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Ahead on American Sunrise, Early Edition President Trump calls that Democrat video urging active duty troops to disobey orders an act of sedition and a capital crime. Because it is. But of course, now the Democrats are pretending Trump's reaction is the problem. That's called gaslighting. A surprise in the jobs report shows more than double the job creation in September than economists were expecting. But now there's less of a chance of a Fed rate cut next month. So is good news, bad news? So that peace plan that the US has drawn up for Russia and Ukraine. Don't laugh. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelinsky has not rejected it and he says he and his advisors are going to work on it. So you're saying there's a chance? Hey, the oil markets think so. They're optimistic. This could be good. President Trump will meet with New York City Mayor Elect Zoran Mamdani today. With Mamdani apparently oblivious to the fact that he was only elected because Trump deranged New Yorkers thought he'd never talk to President Trump in the first place. He may have just destroyed his mayoralty before it even gets started. And heads are rolling at Cracker Barrel after that disastrous rebranding this past summer. Remember that? But are the right heads rolling? American Sunrise EARLY EDITION begins now.
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Welcome to American Sunrise EARLY Edition, the show where faith, freedom and the values that built this nation take center stage.
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Your good deeds and bad deeds, that's how we're gonna judge you.
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Join host Jake Novak as he breaks down the stories that we will be.
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Letting the public know regularly what we have found.
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American Sunrise EARLY EDITION with your host, Jake Novak starts now.
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Welcome to this no tie Friday here on American Sunrise EARLY Edition. I have to apologize right off the bat, not only to you, but to myself, because the term gaslighting is one of my least favorite terms in America right now. It is one of the most overused, incorrectly used terms. But in this case, it's really true. The Democrats put out a video earlier this week elected Democrats in Congress calling on our troops to just disobey orders. They don't specifically say what order they're trying to foment and to create an entire coup like situation in the military. They know what they're doing. And now that President Trump has correctly called out that seditious behavior as treasonous. And by the way, treason is indeed a capital crime in this country. They're pretending that, oh, you're the crazy one. Why acting so crazy? Why are you crazy, bro? That's gaslighting. It actually is gaslighting. Most of the time you hear it, it's wrong and it's an overused word. I'm sorry to actually use it, but I'm sorry. It is the best word in this case. So we're watching that all day here, not only on this program, but on real America's Voice. This is nothing new. Nothing new. We've seen this in throughout history going directly to troops. The Soviet Bolsheviks did it during World War I and Russia had to withdraw from World War I. We've seen it in Israel last couple of years ago when they tried to get the military not to show up to their reserve duty. This is a very serious story. And the Democrats are trying to gaslight President Trump, and you don't let them get away with it. Meanwhile, we have a battleground going on right here in our own country and really what I would call the most important red state in America. So joining me right now is one of my favorite experts inside of Texas. That's the state I'm talking about, Tom Slocum. He's a former statewide Republican candidate. He also consults with the oil and gas business. I also call him a Republican strategist because he's always thinking about that kind of stuff, too. TOM let's start with the situation that everyone was so glued to all summer, the redistricting battle in Texas and the whole state legislature thing. And now you have this court putting it on hold, really throwing the midterms into a major, major tizzy in Texas. Luckily, there was one of the three judges who voted in that case who really slammed the decision. So a higher court definitely has some, I would say, evidence or ground or something to work with if they're going to put this redistricting back into place.
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Tom Slocum
TOM Correct. You know, there's one judge that had the most amazing dissent in that, that three judge panel and Judge Jerry Jones. And judge excuse me, Judge Jerry Judge Jerry Smith, he said it's the most blatant exercise of judicial activism he's ever witnessed. And so Judge Jerry Smith, you know, he was actually out of town attending a funeral. And those other two judges that wrote first and struck it down, struck down the redistricting, they did so without him allowing to even get his opinion in, which is never, never happens. And so Judge Jerry Smith obviously has major issues with how this was rolled out. And it's just it's just not commonplace what just happened here. So it was very rude and very unbecoming and very much an activist what these other two judges did. But the good news is this is going to Alito at the Supreme Court. It's his little specialty here. It's he's assigned to deal with this. And we know how this is going to turn out. We're almost certain the Supreme Court is going to rule in our favor and we're going to be able to get these maps and we'll be able to march on and not have to worry about not getting these seats here in Texas. So that's the good thing about it. It's really a much to do about nothing almost. And it's, you know, all these momentary victories for Democrats are out there cheerleading like crazy people thinking that they've won. I've got news for them. They have not won on this case at all. And Jerry Smith, if you read his dissent, it's over 100 pages. There's some very colorful language in there. And most people that read this.
