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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, February 10th, 2026
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Just the news obtained just a short while ago, the affidavit that the FBI filed back in late January for probable cause for that raid on the Georgia Fulton county election warehouse. What the FBI says in that affidavit is extraordinary. It says it has, quote, substantiated, those are the exact words, that there were irregularities in the vote count in Fulton county. That is the Atlanta area, the largest urban center, the largest vote center in Georgia. FBI Special Agent Hugh Raymond Evans first filed the affidavit last month. It got unsealed today. It establishes the probable cause for that raid, which were 700 boxes of 2020 election ballots were taken from a storage warehouse after getting a referral, by the way, was we learned in the affidavit, the referral of this information, the specific credible evidence came from the White House election integrity czar, a guy President Trump picked named Kurt Olson. Now, the FBI agent wrote in that affidavit that, quote, some of the allegations that were raised about the Georgia election have been disproven, while some of the allegations have been substantiated, including through direct admissions by Fulton County. I want you to stop and just think about that for a second. Fulton county is now admitting they did things inappropriately for the 2020 election. Doesn't mean the vote totals are going to change. But the way they count it and how they audited and how they did the recount, clearly in great concern. His affidavit cited five major areas of irregularities. I'm not going to go through all of them with you. I'M going to tell you all five are things that Justin News reported between 21 and 24 during our investigation of the Georgia election. Now, there are some of them are pretty simple. The ballot counts didn't match. They would scan images and then some of them were lost. They would sometimes count. Then the counts wouldn't match. So you have a loss of ballots. You've got ballots that were submitted for counting that didn't go through the proper verification process. There were ballots that were scanned twice, which means they were counted twice during recounts. And I think the most extraordinary admission comes from a top lieutenant to Secretary of State George excuse me, Brad Ratzenberger. He was the Georgia election chief. His number one guy admitted to the FBI, according to the affidavit, that some of the things that the FBI corroborated, some of the things that they got Fulton county to admit to, he himself as the election chief under Brad Raffsenberger, had not heard of and does not think the state ever looked at. Now remember, Brad Raffsenberger was among the people early on who argued that it was a perfect election in Georgia. No reason to distrust the count. Now, in fairness to Secretary of State Raffsenbergum, as just the news began to find evidence of wrongdoing in Fulton county. Things like the double counting of ballots, the missing images, the vote set where someone marked both Trump and Biden and only Biden was picked the winner. That was a spoiled ballot. He admitted that maybe things weren't as perfect. And perhaps the most important piece of evidence that we put out there and that the FBI relied on in its affidavit, the Carter Jones report. This is a report by Raffson Burger's personal emissary to Fulton County. He was sent there to observe the 2020 election. Eight pages of irregularities he observed. The FBI said that that is important evidence in their in their evidence. A couple of quick things that just jump out in this affidavit. Then we're going to get to our first guest. The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee will get his reaction on this and a whole lot more, including the subpoenas he issued for health big health care companies and health insurance companies today. But there's a moment where the ballots are being recounted in a recount and they don't match. They come up 17,434 ballots short. And then magically, without explanation, without anything changing, they suddenly report the next day, oh, the ballots matched. Now, why is that important if, as the FBI agent says in his affidavit, if they can prove that were intentional, that they knew they were misleading the public, that they knew they weren't following certain amount of the state laws and regulations for the election. They can be charged with fraud under election integrity statutes. A lot of ways of looking at this is that they may never get to the bottom of whether fake votes were cast, but they may have the, the strategy that took down great mob bosses by finding a tax violation or something else. You know, Al Capone, they may have an Al Capone solution to the election integrity problem that has long dogged Georgia. There could be some accountability. Go to justinews.com go check everything out. Now. One other news I want to get to Tomorrow morning, the attorney general, Pam Bonnie will be testifying before the House Judiciary Committee. He's going to be asked about everything from Epstein to sanctuary cities, the market drop in violent crime that occurred on Donald Trump's first year with Cash Patel and Pam Bondi at the helm and so much more. Sanctuary city is going to be a big issue here as well. We're very lucky. Just a little while ago, I spent some time with the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. He'll be at the helm of that questioning tomorrow. He gave us an overview. He reacted to Georgia. He also talked about Arctic Frost, really detailed interview. Have a watch. All right, folks, joining me now, the man that will preside over that hearing tomorrow where the attorney general, Pam Bondi is certain to face a lot of questions about will we get accountability for the era of weaponization. Joining me right now, a very busy chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Chairman Jim Jordan. Sir, good to have you on the show.
