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Jake Novak
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Jake Novak
Ahead on American Sunrise Early Edition. Oh, the timing couldn't be more perfect. Just as Governor J.B. pritzker threatens to arrest ICE agents, ICE finds and arrests an Illinois cop who just happens to be an illegal alien with a badge and a gun. Our Ben Berkwam broke the story. In the battle against illegal drugs, President Trump says these attacks on drug boats could soon be augmented by strikes on drug cartel facilities inside countries like Venezuela, not just on the water. But Trump the peacemaker is also on the move. Boy, he's busy. Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hungary in the coming weeks, trying to get peace in that war with Ukraine. Former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton has been indicted on 18 counts of keeping and sharing classified documents. It's a swampy thing. They all like to write books that nobody reads. And last night's New York City mayoral debate was a real crime as the three candidates and the media moderators embarrass themselves for all to see. American Sunrise EARLY EDITION begins now. Welcome to American Sunrise EARLY Edition.
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Unknown Caller/Interjection
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Jake Novak
Show where faith, freedom and the values that built this nation take center stage. Your good deeds and bad deeds. That's how we're going to judge you. Join host Jake Novak as he breaks.
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Adam Smith
Down the stories that matter.
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Jake Novak
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 a no tie Friday here on American Sunrise EARLY edition. What a week this has been. And it's really, I think, been a very good week. And it's where we're going to start in just a few seconds when we take a look at what the amazing week has been for America for President Trump and a really, really bad week for the far right and the far left, mostly the far left, which is, of course, the whole left these days. I don't think there is any moderate left anymore. But they've had a bad week. The good guys won, the bad guys lost. And we're gonna get into it here on this October 17th. What an amazing day. This is an amazing week it's been. Joining us now, Dr. James Nezzo. He's our legal and political contributor here on American EARLY edition. And you know, Jim, I just have to step back on a Friday and acknowledge where we were at the beginning of this week. We get a war ended, we get hostages returned. And my biggest thing, we didn't get World War iii. Remember when they told us that if we got involved in this whole conflict and if Trump attacked the Iranian nuclear facilities, we had been World War Three. That seems like a million years ago, but I think it was only three and a half months ago. No, World War Three and the war over. We won, they lost.
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Dr. James Nezzo
Jim, you know, it's so hard to figure out where to start. Let me start with one thing. One, if you believe in experts, including me, you're wrong. They don't know a damn thing more than you do. And continually, again and again, they embarrass themselves. God, I'd hate to look at my own tapes. Second is that you're right. The Middle east and indeed the world geopolitical system has been transformed this week. President Trump has pulled off even if it doesn't hold on the long term. And gosh knows what's going to happen. Although yesterday's comments by the president that if Hamas plays around, he will authorize a complete destruction ought to catch their attention. But even if it doesn't hold completely around the fact that he was able to get all of the serious players in the Middle east to sign on to this is an extension of the Abraham Accords. This transforms the Middle east in profound geopolitical ways on a strategic basis. It also sends a very strong signal to Putin and it also sends, and this is even more importantly, a very strong signal to China. So everybody who is basically saying that we have lost our leverage with both China and with Russia, well, you know, again, they ought to hand in their credentials as being an extra cause they don't know what they're talking about.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. And again, I also want to just hammer home the domestic critics of President Trump. Of course, the complete Democrat Party in the entire left, but also people on the far right who decided that anything that we did to help Israel, that helped common decency in the world would absolutely start World War Three. How dare we do anything about Iran. Iran hasn't made a peep about this. Look, and they don't even have the decency now to admit they were wrong. I mean, they're literally parading around this week saying, you See, we were right, you were wrong. You got an F on the test and you're pretending like you got an A. It's incredible. Now, Jim, there's also domestic critics from the uber libertarian types, and I'm mostly libertarian, too. I hear where they're coming from. But the Rand Paul's of the world, the Thomas Massey's of the world, who don't want us to do anything about the drug war that's been waged on this country, that this isn't an economic situation, this isn't Miami Vice where they're trying to sell some coke for a couple of bucks and to go to a nightclub. This is fentanyl flooding into our country, killing tens of thousands of people on the regular. And President Trump is not only doing something about it, but he's telling the world it's not a covert operation. And I think they lost too, this week, Jim. I really did.
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Dr. James Nezzo
Well, look, Rand Paul may be a good eye surgeon. I have no clue. But he is a terrible lawyer, a terrible constitutionalist, and a terrible historian. His points regarding the fact that this is illegal and unprecedented are both profoundly and utterly wrong. Rand Paul, Thomas Massie should be ashamed of themselves. More than that, they should be ignored by us as being people of no serious intellectual caliber. This is something that has been done time and time again. Democrat and Republican administrations who have identified things such as the cartels as places that we can go after. This is legal, this is moral, and this is historically precedent. So you can just ignore those people. They're silly, they're stupid. No one in the Beltway cares about what they have to say. And all they do is they open their mouths, is they prove that they are idiots.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, except when they don't open their mouths, like when President Obama did a drone strike on American citizens and believe it, people deserve.
