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It's been a real busy two weeks between the Charlie Kirk assassination and 911 coverage. I was on the ground at ground zero. I have a couple more interviews with people who lost loved ones during 9 11. I think you're gonna like those. Last Sunday we hosted at the John F. Kennedy Center. How ironic, right? He was a Democrat and he was assassinated in 1964. They started building the Kennedy Center. It was deliver, I think in 71. But Donald Trump takes it over. The programming there is really great and it's not full of America haters. I kind of love that. And last weekend we celebrated Charlie Kirk there with an event with the greatest lineup. Tulsi Gabbard. Everybody was so great and the crowd was really moved. There was about a thousand person overflow. So I'm gonna give you some interviews I did with who got turned away because they couldn't get in. But they put it together 48 hours and like over 3,000 people responded. It was really very, very moving. And I wanted to let you know we'll be on the ground this weekend for Charlie Kirk at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona with comprehensive coverage with the RAV team. So I'll see everybody tomorrow. And I wanted to get to our first guest here. What's going on? You know, the repercussions from the Charlie Kirk assassination really haven't even hit home yet. Right. And I have to discuss what's going on in the teachers union. I have Greg Murad. He's the VP of Federal affairs for the National Right to Work Committee. Welcome to the show, Greg. Thanks, David. Great to be with you. Yeah, really an Honor to have you on. And we love Mark Mix. And you know what is going on here? Is it that our teachers are dumb? Some of them, a portion of them, in every state, in just about every state, if not all these people are making outrageous comments and they're teaching our children what's going on? Yeah, it's truly outrageous. I mean, anybody that believes it is appropriate to celebrate a political assassination has no business being anywhere near children, let alone teaching them. And yet that's the place that we are. And frankly, I think a whole lot of blame can be laid at the feet of the educational industrial complex, if you will, that has been taken over by woke leftists for a couple of decades now for creating the climate on campuses that radicalized people like this assassin. Right. So what if I'm a teacher? And I said, and if a student died who was shot on a street corner in downtown Chicago or anywhere, died in a car accident, I said, good for him, you know, like, wouldn't I be fired? So what's the difference between this and. Yeah, well, yeah, obviously. And the difference is that of course Charlie Kirk is a high profile figure and a whole lot of leftists really, really hated him. I think most of them never bothered to listen to one of his interviews or one of his podcasts because he certainly comes across when you actually bother to watch as one of the gentlest and nicest people on our side engaging with the enemy. But nevertheless, they hate him and therefore they think it is okay to be badmouthing him. And we have come to a place in this country where unfortunately those on the far woke fascist left think that it is okay to murder somebody you disagree with. They have been preaching this mantra for years, that speech is the same thing as violence. And so they think it's okay to answer speech with violence. I can never imagine in a million years anyone, any one of my colleagues, anybody in the conservative movement, I mean, I've been doing this for 40 years, you know, 37 years, arguing with kids on college campuses and high schools. And I never said anything like that. They can't get away with this. The Massachusetts Teachers association is demanding that school officials not take actions against five teachers who had outrageous thing to say. Bremen High School teacher in Illinois, Bremen High School in Illinois said, you reap what you sow. An Iowa teacher said, one less Nazi. Tell us what's going on in the state of Virginia. Yeah. And in Virginia, the Virginia Education association, the Virginia teachers union is trying to tell administrators, hey, you'd better not be disciplining teachers that that tell their students that it was a great thing that Charlie Kirk is murdered? Because, of course, it's the job of the union, they think, to promote that sort of radical ideology rather than to promote good teaching. Once in a while, they're honest about that, but most of the time, they try to hide behind the children that they are actually radicalizing. The teachers union is defending teachers that want to create more Charlie Kirk killers out there. And it's truly appalling. What's the difference? Okay, so, you know, I'm a free speech advocate. A lot of my friends are like, listen, I don't care what they say, it's free speech. You can't come down on free speech. What's the difference between this? Is it that they're in a job with taxpayer money, you know, and they're. They, you know, because like the argument that, oh, they can incite violence in the free speech mind doesn't hold any water. So how do we separate the two? Well, let's start by recognizing the irony of the fact that they're celebrating a guy who killed a man for speaking freely. So setting that aside, we've got the main difference, in my mind, at least especially in the education world, is these people are in charge of teaching our children. And there are some beliefs that are fundamentally incompatible with teaching and raising children. And the belief that political assassination is okay if it's your enemy falls into that category. Would you have a different