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This is an iHeart podcast. Ahead in American Sunrise early edition. Just as many decent people feared Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries and many other Democrats are taking Tuesday night's election victories as a cue to keep the government shutdown going, Even as the FAA is now about to cut air traffic at 40 airports because of air traffic controller shortages. Thanks a lot, guys. The Supreme Court hears arguments for and against President Trump's tariff powers, and frankly, those powers could be in danger. Getting back to the elections and the shutdown. President Trump says the shutdown was a big reason for the Democrats wins, while New York City Mayor elect Zoran Mamdani immediately declares war on many of his fellow citizens on the day after his victory. And that may have led directly to a swastika graffiti attack on New York's largest Jewish school. Does anyone think that when he's mayor, Mamdani will make punishing anti Semitism a priority? Think again. And investigators are trying to get some answers now to that UPS cargo jet crash. The death toll is up to 12, and the effects of the crash are more widespread than you might think. American Sunrise EARLY EDITION begins now. Welcome to American Sunrise EARLY edition, the show where faith, freedom and the values that built this nation take center stage. Your good deeds and bad deeds, that's how we're going to judge you. Join host Jake Novak as he breaks down the stories that matter. We will be letting the public know regularly what we have found. American Sunrise EARLY EDITION with your host Jake Novak starts now. Welcome to American Sunrise EARLY edition. I'm calling this program today. Fight back Thursday, because as we see these election results and we see some of the things that the Democrats are doing, other people are doing across the country, it really is incumbent on us to push back on them. So let's start with Zohran Mamdani and his election in New York. Now, I said this on the program yesterday, and I'm certainly not backing down from it. And I'm not ashamed to say it. I think that the first response to this guy should be an absolute effort to indict and deport him. I had one viewer who said, like, well, he's a citizen. How can he be deported? No, he's a naturalized citizen, wasn't born here. And people who have naturalized citizenship can have their citizenship denaturalized and they can be deported. What should he be denatur? Have his citizenship denaturalized for his association with terrorists and terrorist organizations. We have found out not that long ago that the organization known as cair, the Council on American Islamic relations, which has been linked in court filings and according to official documents of the doj, to Hamas played a huge role in funding his election. That could be something that could be used to denaturalize him. Also, he has at least $13,000 worth of campaign finance violations. So there you have that. Got the headline here about that story from the New York Post about his connection with care. Again, ca I r something that, by the way, isn't just something that the Democrats have been who have been aligning with for many years, even though they have, again, a documented court. Documented connection with Hamas. But when I was working in the mainstream media as far back as 2003 and 2004, even as early as 2002, I want you to know CAIR sends a daily talking point email. They've been doing it now for 23 years to all the mainstream media outlets. And very often they copy that bullet point email word for word. So this is a dangerous organization, one that has absolutely infiltrated a lot of the American news media in addition to the American political platforms that they dominate. So that's. Honestly, I know a lot of people think, well, that'll be a backlash. The New York Times will say that people are giving Mom Donnie a chance and they hate him and they're all racist. Newsflash, they're already saying that. Do you care enough about America's largest city that you're not willing to call for the indictment and deportation of guy of a guy who really. There's very, very public information about potential criminal acts. That's one thing. Second, I want to show you video of a graffiti attack at. They call it Mag and David High School for those of you. And also it's actually A K through 12 school. This is a school in Brooklyn. I know that the proper pronunciation is Magain, David. Believe me, I know that. But they call it Mag and David. That's how I know you're really from Brooklyn, if that's what you call it. Anyway, used to be a small school. It's now the biggest as far as enrollment school, Jewish school in all of New York, K through 12. That's what they woke up to yesterday morning. Do you think that Zoram Donny's election played a little bit of a role in that? Do you think that Zoran Bomdani is going to show up and do news conferences at schools like this when they happen and announce those who did it? Of course he won't. There's another thing that people in New York can do, and maybe we can support them from beyond New York City. And that is people who oppose Zoram Donny should try to join the Civilian Complaint Review Boards, the ccrb. This is an organization that hauls cops in front of them, tries to dress them down, and thankfully doesn't have the right to fire cops or discipline them. At the end of the day, the police commissioner has that power. There's strong evidence that Zoran Mamdani is going to take that power away from the commissioner and fully give it to the ccrb. Ccrb? The Civilian Complaint Review Board. People who oppose Mamdani and support the police should flood the zone and try to get on the CCRB as much as they possibly can to make sure that the cops get fair representation and they don't all quit. If Mamdani is going to strip the commissioner of that power, then there will be massive resignations in the police department. They will be replaced by Mamdani loyalists, probably.