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Dr. James Nezzo
Exactly.
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Jake Novak
He had nothing to say about that. Rand Paul has nothing to say about that.
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Dr. James Nezzo
You're right. Look, they have it in for Orange man bad. And I don't care what. Rand Paul has been trying desperately to row back this week after his comments. And if you take a look at his social media, he must be getting absolutely destroyed in terms of the phone calls going into his office. But Rand Paul, Tom Massie, who by the way, is getting tons of money, all from Democrats to fund his reelection campaign, they're not serious people. The White House doesn't take them seriously. The only people who take them seriously is the media. My advice to you, Jake, Ignore them. They're idiots.
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Jake Novak
Well, speaking of idiots, let's take A look at another victory, I think, for America, for President Trump and for the Republican Party, and that is that the government shutdown now is in day 17. Now, the shutdown isn't a victory. What a victory. The victory is embodied in this. Take a look at this headline from npr. You know you're losing an attempt to gain the American people's attention when it's the 17th day of a government shutdown. And your buddies at NPR have to remind their readers and their viewers and, and their listeners that, oh, by the way, there's a shutdown, and here's what it means for you. It's been going on for two and a half weeks. I mean, this tantrum that the Democrats are trying to throw, not only is it not getting attention, but when it does get attention, I feel like for the first time in my lifetime, there's been almost a balance of realization by the American people that the Democrats are the one who created this. The ones who created the shutdown. They voted for it nine times, Jim.
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Dr. James Nezzo
Well, not only do they vote for it, this sort of reminds me of the way in which we started taking back the schools after we had the COVID shutdown. And everybody who is in America, all the parents were able to look and see what happens in schools. And now that the curtain has been pulled aside, they didn't like what they saw in schools. And we now see a transformation. I think people are taking a look, saying, you know, the government shut down, but, okay, so I can't go to my local park, but I'm basically okay. It's not working. The Schumer shutdown is a failure. Even people like John Fetterman, who isn't one of the people they love, but others as well, are now saying, how do we do a climb down? I frankly think that they're waiting for the no Kings rally, which is supposed to happen this weekend, so they can go and talk to their leftist pals. Will be a prescient moment. Look, never forget one additional thing. AOC is going to run against Schumer for the primary. Schumer cannot allow the left flank of his party in New York City, which is about to elect a Communist as the mayor of New York City, to get on that left for him. So he's doing this not because it's good for the country, because he's trying to save his own skin. Well, guess what? He's not saving the country, and he's not going to save his own skin. AOC is going to thrash the heck out of this guy.
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Jake Novak
And good hey, you know, finally, Jim, I don't know if this is a victory for President Trump, but it does seem to be a tremendous loss for the left because the way that everyone is looking at what Justice Kahtani Brown Jackson had to say, once again opening her mouth and hopefully instantly regretting it, I don't know. I don't think she has a regretful bone in her body. She should. But her comments during that case earlier this week about the Voting Rights act, really, I mean, it takes the cake even for her. Seems to set a new low bar for embarrassing comments by a Supreme Court justice on the bench.
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Dr. James Nezzo
Now, you quoted that they're disabled. There's another one that's actually my favorite, which is just take my word for it when she's talking to counsel. No, I'm not going to take your word for it. That's not your job as Supreme Court justice. This is a woman who is totally and completely out of her depth. There was a senator in the 1970s named Roman Hrska who was from Nebraska. And when the Farnsworth nomination came up and everyone discovered that the guy really was not playing with the sharpest knife in the drawer, shall we say, came out and said famously, isn't there a role for mediocrities, too? Well, it didn't get Roman. Froska did not be able to get Farnsworth. But Jackson now sort of deals with mediocrities. The woman is an intellectual midget. She is an embarrassment not just to the court majority, but even to her liberal justices who must be hearing her speak and are slapping their foreheads and saying, would you just shut?
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Jake Novak
Yeah. I mean, it's incredible. I mean, you're right. Not everyone needs to be the greatest orator. And maybe they can have some down home common sense, but she has neither of those things. And what an embarrassment. And we're stuck with her for a long time. She's a young woman. Dr. James Nuzzo, have a great weekend. Thank you so much for joining us.
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Dr. James Nezzo
Thank you so much.
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Jake Novak
Coming up, if you think giving illegal aliens free health care is bad, try giving them a badge and a gun. I'll have this outrageous but true story just ahead. And later, a major milestone has now been hit when it comes to new car buying in America, and it's not a great one. I will explain. American Sunrise EARLY EDITION is coming right back.
