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Unidentified Caller or Guest
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Steve Gurri
This is America's Voice live. And welcome to America's Voice Live. I'm Steve Gurri. The pulse of the people. We need somebody that's going to hear the people's voice, the truth the mainstream won't touch. This guy is by definition a globalist. And the stories that matter, rav's own Ben Berklam.
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Ben Berkwam
Right up over this hill, we got one cartel.
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Steve Gurri
I see him. I see him.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
I see him.
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Steve Gurri
Live. Breaking news right now here on Real America's Voice. Filtered. These people are domestic terrorists and unapologetic. We're here to take a stand for God and country. Does feel good. America's Voice Live starts now. And welcome to America's Voice Live. I'm Steve gret. Is Wednesday the 1st of October in the year of our Lord 2025. Let's get into today's top stories. As always, thank you for joining us here on Real America's Voice. We appreciate you being here. The federal government has officially entered a partial shutdown thanks to Chuck Schumer and other Democrat senators who voted against the funding bill. Three Democrats actually voted to stop it from happening, but they just want to add $1.5 trillion to the federal budget for health care, much of which would go to illegal aliens. I'll bring on Congressman Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin to discuss that today because the Democrats say it's not true, but yet everybody else says it is. Also, with a shutdown in effect, many Americans are questioning how it affects you and me, taxpayers of America, and where do our hard earned dollars go since most government employees won't get paid for a bit here. Besides the Congress, people who vote against the funding bill, of course. More on that coming up. And then later. Attacks on ice continue all over the country, but the city is getting a lot of attention as Portland, Oregon, attacks, riots and protests have been ongoing since June in retaliation to deportation efforts there. I'll take you live to Portland with our very own Ben Berkwam. Details and so much more on your way. But first, I want to start with the Democrats destructive policies that lead to places like we are today. If you asked me what the greatest threat to our nation was, say a year ago, I might have told you. The wide open border with millions of gotaways pouring in and untold numbers of terrorist threats setting up shop right here in little towns all across the country. Major cities caving under the influx as well. Now we have zero or close to zero people coming across our border. The invasion is all but stopped, but we're still having to deal with the consequences. Of course. Now we're seeing the results of the Democrats destructive policies and invasion from within, as President Trump calls it. Listen to this. We've brought back the fundamental principle that defending the homeland is the military's first and most important priority. That's what it is. Only in recent decades did politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the far reaches of Kenya and Somalia while America is under invasion from within. We're under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms. This issue is a significant and expensive challenge that affects the safety of Americans. Addressing it requires coordinated action from various agencies, including the dhs, the FBI, ice, local law enforcement. The effort relies on collaboration and broad support. Why? Because we're in real trouble. We are in real danger. So much so, in fact, this is the kind of advice you can find floating around on TikTok any given day. Shocking, but here it is.
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DHS Assistant Secretary Trisha McLaughlin
You can just kill ICE agents. You know that. You can just kill them. You don't have to hold your phone in their face and ask people when their birthday is and ask people what their name is and then try to find wherever they end up in Los Angeles, you can kill them. This isn't about social media clout anymore. This isn't about video. This isn't about the phone. This is about get a gun and start killing ICE agents. They are deputized corrections officers. Kill them.
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Steve Gurri
Stunning, isn't it? And the left wants to say it's a both sides issue. If someone hasn't opened an investigation into that guy, they better do so stat that guy pretending to be something else. Because this, this guy isn't joking. This isn't theoretical lunatic leftists are attempting to commit violence against ICE agents every day and harming others along the way. Like the idiot who killed detainees while shooting up the facility in Dallas, Texas just a few days ago. He was radicalized just like that tiktoker and actually took action. DHS Assistant Secretary Trisha McLaughlin says the problem is real and it's rampant. Here she is.
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DHS Assistant Secretary Trisha McLaughlin
The evidence points to the fact that this individual very much hated our law enforcement. He was very radicalized. He was found with handwritten notes saying he wanted to bring 10 terror and annihilation to ICE law enforcement. And also on the shell casings it said anti ICE on it. So we've seen a lot of this, the great demonization and hatred at our law enforcement, whether it be there in Dallas and Portland or at the Chicago riots that are becoming increasingly violent. Bill.
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Steve Gurri
Violence becoming the predominant feature of the left these days. They wear it like a badge. Somehow thinking that that transforms them to being on the right side of history, when actually they're very much on the wrong side of history. Now, you'd think that the Democrat Party might want to address the issue, but they're too busy deflecting false claims of both sides when it comes to political violence and demonizing white men almost constantly. I guess I'm the problem, right? You've got Hillary Clinton blaming white men of a certain religion. We all know who she's talking about. Christian men, of course. You know, men of honor who believe in justice and doing the right thing because they answer to God. Who stand up for women to have safe locker rooms where men are not welcome, who stand up for the voice of the unborn. Yeah, she says those guys, guys like me, maybe like you, doing damage to the country. It's my fault, really. Or how about Joy Reid? She hates white people. Openly white men. So much that she's found it in her heart to hate Elvis Presley. Yeah. Who does that? Listen to her view and version of history.