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Jake Novak
Yeah.
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Tom Slocum
Legal scholars are looking at it going, wow, I've never read anything like this in my entire life. So kudos to Judge Jerry Smith for getting the job done on the descent and the most amazing way. And like I said, we have all the confidence of the world right now that this is going to turn out in the way that we need to here in Texas and we're going to be able to hold these new district lines, which is important for new seats like congressional district number nine right here around the corner where you've got three people duking it out right now for that seat. So we're very happy actually about where this is headed and is just a bump in the road, as they say.
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Jake Novak
Okay, Tom, we're going to go rapid fire because there's so many things going on in Texas. So issue number two, I'm pretending to be John McLaughlin. Issue number two, the governor, the governor, Greg Abbott of Texas has outlawed basically care the Muslim Brotherhood in the state. And of course Congresswoman Ilan Omar, who works for the Muslim Brotherhood and also Iran, not for the state of Minnesota or the United States, is all upset about it. Boy, I have to say, sometimes you can be judged by who your friends are. Sometimes you can be judged by who your enemies are. Can you quickly tell us how is this going over in the state? Is Greg Abbott getting kudos for this? Is there any major pushback from anyone other than Ilan Omar? What are you seeing there in Texas?
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Tom Slocum
A lot of people see this as a campaign move for Greg Abbott. Everybody's beating him over the head, saying, hey, you need to do something about this. And finally he says, oh, you know, okay, let's go investigate, you know, and let's go see what's going on here. Let's go poke around. And by the way, when he means that, he means attorney general, you go do it. And so there's going to be a lot of if anything comes of this credit given to Greg Abbott where really it's actually the job of the attorney general to go do this. And, and so, you know, Kim Paxton will be happy to Go investigate. He has been looking into this for some time now. And so is anything going to come of it between now and election day? Who knows? But we're glad that there's some kind of investigation going on to this because we know that there are nefarious actors here with directions straight back to the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Jake Novak
All right, let's get to it's long past due. All right, let's get to issue number three, which is I want you to give us an update. You just mentioned Ken Paxton. Ken Paxton has been fighting officially since October, but for a long time before that. This open primary situation we have in Texas, this is insane. These open primary rules are ridiculous. It's really supposed to be about people from one particular party choosing their party's candidate. So how's that going?
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Tom Slocum
Correct, Jake? This is my number one issue, really, is closing the primaries in Texas is the first question I ask any candidate when they're running. Do you want to close the primaries? If their answer to me in Texas is an immediate immediately, yes, I want to. In fact, if they haven't been advocating for this for months on end, I don't trust them. Okay. That's how powerful this issue is in Texas. Because when we close the primaries, things are going to change dramatically for the Republican Party. We're going to start electing our own people for once. And kudos to the. The State Party attorney, Mrs. Rachel Hooper. I have to give her a shout out. And we have been moving along here at the convention. There's a lot of work that was done ahead of time at convention in order to make this happen. And so if you're running for office, if you're the governor, you know, running for office right now, and you don't want to close the primaries yet, you're spending 1.25 million. Secretary Nelson spending 1.25 million of our own taxpayer dollars with Greg Abbott's attorneys fighting our own party. That's never a good move. I've tweeted about this numerous times over, and those are some of my biggest, you know, interactions with the voters here. Everybody wants closed primaries. Most voters in Texas don't even realize we don't have closed primaries. When they find out, they're shocked. So this is a massive issue, and this is going to neuter the rhinos here in Texas, and it's going to help destroy the teachers union because it's with their crossover votes, they win elections like House District 21 for date feeling and House District 133 from mono to Isla. Okay, don't Forget it. There's only one reason these people get power, and that's because of open primaries and the crossover voting blocks from the teachers union. This is a massive battle against the teachers union.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, I just. Texas is our biggest red state, and the fact that we get watered down candidates coming out of that state so often because of this is really infuriating. All right, Tom, last issue. Because, you know, it's been an issue that you and I have been talking about almost for a year now, this Texas State Lottery scandal, where, who knows, basically gangsters or incredible speculators got millions of tickets printed so that they would have all the numbers covered. Just this week, we finally got more details about this. It was not just one place where they had dozens of machines. It was probably dozens of locations. We learned in an article this week in the Houston Chronicle that at least 30 people, 30 human beings were going all over the state, including one Uber driver, I don't know if you want to call him lucky or unlucky, who. They picked them up the airport and ended up working for three days straight with no break. I mean, as people learn more about this, I just. I can't understand why anyone would put their money in the Texas lottery game. It is rigged. That people have figured it out. I can't believe this game hasn't been shut down. Tom.
