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Ahead on American Sunrise EARLY edition. It's a different America than the one that existed before the Thanksgiving holiday began. As the nation is still reeling from the targeted shooting attack on two National Guard troops, killing one of them, an Afghan man here on refugee status was the attacker. The incident has put even more of a focus on the illegal alien and asylum crisis in this country, but that didn't stop crazed anti Trump and anti ICE protesters from staging incidents in New York and elsewhere over the holiday weekend. President Trump has put what he calls a permanent pause on immigration from Afghanistan and other problematic regions. And the war on the drug invasion of America appears to be ramping up as well. President Trump says the world should consider the airspace over Venezuela to be closed. A US Attack on drug cartel strongholds on the ground seems to be imminent. And how is Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro responding? He's singing John Lennon songs. No, I'm not kidding. Peace talks continue in hopes of ending the Ukraine Russia war, but in the meantime, these tankers carrying Russian oil blowed up real good. This is the result of a Ukrainian drone attack, and it was probably just a bit more peaceful at the stores this Black Friday weekend. So how did the sales go? Did Americans listen to the mainstream media and give up shopping in favor of saving string and watching reruns of the Waltons? 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 down the stories that matter, letting the public know regularly what we have found. American Sunrise EARLY EDITION with your host.
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Welcome back to American SUNRISE EARLY edition. Welcome back from our long Thanksgiving holiday break. And hopefully you had one as well. It's a new week. It's also a new month. And I have to say I have a new outlook and maybe a new wording that I'm going to use probably from now on when it comes to our situation in America. If you've been watching this program for the almost one year that it's been coming on to you, I've been using the term civil war in America and how it's getting more violent. But after what happened in D.C. with the killing of that National Guard soldier, the severe wounding of the other by an Afghan asylum seeker, basically, I think we need to change the term. And maybe it isn't a civil war and maybe this is really just an invasion. And there are some parallels in history to this. We're going to talk about that and a lot more. Matt Tardio is joining us. He's a former Green Beret, former law enforcement officer, current host, a podcast host. Matt, I just want to get you a chance here to comment about that attack on the National Guard troops. At first I thought, well, this is just another example of how the National Guard troops were demonized by the seditious Six and the whole thing. And I get that. And I think that definitely plays some part in it. But this is more of an invasion, isn't it? I mean, honestly, people, I don't really think that there are any significant percentage of Americans who condone violence against ice, who want open borders, who think that the National Guard going into cities that are wrapped with crime, that there's a problem with that. These are our foreign enemies who are attacking us.
Matt Tardio
Yeah, it is. It's our foreign enemies who are attacking us. And it's really sad because Joe Biden is the one that let him into the country. And I understand this man's background. I understand also that he had worked for the government side by side with US Troops over in Afghanistan. But there's a reason that we ended up having to have what we called our Guardian angel program over inside of Afghanistan where we we would have people that, you know, U.S. soldiers that just made sure that we didn't get shot in our back while we were standing there. I've talked to and interviewed a lot of the soldiers that were on the ground over during that, you know, withdrawal from Afghanistan on the ground at hka. It is shocking to hear some of their stories and what they'll tell you. They'll tell you that they got little to no training on screening the Actual paperwork to let these on the base that the representatives from the Department of State that were on the ground would often come up to the gate and change the standards for what was coming through that. A lot of the paperwork was being photocopied. It's in foreign languages. So that they didn't. I mean, who's going to know what it is that they're looking at? I mean, just all sorts of problems. And so it. I, I was looking at Secretary Mayorkas. He was being interviewed by Lindsay Graham for a congressional inquiry. And they asked Mayorkas. They, they asked him, can you guarantee that 100% of those people were actually vetted? And after a three minute of just grind se against Mayorkas, he finally came out and said, you know what? I just, I can't speak to that because they don't. They, they didn't, they didn't vet everybody, Jake. And so we have people that came to this country. God only knows what they're tied to. And it's, it's upsetting, you know, it's absolutely upsetting to see this stuff happening here in American soil. My hearts and prayers go to their families.
Jake Novak
Yeah, it's not an isolated incident. We also had an incident in Texas. That's right. Where an Afghan national was arrested who had been openly plotting to kill. I believe it was National Guard troops, but at least American troops in some form. And, you know, Matt, what this reminds me of is one of my biggest pet peeves is when people talk about the Lebanese civil war. For those of you watching don't know what I'm talking about. The 1970s, they had an Islamist versus more secular civil war in Lebanon. It wasn't a civil war, it was an invasion. There were tens of thousands of Palestinian terrorists who poured into Lebanon after they were kicked out of Jordan by King Hussein in something called Black September. In your case, in our case, as you pointed out, we had our borders opened. I don't think that this was a coincidence. I think that there were different payoffs and different reasons that the Biden administration, for every group that came in, whether it was Venezuelans, whether it was the usual garden variety, other people from Central America or people from Afghanistan or even China. I think that there were different payoffs and different price points, frankly.
Matt Tardio
Yeah, I think that. I know I'm not the only one that's spoken about this, but Chinese miners being over inside of Afghanistan and US troops guarding Chinese miners, you know, while they're over in Afghanistan actually escorting around the country. As a matter of fact, I know I'm not the only person that spoke about that. I think it's kind of odd that, you know, the, the last flight that Joe Biden took as vice president aboard Air Force Two was Hunter Biden landing over inside of China. And Joe, when questioned about it, has no idea what his crackhead son was up to running around over inside of of China. And then after we withdraw from Afghanistan, that the first country to recognize Afghanistan officially was China.
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And none of these things are coincidences in my mind, Jake. None.