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Unidentified Caller or Guest
They can't fix the history they did. Their ancestors made this country into a slave. A slave hell. But they can clean it up now because they got the Smithsonian. They can get rid of all the slavery stuff. They got Prageru that can lie about the history to the children. They can't originally invent anything. More than they ever were able to invent good music. We black folk gave y'.
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Steve Gurri
All.
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Unidentified Caller or Guest
Country music, hip hop, R and B, jazz, rock and roll. They couldn't even invent that. But they have to call a white man the King because they couldn't make rock and roll. So they have to stamp the King on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black woman.
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Steve Gurri
Did she just fat shame somebody? Because I'm pretty offended if she's fat. Shaming right there. That hurts me. The most sane thing MSNBC ever did, by the way, was to kick her off the network. Truly on Hitch. It's got to be exhausting to wake up every morning so full of hate. Don't you think that the focus it would take. Same thing with Don Lemon. Kicked off CNN but still finds outlets to spread his white man hate. Oh, he hates him. Listen, white men. Something is broken. Something is cracked deep inside when so many of you believe the answer to fear, to loss, to change, is violence. Are you listening to me? No, not really. No. Here's hateful Don attacking white men. You know, a gay black man attacking white men, you know, like his husband. His husband, a white man. I wonder how they get along at night. You gotta be kidding me. All statistics show that black men are arrested for violent crimes at much higher rates per capita than white men. And when it comes on black on white crime, white folks are on the receiving end. Far more. Far more. Statistically, far more. But I don't waste my time on that. I just care about stopping crime. I want to make cities safe. I think our streets should be safe. We should deal with violence, period. And right now, I see that as a uniquely left wing problem based on, well, filth like that. But Don Lemon is going to get up here, not only make it about white men, but make completely false claims about white men and violence again. How does a gay black man like Don become so hateful of white men like his husband in the first place? Somebody needs to check on him and maybe check his meds. Let's be clear, violence is a huge problem for the left, despite all their attempts to claim the opposite. Here's Senator Chuck Grassley, by the way, setting the record straight when it comes to violence in red states, because lying can be done by omission as well. Here he is. Democrats missed a key data point when they assert that the most violent cities are in red states. Almost all of those cities are run by Democrat mayors. Axio reports that of the 20 cities with more than 100,000 residents and the highest murder rate, 19 have a Democrat mayor. President Trump is willing to work with these mayors, but they keep turning down the offer for help, despite the fact that President Trump's efforts are working in places like D.C. and Memphis. Very telling statistic. You've heard it here before. 19 of the 20 most violent cities in America are run by Democrats. 19 out of 20. Let's not forget the statistics, have real world consequences. Devastating ones. Ones that cost people their lives. When you declare your city a sanctuary, you get the brutal murder of a mother of five like Rachel Marin at the hands of an illegal alien who bounced from sanctuary city to sanctuary city. No consequences. Until it was too late for Rachel dead. When you let career criminals back on the street, crime after crime, while you throw around terms like restorative justice, you get the brutal murder of a 22 year old aspiring teacher like Logan Federico. These are real world consequences. Logan's dad isn't just gonna let it go. He's not. He shouldn't. Here he is. He was five foot three. She weighed 115 pounds bang dead. Gone. Why? Because Alexander Devonte Dickey, who was arrested 39 God times 25 felonies, was on the street. How about that? How good are we doing for our family? How good are you doing for your kids? He should have been in jail for over 140 years for all the crimes he committed. How about the three strikes law again? Wasn't that a Democrat? Wasn't that Bill Clinton? This criminal that you just heard about spent a total of 600 days in jail over the course of 10 years for 25 felonies, many of them violent. It's not someone you want in society walking around. Logan Federico should be home alive and that criminal should still be behind bars. But Democrat policies enable this tragedy in the name of rehabilitation. They've completely neglected justice. And you, the American citizen, Hillary Clinton, Don Lemon, Joy Reid. They want you to believe that it's the white man that's America's greatest threat. While stories like this are everyday occurrences. You want to call me a bigot because I want the Logan Federicos and Rachel Marin's of our country to sleep safely at night. You're insane. The leaders of the Democrat party used to preserve some shred of sanity on the issues of crime and immigration. What changed? What changed? Listen to these guys. Back in the day, remember I mentioned Bill Clinton? Listen to this. Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected, but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use imposed burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more. By hiring a record number of new border guards. By deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before. By cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens. And guess what? Guess what? President Bill Clinton received a standing ovation for that announcement. And what about his wife, Hillary? She ran for President, thought she was a shoe in. What does she say about such things? Back down memory lane we go.