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Tom Slocum
Yeah, you know, I think it really probably should be. There's always going to be people out there trying to game the system, and in this case, it was a gentleman From Melbourne, Australia, $95 million of a lottery engineered. He ended up walking away with $57.8 million. In this scheme, the entity was called Rook Texas, because you can do that in Texas. You can just create an entity. His name was Bernard Martinelli, I believe. But, you know, the lotto games, they. The state of Texas actually helped this guy complete what he was trying to do. They sent more machines out there and allowed him to buy all these tickets. And since then, they've said, okay, well, we can't allow people to go out and buy every combination possible. By the way, the same gentleman tried this in Connecticut and lost before he won, but he had figured out a system, and they knew that in a certain scenario they could try to go in and buy every combination and just steal the lottery, essentially. So I'm looking forward to the legislature actually doing more than what the commission has done with this. I think we need to make a bold move and either completely secure what we have or get rid of it. And I wouldn't be upset if we just got rid of it all together. If you ask me, I don't think it's really producing great money for the state of Texas. We've got so much billions of dollars.
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Gregory Lykov
Coming through the door.
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Tom Slocum
Do we really need a lottery that can be corrupted and be taken advantage of so easily? I don't think so. I wouldn't mind getting rid of it personally and there's a lot of conservatives in Texas that probably feel that way. But once the corruption has happened once and the lieutenant governor is kicking the door in, you know, it's, it's, it's a big deal. It's a problem and it's not something that you've heard about publicly here in Texas, hasn't been covered much. And I want to say thank you, Jake, for covering this. You're one of the few people that, that have and at least the Chronicle did write about it. Now kudos to them for doing some, some real journalism for once and so you can read about it and it's an article probably worth reading. And also check into Texas Scorecard, who Daniel Greer, a Texas Scorecard actually wrote about this weeks ago, months ago, and it's been covering this for quite some time. So thank God for conservative media. So go check out Daniel Greer, Texas Corkard, to find out more about this important story.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, I can't believe the Houston Chronicle did something other than writing about a restaurant and pretending it's a story. The Houston Chronicle, by the way, for those of you who don't know, has just become this big newspaper where they do advertorials on the front page about restaurants. That's all they do. But they made an exception this time. Also, I'd like to see these lottery games replace with maybe games of skill like win a million dollars if you can kick a 25 year old 5, 5 yard field goal or something, that's, that would be cool. All right, Tom Slocum, thank you so much for joining us. A lot going on in Texas. Have a great weekend.
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Tom Slocum
Yeah. Have a good one, Jake. Thanks for having me.
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Jake Novak
All right, coming up is good news, bad news. Now is that where we become we got a good job number on the markets yesterday, but the stock market investors didn't like it. But first, a Florida Democrat congresswoman has been indicted for stealing $5 million in Covid relief funds. But how much do you want to bet she'll last a lot longer in office than George Santos did when he was busted for doing a lot less? American Sunrise early edition will be right back.
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Jake Novak
It's about a half an hour from my house there, Port Jeffers, right on the waterfront. There is a ferry you can take from there to Connecticut by the way. And the downtown Port Jefferson shops and stuff are really great. Hi, I'm Jake Novak. This is a no tie Friday here on American Sunrise Early Edition. Thank you so much for joining us. Especially for those of you who are on those platforms where you can watch the show and comment live and I read them. So Rumble Getter Substack X. There are a lot of others, but those are the big ones. Hey, Congresswoman Sheila Sharifoufilis McCormick. I think I said her name right. McCormick. Let's just call her Congresswoman McCormick. She's a Florida Democrat. She has been indicted. Now on Charges that she stole and laundered $5 million in federal relief funds that were supposed to go to Covid, by the way, a lot of COVID fraud like this, there's probably other Congress people who did it, too. And apparently she used the money for her congressional campaign. Again, she's a Florida Democrat, but Emily Finn, you know, she's going to get a lot better treatment. Right, because she's a Democrat. George Santos, who I'm not crying crocodile tears for, he's kind of a strange kind of guy. But even before he was formally indicted, they kicked him out of Congress, no problem. Almost every Republican voted to get rid of him. She's gonna stay in office, I predict, through the end of next year. If he had to get. If I had a bet on it.