opinion more if it was a college professor teaching over 18 year olds who are, you know, adults, legal adults who can vote, who can join the military? Is it worse or is it not as bad when they do it versus telling this to a minor? Yeah, I don't know if I would call it worse, but it's certainly every bit as bad. The colleges in this country, I mean, college is where this kid got radicalized. He was raised in a, by all accounts, normal family and went off to college as a, by all accounts, normal kid. But the indoctrination system in so many of American colleges is so systemic now and so powerful that it's just inescapable. And so, no, I think that a college professor, a college dean of students who's celebrating, publicly celebrating, or even privately in front of his classroom celebrating a political assassination, should be dismissed from his job. One of my favorite lines last week at the JFK center memorial for Trump was when Carrie Lake said, do not send your kids to these indoctrination camps. You know, When I was 16, I was a young Americans for Freedom chapter head, and we used to go to the local college campuses and argue with all these nitwits, you know, and it was, it was serious back then too. But this is a whole nother level. The desensitization of human life is just at another level now. I wanted to give you the last word. We have about a minute and a half. Tell us your final thoughts. How do we go forward from here? Yeah, well, there's a number of things we can do. The first one is that every state that is currently bargaining with a teacher's union should cut it out. You have no business surrendering public policy to some third party institution. Government governors and legislators should make public policy. And if they delegate it to a school board or if you have an elected school board, that's great. But nobody should be giving a union that much authority over the spending of the public purse and the setting of public policy and the way that our children are educated, it's just flat out wrong. And so if you have any discretion in that at all, you should stop empowering this. These teachers unions whose job is to defend bad teachers and in this case, in these cases that we're talking about right now, to defend outrageous teachers who should not be anywhere near children. Yeah. And with a private corporation that's non union, you can't say whatever you want. Right. So probably no difference there. Right? Yeah. Private corporation has certainly going to fire people to create what they call hostile work environments for a variety of reasons. And depending on state law, some places you can be fired very easily. Some places you need a bigger track record for how much you have to document their misbehavior before you can fire them. But in any case, yeah, in the private sector, if you're causing a problem at work, you're not likely to be there very long. And if you're doing a bad job, you're not likely to be there very long. And if you're radicalizing students, you are doing a bad job. Where can people follow the National Right to Work Committee and yourself? Yeah. Find us online at www.nrtwc.org National Right to Work Committee, NRTWC. All right, everybody. Greg Murad, the VP of Federal affairs for the National Right to Work Committee. I appreciate you sharing your insights today and hopefully this never happens again. Thank you so much. Hopefully not. Thanks, David. All right, you're welcome. You know, I want to thank everybody for watching. It's really been a moving week. And you know, the older generation love Charlie Kerr, you know, wasn't just kids and because they see the younger generation Going off the rails, right, with the desensitized video gaming. I was a gamer. But you know, what's going on today is crazy. And you should hear the chat on some of these outlets and these video games. Unbelievable. When we come back, I got a great show ahead. Do not go anywhere. And now I want to bring you a message from Birch Gold. As countries have walked away in the past few years from the US Dollar, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, diversify into gold into Birch Gold. And for over 5,000 years, gold has withstood inflation, geopolitical turmoil and stock market crashes. And the great news is you can still get it. In fact, you can own gold and silver and a tax sheltered retirement account. And Birch Gold makes it easy to convert your IRA or 401k into an IRA and precious metals. And all you got to do is text the word America, the 989898 to claim your free info kit on gold. 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The WNBA playoffs are here and I've got the inside scoop on everything from key matchups and standout players to the behind the scenes moments you won't find anywhere else. It's really, really hard to be the champions, but we have to remember how it feels and embrace the new challenge that we have for all the biggest stories in women's basketball, plus exclusive interviews with the game's brightest stars. So to be here, I think it's one that we definitely don't take for granted. But we also know, you know, that's just one stop along the way and we're hoping to, you know, make a run. So listen to In Case youe Missed it with Christina Williams. An iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and entertainment on iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey there. I'm Mary Kathryn Hamm. And I'm Carol Markowitz. We've been in political media for a long time. Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane. That's why we started normalely a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity. We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling and with a healthy dose of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously. So if you're into common sense, sanity and some occasional sass, you're our kind of people. Catch new episodes of normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you list. Welcome back to Breaking Point. I'm David Zier. Thank you for joining the RAV family. Download the Real America's Voice news app today. Tell a friend, tell a sister or a brother, they gotta get informed. So you gotta watch Real America's Voice news. We're bringing the best coverage on Sunday. I will be in Arizona with the Real America's Voice news team for the Charlie Kirk celebration of life. It's been an incredible week. I spent a few days on the ground at the White House while our chief White House correspondent Brian Glenn was with Trump in England. Very successful trip. Trump bringing back $350 billion in investment. $350 billion deal between the two countries, the United Kingdom and the United States. Another successful thing for Trump just keeps coming. And just wait until basis points at 100 points come down. Interest rates are going to come down. My mortgage went down like $300 recently because the prospect of interest rate drops and it's going to only get better from there. Not going to happen until the Feds goes another 100 basis points though really important so young people can buy a house. Because you can't buy a house at 6%. There's no way. But I want to get to our next guest right here, Michael Letts. He's the CEO and founder of Invest usa Supplying and donating bulletproof vests or law enforcement. Welcome Mankel. Always a privilege with you, David. You do so much for this country. I'm honored to be on your show. Well, I really appreciate you coming on always and you have the, you know, you're in the know on law enforcement issues and I wanted to thank you because you reached out to me when there was that false alarm, that active campus, you know, active shooter warning at USC Columbia a couple weeks ago, My daughter was petrified and she was on her way to the library when that happened. Thank God it was a false alarm alarm, right, Michael? Correct. Well, it was somebody trying to either create headlines or trying to be overly sensitive. But at least I'm glad we got the facts for you, David. Yeah, means a lot. Because after the Charlie Kirk shooting, my daughter's like, you know, these kids are traumatized. You know, they're, they're, they're very afraid. So I wanted to get to this incredible shooting in Yorktown, Pennsylvania. Three officers dead, two wounded. You have any updates for us? Can you tell us about what happened? Well, it was a response to a domestic stalking call, actually. There was domestic violence previously, and then there was a stalking situation. So the teams were sent out and he was actually waiting for them. Barred, let's just say behind obstacles and, you know, behind cover and with AR15. And he took three of them down, took two more that are in critical condition. Not sure if they're going to make it or not. They're stable at the moment, thank God, but they're still struggling for their life. It just opens up so many issues. One of the things that's interesting about this, David, that is not being reported, that needs to be said, is the Mexican consulate put out a call to its immigrants. We're going to, let's just use the correct word, illegal immigrants in that area. There's a lot of illegal immigrants in that area. And the question was this is a farming operation and we're not so sure whether the illegal immigrants had a tie in or not. That's being investigated as we speak. But it was the biggest other tragedy is active shooter vest. David. I know this is what nobody wants to say, but I'm willing to say it. Active shooter vests would have made a huge difference in this situation. And, you know, the officers are just, it's like we report 90% of cops across the country do not have them. You see, I've had people say, oh, I see him wearing a vest. That's the vest under their shirt. That's a concealable vest. That will stop a sidearm. This was an AR15 and it certainly would not stop that. That 5, 5, 6 round just went right through it. Wow, that's incredible. And you've donated over what, 16,000 bulletproof vests of these types of vests? That is correct. We've got a long way to go, but we're still working on it. Yeah. Crazy Trump in D.C. do you have any new numbers? I hear that there were only a few murders since Trump took control of D.C. and I saw, like, property crime numbers down 35% or so. Do you have any updated numbers? Yeah, you know, we've only had two shooting two murders since he took over. You know, you were having, wow, like, one a day or more than one a day? Two. Almost two a day. Now it's been two in the last 30 days, which is just an incredible drop from. From what we've had in the past. And then on all fronts, it was at 35% is down 42%. You know, carjackings are down 86. Robberies are down 72%, I believe is the last figure that I saw. Wow. So they're all just dramatically going down. Of course, now there's going to be a little bit of a shift. What do we mean by that? You know, it was never the intent to keep National Guards member indefinitely. It was what we've always said, strength or over. Over force, what we call, you know, overpowering force. And we brought in the National Guard to give us that stability to do that so that we could bring crime down. Now the question is going back, is it time for us to pull the Guard out and turn it back to just local law enforcement? There is discussions about hiring additional two or three hundred law enforcement officers. Now, I got to tell you, that's easy for them to say. Even if they come up with