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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, December 29th, 2025
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Happy Monday. Welcome to Just the News, no Noise. Welcome to this post Christmas pre New Year's episode of Just the News, no Noise. It always kind of feels like this period between Christmas and New Year's. It's like it's definitely no man's land for the diet. Everybody is just kind of picking on Christmas food, which if I look a little puffy, that's why I've been doing a whole lot of picking. But alas, we have a great show queued up for you tonight. But get into some of those interviews. You know, President Trump billed himself the first time around, especially with the Abraham Accords, as the president of peace and continuing on that mission in his second term, he is staying on top of the situation between Russia and Ukraine, between Israel and Iran and a lot of these other boiling Trump is trying to find solutions and resolutions for so President Trump, as many of you probably know, met with Volodymyr Zelinsky of Ukraine yesterday and he said that they are are closer to a peace deal than ever before. So check this out.
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I really believe we're probably, Mr. President, closer than by far closer than ever before with both parties. We had some times when he was close and President Putin wasn't. Then what have President Putin was close and he wasn't.
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You saw that in the White House. But but I think they both want to see it happen.
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All right. And in this next clip I want to show you President Trump talks about the possibility that he could to visit Ukraine. Now if you think back to President Trump meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, this is one of those situations where when it's when President Trump is involved, according to the left, he's darned if you do, darned if he does and darned if he doesn't. Just like with Putin coming to Alaska, of course, the left said, oh, I can't believe he welcomed him onto US Shore but if President Trump had gone to Russia, they would have said, I can't believe he capitulated to Putin and went to Russia. So this is one of those situations where President Trump goes with his business instinct, that gut instinct that he has. And so he talked about the prospect of him possibly visiting Ukraine.
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Here it is, you know, I have no problem with doing it. We don't anticipate it would like to get the deal done and not necessarily have to go. I've offered to go and speak to their parliament and, you know, if that would help. I don't know that would help. I think it would probably help, but I don't even know if that's.
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You're welcome.
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Yeah, no, I know. So I'm not sure that it would be really necessary. But if it would help save 25,000 lives a month or whatever it may be, I would certainly be willing to do that.
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All right. And as I tickled at the top of the show, President Trump also keeping his eye on Iran and Israel. And I will admit that for a lot of folks who are foreign policy minds, who are national security experts, they looked at this deal that President Trump brokered between Israel And Hamas, this 20 point peace plan that the UN sanctioned, by the way, or that the UN put their stamp of approval on, I suppose I should say in this context. But the first part of that peace plan has gone relatively smoothly. Iran and Israel have, and I use the term relatively because they have relatively adhered to that first point. Now the second point is going to be tricky because it requires Hamas to give up their weapons and it requires Israel to remove their troops. So this is going to be a really tricky part of this peace plan. But President spoke yesterday regarding this as well. Check it out.
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And speaking of Iran, I hope they're not trying to build up again because if they are, we're going to have no choice but very quickly to eradicate that build up. So I hope Iran is not trying to build up, as I've been reading, that they're building up weapons and other things. And if they are, they're not, they're not using the sites that we obliterated, but they're using possibly different sites. We know exactly where they're going, what they're doing, and I hope they're not doing it because we don't want to waste the fuel on a B2 to 37 hour trip both ways. I don't want to waste a lot of fuel.
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And that was today, by the way, my producer let me know that I accidentally said yesterday, I was thinking today, I meant to say today, but apparently I didn't say today. All right, everybody, and one more clip I want to show for you because President Trump always, you know, there's always a carrot and stick scenario here. And there are two different sides of what the results could be. And President Trump talked about what the stick side of things could look like.
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We talked about Hamas and we talked about disarmament. And they're going to be given a very short period of time to disarm, and we'll see how that works out. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will be in charge of that from our side. But if they don't disarm, as they agreed to do, they agreed to it. And then they'll be held to pay for them. And we don't want that. We're not looking for that hell to pay.
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And I do believe him. All right, everybody. So let's start tonight with an interview that I did with Georgia Congressman Austin Scott. This is something that we did a little bit before Christmas, but we talked about what the priorities were going to be for 2026. And one big topic is going to be health care, of course, how Republicans can fix it. Take a listen. We are here with Congressman Austin Scott. Congressman, it's so great to see you in person.
