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Ahead on American Sunrise, October 7th, two years later, we all remember the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas terrorists that day and the ensuing war that followed. But are we any closer to peace? The latest from the region is ahead this morning. Plus, another day in D.C. and the government remains shut down as Senate Democrats once again vote to keep things closed. How long can this drag on? Well, New York Congresswoman Claudia Tenney weighing in on the next steps this morning. And controversy at Build a Bear. One store is so woke it decided against allowing a bear to be named honoring Charlie Kirk. What kind of backlash happened? Well, can anyone say boycott? Find out. We have those details and a lot more as American Sunrise starts right now. Good morning America.
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Dr. Gina
Welcome to American sunrise. Whether it's culture, we have breaking news to share with you.
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Terrence Bates
Politics.
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David Brody
President Trump is joining us live now from Florida.
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This is what it looks like to be a patriot.
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Terrence Bates
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Dr. Gina
And I'm Dr. Gina. Good morning. I'm Dr. Gina. We are live with you from the Palm Beaches. Let's bring in David Brody. He's in Washington, D.C. and T. Bates in our Denver newsroom. Good morning, guys.
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David Brody
Good morning, Gina. T. Bates.
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Terrence Bates
Dr. Gina and David, good morning. Obviously, a sad morning as we remember the two year anniversary of the October 7th attacks on Israel. We'll, of course, be talking about that throughout the day. But domestically, a story that really caught, I think, all of our attention is the fact that the FBI and Jack Smith reportedly spied on GOP senators as well as Congress members. All of this allegedly part of the J6 investigation. We're hearing that phone records were collected from about eight senators and one Republican Congress member. Dr. Gina, I'm sure you are hot to trot on this story. Just another example of how the Biden FBI and how the Biden Justice Department and special counsel in this particular case just overreached.
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Dr. Gina
Yeah. You know none of this really surprises those of us who were speculating on this way back then and making the point and being told we were conspiracy theorists or worse, having our social media shut down for even saying such a thing, being surveilled, and we don't even know what else. Just because we were making points like this one. I happened to come across an old tweet that I got a notice from regarding this exact topic recently. And I thought, wow, you know, at least we have the right to say it now. But here's the thing, Terrence, what you and I always say, and I know David Brody agrees, we want to see actual punishment. And that's where I get a little bit cynical all over again.
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David Brody
Brody yeah, it's like the now what? It's honestly, maga's yawning this morning. Everybody's like, oh, shocking, shocking revelation. You know what MAGA's like? Yeah, like, tell us something we didn't know. You know, we knew this was going on. Oh, have you heard that they spied on Trump's campaign as well? I mean, this has been a narrative and true now, not just a narrative, but a truthful narrative for a very long time. But we never get the. So what? We never get the now what? We never get the perp walk. We never get any of that. When is that coming exactly? And I don't know the answer to that. So, look, there's a lot going on here. All I know is that the government may be shut down, but the deep state never shuts down. And I think that's the truth.
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Dr. Gina
And I think it's really.
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Terrence Bates
You know what, guys?
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Dr. Gina
Go ahead.
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Terrence Bates
I'm sorry, I just wanted to say to both of your points, you know, now that we've got a Republican led Congress and a Republican led Senate, I think we all. And it's fair to ask them to really push these issues and push for prosecution and hold people's feet to the fire so that there's prosecution and it doesn't just come up with, oh, this is an investigation, was what our investigation found. But somebody needs to pay, or at least somebody needs to be held accountable. Go ahead. Dr.
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David Brody
But we have, we have a conservative majority. We have a Republican majority. We don't have a MAGA conservative majority. And that's, it's important to point that out. But go ahead.
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Dr. Gina
Dr. Yeah, and there's just, there are, you know, there are a lot of people, I think, precluding a lot of good coming. And I think maga's getting frustrated with it. And I think Some of that will start to illuminate as we kind of go forward. You know, it's really tough what one person, one patriot said to me event recently. I just, I can't believe that I watched these people tear down my posts and tell me I was crazy who run these massive social media companies. Not speaking about Elon, of course, we're all talking about prior to that and others. And then now you see him sitting at the White House next to the president and you just kind of go, wait a minute, wait a minute. Where, where is justice in all of this? Hopefully we'll see some soon. For those who lost their lives on October 7th and the lives lost in Gaza, we want to check out today's Bible ver. It's from First Peter 5, chapters 6 and 7. Humble yourselves therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. Well, peace talks between Israel and Hamas are set to continue today. Reuters reports that negotiations centered on key sticking points like the timeline of releasing the hostages and Israel's timeline to withdraw from Gaza. Israel reportedly wants a strategic buffer zone and further withdrawal would hinge on Hamas meeting and the set conditions for more. We want to bring in New York Congresswoman Claudia Tenney. Congresswoman, good to have you. Thank you for being here. We don't really even want to call it an anniversary or anything. It's just a we remember because for Israel, this is their 9 11. But this struck all of us in such deeply personal ways. What do you make of President Trump's efforts for peace in the Middle east and what do you predict for later today?
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Congresswoman Claudia Tenney
Well, first of all, thank you for having me on. And this is obviously a horrible day, a horrible day of remembrance, but we have to remember, remember. You know, I grew up, I'm from the Boomer generation. I couldn't conceive that we would ever have the anti Semitism that we're seeing in our communities. I never thought we would ever look to and have a moment in time again. This is the, the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. I never thought I'd wake up to seeing colleges and universities, you know, having, you know, meetings to talk about Gaza and promoting Hamas backed by Iran, you know, a terrorist proxy and terrorist regime. Never thought I'd see that. But, you know, here we are. It's a horrible situation. We have terrorists still held by Hamas, starving, holding hostages, starving. Many we know are just remains, but people hoping and praying every day that President Trump is going to come up with a peace deal. And that's the thing that I think is most important. President Trump really wants peace in the Middle East. He wants prosperity for everyone, regardless of your religious or your religious affiliation or your ethnicity. He wants to see our Arab, Christian, and Jewish neighbors living together in peace. And I feel that there's no one who's been in such an important role that actually exemplifies that, as President Trump does. And you've seen it through the Abraham Accords. You know that Jared Kushner has been sent over along with Representative Wyckoff to go, and he's been our envoy to find a way to get Hamas to peace. I'm a little bit skeptical. I think that Israel is fighting our war. They're fighting our war to protect freedom and Western civilization, and these people are standing in the way. But I do think President Trump is really using harsh terms. He's given them a few extra days to consider the peace deal. I'm not sure they ever will. But we have a huge, you know, the big problem is if we get a peace deal, how do we maintain it and how do we keep it going forward so that we move ourselves away from the. Just the horrible, you know, horrible situation that we find ourselves in, where most of the people in Gaza, you know, want to see destruction of Israel and how do we. And Jewish neighbors.
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David Brody
No, it's such a great point. And, you know, President Trump definitely there for such a time as this. And, you know, now that the Arab nations, many of them, are starting to come on board and Jared Kushner involved, and, you know, Witkoff has done a great job. That may be, hopefully, the saving grace in all this. And by the way, a quick statistic on this. 10 million or so Israelis, you know, 10 million over in Israel, 340 million here in America. So we have 34 times more people than Israel. They lost 1,195 people on that day. You take that times 34, that means it's basically like 40,000Americans dying on one day. And if you just wrap yourself around that figure, it's just. I mean, it's. How do you even wrap your head around that figure? All right, we got to move on, Congresswoman. But Senate Democrats once again voted to keep the government closed. I mean, that's what they did. They extended the shutdown. Here's what White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt had to say to Democrats before the vote. Take a look.
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Democrats in 2025 are for illegal aliens first and Americans last.
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Dr. Gina
This is the reality we are unfortunately.
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Facing right now in Washington, D.C. president.
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Dr. Gina
For this exact same type of funding bill.
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David Brody
Congresswoman, how does it end and when does it end?
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Congresswoman Claudia Tenney
The facts are tough, aren't they, on the Democrats? Look, I think this is a problem. I'm from New York, so you see the two people holding up the works Here are two people that were hatched in the New York State Assembly. Hakeem Jeffries used to sit next to me. Chuck Schumer, long ago, weak leadership. People who come from, you know, a blue state where they never really have to face any kind of, you know, any kind of pushback. They never have to compromise because the Democrats have veto proof majorities. They always have to play this game. And this game is now in the big stage. And they're looking foolish, in my opinion. And it's the same old story. They're making the same stupid play that they would play in the legislature that doesn't work on the national stage. And yet look at our own state. All you need to do is look at the incubator, the blueprint for what not to do. New York State. And they keep saying, you'll see Hakeem and Chuck Schumer get out and bold, face law on the floor of either the House or the Senate. And talk about how we're not using federal tax dollars for illegal immigrants. Oh, contraire. We have $230 million we spend every single year right now on illegal immigrants. 65 and over, plus over a billion dollars that we spend on illegal immigrants in the state of New York under that amount. And by the way, it's all using federal taxpayer dollars that come in through Medicaid funds that are put through the state system, passed on to our local governments. And by the way, the only state in the country where we require our local governments to pay for the Medicaid share is New York State. 25% of that Medicaid share gets paid by our local governments. It's why places like where I live in upstate New York, Oswego county, where I live, we pay among the highest property taxes based on percentage of value. We pay more than Westchester. We pay more than Long Island. We are forced to do that because there is no respect for upstate New York taxpayers. And this is mega country up here. This is very strong Trump Republicans all over upstate New York, where I live. And they don't care about us because they care about Zoran Mandami over their shoulder, the head of the Democratic Socialists of America derived by Marxism, talking about defund the police, talking about socialist ideas, which are really communist ideas, talking about anti Semitism. And that's who Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are looking out for, not the vast majority of New Yorkers who are paying for this. And it's a disaster on a huge level for upstate New York. And this is what you get. You get weak leadership, people like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries that think they can go lie every single day in the House and the Senate floor and not have bad results. This is going to end badly for the Democrats. And you're seeing the polling continue to look bad for them.