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Good to be with you, John.
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All right, tomorrow's a big day. You've probably done more than anyone I can think of to chronicle the pattern of abuse, the systematic nature of weaponizing our law enforcement. What are some of the big questions you hope Pam Bondi can answer for you tomorrow?
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Well, I think the big takeaway, John, will be, you know, look at the contrast. The previous Justice Department under Biden and Harris was spying on parents. As we know, you helped break that story. They were pro life Catholics, were extremists. They were weaponizing the government against President Trump, getting the phone records of members of Congress, for goodness sake. They were doing all that. Meanwhile, while they were doing all that, they couldn't tell us who planted the pipe bombs, who leaked the Dobbs opinion and who put cocaine in the White House. So that was the previous one. This administration is actually going after the bad guys. Crime is down in every, every major category, particularly here. In D.C. carjackings, murders, bad things that happen to the kids. They're getting those bad guys off the street. So that I think is the, is the real contrast here. So I think you'll see that tomorrow in the hearing come out. And then of course, I do think it's important we talk about what's going on in these sanctuary jurisdictions. This, this failure because of some left wing political folks, you know, mandating that their local law enforcement not work with federal law enforcement. You create an environment where illegal aliens who've done bad things are released to the street. And you create this environment like in Minneapolis where tragic things have happened, like, you know, the death of Ms. Good and Mr. Preddy. So I think that'll be an issue that we'll talk about tomorrow as well.
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It's important. I'm gonna ask you about that issue there. I think there are a lot of people that direct message me on X and other social media platforms that say why don't, why doesn't a governor or a prison chief or a sheriff who holds someone for which there's a detainer get charged with harboring a fugitive? Is there any consideration in Congress to clarifying that, that if you harbor a detained illegal alien, particularly one who's committed a crime, a new crime, that you're harboring them if you don't turn them over.
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We're looking at passing a bill to deal with this sanctuary jurisdiction issue. We think we're going to have a markup in two weeks in our committee to address this. That may be. You know, there's various ways to look at it. Do you look at funding, how do you do it? But yeah, I think that's a problem where, but the more common situation is the jail gets noticed. They got a guy in their jail, ICE knows it's an illegal migrant who's also been charged with some other crime. They get a notice saying it's a detainer notice saying, hey, if you're gonna let this guy out, just give us a heads up, give us 48 hours, we'll come and arrest him there at the jail. Instead they release him to the streets. That's a problem. We should work at some way in our federal law that you can't do that. You have to work with federal law enforcement when you have that scenario. We know that 17,864 times that situation I just described happened in the last year. And that's a small, there's a much bigger number. That's just what we know of where a detainer notice was filed. There was someone who was an illegal migrant, who had a final order of removal, who was charged with some other crime, is released to the streets instead of being turned over to federal law enforcement. Now, how many. What we're trying to find out is how many of that number went out and committed some crime after they were released, before ICE got a hold of them. That to me is a key factor because I think that gets right to this, you know, creating this environment that's not safe for people in those communities. Oh, by the way, John, one other thing. 18 major cities, 11 states, three counties and the District of Columbia are sanctuary jurisdictions. Those areas account for almost a third of the population of our entire country. That's crazy. But that's the left's position.