the money. Yeah, they're switching in a viewpoint, what's occurred against law enforcement in the past in D.C. they may find a little bit more difficult to recruit two or 300 more additional officers than what they're realizing. But anyway, that's a step in the right direction. And if we head that way, then we may be able to get it back restored to normalcy again. You know what, Let them pull out the National Guard and then watch the numbers go back up, and then I'll have to bring them back in until they get it right. Right. No, you're exactly right, David. Yeah. Yeah. It works so well that, you know, we're going to be spending. Now, Memphis is certainly on. On the drawing board. They have been very well. Their mayor is not very receptive, but the people of Memphis are very much receptive. Chicago's even beginning to take a little different tune because they can't get it under control themselves. New York, surprisingly, is not giving overtures about needing some assistance. Baltimore did a reversal. Baltimore was exactly no way you're going to step Foot in my state, my town. Now they're welcoming it. So what they're seeing is a program that successful working. What you're seeing on the flip side is the Democrats are trying to find some way to criticize. Didn't work too well by saying you couldn't do it. It was illegal because it's a violation of 10th amendment. Especially when the President declared a national emergency due to the crime across the country. That pretty much eliminated the illegal. Illegality of bringing in troops. Because the 10th Amendment allows for if there is a national emergency or if there are enemy combatants on American soil. We've got both. You know, we've declared the drug cartels as enemy combatants. So we've got both the provisions covered. And that's why. Yeah. Moving forward, regardless of what they say. Sure. And Memphis had 40 homicides per hundred thousand. It was even like 80% higher than D.C. which was still five times New York's murder rate. So Memphis has its work cut out for him. Really, really crazy. I gaggled with Tom holben in about 30 seconds because we're almost out of time. I asked him, do they have any hard numbers on Trump's effect on crime nationwide yet, and especially fentanyl deaths, Anything out there? Well, yes, there are, because the. The numbers. Fentanyl is down, so made such a traumatic impact. It's down by like 36, 37% that there now is a new drug they're manufacturing that's 100 times more lethal than fentanyl. And so that's the reason why. David, I know. We'll talk about this on a different time. The President's position has shifted a little bit. We're going after the source, not just what's in this country. We're going after the source of where it's coming from. We're not going to allow them to continue to poison our citizens. Yeah. Look at, look at the boats off of Venezuela. Right. I think that'll increase. All right, I want to thank you so much for joining us, Michael. Let's really quick. Where can people follow you and where can they get involved with invest? They go to our website, I n v s t USA.org with charity.org all this information is available. Do us all a favor with having lost those officers that we lost in Pennsylvania. You see a cop say, thank you for your service. All right, Michael Letts, I really appreciate that. And you're the chaplain for the state of South Carolina law enforcement. Always great to have you. We'll see you soon. God bless. God bless America. David all right, guys, don't go anywhere. We'll be back. I'm so excited to have Maria from switch2usa.com with us. Switch the number. She's been a longtime supporter of the show and we're so grateful. Maria, how are you? I'm well. Thank you for having me, David. 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I wouldn't say anything is a failure, especially because we all grow every day. Obviously, the goal is a championship. There's no doubt in that. And that's the goal. We want to win a championship. I'm Christina Williams, host of the podcast In Case you missed it with Kristina Williams. The WNBA playoffs are here and I've got the inside scoop on everything from key matchups and standout players to the behind the scenes moments you won't find anywhere else. It's really, really hard to be the champions, but we have to remember how it feels and embrace the the new challenge that we have for all the biggest stories in women's basketball, plus exclusive interviews with the game's brightest stars. So to be here, I think it's one that we definitely don't take for granted. But we also know, you know, that's just one stop along the way and we're hoping to, you know, make it run. So listen to in case you missed it with Christina Williams and iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and entertainment on iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Hey there. I'm Mary Kathryn Ham. And I'm Carol Markowitz. We've been in political media for a long time. Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane. That's why we started normalely a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity. We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously. So if you're into common sense, sanity and some occasional sass, you're our kind of people. Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. Welcome back. It's hard to believe that fall is here. We are already in the last quarter of the year. Really incredible. Looks like we're going to have GDP growth this year that's positive. It's only going to get better when rates come down. You know, when builders can borrow money for less than 6% and when someone can buy a home for less than 5%, it's got to be at that number. Even at 6%, a 30 year old kid can't buy a home. They're in debt. You know, I bought a home when I was 27. It was no problem. But today you have to be 35, 40 years old and you're still paying student loan debt. So those rates have to come down. And when they do, I think you're going to see this economy take off like a rocket ship. I wanted to talk about 9 11. I know. I played the interviews from 911 last week on the show with my interview with Rudy Giuliani and with the third or fourth in command that day, Richard Rotanz, who was in Building 7 on the 23rd floor, you know, evacuated the building, went back in at 12:30, got up to the seventh floor and said, this building's moving. There were holes 200ft in length in the building. Girders were sticking out from the side of the building, from the 10th, 13th floor and said, we got to get out of here. They knew it was going to collapse. Collapsed by 5:30. So I want to get to some man on the street interviews that I did with the great people from around the country who come every year to celebrate or to remember the fallen. Friends, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles and just classmates, you know, I got some great stuff for you. Check out Freddie D. La Cruz from Fayetteville, North Carolina. Roger Farina from North Carolina as well. These guys are great. The 24th anniversary of 9 11, we're here at Ground Zero. We have so many special people down there, people who lost loved ones, family members, brothers, fathers, sisters, mothers and kids. Freddy, Tila Cruz, how are you? I'm doing well, thank you for asking. Dave, tell us your story. Why are you down here at Ground Zero? Well, you know, 2001, my sister, Lillian Caceres, she was on the 97th floor of the North Tower when the first plane hit. And unfortunately we were never able to bring her remains back. She passed was that she was with Marsh McLennan, right? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Was she able to make any calls out before the buildings collapsed or anything? No, no, nothing like that. How old was she? She was 47 years old. Wow, so young. Unbelievable. So you got something else interesting going on. I know you're spending the day here at 9 11, but at real America's Voice News we cover. I've been in 38 states following the Trump campaign. And every blue city I go to was probably, and I particularly called out a year ago yesterday in Charlotte, North Carolina, the increased homicide rates in Charlotte. But I went to Asheville to follow Trump and what a dump. And the homeless people were swept out of the city to make it cosmetically clean. Right. And the drug abuse and the crime and to defund the police. But Fayetteville also, I've covered very poverty stricken in a way, and a higher crime rate than the rest of the. The estate, Right. Yes. Unfortunately, Fayetteville has a high murder rate. That's without question. The crime rate is high. However, the city is managing to reduce that level. Okay. And I believe that my experience as a former military police officer for 28 years. I'm a retired army lieutenant colonel. I can help, you know, because I am running for mayor of Fayetteville and I believe, believe as a mayoral mayor candidate, I can run and help the city with the, the crime rate that we have, any place that has military base around, if the incomes aren't high, you're always going to have a little bit of a higher crime rate, you know, to a degree. But you know, that's the story across North Carolina. Right. What do they have in common? Are they. Is it that they're all blue cities? Well, that's a factor in the equation. As you know, a lot of the Democrat run cities have a high crime rate. How about. What did you think about the light rail murder in Charlotte? Oh. Oh, man, that was. That was devastating. You know, that was. That. That is devastating. Okay. Had the situation been reversed, and I'm not afraid to say it, it would be all over the news. It would be another George. It would be another George Floyd. And if they didn't have cashless bail. Yeah, yeah, that's another problem that we even got that in faith. We got a catch and release policy that we've got to get a stranglehold on it. Ladies and gentlemen, my philosophy is this. You do the crime, you do the time. When you get out, you start over. That's it. You do it again. You go in longer, you pay more, you finish that, you come out, you start over. All right. Okay. We cannot lit our criminals off easily. That's a problem. And one last thing I want to say coming up here. You know, we found out that Charlie Kirk, okay, was murdered. Why? Because he was expressing his freedom of speech, which is. Which is a terrible way to end. Have to be assassinated. Yeah, terrible reason. He never promoted. He never promoted violence anyway. He never. And I got people questioning me right, on my Facebook because I'm running for mayoral candidate in Fayetteville. Who in the hell is Charlie Kirk? Well, let me tell you who Charlie Kirk is. Charlie Kirk to a lot of people is equivalent to jfk. Yeah, mlk. Now we got cjk. So put that in perspective, folks. Okay. Cjk, James Kirk, Freddie De La Cruz. I want to thank you. You know, I know it's hard to by 9 11, you lost a loved one in politics. But it's all related in a way, isn't it? Yes, it is. I mean, you know, my sister Lillian, she passed 24 years ago. I know where she's at. She's saved. She accepted Jesus Christ as her savior. I know where my Sister is. And when I die, I know I'm going to meet her again. But Charlie Kirk, God bless Erica, his wife, and their children and their family. God bless them all right. God bless them. Freddie De La Cruz, I want to thank you so much and thank you for your service. Thank you, sir. All