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Jake Novak
A dark Friday morning there in Atlanta, Georgia this morning. But that's what's going to happen as we get closer to winter. I hate to say that word. We just kind of started fall, but there you go. Gonna have darker mornings here on the East Coast. Welcome back to American Sunrise EARLY EDITION special. Welcome to those of you on the getter and the rumble chats, the X platforms substack everywhere that people are commenting. I'm reading a lot of you are talking about that mayoral debate in New York. I didn't think that that would be something all of you would want to talk about other than the New Yorkers among you. But I'm going to get to that a little later this hour. So thank you for talking about that. Hey, Real America's Voice, we have an intrepid reporter. He's also the host of Law and Border. His name is Ben Berkwam. He broke an amazing story yesterday and rather than have me summarize it, here's about a minute of him breaking the news right here on Real America's Voice. Check it out.
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Ben Berkwam
The fact that a police department either missed or overlooked a, you know, a B2 overstay, which is a federal statute, to me that's a, that's not a good thing.
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Ben Berkwam (continued)
So he was a visa overstay. But even that because non citizens can't have a gun. So how can you be a police officer?
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Ben Berkwam
Correct. So I mean, per Chicago, they have a, a rule within from their own police department that all they require is a work authorization.
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Jake Novak
Okay.
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Ben Berkwam (continued)
That's to be a police officer in Chicago or that's their Illinois.
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Ben Berkwam
That's, that's their requirement that if that's the case, they still cannot ignore the fact that he was or stained. That's a federal statute. So whether or not they came up or they missed it or whatever it is, I'm not blaming them. But it was missed.
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Dr. James Nezzo
Right.
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Ben Berkwam (continued)
So we need to do something and we've confirmed that. So he's visa overstay.
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Mike Britton
Correct.
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Dr. James Nezzo
Wow.
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Jake Novak
Hey, good job.
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Dr. James Nezzo
Good job, guys.
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Mike Britton
Good job.
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Ben Berkwam (continued)
So this is breaking apparently this gentleman here, this police officer at Hanover Police Department just outside of Chicago is here illegally overstayed his visa.
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Unknown Caller/Interjection
How?
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Ben Berkwam (continued)
He got a job as A police officer.
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Adam Smith
Crazy.
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Jake Novak
Emily Finn joins us now. Hey, Emily. We are on the cusp of. It was just you and I yesterday. Were just talking about this, about how Illinois's governor, J.B. pritzker is pushing. He's threatening to arrest those ICE agents that Ben was talking to. That's who they're protecting us from. An illegal alien with a badge and a gun. I can't believe. I mean, if we did a poll right now, Emily, we. What percentage of Americans would say, I think it's really wrong for an illegal alien to be a police officer? I'm guessing 92 to 93%. There's always a 7% group of nuts.
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Emily Finn
But other than that, sure, yeah, you gotta. You gotta have the outlier crazies. But I think, realistically, 100% of people should agree with that. I mean, this is unbelievable. And I will say, is it unbelievable? At some point this was going to happen. With all of the lawlessness In Illinois, with J.B. pritzker's leadership, of course something like this was going to happen. And during that interview, incredible reporting from Ben Berkwam there. Have to give him props. During that interview, this person was saying, like, yes, it went under the radar. It was overlooked. That is not an excuse. I mean, this is. This is a failure of leadership that they're not taking seriously in the state of Illinois. And now it's leaking into the police departments. Jake, this is. This is outrageous.
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Jake Novak
It's a. It's a really great point you made at the start there. Of course this is happening. There are 21 million illegal aliens in this country, or there were, at least before President Trump and I started to deport them. You're telling me that they're not gonna get on the police force? We talked about a couple of weeks ago, the superintendent of the biggest school district in Iowa is an illegal alien. It's on and on down the line. Now, does this mean that it's a terrible thing because all illegal aliens are bad people? No, it's a bad thing because if you're not even a citizen, where's your accountability? You and I are gonna have good hearts and be good people, and a lot of us are gonna do that. But. But also the thing that stops me from going through a red light, the thing that stops me from not paying my taxes, the thing that stops me from a bunch of things is I know I'm a citizen. I could get my rights revoked. But if you already don't have any, what do you got to lose? You can't have Illegal aliens as teachers and as cops or as doctors. Doctors also, by the way. That's another thing. This is just again, if there aren't at least 10 illegal aliens on other police forces in this country, I'll be shocked. There's gotta be probably dozens.
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Emily Finn
Absolutely, Jake. I mean, think about this for a second. The initial act to enter this country illegally or to overstay a visa is a criminal act. So you're living every single day knowing that you're breaking the law. You made a great point there as well. Of course you're gonna test the limits of that. You're gonna see how far you can go. And I think we should have an audit of police departments all over the country to make sure that illegal aliens are not, you know, in these positions and other places as well.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, and what a great luxury for the status Democrats who run these cities to know that even their cops aren't citizens. And they can tell them what to do and push them around for all those years of worrying about police unions. They can just say, hey, I'll have you deported. I'll report you to ice. Really scary situation. Emily Finn, thank you so much for joining us. Gonna see you again in the 8 to 10am hours here on Real America's Voice. Thank you.
