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Jake Novak
This is an iHeart podcast. Ahead on American Sunrise Early Edition. They're coming home. President Trump brokers and announces a ceasefire and hostage return deal and says it's been reached between Israel and the terror group Hamas. The hostages are expected to be back in Israel on Monday. In LA, the feds and cops arrest a 29 year old Uber driver and charge him with starting the massive Palisades fire early this year that ended up causing $150 billion in damage. The man arrested is actually from Florida and he was a donor to the Biden Harris campaign. Not sure if that matters, but typical. Moving to Chicago. President Trump says Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor J.B. pritzker should be in jail for endangering federal agents and then blocking the White House from sending in the National Guard. I think he's right. Former FBI Director James Comey isn't in jail, but he did get arraigned for lying to Congress yesterday. He pleaded not guilty. And of course he, he wasn't paraded in cuffs for the cameras and he didn't have his home and bedroom raided by the feds. Must be nice. And in Hollywood, another kind of civil war is in progress. A bunch of anonymous employees at Paramount Skydance are trying to push their new boss, David Ellison, to go woke. Stand strong, David. American Sunrise EARLY EDITION begins now.
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Jake Novak
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Jake Novak
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Jake Novak
Wow, it's a busy Thursday here on American Sunrise EARLY edition. I also left out like a ton of stories we could have also done in that little open to the show. We are busy today, to say the least. So let's get right to it because we have a lot to talk about. Joining us right now is U.S. air Force veteran and the host of Veronica Live, Veronica Kemeny. Veronica, I've got to tell you, this is a huge victory for President Trump. I know that's a tough pill to swallow. And I say that advisedly because every time I say that, Veronica, I know that there's people out there that would rather cut their own heads off than ever say that President Trump had a victory. But I would hope that they would make an exception here. I know a lot of them won't because this is a really important deal that President Trump is announcing, as you see in that truth social post there, looks like the hostages will be coming home on Monday. Of course, with Hamas, you never know. So we holding our breath. That's not on President Trump, that's on them. But the thing I wanted to ask you about is, like, how this really affects us here at home. Because I think this is the relief that we've been hoping for to try to end all these anti Israel, disgusting, anti Semitic protests on campus and in the streets. If there's no war and no more hostages, I don't know if they're going to be able to organize those things, at least for the next year or so. I'm hoping.
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Veronica Kemeny
Well, I am so excited. He is definitely our peace president. And you, you're there in New York. You know, my heart was broken when I saw this huge Palestinian flag going up New York City on October 7th because people forget. And you and I have had these conversations many times, Jake. These were non combatants, mothers, fathers, children, grandparents that were killed. And so I'm so happy. I, I'm so proud of President Trump. You know, I'm still nervous because Monday I want to see all of these, you know, all of these hostages free. But yesterday when Trump talked to a bunch of the hostage families on the phone and they were just thanking him and cheering him and you saw how happy they were. I mean, my heart was warm. He is the peace president, no doubt.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. And look, a lot of presidents have been attracted to the Israel Holy Land situation because it is the Holy land. It isn't just because of voting and things like that. And it would be amazing if President Trump could do that. And hopefully we'll see all this progress in the next few days. All right, we got it. We're jumping from a lot of topics today, so let's move on. Veronica, I'm not sure this next story is entirely political, but the suspect who's been arrested, 29 year old, Jonathan Reinder Necht is his name. He feels like another one of the same people who have been causing so much havoc in America lately. A man, white male, between the ages of 20 and 30. He's 29, he's from Florida, but he apparently set the fire that smoldered for a while and then ended up becoming this massive, massive wildfire. Really the worst disaster, I think, in American history. From the price tag point of view. $150 billion. It was so horrific. But again, this reminds me, Luigi Mangione, Tyler Robinson, they're all the same, aren't they? They're from that same age group, this guy happened to have been a Biden Harris voter and even gave money to their campaign. But it's not only political, this is a mental health thing. And it's these men, these between these ages, by the way. These are the kind of people that Charlie Kirk was trying to reach out to. I just have to say it just seems like the same M.O. doesn't.
