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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, December 3rd, 2025
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Amanda Head
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Jim
This is Jim.
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Harmony Dillon
Hello.
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Jim
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John Solomon
In April, and now I have customers out the door. And this is Sarah.
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Amanda Head
Hi.
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Jim
She started putting a portion of her.
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John Solomon
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Amanda Head
Business is booming. That's why I'm working on a Saturday.
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Jim
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John Solomon
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Jim
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John Solomon
Good evening, America. Happy Wednesday. Welcome to the latest edition of Just the News. No noise. I'm your host John Solomon reporting to you as always from the nation's capital, where another day of Trump history is being made day in and day out. First, some new information we got from our own chief investigative correspondent, Jerry Dunleavy. He broke it last night. You might have seen it on JustTheNews.com it turns out that the Biden administration very quietly created an exemption for many low level ready for this Taliban. You heard me right. Taliban civil servants were allowed to come to the United States. Hundreds of them. This news comes in the wake of the Afghan national he charged was charged with attacking the two National Guardsmen and killing one of them in D.C. right near the White House. So how did it work? Well, the Biden led Department of Homeland Security and the State department announced in June 2022 that it had put together new exemptions for purportedly vetted applicants who would otherwise be blocked from the United States, including some former Taliban government workers. I'm not making this up. It's in writing. The policy allowed hundreds of Afghans to come to the United States when they would have otherwise been barred due to terrorism related ties.
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Inadmissible standards. They were set aside so that these folks could come into the country. Another giant glaring security hall. Now the exemptions were for Afghans who had worked as civil servants on under the Taliban both before 911 and after August 2021 when the government fell and the Taliban retook control of the Afghanistan country and its government. Really remarkable stuff. A couple other things I want to get to quickly before I turn things over to my amazing co host Amanda Head. The Justice Department has promised a different way of going about making sure we have election integrity in the world and they are doing it on a daily basis. Six blue states have been sued and I have a funny feeling many more will be shortly for not turning over the voter roll so that they can be inspected to make sure that they're cleaned up, that we don't have dead people and noncitizens on the voter roll. As you know, lots of proof now that non citizens made it on the voter rolls and some of them even got into voting illegally. Now one other thing I want to talk to you about. A little while ago you probably started to see anonymous stories appearing around the country saying that the inspector general of the Pentagon said that Pete Hegseth risked national security by talking on signal about some of the military plans for strikes in Iran. I just want to tell you about something that you're not hearing from those anonymous leaks. That report I am certain from my reporting also concludes that nothing that Hegseth shared was classified. Remember when he was accused of sharing classified information? He didn't share any classified information. And here's the second thing that the media who's putting out those anonymous leaks won't tell you, but we're going to tell you. We're going to bring a guest on in a little bit to tell you about it. The report also concludes that what Hegseth was doing had become the norm in the Pentagon, meaning it was going on during the Biden years. It was a normal process. It doesn't mean it was right. But if it was the norm and it wasn't classified, two things that the media right now aren't telling you in those stories. We're going to have one of Pete Hex's top advisers, Tim Parlatore, on the show in a little bit. We're going to break some news, news that you're not getting from those anonymous leaks. All right, let Me turn to my amazing cosmet head. She, she always has other great headlines. She's watching what's on your radar.
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Amanda Head
Yes, indeed, John. The Democrats continue to try and make the Trump administration policy of striking Venezuelan drug smuggling boats the top story in the country. And in doing so, they are saying some pretty crazy things.
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John Solomon
They sure are.
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Amanda Head
For example, after all the drama around Senator Mark Kelly and other Democrats releasing that video encouraging members of the military to ignore illegal orders, as they call them by the president, they've now moved to saying that what the military is doing to those drug boats could be illegal. And because of that, Senator Mark Warner is making the argument that maybe the military will, quote, save us from President Trump. Here he is saying just that when asked about Admiral Bradley briefing lawmakers on those drug boat strikes.
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John Solomon
And I think in many ways, the uniform military may help save us from this president and his lame people like Hegsep because I think their commitment is.
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John Rich
To the Constitution and obviously not to Trump. And I expect Bradley to adhere to that.
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Amanda Head
And unfortunately, that's not all because we also have some Democrats defending the drug smugglers on those boats, like Senator Jack Reid did recently.
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John Rich
And most naco traffickers are not in those boats. They pay people to do that. And usually people are not significantly involved with narco trading. It's, it's the way they make money.
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Amanda Head
And how about Congressman Jim Himes, who says that the whole concept of a narco terrorist is completely made up?
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Harmony Dillon
There is no such thing as a narco terrorist.
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John Rich
There are very, very bad narcotics people, cartels, etc. But they're desperate to make this look.
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Harmony Dillon
Like it's ISIS or Al Qaeda because.
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John Rich
That'S the very thin line on which.
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Harmony Dillon
Their illegal use of the United States military to take these people out resides.