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Glad to be here. It's been a while since I've seen.
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You in person has indeed. So it's great to be here up on Capitol Hill. And for our audience watching, we are here at on Capitol Hill. This is one of the caucus rooms. This is my favorite building, the can. The Canon Building is, in my opinion, the most beautiful of all the congressional office buildings. But this is an important event because you guys are talking to new media, a lot of folks like us. And it's important because you guys have dealt with traditional media for a very long time.
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That's right. And without you guys, we would be having a very, very difficult time getting the truth out. And so I appreciate you and everything that you do. It is important that the American citizens know the truth. I am a firm believer that our democracy will take care of itself as long as the citizens know the truth. Certain number of people are going to vote Democrat, certain number are going to vote vote Republican. But as long as everybody knows the truth, our democracy will be okay and therefore our country will be okay.
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I want to ask you about Republican unity. I do think that it certainly seems like, you know, at this point, heading into the Christmas holiday and New Year's, it seems like, you Guys are more aligned than you have been in a long time on priorities. Is that the reality?
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It is. And if you look at how slim the margin is and you look at what we've actually, actually been able to get done, we're not getting a whole lot of credit for the things that the Republican majority has done, the thing that President Trump has done. And so if you look just back at the tax bill that we got passed, I mean, every American citizen out there would be getting a big tax increase starting about a month from today. And so we stopped that. And, you know, the Democrats have said a whole lot of things, things about it. But the bottom line is, you know, we have cash flow issues in the American household right now. It came from the inflation, from the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act. Those are, by the way, the Democrat names for the piece of legislation. Just like they call the Affordable Care act affordable. You know, when the Democrats name something, the best thing about the ink on the paper is the name of it. What's actually written in is what you need to be afraid of. But then you'd be getting a huge tax increase starting in January. And so we stopped that. The government's open. As you know, Senator Schumer did what he does in creating the chaos over the last several months. And so we're hopeful that we get, you know, a full year budget done. If not, you'll end up with a full year continuing resolution, which is not what we want. They are not willing to vote with us on much of anything right now. And so what you're going to see us do as Republicans, is we're going to continue to put forward pieces of legislation that would actually help people with their health care costs. And so let me say this to the American citizens. I have been covered in the private sector. I've been covered by the state merit system when I was a state legislator in the public sector, I've been covered by the federal employee health benefit plan. And today I'm covered under Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act. So I've had federal coverage, state coverage from the government, and the majority of my life covered in the private sector. This is the worst health insurance that I have ever had in my life. I literally, when I go to the pharmacist, do not use my health insurance card because it's cheaper for me to pay cash than it is to file. And for the copay on my insurance card, we, we had a claim a couple of years ago. Now, I saved the receipt from it because I thought it was so Ridiculous, but symbolic of what the Affordable Care act does. The bill was $111 for a doctor's visit. My copay was $60. The insurance company paid $8 and they wrote the doctor down the other 40 plus dollars of the bill and so I pay 60, the insurance company pays 8. The doctor has to take 40 something dollars in a discount. I mean, that's not insurance. And so we're getting the rate increases too. Right now the way to fix this is to put competition back into the system and so get rid of the pharmacy benefit, rent managers, get rid of all of these middle people that have driven up the cost of health care. And we have to differentiate between health care and health insurance. And so we have to reduce the cost of health care and then we have to get more competition back into the insurance industry. And if you don't think that matters, look at what has happened to the stock price of the major health insurance companies since the Affordable Care act passed. The only people that legislation helped were the people that owned stock in the companies.
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What do you do about people like Senator Raphael Warnock who get so much money from the medical sector, from pharmaceutical companies? How do you disincentivize that?
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Yeah, I will tell you, I think transparency is the key to that and then holding people accountable. I've got better things to do than to look at people's financial disclosures, so I'll leave that to you to do that. But ultimately the accountability, you know, comes at the ballot box. And we as Republicans, we have to.
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Be.
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Very, very clear about our solutions to the challenges that the American citizens face. Does not come in the form of federal control or more federal legislation. It comes in the form of competition and choice for the American consumer.
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Is there a mechanism built in? Because you sound like you have so many great solutions to a lot of the problems that Obamacare presents. Cross state competition has got to become a thing because right now it's a market within your own state.
