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Jake Novak
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Jake Novak
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Jake Novak
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Jake Novak
Ahead on american sunrise early edition president trump addresses the nation with a point by point description of his administration's economic progress but another running theme of the roughly twenty minute speech was the many economic damages the president said came to this country because of the surge in illegal immigration under joe biden another day another day of maddening stonewalling and incompetence in the investigation of the shooting at brown university the police released this picture of a second person of interest but refuse to say whether it's a man or a woman oh and now we learn that the survivors of the shooting have still not been questioned about it and police haven't even asked for their descriptions of the shooter they don't want to find the shooter folks it's mostly symbolic but a handful of house republicans break ranks from speaker mike johnson and join the democrats in the push to get another vote on obamacare subsidy extensions at least sometime next month but unless the senate goes along too those subsidies will still die by a unanimous vote a dc appeals court rules in favor of president trump's order to send national guard troops onto the streets of the nation's capital there may be more court challenges ahead but this looks like a done deal right now and nick reiner is formally arraigned and charged in the murder of his parents rob and michelle reiner and more details are coming out about what may have put the victims in more danger than necessary folks you can't treat your own family members american sunrise early edition begins.
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Mitch Rochelle
Now.
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Jake Novak
Welcome to american sunrise early edition the show where faith freedom and the values that built this nation take center stage your good deeds and bad deeds that's how we're gonna judge you join.
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Host jake novak as he breaks down.
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Jake Novak
The stories that matter he will letting the public know regularly what we have found american sunrise early edition with your host jake novak starts now welcome everybody to this thursday here on american sunrise early edition i'm jake novak it just occurred to me that yesterday actually was the one year anniversary of this program so i thank all of you for watching and sticking with me i was going to do a one year old celebration extravaganza but just to tell you the truth i couldn't get donny and marie or samuel l jackson by the way this was the one thing samuel l jackson didn't want to do he does everything else so maybe we'll have a two year special extravaganza with all those people and the rockettes of course it is december seventeenth is the one year anniversary of the show today being the eighteenth and i don't know if the rockets are available around that time of year but i'll try my best all right all kidding aside let's get to all the news and again a lot of it overnight and helping us to go through it is macroeconomist and the ceo of m two communications mitch rochelle and mitch i thought it was interesting in president trump's speech last night which was ostensibly all about the economy but he really kept making a lot of connections between the economic challenges in this country and illegal immigration and the drains on our economy here's one of those moments when he did that check.
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Gerard Felitti (continued)
It out they flooded your cities and towns with illegal aliens they decimated your hard earned savings they indoctrinated your children with hate for america released really i mean they just released a level of violent felons that we had never seen to prey on innocent they caused war they caused mayhem they caused a horrible situation all over the globe but now you have a president who fights for the law abiding hardworking people of our country the ones who make this nation run who make this nation work.
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Gerard Felitti
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Jake Novak
You know mitch that's significant because the chamber of commerce business school economist model for years has been telling us that illegal immigration cheap immigrant labor is the answer to a lot of economic problems it's good for the economy i think that the last few years have finally proven that to be completely wrong especially when you're giving them gift cards and and using hotel rooms and other resources i think i think we've learned something economically from this president one hundred percent.
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Mitch Rochelle
And some of the left leaning talking heads who are economic advisers to democrat presidents went on cable news and talked about how the cornerstone of our hard working economy are illegal undocumented workers because without them we can't do the things that americans don't want to do i mean they said that ugly thing out loud so the president's right i wouldn't give the president an a though on yesterday's performance because i think messaging from the administration right now is very very important i think that the democrats sort of tripped and fell into a message around affordability in those election days special elections or off cycle elections as well and what they found is that affordability is something that is the number one kitchen table issue and people feel it blaming the biden administration is factually correct however what are you doing about it what are you going to do about it how are you going to make my life better is what's going to matter in november of twenty twenty six so i think yeah we have to understand the problem but we also have to fix it and i think we're going to have to focus on messaging the fix as opposed to just framing.
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Jake Novak
The problem yeah and you know a lot of us before the speech were wondering if the president would go into a more bill clinton like i feel your pain type mess tried to but that's just not his style and sometimes it's better not to change your style and to be more authentic but i agree with you i think there were moments in the speech where he did hint however at some good things that are coming for the us in the coming year of course scott bessant the treasury secretary got ahead of him on that the last few days talking about how the refunds the tax refunds are going to be a lot bigger this year and as of course i always say getting a big tax refund is usually kind of a double edged sword that means that you've lent the government money at free interest no interest for a year however this is different because your refunds are going to be larger this year because of a law that was passed in the second half of the year and went into effect later so you shouldn't feel guilty about that it's not like you made a mistake by getting a huge refund but there was a few other things too he talked about what he was going to he didn't say specifically but he said he's doing something about housing i'm guessing he means building some housing on federal lands at cheaper prices but i you know i'm looking at that turnaround i mean what do you think the chances are that some of these programs turning around the main street economy at some point next year.
