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I'm Steve, the pulse of the people.
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Breaking news right now here on REAL america's Voice. Unfiltered, these people are domestic terrorists and unapologetic. We're here to take a stand for God and country.
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Welcome to America's Voice Live. I'm Bo Davidson filling in for the great Steve Gruber. Today is Thursday, February 26th, in the year of our Lord 2020. Sorry, 2026. Hard to say, but we are in 2026. Let's get into today's top stories. And as always today. Thank you for joining us here on REAL America's Voice. A violent flare up in Mexico triggered by the killing of a high ranking cartel leader, El Mencho sent shockwaves through several tourist friendly cities over the weekend, prompting the US Government to issue shelter in place alerts. Oscar Ramirez is standing by in Mexico to give us the latest on all of that. Also, with the midterms right around the corner, it's more important than ever that we ensure that individuals who support President Trump and the American people are elected to office. I'll bring on a Republican candidate for governor in the state of Illinois to discuss that. And then later, Hillary Clinton is on Capitol Hill today testifying before the House Oversight Committee regarding their investigation of the Epstein files. I'll bring on David Zier on the ground to give us the latest on that. All that and more coming your way for today. First, I want to start with what we saw on Tuesday night. President Trump delivered a record long State of the Union address Tuesday, calling it a quote, turn around for the ages after just one year back in office. America has seen win after win since President Trump returned to office. From a rising economy to U.S. energy and border security successes and even bigger tax cuts and better benefits for everyday Americans. President Trump's speech highlighted lower inflation and policies he says are boosting families, celebrating what can only be described as transformational progress for this nation. While President Trump and the GOP celebrated the success of America, the other side of the aisle told a very different story. Democrats sat there looking like children who just got their favorite toy taken away. President Trump also asked the crowd to stand if they believe that the duty of the American government is to protect the American people. And the Democrats responded, take a look.
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One of the great things about the State of the Union is how it gives Americans the chance to see clearly what their representatives really believe. So tonight, I'm inviting every legislature to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. You should be ashamed of yourself not standing up. You should be ashamed of yourself. That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens, in many cases, drug lords, murderers.
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removal of these people out of our country. And you should be ashamed of yourself.
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Well, there you have it right there. The looks on their faces. You know, Democrats continue to show the American people who they truly are. They don't care about Americans or the fact that the American economy has made a huge turnaround in the past year. Joining me to discuss this further is Congressman Ralph Norman of South Carolina's 5th district. He's also a candidate for governor in his state. Congressman, thank you so much for joining us on AVL today.
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Glad to be with you, Bud.
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Thank you for that. We all need that, and certainly I do. I'll raise my hand to testify to that. Well, Congressman, the president called this, as I said earlier, a turnaround for the ages. What specific economic policies do you believe have made the biggest difference for American workers and families over the past year?
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Well, first of all, Bo, what this man has done In a short 12 months has been phenomenal. I mean, the big, beautiful bill that's providing tax relief for every American, the fact that, you know, businesses are relocating to America, which under the last four years, the Biden administration, they were leaving, you know, everything he's promised, he's doing. And the overriding great thing that should put him on Mount Rushmore is the fact that he took out Iran, and we'll probably have to take some additional steps to keep this world safe. And he sided with our friends in Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. And, you know, he just hit on all cylinders. And he called the Democrats out for what they are, which is they're Marxist socialists. That's what they are. They didn't stand when he mentioned government promoting America. They don't believe it. The only thing they believe is power where they can and hopefully not maintain the controls of government to use it, to weaponize it. And that's what they're about.
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Congressman, were you there for the speech? I'm assuming you were there sitting there.
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Oh, absolutely. Wouldn't miss it. But best speech I've ever heard.
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What did you think? I mean, what went through your head? Because we watched it. You know, I was here covering it and I provided some of the analysis afterwards. What was it like to look over on your colleague's side of the aisle and, and see them continually not, not stand. Because from the audience perspective, it looked atrocious. I'm curious, from an insider's perspective, when you looked over, did you think maybe they'll stand up for this one?