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Emily Finn
Thank you, Jake.
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Jake Novak
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Jake Novak
This is a live look that we call the Statue of Liberty selfie. Just imagine instead of the torch, she has a cell phone there and she's taking a selfie. I love this shot. It might give some of you a little bit of vertigo, but I love it. Makes me think of the final scene of Planet of the Apes. Makes me also think of Bayonne, New Jersey, where you get a pretty good view of the Statue of liberty sometimes. It's October 17th, the birthday of the beauty queen of Bayonne. I don't think anyone knows who I'm talking about. That's okay. Let's take a look at where the markets will begin today. Hey, we had a big down day on the market yesterday. All of a sudden in the middle of the day. And, and that was because a bunch of the regional banks, Zions bank. These are not huge names. A lot of you may not hear these, but those regional banks were a huge problem. A couple of years ago. They, they started to announce that they were having some problems that sent the markets down for weeks. Two years ago. And here you are again. They have some bad news. Now this isn't a terrible look right now we're only 8 or 12 points down on the Dow futures, NASDAQ. A little bit more gold going up. Even more. $4,300 per ounce level. Look at that. Crude oil at $57 a barrel. Boy, you're going to get some bargains at the gas pump in the coming days if you don't already have them. Let's take a look at bitcoin. Bitcoin not doing so great. And bitcoin yet down to 106. Really taking a step backwards, it was at the 111, 112 mark for a few days this week, but here we go, another step back. Might be a buying opportunity. May not be going down forever. Just remember that's how these markets work. Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. This is Moving America, sponsored by Artillery Tea Company. We're going to talk a lot more about Artillery Tea in just a few minutes. The co founder is going to be joining us. But remember, you use the code America for that 20% off your order. We'll be talking a lot more to Mike Britton, one of the co founders in just a few minutes. But let's start talking about our car news this morning. And a big moment for car and truck buying in America has now been reached. I don't love it. The average price for a new car or truck vehicle purchase in America today is now for the first time over the $50,000 level. All right, so price is going up. It's been actually, they've been going up actually quite slow, slowly, but still going up. Yeah. I don't know how many of us thought that prices were going to go down. I want to give you a little bit of a warning, though, because the very late to the party mainstream media probably in a couple of days is going to wake up to this story and they're going to go crazy with headlines about how this is all President Trump's fault because of the tariffs, et cetera, et cetera. As you can see in this graphic, since the tariffs were announced, the average price for a vehicle has gone up only 0.7%, not even 1%. This is not the fault of the tariffs. This is the fault of basically things just moving up higher. Also, all the tech that's in our cars these days, that's a big reason why the prices are going up. It's not the tariffs. Don't be fooled. I like to do preemptive attacks on this program, but justified preemptive attacks, because I promise you in the next couple of days, someone's going to start going nuts about this and say this is all Trump's fault. Again, since the tariffs were announced, not even a 1% increase in prices. It's not the tariffs. Okay. Toyota is getting a $20 million grant from the British government for, for this. This is a concept car called the Toyota ftme, the FT Me. Now it's, as you can see, it's a little bitty ev, which in some European cities makes sense to drive a little car like that. I wouldn't drive a car this small in the United States anywhere. I think it would be a real crash danger. However, it's an ev, it's a two seater. But the thing that's different about it is that on the roof they're going to put solar panels to augment the other charging from a charging port. And the British government thinks that's worth 20 million of their citizens dollars to investigate a little bit more and to do a little bit more research. I can't imagine a solar charge is going to put even a little car like that very far. I don't know how much it's going to augment. I'd love to see what percentage of the plug in charge a solar panel is going to augment also. Maybe it gets really hot in that car. I don't really know how this is going to work, but $20 million is going to be looking into this. I'm sure they could have gotten the results of a study for a lot less than 20 million. But governments don't care because they don't think it's their money. This is something really scary. A number of Jeep Wrangler 4xe owners are reporting that during an onboard software update, sometimes you're in your car and they tell you that they're going to do a software update and they do it while your car is either idling or just not even running. Well, apparently people who did the software update, dozens of Wrangler 4xe owners over the weekend said that after they did the update and started driving, their Jeeps just dead stopped in the middle of traffic. So far no serious accidents have been reported. Of course, Jeep is looking into this. Maybe they should, you know, figure out what's wrong with their software updates before they tell everyone to get one. I can't stand when that happens. Here's another technical glitch. But this one was much less dangerous. It was just kind of an annoying thing. A number of pranksters in San Francisco found a way to get 50 Waymo robo taxis to drive down and then stop at the end of San Francisco's longest dead end street. So there were about 50 cars just piled up almost. They didn't hit each other and they all just stood there for about 10 minutes. They automatically left the area after that. That's the policy at Waymo. Each no show triggered a $5 fee despite the fact that no one entered the vehicle. So I hope that the little prank was worth the five bucks. If it was just one prankster each. I guess they all paid five bucks. But it could have ended up being pretty pricey if it was the same prankster who did all 50 of those orders. Of course they are showing a glitch. They're proving a