Jake Novak
Yeah, look, I know there's a lot of people watching or maybe you have friends who you'll tell about this who are Trump haters or they're Trump skeptics or they don't think Joe Biden was so bad. I understand there's people like that, but can you please just ask them what, in what, what purpose did it serve to open the borders up wide in the middle of the COVID lockdown? You know, forget about all the other vetting. I thought everyone was supposed to be vaccinated according to the Biden administration. I mean, can you please just, can we all just have a little bit of common sense? What positive purpose could there possibly have been for the Biden administration on day one? Really? This was the first thing they did to open the borders wide. It just doesn't make sense for anything good for America. Please put the partisanship aside. I don't care what president or what party a president was from. This policy made no sense. Now let's talk about another policy that I think makes a lot more sense to Americans, especially those of us who have been touched by the drug scourge in this country. Let's shift our focus now to Venezuela because there's a lot of stuff going on. Matt, I half expected this morning to wake up and see that we had hit Venezuela on the ground, but we're seem to be pretty close to it. And we know that President Trump has been speaking to Nicolas Maduro and talking to him about basically getting out of there before it's too late. The dictator in Venezuela, he's not the president of Venezuela. I agree with Marco Rubio. We shouldn't call him that. I think that this is long overdue, honestly. These are drug factories that are clear and present danger. And I use those words advisedly. You know what that means? Clear and present danger to the national security of the United States. I don't think that there's really any significant percentage, Matt, of native born Americans and maybe even naturalized citizens who are loyal to this country, who are against going after These drug cartels.
Matt Tardio
No, no, no. People that are true red blooded Americans are against blowing up cartel boats operating out in the middle of the ocean. You know, the, the Democratic party ended up bringing all sorts of allegations against, you know, the, the Trump admin, specifically the secretary of war, Pete Hegseth, about double tapping boats as if killing terrorists are bad. But I think that, you know, the Trump administration also is taking a look at the real picture that you and I were just talking about, which is China and Russia, they have significant influence over inside of Venezuela. Russia ended up, you know, rumors, getting ready to start flying all of their citizens out from over there and sending over diplomatic flights to get their citizens out of Venezuela. So I think we have like a multi tiered approach which is we're tired of China and Russia, you know, influencing our hemisphere over what this, this last week they ended up passing, you know, laws so that China cannot be buying up land here in the United States. Just little things like that. I mean, they're here on our home soil, they're here on our home turf and now they're down inside Venezuela. And it's a very, very short reach for some of those weapons. I almost akin this closer to the Cuban missile crisis, to be perfectly honest.
Jake Novak
Well, we also know that Hezbollah had a huge, huge, still has a huge influence in Venezuela. And when a couple of years ago, a little bit more than that, When I, when we were hearing that Venezuelans were the predominant group that was coming through those open borders for that six month period or so, I mean, I knew we were just getting a lot of terrorist, terrorists coming in. I mean that was not, that was not a stretch. That wasn't out of stretch.
Matt Tardio
It's not a question the government admits to. How many terrorists we're tracking here inside of the United States that are on the terror watch list, that have came across the border, that came over on the flights out of Afghanistan, I mean they're coming from everywhere, Jake. You know, the last administration had our borders opened up so much, it should scare the crap out of every single U. S. Citizen. I mean honestly, how is it that we, on our, on our own flights, we were flying terrorists out of a known terrorist country where we have been at war, flying them back into the United States. And, and now we've got another one, Venezuela, where you have an absolute insane dictator partnered with cartels, partnered with China, partnered with Russia, riding drugs up on, on boats, which by the way, we don't even know. We would hope that it's just drugs on those boats because cartels work in human trafficking and work with terrorist organizations and several other. You would hope that's all that's on those boats is drugs. The least bit of our concern would be the drugs that they could be throwing on those boats to come over and kill Americans. So, yeah, it's time for Americans to wake up and pay attention.
Jake Novak
Yeah, real quick, it's about 30 seconds, though. Also we have the situation with Ukraine, the number two leader in Ukraine having to resign because of a corruption scandal. There's a corruption scandal every five minutes in Ukraine. Ukraine and Russia are both extremely corrupt countries. But that was another country, Matt, and you mentioned it, we talked about it. Ukraine absolutely paid off the Biden family many times through different avenues. This is another thing that we got ourselves locked into big time, didn't we?
Matt Tardio
Yeah, we're extremely locked into Ukraine. And I mean, personally, I think it's for good reason.
Jake Novak
Right.
Matt Tardio
We cannot have Russia taking over Ukraine. And I know I've got a much different stance of this than a lot of people that tend to lean right, but Russia, in my opinion, is, is a huge challenge to the west and it's a huge challenge to the US Dollar and not just Russia, but BRICS within itself. If Russia ends up taking over Ukraine, all of a sudden we've got an issue. You know, a lot of people are worried about inflation. Well, it's not going to look so good when the US Dollar ends up ultimately collapsing. When brics ends up coming out with their currency, the petrodollar goes away. I mean, we're, we're SOL. You're going to see 20 inflation overnight. So people do need to wake up and pay attention. But at the same time, it's time for America to put its foot down. We can't have U. S. Taxpayer dollars in Ukraine going to number two guy over inside of there being inside of his house and apartment.
Jake Novak
Yeah, I mean, it's, it's amazing. I don't, I don't know why it had to be done that way. Obviously, I certainly want to stand up to Putin as well, but this has not been the way to do it. And we're stuck with a lot of, a lot of garbage despite that one guy stepping down. Matt Tardio Happy. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the show? Matt Tardio, Thanks.
Matt Tardio
Other than that, it's gonna be a lovely week.
Jake Novak
It's gonna be a great week and a great month. Sorry to start on that, but listen, everyone needs to be vigilant. Thank you, Matt. And we'll see you real soon.
Matt Tardio
Soon of course, Jake. Thanks.
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All right, coming up, the mainstream media wants us all to think we're in the midst of a depression. Did American shoppers fall for that? The Black Friday numbers will tell all. I'll have them for you. But first, a new offering from the White House that shines a light on the mainstream media's regular malpractice. Emily Finn and I will have that story for you when American Sunrise Early Edition comes right back. SpinQuest Social Casino. The presents are open and you're over the in laws. It's a perfect time to grab your phone and play spinquest.com with live dealer blackjack, craps and a ton of slots. And here's a great deal for the holiday. A $30 coin pack for $10. And if you're hearing this ad, you can play right now on spinquest.com Spinquest.
