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Jake Novak
Ahead on American Sunrise EARLY edition. Here comes the cavalry. Well, at least we think so. President Trump ignoring a federal court order and continuing his plans to send National Guard troops to Portland. Anyway, it's all in response to escalating violence against ICE agents. And even journalists and the Portland police appear to be in cahoots with antifa. This is why I call Portland the new Fort Sumter. It's a similar story in Chicago where drivers deliberately boxed in ICE agents this weekend and one of the anti ICE activists was actually heavily armed. This is all coming with the encouragement of local elected leaders. But wait, there's more. The Democrat running for attorney general in Virginia is caught sending texts about how he wished two bullets would go to the head of the state's then GOP leader in the House of Delegates. And then he wished death on his children. What a lovely man. Are you looking for some peace after all that? Well, how about trying the Middle East? No, really. Hamas seems to be making progress with that agreement to hand over hostages and there is hope that they will be released this week. Oh, and by the way, there's still a government shutdown in progress. This is day six. Do you care? American Sunrise EARLY EDITION begins now.
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Show where faith, freedom and the values that built this nation take center st. 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. Today's news reminds me of that joke from the original Naked Gun movie when Leslie Nielsen says, that's why I took my vacation in Beirut to get some peace. It says something when the Middle east is suddenly more peaceful than the United States of America. Joining me right now is retired US Air Force colonel and host of the Rob Manus Show. ROB manus, Colonel, it's obviously still a very fluid situation in Gaza, but it still seems encouraging to me because one thing I saw over the weekend was that Hamas is actually gathering up the bodies of the hostages they murdered. I don't think they would bother to do that unless they were really starting to get ready to hand them over and maybe the living hostages as well. Listen, there's going to be a million trip wires between now and maybe the middle of the week, but as far as the last two years are concerned, I've never been more hopeful that this could end really soon.
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Colonel Rob Manus
Yeah, Jake, action on the ground, that's what we need to see. And if you're seeing any action whatsoever that Hamas is coming to point where they are doing what they seemingly have agreed to do, then that's a positive direction. Although I remain an extreme skeptic on this matter.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. You know, I wonder if the, the weekend's news has maybe another upside for all of this for President Trump. Let's, let's bring this to our discussion here in the United States. You know, there's an ugly narrative that's being pushed by the far left, actually just the regular left and the far right, that somehow Prime Minister Netanyahu leads President Trump around by the nose. That was really debunked over the last couple of days. You see, President Trump is clearly in charge. The Israelis know that. They've always known that. They know that the United States is their most important ally and friend and, frankly, leader. I hope that this debunks all of that. No matter what happens on the ground in Gaza, it's obvious that the US And President Trump are in charge here.
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Colonel Rob Manus
Yeah, Jake, that's just silly, you know, I mean, again, let's go to actions. Prime Minister Netanyahu comes to see President Trump really on very short notice and has done it several times. That's not what happens when you're leading somebody around by the nose. It's the other way around?
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Jake Novak
Yeah, I think so. Just from a military standpoint, is this a time, you know, so we're both being skeptical, that we're both being cautious. Is this a time when assets in the field, the Israeli army and to some extent the Israeli citizens who are on the border, is this a time when they're in more danger than ever before? I mean, I don't really ever expect the IDF to let their guard down in a situation like this, but could there be a trap involved? I know a lot of people are.
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Colonel Rob Manus
Thinking that, oh, it absolutely is a high risk time for the Israeli forces that are on the ground. It's a high risk time for Israeli settlements along that border, too. You know, you cannot trust any of these folks. You know, you go back and lean on trust but verify. But right now, we need a heightened state of awareness on all of the Israeli forces part, and they need to be looking and watching and surveilling and take action if necessary. You know, I mean, this is not a done deal. And if the Hamas folks continue this war, then I don't think the Israeli forces and Prime Minister Netanyahu should let up until it's very clear that their actions are matching what the words are saying.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, and if they don't let up, it'll be with President Trump's backing, that's for sure. Colonel, it's official. President Trump says we are at war with the drug cartels operating south of our border and in the Caribbean waters. Now, look, we've seen these great videos of boats getting blown out of the water. We've seen that. I'm all for it. Don't have a problem with that. But I'm asking you, what are some of the things that we should be looking for to get the notion and idea that we're actually winning this thing, that a real difference is being made? Certainly not worried about those boats ever coming back. But what about, is there something else that we should be looking for that would tell us, hey, you know what? We're winning this thing. And there's been. There's been a change here.