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I didn't know whether they were going to stand up for the hockey team. I really did. You had that one. Not all of them stood up. You had, I think it was, it was Rashida Tlaib screaming, mouthing kkk, talking about the hockey team and Omar was yelling things. I mean, it's a, not only is it disrespectful, it's come to be a norm now. I didn't expect them to do anything other than what they did. I was there during the last when President Trump gave the State of the Union and you know, when Rush Limbaugh, who was dying of cancer, was recognized, they sat and didn't do anything. They didn't clap when the little boy with cancer was dying, they didn't clap or stand up for that. So I don't expect any more out of them. The only way you deal with these people is beat them. You can't let them take the controls of government. And I think the midterms, we're going to defy the odds. I think that, you know, Americans know what's, what's happening because they had a front row seat to it during the State of the Union. But I don't expect anything more. They're put up candidates by those who want to get our tax money. And again, the only way you deal with them is beat them.
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How confident would you say that you are personally and just the GOP overall in terms of the midterms on the heels of that speech? Because it is a long way to November. I think if they were held Today, maybe we would see some really good returns. But how confident are you and in the GOP's ability to win these midterms on the heels of that incredible speech, which was an experience, really more than a speech,
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I'm confident that the president will do whatever it takes for him to get out there and sell the prosperity that he's bringing to the country. I'm confident that leadership, Mike Johnson, will do what it takes to get conservatives elected. And I'm confident that the American people will wake up and see what we're facing. It's a huge cliff if we lose the midterms. It's a steady, it's a steady montage of impeachment, impeachment, impeachment. And we can't have that. This president is doing such a good job and we've got to support him. And so we'll see. But I'm confident we're going to keep it. It may be one or two or three seats, but the fact is as long as we have the gavel, we'll continue to go forward. And again, I give President Trump the credit with his negotiating skills and just his personality, we'll send the conservatives over the top, I think. I think we'll keep the majority.
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Well, Congressman, Democrats have pushed back on this whole turnaround and era of greatness, so to speak. Golden age. When critics point that out, what do you say when they say that the turnaround isn't real? And what do you point to when you hear that kind of language?
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What I point to is the fact that America was built on business, not government. They just support government. And it's not just, I mean, the individual things and the big beautiful bill, the depreciation write offs, keeping the taxes lower just shows you what is going to take effect. Now, it's taken a while, but the next three to four months. And that's why I have the confidence that I do that we're going to maintain the majority. Because unless you want a totally run government state like Mondavi is doing in New York, like Gavin Newsom is doing in California, they're train wrecking the economy. And you look what Biden did in four years. I mean, he train wrecked the economy. And when they say that, they're lying. I couldn't listen to Spamberger on her rebuttal. I watched a few minutes and turned the thing off because she's no moderate. She is a leftist, Marxist, leftist candidate. And Virginia will pay a price for that, as New York will and other states that have gone totally socialistic. But we just have to get our message and Republicans have got to be united in that. And one, one bill will characterize this. Where the Democrat Party is, which is their opposition to the SAVE act, which is the requiring the proof of citizenship before you vote and a photo ID before you vote. It's time for us to make the Senate pass it. Do, do away with the filibuster and do a more. Do a talk in filibuster.
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I don't care 52 weeks if we have to to make them pass that thing. But I don't believe in validating who you are to vote, which is per the Constitution. We have to.
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It's an interesting point you bring up because I believe it was, I can't remember who said it, but you know, it might have even been President Trump that if you want to shovel snow in New York, you got to provide two forms of id, yet they don't seem to want to provide any form of ID to vote. Explain that conundrum. How do Democrats live with that?
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Well, Bo, how do they explain. I think it was Akeem Jeffries who had a fundraiser to get into it. It was my understanding you had to show a photo ID and identify yourself. Now, you know, and you can add to that, you know, when you get medicine, when you get on an airplane, it's common sense, but that's how arrogant they are and that's how controlling that they are. And you know, we're dealing with an evil, and I call it evil because it is they support death of a natural, healthy born child. A lot of them applauded when Charlie Kirk got shot. I mean, it's beyond belief that they're doing this, but that's where we are. The Democrat Party is not the party of the 60s, 70s, 80s or really 90s. They're totally off the rails and we got to stop them. And the only way you deal with them, beat them at the ballot box.
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And to that point, you are running for governor in the great state of South Carolina, State I know and love very well. What's the number one issue that you want to make prominent in this race and where can people go to support you?