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Amanda Head
John, I don't know, maybe these points are passable by Democrat voters, but they seem just completely wackadoodle. I think probably to most Americans.
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John Solomon
Gotta take a look at what Barack Obama did when he designated a whole bunch of narco traffickers. Democrats forget what they do.
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I don't know what to say except that the Democrats aren't in a world of reality. Sometimes it's kind of sweet. All right, well, one thing I'm certain of is our first guest is on the front lines of some history. We all want to make voting easier to do and harder to achieve cheating. And right now, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the US Justice Department has been doing just that by cleaning up voter rolls or forcing a cleanup of voter rolls in states that have Long ignored doing so. We're very lucky to be joined right now by that Assistant Attorney General, Harmony Dillon. Harmony, great to have you on the show.
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Harmony Dillon
Thanks for having me.
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John Solomon
All right, big news in the last 24 hours. The most popular story on just the news for most of the day. Today, we're you and the Justice Department sued six blue states for not turning over the voter roll. So you can inspect them, make sure that they're not being that they're not out of date, that dead people and noncitizens aren't making it onto the rolls. I have a funny feeling you're not done yet. Tell us where you are in the process.
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Harmony Dillon
Not even close. Well, John, I really appreciate you continuingly, continuously allowing me to come on and update the public because I know there's a lot of frustration out there about, you know, why isn't someone doing something? I'll have you know that the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division sent letters to all 50 states, and we have actually actively engaged with over half of them as follows. We're now in litigation with 14 states. So the six yesterday included Maryland, Delaware, Rhode Island, New Mexico, Washington State, and Vermont. That adds to eight we already had going. We are close to reaching resolution, voluntary cooperation with another dozen states. And I. I won't say which those are, but I think we will definitely let the public know when that happens. We have voluntary cooperation from four states, and we reached a settlement and consent decree with the state of North Carolina that agreed to clean up over 100,000 people on the voter rolls that were there improperly. And so that's over half the states, John, that we're actively engaged in either litigation or settlements with. And so it's really good news for America. And we're going to march through and make sure that we reach a resolution with everybody before we're done and get the evidence and the information that the attorney general on whose behalf I'm litigating is entitled to. Yeah.
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John Solomon
Amazing.
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Amanda Head
Harmeet. Outside of litigation, outside of the courtroom, I think most Americans hear that there are states that don't want to give up their voter rolls, and they think, well, there's no excuse for that. Obviously, if there's nothing to hide, then there's no excuse for wanting to conceal your voter records. But I'm sure that legally, within the courtroom and within litigation, they are putting up a reason. Is it privacy? What are they arguing?
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Harmony Dillon
Mainly they're arguing privacy or that the reason that the DOJ has given for this information isn't the real reason they always have some silly conspiracy theory going, but actually don't have to give a reason. Under the federal laws that we've cited, we're entitled to this information. The states don't get to go back and forth with us. One of the dumbest reasons that I hear put up is, oh, Social Security number is confidential. Well, how can it be confidential from the federal government that issues the Social Security numbers? That's really silly. And the other thing that people should know is that almost all of the states that are using this argument voluntarily hand over their voter roll information to nonprofit and NGO groups. Eric is one of them. And so what's the privacy concern? If you're willing to give it to some nonprofit that benefits your political agenda, why aren't you going to give it to the United States? So we are not going to be deterred by these reason. That is why so many states are actually falling into line. They realize that it would be a waste of tax dollars to fight these efforts. And ultimately, what we're trying to do is help all of the states do their jobs better. Each of these states is required to keep clean voter rolls. They're not doing it for the most part. This is red states and blue states, I'm sorry to say. We did get some resistance from both sides, but we're just here to help. So we're going to compare data, we're going to help eliminate duplicates and help them root out fraud and get people off the voter rolls who shouldn't be there. And then it's really up to the states again to continue to maintain that it's their duty.
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John Solomon
Harmeet, one of the great lines that Democrats use for years on this. There's nothing to see here. Everything is fine. But when you start getting your hands on these voter rolls, tell us some of the things that your staff has been able to find that show that these voter rolls are not only outdated, but potentially corrupted.
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Harmony Dillon
Yeah, well, I don't want to get into specifics before we've completed all of our review. And every time we get new data, we're then, you know, kind of updating our analysis. But there are definitely people on the voter rolls of every state who don't belong there. They're dead, They've moved, they're registered multiple times there. There have been reported instances of people, because of these insecure double or extraneous registrations, going to the polls and having their record voted before they got there. There are clearly people on the voter rolls, including immigrants who are not citizens. And that can include legal immigrants and illegal Immigrants who are on the voter rolls. And some states have become very sloppy and loosey goosey about how people register. And it's self certification in most jurisdictions in California, when you go to renew your license and every 10 years they make you go to the DMV and do it, they ask you if you want to register to vote. I actually had to call a staffer over to the electronic screen and explain to them that there was no option for me to say I'm already registered. So I might have gotten registered twice because I had moved since the last time. That's kind of the default. It's a mess. And when you couple that with both the mail in voting with no excuse, absentee balloting and some cockamamie schemes that some politicians have advanced to have telephone voting, this is a scary scenario and it's going to lead to inaccurate elections and people not having confidence in the outcome of our elections, which is a real civics problem in this country that we need to get get past.