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Dr. Gina
Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, thank you so much for being with us today.
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Congresswoman Claudia Tenney
Thank you. Thank you.
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David Brody
Thanks, Congressman.
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Dr. Gina
Coming up, we check out the hottest headlines from the RAB newsroom with T base. Also later, how was the war with Hamas impacted? How has it impacted Israel's standing on the world stage? A former Netanyahu advisor will be here to answer that question and so much more just ahead on American Sunrise.
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The White House this morning. The government may be shut down, but President Trump is never shut down. Right, Democrats? Oh, right. Because he's President of the United States. Welcome back to American Sunrise, everybody. I'm David Brody. Coming up, we'll Talk more about October 7th, specifically with Ruthie Blum, who is a former advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu. And we'll kind of get the latest as to her reflections on this very sad day. And also, what is the way forward? There's a lot of news happening at this hour as the talks continue on in Egypt. All right. First, though, T. Bates standing by with the latest headlines from the real America's Voice newsroom sponsored by amac.
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Terrence Bates
Just in TARO newsroom Moments ago, President Trump scheduled to meet this afternoon at the White House with a Don Alexander. He, of course, was a hostage held by Hamas and then freed. He will be at the White House today meeting with President Trump on this two year anniversary of the October 7th attacks. Meantime, President Trump also preparing to host Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House this morning. The two leaders will discuss trade and security during their sit down. Today's Face to Face will be Carney's second visit to the White House as Canada's prime minister. In terms of trade, the Canadian leader will likely seek an easing of U.S. tariffs on Canadian products. Right now, there's a general 35% tax on imports from our northern neighbor. And just this week, the administration slapped Canada with the 10% tariff on softwood lumber which is used in home building. You probably remember the last meeting between Trump and Carney was marked by President Trump prodding his counterpart over the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state. Carney defiantly responded, saying some things are not for sale. And later this week, President Trump will welcome Finland's president to the White House. Today marks the two year anniversary of the October 7th attacks on Israel that led to the current war in Gaza. Thousands of people converged on southern Israel today to mourn the dead. In the meantime, Israel and Hamas continue to hold talks in Egypt with the goal of reaching a peace deal and bringing Israeli hostages still held by Hamas home. The first phase of the peace plan authored by the Trump administration would include a ceasefire and a release of all remaining hostages in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners being held in Israel. The United nations secretary general also using today's anniversary to call for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages being held in Gaza. He also says, quote, the horrors of that dark day will be forever seared in the memories of all of us. That's a quick Check of your headlines. I'll have more headlines coming your way in a little bit. But first, let's get a quick check of your forecast from meteorologist Tracy Anthony. Tracy, good morning.
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Dr. Gina
Hey, good morning. Last night was the supermoon, Terrence. Were you able to check it out?
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Terrence Bates
You know what? I was sleep. Tracy, I'm sorry. I'm so ashamed because you told me yesterday, you warned me and I fell asleep on it. But you said there are several more opportunities, correct?
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Dr. Gina
Yeah. The next two evenings, you can see that super moon. You miss it or you're sleeping like, you know, I'm usually in bed as well. You got some photos here from some viewers, but the moon is going to appear 30% brighter and 14% larger. So the next four super moons, or the next four full moons, I should say, are super moons, even though this is the first one of 2025.
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Congresswoman Claudia Tenney
Now, weather wise, across the country, it's.
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Dr. Gina
This powerful cold front that we're really talking about because we're feeling significant temperature drops. So very warm out in front of it. We're talking record heat out east, but behind it, areas of the Central plains. And out across the intermountain west, temperatures dropping fast. I'm talking 20, 30 degrees. So going from 80s down to 50s and 60s. So cool air definitely giving us a taste of fall here from coast to coast. So, Terrence, hopefully you have a jacket out west there, but here in Florida, at least I'm gonna be nice, warm and toasty.
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Terrence Bates
Oh, rub it in, why don't you, Tracy? By the way, I'm setting alarm 8:15 here. I don't know if you can see it. I've set my alarm for 8:15 so this evening, by the way, so that I can get up and hopefully catch the supernoon. Because I'm really ashamed that I did not stay awake long enough to catch it.
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Ruthie Blum
Anyway, Tracy Books, Clear skies.
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Terrence Bates
Yep. There you go. We'll talk in about an hour or so. Tracy, thank you. Up next, as the world remembers the October 7 Hamas attacks from two years ago, are we closer to seeing the war between the terror group and Israel end? We'll have an update on the ongoing negotiations straight ahead.
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David Brody
Hey, did the Cubs win last night? I gotta look. No, they lost. Sorry. Okay. Sorry. Well, I was gonna say Cubbies win. Coven now. They didn't win. Welcome back, everybody, to American Sunrise. Oh, that's Wrigley Field. Did I not say that? Sorry. Anyhow, welcome back. Today marks two years since that evil pit of hell horrific attack by Hamas on Israel. More than 250 people abducted, roughly 1200 others killed on that day. To give you a sense of just how large the attack was. And we said this at the top of the show, but I want to repeat it. Israel has a population of roughly 10 million people. America has 340 million. So we're 34 times larger than Israel. Which means that if that type of attack had happened in America, that's like seeing over 40,000Americans die in one day. That's what we're talking about here. As for peace talks between Israel and Hamas, they're slated to continue today. Reuters reporting that negotiations centered on key sticking points like the timeline of releasing the hostages and Israel's timeline of withdrawal from Gaza. Israel reportedly wants a strategic buffer zone and further withdrawal would hinge on Hamas meeting set conditions. Yeah, good luck with that. For more, let's bring in former Netanyahu advisor and senior contributing editor for JNS.org Excuse me. Ruthie Bloom. Ruthie, always great to see you. Sadly, here we are, October 7th, two years later. I'm curious to get your thoughts on where you are at today about that day. And also, are you surprised that this has gone on this long? I mean, it's not easy fighting a war with the world against you in one hand tied behind your back. Good morning.
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Ruthie Blum
Good morning. It's good to see you. David, I'll tell you, you say it's a long war, and that's true because Israel's previous wars have lasted three weeks. Or as we know, the Six Day War lasted six days. We're not used to these lengthy wars. But I'll tell you why I'm not surprised for two reasons. One is that every single war we've had with Gaza has ended without a real victory and with tunnels left in the Strip and terrorists roaming around and killing Israelis. So this time we said, okay, enough is enough. Especially after that Satanic Day on October 7th two years ago when it wasn't just people killed. Women were raped, babies were burned, men were beheaded. I can't even to describe what went on that day would be too offensive to say on the air that's how bad it was. And that's why the films of the atrocities that Hamas actually filmed proudly, only some people are capable of watching it, many people faint and throw up afterwards, etc. Now, the reason it's gone on so long really is because of the hostages held in Gaza. And Israel a wants to be careful not to kill any of them and unfortunately do have many of them were returned in deals over the past two years and now there are 48 remaining ones. That's one thing. But mainly because Israel tries desperately not to kill what we call Gazan civilians. All right, now keep in mind that many of those civilians I say with air quotes, participated in the massacre. And also many they cheered when the hostages were brought into Gaza, they were beating them up as they came in on pickup trucks, etc. Nevertheless, Israel always behaves that way in war, warning civilians to move out of harm's way, sending leaflets into Gaza, making phone calls to Gazans, and trying very hard to launch precise incision strikes on buildings and areas where the terrorists have infrastructure. But because of that, it's taken so long.
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Dr. Gina
Ruthie, how many of the 48 remaining hostages do you think are alive and what do you think is the tie up? We should have had some resolution on this Sunday evening. We still have no resolution. What's your prediction? What's really happening behind the scenes and your most educated guests, right?
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Ruthie Blum
Well, my most educated guess about the number of live hostages is based on what we're told, and that is that there are 20 live hostages and 28 dead ones. But the live ones you see are being starved and tortured, so it's hard to know really how long they're going to last. That's number one. Many of them are severely injured as well. And you have no idea. They weren't given medical treatment or anything. We know about one of them whose eye has shrapnel in it and he's blind in that eye. We know that. And he may be by now blind in the other eye as well. Again, things like that, they're just horrific injuries. Now you're Right. At first, President Trump gave a deadline. He said, you know, by Sunday at 6pm but then he backtracked. And I don't blame him for this, okay? Because there has been no greater friend to Israel in the White House than President Trump. Trump, ever. So this isn't even a criticism, but he does speak in bombastic terms. You know, if you don't do this, all hell will break loose. He said that many times. And then he says something else. Now, in this case, what he did was give Hamas time to agree to the deal. Now, Hamas did not agree to it. It said it agreed. But then if you read how. How it agreed, it was actually not a yes, it was a no. But Trump did something clever. What he said was, okay, great, Hamas agreed, and now let's talk. And then Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, he was put in a funny position because he said a few hours after President Trump said Hamas agreed to the deal, Prime Minister Netanyahu, about three or four hours after that, he responded, and his response was brilliant. What he said was, yes, we trust that in President Trump's deal and that Hamas, before we do anything, has to free those hostages, all of them. And that's how he responded by saying, yes, that was President Trump's condition. Now, whether I'm optimistic about it, you know, Hamas is already saying, well, we don't know where all the dead bodies are, and we'll do it. And the trouble is here, you see, is that to act like we're negotiating a peace deal, that's a mistake right there. With Hamas, you cannot negotiate peace with jihadists. And the fact that they even have any leverage at all is outrageous. And to further complicate matters, President Trump did a very brilliant thing. He got Qatar and Egypt and Turkey and all these countries to say, okay, Hamas has got to end this already and free the hostages. But here's the problem. Qatar and Turkey, for example, are pro Hamas. And throughout this war, Qatar has been supporting and housing Hamas and also at the same time, serving as some kind of mediator with negotiations. So I'm not that optimistic. On the other hand, both Trump and Netanyahu assure us that any day now, we're going to see hostages. And I'm praying that's true. And I'm praying that Hamas won't pull a stunt like, okay, here are five hostages, and then we'll see about the rest of them. You know, that kind of thing, which could easily happen. They are terrorists and they are sadists.