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Colonel Rob Manus
Well, the biggest thing that you should be starting to see is, and unfortunately, these are lagging indicators, is casualty numbers from folks that have been killed by fentanyl, especially here inside the United States, begin to drop dramatically. It's been hovering right around just above and below 100,000 a year for several years now. That's the impetus behind this war. And I think the President and Secretary of War Hexeth are doing exactly the right thing. I voted for this. I've called for it. You should also see that we are about to start taking apart their infrastructure that manufactures and puts all of the elements together. You know, the Chinese don't send fentanyl pills to Mexico. They send the pieces and parts of the chemicals and those kind of things, and then it's finally manufactured right there. So those are legitimate targets. And if the host countries will not take care of them or cannot take care of them, then United States forces should be being used to destroy those targets. And that's the other big indicator from a kinetic perspective.
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Jake Novak
What a, what an amazing, what an amazing amount of proof that the old adage that, oh, you can't fight foreign wars or keep an eye on the foreign situation and look at your own border at the same time. I think that we finally have debunked that. I would prefer us to be giving that priority to, of course, our own borders and what's going on in our own country. But that doesn't mean that we can't look at for our interests overseas at the same time within reason. We had so many administrations who said one or the other. Of course, it doesn't seem like they ever really protected our border that much. So that's one thing. So let's talk about military doctrine. We haven't spoken, the two of us, since Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave that big speech to the top brass in Quantico last week. So I'll let you comment on that. But I also want to get your comment on the Hegseth firing of the Navy Chief of staff, John Harrison. And I know later today on your show you'll be talking to one of Hexess former top aides about that, about all of our national policies.
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Colonel Rob Manus
Yeah, I'm going to be talking with Dan Caldwell, the former senior advisor to Secretary Heseth about the national defense strategy today. So we look forward to that. Look, you know, Secretary Hegseth had to look his subordinates in the eye and make sure they understand and understood that the 11 orders that he has written and signed and transmitted to them, that he's serious about them and that they have to take aggressive action on implementing those orders. We haven't seen total aggressive action yet from these folks, but I hope to see that. Now. When you see people being fired, Jake, that usually is an indicator that somebody is a clog in the pipe for getting strategy implemented down from a new president. So it doesn't surprise me that you're still seeing key positions being emptied out. So now you know, it will have to be borne out whether this was a good move or a move that has hurt Secretary Hickses, because this is a big machine. As you know, the Department of War is the biggest bureaucracy. It's the most difficult to get aligned with the president's policies. There are a lot of internal and external players, including the defense industry, corporations that wield tremendous amount of power and have people embedded inside the system all over the place. So it's very, very difficult to get the ship going all in the right direction at the same time, so to speak. But these types of transmissions of here's what I'm going to do if you don't get it done, like firing people are one of the tools that the Secretary has. And I think you'll see some movement on some of the Navy policies that may appear to be being stuck in the front office.
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Jake Novak
How important in helping Hegseth get this over this huge hurdle as you described, is the fact that these recruiting numbers are so high. In other words, there's so much new blood coming in that maybe this is. He's got a little bit of some wind at his back with all the new recruits coming in who haven't been already indoctrinated. I mean, is this something that is a huge part of what could actually help him?
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Colonel Rob Manus
That's a good indicator that the public face of the orientation of a merit based bureaucracy and a merit based set of organizations, the way we're going to do promotions and take care of people, is moving in the right positive direction. But unfortunately, the policy making positions are those political appointees and senior civilian civil service positions that really haven't been that affected yet that we've seen. All of the undersecretaries of the three primary services are now in place. We saw that was confirmed just a few days ago for Navy Undersecretary. So as we get those lower positions, you know, two, three, four levels down of political appointees in place, you'll see more and more effectiveness as those leaders take hold and implement the policies that that the Secretary and the President have done. However, you've also had Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby has been in place for a while now. That's where the national defense strategy and the national military strategy will emanate from and are emanating from. And you're seeing that play out as it's built. You're seeing it executed. This hemispheric power move that the United States is making here in the Western Hemisphere in is really a reimplementation of what we call the Monroe Doctrine, which says basically to foreign elements, you can do a lot of things in the world and we won't mess with you. But when you come into the Western Hemisphere and you try to establish yourself as a regional hemispheric power, we're going to stop you from doing that. This cartel war is a big indicator that China, the Communist Chinese, that we are actually putting our actions where our words are. And that's extremely important. You're going to see more of that and it's all oriented towards deterring the Chinese Communists from continuing to increase their desire to be the world's biggest power and supplant the United States powers.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, more like the world's biggest mob boss. And it would be nice if these countries on our hemisphere said after a few weeks of this, we don't need any more of this heat. No thanks, China. That would be nice as well. Colonel Rob Manus, thank you so much for joining us. Have a great rest of your week. We're all trying to keep up with all the developments. I think we checked a few boxes here. I know so much more to do, but thank you for helping us do that.
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Colonel Rob Manus
Thanks, Jake.