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John Solomon
In your North Carolina settlement, we get a little bit of a sense of the scope. One state, I think you're identifying about 100,000 people who didn't belong on the voter rolls, is that correct?
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Harmony Dillon
Well, the situation there was they were enrolled in the voter rolls without the proper information required by North Carolina law. And so the settlement requires the state at its expense to contact those hundred thousand voters, get the accurate information from them. And if they're not able to do that, then they need to be removed from the voter rolls. And so that's a big number. As you know, we've had instances of elections, one and lost in the last few years, particularly here in the backyard here in Virginia by one vote. It happens all the time. And so it is not a good response to say, oh, voter fraud is rare. I'm not saying it's fraud. I'm saying it's sloppiness. I'm saying it's inaccuracy. And I'm saying it leads to infirm election results that people can't trust. We need that trust. We need everyone to trust the outcome of the elections. And every citizen is entitled to their vote in a federal election being counted only once and only in conjunction with other legal voters.
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Amanda Head
Harmeet when it comes to that sloppiness and that inaccuracy and unfortunately in some cases fraud. We all saw, and I know that the deterioration of election integrity has happened a little bit along the way for a very long time. But leading up to the 2020 election, the Pennsylvania case is a Very good example of how major, major changes were made. You are doing a really great job in your position at the doj. I know you're working with state, state attorneys general and other colleagues at the DOJ to try to fix those problems. But for what you can do for these four years, is it something that the next administration, if it's Democrats or Democrats in states that control voting in their own states, is that stuff that they're going to be able to revert just like they did in 2020?
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Harmony Dillon
Of course, elections matter and elections have consequences. And the sloppiness of the elections in blue states is no accident. It is on purpose. It is a feature, not a bug. And the goal is to cram as many people on there and make voters who are not particularly engaged make it easy for someone else to help them fill out their ballot and return it for them when they didn't care enough to do it themselves. And so that is a problem. And we all saw how Narrowly we averted HR1 becoming the law in the last election.
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Before the turnover of the White House, where Nancy Pelosi was pretty close to getting a national California level standardless voter regime. And that would have been disastrous to election integrity and election confidence. We have other problems with how machine data is handled. You see sloppiness by election officials in many elections in that. And then people don't trust the outcome of these elections. And so we really need to do a much better job here. In the rest of the civilized world, people are able to vote on the same day and get the results in real time that evening, or people use paper ballots and get results quickly. We can do this in this civilized country. But for now, each state will have to come to that conclusion. What we can do at the federal government level is ensure that our federal election laws are observed. And that includes each state's requirement to keep clean voter rolls. That is a fundamental basic. And if we don't have that, then who knows who's voting in our elections? And then no one trusts the outcome.
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John Solomon
We've got about a minute left. Real quickly, you've made some enormous success with colleges. Big settlements, big money, but most importantly, better rules in place for future students and academics. Tell us about it.
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Harmony Dillon
Absolutely. I'm so proud of this work. It's been less than eight months in office and I've worked hand in hand with Secretary Linda McMahon and with the support of my boss, Pam Bondi, and the President, and I've briefed him repeatedly on these settlements and we've reached almost half A billion dollars worth of settlements. Most of that money is going directly into the United States Treasury. And more importantly than the money, in my opinion, is the fundamental changes in each of these schools that we have driven, requiring equal access for all Americans and end to the DEI policies and an end to the recent antisemitism that we've seen really mar some of our nation's highest institutions of higher learning. And we are just getting started. And so we are going to continue to march through and set these rules and improve these campus outcomes. And the work that we're doing that is so high profile at the front end is forcing a lot of colleges to self identify that they have problems and fix it themselves. I mean, this is the market in action. And so President Trump's leadership is going to improve the outcomes for millions of American students and faculty. And I'm so proud to be part of that effort.
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John Solomon
My first boss in journalism said elections have consequences and harmony. Your work definitely proves that. A half billion dollars in settlements of colleges, better rules for college students, and half of the states cleaning up their voter rolls in a way they wouldn't have had President Trump. Not one extraordinary work. Thanks. Thanks for coming on the street, briefing us on it.
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Harmony Dillon
Thanks for having me.
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John Solomon
Yeah. What a great interview. All right, folks, we're gonna take a quick commercial break. When we come back, one of my favorites. I'm a country music junkie. You know that. He's John Rich. He's next. I can't wait to have mine. We'll be right back after these guys.
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John Rich
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Harmony Dillon
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John Rich
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Harmony Dillon
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Harmony Dillon
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Cause I can see you around the corner and I know you're coming? If you had any sense you'd run?