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Well, It's Ralph Norman forGovernor.com But the number one issue is what we face in Washington, D.C. the corruption, the overall corruption in Columbia, South Carolina is we've got to clean it up. And I will do a Doge commission just like we did in Congress. But the thing is we're going to cut the areas that are, that we find out that are fraudulent. And we will put basics back in place like roads, like our bridges, like our education and term limits. We're going to do that and we're going to put it before the people. And I will go like Trump and try and sell it to every city, county that I go to. That because it's the right thing to do at the right time. We got a lot of people coming from other states that they're running from, like New York, like California, coming to South Carolina. We have to protect South Carolina. And I will do that.
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Well, excellent. You know, I think you're so right to introduce this idea of doge to the state. And I think all 50 states should absolutely adopt it because it obviously works at the federal level. It can work at the state and local level, too. So thank you for bringing that up. Congressman Ralph Norman of South Carolina, thank you so much for joining me here today. Have a great day and God bless you, sir. Well, coming up after the break, the recent death of cartel leader El Mencho has prompted violence from his followers. I'll bring on Oscar Elblue Ramirez from Mexico to give us the latest on the war between the Mexican government and the cartels. Next.
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Welcome back to America's Voice Live beautiful shot of Columbia, South Carolina. A violent flare up in Mexico triggered by the killing of a high ranking cartel leader named El Mencho sent shockwaves through several tourist friendly cities over the weekend prompting the US Government to issue shelter and place alerts. By Tuesday, those advisories were lifted in cities like Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta and Ciudad Guzman. Officials say the unrest has subsided, but the sudden eruption of cartel linked violence is raising a bigger question for travelers and policymakers alike. Even if calm has returned for now, how stable is the situation really? We'll have in just a moment hopefully from Guadalajara, Mexico, Real America's Voice correspondent Oscar Elblue Ramirez. It seems we do have Oscar. So Oscar, it's good to see you. I know you are there in Guadalajara. What are you seeing on the ground? I know you're only about three hours away from El Mincho was executed and has the cartel violence subsided as reports have suggested?
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We arrived at 2 o' clock in the morning to Guadalajarapo and immediately they Told us that four cars were burning. One of them was burning an elementary school outside of the elementary school. Today, there was an honor service for a fallen officer who was in the confrontation in the Saturday altercations with El Mencho. We are about three hours away from that particular location. We are going to that location and we're going to see if we can enter the premises to where he was located. Until now, the updates is to these four vehicles that they were recently burned right now, right here in Guadalajara. Yesterday there was a confrontation in Tuxpan that is about an hour away where El Mancho was executed. Two civil people died. One of them was detained by the entity of Colombia. Imagine that. So you have infiltrated people that had come in through the open borders and joined the cartel. And now he was detained under, you know, the altercation of aggravating the National Guard and also attacking the National Guardsmen. This happened just yesterday. And then a quick informative report. An organization of transportation of semi trucks has informed that on only Sunday alone, BO, more than 500 semi trucks were burned in the part of Guadalajara, Jalispa, where I'm located at right now.
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Wow, that's some big breaking news there. Oscar, tell me how concerned the citizens are in the area. I know you talk to these people. We see the flow of traffic behind you. They seem to be going on about their daily lives. But how concerned are they?
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Well, we talked to a few of them and a lot of them, they were telling us that there are still concerns, that they're still afraid and it's inevitable. We just arrived and there were four vehicles that they were being burned. Also, there's a massive, massive deployment of federal agents all throughout the city. You will see them extremely active. You will see Marines, you will see the deployment of National Guardsmen walking on foot to several communities. So there is a huge concern, but there's this other side that nobody has talked about, that is the Mexican people have a breath of fresh air, that it can finally, positively something can happen. Just recently, the Marines arrived and the army arrived to a several community that it was taken over by this criminal organization. And they were yelling thank you. They were yelling thank you to the military. This is the trickle effect of the Trump administration putting pressure on the Champagne administration and this bilateral collaboration to end these criminal organizations.
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Boy, okay, so you bring up a good point. So this is really President Trump's leadership enforcing Claudia Sheinbaum's hand. So she seems to be acting upon it. And you're saying the communities there are getting a breath of fresh Air maybe for the first time in their lives. What kind of danger is there that now that El Mencho is down, that like many other situations with cartels, another person bubbles up to take that person's place? How likely is that?