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DHS Assistant Secretary Trisha McLaughlin
As to illegal aliens, we agree with you that we do not think the comprehensive health care benefits should be extended to those who are undocumented workers and illegal aliens. We do not want to do anything to encourage more illegal immigration into this country. We know now that too many people come in for medical care as it is. We certainly don't want them having the same benefits that American citizens are entitled to have.
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Steve Gurri
What? Wait a second. I thought. I thought that was a far right bigoted position. Democrats are willing to shut down the government over it. In fact, whether it's crime or illegal immigration, Democrats are putting law abiding Americans at the bottom of the list. It's dangerous. It's the enabling of the invasion from within. And it's your job and mine to remind our fellow Americans of the cost of this kind of invasion and to continue to support candidates who will do their level best to stop it from continuing. We need to save this country. We do it, but we don't do it with you being silent and sitting on the sidelines. Deal? Deal. Coming up after the break, I'll bring on Congressman Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin to discuss the government shutdown triggered by Chuck Schuman. The Democrats refusing, but through a clean cr. The big question now, where do we go from here? More on that straight ahead on abl. As you know, the federal government has officially entered the partial shutdown after the Senate failed to pass a short term federal funding bill on Tuesday. We've got a clock we're going to keep showing you here on Real America's VOICE throughout the day, throughout every day as long as this shutdown continues. This comes after the House of Representatives passed a bill Sept. 19 to keep the government open. The bill would have given Congress until November 21st to set funding priorities for the 2026 fiscal year. There's the clock, 15 hours, 17 minutes and winding on. But thanks to Chuck Schumer and other Democrats, the measure did not reach the necessary 60 votes to overcome a Senate filibuster, falling short with a 55, 45 vote. Three Democrats, by the way, voting with the Republicans, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Angus King of Maine, who calls himself an independent but really isn't, and Catherine Cortez Mastro of Nevada. So I think there are already cracks in the armor. The Senate expected to vote on the same bill again today. I think they tried again. It might have failed. More votes to come through the rest of the week and into the weekend until either a deal is struck or Chuck Schumer and the Democrats relent and stop holding the government and you hostage to advance their ridiculous policies. Hear me now to discuss this, Congressman Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin Southern Congressional District. Tom, nice to see you again.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Good to join you.
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Steve Gurri
Steve. Always good to have you here. Congressman, we're going to get to this in a moment, but I understand you're also running for governor. But let me, let me get to the shutdown first. Look, a clean resolution was the best way forward, but the way I see it, Chuck Schumer, he had no choice here, Congressman. I really don't think he did. He had to vote for the shutdown. He had to. Because if he didn't, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is coming for his job in the primaries. There's no question about it. She has the support of the radical left. She has the funding. She would primary him. Chuck Schumer. Look, the Democrats seem to be dancing on the string of the far left. I don't see any way around this and I don't see any other answer. Am I wrong?
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
No, you're corrected. Thank you for the public service. Is putting the Schumer ticker up on the screen here to show the shutdown. Yeah, he is in a really bad spot. We saw what happened a number of months ago when this happened previously and he caved. And that's what, that's the box he is in at this point. But they're in a really bad spot. The progressive left drives the Democrat party at this point and they drive it viciously. You know, you think they get after Republicans and they do. You know, we look at the unfortunate assassination of Charlie Kirk was just horrible. But they go after their fellow Democrats also. I've seen it so many times in the House where they have went after fellow Democrats who have not been progressive enough. They're doing the same thing here. And Chuck Schumer is scared for his life, for his job. And that's the problem with so many Democrats. Their ultimate job is they want to be a congressman, not represent the people of the United States of America. They want to keep their dream job. They put that ahead of America. We're seeing it play out right now.
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Steve Gurri
We certainly are. So here's the thing though. With three senators already on board and John Fetterman, I'm going to say in part I was wrong about him. He's still a Democrat and still votes most of the time with Democrats. But look, at least he's want to be intellectually honest about this. This is not good. And in fact, if you go back to April when this happened before Chuck Schumer, all the rest of these Democrats said, no, we can't do this. This is not, it's not something we're going to do. And then they change their tune. It is political pressure. Leverage. This small group of fringe hard left progressives, socialists, communists, whatever you like to call them, really are dictating. They're, they're treating these people like Chuck Schumer, like puppets on a string, aren't they?