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You ain't got a clue what a daddy will do? Better give your soul to Jesus while I get my gun.
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Amanda Head
Welcome back, everybody. What you just saw was part of country music star John Rich's latest song called the Righteous Hunter. John describes it as a parent's declaration of war against those who prey on our children. So why is this such a big problem? Problem in America. And how can we protect our children? Joining us now is the man who created that song, John Rich. John, thanks so much for being with us tonight and thank you for making this song.
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John Rich
Yes, ma'.
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Superhuman AI Narrator
Am.
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John Rich
Thanks for having me on.
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Amanda Head
You know, I grew up with a dad who would oftentimes say, please don't make me go to jail, meaning please don't do anything that's going to make me get in a fight to defend you or have to go after someone for praying on you. Don't put yourself in that type of situation. But in all honesty, for any parent out there, for anyone who has a child in their life who they love, I feel like this is the. I mean, for lack of better terms, this is singing their tune.
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John Rich
Yeah. You know, the problem is that while parents and me included, until not that long ago, while we're watching the news or watching the football game, your kids are sitting right behind you with their iPhones and their iPads and their video games, and they are communicating with people online that they think are their age and interested in what they're interested in. And then after a few days of that, they find out, nope, that's a predator. And then all kinds of bad things happen. The DHS reports that in the past 12 months there were 36 million reports filed with them from parents saying their, their child had been targeted online. Think about that number. That's 3 million a month on average in the United States. There's not enough law enforcement in the world to combat the level of problem that we're facing in this country with child predators and traffickers. So the point of this video, the Righteous Hunter, this is the song written from the parents perspective. I'm actually talking directly to the predator in the song. Like, if you think you want to come get my kid, you're going to have to deal with me. You're going to have to deal with me and that's not going to go well for you. And in this video we actually do a recreation of adults purchasing children. Now, it is a very disturbing thing to look at, but I think one reason this problem is so big is that most regular American parents don't want to look at that. They don't want to have to think about it or try to digest the fact that it's actually real. And that's the point of the song. I want people to watch this video and I want them to stand up and start defending their own home. Take measures in your own house to protect your kids.
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John Solomon
Yeah, it's such an important message and you're so right. Earlier in my career I did a story on teachers who had molested children, moved to another district. There was no tracking system back in those days, and they would molest the children second time, third time. And I interviewed the parents of some of the victims and the first thing they said to me is, you know what? I had a little bit of suspicion and I wish I had acted on it. There was such guilt, there was such, you know, that parental instinct is usually pretty good. If you got the suspicion, get involved quickly. This song really, I think, encourages parents to get over the fear and, and take hold. It's such a great message, John.
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John Rich
Yeah, I mean, it is. They're very tricky, these predators. I mean, like I said, they'll pose as a 14 year old girl. Hey, I'm a cheerleader. I go to a school right down the road from you. What's your name? And your son or daughter will start talking to them. And then the next thing you know, this predator is saying, hey, I know your parents name, your sibling's name, your home address, where you go to school. And now you're going to meet me at this gas station in 30 minutes. Or all these bad things are going to happen to your family. And that's how they get them, and then they get them out of the house. And the next thing you know, they're being sold over and over and over again around this country. 36 million reports. So that doesn't mean it happened 36 million times. That means it was reported 36 million times in one year. This problem is massive. Law enforcement can't handle a problem this big. It has to start with the moms and dads. And I would add one thing if you want to know. Okay, John's talking about this. What are we supposed to do? Go on YouTube and look up my name? John Rich and DHS. That's all you got to do. John Rich, DHS There is a 90 minute seminar of me with the DHS agent walking parents, step by step by step on what they can do with their kids devices to make them what they refer to as a hard target. Make them, make them impenetrable. You can't get to them because they said when a predator comes across a kid who's a hard target, who's, who's defended online, they move on, they move on to somebody else. So it is your duty as a parent to understand this is happening, to absorb it, as disturbing as it is and put up a defense around your kids.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, I mean I remember the good old days when the three of us grew up, when it was look both ways before you cross the street and don't take candy from strangers. But parents are up against so much more these days. I feel like, you know, if you distill down your 90 minute video, I guess maybe I'm a little hardcore because I would just say get rid of the Internet. Get rid of the Internet, get rid of cell phones. Kids no more. You're not online at all.
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John Rich
Yeah, I mean that, that'd be nice. But you know, today in school, like I've got two teenage boys, they both play baseball. I mean they have, they communicate with the coach and the team on their phone. They change practice times by 30 minutes, they get an alert and they then they know what's going on. So you really can't get away. But that, that video I did with DHS, DHS John Rich on YouTube, that will give you the tools. It's very simple. Even people who aren't tech savvy like me, I'm no tech guy. In five minutes I was able to take my son's iPads and iPhones, erase certain things, set the settings in a different way and nobody can get to them. This video is sitting at the top of my X page at John Rich on X. It's had over a million views in the past four days and the outpouring of commentary is unbelievable with this song. You know, I didn't write this song to try to get a hit, to try to get a plaque on the wall. It's more of a move of significance. I'm trying to make people pay attention to an active and really imminent threat. If you don't protect your kids, at some point somebody's going to contact them that you don't want anything to do with. And we just can't let that happen.