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Mitch Rochelle
I think it's it's very possible that you know some of the initiatives are going to bear fruit the thing i worry about jake is what what happens when you put more money in americans pockets which which the treasury secretary is one hundred percent correct the people's tax refunds are going to be bigger than they were last year and i think a lot of people are going to be surprised by how big their refunds are as a result of the combination of the twenty seventeen tax policy and the extending of benefits in the one big beautiful bill the problem is what we're going to do is we're going to dump more money into the economy and that could bring inflation back if we haven't fixed the supply side of the economy and since COVID we have done nothing to meaningfully fix the supply side of the economy i believe that the initiatives that you reference are designed to fix the supply side of the economy but having you know foreign companies and foreign nations continue to invest in the united states and build plants geez those plants won't be done until you know the twenty twenty eight election cycle so i don't think we're going to see that i am fearful about inflation i think the fed has done a terrible job mind you but you know it's it's something that could be politically be a liability for the administration if inflation comes back and if you were expecting one thousand dollars refund and you get a two thousand dollars or two thousand five hundred dollars refund and you pump that money back into the economy which people are going to do that could bring inflation back and that would be a terrible thing for the republicans well if i get.
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Jake Novak
A bigger refund i'm putting all the money on the jets to win the super bowl that that's not why that won't hurt inflation that'll actually cause def.
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Mitch Rochelle
Of our hearts no you know we should put it on put it on the knicks to win the nba championship now there's something that you could win some money on so i don't know.
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Jake Novak
I don't think the oklahoma thunder are going to be losing to the next but we can have that's an entirely different discussion now mitch there's really a lot of confusion and i really believe it is confusion about the state of the job market now of course my disclaimer is i don't trust government jobs reports not even because of partisanship i don't trust them because i've seen the way that they do those reports and it's ridiculous i've never really trusted them however it does feel like we are in what people are calling the no hire no fire economy right now not a lot of layoffs that's good but also not a lot of big job hiring to me that's obviously a big part of it but people need to remember that when jobs start to really grow in this country we really have new hiring it's usually at the lower levels of the economy that's how it works i don't really know where we're gonna go there but president trump did mention in the speech last night that really interesting statistic about how native born americans are basically getting all the net new job growth in this country and that's not something that the economic reports are gonna show as basically an overall gain but couldn't make a big impact.
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Mitch Rochelle
On main street no and the wokesters who work in the bureau of labor statistics would never even want to capture that data because it would be contrary to their politically correct ideology we are jake in a no fire no hire economy and this is largely because there's a report that comes out called the jolts report and it talks about job openings and we for quite a while we had twice as many job openings in this country as we did unemployed people the ratio was two to one right now the ratio is one to one and because we came from this period where the ratio was two to one meaning there were so many job openings that we couldn't fill because don't forget we had four years of biden economic policy where they were basically paying people not to work companies were panicked about finding labor and they over hired and we probably have two and a half years of companies white collar jobs blue collar jobs to some degree over hiring so now what they're doing is they're shedding their employment base by attrition they're not firing people when people leave they leave they're probably firing the worst performers but what they're doing is they're not hiring so we have two graduating classes of college educated kids we have the twenty twenty five graduates we have the twenty twenty four graduates who are struggling to find jobs and that's really a problem for the economy and i agree with you one hundred percent firing the head of the bureau of labor statistics which the president did was a brilliant move unfortunately we haven't replaced them but that's a system that needs to be completely overhauled you know the latest cutting edge technology that they're using to survey employers is the fax machine and that only a couple of years ago replaced the telephone which is what they were to survey employers i'm not kidding you they literally call hr managers and they don't update their roles of who to call so they're leaving voicemails for people who don't work there anymore and they're wondering why they're not getting accurate data and they're wondering why every month we revised the previous month's report in a material way the bureau of labor statistics needs to be redone stem to stern and that will end up causing a problem because when we see how inept the government is i don't think that lifelong unelected bureaucrats are going to go along with you know redoing something that will expose their ineptitude yeah well.