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Terrence Bates
And they are not to be trusted. Ruthie, we could continue this conversation for 20 more minutes because I have many, many more questions of you. Unfortunately, unfortunately, we are out of time. But I will say our prayers, continue to be with you, your family members and Israel as a state in general. And thank you so much for joining us.
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Dr. Gina
Thank you, Ruth.
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Ruthie Blum
Thank you so much for having me.
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Terrence Bates
Of course. It's always a pleasure. Coming up, as the temperatures begin to drop, we get closer to flu season. So how effective are those flu shots that are always advertised? Can you get the flu from just taking the shot? Take a wild guess. We'll have the details on how to keep you healthy. It's next here on American Sunrise.
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Dr. Gina
Alright, welcome back to my I'm Dr. Gina. Thank you for joining us today. It is now time for today's health news, sponsored by the Wellness Company and under the microscope today as we get closer to flu season. I bet, like me, you're getting calls from pharmacies saying, oh, don't forget, you're due for your flu shot. Oh, all your dogs are due for vaccinations. You're due for all of these different vaccinations, which the word vaccination in and of itself is a misnomer, but certainly the flu shot is. According to a new study at Cleveland Clinic, nearly 44,000 participants got the flu vaccine. And out of that group, nearly 1,100 guess what got the flu. That number came in at about 2% of people in the study. But later on, the cumulative incidence of those getting the flu, that increased more among those who were vaccinated than those who were unvaccinated. Did you hear me on that one? Well, this study was conducted during last Year's flu season. You know, it was a miraculous thing, too, is how no one got the flu during COVID It was just cured for that whole season. I'm joking. For expert reaction and analysis on the health of America, let's bring in the chief scientific officer at the wellness company, Dr. Peter McAuliffe. Dr. McCullough. They just lie to us. They just lie to us. I am so, so tired of the lies. I'm so burned out. You know, I get these texts from pharmacies, and I usually use independent pharmacies. Let me say that really clearly. But, you know, just from the olden days when I didn't know better and I used the big box pharmacies, and I get texts from them all the time saying, oh, you're. It's flu season, and if you don't come in and get your. This shot, that shot, whatever the shot, and they'll have a list of them. You know, you're. They make you feel scared. They will sometimes even get me Dr. Mercola, with everything I know about their lies. I'm like, ooh, oh, no, wait, Gina, no. I can only imagine how that feels to an impressionable someone of the boomer generation who doesn't maybe know better and is afraid and doesn't know the truth. Dr. McCullough, this has got to stop.
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David Brody
It's true.
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Congresswoman Claudia Tenney
You know, as a doctor, most doctors and nurses face this. We take annual flu shots because it's a requirement to be on hospital staff. So I personally took 40 flu shots over the years. And now we've learned from this paper by Shretha and colleagues from Cleveland Clinic that it backfires. That in fact, it makes you more likely to get the flu or a viral upper respiratory illness. And there was a randomized trial done in children that showed that. And I was wondering why I was sick all the time during that period of time of taking these flu shots. So they do backfire. Now, the recent report from the CDC about hospitalizations for influenza last year, which were higher, first author is Ohalluran, shows about a third of people hospitalized for influenza have taken the influenza vaccine. Now, you know, once they get in the hospital, then they start antivirals, and you start to unpack this and realize, listen, the influenza vaccine is very minimally effective, if at all, and does tend to backfire. The best way to prevent things is having a healthy immune system, nasal sprays and gargles done twice a day, and then having an emergency medical kit at home and starting an antiviral early for influenza, as opposed to Waiting to the hospitalization.
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Dr. Gina
And so you're recommending that during flu season, instead of going and getting the flu shot, that people take exactly what measures? I know you just said it, but I want you to say it again. Because if they're like me, Dr. McCullough, my supplement line is like 40 miles long morning, noon and night. And I'm like, wait, you're adding three more things? Okay, I'm a little overwhelmed, but this is easy stuff. Tell us.
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Congresswoman Claudia Tenney
Right, so you know the best in terms of randomized trials in preventing cold flu influenza. Covid is a nasal spray and gargle program. You do twice a day, religiously, just like you brush your teeth. And all the nasal sprays have efficacy. The one I like the best is called Clear X, L, E, A, R as the nasal spray. And the gargle is spry, S, P, R, Y. They're xylitol based. Wellness company has immune mist. They're iodine based. You know, Neomed Cofix Rx are iodine based as well. But to make sure you do it, like this morning, before I came to the office, I did a nasal spray in Gargle before I came to the office, and I'll do it again going home. That's far more effective than taking a flu shot. You know, I don't take them anymore, thank goodness. And, you know, for the last three years, I've been free of respiratory illnesses, I think, because I stopped the flu shots. And I'm relying on my natural immunity and a good nasal spray and gargle.
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Dr. Gina
Program so you don't have to get a flu. We're not sitting ducks. Like, there are things we can do boosting our immunity kits from the wellness company that make everything easy. And it really isn't a rule that you have to get the flu, even if you're working in a polluted environment, meaning polluted by virally polluted, such as a hospital or nursing home.
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Congresswoman Claudia Tenney
That's true. Also remember, you fly on airplanes. If you get an airplane with 300 people, somebody's got a virus. You want to make sure you carry a nasal spray, a throat spray with you. Again, Wellness company, we carry immune mist. They're fine to use. Now remember, the chances of getting influenza based on this Ohaliram paper from the CDC are way less than 1%. So everybody thinks that, oh, they're going to get it. No, your chances per year are way less than 1%. So the risk of influenza are greatly overstated for the general population.
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Dr. Gina
And also tell everybody, Dr. McCull, how important it is that they don't take antibiotics every time they get a cold virus.
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Congresswoman Claudia Tenney
So true. You know, antibiotics breed resistant strains of bacteria. And so the best way to manage a cold and virus again is to do a nasal spray and gargle. That reduces the viral burden in the nose and mouth and then your own immune system can knock it out. Then you get stronger over time. Now, if you're five or ten days into it and there's a productive cough and fever, then it could be a secondary bacterial pneumonia. But you don't want to jump on an antibacterial right away for a viral illness. If you test positive, the go to drug on day one is actually Tamiflu. And that's what's in our emergency medical kit from the Wellness company. The black contagion kit.
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Dr. Gina
Yeah, but unfortunately, Dr. Mercola, most allopathic doctors you call them and they, you know, I broke a fingernail, here's an antibiotic. I mean really, I have a toothache. Here's an antibiotic. Eyelash fell out. Here's an antibiotic. That's what I love about the Wellness company is you all are educated, your doctors are well informed and you're not over prescribing antibiotics that make everybody else sick. And you've got the real stuff there. So we appreciate you there at the Wellness Company. And Dr. McCollough, you for spearheading the entire thing. Thanks so much for being with us.
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Congresswoman Claudia Tenney
Thank you.
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Dr. Gina
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Terrence Bates
Welcome back to American Sunrise. It's now time to stay awake, not woke. And who's woke today, you ask? Well, it would be the company Build a Bear. A Build a Bear store in Washington state reportedly refused to put Charlie Kirk's name on a bear's birth certificate. The teenager who's trying to buy that bear was just trying to honor Charlie Kirk, who she looked up to on social media, but she was confronted by a manager at that store who refused to put the name on the bear. The teenager then was so distraught that she gave her card to a friend to pay and left the store. Let's bring in Dr. Gina and David to talk about this a little bit more. David, we want to start with you. You know, what a shame that this sort of thing happens. You know, it just goes to show where we are as a society. It's a shame.
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David Brody
It really is. You know, the rest of that story, as Paul Harvey would say, is that the family called corporate, and corporate's like, oh, yeah, here's a $20 gift card. And they were like, really? After spending about an hour on the phone with them, you're giving us a $20 gift card. Then a couple of days later, corporate called them back and said, we actually want to fully apologize. And we are now retraining the staff there in that Washington state office to be to make sure that politics stay out of any decision making there. So that's all Great. But here's the thing. Did what happened with Charlie Kirk and the Build a Bear situation like, in other words, did it ever happen? I mean, did they. At that point, I guess. Gina, forget it. Because, you know, why give Build A Bear the money at that point to even do it or even if it was free? Even if it was free, you know, you ruined the experience.
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Terrence Bates
The damage is done.
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David Brody
Damage is done.
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Dr. Gina
Yeah. And to a child, I mean, that's a special kind of stupid. You know, you look at Build a Bear, by the way, founded in St. Louis, but it reminds me of another company that was founded in St. Louis, and the name of that company is Bud Light. Build a Bear might want to take a look at some things that have happened recently, like, oh, I don't know, Cracker Barrel. Build A Bear. This can happen to you fast. Because patriots are not going to sit down for this sort of discrimination. We're tired of it. We're going to show our true colors. Look what's happening to companies like Steak N Shake who are putting flags. The tallest flags they can afford. I mean, the tallest flags they can legally have, by the way, in every single store, outside of every single store. Not inside. That would be. That would be bad. But outside of every store as tall as the municipality will let them. Those are the flags they're putting up. Take a page out of that book Build a Bear and respect this young girl's First Amendment right and encourage her to go and do the things and stand for the things that she believes in while she's young, because we will all have a better America. Even if you think she's misguided, fine. But if she is willing to stand for what she believes in at a young age, in terms of her choice, and if that gives her some kind of comfort, who the heck is some manager to come along? And I will just bet you I wasn't there. I don't know anything about this, but I will bet you this is the DEI hire. I will just bet you this was a DEI hire. That's all I have to say about that. Yeah.