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John Solomon
So amazing. You're doing such great work, John. Real quickly, before we let you go, I remember a time when a music artist would have been proud, when the president of the United States borrowed a song, used a song to promote something about America. Sabrina Carpenter, I guess some Disney star kid has a song out there. She's telling her, I don't want to be associated with him. How do we stop this sort of silliness in America?
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John Rich
I mean, tough. I mean, what are you going to do? You know, you put your song out there for everybody to hear it, hey, the president likes it. What are you going to do about it? You know.
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The whole place has gone, has gone nuts. But I bring it back to the mom and dad. The American parent has enough constitution about them to stop this stuff from happening to their kids and they need to take action. Step up out of your chair, turn off the tv, take your kids devices and fix the problem.
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Amanda Head
John, before we let you go, just a technical question on what John was talking about. I don't know the structure of her agreement with her label or I guess the more important, more pertinent issue is who owns her masters. But there's nothing Sabrina Carpenter can do anyway, is there?
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John Rich
Now her label owns it. She's owned by the company. I mean I've been owned by companies as a singer, thank God I don't have a record deal anymore. But yeah, the company owns her own masters, the publishing, everything about it. So really the beef would have to be with them.
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Amanda Head
She can make a lot of noise online, but it sounds like that's the extent of it.
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John Rich
Yeah.
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Amanda Head
Award winning singer, songwriter and country music star. Someone who broke free, free from this label change. Absolutely. And patriot. Absolutely. And instructor for parents on protecting your kids. John Rich, thanks so much for being with us. All right, everybody. Next, Colorado congressman Gabe Evans is going to be with us to discuss another way that he is helping protect Americans by stopping Fentanyl trafficking. That's right after this break.
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John Solomon
Welcome back, America. Earlier today I got a text from my brother. He's a law enforcement guy. And he said you got to look at what this congressman said today. Looked at it. It was Congressman Gabe Evans, who just happens to be on our show tonight. I want to bring him in because he gave, I think, one of the most epic defenses of what law enforcement are going through with all these leftist anarchists who are now attacking him. Today, a man was arrested for actually throwing Molotov cocktails at ICE agents in California with a security detail at least. Joining us now, former cop himself and now congressman for the great state of Colorado, Congressman Dave Evans. Sir, good to have you on the show.
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Jim
Thanks so much for having me.
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John Solomon
All right. This was an epic moment. You're sitting there, you're watching all this silliness play out before you, and you felt pretty compelled to take tell the American people and your colleagues it's time to stand up for the men and women in blue. Tell us about it.
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Jim
Yeah, absolutely. Like you said, I was a cop for 10 years. I was a soldier for 12 years. So making sure that we take care of our country, our state, our community is critically important to me. And defending those who defend us is critically important to me. And unfortunately, we've seen in the country what happens when leftist elected leaders go after cops when they make law enforcement the bad guy. It's our communities that suffer for it. In Colorado, we just had the sixth largest fentanyl seizure in US History happened in the south side of the Denver metro area. Enough fentanyl to kill 6.8 million Americans. That poison is in our communities because Colorado is a sanctuary city and a sanctuary state. They've fully embraced defund the police ideology. And so cartels, drug traffickers, criminals, are free to bring that poison into our community. Our communities pay the price. Colorado has been the number two state in the nation for teenagers overdosing and dying on fentanyl. And as a police officer, when you see that every day and you can't do anything about it because of how you're handcuffed by a bunch of leftist laws, then that is, that's a, it's a moral injury, it's a mental injury, in addition to all of the physical danger that occurs when you have all of this anti law enforcement rhetoric. So I kind of went off on some folks and laid down some hard truths based on 10 years of being a cop and having to actually bury two of my buddies, one of whom was assassinated, shot in the back by an anti law enforcement activist who was radicalized by a lot of the rhetoric that comes from a lot of these leftist defund the police leaders.
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Amanda Head
Congressman, supporting police used to be an American issue. It was not Democrat, it was not Republican. And it seems like the beginning of all of this happened. What was that 2009 when Barack Obama demonized police in Massachusetts? It feels like that was the beginning of this new era where Democrats really think it's okay to demonize any form of law enforcement.
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Jim
Well, it goes beyond that. I mean, a lot of times they're going to demonize anybody that disagrees with them. One of the things that I brought up in Homeland Security earlier today was when the Democrat speaker of the State House in Minnesota was murdered, every single Republican voted to condemn that act of political violence. But when Charlie Kirk got murdered, 118 Democrats could not bring themselves to condemn that act of political violence against a conservative figure. And so you have a complete and total disconnect with the Democrat Party, with their leftist base, in terms of just being able to condemn something as simple as political violence. And of course it's the cops that are ultimately going to have to try to hold things together because they're the ones that are ultimately at the receiving end of trying to keep violence out of our communities.