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Emily Finn
And as far as I'm aware, Jake, and you could tell me if I'm wrong here. George Santos did not steal $5 million. I mean, that is egregious. It reminds me of if you remember during the BLM riot days, that organization, the woman in charge of that organization was stealing money and buying million dollar mansions in California. And that fraud was finally exposed as well. You know, thank God that the news was able to come out on this woman. And it comes down to her constituents at this point that if she's not expelled from Congress, that they just have to vote her out and get someone in there with a lot more integrity.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, but I predict that they won't. She may step down on her own if she has a decent lawyer and things like that. But honestly, I had to bet this time next year she'll still be in office. She'll be talking about like, well, I did my term and now I'm leaving. I mean, I think that's what's gonna happen. I don't run again.
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Emily Finn
How does she spin this one? How does she spin this? The saying, yeah, this $5 million was for what? It'll be kind of interesting to see her PR campaign that she's going to have to go on to answer. You know how this happened.
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Jake Novak
Oh, I have her whole PR campaign for you right here now, Emily. It's two words, but Trump. But Trump. Yeah, that's what you say and you get. You can get away with literally murder sometimes. All right, before you go, Emily, I have a little surprise for you. I want our audience to know what a great musical ear you have. Now, we were taping a segment yesterday, and this is something that you'll see later on Real America's Voice. I'm not going to give that away. But we played a little bit of this song by Steely Dan during that tape segment. So listen to this song. This is Black Friday. Everyone listen to this song just a little bit. This is Black Friday by Steely Dan. Now, when we played that, Emily immediately noticed that it really sounded like a Doors song. Very good ear. But she couldn't exactly place it. I, however, knew exactly where you were going with it. And this was the song that you correctly thought was very similar to Black Friday. Listen to this one. Can we play the next slide? Let's play the next one.
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Tom Slocum
There you go.
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Jake Novak
All right. So that is Roadhouse Blues. Jim Morrison sing it there for the Doors.
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Emily Finn
Oh, yeah. So not only did my morning.
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Jake Novak
That's awesome.
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Tom Slocum
Yeah.
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Jake Novak
Not only did you recognize that it was the same key, but you recognized it was the same beat, the same speed and time. You know, Emily, people make a lot of money on these lawsuits when they sue people for plagiarism. There was that whole Marvin Gaye thing with Robin Thicke. Remember that?
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Emily Finn
Well, I'll tell you what I must admit, Youngblood, if he wants to hire me and wants me to be his lawyer, make sure no one's stealing his songs, that's the only rock star that I would work for. Jake, if our viewers watched our segment from a few weeks ago, they would understand.
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Jake Novak
I think we have a case here. The problem is that I love both the Doors and Steely Dan, so I kind of wouldn't want anyone to lose or win in that one. But who did better?
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Emily Finn
Jim Morrison wins that every time. Jake, come on.
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Jake Novak
But we have it. By the way, we also have a great deejay in our control room, a professional DJ in Colin Christie, who I think I want him to mash up those songs professionally and do it like as a five minute dance hit, dance cut, or something like that.
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Emily Finn
Colin has to listen to me sing in rock and roll every morning. He's going to be like, no more rock and roll.
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Jake Novak
All right, Emily Finn, thanks for joining us. We'll see you to the 8 to 10am hours. And if I don't get a chance to tell you, then have a great weekend.
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Emily Finn
It was a very fun Friday. Thank you, Jake.
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Tom Slocum
Okay.
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Jake Novak
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Tom Slocum
Now.