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Veronica Kemeny
Does. I think he wants his five minutes of fame, which of course he's getting now, you know, and they're going to. I'm sure he's going to have all these women writing to him. But he was also a lost soul. He start, he started the fire. He then called 911 and left. Came back when the fire trucks filmed all of them and you know, he wanted to be part of it. And hats off to all of the investigators that were. They, they GEO tracked him and found him. You know, they went through apparently a couple million tips through, you know, all the research. And I hope he's in prison because let's not forget, Jake, 12 people died. I think 8,000, you know, homes and structures were, were ruined. People's lives were up, you know, they, they were turned upside down. I live here in Florida and we're celebrating, you know, Hurricane Michael and that was eight years ago and it's taken forever to, to deal with, you know, the rebuild. And that's what those people in Palisades are dealing with. And hats off that they found this guy. So maybe that's a sense of relief to them as they get their lives back together. Has even been a year.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. And here's a bulletin for the Gavin Newsoms and, and everyone else out there who want to, wanted to blame this wildfire on climate change or on, you know, or on something else or on the, or the power companies. They're always trying to blame one or the other because they can extract money out of you from for those things. No, it's crazies like this. A few, whether it's crime in the streets or these kinds of disasters, it's a very small number of incredible malcontents and dangerous people in this country. If we could just get them either into a mental institution or into a prison, we would be much better off. That was something that even Bill Clinton understood in the 90s and certainly Republicans understand. Stop these malcontents before they do damage like this. Just incredible. Stop blaming climate change and those other nonsense. Veronica, let's move to Chicago now. We're all over the country in Chicago. We have the mayor and the governor of the state proudly protecting murderers and violent illegal aliens. They're protecting the murderers because the national. President Trump wants to send in the National Guard to these murder capital spots in the south side of Chicago. They don't want that. They're happy to let the murders continue. They also want to keep the illegal aliens, many of whom are also very violent criminals, untouched by ice. President Trump said yesterday they both belong in jail. I'm going to guess you agree.
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Veronica Kemeny
I so agree. And, you know, why are we sending troops up to Chicago? They've had almost 400 murders this year. It's a debacle in that city. And I'm laughing because it came out that they're the number nine travel city to go see in Conde Nast. And of course, if you follow the mayor and the governor on X, they're just touting how great they are. Well, you know, we had a bunch of our ICE agents called for help this weekend and the Chicago PD stood down. So they don't even protect their own and somebody's going to get killed on the ICE agent force. But I'm thrilled, You know, we, we got Kristi Noem leading the charge. And what about the residents in Chicago? They want their city cleaned up. And when you, when you see these black residents talking on these interviews, you know, they're tired of these illegals that, that are running rampant in their city committing crimes. So, you know, every weekend is Chicago is Chicago stand in Chicago, and it ends now with all of these troops. And Pritzker, you know, he said, you have to come through me to get to my people. Well, we're going to. And we've got golden handcuffs. So I'm okay, let's arrest this mayor and the governor because they're part of the problem. Jake.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, I just, it's, it's incredible, the hatred of President Trump. Like I said at the top of the show, they will cut their own heads off because they hate him. At some point, there has to be some sanity injected into the country. All right, we're moving from west to east. We've been in LA Chicago. Now let's go to the DC Northern Virginia area where James Comey, the former FBI director, he was arraigned yesterday. He pleaded not guilty to his lying to Congress case, which, by the way, is a really open and shut case. The only chance I think he has, and it's not a bad chance when you think about it, is that the jury will be corrupted with a bunch of federal workers and their family members who won't convict Anyone if it's an enemy of President Trump or someone who they see as opponent of President Trump. But James Comey should be thankful he didn't get his house raided at 4am he, he didn't have his wife's underwear drawer rifled through and he was given the dignity of a fair arraignment and not a perp walk and all that kind of stuff. I hope people notice that, Veronica.
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Veronica Kemeny
Now I'm so frustrated. I did see his wife hugging everybody. You know, she didn't have makeup on. She looked all sad. But where's his mugshot? You know, and then when you, when you see what went down with Trump and his family, this man's getting a pass. I really hope he ends up in jail because he lied to Congress and he's dirty, pushing all of his little collusion things that he was pushing. So I want to see his mugshot. I'm waiting, Jake. And he deserves what he's gotten and it's going to cost him an arm and a leg. I'm sure some rich billionaire will probably fund his defense. But I don't feel sorry for this man. He lied to the American people.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. And it's an open and shut case. I mean, we have it on tape. It's just so silly. All right, let's stay in D.C. just for our last topic here, Veronica. We have the government shutdown. It's day nine. But you know, in any other normal world, that would have been our lead story today. It's day nine. And again, again, this couldn't be more clear. The Republicans have consistently and this president since the beginning of this whole thing have said they're willing, they want to keep the government open. They'll just vote for a continuing resolution. We'll get our other issues settled. Otherwise, the Democrats keep voting for a shutdown. I hope all of them there, the American people understand that. I know my viewers do. But you know, the other networks are trying to murk this up. But I got to give CNN credit. CNN's Dana Bash actually asked Nancy Pelosi a somewhat challenging question about this yesterday. Check it out.