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Jake Novak
You know they're calling the hr manager at ponderosa steakhouse that change was thirty years ago good place but anyway and a point well taken about our recent college graduates my older daughter who graduated this year happy to say she had a job waiting for her all senior year of college she's working as a bank analyst now i keep telling her every day how fortunate she is compared to her classmates so you make a very good point mitch rachel thank you so much for joining us if you don't see you before the end of the year have a happy new year and i'll be faxing you a happy you know happy holidays card in a.
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Mitch Rochelle
Moment you bet good to see you.
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Jake Novak
Jake thanks mitch all right coming up the maddening incompetence and dishonesty in the brown university shooting investigation seems to reach new heights every day wait until you hear what's not being done in what can only be described as a half hearted effort to find a murderer but first it was once the tv event second only to the super bowl but wait until you hear how far the oscars have fallen american sunrise early edition will be right back.
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Unrivaled Basketball Announcer
Season two of unrivaled basketball is here and the talent is unreal the best women's players on the planet are running it back with even bigger moments and bigger stakes don't miss as paige beckers nafiza collier kelsey plumb briana stewart and more take the court and redefine the game this isn't your regular season this is unrivaled where the pace is faster the energy is higher and every athlete shines unrivaled basketball season two sponsored by samsung galaxy tips off january fifth on tnt trutv and.
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Jake Novak
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Jake Novak
Corn cob pipe and a button no eyes made out of coal it's a live look at gaylord michigan this morning that's frosty the snowman there he is for those of you who are wondering where he went he's got a little bit more of a colorful outfit right now you know somebody do something nice for frosty and give him some food or something like that welcome back to american sunrise early edition i'm jake novak it's a thursday i want to thank everyone joining us on all those social media platforms where you can watch and comment live this is not a passive exercise watching this program you can't just stand there like frosty you gotta comment and i'm reading them starting in twenty twenty nine get this the oscars ceremony including the red carpet coverage and all that stuff all the bells and whistles is going to be exclusively on youtube now look i know i'm a gen xer and maybe i find youtube to be a little bit more down market than younger people but come on this used to be emily finch is joining us right now emily this was at one time the biggest tv event second only to the super bowl it was a real big moment now i think this just goes to show how far not only the oscars have fallen but the entire in the theater movie industry i think i go to see a movie in the theater like once a year now i used to go like every week this is a real fall from grace in my opinion it's just.
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Emily Finch
Because the movies today are really bad they're just not as good as they used to be i mean i do enjoy going to the movies it just feels kind of nostalgic but it's just the movies aren't any good anymore so that's why people aren't watching but what's interesting about the oscars i don't even remember a year like the super bowl right that i sat down and got excited and wanted to watch the oscars i'm sure i did when i was younger with my parents or something but if i saw anything about the oscars anyone that won any awards it was on youtube it was clips from the night before that i saw the next day and so i think this is actually a really smart move for them to be doing this because they're gonna be able to reach a much younger audience and people will actually want to tune in on that medium now that's.
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Jake Novak
Emily for everyone listening that was emily's nice way of saying jake you're really a little too old it's possible the point being though that i think look a lot of the movies now that people are seeing are coming from the streaming networks they're watching it on netflix netflix has become by a lot of accounts really the most powerful studio in hollywood and if they are able to buy warner brothers warner brothers that'll be make them even more powerful so maybe this is just the old marshall mcluhan you can look him up the medium is the message kind of thing if you're watching movies on streaming channels then maybe you should be seeing the oscars on streaming channels and it's as simple as that maybe i'm missing the point.
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Emily Finch
Maybe you're right yeah i think it's just going in that direction like i said whenever i see anything that happens like this in a live tv event it's usually clips and if it's not on youtube then it's on social media it's on x it's on instagram something like that so i wouldn't be surprised to see you know the oscars or maybe even the super bowl or something to team up with social media platforms eventually one day there's just more eyeballs.
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Jake Novak
There yeah well one thing i can tell you though is that whatever channel it's on whatever streaming network it's on i used to really really enjoy it but i haven't watched it in years and it of course has a lot to do with the political brow beating it started with all the climate change brow beating i didn't mind when they were standing up about cancer or aids or stuff like that that didn't bother me but the climate change stuff when every single presenter who was lecturing me about climate change had a limo outside the auditorium that was idling for five hours i couldn't take it anymore so there's the politics too emily that you know they're gonna try to shove down.
