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Ahead on AMERICAN SUNRISE EARLY edition. The situation at Brown University just keeps getting fishier in the wake of that deadly shooting and continuing manhunt for the shooter in that incident Saturday afternoon, the school scrubs the web pages of a student who seems to fit the same body type as the person of interest in surveillance videos. But then it claims it's only to protect that student from harassment. Really, this just doesn't look good. A blockbuster revelation in the infamous Mar A lago raid from 2022. Just released memo show that the FBI told the Biden Justice Department that the raid on President Trump's home was most likely not justified, but it happened anyway. It's the most damning evidence yet of lawfare and thuggery under former Attorney General Merrick Garland. He was supposed to be the good guy. Remember him? House Speaker Mike Johnson nixes any new votes on Obamacare subsidy extensions through the end of the year. And America's health insurance giants take a hit on the stock market. On the news, is there a gravy train off the rails? Of course, the financial pain for those health insurers is a big gain for those maniacs who have been justifying Luigi Mangione's murder of a health care insurance CEO last year. Right. They're happy about that, right? Wrong. They never cared about affordable healthcare. They just want blood. And now we all know it. And President Trump is set to address the nation tonight at 9pm his agenda could be almost anything. The economy, Venezuela, end of the year, terror threats. We all better stay tuned. It'll be here on rab. You better believe it. American Sunrise EARLY EDITION begins now. Welcome to American SUNRISE EARLY edition, the show where faith, freedom and the values.
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With your host, Jake Novak starts now. Welcome everyone, to this Wednesday here on American Sunrise EARLY edition. I'm Jake Novak. Once again, a lot to cover this morning, all each and every one of the individual stories we'll be covering could be a lead very easily be a lead story on Enemy another day. But we have a lot of contenders this morning. And joining us right now to help us with a lot of those topics is former Green Beret Matt Tardeo, former law enforcement officer, now a podcaster. And Matt, I'm going to tell you something really honestly. I don't think I've been as incensed and angry getting into a program on this show as I am today. There are so many things that are just absolutely infuriating me. And at the top of the list is the way that Brown University and the Providence Police Department is carrying out this fishy, what looks like a DEI investigation of that mass shooting on their campus Saturday afternoon. They have a student who looks exactly like this person in the video that they've released of a person of interest. They've scrubbed all of his web pages that describe him as a pro Palestinian activist connected with radicals on campus. He was one of those people with a bullhorn at the anti Israel protests in Brown a while back. And they're not even letting you say his name, but I'll say his name. And again, I'm not saying he's the shooter. I'm just saying that he should have a lot of investigations going on about him. His name is Mustafa Carbouche. I'll say it, not saying he did it. So don't try to sue me. But Matt, that's just one example. And any mention of him or questions about him yesterday at a news conference were angrily turned aside. This is, I feel like they're deliberately covering this up. It really feels like a cover up now. And this has me incensed.
Matt Tardio
I mean, do you feel like it's being covered up because the president said that she had absolutely no idea about his information being removed off the websites? I mean, just throwing that one out there.
Jeremy Tate
Right?
Matt Tardio
And yes, you have every right to be angry about this because he does meet several of the descriptors. On top of having glasses, there's a motive that definitely looks like it would be there. There's all sorts of things that, you know, a reasonable person would look at and say, yeah, you might want to look into this guy.
Jake Novak
You know what? I, I want to have this as analogy and the real reason why I'm angry, not only just because of the, the lies that are being told, I'm right. The president of Brown University, Christina Paxson, this is a university that was scrubbing all of the students web pages. This was a student who was not only admitted to Brown University from the Palestinian camp that he grew up in in Lebanon. And they call these things camps. They're, they're neighborhoods. They're not like living in tents in squalor. Some of them are, they live in apartment buildings. They, you know, I'm not saying they're living in the greatest luxury, although some of them are. That's not what I'm trying to say. But as a 27 year old sophomore, which is also outrageous, if anybody else coming from, to the, trying to get into that university anywhere near the age of 21 isn't admitted. But if you're, if you're, if you're a pro terrorist sympathizer from overseas, they let you in at that ridiculous age. I don't want my children going to College with a 27 year old in the same dorm. It just doesn't make any sense. But anyway, that's, that, that's one thing. Aggressively recruited to go to the university, celebrated by the university. Those pages that you mentioned that have been taken down, they found this guy and they decided to make him a featured student in a number of their websites and their publications that get sent down and put up online for alumni to read. They started to scrub them, they started to take them offline. Then they said, oh, we were doing it because he was being harassed. No, he wasn't being harassed. We only knew about this guy because he started taking the web pages down. And the president of the university says, I don't know anything about it. I mean, just lied in the face and those cameras, looked right in those cameras and lied in their face. Now I want to have an analogy here so people can understand why I'm so angry. Really quickly again, because this university actively recruited this kind of a person. Imagine you were a black family sending your child to a university in the United States. And that university openly and proudly, aggressively recruited white supremacists from overseas, maybe a skinhead from Austria or something like that, and was proud to do it, and then put them up on their website and said, look at this great student that we have. How quickly would you pull your black child out of that university? Probably within a second. That's what's going on. If you're a Jewish family who the be all and end all is to send your kid to an Ivy League school, you're paying 90 grand a year to put your kid into college, where that college proudly recruits the people who want to kill your child. That is what's going on right now.
