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This is an I Heart podcast. Look at the time. Look at that dude on the right. What are you doing, dude? Why are you dancing like that? You okay? You all right? You must have made a lot of money today or something. There he goes. That happens. The bell rings and here we go. Mixed bag of tricks on the stock market right now. Dow Jones was down a little bit, down a lot more earlier in the day. S and P made a nice move up. It was almost unchanged about an hour ago. Jumped up 32 points, half of 1%. Nasdaq was the clear winner. Google got some good news out of the courts. Gold ripping another brand new high for the gold price. And the boys in the control room like the fact that the silver market is also very, very strong. Maybe new highs in the silver market. Oil down six bucks. 63. Exactly what it was up yesterday. Very, very good news. Crypto did very well. And let me tell the guys, guys. So all you guys complaining that I talked to you into Ethereum, maybe you like me a little bit more today. Look at that move in Ethereum 163. Almost. Almost 4% move in Ethereum today. A lot of money moving into Ethereum. XRP kind of floundering. Bitcoin, nice move up to 112, 000 again. Needs to find a support at 110,000 if it does. Off to the races. Cathie wood says Bitcoin. $3.8 million per Bitcoin. Cathie woods, one of the smartest people on Wall Street. All right, the Tennessee Valley Authority. TVA as we've known it has been around since 1933. Country music star superstar, I should say. John Rich says they've rained down destruction on American landowners for more than 90 years. Let's put it all in his song. The Devil and the TVA Take a.
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Listen, you don't know nothing when the government man comes around puts his dirty old boots on the ground laughs at your protest With a gun and a bulletproof vest he don't care what you have to say, you're just gonna do it anyway he'll smile and grin and then take your farm away and he'll tear it out of hell right in your ways now the devil ain't got nothing on the TV.
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Well, really happy to bring back John Rich on the show. John, tell us what inspired this. So the folks understand TVA originally, 1933, part of the New Deal was. It was a. It's a. It's a federally owned business, John. And, and what they were there to do is Bring, bring some wealth to a very struggling area, the Tennessee Valley. At the time, things may have gotten better. But tell us, TVA has gone through a lot of controversies over the years. Tell us specifically what you're, what you're singing about.
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Yeah, well, thanks for putting a spotlight on this story. So the TVA, they have built a lot of power throughout seven states where they're at since 1933. But they are federal, but they're also private. So for instance, TVA made over $13 billion last year. So it's a really strange hybrid type of entity. And there's a little county in Tennessee called Cheatham County, Tennessee, where my brother and father both have farms. I have a little bit of hunting land out there. And TVA came in and said, hey, we're going to wreck 6,000 acres of farmland, 500 houses, five school districts, we're going to drop a 900 megawatt methane gas plant right on top of you guys and there's nothing you can do about it. I started getting videos of the TVA showing up on people's property with bulletproof vests and loaded weapons, Eric. I mean, who knew the TVA had a. It looks like the ATF task force coming to your property demanding access to your land. So to me that seems so anti American and so wrong on so many levels that it inspired me to write a song called the Devil in the tva. And I think that's a fair comparison for what they were doing to the people in Cheatham County. But with that county pushing back, me joining them, President Trump even had to weigh in on it. And Secretary Rollins, thank God we finally stopped this project.
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Yeah, it's terrific. Eminent domain is what they're using. Using the law of eminent domain, where the federal government's allowed to take your property, it's theft of your, of your ownership. I guess they give you some sort of stipend, what they deem market value of it is. But some of these things are abused. An 88 year old woman whose family has owned the property for 100 years get tossed. Farms, generational farms are being tossed as well. And on the other side, juxtapose that with the fact that, let's be honest, TVA provides cheap power to the Tennessee Valley, some of the cheapest power in the country. So is there. Let me just throw one more thing in here. I forgot to mention the CEO of Tennessee Valley Authority, I looked it up. His name is Jeff Ly Ash. He made a whopping $10,500,000 last year. That's John Rich money.
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That's super bowl quarterback money, man, that's crazy. So, so the thing about TBA is the Scheidem county fight, there were three other places they could have put this exact same project and never touched a blade of grass, never bothered anybody's farm. But because they don't have to answer to senators, governors, mayors, zoning boards, they don't have to answer to anybody. They're not like Duke Power or some other private power company. They literally have written into their, into their statutes of TVA from FDR back in 33. They don't have to listen to anybody. Matter of fact, big time multi term senators were calling me saying, hey, we've been begging TVA to abandon this project for two years. And they basically tell us, hey, kick rocks, you've got no jurisdiction with us. So they're unsecked, unbridled. They only answer to the president states. So to beat them and push them out of this county was a big deal. This song, the Devil in the tva, I just checked before I got on with you, Eric. It's now in the top 10 most downloaded songs in all of country music. It's at the top of my X page at John Rich. The entire video, which incorporates neighbors and farmers from that area. I urge people to go check it out and if you like the song, hit that download. People power. We the people power. That's a real thing and I think this fight proves it.