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Jake Novak
The shareholders of Cracker Barrel have voted to keep the CEO. Her name is Julie Fleiss Messino. They have Voted to keep her on the job. They did vote to get rid of board member Gilbert Davila, a longtime marketing and diversity specialist. Yeah, diversity specialist. They're getting rid of him from the board. Now, remember, this is all in response to that disastrous logo and culture change that they very briefly tried at Cracker Barrel over the summer. You remember, it was a big story all throughout the country. Both the right and the left wing media covered it. Everybody covered it. They quickly reversed themselves. I can understand why they're getting rid of that board member who was the diversity specialist. I don't know why you need that at a restaurant, but I think that Messina's keeping her job is maybe a mistake. She allowed this to happen. This is like in baseball when your team is lousy and they don't fire the manager, but they make the manager fire the first base coach. What's that going to do? I don't really see where this goes for Cracker Barrel as far as that leadership is concerned. They need a new CEO and I think the shareholders were a little bit too merciful in this case. Let's put it that way. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. This is Moving America. Sponsored by Artillery Tea Company. Artilleryteaco.com they don't need a new CEO. Use promo code RAV for 10% off your order. Artillery Tea is all natural, whole leaf. The tea bags are chemical free and each tea bag can be used twice. Artillery Tea Company is family and veteran, owned and operated and a portion of your purchase goes to help veteran and first responder charities. Artilleryteaco.com promo code RAV for 10% off your order. Are you kidding me? That is the first thing I said yesterday when I saw this story. Are you kidding me? There has been yet another, I'm not kidding, another fire at that Novellas aluminum plant in Oswego, New York. And this is no small deal. This plant is a huge supplier of aluminum, especially to Ford. But GM and some other companies, car companies in the United States, really rely on this place. Now, I had good news for you last time I gave you an update on this place after that fire they had in earlier this year. I gave you that good news that they were expected to get back up and running at full power by next month in December instead of next year. I don't know if that's still true. 100 firefighters had to go to the. I mean, clearly they've got some safety management issues going on at this place. I'm sorry, I know that sounds like I'm editorializing, but two plus two equals four, folks. They had yet another fire. This is outrageous. They've got to figure this out because there are a lot of American industries and now consumers relying on this place. Now you've heard this saying before, we're from the government and we're here to help. The CEOs of Ford, GM and Stellantis also, they may even throw in Elon Musk at Tesla as well, are going to be testifying before a Senate committee in January because Congress wants to help us deal with the rising costs of car prices. Of course, Congress is a big reason why car prices are so high, but they're going to help us. Now the three of them are going to get up there and take a grilling on why the average price of a new vehicle in America now is darn near $50,000. It's been hovering at like 49,800 for quite some time. By the way, the last time all three of the Detroit bosses appeared together on Capitol Hill, that was way back in 2008, remember during the financial crisis when Barack Obama bailed them out but didn't bail out some of the suppliers. You remember that story that didn't end out so great. The American people really felt like they bailed out the car companies and not the hard working men and women in other industries. So we'll see if this one goes a little bit better. That's what's coming out of Detroit. Okay. The new Subaru Outback will now be officially designated as an SUV and after all these years as being a wagon. I gotta admit, my personal bias here. I like wagons. I was one day thinking about getting a Subaru Outback, but now it's going to be just like another suv. As you can see, it looks very little like a wagon and now just like a crossover suv. I don't know if this means the car will be better or worse, but I miss the old days of wagons. It's a little nostalgic from my childhood. There it is. It just looks like a forester. Now I'm a little bummed by this, but maybe they know what they're doing. We love our servicemen and women. Let's just get that out front right now. We definitely love them and we love when our younger adults are out there in the world, but sometimes it's simply just funny to see one of them struggle. Now this is a woman at a gas station in Florida. She's an active duty service member and she can't figure out how to use one of these old school 80s gas pumps. Look at this. She's pressing the button. There's no button.
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Jake Novak
She can't figure it out. You know, that latch down there, she didn't understand. She has to pull that latch up. You know, she's very young. I'm going to give her a pass on this. But this is like watching. Have you ever watched your kids try to use a rotary dial phone that's also a barrel of laughs? Anyway, she's got a good sense of humor about it. She posted the video. She's taking her lumps for it. She's not running and hiding. It's kind of a funny video. You can check it out. Anyway, coming up, I talk a lot on this program about high schools in America, what's going on in high school education. So isn't it about time I actually spoke to a high school student? Well, that's what we're going to do next when American Sunrise EARLY Edition continues. It's Friday, November 21st. Here are this morning's top stories. President Trump calls that Democrat video urging active duty troops to disobey orders an act of sedition and a capital criminal crime, because it is. But of course, now the Democrats are pretending President Trump's reaction is hurting their feelings. They knew what they were doing and they are gaslighting. This could be good. President Trump will meet with New York City Mayor Alex Zoran Mamdani today. With Mamdani apparently oblivious to the fact that he was only elected because Trump deranged New Yorkers thought he would never talk to President Trump. He may have just destroyed his mayoralty. But before it even starts, that would be good, too. Heads are rolling at Cracker Barrel after that disastrous rebranding this summer. But are the right heads rolling? American SUNRISE EARLY EDITION continues. Now. Joining us now, by the way, this is something. It's one of those things where don't you hate it when people in the news are always talking about a certain type of people or a certain demographic and they never actually give them a voice? I do, too. And so now I have an opportunity. How many times on this program have we talked about indoctrination in education, the failure of American education, especially in high school? Well, now we're gonna actually talk to a high school student. He's no ordinary high school student. He's probably the youngest that, you know, there's no way to really check this, but I'm gonna say it's true. He's the youngest syndicated columnist in America. He's 12th grader Gregory Lykov. Gregory you're here on Long Island. Before we get into some specific issues, I want the audience to be alerted to something that you wrote for the New York Post earlier this year about how it's hard to be a high school student in America and I think especially here in New York, and to be a Trump supporter. Tell us what motivated you to write that article and what you're dealing with in school these days.
