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Ahead on American Sunrise Early Edition. This is the scene of what looks like it is the end of two manhunts as the man police believe was the Brown University shooter is found dead at this New Hampshire storage facility. And they also say he was the trigger man in the murder of an MIT professor 50 miles away from the Brown campus. Health Secretary RFK Jr goes after trans surgeries and treatments for kids, threatening to pull federal funding from hospitals who perform those procedures, essentially copying a ban on trans treatment that's been in place for kids in Europe for years. Yes, liberal Europe. Just hours after President Trump insists his team is gaining ground against inflation, the latest numbers come out showing he's right. Consumer prices grew at a cooler pace than expected in November and the stock market is cheering. The axe falls at the United Auto Workers as rampant corruption leads to the resignations of top leaders. But union boss Shawn Fain is somehow still at the helm, at least for now. And the Kennedy center board votes to rename itself as the Trump Kennedy Center. Yes, that is the noise of liberal heads exploding everywhere. American Sunrise EARLY EDITION begins now. 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 going to judge you. Join host Jake Novak as he breaks.
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We will be letting the public know regularly what we have found. American Sunrise EARLY EDITION with your host Jake Novak starts now. Hi, everyone. Welcome to this no tie Friday here in American Sunrise early edition of so much news, so much of it happening after, I would say maybe 8pm last night that it's really hard to get a handle on everything. I'm gonna do my best for you here. And I know, I know I got a haircut so a lot of you can't recognize me. I did get a haircut, but as you know, not much of a difference there. A little bit of a joke to start the program because there is so much heavy news to get through. Let's get to it with our regular Friday guest. He is American Sunrise EARLY Edition political and legal contributor Dr. James Nuzzo. And let's get to the story that, of course, I think is the top story for everyone this morning, and that is it looks like most likely a resolution to not only the mass shooting at Brown University last weekend. But a couple of days later, as we know, in your own neighborhood, an MIT professor was shot and killed in his own home. So first we had the revelation from the authorities that both of those incidents were related, that it was the same shooter, basically. And that's what they're saying now. And then they say they find the man, Carlos Valente, a Portuguese national here on a visa program which has, by the way, now been suspended. Find him dead of a self inflicted gunshot wound, they say, at a storage facility in New Hampshire. All thanks, Jim, to a tipster from the community, not a student, but someone who lived near Brown University, who noticed that there was a rental car that was a little suspicious in the area of the shooting. And of course, that rental car also showed up in Brookline near the MIT shooting. A lot to process here, Jim. I know, but what are some of the things that come to your mind this morning on this, on these stories?
Dr. James Nuzzo
One is a sense of relief. And you're right. I live about a mile and a quarter, to a mile and a half away from where the professor died. And I can tell you that the neighbors are pleased. No one really bought any explanations that the local police were giving, number one. Number two, the town he lived in, which is Brookline, is not a city, it's a town. And it doesn't have a very sophisticated police force. It's a very leafy suburb of Boston. And the concern was if indeed there were, there were killers, because no one really knew as to whether or not the Iranian connection was real. There have been some thug gangs around and doing a whole variety of perfidious things. They haven't been murdering, but it wouldn't surprise any of us. And we thought, oh, my goodness, this guy is. Or some people are loose in the neighborhood. So from a local standpoint, we're pleased. The unfortunate thing about him taking his own life is, at first glance, other than the fact that he's a physics student and the professor in Brookline was a physics teacher, it is hard to see where the connection is. I mean, he, the shooter, the alleged shooter went to Brown. He graduated from Brown. His relationship with Brown is very clear. His relationship to the professor at mit, no one at least yet has been able to discover how the two of them even knew of each other.
Jake Novak
Yeah, so I told you, it's actually a developing story. So I got a couple of details for you on those open questions you just posed. First of all, he actually didn't graduate from Brown. He dropped out after year. So that may have Been maybe some disgruntled feelings about Brown. And now there are reports that maybe he attended the same school as his professor back in Portugal. So whether or not he knew him personally, whether or not this person was a symbol of success, where this person didn't succeed, I got, again, a lot of speculation. And you're right, it's so, so unfortunate that he won't really face justice on this world because we won't know a lot of the answers there. But one of the things that, of course, was the most enraging thing to me throughout this entire process, Jim, was how incompetent Brown University and the Providence police were. I mean, they're getting off the hook in the fact that it looks like this was the guy and he's now dead and all of that. But the fact that we still aren't getting answers as to why certain security cameras either weren't turned on or footage wasn't turned on.
Dr. James Nuzzo
Can I interrupt you? I think we do know.
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Yeah, go ahead.
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All right.
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Yeah, go ahead.