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Let's get it. Let's get these folks. Everyone you're watching right now, go download this. That's wrong. Let's get that to number one. You can. We'll get there number one. We'll get it there. We'll, we'll broadcast this around. We'll, we'll spread it around. We'll send it digitally around as well. John, so how do we. This is exactly why I call myself a libertarian, because I want government out of our lives, out of our lives as much as possible. I know they can't be completely, for security reasons and policing reasons. However, this is a great example. Can't, why don't we divest the federal government of, of these things? That company would do very well on its own.
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They would do very well on their own. And then they would have to adhere to the actual laws of the land. You know, the thing called the fourth Amendment. I think we've heard of the fourth Amendment before. Illegal search, seizure. Entering people's private property without a warrant is illegal. Without probable cause is illegal, but it's not if you're the tva. I mean, they're literally showing up with loaded weapons, bulletproof vests 10 cars deep, like an ATF raid going, we're coming on your land. There's not a damn thing you can do about it. And a bunch of country people said, yeah, you ain't coming on our land. And then I joined that fight. And like I said, Eric, it took the President, United States and Secretary Rollins joining us in that fight to push these guys back. That's how powerful they are. And I hope there's some big changes that are made. I know President Trump has fired most of the TVA board recently and is bringing in new people. So let's hope we can change it for the better. But it's anti American to be able to treat people that way.
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Now, switching gears a little bit. Agree with you, by the way. Agree with you. And I guess the best way to do is get your board members in there and then maybe make Bank a play to go private with that company. That'd be great. Great idea, John. Great work with it. The other big thing that you're involved in, you co founded Old Glory Bank. Familiar opening account with Old Glory Bank. Best online banking for consumers and business. Pro Freedom, Pro Second Amendment. And guess what? I love Pro Crypto. Tell us a little bit more about Old Glory Bank.
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Well, thanks for bringing it up and we're glad to have you as a customer, man. Thank you for joining. It's a real simple premise behind this bank. Old Glory bank was founded by Larry Elder, Ben Carson, myself and a bunch of patriots that came from the banking world. And we determined that at some point in America, there's going to be people that want to freeze your bank accounts, just like Jeff and Trudeau did in Canada. Matter of fact, you've seen a lot of people have their bank accounts either suspended, canceled overnight. So the entire mission behind Old Glory bank is this very simply, you will never be punished or canceled for exercising your constitutional rights. Now, it's pathetic that we have to say that, but that's actually the climate that we live in. When you look at bank of America, when they turned over everybody's information to the Feds, where are your people shopping? When Biden asked Bank of America, we want to know where they're shopping. Are they going to Bass Pro? Are they buying shotguns and ammunition? Bank of America just turned it over at oh Glory Bank. That will never happen without a warrant, without a subpoena. So it's oh, glorybank.com you can open an account in eight minutes and guess What? There's Americans that actually speak English on the other side of the phone. When you have a question, I mean.
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Let me tell you something is amazing. You bring that up because we do a voicemail segment at the end of the show every day and someone brought up like they were upset that the person that they were speaking to, they couldn't understand the accent. They said it was an Indian accent. I've never gotten so many voicemails back and forth about, about pro and con of why we can't just speak to an American. It is important for, for, for me and everyone else too. It's, it's amazing how that topic really does matter to, to a lot, a lot of people. I met, Mike Green, you guys are a great group. This is a great, great bank, guys. Very, very safe. I love the idea of embracing crypto. Before we let you go, John, a couple of minutes only. The rebrand of Cracker Barrel. This is something that probably hits home to a lot of folks who listen to your music and love you. What an error. Another. It feels like another Bud Light mistake. Did they save it fast enough to, I don't know, secure the brand?
