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This is an iHeart podcast ahead of American Sunrise Early Edition. The Democrats hold serve in two blue states and the bluest city in America. The Democrats win their off year election challenges. That includes a victory for Zoran Mamdani in New York City's Merrill race, Mikey Sherrill in the New Jersey governor's race and Abigail Spanberger won the governor's race in Virginia. We will have full analysis throughout the day. Meanwhile, the government shutdown drags on. And now there's a chance the Democrat will misinterpret their election victories last night as a reason to keep that shutdown going. The Trump administration is also promising to fund the SNAP food stamp program as ordered by the courts. But President Trump wants this shutdown over now. And court filings in the James Comey case reveal the most damning evidence yet of the former FBI director's organized campaign to illegally leak classified information to the news media for his own purposes. But will Comey still get away with it thanks to a potentially tilted judge and jury? AMERICAN Sunrise EARLY EDITION Post Election Edition begins now.
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Welcome to American 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 going to judge you.
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Join host Jake Novak as he breaks down the stories that matter.
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We will be 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 everybody, to this Wednesday here in American Sunrise EARLY edition. And I'm speaking to you now from Checkpoint Charlie, the dmz, whatever you want to say, it just over the border from enemy territory in New York City now controlled or about to be controlled by Islamist communist Zoram Hamdani and the dystopian zombies who elected him mayor last night. It was a lot closer than people thought. It was an election that could have been won by someone more sane. But the bad guys won. Simple as that. Bad guys won. Also won in Virginia and in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the bad judges stayed in office. But here, just across the DMZ and Checkpoint Charlie in Nassau county in New York, at least my excellent Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman was easily reelected. So I am in safe territory, but just barely. Joining us now is another person who lives in the safe zone, the host of Breaking Point here on rab, David Zier. David, here we are. We are able to look over just over our fence line, over our, over our trench warfare positions to see enemy territory. Look, as I've been saying on this program for a couple of weeks, of course, the news media and the Democrats were going to try to make any victory yesterday and last night into the biggest thing in the world when frankly, they were just holding serve. I mean, the, the Democrats winning in the bluest city in the world in New York City is nothing new. Although this guy is much more dangerous than that. But David, let's give credit where credit is due. They did win these elections. In some cases, they won them by larger margins than expected, like in New Jersey. So here we are. David, was this just because President Trump wasn't on the ballot, or is there something else going on, or are these places just too far gone?
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You know, there's so many factors here. By the way, I have two words for you. It's on. And it's amazing how fast they can count the vote when Trump isn't on the ballot. It they call the race minutes in 10 minutes, in 17 minutes, and all these races here. But we got to remember all these factors, Jake, you know, Adams is to blame for this, for a corrupt administration. All these billionaires got behind them. They had a little bit of a machine going. Then Cuomo has to jump back in and he's not prepared. He didn't campaign that hard. Slee was the only one and Mamdani is the only one that campaigned really hard in all the neighborhoods in New York City. You know, so. And Brooklyn and Queens carried Mamdani, like 21% of Brooklyn, 11% of Queens. You know, 2 million people turned out. And you know, there's a lot of factors for this. And even if you added up the bottom six candidates, including Sliwa that were underneath them, the write ins and the other people who stayed on the ballot. Mayor Adams, you still don't bridge the gap of what Cuomo lost by. You're still shy about a point or two. So it was not Curtis as the spoiler last night. Like people want to say, but Mamdani is popular. These kids are, you know, they live in McMansions before they go to college, they move to New York City. The parents pay their high rents in New York City. They're 20, 23, 25 years old. They stay in New York City. They don't have jobs available to them because nobody wants to do business in New York anymore because there's homeless people attacking people everywhere. And you know, and then they wonder why they can't, you know, survive in New York. So there's a lot of, there's a lot of dynamics going on here, Jake, and I don't think it was quite the mandate that people think it is. Mandani is a scary guy. He's exploiting these kids who can't pursue the American dream in a high priced environment. But you know, and all these immigrants that he claims he's representing, you know, we're all immigrants. Unless you're Native American and had a teepee somewhere. You're, you're an immigrant, your family's an immigrant. Right. And you know, he's playing the class warfare card. And every one of these people that he was talking to last night, and it wasn't white people, it was South Asians and whoever else he wanted to like, whip up and whoop up. They have a better life in America than they did, than their parents did or they did in the countries they came from. So there's no oppression. It's all fake. It's. He's a, he's a Marxist revolutionary. He's calling for civil war in the United States.
