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Colonel Rob Manus
Now. Breaking news from real America's.
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Jake Novak
Voice. Morning everyone. I'm Jake Novak. Apparently, everything I just told you wasn't enough carnage to tell you about. Of course, there is the other story that was breaking overnight and that is the death of the murder of actor director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle in their own home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood. According to People magazine, the murderer in this case was their own son, Nick, age 32. And the murder weapon was a knife. This is a stabbing. What I can tell you is that the there have been no official confirmation of Nick Reiner being the murderer in this case, but the deaths are confirmed by the LAPD and the LA Fire Department. This happened sometime yesterday afternoon and we can say that this was this is now being investigated as a homicide. Very, very sad situation. I can also tell you a little bit about Nick Reiner, the 32 year old son who has struggled with addiction his whole life. In fact, he and his father did a movie documentary about his struggles. So just a horrible situation there in Los Angeles as well. It was a very deadly weekend. But I want to start with our US Serviceman because I don't think anybody else will. So I'd like to start with that, which joining us again is retired U.S. air Force Colonel Rob Manus. And Colonel, I brought you on here again to talk about a Situation with some Covid relieved officers having trouble getting back and fully reinstated. And we will get to that. Sadly though, so many things have happened over the weekend. We got to talk about first, President Trump promising retaliation for the ISIS attack that killed two US Servicemen and also a civilian. To me, this is a little scary because we know that President Trump has put a lot into this new government in Syria and trying to create a relative peace.
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Colonel Rob Manus
There. Yeah. And one of the issues surrounding this, Jake, unfortunately, is that there's initial reporting from on the ground that says this perpetrator was actually in the Syrian security forces and not necessarily isis. So there's some confusion as to who exactly the perpetrators are. And the reason that's important is that who do we retaliate against, you know, what entity? There are so many entities there, some that we supported, some that we fought against, especially the ISIS crowd and those kind of things. And unfortunately, the leadership of this current Syrian government is a mixture of individuals that have been related to all those types of organizations, including Al Qaeda, for instance. So, so it's a blurred situation, unfortunately. And we have two dead American Iowa National Guard soldiers. Our, our prayers and well wishes are, and condolences are with those families today. And an American civilian interpreter was also killed in this. My big question is what is their mission there? I've been asking this since we first learned that American forces were put into Syria and years ago, the President vowed to remove them his last term. But we've seen no movement there because the situation on the ground with the civil war is now dramatically changed, obviously. And so those types of goals and objectives have to shift to meet the reality. But the big question is what were those soldiers mission there? Why were they on this mission? This looks to and appears to be something, some type of activity that's very similar to what was going on in Afghanistan where we had many, many, many Americans, including a two star general that was murdered by our own folks that we were supposed to be.
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Jake Novak
Trusting. Yeah, I remember that well. And it does seem to justify what I would call the aggressive caution that Israel has been exercising in that region. Realizing that, you know, there's really not a lot that you can trust from any group in Syria right now. It's as simple as that. By that I mean Syrians, not, not the Americans that are there, the U.S. of course, Israel, of course, tr now to the biggest body count atrocity of the weekend and that is the 16 people dead at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia. And you know, over the weekend, the first thing I could Think about was obviously the government is mostly to blame for letting in these hateful terrorists and this person, one of the two terrorists involved, the government knew very well was a likely terrorist and would likely commit an attack. But also I just think of places like Australia where people, especially Jewish people, cannot arm themselves. At least here in the United States, at least in most of the United States, we can arm ourselves. And I'm just wondering, should you be having large gatherings without your own armed security, not hoping the police show up, not maybe hiring another guard. But honestly, you know, this is exactly what happens when people can't defend themselves. This is a human.
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Colonel Rob Manus
Right. Oh, you're absolutely correct, Jake. You know this, this will be a case study, another one sadly and tragic where the citizens have been disarmed, the perpetrators, the enemy is able to arm up. It's my understanding that the father of this duo was actually a licensed gun dealer and the guns were legally owned by this, these individuals, which it just boggles my mind. And then you have evidence and eyewitness reports that the four police officers available, they were all hiding from for up to 20 minutes as these two individuals who as you can see in the video, if you watch the firing happening in the video, they're highly trained, they're using a bolt action rifle. And the one individual with the best video of him, the youngest gentleman, is actually able to fire just as fast with a bolt action rifle as a semi automatic rifle, AR15. That means one thing, highly trained with a military background and it's unbelievable. And one of these victims I understand was a 10 year old little girl. And can you imagine what kind of animal and evil demon it takes to look through a scope and kill a 10 year old little girl with a rifle? It's terrible, it's a tragedy. We should eliminate gun free zones all around the world. And you know, I know MAGA country doesn't like Tom Massie in Congress right now, but he's got a constitutional carry bill that he submitted to be passed in the Congress. And when are we going to stop this? Because you know where there's a large Jewish population that's about to be controlled by an Islamist Marxist named Mandami in New York City, the largest one that you're going to find in this part of the world in America and, and they can't even carry a firearm. It's incredible what kind of idiocy we have going on with our laws in this country. It's time to end it and reinstate the second.