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Terrence Bates
Well, I'll just say that it's egregious on so many different levels. First of all, what makes Build a Bears unique is that you get a chance to build the bear and make it your own, if you will. And that would include naming the bear. That's what makes the experience unique. And so to limit someone from being able to name their bear, that's. That's counter to the entire business model. So that's one the Whole issue of, oh, well, we're going to retrain this manager. No, the manager probably needs to be fired because that should have been part of the initial training. And you know, it's just so egregious. And here's the other thing. All right, let's take, let's take Charlie Kirk out of this. Maybe this young girl had a family member happened to be named Charlie Kirk. So simply because of your politics and because of what you think, you're going to try to limit someone from naming the bear. And again, the whole appeal of the whole of building the bear is the name and make and personalizing it, if you will. It's egregious. It's egregious. And I would say someone probably needs to lose their job.
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David Brody
David, I'll be brief, but you know, we talk about is there a civil war in America? But we've talked about this. There's an ideological civil war, informational civil war, geographical civil war, civil war, spiritual civil war, and a consumer civil war. I mean, it is happening. And we just look and so this idea that are we going to be in a civil war? Okay, yeah. We haven't done Gettysburg yet. Okay. But we are in a civil war. We should be very clear about that in all different aspects.
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Dr. Gina
Yeah. And so in a bear ain't rocket science, folks. Parallel economy.
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David Brody
There you go. Preach al qa. Parallel economy. That's the end of this segment and we'll move on. You like how I've decided that? Yeah, I've decided that's the end of the segment.
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Terrence Bates
So. So I guess David just gave me my cue to move on to our tea. Still to come here on a movie. How is the faith community commemorating the two year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel? Find out because we'll talk about it next year on American Substance.
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Terrence Bates
God bless the USA.
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AMAC Representative
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
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Terrence Bates
Welcome back to American Sunrise. It is now time for our moment of faith, which is brought to us by Lee Greenwood and the God bless the USA Bible. In Focus today, the October 7th terror attacks from two years ago. The atrocities from that day are still front and center on the world stage. And now we're also seeing reports about just how heinous the orders were that were given that day. The Daily Mail reporting that Hamas ordered operatives to create, quote, shocking scenes and that meant to target primarily women and children and cause bodily harm, burn homes, just among some of the craziness that happened that day. They also were ordered to get it all on camera in order to be used for propaganda. So now let's bring in the president of StandAmerica, U.S. bishop E.W. jackson, to talk more about this. Bishop Jackson, good morning.
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David Brody
Good morning, Terrence.
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Terrence Bates
Thank you for having me. So I just want to start here because when you think about the sort of atrocities that happened that day, evil is the only way to describe, really is, and it should be a reminder to Christians particularly and to Americans in general, that the demonic forces that have wanted to destroy Israel throughout human history are still at work. And we can never, ever back up. We can never slacken our commitment, our determination to see to it that Israel is protected and to stand with the Jewish people. This was a horrible, the worst atrocity against Israel since the Holocaust. But it should be a reminder to us that they are not finished and neither are we in fighting for Israel. Bishop As Christians, we often say love always overcomes hate and evil. But when you look at what happened on that day, it's hard to reconcile that. Well, look, I just said in my sermon on Sunday, it does in the ultimate sense, but it doesn't necessarily in the day to day sense, in the week to week, month to month sense, evil continues to push forward and it affects us all. I was in Israel since I've been in Israel since this atrocity happened, and I visited the site where there was a concert, they walked through and just slaughtered young people, just slaughtered them who were there just dancing and enjoying themselves. I mean, this is truly wicked. And in that sense, evil prevailed. But I'm convinced of this. Evil will never prevail in destroying Israel because he that touches Israel touches the apple of God's eye. Finally, just really quickly, 30 seconds. What role do we as Christians have in terms of trying to make this world a little bit better in terms of loving our Jewish brethren, our Muslim brethren, and all of God's people? Well, we love everybody, of course, but we can't stand with people who stand with evil.
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David Brody
For Israel, we should pray, we should.
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Terrence Bates
Give, and we should go. Go to Israel, visit. Pray for Israel and give to those charities that are trying to support the Jewish people. All right. Great advice there. I like to travel, so I'm going to take your advice. I'm going to tell my wife, well, Bishop told me to go. So that's why we're paying all this money. Bishop Jackson, every Christian should visit Israel. Absolutely. I like that idea. Bishop Jackson, we appreciate your time. Thanks so much for being here. Thank you. Of course. We're back with the second hour of American Sunrise in two minutes.
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Terrence Bates
Coming up on this second hour of American Sunrise, Portland on edge. A federal judge has blocked President Trump from sending the National Guard to that city following weeks of unrest there. The US District judge said says the president violated federal law and the 10th amendment. We'll have the very latest facts in just a moment. Plus, President Trump calls out the Democrat candidate for attorney general in Virginia, demanding he withdraw from the race after shocking texts emerge showing that he made violent threats against the top Republican in his family. We'll break the story down for you. And if he's going to be held accountable, a new Rasmussen poll reveals a growing concern across the United States as most Americans say they fear political violence is on the rise. Well, this morning we'll break down the numbers for you and what this Radicalization means for our country. Those stories and so much more right now on this second hour of American Sunrise.
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David Brody
Good morning, America.
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Dr. Gina
Welcome to American Sunrise. Whether it's culture, we have breaking news to share with you.
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Terrence Bates
Politics.
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David Brody
President Trump is joining us live now from Florida.
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Terrence Bates
We've got you covered.
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David Brody
This is what it looks like to be a patriot.
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Terrence Bates
We have to protect the American family.
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Dr. Gina
The American dream is still alive.
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David Brody
I'm David Brody.
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Terrence Bates
I'm terrence.
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Dr. Gina
And I'm Dr. Gina.
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David Brody
Welcome back, everybody, to the second hour of American Sunrise. I'm David Brody. I'm in the deep state. Let's bring in Dr. G. She's in West Palms. I was going to call it West Palm State, sorry, West Palm Beach. T. Bates in our Denver newsroom, which is in the state of Colorado. Good morning to both of you. You know, I want to say something about October 7th. I wanted to be clear about what's going on with Israel. Like it is okay obviously to question Netanyahu and the Israeli government. I mean, that's low hanging fruit. We know that. Of course you should be doing that. We should all be doing that. We're free thinkers. That's not what we're talking about here. This idea that anti Semitism has spread so far, so wide since October 7th, it was a problem before that. It's even more of a problem now. There's a difference between criticizing Netanyahu and the Israeli government and saying it's the Jews fault for everything. You know that. And then I can get into a lot of the tropes and everything. You know, it's like, you know, we always talk about how, Gina, it's Trump's fault. You know, Trump's responsible for global warming. Trump's responsible for this. It kind of is a way. The same thing with the Jews. It's always the Jews fault with the Candace Owens, I'll call her out. I don't give a crap. You know, people like Candace Owens and many others, my concern is that on the anarchist right, people like Jackson Hinkle, I'll call him out, too, and others, they've got millions of followers. And I'm really concerned about it, Gina. I really am.
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Dr. Gina
I think it's okay to question everything. I think it's okay to listen to the people you just mentioned and make your own decision, but be rational.
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David Brody
Absolutely.
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Dr. Gina
I also think it's okay to think that we should put America first and not everybody that comes down the pike every time they rear up and put their hand out. Right. So there are a lot of, you know, I think we are in such an interesting time in our history. I'm not sure, at least in my lifetime, that we've ever been exactly in this place in our history, because while all of this questioning of Israel, et cetera, et cetera, is happening, there is a revival in the United States. And my son went on a British national news channel last night talking about the revival happening in the uk. So it's just. It's a time of great disparity, isn't it? It's a time of good and bad, of good and evil, of love and hate in so many interesting ways. The psychological component for me is always something to observe and to kind of sit back and watch because that's the part of it, when you break it all the way down, that becomes graspable. So that's kind of sometimes where I land on this kind of stuff is just watching the psychological process. These tyrants.
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Terrence Bates
You know, I must admit, from a personal note, and I hate to make shows about me, but I fear for our kids. I fear for my kids. I've got young kids and I fear for what the future is for them. I fear for the kind of world that they're growing up in and the sorts of values that people around them have. And it always comes back to for me, trying to make sure that I'm instilling good, solid values in them and instilling what is right and just in them. And unfortunately, I'm finding it difficult in these days. In these days and times. I could use some counseling. I could use some counseling.
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Dr. Gina
When it's difficult to discern it yourself, yourself. It's difficult to see through the weeds and people that you have trusted in your life are doing and saying things and acting in ways that you don't understand anymore, especially public figures. You know, we were just talking about the millions and millions of dollars that were put into the last election or the 2020 election for ballot harvesting and then to see. See the culprit of that cuddling up to our president at the White House. I mean, the list goes on. There's just. There are things that are disillusioning that are happening in our body politic, you know, But I do think it comes back to clinging to the cross and staying at the foot of Jesus. And I think that's just where we have to go back to every one of these times. And the more we need him. Right. The more our hearts can be right in the midst of all of the panic and fear.
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Terrence Bates
Yeah, because he doesn't change.
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David Brody
Everything else changes around but he doesn't change.