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And then we're going to have an armed paramilitary army basically patrolling the streets of New York City. None of this is good news. I put a video on my X feed a couple of days ago, and I know a lot of you are watching and saying to yourselves, good, New York deserves it. Those jerks voted for all these leftists all over the years. Let it burn. First of all, remember the Batman movie where Liam Neeson talks about the Legion of Shadows or whatever that group is? We don't want that. You don't burn down cities. Also, sorry to bring the Bible into it here, folks, but maybe read your book of Jonah. Remember, Jonah wants Ninve to burn down. He's upset that God's giving them a second chance. It's not up to us to decide what cities burn down or don't. You know, there's going to be a lot of innocent people as well if New York City completely goes down the tube. I think we need to have an organized effort to stop this guy from taking office in the first place. And then if he does take office and he isn't indicted or deported, then there needs to be a daily pushback on him from people who care, and we should be supporting them from beyond New York City if we can. And I just want to make that point now. I want to talk for a moment about the fight back. Is fight back Thursday here on American Sunrise. Earlier this year, I want to talk about the fight back efforts that should be done over this government shutdown because my friend Scott Rasmussen has a new poll showing that things are moving in our favor right now. For the first time, a large national honest poll is showing that there aren't more people blaming Trump, President Trump and the Republicans for the shutdown. It's dead even. 36% of the people blame the Republicans and Donald Trump for the shutdown. 36% blame the Democrats as the shutdown moves on. That's actually a disastrous poll for the Democrats. They would think that the longer it goes on, the more they'll try to blame the Republicans. Again, why you would blame the Republicans and President Trump, I don't know. They haven't voted for a shutdown once. This is now 14 times. Yesterday was the 14th time that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats voted for the shutdown and to keep it going. But President Trump, of course, wants that to happen. Hey, I want to bring in Gerard Felitti, who's our friend from the Lawfare Project. Thanks for joining us, Gerard. I've been talking about all the things that this is fight back Thursday. So I want to start again with the situation with Zoran Mamdani. I don't care what the New York Times says and I don't care what the more fair minded, calm people say. I think the first response to him should be and should have been before to try to indict and deport him. He committed campaign finance fraud. He's associated with terrorists. And even if it isn't successful, Here's a news alert. Gerard, they're already gonna say that we're racist and we hate Zoran and we're not friendly to him anyway. Why not try this first? What do you think about that?
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They've been on the attack from day one. They've pointed out that Zoran, they've called anyone who opposes Zoran Mamdani an Islamophobe. They pointed out that anyone who is Zoran Mamdani is the type of person who should not be in New York City. They're dividing. They have divided New York City voters from the very beginning. So this is very reasonable to do these investigations and look to see Zoramdani took money from foreign sources. These are very serious accusations that need to be investigated and prosecuted if they turn out to be true. So this is something that we should go on the offense because he's certainly been on the offense against us.
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Yeah. And for those who are watching and thinking, oh, this is just a religious dispute, this is just going to be the Jews against an Islamist. No, Zuram Dani is also a communist. What a lovely combination. The Red Green alliance, as they say this. And again, I just want to Push back on those of you who say, just let New York burn and fall off into the sea. That is not a very Christian or Jewish outlook. I'm sorry. Read your Bible. Read your book of Jonah. Please read it and learn the lesson of it. It's not up to us to condemn an entire city that's not in our power. We can condemn the wrongdoers. We can condemn them, but we do it legally. And legally, I think, should be the first response to this. Gerard. I also want to talk a little bit about what Zoran Mamdani might do with the police department. This is going to be the first particular challenge that we really have to watch for. He wants to give the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the ccrb, full power, not to just dress down cops like they do now. They can be a pain in the butt, but they can't fire a cop that remains in the power of the police commissioner. But he wants to change that. Is there. I mean, I think that good citizens in New York should try to flood the zone and try to get on the ccrb, or at the very least, show up at the CCRB hearings and disrupt them again peacefully. But I think they should be disrupted. If they get that power, every cop in New York City, almost every one of them, is going to really seriously think about quitting, and they'll be replaced by foot soldiers from Mamdani. I mean, that's. That's the situation.
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Well, there are two things here. The first problem is that the nypd, as much as I respect and love the cops, they have not been doing the best job keeping New Yorkers safe for the last four years to begin with. So now you've got Zoran Mamdani, who comes in and wants to give them even less power to discipline them for doing their jobs. If the remaining cops actually care about keeping New York City safe, that's dangerous. We do need to flood the zone. We do need to be at these community meetings. And every police precinct has these meetings. People need to be aware of them. They need to go online and see when they're taking place and go to these meetings. This is the strategy that works. It's actually the infiltration. And that's the second point. It's not just the nypd, what Zoran Mamdani is already doing. He put together this group for this transition team. They're all radical socialists. They all work with him, with Bernie Sanders, with aoc. These are people who want to infiltrate every single department in New York City. Not just the police department, the schools, the fire department. Every committee that has anything to do with taxes or regulations or building or permits, that's the real danger. It's not just one man leading from the top. It's all the people he's going to put in that will systemically change New York City into a socialist city.