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Emily Finch
Our throats and that has been you know kind of seeping into every industry you know everything gets political these days you know i miss the days when it was i thank my mom i thank my dad and i thank my faith you know bring that bring that back and maybe people will start to.
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Jake Novak
Tune in again yeah and the streakers there was once a streaker who streaked across the stage in the early days that was a good moment too emily finn thank you so much for joining us we'll see you today in the eight to ten am hours on the big show thank you thank you jake hey an organic skincare brand called puriance has been turning heads in elle cosmopolitan and la weekly magazines here's why to date they've helped over sixty thousand women to fall in love with their skin complexion again puriance delivers clean organic skin care without harsh preservatives their cellular restore serum features a gentle alternative to retinol it's called bakuchiol now in a small focus group ninety two point nine percent of women saw fewer wrinkles after just three weeks of applying cellular restore serum their cellular hydration serum contains tremella mushrooms which hydrates the deepest layers of skin better than hyaluronic acid then there's lift and glow organic eye cream if you want to lighten the appearance of dark under eye circles and restore a radiant complexion then you'll love lift and glow finally they have even glow serum even glow features kataku plum which delivers one hundred times more concentrated vitamin c than oranges even glow works wonders for reducing dark skin spot appearance and right now for a limited time you can save thirty five on all purian's products simply go to puriance dot com and enter coupon code early at checkout that is p u r e a n c e dot com and coupon code early to save thirty five on your order today coming up two of the lowest cost and really really rough to fly airlines let me put it that way are looking to merge again what could go wrong that story and more when american sunrise early edition comes right back.
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Unrivaled Basketball Announcer
Season two of unrivaled basketball is here and the talent is unreal the best women's players on the planet are running it back with even bigger moments and bigger stakes don't miss as paige becker snafeeza collier kelsey plumb brianna stewart and more take the court and redefine the game this isn't your regular season this is unrivaled where the pace is faster the energy is higher and every athlete shines unrivaled basketball season two sponsored by samsung galaxy tips off january fifth on tnt trutv and hbo max do you.
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Feel like your values are being challenged right now it seems like our beliefs are constantly under fire that's why it's important to partner with organizations that share your beliefs america's christian credit union is committed to standing firm in our faith serving the community and bringing you the best financial services now with their elite checking program you can take your banking to a whole new level with up to four percent apy on checking balances under fifteen thousand dollars early pay exclusive loan discounts built in cell phone protection idaho theft monitoring everyday shopping discounts and more accu works alongside christians nationwide to advance god's work because your money should reflect your mission are you ready to bank with purpose visit americaschristiancu dot com elite to learn more and make the switch early pay depends on when your employer sends your paycheck we can't guarantee early direct deposit apy equals annual percentage yield america's christian credit union is federally insured by the ncua.
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TJ Maxx Announcer
Making the holidays magical for everyone on your list it's no small feat but with tj maxx your magic multiplies with quality finds arriving daily through christmas eve you'll save on luxe cashmere the latest tech toys and more so you can check off every name on your list and treat yourself to a holiday look that'll turn heads.
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Jake Novak
This is as you're listening this is my favorite christmas song it's called christmas rapping by the waitresses they were kind of a two hit wonder in the early eighties gets a lot of play i think they're still living off this song because it gets a lot of play around this time of year i love it it's all it's one of those songs that also tells the story so check it out christmas wrapping by the waitress if you haven't heard it you can you can see it live on youtube or not live the tape that's brighton michigan looks like it's one of those places where everyone goes to see people's christmas lights it's really nice hope all everyone is enjoying this season let's take a look at where the markets will begin today see where the lights they got the christmas seat look at it that is a very christmas looking board you've got red white and green right isn't that that's that's the christmas colors the stock futures are up gold and silver and crude oil are down crude oil back below fifty six bucks a barrel despite the blockade on venezuelan oil that just goes to show how much supply is available elsewhere now let's look at bitcoin as it struggles to try to get back to all those levels above one hundred thousand dollars per bitcoin making a positive move this morning but still at the eighty seven thousand dollars level hey the big tech stocks they were the big losers yesterday they've been the losers for the first couple of days of this week and it's mostly because of oracle oracle is that software giant it's now a major ai player and it's becoming the new punching bag for every stock investor big time stock investor the brokerage houses and stuff like that who's having little bit of worries about ai you know we've been talking about this almost all year a lot of money is going into these ai stocks a lot of people worry that it's a bubble i get that but they end up using one or two stocks to sort of get get all their anxieties out on so they're punching on oracle right now what happened at oracle was they want to build oracle does a ten billion dollars ai data center and some of their private partners some of their private investors are pulling out of that venture they think it's too expensive and so the market is taking that as a signal that oracle should be beat up on all of ai should be beat up on look folks if i know one thing the demand for the ai data centers isn't going anywhere they're going to build that thing eventually and someone's going to back it because the need for it is very large i don't know if beating up on oracle is the right way to go maybe maybe maybe just diversify all of your tech investments instead of pulling it all out of