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Jake Novak
Amendment. Yeah. And I can just say in my own Jewish community where since October 7th some people in the community and I have organized and very successful, very highly attended active shooter training, first aid training, legal training and then some of us got also firearms training. And again the governments are absolutely responsible. But at the same time there has to be better self defense. And until Jewish communities can say what I'm about to say with full truth behind them, this is going to continue to happen. Which is if you are planning to come into Jewish communities or Jewish events with an intent to kill us, we will kill you first. Have a nice day. And until you can say that, my community can say it. Until you can say that all over the world, this is going to continue to happen. Now Colonel, to the thing, the story, important story that I don't want to forget because this is the original reason why I wanted to bring you back this week. I want you to talk about the plight of General Chris Sage and a few other high ranking, but also people in the ranks who were supposed to be fully restored from their Covid suspensions, not getting the jab, who are still facing bureaucratic roadblocks. Tell us about this.
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Colonel Rob Manus
Situation. Well, Air Force Brigadier General Chris Sage is one of those people, one of those 8,000 plus that the president of the United States said needed to be reinstated. Secretary of War has implemented policies that he's even modified as time has gone on to make them work better. We have under Secretary of War retired Brigadier General Tata, that is now the Undersecretary for Personnel Readiness. And they said go through the Board of Correction of Military Records process. And General Sage did go through that. And then when his file got to the Secretary of the Air Force's office, a bureaucrat there overturned the decision, which it's almost impossible to get a timely decision out of the correction of military records boards that the services run in the first place. But to have it overturned after it was correctly decided by the process that the Secretary of War has directed be used is unconscionable. And that tells you a couple of things, Jake. First of all, let's talk about General Sage. General Sage is just the the tip of the iceberg on there. And he's not important because he's a general officer. He's important because of what I just said. There are many, many people in the Air Force especially that are having problems in this reinstatement process and it's because of what I call malicious compliance, where bureaucrats that disagree with the decision and the orders of the Secretary of War are intentionally gumming up the works in the process, and this is the most egregious step that I've seen. We need to continue to work this issue. Call your congressmen and senators. Davis Yance is General Sage's attorney. They were, they have been on the media. Hopefully they can get on your show, maybe Steve Bannon show at some point this week because he's on a tight timeline. They're making him retire the last day of this month if this doesn't change. But there are other very lower ranking people that are subject being subjected to the same type of ridiculousness. And it just tells us that Secretary Hegseth and General Tata still need a lot of help. There are a lot of resisters in this government that disagree with the fact that the order for the COVID vaccine was deemed unlawful, that its implementation was unlawful and unconstitutional. And thousands and thousands of people that were forced out involuntarily, the 8,500 or so and then another, you know, 80,000 people that left because they were going to be forced out. That's almost 100,000Americans that we need back into our military forces because they're exact type of leaders that we need. You know, what General Sage was questioned about and why he ran into problems is because he had his troops being told they had to wear face masks in the desert heat while they're out working on aircraft, getting them ready for combat and recovering them. That's ridiculous. He ordered the barbed wire to be taken down from around the tent where people that hadn't had the vaccine yet were being made to stay like they were prisoners. It's unbelievable what was happening with the implementation of this law. And we haven't even talked about the denial of religious accommodation requests in mass, which is against the law. The Religious Freedom Restoration act that Congress passed to protect our service members from this type of craziness and unlawful order implementation. So we need your help. We need to get more people to help Secretary Higseth, who I think is done a great job never denying or backing off of his order. And he's got a team of leaders around him. But down below in that bureaucratic area, there's a lot of people fighting against it and they're trying to prevent this from happening. So hopefully we can get Undersecretary Air Force Matt Lohmeyer and the Secretary of the Air Force some more help and get these bureaucrats out of that Air Force secretary's office because that seems to be a big problem.