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Yeah, here's, here's, here's a news flash. It's the cost of living in New York City has always been exorbitant. These, these so called political analysts and experts saying, well, it was because things are expensive in New York. That's always been the case. There's nothing new here. Zoran Mamdani, when he first ran for the assembly in 2020 and won, it was all about hatred of Israel and hatred of Jews. His campaign was funded by Jew haters. His campaign was funded by people who hate America. Again, I have no problem debating people who have a different view of how to make America better. But that's not what's going on now in America. Not just with Mamdani, also with some of these other Democrats. They are funded by our foreign enemies who have found a way around our campaign finance laws. Soros does this all the time and so do other people. That's what they're interested in here. They're not interested in, oh, let's try a socialist way, because we believe in socialism. These people funding Mamdani know that socialism and communism doesn't work. That's why they funded him. They want to destroy the city. And they are gleeful that an anti Semite is now the mayor of the city, in the major city in the world with the most Jewish people. That was the point. If you take a look at Mamdani's campaigns and videos from 2020, it's all about Israel all the time.
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Brutal.
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And he was. Yeah. And that's what he's, that's what this is about. I'm sorry, anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool. And that's why, David, and I know you may not agree with me here, but, you know, thank God we live in a country where we still have a voice and the people opposing him still have a voice. And, and we're not going to go to jail for what I'm about to say, which is I think there's plenty of evidence that the Mamdani campaign committed campaign finance fraud. There is absolute evidence that he is associated with known Hamas terrorists. I say if anyone has any guts and really wants to do the right thing here, we should be demanding that he be indicted and deported now. And let the New York Times and all the, and all the phony Republicans who are going to cry about that, cry about it ensue and whatever they're going to do, indict and deport this man. There's no reason why we have to accept a foreign funded enemy of the United States as mayor of New York just because he ran a campaign with phony money. I know you may not agree because that might bring up some real anger that will be overwhelming, but I don't care. I really don't.
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It's not that I don't agree. One, I'm concerned about the midterms because last night was a referendum on that nationwide and where the Democratic Party is. But, you know, if there is a legal path to follow with Mamdani and he did that stuff illegally and it could be proven, bring him up on the charges. And if the naturalization wasn't kosher, then, you know, we have to take action, that's fine. But you know, in the interim here, you know, we're going to be in an environment in New York City where one poll, according to the Daily Mail yesterday, was saying that 9% of New Yorkers may leave the city. And they already. We already lost 800,000 people since Cuomo and, and we have a 1% net loss of people from New York going to other states. And we lead the nation in that because we don't. We're not promoting business. Half of Wall street is gone. Yesterday I was in the Village on the ground talking to people, you know, New York City smells like human race. Waste the lower. Listen, the west side of Manhattan has always been bad. It's still bad. And it's out of control with the crime. That's the main issue that people were telling me when talking to them doing man on the streets as they were exiting the polls. There's still a lot of crime. Rapes are up 19% this year. So far, year to date, 64,000 people have been assaulted in the streets. The police are, the DA is reclassifying crimes too. He only has 35% conviction rate. So you gotta take all these factors and what will New York City look like in the next year or two, and the microscope will be on it. And I think Trump will have plenty of ammo to pull out to fight against these people. I think we're going to take the governorship back next year. But this movement, he's whipping up people, I say he's inciting people to become violent. They don't even know what they're mad at. They're not oppressed. There's nobody oppressed.