Dr. James Nuzzo
A piece of data that came out, which was that the Brown. A group of Brown radical students, I don't know if it was the Students for Justice of Palestine or whether it was another one of those affiliated organizations, went to Brown and said, look, we want the security clear cameras taken out of parts of the campus because we don't want to be named when we go and do protests. And Brown took them out in order to facilitate nameless, faceless protests by these leftist students. So Brown's complicit here before the fact. It's complicit. And you're right, my favorite meme out of the whole thing was a meme that I saw on X about 3 days ago in which province. Province Rhode island had changed their police chief to Chief Wiggins from the Simpsons. And they had a picture of him behind the. Behind the podium with everyone else. Because it really did seem that we had Chief Wiggins. We had booby heads at best, and at worst. There was a fear on the part of Brown and part of the mayor of Providence, who is a prominent leftist, that the person who committed these acts was going to turn out to be someone who the progressives would feel very uncomfortable being named. Because remember, the one name who has been identified as a victim was the head of the College Republicans. She was also a very committed Christian. And the question was whether or not they were going after conservatives, whether this was a Charlie Kirk sort of move. Now, it may not be, and it seems if this is a case, a disturbed man from Portugal, who is dealing with his own private demons. It doesn't make the deaths any better, but at least we now recognize that it wasn't sort of an act of terrorism. But that doesn't get Brown off the hook. Brown's still on the hook. It easily could have been.
Jake Novak
That's right. And, you know, I'm gonna make a connection between this and something that was an act of terror, the Bondi beach massacre over the weekend in Australia. Because, Jim, you're also a lawyer to me, and I don't know if they taught you this in law school, but to me, and this is as a layperson, to me, the law is like a living being. And you can't attack one part of that of the law and think, oh, well, the rest of it is going to be okay. That's not how it works. And when you have either a municipality that says, we're going to be a sanctuary city, we don't accept the law against immigration, against illegal immigration, or if you have a state or a nation like Australia says, we're going to bring in people who may be connected to terrorists, and we're not going to prosecute them, we're just going to let them in. It leads to the same thing. It leads to death. You had a situation in Australia where at least one of the shooters was known to authorities as having serious terrorist connections. And there were people in the Australian community who warned the police about the specific person and people like him, and they did nothing. So if you ignore the law, if you hurt one part of the law, if you decide you're not going to follow one part of the law, all of the law becomes damaged, and it becomes open season for people who want to commit crimes against the law.
Dr. James Nuzzo
Look, I'll go even one step further. It's not just against the law. The law is being applied in two tiers. Depends as to who you are and what you support, as to whether or not the law is going to be lenient on you, or whether the law is going to come like a ton of bricks. We see this in Australia. We see it in Britain now all the time. In which, if you happen to be a Christian or a Jew and you're outside sort of practicing your faith, in which, as a Christian, part of it is to proclaim the gospel. It is now illegal to proclaim parts of the gospel in public in Britain, yet you can go and have 50 or 100 or a thousand Muslims take over the streets, close down the streets in order to be able to say their prayers when they could actually go and say their prayers 10ft away off the streets. Does anything happen to them? No. Now, what does this say? It says that there isn't a government of all the people who have to supply all the law. Instead, what you now have in its stead is selective enforcement of the law, depending on who and what you happen to be. Albanese should be ashamed of himself. His government should fall. Starmer in Britain should be ashamed of itself. His government should fall. The problem is, they won't. It does make, however, the Japanese decision to basically shut the door on immigration, particularly from countries in the Islamic world, very, very understandable. Japan says, yeah, I know that's going to hurt us economically. We don't care.
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We.
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And they actually come out and say, we. We don't want to be like Europe. We do not want to have this lawless society. And all of these actions make Japan's action to basically close the borders to follow President Trump to be prescient.
Jake Novak
Yeah, that's for sure. All right, let's get to another domestic issue right now. And for that domestic issue, I want to have an intro from this film. Check it out.
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Marijuana, the burning weed with its roots in hell. Yes, that's the trailer from reefer madness in 1936, over the top movie. There's also a clip in that scene where someone takes a puff of marijuana and then jumps out a window. I mean, but President Trump did indeed reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. I think from a scientific point of view, it makes sense to me, but from a cultural point of view, I think the last thing America needs right now is more marijuana out there. I'm sorry, maybe I'm a prude, but I just can't stand it. I just don't love marijuana culture, and I don't think it's brought the economic boon to America that people thought it would.
Dr. James Nuzzo
Well, it hasn't brought the economic boom that you're completely right. There are a legion of people who are at the courthouse door filing chapter 11, chapter 7 bankruptcy petitions because they all thought that marijuana was going to be the next gold rush. It hasn't turned out to be. Now, that being said, there is no way, no way that you can scientifically justify that it was a Schedule 1 drug, which it was before, which is on the order of the same toxicity as ketamine, as fentanyl. No, that just is not the case Schedule 3 is about right. Schedule C3 is not legalization. It is not even recreational marijuana. Sort of complicitly, it's to allow medical marijuana. Now, remember, who was behind him when he did the signing? Who was behind him when he did the signing were cancer patients. Now I'm going to tell you a personal story. It'll take just a second, and I apologize for that, Jake. I did my internship at Memorial Sloan Kettering, which is a cancer hospital in New York City with Cornell University. We had the worst cancer patients in the east coast, if not the world. And if they're taking cancer drugs, they get sick, horribly, horribly sick. And one of the few things that actually stopped the sickness was smoking marijuana. And what we would do is we would walk into the new patient's room with a towel and a bucket of water and we say, see this towel? You put this towel, which we will leave you in the sink. You put it then underneath the edge of the door. And then what happens outside will not be. We will not smell your marijuana and we will not open the door if we see that there's a towel on the bottom. Because all of us knew that the best thing for them was to smoke marijuana and to get rid of, of this nausea. This is a compassionate action by the president to allow cancer patients in particular to use the drug for what is intended to use as a drug. And that is to sort of deal with issues such as hyperemesis that is throwing up all the time when you have cancer, chemotherapy. No, I applaud him. I think this is a brilliant, great move.