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Well, time will tell. But listen, changing the logo was not, that wasn't the big problem. I mean, yeah, taking the old man off the sign, nobody likes that. If you're a Cracker Barrel customer, which I am, that wasn't the big deal. The big deal was is that opened up the can of worms where people started going, hang on, who's running this place? And you start digging down into Cracker Barrel and finding out that they're funding dei. They're going in and doing, you know, shows for kids with men and dresses. I mean, all the stuff you've seen in all the other WOKE companies and it was so shocking to all of us because this is like an old school country cooking kind of restaurant. You never would have thought in a million years that when I buy fried catfish, mashed potatoes and okra, it's going to support that kind of stuff. And that's what really hurt them. So I think it would take a change from the top down, honestly, to save this because when the American public moves in mass like they did on, on Bud Light, Bud Light never got those customers back. So we'll see what Cracker Barrel does. But it's going to have to be drastic, I think, for them to mitigate this kind of damage.
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Well, you know, Tennessee has a couple of good senators. Marsha Blackburn, Bill Haggerty, both Republicans. So I don't see a primary in them. Any interest in, I don't know, running for president, 2028. Now, a lot of folks would like to see that.
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Boy, that would shake it up, wouldn't it? Can you imagine me in a debate with a guitar around my neck? Go. Let me give the answer to you in the form of a country song.
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Gavin, Lay it out. Gavin Newsome.
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Yeah, right. Yeah, right.
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You know what? Him.
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I could write all kinds of songs about him.
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John, appreciate your time. Thank you. Always good having you.
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Thank you, Eric. Appreciate it.
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Shame does not fall on these brave, courageous women. The shame falls on every single person that coldly turned a blind eye to their abuse. The shame falls on every single person that enabled it. The shame falls on every single person that took money to continue it. And the shame falls on the people in power over the past several decades that protected the monster Jeffrey Epstein and his cabal that continued a nightmare. Those people deserve the shame.
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Well, that was a look at our next guest who spoke at the Epstein files transparency act press conference which featured survivors of Jeffrey Jeffrey Epstein. And she signed a discharge position titian seeking the Florida vote on the release of Epstein related files. Always happy to bring Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene with us. First of all, good on you, mtg for doing that. There is such a split right now within even conservatives on whether we should or we shouldn't be demanding these names. 100%. We need transparency on these because people who participated in this, we all need to know who they are. Thank you for doing that. And for the folks who say, yeah, but forget it, there's no yeah, but when it comes to this. So tell us what got you involved in it.
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Thank you so much, Eric. I really appreciate your support. And many people are supporting this. You know, it's just to a point of like, what do these women have to do to finally get their voices heard and finally to get justice and accountability and. And finally for there to be transparency for the American people. And it shocks me. I think this is such a serious issue that it crosses all political boundaries. This shouldn't be a Republican, Democrat political issue, and it shouldn't put anyone against each other. I think in all fairness, it's very easy to say that the most famous convicted pedophile in our modern day history is Jeffrey Epstein. And there was a lot of people that enabled him and helped him rape and abuse girls as young as 14 years old. And they said that today. They said it all started for me when I was 14 years old. That's a monster. That man is a monster. But he didn't do this by himself. And that's what these women are trying to tell the world. But this isn't their first time. And I think this is where people are confused, Eric. They. They have been trying to tell police investigators, the FBI, they have told so many times their stories of abuse. And they have named names over and over again, not just to police, but in court cases, civil cases, and a lot of these cases are sealed right now. And so, you know, these women shouldn't have to be terrified to name names. They shouldn't have to be intimidated in any way. They shouldn't receive criticism all over social media for this because everyone should understand when you're naming the people that are the most powerful and wealthiest people in the world and you're just an average woman and not wealthy in any way, you're going to get sued into oblivion. And that's what they're trying to protect themselves of. And it's our government, you know, it's our government that needs to come forward with all the information that the FBI has over administration, administration ago. The doj, the CIA has information. Local police in Florida have information. The Jeffrey Epstein estate, his accountant and attorneys who were a big part of this have information. And many more people and the women should not have to be out there, you know, going through and reliving this nightmare. Everyone in power needs to finally do the right thing. And, and it's the easiest thing to do is release the information.
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They're victims. I mean, let's just. They are victims. They're not pawns in a political back and forth who did what. They're victims and they should be exposed. Ghislaine Maxwell sat with the FBI. Right. And I don't think we've learned anything new. And so you say the FBI has information. The CIA. CIA. That's interesting because tell us why the CIA would be involved in this unless he was a foreign agent acting for someone else. Tell us what you know about these. Because why is it that it's not only the Trump administration's not that's not releasing this information. The Biden administration didn't, nor did the Obama administration. Why is it so difficult to get this. Are there that many creeps on both sides of the donor aisle that have participated in this sexual, disgusting acts? Is that what it is?