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So cross state competition can happen. I will tell you right now we have so few insurance carriers. I think the thing we need to make clear is that an individual state has the right to license individual health insurance products to be sold in that individual state. And then if they want to have some type of almost like a joint service agreement between. I'm from the state of Georgia, so if they want to have a joint agreement between Alabama, Georgia, Florida makes plenty of sense to me. But we have to recognize that we have to get smaller companies into the business to put pressure on the big companies. And so I'M interested in making sure that someone can move into a market in Georgia and not have to be so large that they can cover the whole United States of America. America. So I represent 30 counties, a lot of them which are rural. In many cases, the people in my counties only have one choice. By the way, another problem with this, the current piece of legislation is that if you buy your plan in January and you don't like your plan in February, you're stuck with it for the rest of the year. And so why, why shouldn't the consumer be able to change their coverage if you don't want to do it at any given time? Let's give them the opportunity to change at three, three times or four times a year, once a quarter you could change. And as long as you have continual coverage and you have no lapse in benefits. We did this in what was called no loss, no gain in years gone past, then you know, no pre existing conditions clauses, you know, and we can do better. We can do better than it will require Democrat votes to do better prior to us getting a larger number of senators and a larger number of the House of Representatives. I don't think the Dems are going to vote with us because they think, they think federal control is better for the American citizens. Obviously in anything that we did that fixed the system, it would not be more federal control.
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Sir, you're one of those folks up on Capitol Hill you're always ruminating over legislation to propose or, or to co sponsor or to be a part of. When you look at next year's priorities for you, what, what, what are you wanting to put out there?
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Yeah, so look, as someone who's on the Armed Services Committee and the Intelligence Committee, I'm very concerned about the critical minerals. I do believe that we need to have a plan for critical minerals that would include the various countries in the Western Hemisphere where we can get them. And I think we have to include Africa in that. We have to have the critical minerals, we have to process them. If you just look at a map geographically, it's a whole lot easier for us to get those minerals, process them and transit the Atlantic Ocean than all the way around the world. And so I'm looking towards legislation that would help with that. Obviously, agriculture is a big part of what I do as well and so want to do a lot of things to help the American farmer with regard to their choice as well. They have very little choice in fertilizer and chemicals and other things. And we do need to get the tariffs off of all of the inputs that are used in agriculture production.
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Congressman, you are so beloved by the people of Georgia. We love having you come on and talk about all the important stuff you're doing. Absolutely. All right, everybody, and stay with us because on the other side of this break, we are going to have Congressman Eric Burleson to stay on this topic of health care. It's really important. It's one of the few wins that Republicans can get next year, a tangible win that can help propel them into the midterm. So we're going to have more on that after this break.
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Welcome back everybody. I don't know about you, but I'm sensing a theme when it comes to what Republicans on Capitol Hill will be prioritizing in 2026. Finally fixing Obamacare. And a few weeks ago I sat down with friend of the show, Missouri Congressman Eric Burleson on lowering health care costs. But we also talked about all the government fraud being uncovered and what can be done about it. So here is my interview with Congressman Eric Murleson. I actually just had you on my podcast last week. And you know, it's funny because a lot of the ideas that you brought forth on my podcast I've been discussing with other members of Congress here because you have some such, such a wide dearth of solutions for Obamacare. Talk to us about these health savings Accounts. These MAGA savings. Health Savings accounts.
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Yes. So you know, this town loves to just tinker around the edges, right. And not really do anything inspiring. I think the American people, they, they demand and they need something that's radically going to improve their lives. And that's what I, I envision is called the MAHA accounts. Okay. The. And, and imagine instead of buying insurance through your employer and your employer picking that you're going to be a Blue Cross customer and what network and what hospital system that you're in, you instead your employer sends money monthly to your new MAHA account. You put in your money pre tax tax free and then you go pick whatever insurance product you want to purchase, whether it's a state sponsored product, I mean, or a, if you want to buy, you know, God forbid, aca, if you really like Obamacare, God bless you, you can buy that crappy product. If you like your crappy plan, you can keep it. But we're providing people a choice and a life preserver to get off this sinking ship that is Obamacare. And what you'll suddenly see again is you'll see insurance companies start competing for, for people. So you'll like, like Progressive and Liberty Mutual. And I mean people will American family. You know, you might the same American family agent you purchase auto insurance from. We could sell you in a health insurance policy, right? And if you don't like that policy, you can go to the one down the street, right? Or pick a, pick a different policy. But at the end of the day the choice is back in the hands of the person who's, who's consuming the health care and whatever money that you don't spend on your health insurance premium. So if you want to save some money, then that money would grow just like a health savings account, tax free as well. And then any money also that's, that is in that account you can use to purchase your, to pay your co pays, pay deductibles. If you want to do a direct primary care plan, you could do that. You know, the options are endless. And then here's where the kicker is. Because we want people to be healthy. Being healthy, you know, having health insurance does not necessarily equate to being healthy. And so in this MAHA account we're allowing people to purchase each month protein, produce, vitamin supplements and maybe even a gym membership from, to stay healthy.