glitch in the system. There's actually something positive about this. Waymo can fix it now. But still, can you imagine us being walking down the street and there's 50 cars just sitting there with nobody in them? Okay, coming back, I want to go back to North Carolina and the latest on that story that we told you about yesterday. Teresa Stokes, you see, you're there. She's the judge who freed the guy who killed Ukrainian refugee Irina Zyrutska. It turns out she didn't pass the bar and she's not even from North Carolina. But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, unbelievable. And later, I'm going to break down the bottom line on last night's mayor's debate in New York. It wasn't good. American Sunrise Early Edition. We'll be right back. It's Friday, October 17th. Here are this morning's top stories. Oh, the timing couldn't be more perfect. Our Ben Berkwam busts up. This story broke the story about an illegal alien who was working on the police force in Illinois, just as Governor J.B. pritzker is making a national spectacle of himself saying that his state doesn't need ice. You need ice if you have illegals with a badge and a gun, Governor. But here's another thing going on. Trump the peacemaker on the move. President Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hungary in the coming weeks, trying to get an end to that war in Ukraine. Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton has been indicted on 18 count counts of keeping and sharing classified documents. These guys do it to write books and get a big royalty even though no one reads the books. It wasn't worth the job. And last night's New York City mayoral debate was a real crime. I don't know if you saw it. The three candidates and the media moderators all embarrassed themselves for the most part. American Sunrise EARLY EDITION continues now. And joining us right now is I love checking in with this guy every once in a while because it's real America kind of, hey, that's a good idea for a name of a TV channel. And it's a real look into business and startups in America and people who are patriotic to boot. Co founder of Artillery T, Mike Britton. Mike, for those of our viewers who don't know about your company, our regular viewers know all about Artillery T. But I'd love for you to explain to the viewers exactly how you got your company started and why it's different from some of the other stuff they're going to see at the supermarket or online. Yeah, sure.
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Mike Britton
Good morning, Jake. So we started this company because I started having issues with coffee. I would have one cup of coffee at like 10 in the morning, and I would be up until like 3 or 4 in the morning. And so I wanted something that would regulate my sleep and something with less caffeine. I switched over to tea and it just like fixed everything and made everything normal again. And so I wanted to, like, I'm a Christian, I'm a conservative patriot, and I wanted to support a brand that aligns with my values. I wanted to support vets and first responders and found out that there's just nothing out there right now. If you, if you're either not a coffee drinker or if you mix coffee and tea together like I do, there was no options. And so we started this brand to partner with veterans and first responders. Right now we're partnering with a charity called Working Dogs for Vets. We're going to sponsor a whole dog this, this year. And so that'll be training the dog, providing the dog, and, and they train these dogs to be service animals for disabled veterans and disabled first responders. And so we're looking forward to that this year. But as far as the product itself, Jake, we offer a whole leaf product. We offer a clean product. We use all organic ingredients in our products.
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Jake Novak
We.
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Mike Britton
What you're going to find at the store is something called tea dust, which is just ground up, whole tea leaves ground up. Literally the byproduct of what we offer, we offer whole leaf. It's going to give you a better flavor, better nutritional profile, be a cleaner product. And our tea bags themselves are also not made of plastic, bleached paper, glue, all kinds of nasty stuff like you'll find at the store too.
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Jake Novak
You know, you mentioned the service dogs for veterans. For those of you who are thinking, what is he talking about? The training and maintenance of those dogs is very, very expensive. These are really, really incredible creatures who really help. Do more than just help them get around. They also provide companionship and they're. It's. It's not easy, right? I mean, I don't know. Have you had a chance to meet some of the people who handle these dogs in your partnership with them, or at least talk with them?
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Mike Britton
Well, we're actually looking to do this in December. And so when we, when we get to that point of actually sponsoring the dog, we'll be able to meet the dog and whoever the veteran is going to be provided to. So, yeah, we're looking forward to that this year. Yeah, this is, this is one of the bigger things We've been able to do so far since we started the company. We've partnered with a place called FIF Squad in the past. They provide vets with emergency expenses like rent and utilities and debt payments and things like that. We still have a relationship with them, we still do support them. But we've added a second one this year because the company has seen enough growth to be able to expand a little bit. And we're excited to be able to do more. That's the whole reason we started this.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. You know, Mike, now if you can get them to train the dogs to brew up some artillery tea, then we've got something. Let's see. Tell me how that might work out. No, I dream big. I dream big, Mike. Now, are there any new products or promotions you have coming for the upcoming holiday season? I know it's only October. You know, listen, this is America. You got to start getting ready for the holidays even before October. But this is the high time of the year. I know it probably make a great gift for a lot of people, but I know you've got some kind of a special promotion about this when it comes like a brewing starter kick skip kit. I don't know why I said that. Thank you.