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Yeah, those are some serious problems, Gerard, one quick last question about the government shutdown again. We now have a poll from my favorite pollster as far as reliability is concerned, Scott Rasmussen, showing that there is actually no majority. There's actually not even a plurality of Americans who blame the Republicans anymore for the shutdown. I don't know why anyone would. Of course, that's low information. Voters, clearly. I mean, the Democrats have voted 14 times for the shutdown. Republicans zero. I don't know how more clear we have to be. But are there legal things? This is a great question. I think not enough people have asked. Is there an opportunity for normal citizens to join a coalition like maybe the Welfare Project and to sue Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries for the services and, and the things that are being withheld because they keep voting for the shutdown. Not that I think it would go through court and win, but it might get the publicity and prove that the citizens aren't gonna take this anymore and they know whom to blame.
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Oh, I wish they could. Unfortunately, you can't sue people in government to compel them to do their jobs. That's the toughest thing to do. It all comes down to the ballot and who you vote for. So this is really a massive campaign issue. But the bigger issue that Republicans should be putting on TV every single day, your kids are going hungry because Trump, Chuck Schumer is keeping the government shut down. He cares. The Democrats care more about illegal immigrants having health benefits in America than they care about feeding your children. The Republicans need to hammer that point day after day on tv. And that's the public pressure that will get the Democrats to finally vote to European government.
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Yeah, I teed you up for that one, Gerard, because I knew that you had posted that go hungry message and that was a good one. So thank you for bringing that to the table. Gerard Felitti from the Lawfare Project, thank you so much for joining us. Waking up early and joining us. Just it's Fight Back Thursday and you're one of the first people I thought to join us in that fight. Thank you, Gerard.
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That's right. Coming up, that UPS jet crash in Louisville is also hurting the folks at Ford. Of course, our thoughts and prayers are with the 12 people who died first. But Ford is also hurting. I'll talk about that. But first I want to talk about the latest effect of the continuing government shutdown we were just talking about. It's going to be felt at America's top airports. Emily Finn and I will discuss that when American SUNRISE EARLY EDITION continues. That's a live look at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this morning here on Fight Back Thursday on American Sunrise EARLY edition. Milwaukee is a really interesting city. I can talk a lot about it. But my first thought about them now is, of course, they're all just obsessed with the packers and that's a dog fight in their division. They are not having a cakewalk, as some people thought they might. Welcome back to AMERICAN Sunrise EARLY edition. Again, I'm calling this Fight Back Thursday. Well, now the shutdown is getting real for a lot of Americans or at least will by Friday. The FAA says it's gonna cut down air traffic by 10% at some of the heaviest airports across the country. That's a lot of canceled flights. Emily Finn joins us now. You know, Emily, I'm wondering why the FAA didn't actually do this right away. You know, just basically say, and actually maybe even the Republicans and the Trump administration right away saying, oh, you want to shut down the government? Well, these are the things that are going to happen. And now the American people needs to know it's you and really, really continue to hound the mainstream news media, which in some cases has said, oh, yeah, the Democrats are the only ones voting for the shutdown. Not enough. I saw Jake Tapper do that once in early October. I don't think he's repeated it. He probably got a call from, from somebody in the, in the Chuck Schumer's office. But, you know, this is, this is what they want. This is what they're going to get. And I would hate to see a crash or something like that because of an air traffic controller. This is also a safety issue.
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Absolutely a safety issue. But you know, Jake, I think this is a perfect example of the American people being used as pawns in these negotiations between the right and left right now to, you know, continue this government shutdown. I mean, it's, it's awful because like you said, they should have pulled all of this out in the beginning and made it very, very clear that all of this is going to go away if our government is not operating. But they didn't. They're using this as negotiation tactics now. They're snap benefits. We were just talking about that a few days ago. Now we're talking about the FAA and what's going to be next. They really need to come to the table and negotiate and get some kind of an agreement together because this is literally hurting the American people moving forward. Like you said, this is a safety risk. And canceled flights. I'm a person who catches flights all the time. I don't want this to impact my daily life and I don't think any other Americans do either.
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Yeah, I think also maybe one of the first things they should have done is to start to restrict and take away some of the privileges at Reagan National Airport. If you ever go to D.C. one of the biggest pet peeves I've had for 40 years is you get off there, you get out of the airport and the members of Congress have this great entire parking lot right in front of the terminal just for them. One of the first things I would do if I were the Trump administration is not like the Obama team did and putting fences around the Washington Monument because people couldn't see it if there was a fence, it was a joke. Or shut down parks. I would shut down all those government owned properties that are act as perks for those members of Congress. No more parking lot in front of Reagan Airport. No more quick through the security for them. Say, listen, the security officials who used to, you know, whisk you through security, none of that. I really, that should be. Because you're right, it shouldn't be something that the people become pawns over. How about them first, let them suffer first? I can't think of a few. There's probably going to be something else, Emily, that we could do to these folks.