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Yeah, there's no doubt about it. And think About. And of course, this is all about more spending. Remember, what they want to do is drive a trillion dollars more spending. In fact, the wish list they have is about $1.5 trillion. And that, you know, there was the whole charge of, you know, that Republicans were gutting Medicaid in the working families bill. They want to remove $50 billion that we put in the working families bill for rural hospitals, something that affects a district like mine very seriously. They want to get rid of that. So they're really being intellectually dishonest. But, you know, intellectual dishonesty goes, goes hand in glove with the Democrats.
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Steve Gurri
It sure does. But I guess I'll come back to the point. With three Democrats already voting there, I don't think this lasts very long. Regardless of what Chuck Schumer's pressure is, I've got to believe. Look, the New York Times published a poll here 48 hours ago that showed 65% of the people that they asked said that the Democrats should not shut down the government. Two thirds of the people said the Democrats should not shut down government. That came from the New York Times. So I think the Democrats are just on thin ice here. They're in a no win position. And here's something else that just came out. I just saw this. You may well have, too. In a new generic ballot poll, the Republicans are plus two for those congressional seats, defying what normally happens in midterms are plus two. The Democrats, I don't know if they have a winning message anywhere, Congressman.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
And actually, isn't the lesson there, Steve, that us Republicans, when we have the high ground, stand on that high ground, stand firm. You don't have to buckle under the pressure of the New York Times or the elite media out in Washington, D.C. you just don't have to do that. Stand your ground. My prediction is along the lines of yours. I think Chuck Schumer's exit strategy is getting five Democrats to vote for this so that they get out of it. But one of them not being him.
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Steve Gurri
Exactly right. One of them not being him so he can say, oh, my hands are clean. I think you've called the strategy perfectly. We'll watch for that to play out because I think you're exactly right. Now you're running for governor. We've got about a minute. Why did you decide to jump in and run for governor of Wisconsin? I think it's sorely needed, by the way. But why did you decide to jump in?
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Do we want to end up like the woke and broke in Minnesota and Illinois or do we want to be one of the prosperous states of America? That'll be the question in 2026. I think this is really a critical election. I mean, we always say this, right, Steve, that the next election is most important. I think the people of Wisconsin are going to go one way or another. They're going to go the route of Minnesota, Illinois, California, New York, those states where people are voting with their feet and leaving their states. Or are we going to be one of the prosperous states of America? I believe we can be one of the prosperous states of America, but it's going to take real leadership in Madison to make that happen. I'm going to provide it.
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Steve Gurri
We'd like to see that happen. Always good to have friends that are governors, as I always say. Appreciate, Congressman, for now we're going to watch this shutdown, see where it goes. Sir, thank you for being here. And if somebody wants to find you real quick, what's your website?
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Just go to TomTiffany.com or you can go TomTiffany WI and find us on social.
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Steve Gurri
There you go. Thank you, sir. Always appreciate it.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Great to join you, Steve.
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Steve Gurri
All right, up after the break, I'll continue the discussion of the Schumer shutdown, but I'll focus on how it affects you and me, the taxpayer, the people that foot the bill, as well as what's going to happen to our hard earned dollars. More details straight ahead. But the fiscal consequences of the shutdown, we've been talking about that. But but I want to share something with you before we get to that. I want to read you something that popped up on X here just a short while ago from Scott Simon. He is the host of NPR's Weekend Edition and a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning. This is what he posted. This is the first day since NPR was founded it has not had federal support. And we're here, strong, vital and with an audience of millions. We will keep on serving no fees, no paywalls, and across all divisions, we hope you'll support your local stations to serve America. So let me get this straight. NPR didn't need our tax money to begin with. Go figure. Isn't that what the folks over here on our side of the aisle have been saying for a while? Thought you'd enjoy that. All right. Schumer shutdown, Democrats having to force taxpayers to fund health care for illegals. The question I want answered are how does this hit Americans pockets? What happens to our tax dollars when Washington grinds to a halt? Join me to discuss this. The fiscal fallout is senior director of Government affairs at the National Taxpayers Union, Tommy Aiello. Tommy, you can, you can, you can weigh in on npr. Apparently, they didn't need our money, Tommy, because here he is bragging that they're doing great and they don't need the Fed money. Huh? What do you say to them?
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Tommy Aiello
They're doing so well. We don't need to give them any more money. I love it. I'm very happy that they're successful. And I think it just shows you that, you know, they have all these scare tactics ahead of all of these funding things, but really, everything's going to be fine in the end. Everyone just calm down.
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Steve Gurri
Now, I've seen. Here's what I've been seeing on social media today. I just saw $8 billion in Green New Deal funding canceled. I saw $18 billion to New York City for something put on hold. The Democrats wanted a shutdown. Well, you got it. I hope this is what you're wishing for, because it's what we kind of like. Tommy, your thoughts here? I mean, money's getting stopped everywhere. I don't know how many federal employees are not going to have employment after this, but a lot of them took the early buyout. I know that. So they're all right. But what about all this money just being stopped? That's good news, isn't it?