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Jake Novak
All right. Coming up, it's a full blown crisis for the entire Democrat ticket in the state of Virginia as some texts by the attorney general candidate calling for political murder come to light. No, I'm not kidding. And speaking of political murder, the light sentence given to the man who plotted to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the reasoning for it from the judge just might make you sick. So hold off on that soft boiled egg for breakfast for just a few more minutes. American Sunrise early edition will be the.
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Jake Novak
The truth became a web of lies.
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Leon Neyfak
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
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Ted Cruz
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
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Leon Neyfak
Bad faith, political warfare and frankly, bullshit.
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Jake Novak
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together.
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Leon Neyfak
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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Jake Novak
Benghazi is a Rosetta stone for everything.
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Ben Ferguson
That'S been going on for the last 20 years.
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I'm Leon Naifak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi.
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Jake Novak
What difference at this point does it make? Yeah, that's right. Lock her up.
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Leon Neyfak
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A live look at Asheville, North Carolina, the liberal bastion of western North Carolina. Come on, Asheville, get your act together. You ruin it for the rest of that region. Just kidding. Nice town, but would be nice if they were a little bit more in line with the rest of the state. Welcome back to American Sunrise early edition. It's a Monday. I'm Jake Novak. Thank you so much for joining us, especially those of you in the getter in the rumble chats. Also, you know, you can comment live on X. The show streams live on X and on substack. For those of you who like substack. I read, I try. You know, I read all the comments on all of them somehow, although I wish I had a screen like on either side of me so I could see it live and not have to sort of peek over here and check it out. But you know, there's, there's, there'll be eventually some technology for that. Maybe I'll get an implant in my head. You know, I hate to say this, but one of the running themes going on in America right now is the embracing of serious political violence, real political violence by the left and those who are enabling it. So there's two stories I want to put on your radar. I'm going to be talking about them more throughout the week, but also later in the show. But there's two stories I want to make sure that are on your radar in addition to what's going on in Portland and Chicago that I briefly touched on at the top of the program. First of all, the Trump Justice Department is understandably outraged over the very light eight year sentence handed out to Nicholas Rosky. Remember this guy who plotted to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Now, not only because of the light sentence that he got, and believe me, he could be out in a lot fewer than eight years the way things go, but because of the reasoning behind it. From the judge who did the sentencing, her name is Deborah Boardman. If you read her decision in the sentencing, there's a lot of stuff that is absolutely, does not belong in there, has nothing to do with the case. A lot of legal experts have told me it's a piece of garbage. But she also put in there about how proud she was that Rosky is really determined to become a trans woman. And isn't that great? I don't know. What does that have to do with anything? Also, she made a big deal out of the fact that before he finally went and actually tried to kill Justice Kat, he basically called the cops on himself. So that means it was just this thin line between him actually doing it and then and stopping. It's, it's, this is a plotted assassination of a Supreme Court justice. This is a very, very serious crime. Eight years. As you know, they gave much longer sentences to a lot of the J6 protesters and demonstrators. This is really, really, this is awful. And it's hard to argue against the idea that leftist judges aren't encouraging this violence. This sentence absolutely encourages further attacks like this or plots like this. It is not a good thing. And so the Trump Justice Department, Gambandi, the attorney general protesting it and trying to get that sentence looked at again. Now there's another outrage unfolding in Virginia and this is a big story nationally. Any, any of you who've been watching my program over these last several months know that I've made a big deal about all the statewide elections in Virginia. This has Been a big theme on this program. And now we might have something that really is a major turning point in that election. Jay Jones, who is now running for Attorney General in Virginia. There are three main, main statewide races. Governor, lieutenant governor and its Attorney General in Virginia. It turns out in 2022, he sent some texts to a colleague saying that he wished for the death of the then Republican leader of the Virginia House of Delegates. He said two bullets to the head. Then he said he wanted his wife and his children killed as well. No, I'm not kidding. And when that colleague pushed back on him a little bit, he made a phone call to that colleague saying, trying to explain why he was right, didn't apologize. He's only apologizing now because he got caught. And here's the kicker. Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat nominee for governor, Gazella Hashmi, the Democrat nominee for Lieutenant Governor, have not underscore, have not called for Jay Jones to drop out of the race. This is an incredible mistake by the two of them. Even if they change in the next couple of days, the fact that they aren't immediately calling for this guy to get drop out of the race. Remember, this was not a careless text. It wasn't a drunk text. Because when again, when the friend called him out about these texts, J. Jones got on the phone and called that friend and said, no, no, this is why they really deserve to be killed, he meant it. I'm sure he still means it. And they're not calling for him to drop out of the race. This is ridiculous. Virginians, you can't vote for these people. You just can't. You don't like the Republicans, I get it. Maybe you don't like them, whatever. But how can you vote for people who wouldn't even call for the this kind of a person to drop out of a race? It's just outrageous. Okay, let me be even more blunt. Gold is at an all time high, by the way. We might hit 4,000 an ounce any day now. It's up around 40% this year. That's not speculation, that's reality. And if a portion of your savings isn't diversified into gold, you're missing the boat. Here's the facts. Inflation is still too high, the US dollar is still too weak. And the government dent is insurmountable. Have a nice day. 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Jake Novak
The stories making the news headlines across the world.