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Well. Well, it's pretty likely. But until now, what the federal government is trying to do, object that they're trying to interfere, to stop that, and they're trying to basically dismantle this criminal organization by going to the rural communities in the countryside to stop them and to basically go after them. An informative report has told us that more than 20 of them, that they were burning vehicles in Guadalajara and also in Puerto Vallarta have been arrested to bring the peace back to the tourists and to also to International citizens like U.S. citizens in Puerto Vallarta has gone back to normal. Airports. Airports are back to normal in Guadalajara. Puerto Vallarta is back to normal. But the problem is where we're going, Bo, it is the countryside, the rural areas where these criminal organizations have a lot of presence.
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All right, well, last question for you. I know a lot of people that are watching us may have plans to travel to Mexico. They have sons and daughters who go down there for spring break. Coming up, what is your advice for people that would be traveling to Mexico, especially those resort areas? What would you say to them?
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Well, back in Puerto Vallarta is back to normal. They just deployed a whole vessel with more than 103 infantrymen and also tactical pickup trucks to secure the citizens and to secure the resort areas. Also, there's thousands of just massive deployment of National Guardsmen, also hundreds of army soldiers in Puerto Vallarta to secure the area in Puerto Vallarta. So it's basically going back to normal to these resort areas. The problem is, like I say it is on the countryside and the outsides of the city of Guadalajara and the outsides of the city of Jalisco, where this criminal organization, Cartil Nova Caneracion, a vicious and atrocious organization, has a lot of presence. Stay away from the countryside, stay in the resort areas and just listen to the authorities of Mexico.
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Yeah, it's great common sense and great advice. Thank you. Oscar Ramirez reporting live from Mexico. Thank you for your reporting, sir. And stay safe out there. We appreciate you and value always what you do for us. Thanks, Oscar.
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Coming up after the break, I'll bring on a Republican candidate for governor in the great state of Illinois, one that will support President Trump and the American people. So stay tuned, find out more, and we will be Right back.
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Welcome back to America's Voice Live. Well, midterms are closing in fast after what we saw at the State of the Union address. It's even more important for us to get Republicans elected. J.B. pritzker has made a mess of Illinois. Taxes are through the roof, crime is out of control, and families are packing up and leaving. Illinois needs someone who actually gets it. Our next guest is Republican Rick Heidner, running for governor in Illinois. He has created many Businesses Illinois, including J.J. pepper's food stores, Heidner Properties, Ricky Rockets Fuel Centers, among others. Rick, welcome to the show. It's great to have you, sir.
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Thank you so much, Beau, for having me. I really appreciate it.
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Well, Rick, you went from creating small businesses, you delivered papers, shoveled snow, helping your mom out, and like President Trump, you built large, sustainable, lasting businesses that actually create jobs. How will you take that same, know how and fix Illinois and make it a place where people can thrive?
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Well, I really feel that Illinois is a business like President Trump has taken our country and made it into being unbelievably prosperous for the second time, second term. And I want to do the same thing for Illinois. All I saw in the fall session and all the time is how much J.B. pritzker and the Democrats just want to take, take, take all of our money. And I know that we can make a tremendous amount of money by bringing businesses into Illinois and building a very, very successful state.
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Well, let's dive into that further because you mentioned J.B. pritzker. He's got unaffordable Democratic policies. What is your plan right out of the gate to reverse these policies and stop the exodus of the most Talented young working families in Illinois.
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Yeah, we've had about 800,000 people leave Illinois and we've replaced them with 750,000 illegal immigrants. And we've made our streets completely unsafe. We have a revolving door on our justice system. We're a sanctuary state where we have the Safety Act. All of it doesn't work. So he's driven out like Ken Griffin, one of the most charitable people in Illinois, gave hundreds of millions of dollars to charity. And he has his huge company. He's moved now to Florida. We've lost Caterpillar, we've lost Boeing. We've lost so many companies. And we're going to. It looks like we may lose the Bears. I mean. I mean, I can't even believe we may lose beautiful bears.
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That's. That's unfathomable. I thought that headline was a joke, but it's not.