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Yeah. They're willing to risk public safety just to make a political point or to carry out an ideology. It's a head scratcher. Do you expect that the attorney general will have some news about the groups that have trafficked illegal aliens into the country, harbored them, move them, defraud it, help them defraud the programs? It seems to me the nonprofit sector beneath this illegal alien operation is ripe for potential accountability.
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Yeah, I think she may have that information. And then in three weeks, we also have Secretary Noem in front of the committee. She may have that information as well. And we'll convey that to the committee. But I do think that Attorney General Bondi. It's just been so. It's like night and day working with them in that they actually give us documents. You know what this is like. We request information. They've been willing to give that information to us and help us do our investigative work. Help us learn about what Jack Smith did as an example of when he went after members phone records, what he did with other Republicans, what he did that we thought was just an abuse of power in his investigation, his special counsel investigation. President Trump.
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So important. You've done such amazing work, your team, particularly on Arctic Frost. What we've learned in that investigation is jaw dropping. It really was a political opposition research project. Masquerading has a criminal investigation. What do you expect are the next big things we need to learn about that or to get the final accountability for that really tarnished project.
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Why did they pay $20,000 to a confidential human source? Who was this individual? I mean, what. I mean you needed. He had a $35 million that I think they spent on this investigation. You got to pay a confidential human source to get some information on when you're. When these guys were trying to put President Trump in prison. I mean, we'd like to know more about that. Maybe that that's something we might get into as well. So I think there are those kind of questions. And we know that they knew what they did relative to members of Congress's phone records. We know that was, they knew it was wrong because now the policy's been changed. You can't do that any longer. And one of the things we're working on, John, is to make sure that you can't do that to any American where for this indefinite length of time, years and years, you can go get their information and not tell them for several years after. That's just not appropriate. So we've actually passed legislation out of the committee that deals with this issue for all Americans, not just members of Congress.
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Huge, huge protections. The Fourth Amendment got trampled for a long time. But I know you're working to get it restored. I want to turn to something you did today. Subpoenas to eight major health insurance companies. This is a big investigation. You take on so many different things. But tell us what's at the heart of this. I think this is going to be a big one.
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Well, what's at the heart of this is, you know, this idea that they want to continue these enhanced payments that were done under Obamacare or, excuse me, done under the Biden administration relative to Obamacare a few years back and they've now expired. And I always back up and say, remember what they told us about Obamacare when they passed it now a dozen years ago, they said, you like your plan, you can keep your plan. They said, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. And they told us premiums will go down. They were 0 for 3. And now we've had government watchdog groups that come in and talk about all the fraud in this enhanced premium subsidy program where the subsidy goes directly to the insurance company. You got all these brokers who were using the same Social Security number multiple times. You have an individual who signs up multiple times in a year as well. I mean, so we're trying to get to that and what kind of fraud's going on. And again, as I pointed out, I think this is really important when you think about the deputy attorney general now that's been assigned, who's focused on fraud that we help get to help everyone get to the bottom of this. So that's why we're doing it.
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So important, so important, so much money wasted that could have gone back to the hard working Americans in this country before we let you go. You've been a huge advocate of election integrity. We had some news today that the FBI has substantiated. That's the word the FBI uses in their search warrant affidavit that there was confirmed irregularities in the vote count. Basically, Fulton county couldn't make the numbers match. So they basically did things to try to make it look like the recounts came about normal. They're not suggesting the election was changed or thrown, but under the law, if you do those sort of things, it's fraud. The idea that five years later the FBI could get to that truth when Joe Biden's department couldn't. Another one of those examples, I guess.
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Yeah. The other thing about the FBI is they've. And the Justice Department, and this, I think was something we talk about tomorrow as well, is they've got like, what, five of the 10 most wanted people in the. They've actually got them in one year's time. In one year, they're focused on doing what I think the country expects the FBI and the Justice Department to do, not focused on politics.
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You feel good about the Save America act that will pass the House?