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Emily Maitlis and John Sopel
The News Agents we're not just here to tell you what's happening, but why? From me, Emily Maitlis and me, John Sopel with Global's award winning podcast the News Agents Dropping daily, covering everything you need to know about politics and current.
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Jake Novak
Affairs and the newsagents USA.
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Emily Maitlis and John Sopel
Listening to the newsagents on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Open your free Iheart app and search the newsagents to start listening.
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Leon Neyfak
When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes or just asked why Benghazi?
- [27:31]
Jake Novak
The truth became a web of lies.
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Leon Neyfak
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
- [27:37]
Ted Cruz
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
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Leon Neyfak
Bad faith, political warfare and frankly, bullshit.
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Jake Novak
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together.
- [27:49]
Leon Neyfak
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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Jake Novak
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything.
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Ben Ferguson
That'S been going on for the last 20 years.
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Leon Neyfak
I'm Leon Nefak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi.
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Jake Novak
What difference at this point, does it make? Yes, that's right. Lock her up.
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Leon Neyfak
Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Ben Ferguson
I'm Ben Ferguson.
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Ted Cruz
And I'm Ted Cruz. Three times a week we do our podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz.
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Ben Ferguson
Nationwide we have millions of listeners.
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Ted Cruz
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
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Ben Ferguson
And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
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Ted Cruz
We arm you with the facts to be able to know and, and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
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Ben Ferguson
So download Verdict with Ted Cruz now wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jake Novak
That is the corner of 34th street and 7th Avenue in Manhattan. I used to work just a block away from there back when CNN was on 34th and 8th. Macy's, by the way, has been having a pretty good summer and fall so far. Maybe it's not dead yet. Maybe the old department stores have got a little something coming to them. Let's take a look at where the markets are going to open. And you know these record highs for the markets just keep on marching on. Look at that. Pretty nice open for the three major indices. Nothing major but pretty nice, especially on top of all time highs. And I want you to look at gold, 39.61 per ounce on gold. I predicted last week that we will get to 4,000 in the coming days. We're getting there. This is, that's a pretty big jump by the way. 1.3% on gold, crude oil. It's definitely under control. 6172. That's a nice low. Number two. And now let's take a look at bitcoin because bitcoin is also on the move. We're at 123,9. We got to 125 a little bit over the weekend. So we're back at all time highs on bitcoin as well. So some really interesting numbers to talk about this morning. All right. You just gotta love the timing, don't you? The big beautiful bill, remember that? That was signed into law by President Trump on July 4th. It was discussed in the media before the vote and the signing for months before that. You know that we talked about it on this show. The mainstream media talked about it. I talked about one little interesting part about it a couple of times when I talked about how there's an amazing tax break in the big beautiful bill. A new one if you're a small Business, you can write off up to 100% of the equipment that you buy for your business. It can computer, laptop, other tech stuff, maybe even stuff that isn't even technical. A 100% business equipment deduction for qualifying small businesses. And a lot of them qualify. Now, that was never mentioned in the mainstream news media until this weekend. Cnbc, one of the leading financial websites, decided to remind everybody, oh, yeah, there's this really great thing that's helping businesses in the big beautiful bill and now big beautiful law that was passed. I used to work at that, that organization and I can tell you it's an absolute miscarriage of their job basically for them not to have told the people about that. By the way, how many of you even know that in 2017, in the tax bill that President Trump got through, there was a doubling of the standard deduction? The first ever effective lower middle class tax break in American history. The mainstream news media and the financial news media have no excuse for not talking about that. They aren't doing their job. They don't have to cheer for President Trump, but they have to tell you the facts. Imagine being a small business and not knowing that that deduction was there for you until now because the mainstream media only finally told you about it. You missed out on four months of big opportunities. What a travesty. Speaking of travesties, Apple and Google have removed apps from their online stores. These are actual apps that track ICE agents, tell you where they are at any given time so that they can basically be killed or attacked. And you know what else? They removed them from their app stores. That's good. But it took the Trump administration complaining about it for them to do it. Can you imagine? They had to be told by the Trump administration. Oh, by the way, those apps that track our agents are putting them in danger. You need to take them down. Outrageous that they had to be told to do it, but at least they did it. Finally, the business world is abuzz about what looks like Warren Buffett's last big deal. Buffett's in his 90s and his Berkshire Hathaway company is buying Occidental Petroleum's Oxy Chem division, their chemicals division, for about $9.7 billion. In