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John Solomon
So I want to ask you about something that Democrats are saying more loudly now, and it has me scratching my head. They don't want the US Military to stop the poison coming into our country to knock out. They don't even want to call the men and women who are in those boats Taking lethal amounts of fentanyl into our country. Terrorists, they don't even like the term narco terrorists. They seem to be on the side of the poisoners, not the poisoned in our country. What is their thinking and how do we combat it?
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Jim
I mean, if I could tell you what their thinking was, I. You know, I don't know what I would be doing, but it would be maybe something.
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John Solomon
Zillions of dollars.
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Jim
Yeah, right. But I alluded to it earlier. In addition to 10 years as a police officer, I spent 12 years in the US Army. I deployed to a combat zone as part of the global war on terror. And so making sure that we keep our country, our states, our communities safe from terrorism is something that, again, I spent a year of my life in a combat zone every 15 days under the Biden administration, we lost the same number of Americans to drug overdoses as we lost in the entirety of the September 11th terrorist attacks. The cartels, the drug dealers, the traffickers, they have killed more Americans than Al Qaeda could ever dream of simply by smuggling this poison into our communities. The number one killer of Americans ages 18 to 45 under Joe Biden was fentanyl. And so these foreign terrorist organizations have completely earned that designation as such by the Trump administration. The cartels that are bringing this poison into our community are terrorists. They killed as many Americans. They killed as many Americans every 15 days under Joe Biden as died at the hand of Al Qaeda in the September 11th terrorist attacks. And it's time that we put an end to this poison flowing into our communities. They're terrorists. They need to be treated as such.
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Amanda Head
I know you've honed in on social media, people. I know there's a lot of bad stuff that happens on social media, but I think for a lot of Americans, they don't see logistically how it happens that fentanyl is trafficked. Does it? Is it a message from someone on the other side of the border that says, meet me at X location so you can come pick this up? How does it happen?
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Jim
Yeah, so one of the pieces of legislation that I've introduced, actually it's a bipartisan piece of legislation, is focusing on identifying those exact things. How is fentanyl trafficked over things like social media? I used to have to deal with that as a police officer. Something as simple as an online game where there's a chat feature where players in this online game can talk to each other that can be weaponized by traffickers to get on the game, play the game, reach out to young, impressionable, vulnerable, kids start talking things up and then ultimately be able to set up these buys where, where, where fentanyl or other illicit drugs, dangerous drugs, are being socialized, made to sound cool by online predators through things like game chats and then ultimately making that point of sale. So that's what my piece of legislation is focused on. It is untangling what we used to call in the army, ttps, those techniques, tactics and procedures that drug users use to prey upon our kids using something like social media or online gaming platforms with chat features.
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John Solomon
Such important stuff, such common sense work that you're proposing. Sir, it's a great honor to have you on the show today. Thanks for joining us.
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Jim
Yeah, thank you so much for having me.
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John Solomon
Thank you for your service as well. It's an amazing, amazing contribution. Thank you so much. All right, folks, we're going to take a quick commercial break when we come back. But I told you at the top of the show you weren't getting the real story about the Hegseth IG report. I'm going to prove it to you next because we got one of Pete Hegseth with Secretary of War's top advisors with us. He's one of the smartest lawyers I know, too. Tim Carliter up next after these messages.
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Welcome back, everybody. I'm really excited to have this next guest on. I brought him on many times as a private lawyer, as a managing partner of the Parlor tour group. Today I'm bringing him here because he's a commander in the Navy Reserve. He's doing a lot of advice to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and he knows the real truth about the signal report that came out today. But you're not getting from the media. Joining us right now, our good friend Tim Parlatore. Tim, great to have you on the show.
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Tim Parlatore
Thank you. Good to be here.
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John Solomon
Yes. All right. So I saw these anonymous reports, and I've become incredibly suspicious of anonymous media reports. But they say, oh, the whole essence of the report is that Secretary Moore Hagseth jeopardized national security by putting some information onto a signal chat and sharing with other members of the administration. Now, I remember he was accused of leaking classified information. I also thought that this wasn't odd. Tell us what the report really says that the media isn't telling us.
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Tim Parlatore
So, yeah, the report is going to be released in its unclassified form tomorrow, and there's a couple of pieces that are classified. So obviously we're not going to talk about that. But overall, when you read it tomorrow, you're going to See that? It totally exonerates Pete Hegseth. There's no classified material in those texts. Everything he declassified that he has within his authority to declassify. And that's the majority of what this report talks about. And so I can understand why a day ahead of time, of course, it went over to the Hill today. And so the Senate and Congressional Democrats, they wanted to put out the one piece of the report that I knew that this was what they were going to do. There is a tiny little section in there that's really untethered from the rest of the report where the investigator states their opinion that having this information out there on an unclassified system could have endangered the troops. But the problem is, it is completely untethered from the rest of the report. It doesn't cite to a single source, not a single document, not a single interview, because it's not something that the IG was investigating. They weren't looking at what the impact of this would have been, so they were focusing on classified information. Did he violate that? Did he put out classified information? And the answer is no. Totally exonerated.