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Yeah, I do. I do.
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Yeah. I'm going to ask you one thing. If that happens, is there a room for. I've seen some smart people talking about this recently to create a driver's license that establishes your citizenship, make it even simpler. Seems like that's something Congress could do to streamline it. Like when we got the stars on our license.
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I think, yeah, we could. And maybe. Maybe that's an idea that has a lot of merit and we should look that. I don't know. I haven't thought about that. But you do want. I mean, the SAVE act is real simple. Citizens should vote and there should be ID to demonstrate that. So that's pretty basic. And it seems to me if you're against that, that doesn't make a lot of sense. But of course, I always remind people when Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that the divide in America today is normal versus crazy, she was right. Common sense, normal. Those are things that makes. But the left, which now controls the other party, seems to have a lot of crazy positions.
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Yeah.
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The Democrats who vote against that bill will be going against an 80% polling figure. I mean, 80%. 80 to 85% of Americans support what you're putting forward in that bill. Amazing. Mr. Chairman, I know how busy are. We're so grateful all the great oversight work you're doing and also for spending time with us. Thanks for joining us.
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You bet. Thank you.
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Great conversation as always. All right, folks, we could take a quick commercial break. When we come back, we'll take a look at President Trump's recent move dealing with Iran, Russia and China yet the big three. Will the president's strategy work? Is it going to pay off? We're starting to see some signs that it is. We'll tackle that next with Victoria Coates with after these messages. Hey, America. The FBI has been warning about a type of real estate fraud on the rise called home title theft. And your equity is the target. Here's how it works. Criminals forge your signature on a single document, use a fake notary stamp and file it with the county. And just like that, boom, they're on record as owning your home, using your ownership. They then take out loans against your equity, even sell your property. And you're not going to know about it until you get a foreclosure or collection notice in the mail. And that's not going to be a good moment. That's why I partnered with Home Title Lock, so you can protect your equity. And find out today if you're already a victim. Use my promo code jtn@hometitlelock.com you'll get a free title history report and a free child their million dollar triple lock protectant. That's a great deal. Million bucks to protect your home. That's 24,7 monitoring of your title records, urgent alerts to any changes. And if fraud occurs, their US Based restoration team will spend up to a million bucks to fix it. Find out why I trust Home Teddle Lock. Protect yourself like I did. Don't be a victim. Protect your equity. Today. Go to hometitleock.com and use that promo code jtn. That's hometitlelock.com promo code jtn. Welcome back, America. Tomorrow, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be meeting with President Trump. In fact, the prime minister just arrived in Washington a little bit ago. This is a big, high stakes meeting. It's also a reminder of how much progress has been made in the long and intractable battle between Israel and the Iranian proxies of Hezbollah and Hamas. Much progress has been made. They are much quieter. They're much muted, those terrorists as a result of President Trump's policy. Joining us now to break that down and a whole lot more, Cuba, Russia and China is the vice president of Heritage's Catherine and Shelby Cullum Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy. She's also a former deputy national security advisor to President Trump and A good friend of ours, Victoria Coates. Victoria, great to have you back on the show.
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Great to see you, Jen.
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All right, help us understand what could be at stake in tomorrow's meeting. It seems like Hamas is neutered, Hezbollah is quieter. Iran has got its own problems. The Middle east seems a lot more stable than it was maybe seven, eight months ago.
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Oh, it certainly is. And this is a historic visit for the Prime Minister. This is his seventh trip to America this year since President Trump was inaugurated for his second term. John. Which, I mean, nothing like that has happened before. I mean, usually the Prime Minister comes once a year, maybe twice, and in an exceptional situation. But to have him come seven times and also have President Trump visit Israel. So that's eight visits in a year. This is unprecedented coordination between us and Israel. And I know people have lots of questions about the security assistance we provide Israel. This is that relationship in action, because Israel can do a ton of the work that needs to be done to keep us safe from the terrorists in the Middle East. And first and foremost amongst those terrorists, it's the Iranian regime. So remember, Israel carried out 11 days of the 12 day war on their own. They're prepared, they're here for consultations. And then the President has his armada in the region. If Iran refuses to make the kind of deal he wants, Israel and the United States are poised to really take some very strong action.