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Terrence Bates
But he doesn't. He is constant. I got a word. Lord, thank you. I needed that apparently. All right, guys. It is a new day and the same old government shutdown. On Monday, the Senate failed to pass not just one but two bills seeking to reopen the government. In the meantime, House Speaker Mike Johnson says he won't call House lawmakers back to Washington until the Senate does its job job and passes a continuing resolution to get federal workers back on the job. Then and only then can lawmakers continue the appropriations process, he says is my.
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AMAC Representative
Full intention that if we break this.
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David Brody
Impasse and we put these bills together, we have three of them in conference committee right now. Whatever the conference committee comes up with.
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AMAC Representative
I will put on the floor. I'm ready to go. But we got to open government UPS.
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David Brody
So that they can move to that next level so that conference committee can.
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AMAC Representative
Get that work done.
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Terrence Bates
I didn't put any, any of our.
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David Brody
Priorities on the, on the spending measure.
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AMAC Representative
Because again, all we're trying to do.
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David Brody
In good faith is get seven more.
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Congresswoman Claudia Tenney
Weeks to finish that appropriations process that.
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Terrence Bates
We'Ve been all so excited about. We'll, of course, continue to update you as this saga plays out. That's a quick check of your headlines. Now let's get a quick check of your forecast with meteorologist Tracy Anthony. Tracy, good morning.
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Dr. Gina
Hey, good morning. We have an active tropics, so areas of the eastern Pacific and the Atlantic, several areas that we're keeping a close eye on and several systems at least for the eastern Pacific. But we do have Priscilla, Hurricane Priscilla Now a Category 2 and another area just over the Yucatan Peninsula that's expected to move into the Gulf. So we'll continue to watch that. But across the, across the lower 48, a strong, powerful cold front is going to usher in fall like temperatures after most of us have felt like summer for the last couple of days. After record breaking heat, several of these cold fronts will plummet temperatures. So frost and freeze advisories are in place and we'll be wringing out a good amount of moisture. Now by the end of the week and into next weekend, we will have a good amount of late season moisture pumping into the Southwest. So that could cause some flash flooding and they were running a deficit throughout this last monsoon season. So that is some good news, Terrence. That's what's going on across the country. Back to you.
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Terrence Bates
Thanks so much, Tracy. Appreciate it. All right, let's get you over to David Brody now, folks.
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David Brody
Thanks, Terrence. Appreciate it. All right. While Congress grapples over how and when to end the government shutdown. Blue cities struggle to keep their streets safe for American citizens. President Trump's push for law and order hit another roadblock when a US District judge blocked the president from sending National Guard troops to Portland. This, of course, follows weeks of unrest and violence. Here's what Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said when a reporter suggested that Democrat leaders are concerned about a continuing National Guard presence in places like D.C. and other areas.
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Why should they be concerned about the.
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Dr. Gina
Federal government offering help to make their cities a safer place? They should be concerned about this. They should be concerned about the fact that people in their cities right now.
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Are being gunned down every single night. And the president, all he's trying to.
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Congresswoman Claudia Tenney
Do is fix it. And there has been a complete smear.
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iHeart Advertising Announcer
Campaign by the Democrats and the media, quite frankly.
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David Brody
All right, well, here to make sense of all this is editor in chief for just the news, that would be our good friend John Solomon. John, so we have this US District judge saying that a deployment order in Oregon violates both federal law and the 10th Amendment. The White House appealing to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. What do you think, Any prediction here on how this turns out? I mean, it feels like this is headed to the Supreme Court. They've got to have to, they're going to have to weigh in on this at some point.
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Terrence Bates
Yeah, well, remember, in a different district.
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AMAC Representative
Out in Chicago, a judge basically said, I wouldn't do it if I were you, Mr. President, but I won't stop it. And so he has a federal judge has cleared the way for President Trump to deliver National Guard and federal resources to the violence torn city of Chicago. And so you have different districts coming up with different interpretations of what the President's power is. And I think that always sets up an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court. I think they'll let it play through the ninth Circuit and, and then see what, what comes of it. And then I think they'll go to the Supreme Court saying, listen, judges are speaking with multiple voices. We need you to bring wisdom. And I think that at that point, the, the Supreme Court might set a standard for when a president, what triggers a president's desire or ability to send federalized national troops in to protect the city. And that will become probably a precedent sending, really. But I think this is headed to the Supreme Court, but, and probably within the next two or three weeks as the appeals process unfolds and, you know, finishes its first two levels.
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Terrence Bates
Hey, John, this just the news headline piqued my interest. Even though it didn't really surprise me. The headline reads, joe Biden's team blocked CIA from distributing report on Hunter's Ukraine business dealings. Most of us who've been covering this story already kind of knew this, even if we didn't necessarily have the proof. You're coming back with receipts, though, today.
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AMAC Representative
Yeah. Listen, this is a very important declassification by the CIA Director John Radcliffe. What does it show? It shows that President Trump, Vice President Biden used his power as the number two official in the country to protect his son from exposure in the Intelligence Committee by blocking the release of the report. That showed that a lot of Ukrainian officials back in 2016 believed Hunter Biden's presence with Burisma was undercutting the Obama administration's arguments that Ukraine should become less corrupt. If the Vice President signs working for a crop company, it completely undercuts that. This is the first time we know that Joe Biden put his thumb on a specific product to protect his son from being exposed for the, the racket that he was running in Ukraine and quite frankly, in many other countries. It's one side of weaponization. In a 6, 8 hour period yesterday, we got both sides of the weaponization, brand new evidence. One side is going after your enemies. That's part of weaponization. And what you saw yesterday with the release of information by FBI Director Cash Patel and Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Rousey, you saw eight senators and one House member having their phone communications reviewed and intruded on by the FBI. None of them ever got charged. So apparently whatever they were looking for wasn't criminal. And then on the flip side, the same machinery that's going after Republicans is protecting Joe Biden son from the inevitable discovery that the intelligence community and our foreign allies sought. What Hunter Biden was doing in Ukraine and other foreign countries was unseemly and corrupt. That is how the dual system of justice and the dual system of weaponization has played out. And yesterday I think we got two of the most cogent examples, documented the receipts for them that we've ever seen.
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David Brody
John Solomon, always great to have you. And you always have receipts. I wonder if you ever send in those receipts. You have. You should expense those, by the way.
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Terrence Bates
Yeah, that's right. Thanks, guys.
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David Brody
Wait, you own the. Wait, you own the company. Never mind, I gotta expense them to you. All right, thank you.
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Terrence Bates
Guys. Thanks, John.
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David Brody
Coming up, unlikely praise for Secretary of War Secretary Pete Hagsth. It's coming. Wait for this. From the left. We're going to show you what two liberal podcasters had to say about his address to the nation's top generals last week. That's next on American Sunrise.
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Terrence Bates
Welcome back to American Sunrise. I'm Terrence Bates, AKA T Bates, AKA Big Sexy, AKA that guy. It is now time to drain the swamp. And this morning we are flushing out our military generals who are tipping the scales with an assist from super liberal pundit and podcaster Charlamagne the God. In a recent podcast with comedian Andrew Schultz, the liberal podcaster said, or podcasters said they agreed with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and his crackdown on fat admirals and generals. Here's what they. Here's what that sounded like. I agree with Pete on the fat admirals and generals, though. Yeah, I mean, we're not.
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AMAC Representative
I don't want no fat admirals.
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Terrence Bates
That is, that's the one thing Pete Hegseth said. And there's one standard. It's not a men's and women's standard, is just one standard.
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David Brody
Can't have the strongest military in the world.
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AMAC Representative
And I look the part, bro.
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Terrence Bates
It's an odd moment of agreement from the other side that we of course, will continue to talk about. In the meantime, though, very quickly, we want to take you to Capitol Hill where Pam Bondi is testifying. And then we'll get you over to the White House, disclose that the Biden administration used Arctic Frost to target Republican senators, including several senators on this very committee. This is an outrage, an unconstitutional breach and ought to be immediately addressed by you and Director Patel. It's also clear example of why the Justice Department has had to fire personnel who you hear Democrats defending while the taxpayers dimensions while on the taxpayer's dime. These now fired employees. Not only weaponized law enforcement, but some of them also retaliated against patriotic whistleblowers. These are indefensible acts. Now I've obtained additional weaponization records thanks to brave whistleblowers that predate Arctic Frost. I've obtained documents created by then Supervisory Special agent Thievo, dated March 2nd. So this Senate hearing that you're listening to is Pam Bondi basically defending her tenure as the US Attorney General. She, of course, has come up against a fair amount of criticism for the job she's been doing. For reaction, let's bring in Raf chief White House correspondent Brian Glenn to talk a bit more about this and everything else happening on Capitol hill and at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Brian, a lot to take in from Canada's prime minister coming to the White House to that hearing there. The reality is, is that Pam Bondi to some degree is embattled. She has faced a fair amount of criticism. Has and of course, we talked about this when this administration took over, that there, there was a laundry list of things that need to be looked into. And of course, we live in this hypersensitive world. We want it today and we want the results tomorrow. Like this is what we want. And it's not reality. This is not the reality we live in. So, yeah, she's been taking her a good amount of criticism for, I guess, not acting as swiftly on certain things, but then she's absolutely followed through on others. But today she's going to probably face some tough questions in front of that hearing. Absolutely. So the other big story coming up here in the next couple of hours there at the White House is Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arriving there to talk with President Trump. I imagine that much of that conversation is going to center around trade and tariffs. Do you expect a humble Mark Carney to be at the White House today, or will this be a more aggressive Mark Carney similar to the last time he was there when he said certain things, Mr. President, aren't for sale. Yeah.
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AMAC Representative
If you remember, Carney was compared to.
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Terrence Bates
A hockey player during the political campaign for him being called. Elbows up, very aggressive language against President.
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AMAC Representative
Trump and administration pushing back on the.