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Tommy Aiello
Yeah, it is good news for the time being. I think it's great that the Trump administration is playing hardball. And it really shows you that when the Democrats do things, their actions have consequences. Just look at who they're fighting for.
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Dr. Drew Pinsky
Right?
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Tommy Aiello
This is a Schumer shutdown. Republicans passed a clean bill. Democrats want a dirty bill. They're fighting for, you know, noncitizens to remain on Medicaid rolls. It makes no sense. So it really is unfortunate the way that the Democrats are going about this whole situation.
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Steve Gurri
Well, they're losing. They're losing the argument. And again, as I have been discussing for several days now, Chuck Schumer had no choice. He had no choice because if he didn't go along with the shutdown, AOC was going to eat him up in the primary. She's got the far left. She's got the funding. She's going to take him to task and steal his Senate seat. Chuck Schumer, he's dancing like a puppet on the strings of the far left, isn't he?
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Tommy Aiello
Yeah, he really is. I think I said on your show last week that I think this is what he's afraid of. He's afraid of the far left and their consequences. So look, it really is unfortunate. Where are the adults in the room? The Democrats say they're on the side of the people. Clearly not. No one wins in a government shutdown. No one wins because one federal bureaucrats. They're still going to have a job for the most part. They'll still get their back pay. Right now they're at home not working. They'll still get paid. We have service members that are patrolling Washington, D.C. and other streets and serving abroad. They're working, but they're not getting paid right now. And it is extremely unfortunate. And the Democrats have these unrealistic, unreasonable demands that they think is resonating with the American people. I think as the polls start to show that, hey, Democrats aren't as popular on this issue as they think they are, they're going to come back to the negotiating table. They're not going to have as good of a deal as they had before.
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Steve Gurri
No, you had your opportunity. But okay, so three Democrats went along with the deal. Fetterman King and Cortez Mastro. I think that already shows they have weakness here. It doesn't take but five more to come across. As long as Chuck Schumer doesn't have to cross with him, he's going to, he's going to make some friends say, hey, would you go do this and make this vote and get us out of this mess? Because they are in a complete mess. I don't know if they'd recover from this. I'll give you the last word.
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Tommy Aiello
Yeah, I would just say it's great that three Democrats cross the aisle to, like, keep the government open, the most basic thing. But, you know, we still have to remember there's still all these Democrats that Chuck Schumer is controlling. These are supposed to be independent minds. They should be able to vote the way they want and not be afraid of party leadership or not be afraid of their base. If they really cared about keeping the government open, they should have did it. They shouldn't wait another week or two just to fold. If you're going to open the government, just open it now and save everyone a lot of time and energy.
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Steve Gurri
It's just a hassle. It's playing games for the sake of playing games, Tommy. I agree with you on that. Thank you for being here.
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Tommy Aiello
Thank you.
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Steve Gurri
All right, after the break. President Trump has announced that he plans to send the National Guard into Portland as ICE agents continue to face protests and attacks. Real America's Voice correspondent Ben Berkhwam. He, of course, was there up front. Why wouldn't he Be that's where you find Ben. We're back on avl. ICE continues to make its rounds around the country despite protests, riots and deadly attacks like we saw in Dallas last week. One city in focus, of course, Portland, Oregon. The protests and attacks have been ongoing for weeks now, since June, in fact, as ICE continues its deportation efforts. Not only that, but city officials have also put a land use violation notice on the ICE facility to dispute how long detainees can be held, making it more difficult for them to do their jobs. It's remarkable. President Trump has announced that he plans to send the National Guard into Portland to assist ICE with law enforcement and to protect federal facilities. Join me now to discuss this from Portland, of course, Real America's Voice correspondent Ben Berkwam, who we seem to find at the front of all the action generally. Ben, bring us up to speed. Good to see you. Quiet at the moment, you said a little drizzly. And of course it's early. They don't get out of bed quite this early. Maybe, you know, it's not quite 3 o' clock in the afternoon there. They're not getting out of bed. But what can you tell us? The violence comes from inside the building.
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Ben Berkwam
Yeah. So this is just a continuation of what we see from the left across America attacking ice. So what you have is a coordinated effort between radical leftist groups and anarchist groups like Antifa and the socialist La Raza groups as well. Right now, during the day, you don't have too many of them out here. You have one guy that was carrying rats around on his shoulder earlier, but he's just on his megaphone. But other. But otherwise, otherwise you've just got the liberal Karens out here that are providing legal aid to illegals as they go into the building. But you can see, you can see the building has basically, they've had to put wood up as a bunker around the building to protect it from the attacks that they had. And to the point that you said it's not only that law enforcement isn't doing their job to protect these guys, they're not. Even if there's attacks outside of ice, law enforcement isn't coming out here. So basically Portland has left ICE to defend themselves. So it makes total sense that President Trump would send the National Guard in because they're not actually doing the job. Law enforcement here is really on the side of the left of the anarchists, of the communists that are inviting this invasion into our country. Now, the most important thing. Go ahead, Steve.