Matt Tardio
Yeah, it'd be like pulling people and aggressively recruiting them out of the kkk, to be perfectly clear about this, right? Not only that, we would have massive riot. Riots. We would have massive protests. We would have people in the streets running around screaming, trying to get funding pulled from that university, making sure not a federal dollar goes there. There'd be people bending a knee, literally. We'd have FBI agents on their knee, you know, outside of Brown University, complaining about it. That's what would end up happening. But in this case, no, we don't have that. We have them not only recruiting them, but allowing them to go over there and protest at the exact same time. It's extremely, extremely troubling. And I'll tell you the other. You want to know what actually troubles me about this entire investigation? And it has to do with the. Now that. Thank you guys, for releasing the camera locations that you have on campus. So now we know that this location over at 145 Waterman, where they have, you know, basically been, you know, tracking, you know, from his surveillance videos that ended up getting released, we know it looks like that he likely ended up parking or was affiliated with this location. And they've had it under surveillance for the last several days and is only about 200 meters. And in the direct path from where he's taking to go down to where the shooting took place is. Is right in line with some security cameras. And now they're saying that they don't have any footage, but this grainy footage that they released to us of this particular individual. And I believe that the imagery that got released shows that they have three cameras on the intersection that would show the shooter, if that is, in fact, the shortest distance and the path that he took to get there. Now, if he didn't, that tells us something completely different. That of all of the locations for cameras on the university, that one corner that would have had him covered, that one corner that would have had him covered, that would have shown that he avoided that entire corner within itself and stayed away from those cameras. It is extremely, extremely troubling.
Jake Novak
I just. I. All right, let's get to another outrage, because I. You know, my head's going to explode on this one. This is another one. Well, you have multiple reports now, evidence that the FBI told the justice department back in 2022 that that raid on Mar? A Lago that was just so incredible, the one where they went through Melania's underwear drawer, staged the evidence. Remember, they put all those classified documents on the floor as if they were just strewn about, even though they were very securely locked up. Apparently, the FBI told the doj, there was not enough justification for that kind of a raid. You know, you talk about here, you have one case at Brown where they're deliberately not doing their job and not looking into something. And then, of course, you have something at the DOJ a few years ago where they're aggressively going after. I mean, this is. This is just so incredible lawfare thuggery. And remember how Merrick Garland, when he didn't get the Supreme Court justice position, was considered to be, oh, this guy was a moderate. That why did they choose him? He's such a fair guy. I mean, clearly this guy was incredibly corrupt.
Matt Tardio
Well, it's not like the FBI can decide that. They just want to go raid, you know, Mar A Lago and go do it on their own. After sending off an email to the Biden administration, they got to go and they got to get a warrant signed by a judge in order to search that, in order to pull information, in order to pull documents, in order to do whatever it is that, that the Biden administration wanted them to do. They have to go to a judge and get it signed. So if the FBI is sitting there and the FBI is warning we do not have probable cause, then who picked that judge out to make sure that that warrant got signed? What conversations had with that judge? Now, I want email conversations between that judge and anybody that was affiliated with Mar A Lago to see who is pushing that judge to sign that warrant. Because if an FBI agent says we don't even feel like we have probable cause, most of the time, the judges are the ones that, that are pushing back, that are trying to protect those rights. If, if, if law enforcement officers try to push things, right, they're the ones that should be protecting those and making sure that's why that checks and balance system is actually in place. So if the FBI says no, we don't even feel like we have probable cause for this. H. How is it that a judge felt that there was probable cause for it and was like, you know, yeah, it's a little bit loose, but let's go Ray Donald Trump's house. I want to see those communications.
Jake Novak
I mean, it's, it's beyond infuriating. And again, the usual argument that's been made that if they can do this to Donald Trump, they can do it to anyone. And you know that there's a lot of people, not only the judges, but probably a lot of the people of the DOJ are still working there also, despite Doge, and despite all the other stuff, which is really upsetting all Right now to something that actually, I'm all for the escalating situation in Venezuela. Everyone else is leading with this this morning, and I think it's a very, very important story. President Trump saying that all of Venezuela's oil tankers, the sanctioned oil, are now surrounded. They can't go anywhere. And this comes on the heels of Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, doing an interview with Vanity Fair. And we can talk about that another time. Whether or not she should have done the interview, I, to me, it doesn't bother me that much one way or the other. But her saying, hey, by the way, those attacks on the drug boats really aren't about stopping drugs necessarily. They're about getting Maduro out of power. Guess what? Good. I don't care if you get Maduro out of power, you'll also get some of the drugs to stop coming through. I don't understand why anyone would have a problem with that. But you know what? I'm okay with this blockade, Matt. I'm also okay with the fact that trying to get Maduro out of power, he's an illegal dictator and a brutal one at that.
Matt Tardio
Yeah, they connected Maduro to the cartel.
Jake Novak
Great.
Matt Tardio
Amazing. And you go and you stop these drug boats from going out of the country, which is also a good thing because they're not coming to the United States of America. That's going to put pressure on Maduro not just from the United States of America blowing up his drug boats, but also from the cartel that can no longer their drug boats through. Because, you know, there's a promise that ended up making that happen with Venezuela being that, that little hub. But the big story here, right, has absolutely nothing to do in, in my opinion with these drug boats. And it has everything to do with China and Russia. Right. And just like we saw underneath, Joe Biden with his family collecting money from China. And of course, when he was vice president of the United States, he ends up taking his crackhead son with him on his last flight over into China, who wanders off into China and Joe Biden has no idea what his crackhead son's doing over in China, according to him. Right. But all of a sudden we have these Democrats that are standing up for, for, for Venezuela. And why would that be when, when we know that Joe Biden, that was his last trip that he ended up taking over there and we have a Chinese, Russian and, and a run in connection going on over inside Venezuela. It kind of makes me wonder whether or not there's more dirt going on on the Democrat side of the House that they don't want to admit to. Like everybody's all of a sudden going to lose a lot of money or maybe some of their family's lives are under threat because that's what happens when you make deals with the devil. So getting Maduro out of power and taking care of Venezuela is, is a heck of a lot more important than just stopping drugs. I, I know I've talked about before on your show, and I, and a lot of us have brought this up, that, that Chinese, Russian influence over inside of our hemisphere is going to be our downfall. This is like Cuban missile crisis 2.0 and Americans don't even realize it.