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Veronica Kemeny
Just, I mean, I understand what you're saying about where the differences are and they are very big. They are voting yes on what we say here in Washington. A clean cr, a bill to keep the government running for seven weeks. And Democrats are voting no and for the reasons you just said. So how are they shutting down the government? First of all, it isn't a clean cr. Okay, so let's not stipulate to that.
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Jake Novak
It's not a clean cross going into that.
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Veronica Kemeny
The point is.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. When, when later she asked her, why is it not a clean cr? Nancy Pelosi couldn't answer. That's, you know, again, you know, with her bad dentures, the woman's worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Can she get dental implants, please? Anyway, Veronica, that was nice. Maybe CNN will ask tough questions from now on of some other Democrats.
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Veronica Kemeny
Yeah, I was surprised. But, you know, let's not forget who this is hurting. You know, the 15th is right around the corner and we want our military and the government workers that actually work hard to get paid on the 15th. So get your act together. And, and Pelosi's loaded. This isn't going to impact her. But who's going to make house payment for some of these people? And enlisted troops don't have a huge snowball fund and don't have money to move around. This is on the backs of our young enlisted troops. And let's get, let's get this CR passed. You know, I heard also that they want to push this potentially to Christmas. I can't even imagine if this goes till till then. And of course they're blaming, you know, Speaker Johnson that all of Congress is out. But they did their part. We're just waiting for, you know, the senators to get their act together. And Americans were fed up. We see through all of this and they, they better, they better pay the military, Jake, you know.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. Well, all this is going to take is another couple of days worth of CNN and maybe MSNBC and somebody else from the liberal media pointing out the very basic fact I just laid out. It's the Democrats who keep voting for a shutdown. This news media, and it's really not a news media, it's on them. Because as soon as the Democrats see that the news media isn't going to run cover for them, they will vote to reopen the government. So do it now. Cnn, msnbc. Be honest for once and do that. That's my message to you. Veronica Kemeny, thank you so much for joining us. It's only Thursday. Thanks for getting in all these topics for me. Have a great weekend, though. I always say that from Thursday on. I always say have a great weekend. Thank you so much.
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Veronica Kemeny
Thanks, Jake.
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Jake Novak
Okay, Coming up, I'll get more into our top story today talking about that what that ceasefire deal in Israel means for President Trump and this country. But while we may be getting peace in the Holy Land, we're closer to war in Holywood, Hollywood. Ha ha. A group of hateful malcontents at Paramount and CBS are trying to get their new boss to go woke. But first, I want everyone to know about something really important. A big event to tell you about. I want you to take a look at this.
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Steve Bannon
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Jake Novak
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American SUNRISE EARLY edition. We'll be right back. Dark skies still this morning in Atlanta, Georgia, this morning. Welcome back to AMERICAN SUNRISE EARLY edition. A very busy day. We have so much to cover. It's a Thursday. Thank you for joining us on Getter and Rumble and X and Substack. I feel like at the end of Romper Room with the magic mirror, I see all of you and I hear all of you. Thank you so much. Once again, our top story this morning, President Trump has brokered a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. Again, the thing that we're all really waiting for is the return of the hostages, living and dead. We understand now from President Trump that that will be on Monday. So holding my breath, crossing fingers, whatever you want to say, we're really hoping that that does come about. But again, a point I made earlier in the program I want everyone to understand this. First of all, there's going to be a lot of people in this country who are going to be angry. Yes. Angry that this has ended. First of all, you have the people who just don't want President Trump to have any success, no matter how good it is for them, the rest of the world, et cetera. I'm so tired of those people, honestly, really. You know, when President Obama was president and we got Osama bin Laden, I knew it would sort of help him. I knew again, but who cares? We got Osama bin Laden. I mean, really, grow up and be honest about that, please. But this is also a great defeat for the people in the world who wanted to really take advantage of this war every day that it lasted and every day that the hostages were still in captivity as an excuse to rub salt in the wound of the people who were suffering from this, to start riots in the streets and riots on our campuses. They'll still try, but I don't think they're going to have the traction anymore. So I want to make sure everyone understands that that's really very important for us right now. All right, coming up, we have an interesting situation going on at Paramount where David. I got to tell you where David Ellison, the new. There he is, the new leader of that, of that company is dealing with all kinds of problems. So I want to make sure everyone knows that that's going to be a story I'm going to talk about. They want him to go woke up. All right, now I want to tell you something about something else. This is very personal, folks. If you are tired of thin and lifeless hair, tell me about it. If you cringe every time you see another clump in the shower drain, that was years ago for me. Then your hair probably needs more protein. Don't make the same mistake I did. Just like our muscles lose protein as we age and atrophy, our hair loss protein loses as well. We have hair loss protein, we have hair. We have protein loss in our hair. It happens. I lost mine. As you can see, it leads to thin, dry and brittle strands. 