oracle like they've been doing the last couple of days i'm not an oracle investor full disclosure i'm not i'm not trying to drum up business for them but it just seems to me like punching on one company is silly okay don't worry though there's still a big appetite for stocks overall we found that out yesterday with an ipo despite the fact that the markets were down pretty pretty sharply yesterday the ipo for a medical supply company called medline there they are clapping on their first day of trading yesterday it closed forty one percent higher on day one nice day's work for that company that's a major jump in valuation folks clearly there's a lot of money to be invested and the stock investors don't just want to put it in a basement somewhere under the mattress so folks this is just a case of there's plenty of money out there we are not in a recession and if you can put a forty one percent increase on a new ipo like this that's something else okay very very bare boned budget airlines frontier airlines you know them and spirit airlines you know them too they're talking about merging i guess misery loves company could be the new name of the airline because frontier and spirit are really really struggling despite their lower costs they are not known for decent service i'm sorry you know i'm not trying to beat up on them but as you know if you go online and go on the social media platforms and you look up fights at gates and people having all kinds of crazy incidents on flights spirit is usually the airline where that happens now spirit is officially bankrupt they've cut back a lot of their flight schedule frontier has also lost one hundred ninety million dollars so far this year and by the way the woes that both of these airlines have a lot to do with the biden administration you remember jetblue wanted to buy spirit airlines and not only take over some of their routes but improve the quality of the experience of flying on spirit airlines and joe biden and the biden administration or whoever was doing the work there we know it wasn't him the auto pen blocked that merger and to me that was really just a cynical giveaway to people who fly spirit airlines who didn't want to pay another five bucks per ticket not realizing that believe me it's worth it jetblue's services quite a bit better than spirit and again full disclosure i don't own any jetblue shares or spirit shares i'm just talking like a regular consumer and traveler like you and your family okay ladies and gentlemen start your engines hey this is moving america sponsored by artillerytea company artilleryteaco dot com use promo code rav for ten percent off your order artillery tea is all natural 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 in a portion of your purchase goes to help veteran and first responder charities artilleryteco dot com promo code rav for ten percent off your order well it's been the quite the year for owners of the jeep four xe ev's many of the models if you remember just stopped working after they did an onboard software update they just became bricks that was nice and now you have a lot more owners than that of these four xe models who had their jeeps recalled three times now this year alone because their cars can catch on fire not only do they have to wait for the recall for the next fix but they're being told don't park it in an indoor garage or any or an outdoor garage or you know when you go to the mall or something like that because if it catches fire it'll cause a catastrophic event that's a nice feeling especially in the winter you got to keep your your jeep parked outside stellantis which is the owner of jeep chrysler and dodge is offering a dollar one hundred gift certificate for people who've had all these multiple recalls and a sincere apology how about making your ev's properly that would be nicer than the apology this is just a tough situation my condolences for those of you who own those vehicles okay illegal aliens no problem no water in the reservoirs or the hydrants when you're having a wildfire that's okay to open air drug galleries in los angeles and san francisco come on down but whoa if you have even slightly misleading or unclear advertising in california the state's going to crack down on you that's the real problem they're going after tesla in california because tesla kept using the term self driving without a little bit of a footnote saying you still have to watch the road there still needs to be someone sitting behind the wheel california is literally going to pull tesla's license to sell their cars in the state until they change that advertising of course tesla's going to do it they're not stupid but my goodness i think california has some bigger fish to fry but that's just me okay this is the time of year when we see a lot of large auto plants around america taking a one or two week break that's totally normal it doesn't mean layoffs that doesn't mean the companies are in trouble this is what happens this time of year they also do it in the middle of the summer by the way but two gm plants are shutting down for a lot longer than usual at least a month that would be the flint plant the plant the plant in flint michigan from december twenty fourth to january twenty sixth now that's where they make the chevy silverado hd the gmc sierra hd also the bowling green ohio corvette plant is going to close for about that same period now when they close those plants for that long that usually means something very new is going to be added to the cars that are built there maybe new engines maybe another kind of powertrain situation so we'll see i will be keeping an eye on that those are three popular models of course the sierra the silverado especially the corvette too all right remember in austin powers when doctor evil tells his underlings that all he wants are sharks with frickin laser beams on their heads well is that too much to ask well apparently ukraine is kind of taking that idea the military commanders there just want fancy bmws with big rocket launchers in the back no really it's happening military spotters have now seen video evidence of the ukrainians mounting and using a rocket launcher on a bmw seven sedan of course the car trades armor there's no armor on that car so watch out if you're driving it it trades the armor for the speed to fire and the agility to move from different places really quickly i wonder what jake from state farm would say about ensuring that vehicle all i can say is good luck doesn't seem to be what the car was meant to be used for okay coming up we are now witnessing what absolutely looks like a deliberate incompetence in the brown university shooting investigation i'm gonna have the latest on that and later secretary of war pete hegseth lowers the boom on a chaplain corps that's gone way off the rails but get ready for secularists and folks who don't understand a thing about religion to go crazy about this american sunrise early edition we'll be right back.