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You know, Erica, it certainly seems that way because, you know, big donors always get what they want. And it must that, that can only be the explanation that makes sense. And that's, that's pretty ridiculous and disgusting to think about. You know, here's the situation and I'm learning a lot as we go. I serve on the Oversight Committee, so I will be a part of the investigation that we're holding on the Oversight Committee. And I'm going to put everything I have into that. But also and totally fine with co sponsoring Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna's resolution, signing the discharge petition. And I can't comprehend why any other Republican men haven't stepped forward and done the same thing that I have. If this was their daughter, if this was, if this had happened to their their wife earlier and in her life.
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We can't keep pointing the finger at the trans community and you know, all these people who are forcing their sexuality on young kids. Right. We can't keep saying that's wrong and say, oh, but let's look the other way when these high powered donors may have done something similar or worse. And we go, oh, let's not talk about it. So there is, there is a hypocrisy runs so deep in DC mtg, please. I don't know if it was a misspeak, but why CIA? You mentioned specifically CIA. Why, why tell us about that?
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Because that is what the, that's what we were told in a closed door meeting with, with these VICT of Jeffrey Epstein. They said the CIA knows and that's, they're begging us to release the documents and they want us to release documents from the CIA. I think that's a no brainer. That should be easy for Ratcliffe to do. That should be easy for the Trump administration to do. After all, they probably were not in charge when these connections were made. They also specifically said that Jeffrey Epstein would fly off to foreign countries at the drop of a hat anytime he was requested for very important meetings. And we said what countries? And they named Saudi Arabia, Russia and Israel. That was also said in the meetings. They also said that he was a, he, not only did he traffic women in Florida, but he was involved in human trafficking all over the world. They said that his victims are in Russia, Ukraine, other Eastern European countries where he trafficked victims from those countries as well. And then the women also said that not only were there hundreds to, they think thousands of women that are victims of Jeffrey Epstein, they said there were a smaller group within these women that Jeffrey Epstein passed around to other men. And that was something that one of the victims spoke about today and she is, she's working with as many of the. Because they all don't know each other. They're still, still connecting together even though there's hundreds of them already connected. But what they're trying to do is speak with all the victims and they're trying to build their own list of names. And that was something that they talked about today at the press conference.
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Yeah, and they have to be very careful that that list is accurate, otherwise they actually could be sued. So very, very important to take their time and have some support, have some, you know, financial support. And certainly people like you stepping up on their behalf is great. Tough question here. Trump obviously wants, would like this to go away for whatever reason. I don't know why. I don't know why. We were promised the whole Epstein list fully, and now we're getting dribs and drabs, highly redacted stuff and stuff we've already seen before as sort of a placation. I don't. I don't know why. I don't speculate. Do you expect you're going to get a little pushback from the administration for getting involved in this?
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Oh, I got a lot of pushback. I got phone call after phone call last night. You know, they don't want. Didn't want me to sign the discharge petition. They want to focus on the oversight investigation. They hate Thomas Massie more than they can hate any. Any Democrat, which, Which makes no sense to me. And they don't want any. They don't want to work with Democrats at all. But again, I'll, I'll say this. I don't. I'm not blaming President Trump whatsoever. I'm actually blaming some of his staff around him. Eric, you and I both know any president is insulated and in a cone of information based on the people that work directly with him. And I don't think they've informed him on what a big deal this really is. And I told the President this morning, I want him to see. I want to see him bring these women into the Oval Office, and I want him to be the hero and champion of this issue, and I want him to fight for these women because I know him to be a fighter. And when. When he fights for something, for an issue and he fights for people, especially innocent victims of Jeffrey Epstein, then he beats everybody. And I really want to see President Trump do that. And I hope he changes his mind today. He called it a hoax while these. We. These women were speaking out and they were saying, we're not a hoax, we're human beings. And I think we need to see something turn around there. I'll say this, Eric.
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He can prove it's a hoax by releasing it. Let us decide if it's a hoax or not. I mean, I love everything they're doing. I'm MAGA through and through before. I don't know. I'm original OG Bannon calls me Original Gangster maga. I am. But you gotta, you gotta give MAGA this. Yeah, you gotta give. We spent years saying, you can't put a trans parade in the middle of children's, you know, in the middle of a street on a Sunday with children involved. You can't go to Kids School Story Hour and have a. We pointing fingers. About doing the exact same thing or maybe even not as bad to some of the communities. Mtg, Before I go, you have four or five our signatures on this. Do you think this, this petition will get 218 like you need?