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Steve Gurri
Yeah, well, I want to ask you this. You say law enforcement's on the other side. Is it because they want to be on the other side, or are they being ordered to be on the other side by the mayor or the people in charge?
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Ben Berkwam
Yeah, the mayor controls the Portland pd. The mayor controls them. And so that basically, it all comes from the mayor. No, the guys, the actual officers. Portland PD would like to be able to help it. But the biggest problem here, Steve, all of these protests, all of these attacks on ICE take resources away from ice. Being able to go out into the communities and get the illegals, by the way, who've been released into the communities by the sanctuary community here, rather than letting them get picked up. It's the same thing we see all over the country. And Again, this is 10 years of this in the making by radical leftists.
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Steve Gurri
So here's the thing. To protect, defend and preserve. I think those are three key words when you take an oath of office here in the United States. It's the preserve part that I think people don't pay a lot of attention to. And they should, because Donald Trump has the right to preserve a federal facility. He has right to preserve law and order. He has right to preserve the Constitution. If he has to defend the Constitution and he's forced to bring in federal agents because that's what he has left in his. In his toolbox, well, then that's what you have to do. I mean, this is pretty simple for a lot of Americans, Ben.
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Ben Berkwam
Yeah, no, it is. Look, if Portland actually did their job, if they weren't a sanctuary community, if they allowed law enforcement to work with ICE and actually have interagency cooperation, then you wouldn't need National Guard here. That's the whole point. You wouldn't need it. If Portland didn't allow these criminal thugs to attack this building every night. You wouldn't need National Guard here. Basically, they've invited the National Guard. And I think that's part of the plan by the radical left, is to create that. I mean, this is. You look at the people that are behind this, they're anarchists. They want to destroy this, this country from within. That is their objective. And so what? What better way to do that? Create more chaos? President Trump is absolutely right in saying, well, if you guys aren't going to do it, if you're not going to defend federal buildings, it's my duty to do that. And he's, He's. You're absolutely right, Steve. That's his, his number one duty.
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Steve Gurri
It's his job.
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Ben Berkwam
Support and defend the Constitution and the citizens.
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Steve Gurri
That's right. Support, defend and preserve. People don't pay attention that word as much as they should. Ben Berkwam, you'll be there in case something changes. Appreciate the report as always, Ben. Thank you.
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Ben Berkwam
Yes, sir, my pleasure.
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Steve Gurri
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Dr. Drew Pinsky
Good to see you.
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Steve Gurri
And then I've seen all this strange behavior on social media since then. Pregnant women who apparently hate Donald Trump so much they'll just take a handful of Tylenol they don't need for no particular reason while they're pregnant. Strange behavior. When should you take drugs you don't need? Dr. Never.
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Dr. Drew Pinsky
How about that? How about never? But not only that, it's. They were allegedly pregnant women taking a Tylenol doses acetaminophen dosing. Now whether that is Apocryphal or not, just the gesture itself should be marginally criminal behavior. You're going to harm another individual, meaning your fetus, in order to speak out against your political adversary. That's just. I mean, we've crossed into some strange territory there as it pertains to acetaminophen. Look, there's a strong signal. It was a Harvard study. Should the President and should the HHS not tell you when there's a strong signal? They didn't tell you what to do. Their job is to be advisory. Now, President Trump did jump in and said, hey, just don't do it.
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Steve Gurri
Good.
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Dr. Drew Pinsky
He can. He can use as much common sense as you want. We, as physician have to say, look, here's the data. Be careful. Work with your doctor. If you have a high fever during pregnancy, that can be dangerous, too. So obviously, your doctor will probably take you to tell you to take the Tylenol, but no medicine. It's just a good reminder that you should be taking, like you said, nothing during pregnancy.
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Steve Gurri
Right. And not to pick on Tylenol. It's a brand name. Acetaminophen is what it is. We actually don't recommend using any of our products while pregnant. Wrote tylenol back in 2017 on Twitter. Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today. And so, look, all these people on the left went crazy because there was a. It's not a cause and effect. Right? Let's be clear about this. Tylenol might be part of a bigger formula of environmental issues that lead to an increase in autism. That's what was said. They didn't say, take Tylenol, get autism. It's not what was said. And they're twisting the words right or wrong. Oh, of course.