Jake Novak
Yeah, it's a great, it's a great group of characters over there in Caracas. China, Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, which is Iran. Next they're going to have Lex Luthor, the Riddler and the Joker and it'll be, that'll be a nice little convention they're having there. Matt Tardio, thank you so much for joining us. You've calmed me down a little bit. You've also fired me up as well. It's just an infuriating morning, but hopefully by getting this information out to the viewers, more people are aware and we can maybe stop this, these outrages. It's really. Thank you for, thank you for your service and we'll speak real soon. Thank you.
Matt Tardio
It's a new America, Jake. It's a new America, you know. Thank you.
Jake Novak
Yeah. One with the higher blood pressure. That's right. All right. Coming up, it looks like House Speaker Mike Johnson has decreed a death sentence for those lucrative OB subsidies. Now the big health insurance companies get those subsidies and the stock market is reacting. But first, it's often more important to notice what politicians don't say and don't do. There's something Congresswoman Ilan Omar isn't saying or doing in the face of some serious accusations against her. That story and more when American Sunrise EARLY EDITION comes right back.
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It's a live look at Peaks Island, Maine. Looks like there's a fishing boat about. Going out to go out there. Boy, where are the polar bears today? Oh, it's a ferry. Yeah, yeah, that's a fairy. There are a lot of ferries in there. That water's cold. Make sure you stay. Keep your hands and feet on the boat at all times. If you don't know how the game is played these days, you might think that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is strongly fighting back against those accusations that she married her own brother in order to commit citizenship fraud by. You know, after all she's saying, those Republicans are sick for accusing her. That boy, she's a strong woman. She's pulling out all the stops. No, she's not. Because as President Trump has shown us in the last few years, especially even the last few days, when somebody in the news media or somebody accuses you of something that you didn't do, you sue them. But guess what she's not doing. As Emily Finn joins us right now. Emily, Ilhan Omar is not suing the publications like the Daily Mail that have put this out there and shown evidence that she married her own brother. She's not suing the people who put out the marriage certificate. No lawsuits at all. And here's just this just in. Lawyers like to knock on people's doors when they have a hot case. I promise you, some of them probably called her and she's not suing him. And that says more than anything that she has to say right now, Emily.
Emily Finn
It'S very, very telling. And I'm happy that you brought that up about President Trump, because President Trump goes after everyone that says things that are untrue about him. Said it's the very first step that you would take when someone tried to accuse you of something that you had no involvement with. And I want to take this a step further, too. She just had this crazy story saying that, oh, police pulled over my son. And then DHS comes out and says, we have no record that this ever happened. So she would be suing everybody left and right if she actually had something to defend. But I think, like you said, it's very telling. She knows she's in the wrong, so she can just go on all of these mainstream media outlets, you know, on Ms. Now on cnn, as much as she wants and just complain and complain. But what is she actually doing about it?
Jake Novak
Yeah, there is a really an ancient legal axiom. It actually started in Talmudic times. Shtika kahuda ahu. I mean, if you're quiet, that means that you agree. That means that you're basically complicit. And Latin Roman law also took that. And there's a Latin phrase. I'm not exactly, I don't want to misquote it. This is a similar Latin phrase. So while she's seems like she's making a big stink, she's not. And for all the people say, like, oh, Donald Trump's too litigious, he's too pugnacious. He's suing. When you sue that that often, it's actually a good sign. In many ways. It means that you're willing to defend the truth because, you know, either put up or shut up. You don't, when you sue somebody, it's not for free. This just in, you got to pay those lawyers. And sometimes they're on a contingency, but I don't think they're on a contingency at the level of Donald Trump So, yeah, I mean, it shows. You're putting your money where your mouth is. You're not just going on TV and saying, oh, they're sick. You're willing to, you know, the truth, what the truth is, and you're willing to put your money on the line. And that is when you know someone is at least has some kind of a credible case, you know, that they're.
Emily Finn
At least taking it seriously. And I will say this too, Jake. You have to look at the people that you know you're friends with too. What are the people around you doing? The squad has not come to her defense. I don't even know if the squad is still together. I think the squad broke up. But yeah, she clearly knows that she's in the wrong or she would be handling this completely differently.
Jake Novak
Well, one thing we know is whatever dating site or dating app Ilan Omar is using, don't. Don't log on. Really? I'm not really interested at all. What is it called? That's something. I don't know. Incest. The incest.
Emily Finn
I think it's called Keep it in the family.
Matt Tardio
Just kidding.
Jake Novak
Just kidding. Yeah. Keep it in the family. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. All right, well, Emily Finn, thank you so much for joining us. We'll see you in the 8 to 10am hours. And you know, it's a Wednesday. We're almost there.
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Halfway through the week. Thanks, Jake.
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I think I'll go for a walk.
