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Thank you. Thank you. Press thank you. Thank you, guys. All right, there's President Trump finishing up a press conference, talking about the, you know, a lot of the events over the weekend. It was pretty bloody weekend around the world, service members killed. He was asked about Rob Reiner. We saw Bondi, Bondi beach slaughter. I think 19 is a death toll so far. Lot, lot going on there on his plate. So he had a little press conference there. He's going to go on to a. One of the Christmas parties at the White House after this. But let's take a quick look at the markets, if we can. Markets ended down across the board a little bit. 41 in the Dow, not much S P about flat. 137 in the NASDAQ. Jump over to oil and gold. Oil down good. 75. Look at this. $56 a barrel in oil. That's amazing. That's really the best news of the day. Gold up a little bit. And then the bitcoin market, I'm gonna do. I want to tell you. All right, I'll tell you. 85. 8. That is a rough day in the bitcoin markets, in the, in the crypto markets. So that's it. That's your quick market. Wrap the rally in Pennsylvania last week on affordability. I mean, he talked about how the Democrats are now trying to use this word affordability to make Americans believe, I don't know, that somehow it was Trump's fault. The unaffordability, meanwhile, under Joe Biden, that was real unaffordability. Well, I had the opportunity last Thursday in the briefing room to ask Caroline Levitt that question. Let's take a look at that question right there. Her answer? Things are getting better and they will continue to. And President Trump understands better than any politician in this city the pain that the American consumer has been feeling for years now because of the last administration's policies. You heard him in the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania this past week, campaigning and talking to these voters, saying, I was elected to fix this problem, and I am fixing it. Don't forget who created it. And that's the Democrats. And I think when you hear the president talk about affordability, he's saying the Democrats are the greatest con artists in history because they are now trying to claim ownership of an issue that they created. Well, let's bring in Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee to discuss this exact fact. Not only the Democrats, Senator, it's also the liberal media on the left rephrasing on unaffordability, blaming Trump with some sort of insane Trump derangement syndrome. And Joe Biden was clearly the president that gave us unaffordability. Your thoughts? Well, Joe Biden ran the inflation rate up to 9.1%, the highest in over four decades. And of course, this is what Democrats do. They create a crisis and then they come in and say, we've got a solution. And their solution is spending more government money, which drives up inflation and taxing you more to spend more of your hard earned tax dollars. They don't want you controlling your pocketbook. They want to control the pocketbook. And inflation is coming down. Prices are beginning to inch down. Not as fast as many people wanted to see. But last week in Tennessee when we were out and about, we saw $2.37 a gallon gas. Now, that is a far cry from what it was when President Donald Trump was sworn in because Joe Biden had run that price up. You know, they try to do away with energy production and with refining. So that drives up the cost of a gallon of gas. That also drives up your grocery prices because of delivery fees and all the plastics that groceries get wrapped in, put in when you're buying produce and things. So, yes, of course they created a crisis. They broke it, and President Donald Trump is going to fix it. I'll tell you something, here's a great number. $2.90 is the average price across this country right now, today. That includes California's insane taxes and whatever prices they're charging on California. But the national average, 290, it's the first time in five years. Think about that. That's since he was president. Last time it's been under $3. A gall. Trump had something to say about it, too. Listen, the new word, you know, they always have a hoax. The new word is affordability. So they look at the camera and they say, this election is all about affordability. Democrats talking about affordability is like Bonnie and Clyde preaching about public safety. And I can't say affordability hoax because I agree the prices were too high. So I can't go to hoax because they'll misconstrue that. But they use the word affordability and that's their only word. They say affordability and everyone says, oh, that must mean Trump has high prices. No, our prices are coming down tremendously. And it's amazing that the liberal media was silent for four years and now all of a sudden they want to jump on this idea. You're right about that. They would not talk about the cost of living when you had Joe Biden in the White House. And they would talk about how necessary it was for the cost of a gallon of gas to go up. But you know what? What we're finding out is they drove up the price of electricity and Obama, they started on this with Obama with all of the Green New Deal and Obama saying, of course it is going to cost you more to heat and cool your house and run your business. And then you look at what they've done on other energy issues, the price at the