably more competitive because
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 27: we're in a presidential midterm. We have challenges of inflation
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 27: and the conflict in Iran, not only as a presidential midterm,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 27: but as midterm of the president's second election. So For Republicans,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 27: many of these racers are going to be closer than
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 27: they normally would be. But I don't buy that that's
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 27: a four-point race. I think it's two or three times
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 27: that much of a margin in that race. And I
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  Speaker 27: think that's what you're going to see out of a
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 27: lot of the Democrat polls that are going to try
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 27: to make races appear more competitive than they are, or
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 27: perhaps a race where the Democrats are leading. They may
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 27: try to make people think that the race is not competitive,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 27: that the Democrat has an insurmountable lead.
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  Speaker 10: And I don't buy that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I love the messaging that Speaker Johnson spoke about
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: in the last hour where he said that we really
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: do need to be concerned about the rise of communism
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: in this country. And it was very evident that this
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: is happening right here in the 9th Congressional District in
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: Tennessee where you had Justin Pearson leading a rally of
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: about 1,000 people with AOC, members of the squad. The
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: pastor got up and said that Jesus was a socialist
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: and all of us ought to be socialists too. That
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 2: is dangerous rhetoric out there. And the idea that even
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: in Tennessee, red Tennessee, you've got that kind of ideology,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: that ought to light a fire under the voters here.
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  Speaker 10: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 27: And we're seeing it all over the country. We're seeing
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 27: it in red states and pink states and blue states
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 27: and purple states. You're seeing it literally everywhere, whether it's
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 27: Tallarico in Texas, who's tried to walk back some of
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 27: his past comments here in the last day or so.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 27: comments he made over the last few months or years.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 27: He's tried to walk those back. We're seeing that across
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 27: the country, Democrats who are to the left or perhaps
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 27: way to the left, who are playing like they're moderates now.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 10: I don't know that that will work.
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  Speaker 27: It may work in some places, but I think in
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 27: red districts, I think the voters will come home as
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 27: we get closer to the election. And to me, that's
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 27: much of the purpose of this convention is to create
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 27: some energy for Republicans who have not been real energetic
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 27: this year to try to build that energy and to
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 27: remind folks who are Trump.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 10: Voters that, hey, you've got to get out.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 27: You've got to get out and support these Republican candidates
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 27: if you want President Trump to be able to be
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 27: successful in implementing his agenda over the second half of
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 27: his term.
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  Speaker 2: Lane, you've been doing this a long time. When do
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: you guys actually start looking? Because you're right, we've still
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: got plenty of time here, but when is crunch time?
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: for a candidate, just speaking generically?
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 27: I would say crunch time is about a month from now.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 27: It's in early October. But things change once you get
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 27: past Labor Day. We're seeing that change. Most campaigns have
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 27: their benchmark polling now, whether you're running for the legislature
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 27: or running for Congress, U.S.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 10: Senate.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 27: Most campaigns have completed a benchmark poll. They're beginning to
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 27: implement their advertising plan over the next few weeks. And
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 27: they'll come back and probably look again with some– brush
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 27: fire polls in early October. But candidates are doing what
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 27: you would expect they're doing now. They're raising money, they're
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 27: meeting voters, and they're beginning to start advertising. And we'll
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 27: really get to crunch time, I would say, right about
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 27: a month, that first week or so of October.
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  Speaker 2: All right, good stuff. Lane, we're going to get you
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: back between now and then. Appreciate your great analysis and
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: appreciate the great work you're doing for candidates around the country.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 10: Thank you, Doc.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: All right, Lane Provine, we're going to get him back on.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: He is a great, great strategist, and we really do
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: appreciate the work that he's been doing. All right, we're
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: going to take a quick break here. 901-260-5926, our telephone number.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. And welcome
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: back to the Todd Starnes Radio Show. Great to have
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 2: you with us today. I want to go back to
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: this proposal coming out of the White House. Now, President
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: Trump wants to pay some parents to stay home with
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: their children. It's called the Stay-at-Home Parent Child Care Subsidy Proposal.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: This is from NewsNation's reporting. The federal program is designed
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: to help working families afford child care. The New York
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: Times reports the plan would create what could become the
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: first federal grant to directly compensate parents for staying home
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: to raise their children. Under the plan, the program provides about...