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Yeah, this is important. This is important. I want, if you remember one thing about this program this morning, and it's a message that I've been writing about for many decades, and I'll say it to you again, it's a very easy thing to remember. What's going to happen now is, and you've already seen it, the so called election experts, including some of whom who are conservative, are going to say, well, this wasn't about crime in New York as big problem, but people were worried about the cost of living, people worried about the economy. Remember this, poverty does not cause crime. I know you've been taught that, oh, it's just hungry people. No, it's the other way around. Crime causes poverty. Law and order, fair law and order, but strong law and order is the best anti poverty recipe in the history of the world. If you see a poor neighborhood somewhere, that means some time in history, maybe a long time ago or maybe recently, crime came in and destroyed the natural wealth that human beings, when we get together, always create. So if you want to have a lower cost of living in New York, being softer on crime will only make it worse. It will make everything more expensive. The best way to reduce the cost of living is to impose law and order to get the people who are destroying the wealth. Whether it's vandalizing a building, lying like a homeless man on a street, that hurts property values. It stops a business from wanting to come in and hire people and giving them a good wage. That's the answer. And of course the answer for Momdani is be even softer on crime. Because as I said earlier, this is not about us having a difference of opinion about how to make make New York better. I can live with someone like that who disagrees with me. Mamdani is not trying to make New York better. He was supported precisely because he doesn't want to make New York better. And people who don't understand that. If you're young, I'm going to give you a pass. If you're not, you should have seen this. But crime creates poverty, period. It's not the other way around. A rich person is just as likely to rob from you as a poor person. Take a look at Wall street and Osama bin Laden and all the other rich people who have committed terrible crimes and figure that out for yourself. But that is the point. David, really quickly, I only have like 20 seconds left, but any thoughts about over the river in New Jersey? That was not as close a race as we thought it was going to be. I mean, I actually thought Citterelli was going to win Mayakopa. I was wrong about that. I thought that was the one. One we're going to get. What do you think about that?
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I didn't, I didn't think he was win. Zagby said he was going to lose by 13. You know, he lost last time, too. They ran away from maga. Do you know the New Jersey GOP would not let Real America's voice into their headquarters in 2021? When I tried to go down there on primary night, they ran away from maga. They did it again. You know, Chatterelli is a good guy, but there was no fighting that, that, that thing. I just wanted to add, all these millionaires will benefit under madam. And they had a charter revision yesterday on the ballot that takes away the zoning powers from the city council. And his millionaire friends will be building all these public housing. So why are those millionaires good and not our millionaires good?
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It's, he's such a hypocrite.
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Yeah, well, he, he basically got a bunch of slumlords elected and that's, you know, you put them into power. David Zier, thank you so much for joining us. And remember, stay safe across the DMZ with me here in Nassau and Suffolk County. Appreciate it. All right, coming up.
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I'm here. We're unified.
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Yeah. Yeah. We're going to be safe. This is the safe zone, everyone. Coming up, the Trump team pushes harder to get the price of the weight loss drug Ozempic down. I'll have the key details on that. And we need to have some nice things to look at. This morning. Model Sydney Sweeney, she's finally speaking out about the controversy that surrounded her big jeans ad, if you remember that.
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She's sort of speaking out. She smarter than you think. American Sunrise, early edition. We'll be right back. You're looking at conquered territory there. This is a special real America's Voice recon mission as we take a look at the conquered communist Islamist territory of New York City. As David Zier just said, it wasn't Curtis Lewa. Even if you add up all those other third and fifth and 18th candidates out there, Mandani still would have, you know, he still won a majority. Incredible. This is a city that really, really doesn't know what it's in for, apparently. And I do. If anyone listening from the over from the enemy territory wants to come and find safety in Nassau county where I am, I can help you. Emily Finn joins us now. Emily, I'm too upset to talk about the election results in this segment. We'll get back to it, I promise. So let's cheer me up and everyone else, let's talk about Sydney Sweeney because you know what, all kidding aside, as you know, she's been the center of this controversy because of the Sydney Sweeney has good genes ad that the left had a meltdown over. And so she's finally speaking out about it. She really hadn't made a real statement about it. Now, I want to give her some props, or at least her handler some props, because she spoke out about it and she talked about how she wasn't believing the initial reports that the jeans weren't selling. She knew that they were selling and they were hot. So that was smart. But she was smart enough not to really say anything too politically. She didn't respond to the story that President Trump said that she was registered as a Republican. She didn't go, you know, this is smart. Listen, this is the way you need to thread the needle, even for young people. You know, Emily, all I can say is, you know, I think you guys might be the first generation of Americans who have to preemptively tell everyone where they are politically or think that they have to. But I think Sydney Sweeney just proved maybe you don't. Maybe you can get away with not doing that and live your life. I'm hoping you can.
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Well, Jake, I'll let you know. The term for everything that you just described in Gen Z is called unbothered. Sydney Sweeney is unbothered. There is nothing that's gonna bother her. She's not gonna respond to anything if it's political or anything negative. And that is, I think, really, really catapulting her, her image just to stardom. She's really killing it, not responding. And in her response saying that, like, I was so busy with work, I'm working 16 hour days on Euphoria and, you know, didn't have time. I had no idea all this controversy was going on. That just makes people want to know what she's up to, know what she's doing even more. I think it was really, really smart of her PR team to handle this the way that they did. And she does have great genes in the sense of her genetics and the sense of her fashion choices.