Jake Novak
Well, I'm glad that you shared that story because obviously there are some positive uses for this. And if this makes it easier for that to happen, then I think we can all support it. Dr. James Nezzo, thank you so much for joining us. Have a great weekend. Let's hope it's a more peaceful weekend than last weekend, that's for sure.
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Happy Hanukkah, Jake.
Jake Novak
Thank you so much. Yeah, fifth night tonight. Oh, sixth night tonight. Coming up, the left wing media mocked President Trump Wednesday night when he boasted of the progress he's making against inflation. Then the inflation report came out Thursday morning. Who's laughing now? Mainstream media and the Kennedy center may soon have a new name and it will really anger all of your liberal friends just when you utter that new name. I promise. American Sunrise early edition will be right back. Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way. Oh, what fun.
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That's a live look at Thompson Lake, Maine. I don't know if that lake is safe enough for ice skating yet, but it's getting there. It's getting there. Definitely a lot of winter and Christmas season looking scenes we're showing. And welcome back to American Sunrise, early edition. It's a no tie Friday. So much news to get to. I didn't even get to the fact that that judge in Milwaukee, Hannah Dugan, has been found guilty of helping the illegal immigrant elude ICE agents. She's guilty of a felony. She could get five years in prison. I don't think she's going to get that, but she'll probably get some prison time or something like that. So that's another story that's been breaking over in a very, very busy day. And now we have this. This is just, to me, this is a fun story. Donald Trump, by the way, this is a headline. You know, Donald Trump likes putting his name on things. And apparently the board at the Kennedy center understands that. And they have voted unanimously to rename the Kennedy center the Trump Kennedy Center. Now, I've been told by experts that this has to be done officially by an act of Congress and on and on down the line. Well, let's bring in Emily Finn. And Emily, I hope that you have your earplugs in because as soon as I told that story, I believe the primal screams of liberals in Washington establishment people went off like a car alarm. I mean, wow, they're probably very upset about this. To me, this like, you know, people put their names on things all the time, good and bad. I really don't have a huge problem with this. But you know that this is gonna be, this is going to be used as an example of how Trump is a dictator. Of course, I don't know how putting your name on a building bruise that, but you know, go, go for it.
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Definitely triggering some tds all throughout the country, some Trump derangement syndrome for sure. But I think it's great. He's invoking a lot of change at the Kennedy center now, the Trump Kennedy Center. And as you put it, he loves putting his name on things. You know, I'm sure that the gift shop at the Kennedy center will be selling or the Trump Kennedy center will have Trump everything. Trump branded everything in there. So I think it's great. He is the sitting president of the United States and they voted to, to rename it this way. So good on him.
Jake Novak
You know what, the reason why the Kennedy center is called the Kennedy Center. Now, look, we went through a period in this country after John F. Kennedy's assassination where they named everything after him, everything, high schools, airports, space, the whole thing. The Kennedy center had a little bit more traction to name it after him because while he was president of the White House, he started this tradition of inviting top artists, either musicians, painters, poets and things like that, to the White House for special events. And that was not something that was a regular occurrence at the White House. Happened before, of course, but it wasn't a regular thing before he became president. So that made some sense. But look, President Trump, first of all, he comes from the world of entertainment, let's be honest, more just as much as he comes from the world of real estate. And he is doing something to help show business in this country, he is promoting it. He has brought new people into the fold at the Kennedy center who are putting new acts there. So to me, it actually makes sense from a logistical point of view as well.
Emily Finn
I would have to agree with you, Jake. And we just saw with the recent honors, you know, I say President Trump honors kiss. He can name the building after him after that, I think. I think that's great. And he's definitely, you know, trying to take a non political approach to it. Everyone was giving him a hard time. But we saw that with the recent honors, it was all about the arts. And so I think that's great. And you know, his name's on the building now.
Jake Novak
Yeah, I mean, truly American acts and truly American talent. Whereas I think old school people feel like it's only good if it's more European type art and European type music. And listen, Americans do that very well too. But I do like the idea that we're acknowledging the people who really did bring a great new narrative and great new artistic work to the United States of America. Emily Finn, thank you so much for joining us. We're gonna see you in the 8 to 10am hours. I'm gonna give you an early Happy weekend though, right now.
Emily Finn
Happy weekend. Thanks, Jake.