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Yeah, all the assets are in place to do it. And Israel proved once before it got rid of all those air defenses, before our B2 bombers came in, pretty significant capabilities. What do you think is on tap for the next phase of the peace talks? All right, Hamas has occasionally acted up, but generally has been much more muted. All the hostages bodies have been recovered. The next phase seems to be getting Hamas out and a new leadership in. Where are we in that process and what's likely to be discussed between the President and the Prime Minister on that front?
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Well, it's very sticky. And the President said today he's not interested in tangling with issues like Judea and Samaria, that's what he called them, not West Bank. You know, he really sees that, I think, as an internal Israeli security matter. And in terms of Gaza, yes, I think everybody understands the next phase is ready to begin. And that can begin when Hamas disarms. And they largely have been disarmed. They have some number of thousands of fighters who are still hanging on. But increasingly, you're hearing stories of Palestinians on the ground saying, we don't want this anymore. And that's what should be encouraged and we should be working. Not. I mean, this shouldn't be the United States States plan. We really have very little to impose on Gaza, but this should be the region. It should be Morocco and UAE and Saudi Arabia kicking in to rebuild Gaza and to de radicalize the Palestinians who want to live there. And so I think that's what we'll see them focus on. I know Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are trying to do as much diplomacy as they can to move this forward, but ultimately this is going to have to be a decision for the Palestinians. What kind of future do they want?
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Yeah, it is. And the pressure that they can apply on the streets against Hamas and the radicals left behind is probably the greatest weapon for peace in that dynamic right now. I want to turn a little bit to Iran. You mentioned the attack. Don't attack. What do you make of the direct talks that have occurred? And is there any sign that Iran could make a deal that we could trust?
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The only thing that could get them there, John, is if their economic problems become existential, by which I mean if the regime thinks they simply can't cling to power anymore because the economic meltdown is so bad. And it has been going. I mean, it's been bad for a long time. It's been absolutely catastrophic, really, since about Christmas time. And their ability to print their way out of this, to print recently 2, quadrillion with a Q real to try to stabilize the money system. They can't go on like that forever. And if you sell a good for one price one day and you go to cash the check the next day, and the check is worth less than what you paid for the good originally, that's the recipe for economic collapse. And so if the Iranians feel that they can't cling to power any longer, they might come to the deal that the President outlined again today. It's no nukes, it's no terrorist proxies, and it's reduced the missiles to what are actually defensive weapons. This is very simple. They either agree to it if they don't. And if they don't, you know, the strike that hits them will probably be considerably stronger than Midnight Hammer and weaken them even more. So, you know, if you were a reasonable Iranian mullah, I'm not saying there are any, but if there were, you might look at that and say, okay, I actually will take that deal, because I might live. What this crowd does, I don't know. But that's what's on the table for them. I don't Mind having that conversation to see if they might be reasonable, but my hopes aren't high.
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Yeah, that seems very smart. But offering the opportunity is, I think, something that Americans appreciate before you use the force of power. And the president's going through that extra step. President Trump set a deadline for Ukraine and Russia to reach a peace deal of June. I don't think he does that unless there's some sign of progress. What's your take on how the negotiations are going? It does seem like Russia is a little more malleable than it was maybe a few months ago.