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Well, I just want to finish up on one thing. It's not a hoax because Jeffrey Epstein is a convicted pedophile that takes away the whole hoax things. It's not a hoax, it's not a lie. And on that note, Eric, every Republican should be able to sign on to this and that's the real hoax that they're afraid to sign onto it because somebody who, you know, who is a real coward from one of the Trump admin officials came out and called this a hostile act against the Trump administration. I take very big offense to that because I put my life and my fortune on the line fighting to get that man elected. And whoever said that has their job because of people like me that fought all the horrible Republicans that stabbed him in the back after January 6th. And I was one of those that fought on the front lines and said, no, he is the leader of our party, he is the president and we're going to make him president again. Well, that coward attacked me and attacked anybody else and called it a hostile act. The hostile act was Jeffrey Epstein raping 14 year old girls. That was the hostile act and it's not a hoax. And Eric, I'll tell you what. I hope people at home light up their phone lines. I hope they call them out on social media. I hope they show up at their district's offices and, and I really hope that they push, push my colleagues to do the right thing. Right now there's four of us. We only need two more. Just two more.
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Got it. All right, well, let you go. Do you want to say who the person in the admin that called it hostile act and is giving you.
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I don't even know.
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Okay.
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They wouldn't even. They were quoted. They were quoted as a Trump admin official.
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Got it.
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Like they're such a coward they wouldn't even go on record with their own name as they call it a hostile act.
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Well, I think you're doing God's work. I don't see you are doing the right thing. Mtg, thank you for what you're doing.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, Eric.
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All right folks, that was mtg. We'll be back. Two and a half minutes. You know, I think, I think someday they will study these exact years. Someday these will be referred to as the darkest days, the end of journalism in Fact, there's no recovering from where we are right now. This is no way to fix what's been broken. The media as we know it is officially dead. Doa. What actually happens versus what they're willing to show you, what's really said versus what they're willing and wanting to let you hear. That's the stuff of dictatorships. That's the stuff of totalitarian regimes where the media is owned by the government or powerful, powerful thugs, sometimes both. It's not supposed to happen in America. We have a free speech mandate in the Constitution and yet here we are. CBS was forced to pay President Trump $16 million to start in a settlement over their egregious editing of an interview with Kamala Harris right before the 2024 election. Who can forget this?
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But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.
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We are not going to stop pursuing.
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What is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand.
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On the need for this war to end.
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They took out all the nonsense words. They made her sound a tiny bit articulate when she wasn't. That's not just a lie. That's election interference and it should be treason. Omitting information about someone vying to become the leader of the free world, helping their image and their voters through outright lies. Selective editing is a lie, folks. Selective editing is a lie. It's a classic element of a dictatorship too. State run television, it's Orwellian. They learn nothing. Well, apparently CBS wants to lose more money because yet again CBS shows that has a clear cut agenda, the Democrat agenda. Yet again, CBS proves that it has completely abandoned any semblance of, of real journalism and for that matter, democracy. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem joined Face the Nation over the weekend on Sunday. And what you're about to see is the full answer and below it, what was actually aired on that propaganda show.
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And the one thing that we will continue to do is to make sure that he doesn't walk free in the United States of America. This individual was a known human smuggler, Ms. 13 gang member. An individual who was a wife beater and someone who was perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors and even his fellow human traffickers told him to knock it off. He was so Sick in what he was doing and how he was treating small children. So he needs to never be in the United States of America. And our administration is making sure we're doing all that we can to bring him to justice.