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Amanda Head
And whether it is a good means of communication or not matters not, because this was something that was standard practice during the Biden administration as well. Again, something that the media doesn't really want to talk about. But this has been used for a while, right?
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Tim Parlatore
So that's actually another big part of this report is it talks about how the use of signal. It's not a Pete Hegseth issue. It's not a Trump administration issue. It's a whole of government issue that really the use of signal has proliferated ever since 2020, when the government shut down for Covid, and all of a sudden everybody had to go home. And for that couple of weeks, the entire United States government ran on Signal. And it's not because they're trying to avoid the Federal Records act or FOIA or anything like that. It's because Signal is secure so they can talk about it without the Chinese listening in. And so the use of signal has become so widespread throughout government, throughout the entire Biden administration. This report actually notes that the former Secretary Austin actually used to bring his personal cell phone into the office, into the SCIF in violation of the law. And that was something that was passed down to Secretary Hegseth when he took over. And he said, well, I'm not going to do that. And so he wanted to do it a different way, you know, because he wanted to comply with the law. But when he took office, he Was told, hey, all of this stuff is. This is how it's done. It's all done by Signal. And, you know, so that, yes, there is a recommendation that to comply with the Federal Records act, we need to, you know, look at this and maybe do some training for senior officials on, you know, what the best systems are. But that's not the main point of the article or of the investigation. The main point is that there was no classified information in that text.
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John Solomon
Yeah. And that's really important because the original story suggested outright that Pete Hegseth was sharing classified information on Signal. The IG unambiguously concludes that that was not true. Right, Correct.
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Tim Parlatore
He is the original classifying authority. He has unfettered discretion to decide what to unclassify, how and when. It's just like the President. The president also has unfettered discretion to do that. And so if he decides to take certain portions of this, move it to an unclassified system so he can send it out to the other principals, which, by the way, the reason he did that, you know, at the time, they were talking to partner forces to give him a heads up on what was going on. And then about an hour later, the other people on that text thread all went out on TV and gave interviews about what we had just done, and they were being given the details that they were allowed to talk about on tv. Unclassified.
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John Solomon
Amazing. What a difference from the original story we were told.
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Amanda Head
Tim, what you're telling us about Lloyd Austin bringing his cell phone into the skiff, I mean, that is something that even the general public knows that you don't do that, to me, seems that it fits very well within the wheelhouse of an administration that really had a cavalier attitude towards a lot of things, but especially security and in this case, national security.
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Tim Parlatore
Correct. And it was one of those things that when Secretary Hegseth took office, they told him this, and he said, well, I don't want to do it that way. And the report talks about how he went to the communications team and said, can you find a way that is legal and secure that would allow me to access signal from inside the office without bringing my cell phone in? And they had rigged a device, essentially. His phone would be plugged in outside and he'd have a monitor and keyboard inside the office so he could do that. Which, of course, has been misreported in initial media reports of an unsecured line and everything. But that's what they did at his request of, I don't want to do what Lloyd Austin did I don't want to break the law. Give me something that's legal and secure.
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John Solomon
While we're on the subject of media not telling us the truth, the new media polls in all the rules are there. And you know what? Not once have I had to submit a story to Pete Hegseth for prior approval because it was never in the world. It wasn't true. Give us a little update on just how well the new press poll and the new press operations are going.
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Tim Parlatore
Well, to be 100% accurate, John, it was in the rules back in the 1940s.
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John Solomon
It was in the 40s. That's right. We wrote that story.
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Tim Parlatore
Yes, back in the office of Censorship. You know, I think the new media is doing great. You know, we had, you know, I said many interviews today, down with them. You know, I got to meet a lot of them, and, you know, they are asking very good, hard, tough questions, relevant questions, respectfully, to really try to cover what the department is actually doing. And one of the things that I really like about this group is that they are trying to cover the actual news. And look, they were asking me very tough questions about whether it's signal or the boat strikes or things like that. But it wasn't gotcha stuff where, okay, we don't want to hear about any of the good things the department is doing. We only want to figure out some way to attack and kill Pete Hegseth, you know, which is really what we had been seeing before. So I. I'm very excited about it. I think that the, you know, the communications team, you know, Sean Parnell and his team did a phenomenal job of putting together the past few days, and I think we're all very happy with it.
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John Solomon
Are you seeing some signs in some of the media that dropped out of buyer's remorse and wish they were back in?