P. You look at what they've done on health care by inserting more government control on health care. Obamacare and the cost of insurance on the Obamacare exchange, it has gone up hundreds percent more than what insurance has gone up that is provided by your employer. And these are stats that we all have and numbers that we're looking at. The Democrats have driven up the cost of living. They have caused this and as I said, they broke it. And now it is up to Donald Trump and Republicans to fix it. Yes, ma'. Am. Yes, ma'. Am. Another topic, earlier this year you reintroduced the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act. Very important. Tell us what it is and how, how it will go into effect. And especially since we read, you know, Australia has now banned people, I believe, under 16 years old from social media. But tell us about this. Yes, indeed, the Kids Online Safety act would require safety by design from our social media platforms and have a duty of care. You know, in today's world, we have rules and laws on the books and you can't do certain things until you're 16 or 18 or 21. You can't sell alcohol, tobacco, firearms to kids. You can't have them enter into contracts. You can't take them to pornography, pornographic shows, strip clubs, movies. But in the virtual space, they are exposed to this 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And what the Kids Online Safety act would do is put this responsibility on the social media platforms to have a toolbox so that kids and parents could use that delink from these algorithms, allow reporting of bad actors in the virtual space and require the social media platforms to remove them to do something about it. Parents want this because most kids meet predators, pedophiles, groomers, drug traffickers, sex traffickers in the virtual space. Indeed. Indeed. That's great work by your, by you and your Group, thank you very much for doing that. Also, thank you for joining us today. Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. Thank you. You got it. All right, folks, take a look at this. I just finished my first round of 88 days. I had an appointment with my cardiologist yesterday morning, and I went in and weighed in with him on their scale with clothes on. He was extremely happy because he recorded I had lost 30 pounds. I've got six inches out of my belt, and I'm ready to punch a new hole in that belt. My cardiologist was extremely impressed with what I had done. He said, whatever you do, keep on doing it. Those are fantastic numbers. Super proud of you, brother. So studies have shown that heart attacks and cardiac deaths significantly increased during the winter holidays, especially around Christmas and New Year's. This real phenomenon is often called the Christmas coronary effect. It's caused by the perfect storm. Stress, overindulgence, alcohol, less sleep, less exercise, cold weather, constricting blood vessels, and people delaying medical care. Let's bring in the founder of Energized Health, John Jubilee, to discuss. John, all of the factors, all the factors. You know, there's so many of them. Is there a way to stave off a coronary negative event? Well, there really is, Eric. And the simplest way that people can do that is, you know, the root cause of probably more than 90% of heart attacks is what we call sludge blood. Just not having enough healthy hydration in your cells and more specifically, inside of your blood cells. So when you have healthy hydration in your blood cells, your blood is the viscosity, basically, of water, which is super healthy. You're never going to have a heart attack when you have healthy viscosity in your blood. But when you get that sludge blood, which is more like ketchup, because your blood is dehydrated, everything clogs up. It's like having a clog in your kitchen sink. But when you have a clog in your heart, you have a heart attack or you have a brain aneurysm, or you have a stroke. So your blood actually has a change in viscosity. Oh, 1,000%. Yeah. You should hear some of these real stories of our real clients. So they talk about when they go in to get their blood taken that, you know, they used to have to poke, you know, 25 times just to find a vein, and then the blood would just come out real slow. And then after they do our protocol, they poke them one time, and it's just like an oil. Like they struck oil. You Know that blood is just flying out of there. Yes, blood absolutely has its own viscosity, depending upon our intracellular hydration. Fascinating. And so what are the other sides? Assuming you're not getting a, you know, a blood test or what, no one's poking your vein. What are the other signs of problems with your intracellular hydration? Specifically, when it refers to your heart. Yeah. So. So, specifically, believe it or not, these things are so easy for us to identify, you know? So, number one, I would just ask people, do you crave sugar? Do you crave sugar? Do you feel thirsty? So those are the two easiest ones for people to say, huh? Yeah, you know what? I actually crave sugar. And, Eric, I'll be happy to tell everybody I was absolutely, like, a sugar addict. Like how maybe somebody's a cocaine addict. I was a sugar addict in my younger days, and it was because I was so dehydrated. And no matter how much water I drank, I never felt satiated. I never felt like I quenched my thirst. So those are the two easy ones