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With the kids jingle belling. It's a live look at Washington, D.C. there right on the Trump Tomah River, Washington District of Trump at the trumpet. I mean, they're gonna put his name on everything right now. It's just gonna drive everyone crazy. It looks like a little bit of a wet morning or drying up after a wet night in Washington, D.C. let's take a look at where the markets are going to begin today here on this no tie Friday on AMERICAN sunrise. EARLY edition. The Dow is almost completely flat, but if you know the rules of fair value, we're gonna have a little bit of a higher open on the Dow at least if it opened right now. The NASDAQ again, tech stocks continuing to recover from their first couple of days of this week when they were selling off gold, mostly flat, but well over the $4,300 per ounce level. Silver at the $65 very robust number there. Crude oil back down to $56 a barrel. And let's take a look at Bitcoin as again struggling to try to get back to 90,000 at least. It's up $3,000 this morning. So it got down to 85,000 overnight. Now here at 88,000. Let's talk about that inflation report, by the way, came out yesterday morning after this program ended. It showed that November inflation on an annual rate fell to 2.7%. 3.1% was what economists were expecting. And the last month that we had a full number because remember, the government shutdown kind of messed up. October was at 3%. So inflation is cooling. Kind of makes President Trump sound like a little bit of a profit after what he was talking about Wednesday night, saying that they're making some progress, a lot more to be done. We need to absolutely get more supply chain problems fixed and all that kind of stuff. But the idea that people were going crazy about President Trump saying that we're making progress against inflation, well, the numbers proved him right just a morning later. And one of the things that President Trump talked about that he didn't get into the nitty gritty, but I've talked about it here on this program, is that the price of shelter, that's what they call housing and housing costs, whether you're owning a home or renting the house of shelter, has gone down in this country pretty significantly in the last few months, especially rent. And when rent goes down, most people in America still rent. They don't own homes. That's a very, very big deal. That's usually everyone's biggest cost. Right. So that has been happening. Long way to go. I'm not saying happy days are here again. I get it. And it's a foolish thing to really tout everything great about an economy even when it is doing well, because people, there's always going to be people who are suffering. But it does feel like inflation is cooling down now and hopefully it will continue to do so. So. All right, there you go. This is a very controversial new policy that I have to tell you about at American Airlines. This is not good news, at least not in my opinion. From now on, if you just fly on American Airlines and get a basic economy seat, you will not be given any frequent flyer miles for that flight. Now, if you use your frequent flyer credit card, you'll get the miles for that, but they will not give you frequent flyer miles unless you get at least an upgraded one of those economy plus seats or higher. Now, one of the reasons why this is disturbing is when usually when one big airline does something like this, the others follow. So I'm going to be watching this very closely to see, first of all, how this affects American Airlines, whether there'll be a revolt of some of their customers or of course, if other airlines go the same way. And by the way, let me give an apology. Yesterday I was making fun of Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines for how bare boned and cheap they are. I guess American Airlines wants to be even cheaper. This is a controversial policy. Let's see how it works out. Now, a lot of people are still scratching their heads about this other story that broke yesterday, Trump Media, which is the company that owns True Social, merging with TAE Technologies, which is a fusion nuclear energy company. Huh. As I looked into it a little bit more, it made a little bit more sense to me because look, Trump Media, of course, is in the media world and a lot of the media companies out there are really need more power to power their AI technologies. Google, at the end of the day is a publisher. I believe it's a terrible monopoly, but it's still a publisher. And so that makes it a media company by strict definition and on and on down the line. So if you're in the media world having some kind of connection to fusion energy sort of makes sense because of AI generating media. We'll see how this works out. Shareholders liked it yesterday. 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Her name was Margaret Mock and she's going to get her job back, apparently at the union. You remember this story. I've reported on it a couple of times over the past year while the UAW was on strike. They got all these strike funds, money that is supposed to be used for helping out the strikers. When the strike ended, they did not put that money back into their investments, their pension funds, their other investments that they're supposed to do according to their own bylaws. And they missed out on a huge run up in the stock market. The UAW has a lot less money than it should have. When that Margaret Mock point pointed that out, Sean Fain and his goons went after her, tried to remove her, tried to do God knows what to her. She's got her job back now. I don't know how Sean Vain still has his job. It's kind of like when the manager does a bad job in baseball and they fire the hitting coach. Whatever. I think he's going to be in trouble eventually. But this is by the way a big loss for union members and the union itself. This woman was just pointing out that they were doing something wrong. Could have saved them a lot of money. The uaw, they are a huge reason why our auto industry is not as strong as it should be in America. If not the biggest reason. Here's an interesting story about a. If you're interested in electric cars, rivian. The Rivian R1T pickup has a new feature that maybe you're interested in. I don't know, they're excited about it. At Rivian, they are putting solar panels on the COVID that you put on the bed in the back of that pickup. And that solar panel can collect up to 250 watts, which you can use to charge a drill, maybe a portable TV or