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: There's currently a program in place called Child Care and
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: Development Fund, and this was created back during the Clinton
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: administration's to help low-income families pay for child care. So
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: the program currently provides about $ 9, 000 per child annually. Under
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: the proposal, eligible stay-at-home parents could receive payments directly from
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: the government. To qualify, families would need to meet several requirements.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: You have to be married, so no single parents. You
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: have to be married. You have to have one spouse
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: working at least 35 hours a week. You have to
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: have the other spouse stay at home to care for
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: the children. You also have to meet income requirements, which
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: vary by state. Unmarried couples with a stay-at-home parent would
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: not qualify, nor would single parents who are not employed.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 2: So that's part of the president's plan there.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 10: You know, a.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: Couple of questions here. Will this be retroactive? Will your grandparents,
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: will your great-grandparents, will they be given money from the
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 2: government for staying at home and cooking and cleaning and
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: raising the kids? But again, ladies and gentlemen, it just
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: sounds like something the Democrats would come up with. So
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: you've got that $ 9, 000 stipend there that's going to be
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: paid for by the tax. Oh, and the other one, today...
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: The Fox News ran the numbers on the pitch last night,
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: and the president vowed to issue Americans a $ 5, 000 dividend
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: contingent on Republicans retaining control of Congress. So that's the caveat.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: Are you ready for this? It would cost more than
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 2: $ 1 trillion. $ 1 trillion. I'm just saying. This is what
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: the Republicans want. They want the American people on welfare.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 10: The president, and.
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: This is the direct quote. Well, you know what? We
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: we don't need to read the direct quote we actually
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: have the president's words here a cut number 30 please.
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  Speaker 4: What we're doing is because we've done so well and
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 4: because our country is making so much money that only
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 4: I can make this promise to you and here is
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 4: my promise If the Republicans win the House of Representatives
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 4: and the United States Senate, both of them, because of
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 4: our economic, tremendous economic success, like in history we've never
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 4: had anything like what's happening, but because of our tremendous
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 4: strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend to
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 4: every adult citizen in the United States of America for $ 5, 000.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: There you go. Let's go to the phones here. Tom
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: in Collierville, Tennessee, listening to us on KWAM. Hi, Tom.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: What do you think about the president's plan?
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  Speaker 11: I disagree with a lot of it. I know there's
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 11: a little bit of validity to people who do need it.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 11: But let's look at the food stamp program or whatever
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 11: it's called now. You know that is getting abused to
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 11: an uncertainty amount. It's getting abused a lot. Now, we're
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 11: going to throw these other programs out there, and they're
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 11: going to get abused as well. And who's paying for them?
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 11: The working class. I don't disagree that there should be
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 11: some sort of supplement or something for people who actually
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 11: have deserve it. But if you want to be in
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 11: this nation legally, then go through the proper channels. If
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 11: you want to mooch off the government and have me
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 11: pay for it, go through the proper channels and get
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 11: it because you deserve it, not because you can abuse
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 11: the system.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and when you talk about government assistance, they're saying
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: the Census Bureau says about 31% of the entire population
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: is getting benefits from at least one government program. That's insane, Tom.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: And we're paying all of this.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 11: That is correct. Well, thanks for taking my call, Todd.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 11: I just wanted to get that steam off my chest.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: Well, all right, Tom, you got me riled up now.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 2: Thank you for the call.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 25: It's true.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: But about 3 in 10 Americans receive at least one
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 2: form of a government benefit, which you are paying for,
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen. And I think that's the rub here.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 2: is that we're supposed to be shrinking government and we're
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 2: supposed to be cutting spending as well. I mean, that
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 2: was the whole point of Doge, right? I mean, at
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: least I thought it was. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. Oh, by the way, here's Ken Paxton talking
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 2: to the crowd yesterday. He's running for the Senate in Texas.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: Let's see here.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 2: It's somewhere on my list, which I have apparently screwed up.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: So we'll get to Ken Paxton in just a moment.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: I do want to play this audio from Pastor Lorenzo Sewell,
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 2: who prayed at the RNC Cut 36.