the end, with Warren Buffett, for all the talk about what he was all about, he was basically an oil guy. Yes, he has insurance, he's got a lot of hands on a lot of other businesses. Remember, he was a big, big pusher for the Heinz Kraft merger, which is, by the way, being unmerged right now. That was a huge failure at the end of the day. His biggest successes, a little bit in insurance, but at the end of the day, he was actually an oil investor. So I have to ask you a question. Do you think the left wing liberal media would still love this guy as much as they'd given him? Boy, do they kiss his butt in the news media and have for 20 years, 30 years. Do you think they would still do that if they knew the truth, that basically he was an oil investor. And by the way, more power to him. I don't have any problem with him investing in American oil. That's what powers our country. But honestly, that's all really he ever did. Great investor, but there really wasn't that much diversity in the end for Warren Buffett. All right, ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. This is Moving America. Sponsored by artillery t company artillerytco.com use promo code LIBERTY for 20% off your order. Artillery Tea is all natural, whole leaf. The teabags are chemical free and each tea bag can be used twice. Artillery Tea company is family and veteran, owned and operated and a portion of your purchase goes to help veteran and first responder charities. ArtilleryTea Code.com promo code Liberty for 20% off your order. Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno says the Trump administration is about to remove tariffs on the foreign made parts that the American auto companies need to assemble cars here in the United States. So in other words, if you're for GM, Stellantis, Tesla, etc. And you assemble the cars here in the United States and you get some parts made in foreign countries, you won't have to pay the tariffs on them. That will be a huge shot in the arm for these Detroit automakers if this goes through and it looks like it's going to happen. It's not just Bernie Moreno saying it anymore. There's other independent reports of this. Now let's be frank. The tariffs went into place in April and the car companies here in the US have actually been doing fine. Despite that, the average price of an auto is still less than 1% higher than it was when the tariffs started here in this country. Still, this is something that, you know, they were absolutely taking a little bit of heat from some financial pressure. This will take a lot of that off. So we're going to be watching that very closely to see if the huge part of the tariff pressure on them is is taken away in the coming days. I mentioned Tesla there a second ago. Tesla is not dead yet. Tesla sales rose 7% in the July through September months of this year. That was a Surprise gain in their sales. Now they're also rolling out, as I showed you last week, a new Model Y performance. And there was a video that Elon Musk put out on X just over the weekend. I just saw it this morning. That shows perhaps a new roadster on the way for Tesla. So they're trying to make a comeback. Remember they took a huge hit because the political left decided they hated Elon Musk all of a sudden when they used to love Tesla. We'll see if it can make this comeback continue up 7% July through September. Hey, it's nasty out there in the auto business. However, if you work in the auto business, somebody hacked all the computers and those hospitality screens. You know when you walk into a lobby of a big building and there's all those like computer display screens giving you directions or showing you pictures or something like that? Well, somebody hacked all of them at Ford's headquarters last week and put a profane word up there about how they don't like that. Ford's new return to office policy. And they had the picture of the CEO there with that circle in line through it. Nasty stuff. These aren't factory workers on the line or people who are like mechanics who did this. These are the office workers, the fancy suit and tie folks who are supposed to sit at desk. They're so angry about having to come into work. They should be happy they have a job. I hope they find out who did this. That's not very nice. All right. Miami is putting the future of law enforcement on wheels. It's rolling out the nation's first AI powered patrol car. There it is. It's called the pug. It's an AI powered police cruiser and they're calling it a game changer. Now in the first few weeks that they're using this, there is going to be a human deputy in the the car in that suv. But they say it's completely autonomous and maybe they can start using it in some of the more dangerous areas and not put officers at risk. We'll see. I think a lot of people will be very upset to have a Robo, literal RoboCop kind of situation going on without a human being in there. But a deputy sits in there and the patrol car uses AI technology to decide where some of the hotspots are. I think the rest of the country is going to be watching this very carefully. And not just police departments, other people, maybe even people who own cars. The self driving car industry might use it as well. So we'll take a look at that. Okay. Coming up, the latest on what may be President Trump's best trick yet. A possible end to the Israel Hamas war. But the spirit of Hamas is living on in the world of the liberal elites. A Harvard law professor. There he is. He's been nailed for an attack that justifies all decency. American Sunrise, early edition will be right back.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi. Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why Benghazi?
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Jake Novak
The truth became a web of lies.
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Leon Neyfak
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
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Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
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Bad faith, political warfare and frankly, bullshit.
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Jake Novak
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together.
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Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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Jake Novak
Benghazi is a Rosetta stone for everything.
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Ben Ferguson
That'S been going on for the last 20 years.
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Jake Novak
What difference at this point does it make? Yeah, that's right. Lock her up.