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It's a great point. Certainly they, they need to sacrifice first. I mean if they are not doing their job, then they need to be the ones facing the, the repercussions for that and hopefully it'll spark a little bit of fire for them to be more motivated. I mean, this is the longest government shutdown that we've ever seen and it doesn't seem like they are really coming to the table and have any sense of urgency whatsoever to get anything done. So yes, they should suffer first before the American people do.
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Yeah, well, you know who doesn't shut down? Emily Finn. Because she's back in the next couple of hours on the American Sunrise Show. She does all these other things. This entire channel doesn't shut down Real America's voice. So thank you. We'll see you again in your non shutdown next two hours. Emily.
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Thank you, Jake. All right. The tax extension deadline may have passed. It's all gone. October 15th it was over. But for millions of Americans, the real trouble is just beginning. Sorry if you missed that October 15th deadline or oh, back taxes. The IRS is ramping up enforcement. Every day you wait only makes things worse. And here's the harsh reality. The IRS can charge a penalty of 5% per month, up to 25% of your total tax bill just if you didn't file. That's in addition to what you already owe. The good news, there's still time for Tax Network USA to help self employed or a business owner. Even if your books are a mess, they've got you covered. Tax Network USA specializes in resolving financial chaos and getting you back on track fast with tools like property seizures, bank levies and wage garnishments. The IRS is of the part a, applying pressure at levels we haven't seen in years. It's not too late to regain control. Your consultation is 100% free in one short call. And after a few simple questions, the experts at Tax Network USA can determine how much you can save. Call 1-800-905-8000 or visit tnusa.com rav Let Tax Network USA help before the IRS makes the next move. Coming up, a Michigan car dealership gets caught committing a cardinal sin in the auto business. And it's something that may be on the rise nationally. Gotta watch out for this folks. That story and more when American Sunrise, EARLY EDITION and Moving America come right back. Music City, Nashville, Tennessee. Here on this Fight Back Thursday. We've got a couple of pedestrians up in walking. Looks like a beautiful day there. A little breezy. Nashville is becoming a really great city. And on the other side of the spectrum in Tennessee, you've got Memphis, which is falling apart. It's really sad. Let's see Memphis make a turnaround as well. Let's take a look at where the markets will begin today. Speaking of turnarounds, we had a decent rally yesterday. Looks like it's going to continue or at least not give back this morning, at least at the open. Very flat on the Dow really. It's flat across the board. But still on the positive side. And look at that gold back over the four thousand dollar per ounce mark. And look at crude oil just below the $60 a barrel level. I'm still waiting for the national average of gasoline to get below $3 a gallon. It keeps creeping back up again. Yesterday it was 307. I really do think it will dip below $3. But remember, there are so many states and cities that jack up the taxes on gasoline and give that and really ruin the national average. So you have to consider that. Now let's take a look at Bitcoin and see if it's coming back just a little bit. And it's not. Look at that. 102, almost 103,000, but still down again this morning. And again, maybe a buying opportunity. I'm certainly not hearing any rumblings about potential crashes in bitcoin, but it is down about $23,000 from its all time high. So that's almost a 20% buying opportunity. It's on sale, as they say. Okay. I've got to tell you, President Trump's tariffs may indeed be in serious legal trouble based on the hard questions that both the common sense justices. Again, I don't believe there are any real conservatives on the Supreme Court. I think there are six common sense justices and three justices who are ultra leftists. That's the real balance on the Supreme Court, by the way. Anyway, the common sense justices and the ultra leftists kind of joined together in some really tough questions for President Trump's attorneys. The Solicitor General at the court yesterday over the tariffs. Now, you put a gun to my head. I'd say they're going to limit President Trump's tariff powers in some way, maybe just in a small way. I hope not in a big way. And the reason why I hope not is not just because I've been schooled on tariffs. Years ago, when President Trump first started talking about them, I wasn't a big fan. I kept my mouth shut about it because I wanted to see how it would shake out. And boy, was I wrong. Tariffs in 2016 or, well, in 2018 is when they started and 2025 are a different thing than they were in the 1920s or the 19th century because they are being done to get to a political purpose, get a political goal, not necessarily an economic goal, although that is part of it as well. Anyway, I think the court is going to do something here. I don't want them to. I think this is something that the voters should decide. And, you know, they could say Congress needs to have some oversight of it, I guess. But I didn't like the way those arguments went at the court yesterday. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's, that's my prediction. I'll talk more about this a little bit later with David Brody. Okay. Now we have a solid deadline for Warner Brothers, the owner of CNN and all those movie studios. CNN doesn't make them any money. So I should talk about their movie studios. Now, Warner Brothers says it's going to make a decision about whether to sell itself off for sure and who they're going to sell themselves off to by Christmas time. Now the offer is on the table, folks. Paramount, the new newly owned Paramount by David Ellison and Skydance. Paramount is offering 20, $23.50 a share, 23.50 for Warner's. I don't think it's worth that. I think that they should be happy with it and take it. But that's the offer from the table. Warner Brothers has now said by Christmas, hoping to get a bigger offer from somebody else or a bigger offer from Paramount. We shall see. But again, as I predicted here on this program, if this deal goes through and Paramount, which also owns cbs, buys Warner Brothers, goodbye cnn. CNN will become just a streaming documentary network. That's my prediction. It'll just be folded into CBS News. So that's just something to think about. Now, I've talked this week already about the problems at Chipotle and also Pizza Hut. I'm sorry if I'm making you hungry on this program. But now let's talk about McDonald's. Are they also struggling? The answer is no. McDonald's actually did disappoint Wall street when it comes to their profit and their revenue numbers for the last three months, June through September. But their same store sales went up by almost 4%. Wall street like that. And McDonald's shares went up a couple of percentage points yesterday. That's Good news for McDonald's. They're clearly getting people back into their restaurants. That's the first thing they have to do. Then later they can start thinking about making more of a profit off of them. They're not taking a loss from them. They're still making profits. So they can think about that later. But they've got to get those bodies back into the restaurant or more notably, into the drive thru. The McDonald's around me, I almost see no one actually in the restaurant, but there's a long line at the takeout window and that's where I think they make their most money. Think about it. That's a great profit center, by the way. All you have to do is give them a bag in their car. And that isn't a bunch of tables to clean up or floors to mop. That's a big way to increase their profits. They might want to think about giving a slight discount for drive thru customers. By the way, that's my little hint to them. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. This is moving america sponsored by artillerytea company artilleryteaco.com use promo code liberty for 20% off your order. Artillery Tea is all natural whole leaf and the tea bags are chemical free and each tea bag can be used twice. Artillery Tea Company is family and and veteran, owned and operated and a portion of your purchase goes to help veteran and first responder charities. Artillerytco.com promo code LIBERTY for 20% off your order. And we're going to be talking to the founder of Artillery T tomorrow on this program. So you don't want to miss that. This is really a tragic story that just keeps getting worse. That UPS plane crash Tuesday. You know, it's bad enough, obviously the victims, families and the people injured and killed are first and foremost in our minds. I'm not trying to be crass here. I will talk about the financial implications about it in just a second. But we're up to 12 people who have died now, a lot of other people injured. Just a massive crash. But I want to tell you it's also affecting Ford. Ford has had to shut down its Louisville assembly plant near the airport there because it's so close to the crash site and its power was disrupted. Now the Louisville assembly plant, the LAP, as they call it, is where they make the Ford Escape, which is one of their most popular models. And they've also invested big bucks in that assembly plant to make EV trucks there by 2027. Look at that explosion. My goodness, I wonder what was on that jet. I mean, it could have just been the fuel. Remember, it was on takeoff, so it was fully loaded. Fuel wise, it may just be the fuel, but my goodness. Anyway, this is a major, major crash. This is going to have a major effect on Louisville. And while the mainstream media has sort of covered this, I noticed that the mainstream media, even Fox, spent more time about a car fire in the Bronx last night than the continuing effects of this crash. I talk about the geographical bias in television news. It is in all news, really mainstream news media. It is terrible. This is the biggest disaster story and crash story and fire story in America right now. It still is two days later. We need to have everyone looking at this and finding out how this happened and doing what we can to help the folks out there. All right. Before this week, if you had asked me whether Elon Musk was going to get that 1 trillion dollar pay package from Tesla, I, I would have said yes. But now those darn Norwegians have thrown a wrench into everything. The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund earlier this week said it's going to vote against giving elon Musk the $1 trillion pay package. I know that's a lot of money, folks, but as I've said here on the program, Elon Musk has made far more than a trillion dollars for people who have invested just retail investors in Tesla stock over the years. So you can argue he's really just getting his cut of the huge bonanza he's brought. And by the way, even with all the controversy at Tesla over the last year, ever just since he got involved in the Trump campaign and in Doge, Tesla shares are still up from a year ago today. So you made money even through this period. You can make that argument. But now I'm not so sure that Norwegian sovereign wealth fund is going to get friends. There are going to be other people who are going to join in. Big institutional investors. As we say, sometimes they should be in an institution, but by that I mean just large investment groups, either from countries or private equity. They may start lining up against this, and this could be a big fight. Okay, now for today's edition of you can't do that. Michigan State investigators say a very large GM dealer in the city