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Roars.
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Till summertime out to the beach to his boat could i join him no.
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Jake Novak
It'S thursday december eighteenth here are this morning's top stories president trump addresses the nation with a point by point description of his nays and what he's been doing to fight the economic troubles in the country but another running theme of the roughly twenty minute speech was the many economic damages the president says come to this country because of the surge in illegal immigration under joe biden another day and another day of maddening stonewalling and incompetence in the investigation of the shooting shooting at brown university the police released this picture of a second person of interest but refused to say whether it's a man or a woman thanks oh and now we learn that the survivors of the shooting have still not been questioned about it and police haven't even asked for their descriptions of the shooter boy they're on it it's mostly symbolic but a handful of house republicans break ranks from speaker mike johnson and join the democrats in the push to get another vote on obamacare subsidy extensions but unless the senate goes along too those subsidies will still die and by a unanimous vote a dc appeals court rules in favor of president trump's order to send national guard troops onto the streets of the nation's capital there may be more core challenges but this looks like a done deal right now american sunrise early edition continues now welcome back to the beginning of our second year here on american sunrise early edition yesterday was the one year anniversary of this program thank you so much for those who have been joining us who have been watching from the beginning those who joined during the first year it's still early you're still a founding member of this audience if you join now and i really appreciate it joining us right now is gerard felitti from the lawfare project and gerard while the speech by president trump last night was ostensibly about the economy it really kept going back to the issue of illegal immigration and at one point president trump reminded us of the excuses the legal excuses joe biden used to give us for the open border check.
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Gerard Felitti (continued)
It out for the past seven months zero illegal aliens have been allowed into our country a feat which everyone said was absolutely absolutely impossible do you remember when joe biden said that he needed congress to pass legislation to help close the border he was always blaming congress and everyone else as it turned out we didn't need legislation we just needed a new president.
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Jake Novak
You know gerard from a legal standpoint you know that's kind of interesting some of the things that we've i think that a lot of people have forgotten of course gerard we've seen a lot of legal challenges to individual deportations to ice going in certain places correct me if i'm wrong i haven't seen a lot of at least not successful legal challenges to act to the ceiling of the border especially the southern border i haven't heard much about it i guess they didn't have any leg to stand on i guess joe biden in the auto pen didn't have any leg to stand on all those.
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Gerard Felitti
Years you know what let's use the words that president trump did not the democrats lied this law was always there we could always seal the borders it was just that the democrats did not want to they did not have the political will to do so because the laws gave them the power to do so as president trump has done now the legal challenges you're seeing are due process challenges are challenges to the detentions and deportations of specific individuals based on specific facts but for the general principle that the president can seal our borders and keep us safe that's undisputed that's why you don't see successful challenges to this because donald trump was right all along the president has that power to.
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Jake Novak
Seal the borders well if there's an important job to be done as president and the president says he can't do it because of whatever then he shouldn't be president and that's by the way the true of ceo's it's true of someone that might be a friend of yours don't be the friend don't be the ceo don't be the president if the most important job or the thing that's so crucial the person keeps telling you they can't do it it's a very easy solution to the problem all right gerard i am still really enraged there's really no other word for it people have been watching this program for this year know that i don't get angry but i am really really angry about what's going on at brown university what looks to me and i think everybody who has a brain to be deliberate incompetence on the part of the providence police on the part of brown university and even more enraging is the way that some politicians are not only giving cover to the cops here and to the university but are trying to shame anyone who's asking very logical and fair questions about this incident here's one of the worst of those politicians senator from rhode island sheldon whitehouse getting on his ridiculous high horse listen to this and try to not have your pulse go too high oh need from an.