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Frightful. But the fire is so delightful since we've no place to go. What was that line in Annie hall that Woody Allen said something. I, I don't. It's too warm here for Christmas. Santa's gonna get sunstroke. There's Miami, Florida. Listen, who cares? You can celebrate Christmas or any holiday. Doesn't matter what this, what the weather is outside. Beautiful morning there with the flamingos in Miami, Florida. It's still cold here in New York. But we're gonna, I think we're gonna get up to almost 50 today, so it should melt all of our snow. Definitely looks better down in Miami. Let's take a look at where the markets will begin today. That looks good too. A lot of green on your screen there. You know, nothing serious, nothing like a major rally. Although almost half a percent on the Nasdaq. That's not bad. Gold going back up at 43, at 46. And look at silver, 66 bucks now on silver. I mean it's just been at that all time high. Crude oil had a 55 handle on it yesterday. It's up to 56. That might have something to do with what's going on with Venezuela. I'm going to talk about the timing of that in a moment. And now let's take a look at Bitcoin and see if it's cr. And it's, it's still struggling. It's really, it's at 87 that we got all the way down to 81 not that long ago, about a week ago, I think it was maybe less and certainly way, way off the 125,000 all time high for bitcoin thanks to the Obamacare Subsidy death March. That's what I'm calling it, the subsidy death March. The big health insurance stocks all took a hit yesterday. Remember last week I mentioned to you that you can find out. We'll, we'll get a good, pretty good idea. Excuse me. I think I figured I told you this on Monday as well. We'll get a pretty good idea at how the votes in Congress are going based on what's going on in the stock market. If the health care insurance stocks go down, that means that the Obamacare subsidies are probably not going to get extended. And boy did they go down yesterday because Speaker Mike Johnson canceled any vote that might happen to extend those subsidies between now and the end of the year. So now there were some pretty significant hits. 2% losses for United Health Care Elevance Health, which is the old Anthem Health. 2% losses is not Nothing to sneeze at in one day, but still nothing that terrible. But, but for Humana, it was a pretty terrible day. They lost those shares, lost 6% yesterday. So pretty big loss for those health insurance companies. I'm going to talk a little bit about something else that we've learned about this in connection with Luigi Mangione a little bit later in the program. Now we got the delayed November jobs report yesterday and it showed a very hard to decipher jobs market in America. There was only an expectation of 45,000 net new jobs created for all of November. The actual number was a little bit better than that, 64,000. And I say actual number and I put that in quotes because as many of you know, I don't trust economic reports from the government. I don't care who the President is, I don't care who's in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I don't care if there's a partisan bent or not. It doesn't matter. The way that they do these surveys is faulty. I think everybody knows that. You might say, well, wait a minute, Jake, Wall street moves one way or the other on these jobs numbers. They must be legitimate. No, they're not legitimate. Wall street is just betting on the numbers like a roulette wheel. That's really all they're doing. They're betting on a number that comes up and not because they actually think it's the real picture of the jobs market or the economy. So again, it looks like it's, we're in what people are calling a no hire, no fire economy. And again, that's only what we think. We're not sure, but it just looks like people aren't getting laid off. But there's also not a lot of hiring. That's the guess, but it's only a guess. Prices for commodities, however, are always very reliable. Someone's charging you for something that's a real thing. And the price of crude oil now sits, even though we're up a little bit this morning, it now sits at a, at about a four year low. And that's important to understand because I've noticed that President Trump looks at the market sometimes when he realizes something he's going to do politically might affect the markets. And he decides to do them at a time when there'll be the less, the least pain. You might remember he imposed the tariffs in early April at a time when the stock markets were an all time high. So even though he knew the markets would take a hit over that, there was plenty of money to go around they could exact absolutely absorb it. And of course here we are now where the market's right back to all time highs. So that worked out well. He didn't decide to blockade all that oil from Venezuela until we hit that four year low when he knew that we wouldn't see pain at the gas pump the next day. And you won't and that's a pretty interesting policy. It's nice to have a president who looks at all the factors at once. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. It's moving America. Sponsored by Artillery Tea Co. Artilleryteeco.com use promo code RAV for 10% off your order. Artillery Tea is all natural, it's whole leaf. The tea bags are chemical free and each tea bag can be used twice. Artillery Tea Company is family and veteran, owned and operated and a portion of your purchase goes to veteran and first responder charities. Artilleryteaco.com promo code RAV for 10% off your order. Ford is taking a Special, a special $19.5 billion charge against their profits because their EV sales are just so weak. Their EV division has been such a loser. You know from watching this program all about that. But there is a specific model in the graveyard, I guess we could say over this. Ford is no longer going to make the F150 Lightning EV. This is something that should not be a surprise to anyone. I've spoken to a lot of people who own Ford F150s their entire adult lives. They say that The Lightning Electric EV F150 doesn't have the, the hauling power that they wanted, et cetera, et cetera. And they just don't have in the places that they live enough charging stations. They don't live in some of these cities where they have charging stations everywhere and on and on down the line. What makes me angry about this? Look, any company can try something and fail and I'm glad they tried. We have to have companies trying new things. What makes me angry about this is this was entirely done to please the Biden administration, the Obama people, all that kind of stuff. And people are going to lose their jobs over this if they haven't already. You don't just take a nineteen and a half billion dollar charge to your earnings and not lay people off as a result, instead of just sticking with what was strong for Ford, which Is trucks and SUVs and employing more people that way and working on those sales. And so that's why I'm upset about it. People were hurt by this for political posturing, posturing. Now you know what Hyundai and a Kia. You know that company, Hyundai and Kia, popular cars here in the United States, by the way, they've been selling very well, but they must have the worst lawyers in America. The reason why I say that is Hyundai and Kia agreed yesterday to pay the State of New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul $9 million to settle some cases that the, that the city and the state had lodged against Hyundai and Kia because get this, apparently it was a little bit easier to hack into the systems of Hyundai and Kia's a few years ago and rob them. Now, that's true. That was a fault in Hyundai and Kia's manufacturing, and they have fixed that problem. Look, if you're an individual owner and you had your car stolen, you have a case. But the state of New York, the same state of New York that releases violent criminals regularly releases violent illegal aliens instead of handing