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Gregory Lykov
Yeah, definitely. So I want to start off by saying I'm actually very thankful for my school district. I'm very lucky because I have a wonderful school district where I can share my opinions and voice my perspectives almost all the time. However, what I do find to be very surprising is that in general, our education system is built on this emphasis of not discussing controversial topics and pretending like they don't exist, where inevitably teachers, viewpoints and the viewpoints of other, other people who actually understand these topics are going to prevail and that's what students are going to adopt. So let me give you an example. If we see abortion all over the news and we are not actually discussing abortion in school or debating abortion in school because it's too much of a controversial topic to get into, then we are obviously just going to pick up the first thing that we see in the media or the most popular version that we see in the media of that specific issue. And that's what has been happening to Generation Z, where we haven't been engaging in real civic discussion in schools with these controversial topics and instead have been leaving them up to teachers and, you know, social media to really decide the viewpoints for us.
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Jake Novak
You know, I love that you talked about that discussion part. I have a friend named Mimosa Jones Tunney, who's been a guest on this program. She started a school in East Northport, Long island, not far from both of us, where it's a K through 7 school. So far, it's getting. It's expanding every year. But there's literally, for the older students the last couple of years, a class where they sit around a table in smaller groups and learn how to debate with one another and discuss tough issues. First they get an assignment to do a little research on it. They're not doing it flying blind and they learn how to. This should be something that every school teaches our. I mean, if you learn. If you can learn how to debate properly and civilly and with some knowledge of the topic, that's a heck of a skill to have. And you're right. Even the best public schools don't have a class like this. And that is a huge problem. All right, Gregory, it's one thing to be a Trump supporter in high school in New York or high school in America, but especially in New York, but you're also a Jewish New Yorker. And here we are on the precipice of the mayoralty of Zoran Mamdani. Now, I'm hoping that his meeting with President Trump today undermines him completely with his supporters because they only voted for him in New York because they hate Trump so much. They just wanted to present someone who would basically throw bombs at him. And the fact that he's going to be probably somewhat friendly with Trump today probably will ruin his popularity with these, with these crazies. But at the same time, even though he hasn't taken office yet, he talked out of both sides of his mouth after a synagogue was protest was demonstrated against earlier this week in New York. He said, well, people should feel free to go to their house of worship. That was good. But then he said, but, you know, that synagogue was having a program for people who want to move to Israel and maybe they deserved it. I mean, this guy is absolutely going to cheer on the harassment of Jews in New York City. I'm sorry. I don't really care if people think I'm looking at that too much. It's just the truth. And that should be looked at. And it's insane that any mayor would do that. How is it feeling? I mean, are you expecting to get, I mean, you're in 12th grade, but maybe you're going to get a lot more people moving into your Long island neighborhood running away from New York City in the next couple of weeks?
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Gregory Lykov
Yeah, I mean, that's obvious. I mean, Florida real estate right now is where you want to invest your money. It's going to go up, up, up, up, up. And that's what we should have done before the election took place if, you know, you were a smart investor. But in reality, here we see that Zoram Hamdani is a threat to not only Jewish New Yorkers, but especially students that are Jewish New Yorkers. Because Zoram Hamdani wants to take away the very programs that have helped millions of New Yorkers, specifically in New York City, improve in their education, in their education performance. Specifically charter schools and school choice programs in New York City like Success Academy, which is the biggest school choice program in New York City, have improved the grades and the performance of students drastically. Where they now, in these charter schools are passing at levels of 97, 96% on math and science, standardized exams when in their public school counterparts that same pass rate is less than 49%. And Zoran Madani is a staunch advocate to remove these safeguards, which almost were removed under de Blasio. Thank God he didn't remove them fully. But Zoran Mamdani could really take it to the next level where charter schools will not be a part of New York City education anymore, which is going to ruin the education for thousands of students, especially those in poverty stricken neighborhoods like Harlem, New York, areas of Brooklyn that fully rely on these charter schools for a proper education for their students.