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All right, as I said, we'll be back with more American Sunrise in just a minute. We're going to look at that woke rebellion at Warner Brothers and Paramount. Well, the sun is shining and the wind is blowing in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey this morning. That's a live shot. Beautiful shot. We've been having just dry weather here in New York. We had some rain yesterday finally in the New York area. Gonna get some over the weekend but I don't think until Sunday. But it's gonna be a clear day today. So if you want to get some voting in, this might be the good day to do it. Hey, let's take a take a look at where the markets are going to begin today. We had new all time high, all time closing highest set yesterday for The S&P 500, the NASDAQ. The Dow literally lost like one or two points yesterday. Very flat day. It looks like a very flat open on all three there. Gold taking a very small breather. Still well over the $4,000 per ounce level. So you have that crude oil also pretty flat, the $62 a barrel a level. Let's take a look at Bitcoin which has been flirting with its all time high as well. And it's darn close. It's at 122 and 5. Again that all time high is about a 125. So we're really close to that as well. Hey, President Trump has been calling the Fed Chairman Jerome Powell Too late. Powell Mr. Too late. Maybe he'll now call him too Unclear. Every couple of months after a Fed meeting, the Fed releases the minutes of its meeting. In other words, like the official transcripts. It's not every word. It's just sort of the official statements that they make. And Wall street wasn't able to make much out of them. They were very murky. They couldn't tell whether we're definitely going to get more rate cuts this year or not. So not only is Powell taking his time with cuts, but it's not really even clear. And the markets didn't get much of a message about it yesterday. So I think President Trump will have a new name for. Maybe he'll call him Muddy Powell or Unclear Powell or who knows? But now he's also just not really being very clear. Hey, the Wokesters in Hollywood are trying to stage a rebellion at Paramount. You know, it's called Paramount. Skydance now was bought by this guy, David Ellison. He bought it out and now has control over it. You've heard of some of the things he's already done, like putting Barry Weiss, who's still a big liberal, by the way, but she seems to be a lot more fair than a lot of her fellow journalists. So she's in charge of editorial now at CBS News. But they're angry at Paramount. They're a bunch of basically anonymous cowards. They're all anonymous, but hundreds of them have signed on and they're demanding that David Ellison be more anti Israel. It's always about that, isn't it? I mean, these people, it's just incredible. They don't really care about any of that stuff. They're just violent, disgusting people. It's all I can say. Let me give some advice to David Ellison. Do not give in to them. If you give in to them, they will never be satisfied. They will just continue to bother you. They don't care about Israel. They don't care about what you're doing. They're specifically, by the way, upset that Paramount's gonna come out with this documentary about the October 7th attack. So they want something to balance it. It's a true documentary. The only way to balance it would be to do something untrue, and you shouldn't do that. David Ellison, stand strong. Don't give in to them, because if you do, it's gonna be a disaster over there. Find out who they are actually, and just get rid of them. They can work somewhere else where they're allowed to protest. They can get a job at Hamas. I understand their hiring. All right, Amazon is now selling prescription drugs in vending machines because. Because why not? You know, Amazon is in every single business in the world. It's the most obvious monopoly in the history of the United States. And here they are getting into something else. We know that they've been selling some drugs and prescription drugs via, online and their delivery service. Now, if you go to one medical, which is a, you know, one of those kind of urgent care Type places in Los Angeles, they now have vending machines. Of course you still have to get the prescription from a doctor and then you have to prove it. I guess there's some kind of verification code that you get so that you can get it out of the vending machine. But look, for this to go all over the country, I gotta say, cvs, Rite Aid, Walgreens, you're asking for this. It takes so long at some of these places now to get certain prescription drugs and you often run out of supplies. I've got lots of friends have told me that drugs that used to be available are no longer available all the time. So you asked for it. You've asked for Amazon to kind of claw into your business. It's your fault. I hope you love your results. All right, ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. This is Moving America. Sponsored by artillery t company artilleryteco.com use