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Jake Novak
Area. Yeah, yeah. And these people who think they're hurting Donald Trump by the malicious compliance very important thing for everyone to pay attention to. They're not. They're hurting other people. President Trump's not hurt by this. This is hurt. They're hurting their own fellow service members. It's really awful. Colonel Rob Manus, thank you so much for updating us and getting a lot of our boxes checked this morning on what has been a very, very eventful 48, 72 hours in America. See you again soon. Have a great.
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Colonel Rob Manus
Week. Thank you, Jake. God bless.
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Jake Novak
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Jake Novak
You. It's a live look at Jupiter, Florida, another beautiful day in the sunshine, Sunshine State. Welcome back to American Sunrise EARLY edition. I'm Jake Novak. Special thank you to all of you who are commenting and watching on the getter and rumble and substack and X chats. A very, very, very, very busy in a bad way, I think weekend. I want to talk about something that may again get lost in the shuffle, but we're watching it very closely here at a real America's Voice. A recent acid attack, horrific acid attack on a woman in Savannah's famed Forsyth Park. Did you see the movie Forrest Gump? That's the park where he's sitting and waiting for the bus. Beautiful city, Savannah. It's been restored in many ways. And Forsyth park is very nice. Anyway, that's where this attack happened. So maybe it's not so nice, Obviously. And the police are saying it was random, but now it's being investigated, at least by her friends and some private detectives as potentially a targeted attack because the woman who was attacked was attacked after she was leaving a Christian church event in the area. Emily, you know, the war on anything, you know, Christians, Jews, it's really very much in focus. By the way, the attack at Brown University may have been a targeted attack at a very outspoken and well known Christian and Republican student leader on campus in a class taught by the university's most famous Jewish professor. I mean, really, this, I mean, we're back to like, are we back to the Middle Ages here where we're just fighting religious wars? Of course, there's really only one side doing the killing.
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Emily Finn
Apparently. Sounds like it, Jake. I mean, this is horrific. Those photos that you were showing of that woman in the hospital bed. Nobody deserves to have something like this happen to them as they're leaving a service based off of their faith. No matter what your faith is, this is America for God's sake. We shouldn't be seeing situations like this happening. We have freedom of religion here. And these kinds of attacks really do need to stop now. It comes from our elected officials condemning this type of violence. And I haven't seen enough of a pushback from our elected officials throughout the entire country. Thank God the Trump administration has made it a priority to crack down on crime throughout the entire time that they've been in office this second time around. But we're not seeing that on the local levels. For example, we talk about Minnesota Very often there's always things going on there for religious persecution and no one ever talks about it. So I'm really happy, Jake, that you're bringing this up on your program, because condemning this violence is the first step in letting it.
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Colonel Rob Manus
Stop.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. I mean, again, we've seen one of the most horrific anti Semitic attacks in the last 50 years in Australia. Two, I think. I mean, I think it seems like this Christian leader on campus at Brown University was targeted. Again, we don't know for sure, but sadly, we do know for sure that she was one of the victims. Just a tough, tough weekend. And of course, we also have the situation with Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle. And that's a different kind of thing that isn't, I believe, political at all. And he was a very political person, someone who outraged me politically for many, many years. But it does appear that this is just a family situation, that his son Nick, according to People magazine, was the murderer in this case. There was addiction issues with him over the years. So as much as we rail about political stuff, Emily, there's other things that have nothing to do with politics that can lead to violence. It's just a very rough weekend.
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Emily Finn
Emily. It was horrific to see all of the stories coming out of this weekend. I was talking with our producers in the control room saying I tried to put my phone down just to, you know, unwind and relax and kind of like, you know, get checked out, kind of plug out of the news cycle. But the moment I plugged back in, it was just nothing but violence. And this is what I was trying to allude to earlier. This is what we have to address. It's a mental health crisis in this country. Young men, no matter if it is, you know, for religious reasons, for family reasons, for any reason, they should not be resorting to violence. And there must be a bigger thing happening in American society today that violence is so prevalent and that especially young men are resorting to something like this. So, Jake, we have to get down to the bottom of why this continues to happen. Because violence has no place in this.