something like that. Maybe your phone by the way, though it will not charge up the actual pickup. So if you're going on a camping trip, you can use those panels to charge up your other devices. For people who are outdoorsy, maybe this is a cool thing. I guess it is. Anyway, this is something that maybe cars will start to offer as a regular feature. Rivian's gonna try it out. All right, here's the honest truth. The Honda Accord is reliable. It's a good car. But let's face it, it's boring. So here are some of the boring new features of the Honda Accord coming out. Listen, this is such a big seller of a car. Even though these are boring things about it, you got to tell the folks it's going to have a bigger infotainment dashboard. Yay. That's exciting. It's also more importantly, only going to be about $100 more this year in every single trim. That's good news in the fight against inflation. But I feel confident in saying that The Honda accords 50 year record of never getting a supermodel to want to date the owner is going to be continue to be perfect anyway. It's boring. You're not going to get a supermodel with an Accord, but you won't pay too much for it either. Okay, now for a car that might actually get a supermodel to date you, or at least to pretend to love you, the Porsche Carrera gt. That's one of those cars. And here's a twist. The owner of this model that you see here on the screen had his 20 year old Carrera GT completely refurbished by Porsche's famed Sonder Woonsh or special request division. The Sonder Woonsh took that car and it says the geniuses there say they have returned that car to a position it was in, a condition it was in when it had zero miles on the odometer. Basically rebirthing that car. Try getting your plastic surgeon to give you that kind of a guarantee. Anyway, we're not really hearing how much it costs the owner to get this done, but the sunder Woonsh has come through anyway. There you go. Coming up, RFK Jr. Is bringing some common sense and decency back to the medical community in this country. Protections for children specifically. That's what we'll talk about when American Sunrise comes back. But also first we're going to talk about the Bondi beach massacre. It's again showing us what doesn't work in the effort to fight terrorism, anti Semitism and just plain criminality. Will politicians all over the world ever learn American Sunrise early edition. We'll be right back.
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You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
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Jake Novak
It's Friday, December 19th, here at this morning's top stories. Looks like this is the scene of the end of two manhunts as the man police believe was the Brown University shooter is found dead at this New Hampshire storage facility. They also believe now he is the person who murdered an MIT professor 50 miles away a couple of days later. His name was Carlos Valente. He was a Portuguese national here on a visa program that is now suspended. Health Secretary RFK Jr goes after trans surgeries and treatments for kids, threatening to pull federal funding from the hospitals who perform those procedures at a big profit, by the way. Oh, and also by the way, the very liberal European Union has banned treatments like this for children for years. We've kept it alive because of the money. Just hours after President Trump insists his team is doing a good job in the fight against inflation, the latest numbers come out showing he's right.
David Brody
Concern.
Jake Novak
Consumer prices grew at a cooler pace than expected in November. And the stock market is cheering. And the Kennedy center board votes to rename it the Trump Kennedy Center. Yes, that is the noise of liberal heads exploding everywhere. That's what you're hearing this morning. American SUNRISE EARLY EDITION continues now. Welcome back to this no Tie Friday here in AMERICAN Sunrise EARLY edition. I'm Jake Novak. As I've been talking about throughout the program, a lot of breaking news overnight. Of course, the big story I just quickly summarize for you. A Portuguese national, Carlos Valente, has been named as the man that police and the FBI believe committed both the mass shooting at Brown University over the weekend and then a couple of days later murdering an MIT professor 50 miles away in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was found dead by a self inflicted gunshot at the storage facility in New Hampshire. Obviously very unfortunate that he gets away with it in that way. We won't know all the, all the details behind this, but it appears that he was a failed physics student of some kind at Brown more than 20 years ago and that he may have attended the same school in Portugal as the MIT professor that he murdered. A lot of tough questions here and the incompetence and maybe even deliberate incompetence of Brown University and the Providence police. Also not, not over with. In my opinion. It's something that needs to be looked into. But that's the breaking news overnight. And one other breaking news eventually. Hannah Duggan, the judge in Milwaukee who allowed the illegal aliens to escape, an illegal alien to escape ICE from her own courthouse, has been found guilty of a felony. In that case, she faces five years in prison. So a lot of housekeeping there. But one thing I want to do right now is something that I don't think we do enough in the news business and focus enough on the victims of some of these tragedies that we talk about. We talk about them for a day or two, and then we forget about that. So let's get someone in who really is focusing on that. For her entire career. She is the executive director of the Blue Card. Her name is Masha Pearl. And Masha, we're just a few days removed from another terrible incident where we're still trying to find out a lot of answers, and that is the Bondi beach massacre in Australia, which is, of course, one of the most horrific and deadly anti Semitic attacks over the last couple of years, which is saying something because we've had so many. I mean, 15 people dead. And then, of course, one of the. One of the killers also dead. And I think that one of the biggest and most painful parts of the details, Masha, of this attack is that one of the victims who was killed was a Holocaust survivor. And this is a big part of what you work for. You work for the protection of and the honoring of and the help of Holocaust survivors. So this must have really hit hard for you and your organization.