promo code LIBERTY for 20% off your order. Artillery Tea is all natural whole leaf. The tea bags are chemical free and each tea bag can be used twice. Artillery Tea Company is family and veteran, owned and operated and a portion of your purchase goes to help veteran and first responder charities. Artilleryteeco.com promo code Liberty for 20% off your order. Remember last week when I told you about GM and I actually praised them for their innovation, for at least being smart about how GM was finding a way to extend the EV tax credit. Remember, the tax credit Expired on September 30th. $7500 for people who buy electric vehicles. GM decided to do something I think pretty smart. I don't love EVs but I like being smart. They decided to buy up or try to buy up a ton of EVs, get those tax credits and then pass them on to their customers if they leased those cars. So give them a cheap release out of it and basically take $7500 off the total price for a three year lease or something like that. I thought that was a pretty smart thing to do. But GMs decided to back off of this. Why? Because people don't want to buy or lease EVs in enough of a large numbers to make to justify the whole plan. EV demand tax credit or no tax credit has been falling steadily in this country for two years. It had a big pop and what it is now is about 8%. I think it'll max out at 10 at the most. 8% of the market is interested in buying EVs. That's it. It's not worth all the hard work that GM had put into thinking up this plan. It's very simple. This is the market here. And what you're going to hear from the news media and from the Democrats for the next year or so is how President Trump killed the EV market by taking away the tax credit. That is not true. It was dying, or at least getting weaker before that. Don't let anyone push that down your throat. That's my advice. All right. I told you yesterday about that terrible fire at Novellas. That's a company in Oswego, New York that supplies the aluminum for Ford. It's a very, very bad situation. I told you about that. But now in the last few hours, we've learned just how bad it is going to be for Ford. A billion dollars bad. That's how much this is going to cost them. As Ford needs to find new suppliers. You know, they switched over to aluminum and a lot of their vehicles about 10 years ago was a big, big controversy. But when they came out with the first aluminum Ford F150, they got through that, though the buyers stayed loyal to the Ford F150. But now I bet you they're kicking themselves that they didn't keep some non aluminum types going because they really rely on that, on that very precious commodity. Okay, those cheaper Model Y's and Model Threes at Tesla that I was telling you about, one that's under 37,001 that's under $40,000. Hey, go for it if you want it again, you 8 percenters out there who like to buy electric vehicles, the 8% of you, you go buy what you want to buy. But honestly, there's not that many of you. But anyway, just as a warning, if you buy one of these new, cheaper, stripped down Teslas, it's missing something. It's missing a radio. I can't. I mean, someone told me that the last time cars didn't come with radios was like the 40s anyway. No AM or FM radio in the new Tesla. I guess people just connect their iPhones and itunes to the car anyway. But that's, that's a little bit of a little. Notice this reminds me of the Slate, which is the company that's owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Remember that pickup I told you about that sells for like $24,000. It doesn't even come with power windows. You have to crank it up like the old fashioned way. All right, maybe that'll be the next thing that Tesla does. All right, now here is a great American story. I want you to listen to the man I consider to be the Best car salesman in America. Listen to this story.
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JP Knudsen
All right, story time. This won't take long because I hate long stories. But anyway, back in June, sold a 2017 Tucson ultimate all wheel drive, 85, 000 miles on it, roughly sold it for 12, 5 folks. Bought it for a college student driving to I think Manhattan, maybe every day from Kansas City or somewhere. Had it Since June, put 2, 000 miles on the car and the motor goes out. She calls me, mom calls me and says, hey, think the motor's out of this car? Yeah, it's been four months. She's like, can we get it looked at for free? I'm like, absolutely. Have a tote in here. So they towed it in from here in Kansas City. Didn't take much. We're like, yep, motor's out of it. Look for extension, warranty, extension. Nope, nothing. So we're got nothing. They bought the car with a 30 day thousand mile warranty on it. And what are we going to do? I'm going to take care of the customer. Told her to come in this week. When I, when I find the right car for her, we'll give her her money back and put her in the new car.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. So he's replacing the motor completely at no cost. An amazing guy. His name is JP Knudsen, by the way. He's got a great TikTok account. He has a great online presence. I just had to show you that because I show you a lot of stories about horrible things that happen to people who buy cars. That's a great story and a great guy. And he's got a pretty active account out there and he's getting a lot of credit. He deserves it. Okay, coming up, the North Carolina flood disaster last year created some new heroes in that state and one of them is now eyeing a seat in Congress. You'll meet him when American Sunrise EARLY EDITION continues. It's Thursday, October 9th. Here at this morning's top stories. And there are a lot of them. They're coming home. President Trump announces a ceasefire and hostage return deal has been reached between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. The