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That's a live shot of Macy's at the corner of 34th and 7th, just diagonally out of this shot as Matic Madison Square Garden for those of you trying to get your bearings. And Macy's was kind of a madhouse on Black Friday. A lot of people lining up. Black Friday is a day where poor people line up in the middle of the night to throw their money at rich people. That's what it is. And boy, did they ever. And I'm going to give you the numbers in just a few minutes. A little bit later on in the program. Black Friday was not what the mainstream media was trying to scare us into. Let's just put it that way. Hey, this might be my favorite story of the year. I still have another month to go, but this might be my favorite story. The White House has now fired up a Hall of Shame webpage for all the lousy stories filed by the news media every day. There's gonna be a lot of them, a lot more of them coming up. Emily Finn joins us now. Emily, I would love to be in charge of this webpage, but also be the one who gets to do a short lecture. I always thought that the White House press briefings every day should start with the lecture. Someone should Come up with, like, a PowerPoint presentation and point to the person who represents whatever media organization made the screw up of the day and explain to them, like a journalism professor, why they made this mistake, why they. What they did wrong. And that's like, my dream job. I'm available, by the way. Caroline Levitt, I will do this for you every day.
Emily Finn
Well, that would certainly turn the tables in the White House press briefing room there, Jake. You know, look, I think this is absolutely hilarious, but it is. It's pretty serious at the end of the day because it's calling out all of the mainstream media reports that are simply lies at the end of the day. And this has been happening for so long, and we have just been letting it happen. So I think it's good that they are finally calling it out. But we also have to remember that this is a second term President Trump. And so he is just. He's not really holding back on anything here. So I have a feeling that we're gonna be seeing a whole lot added to this wall of shame, if you will.
Jake Novak
Ooh, that was a good tease. Because a little bit later in the program, what my guest is gonna talk about how he's really noted a different tone in the White House, not just for the second term, but just in the last couple of weeks. So that was a good tease for that. But listen, Emily worked in some of these places as well, and I think she'll join me. Well, she doesn't have to go on record. I'll take more of a risk here. Look, folks, there's a lot of problems in the mainstream media. I just want to say one thing. If you are chalking up their work to partisanship, uber liberalism and all that kind of stuff, just be careful with that, because in 99% of the cases, they're not smart enough to be partisan. I'm telling you that when the cameras turn off in almost every mainstream news media shop that I worked in, and I worked in them for years, there was no interest, no intellect, no erudition at all connected to any of the stories they were talking about. They were right back talking about Real Housewives and Andy Cohen, by the way, biggest misogynist in America right now. Don't let your daughters watch his programming. That's another story. But that's really what they're interested in. They're not smart enough to be partisan, Emily. They're just not.
Emily Finn
I'm sorry, Jake. I think both of us, we both know that we've worked with some not so smart journalists in the past that would just copy and paste AP stories, Reuters stories. That was the extent of their investigations that they did as journalists. And so it's great that, you know, we're both at this network now at Real America's Voice because we actually do the dirty work. We actually do what journalists need to do and get the real stories out there that the mainstream may not be touching, but the American people need to know about.
Jake Novak
Yeah. And if you're in any conservative outlet, whether it's print, web or tv, you're going to be checked more. We're under much more scrutiny despite the fact that CNN might have a bigger audience, although I'm not so sure. I actually think we might have a bigger audience on some days. And I'm not kidding. But honestly, we are much more scrutinized. And so we have to kind of know what we're talking about. Emily Finn, thank you so much for joining us. Welcome to the new month of December. We're going to see you in the 8 to 10am hour. And again, just Happy Monday.
Emily Finn
Happy Monday. Thanks, Jake.
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That's a live look at Columbia, Maryland, by the way. Interesting history of that town. It was was basically created during the Johnson administration. Lbj. It's like all Federal workers who live there and they wanted to make a town sort of in between Baltimore and D.C. where people could live and develop it. I almost moved there in 2012. I guess I'm kind of glad I didn't. Although it does look lovely. Not because I didn't want to. I don't think the people are nice there. The places are nice. It just wasn't for me. Let's take a look at where the markets are going to begin today. And you see a lot of red there. We had a massive series of rallies going into the Thanksgiving break. And of course, for those of you who know your, your market rules, we did have half a day of trading on Friday because unless there's a war or something, we never stop trading on our markets for more than two days in a row. So you have to have a little bit of trading and we had to have a little trading on Friday. Another big rally on Friday. So we're giving back some of it this morning. Not much, really. All less than 1% on each of those indices there. And as you see, the rally in gold has returned. 4284 announced. Silver still rallying all time. High, $57.90. Crude oil back up to the 59 level, but again, still below 60. So crude oil still on sale. Now let's take a look at bitcoin because that's been very dramatic. Now, bitcoin got up to about 91, more than 91,000 on Saturday, I believe it was, or maybe even Friday. Got back all the way down a little bit more now to 85. 