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Yeah, and I've been saying, you know, the Bears bought the property in Arlington Heights three years ago. That stadium be half built right now, if I was the governor, you know, and instead of. It was everything, push, push, push. Shoved them over to Indiana. You know, that's only been the last six months that Indiana even came in the picture here. And now even if we're able to save the Bears, it's going to cost US probably 1 1/2 times as much money. It just doesn't make any sense to me at all. You know, 326 acres they bought in Arlington Heights. It's literally a city inside of a city. So my vision there is so incredible. I mean, they're going to build a Superdome. You know, we're going to have the super bowl there. We'll make hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, generate hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars when we get the super bowl, concerts, everything else. But the rest of the 326 acres are going to be hotels and restaurants and bars and condominiums and fuel centers. The unbelievable amount of thousands and thousands of jobs, you know, and the Bears have rented from us for the last hundred years. You know, as a businessman, of course they should own their own property. If we help them, we're helping them with dollars that. Tax dollars that they're going to generate. We're not helping them without that. So they're going to generate a tremendous amount of taxes. We're going to collect those taxes and we gotta, we gotta share some of that back so they could build this. Once it's built and we pay this bill, it's paid forever. So again, for us to lose the Bears, it's not a zero. It's a huge negative because all the money that they already generate, that'll be gone. So it's not a zero. It's a big minus or we get a big plus and we share some of those tax dollars. That's the way businesses are built.
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Well, Rick, I used to go to school there. I went to Northwestern up there in Evanston. So I know Arlington Heights very well. And I just hate to see a city like Chicago, which is such a cool, great city, so much potential go down the drain. And the entire state, I mean, we just extend it to the entire state. It's hard to fathom that the Bears could go somewhere else. But that's what Democrat policies do for you. Before we let you go, sir, where can people go to support you?
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Rick4illinois.com My entire history is on there. You can find everything out about me. I would love your support, especially your Republican primary vote. I promise you I'll make this state absolutely safe and I'll stop all this spending. I'll fix everything that's in all of our departments and completely audit it. And then we're going to get a tremendous amount of business back in here because that's what I do. And we're going to get tax dollars, we're going to reduce bills and we're actually going to reduce taxes. We went from $37 billion when he walked in office for our budget and now we're at 56 billion. It's unconscionable. And I saw him today on TV bragging about how he's helped our credit rating 10 times in a row. What he forgets to tell you is he took billions and billions and billions of dollars from Joe Biden and our so we took a bill from our state and we gave it to our federal government. By the way, that's us, too.
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All right, Rick. Well, you make a lot of common sense, so I hope people check you out. Rick4illinois.com Rick Heidner, Republican CANDIDATE for Illinois governor thank you so much, sir, for coming on.
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I appreciate you so much for having me. Thank you.
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Hey, good afternoon, Bo. Here in Chappaqua, New York, they did not. They kind of caved in, I feel to the Clintons to be able to testify a mile from their house. They could have walked here in seven and a half minutes. So this is in their backyard in Chappaqua, an affluent community just north of New York City here. But should the Oversight Committee have agreed to do that today is, you know, kind of unwinding maybe for the Republicans so far in the Oversight Committee because, you know, Lauren Boebert apparently leaked a photo out to social media which violated the rules here. It put the hearing, the testimony into flux for about 45 minutes. But the Dem spin machine is unparalleled and is in full effect here. They're making this about Trump and Howard Lutnick. Yasimin Asari, congresswoman from Arizona came out and saying that there's credible allegation that Trump raped a 13 to 15 year old girl in a cover up of missing pages. That a story that NPR released in concert with the MSM and the New York Times saying that these pages are missing from an accusation back from 2019. But it's not Corroborated in any way. And it's just such an incredible, you know, allegation against Trump. But I feel like the Dems have taken control of the narrative here, and I think for their sake, this afternoon needs to go better. But for tomorrow, you know, let's see what Bill Clinton comes up with because this is deflection. And it may be true that Hillary never met Epstein, but Ghislaine Maxwell was at their daughter's wedding and Clinton flew 26 or 27 times on the Lolita Express and five of those legs of a journey to Asia and other did not include Secret Service of security on the jet. So where was he going? What was he doing? He's got a lot of explaining to do and his relationships. And then this previous accusation that it was the brainchild or the idea of Epstein to form the Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton foundation received donations from Epstein. So there's direct causal links between the Clintons and Epstein, more so than Donald Trump, who kicked out Epstein from Mar A Lago after he was poaching employees and even went to the, I think the sheriff down in Palm beach to complain about what Epstein was up to. But they have to, I think, maybe get a little bit more of a grip on these hearings here so it doesn't spin out of control because, you know, the headlines tonight are going to be very bad against the Republicans who are in the majority on the Oversight Committee here in Chappaqua today. We'll have more. It has resumed inside and it's a closed hearing. There are some dribbles of, you know, information coming out, but we'll bring you more throughout the day. And tomorrow we'll be on the ground again for Bill Clinton.