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I might call them less intractable. They've gone from refusing to even have talks to having some talks. I think this has been a very. I mean, we're about to mark the fourth anniversary of this thing in about 10 days. So this has been a long war for Russia as well. I'm sure Chairman Xi wants Russia to wind it up at this point because they might be thinking about Taiwan down the road. That's not exactly a good sign. But it might be an opportunity to get Ukraine under some kind of reasonable agreement that allows Ukraine to start to rebuild and starts to let NATO learn all the lessons learned vis a vis Russia from the Ukraine war. So I think there are some green shoots. Perhaps again, my hopes aren't high, but I think also putting a timeline on these things things is extremely helpful. And every time we get in one of these situations, the negative class starts talking about how President Trump's being kind of tapped along. He's being strung along for time. He's the one who eventually is going to take decisive action, and he's proven time and time again that he will do that. So I think putting this deadline on it is helpful.
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I want to turn to one other country that seems to be feeling the impact of peace through strength American policies, Cuba. It seems as though things have accelerated or deteriorated in Cuba, which is good for the American people and Cubans here and bad for the regime. What do you think is going on? And it sounds like there's a provocateur that wants to enter the Cuban picture. Tell us a little bit about our favorite climate change activist.
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Yeah, this is really remarkable. So President Trump has effectively put an oil embargo on Cuba. So Cuba survives cheap oil. It has been coming from Venezuela. In desperation. After the ouster of Maduro, they turned to Mexico. That has now been cut off and the lights are literally going out. The Cubans told the international airlines they no longer can refuel them. If they come to Cuba, that's the end of the tourist season, which is in full swing right now in Cuba. The hotels can't keep the lights on. So any kind of commerce is literally breaking down on the island. And as that is happening, rather than rallying with the Cuban people, rather than demanding freedom for them and a better way of life, we have Greta Thon Thurberg, the Norwegian climate activist is now apparently going to try to break the flotilla or the embargo rather with the flotilla because she wants to get oil into Cuba. It's just, it's mind boggling. The irony is just so incredible, John, that she would be the one to lead this. It shows you none of her activism ever had any to do with climate.
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Yeah. Or any real value base. It's all about provocation. All of a sudden oil is okay if you're a communist. It's just not good if you're free. America, just remarkable. Victoria, it's always such a great honor. We learn so much. We make the world a lot more understandable every time you come on the show. Thanks for joining us.
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Thank you, John. Have a great night.
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Yeah. Great conversation. Thanks for all the great insight. All right, coming up next, while Democrats refuse to fund dhs, Homeland Security Department, we'll take a look at how to President Trump's closed border has helped save a lot of American lives. Congresswoman Erin Houchin will be here to discuss that and a whole lot more. So stay tuned. We'll have that right after the commercial break. Welcome back, America. As we told you on the show last week, when the majority leader Steve Scalise came on with Chip Roy, the Save America act, which is a combination of the voter ID and citizenship checks to make election integrity stronger, is going to get a floor vote this week. It's coming out of Rules committee tonight hopefully. And then it'll get the floor where Jim Jordan earlier in the show said it's going to pass. I want to bring in someone who's been in the middle of that planning tonight. She's a member of the Rules Committee where they're marking up this bill and getting it ready. She represents the great state of India. She's a great friend of the show. Congresswoman Erin Houchin. Congresswoman, great to have you back on the show.
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Great to be with you. Thanks for having me.
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All right, you're right in the middle of this really important election integrity action. Tell us how things are faring. Is it going to get out of rules, going to get onto the floor and is it going to pass?
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Yes, I think we will get this bill out of the Rules Committee this evening. We will get it to the House floor. We will pass it out of the House of Representatives once again and send it to the Senate with the hope that they'll do it. This is a common sense piece of legislation that just requires proof of citizenship and a voter ID to vote in our federal elections. 36 states already have voter ID laws. It won't surprise you, John, to know that the 14 states that don't have voter ID laws are currently run by Democrats. They also, in the Voter Registration act, we or Voting Rights act, we already have this as a provision. It's already illegal. But these states that don't require proof of citizenship or voter id, there is. It's rampant for fraud. The Democrats in the committee tonight were basically saying, oh, voter fraud is not widespread. Illegal immigrants are not voting in our elections in a widespread manner. And it doesn't matter if it is widespread. One vote makes a difference even if one vote is fraudulent. And we cannot allow that because voting is a right and those rights are diminished if we have fraudulent votes or illegal immigrants casting ballots.