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Jake Novak
Country. Yeah, well, we see it, for example, with the Luigi Mangione. He has a cheering squad, someone who assassinated someone and murdered them in cold blood. Maybe we need to start with those people who are cheering him on the streets of New York and talk to them, get them some help, if that's possible. Emily Finn, thank you so much for joining us. Better Days. Next time I talk to you, I hope we're talking about something much more cheerful. But thank you for helping us get through some of these issues this morning. Thank you.
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Emily Finn
Yeah. Tough weekend. Thank you.
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Jake Novak
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So your gas, I mean, take a look at your gasoline prices. They are going down fast. Now let's take a look at bitcoin. Struggling to get back to that $90,000 plateau at Bitcoin. And I think over the weekend I saw it got to 92 at one point and here it is now at 89. So coming back a little bit, but definitely having trouble getting back to the $100,000 level. One of the toughest questions that we have to answer right now is what will Congress do with those Obamacare subsidies? Letting everybody know here, the Obamacare subsidies, the money that people get, you don't get it for your own pocket. Just a basically a discount. It goes straight to the insurance companies that offer Obamacare plans, which by the way, are just glorified Medicaid plans. But we can talk about that another time. Well, those are set to expire because the Democrats voted on a bill that would call for it to expire at the end of this year. This is a problem the Democrats made. So every time they cry about this, ask them why they passed a bill to have it expire like this. Anyway, they're going to expire basically as a new year begins, midnight December 31st. Well, how do we find out where it's going to go? Because right now the votes for either an Obamacare replacement or an extension of the Obamacare subsidies aren't going anywhere. Well, I have a little bit of a hint for you. If you take a look at the stocks of the top insurance companies, health insurance companies in this country, and see where they're going, you're going to get an idea of where that bill is going to go. If those stocks start to rise, then that means that the inside dope is that the subsidies will be continued. If they start to fall, then the opposite is true. And that means the inside dope is that the subsidies will be discontinued. Sorry, try again, no sale. That's the likelihood. Right now it does seem like the stock investors believe that the subsidies will be extended at least for some period of time because UnitedHealthcare shares a stock that's been beaten up badly all year for the last few days or so. Its shares are up 3% total over the last three days, three or four trading days, which is a sign, at least for now, that the investors believe the subsidies will continue again. Wall street gets things wrong very often, but they never lie. Investors don't put money on a horse they think is going to lose, just so you know. So right now they think that those subsidies are going to continue. And that could be a little bit of a hint for the rest of us. Now it looks like there's a new front runner for Fed chairman over the weekend, Kevin Warsh, who used to be a Fed governor. Now he's in private banking. He's now edging ahead of Kevin Hassett, who's the current chair of the president's National Economic Council. It's basically neck and neck, though, between the two Kevins. But President Trump said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that he believes that Kevin Warsh now is kind of the likely guy. We'll see. Again, the new position will not be officially open until May of next year, so this thing could get changed a lot between now and then. All right, now it's time to track tackle. Listen, I got to have some lighthearted news today for you because it's been a tough weekend and a tough morning as far as the carnage out there. So this is actually a true story, but we're going to get a smile out of it. It's time to tackle what truly is the biggest threat to America's economic recovery, and that is drunk raccoons. Yes and no. I'm not kidding. Police in Ashland, Virginia, say that this raccoon was found drunk inside a liquor store at a strip mall where the same raccoon has been breaking into stores and doing damage and eating some food and things like that for a number of. A number of occasions. This time he got into the liquor store, I guess he broke some of the bottles there, as you see, and drank something. Apparently he previously snuck into a martial arts studio, did some damage there, the dmv, although I might be in favor of him damaging the DMV in Virginia. But anyway, the same strip mall and now he got into a liquor store. American business can't recover with drunk raccoons on the loose. All right, there's your smile for the morning. Now, ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. It's moving, America. Sponsored by artillery te company artilleryteaco.com Use promo code RAV for 10% off your order. Artillery Tea is all natural, whole leaf. The tea bags are chemical free in each text. Tea bag can be used twice. Artillery T Company is family and veteran, owned and operated, and a portion of your purchase goes to help veteran and first responder charities. Artilleryteeco.com promo code RAV for 10% off your order. Maybe that raccoon was breaking into the DMV to erase his DUIs, because we know he's a drinker. I mean, let's be honest, all right, the mainstream media has had no sense of balance, as you know, no fairness. But I do. I mean, I have a little bit of it. So I want to go into the latest average price for a new car and truck in this country. I, like many other