for people to identify. And by the way, you know, look, you know, there's more than a million people a year. Think of this number. A million people a year have a heart attack. And for men, you know, guys, you know, I'll talk to the men for a minute, just man to man. Like, you know, men, every inch that our belly, if our belly is one inch bigger than our chest, then the AMA, the American Medical association, says you're going to die five years prematurely. It's five years per inch, Eric. Wow. So if you're eight inches, you're going to die 40 years prematurely. Like, these are just documented, you know, studies that have been done over, you know, decades of people dropping dead from heart attacks. Yeah. It's amazing. It's true. And by the way, with a better viscosity of your blood. I got it. I have to assume your blood, your heart's healthier, and your blood pressure has to come down. John, really good to talk, by the way. I. I don't crave sugar. I crave salt and butter. I'm sure it's probably just as bad for me. Jubilee. Good to have you, man. Happy, merry Christmas, and we'll see you again very soon. Maybe before Christmas. The salt is good for you. The salt is good for you only if you're hydrated, though. So Merry Christmas to you, too. I'm old enough to remember when they said salt will kill you. But you know what? Everything comes around, has its day, doesn't it, John? Jubilee thank you, brother. Alrighty, folks. 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So oil production, shrinking economic growth. They got a, you know, gazillion dollars of spending on, on this war with Ukraine. At some point, at some point, something's got to give with Russia and Ukraine. I certainly hope it's not us jumping involved. What are your thoughts on what's going. And we'll talk a little bit about Witkoff talking to Zelensky and Putin. Yeah, yeah, I think, look, you're absolutely right. The economy is, is suffering all sorts of problems from a number of different directions, but primarily from the energy infrastructure. I would argue that if, you know, if this had been our focus a couple of years ago, we could have actually put an end to this war. You've got to make Putin feel sufficient pain for him to actually end up thinking, maybe I have to compromise and sit down at the table in a meaningful way. We seem to have gotten in this mindset that somehow Kyiv is the roadblock to peace, and the roadblock of peace up until this point has been the fact that Putin sees no, no upside to stopping. He honestly believes, in part because he's in a, in a bit of an echo chamber now, but he believes that he's, he's, he's winning and that he can outlast the West. So, you know, I think the, the, the logical response would be you've got to, you've got to make him feel more pain at this point, and the economy is the best way to do that. You know, the. Yeah, I agree. I agree. And, you know, here's the other thing. Trump likes to drill oil and oil prices have come down, down to $55 a barrel. That really sticks it to, to, to the Kremlin because they need, they need $100 oil. They just, they just needed to survive. And at 55, almost half of what they need, it really hurts them. So, you know, in a way, Trump is, can be poking Putin a little bit without actually having to directly negotiate with him. Yeah, that's a really interesting point. And you're, and you're right, there's a, there's another side to that, though, which is, look, when this invasion started, and it's almost four years, if we think about that, the Biden administration was obviously in charge. If we think back to that time, gas prices were high. Gas prices were very high around the country here in the US and so there was a real reluctance to go after the Russian energy infrastructure, because what happens, you take that Russian oil off the global markets, well, prices go up at the gas pump. So that's not politically tenable. Right. That's not what the White House would want. So they were very reluctant to do that, I would argue that calculus still exists. No politician, regardless of where they are on the spectrum, they don't want high prices to pump. So that's still a problem. So, yes, the policy of the White House, currently, the Trump administration, to go after drill, drill, drill, you're right. That has had, in a sense, you know, the same impact on the Russian ability to generate revenues because it's been driving the prices down globally. It will continue. It will continue because I think oil is on a trajectory lower, which will only, you know, kind of force Russia's hand in either fixing it or ending ending the war. And that plays right into Witkoff and whatnot. I want to jump over the very important story over the weekend. Two service members and then. And an interpreter were killed by ISIS in Syria. Let's take a look at what Trump had to say about this. Syria, by the way, was fighting along with us. The president, the new president of Syria is, as they told me, and I was not surprised. He's devastated by what happened. This was an ISIS attack on U.S. and Syria. So former CIA covert operations agent operative Mike Baker. Do you believe that the Syrian president is troubled by it? I mean, Syria's a, you know, they got to play the game. They want to play the game with the United States. But we kind of know better, don't we? Yeah. Do I think he's devastated by it? No. Do I think he's concerned