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Yeah. You know, and you know what this is, by the way, she does have a little bit of a path to navigate that's already been trailblazed for her from 45 years ago or so. You know, when John Hinckley tried to assassinate President Reagan and shot him, he basically said he did it for Jodie Foster, who was in college at the time. She had been a child star actor, and she was taking a break from it, and people thought, well, this is the end of her. She was smart. She didn't speak out about it one way or the other. And two Oscars later, and now she's retired pretty much, she kind of proved that she found a way to do this. I don't know if Sydney Sweeney is going to win any Oscars, but she certainly understands how to walk this. You taught me something. This unbothered path. I like that.
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It's an unbothered path.
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Obviously, we can't do that. Yeah, you can't do that.
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And I will say, you know, she's an actress, you know, through and through. I mean, she didn't go into modeling, so to speak. You know, this was just something that she's trying to do to promote her acting career, which she is a phenomenal actress. I mean, she's coming out with a movie. She's going to be a boxer. I know she did extensive training for that. Christy, that's a movie that's coming out here soon. So if she's going to be doing things on the side to promote her. Her actual work and her actual career with these modeling campaigns, she's doing a perfect job of staying unbothered, doing that to drum up some more publicity.
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Yeah, well, we. We have to talk about politics, but we like that. And I understand that. But one of the things that does make me sad is people think that, oh, I want to talk about politics all the time, and I want the young. Not. Not really. There's a lot of points in my. And my. In any given day, especially weekends, where I'm really okay with people not talking about politics, there's other things I'm actually even more interested in. So I like to see that she's been able to avoid this because a lot of people don't, you know. So anyway, that makes sense.
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At the end of the day, if the president of the United States, no matter what side of the political spectrum he's on, if he's weighing in on your modeling campaign, you know that you've done something cool in life.
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That's right. And the president can feel free to weigh in on this segment as well. Emily Finn, thank you so much. We're going to see you in the 8 to 10am hour on the big show, American Sunrise. Thanks for joining me as usual.
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Thank you, Jake.
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Welcome back to American Sunrise EARLY Edition. That is a live look at just beyond the Louisville airport in Louisville, Kentucky, where yesterday this was the scene and horrific crash of an MD11 cargo plane, a UPS jet that crashed. And for some of you, it may have. Look at that explosion. Just unbelievable. And the the smoke was just massive. It looked like it was much worse than that. Seven people died, another 11 injured. This was an MD11 jet. I can't think of too many MD11 jet incidents that have occurred in this country. The last one I remember was at Newark Airport in 1997, a FedEx, also a cargo freight jet, crashing there. This was on takeoff. I'm sure we're gonna find out. To me, this is not gonna be a mystery for much longer. I think we're gonna find out. But geez, our prayers for the families of the people who were affected in that crash. Really a terrible tragedy. And I hope that the people of Louisville and everyone else involved in that crash get some comfort and some answers. This Morning. Let's take a look at where the markets will begin today. We had a sell off yesterday and I'll explain why in a few moments. This morning. We're looking at a mixed situation here. Well, it's down, but it's not far down. Looking at modest lower open, the NASDAQ a little bit worse than the others. Again, I will explain a little bit more about that as well. Look at gold, probably a buying opportunity. Again, just my natural reaction. You see it below $4,000 an ounce. It's up this morning. But as you know, it was well up over 4,000 just a couple of days ago. So this might be a buying opportunity. Crude oil, very tame, very low, just barely $60 a barrel and going down. And let's take a look at Bitcoin because it has really been struggling lately and this is a lower number than we've seen lately, even though it's up 1400 bucks this morning at 102,000. Hey. The Trump administration is expected to announce as early as this week a deal with the drug makers Big Pharma, Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk. The point is to lower the price of their weight loss drugs that everyone seems to be taking in America in exchange for limited Medicare coverage. In other words, they're going to allow Medicare to cover the bills for some of it, which will be a guaranteed paycheck for these companies. So that's the deal. This would include Ozempic, Zepbound, and we go V. And the price for people could be as low as $149 a month. Look, I'm not here to judge, folks. I know there's some people who absolutely need to take these drugs. And it's not always about willpower, although I do think people should, whether it's going to lose them