Masha Pearl
It absolutely has. And for us, just knowing Alex's story, he's someone who had suffered tremendously in his formative years. He had been in prison in Siberia, he was displaced, he was in hiding. He had fought the Nazis and just lost years of his life, had suffered malnutrition, and eventually to rebuild his life, which just took such great efforts, and to find the love of his life, his wife of 57 years, who's a fellow Holocaust survivor and settle in Sydney. And to be experienced, going to a candlelight, a menorah lighting, which is a momentous, happy occasion. It's a celebration of his Jewishness, which is something that he was persecuted for as a young man. And as. As he was celebrating to have his life senselessly taken away was. Is. Is just so tragic. It's extremely upsetting for all of us. And it sends a message to other survivors who are now extremely afraid. Calling me and their PTSD is risen, and they're wondering, you know, who will protect us? Will this happen again? And so on.
Jake Novak
You know, this obviously happened in Australia, but when I heard the details of this case. Let's talk about the United States of America here, where there are still a lot of Holocaust survivors. Living here. And I couldn't help but remember what happened in Boulder, Colorado, a few months ago, where another Holocaust survivor was the person who was killed in another Islamist Muslim terrorist attack. She was burned to death. I mean, the outrage of that is just still stinging for me here in the United States in Boulder. The good news is that same community in Boulder came out a couple of nights ago for another Hanukkah celebration. And to not be afraid, that, to me, is least a little bit of a nice ending, hopefully, to that story. Good ending to that story in Boulder.
Masha Pearl
Yes, with Boulder, too. The Blue Card was horrified by the events, and we stepped in and we actually organized a kiddush in a synagogue in Boulder for the survivors and for the families of the victim. And in this particular case as well, the Blue Card is reaching out to the family and to the community to see what we can do, whether we can help pay for the funeral and just really in any way show our support. The Blue Card hosted a Hanukkah party on Wednesday where we held a minute of silence for the victims and really honored Alex's life. We are doing everything we can to fight antisemitism and to educate younger generations, just to educate people, because I think that education is most important in fighting antisemitism, which is on the rise. Anti Semitic attacks, anti Semitic crimes, the violence, it's very frightening. But I'm calling on all the leaders to denounce this violence and to stop it. And the phrase globalize the intifada is something that is very dangerous and should be abolished. It should be. We really have to take strong stances against it. I think that we also have to recognize the heroes in these situations. And there was a hero and an individual who took bullets to stop this massacre at Bandai beach and himself was hurt, and he happens to be Muslim. And so I think that needs to be recognized and honored, and he needs to be supported. And it just shows that there are still good people out there who want to protect just regular citizens who are just going about their daily lives. I mean, these are people who are innocent, who are not involved in anything bad, the victims of these attacks. And they just deserve our support right now.
Jake Novak
You know, Masha, look, I'm never going to be against education just for a historical point of view, but this is something that I've talked about a lot on this program, and I think it resonates with our audience because obviously, you know, it's a big country with a lot of different issues, but something that I said, something that I think really runs concurrent to all of these incidents is they're violent attacks. These are crimes. Doesn't matter who the victims are, whether they're Jews, Christians, a family member. And to me, while education is important, the last thing you said about leaders of countries standing up against it, this is about law and order. If you live in a city or a country where you know that committing a violent act against anyone for any reason, no matter who the perpetrator is or. Or the victim is, you will be found and punished severely, that's going to solve a lot of your bigotry problems. You can't commit a crime, you can't commit vandalism, you can't commit murder, you can't commit assault. And it. To me, it's no coincidence, Masha, that anti Semitism is on the rise. I don't know if it's on the rise. I think it's always been there. But anti Semitism is on the rise because lawlessness is on the rise. You have sanctuary cities, you have entire nations that are saying one aspect of the law we're not going to uphold at all. And when you break one law, you basically send out the message to everyone that law is no longer to be respected. And the first people who are going to suffer from that, as we know from history, are probably going to be the Jews. So this is about law and order, I think, even more than it is about antisemitism. I'd love to get your thoughts on that.
Masha Pearl
I think you have a very. You're absolutely right in the way that. In the way that there's so much lawlessness happening and it's becoming sort of just people. People are just running amok in a way, and then they feel that there's no consequences for their actions. We think that especially with decriminalization and with the rise of the migrants coming in as well, our country is at an inflection point where there is just so much going on and leaders are fighting each other. And in a way, it's the people that are suffering are us. And you're absolutely right. There need to be stronger penalties and stronger enforcements against these crimes. But I think it has to start somewhere. I think that it also has. There's so much intolerance, there's so much misinformation. I think social media is a lot to blame. There's a lot of conflating what is happening in the Middle east with what's happening in this country, what's happening in the world. And there's so much anger and the temperature needs to be brought down a lot and something in terms of union and uniting.
Jake Novak
Yeah, I mean, obviously, you know, I think the education part is a little bit more part of the cure as opposed to prevention, a way of making people get whole and work together and to really respect one another in a better way. But as far as prevention is concerned, give me a stronger police force, don't give me defund the police, don't give me an open border, and then you'll see how much, how quickly bigotry of all kinds starts to go back into the crevices of the earth that it belongs. Marcia Pearl from the Blue Card thank you so much for all you do for Holocaust survivors and people who are victims of these kinds of attacks and keep up the good work. Thank you so much.