that it might upend his own agenda? Well, yes. Look, these. The. The attacker was within the Syrian security Service. Right. Their apparatus. And so what it speaks to is the fact that there has been no vetting since the fall of Assad in terms of who's in that military, who's in the Syrian army at this point. And that's a real problem for us because we have US Troops obviously on the ground, and we're working side by side at times with Syrian elements. And if the Syrians don't know who these folks are, you know, we're playing catch up. We're trying to understand who is standing right next to me on my right or my left with a weapon. So it is a. It's fraught with all sorts of problems. Look, I think I understand the White House's perspective on how they're dealing with, you know, Shira, the new president of Syria. I get what they're thinking, which is this would be ideal if we could create a friendlier ally in Syria, what that means for Iran, which is obviously Syria was Iran's puppet for. For quite some time. And so I, I understand the concept. I just think it's, It. It's got all sorts of potential problems, as we've just found out, in the deaths of these two Iowa National Guardsmen. Question. Right. Right. Yeah. Right. What a bloody weekend, by the way, across the globe. But, yeah, but you said he used a. The. The assassins were Syrian. Were Syrian from. With that. Within. Inside some sort of Syrian infrastructure. But we had heard, and Trump even said it was isis. Is there a link? Well, it's a link in the sense that what I mean by the vetting process isn't there is that they have no idea who is radicalized, who's not, who's got ISIS links, who doesn't, clearly you would have to speculate, I think, with some assurance that the attacker in this case in Syria had ISIS links. Right. Or was certainly motivated or inspired by ISIS theology if he didn't have direct links. So, yeah, it is a real problem. That's why our forces are there to begin with. Right. Is to try to eliminate the last remnants of ISIS to ensure that they can't rebuild as they did in years past. So, yeah, I think ISIS plays a role, just like ISIS appears to have played a role in the sad Bondi beach shootings in Australia. Father and son terrorists with ISIS ties. Yeah. Or at least fanatical Islamist ties. We're not really sure if it's ISIS or who cares? Whack a mole, so to speak. Here's the question. I'm old enough to remember when Xi Jinping was visiting Mar a Lago and they were, I think it was baked Alaska having dessert at Mar a Lago. And Trump announced that he bombed the Syrian air base with Russian, by the way, with Russian soldiers on. On the air base. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, said on social media, and I'm quoting, the savage who perpetrated this attack was killed by partner forces. Let it be known if you target Americans anywhere in the world, you will spend the rest of your brief, anxious life knowing the US Will hunt you, find you, and ruthlessly kill you. End quote. Question is, will we see another, I guess a US Attack on. On another. Another country? And the reason why I asked this is because, you know, they're contemplating Venezuela right now. What are your thoughts on Syria first and then Venezuela? Sure. Yeah. Well, we have to be able to multitask, and we certainly can. We've got the resources and the ability to do that. So look, with. With Syria, the good, if there is good news here, I suppose, in terms of targeting, is that we have Our forces on the ground, we have fairly robust intel operations. So we already have a target package selected, right? Not specifically. I was saying for this. For this incident, the sad incident. But. But we had already built target packages of. Of where ISIS was. Where their command structure, such as it is, is. Is still existing, where they have facilities or munitions depots. So you can count on there will be retaliatory strikes. And we already understand what that target package looks like. What about Venezuela? Yeah, Venezuela is. That's a. That's a different kettle of fish there. I think the White House is busy. They have been busy gaming out different scenarios. Look, either Maduro makes the logical decision. I'm not saying he's on the logic train. But one scenario is he decides on his own. I've got to go now. He had already tried to set the table. He had a phone call with Trump, and of course he was asking for ridiculous things, including $200 million of his own wealth that he could hold on to. Anybody in Venezuela at this point should look at that and say, wait a minute, he's got over $200 million of his own wealth while he's driven this country into a basket case situation. Then there's the scenario that his people around him say, you got to go, and they force him out. And then there's a scenario of potential US Military intervention. I don't think that one is likely. I think all this pressure that's been building is designed to figure out some way to get him out of there without US Military direct involvement on the ground. Yeah, I'm going to agree with you, although I am disagree. I think maybe that we will have some kinetic activity via us, maybe leading into the midterms. I hate to say it, but, hey, you know, politics and war seem to go hand in hand. Mike Baker, always good to have you on, my friend. Former CIA covert operations officer and CEO of Portman Square, and by the