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It's Monday, October 6th. Here are this morning's top stories. Here comes the cavalry. President Trump is ignoring a federal court order and still planning to send National Guard troops to Portland anyway. It's all in response to escalating violence against ICE agents and even journalists, all while the Portland police appear to be in cahoots with Antifa. This is why I call Portland the new Fort Sumter. Are you looking for some peace after all that? Well, how about the Middle East? No, I'm not kidding. Hamas seems to be making some moves to really give the hostages back to Israel. That could happen this week. President Trump wants to make it happen. The Democrat running for attorney general in Virginia is caught sending texts about how he wished two bullets would go to the head of the state's then GOP leader in the House of Delegates. And then he wished death on his children. What a lovely man. Oh, and by the way, there's still a government shutdown in progress. This is day six. I don't think anyone cares. Schumer and Jeffries, american Sunrise EARLY EDITION continues. Now this, this has got to be the most unimportant, uninteresting government shutdown in history. What if you throw a party, a shutdown party, and no one shows up? Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer should really be ashamed of themselves and now embarrassed by the fact that no one's really getting into the entire shutdown situation. Just incredible. A lot of other news to get to. And that's another reason why we're not talking shutdown this morning. Welcome back. Joining us now is Rabbi Yaakov Menken from the Coalition for Jewish Values. I am optimistic this morning, Rabbi, for a couple of reasons. I know there's going to be a million tripwires between now and maybe even Wednesday and Thursday with the possible return of hostages and things like that. But it does seem like Hamas is doing some things on the ground that look like we're having a change here. For example, a lot of reports that they're gathering up the bodies of the murdered hostages. I don't think they would bother to do that if they weren't really ready to start handing them over. And I think it's also a big vote of confidence for President Trump. It proves that he is in charge in this situation. At least. Things are moving. If Hamas decides to renege on these promises in the next couple days, I do believe they'll get pummeled. I'm encouraged. Am I crazy to be encouraged?
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Rabbi Yaakov Menken
No, I don't think so. Because one way or the other, we're watching this conflict finally come to an end. You know, it's quite amazing. You watch the. The Europeans protesting the genocide in Gaza as if this is the world's only genocide in history in which the party that you have to get to come make peace, the one you have to cajole to come to the table, is the supposed victims of the genocide. That's not how it works. I mean, it's. The lies have now been exposed, and that's part of what Trump was doing here. There are now really two options. One is that Hamas releases all the hostages. The killing now immediately comes to an end, and it's obvious Hamas was responsible. And all of the fighting over the last few weeks in which many Hamas fighters were killed, it was a total waste of time and energy, as it were. The other option is that they refuse to release the hostages. They refuse to make peace, and their response then is Israel gets to finally finish the job. Those are really the only two options on the table now.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. You know, you mentioned Europe and you mentioned which has been the final brigade. One of the reasons why this war has dragged on for so long is because there are people in the west, mostly in Europe, but also here in the United States, who will always support Hamas no matter what. And they give more than just a moral comfort to Hamas, but they're also offering them real logistical help as well. And speaking of that, I want to show you this great ex post from Ambassador Mike Huckabee that he posted over the weekend, because it gets to the heart of what I'm talking about. Greta Thunberg, the very troubled child whose entire childhood was destroyed by her parents and other environmental activists. Of course, she became an anti Israel activist as well, and her flotilla was seized by the Israelis. Finally. It was a distraction they found, by the way. They said this was an aid flotilla to the people of Gaza. They found no aid, no food, no medical supplies on that ship. And she complained about the conditions in where Israel was holding her. And Ambassador Huckabee said, excuse me if I'm not crying for you. Try being one of the hostages to Hamas over the last two years and being starved slowly to death. You know, when you have somebody like Mike Huckabee in that position there, it certainly gives me. It warms my heart. But, boy, he's outnumbered. There are just millions of people in Europe and some here in the United States who are literally rooting for these terrorists.
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Rabbi Yaakov Menken
Absolutely. And there isn't a lie they won't tell. The entire Palestine narrative is founded on lies. For 2000 years a Palestinian was a Jew and all of a sudden they've redefined what that term is supposed to mean and who it stands for. But at the same time, with regards to the flotilla, they're claiming that, oh, she was thrown in prison, she was treated worse than the Nazis. That's what they're saying. And they were starving the flotilla travelers. You know, the real starvation was on those boats. Like you said, there was no aid. As with the last time, they actually didn't have enough food to even feed themselves, much less the people they were purportedly bringing aid to. The thing, whole thing was a ridiculous lie. But we have the video of Greta Thunberg being held the last time. And while they're still on the boat, the very first thing that happens after the Israelis board the boat is they give her a sandwich. They were just distributing sandwiches to the folks on the ship. And when they found one of them was Greta, Thunberg actually took a photo of it and we have the video of, of her being given a sandwich. And so now they're claiming that they were starved. You know, it doesn't matter what reality is to these people, they'll just find a new lie to tell. And in their goal to support Hamas and its intent to commit genocide against Israel.