8. Still struggling is bitcoin. And people are seeing a lot of people seeing that as a buying opportunity. Now, look, folks, we don't have the final numbers yet from the brick and mortar stores, although we do have an overall percentage. I'm going to tell you in a second. But we know that $11.8 billion were spent on Black Friday. Just online. Just online on Friday. Not for the Black Friday sales that go over several days, but on online, just on Friday, $11.8 billion. Now, overall, the overall Black Friday numbers, 4.1% increase over last year. Now, why am I talking about this? I'm talking about this because, look, I understand that the economy isn't perfect. A lot of us are struggling. That I understand. Don't get me wrong, this is not Pollyanna. But the problem is you've had the mainstream media day after day for a couple of months now absolutely depicting the economic situation in this country as a depression. And they are doing this Deliberately. It is really frustrating to me to see this, this is not honest journalism. And so if they don't, if you don't see in your mainstream media, if you bother to check them out and you probably don't have to, but if you are going to do that, if you don't see them making a big deal about the fact that we had a 4%, that's a big year over year increase, a 4% overall increase in Black Friday sales from last year, then you really should stop looking at that particular outlet because it's just not honest. They don't have to throw a parade for it. They don't have to be all smiles about it. But they need to say something along the lines of, but you know, maybe it's not so bad, as we said something along those lines. They won't do it. But that's, that's what you need to know Anyway. It was a very strong Black Friday for retailers both online and in brick and mortar. And that's the bottom line. Now to that promised cool video story about oil that I was showing you a little bit earlier in the program. We talked about it with Matt Tardio, but I didn't really get into this part of it with him. I talked about the Russia, Ukraine situation, but I did show you at the top of the show these oil tankers, these, these oil tankers on fire. These are Turkish oil tankers holding Russian oil that's supposed to be sanctioned. When they were hit just before Thanksgiving or just on Thanksgiving, we didn't know who hit them or why they exploded. Now we know it was a Ukrainian drone attack. The names of the ship. There was something called the kairos. It's a 900 foot tanker. It was on its way from Egypt to Russia when it suffered that blast and caught fire. And then there was the 820 foot Virat began spewing heavy smoke from its engine. Good news. Nobody was injured in this. Obviously millions and millions of dollars lost and there's probably some pollution to talk about. But the 20 people who are on board those two tankers, they're all in good condition. All right, I want to get back to the mainstream media here for a second because there's something that I want you to take a look at. This is what I'm talking about. The overall economic health of the country, I know has some challenges. This is something I posted on X just before we took off for Thanksgiving on that Friday. Well, we were already offer Thanksgiving, that Friday half day of trading I was telling you about. We had massive rallies for days and days and days, including Friday. And CNBC couldn't bring itself to saying, oh, it's still a losing month. Now that would be fine if that were the only time they did it. But for every single day of that rally, they had to put in the headline, not in the lead, not in the body of the article, but in the headline that everyone sees on their phone app that it's still a losing month. God forbid you shouldn't be afraid. God forbid you shouldn't see the negatives. Look, if you want to make a big deal about every negative in the market, then you have to make a corresponding same big deal. That's how markets work. About every time the markets rally. And CNBC and these other channels are not doing it. And they're supposed to be the smart Bloomberg cnbc. This must be so smart. Well, they're not. They're trying to scare you and deal with your emotions rather than your intellect. Don't fall for it. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. This is moving America. Sponsored by ArtilleryTea Co. Artilleryteaco.com Use promo code RAV for 10% off your order. Artillery Tea is all natural whole leaf. The tea bags are chemical free and each teabag can be used twice. Artillery Tea company is family and veteran owned and operated and a portion of your purchase goes to help veteran and first responder charities. Artillerytcode.com promo code RAV for 10% off your order. Happy Black Friday savings to you all. Now I was just saying that we've had, we had a record all time Black Friday sales up 4 more than 4% from last year. But as you know, I like to save you money on this program. Were you thinking about buying a car? I guess it's still cyber Monday, so maybe buying a car today. Well, I want to warn you about that. Black Friday is not the time. According to all the folks who do the surveys about when to buy a car, it's actually the second worst time of the year to buy a car if you want to get a deal. This is according to the latest study and I've seen more like this so I really buy this. The latest study by a group called IC Cars.com this is interesting website by the way. Anyway, they say that this is not a good time to buy a new car, especially even a used car if, if you're looking for a bargain. The best time, especially to buy a used car to get a deal is coming up soon. Don't worry, you won't have to wait long. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday weekend. That is of course in late January. That is when you're going to get your best prices on used cars and also on new cars. So check it out anyway. Go ahead and buy some socks or something else on Black Friday. But you, because that's where you'll get the deals. But not so much in cars. I love it when the law of supply and demand really kicks in. It's my favorite law of them all. And it is happening now because demand is slipping more and more for electric vehicles. So if you still are one of those people who likes electric vehicles, the deals are emerging for you. And this is an interesting1. A 2026 Mercedes Benz CLA EV is listing for under $49,000. Not bad for a snazzy Mercedes, folks. Again, I'm not a fan of EVs, but if you are, here's your chance. Now this one even comes with a standard rear wheel drive. That's a hard one to say. Sorry. So you get that power and a panoramic sunroof. Go ahead, talk it over with your spouse. If you still really love EVs, you can get some bargains right now. And that is a snazzy Mercedes Benz. Now speaking of Mercedes Benz, this is an interesting story. You might know a guy named Ryan James wedding. He is the former Canadian Olympic snowboarder who turned into a drug trafficker. He's now on the FBI's most wanted list. What a fall for him. But the FBI hasn't found him yet. But they did nab and take as evidence his sweet, sweet ride. I mean this is an amazing car he had. It's an uber rare 2002 Mercedes Benz CLK GTR Roadster. Only about 28 of them were ever built. That car alone that they took is worth $13 million. If I were him, I would come out of hiding and get that car. It's evidence in a number of the cases against him. But don't forget kids, crime doesn't pay. I think in his case it did anyway. Okay, one more sweet ride to tell you about. And to remind you that some people just can't handle a very hot car. Earlier this week, a clean 2025 Corvette Stingray with just 1480 miles on it sold for $58,500 on the car and bids online auction site. That's a bargain, by the way. There's a little bit of a backstory here. The person who sold it actually wanted in a raffle. Just a couple of months after he got it, he decided he couldn't handle it. I guess it's good that he was being honest. So he sold it for $10,000 under the blue book value. It's a sad story for him, but a wonderful story for that person who picked up a very nice bargain. Okay, coming up, even before the terrible attack on our attack, our national guard troops in D.C. last week, some people had started to notice a tougher and stronger tone coming out of the White House. One of those people is my next guest. He's going to explain when American Sunrise Early Edition continues.