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It's such a great idea. And I know you talked about how it can, you know, this, this MAHA account can be filled by your employer, it can be filled by you. It can also, if I remember correctly, it can be filled if you're receiving government assistance or anything like that. That can also.
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That's right. And you know, if you're receiving government assistance or let's not forget charity. Right. Charitable care used to be the biggest, an important part of health care. There's, there was a time when hospitals were funded by the Catholic Church. They were funded by Protestant churches. Right. It was an important, it is always going to be an important aspect. Why not let, if you have a co worker or someone that you know that's in need that, why not let people donate to that person's account. Right. And get a tax deduction and help somebody that may be having, having a difficult time, you know, actually do the Christian thing. Right. And, and I think that that's what we need to be doing.
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Because I mean, what, what I have found is that when you allow the private market, especially because we are a nation of believers, I know Democrats don't want to admit that, but we have so many Christians in this country who, you know, that they tithe. But then on top of that they donate to food shelters and things like that. And what it seems like, you know, the American spirit is all about grit and ingenuity, but it's also about, it's about charity and it is about filling in. And not only filling in because the government was supposed to fill in where private organizations fell short. But we've gotten to the place now where it's the government who foots the bill for everything and takes care of everything. And then private organizations, charities, whatever.
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Yeah. What's happened is government has stepped in and they've crowded out private charities. And the result is that you have a church that no longer has the salt that it needs. Right. And so I think that we really need to reverse that. The other result is that it becomes a cold system, right? Because now people, if my neighbor is in need and I give personally and I recognize that need, then that now there's that heart connection, right? You're praying for them, you care about their lives. But if my neighbor is now getting, I'm being forced to pay taxes to a government agency, and then I, then that money is flowing to. Now I have that. It's no longer a love connection of, of caring. It's, it's kind of a resentment. It creates up an attitude of resentment.
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There was something I wanted to ask you that I asked you on my podcast, but I wanted to, to reiterate for it for my audience when it comes to the failures of Obamacare, because I remember when Obamacare first started to be a part of the conversation. And one of the things as they said, you know, you can keep your crappy plan if you want to keep it. But they also said that they were going to reinvent the doctor patient relationship. They were going to reconnect the doctor and the patient, and they were going to, you know, it was going to remove the burden of paperwork. But that has not happened at all.
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No, it hasn't at all. And, and, and what you're seeing is a breakaway where you have direct primary care and people are basically, you know, they're paying their health, they're paying for a health insurance product through their employer, and they're not able to utilize that care, and they don't really want that care. And then they're going out on their own with after tax money and paying direct primary care to get the, the actual health care that they want. That's ridiculous. And we need, we need to correct that.
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Do you think, you know, with, with this government shutdown, I think a lot of people learned some really gross things about the SNAP program. Do you think that that will bring about more outrage by the American people in general? Because I know, I know how you feel. I know how Republicans feel about Obamacare, but Democrats have been slow to the trough when it comes to admitting that Obamacare is a disaster. But maybe SNAP kind of pulled back the curtain on a lot of these government programs that revealed just how bad it is.
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Yeah, I mean, the, the fact that we don't, we don't, don't qualify people anymore to be, to receive government food and assistance is absurd. And it's not sustainable. And so I really think that we did that within the one big beautiful bill. We did a very strategic and laser focused policy changes to try to eliminate the waste, fraud and abuse within snap, within Medicaid, within tanf. And hopefully, you know, we might be able to do, I'm sure we can do more, but at least we did for the first time in generations, some welfare reform.