them over to ice. They have absolutely no standing in a case like this. Where were Hyundai and Kia's lawyers to make that case to the public and to the courts and to say, we'll pay the individual owners of our cars who had their cars stolen, but we're not giving a penny to New York State, a state that clearly doesn't care about crime because it releases criminals on the daily. Well, apparently they weren't willing to do that or weren't smart enough to do that. And they forked over $9 million to Letitia James and Kathy Hochul, which will probably be used to give money and. All right, wait just a minute. The Nissan Altima is not dead yet. Everybody said, including Nissan, at least they were hinting that they would no longer make their mid level or whatever you want to call it, their sedan. It's a sedan, but I guess you call it mid level. It's definitely not high end. But they said they would no longer make the mid level Ultima sedan. This is their sedan that has been competing in a way against the Toyota Camry and the Honda Accord for years. Something changed, though, in the last couple of days. And now Nissan says they will put out a new model of the Nissan Altima in the coming years. At least one more year and it's still going to list for less than $30,000. It goes for $28,900. All right, getting back to what Ford does best, SUVs and trucks. There's a Ford salesman at a dealership in Oklahoma who has made this viral video. There it is. Look at the wreckage of the Ford escape that he's looking there. That is that was, I should say, a loaner car that one of his customers was given while his other Ford was being serviced and it was totaled by a reckless truck. And he's happy to say that the person driving that car walked away with absolutely no injuries. The Ford Escape and a number of other Ford SUVs and trucks get very, very high safety ratings. And there you go. That is what Ford should be focusing on. Not EVs and certainly not F150 EVs and maybe they'll get the picture right now. Very, very dramatic video there. Okay. Coming up, Luigi Mangioni, cheering squad. You know those cheerleaders who love that guy, they must be happy, right? About those falling stock prices for health insurance companies. After all, he assassinated a greedy healthcare CEO, didn't he? You'd think that, right? No, you didn't think they actually gave a darn about health care, did you? But first, has the SAT become just another woke joke? You're about to meet the man behind a new test that puts real learning first. American Sunrise, early edition. We'll be right back.
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Jake Novak
It's Wednesday, December 17th era. This morning's top stories. The situation at Brown University just keeps getting fishier and frankly enraging in the wake of that deadly shooting and continuing manhunt for the shooter. The school scrubs the webpages of a student who seems to fit the same body type as the person of interest in the surveillance videos, but then claims it's only to protect that student from harassment. Seems like they're protecting him for a lot of other things, too. A blockbuster revelation in the infamous Mar? A lago raid from 2022. Just released emails show that the FBI told the Biden Justice Department that the raid on President Trump's home was most likely not justified, but it happened anyway. It's the most damning evidence yet of lawfare and thuggery under former Attorney General Merrick Garland. House Speaker Mike Johnson nixes any new votes on Obamacare subsidy extensions through the end of the year. And America's health insurance giants take a hit on the stock market on that news is their gravy train off the tracks? And President Trump is set to address the nation tonight at 9pm his agenda could be almost anything, the economy, our blockade of Venezuela, end of the year, terror threats. There's a lot to address. Better stay tuned. American SUNRISE EARLY EDITION continues now. And again. Again, welcome back to AMERICAN Sunrise early edition of this Wednesday. I'm Jake Novak. And again, of course, that 9pm Primetime address from President Trump. Of course, you'll be able to see it live here on Real America's Voice. So make sure you keep it here for that. And I do think he's going to hit a lot of topics, not just one. When it was first announced, I thought it might be just the economy, which is certainly important issue. But now that we are almost totally blockading Venezuela, I think that may be a big topic that he addresses. And it could he could also talk about the terror threats that we're seeing. If you remember, last year at this time, we also suffered through a number of terror threats, not only here in the United States, but all over the world. Of course, the worst one was that New Year's Eve bombing in New Orleans, which is still not completely solved, in my opinion, just ugly, ugly situations that it seems like Islamist terrorists really like choosing Christmas and New Year's Eve period of the year to do their attacks both here and especially in Europe as well. And of course, we know what happened in Australia on Sunday on Saturday. Welcome to Sunday. Welcome back. Let's turn our attention to something else because education, as you know is a major, major issue on this program. I think at least once a week we look at the education system in this country and the problems in it. And one of my favorite things to do is not just to talk about problems. I had a rule in my newsrooms when I ran newsrooms. If you do a problem on your, any of your programs and do a story about it more than twice, and the third time you don't offer a solution, then you can't do the story anymore. You're just. You're just annoying and you're just causing. Making it worse. So here's one of the things I'd like to talk about, which is standardized testing in this country. And I want to introduce you to someone who's looking at what looks like the dumbed down and maybe even woke standardized tests. And he's been offering an alternative for quite some time. His name is Jeremy Tate, and he is the founder of an alternative to the sat. It's called the CLT or the Classic Learning Test. Jeremy, tell us about this test, how it got started, and are you getting some traction with this? Because it looks like you are.
Jeremy Tate
Yeah. Good morning, Jay. Thanks for having me on and starting the morning off with Monty Python. It was a lot of fun. Absolutely. We launched an alternative to the SAT 10 years ago. The SAT has been getting dumbed down for decades now, really starting in the 90s, especially with a reiteration in 2005. And then in 2016, it aligned with the Common Core. And you got to keep in mind, the SAT is not just this evaluative tool. It ends up being the main driver of curriculum and academic focus in secondary schools across the country. And they've moved. They've made this hard move away from the classics, away from the Western intellectual tradition that was really the education of America's founders. And we've moved so far away from that that most students can't even read our founding documents and make any sense of them at all. Founding documents also, by the way, Jake, have been removed from the new SAT as well. The new sat, the new digital one that came out this year. Reading passages are as short as 25 words. The longest reading passages are 120 words. Students can use their. Their calculator for the math section. And if you think about it, there really has been a market incentive between the SAT and ACT to become the dumber test. Right. Because if you're the easier test, you're going to be the easier gateway to scholarships and to admissions. And so CLT really launched to kind of hit the reset button to create a new standard of academic excellence. And it really has caught on. West Point, the Naval Academy, Air Force, the University of Florida, Hillsdale. The colleges coming on board keep adding up. And students are realizing more and more this can be the best way to put their best foot forward academically.