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Terrence Bates
51St state and all that language that President Trump used as well. Now he has been criticized, though he is the only country from the G7 that has not secured their trade deal. So I think he's coming in.
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AMAC Representative
This is what people describe as a working visit.
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Terrence Bates
They are hoping that they can kind of iron out some details, kind of get that trade deal done as people have economists in Canada know how crucial this is to the future of their.
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AMAC Representative
Economy and during his administration.
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Terrence Bates
So he's got to get this deal done. I think that this is one of.
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AMAC Representative
These moments that we'll look back and.
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Terrence Bates
Go today was the day that Carney and President Trump hammered out a solid trade agreement that was beneficial for both countries. But yet, you know, he's here looking forward to it. And we'll have, of course, that takes place in the oval office around 11:15 here local time in D.C. so stay tuned for that. We're going to dip in on that coverage as it develops. Will you have popcorn, Brian Glenn, as I expect there could be an opportunity for some fireworks. Will you be front and center with popcorn, waiting to see how it goes down? I'm going to have not only popcorn.
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AMAC Representative
I'll have a Diet Coke as well.
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Terrence Bates
I'll be front and center for that meeting in the Oval Office. I'm looking forward to it because I think this is the second time these.
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AMAC Representative
Guys have met and I think the first time obviously didn't work out the way you want it to, but they.
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Terrence Bates
Got to get it done. And Carney's been very aggressive during his campaign. But now is the time to come to the table and let's get this deal done. Absolutely. Brian Glenn, always good to see you, my friend. We'll talk later on today. Brian Glenn reporting from the White House, ladies and gentlemen. Well, folks, we're going to be headed down to Wall street for the opening bell and insight into how to hold on to your hard earned dollars with some common sense. All of that next on American Sunrise.
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Terrence Bates
Shout out to our West Palm beach control room. Guys, raise the roof for me one time. Come on. I see you. Raise the roof. Put it up.
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Dr. Gina
Okay.
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Terrence Bates
That's my. Those are my guys right there. They make us all look good. We appreciate you guys. That's our West Palm beach control room, everybody. We're getting ready for the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. It's set to ring here in just a few minutes, and we, of course, will take you there. So far, so good. Most of our board in the green at the moment. The major indices, the dow S&P 500 and the NASDAQ looking good. Hopefully it turns out to be a strong day of trading. And it turns out to be a prosperous day of you. For those of you who are out there trading as well, we'll get you there momentarily. But first, let's get you over to David Brody. David, I think I'm the control room's favorite now, since I shouted them out and had them raise the roof. I can do no wrong at this point.
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David Brody
No, you really can't do any. Anything wrong. And I like how your T. Bates and big Sexy and all that. I mean, you're just. You've got so many different avenues to go down. By the way, the crew, we should say they're going to definitely raise the roof, but with the amount of Red Bulls they've consumed by 9am Eastern.
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Dr. Gina
They'Re.
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David Brody
Definitely raising the roof. All right, let's do this. Let's do our daily dose of dollars in common sense with someone who's got a lot of common sense. Joe Biden joins us. No, he doesn't. American Sunrise Early Edition host, the guy behind Jake's take substack, that would be Jake Novak. Jake, last time I checked, you don't look like Biden, nor do you think like Biden. And I believe that's quote, praise God for that. All right, so last week you told us that chat GPT, the maker there, OpenAI, was worth $500 billion. And now you're saying the company's going shopping. Talk to us. Jake, good morning. Good morning.
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Terrence Bates
You know when your company starts being.
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David Brody
Worth a heck of a lot of money overnight? I mean, Chat GPT only launch a few years ago, right? Like three years ago. It's smart to start buying other assets because what comes up to you overnight can go away overnight. But there's another reason why they're doing this. OpenAI is also doing this because they need to buy a computer chip company.
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Terrence Bates
And take a controlling interest in it.
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David Brody
Or a very strong influence in it.
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Terrence Bates
So they can make sure that the chips that they want get made. Very interestingly though, David, they didn't choose Nvidia, the established king of AI chips. They chose amd, used to be known.
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David Brody
As Advanced Micro Devices.
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Terrence Bates
That to me, is another good development. I like to see competition in the business world and you know, that's important.
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David Brody
So they're going after another company. They're spreading their assets around in case one day somebody wakes up and says, ah, this is like aol, I don't want this anymore.
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Terrence Bates
It's smart to do that.
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David Brody
But it's also smart to take control.
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Terrence Bates
Of a company that they know they're going to need their product.
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David Brody
You don't want to be relying on something that you have no control over for sure. By the way, you said in video, which makes me think they needed to need to really put an eye in front of the end. But that's a separate topic for another day.
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Ruthie Blum
All right.
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David Brody
The first real pressure from the government shutdown coming from the airline industry. So talk about that, Jake. That's interesting. That intrigues me.
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Terrence Bates
Yeah. You know, right now we're not seeing a huge, you know, have you not, have you noticed the dog not barking? There isn't a lot of yelling and.
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David Brody
Crying about this shutdown.
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Terrence Bates
But we're starting to hear a little bit something from the airline industry.
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David Brody
They're a little bit worried.
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Terrence Bates
You know, air traffic controllers are, you.
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David Brody
Know, there's definitely a shortage there and.
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Terrence Bates
There'S some problems with some of the.
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David Brody
Airports already because of the shutdown. But David, I checked all the major.
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Terrence Bates
Airline shares are up in the pre market. So I think that what that means is they believe that this thing's going.
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David Brody
To end pretty soon or they're a.
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Terrence Bates
Little bit overstating their complaint.
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David Brody
If they were real, if there were.
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Terrence Bates
A real issue and people going into the holiday season thought there were going to be some major shutdowns or major.
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David Brody
Cutbacks in flight schedules.
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Terrence Bates
You would see, see the shares of Delta, United and American all down. Guess what?
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David Brody
They're all up in the pre market.
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Terrence Bates
So that's all you need to know.
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David Brody
There's that. Hey, by the way, we got about 30 seconds left, so I'm just curious about the shutdown. You got any predictions? Got an over under. I feel like we're on the betting line here. I, I mean, how long is this thing going to go on for? What, what is your sense? What's the longest shutdown? I feel like it's 35 days or something like that. I don't know. It's Maybe I'm wrong on that, but I, I, that's what I had read somewhere. Maybe it was on msnbc. So it's got to be right. What do you think? Government shutdown. How long does this go on for, Jake?
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Terrence Bates
I think Thursday or Friday it ends. And I don't want to finish really.
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David Brody
Just for a second. If you can put the board back up.
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Terrence Bates
Gold hit that 4,000 mark this morning. I mean, I predicted that a couple.
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David Brody
Of days ago that it would happen this week.
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Terrence Bates
Yeah, There you are. $4,007 per ounce.
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David Brody
Thank you, control room.
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Terrence Bates
Just want to make sure that we don't miss that. That's a huge, huge number. Huge psychological number. And yes, I think the shutdown end Thursday or Friday.
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David Brody
That's my prediction. Wow. You get a lot of information into limited time. Thank you, Jake Novak. We appreciate you, as always. All right, the best challah maker in the land. Time to head back to T. Bates in Denver for the opening bell.
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Terrence Bates
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Terrence Bates
Welcome back, everyone. We're getting ready for the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. This is some hockey team out of New York. I don't even know who these people are. No, this is the New York Rangers. One of our, one of our directors, Colin, is a Rangers fan, and so he purposely put this up. I think the applause underway there at the New York Stock Exchange. The bell is now ringing, and Colin is hoping that the Rangers stock in the NHL rises and that maybe they bring home another Stanley cup this coming season. We'll, of course, talk more about that a little bit later. But now let's focus on the stock markets. As you can see, everything is in the green. The dow S&P 500 and the NASDAQ are all up. Just a couple of blemishes on our screen. But we hope that you have a good day of trading and that all of the indices and the precious metals on our screen ultimately turn green by the end of this day of trading. So here's a question for you. Do you owe back taxes? Are your tax returns still unfiled? Did you forget to file for an extension? Well, the October 15th deadline is approaching and time is running out. If you haven't gathered all of your documents or made any estimates payments, you could soon be targeted by the irs. They can garnish your wages or freeze your bank accounts or even seize your property. There is help available though. Tax Network usa, which is a nationwide tax firm, has helped taxpayers save over a billion dollars in tax debt. They filed hundreds of thousands of tax returns and assisted thousands of people in reducing their tax burden. Plus, they can help you. Don't wait. Visit tnusa.com rav or call 800-905-8000 for a 100% free consultation. In one short call, the experts over at Tax Network USA will guide you through some simple questions to determine just how much you can save. Take action now before it's too late. Visit tnusa.com rav or call 800. Still to come here on American Sunrise, a new poll finds that most likely voters are worried about radicalization and political violence. And they're pointing the finger at social media and the Internet as the root cause. We'll break down the numbers. First, though, a quick look at this day in history.
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David Brody
I'll be back.
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Terrence Bates
It was on this date in 2003 that California held a gubernatorial recall election. Governor Gray Davis lost and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of the Golden State. The governor, as he came to be called, served for seven years from 03 to January of 2011. And as you just heard Arnold say, will you be back?