a lot of weight or not. You should be exercising every day if you can. Use it or lose it. But I understand it's not always easy for a lot of people. Nevertheless, I think too many people are on these drugs. And the sunken in faces of my friends and relatives who take this drug is frightening to me. It's a crypt keeper situation. There's got to be a better way. But no judgments. I'm just saying, man, I don't love it. The parent company of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut, speaking of losing weight, is shopping Pizza Hut around? That's because the Hut is ruining the vibe. The chain share of the US pizza market has shrunk. It used to be 22.6% in 2019. Now it's just 18.7% as of last year. Yum Brands just reported that Pizza Hut, Same store sales fell 1% during the third quarter and a 6% drop in its home market here in the United States during the same quarter, though Taco Bell and KFC reported better same store sales growth. 7% growth for Taco Bell, 3% growth for KFC. Pizza Hut is just not cutting it. We'll have to say I love this retro. This is a retro. This is what Pizza Hut used to look like in America. It used to be an experience to go to Pizza Hut. It took forever for the pizza to come to your table. But you played video games. This is for my fellow Gen Xers. You know what I'm talking about. You played video games, you hung out and listened to the jukebox. It was, it was an experience. And Pizza Hut as a takeout only place is not working all of a sudden. Okay, now for the reason for the market sell off yesterday, that was generally because of the tech sector. We're having one of those Wall street buyers remorse moments. We had one in April over AI. Now we've got another one. Now you may remember in April the AI buyer's remorse because people are flowing money into AI like crazy. The AI buyer's remorse was fueled by the fact that some Chinese company came out and said, hey, we can do chat cheaper than all those other companies than the other companies that are doing it open AI. That turned out to be mostly false. Now what's happening is people are looking at companies like Palantir and Nvidia and saying their earnings are too good, this is too good to be true. And so there's people who are taking their money out of it. Look, there's going to be some companies that are going to fail and spend too much money on AI, like Meta, Mark Zuckerberg. Mark, Mark, you overspent. But Palantir and Nvidia, I think are still good investments. I don't know if they're worth every penny of their stock prices right now, but within a few years, it'll probably be a bargain if you bought at this price. That's my expectation for the AI market and for people freaking out about it now, they're giving you a buying opportunity. That's my opinion. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. This is moving America. Sponsored by ArtilleryTea Company ArtilleryTeeco.com Use promo code LIBERTY for 20% off your order. Artillery Tea is all natural, whole leaf. The teabags 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. Artilleryteeco.com promo code Liberty for 20% off your order. Okay, let's start with some good news. We need good news. This morning that aluminum factory fire in upstate New York company was called Novelis. I've been reporting on this fire for more than a month. Caused serious damage not only to that factory, but Ford, gm, now Nissan. They don't have enough aluminum to make the same number of cars and trucks that they need to make. We were told when this fire started and the day after that it would take at least until the middle of January, maybe February, before this factory could get up and running again. We found out yesterday that they now say early December. So maybe even just four weeks from now, this factory will be back up and running and hitting its supply targets. That is an incredible piece of good news this morning for a lot of American car makers. They will get their cars ready to go, maybe even in time for some of the post Christmas rush or whatever it is. This is really, really good news. So I had to pass that along first. Here's something I want you to pay attention to as well though. Have you ever heard of credit washing? Well, you will now. Credit washing is when somebody artificially boosts their credit score by officially disputing some of their delinquent charges or fraud charges on their account. You can do this, and for at least a limited time, your credit score will go back up. When they find out you really are a fraud and a cheat and a deadbeat. Then it'll go back down. But you get a little bit of a golden period while you're disputing this. People have figured out how to game this system to buy a car. You can't get away with it buying a house because that process takes too long. But you can go into a dealership, credit wash your credit score and get a much lower rate than you deserve because of this credit wash phony score. And then of course, a lot of these people end up not paying back their auto loan. And this is really, really hurting the people who make auto loans now. It's not hurting the car dealers yet because they get their money. It's the bank's problem, not theirs for the most part. But this is a bad, bad trend and they probably need to close this loophole. Okay, now it's time for me to try to save you some money. And this time I'm going to look into the car that will last the Longest look, when I took a look at what these repair prices are and new car prices are, I had to ask myself, what's a car you can buy today that's going to last forever? Well, it turns out someone just did the study and the answer is