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Mike Britton
Yeah, sure. So we wanted to actually provide something that was more of like for the gift giving season this year. We haven't been able to do that yet either. We're only three years old here and so this will be our first time. We came up with something called the Precision Brewing Kit. It's picture on the screen here. You're going to get like our top four best selling flavors. You're going to get an exclusive sticker that you can't get on our website and you're going to get something called the Precision Brewing cheat sheet. Our tea, because it's whole leaf, is a little bit nuanced in brewing it. We offer black, green and herbal teas and you brew each one a little bit differently at different temperatures, different brewing times. And so to get the maximum out of each of our tea bags, you should be able to get two cups out of each one of our bags. We included the instructions in this kit to be able to maximize what you're getting, the volume of tea that you're getting out of our product. You're also going to get a little tactical dial thermometer that can be used at home or in the field. It's designed to be used on the move. And so this whole kit is more of like an education and providing all the tools necessary to be able to brew our product specifically very precisely and get a better flavor profile out of it, get more volume out of each cup. And so we also are offering free shipping on all these kits are available on our website as a bundle.
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Jake Novak
That's an amazing idea. You know, we've talked about this in the past about how it isn't just about selling a product. You've got, especially in a coffee obsessed culture. You've got to get people into the whole culture of becoming tea brewers and doing it the right way. So I like that you just didn't say that you're giving people the tools to do that. It's a thing. I mean you gotta learn, you gotta get into it. People get, you know, think about how much money and time is spent teaching people about all the ways to do coffee. You guys are actually providing some tools to go to the tea side, which I love. I absolutely prefer tea over coffee. We can have a whole, we have an entire interview about that next time. Mike Britton from ArtilleryTea Company, thank you so much for joining us. Have a great weekend and a great and listen, good luck with everything going on, especially with this new promotion.
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Mike Britton
Sounds good. Thanks, Jake.
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Jake Novak
And remember, you can visit artilleryteeco.com promo code LIBERTY for 20% off your order. All right. Joining us right now is former Green Beret and Republican candidate. He's current Republican candidate for Congress In North Carolina's 11th congressional district, Adam Smith. Adam, so glad to have you back on. We tried to have you on last week. Couple of technical difficulties. I think it was a darn good interview anyway. But I want to have you back on especially now that just in the last day or so here on this program, we reported to the country that in that terrible story in North Carolina about Irina Zyrutska, the Ukrainian refugee who was murdered on a commuter train in Charlotte in your state, killed by a career, we knew this person was a career criminal, dozens of arrests, the whole thing. But now we know that the magistrate judge who freed him most likely isn't even a North Carolina resident. I know this didn't happen in your congressional district, Adam, but this has got to be a major issue for all North Carolinians. You can't, you can't ignore this in your campaign, can you?
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Adam Smith
No, it's, it is a major issue. And if you go one step further, apparently Teresa Stokes didn't even pass the bar examination in order to be an appointed judge in the Charlotte area. So you've got a non bar exam, non passed individual. You have an individual who it Sounds like still has a residence in Michigan and is a registered voter in Michigan who has had a history of advocacy for addiction, which is an honorable thing. However, if the honorable thing to do is to have advocacy for addiction, but to continue to release repeat criminals back onto the streets who, whose own mother said that he shouldn't be out walking around on the streets, that's a major issue. I mean, it was so much of an issue that Congressman Tim Moore and a multitude of other state general assemblymen wrote a letter directly to, directly to the state as well as to the, the North Carolina Judicial Council and said, hey, we have to remove this magistrate. She's not. Not taking actions. The best interest of the American people.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, I mean, it's, I think that there's people who don't understand that this is no longer the America of the 1980s or 90s and certainly not the 70s and the 60s. When we're having debates with people from the other side of the aisle about how they and we want to make America better, there is absolutely no one who's going to say that putting unqualified people who don't even live in your state, judging the freedom and in some cases life or death, because that's what these people end up doing, they commit murders and other crimes on the streets is common sense in any way. And it's really just a common sense issue. And I really think, I don't think there's a lot of conservatives who are disillusioned about this. They know what's going on or misinformed about it. But I meet a lot of old school liberals who don't get that this is what the other side is doing now. This isn't just, oh, they want to raise taxes and they want to do more for the homeless. This is. No, they're looking to deliberately put people back on the streets. They're hiring illegal aliens. They're having people who are just not even living in your state with guns and badges and gavels. It's just incredible. I know that there's a Change.org petition to remove Theresa Stokes that the last time I checked, it had tens of thousands of signatures. Again, how much is this a part of your messaging as a candidate to talk about how. I mean, again, this isn't something that you could unilaterally do if you're elected to Congress, but you can publicize it and let people know that your eyes are on what's going on in your state more than what's going on in.