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Dr. Drew Pinsky
Look, Tylenol. People take Tylenol when they get a fever after a vaccine. Maybe the vaccine was the real sort of underlying cause of all this in the first place. We're gonna look into all that. We're gonna figure it all out. In the meantime, there's been a signal for Tylenol, so be careful. It's just extraordinary to me that the same people that overnight had an opinion about Ivermectin and now within hours have an opinion about acetaminophen. That is insane. And people should stop and let the CDC and the NIH do their job of advising physicians what they should and shouldn't do. You know, the extraordinary thing about all this is I've been of the opinion forever that pregnant women should not take any medication. However, it caught My attention during my board review, the rheumatology board review put forward by the American College of Physician, I noticed that they do recommend that lupus patients stay on one medication and only one medication during pregnancy because it is so inert. And that medicine, hydroxychloroquine, it's so inert and so benign. That is the one medicine the American College of Physicians suggest that people continue if they've been on it for their lupus, only one. In the meantime, you same idiots that learned how to pronounce that drug the day before have an opinion about that. The same way you have an opinion about acetaminophen. And let's not forget acetaminophen in overdose, by overdose, meaning 10 or 15 tablets, is fatal. It's one of the most fatal overdoses we deal with. I worked in a psych Hospital for 35 years and the most serious gestures were ingestions of Tylenol. I saw a guy get massive liver failure from 8 Tylenol.
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Steve Gurri
And that happens. Tylenol is the leading cause of acute adult liver failure, 46% from what I read, Dr. In the United States every year. Probably don't want to take it if you're pregnant, if you don't absolutely have to. I also just saw something here. When it comes to medications that have long term damage, if you take the COVID vaccine out of it, you know, it's a lot safer than Tylenol. Not just hydroxychlor, Ivermectin, far safer than Tylenol. Almost no side effects, no pushback. And yet the government told us not to take that because it was a horse dewormer or some nonsense they were peddling during the Biden years, right?
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Dr. Drew Pinsky
That's right, that's correct. And people are using it in sort of extraordinary circumstances. In oncology, sometimes people are using it in various situations, it causes a little GI upset. Acetaminophen doesn't do that. Take it in proper doses, but in terms of serious side effects, it's essentially inert. So take advice from your physician, from your medical provider, not from somebody on TikTok and certainly not from the media, not from the press. They are running from one side of the boat to other based on their Trump derangement syndrome. Not good science nor medicine.
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Steve Gurri
Now, while we're talking about Ivermectin, let me shift here to the new world screw worm making headlines in some places around the country, especially in California, raising red flags about the possibility of it being spread to people. It's another parasite. And what Ivermectin is really good for. Especially at the wellness company, you've got this formula for a parasite cleanse. You can wipe these things out. You can wipe out other parasites. And that's really important, isn't.
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Dr. Drew Pinsky
Can be. I'm of the opinion that you should be properly diagnosed before you consider any treatment. People are worried about toxoplasmosis these days also. So obviously get properly diagnosed, properly screened, and then if you need these medications, we are committed to medical freedom and having these things available to you if your doctor feels they're in your best interest. Interest. But once again, that screwworm is exceedingly rare. But it's gross. So it's a press headline. In the meantime, we have anopheles or Aedes mosquito showing up here in Southern California transmitting dengue fever endogenously, which is a massive story in medicine. They don't dare to report on that because it's not gross.
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Steve Gurri
No. Yeah, it's gotta look icky and get people's attention. Have really wicked names like some of the diseases that come out of Africa every couple of years. All right. But when it comes to a parasite cleanse, the wellness company has a gold standard. If that's what your doctor think you should do, you can talk to people at the wellness company too. Spike formula supplement. For those that have had Covid or took the vaccine. And like, I don't want to have long term issues. The gold standard comes from the wellness company. It's a great group of products you have there. I'll give you the last word.
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Dr. Drew Pinsky
I would just say that the McCullough protocol, look it up. The nattokinase that he used there, he's showing good results with that. So if you have any long term issues with COVID or the vaccine, check that out. There it is there.
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Steve Gurri
There you go. Dr. Drew, always informational and always entertaining, sir. Thank you.
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Dr. Drew Pinsky
Thank you, sir.