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Mitch Rochelle
Investigative point of view for people who have no idea what they're talking about.
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Jake Novak
To offer their stupid and ill informed.
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Mitch Rochelle
Views about what happened all over the.
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Jake Novak
Internet so i would please just from a law enforcement perspective ask anyone who sees this to just shut up.
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Mitch Rochelle
Until.
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Jake Novak
We know who did it and why we will find out give it some.
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Mitch Rochelle
Time.
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Jake Novak
I'M sorry sheldon i'm not going to shut up because i'm not going to shut up about the fact that these are facts the police still haven't interrogated or interrogated is a tough word haven't questioned the witnesses who were there in the room during the shooting haven't asked them hey tell us what happened what did the shooter look like five days later now six days they still haven't done it i'm not going to shut up about that i'm not going to shut up about the fact that brown university won't explain why so many of their cameras were either turned off or they're not handing them over and of course i'm not going to shut up about the fact that a student who really seems to match the description of the person of interest has had all of his personal website pages on the university's website scrubbed before any of us even heard of him it was not something they did after we mentioned his name we only started mentioning his name after we saw that his web pages were scrubbed those are not stupid questions those are fair questions this guy really i mean when you're wrong and you're also nasty about it it's a.
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Gerard Felitti
Great combination look right now this investigation is making the keystone cops look like consummate professionals it looks six days after that the police don't know how many students were in the room they haven't investigated asking them questions asking for witness statements there is not even clarity as to how many students were injured or what the extent of the injuries were we know so very little because the police does not seem to be on top of it and the bigger questions you know we all have the name that's been floating around the internet if this is a person unrelated to this investigation to the shooting merely taking down his internet pages at brown university doesn't seem stop discussion why isn't the university why isn't the police coming out and saying affirmatively he's not involved this person is not a person of interest leave him alone we are taking down his pages for personal protection it's just creating more speculation and more rumors and look from a personal perspective i represent two kids at depaul university who were violently attacked on campus the university knew the atmosphere was dangerous yet did nothing i'm seeing the perils here at brown they knew that there were problems with radical activists on campus they knew that there were problems targeting jews and conservatives and other american students on campus yet here it seems that they did nothing and the shooting took place so there's a lot of blame that goes around but i think here they're trying to deflect it and avoid the responsibility for this massive failure that led to the deaths of two innocent students they are actively.
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Jake Novak
Recruiting students with violent pasts students with radical past students who are too old to be attending a university at the undergraduate level and living in the dorms this the person of interest or the person who's had his webpages scrubbed i think is a sophomore at the university and he's twenty seven years old that's already a bad mix they're happy to recruit and bring people on campus and to celebrate them with special web pages talking about how great that they're at the university who are putting other students in danger and they don't want to take the responsibility for it i don't know if they're getting financial backing from qatar or another country or or people who are advocating for them to bring them on campus or what but that's one thing going on well here's something else infuriating that happened this week we saw those fbi emails and memos sent to the merrick garland doj back in twenty twenty two saying i don't think we have a justification for a mar a lago raid on president trump's home but they did it anyway they still went through melania's underwear drawer they still took all those classified documents that were secured in a safe and strewed them all over the floor to make it look like they you know that's how they were being held at mar a lago and they still they did it anyway i mean it's just incredible to me even the fbi which isn't exactly you know wasn't exactly a great pro trump organization at the time even they had a problem with it but of course the doj ordered them to go.
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Gerard Felitti
Ahead now this shows how weaponized the legal system has become especially the criminal justice system they were directed to carry out that raid by the department of justice by appointees and of the administration so this was really a political targeting when even the fbi was saying look there's no probable cause we don't have enough to go in there and beyond that there were even discussions on whether there should be discussions with trump's legal team and security before executing the war and then the doj was pressing to just for these agents to just show up unannounced so this really shows that president trump was targeted politically and the fbi was weaponized as a lot of people have been saying all along to really go after him this is despicable and this is something that really needs to be investigated who gave those orders because certainly what you don't have probable cause but you're making believe it's that you're putting on paper that there is that's a legal problem you may have people who perjured themselves you may have criminal investigations that come out and those.