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Jake Novak
It's Monday, December 1st. Here are this morning's top stories. It's a different America than the one that existed before before the Thanksgiving holiday. As the nation is still reeling from the targeted shooting attack on two National Guard troops in D.C. killing one of them. An Afghan man here on refugee status was the attacker. The incident has put even more of a focus on the illegal alien and asylum crisis in this country and those who are supporting the status quo. Those included crazed anti Trump and anti ICE protesters who staged incidents in New York and elsewhere over the holiday. Don't call them protests. They're attacks. President Trump has put what he calls a permanent pause on immigration from Afghanistan and other problematic regions. And the war on the drug invasion of America appears to be ramping up as well. President Trump says the world should consider the airspace over Venezuela to be closed. A US Attack on drug cartel strongholds on the ground in that country seems to be imminent. How is Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro responding? He's singing John Lennon songs. And no, I'm not kidding. And it was probably just a bit more peaceful, I hope, at the stores this Black Friday. But the sales were hot and furious. Americans didn't listen to the mainstream media. They didn't give up on spending and saved string in the instead. And watch Walton's reruns. American Sunrise early edition continues now. Yeah, folks, that's how depressions can start. Sometimes you get a bunch of people in the newspapers and the media telling you that you should go home and save string. I mean, honestly, we have challenges in this economy. I am not a Pollyanna, if you're listening, Raw Story or Media Matters or the other dishonest people who sometimes cover this program. No, I'm not saying everything is perfect. I'm just saying that we just had a record Black Friday. You can take that as you may. Now. Joining us right now is independent investigative journalist Walter Kurt, because Walter is also the man behind the WC Dispatch on Substack, and he's been watching a lot about what's been going on in America. Look, Walter, you and I, you and I especially have talked a lot about the civil war in America on this program throughout this year. But, you know, I think we need to use another term. I don't know why I didn't see this sooner, because one of my pet peeves is when people call invasions civil wars. This is an invasion. Now, yes, there are some people in this country who are rooting for the bad guys, the invaders. But honestly, this is being carried out by invaders. And that's what we had last week, an invader to this country killing one of our troops. It's as simple as that. I don't know why we have to get more complicated than that.
Walter Kurt
I don't think we need to make it any more complicated than we should. You know, this, this whole move by Trump saying he's going to end Third world immigration when people really need to look at it, the actual immigration numbers, if you go by DHS statistics, according to what we've been doing for the past 20 years or so, almost 85% of all the legal visas we do go to the third world. So that means that if Trump is ending Third world immigration, he's effectively ended, he's effectively ended legal immigration in this country right now. That's essentially what he said. He's doing that right there. That's going to blow everything up. That's going to change everything. If he's doing that. Most of D.C. revolves around immigration. So if he's now changing this to the point that we're not going to be accepting any third world immigration, that we're about to see massive changes, this is something that demands follow through. We can't accept any more people. And I've been saying it for months at this point, but now after the attack on this, the Afghan national, the National Guardsmen, it's just obvious we can't accept any more of these people and it's time for a lot of them to go home.
Jake Novak
Yeah. Now, anyone listening to this who's suddenly going through all their usual tropes? Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty, give me your. This is different, folks. We had 21 million illegal aliens pour into this country. All the rational arguments, you Chamber of Commerce Republicans and you uber liberals who you've made for immigration in this country don't apply. We're in a different situation right now. It's like basically telling someone, well, you know, go just rub dirt on it. Like, no, I just broke my arm on the football field. I can't rub dirt on it. It's a different situation right now. And for those of you, again, still thinking about places like Ellis island, half of the people who came to this country through Ellis island in the old days went back home, okay? They either assimilated in this country or did well or they left. And no one does that anymore because we have this massive welfare state. As Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize winning economist, said, you can have open borders or you can have a welfare state, but you can't have both. And that is something that people need to understand and that is something that the Democrats have wanted because they know that will undermine the country. Don't think we're dealing with your father's Democrats anymore. I think we're dealing with people who are working with the enemies of the country to undermine the country, not just a different vision on how to make it better. Now, Walter, you've been noticing a change in tone in the White House. I think everyone noticed it, as you just said, from this policy change about basically cutting off almost all immigration. But even before the National Guard, the attack on our National Guard troops and the murdering of one of them, you told me that you had noticed a change of tone in the White House. Tell me a little bit more about that.
Walter Kurt
Well, there seems to be something, a pivot coming from the Trump administration. Now, I think my real theory was that Trump was busy dealing with something that we don't really know about. Maybe he was dealing with something on international with China or trade or something like that. But it appears to me that Trump stepped back into the room rather quickly here over the past. And I think everyone could see it over the past couple weeks, suddenly Trump has reappeared back in front of the cameras, back in front of the reporters, and he's back shifting and driving the policy again. So I don't know what was changed, but it appears to me that we're about to see a hard pivot out of the administration and we're not playing nice anymore. I don't know if that means that certain advisors are going to be shifted around. My theory is that we're actually going to see a staff shakeup as we come to the end of the year here. I think we'll see some people shift out and maybe some people move up in the administration. But I can see that it looks to me like Trump is not playing around anymore. I mean, this, everyone is sitting there saying, oh my goodness, Mag is dead, Mag is over. And then Trump comes out and says, no, we're going to end all third world immigration and every single one of these TPS systems is done. Which another thing people aren't paying attention to. It's not like this is just out of nowhere. A lot of these TPS status, immigration, a lot of that stuff was actually in court. I know that in the Haitian immigration stuff, that was specifically, that's been in court since March. So I think all of those cases are set to expire towards the first of this year. And I think that's where you're seeing most of this pivot come from.