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Steve Gurri
Greatly appreciate it. All right, if you want to know more about the vaccine, spike formula, protein supplement or the parasite Cleanse, go to TWC Health. Rav. All right. There's so many different products there. Dr. McCullough, Dr. Drew, all these other great doctors have come together to give you the best they have available in all these different places. So again, TWC Health slash Rab. You'll save some money on several of those products and you've got the emergency kits and so much more to look at. I highly recommend you go take a look because better be prepared than not. All right. Make America healthy again starts at home. Don't forget that coming up after the break. What makes America wonderful? We'll talk about that and we'll have the question of the day. How long do you think the shutdown down? We'll drag on. We'll be right back. All right. What makes America wonderful? We do it here every day to make sure you have a smile on your face and maybe a little hope in your heart. All right. We want to leave you with a little, you know, a little positive charge before you go on down the, on down the road. Today we're taking you back to the Cold War era where the phrase in God we trust officially became recognized as the nation's motto and prominently included on America's paper currency and coins too. During the ongoing Cold War, President Eisenhower was urged to use the phrase leading to the law declaring it the national motto on July 30, 1956. This effort was done to differentiate the United States from the Soviet Union and other nations who promoted official state atheism. While Congress and President Eisenhower moved fast to get the famous phrase onto paper currency specifically, it wasn't until the 1st of October 1957 that the phrase was included and circulated on US money. If you take a look at the back of US paper currency today, you'll see the famous phrase In God we trust. There it is. In God we Trust prominently displayed above the Great Seal on the dollar bill, for example. The Judeo Christian values of our nation are an important thing to uphold. Since these values foster a sense of unity, most can get behind and further serve to remind us of what makes America wonderful. How about that for today, right? In God we trust. Amen to that. All right, here's the question of the day. How long do you think this shutdown is going to drag on? Well, Big Duke, he says it will drag on until the federal DOJ investigates state election fraud throughout the country as the mechanism comicrats utilize to usurp power. I'm not sure we got an answer there, but it was fun to read. Bruce Lehiff. I don't care. The demonic Democrats don't care, so why should I? Well, Bruce, you've got some neighbors there that might work for the government somewhere and they might, you know, need a paycheck, pay their mortgage, feed their kids, whatever home jams has. This. My biggest hope is that the longer the government is down, the more people realize we don't need such a bloated, non essential mess that we have now. Now there's, there's a point there. Non essential. I hated that term during COVID because they said, well People with essential jobs can go to work. Non essential jobs. You can't go to work. Every job is essential to the people that are feeding a family. I always found that term to be pretty offensive. Omega Neutron writes, hopefully long enough for Russ Vought to clean house and permanently fire a ton of useless government employees. Okay. Indeed, he writes, at least until the retreat is over. Are they retreating? I know that's not what you meant, champ. 1963. Hopefully the shutdown will be permanent. The longer it goes on, the people realize we don't need a bloated government truth to that. All right, so remember to follow me on all the social media platforms, all the usual suspects acts and truth and Facebook and, and so forth. So you can be part of the question of the day. Right. Be part of the question today. Right now my question is, where is Eric Bowling? I think he's on his way in, folks. There he is.
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Eric Bowling
I had to run, Steve.
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Steve Gurri
I ran.
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Eric Bowling
I ran from the control room over to the set real fast.
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Tommy Aiello
Did you, did you play this?
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Eric Bowling
Did I have a question? Did you play this? This sound bite of Hillary Clinton in 1994, first lady when, remember when Bill Clinton made her put her in charge of health.
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Steve Gurri
We did the country. Yeah, we, we had Bill. Yeah.
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Eric Bowling
Isn't it amazing that remarkable and how literally, as JD Vance pointed out this morning on Fox, if you played Hillary Clinton's words right now, you should be considered maga. So that's how far left Democrat is slid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, so here's.
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Steve Gurri
But yeah, I don't know if you've seen this two things in the last couple hours I've come out, maybe this is earlier today. Trump administration freezes $18 billion in New York City infrastructure projects that according to Rosvaugh, and $8 billion on green new Deal money that was supposed to be who knows what. The Democrats are getting exactly what they asked for. And the Republicans are like, okay, well then let's cancel this and this and this and 18 billion here and 8 billion there. They're going to cancel a whole bunch of pet projects for the Democrats while the government shut down, it looks like to me. What do you think?
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Eric Bowling
I love that. You know, I'm on record saying shut it down, shut it down because I've done this. How many, how many times have we played this game?
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Steve Gurri
How many times?
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Eric Bowling
You know, let's point the finger at them. Let's point. But here's what happens. Both sides blame the other side and what they try and do is find the weakness. Where's the weak. Where's the Achilles that the other side you can nail? Republicans have it. The Democrat policy. The proposal that they brought forward was to provide over $1 trillion in health care that with a key illegal could benefit our taxpayer dollars. They want to make sure illegals get health care in America. Are you crazy? This is such a winning a winning policy for the midterm elections. Shut it down. Keep as close as line. Listen, I know there's hardship. People want to get their checks. They're going to get all their money. Don't worry politicians you're going to get your money but keep it shut, you know until you you have the winning hand. They they don't have the card. You got to trump.
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Steve Gurri
They really do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know when the New York times says that 2/3 of the people basically blame the Democrats and say they don't want them to shut down the government Republicans got.
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Unidentified Caller or Guest
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