Jake Novak
I just like the fact that there's competition. I mean, from just an economic point of view, if you have just one test or two tests. When I was in high school, at least here on the east coast, no one had heard of the act. So now at least there's that competition. But if your test gets in there, the more the merrier. Let more people look at it. Of course, I'm really, really old school. I long for the days when the universities had their own individual tests based on what their faculty and what their schools are all about. But none of them want to do that anymore because that would take time and money. And universities just like to take our money, not actually spend it on actual education. Now, I want to get into something that, because you're, you're not just saying this, you're kind of putting your money where your mouth is. The claim that the SAT has gotten easier, you're willing to put this up to the test, you would like to have a special challenge where the current SAT and the SAT that they administered way back in 1980 are given to the same group as like a control group type of study. Tell us a little bit about that.
Jeremy Tate
Absolutely. I mean, anecdotally, we all know this, right? The SAT from the 1980s, no calculator. There were analogies on it. Students walked out and they said that was difficult. It was a four hour test. Now, no analogies, totally dependent on a calculator. It's a two hour digital adaptive test. So very different experience. And we know from other scores like the NAEP that students in their mathematical and their reading comprehension skills have been going down steadily, especially since 2020, and yet none of that is showing up on the sat. And so what they're doing is they're adjusting the test to hide, to conceal the fact that students, American students, are in decline academically. And so the College Board, they put an article out in the Wall Street Journal about a week ago making the claim that, no, no, no, their test isn't getting any easier, despite what everybody's saying. And so we want to give them an opportunity to prove that. We want to administer the old 1980 sat to a couple hundred students at one of our partner classical schools and see how those scores compare to their Actual SAT scores as well. And I think what we're going to find is the same thing the University of Cincinnati found when they use artificial intelligence to look at just the mass section of the sat, and they found that the mass section has declined by at least 4,4 points per year for over 20 years on average. I think we're going to find the same thing when real students are put to the test.
Jake Novak
Well, the tests are easier. And by the way, if you lower the baskets in the NBA to 7ft, I'm going to be the slam dunk champion. So similar, similar analogy there. You know, there's another thing about the SAT that really stinks to high hell. We know for sure that Chinese students have been cheating on the SAT for years. Based on a wide network of tutors and other organizations within China that get the questions that are most likely to be repeated on tests. I think they repeat the questions for through a certain series of tests, which is why legitimate tutoring organizations can't use those questions in their reviews too often. They have to wait for the those questions to cycle out of the system anyway. This has been going on for well over a decade. I mean, you didn't take a genius to figure out there was cheating going on. I mean, you meet some of these foreign students who can barely speak English and yet they got a 780 or 790 on the verbal out of 800. I mean, we've known that's been a problem. I don't think you can cheat on the, on the clt, can you?
Jeremy Tate
You know, I think since the CLT has become more and more high stakes, you know, as a gateway to places like West Point, Hillsdale, the University of Florida, we have more and more students attempting to cheat. And in fact, we ban or we at least cancel scores because the CLT is offered remotely. Students can take it on a device where we can see their screen, monitor their keyboard as well. And any violation of rules, the score gets voided. And it's about 20% of test takers get a voided score. And so there wasn't just a need to hit the reset button in terms of academic excellent. There was absolutely a need to hit the reset button in terms of test security and validity as well. Colleges need a score that they can, that they can actually trust. So we pour a ton of energy and capital and manpower into being able to give colleges a secure score that they can trust.
Jake Novak
Yeah, you know what, Jeremy, I want to finally let our viewers know, and I'd love to get your comment on this about an interesting trend right now that's going on in another form of testing test scores. A lot of people looked at this and they've been surprised ever since this came out as a story. But Mississippi is now number one in state reading scores across the country and a blue state like Oregon is last 50th. I think the reason why I'm bringing this up to you is that I think it just goes to show that trying new things usually leads to good outcomes, even if you're a state like Mississippi, which not too long ago was so far behind everybody else. This is why we need more tests. Tests. New kinds of testing. I wouldn't say necessarily more testing, but new kinds of testing. If we're going to do testing in the first place, that allows for more of the kids brains to be used 100%.
Jeremy Tate
And in Mississippi, what they're doing is in some ways not new. Is going back to the tried and true. Right. They're not trying to create young political activists. I grew up in Oregon. That's what they're trying to do in the education system in Oregon. They're going back to the tried and true Mississippi. Reading, writing, arithmetic. Right. And they're seeing, by having that as the core focus, they're seeing incredible, incredible results. And I hope the blue states follow suit because it's not just Mississippi. We're seeing this in Florida, Louisiana. Kade Brumley is a superintendent. One of the best superintendents in the country is taking Louisiana from 49th to 30th in just about four years by applying a lot of the same practices they're doing in Mississippi.
Jake Novak
Yeah. And we've also provided tremendous value to our viewers right now because we pronounced Oregon correctly. It's Oregon, not Oregon. Just pretend there's an I before the last, the second. Pretend the second to last letter is an I and then you'll say it. Right. So again, Oregon, it's also Nevada, so don't, don't say it wrong. Anyway, thank you so much. Jeremy Tate. Good luck with the clt. I'd love to hear about more schools using it as a primary source of admissions data. Really, really good stuff. Competition is always good, especially when it comes to knowledge. Have a great rest of your week.
Jeremy Tate
Thank you.