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Jake Novak
The only real systematic racism in America is the public school system. This is systematic racism. This is a structure that literally discriminates against people with less opportunity because the teachers union does not want to be messed with. And so they are told, you're just going to have to take it. You don't get school vouchers, you don't get these gifted programs, and on and on down the line. That is the systemic racism in this country. And it's coming from the teachers union and from the politicians, not from hooded guys with KKK outfits and that kind of thing. Gregory, let's talk about the government a little bit more. The government shutdown that just went on record, long government shutdown to a lot of people. It proved their point that we don't need the Department of Education. I didn't hear about one school in America, not even the worst public school in America, that had to shut down along with the government shutdown. It wasn't like they were running around with like chickens without their heads not knowing what to do because the Department of Education wasn't telling them what to do. Honestly, I don't see how you can justify keeping this department open, especially after the shutdown.
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Gregory Lykov
Yeah, definitely. I 100% agree with you. Look, I mean, the Department of Education is a bloated bureaucracy that cost American taxpayers more than $100 billion a year. There is absolutely no purpose for it other than to indoctrinate students under Democrat administrations like under Joe Biden, where the Department of Education spent billions of dollars to fund his DEI agenda, CRT agenda, even though most teachers can't even define what DEI or CRT is. I mean, it was completely crazy what they were doing. They were using affirmative action grants to basically convince schools both on K through 12 and on upper education levels to invest and specifically only accept students that were of color or of certain minority status. And it just goes to show how dangerous the Department of Education is because even if under Trump, the Department of Education isn't going to be a threat under the debt next democrat administration, which will come very shortly. Under that administration, the Department of Education will still be a threat. And you mentioned the teachers unions. I mean, that is really who we are to blame. We are to blame Randy Weingarten, the head of the teachers unions, because at the end of the day, even the teachers unions, the United Federation of Teachers, are the ones who endorsed Mamdani to run for mayor and endorsed him and supported him financially. When we have teachers endorsing socialist mayoral candidates, communist mayoral candidates, then obviously the students are going to follow in suit.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. And how much, how good is a teacher who hasn't seen the last several hundred years of history and what's happened with communists and socialists and still endorses them? That's someone who needs to go back to school herself. Gregory, really quickly, I want to talk about your situation personally. You don't have to give us the names of everywhere you apply, but you are a 12th grader. This is late November now, so I'd like you to. How's it going with the college selection process with you, your application? How is it, first of all? Is it been daunting? Are you confident about it? And where do you think, where do you see yourself next year? You don't think it was a name of a school, but maybe describe what kind of a school you think you'll be attending next year?
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Gregory Lykov
Yeah, definitely. So in general, I never really found the college process to be very stressful. I wasn't very, you know, invested in. And I know I'm going to be successful whether it's through college or throughout, you know, another program. But I, I do know that I want my college and higher education to be an area of intellectual rebirth where I truly get a sense of learning in a sense of learning environment that is very different from my high school education. I want to be challenged. I want to be, you know, given something new that not every kid gets because that is really in those environments are where I thrive.
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Jake Novak
Well, you might have to find that at your corner bar, but you're not of age yet, so don't go to your corner bar until you're 21. But Gregory, it's great to talk with you. I hope we can check back in with you during the course of this year just to let us know what's going on. And when you have a big story going on, either in your district or somewhere else where you know, you have some fellow high school students, please let us know. Have a great weekend and Good luck with the, with the selection process. I know it's a stressful time. Thank you.
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Gregory Lykov
Thank you so much.