hostages, the living ones, are expected to be back in Israel on Monday. Moving to Chicago, where there is no peace, President Trump says Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor J.B. pritzker should be in jail for endangering federal agents and, and then blocking the White House from sending in the national guard. In LA, the feds and the cops arrest a 29 year old Uber driver and charge him with starting those massive fires. The Palisades fires earlier this year that ended up causing $150 billion in damage. The man arrested is actually from Florida. He was a donor to the Biden Harris campaign. He at looked looks like another troubled 20something. And former FBI Director James Comey isn't in jail, but he did get arraigned for lying to Congress yesterday. He pleaded not guilty. And of course, he wasn't paraded in cuffs for the cameras. He didn't have his home and bedroom raided by the feds. Lucky man. American SUNRISE EARLY EDITION continues now. Welcome back to AMERICAN SUNRISE EARLY edition. I'm Jake Novak. A very busy Thursday, I want to get right into it with former Green Beret and now a Republican candidate for Congress from North Carolina, Adam Smith. Sir, as a former military man yourself, got to get your comment on the big story of the day about this ceasefire deal. I'm sure this is still a dangerous time for the Israeli army in the field, but, you know, leave no man behind. I mean, there's women too involved here. This would really be a nice day on Monday if we see some of those people coming home.
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Adam Smith
The day. The work that's gone into this obviously has been, it's been an uphill battle. But to come out with the opportunity for this to be a ceasefire and to bring peace into that region is it's, I would say it's a great success. So it's good news.
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Jake Novak
Yeah. And as I've been saying, too, also a great defeat for our enemies at home and abroad. You know, a defeat for those who said, oh, we're going to send a million American troops in there. I mean, that's, that was always a lie and a conspiracy theory. Oh, we want to have terrible riots here on campus until this war ends. Well, it's over. And let's see if the students on campus are dumb enough to file follow these professional terrorists trying to get them to join into another riot on campus when it ends.
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Adam Smith
You know, you and I both know that they'll just find the next opportunity to, to protest and riot about the next major issue that pops up. We're seeing it right now in Oregon with Antifa against ice. We're watching it first. We watched it firsthand during the Black Lives Matters and Antifa riots a few years ago. There's always an opportunity for the left to get up in arms and to come after anybody that disagrees with them and anybody of a differing opinion. So it's awesome that this peace opportunity is presenting itself and at the same time don't have an expectation that we're going to see a diminishment in protests or, or violent actions against conservative minded individuals. They'll just find the next excuse to do it.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, maybe the food in the cafeteria. All right. Talking with Adam Smith here, sir, you have an interesting path to politics. It started as a result of how you reacted to all that terrible flooding at the end of last year or in the fall of last year in western North Carolina. Now, again, you decided to jump into the race as the news media was reporting at the time. This is a recent decision of yours. Tell us about why you've done this and what's ahead of you in this campaign.
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Adam Smith
You know, I've seen plenty of bad leadership. And one of the things that I have a hard time with and I can't stomach is repeat bad leadership. And during the Hurricane Helene relief and recovery efforts, we watched firsthand not just the failures, but the willful neglect of the people of western North Carolina. The former, the former Biden regime, Vice President Harris. We saw, you know, former Governor Cooper, now Governor Stein, all of them dragged their feet over and over again to create roadblocks, to create more bureaucratic red tape in order for money to flow. And now that we have the Trump administration in place, we watched firsthand an uptick in progress and an uptick of money coming into the region. But the problems still haven't been completely fixed because we see a failure of leadership by our current representation when it comes to their ability to actually build a coalition of forces to move dollars from the governmental level, the gubernatorial seat, down into the hands of the people of western North Carolina. And more importantly, more importantly, when we, excuse me, when we got into town on our race to get into western North Carolina, I thought my daughter had died and her mom. And we live right along the broad river, and life is too short to sit on the sidelines. There is a moral crisis that's happening in the United States and the moral decay that we continue to watch, it has to be abated. And to sit on the sidelines means that we abdicate our voice. We abdicate as conservatives, we abdicate our position to push back and have a say in the direction of this country, in this government. And when my daughter is 20 years old, will I be able to look in the mirror and tell myself that I did everything I could to be a service to my country at every opportunity that presented itself? And is this country a better place? And is it ready for her to step into the world to create some level of success? As of right now, I can't say yes to that. And that doesn't sit so well with me.