people, made a big deal out of it a couple of weeks ago when it first crossed the $50,000 mark. Well over the weekend it dipped pretty sharply back down to 49,000. So again, if we're going to make a big deal about it hitting 50, we got to make a similar big deal about it going back down. So there you see it, 49, 9 77. It was a little bit lower even yesterday. So again folks, doesn't mean that it's always. Prices always don't always just go up like a straight line, especially when it comes to cars and trucks. So going down in the last few days, high end electric car company, electric SUV company, I should say Rivian is trying something new to keep going. Remember, Rivian is one of those electric car SUV companies, car SUVs, whatever you want to call them, that's been dealing with difficult sales ever since the federal credit for buying an EV expired at the end of September. So now Rivian says they're going to go all in. Also on self driving and AI. Now before you laugh, just know that Wall street isn't necessarily laughing. Rivian shares are up 37% over the last three months. So Wall street either likes this idea or believes that electric vehicles will get hot again again. That three month period where Rivian shares are up 37%, that's after mostly after the tax credit expired in September. So Rivian's got something at least that Wall street likes. Now, now to recognize a very smart business idea. I love this story. A suburban Chicago Honda dealer, it's called McGrath Honda in Elgin, Illinois. Listen to this. It keeps its service and repair division open 247 every single day, even Sunday. We all know how much we hate taking our car in, having to make the appointment. We also know, excuse me, also know that if you know anything about car dealerships, they really make their big money on service. So why would you not be open on Sunday? Why would you have restricted hours? Well, this Honda dealership gets it. I think this is going to become a national trend and they will be the pioneers of that. All right. Have you ever wondered which car brand attracts the biggest liars? I'm not sure I have. But I found this story very interesting. A group called Wheels Away studied this, did a survey and it found that Tesla owners were the most likely to lie to the cops to get out of a ticket. I don't know how they found this out, but that's what they say. Acura owners came in second and Volvo owners were third. I would never lie to a cop. Usually I'm afraid when I get stopped by a cop, which hasn't happened too many times in my life. I'm ready to admit to everything. I'm ready to admit to things I did when I was five, stolen candy, toys, I mean, everything. I can't. Not only do I not lie, I suddenly become a guilt machine anyway. But maybe if I owned a Tesla, I would learn how to lie to cops. Coming up, so the terrorist thugs in Australia who globalized the intifada yesterday would seemingly have a fan in snake oil salesman and New York City Mayor elect Zoran Mamdani. What could go wrong with that? And later, it may seem like Sharon Moore and that whole situation at the University of Michigan is outrageous and unusual, but you know what? It's not. Especially because of the very department at almost every big workplace that's supposed to stop these kinds of train wrecks from happening. And they don't. American SUNRISE EARLY EDITION will be right back. It's Monday, December 15th. Here this morning's top stories. And brace yourself. President Trump says there will be retaliation after an attack in Syria that left two American servicemen and a civilian dead. Next hours after that attack, what appears to be a targeted shooting attack at Brown University in Rhode island left two students dead in what might have been a targeted anti Semitic and anti Christian, an anti Republican attack on that campus. And then we had the deadliest attack of them all, Cayman, Australia, where Islamist terrorists attacked a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney and left 16 people dead. @ least one of the attackers was well known by the Australian police as a likely terrorist. Thanks a lot. And actor director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle have been found dead in their home in Los Angeles. Reportedly, according to sources at People magazine, they were murdered in a stabbing attack by their own 32 year old son. American SUNRISE EARLY EDITION continues now. Welcome back to america's SUNRISE EARLY edition. I'm Jake Novak. I wish I had better news for you on this Monday here, but I do want to thank you. I am appreciative of everyone joining us this morning, commenting on our many platforms, especially Getter and Rumble and also Substack and X. Thanks for holding. I mean, again, hold on to your seatbelts, whatever it is that you need, because it has been a rough weekend and now we have to focus based on the weekend's events on what's going to happen in America's largest city in the coming weeks and months. Joining us right now is New York City based Republican strategist Vanessa Simon. And Vanessa, it's the first time we've had you on since the election of Zoran Mamdani and, you know, I immediately thought of Zohran Mamdani after we heard about this terrorist attack in Sydney, Australia. A true globalize the intifada movement, if there ever was one event. 16 people dead. So many unfortunate similarities to something that could happen very easily here in New York. These were people who were led in by an open border policy, a migrant policy that for somehow seemed to favor people from, and I'm just going to say it, backward and violent countries and a terrorist who was known to be a terrorist in the area and was roaming free. I just don't have a lot of confidence right now that someone like Zoran Mamdani, who refuses, Vanessa, to condemn the term globalize the intifada. I mean, this is a pretty scary situation for everyone in New York.