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Dr. Gina
All right. Welcome back to American sunrise. I'm Dr. G. Thanks for joining us this morning. We invite you to hop in our conversation over on YouTube, getter and rumble. It is time now to take the political pulse of America the beat. Today, a new Rasmussen poll shows 84% of likely voters are worried about political violence. And they point to online radicalization as a major driver of that violence. This comes just weeks after the assassination, of course, of Charlie Kirk, which most still believe was a lone wolf attack. Some don't. I see you in the chat. But fears are growing that other attacks could follow. Now, according to the poll, the vast majority of American voters believe social media and other Internet sources sources are driving this radicalization, including 54% who say they are very concerned. Just 12% aren't concerned about online radicalization. Let's bring in David Brody and Terrence Bates. Also joining us is AVL host Steve Gruber. Steve, you're out there talking to voters every day. I mean, so many shootings, they start to stack up and blur in your mind. But I mean, we had the, the attack on our ICE agents. We've had, of course, the attack on Charlie Kirk. We're not forgetting we had the assassination attempts on our president. More than one, of course. And a lot of things we don't hear about. You know, in my positioning here, sometimes I get to talk to people kind of back channel and hear about things that have happened that never make the news, Steve, because a lot of people don't want people to know about the attempted attacks or threats on their lives. What's really behind these numbers?
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AMAC Representative
Look, Americans are concerned about political violence because it's finally been put right in their face. It's right there. Whether it's the murder of Charlie Kirk, which is hard to believe, has been a month ago tomorrow. Shocking that that much time has already passed. But I want to focus on one story that came out over the weekend and this is how reckless the commentary comes can be. To me, this judge in South Carolina, her mansion burned to the ground over the weekend, Saturday night. You probably saw this. She's a 69 year old judge in South Carolina, federal judge and her husband, 81 years old, also worked in politics for years. They're, they're left of center people and so be it. And almost instantly I saw Democrats, including members of Congress saying, look, this is more right wing violence. They don't have any idea what caused the fire. There's an arson investigation. That's all it is. When you have a big mansion burn up, there's always an arson investigation because it could be insurance fraud, it could be intentional, could be an electrical fire, they don't know. But for Democrats to jump right on that, say, look, political violence, that's nonsense, that's reckless, that's dangerous. And I've been saying for a while, Dr. G and I, and I see this coming, it won't be long before ordinary people get attacked. We've seen it already. And when I say be attacked, somebody's going to get shot for wearing a red hat. Let me tell you a story about the University of Michigan here. Just recently, a friend of mine's girlfriend, her mother works at the university, she was walking down the street with a 62 year old liberal man who had a red hat on. Not a MAGA hat, just a red hat. I don't know where it came. This guy who punched him in the side head, this is last week in Ann Arbor, Michigan, punched him in the side head and dropped him to the ground. He's a Democrat, he's a liberal, but he had a red hat on. He was attacked openly on the streets of Ann Arbor, Michigan. It wouldn't surprise me or anybody else to wake up and see that somebody has been shot simply because they wore a red hat. That's the environment that's been created by this reckless behavior. Calling me a Nazi, a fascist, a white supremacist, a Christian nationalist. When you label people like that, you dehumanize them, you make them an easy target because if they're not a person, well, heck, I can kill a Nazi. I should get bonus points to go to heaven for that. Right? That's the mentality and that's, that is fostered on social media. It's fostered by reckless comments from political people from members of Congress. We see it all the time. I mean, how many anti Semitic remarks do we have to hear from people in the squad, for example, how many reckless comments do we have to hear about people on the right? And because I don't buy this, it's a both sides issue. I don't. They try to point to the attack on a church in Michigan. Well, she has right wing violence. No, that was a guy who targeted a specific, specific church because he didn't like that particular church. It had nothing to do with being a Trump supporter, had nothing to do with being conservative. It had to do with the fact that he hated the Mormon Church for whatever reason. Not rational, not, not appropriate. But that's where you arrive. I don't think it's a both sides issue. I think it's been predominantly on the left in recent years. Clearly you go back to the, to the baseball game where Steve Scalise was almost murdered. If not for his two people with sidearms, members of Congress would have been slaughtered there. Not just any members of Congress, every single one a Republican. So let's not sugarcoat this for what it is. Okay?
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David Brody
Yeah. So Steve, you got any suggestions for what you do with all the stuff that's going on online, all the radicalization, number one. But beyond all of that, the vitriol, because I got to tell you, I go down rabbit holes. We all do. And, you know, I'll get online, I'll get on social media, and I'll send scroll, scroll, scroll. And I look up and I'm. My goodness, it's been an hour, an hour and a half, and then I have to go out and I don't hug a tree, but I go take a walk. Because it's too much. It's too much for all of us. And let's be honest, if we had truth serum for all four of us in this quad box, we're on social media more than we should be, just like every single. Every single American. So we're guilty of it, too. I'm not saying guilty of radicalization. I'm not trying to shame us here. I'm just simply saying that it is addictive is my point. And, you know, what do we do about it? What? I mean, it's personal responsibility, ultimately, but what do we do about it?
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AMAC Representative
So I'm going to tell you something that we've done. Maybe the most powerful event I've been to as far as feeling the Holy Spirit, was Charlie Kirk's memorial. To be in that room. We were all there most of it, and it was the most remarkable. The nine minutes where they just played music. One of the most remarkable experience I've ever had. Brandon Lake, one of the folks up on stage, that was the most remarkable Christian moment he's ever experienced. I agree with that. But in light of that, the Charlie Kirk effect, I think it's multifaceted. We see a revival of more people in church. Good thing. I saw 8,000. I think it was University of Tennessee. 8,000 kids got baptized together. There were 3,000 students at Texas A&M yesterday at mass. 3,000 kids think about that, right? But here's something that we've done in this household, and it's just a suggestion, and I suggest you try it. What Charlie Kirk did, I learned this after he died. From Friday night until Saturday night, the phone was away. He didn't look at social media. He didn't look at his phone. He's very hard to get a hold of. During that time period, my understanding, we started doing that to the best of our ability. We're not perfect at it yet, but we've been pretty good about. All right, Friday sundown, we're gonna hang out with the kids. We're gonna go golf we're gonna go walk around the yard. We're gonna go fish, whatever it might be, because that's something else. I like to fish. And here's why. It's real. It's not a deep fake video. It's not something created. It's not a meme. It's real. God's world is real. The natural world is real. Take off your shoes, walk in the grass, feel something that's real, that's not created on social media or by AI or by a deep fake experience. God's natural world. And if you walk around the world, you look at blades of grass, you look at a pheasant. If you look at the beauty of a pheasant, just as an easy example, this beautiful bird that has iridescent colors. If you look at that bird and you don't believe in God, I don't know what to tell you. If you look at the magic of the natural world and you don't believe in God, I don't know how to get to somebody like that. Although I would just keep telling them it's real. God is real. Look at this incredible creature. Look at the incredible beauty in nature. Turn your phone off from Friday night to Saturday night, if you can. Try that. I think it'll give you a lot of peace of mind. It'll give you a chance to calm the noise inside your head. I mean, look, there's all this. There's all this noise out there. Distractions, noise everywhere. Take a moment, take a deep breath. Listen for that voice, God's voice. And I think you'll be rewarded for it. I truly do.
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Terrence Bates
All right, Steve, So we're at a crossroads in our friendship at this moment. I love the fact that you love to fish, but I need to know, are you a catch and release or catch and fry guy?
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AMAC Representative
Depends on the day. And it depends on the fish that I catch. You know, I'll tell you a quick story. I was with my. I was with my father once. We were fishing off Erie, Pennsylvania, and Lake Erie. We caught these smallmouth bass, right? And. And my dad had caught this really nice smallmouth bass. We were. The guy that was. The guy tosses it over the side of the boat. My dad's like, whoa, whoa, what are you doing? Throwing my lunch away. My dad was truly upset. What are you doing? So it depends. More fish get released in my life. By far, probably 95% of them, you know, go back every now and then. Do I keep a fish? Yeah, it's God's bounty. I shop at God's grocery store. I do. And, you know, he provided it for us. It says so in Genesis. The fish of the sea, the creatures of the earth. I'm that guy. And so, look, the other thing about that is free range organic red meat. I don't have to worry if I get a deer and I bring it home and put it in the freezer. I don't have to worry about whether it was injected with antibiotics or hormones or growth hormones or this or that. It's real and it was put here for us. And so I take advantage of God's bounty when possible. Terrence, I hope we're still friends.
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Terrence Bates
Okay. All right. We can continue to be friends. Because I'm one of those people. Sorry, Dr. Gina. I'm one of those people. If I get you in my boat and you're a fish, you're going on somebody's fire. That's just me. That's just me. I don't care how big or small.
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Dr. Gina
I'm one of those who wants desperately to learn to fish and has absolutely zero luck. I live on the water. I sit there with my fishing pole. It looks at me. I look back at it for hours and hours. I never catch anything, ever. And anyone else can walk out there with a fishing pole and catch things. It's just like, literally, just not. I don't know, the fish don't like me or something. So you're gonna have to teach me.
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AMAC Representative
Gina, listen, it's what you believe is what happens if you believe you're going to catch a fish.
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David Brody
You do.
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AMAC Representative
You have to. I mean, there has to be a certain amount of belief. But there's also this, too. There's the 8020 rule in the outdoors as well. 20% of the people catch 80% of the fish, but they believe they're going to catch. You know, I believe I'm lucky every time. I just feel it's going to happen. You know who's better at it? Ivy, if you ever need fishing lessons, my wife, she just. It. She just believes it's going to happen. And by golly, it does. Just about every time, and usually about this much longer than my fish, you know, is a general rule. So she's always gay. You know, if you follow us on social media, you'll see that, look, Ivy's got the big one again. And people give me a hard time, and it's whatever, go, Ivy. But again, it's real.
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Dr. Gina
Yeah, yeah. No, I totally agree with you. And I agree with you on keeping a Sabbath as well. I've tried for years to figure out how to do that. I thought, I can't be out of touch with my adult kids, so I can never turn off my phone as a mom of children this age. But I figured it out. I got one of those super secure phones and only my family is in it. Take that, put the other phone away. Done. Anyway, Steve Hoober, perfect idea. You know, you are so right. This doesn't feel like a news segment, but it feels like a news segment because we do need to focus on these things and we do need to get back to what really matters and what's important and what reminds us what's important. So thank you.