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Jake Novak
Need to take place just awful all right i only have about twenty seconds left gerard and this is something that the mainstream media is going to ignore because the mainstream media is really even more focused than usual on this messaging that everything is falling apart for president trump every that's the only story they want to put out there right now but he did get a big legal victory yesterday a three to nothing decision in an appeals court in dc approving the national guard deployment in our nation's capital that's a big win because not only will that solidify the situation in washington i think it will make it somewhat easier for the president to continue to do that in other cities that need it again the mainstream media is not going to cover this very strongly they'll put it they'll put it you know they'll check the box but they're not going to make it part of their big narrative this is a big.
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Gerard Felitti
Win for the president in every case where we've seen this appeal or denials appealed we've seen president trump prevail he has that authority to call out the national guard every time this has been taken up on appeal he has won this is not the first time so he is right to be doing so he has the legal system supporting him and this win is very powerful because it does give him the tools to crack down on a lot of crime that's taking place and democrats are doing.
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Jake Novak
Nothing about yeah it's got to be something i think there's tremendous support for this and again to walk down a street where he used to be worried about walking and now feeling confident about doing it you have no idea what a boost to human rights and decency that is jarad felitti from the lawfare project thank you so much for joining us and we don't see you before the end of the year have a.
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Gerard Felitti
Happy new year a pleasure you as.
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Jake Novak
Well okay coming up a very interesting message from secretary of war pete hegseth about faith in the us military david brody and i will discuss a story you might have missed when american sunrise early edition comes right back.
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Jake Novak
Outside is frightful but the fire oh it's way too early for any of the people who are out drinking and carousing on bourbon street last night to be out this morning in new orleans that's what it looks like when the party's over it looks like they had a little rain there that's good the streets got a free cleaning welcome back to american sunrise early edition most people associate bourbon street with with vice and the opposite of religion so let's talk about religion right now to to clear our mental palette secretary of war pete hegseth has been busy clearing out a lot of the wokeism and the dei and all the political stuff that's not necessary out of all of the armed forces that's what he's been very busy doing and now that effort i think sadly included because this is how bad it got he's had to do this at the chaplain corps check it out these types of training materials have no place in the war department our chaplains are chaplains not emotional support officers and we're going to treat them as such that's why today at my direction we are also simplifying the faith in and belief coding system in recent years it ballooned to over two hundred overly complex faith and belief codes an overwhelming majority of the military population only uses six codes eleven are not used by anyone so we're going to streamline it and move it to a new list of religious affiliation codes so that our chaplains can actually use it to minister better to the flock and david brody joins me right now and the last thing he said is really the most important minister to the flock you know david there is a major difference between being the clergyman at the head or at the head of a church or a synagogue or any other house of worship in the civilian world and ministering to our troops in other words this is not the place for indoctrination go ahead and indoctrinate all you want according to your religion beliefs at a church or a synagogue that kind of goes with the territory but that's not what you're supposed to be doing with the troops in the field you're basically there to help them ask them what they need not hey by the way while we're talking let me tell you about climate change and transgenderism and all that other stuff and i think that this is sad it's one thing it's annoying for you and me to have that happen to us but imagine you're dealing with life and death situations and somebody there and you just want to basically talk about your fears talk about faith and all that kind of stuff and the clergyman across the way from you was telling you you know you need to believe in climate change i mean it's.
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David Brody
Just it's sick yeah and it wasn't the original tension all along i mean when george washington was around which feels like a very long time ago which i guess it was technically they were there the chaplains were there to minister to those who wanted to be ministered to i mean that was the original intention and also to minister to those who were sick and dying at the time and we've gotten far far away from the original intention which shouldn't surprise us because look how far away we've gotten from the founders original intention in this country anyhow in terms of what government's role should be so i guess it shouldn't surprise us but as it relates to climate change and environmentalism and just all of the new age stuff that also shouldn't surprise us because look at the state of our churches and synagogues to a degree especially in the reformed area i mean i believe jake and correct me if i'm wrong but it seems to me like they track they track perfectly well imperfectly i should say but it makes sense why it's going on in the military we've had this spiritual handbook for so long that hegseth wants to get rid of because that's the way our culture has been going in the churches and synagogues here.
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Jake Novak
In america yeah you know you're dead on about this and this is nothing new the hanukkah holiday which is going on right now is all about how the jews at the time in israel were being seduced by the political and cultural mores at the time hellenism to be specific and how listen some of those things work with judaism some of them don't but they were literally trying to get the fads of the day and turn them into jewish life boy does that sound similar to trying to make climate change and transgenderism part of your religious practice sometimes it just doesn't work you know one thing keep them separate all right the big show is coming up next i'll see you tomorrow.
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