right, down here at ground zero we have Roger Farina. I interviewed you at the RNC last year in Milwaukee. What brought you to New York today? Well, I'm originally from Long island and I've never. I'm a retired warrant officer from. From the army, and I've never been able to come to one of the memorial ceremonies. I went to a high school on Long island, and there's. Which one St. Agnes is one I graduated from. Yeah, I played them in baseball. We beat them. But the girl that sat in front of me in, in high school and homeroom, she was in one of the towers. Oh, wow. That, you know, that's. That's the closest person you had to pay your respects, you know, and, you know, I have a lot of friends and, you know, they were cops and stuff like that that were in there too, but that's probably the closest. Now, you were in Iraqi Freedom. You were in Desert Storm? Yes, I was a Cobra pilot and pilot. I fired my first tow into a bunker in Iraq in 1991. So. Extraordinary. Yeah. So wow. But I came here because, like I said, I've never been to this ceremony before. 24 years ago, I stationed in Germany and we were getting ready to go fly that night, and I was on the way into. Into the, to the. To fly to the hangar. And we listen to AFN radio. And the first, the first report that I heard was a small plane hit one of the towers. And you know, being from New York, you know that there was a plane that hit. It was late afternoon there. Right, right, right. It was about 3 o' clock or so. And, you know, you know, we heard stories about, you know, that that Beef B bomber hit the Empire State Building. So it's no big. B25 Mitchell hit the Empire State Building. So it's no big deal. But then by the time I got into the hangar, everybody was glued to the tv. All the flights were canceled. And that. That was like my moment where. Where were you when this happened? And that's where I was. And then a couple of weeks after that, you know, we, we were. Yeah. And in Hamburg, Germany, Mohammad Atta rented an apartment building with 29 leases, and he was bringing together the whole team of hijackers there that we didn't know about at the time. Exactly. And we. We were deployed around Europe to serve different places because they. From what I was told, that these were some of the places where they had their cells, and we went in to check and stuff like that, and they were doing their training. Wow. It's extraordinary. What an incredible story. On a side note, you're also the GOP chair for, what, Lee county in North Carolina? I am the 13th congressional district chair for North Carolina. I support Brad Knott. That's who. You know. He's a freshman congressman. He's doing a great job for us. He's a former federal prosecutor, and he's in D.C. and he's kicking butt for us there. You know, how does it make you feel when you hear about the light rail murder, guys out on cashless bail, mental health issues? It's atrocious. Like, I was listening to Megyn Kelly yesterday, and she was talking about the D.A. the. The agent, the attorney general, and the governor in North Carolina. Well, don't forget this. That Josh Stein, who's our governor right now, was also the attorney General. Yeah. Beforehand. And he could have been putting in laws and holding these people, and I haven't heard that before. Okay. Yeah. And Cooper didn't do anything. You know, now Cooper's up, you know, and. And it's just. It's atrocious what happened. I mean, I. I mean, it's like in North Carolina, we just dealt with that. And now, as a conservative, I. I support Charlie Kirk, and I pray for his family and stuff like that. And for this to happen so close together for the grassroots people that I'm connected with are. Are mad. They're upset. They might rise up in the cities, and because all the city. All the council seats In Charlotte, like, 11 of them are Democrats. There's no Republicans. Yeah. I mean, and so all these cities that all these things are happening in, they're blue always. You know, and unfortunately, when we. When we rise our voices up from on the red side or for conservative Christian values, you know, we're always put down because, you know, you're this, you're racist, you're this, you're that, you're the other thing. Well, Mag is all about that. Good people are tired of being told they're the bad people. I wanted to ask you, give a message out to our audience, your thoughts about 911 down here. Ground zero. How was your first trip here? What I noticed was, like, walking around. It was very quiet today. I grew up in New York City. I used to go to Studio 54 when I was a teenager, you know, and, you know, there's always a lot of noise. There's sirens always going off. Not, not connected with 9 11, but just sirens and noise and just energy. And as I. And when I got off the subway and I was getting closer and closer, there was just a somber, a somber calm. While the firemen are here. Yeah. This is the annual gathering place for the firemen and the families. We've seen firemen from Los Angeles. I saw firemen all over the world. Yeah, it's just incredible. Yeah, it is amazing. Next year, you've been standing here for a couple hours. How's your day been being here? How's my day? Yeah, well, you know, I lost my very good friend Peter Brennan in Rescue 4 on the 74th floor going up in Tower 2. My sister lost 81 clients. My sister in law lost her fiance. My whole family lost brothers and fathers and sisters, and my wife's whole family served down here, ran the morgue. Joint Terrorism Task Force, FDNY Police Department. So it affected everybody in New York. It's a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 degrees of separation. It's on all levels. Right, right, right. So it's very moving. I wouldn't. Right next to Ladder 10, Engine 10. That's. Yeah, they lost three guys in the building collapse right here. Engine 10, Ladder 10. Roger Farina, I want to thank you so much for joining us. All right, appreciate it. 