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They cut out all that context. They just took the first part and then they went ahead and had their little stupid ideas tossed around. It's a problem. It's selective editing. It's censorship. I left Newsmax because of that. I look, I walked out the door. Here's my contract. I said, no, thank you. If you're going to do that. They said, we have to. I said, goodbye. These people are not journalists, they're propagandists. Let's be clear. They're not editorializing something that was said after the fact. That would be fine. They're not even allowing what was actually said by a high level government official to actually even be heard on the air because they, they don't like what she was saying. Gnome stated facts about Abrego Garcia being a known human smuggler. Ms. 13 gang banger. That's not convenient for CBS. Gnome stated facts about him being a wife beater who solicited nude photos from minors. But that also not convenient for mainstream media, legacy media. Think about it. This isn't just about Kristi Noem. This is about journalism. This is about truth, transparency and trust. If CBS can edit out the truth here and there, what else are they hiding from Americans? Joe Biden's demise, probably. This isn't about Americans being anti press. It's about because CBS and their fellow journalist comrades keep proving again and again that they just cannot be trusted. They won't even let the truth about the horrors committed by an illegal to be mentioned on their air. That's the level of effort being used, being deployed by Democrats to protect a violent illegal. This isn't the media. This, it's actually public relations. The media has become the public relations office for the Democrat Party. Take out the word media, whatever that means, and definitely remove the word journalism. Let's call a spade a spade. The media is the Democrat Party, period. Last week, a sick, mentally disturbed man shot up a church at a Catholic school. He killed two children, injured more than a dozen other people. He murdered innocent children. At the bottom of an article about the shooter. Tiny, tiny, tiny line down there at the bottom. See it? Correction. A previous version of this article used the wrong pronoun pronoun for the shooter. She used female pronouns, said NBC News children were slaughtered. But NBC made sure to get those pronouns right. Formerly known as the Media has created a new truth, and it's an extension of the deranged left's view of the world. Born a man, a biological man. NBC. A mentally ill man who turned violence because of a forced agenda to turn every child in this country into some sort of transgender person. They're fixed it. That's the actual truth. But you won't print that either, will you? NBC. But they can't help themselves. Watch CNN's Briana Kyler trip over herself to protect the illness they've propped up, only to have Seb Gorka shut her down.
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By CNN's count, when you look at.
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32 school shootings since 2020 in which.
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You have four or more people who have been killed.
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So these are the larger school shootings.
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Only three of 32 of those shootings were committed by transgender shooters.
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Yeah. Forgive me if I don't go with CNN stats, okay? Yeah. And what's even crazier is what happens to liars when they lie enough times, it becomes their truth too. Somehow becomes their own truth, their own reality. Gaslighting. They don't even realize what they're doing anymore. The denial runs so deep for so long, they can't even see it in themselves. Over the weekend, the liberal sickos went into overdrive. President. Our president, who speaks to cameras nearly every single day since he became president again in November, was suddenly away from the cameras for a day. Immediately they decided President Trump was gravely ill, maybe dead. Many of them said he was absolutely dead. Of course, when Joe Biden only appeared once on a Wednesday and once on a Friday. How's this? There was weeks he didn't appear anywhere before jetting off to some Delaware beach where he laid there almost a corpse. They didn't think much of it because he was there, I don't know, napping or something. He was their guy. Who knows what he was doing. They didn't care. They weren't going to call him up. But Trump takes a day off, he's dead. Right side note, what happened to Joe Biden's terminal stage 4 cancer? Anything I don't know that came up? Remember prostate cancer? I don't know. Any updates? Media or is this media just happy to brush the past? The fact that we had a near dead president holding the nuclear codes for four years, just brush that under the rug. Well, one of the worst perpetrators of Democrat lies and the Biden cover up, Chuck Todd, NBC's Chucky Todd came out with this nonsense, these health rumors. He only has himself to blame and the entire Trump world only has themselves to blame for this. Right? They live in this world of conspir, conspiracy and misinformation. They manufactured all sorts of garbage, whether it's about Hillary Clinton's health in 2016, Joe Biden's health in 2020 or 2024.
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My goodness, they've.
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They've started congressional hearings based on rumors they created and manufactured on all things having to do with Biden and this auto pen and all this nonsense. So guess what? Good for the goose, good for the gander. All weekend long. Where's Donald Trump? How come we're not seeing them? Bottom line is he's clearly got some health issues. Meanwhile, back in June, the single most difficult thing to report out on a politician is health. So sensitive. Yeah, exactly.
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There is.
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It is easy to frankly get shamed out of doing it. Right?
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I dare you.
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It's a private thing, Chuck Todd. Less than three months later, Trump's clearly has health issues. They can't even help themselves. It's what happens when you lie so much that the lies and the truth become blurred into each other. You don't hate the legacy media enough. Across all of them broadcast, abc, NBC, cbs, cable, msnbc, cnn, Fox. You don't hate them enough. You need to report the facts no matter where they lead, no matter who you are. And that is real journalism. When the media is biased and hides the truth, you've not only disgraced the profession, it's gone. You've wrecked it. How many times do they need to do it before we make the call? Pull the plug. Pull the plug, folks. 8%. Cable news is losing 8% of its audience a year for the last decade. Pretty soon it'll be down to zero. I'm calling it the media, mainstream media, legacy media, officially doa dead. We'll be back in two and a half minutes. Well, there's been a ton of talk lately about tariffs being ruled illegal. My next guest has a few thoughts on this. Let's welcome precious metals specialists of the Birch Gold Group. Philip Patrick back. Phil, thoughts on the this whole tariff sitch creating a little uncertainty in the markets, is it?