Masha Pearl
Thank you so much, Jake. Appreciate you.
Jake Novak
Okay, coming up, RFK Jr. Bluntly, but I think correctly describes the truth about trans surgeries and treatments for kids. David Brody and I will discuss that when American Sunrise Early Edition continues.
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Dr. James Nuzzo
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Jake Novak
That's a bend in the road in Hyde in Kentucky this morning as we're getting closer and closer to the big Christmas day in the United States. And it looks, you know, it's no snow on the ground there, but it looks pretty holiday esque. Welcome back to AMERICAN Sunrise. EARLY edition. It's a no tie Friday, a very busy day of news. And this is a story that I really wanted to dig into. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Our health and Human services secretary, not only mentioned a new policy yesterday, but I think he did something great in the way that he bluntly described the situation in the American medical community when it comes to transgender surgeries and, and treatments, I hate to use that word, let's say procedures for children. Listen to this. Doctors assume a solemn obligation to protect children. Yet doctors across the country now provide needless and irreversible sex rejecting procedures that violate their sacred Hippocratic oath by endangering the very lives that they are sworn to safeguard. The American Medical association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, peddled the lie that chemical and surgical sex rejecting procedures could be good for children who suffer from gender dysphoria. They betrayed the estimated 300,000American youth ages 13 to 17 conditioned to believe that sex can be changed. David Brody joins us now. David, you and I talk about morality and ethics a lot, but I want to the one last point I want to make here is the point about money. The eu, for example, Europe, those liberal countries in the EU who are not religious and don't care about morality and ethics, we know that have banned these kinds of procedures for children for a long time. Why? Because there's no Profit motive in Europe with their socialized medicine for this kind of stuff. One thing that RK Jr didn't talk enough about, he talked about pulling the funding, which is great, but there's a conflict of interest here. The medical community makes a ton of money on these procedures. Not only the procedure itself, which is expensive, but on the lifetime of medical care that's off the charts for people who have these surgeries. I know this personally. I did a paper on this a couple of years ago about the massive amount of emergency room visits that these people make, even if the surgeries don't have terrible complications. This is a profit motive. Destruction of children in America, plain and simple.
David Brody
Yeah, profits plus wacky ideology and wanting to change literally the way we view this situation. That's called an evil brew. I mean, I don't think there's any question it's toxic. It's the one, two punch, if you will. Look, this specifically goes against the first principle in medical ethics, which is first do no harm. I mean, it's really that simple. You know, it's funny that everybody's, all the liberals want to get on RFK Jr. For all of his quacky, wacky science and he's doing exactly what he should be doing, which is if there's no high quality long range study when it comes to adolescents and gender surgeries then, or these type of surgeries, then why in the world would the government, or anything, anyone for that matter, sanction this type of stuff? Well, we know the reason why. We just talked about the evil brew. But the point is that he's doing the right thing. I mean, even the New York Times, right? I mean, here I've got the actual article in front of me. This is the, this is the. You remember this from 2022, the headline was, this is from the New York Times. They paused puberty, but is there a cost? And the New York Times got absolutely ripped by liberals saying, my gosh, please don't go down that road. Don't side with the conservatives. It's not about them siding with the conservatives. It's about them looking and realizing, you know what? The science is just not there. It's just not there when it comes to adolescence for sure. And then of course you got the whole ideological aspect of it because remember, what do they call it on the left? Gender affirming surgeries. Right. I mean that's once again, once you control the language, you control the culture. And that's the other aspect of this as well.
Jake Novak
Well, let me get all biblical on you. David, please. This is child sacrifice. This is child sacrifice. And every pagan culture eventually, eventually not only encourages but requires child sacrifice. Left. There's no such thing as a non religious person, David. No such thing. And leftism is a religion. And this is the leftist religion, child sacrifice. And that's as simple as it goes. I mean, to me that's what it is.
David Brody
And just five seconds, ten seconds real quick. Which is that it's not just the physical aspect, it's the mental one too. When the parents say to your four year old Johnny or four year old Susie, be whoever you want. That's child sacrifice as well.
Jake Novak
It is, it is. Well anyway, you don't have to sacrifice yourself. If you watch for the next two hours American Sunrise, a lot more stories that I wasn't able to cover. It's going to be a busy Friday. I'll see it around 9:25 on that program as well. Thanks for watching.
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This episode of American Sunrise Early Edition zeroes in on breaking and controversial news stories through a lens of American values, faith, and freedom. Host Jake Novak delivers critical analysis and discussion with contributors and guests, focusing on headline events in politics, crime, culture, and societal trends. Key topics include updates on a campus shooting manhunt, U.S. law enforcement and border policies, reclassification of marijuana, union corruption, renaming of the Kennedy Center, the aftermath of the Bondi Beach massacre, and contentious issues surrounding transgender medical treatments for children.
[04:44–14:11, 39:56–43:35]
The suspected shooter from Brown University and the nearby MIT professor murder, Carlos Valente (a Portuguese national on a now-suspended visa program), was found dead from an apparent suicide.