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Jake Novak
Well, that's a powerful message there. And I got to bring it to something else that's going on in the country. You know, you talked about your personal challenge and the threats to the lives of your loved ones. I've been saying on this program, and I use the words advisedly because I really don't want this to be true, but I do believe that we are now in the beginning of a new civil war in America. There's been a cultural one for a long time, but sadly, it's become kinetic. It's become a physical one in the last few months, especially in places like Portland, Chicago, as you mentioned, places like that. And I just have to ask you, is this something as well, where you say to yourself, if you could you look at yourself in the mirror? Because I can't. I won't be able to look myself in the mirror and say, did I? I don't want to have to say, hey, I didn't do something that could have stopped this. You know, I feel like we have another Fort Sumter going on. For example, in Portland, the last time we had a fourth Sumter and it didn't end up properly. 600,000 people died as a result. I'd like for this to end now. I'm sure you have some thoughts about that as well, especially from your military experience. This has to stop now, doesn't it? I think we may have lost. Yeah, we may have lost. Adam, speaking of civil wars, I think some people are attacking Zoom these days. He may come up in just a second. I want to remind you all about, although a little bit, why we're talking to Adam Smith again. He's a former Green Beret and he's running for Congress in western North Carolina. He's going to be running against an incumbent Republican that we don't talk about enough on this program. There are still a lot of Republicans in office, especially in Congress, who aren't doing right by their constituents, aren't really waking up to the situation in this country. They don't have to be the biggest Trump fans. This is not about a Trump takeover of the Republican Party. It's about what caused and precipitated the Trump takeover of the Republican Party. You had a Republican Party that seemed to be more interested in Wall Street. You're back, Brad Smith, tell me what you think about this growing civil war here in America.
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Adam Smith
Well, I wouldn't go as far as saying that we're in a civil war. I think Ultimately, where we are is it's obviously we've been in an ideological and a cultural war in the United States for some time now, especially under President Obama. And I wouldn't go as far as saying that we're in a kinetic civil war either. And at the end of the day, nobody wants that. I can tell that, I can say that definitively. Nobody wants to have any sort of level of kinetic operations taking place or the idea that we're in that position. What we are in is we are in a true and legitimate ideological battle for the soul of our country. And there are two opposing sides to this ideological battle. There's the side that believes in the Constitution, that believes in God, that believes in true and legitimate freedoms, and then there's the side that believes in totalitarianism, authoritarianism, and believes that the Marxist or communist ideology is the way to run a country. These, these are ideologically opposed in such a way that it's very hard to coexist in the same geographic form footprint. But I wouldn't go as far as saying that we're in a, a civil war. What we are in is we're in an adjustment every once in a while when that pendulum swings to the far left or to the far right. What we see is we see the pendulum start to adjust the opposite direction. The fight that we're actually in right now is to ensure that the pendulum doesn't swing the other direction too far. And that's one of the critical issues that ends up happening in these course corrections that we see. We see oftentimes a course correction that could go too far in the opposite direction. This time I think we're doing it the right way. The President is handling business the right way. The current administration is taking care of business. They're whole, they're upholding laws, they're enforcing laws that are currently on the books. And they're doing everything they can to bring that pendulum back to the middle so that we can have a moderate constitutional republic that isn't constantly at odds with one another and has the ability to pass legislation that's in the betterment of the American people.
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Jake Novak
Adam Smith, I only have about 30 seconds left, but I want you to get, I want to get your comment about statewide what's going on in North Carolina. It took your Governor Josh Stein, until the very deadline to sign Arena's law into law. Just ridiculous that he wouldn't do that right away. Even in North Carolina, you have law and order being ignored. It's just incredible.
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Adam Smith
Yeah, it is. And it's an unfortunate travesty to see Josh Stein continuing to wait and wait and wait. The fact is, is that that that bill that got pushed through the House and the Senate at the state level was a positive, sound bill for all of Western, for all of North Carolinians in general, and especially the people in Charlotte that are seen an uptick in violent crimes over the last 25 to 30 days. I mean, just the count that we're watching is a little, little ridiculous. But again, I think it goes back to the ideological differences, law and order versus Anarchy. Anarchy provides a talking point where law and order takes away the talking points. But with all that being said, western North Carolina is on a path to recovery. It's just a matter of moving dollars.