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Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. Welcome back to the show. I have one more interview from our coverage at Ground Zero. Mike Torino, volunteer firefighter from East Haven, Connecticut, spent about a month in the pile looking for survivors and the remains of the fallen on 9 11. These people are just the best. Well, it's a beautiful day here down at Ground Zero, just like on 911 in 2001. And the bravest and the best came here to help the first responders, 410,000 of them. We have Mike Torino with us from the East Haven Fire Department in Connecticut. That's right, yes, sir. All right, tell us about your experience and how did you get down here? Yeah, we were working that day and we saw what happened, and our chief said, hey, if there's anybody that wants to go down to help out with FDNY and help out in the rescue mission, we just, just put a group together that came down and. And tried to get Aaron on the pile. What day did you get here? I was here in the morning of September 12th. And how long did you spend in the pile? Spent 30 days. What was your biggest takeaway when you first arrived? Just that it was such an enormity. It was like a third world country. It was unbelievable to think that debris field. Exactly. And the fact that we had brothers and sisters from every fdny, nypd, Port Authority that were buried under that rubble, civilians, it just was hard to believe. Yeah. Incredible day. I was telling you. I spent day three down there watching the fire departments come out of it and that blank stare all over the world. Fire departments came from in the country and they just knew there were no survivors. Right. Yeah, it was, you Know, you hoped and you wanted to dig through the rubble, the fire, somebody that was alive. But as you dug and dug and you spent more time that just. Did you lose anybody close to you in 911? You know, Patty Brown from FDNY was a family friend, but that was the only person that I knew in the whole, you know, incident down here. But just you felt it. You felt it when you were down here, when you, you do, you know anybody got sick from the cleanup? Yeah, there's a few people from the. The group that we met and hung out with after the. The last 24 years that have been died of cancer, suicide. Yeah. And 4300 have died on top of the 2700 that died here that day since 9 11. Exactly. Yeah. So many people. People don't realize that the. The effect of it is far and wide. It just wasn't that day. It's what you dealt with and what you dealt with physiologically, psychologically, after that. Wow. All right, Mike, it's really nice to meet you. I want to thank you so much for coming on. I'm so honored that Real America's Voice news has given me the opportunity to cover the White House, you know, when Brian Glenn isn't there, our chief White House correspondent, either on the road or somewhere else, you know, with Trump. But this week was really something else. It was quiet, right? And then all of a sudden, I hear these sirens blaring on the street. I thought it was emergency service vehicles. It was like the loudest thing you ever heard. It was kind of like sitting in front of, you know, not too close, like an F16, you know, turbofan or something. It was. It was incredible, these sirens coming. And I went outside, and it was a pro Hamas, anti Israel protest outside the White House, right on the other side in Lafayette Park. So the Secret Service can't really do anything about it unless it gets violent, but it was so loud, it was damaging to your ears. My ears still hurt. It's a day or two later at this point. It's really just incredible what these people are doing and getting away with out there. The D.C. police wouldn't come. I looked at it as a public health issue. And all those Secret Service agents that were out front of the White House, they had that blaring at them, these bullhorn sigh sirens. Check this out. They're pouring fake blood on the street, and it's their right to protest. You know, I tried to engage them in some civil dialogue. Watch this. Sam, do you have a name of your organization or okay. Thank you. Yeah. So what. What are you hoping to accomplish? Raising awareness. No one's children should be killed. Wouldn't the conflict end if the hostages were just given back? That is your perspective in the sense that you believe that some lives matter. All lives matter. Chinese children matter. Humans matter. American children matter. Ukrainian children matter. Russian children matter. Yeah. No one should be victims of politics. Okay. All right. I'm engaging in dialogue with you. That's it. I'm not interested in dialogue. I'm not being mean to you or anything. You're not at all. You just have your camera in my face, so. Okay, you got yours in my face. I'm actually having yours in hers first since I came to document what you're doing. I just wanted to ask. Unbelievably close to someone's face, so. No, I'm not. No, I'm not. I'm three feet away. It's okay. Sure, I'm three feet away. They're coming to. To try to talk to us about whether or not. No, I'm in the media, and I'm just covering what you're doing. All right, so. And you've been here for about an hour, so you clearly. So I cover the White House. I'm not allowed to be here? No, you are. Are you allowed to be here? One is. Okay, but dishonest. Yeah, you got a really bad attitude. It's terrible. Oh, no, I'm just. I'm engaging in civil dialogue with you. I am, too, sir. You're clearly