Jake Novak
All right. Hey, America's health insurance companies are in a pickle right now. They're losing their share prices going down because Obamacare subsidies aren't going to be renewed. It really doesn't look like they will be. You'll see. But you know what I'm saying. So of course the people who love Luigi Mangione for assassinating a healthcare CEO. They must be happy about that. Those shares are going down. They're excited. No, they actually aren't even paying attention to that story because what they're interested in is something else. Something a lot more more frightening. David Brody and I will talk about that when American Sunrise Early Edition comes right back.
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Jake Novak
The weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful. I think that's a camera perched atop the Washington Monument because we're looking at the mall there in Washington D.C. looks like a beautiful morning. I'm sure it's cold there, but not too cold. You know, I'm an old school I 28 degrees. Okay, so that's pretty cold for Washington. That's cool. I I'm gonna do something to David Brody right now. He's gonna know what I'm gonna do here. Well, he doesn't know, but he's gonna know it when I when he hears it. I used to listen to all news radio whenever I was in Washington over the years and the all news radio. I think it still exists, but I think it's on FM now. It used to be an AM station, 1500 WTOP. They also used to have the Orioles game and the games, and they used to have the greatest jingle, and it was like, it was like a harmony kind of thing. It was WTOP, Washington, D.C. david knows what I'm talking about. Anyway, that's what I think we should sing. We should. I'll find that jingle online somewhere and maybe we'll play it next time we do a bump shot in from Washington, D.C. all right. Welcome back to American Sunrise, Early Edition. Now for something that also enrages me, but at least it's illuminating as I've been reporting on this program. The health insurance companies, those greedy health insurers that everyone hates, especially the people who love Luigi Mangioni because he so bravely assassinated the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, on the streets of New York almost exactly a year ago. Of course, I'm being facetious. It's disgusting what he did. And they celebrate him now. I would have thought that those people who love Luigi Mangione because he did something for the he stuck it to the man. He stuck it to those health insurance companies. They should be celebrating now, right, because those Obamacare health care subsidies don't look like they're going to go into their pockets. They should be celebrating President Trump for trying to change those subsidies and sending them directly to you and me instead of the insurance companies. But guess what, David Brody, they're not doing that. You know why they're not doing that? Because they don't give a damn about health care. They don't care about you and me. They just like murder. These people are bloodthirsty, plain and simple. And if you. Scary.
David Brody
Yeah. It's selective outrage, by the way. I'm sorry, I digress. But at the beginning with wtop, I always think of WKRP in Cincinnati. But anyhow, sorry.
Jake Novak
I'll sing that later, too. I'll sing that, too, please. Great song. Underrated song.
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Jeremy Tate
All right.
David Brody
Selective outrage, right? So the way these people operate, right, it's violence against the elites. Knock yourself out. Violence against just regular people, the common man. No, no, no, that's bad. Sorry. The moral equivalency stuff, or I should say the inequivalency does not add up whatsoever. You know, and to your point on the stocks and all of that, why don't we take that a bit further? I tell you what, any of these folks, any of these jokers out there, Immoral jokers out there. Are you working for a company that has a pension? Is your pension tied to health care equities? Maybe you shouldn't take a pension. You want to go inside your mutual fund in your 401k. How would you get out of that? Cigna, CVS, all these other health care equities. The point is, where does it end? The answer is. Well, it's hypocrisy is what it is. And you're right, it's about murder and mayhem.
Jake Novak
I noticed this trend. You mentioned that about having pension funds. Remember the Occupy Wall street protests that were going on in New York in 2010? I covered those pretty closely. And we were just laughing when we would go there because all the protesters had iPhones. They all had laptops, they had. I mean, they were all corporate and they were literally agreeing to meet up at Starbucks to then go against protest against the man. I mean, you know, it was just a joke. And I'm sorry this is. But again, not a joke. I mean, a joke. As far as them pretending to have a cause other than. I think they just. It's like the Purge. The movie, the Purge. It's about violence. That's what they like.
David Brody
And the way they defend it, too, right? Well, we live in the world. I mean, profit's part of the world. We just have to accept the profit. Oh, come on, stop it. Go live in a hermit land then.
Jake Novak
I don't know.
David Brody
Get out of here.
Jake Novak
Yeah, it's. It's just. It's silly and people are just aggressive and angry and anxious and all those kinds of things and pretending to have a cause behind it. I. I respect people who have a real cause, but I find them few and far between these days. All right, well, American Sunrise, the big show is coming up 8 to 10am I'll join you around 9:25 to talk business a little bit more. See you tomorrow here.
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Podcast Summary: Real America’s Voice – American Sunrise Early Edition (December 17, 2025)
In this charged episode of "American Sunrise Early Edition," host Jake Novak is joined by guests Matt Tardio, Emily Finn, Jeremy Tate, and David Brody to dissect the day’s most contentious headlines. The show covers ongoing controversies at Brown University, new revelations on the Mar-a-Lago FBI raid, shifts in health insurance legislation and stock markets, geopolitical maneuvering in Venezuela, a critical look at educational standards, and recent stories about public figures. With emphasis on transparency, American values, skepticism of mainstream narratives, and sometimes biting commentary, Novak and his guests push back on what they see as cover-ups, hypocrisy, and failures in public institutions.
Segment Start: [02:44]
Jake Novak opens with palpable outrage at how Brown University and Providence Police are handling the aftermath of a deadly campus shooting. Novak alleges a cover-up, noting that student Mustafa Carbouche’s school web pages were scrubbed following the incident.
Novak questions the rationale and transparency, paralleling the university’s aggressive recruitment of pro-Palestinian activists with a hypothetical university recruiting white supremacists, drawing a provocative analogy about parental concern.
“If you’re a Jewish family... you’re paying 90 grand a year to put your kid into college where that college proudly recruits the people who want to kill your child. That is what’s going on right now.” – Jake Novak [07:05]
Matt Tardio supports Novak's suspicions, analyzing the university's surveillance camera placements, suggesting evidence may be purposely withheld.