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Yeah, you're exactly right. And that, you know, we've seen in states like Georgia where they went to voter ID, voting went up. There's no Jim Crow 2.0. So it is a popularity thing. Actually, people want to vote more when they know it's safe. I want to talk a little bit about hypocrisy because over the last few days here at Justin News, you've had a couple interesting stories. Jon Ossoff had an event. You couldn't go to his political event. He's a liberal Democratic senator from Georgia. Unless you showed a voter ID, yet Democrats say that's Jim Crow 2.0. How do they deal with these inconsistencies? I don't see Chuck Schumer objecting showing his voter ID when he goes on a plane to fly back to New York. It seems as though they have a conundrum with their own messages.
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Well, absolutely. They've been saying this about voter ID laws for years, and it hasn't proven to be true that it's any type of voter suppression. In fact, voter participation actually improves once these voter ID laws have been in place. Indiana was one of the first states in the nation to have voter ID argued all the way up to the Supreme Court successfully. And we've seen it work in Indiana just like we've seen it work in Georgia. One of the things that the Democrats have been saying is that this is going to lead to somehow lead to Voter suppression. It's just not vetted out in the facts of the case. Jon Ossoff requires an ID to go to his events. The Democrats have been saying, well, it's not a constitutional right to get on an airplane or buy beer or buy cold medicine or go to an event politically with Jon Ossoff, but it is a constitutional right to exercise your Second amendment and to purchase a firearm. You have to show id. We don't think it's too much to ask to verify proof of citizenship and who you are, that you are who you say you are when you vote on our in our elections. And we hope that Democrat states would follow the lead of other Republican states that have already instituted voter id, but they're not doing that. And we have seen in some states, including in the state of Virginia where about 1400 illegal immigrants were found on the voting rolls and 355 of them were confirmed to have voted. No one has yet been prosecuted for any of that voter fraud.
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Yeah, that's amazing. And then you go to there are literally tens of thousands of noncitizens who've made it onto voter rolls across the state. Just from the audits we're seeing. It's a real issue. Democrats can say it's not, but the data shows that these things are happening and Americans expect we can get this right. I want to turn to something that you've been a champion voice on and that is protecting young people online. We've seen the harm that's been done the Chinese mal influence campaigns that they ran on their own TikTok until President Trump got that into American hands. You have some pretty significant new legislation on this, the 30th anniversary of Section 230, the law that governs how online platforms are treated for content and recognizes 13 year olds and up as adults, which a lot of parents think that may not be true. Tell us what you've got in mind for reform.
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Well, thank you for talking about this. It is something that's very important to me as a parent and as a representative of parents across the southern part of the state of Indiana. We've heard from many parents who have had tragedies happen because of these online platforms allowing access for kids who really aren't able to process some of the information. Thirty years ago, we passed in 1996 the Kids Online Privacy Protection act, which said at 13 years old you should be able to access the Internet. We thought that would just be so middle schoolers could access the Internet to do their homework. And that has evolved into what we now see today is these social media platforms, the dangerous and negative algorithms in some of these platforms, as well as chatbots that behave as if they are companions. And none of this is good for our kids. I have been working very hard this Congress to set a standard of at least 16 for access to the App Store as well as these online platforms that kids under the age of 16 really should not be accessing. I learned this firsthand as a parent when my 13 year old got access to one of these apps. We contacted the platform and they said, sorry, she's 13, she can delete her account, but as her parent you can't.
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B
Wow.
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A
And that makes parents unable to protect their kids from online harms. We know that the neighborhood around where kids are growing up now is the World Wide Web and we must have these protections. It's past time that we, we do enact some of these provisions protecting kids from scam bots, making sure parents are aware, and as well as setting this standard at 16 and nothing before.