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Yeah, it's a bombshell scenario. I mean, tariffs were meant to be obviously a big revenue source for Washington. They brought in hundreds of billions of dollars so far this year alone. If the court declares them illegal and perhaps even forces repayment, although I don't know how they're going to get that. Obviously that'll be a massive hole blown in government finances. It means not just the loss of future revenue, but potentially hundreds of billions refunded to companies who already paid in. Again, I see the refunds being unlikely, but the potential to push us into even more debt at a time when we're already borrowing 4 to 5 billion dollars a day, we're refinancing 10 to 15 billion dollars a day. You know, think about it. We're already struggling to refinance this $37 trillion debt load. Take away tariff revenue and the whole only deepens. The Trump administration's had a two pronged approach to controlling costs. They had DOGE to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse and tariffs or the Department of External Revenue to bring in new cash. DOGE obviously has failed to live up to expectations. They never found the 2 trillion originally touted. Anything that lowers govern government revenue now I think is going to be problematic. So I'm hoping the Supreme Court say tariffs are good. Otherwise we've got a, we've got a bigger hole to make up, you know.
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And we talk a lot and what drives the price of gold and crypto and other things. And I've been saying the uncertainty is always one of the biggest drivers. And we're looking at 3620, 3625 record high, record all time high for gold. And folks keep saying, well yeah, but it's too high right now, Philip, is it too high right now?
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No, no, absolutely not. Not in the context of history. Where we sit today is kind of similar to the highs we saw in the 80s when it was $850 an ounce. Inflation adjusted, it's about 3500 second look at what's driving growth in gold. It is all time high demand and it's coming from central banks. Right this first half of this year. Biggest six month period in history for central bank demand. People have to remember something. Gold can go as high as currency goes low. Right. In World War I it cost 142 German marks for an ounce of gold. Ten years later on the back of hyperinflation, 87 trillion German marks. Obviously that's an extreme scenario, but we're heading into a period where the dollar's falling in value and gold will keep going up. Investment banks are raising their predictions. Goldman Sachs say 4,500 by the end of next year. So a lot of movement on the horizon.
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Very quickly. Philip, half a minute or so. And folks should remember silver too. Silver's coming along for the ride. 40, 41, 32 as we speak right now, $41 an ounce for silver, another great investment.
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Absolutely. 55 to 1 has been the historical trading ratio since the 70s. We're at 85 to 1 today. It is undervalued. It's used a lot in industry. We consume more silver than we, than we bring in every year. So silver is a longer term growth play. Do not sleep on silver. Prices are moving. It's outperformed gold this year and I think it'll continue to grow as well.
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I love these conversations. You know, we talk about the Birch Gold Group, which is great sponsors, love you guys. But also we have intelligent conversations about folks who really are concerned about their nest egg, their, their wallet in their nest egg. Really good talking to Phil Patrick Birch. Goldrup. Thank you.
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D
Thank you.
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All right, folks. Before Brandon Johnson turned Chicago into a worse hellhole, Lori Lightfoot Beetlejuice laid the foundation for him to do so. The former mayor went on CNN to discuss the city's crime epidemic where once you take a listen to she placed the blame, guess where she places the blame.
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Watch if he really cared about violent crime. Go after the gun manufacturers who are.
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Just mass producing these weapons and have.
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No liability or accountability. Go after the gun stores that know.
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That they're selling to straw purchasers that.
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Flood into our city. Pass common sense gun reform that we.
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Have been begging for, for decades.
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Those are the kinds of things that actually would make a meaningful difference in violent crime. He's not talking about any of those things. He will not do any of those things because this is not about violent crime. It's about something else.
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Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. I'm kidding, you idiot. It's Chicago. Crime has been horrendous. It's one of the most difficult places to get it, to get a carry license. They have some of the most strict gun laws in the Second Amendment, gun laws in the country. Of course, it's everything's a soft target. And by the way, if you don't send your police into the neighborhoods where a lot of crime is happening, I don't care if it's Lori Lightfoot, Brandon Johnson or Jesus Christ, it won't matter. People will still kill themselves and each other. Send them in. Speaking of, let's go, Brandon. Brandon Johnson. We tried to blame Trump for all of the crime that he's enabled, but actually accidentally slipped up. Gave us a little Freudian slip. Take a listen. Shootings will continue as long as this presidential administration continues to put politics over people. I'm so over that place. J.D. pritzker, the governor of Illinois, thinks that the hysteria in America right now over surging crime, while it's excessive, tell that to the people who are getting killed and their families. Even though 54 people were shot last weekend in Chicago, nine died just in Chicago alone over the weekend. But here he is, Brandon Johnson, trying to convince us all not to trust our lying eyes. Just during the last week, I've been in neighborhoods across Chicago from Bronzeville to South Shore to Chatham to Little Village. The President's absurd characterizations do not match what is happening on the ground here. He has no idea what he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. There's no urgency. 8, 9 people killed over the weekend. That's not bad for you, J.B. that's okay. Billionaire J.B. pritzker. CNN clearly got the memo from Chicago Democrats. They too downplayed what was one of the bloodiest weekends of the year. Listen to how this terrible network made light of 30 plus shooting. 50 something people shot, eight or nine dead.