“It is extremely, extremely troubling.” – Matt Tardio [10:55]
Segment Start: [11:04]
Discussion pivots to newly released DOJ memos indicating the FBI believed there was insufficient cause to raid Mar-a-Lago in 2022.
“Apparently, the FBI told the DOJ there was not enough justification for that kind of a raid… This is just so incredible lawfare thuggery.” – Jake Novak [11:04]
Tardio questions the judicial process, asking how a warrant was obtained despite the FBI’s warnings, calling for transparency in judge communications.
“If the FBI is warning we do not have probable cause, then who picked that judge out to make sure that that warrant got signed?” – Matt Tardio [12:01]
Segment Start: [13:09]
Trump’s move to blockade Venezuelan oil tankers is discussed, with both hosts supporting the action against Maduro. They connect Venezuela’s regime to Chinese, Russian, and Iranian interests, cautioning about the strategic implications for the US.
“This is like Cuban missile crisis 2.0 and Americans don’t even realize it.” – Matt Tardio [15:33]
Novak adds dark humor:
“Next they’re going to have Lex Luthor, the Riddler, and the Joker and... a nice little convention they’re having there.” – Jake Novak [15:47]
Segment Start: [19:28]
Novak and Emily Finn note Rep. Ilhan Omar is not suing media or individuals reporting on accusations of marriage fraud, interpreting silence as tacit admission—a legal maxim.
“If you’re quiet, that means that you agree. That means that you’re basically complicit.” – Jake Novak [21:28]
Finn notes Omar’s lack of legal defense and diminishing support even from "the Squad."
Show shifts to barbed humor about relationships:
“Whatever dating site or app Ilhan Omar is using… Don’t log on. What is it called? Incest?” – Jake Novak [22:46] “I think it’s called Keep it in the Family.” – Emily Finn [22:56]
Segment Start: [26:54]
Jake Novak shares skepticism of government jobs and economic numbers, arguing that market prices are a truer barometer. He details the logic behind Trump’s timing of certain policy actions to minimize market pain—e.g., the Venezuela oil blockade announcement.
“Prices for commodities, however, are always very reliable. Someone’s charging you for something, that’s a real thing.” – Jake Novak [26:54]
Segment Start: [41:46]
Jeremy Tate, founder of the Classic Learning Test (CLT), discusses the decline in rigor in SAT testing and the rationale for his alternative, which is being adopted by numerous reputable institutions (West Point, University of Florida, Hillsdale).
He calls for a direct comparison test between the 1980 SAT and the present to prove the decline in difficulty.
Novak and Tate discuss cheating scandals, particularly among international students, and the security measures applied to the CLT.
“We want to administer the old 1980 SAT… and see how those scores compare... I think we’re going to find… the [current] math section has declined by at least 4.4 points per year for over 20 years.” – Jeremy Tate [44:26]
The episode notes Mississippi’s leading reading scores as evidence that returning to core academic basics yields results (contrasted with Oregon’s last place).
Segment Start: [51:53]
Novak and Brody discuss the response (or lack thereof) to health insurer share price drops among the militant anti-corporate crowd, referencing the assassination of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO by Luigi Mangione.
“They don’t give a damn about health care… They just like murder. These people are bloodthirsty, plain and simple.” – Jake Novak [53:38]
Brody and Novak agree on “selective outrage” among activists, linking it to hypocrisy—many benefit from the same corporations or systems they denounce.
“Are you working for a company that has a pension? Is your pension tied to health care equities?... The answer is... It’s hypocrisy is what it is.” – David Brody [54:03]
On the Brown University investigation:
"If you’re a Jewish family... where that college proudly recruits the people who want to kill your child. That is what’s going on right now." – Jake Novak [07:05]
Judiciary critique:
“If the FBI is warning we do not have probable cause, then who picked that judge out to make sure that that warrant got signed?” – Matt Tardio [12:01]
Venezuela sanctions:
“This is like Cuban missile crisis 2.0 and Americans don’t even realize it.” – Matt Tardio [15:33]
Ilhan Omar segment humor:
“I think it’s called Keep it in the Family.” – Emily Finn [22:56]
On educational testing:
“We want to administer the old 1980 SAT… and see how those scores compare... I think we’re going to find… the [current] math section has declined by at least 4.4 points per year for over 20 years.” – Jeremy Tate [44:26]
On activist hypocrisy:
“Are you working for a company that has a pension? ... The answer is... Hypocrisy is what it is. And you’re right, it’s about murder and mayhem.” – David Brody [54:03]
| Segment / Topic | Start Time | |--------------------------------------------------------------------|------------| | Brown University shooting, alleged cover-up | 02:44 | | Mar-a-Lago raid FBI memo revelations | 11:04 | | Venezuela blockade, international intrigue | 13:09 | | Health insurance stocks and Obamacare subsidies | 26:54 | | Ilhan Omar marriage fraud accusations, legal analysis | 19:28 | | Standardized testing, SAT vs. CLT interview (Jeremy Tate) | 41:46 | | Stock market and economic overview | 26:54 | | Car industry, Ford F-150 Lightning, Hyundai/Kia lawsuits | 26:54 | | Health insurance outrage, hypocrisy (David Brody) | 51:53 |
This episode is a comprehensive snapshot of hard-right populist commentary on current events, offering listeners not just news, but guidance in interpreting controversies through a skeptical eye. The hosts blend rigorous skepticism, educational advocacy, and personal outrage, often shifting seamlessly between pointed analysis and irreverent humor. Whether or not listeners agree with the stances, the episode provides a thorough rundown of the day’s contentious issues—filtering everything through questions of transparency, values, and the battle against what the hosts see as institutional rot and activist hypocrisy.