Jake Novak
Yeah. And again, the sheer numbers, folks, change, please. I hear one more person bring up to me old school arguments for very open immigration without acknowledging over what's happened over the last five to six years in this country. It's just so frustrating to talk to someone who's living in that bubble and doesn't understand how things have changed. Now, let's get to another front here, and that's Venezuela. We talked a lot on this program so far about the close, basically the closing of the airspace according to President Trump, or at least we should consider it closed. I believe that an attack on a drug cartel stronghold on the ground in Venezuela is imminent. So what is Nicolas Maduro, the dictator, strongman, whatever you want to call him in Venezuela? What's he doing? Check it out. This is Nicolas Maduro just this weekend. Peace, peace, peace. Imagine, Imagine all the people. I mean. I mean, you know, everyone talks about peace when they're about to be nailed for all the war that Venezuela has been waging against this country, not just only with drugs, but allowing Hezbollah into that country and then into our country as well. What the hell did I just see here? Did he. I mean, I thought that they were commun. Like, I thought it was Lenin. L, E N I N. Vladimir Lenin, not John Lennon. Did they get that mixed up? My dad once had a student in one of his classes who mixed those two up. Maybe that's what happened.
Walter Kurt
Well, I don't know. Let it be known across the world, though, that a sure way to provoke military action is to sing John Lennon's Imagine, which I think is actually necessary. The moment I saw this, whenever this first came out, I said, all right, double the bounty. Send the marines. I've seen enough. I mean, that's enough for me. I don't know what's going to happen here in Venezuela, but obviously this is. There's something more serious than just the drugs and whatnot. You know, this is part of it. The drugs are all part of it. But I think there's a major play we're making down there for the entire region by going after Venezuela. Everyone seems to forget that Venezuela also has the world's largest oil reserves. I think they have 300 billion barrels of heavy crude, the world's largest reserves, and it's been sitting on those for years now. So I think we're about to see something pretty interesting happening down there. And I think it's a big play for. Against China. But yes, anytime you sing John Lennon's Imagine, I think you should immediately be invaded by the Marines. Paratroopers, cinema, you know, somewhere.
Jake Novak
Somewhere. Somewhere in heaven or hell. Probably hell. Tokyo Rose must be smiling. For those of you who know your history, Tokyo Rose was this pirate radio broadcast that the Imperial Japanese piped over and it was heard by a lot of US naval ships during World War II. She was a Japanese woman who grew up, did a lot of her growing up in the United States. So she had a very strong English background and good American accent. And she would say things like this, like, don't you want peace, gi? Don't you want to go back home to your girlfriend? We should have peace. Meanwhile, you know, they bombed Pearl harbor and did incredible atrocities during the war. I mean, this is honestly, it's an old school game, but it's amazing how many people, I mean, I gotta say, I don't know how many American sailors who heard Tokyo Rose were really convinced by her in any way. I think they listened to it and got a kick out of it and that was it. But it really feels like there's a lot of Americans who probably watch that and said, look at that Nicola, he's so cute. I'd love to invite him over and sing John Lennon songs. I mean, it's just the naivete it takes to listen to that is really off the charts. Walter, I have a hot tip for you. You're never gonna lose followers online if you regularly complain about high prices. I don't care how good the economy is. There's someone who's gonna remember when really cool things cost a lot less. But the Democrats are going to try to blame these high prices that we're still seeing nagging high prices on a number of things. And I know a lot of the viewers are talking about it. And again, I'm not a Pollyanna about our economy. We still have inflation that's too high. But what's infuriating to me is Democrats trying to put all the blame on President Trump when the inflation clearly started completely objectively under Joe Biden. Here's one of those Democrats who's putting out what sounds like a credible argument. Listen to this. Because we need to be prepared for this in 2026. Listen to this.
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I will convene with, you know, a couple of things about that that I understand now. Again, I got to give them credit, you know, going for the fact that there is problems in America and there's still economic struggling even in especially in an important state like Ohio, which I believe is truly the most important swing state in the country. So the fact that Trump has won it three times significantly shows me that's one of the reasons why I doubt a lot of the 2020 results. We can do an entire program about that. But anyway, good for them. Good for them for focusing on Ohio because that's an important state. But the one thing that really gets me mad, and this is something that everyone who supports President Trump needs to hear, because I don't even think that the President's strongest supporters talk about this enough. Don't let the Democrats get away with trickle down tax policy nonsense. President Trump with his 2017 tax bill and the one big beautiful bill which extended and strengthened that, has created the biggest trickle up tax break in the history of America. The blue collar tax break that he created by doubling the standard deduction for people who don't itemize their taxes. This was the first ever trickle up tax rate is a huge reason why there was an economic boom under the first President Trump administration and a huge reason why the economy is stronger than people think. But, Walter, the economic messaging from the Republicans, this is something you've been really warning us about, has got to get better as we go into this midterm.
Walter Kurt
It absolutely has to. It's amazing to me that we're even letting the Democrats even sort of make this part of their messaging. How are we doing this? Their whole messaging is affordability and costs. Just ask people who raised the costs, who did it? I mean, just come on. Like, why are we doing this? Why are we letting them get away with this? It drives me crazy. Who raised the costs? Just put that chart out. The chart out that shows the inflation numbers underneath Biden. In fact, the other day, someone put out this hilarious. There was another Democrat that did this. They did it twice now. They put out this chart and said, look, inflation underneath Biden is or underneath Trump is far worse than it was underneath Biden. And it shows from 2022 to 2025, and it shows $170 increase during 2022 to 2024 and then a $19 increase under 2025. But they put this out and they just think, oh, look, the number's higher. It's a completely nonsensical argument. But that's what they're doing. And we're letting them get away with it. We can't let them get away with it. I mean, even in that recent clip there, when that's Amy Acton, who might be the most unpopular person that exists. She was the COVID czar in Ohio, by the way. But you got to love what she says there. We're 45th in anything. 45th in unemployment. Wait, isn't that a good thing? 45th in unemployment? That means there's only five states that have higher unemployment than us. I mean, like, I'm not sure I understand the concept here. Like, I mean, that's not a good thing if we want, we want lower unemployment. So I'm not, I'm not sure really understand what her argument is there. But, but Amy Acton is one of these people that is going to run on the exact same messaging because they think that the mom, dummy, affordability, all of that stuff is going to be the exact same. I mean, I'm not sure I understand what we're doing here with Amy Acton here, but this is going to be the exact same messaging that they ran with mom dummy. They're going to try and pump everything out here, claiming that the costs and everything and the affordability is crisis. Well, again, everyone needs to be reminded constantly. And we kind of beat them over the head with it. It was the Democrats. It was the Democrats who raised the cost. Okay. That was the problem.