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Jake Novak
In a just world, her parents would have been imprisoned years ago for the abuse of that child. She's not a child anymore. But she was when she first got thrust into the news in 2018. 2019. What a disgrace. Rabbi Speaking of the useful idiot left, Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of Great Britain recognizes a Palestinian state, a non existent state. There is no government, there is nothing there. And then of course just days later on Yom Kippur last week a an emboldened Syrian born terrorist attacks a synagogue in Manchester. The president of Israel Herzog blamed Starmer directly. Was he right to do that?
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Rabbi Yaakov Menken
Oh, absolutely. Incitement leads to hateful actions. And to recognize a claim that the Jews are stealing part of the Jewish homeland from the huge Arab nation. When Arab marauders came into Israel, of course the holiest mosque in all of Israel is built on the site of the Jews holy temple. So who is occupying whom? It's kind of obvious when you want to care about reality, but when you want to do this anti Semitic narrative. That's what Starmer was propping up. There isn't a Palestinian government, quote unquote, that isn't supporting terrorism. You have the pay to slay Palestinian Authority, and then you have Hamas, which is a dozen times worse. Those are the governments of what Starmer was recognizing. So when he says, that's legitimate, Jew hatred is legitimate. People who finance terrorism are legitimate. In fact, we should give them the land. How do you not expect that to embolden another hateful person? His actual name is Jihad. He's all about. His whole upbringing was about being militaristic and going out to kill the infidel. And of course, he's going to target Jews, especially in that environment. So for Starmer to now express his great sympathies with the Jewish people, the man is part of the problem, not the solution. If he actually cared about the Jews, he would take responsibility for what he did and. And resign.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, and King Charles is also part of the problem. I think he appeared in Keffiyeh a few weeks ago saying that Britain is Muslim, something like that. I mean, he did say Britain is Muslim. This guy's supposed to be the head of the Church of England. Again, you can have Muslims in the country. But to say that Britain is Muslim is just. That also must have absolutely encouraged this kind of stuff. Now, here in America, we're not immune to this kind of stuff, although this is an importance. A visiting professor at Harvard Law School from Brazil was arrested over the weekend. It turned out, also on Yom Kippur, he was firing a pellet gun into cars and into the area right in front of a synagogue in Brookline, Massachusetts. That's the big Jewish community in the suburban Boston. This is at 9pm on Yom Kippur night. He said that he was doing this because he was hunting rats. What are you talking about, hunting rats? I mean, if it was outside of his own home, maybe that could be true. But at 9pm with the pelican and he also shot into some cars. Did he see a rat in a parked car and shoot through the. I mean, it's just a ridiculous excuse. Harvard has put him on leave. Put him on leave. They should put him on the next boat home. I don't understand why he hasn't been immediately fired, but this is the kind of hate that the left is importing into this country and putting. Not just importing. They're not just having. He's not. He's not working at a halal food truck. He's a professor at Harvard Law School. Can you imagine? I mean, this is, this is what we're up against again. The liberal elite and Harvard is crying about money that the, that the Trump administration is trying to extract from it. They should be lucky they're not being shut down.
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Rabbi Yaakov Menken
American academia has become a perverted joke. I mean, I am a graduate of Princeton, and back in a day when the university really was dedicated to providing a tolerant environment for all, today the environment is totally different. It's like, you know, the grotesque embarrassment that Harvard and Columbia have become has kind of taken all the attention away from universities like Princeton, which is more interested in standing up against the Trump administration than standing up for Jews. And as a Maryland resident, the University of Maryland, their student government just had a boycott Israel vote to boycott the only Jewish state in the world. When did they hold that, that vote on Yom Kippur? It was a conscious act of anti Jewish discrimination. And you know what the Chancellor and all the officers of the administration, the University of Maryland had to say about their student government taking a transparently anti Semitic action against the Jewish community? Nothing. If somebody would say no blacks on campus, as a congressman pointed out to one of the other universities, that person would be removed immediately, if not sooner. Don't tell me about his free speech. You don't get to have free speech to incite hatred against other groups on campus, except when the victims are Jews. They then it's totally okay. The University of Maryland absolutely transparently endorsed antisemitism. And of course, where they get their model from the United Nations. They took a vote on an issue pertaining the Security Council, had a vote on something pertaining to the situation in the Middle east and yet another ridiculous condemnation of Israel. And when did they do it on Rosh Hashanah? If it weren't for the Trump administration, that might have passed, too. Think about that.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. And absolutely. And we know that these universities can stop it if they want to. Look at Tennessee State University. I don't love what they did to the conservatives who tried to come on campus and have a peaceful debate, but it proved my point. If the universities want to stop certain kinds of actions on their campuses, they can do it and no one will say anything about it. Rabbi Yaakov Menken, thank you so much for joining us.
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Rabbi Yaakov Menken
Thank you.