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  Speaker 21: You will not steal our country. You will not have
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 21: our children. You will not have our families. Enough is enough.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 21: I know I got somebody in this room that believes
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 21: in the king of glory. The one who is strong
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 21: and mighty. The one who is mighty in battle. He's
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 21: got the only name given among men.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 6: We're by.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 21: We must be saved and that's the name of Jesus
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 21: come on now if you believe in that name put
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 21: your hands together.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 14: And give your great God great glory.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 21: Do me a favor, look at somebody and say, enough
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 21: is enough, enough is enough.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 3: Enough is enough.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 21: Devil, you won't have the land where my fathers died. Devil,
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 21: you won't have the land of the pilgrim's pride. From
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 21: every mountainside, we believe that freedom will ring. If you
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 21: believe where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 21: Come on, Texas, put your hands together and give our great.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 6: God great glory.
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 2: Hallelujah. Wow. That guy was fired up. I love it.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: I got to take a break here, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: We're going right to your phone calls when we come back.
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  Speaker 10: 901-260-5926.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. We'll be right back. Let's say hello to Diane,
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 2: listening to us in Oregon on KYKN. Hi, Diane, what's
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: on your mind today?
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 28: Well, I heard this thing about the president sending out
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 28: $ 5, 000 per person. I say, no, pay down the debt.
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 28: That would be ridiculous.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, now let me.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 29: Processing, the processing, it just would be a mess.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 25: Just like COVID.
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 29: COVID went... We went far into debt. We need to
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 29: get out of debt.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 2: You know, Diane, I completely forgot about the COVID checks.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're right. I mean, how many people decided,
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: you know what, I'm just going to stay at home,
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: sit on the Lazy Boy and get my check from
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: Uncle Sam? I want to make sure that we're, you know,
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 2: just a slight correction. The president said that if the
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: Republicans win control of the Congress, he'll be looking at
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 2: these $ 5, 000 checks, so.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 29: That's ridiculous.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 28: That makes him look stupid. I'm sorry, but he oversteps
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 28: things like that sometimes.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 29: And I voted for him. I'll vote for him again.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 29: But that is ridiculous. That's almost buying votes.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly what it is, Diane. But, you know,
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 2: it's and a lot of people there, you know, again,
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 2: the Republicans are cheering and clapping and applauding. And I
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 2: get that. But it's OK because it's their side doing it.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 2: And that's the problem with politics is both sides do
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: this and they're not doing the right thing to your point,
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 2: which is paying down the debt.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 25: Yeah.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 29: Wake up, America. He's wrong.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: All right, Diane, thank you for that call. Diane's fired
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 2: up today, folks. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Oh,
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: Adam Carolla was at the convention, and they, you know,
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: the Democrats love doing the land acknowledgments, right? You get
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: up there and you give a speech. Hello, my name
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: is Chaz. My pronouns are I want to acknowledge the
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 2: land we're standing on is from an Indian outlaw, half Cherokee,
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: half Choctaw. Mama was a Chappaqua. No, that's where the
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 2: Clintons lived. My apologies. But anyway, you get the gist
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: of it. Anyway, Adam Carolla gave a land acknowledgment last night.
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 2: Let's take a listen.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 30: All right, I'd like to start tonight with a land acknowledgment.
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 30: This is the greatest land in the history of mankind.
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 30: And if that bothers you, you, your communist and hippie
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 30: buddies should get the hell off it.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm Todd Stearns. I approve that message. Well done, Mr. Carolla.
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 2: 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901.
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 26: 260-5926.
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 2: I want to play this audio. This is from California.
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 2: A judge in California ruling that teachers were right to
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 2: punish a seven-year-old girl. The little girl wrote, Any Life Matters.
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 2: This is over a Black Lives Matter drawing. And the
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 2: judge said that seven-year-olds are too young to to have
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 2: First Amendment rights. Cut number one.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 7: I knew it was wrong fundamentally.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 31: I knew something was wrong, like my rights, my daughter's
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 31: rights were taken away, and I just had to reach
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  Speaker 31: out and started reaching out and asking people. I didn't
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 31: know what the name of it was. I didn't even
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 31: know what compelled speech was until I started talking to attorneys.
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  Speaker 7: Let's keep that picture up on the screen. Take a
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 7: look at it.
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  Speaker 18: It says Black Lives Matter and Any Life written on
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 18: the bottom. And then there's some cute little drawings there.