Security and Law Enforcement Critique:
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“The unfortunate thing about him taking his own life is... it is hard to see where the connection is. I mean... His relationship to the professor at MIT, no one at least yet has been able to discover how the two of them even knew of each other.”
— Dr. James Nuzzo [06:50]
[11:00–14:11, 47:42–50:27]
Jake Novak draws parallels between US sanctuary city practices and Australia's handling of immigration/background checks, referencing the Bondi Beach massacre.
Main Argument: Weakening or selectively applying the law leads to societal danger, particularly for religious and vulnerable groups.
Dr. Nuzzo’s Take: Law is being applied in two-tiers; he criticizes selective enforcement in Western democracies and commends Japan’s strict immigration policy as “prescient,” arguing it prevents lawlessness.
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“When you have either a municipality that says... we don’t accept the law against illegal immigration, or if... Australia says, we’re going to bring in people who may be connected to terrorists... it leads to death.”
— Jake Novak [11:00]
[14:21–17:47]
President Trump’s decision to reclassify marijuana as less dangerous (from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3) analyzed.
Dr. Nuzzo supports this as a “compassionate action,” referencing his own experience in cancer care (“The best thing for them was to smoke marijuana and to get rid of this nausea.” [16:48]).
The move enables clearly needed medical marijuana use, primarily for cancer patients.
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“I applaud him. I think this is a brilliant, great move.”
— Dr. James Nuzzo [17:32]
[21:04–24:47]
Coverage of the board’s unanimous vote to rename the Kennedy Center as the Trump Kennedy Center; noting the need for Congressional approval.
Emily Finn and Jake Novak discuss the cultural and political impact:
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“He loves putting his name on things... But you know that this is gonna be... used as an example of how Trump is a dictator.”
— Jake Novak [22:50]
[29:00–29:56, 39:56–40:53]
[29:56–31:19]
UAW President Shawn Fain’s chief of staff resigns following evidence of collusion and cover-up.
Novak decries rampant corruption, mismanagement of strike funds, and retaliatory moves within the union.
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“There can't be a more corrupt union in America, and that's saying something.”
— Jake Novak [29:59]
[43:35–51:03]
The attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, which killed a Holocaust survivor during a Hanukkah event, is discussed in detail.
Masha Pearl shines a light on survivors’ resilience, current trauma, and her organization’s support services.
The rise in anti-Semitic violence is linked by host and guest to an erosion of law enforcement and a social climate of impunity, not just “lack of education”.
Pearl says stricter enforcement and leadership are needed to prevent hate crimes.
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"It sends a message to other survivors who are now extremely afraid, calling me and their PTSD is risen, and they're wondering... who will protect us? Will this happen again?"
— Masha Pearl [44:17]
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“If you live in a city or a country where you know that committing a violent act against anyone for any reason... you will be found and punished severely, that's going to solve a lot of your bigotry problems.”
— Jake Novak [47:42]
[54:05–58:44]
RFK Jr., as Health Secretary, announces threats to pull federal funding from hospitals providing trans surgeries/treatments for minors.
Both Jake Novak and David Brody critique current medical practices, comparing the profit motive in the U.S. with existing bans in European socialized healthcare.
Emphasis that these surgeries violate the Hippocratic Oath and are based on poor science and profit, not medical necessity.
Novak delivers a strong moral condemnation, calling the practice “child sacrifice” and a manifestation of “leftist religion.”
Quote (RFK Jr. clip):
“Doctors across the country now provide needless and irreversible sex rejecting procedures that violate their sacred Hippocratic oath by endangering the very lives that they are sworn to safeguard.”
— Jake Novak quoting RFK Jr. [54:18]
Quote:
“Once you control the language, you control the culture.”
— David Brody [57:07]
Most Polarizing Quote:
“There’s no such thing as a non religious person, David. No such thing. And leftism is a religion. And this is the leftist religion, child sacrifice. And that’s as simple as it goes.”
— Jake Novak [58:06]
On Brown University’s Camera Policy:
“Brown took [the cameras] out in order to facilitate nameless, faceless protests by these leftist students. So Brown's complicit here before the fact.”
— Dr. James Nuzzo [09:00]
On Selective Application of Law:
“The law is being applied in two tiers... as to whether or not the law is going to be lenient on you, or whether the law is going to come like a ton of bricks.”
— Dr. James Nuzzo [12:13]
On Profit Motive Behind Trans Treatments:
“There's a conflict of interest here. The medical community makes a ton of money... Not only the procedure itself, which is expensive, but on the lifetime of medical care that's off the charts for people who have these surgeries.”
— Jake Novak [55:18]
Jake Novak hosts with a mixture of dry humor, skepticism, and a fiercely opinionated style. The tone veers from somber during coverage of tragedies to spirited and polemical when discussing policy and culture war topics, frequently calling out perceived incompetence, hypocrisy, or corruption. Guests and contributors match the direct, passionate style, often emphasizing morality, personal stories, and energetic debate.