Jake Novak
Yeah. That's got to be the messaging. Thank you so much, Walter Kerr. Great for you to join us. Best to you and your family and we'll see you real soon. Thank you.
Walter Kurt
Thanks, Jake.
Jake Novak
Coming up, Senator Mark Kelly is playing the race card now, which makes me fear his treasonous situation is getting him into deeper and deeper trouble. I'm actually worried about this guy now, not only for his own sake, but for the rest of us. David Brody and I will discuss discussed when American Sunrise early edition comes right back.
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Jake Novak
That's a live look at Saranac Lake, New York. I think they have an iced tea or something that comes out of Sara. At least it's called that. You never know. Hey, listen, they have something called Arizona iced tea, which I really like, but they make it here on Long island, so I guess you can call anything you want. And also, someone told me that Haagen Dazs doesn't mean anything. It's not a Dutch word. It just. Just sounds Dutch.
Walter Kurt
All right.
Jake Novak
Welcome back to American Sunrise. Early Edition. David Brody joins me now. And all kidding aside, look, Senator Mark Kelly, I'll be honest with you. He absolutely ticked me off participating in that seditious video. He talked a lot about him flailing. He is now taking it to a next level. I want you to listen to what he did here on Meet the Press just yesterday because I think this is a sign of desperation. Check it out.
David Brody
When I heard the secretary say that they're going to pause immigration from third world countries, I mean, I take that as a message that they don't want brown people coming to the United States, and I find that disturbing. We are a country that has always welcomed individuals that are struggling, that are fleeing famine and violence. And it would be a fundamental change to the fabric of our nation to change that.
Jake Novak
Signs of a desperate man. The last vestige of the scoundrel, especially a white scoundrel, claim that other people are being racist. David, you know, again, this is not funny anymore because this is the kind of stuff that can really, really cause violence in this country. And I think it's telling me that my biggest fears about Mark Kelly might have not been enough. He might really be completely compromised if he's pulling out the race card like this.
David Brody
Yeah, it's always racial politics, right? It always boils down to identity politics overall. It's not just the race card that they play. But it's just kind of interesting, isn't it, Jake, that his mind just went right there? Brown people, third world countries, brown people. Maybe you wanna do a little research about some other third world countries that are not made up of a bunch of air quote, brown people. But this is what they do and what it has in common here, his comments on Meet the Press and those comments of what he did. I shouldn't say comments. Actual script, if you will. In that video, it's the same thing. They are taking a situation and they're just playing it for political points. And this is extremely dangerous because when you do that, you're opening up a whole can of worms, not just politically for yourself, but in a more dangerous way to divide this country even further.
Jake Novak
It's Tokyo Rose. Go online and listen to some of her recordings. Read the transcripts. It's almost as if the Democratic Party has decided to become Tokyo Rose. Sowing the seeds of sedition, discontent and lies and calumny about the United States. Very scary. All right, we're gonna hit more of this in American Sauna's over the next two hours. That's the big show. American Sunrise, early edition. We'll be back. Have a very peaceful Monday.
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Length of Content Covered: From [03:26] to [60:58]
Main Theme:
A post-Thanksgiving deep-dive into America’s shifting political and cultural landscape, focusing on immigration (particularly after the National Guard shooting), the Biden and Trump administrations’ differing policies, Venezuela and cartel threats, economic narratives (media vs. reality), and divisions in the media and political class.
This episode opens after a tumultuous holiday, reflecting a changed national mood following the deadly attack on National Guard troops by an Afghan refugee. Jake Novak and various guests tackle urgent topics: America’s immigration crisis, foreign threats (particularly Venezuela and the role of China and Russia), the alleged mainstream media bias, economic narratives around Black Friday, and a crescendo of political and racial rhetoric—emphasizing their belief that America is undergoing not civil unrest, but an “invasion.”
[05:38 – 12:11]
Immediate Context:
Jake Novak and guest Matt Tardio (ex-Green Beret, podcast host) discuss the targeted killing of National Guard troops by an Afghan refugee—interpreted as evidence of a foreign "invasion," not an internal civil war.
Jake frames the crisis:
“I think we need to change the term. And maybe it isn't a civil war and maybe this is really just an invasion… These are our foreign enemies who are attacking us.”
(Jake Novak, [05:38])
Matt elaborates on failures in vetting during the Afghan withdrawal:
“I've talked to... soldiers... on the ground at [HKIA]. It'll shock you what they’ll tell you. They got little to no training on screening paperwork... a lot of the paperwork was being photocopied. It’s in foreign languages... So, they didn't really vet everybody.”
(Matt Tardio, [07:09])
Concerns about repeated incidents (Texas, etc.) and the parallel to Lebanon’s civil war as an actual foreign invasion.
Accusations that the Biden administration’s border policies were deliberate, motivated by political or financial payoffs relating to incoming migrants from various countries.
“What positive purpose could there possibly have been for the Biden administration on day one... to open the borders wide? It just doesn't make sense for anything good for America.”
(Jake Novak, [10:27])
[12:11 – 15:51]
Trump’s Hardline Moves:
The Trump administration announces a “permanent pause” on immigration from Afghanistan and other “problematic regions,” and a near-total shutdown of Venezuelan airspace.
Matt supports military action against Venezuela’s cartel strongholds (compared to the Cuban Missile Crisis) and notes Chinese and Russian influence there.
“They're here on our home soil... now they're down inside Venezuela. It’s a very, very short reach for some of those weapons… I almost akin this closer to the Cuban missile crisis…”
(Matt Tardio, [13:05])
Discussion of Hezbollah’s presence in Venezuela and the crossover between cartel drug routes and the trafficking of potential terrorists.
Jake: “It’s time for Americans to wake up and pay attention.”