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Chicago did experience a particularly brutal Labor Day weekend. Police say 56 people were shot, seven were killed. But across the board, crime is still down compared to, to last year.
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Compare it to last year. That's great. Great. Brianna, you brilliant moron, you compare it to one year. By the way, why don't you compare it for the last 10 years and see where the crime rate really is? High. Higher. Murder rates. Higher. They're pushing the 80s and 90s murder rates in Chicago. Rate number of murders per civilian, one of the highest in the country, if not the highest. D.C. was one of them as well. That's getting cleaned up. CNN making my job very easy lately. This network should be aired exclusively outside of the United States because their interests have nothing to do with America or the American people. They aired several minutes of a Chinese military parade yesterday, giving the Communist spectacle way more airtime than even Trump's parade. Remember that? They didn't even air it. Barely. Here's a clip of what they showed.
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We're watching live pictures tonight. Right now, a massive parade underway in Beijing as the Chinese President Xi Jinping is showing, showing off his country's arsenal and military might to the world and to the more than two dozen foreign leaders who are there in person attending this military parade that includes those from Russia, North Korea and Iran. In a speech just a few moments ago, President Xi warned that the world needs to choose, as he put it, quote, between peace and war.
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Yeah, let's. Let's prop up the Chinese military and trash Trump. All right, folks, something coming. I would just want you to know it's coming. I have a new trailer for you tomorrow. But look at this one more time. I started with nothing but my body and my mind. And I fought my way to the top of four arenas built to break men. First, pro baseball, where every pitch can end your dream. Then Wall street, where I became one of the highest earning traders in America. Then came television, primetime, life. Millions watching every night a test. And I put it in writing. Wake up, America. Followed by the swamp calling out corruption by name. But the edge isn't politics. It's not about fame. It's about fire. It's about proving yourself when everything is on the line. Only the strong survive it. Only the ready rise through it. This. This is the edge. September, the edge is coming. All right, we didn't have a lot of time for voicemail, so I'm not going to go through it. But Benny, can you come on the voice of God as they say hello. Yeah, give us a great voicemail for tomorrow. Let's hear it. Keep it about 20, 30 seconds. Keep it clean so we don't have to do too much editing. But how. How about that control room shot? Ben, can you. Can you grab that? There's Ben. There's M.D. who else is that? Colton, who is that?
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M.D.
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Colton.
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We got Matt.
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Matt and Trish behind it. I love these. These guys work so hard. All these folks work really hard. I hope you appreciate the time that they put in on the show. I certainly do. I certainly do. And if you've noticed, we've added this little Steve Gruber to bowling talk once in a while, but it'll butt up against our show. And typically, if we have time or Mr. Bannon wants to jump in and have a conversation about what's going on on the war room, we do that too. We love that. We will continue to do that, but in the meantime, the voicemails have been great. Ben, have you guys ever called in and disguised your voice and pretend to be a viewer and actually left a message?
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We've talked about it, but we have.
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Not done it just yet. It'll happen.
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It'll happen. And I keep you to put it on air.
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I keep think of my friends is doing that because some of them are pretty funny, some of them are pretty wacky. But I. I love the voicemails.
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I think.
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I think you'll know when we do it. I think so. You think I can get away with it? That'd be ridiculous. I'm not sure I would know. I think you can pull one over. Over the wall with me and if you do, let it air and then tell me. Get get into the voice of God until. We just got you, boy. We got you. That was awesome. If we do that, we won't tell you until it airs. All right, so we'll make it good enough to get picked. Yeah, make it good. And. And maybe that's what you do. This is. This would be a great voicemail because it's got a little funny, quirky. Get my attention and tell us exactly what's on your mind, folks. We love it. All right, we're gonna leave it there. Warm us up. Next. Always. This is an I Heart podcast.