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Jake Novak
All right, that was Adam Smith. Adam Smith, former Green Beret Adam Smith, running for Congress in North Carolina, had some technical issues there, but I really appreciate him coming on. I pity the fools running against him. That's, that's a strong candidate, by the way, probably without any political consultant help, because they don't help. All right, coming up, he's still in the race. Speaking of elections, and why not, Jay Jones hasn't exactly been in the spotlight in the mainstream media. David Brody and I will discuss, but first, I want to tell you something about what's going on, something here on Saturday here on Real America's voice starting at 2pm Eastern time. It's called AMAC Boot Camp for Patriots. AMEX Boot Camp for Patriots is a day of truth and action and resolve. It's going to bring together conservatives and patriots from across the country to learn, connect and mobilize ahead of critical elections. The program features panels and discussions on key issues including immigration, education and indoctrination. Oh, also election integrity. Now, this event is going to be hosted by Dr. Gina Louden, David Brody, Ben Berkwam, and John Solomon, with additional featured speakers. They include Frank Gaffney, Nicole Kiprolov, Lynn Taylor, Jason Sneed, Charles Sucklin, and Jennifer Bankston. This is more than just a conference, folks. It is a rallying call for grassroots engagement and civic action nationwide. Take a look.
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Jake Novak
Welcome back to American Sunrise Early Edition. We got the flags flying in front of the White House today. Is a victorious White House today. I'm sorry, all you Trump haters. Who would rather see the world destroyed? I think that's really the truth. Thank. Sadly, who would rather see the world destroyed than for Trump to get victories. But this brokering of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is a huge victory for him. More importantly, it's a huge victory for America. For all of you conspiracy theorists out there who are talking about, oh, we're gonna end up with troops, and we're not sending any troops here. We never were, by the way, but now we're definitely not doing that. Please stop. And also for all of you trying to start the next campus riot, you'll have to complain about your school's football team or something. You know, maybe you can do that at North Carolina and have an angry rally against Bill Belichick. Have to stop because this war is ending. Welcome back to American Sunrise Early Edition. I'm Jake Novak. Hey. The mainstream media, surprise, surprise. Is giving Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones a huge pass. Just about no time, zero time has been dedicated to this incredible scandal. He was caught sending text messages and then making a phone call to back up those text messages. It wasn't drunk texting to say that he wanted to kill and get two bullets into the head of the then Republican leader of the House of Delegates in Virginia and have his wife and children killed as well. Oh, and then we found out he's also in favor of cops being killed every once in a while just to keep them honest. David Brody joins me right now. We're both refugees from experiences with the mainstream media. I worked in it. You had to deal with them. But, you know, all joking aside, this is actually now getting really annoying to me. This is no longer, oh, those are terrible stations. And they're just parroting bad propaganda. You know, we saw yesterday with Dana Bash finally pushing back just a little bit on Nancy Pelosi about the shutdown, and all of a sudden, she's fumbling, you know, two, two more questions like that and the shutdown would be over a few, just one or two mentions on CBS or NBC or ABC about this J. Jones controversy and he'll be out of the race. And people like him will be admonished for the future. But they won't do it. That's called enabling. They're like enabling a drug addict, David. And I want them to stop.
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David Brody
Thank you. And so do I. And I have a file for refugee status, just so you know, in case you were wondering that that is. The paperwork is in, Jake. Right. And so here, here's the thing. The problem with the J. Jones story for, for liberals, and this is low hanging fruit to say this, but it doesn't fit their narrative. And if it doesn't fit their narrative, they're going to do a couple of things. One, sometimes literally ignore the story or it'll be below the fold. And when I say below the fold, I mean. Hold on for a second. Oh, there it is in like 8 font and times New Roman. I mean that literally. They'll barely cover it, but they'll scream, we covered it. No, you didn't. And you know darn well you didn't cover it. You didn't cover it the way you would cover whatever the guy with the maga hat, what was his name, Nick, whatever on the mall that, you know, that type of stuff because that fits your narrative. Even though that proved to be a bunch of junk too. And then of course, they didn't report the other side of it when they realized that their narrative didn't fit on that. So this is what they do. You know, I've always said, Jake, that the media bias isn't necessarily in the jargon, what they say, because it's there, obviously, and it's also in the headlines, but it's also in the stories they don't report or minimize. That, I think, think is the biggest media bias of all.
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Jake Novak
Yeah, it's also costing them money. These are big stories. It would get them clicks, it would get them eyeballs, and they won't do it. I want your eyeballs to stay here. We got American Sunrise coming up. Early edition comes back tomorrow. This is an iHeart podcast.