way, President's Daily brief podcast. Mike, thank you. Thanks, man. I appreciate you. And happy Christmas, man. And you, too. You, too. Merry Christmas. We're back. Two and a half minutes. Foreign. Equals death. Let me say it again. Appeasement equals death. Not just appeasement, complacency. The highest levels of both those things that have led us to the moment we find ourselves in today. An ISIS attack in Syria. A gunman in Rhode island at Brown University. A father and son terrorist group shooting attack in Bondi beach in Australia as Jews celebrate Hanukkah. We not fully see it yet, but there's a red. Let's call it a blue thread that weaves itself through all of those. And what's been created is some new species of human zero empathy, fueled by propaganda, by an agenda, all of it pure evil. These are created, exalted and coddled by the leftist mentality, extremist ideologies that glorify violence and hatred. To be clear, these acts are not isolated incidents. They're not random violence. They're the predictable outcome of Western government's refusal to confront and dismantle radical movements, movements allowed to operate with full enthusiasm from our government under the guise of tolerance, under the policy of appeasement. A lack of enforcement and ideological blind spots have enabled extremists to radicalize, organize and kill us right here in the United States, on our soil. There's a common thread here. And until we face it and try to understand it, we will sink further beneath it. They're so lost, drowning under the policies they created and the results of those policies that all they can do is deflect. And I know you'll see the common pattern I'm referring to when you hear this from the left wing Prime Minister of Australia about those attacks in Australia that took place 24 hours ago. We take Asia's advice very seriously. We work closely with them. We receive regular updates as well. The Director General of Asia has warned about a range of threats, be it anti Semitism, the rise of right wing extremist groups as well. And we continue to work closely with our security agencies. So in case you were confused, the left wing mantra of never let a good crisis go to waste is also used by the left wing and the land down under, never forget to go after guns. Government is prepared to take whatever action is necessary. Included in that is the need for tougher gun laws, that maybe those gun laws will work if you write them in Arabic. I don't know. Just saying. I'm old enough to remember when Australia decided a zero policy on guns in 2023. And I'm also old enough to remember when VP Kamala Harris praised the new measures when they were rolled out just a couple of months later. Gun violence has terrorized and traumatized so many of our communities in this country. And let us be clear, it does not have to be this way. As our friends in Australia have demonstrated. Indeed, it is the case that we look every time there is one of these events and are grateful that Australia did act in a bipartisan way. Yeah, well, how did that work out on Sunday? Yep, sure come after the guns and not the real actual problem. As if Elon Omar doesn't have corrupt Somalis to defend or an America to hate or a brother to divorce. She makes sure to capitalize on this moment too. It is a tragedy that this has become a normal occurrence, not just in the United States, but now seeing it in Australia, who's worked really hard to create gun prevention laws to prevent the kind of tragedy that took place. Got it. Guns are the problem, says Elon Omar. And never forget to casually mention right wing extremist groups, even when it doesn't even apply at all whatsoever. And we all know what that's about, don't we? It sounds familiar, right? And we won't ignore what our intelligence agency have determined to be the most lethal terrorist threat to the homeland today. White supremacy is terrorism. I'm going to say this just to get it out of the way. There's no doubt about it. We're in a strange time right now where killing seems to be the last and only resort for certain groups of people to get their points across. We've seen it with Luigi Mangione, the assassination of Charlie Kirk. We're dealing with an entirely different beast right now. But here's the part the left refuses to believe and understand and more importantly, admit they created it. Defending criminals, defending illegals, marching in support of terrorists. And why are we so afraid to call them out for it? It's a losing battle when we're forced to look at the wrong thing. And the left is so afraid to look at it because they're obsessed with pandering for no reason at all. We're importing terrorism. We're importing hate and evil. They don't want to say it, but I will. And they will foster it on our own soil. Homegrown terrorism right here after they bring them in. In just 24 hours, we saw three Americans killed in Syria by Muslims. At least 19 people murdered in Sydney, Australia by Muslims. We saw five Muslims arrested for plotting an attack on on a German Christmas market. Paris canceled their Christmas and New Year celebrations this year because of Muslim terror threats. Multiculturalism is so great, France had to cancel their New Year's Eve celebration. Think about it. Why aren't we allowed to talk about it? It's the truth. Why is so. Why is everyone so afraid to talk about it? The left created this moment by fostering