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Vanessa Simon
Right now. Agreed. And absolute tragedy throughout.
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Jake Novak
The.
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Vanessa Simon
Weekend. Right. I think all eyes are on Zoran, especially being in the greatest city in the world. New York City is king. And it's interesting how he's going to move forward. All eyes are on him. How is he going to handle not only condemning globalizing Intifada, it's like, how are you going to protect not only our Jewish citizens over here in New York City, but all of our citizens, all of our New Yorkers? I think that someone that has the track record that had the poorest attendance in the assembly, gaining the largest seat in New York City. So to go from that, being an assemblyman into a mayor, these are. These are big shoes to fill. And I think the concern here is how is he going to handle it? How is he going to take a stance on just illegal immigration in the city, making sure that we are not a sanctuary city? Because we see the crimes that are happening not only here in New York City, but globally, we cannot afford these tragedies, especially at the start of Hanukkah. This is absolutely egregious what's going on. And for him, I believe it's going to. It's not only going to heighten the scrutiny around. How is he going to handle. How is his team going to handle. What is city council going to do to make sure that all New Yorkers, especially our Jewish New Yorkers, feel safe in the greatest city in.
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Jake Novak
The world? Yeah. Well, don't count on the relaxation of gun ownership laws in this city, because that's what is needed to. In the. In the short term, that could be a really easy fix. Again, I'll say this very clearly. If you are in a Jewish community, including in New York, and you can't say the following, then you're in trouble. You should be able to say, if you're coming to our community with intent to kill us, we will kill you first. Have a nice day. And right now, in the five boroughs of New York City, I don't know any Jewish community that can say that because of the draconian anti human rights gun laws in this city. Now, let's move on to another thing a little bit slightly off, that particular topic of what happened in Australia, because before that incident, Zora Mamdani did meet with a group of rabbis. And one of those rabbis, not a Conservative, not a right winger, not a Trump supporter. His name is Amiel Hirsch, big Reform rabbi. For those of you who know your denominations in the Jewish community, this is like, you know, very, very left wing. He says he's not optimistic at all about the next four years in New York City. Does anyone really believe that if an attack like that happened in New York, that Zohar Mohamdani would suddenly shut the borders of the city? Change the sanctuary city laws? We all know.
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Vanessa Simon
He won't. It's not only that. This goes right back to the statement that I was saying that all eyes are going to be on Zoran. He not only does not have the career record, not only politically, but we're talking externally. Like, he has no private, no private corporation experience, no executive leadership experience. And everyone is like, what is this guy going to do when, you know, things get crazy? You are literally at the helm of the greatest city in the world. So I understand him meeting with the rabbis. And there's great concern from the rabbis. And, you know, normal New York City citizens like myself were like, hey, is this guy able to fill these shoes? But this goes back to my statement a few months ago, New York needed a new leader, but I think they were a little trigger happy and went with with Zoran when it's just like, I don't know. Well, time will tell, but there's grave.
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Jake Novak
Concern here. All right, now I want to talk about the illegal alien situation. I talked about how New York City is officially, according to its own rules, a sanctuary city, which I don't think is legal, but that's what they call themselves. And there was a sound bite over the weekend. I'm going to show you in just a second. But there was, you may have seen on TikTok or TikTok or one of those other streaming platforms. It turned out to be a fake video. Someone who looks like an NYPD officer yelling at ICE agents, telling them they can't do their work in the city. Now, that was a fake video, but a lot of people see that this could definitely be a reality in the coming days or coming weeks. Now, here's Zoran Mandani answering a question from a reporter about that, about whether he will use the NYPD to literally try to stop and maybe even arrest ICE officials as they do their work. Listen to this. Is there a scenario in which the nypd, under you, could arrest ICE agents on the streets of New York for their behavior towards immigrants? My focus is for the NYPD to not be assisting ICE in their immigration enforcement and to actually be following the policies of sanctuary city law. And I do believe, however, that for the law to have meaning, there has to be accountability for all of us. And that is something that is necessary to speak about, to talk about, to act on, no matter who we're referring to, because so many are losing faith in politics in this moment because they're seeing inconsistency take place at every different facet of our society. So, in other words. Yeah, well, that was a non answer, Vanessa. And it does seem to me like. I mean, I don't know how many NYPD offices are going to comply. But you know what? In the past, I've been disappointed by the way that certain people who.