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Do you think that if, if Republicans are successful with the Maha accounts and this actually hits home, it gets passed and the American people start feeling that is that, is that one of those things like the one big beautiful bill that's a feather in your cap so that you can go to the voters in November and say, look what we did.
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Absolutely. And look, this is not a time to be, be safe. If we, if we don't demonstrate that we're here to save this country, then the American people are going to fire us. And it's not about keeping your job. It's about doing the right thing. And I think that when we do bold things like the Maha account, then the American people will reward us and continue to elect us.
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You know, you started this interview with using the word radical, and I think that's exactly right. I think that the American people want radical change. They want radical solutions. And I love your solutions and they do seem radical, but I think that they just might work. Congressman Eric Willison, thanks so much for being here. Absolutely. All right, everybody. And guess what? John is going to be back in the next block because we both sat down with 40 days for life President Sean Carney right before Christmas to discuss a special nativity scene that they helped put together that was shouted out by the Vatican. And we also Talked about what 2026 will mean for the pro life movement. So that's coming up right after this break.
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Welcome back. America 2025 was a year of significant debate and policy changes when it came to the pro life movement to the abortion industry. Everything from reducing federal subsidies for abortions to significant litigations in the states and at the national level. I thought it'd be a great time to bring in the CEO and president of 40 Days for Life, our good friend Shawn Carney, to help us understand it all Sean, great to have you back on the show. Good to be here. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. Merry Christmas, my friend. Happy New Year. All right. I want to start with something a little closer to my own personal faith. Obviously, I'm a Catholic. The Vatican had a pretty remarkable anti abortion nativity scene over the Christmas holidays. Tell us a little bit about the message it sent and the reaction to it. I didn't know you were Catholic. That's good to know. So, yeah, I'm Catholic as well. And we were honored with this invitation that they wanted to have a Nativity scene at the Vatican that honored the 25,000 babies who have been saved through 40 Days for Life. And so the artist, who is a Costa Rican woman, very talented, she used the straw of the Nativity scene to put ribbons. And each ribbon says 40 days for life on it. And there are 25,000 ribbons, each of which represents a baby boy or baby girl saved through a 40 days for life campaign. And so it was absolutely beautiful. It was a tremendous honor. Pope Leo had wonderful comments about the pro life display, this sort of pro life themed Nativity scene. And it was just very, very beautiful and a great honor for our 1 million volunteers who have gone out and prayed at a local 40 Days for Life vigil.
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Absolutely beautiful. Sean, if we know anything, it's that the other side of this argument fights very hard and sometimes even up against something that should be as universally beautiful as a Nativity display. What's been the reaction?
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Yeah, well, over the years, Planned Parenthood has had an awkward relationship with Christmas. They. They ended up firing Gloria felt their. Their CEO years ago because she did a Choice on Earth Christmas card with the Holy Family on it. And so they've all. They've. Some locations actually do abortions on Christmas Eve. I've witnessed that myself here in Texas. And so it's. It's always anger, I guess, from the other side. Of course, every Nativity scene is pro life. Jesus came to us through the womb, which is now, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place in America, in the world. And, and so it's a beautiful thing. We have seen some absurd reactions, but overall, especially in a time in our country where we, we need good news. This has been good news. This is. This has been very heartwarming during the time of year where. Where we need our hearts warmed.
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So very important. Sean, I want to talk about 2025 year. A lot of big developments in the abortion and pro life debate and policies. Planned Parenthood had a pretty rough year when it came to funding and state laws tell us a little bit about the gains made by the pro life movement in the last 12 months. It was the best year in the history of the pro life movement by far. What you saw is the reality that the pro life movement and the grassroots particularly, was ready for the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Planned Parenthood, who is very top heavy in New York and D.C. was not ready. They're not only out of touch with many of the women that they market to by promoting infanticide and abortions up to 40 weeks, they're out of touch with their own employees. They had a lot of legal issues with employees. They had employees trying to unionize. They had employees protesting their own abortion facilities, sometimes alongside 40 days for life participants. That was definitely comical this year. And then you saw the historic defunding of Planned Parenthood. But what you also saw is in blue states where they still get funding, record funding, in places like California, they were still closing locations. They closed over 65 locations this year. Many of them were in blue states where they didn't lose their funding. They are hurting on a cash flow standard. And it's probably because they have, in my view, a very ineffective and incompetent CEO. And they didn't always have that with the late Cecile Richards. She was a very effective, unfortunately, CEO for Planned Parenthood. Alexis McGill Johnson is not. And that that was highlighted this year because everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong for them.