the Lexus is sedan, which I know is not a very low cost car, but it's not that bad either. You can get a base Lexus is sedan for $42,000. Not too bad when you consider this. More than 27% of the Lexus is sedans you buy today are likely to reach 250,000 miles on your odometer compared to the average car that's almost 11 times better. That's like buying two cars or maybe even three. So you get your money's worth. So 42 divided by three, $14,000. Think about it that way. Okay, now for the disturbing part of our Moving America program. The country of Norway just figured out that its new public bus fleet with buses all made in China, has a built in system in each one of those buses that allows the manufacturer even as far away as China, to shut them down. During an investigation, the Norwegian public transportation system tested the buses made by a company called Utong. It's a Chinese manufacturer. It has Romanian SIM cards inside of them. Usually things from Romania make me smile. I love Romanian stuff, but in this case, not too good. According to U tong, those SIM cards, they're admitting it. Enable remote software updates from anywhere in the world that can shut down those buses. What could go wrong? Again, this gives Utah the theoretical power to shut down a bus system in a major country in the world. That's not good. And I think we need to take a look at that. Do we have similar buses like that with software systems here in the United States? I'm wondering, I don't think this is just a Norway problem, but there you go. Coming up, yes, what you're looking at is real Communist jihadist Zoran Mamdani has been elected mayor of America's largest city. Is there any way this can turn out well? Okay. Is there any way we can make it anything other than a disaster? We're going to keep the conversation going when American Sunrise EARLY EDITION continues. It's Wednesday, November 5th. Here are today's top stories. The Democrats hold serve in two blue states and the bluest city in America. The Democrats win their off year election challenges. That includes the victory for Zoran Mamdani in New York City's mayoral race, Abigail Spanberger in Virginia and Mikey Sherrill in New Jersey. The question is, we are in a new state in America or is this just the Democrats again winning in their blue strongholds? We'll have a full analysis throughout the day. Meanwhile, the government shutdown drags on. And now, you know, there's a chance the Democrats will misinterpret their election victories last night as a reason to keep the shutdown going. President Trump doesn't want that. And of course, the administration will follow the court order and provide snap food stamp program funding as ordered by those courts. Speaking of courts, court filings in the James Comey case have just revealed the most damning evidence yet of former FBI Director Comey's organized campaign, deliberate campaign to leak classified information illegally to the news media for his own purposes. It's an open and shut case, folks. I don't care where you stand politically, but Comey could still get away with it thanks to a potentially tilted judge and jury. Let's be honest. American SUNRISE EARLY EDITION continues now. Well, welcome back to you, all of you freedom loving Americans who are up and watching this program right now here. AMERICAN Sunrise EARLY edition. Despite those scary, frankly scary election results, especially just over the border for me in New York City. We've seen this story before in world history. But I want to thank you for watching, commenting on Getter and Rumble and X and Substack and all those places. A lot of you watching this program are ready to stand up for freedom despite these results. One of those people who's all going to join us in that fight is Ryan Walters, former schools chief in Oklahoma. He's now the CEO of the Teacher Freedom Alliance. Ryan, before we get into the education aspect of this, because I think you're a good guy to talk to about this, I do want to get your response to the election results, results overall, any one of the major elections last night, what you think of it, because obviously your eyes aren't closed about America. I got to get smart opinions this morning.
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Well, I have two major thoughts. First of all, it's unbelievable that you have someone that runs openly as a communist go into New York City and win an election. But I do think it's very telling if you've got even some Republicans that are having, you know, pushing back on President Trump, pushing back on his agenda, guess we've got to move forward. The American people voted for President Trump's agenda. You have to support America, force first policies, enact them and let the policies take place. President Trump should double and triple down what he's doing to get crime under control in big cities. He should double and triple down on all of his policies, which I know he will. But Republicans back President Trump and these initiatives that will have an impact. Time is limited under a Trump administration here before midterms. Move the ball forward so more and more people see the results of his agenda. This should be a message to all Republicans. It's time to be more aggressive. It's time to move faster. And again, it is very, very telling of where we are in America, that we've got candidates that openly run with a radical communist agenda, that win elections in cities like New York. And frankly, he's gonna be somebody that you're gonna hear a lot from moving forward. But it needs to be telling to us that our policies need to be enacted as soon as possible.