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Tim Parlatore
I have heard rumblings about that, you know, the. The original, you know, they were told, you know, what was in this instruction. I think a lot of them didn't even bother to read it themselves. You know, they were told by their lawyers, by their bosses, oh, this requires you to submit your stories for publication review. None of which is true. And I think that, you know, the performative walkout that they did was really probably more of a negotiation tactic, expecting us to cave as opposed to bringing in new media. And I think a lot of them do, at this point, regret it. And they realize, you know, the lawyers screwed them by not giving them an accurate account of what is in that document. And look, to be fair, this all happened during the shutdown, which is and this is a unique point, the department normally would have put that instruction up on the website, but because of the shutdown, they were prohibited from putting it up on the website. And so therefore all the media and everybody else, they didn't get to read the actual document, though they probably could have looked for it to find it.
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John Solomon
Instead, they just rely found it in two seconds.
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Tim Parlatore
Summaries. You found it because you looked. Everybody else relied on summaries.
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John Solomon
It just required looking. Yes.
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Tim Parlor. Every time we have you on, you get us looking, you get us thinking. Most importantly, you get us the truth. Great to have you on the show tonight, my friend. Thanks for joining us. All right.
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Tim Parlatore
Thank you for having me.
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John Solomon
Yeah. What a great interview. All right, folks, quick commercial break. We've got one more fun one to go. I've been waiting to have this guy for a few weeks. He's got a new book on UFOs, or UAPs as they're called. You're not going to want to miss that. So we're going to finish the show right after these messages.
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Amanda Head
Welcome back, everybody. We've seen a lot of government whistleblowers lately coming out to disclose that there's something strange going on with some parts of our military and intelligence agencies and UAPs, unidentified anomalous phenomena. So what's behind it all? Joining us now, the author of the new book Catastrophic Disclosure, Ken Hecken.
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Harmony Dillon
Lively.
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Amanda Head
Kent, thanks so much for being here.
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Kent Hecken
Thanks so much for having me. All right.
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Amanda Head
You know, there is a recent fascination for a lot of Americans because Republicans have sought out transparency in this arena. Tell us about your book.
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Kent Hecken
Yeah. So Catastrophic Disclosure started about two years ago when I listened to the congressional hearings with David Grusch. Now, I've never written about anything paranormal like this. This is my first walk on the wild side. I've usually covered corruption in government, science, big media, big tech. But when I heard those hearings, I understood how those whistleblowers had to be vetted by Congress. And.
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In one way or another, we've crossed an amazing Rubicon. There's only two choices now. Choice number one is the government has been lying to us in the past. Choice number two is for some reason, the government is lying to us now. But all of the hoops that these whistleblowers have had to jump through makes me believe that this is a genuine effort. And when I write my books, I usually write it with a co author who's well versed in the area. And so my co author on this book is a Guy named Michael Mazzola, who's probably one of the world's leading UFO documentary filmmakers. And when I called him up and asked about the congressional hearings, he gave me this expression. He said, behind the scenes. What they're hearing from the government and intelligence officials is that we're going to enter a period of controlled disclosure because they're scared of what they call catastrophic disclosure. And being a writer, I love words. And so when I heard those two words together, it was like catnip to me, and I said, I have to chase that down. Now. What is catastrophic disclosure? Well, I believe after two years of writing this book, it's that the government is pretty comfortable eventually coming out and telling us there are these craft in the sky and we may have recovered the bodies. What they don't want to talk about is the fact that this technology has been captured, it's been given out to private industry, and they may have done a relatively good job of reverse engineering some of the technology in ways that would be very disruptive to our current economic model.
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John Solomon
Wow. All right. You start your book at a very important time. July 1945, the first nuclear explosion. And you work the reader through to the 1947 Roswell recovery. Tell us a little bit about why you started there.
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Kent Hecken
One of the things that really bugged me about the Roswell story is it didn't hold together as a narrative for me because what I heard from the UFO people is that we blow up the first nuclear bomb in July of 1945, and then two years later, in July of 1947, aliens show up. And that didn't seem like it made a lot of sense to me. The other thing that concerned me about the Roswell crash is how well organized the recovery program seemed to be. And that led me to a book by Jacques Vallee and Paola Harris called the Trinity Crash. And what that alleges is that there was a UFO crash near the nuclear test site one month after the first nuclear explosion. And that made a lot more sense to me, especially when I read the details of how the. The recovery was not really that great. And it made a lot of sense to me because in terms of what's happened security wise, because if you look at the timeline, you know, I don't.
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Amanda Head
Want to have to cut you off, but I want to make sure we give a shout out to your book before we go, because I want people to go out and get it.
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John Solomon
Everyone.
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Amanda Head
It is called Catastrophic Disclosure by Kent Heck and Lively. Kent, we're gonna have to have you back on too discuss more of this. This is so intriguing. Thanks so much. All right, everybody. Thanks all of you for being here. We will be back here tomorrow night. This is an I Heart podcast. Guaranteed human.