of St. Clair has been selling used cars, often their dealership loaner cars with thousands of miles on them and calling them new cars. Now, remember what we've talked about on this program. Now, with the new technologies available now, it is easy, sadly, to falsify an odometer reading with some electronic devices that anyone can buy. Now, the good news is, is that any mechanic can tell that that odometer has been tampered with. So if you have any suspicions about that, you can bring it into a mechanic and they'll be able to tell you right away what the real mileage is. But anyway, regulators say that at this particular dealership in St. Clair, Michigan, they found a number of vehicles in an inspection in September that had been falsely sold as new cars. So the dealer right now can't conduct business. They've shut the place down while the suspension is in place. They don't say how long that suspension is going to last. The dealership want to give them a fair platform here. They say this is all due to a clerical error. All right, I don't know about that. But anyway, that's what the dealership is saying. Coming up, if Tuesday's election results still have you down, at least you can take solace in the fact that another Trump hater has finally seen the light. Another one of these Trump haters realizing what's really going on. Yes, it's the Terminator finally taking some sense into his head. You'll see it and hear it when AMERICAN SUNRISE EARLY EDITION comes right back. Foreign November 6th. Here are this morning's top stories. Just as many decent people, myself included, feared Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and many other Democrats are taking Tuesday night's election victories as a cue to keep the government shutdown going. Thanks a lot, guys. Now, this is Even as the FAA is now about to cut air traffic at 40 airports because of air traffic controller shortages. The Supreme Court hears arguments for and against President Trump's tariff powers. And frankly, I think those powers could be in danger based on the questions the justices asked. Investigators are trying to get some answers now that that UPS cargo jet crash. The death toll is up to 12, and the effects of the crash are more widespread than you might think. It's affecting the local economy and the national economy. And is this what we're becoming in America? A swastika graffiti attack on New York's largest Jewish school the day after Zoran Mamdani's victory? Does anyone think that when he's mayor, Mamdani will make punishing acts like this a priority? Of course he won't. American SUNRISE EARLY EDITION continues now. Welcome back to this Fight Back Thursday here on AMERICAN SUNRISE EARLY edition. I'm Jake Novak. Thank you so much for joining us on all the platforms where you can join us, including those platforms like Getter Rumble X Substack where you can also on the content here, this is not a passive exercise. News watching should never be passive. It never is here on Real America's Voice and on this program. So feel free to comment, feel free to throw virtual bricks at my head. I deserve it sometimes. I certainly learn from you. And sometimes you guys say something nice, too, and that's allowed on the Internet. I just want to let you know you're allowed to say nice things on the Internet. I know it's not clear sometimes, but it is true. All right. I call this fight back Thursday. In the first half hour, we talked about how people can fight back against Zoram Hamdani and his communist Islamist agenda. What about California, where many people may have not heard, California did the voters did pass or vote for Prop 50, which would further redistrict California's whatever's left of its democracy into oblivion. So joining us right now is Republican candidate for California Secretary of State Don Wagner. And Don, California voters approve that, but can you tell us first what it would do? I know I want to talk to you in a second about what you're doing on planning to fight. Fight it. But first, can you tell me what Prop 50 would actually do?
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Good morning, Jake. And yes, what Prop 50 did was take the California Republican congressional lines and completely redraw them to favor the Democrats. They effectively gerrymandered the state. Before Prop 50 passed, we had roughly about 40% of the vote on average in California by we Republicans, I mean, and we had about 20% of the congressional seats. After Prop 50 passes, we're down to under 10%. So thanks for supporting democracy there, Gavin. But what it does is grotesquely gerrymander the state.
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A
Okay, so what's being done to fight it? Because I think, you know, I know you're involved in a lawsuit. And tell us about where Prop 50 will be while that lawsuit is going through the courts.
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B
Well, Prop 50 takes effect for the 2026 congressional lines, and so nobody immediately is out of office. It just will be a question of who runs for which offices. What are the lines for 2026. So there's a little bit of time to bring the lawsuits that are being brought right now, and I wish I could say I was very hopeful for them, but some of the main challenges to gerrymandering are either along racial lines. And we have seen the Supreme Court cut back a little bit in the last few years on the Voting Rights act and what it takes to bring a Voting Rights act case. The Supreme Court has also said that political gerrymandering is mostly off the table for federal courts. So there are not going to be a lot of legal avenues for it. One of the things that we just need to do is to take voter. Get voter ID in place to make sure our voting rolls are as clean as they possibly can be and continue to fight this out on the ground in our congressional districts. Because I wish I could say the lawsuits are. That I'm optimistic. I just sadly am not with the lawsuits.