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  Speaker 18: I mean, basically, they're equating this with the Klan, it seems. Alexander,
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 18: this little girl forced to give a public apology and
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 18: then prevented from drawing. Since when are our schools allowed
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  Speaker 18: to force speech upon kids?
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  Speaker 26: Yeah, absolutely not. Every student in this country... at a
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 26: public school has a right to free speech. Now, those
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  Speaker 26: rights are even stronger now. when a school tries to
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 26: compel speech. That is, when a school tries to make
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 26: you say something as opposed to just telling you that
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 26: you can't say something. That's exactly what happened here. But
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 26: it's actually even worse than that, Todd, because not only
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 26: was she made to apologize for a totally innocuous drawing,
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 26: one that, I don't know how you could look at
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 26: that and see anything but racial tolerance and respect for
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 26: other races in that picture. But not only was she
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 26: made to apologize for that, she's actually been punished on
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 26: top of it. You know, Chelsea's daughter, and we're not
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 26: going to say the daughter's name on TV because Really,
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 26: the whole problem in this case is that she got
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 26: so much unwanted attention. We're not going to give her
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 26: any more. But Chelsea's daughter was forced to apologize. And
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 26: then after that, she was deprived of her ability to
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 26: do art. She suffers from severe ADHD. Art is her
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 26: main outlet. Taking that away is a severe deprivation of
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 26: something that really is a therapeutic effect.
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  Speaker 18: Chelsea, I'd like to end these segments with what I
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 18: think is the most important question beyond the crux of
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 18: what happened in the crux of the lawsuit.
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  Speaker 31: How is your daughter doing? Oh, she's doing great. She
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 31: doesn't know what's going on. We don't want to tell her.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 31: We just went out and bought her a whole bunch
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 31: of art supplies, and we set her up, and her
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 31: art's come along.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 7: Leaps and bounds. So she's doing great.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 31: It's more me, I guess, and my husband that are
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 31: still upset about this and still just don't know what
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 31: to do about it.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: An outrageous story, but we've got to stand up for
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 2: these kids. We've got to stand up for seven years old.
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 2: She understands that all life matters, not just some lives,
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 2: but all lives matter. Good for you, young lady. 901-260-5926
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: is our telephone number.
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 7: That's 901-260-5926.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 2: I want to play some audio. Tomorrow, of course, the
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 2: 25th anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks, the Muslim terrorist attacks.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: And we had a guy on earlier today from Daily
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 2: Signal from the Heritage Foundation. And he pointed out rightly
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 2: that they're just erasing history. In many cases, they're not
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: even teaching kids history. about what happened on 9-11, which
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: is why you've got a generation that somehow is blaming
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 2: America for what happened on that day, which is why
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 2: you've got people that are saying, no, no more. We
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 2: do not want Mayor Mamdami anywhere near our memorial service,
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: cut 21.
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 7: I lost my father, Joseph Oswald Pick, in the South Tower.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 7: My message to Mayor Mondani is, dude, we don't want
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 7: you to come.
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  Speaker 12: My beautiful wife, and to have this man not attend
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 12: our service. The main purpose is just that. We don't
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 12: believe in what he believes in, and we really want
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 12: us to be left alone. It's the purpose of this
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 12: whole thing, this 25th anniversary, is for our victims and
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 12: our survivors to blend in and pray that day for
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 12: all the families, not have a circus around us. So
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 12: my thoughts, my prayers are with all the family members.
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 12: I thank everyone. This is my beautiful wife, Grace Galante,
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 12: and I just want to say thank you for having
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 12: us here.
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  Speaker 32: I think he should really respect us as we're his constituents.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 32: I'm a native New Yorker, born and bred my whole life.
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 32: And I think if someone says, just give us from
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 32: 7 to 11, just let us have our peace, our memorial,
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 32: to really understand why we're here. We're honoring our loved ones.
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 32: And he didn't go to the 25th anniversary of flight 11. 93,
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 32: the bombing, and he was free. So I don't know
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 32: why he's so animate about going to this one when
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 32: we just asked that he just respect us from 7
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 32: to 11.
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  Speaker 6: And let us have our morning. My husband Tom was
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 6: killed 9-11. He worked for Eurobrokers. He was 35 years old.