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Yeah. Wow, Sean, looking forward to next year. I mean, we know what's happening on the level of Roe v. Wade being stripped away and that that being a decision that's left up to the states. But what about culturally? Are you finding that hearts and minds are changing?
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Culturally, yes, and in places you really wouldn't expect. I think that after Kamala ran on abortion, first president to ever run on abortion, they had abortions at the dnc. For her to try to market abortion as this thing to be celebrated and something that's good and to lose so handedly to Trump. You really saw many on the left basically trade abortion and trans for immigration as their new sort of moral crusade. And we saw the left get fairly silent, silent on substantive conversations and dialogue regarding abortion. It's all we heard about in 2022 through 2024. And that really evaporated for the most part in 2025, because their abortion stance is that we're not going to give medical care to babies who survive an abortion and that we want abortion with no regulations through all 40 weeks. That that was a dismal failure. They're starting to get away from it. I think that's why you see them aligning with the immigration issue more so and because they're losing on trans and they're certainly losing on the abortion issue. And, and that's why we're going to hit the ground running in 2026. We have a lot going on. We'll have record numbers of 40 days for life campaigns. We're making progress on the abortion pill front as well with litigation. And so I think you're going to see the pro life movement continue to grow, particularly as Generation Z gets more involved. They're by far the most pro life generation at their age than any previous generation.
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Really amazing moment. It's an amazing moment in time and culturally and historically. What are the big issues for next year? What should we be looking for in 2016 when it comes to the pro life movement? If you have this much momentum and you do from 2025, where does this go next? I think it's regulating the abortion pills at the state level. Many states, it doesn't get reported a lot have effectively done this. We'll be defending the state of Missouri against a lawsuit for Planned Parenthood in Missouri in January. We will litigate that case to protect their wonderful pro life laws and their ban of abortion pills. So we will have that front. 80% of abortion pills are still distributed through brick and mortar. So we will be there physically at the Planned Parenthood locations and other locations that distribute RU486 to offer alternatives. And of course, this is a peaceful approach. So many women take us up on it and it's a beautiful thing. And so they don't have that at the grassroots. They don't have the pregnancy resource centers that outnumber abortion providers five to one. So the momentum is in the grassroots part of the pro life movement. And that's so important now that Roe v. Wade was overturned and it went back to the states. Yeah. Really remarkable. Sean Carney, what an extraordinary year 2025 has been. As always, great. Grateful for your great update for us every time you come on the show. We always learn a lot. Thanks for joining us today. Thank you. Yeah. What a great conversation, folks. It is a remarkable year. Think about that. 65 or 70 centers, I think I've read have shut down in the last year, abortion centers. It's pretty remarkable in the history of the abortion industry. All right, we're going to take a quick commercial break. More right after these messages.
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Is butter back? I certainly hope so because I have a little tea towel that says there's no such thing as too much butter. But that is the question that we wanted to answer in today's Just the News Health Update. And the debate continues between RFK Jr and mainstream health experts on the risks linked to saturated fats. So what is the reality and how can you ensure a healthy diet for yourself and your children? Joining us to discuss this is the Director of Product Development at Native Path, Elijah Magrain. Elijah, thanks so much for being here. I am. My little Southern heart is so happy hearing that butter is good. And margarine. Let's face it, it's 100% seed oil. So maybe we all should have picked up on this fact sooner. But here we are.