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Jake Novak
All right, coming up, I need to get back into this situation in Virginia. David Brody will help me do that. We talk about this guy, Jay Jones, and why he should, his action should undermine the entire Democratic ticket in that state. American Sunrise, early edition. We'll be right back.
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Leon Neyfak
When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why Benghazi?
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Jake Novak
The truth became a web of lies.
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Leon Neyfak
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
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Ted Cruz
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
- [55:02]
Leon Neyfak
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
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Jake Novak
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together.
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Leon Neyfak
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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Jake Novak
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything.
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Ben Ferguson
That'S been going on for the last 20 years.
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Leon Neyfak
I'm Leon Neyfak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi.
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Jake Novak
What difference at this point does it make? Yeah, that's right. Lock her up.
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Leon Neyfak
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Ben Ferguson
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And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
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Jake Novak
Welcome back. Okay, this is the second time they've shown the Macy's shot here, so I think someone in the control room really wants me to start buying them Christmas presents now and get ahead on my holiday shopping. All right, all right. I'll get you the, I'll get you something. I'll get you something nice. Welcome back to American Sunrise EARLY Edition. I'm Jake Novak. Thank you so much for everyone joining us on all the platforms where you can watch live and comment Getter Rumble substack X here in my living room. I have a few seats here if you'd like to watch the show live. Anyway, let's get to this situation. It's not a laughing matter in Virginia for those who've been watching this program. You know, I've made a big deal about the Virginia elections. I've talked about them a lot. We have weekly updates on them, sometimes more than that. And, and of course, now we have a potential game changer in this election just to get the facts together out there because the mainstream media won't give you all the facts in this. Jay Jones is a Democrat running for attorney general in Virginia in 2022. It's come to light now he sent some texts to a colleague wishing the death, wishing death, two bullets in the head, specifically to the then Republican leader of the House of Delegates, his family and his children. And this wasn't a drunken text or something he didn't really mean. When the colleague pushed back, he forgot. He got rid of the texting and called that colleague personally and said, no, no, no, I'm right to push this. And not only has he not dropped out, David Brody joins us right now. But Abigail Spamberger, the Democrat nominee for governor, Gazala Hashmi, the Democrat nominee for lieutenant governor, have not called for him. Neither is a dnc, have not called for him to drop out. This should make everyone reconsider their vote if they haven't already in Virginia. And maybe those who voted early because there's been early voting for weeks now, maybe they, maybe they regret it. Another reason why we shouldn't have such early voting.
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Ben Ferguson
David, your takes 100% game changer. Or at least I should probably put potential game changer because you never know exactly if it's going to make a hill of beans difference, but it sure should. I think, Jake, you made a great point. I mean, what, what was the most shocking here is the, you know, oh, sorry, my bad. There was never sorry, my bad. It was a double and a triple down. I mean, these texts just kept going and going. As a matter of fact, the person he was texting had to say, please stop, please stop. I mean, if he had not said, please stop, it would have continued to go on. And obviously he felt that way. But the Abigail Spamberger silence is deafening. And the question then becomes, okay, so when she comes out, she's going to have to obviously talk about it at some point. What is she going to say exactly? Is she going to give the generic political excuse or. Not excuse, but political posturing which says, you know, we condemn all acts of violence or any potential acts of violence against anybody. That ain't going to do it. That ain't going to do it. Not here. Not one of the attorney general. I mean, it's an attorney general candidate. First of all, it doesn't matter if anybody said they could be running for dog catcher. But as an attorney general, you're saying that you think words matter, especially if you're going to be attorney general. What kind of job is this guy going to do as attorney General if he's just willy nilly throwing out texts like that? I'm sorry, texts mean something. Words mean something. You should never put something in writing that you're concerned about that could come back to haunt you. He should know that. That's politics 101. And it's definitely Jake, Attorney General 101. I mean, come on. Unbelievable. And by the way, let me just say on a personal note, the legislator we're talking about, I'm talking about the one that he sent said the horrible stuff to. I know, his wife specifically. We worked together for about 15 years or so. One of the nicest people you'll ever meet. I know. I know their kids as well. So this is personal for me as well. And I just wanted to do a disclaimer on that too.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, no, and I'm glad you mentioned that as well. This is again, why are we going towards a civil war in this country? And the answer is one side wants to kill us. I'm sorry, it sounds so. It sounds flippant to say like, oh, you know, probably just the same old politics. This is not the same old politics. It isn't. And it needs to stop now. Fort Sumter didn't work out too well the first time. 600,000 people died after Fort Sumter. We need to stop it so that we don't have another one. All right, I'll see you in the 9am hour. American Sunrise, the big show coming up. I'll see you on early edition tomorrow at 7. Take a deep dive into the stories making the news headlines across the world.
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Emily Maitlis and John Sopel
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Ted Cruz
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