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 6: I want to make clear that our petition is not about.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 6: Mayor Mamdani's religion or where he came from. It is
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 6: strictly about the policies that he has today. Yes, he
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 6: was a nine-year-old boy when 9-11 happened, but it is
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 6: today that he stands with people like Hassan Piker. It
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 6: is today that he hires people like Ramzi Qasim. It
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 6: is today that he stands with an imam that was
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 6: a co-conspirator of the 93 bombing. That is what we
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 6: object to.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. This has nothing to do with him being a Muslim.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: It has everything to do with his associations and his politics.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 2: That's what it has to do with. All right. We're
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 2: going to take a break here. As we go to break,
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 2: I am curious to know from you, Charlie Kirk, do
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 2: you think that his life will have a lasting impact
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 2: on this country? And what do you think that impact
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: will be?
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 6: 901-260-5926.
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back. All right, don't forget, immediately after
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 2: the Todd Stern Show, we will be broadcasting a one-hour
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 2: special honoring the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk. Now,
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 2: if you are in the Memphis area, you'll be able
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 2: to hear this on KWAM. If you do not live
• 1:44:04
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• 1:44:07
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• 1:44:09
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• 1:44:13
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• 1:44:17
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• 1:44:20
  Speaker 2: coming up in just under 10 minutes. 901-260-5926 is our
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 2: telephone number. Let's go to Alabama. Anthony is on the line. Hi, Anthony.
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 2: What's on your mind?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 13: I wanted to comment, and thanks for taking my call,
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 13: by the way. I wanted to comment on the people
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 13: who think that this $ 5, 000 giveaway that Trump's coming up with,
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 13: is it to pay, he was going to give it
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 13: to Republicans that vote, or if the Republicans win the
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 13: House and the Senate, so he would give it to
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 13: the Republican voters. Well, anybody that thinks that the government
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 13: should keep any of that money and they're going to
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 13: pay the debt down, You know what? They're not going
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 13: to pay the debt down. They're going to spend that money.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 13: So I'm all for it. Let Trump give us the money,
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 13: and we can pay our debts down because the government's
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 13: not helping us with that. But you know as well
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 13: as I do, the more money they get, the more
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 13: they're going to spend. You can correct me if you
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 13: think I'm wrong, but that's how I feel about it.
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 2: Well, look, here's the deal. And just, again, this would
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 2: not just be Republican voters. It would be every adult.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 2: And they would get a $ 5, 000 check. It would cost
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 2: around $ 1. 3 trillion. This year's federal budget deficit, by the way,
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 2: exceeds $ 2 trillion. We're $ 40 trillion in debt. And, I mean,
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 2: they can keep printing money if they want to, Anthony,
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 2: but you know what happens when they start printing money
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 13: So I guess the real thing that should be done
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 13: is that Trump should just keep his mouth shut and
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 13: not say he's going to be giving people money. We'll
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 13: do our vote like we always do, and whatever the
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 13: government does with the tax money they get from us, well,
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 13: we don't have any control over that. It's just as simple.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 13: But we shouldn't be adding to the debt. I understand that.
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 13: But you know what? They're not going to ever pay
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 13: the debt down with any of the money. But you
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 13: know what? It is what it is.
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 2: So Trump sat down for an interview with Laura Ingraham.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 2: It's going to air in its entirety tonight on Fox.
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 2: But we've got a clip from it. And she asked
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 2: about the $ 5, 000. Actually, it's an interesting question. She said,
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 2: why not just give the money now? If you have
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 2: the money, why not give it now? Which point? And
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 2: the president said, because the Democrats can't do it, because
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 2: for them it's negative growth. With us, it's positive. So
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 2: we're taking in $ 21 trillion. No country has ever taken
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 2: in anywhere near that.
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  Speaker 13: Right. Now, my question is, Trump really doesn't have any
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 13: say with that. It would be up to the Congress.
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  Speaker 2: It's up to the Congress, yeah. It's up to the Congress.
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  Speaker 25: Right, right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Mr.
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 13: Starnes.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 2: All right. Anthony, thank you. Thank you for the call there.
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 2: He said we're taking in $ 21 trillion. Is any of
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 2: that going to pay down the debt? That's what I
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 2: want to know. But now, and you watch, we'll have
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 2: some of the diehard MAGA people calling in. Or at
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 2: least I'll get text messages. And they'll say, how dare you?