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Very, very interesting stuff. David, thank you so much for your reporting on the ground there in Chappaqua. And we'll keep stay tuned as you give us more information about that hearing. Well, don't go anywhere. America's Voice Live will continue with more news of the day. Oh, I'm sorry, we got something wrong in the prompter. So we'll go on with our next guest, who we have here, who is our legal expert, Michael Wynn for legal analysis. Michael, let's talk to you about what David just said in terms of this hearing today and what happened with Lauren Boebert. I just want to ask you first about that since that was kind of unexpected. How could Lauren Boebert have done this? It seems like they're shooting themselves in the foot. Is that true?
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Look, I think it was just a sophomore mistake doing something like that, and that's unfortunate that it detracts, you know, from the proceedings. Hopefully it doesn't get any more attention or limelight.
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Now, I think that we may have
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overreached in calling Ms. Secretary Clinton, you know, to testify here. But what struck me is how vociferous she was in denying having ever met Epstein. And she went out of her way to do that, and that may come
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back to bite her.
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If anybody on the committee has just a clip, anything other than two ever meeting, that's what I'd be searching for
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right now, Michael, because this hearing isn't public. I know that she had said something about wanting this to be public. Will we regret that it's not public? Are there things that are going to happen in there that we wish we had seen?
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Oh, I don't know about that. I think anything significant will eventually come out and be public. Again, I'm not so certain. And I would hope that perhaps for tomorrow before going after this in full force, that somebody has some piece of information relating to the former president that they could confront him with. Otherwise, it's going to be a futile exercise and only give the Clintons more fuel. They tend to come out, as they did after the Benghazi hearing, stronger than before. This may be a colossal waste of time. I think we need to move on.
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And then with respect to what David was talking about, about this allegation, this spin machine pointing back to Donald Trump and trying to connect him to Epstein with these allegations, what is likely to come out of that? Since there doesn't seem to be any evidence supporting that claim?
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Well, it's going to be tough now to shield him from any type of questioning outside of his position as president. From any questioning. You know, what's good for the goose is often good for the gander. It's going to be hard to counter that argument this instance. You know, if I had been in charge, I probably would have avoided bringing the Clintons in without some type of smoking gun. Doesn't look like we have it.
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All right. Well, Michael Wynn, thank you so much for your expert analysis, sir. Thank you and have a great day.
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Thank you for the time.
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Well, don't go anywhere. America's Voice Live will continue with more news of the day after a brief commercial break. Be sure to stick around. Welcome back to america's Voice Live. Working for real America's Voice is truly a blessing, and not just because I get to speak to you all on the tv, but also because I get the opportunity to travel and to speak to great inspirational People. Last week I was in Nashville, Tennessee at the National Religious Broadcasters Conference where I was able to sit down with Kathy Ireland, the supermodel turned Christian entrepreneur, where we discussed Christian persecution and loving others. Take a look.
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And I love the verse, consider others as more important than yourself. And when Christian brothers and sisters around the world who are suffering, who are
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being slaughtered, who are truly being persecuted,
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people of, of all different faiths, it is, it's devastating. And sometimes it can just be overwhelming to recognize that yet when we have the opportunity to be exposed to needs bigger than us and opportunities that are bigger than us, that's exciting. Even if it's, it's a little difference. It's so exciting being here today and meeting so many people doing life changing, life saving work. That is truly having an impact in this time. As you mentioned, it's hard times that we're living in right now. There's a lot of deception.
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No, it really is hard times we live in right now. She's right. There is a lot of deception out there. And that's why we thank God that President Trump is back in the White House showing transparency to the American people and even having a dedicated White House faith office and a Religious Liberty Commission. Transparency is something the Democrats could learn from, especially after that display of childish behavior at the State of the Union on Tuesday. Joining me to discuss this is President of the Conservative Caucus, Jim Pfaff. Jim, thank you for being with us today. Let's talk about the Democrats petulance on Tuesday. Omar and Tlaib, you've got them chanting KKK while others shouted USA as Steve Ruber reported. What did you make of that?