this mentality, by somehow justifying the existence of this kind of evil and placing the blame of on the right just to incite even more violence. Like Chuck Schumer. He'll be sure to deflect and blame the wrong people for the violence his party helped to perpetuate. But first, an important message. And of course, I'm going to say a few words about the terrible shooting in Sydney, Australia. Okay, so. And first, of course, as I always say, no matter what, go Bills. They beat the Patriots today. It's a big deal. 19 people dead so far. But first, my football team won in that great Chuck Schumer. That's what we're dealing with. How many of these incidents need to happen around the world for the left to admit the truth? Australia disarmed its citizens in 1996. Imported 600,000 Muslims since then, including from four countries considered major sources of terrorism. That's what democrats want for our country. Weren't we told that Australia's strict gun laws eliminated mass shootings from ever happening? Weren't we told that there were only upsides to mass migration from countries that have nothing to do with our countries? Weren't we told that everyone on earth shares the same values? Well, that was all a lie. Appeasement equals death. That's a fact we need to admit before it's too late. We'll be back. 2025 has emerged with a few clear cut nominees for most embarrassing member of US Congress. The winner will be revealed on our Christmas day show, by the way. But one of the nominees who happens to be pretty high on the list, by the way, is Elon Omar. Coming out in the final stretch to defend corruption and slander the president and half the country. Put Omar pretty high up there and watching her defend herself. Just add some entertainment to the mix. Everybody knows I came to the United States at the age of 12, gained my citizenship at the age of 17, and I am an elected representative in the house of congress and so the house of representatives in congress. And so for me, you know, I look at it as a display of his ignorance and I see it as a national embarrassment that he continues to say those kind of things even though he does know what's. You know, I would call you a national embarrassment. You married your brother getting citizenship. You've Somehow put together $40 million off your donors. It's insane. And you always said Somali people are your real constituents. Not the American people. Certainly not the people of Minnesota. Another nominee for the award to be given out next week is probably even higher on the list for most embarrassing member of U. S. Congress. The one, the only, jazzy Jasmine Crockett has had a promising year as far as consistently making a complete fool out of herself. And this statement has even members of her own party a little mad at her. So I had to go around the country and educate people about what immigrants do for this country or the fact that we are a country of immigrants. Right, Right. The fact is, ain't none of y' all trying to go and farm right now. Okay, so I'm lying. Raise your. Raise your hands. You not. You not. We done picking cotton. We are. You can't pay us enough to find a plantation. I will let that come. I'll just let that sit there for a minute. Let that linger. Jazzy Jasmine Crockett. Kamala Harris still out there reeling from her 2024 beating, beat down, trying to sell a book and somehow trying to remain relevant in the same time, shape or form. And it looks like she's got a new slogan, Real talk, which I think is just code for I'm about to deliver some stupid ass word salad. And so. Real talk, Right? So in comes Donald Trump. But real talk, we must be candid and clear. Okay. Of course, if you let Kamala Harris give a speech, you always run the risk of word salads, which only serves as a reminder of what could have been. How lucky we are that the election was, I don't know, closely monitored for once. But given how clueless Kamal is and how bad she is at giving speeches, she inadvertently made the best case for possible case possible for why President Trump's win was so important for America. Because the deep state and the swamp have nothing good to do with this country and haven't for years. We must be candid and clear. Donald Trump is not the only source of our problems. He and the rise of the MAGA movement, I believe, are a symptom of a failed system that is the result of years of outsourcing and offshoring, financial deregulation, growing income inequality, a broken campaign finance finance system, and endless partisan gridlock all contributing to how we got here today. How about importing terrorists? How about letting criminals run ramshod in our streets and blaming victims and citizens? How about any of those Democrat policies? Meanwhile, Democrats are the party of violence. They support illegals over our own citizens. They support putting criminals back on our streets. Cashless bail? Really? Cashless bail? What's the point? They believe in spending money abroad while ignoring Americans. Ukraine. They are directly responsible for the destruction and decay of America. And yet somehow they believe they stand on higher moral ground while the president, our president and his supporters are ruining the country. Let me ask you about something else that you said in your speech. You said, my faith is not a weapon. My faith is a bridge. You also say, quote, trumpism is a plague on the American