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David Brody
Yes, Steve.
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AMAC Representative
No, you got to take care of yourself. You got to take care of yourself, your heart, take care of what matters. Otherwise you can't take care of others. It's really important.
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Dr. Gina
Thanks for joining us today. All right, coming up, Saturday Night Live takes another swing at President Trump, but this time the White House is swinging back. We'll show you the White House response why many say SNL stopped being funny a long, long time ago. But what do you think? Let us know. Stick around with us. We.
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AMAC Representative
News from Real America's Voice.
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Terrence Bates
We are monitoring breaking news happening on Capitol Hill as Attorney General Pam Bondi facing questions from senators on Capitol Hill. Senator Chuck Grassley questioning her. Now let's listen. In 1023 document that I made public last Congress. That document mentioned one text messages, two audio recordings and three, financial records that allegedly approved a bribery scheme with the Biden family and foreign interest. I asked Director Patel if his predecessors made any effort to determine whether these records existed. He answered no. What steps has the Department taken to determine whether these records exist? One way or another, this matter ought.
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AMAC Representative
To be put to rest.
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Dr. Gina
Chairman Grassley, I know Director Patel is.
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Ruthie Blum
Working hard on this with the members of the FBI.
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Terrence Bates
Okay.
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Congresswoman Claudia Tenney
So you.
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Terrence Bates
You. We don't know if these records exist or you just can't say that publicly at this point.
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Ruthie Blum
I. I don't want to discuss any of that publicly.
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Terrence Bates
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance act includes a safeguard to prevent political weaponization. The reauthorization mandated certain members and their staffs shall be entitled to attend any proceedings of the FISA court. Former Biden DOJ Assistant Attorney General Matt Olson drafted a privacy agreement that allowed the department to hide information from Congress during FISA proceedings. Matt Olson made a career out of targeting President Trump and his allies, so it's not surprising that he would attempt to hinder congressional oversight or cover up for the Biden regime. I want to make sure that you get rid of the ridiculous and misguided Olson memo. When can you tell me that will be done?
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Ruthie Blum
We will notify you, Chairman Grassley.
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Congresswoman Claudia Tenney
Thank you, Senator Durbin.
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AMAC Representative
Thanks, Mr. Chairman.
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David Brody
Madam Attorney General, let me ask you this question. Were you consulted by the White House.
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AMAC Representative
Before they deployed National Guard troops to cities in the United States?
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Dr. Gina
I am not going to discuss any.
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Ruthie Blum
Internal conversations with the White House.
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David Brody
You won't even say whether you talk to the White House about this?
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Ruthie Blum
I am not going to discuss any internal conversations with the White House.
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Congresswoman Claudia Tenney
With you, Chair, ranking member.
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AMAC Representative
I noticed that.
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David Brody
What's the secret? Why do you want to keep this secret? The American people don't know the rationale behind the deployment of National Guard troops in my state. The word is, and I think it's been confirmed by the White House, they are going to transfer Texas National Guard units to the state of Illinois. What's the rationale for that?
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Ruthie Blum
Yeah, Chairman, as you shut down the government. You voted to shut down the government.
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Dr. Gina
And you're sitting here. Our law enforcement officers aren't being paid. They're out there working to protect you.
- [102:05]
Ruthie Blum
I wish.
- [102:05]
Dr. Gina
You love Chicago as much as you.
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Ruthie Blum
Hate President Trump, and currently the National.
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Dr. Gina
Guard are on the way to Chicago.
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Ruthie Blum
If you're not going to protect your.
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Dr. Gina
Citizens, President Trump will.
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David Brody
I've been on this committee for more than 20 years. That's the kind of testimony you expect from this administration. A simple question as to whether or.
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AMAC Representative
Not they had a legal rationale for.
- [102:24]
David Brody
Deploying National Guard troops becomes grounds for personal attack.
- [102:28]
AMAC Representative
I think it's a legitimate question.
- [102:30]
David Brody
It's my responsibility. She refuses to answer. As to Whether she had any conversation.
- [102:34]
AMAC Representative
With the White House about deploying national troops to my state.
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David Brody
That's an indication, I'm afraid, where we are politically in this place. Let me ask you another question. I want to, if you will, hold on a second. Make sure I got the right page of facts here. You testified under oath when you.
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Terrence Bates
All right, so you just heard a pretty feisty interaction between Illinois Senator Durbin and Attorney General Pam Bondi there. We'll get you back here and have more American Sunrise right after this.
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Dr. Gina
All right. Welcome back to American sunrise. I'm Dr. G. Thanks for joining us today. It is time now for the Sunny side Off.
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David Brody
Why are you laughing?
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Dr. Gina
Because Terrence talking about his car, arguing with Colin about what car he drives. It's Sunnyside out here.
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Terrence Bates
He's been frazzing me all day because I drive a Kia Soul and they've called my car a hamster mobile. And I was saying I love my car. I've literally moved Dr. Gina and David. I moved an entire house.
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Dr. Gina
Here we go.
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Terrence Bates
In this Kia Soul. Tell us, when I tell you that.
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Dr. Gina
Car, how many miles does it have? Terrence, we don't need to do Sunnyside. Just go ahead.
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David Brody
Listen, just come just as you are. Even in your car, there's a key. There it is.
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Terrence Bates
I've got over 250. No, I think I'm at 240,000 miles on my Kia Soul. They call it the Hampstead.
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David Brody
Is this home video?
- [105:12]
Terrence Bates
Oh, my goodness. I love my car. I'm sorry.
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Dr. Gina
You just ruined the whole sunny side. Okay, let's go.
- [105:18]
David Brody
We totally ruined the segment. We ruined the segment.
- [105:20]
Dr. Gina
Should I try and see if I could get this in all right, listen, we have to behave now.
- [105:24]
David Brody
You guys give it a shot.
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Dr. Gina
Our jobs are on the line. A cook in Pensacola, Florida became a hero after a regular customer went missing. Donnell stallworth said the 78 year old showed up every single day at 11am to get his cup of gumbo. But when he stopped showing up for several days, something felt wrong. Donnell rushed to the customer's house to check in, knocking on the door several times before finding his 78 year old customer sprawled on the floor with bruises and multiple broken ribs. Donnell immediately called paramedics. Here's what he told local reporters later.
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Terrence Bates
I was like, you know what I mean? I'm gonna go buy his house. So I just left work, went to his house and I know knocked on the door like two times and he didn't answer.
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- [106:09]
Terrence Bates
It and I didn't hear nothing.
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AMAC Representative
And I kind of stayed there for.
- [106:12]
Terrence Bates
A minute and I knocked and I heard him like, help. And like, who is it? And I would say it's Donnell.
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AMAC Representative
And he's like, come in.
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Dr. Gina
Now Donnell says the customer, whose name is being kept private is in a rehab facility getting better on the road to recovery. He's checking in on him and bringing him his favorite cup of gumbo to put a smile on his face. It's a heartwarming story that reminds us that all important. I don't think we can emphasize enough today. Love thy neighbor.
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David Brody
Yes. Just care, right? Just care. Like Terrence cares about his car. Just care.
- [106:51]
Dr. Gina
His Kia. Is that a car or is that a hamster?
- [106:55]
Terrence Bates
Oh, my. You guys are taking shots? Really?
- [106:57]
David Brody
We're just playing around.
- [106:59]
Dr. Gina
We're piling on, Terrance.
- [107:01]
David Brody
We are piling on. We can all fit in the Kia.
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Dr. Gina
I love handsome.
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Terrence Bates
I love my car. I do. You know, here's. I think I'm the only one in my family that loves my little car. I've been teaching my daughters, my oldest in particular, how to drive in this car. And I bought it for her. And I was keeping a buddy of mine's car, which happened to be an older Lexus. And so my daughter says, so when it's time for me to drive, can I have that car? And I'm like, what do you mean? She wanted my friend's Lexus. She was like, I don't really want the Kia. I was heartbroken. I was heartbroken and I had to break into it that it's not our car. Yeah, People hating on my Kia.
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Dr. Gina
That feels like a cute little hamster, though.
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Terrence Bates
Yeah. That is a doctor she says, what a cute hamster. Not the car, but the hamster.
- [107:45]
Dr. Gina
What a cute hamster. And the car resembles a hamster. I'm not gonna lie. It's kind of cute like a hamster.
- [107:51]
David Brody
This. Yeah, this just in. Gina wants to now adopt the hamster in the video.
- [107:56]
Dr. Gina
Yeah, she does.
- [107:57]
David Brody
She does.
- [107:57]
Terrence Bates
Did you just talking to the third person.
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David Brody
I'm sorry. Go ahead.
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Dr. Gina
Yeah, I did.
- [108:00]
David Brody
She does.
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Dr. Gina
All right, you guys, this show is finally over. I'm sure you guys are relieved because we have been out of control today. War Room is up next, though. That's always so docile. So you've got that going for you. All right, you guys. Hug your children. Love God. Go boldly now. Live the truth.
- [108:15]
Terrence Bates
Long live the truth.
- [108:16]
AMAC Representative
Steve Bannon and Dawson.
- [108:18]
David Brody
Steve Bannon and Docile.
- [108:26]
AMAC Representative
You know what your customers are doing right this second?
- [108:29]
Terrence Bates
The exact same thing.
- [108:30]
David Brody
You are listening to me.
- [108:31]
AMAC Representative
Which, let's be honest, is kind of flattering. But my point Is, ads on iHeartRadio actually get heard in the car, at the gym, on the couch, while people are walking their dogs. Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy?
- [108:44]
David Brody
You're a good boy.
- [108:45]
Terrence Bates
That's right, dude.
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AMAC Representative
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