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Colonel Rob Manus
I.
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Jake Novak
Have. Yeah. Again, it's really easy for me to say, oh, you shouldn't listen to the mayor if he tells you to arrest ICE agents. But, you know, these people need jobs, they need their pensions, they need their health care. It sounds to me like Zoram Hamdani would be happy to order the NYPD to impede ICE even as they're trying to arrest dangerous people who are killing and injuring.
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Vanessa Simon
New Yorkers. Here's the thing. New York City should not be a sanctuary city like we were just discussing. I think that him highlighting the fact that, you know, the New Yorkers are having less faith in politics. I mean, he's speaking about himself. The reality is everyone's very much so concerned, you know, referencing the rabbi, the Shed, concerned about the next four years. We cannot afford to have the cities ravished in crime right now. And although they continue to kind of downplay the crime in New York City, what New Yorkers and our citizens are wishing we had more of was feeling safe. We have crimes that are insane. And unfortunately, these legal immigrants that are here in New York City specifically are creating a bulk of these crimes because there's nowhere to go. City is at its brinks, and the laws have to be reassessed. Mamdani has A lot on his plate, and I really do think he's drinking from a fire hose, and he hasn't even been sworn.
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Jake Novak
In yet. Yeah, you know what? You made a point about places, nowhere to go. This has been true. And this isn't just with the illegal aliens and migrants, but it's been true since the beginning of time, probably. But certainly in my understanding and my long studying of the history of New York City, crime always hurts the poor more. I know that Zohra Mamdani has these dreams of taxing the white people more and going up. I have never seen a homeless encampment on Park Avenue or on the nice part of Fifth Avenue. Never. And by the way, I've been trying to figure out why that is for many years. I think that maybe the doormen and the owners of those buildings have a deal with the nypd. I don't know what it is on the Upper west side. However, even in fancy buildings there, it's not cheap there either, folks. You see plenty of them, and it's clear that there are areas where they allow it and where they don't allow it. But let me just say, on the Upper east side and Park Avenue and the Fifth Avenue, you don't see illegal migrants, you don't see homeless encampments, and you don't see a tremendous amount of crime. Where does it happen? In the poorer neighborhoods. So if you let these illegal immigrants go, or if you let people out of Rikers island, or you don't put people in jail unless they commit 10 murders, it's not the white people who are getting, oh, we're getting revenge on whitey. No, they're getting revenge. Revenge. They're just getting piling on more. The minority and poor communities in the city. We have seen this. Again, I don't think Zorah Mandani is a great student of history, but you don't need to be a great student of history, just a casual student of history to know that this is true. Vanessa. This is a war on the poor. Not rich whitey, not white people, not Park Avenue. It's a war on Bed Stuy. It's a war on the Bronx. It's a war on Far Rockaway, Queens. That's who.
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Vanessa Simon
Gets it. It's a war on working class as well. All the areas that you highlighted in addition to taxpayers. Like, I own a home in Queens. But you're right. I work in the Upper east side. It's cleaner air. I don't have to deal with anything. All I know is when I go to midtown and below. I call it zombie zombie land. And it's insane down there and I never want to go down there. But I take my train, the Long Island Railroad to Laurelton, Queens, and here I am. But you're right, there are identified areas where it's more prevalent and it's just not fair. So Memdani, you know, has a lot on his plate.
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Jake Novak
Coming up. Vanessa, is there, is there a ray of hope for next year? I know that I think in the past you've been a supporter of Lisa Phonic becoming governor of New York. Obviously, she's a candidate. Is that something to look forward to next year, her candidacy or some kind of turnaround? At least in Albany we've got Elise.
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Vanessa Simon
Coming up. I see we got Bruce Blakeman coming up. I really two very strong contenders to take on Kathy Hochul. I just need New Yorkers, all New Yorkers, regardless of what side of the aisle you are on, to really take a hard look at what Hochul has yet to to deliver. She hasn't been delivering for us. So why vote in the same old, same old and look into these two strong candidates, Elise Stefanik and Bruce Blakeman, and see who will rise to the top and be the GOP contender for hopeful because at this point, New York needs an overhaul and it needs to turn around sooner rather.