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Jake Novak
Okay, Coming up, there's a new survey that has some stunning info. Well, stunning for people who haven't been paying attention about the kind of people who are drawn to join the clergy in America today, both the Jewish and Christian clergy. It's a strange survey, but I think it's accurate. And David Brody and I will discuss when American Sunrise Early Edition comes right back. That's a live look at the West Palm beach control room, the nerve center, the HQ of Real America's Voice, where young gen zers defy the rest of their generation. Wake up early and come to work. And it's actually, it's really great. It makes me optimistic about America. It really does. I think they actually pay attention to this show, too, which is another. Maybe they don't, but hopefully they do. Hey, welcome back. I have to say I was a little reluctant to get into this topic, but you're an audience that deserves to get into some heavier topics. And I'd like to have an open discussion about this because I think it's important. A new survey shows that 51% of rabbinical students in America right now. Now, this is not the really, really religious ones, the Hasidim and people with the black hats and stuff like that. But if you count modern orthodox, conservative and reformed denominations of Judaism, 51% of the students in the rabbinical schools right now are gay, lesbian or trans. If you get rid of the modern Orthodox people part of that survey, it's well over 65%. Now, David Brody joins me now. Now, I was not shocked by the survey because I know what's going on in some of these schools. Of course, there are a lot of Christian denominations that are also dealing with this. So there's an open question, what attracts gay, lesbian and trans people so much to the clergy in America? I think that I have an answer, and I'll quickly run it by you, David. I think that these people want to change the voice of God. The voice of God as defined now by the Bible and by the people who are in the clergy, older people, says that while we certainly don't persecute and hate gay, lesbian and trans people, we don't call for their persecution. It's still not right. It's not something we're going to consecrate. It's not something we're going to celebrate. And I think they're looking for that acceptance and trying to change the voice of God that's my theory, David. That is a good one.
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David Brody
There is no doubt about that. And to play off of that from a kind of a Christianity standpoint, it's a little bit along those same lines. And what I mean by that is that you've got. These are. Let's be honest, these are progressive liberal Christians that are being indoctrinated in progressive liberal Christian theology, if you will. And we'll get to that in a moment. But I think what they're trying to do is they see Jesus as this compassionate leader. They see Jesus as someone that, you know, cared about the downtrodden. Oh, I'm sorry. That's right. He did, actually. But there's more to the story. And so I think, in a way, they see themselves as kind of carrying on that mantle kind of a little bit about what you're saying. And so they get into a clergy or pastoral role, if you will, thinking that they are, in essence, taking what Jesus taught and teaching it to their congregations themselves. And they do a lot of this, and they cloak this In Matthew, Matthew 25, which talks about, basically, it's the social justice gospel, if you just look it up. Matthew 25, Social Justice Gospel talks about compassion and, you know, love your neighbor and all that, which, by the way, don't get me wrong, 100%, but that's not the entire story. They leave out the law and order part of it. They leave out that there is consequence to sin. They leave out many times the sin itself, of course, as it relates to LGBTQ plus Carry the one. They for sure leave that out.
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Jake Novak
So.
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David Brody
So that's what they're being taught in many of these schools. And there is, in essence, if you want to go rather than a 50, 50 split, they're going 80, 20, if you will, on the social justice, compassion gospel. And that's what drives a lot of these folks into the clergy to, in essence, be kind of like the better angel of the Christianity sect, if you will.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. And I know a lot of people have another theory. They believe that maybe getting into the clergy gives certain people access for sexual abuse, whether it's of children or adults. I got news for you. You don't have to be gay or lesbian to do that in the clergy. I consider there's a large percentage of the clergy in every religion that unfortunately is doing that, gay or straight. So to me, that's not the biggest reason, although I do think it's an attractive point for people who do want to do that, sadly. And I think that's true of the psychological profession as well. I think there's a lot of abuse there as well. But again, I think this is a question of people who are seeking out a way to make themselves okay. And I don't know, you know, if there's a group or there's an ideology that isn't in agreement with what I'm doing, I don't necessarily try to change it. This is a choice. But I really do think they're trying to change the voice of God because at the end of the day, well, we're the voice of God. Right. We're supposed to be repeating and they're trying to change it. Right.
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David Brody
They want to have the final say, if you think about it.
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Jake Novak
Right.
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David Brody
I mean, rather than just sitting in the pews, they want to be the ones kind of dictating to the congregation what Jesus really meant by everything. And of course, that's changing the entire trajectory, if you will, of the gospel.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. And again, underlining. We're not looking for persecution or mistreatment and certainly not violence. It's just a case of we can't consecrate. We can't consecrate that which we think is a sin. We'll let you live your life, but we're not going to celebrate it. All right.
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David Brody
That's right.
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Jake Novak
We'll see you on American Sunrise in the next couple of hours. EARLY EDITION will come back on Monday. Thanks for joining me.
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