here with an agenda and a motive. You're saying I'm provoking you and. Nobody's provoking you with an agenda and a motive, sir. And your name is David, and you don't have an agenda. Have her phone number now on camera. Okay. You don't have an agenda. You have an agenda. You want. You want Israel out of Gaza. Right? We want the killings. You. Can you read the sign, sir? Yeah. What does that one say? Can you read it? I got it. Yeah, read it. There you go. Can you read it out loud? I don't want to read it out loud. Okay, but you're. You're asking. But I see it. It's on film. Do you. Do you see what the shirt says? Why do you have a problem with the media filming you? I don't. You're out here in public. You want the media's attention, obviously. Manipulation. There's no manipulation. Manipulation. That's manipulation. Me asking you. You want media attention? You're making a statement saying so you don't want Media attention. But you're out here in public in front of the White House. Okay, you're trying to aha me, but it's not working, sir. Not doing anything. Not doing anything. Looking for an intelligent conversation. You're actually not. You're looking to bait someone into one. Nobody's baiting you. You just acknowledged during the media your job is to try to bait answers. Don't tell me what my job is is. I'm pretty sure that's what the media. Okay, okay. My. My job is to cover what's going on in the public. Are you covering in Washington, D.C. volumes, sir. Okay, so I'm not allowed to talk to you about it? Have to answer you. I asked you a question. I never said you had to. Did I say you have to? You sure did. Okay. That's it. Thank you. I don't know why you're not capable of engaging in a civil dialogue about why you're out here. How about focusing on why you're out here? Thank you, sir. Have a good day. Have a good day. If the hostages were released, wouldn't the war end? Have a good day, sir. Wouldn't the war end? No, it's not a war. It's an ethnic cleansing and it's an occupation. Look at what's happening. But they're in there because they want the hostages. What are the settlers doing in the West Bank? Okay, what are Israeli settlers doing in the West Bank? That's another broader issue. But the incursion into Gaza is to get the hostages back, Right? Has been under siege for 17 years before there was ever a single hostage. Israelis have been under siege by Hamas. Thank you, sir. You don't think innocent Israelis have been killed by Hamas? That woman who confronted me, you know, she was giving everyone direction, and we had a stand and everything. It's so non organic. The MAGA movement is organic. This wasn't. I wonder how much she was getting paid to run that protest there. But now I want to get to the John F. Kennedy center vigil last Sunday. I had the opportunity to cover that with Rav and Steve Bannon and the great Ben Berquham. People everywhere. The lines were out the door, wrapped around the corner, and it was just planned 48 hours before they packed the house with over 3,000 people responding. Only 25, 20, 600 could get in. But I did some quick interviews with people on the ground there. Kennedy center is a beautiful place. And, you know, I was so tired of hearing, like, you know, Bob Streisand and Bruce Springsteen all these Leftists bash America or bash Reagan there. Thank God it's in Trump's hands right now. But watch these great people. We're on the overflow line. People waiting to get in. They're filling seats up inside the concert hall, Kennedy Center. Full house. What's your name, sir? Dave Wallace. Hi, Dave. Where'd you come from today? I came west of Baltimore in Carroll county, the bastion of conservatism in all of Maryland, and we're fighting for conservative values. And we are so heartbroken over Charlie. Yeah. You have children? I have three children. One of them was corrupted by our left wing institutions, but she's moderate. She's not as conservative as me, but she still understands American values, American traditions. She understands Western civilization. Have you ever seen somebody so young, a guy like Charlie Kirk, have so much impact on so many lives on planet Earth? Only a guy two years older. Yeah, that's true. That's true. And Alexander the Great. Those are the two people that I associate with Charlie Kirk. Hi, Leanne. You're waiting to get inside. You're part of the overflow. Big turnout tonight for Charlie Kirk, right? Absolutely. Thousands and thousands of people. You're from my home turf. You're from Long Island, New York. Why did you make the trip down here? I. I was actually here visiting for taking care of my daughter's puppy, so. And I heard about it and couldn't not. I had to come. Had to come. Yeah. How did it affect you and your family? Lots of tears and just. I mean, he's done so much, and I mean, my husband's home and just we're back and forth on the phone, so we were talking to Steve Bannon earlier and about the organic nature of all these tributes to Charlie Kirk. Right. Especially on Long Island, Right? Yep. For sure. What is your big takeaway from Charlie Kirk's death and how do we move forward as a nation? I think that we need to be bold. I think that we need to stand up and say what we feel and how we feel and why we feel and that Jesus is Lord and that everybody just needs to get on board and. And the country needs to come back to being a Christian nation. All right, Leanne, thank you so much. Very moving, and I'm happy you showed up. I'm so glad I'm here. All right, thank you so much. Wonderful, Leanne. I want to thank everybody for joining the Rav family and watching Breaking Point on Real America's Voice News. See you next time. 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