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Yes, that's 100% true. Yeah. So this has been an interesting development Just kind of in the food landscape, you know, nutrition has always seems to kind of go through these phases. Right. So, I mean, the most classic one is eggs. Right? Eggs were good, then they're bad, then they were good, then they were bad. And it kind of kind of. It goes back and forth. Now it seems like the latest. Latest thing is butter. So really the biggest thing is. And as you mentioned, margarine. Right. So margarine was actually created from seed oils originally. And we found out it was supposed to be this kind of, you know, miracle when it was first first invented in the. In the 1950s, but when they found it, that it contained hydrogenated fat or in trans fat, which we now know is. Is very, very bad for you, way worse than saturated fat. So it seems like now the tide is kind of shifting towards butter. And one of the main things is really, because it's a whole food, it comes from animals. We've been using it and making it for hundreds of years. People haven't been using and making canola oil for hundreds of years. That was originally a byproduct from industrial manufacturing that we decided to put into our bodies.
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Yeah. Something that starts with petroleum and involves hexane in the process. Probably not great.
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Exactly, exactly. All right, so you mentioned saturated fat, and I think that is one of the learnings. Obviously, we want to get it right. Too much saturated fat still isn't good either. But a good mixture, a healthy amount but not too much seems to be the growing thinking in America right now among the medical folks. Folks talk a little bit about that nature versus factory tension that we've been on over the last few years. Yeah, sure. So I think we've sacrificed a lot for convenience. Right. And that's really what it. What it comes down to. We know that, you know, seed oils like canola and soybean oil are very, very inexpensive to produce. There's a great profit margin for them. However, they're not. They're not. They're not nature made. Right. So. And I think there's this shift now that's, that's realizing that, you know, things like, like butter and even other fats, like, I mean, because we can put butter, but other fats that. That have been around for a very long time, like olive oil. Right. So if you're. You're somebody that's, you know, just may not prefer butter on everything. There's. There's other fats, like, for example, olive oil, which is not an industrial process, meaning it's not treated with chemicals and different solvents. That undergoes what's called being cold, meaning that it's just kind of squeezed and out comes the olive oil. And so there's this really this shift going back to what we like to call ancestral wisdom. And that's really just simply referring to things that our ancestors eat, things that have been time tested and approved, that our bodies are designed in our ball and our biology is in sync with consuming. It's not going to make us sick. There's a lot of evidence right now to suggest that seed oils, well, and specifically what's called omega sixes that are found in high concentration in seed oils can make us sick. They give us this what's called pro inflammatory state, meaning that our body is just in this constant state of stress. We don't see that. Same with butter. And as you said, John, it's important to have a balance, right? I mean, if you eat too much of anything, you're not going to feel great.
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Elijah, Ancestral wisdom is so important for the medical community to meld into their recommendations. It's also important for them to admit when they're wrong. But Elijah, for so long we had this ridiculous food pyramid that they doubled down on year after year after year. Have we moved into a space at least with this administration, with folks like RFK at the helm of our health industry or at the head of our health governmental agencies, that we are moving into a space where we can admit that we were wrong and we can change things?
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I hope so. And that's. And so the food pyramid is really was created by a bunch of interest groups in the food industry, you know, 30, 40 years ago. And the largest interest groups at that time were cereal and grain processors. So it's no surprise that they made that the base of the food guide pyramid. And then you see fats and protein at the very, very, very top. I think we're definitely shifting away from that and I think it's going to take a little bit of time, but I think this administration and RFK are very focused and are sending the right message by trying to redefine the dietary landscape. Yeah, fresh meat, fresh vegetables, regular dairy products, saturated fats, all common sense things that served our ancestors well before we got into this processed food movement. When you look ahead of logic real quickly, what are some of the trend lines you think will continue into 2026 with the Get Make America Healthy Again movement? Yeah, that's a great question. So I think the real focus on just getting chemicals out of our food, I think that's going to be continue to be a focus. And that's, and that's a tough, tough, I think, thing to do across the whole entire food industry. Food industry is very large. But I mean, as RFK has definitely said, is that not the food industry kind of positions different foods by the country based on the legislation. So we know that they can do it. You know, the additives in the cereal, for example, in Canada are different in the US and then are different in Europe. So it's just a matter of, you know, just kind of changing the conversation and then passing the legislation that's forcing them not to basically put, put chemicals in the food. And I think once we have that landscape, I mean that, that problem kind of solved, I think it will naturally just kind of go back to what we talked about, focusing less on refined processed food and more on whole food with, you know, things that we can recognize and pronounce.