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Well, thank you for your realism there. Sometimes, you know, people try to give people a little bit of a. Mislead them in a way. So I appreciate that. I want to talk about the larger story here because you are a California elected official. You have politician there. You know the state really well. And a lot of this has to do about Gavin Newsom's presidential aspirations. This is someone who he just recently, he started to kind of say, openly admit. What we all know is that he is angling himself for 2028. And it does seem like the Democrats now put a great value on real nastiness more than anything else. When I Think of Gavin Newsom, and I know there's a lot of failures in California that everyone else will pin on him, but when I think about his national image, I think about a guy who even years ago, not just recently, years ago, started to become a presence on social media. Remember, he was fighting with Ron DeSantis on social media and get real nasty with him. And we can all say that's bad. But you know what, Don? I think that's what Democrat voters like. I think they like nasty. I think they just elected a guy in New York City because they felt that he was the guy who was nastiest to President Trump. Hate is a huge motivator in politics. I'm sorry to say it might be the number one motivator, and that's why he's doing this. Right. This is about hatred, and this is about proving to the rest of the country and to the DNC that Gavin Newsom can be nasty and step on the Republicans and actually freedom's throat. That's really what this is about, isn't it?
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B
Well, it's certainly about his presidential aspirations. And I think you hit the nastiness on the. The head. There's an attorney general candidate in Virginia who was successful and wished that his rival's kids were dead. So nastiness is. Is certainly part of the brand that we've seen lately. It's unfortunate. We've all known Gavin Newsom is just angling for the presidency. He has been for years. I'm a county supervisor in Orange county, third largest county in this. In this state. And we felt like we've had a target on our back for years, especially starting with COVID from the Newsom administration. It's very unfortunate, but he looks to make a name for himself, pushing back on Republicans, pushing back on conservatives, obviously pushing back on the president. I think his Twitter feed pretty much trolls the president on a daily basis. It's unseemly. But that's politics in America, unfortunately, today, in many, many ways.
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A
Yeah. Now, one good thing, I think, has come out of the Prop 50 fight that I think a lot of people didn't notice, but I think it's woken up Arnold Schwarzenegger, who's been a huge Trump critic, nasty to President Trump for a long time, even though he's also a Republican. But he. Not only is he saying that was. Was he saying the right things about opposing Prop 50, but in this sound bite I want you to listen to, he got to the bottom of what Prop 50 was really all about. Watch this.
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Not a Party servant, that I am.
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A
A people servant, a public servant, that.
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B
I want to serve the people, not my party.
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They don't want to give this right to the people. They want to hold on to this power.
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B
So this is when I realized our democracy is in danger, when we let.
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A
Them continue this way. Because today they want to dismantle.
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B
This independent commission.
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A
They want to get rid of it under the auspices. We have to fight Trump. Yeah, under the auspices, just to get Trump. He gets it. There is so much going on right now in politics that's just about the hatred of Donald Trump. If Donald Trump says two plus two equals four, we will literally have people go and try to pass legislation to say that it's five. I mean, look, you can oppose a president, I have no problem with that. But when you start destroying yourself and cutting your own head off despite this guy, and to get rid of democracy in California, I mean, this is just going too far. I'm encouraged that at least this guy Schwarzenegger, who really hates Donald Trump, understands this. At least he's able to see through it.
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B
Donald Trump is in California. It's a challenge for Republicans. The brand is not as popular in this state as it is in other parts of the country. And thank goodness that's why we were able to get Trump elected. It wasn't because of California, but that Trump hatred is what drives a lot of politics today in California. It is absolutely clear that Prop 50 was driven the turnout and the result was driven by the dissatisfaction with the president here. Gavin Newsom, smartly, politically, for his purposes, made Proposition 50 all about Newsom versus Trump. And sadly, that was enough to carry the day here in California. And it tells me the Republican Party has got some work to do yet to bring itself back to a position where we have the ability to push back and say, no, the problem with California is not Donald Trump. The problem with California is the bad governance that we've had in this state for the last 20 years. The last Republican elected statewide was Arnold Schwarzenegger. I hope to be the next. But you've got 20 years of single party rule, and this is a great state. The only problems it has are bad government, bad policies coming out of Sacramento.
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A
Yeah, you know, I just, I got some video up here of Ronald Reagan winning the governor's race in 1966. And just, you know, the world that has changed. I know that was like 60 years ago. I understand that. But, you know, it just doesn't make sense. And to me, you talked about bad policies. And of course, one of them was the opening up of the borders of California to a massive amount of illegally aliens, which absolutely changes cultures. People need to understand it's not just about the expense and the crime and the danger. It's also about how it changes the culture overnight to one of that you won't recognize. And California is unrecognizable politically to me in so many ways. Don Wagner, you're a candidate for secretary of state of California. Thank you so much for joining us. Getting up really early out there, but you know, it's Fight Back Thursday and you gotta wake up early to fight back. Thank you so much, Don.