(Jake Novak, [14:36])
[14:36 – 15:51]
Both agree Ukraine and Russia are corrupt, and Tardio makes an unsparing case for continued US engagement in Ukraine to counter BRICS and protect the US dollar’s dominance.
“We cannot have Russia taking over Ukraine… If BRICS ends up coming out with their currency, the petrodollar goes away... We're SOL. You're going to see 20% inflation overnight.”
(Matt Tardio, [15:11])
[20:39 – 23:59]
White House Launches Media “Hall of Shame”:
With co-host Emily Finn, Jake discusses the Trump administration’s new website collecting ‘poor' news stories—claiming it exposes mainstream media malpractice.
Finn underscores:
“This is absolutely hilarious, but it is... serious at the end of the day because it's calling out all of the mainstream media reports that are simply lies...”
(Emily Finn, [21:52])
Jake and Finn agree that much of mainstream journalism is driven more by intellectual laziness than leftwing partisanship.
“They're not smart enough to be partisan… they were right back talking about Real Housewives and Andy Cohen…”
(Jake Novak, [22:29])
Notable: Conservative outlets, Finn says, are scrutinized more strictly:
“…we actually do the dirty work… that the mainstream may not be touching, but the American people need to know about.”
(Emily Finn, [23:33])
[28:46 – 32:00+]
Jake shares official Black Friday/holiday shopping stats contradicting “media-driven” pessimism:
“You’ve had the mainstream media... depicting the economic situation in this country as a depression. They are doing this deliberately.”
(Jake Novak, [28:46])
Jake’s advice:
“If you don't see them making a big deal about... a 4% overall increase... you really should stop looking at that particular outlet because it's just not honest.”
(Jake Novak, [28:46])
Retail, car, and EV buying advice follows.
[34:00 – 37:00]
Market stats: Slight losses post-holiday but gold, silver, Bitcoin up; crude oil still “on sale.”
Jake highlights media bias by showing how CNBC headlines always lean negative, even in rally periods.
“If you want to make a big deal about every negative in the market, then you have to make a corresponding same big deal... about every time the markets rally.”
(Jake Novak, [36:30])
[40:01 – 46:33]
Guest: Walter Kurt (WC Dispatch, Substack)
“This whole move by Trump saying he's going to end third world immigration... that's going to blow everything up. That’s going to change everything… we can’t accept any more people…”
(Walter Kurt, [42:44])
Both Novak and Kurt stress that current immigration is historically unprecedented (“21 million illegal aliens pour into this country”) and cite economist Milton Friedman’s “open borders versus welfare state” argument:
“…you can have open borders or you can have a welfare state, but you can't have both.”
(Jake Novak, [43:43])
Kurt sees a hard “pivot” from the Trump administration, possibly preparing for a staff shakeup and more decisive policy action.
[46:33 – 49:13]
Maduro sings John Lennon’s “Imagine” as US threats escalate; interpreted as propaganda for “peace” while running a “narco-dictatorship.”
“Anytime you sing John Lennon's Imagine, I think you should immediately be invaded by the Marines.”
(Walter Kurt, [48:13])
Walter emphasizes Venezuela’s strategic significance: “world’s largest oil reserves” and a theater for proxy conflict against China.
[49:13 – 54:37]
Jake slams Democrats for blaming President Trump for inflation, arguing the problems started under Biden.
Walter Kurt critiques Democrats’ “affordability” messaging and Republican failure to counter with charts and facts.
“Just ask people who raised the costs, who did it?... Who raised the costs? Just put that chart out.”
(Walter Kurt, [52:46])
Example: Amy Acton (former Ohio COVID czar) criticized for confusing unemployment rankings and for being a symbol of “failed” messaging.
[58:09 – 60:29]
Guest: David Brody
Senator Mark Kelly is criticized for implying that “pausing immigration from third world countries” is racist.
“When I heard the secretary say that they're going to pause immigration from third world countries... they don't want brown people coming to the United States, and I find that disturbing.”
(Sen. Mark Kelly, [58:32])
Jake and David Brody frame this as a “last vestige of the scoundrel” (playing the race card) and warn that such rhetoric sows division and potential violence.
“It always boils down to identity politics overall… They're just playing it for political points. And this is extremely dangerous…”
(David Brody, [59:31])
“Maybe it isn’t a civil war and maybe this is really just an invasion.”
— Jake Novak [05:38]
“They didn't vet everybody, Jake. And so we have people that came to this country. God only knows what they're tied to.”
— Matt Tardio [07:09]
“If Trump is ending Third world immigration, he's effectively ended legal immigration in this country right now... that's going to blow everything up.”
— Walter Kurt [42:44]
“If you don't see [the media] making a big deal... about a 4% overall increase in Black Friday sales... you really should stop looking at that particular outlet because it's just not honest.”
— Jake Novak [28:46]
“Anytime you sing John Lennon's Imagine, I think you should immediately be invaded by the Marines.”
— Walter Kurt [48:13]
“Just ask people who raised the costs, who did it? ...Just put that chart out.”
— Walter Kurt [52:46]
“It always boils down to identity politics overall... They're playing it for political points. And this is extremely dangerous.”
— David Brody [59:31]
| Timestamp | Segment | |-----------------|--------------------------------------------------------------| | [05:38] | Introduction to post-Thanksgiving turmoil and “invasion” theme| | [07:09] | Afghan vetting failures, foreign attack claims | | [10:27] | Biden immigration policy criticism & “common sense” plea | | [13:05] | Venezuela’s threat context, China/Russia influence | | [15:11] | US-Ukraine policy, risk to the dollar and BRICS | | [21:52] | White House “Hall of Shame” and media bias talk | | [28:46] | Black Friday numbers vs. economic depression narrative | | [42:44] | Walter Kurt: Ending Third World/Legal Immigration claim | | [46:33] | Venezuelan regime’s “Imagine” performance | | [52:46] | Critique of economic messaging—who caused inflation? | | [58:32] | Sen. Mark Kelly “race card” reaction to immigration pause | | [59:31] | Dangers of identity politics, with David Brody |
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