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Adam Smith
D.C. well, you know, I think it's a responsibility for every congressional leader of every district in the state to make this a major issue. And I mean, it's already a major issue. It's been brought up on its own. We have this conversation in, you know, campaigns or in general about earned media. It's an opportunity to have a conversation with individuals like yourself. And the fact is, is that this situation with Arena Zaruska has become one of the largest pieces of earned media that we have seen over the last four weeks. Now, with regards to what's happened and what's not happened. In fact, I think that there was just a stay on the trial or an extension to the trial for the initial hearing that was reported over the last 48 hours, which again, goes back to the question is, why isn't this a huge, huge priority for the state, and why isn't it a huge priority for congressional leadership in the state to continue to push this, this issue? We're seeing lawfare happen all over the country, but we're also seeing activist judges all over the country and, and here, especially in North Carolina, continue to release criminals back into the wild when they need to be locked up. We have multiple repeat offenders. I just saw a report yesterday of another individual who's got 20 or 21 different arrests and a multitude of which are violent felon, felonious arrests that are again released back out on the street. So, look, congressional leadership has a multitude of different responsibilities, and one of the critical things is to advocate for the safety of their district and their people. And we need just. We have to see more of that.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. Adam, North Carolina is yet another state with the big redistricting battle going on right now. Can you tell us where that is right now, and does that affect you and your race at all?
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Adam Smith
No, the redistricting won't affect our portion of the country. A majority of that redistricting is taking place on the eastern portion of the state. You know, I think, look, Trump's, Trump's administration and President Trump has pushed out multiple times that there's an opportunity for conservatives to do redistricting efforts across the country. And if we watch the historical statistics of redistricting in The United States, 90% of that has been done by Democrats in the Democrat Party when they hold major majorities in every one of the states that they're in. So I think that this is what we would call a balancing act. We are now just balancing the scales back to where they should have been a decade ago in the midst of all of the, the, the liberal red. That's taken place across the country.
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Jake Novak
Okay, Adam, you know, listen, you're a former Green Beret, and I can't avoid this opportunity to ask you about just the overall big kind of theme of the program today, because it is a Friday end of the week. I think it's been a huge victory of a week right now for us. You have the federal government. First of all, you got a shutdown going on. And just briefly want to mention, you know, you're not winning as Democrats in trying to make a big deal out of a shutdown. When your buddies at NPR on day 17 need to do a headline story reminding people that there's a shutdown, that's not a good sign. But I also wanted to ask you about just the situation in the Middle East. You know, look, I understand all the concerns when President Trump gets involved in these kinds of things. People worry that the United States will be dragged into it, maybe even our soldiers dragged into it. But that's not what happened. And look, it may happen in the future. Anything bad can happen in the future. But we should be celebrating this week. We are not fighting World War iii as so many people predicted. And the thing that bothers me, Adam, is that not only did they get it wrong, it's okay to be wrong, but they were wrong. And they're not admitting they were wrong. They should all be out as of Monday saying, hey, we were wrong about this. We're gonna still be cautious. We don't want this to happen. But President Trump was right, and now we have peace, at least for now, in this region, and good for him. Instead, they're pretending like they were right. They weren't. They didn't win. We won. They lost.
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Adam Smith
Well, I think it's twofold piece. The first piece is when it comes to the government shutdown, the Dems are just taking misstep after misstep. Right now you've got a hu government shutdown. And everybody knows that the Democrat Party are the specific responsible ones, especially at the Senate level, that aren't willing to just pass the clean CR and then go back into a conversation. All of the tax credits they're arguing for right now are tax credits that were designed. They were designed to end at the end of the year. And now they want to hold the American people hostage for 1.7 trillion more dollars in order of more spending in order for them to what, get their way so they can stamp their feet and cry and say, we're not winning. That's the first major misstep. And the second major misstep is President Trump has a huge success. President Trump, his administration and a multitude of other nations that came to the table by his leadership has a huge success right now. And this success is one that he's even gotten kudos from a former opponent in Hillary Clinton. And we all know how much Hillary dislikes President Trump and his administration as well as a multitude of other Democrats. But the fact is, is that if we go and look at some information that's come out here most recently with regards to the celebrations of Trump's, the one group of people that continue to refuse to acknowledge that they were wrong are the Democrats and Democrat leadership. I mean, think about how much ego and hubris there is in the fact that you can't just say, you know what, we were wrong. Great job, good work on ending the conflict in that region. And let's work together in order to make it long term resolution a long term policy that can keep peace more established in that region. I mean, look, just give the man his flowers.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, it's amazing. And you know, Trump is punking them all when he talks about, oh, maybe I'll run for a third term. Look, he's not going to do that. You know, spoiler alert. And that should give the Democrats some liberty right now to say some nice things about him because he's not going to run again. But they're too, they're falling for it and they're also too selfish. Adam Smith, thank you so much for joining. We're going to check back in on you and your progress with your campaign. It was great talking with you again. Have a great weekend. I know it'll be a working weekend for you, but thanks, thanks for joining us.