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B
Gotta fight. Thank you, Jake.
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Hey, Coming up, what do Obamacare and the Trump tariffs have in common? Well, according to the Supreme Court, maybe nothing. And that's not good. David Brody and I will discuss when AMERICAN Sunrise EARLY EDITION comes right back. Foreign welcome back. I'm calling it Fight Back Thursday here on American Sunrise EARLY edition. Taking a look at the Capitol dome right there. That's one of the places we need to fight back against. Why doesn't the government shutdown immediately affect the folks in Congress? Take away their Ronald Reagan National Airport, nice parking lot. Take away whatever. Are the cafeterias open? Some of them are really good, by the way. Close them, let them. They should be the ones to suffer first. Whenever anyone asks you to sacrifice or suffer or change, the answer should be you first. Like all those environmentalists who say that people shouldn't have children and that humans are bad for the political planet, I always say you first. Nothing's stopping you. You can leave the earth anytime you like. Welcome back. I'm glad they didn't, though, if they're watching this program. Welcome back to American Sunrise EARLY edition. Fight Back Thursday. Hey. The Supreme Court heard the arguments for and against President Trump's tariff powers yesterday. And the six common sense justices on the court, they're not conservatives. And the three far leftists on the court, they're not liberals. If they were, they'd be a lot more fair. Had a lot of tough questions for the tariffs. David Brody, I'm bringing you in now. I gotta say I'm not a Supreme Court jurist, but I gotta say I am not all that confident that the terrorists are gonna survive intact after the way the justice is questioned. I'm betting on at least some type of changes to them or restrictions to them. And you know what? All I can do is compare this to the John Roberts decision on Obamacare all those years ago where he basically stepped aside and said, oh, well, you know, this is for the president to do whatever. It's a tax. President Trump's not gonna get the same courtesy, which to me just shows the hypocrisy that Obamacare is a lot less. Sorry. Is a lot more intrusive into the lives of the American people than the tariffs are by far. And it's also a lot more permanent. It's become that way. But President Trump isn't getting the same courtesy, is he?
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I don't know, Jake. Here's my read on it. I mean, the Supreme Court in this tariff case basically seems to suggest, or I'm talking about the concern conservative justices like John Roberts and Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett. They seem to suggest that, look, a tariff is a tax, and if a tariff is a tax and a tariff is a tax, and that's up to Congress to decide, not the President of the United States. That to me, Jake, and we can disagree on this, but that seems pretty consistent with what John Roberts was saying about Obamacare. He said the individual mandates a tax, and if the individual mandates a tax, it's with Congress. That's up to Congress and the taxing clause of the US Constitution. So to me, I think Roberts is being. Unless I'm missing something, trust me, I'm not the brightest bulb in the shack, and I'm not a Supreme Court scholar, but it seems to me that John Roberts is pretty much staying consistent. I disagreed with him on Obamacare, by the way, and I'll disagree with him on tariffs as well. But at least to me, Jake helped me out. I mean, I think he's being pretty consistent. He's saying the individual mandate was a tax. Congress controls that. Then he's saying if he's gonna say a tariff is a tax, well, then he's gotta go by the same standard. So to me, that's consistent. It might be consistently wrong, but it's consistent.
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A
Well, I would just say this. I think he was really wrong about Obamacare being a tax. I think the argument for the tariffs being a tax is much better. Obamacare is much more than a tax. And that was one of the things that. So that's the issue. I think that by declaring Obamacare attacks, he was giving Obamacare a very, very big boost. He must have known that. So that's the thing. Calling the terrorist attacks is certainly not a stretch, although I don't think it's completely that. I think it's also a foreign policy initiative as well. So it's a little bit different. But still, I agree with you. So that would be consistent. It's just that in the case of Obamacare, calling that attacks, it's a lot. It's so much more than that. That's like calling fuel restrictions attacks. I mean everything eventually costs money. So I thought, I thought that was the, the original sin there for John Roberts.
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E
Yeah, well Obama, I'm skew Obamacare. You know, John Roberts is an incrementalist. He doesn't want to blow things up so to speak and so that's why he didn't want to go crazy on Obamacare. And also that goes to Obergefeld in 2005. I mean that's just who he is. And you're right though, six conservative justices. No Alito, Scalia. Scalia. Listen to me, Alito and Clarence Thomas, the other ones. I don't know about that.
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A
Yeah. All right.
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Gorsuch. Yes.
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Big show's coming up, American Sunrise. I'll be joining you in the 9am hours. Early Edition comes. This is an I Heart podcast.