conscience. How do you square those two ideas for people? Yeah, as I point out, I think over the last several years, you know, over the last 50 years and over the last year, we have seen a deepening divide between what people need from their government and what government is delivering. Surely the wealthiest nation on the planet can afford to provide basic health care to its citizens. We suffer not from a poverty of resources, but a poverty of moral imagination. U.S. senator from Georgia. I rarely put leaders from across the pond into the mix here, but when they say something so stupid, so ridiculous that it only could have come from the Kamala Harris playbook of things to say, I got to show it to you. Keir Starmer, whose whole country, Britain, England, can't stand him. And his leadership has continued in their tradition of letting anyone and everyone into his country. But wait until you hear his reasoning for why the number of illegal migrants has exploded. I think we need to look at every aspect of illegal migration up upstream, looking at the causes, which of course are often poverty, climate change, persecution. Look at the cause, look. Immigration unchecked has destroyed Europe. England, specifically Germany, specifically even Australia. Now. Don't import that crap here. The sheer inability of the so called leaders of Minnesota to just admit that there was a massive crime of corruption in their state committed by a single group just speaks volumes to the kind of appeasement that goes on with the party. But Tampon Tim Waltz, who himself is partially responsible governor for the corruption, just as a reminder, it was the system he put in place, the warnings he ignored, and then the COVID up he was involved in. But Tampon Tim finds new ways of deflecting with each passing day. Do you want to hear more from members and leaders from the Somali community to say we need to hold our, we need to look at ourselves, we need to hold our own neighbors accountable because look at the damage that this has done to our community. What do you want to hear more from instead of just saying don't blame us, do you want to see more ownership and oversight from within? Look, it's not law abiding citizens. If that were the case, there's a lot of white men should be holding a lot of white men accountable for the, for the crimes that they have committed. I think for the community to maybe educate their population. Because I think what you're seeing here is there's secondary victims in this, that there's, there's providers inside the community that are then victimizing the community themselves by signing them up. Because when we're going to some of these people, they're like, I had no idea I was in this program. What the hell was that? No one mentioned race. They talked about a group stealing money under your watch, dumbass. Kathy Griffin is like the OG of Trump Derangement Syndrome gang. Like, I'm kind of like the insane leftist trendsetter. Kathy's been inciting violence against the president since some members of the left were still in diapers. Which is why I guess it's no surprise that Kathy says things like this. By the time I get on stage, everybody's covered. The latest crazy thing he said. And I'm just waiting for him to die. So he will die sooner than later. He's in terrible shape. He is disgusting to look at. Like, disgusting. And I'm not saying I'm some beauty. It's not about that. It's that because he is who he is and because he is doing what he is doing, I can't even like stand to look at him. She didn't have a mirror in her house. It's not one mirror in Kathy Griffin's apartment or house or whatever. It's not about what he looks like either. Kathy. He's bringing America back to the greatness that we once were. One day at a time. All right, folks, I don't talk about numbers very much, but sometimes numbers do tell a story. They edge talk about a lot here. Launched less than three months ago, the growth hasn't slowed at all. That tells me something powerful is happening. Take a look at this. If you haven't joined, take a look at that right there. 7, 400 subscribers. 80 days. 80 days. 250, 000 views 12700 watch hours top 1/10 of 1% of all new YouTube channels. It's amazing. Hit the other screen for me, Mad Dog, because this is where you do it. You just sign up. I'm asking you to hit. Use your camera, point it towards that QR code. Subscribe now. You hit the yellow button automatically. Subscribe. You can go to YouTube. Search Eric Bowling the Edge. It'll bring up. Make sure it's Eric Bowling the Edge. Subscribe. We are growing so fast. The movement, it's a platform. It's not a trend. It's something that's here. It's going to be here for a long time. I want you part of it. I want to hear. Hear what you have to say. I want you watching this stuff. It's not political. It's all about being better, being a better person, being A better human being. Please subscribe. I appreciate it very much, the support. We'll be right back. There's control room Cam. There they are. The team, the boys and the girls. Girls, thank you. Mad Dog, you found something that I think we ought to see. Joe Biden saying something. I did. Here it is. I'm gonna give a. Go Birds. Go Birds, man, all the way. We gotta win the super bowl again. How cool is it to be here today, President? It's always cool to be here. We gotta get him back. Move, man. Sure. Go Syracuse. And I think