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 2: You're just a Democrat. Okay, great. I'm a Democrat for
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 2: wanting to cut government spending. Okay, is that.
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 2: It's a topsy-turvy world, ladies and gentlemen. What are you
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 2: going to do? 901-260-5926. Again, our telephone number, 901-260-5926. I
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 2: want to play some audio here. We're not going to
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 2: get to all of this, but a Portland mom is
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 2: very upset because her son has been taught gender ideology
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 2: at his grade school. Cut 20, please.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 18: A Portland, Oregon mother is suing Portland Public Schools, claiming
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 18: she was banned from all school events, including her child's
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 18: fifth grade graduation, for speaking out against the school's gender curriculum.
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 18: This allegedly included the school's decision to repaint their pride
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 18: flag into something called an intersex inclusive progress version, whatever
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 18: that means, and an identity flower assignment, which asked her
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 18: 11-year-old to identify and discuss their gender identity. That Portland mother,
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 18: Allison Roberts, and Timothy Snowball from the Liberty Justice Center
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 18: both join me now. Allison, I'll start with you. Walk
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 18: us through how this all escalated.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, thank you for having me. Yeah, I'm a longtime Portlander.
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 17: My kids have been going to Lewis Elementary for some time.
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 17: When we started the school year this year, what was
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 17: the pride flags or the rainbow flags that were on
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 17: the benches last year had become the progressive flag this year.
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 17: It was jarring to me, given the political climate we're in.
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 17: And I saw for what it was a political symbol.
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 17: When I perceived conversations with the school as well as PTA,
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 17: I was rebuffed or censored at every turn. So I
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 17: did what I thought was my.
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 6: Only avenue.
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 17: I took things into my own hands and I passed
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 17: out a letter hoping to find sympathetic ears. And like
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 17: minded people that that maybe were being censored as well.
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 17: So that's that's kind of what started this. And then
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 17: things escalated to the point that I got liberty justice involved.
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  Speaker 2: Timothy, let's bring you in here.
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 18: She was on a public sidewalk handing out flyers. School,
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 18: as far as I know, in Portland is still a
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 18: taxpayer funded function. How are any of these punishments, these
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 18: bans by the Portland schools legal?
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  Speaker 33: Thanks again for having us. I think that the main
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 33: point here is there's no Portland exception to the U.S. Constitution.
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 33: Just because you're in Portland doesn't mean the First Amendment
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 33: no longer applies. I think that this really comes from
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 33: a harassment policy that they put in place where school
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 33: officials get to decide that anything they don't like, anything
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 33: that they label hate speech, which of course, as we know,
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 33: is not an actual category under the First Amendment, they
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 33: can silence somebody. And apparently this policy reaches all the
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 33: way out onto a public sidewalk, which is the height
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 33: and the zenith of First Amendment protection in our society
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 33: going all the way back.
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  Speaker 18: Literally like day one of law school. It's like public sidewalk.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 18: And then you get to like the professor's name. I mean,
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 18: that's how ingrained it is in the law. Allison, there
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 18: is a report that you had a heated interaction with
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 18: another parent. The school accuses you of a pattern of, quote,
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 18: their words, not mine, harassment, intimidation, and threatening behavior. How
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 18: do you respond to those claims, Allison?
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 17: They're absolutely ludicrous. The school, I had nothing but either
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 17: silence from them or nothing but polite things to say
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 17: about me anytime I engaged with them when they would engage.
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 17: The conversation I did have with the other parent was lamentable, regrettable,
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 17: but it was mutual. And I was the only one
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 17: that walked away with any punishment whatsoever. This, to me,
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 17: is obviously the districts and the administrations seizing upon the
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 17: opportunity to further punish me and silence me.
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 18: I was going to say, we reached out to Portland
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 18: Public Schools here at Fox for a statement, but have
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 18: not yet heard back. Look, you can't unring the bell
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 18: on the graduation.
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  Speaker 7: You already missed that, Allison.
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 18: But we'll be curious to see what this lawsuit ultimately
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 18: leads to. Allison and Timothy, thank you for your time
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 18: and your insight.
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, there you go. Crazy times in Portland.
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 2: What can you say? All right, folks, it's been a
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 2: great day. Don't forget the 2 o'clock Charlie Kirk special
• 1:51:59
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• 1:52:04
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