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Yeah. You know, Ryan, look, obviously you and I and the people watching this program are very active, very vigilant. We're preaching to the choir a little bit here. But just as a word of advice for especially our viewers who might have friends and relatives who they know think along the right lines, but maybe aren't as active. Hey, what I say to them is, listen, you don't need to talk about politics all the time. I want to talk about sports and other stuff like that and actually even more higher minded things. I want to talk philosophy and theology even more than I want to talk politics, believe it or not. So I understand you want to take a break, especially after last year's national election, which was so contentious and went for so long. I get it. But all you need to do is go vote. All you need to do, and that includes primary. So you're talking about a few minutes on two separate days of your life. And I think that, that we need to let people know that you don't always have to be in the front lines. We can do that, but at least vote. And these turnout numbers in some of these states, still not good enough, despite the fact that I was pounding the table about it and other people were a lot more important and bigger than I am. So that's an issue. Ryan, I wanna talk about what you talked about right at the top, the socialism, communism aspect of this. Because as someone who ran schools and someone who is still involved in the education system in this country, I'm wondering if maybe some of this can be blamed on our schools. Young people who, unlike you and I, were not taught what communism is, were not taught about what this was all about, how it was a lie about trying to get the poor people to rise up against the aristocracy, but actually putting them in even more dehumanized places than they were before. I wonder if that could have helped get us different results if we had better education in this country about history and what politics and communism really is.
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This has to ring the alarm bell for Americans to understand what our education system has become. And, Jake, you and I have talked about this before, but one of the things that has been most concerning for me as a history teacher for 10 years, as the Secretary of Education over a state, a state superintendent over a state, was how often I heard from kids, young people, and frankly, even adults that think communism and socialism is a new idea to be tried. And again, as a history teacher, the scariest thing when you study history is that people don't learn from the mistakes, from the lessons history teaches. When someone runs as a communist and is that open about it. If we had an education system that was functioning at all, most Americans should go, oh, my God, absolutely no way. There's absolutely no way we want our country to be a communist country. But because we've allowed teachers unions to take over our schools and actually promote communism, actually disregard all of American history, all of world history, what you have are young people that think that these answers to problems that they have. And listen, yeah, we want to lower costs on things. Yes. We want to focus on the economy. Yes. President Trump's got the policies to do that. And if you study history, you know that. But if you don't study history and you've had a social justice warrior teaching you history for the lap for, you know, your 12 years, when you're in K12 education, all of a sudden these ideas become very appealing to you. And this is exactly the long play the teachers union has been at. That's part of why I'm at the Teacher Freedom Alliance. You know, teachers, we have got to get our good teachers back in the classroom, support them into going into classrooms and going, guys, we can. We are going to talk about communism. We are going to talk about Marxism, we are going to talk about socialism. And history tells this story very, very well. It will destroy a country. It will destroy the values. It will destroy the faith. It has always attacks Christianity every time it's tried. It will destroy the family unit. Karl Marx is very clear on that. Kids have to know not only the principles that made America great, also these core ideologies that have destroyed every single country they've been tried in. If our education system was functioning the way it should, this should never happen in the United States of America.
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And let's give people, let's give the choir, some music. The choir needs music. And this is something I talk about a lot. But let me remind you, especially for our viewers who either just support President Trump or support all the things Ryan was talking about, speaking up for freedom and against communism, two things. Sure, of course we care about people in America who are dealing with the high cost of living, who are dealing with poverty and all those things. So remind them, folks. Remind them that President Trump is responsible for the most successful trickle up tax policy in the history of this country. His, his doubling of the standard deduction in the 2017 tax bill and the increasing of that even more in the one big beautiful bill has caused wealth to trickle up in this country from the lower middle classes up better than any socialist policy. And second, as I reply, as I repeat over and over again, the greatest anti poverty program in the history of the world in is law and order. Crime causes poverty. Poverty doesn't cause crime. It's crime. First, it's not even a chicken and the egg argument. Crime causes poverty. From the direct, easy understanding of someone getting mugged and then they made you poor because they took your money or because they've ruined a neighborhood and encourage capital to go to go somewhere else. Those are the two things that you can respond to. People don't, you don't have to be a jerk about it and say like you don't know anything. Just say, hey, listen, I understand you're worried about poverty and the cost of living. You should pay better attention and talk more about the Trump policies of law and order and lowering the tax burdens for people who are working or trying to work or start a business. One last thing I want to talk about, and that is the use of the school system not just for the indoctrination that you and I have talked about, but literally using the school system and the teachers union as a way to fundraise and platform their campaigns. We were talking Yesterday with Cory DeAngelis about how Abigail Spamberger and her campaign used to a school district in Portsmouth, Virginia to have rallies rent free. These are the same schools that won't allow a Christian club or a religious club that you use it on the weekends. But go ahead, use our school system as a way to in addition to all the teachers unions who act as campaign workers for them. How can we stop this, Ryan?