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Yeah, I think all along it has been a lack of will, not a lack of way because as you said, other countries figured out how to do it. Director of Product development over at Native Path, Elijah Magrane. Thanks so much for joining us. And folks, right now get a very special bundle deal over at Native Path. It's a fraction of the retail price plus free shipping. It's available@getnativepath.com just news. With over 4 million jars, soldiers, thousands of 5 star reviews and a 365 day money back guarantee, this is your moment to take control of aging before symptoms get worse. So go to nativepath.com justnews now supplies are limited and demand is surging.
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They want to steal the election. We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.
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To peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
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History for thousands of Americans, it was.
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The most the moment their voices were taken.
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It's insurrection.
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The Sleeping Giant coming soon. Welcome back everybody, to the final segment of the show. If you have spent any time on social media or watch the news or been on justthenews.com or I mean literally any time at all since Christmas, then you have now undoubtedly seen these videos by independent journalists Nick Shirley out there exposing the fraud that we talked about at the top of the show there in Minnesota. And I am seeing reports that this is happening in cities all over the country. I am positive that it is happening in places like Los Angeles. There are folks who are sounding the alarm in places like Ohio and Boston. Listen, I am not an expert in geography. My husband laughs at me when I tell him when I show my ignorance in geography. But I happen to know that Boston is not landlocked and for a 20 mile radius around Boston, a quarter of which is water, 4,000 daycare clinics. So I have a feeling that the Department of Justice is going to have their hands full when it comes to investigating fraud in daycares in food delivery services. So that's going to be interesting to watch through the rest of the year and heading into next year. But I've got a few video clips that I wanted to show you. Many of you are familiar with Rob Schneider, a comedian and actor. Very, very funny. And he was talking about the sense of humor that folks on the left have. And I'll just let you take a look.
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When Hillary Clinton lost the election and, and I tweeted, I haven't seen the Democrats this angry since we freed the slaves.
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Everywhere. And then, yeah, they didn't like that.
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I remember my old boss at Saturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels, would say that the Democrats are more sensitive and they don't have quite the sense of humor to take to laugh at themselves as Republicans.
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Well, I know one Democrat who needs to laugh at herself. Her name is Mara Gay. And for those of you who don't follow the news enough to know the names of these people, which I don't blame you one bit, but it's my, it's my work. Mara Gay is a staff writer over at the New York Times. And if you remember, a few years ago, she became a bit of a laughing stock because she was on a segment, I believe it was on CNN. Could have been, could have been MSNBC. Same, same. Anyway, they were talking about $500 million spent on an election campaign. I think at the time they were talking about Bloomberg and they deduced that with $500 million spent on a campaign that with 328 million people in the country that meant that instead of spending this money on his campaign, he could have given $1 million to every American and had money left over. Now if you do the math, you know that that would be $1 for every American, not a million dollars for every American. But you know, some of us journalists, we're not known for our mathematician skills. Anyway, she was talking about all of this that has been reveale Minnesota and she feels bad for the scammers. Check this out. Let's recall too that there's also other scandals in other states. For example the Mississippi welfare scandal. And this is, this is not unique to politics.
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Americans know that.
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But of course the other factor here.
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Is that because it looks like the Somali population in Minnesota, the Somali immigrant.
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Population may have been at some point in involved in some way. Those people are being scapegoated and that community is being scapegoated in a way that certainly serves the far right. So sad food kitchens that took in $12 million of taxpayer money and didn't give out a single meal. They're being scapegoated. Uhhuh. Well, Nick Shirley, the journalist who has exposed all of this, talked about why there aren't more of us talking about this here at is are there local.
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Reporters like that in your area?
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And why do you think they weren't.
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Doing the work that you did?
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I don't know.
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Do with what's going on because fraud is fraud.
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It doesn't matter if it's a black person, white person, Asian person, Mexican. Fraud is fraud.
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And and we work too hard simply.
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Just to be paying taxes in enabling fraud to be happening.
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So you know, if you have a transaction over $600 on Venmo, then the IRS is going to be keeping a very keen eye on you. But if you scam the American people out of millions and what it seems like now, I think the last count I saw was $14 billion worth of fraud. No big deal. No big deal. It's just Somali serving scapegoated, right? Right. All right everybody, thanks so much for tuning in tonight. We will be back here tomorrow night at 6pm Eastern. Have a wonderful evening and we'll see. We'll see you then.
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