he said go. Accurate. That's our former president, folks. Okay, let's do some voicemails. Yeah. So this viewer said he liked the PBD Edge episode. Got it. First of all, I don't believe that you listened to all your messages, but that's all right with me because I don't have a problem. But I just want to tell you that I like listening to your show and watch on Fox News all the time. However, that situation that you had with that guy on that show, the Edge, Uranian guy, that was probably one of the things that should actually be broadcasted on a concentrationist. You have to excuse me for a moment because I've been drinking some Canadian whiskey and smoked a little pot and I know this is not going to be on the reveal, but that's all right with me. Anyhow, that was some pretty good. And the reality of it is is that we do a lot more of that and we need to get people that are talking about things that are important. And when the guy said, you know what, not political, he was actually believing that he wasn't being political, but he really was strange sort of way. All right, buddy, bye. Okay, a couple of things here. First of all, I try and listen to as many as I can. I literally do. You're right. I haven't listened to all of them. I probably have 2, 000 stacked. But every moment free moment I get, if I'm running in the morning or working out, I listen to these or driving somewhere, I listen to them. That's one thing. Number two, he said it's probably not going to be on tv. Yeah, you're just on tv. Just let you know. So if you can leave a message, I tell you up front, this is for television. I give you a heads up. Tell me what's your name, where you're from and give me your message. And number three, you're right. PD pbd. Patrick David is Iranian. He's a Christian Iranian who came over Here early, young in life. And what an inspiring interview I had with him on the Edge. I would love for you all to see it. Just go over there and just watch it. It's. It's a wonderful episode. Mad Dog, you have another one? Yeah. This viewer says Mamdani will ruin nyc. How you doing, Eric? I watch your show just about every other day and I have a comment about Mondami in New York. Now, when I was a student in high school and we had an Italian class and I had a teacher named Signora Larson, now they decided that school said, okay, we're gonna take a class trip to New York City. And I had the greatest time there. I brought the students that we. They gave us some time to ourselves. I walked through a little Italy. I stopped at the little shops. I got some souvenirs. I went to bakery to have a box of cannolis that were. That they were unbelievable. And I hate to see what's going to happen now with Mondani and how the Muslims are going to take over the entire city. And what's going to be left of the Irish food, the Italian food, the Chinese, they look, is it going to be all one, one thing to eat on a menu? And I can't. It just, it just sickens me to my stomach just to think that somehow these idiots voted him in office and it was going to ruin my childhood, my memories of when I wasn't, when I went there, it's just, it just sickens me. Bye. Amazing comment. Because foodie, I get it and I understand that. And by the way, if you're New York and Italian, it's. They say good old not cannoli. For whatever reason, these, these people are coming over here, mass migrants coming over here. They don't assimilate. They don't assimilate. And when we have politicians who are basically laying out the red carpet for them to come over here, there's no reason for them to assimilate. We talk about the truckers taking the CDL license in 17 different foreign languages. Insanity to start with. But then they'll come over and live the way they live in their, their own countries that weren't good enough for them. So they came over here to the beautiful United States of America. But then they want to have the same, I guess, traits and foods and everything they did there. And the problem is they bring crime from over there. They import crime here as well. It's just a very, very dangerous practice on so many, so many levels. And so people call Trump a bigot or a racist or whatnot. No, he's just trying to preserve what we have left of this great country. It literally is just preserve and protect what we still have left and kind of hide from those liberals who would have them open the doors, bring them in for one reason and one reason only. Not because they love diversity. They love their jobs. They want to get these people to vote for them. That's the only reason they'll sacrifice this country just to buy their damn vote. Mad Dog, I love you. Can you play that Joe Biden sound by real quick? We have a couple of seconds. Just play Joe Biden one more time. I'm going to give a go Birds. Go Bird man all the way. You got to win the super bowl again. I don't know what to say from there. Listen, folks, have a great night. I love the voicemails. The guy's right. I haven't listened to them all, but I promise you I will try to get to as many many as I possibly can. Keep them coming. Your voicemails are amazing. We love this segment. Have a great night. Steve Bannon's coming up next in the war room. Always good to have him. And by the way, at the end of the week, don't forget, I'll be in Phoenix Thursday and Friday from Amfest. Have a great night. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.