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And that's exactly right. What everyone needs to realize is these organized efforts, these voter turnout drives all of this. These are being funded by the teachers union. They are one of the biggest funders and supporters of Democrat candidates Across the country. They organize incredibly well. They are communist. This is exactly what they want. They are taking your tax dollars through teachers paychecks and talk to the teachers. Talk about how many of them don't even know this is going on and funneling them into these campaigns and organizing these campaigns. Come join us@teacherfreedom.com go to optouttoday.com get teachers out of the union. Support those efforts. Remember, every union dollar that's being taken from these teachers are going to support these candidates. It is literally a Democrat money laundering scheme to take money, funnel it in, organize voter drives, organize voter efforts to get in communist candidates to wreck this country. And again, the teachers union does a very good job of messaging, marketing and acting like they're just. We're just teachers doing A, B and C. No they're not. Listen to what they say. Listen to what? Listen to how they mock people like Charlie Kirk. Listen to all their woke ideology that they're pushing into our schools. And then look at the efforts they're using in campaigns. So we have to defund them, defund the teachers unions and we have to defeat them or else you're going to see this happen time and time again. They have no place in our schools. And don't forget they are the biggest political driver for the Democrat party. Folks, we have got to wake up and take the fight directly to teachers union. That's what we're doing at the Teacher Freedom Alliance. We need all the help we can get. Every mom, dad, every taxpayer out there, come support us. Come help us. The fight has got to be won or we're going to continue to see election results like this.
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Yeah. And let's also say something really clearly. If you're a wannabe teacher or administrator and your goal in life is to indoctrinate young children, really get a life. Honestly, can't you have anything else better to do? That's the best you can do? Try to win me over? That would be more impressive. Brian Walters, thanks for joining us and thanks for keeping up the fight. Maybe if we get better education, we'll get better election results. Thank you so much.
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Thank you, Jake.
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So I have kind of a, I don't want to say a different take. Look, this was a good old fashioned thumping last night. Let's just be clear about it. Now, is this any sort of vote against Trump and the whole try to, you know, make it a whole big deal, but no, I don't think that's the case at all. Now having said that, uh, let's be clear what happened last night. Okay? Abigail Spanberger positions herself as a moderate. We can make the argument, you know, what she really is. But the truth of the matter is she has the perception and quite frankly, even in Congress when she was there, she was considered a moderate. She's like one of the top bipartisan people out there in Congress. So she's a moderate and she won. Mickey. Mikey Sherrill. Excuse me, moderate as well. One now once again to say moderate, let me be clear. We're talking center left. We're talking regular left Democrat, but we're not talking far left. We're not talking Rashida Tlaib. We're not talking the squad. The message for the Democrats should be after this, wow, if we run a center left candidate, we can win. We can win. The Mamdani thing in New York is a one off. It's an outlier. It's separate, it's got its whole contour. Separately, I'm talking about New Jersey and Virginia. I think that's the message that Democrats. And let's be clear, I don't think this was just holding serve. It was holding serve, but it was more than that. They over for overperformed. I mean, if you look at the numbers and I know we gotta run, but real quick, Spanberger won 59% of independents.
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Okay.
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McAuliffe in 2021. Terry McAuliffe, who run won 45%. So Spanberger outperformed McAuliffe by 14% among independents. Why? Because McCullough was more liberal and championed the social liberal stuff. Spanberger did not. Mikey Sherrill, the same thing. So I can go into those numbers. The point is, is that that's the ticket for the Democrats if they want to actually win at the midterm and the national level.
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Let's see if they do it. All right. There'll be a lot more analysis of the election coming up on American Sunrise, the big show. I'll join you for that business Update at around 9:25. American Sunrise early Edition will be back tomorrow. Thanks for joining us. This is an I Heart podcast.