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Adam Smith
It's busy. Thanks for having me on, brother. Take it easy.
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Jake Novak
Okay. Coming up, New York City is in very bad trouble. You didn't need to watch last night's mayoral debate to know that, but I did. So you didn't have to. Yikes. American Sunrise early edition. We'll be right back. Rainy day there in Dallas, Texas, as you take a live look there. Maybe they lit up the, the building there in green because the Mavericks, I mean, Mavericks used to wear like all green uniforms. Now they don't really wear that uniform so much anymore. Maybe that's why it's in green, because they're getting ready for the NBA season there in Dallas. They have a good team. No, I'm just kidding. They don't have a good team. They got rid of their great players. Maybe next year. That's about the last smile I'M gonna have for the next few minutes because we had a debate here in New York City last night, and there's been a lot of talk about how the moderators were unfair. And no kidding, these are local news anchors, after all. And there was all kinds of other problems. And of course, the three candidates. And listen, I love Curtis Sliwa. I've been in New Yorker for a long time, lived here on and off for a long time. When I first lived here around high school time, you know, the Guardian Angels and everything were pretty incredible. But his campaign just wasn't put together well enough to really win this thing. But I want to show you the thing that really is dangerous here. And it's not just because this is an issue that we talk a lot about here on this show, and we talk a lot about the Middle east and things like that. It's because this is a guy, Zoramdani, who's likely to become the mayor of the city of the United States with the largest Jewish population. And last night he said something I'm about to show you that absolutely puts all of those people in serious danger. And he knows it. Check it out.
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Unknown Caller/Interjection
The assemblyman will not denounce Hamas. The assemblyman will not denounce Hasan Piker, who said America deserved 9 11. The assemblyman just said in his response, well, it depends on occupation. That is code, meaning that Israel does not have a right to exist as a Jewish state, which he has never acknowledged. That is from the river to the sea. That's why he won't denounce globalize the Intifada, which means kill all Jews.
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Adam Smith
Let's give Mr. Mamdani a chance to respond to that.
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Zoramdani
I want to be very clear. The occupation is a reference to international law and the violation of it, which Mr. Cuomo has no regard for since he signed up to be Benjamin Netanyahu's legal defense team during the course of this genocide. And I find the comments that Hasan made on 911 to be objectionable and reprehensible. And I also think that part of the reason why Democrats are in the situation that we are in of being a permanent minority in this country is we are looking only to speak to journalists and streamers and Americans with whom we agree of every single thing that they say. We need to take the case to every person. And I'm happy to do that. Which is why I was on Fox News yesterday talking about how I wish it was more like NASCAR so we could see all the billionaires who are sponsoring you right on your suit Jacket.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. Actually, he doesn't know what he's talking about. Actually, international law, which is no friend to Israel or the United States, does not call it an occupation. It calls it a disputed territory situation. It's disputed territory, not occupied territory. So be nice if you got that right. But when you say that there's a genocide and a war, that was not a genocide. Hamas was trying to commit a genocide, and they are committing a genocide on their own people right now, killing their own people there. But when you say that Israel is committing a genocide, you are basically. It is more than a dog whistle. It is a clarion call for attacks on Jews. This is not hyperbole on my part. This is what's been going on in the United States and in Europe, especially for many years. It's a lot of facts to back me up on that. No one will deny it if they're being honest. This is a guy who's going to be a mayor of the largest Jewish population city in this country, period. And he's putting them all in danger, and he knows it. He's also a communist and we can talk about all that kind of stuff. He's going to say he's going to freeze the rent, all these things that he may or may not be able to do, and he's going to make it worse. By the way, every time you try to freeze or put a cap on rents or costs, they just go higher. That's also established fact. I thought the Democrats were the party of science. This is a very, very serious situation. I don't see a way that Mamdani loses. I'm a realist. I don't think he can lose. And so something needs to be done to prepare for this. Maybe at the federal level he's committed some crimes, some campaign finance crimes. Maybe he needs to be indicted. Legally and fairly, but maybe he needs to be indicted. All right, American Sunrise starting in just a moment. Two hours. I'll see you in the 9am hour.
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Mike Britton
And I'll see you.
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Jake Novak
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