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Well, I mean, I've been saying all, all year, more for more than a year now, last couple years. The Democrat Party is not an American party. They, they really do not have the values that matter for what has made America great as a central part of anything that they think about. I mean you, you consider the fact also that the Democrat Party is a almost pagan but certainly secularist party that wants Christian thinking and Christian ideals to be extracted from the public debate. Whereas the American ideal has been founded on the Judeo Christian ethic, the rule of law, the fairness that we have in, in how we do our politics. Our entire constitutional construct is founded on what can truly be said is a Judeo Christian ethic. We, we look even all the way back to Moses. If you go into the US House of Representatives that they were sitting in that day, you see the picture of Moses across, straight across from the Speaker's chair there facing straight at the speaker with frescoes of all the great lawgivers of history on either side of him. There was always an understanding that the, the basic concepts of law, that and fairness and truth that were expressed in the Old Testament and New Testament scriptures were a sincere part of what inspired us to set up our republic the way it was. And in fact, there have been studies. The founding Fathers, the largest single source of quotes that they provide when they're discussing government ideas is the Bible. There were others like Montesquieu and Locke and other great philosophers, Western philosophers, but they were looking to the Scriptures as a solid foundation for fairness and law. There was never a desire for imposition of religious belief through our government. But we wanted to be founded upon solid principles, and we get those from the Bible in the West.
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Jim, you know that Spanberger response, it really fell short. It looked tepid, it looked timid. It looked propped up by a handful of movie extras, like a bad student film right after a Michael Bay blockbuster. How did you see it?
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Well, listen, if they're gonna have Abigail Spamberger and Zoran Mamdani and these sorts of people be their spokesman, have at it. I don't think the American people believe that what's happening in Virginia is what they want happening in their country. Honestly, the State of the Union has all the Nove campaign commercials pre written for themselves. In fact, Donald Trump came out with a commercial recently that emphasized that moment when Democrats refused to stand up for the idea that the purpose of government is to protect the American people First, they are not for the American people first, they are against the American people. In fact, unless the American people will give them power. That's why they twist election law. It's why they lie persistently. It's why they don't promote ideas. All they can do is be anti Donald Trump. That's not a winning pattern unless Republicans in Congress refuse to do things like pass the Save America act and other things that the American people really want in large numbers.
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Well, Jim, I think the line, the demarcation line could not have been drawn more starkly in terms when you saw those Democrats seated versus everyone else standing, it just was remarkable to me. And I think it was one of Donald Trump's finest speeches, maybe his finest yet. I think it motivated us all. Jim Pfaff, thank you so much for joining us, sir, and God bless you.
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Thanks, you too.
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After the break, we will have a story that reminds us of how incredibly wonderful America is. Plus, your answers to our America's Voice question of the day, which is Are you more or less confident in the midterms after President Trump's State of the Union address? And why? We'll have those answers coming right up.
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What makes America wonderful? We do it every day in the hopes of putting a smile on your face. Today's story comes to us from the world of Christian music and the big screen. I recently sat down with Bart Millard, the voice behind Mercy Me and the inspiration for I Can Only Imagine two, now in theaters. Millard opened up about walking with God through life's fires and why he's learned to see even suffering as a gift that can shape faith, purpose and hope. Here's what he had to say.
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I choose to treat suffering as if it's a gift. You know, I grew up in the church on some level and I've heard the stories about my having hope in Jesus. But it's almost like when you, when you mix suffering with this hope that you have in the Lord, it sparks like it'll combust and it becomes something together where you're hoping Jesus comes to life. And, and you know, I, I can, I can meet someone quickly and realize there's some that are kind of holier than thou, that have never hit rock bottom and understood what grace and identity is. And then I've seen the ones that have hit the bottom and they have, they are living by the grace of God. There's something different in them. And that's why I treat suffering as a gift. Because until you've experienced it, until you've hit those low moments, it's hard to appreciate truly what God has done for us. And even if the book kind of leans into the movie can only tell so much of the story. And so we were able to write the book, to expound on certain moments in the movie and to go into greater detail of why the depression was so intense and just to lean into our hope in God even more. So people say the books always say, I like the book better than the movie. Well, I think there's a reason, because you can dig deeper when you're writing a book.
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Well, I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did. And in the full interview will be on Real America's Voice and also on my personal website at Debo Davidson if you want to check it out. Bart's just an amazing guy and it's an amazing movie. Well, thank you so much for watching America's Voice live. We'll be back tomorrow. Thank you for watching. And we'll leave you now with Real America's music and truth bomb.
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