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Jake Novak
Than later. Yeah. The governor of New York position, no matter who the governor is, has a tremendous amount of power over what happens in New York City. It's an unusual situation in our state constitution. So if we have the right governor, a lot of this bad stuff could be avoided. Right now, we don't have the right governor. Vanessa Simon, thank you so much for joining us. The next time you join us, I hope it's better and more peaceful days. But thank you so much and have a great rest of.
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Vanessa Simon
Your week. Happy holidays. Happy Hanukkah.
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Jake Novak
To everyone. Thank you. Coming up, the massive and scary train wreck that now former Michigan football coach Sharon Moore has become. Well, that was entirely predictable, folks. But guess what division of the University of Michigan dropped the ball. David Brody and I will discuss because it's not just at University of Michigan when AMERICAN Sunrise EARLY EDITION continues. The control room is just being tough on me by showing all these warm shots in Florida today. Key Biscayne, Florida, there. That's a nice shot there with the boats. It's so cold in New York this morning and we had, I my, in my area we had six inches, but it's, I think they got as much as 8 in some parts of this of this New York area that looks beautiful. And I was last, at this time last week, I was in sunny Florida. So my own fault. Welcome back to American Sunrise EARLY edition again, what a horrific weekend we've had. And of course, of all the attacks that we had, I think that from a political standpoint, this attack on our US Servicemen in Syria is very, very serious. And I did begin the program talking about that we had the shooting at Brown University, which by the way, now the shooter that they had as a person of interest, not the shooter, they had to let that person go. So the shooter's still at large. And of course, we also had the murder of Rob Reiner, the actor director, and his wife Michelle, who was actually a prominent photographer in Hollywood. Terrible incident there. According to People magazine, the murderer was their own son who had addiction problems his whole life. Terrible story. I know Rob Reiner's politics and his comments have infuriated me for years, but many of his films were fantastic. And even if they weren't, no one wishes that on someone, especially at the hands of their own child. But I do want to talk about the situation in Australia with David Brody right now. I was going to talk about the situation at University of Michigan with Sharon Moore. Spoiler alert. The HR department at University of Michigan and everybody and their brother knew that he was having this extramarital affair, knew that this was a disgusting situation and let it happen because HR departments, and I'm not making this as a joke, this, this is true. In fact, someone should write a paper about this. HR departments make things worse, period. But let's talk about Australia for a second because, David, we had some of the viewers point out, and I didn't make it, I didn't mean to say that you can't get a gun in Australia. It is possible to get a gun in Australia, not as easy as the United States, but not if you're in the Jewish community, not if you're in some other parts. You have to have certain reasons for it. It's still difficult to protect yourself properly. And I just don't think that we can only blame the governments anymore. If certain groups are getting attacked over and over again, then you need to defend yourself. And if you can't defend yourself legally where you live, maybe you ought to move or at least absolutely protest and make change. It's just crazy human right to defend yourself. Well, not only as we all know that Australia has the strictest, some of the most strictest gun laws in the entire world. Beyond all of that, you cannot get A gun in Australia for, quote, self defense. Well, there you have it. I mean, if you can't get a gun for self defense, goodnight nurse, if you will. I mean, you know, what's the point? You know, go pheasant hunting really. As a matter of fact, indeed, if you want to go sport shooting in Australia, then you can apply and you can potentially get approved. And there's a couple of options for getting a gun for those reasons and there's a couple others, obviously, but no self defense. Like the number one reason you would probably want to have a gun. No, you can't do it. So that kind of goes to your point, Jake, about not just the Jewish community, but really quite frankly, writ large. Anybody in Australia who wants to protect themselves called the Second Amendment. Something Australia not familiar with. Yeah, and something a little older than the second Amendment. The Bible explicitly commands us to protect ourselves. We can't just sit around. You know, there's something really. Somebody, somebody said this to me years ago and I love how it's true. There are no rights in the Bible. The Bible doesn't give you any rights, only responsibilities that lead to human rights responsibilities and the responsibility to protect yourself when your life is being threatened. You're not supposed to be a martyr. You're not supposed to say, well, you know, no, I'm giving up. You're supposed to defend yourself with very few exceptions, every single time. And if you live in a country that doesn't allow you that, then I would say it's an anti Christian, anti Jewish country. Simple as that. I hear you. Free will as well. The Bible, free will, which means policies need to be done the correct way by politicians. All right, well, we have a busy American Sunrise coming up. Early edition comes.
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Vanessa Simon
Back tomorrow. This is an.
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Jake Novak
Iheart podcast.