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B
There is very few issues in Washington that are bipartisan, but there seems to be some potential crossover Democrats joining in this talk a little bit about how they, this, this particular issue kind of supersedes the normal partisan lines that we see locked in in Washington often.
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A
Well, I actually caught the, it caught my attention because the Congressman from Massachusetts, Democrat Jake Auchincloss, had issued, he had written a substack. We also have a substack platform that we write about these issues too. So it caught my attention that he was talking about a 16 year old standard. I had been told by some Republicans that we wouldn't be able to find Democrats that would support a 16 year old standard. Some Democrats do want 13 to be the standard because they don't want parental involvement in decisions about LGBT rights. And we think parents obviously should be in that, in that conversation and we think 16 is the right standard. I've been very pleased to see not just one member of the Democrat Party expressing support for these initiatives, but actually working with us to lead the Kids Online Safety Caucus, coming together to find areas of agreement to keep kids safe online.
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B
Such important work. And you've been navigating this just with a very deft hand. And this is something that really is going to affect millions of kids and millions of American parents from the great state of Indiana, Congresswoman Erin Hodgson, thanks for joining us today and thanks for doing this very important work. It's such important to all of us who have children.
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A
Thank you so much. Great to be with you, John.
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B
Yeah. You as well, thanks so much. All right, folks, quick commercial break, I think. Coming up next, President Trump just nominated the next Federal Reserve chairman. We'll talk about what that means for your savings and retirements. My good friend Shannon Davis, American Alternative Assets up next right after these messages. Welcome back, America. President Trump just nominated to be the next Federal Reserve. And there's a growing talk about digital dollars and stablecoins. That's a big, big issue. We've been educating you about that for the last couple years on this thing. This is a scary thing when it comes to your privacy and government control of what you may be able to buy in the future. Here to explain what that could really mean for you, your savings, your retirement is the CEO from my favorite go to Place for Gold, American Alternative Assets, my friend Shannon Davis. Shannon, great to have you back on the show.
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E
Glad to be with you, John. Thanks for having me again.
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B
All right, so I'm interested in Washington, a lot of reasons. Clearly he's got a different take on interest rates, but he also has a very different take on digital money. And I don't think that's gotten a lot of attention in the first few weeks of his nomination. What should we know and what should retirees, people preparing for their retirement see and be concerned about or be happy about with horse?
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E
Yeah, it's always a mixed bag of emotions for sure, but absolutely not being talked about. Most financial pundits aren't mentioned in it. But you know, Kevin Warsh isn't a typical central banker. He served on the fed board from 2006 to 2011, earned a reputation as a strong inflation fighter. But but in recent years, he's engaged with the crypto world, including early advisory with crypto investment firms, digital asset firms and all, particularly around the stablecoin and crypto indexing that matters for people because the regulatory tide in the US has shifted and you just mentioned it, it shifted over the last couple of years. Congress passed the Genius act, which we've also talked about on this show, which it's a federal law defining how dollar pegged stablecoins operate. It requires stablecoins to be backed one for one with the US Dollar or Treasuries and sets transparency and reserve standards that no one understands. So stable coins aren't just another payment option. They now sit within the regulatory financial system and could reshape how money moves. A Fed chair open to integrating digital dollars into our monetary policy could accelerate that shift. And that's a big deal for retirees, John?
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B
Yeah, no, it really is. And the second Part of this is what we've seen in other places where digital currency has already become the norm. In China, for instance, instance, once the government has digital dollars, they know what you're buying every second and they can constrain what you're buying. Talk a little bit about the privacy erosion that occurs in a digital dollar economy.
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E
Yeah, let's break that down. Right now, most of US money supply to your bank deposits, it's cash, et cetera. Right. Exist in accounts or a physical form that the Fed doesn't directly control transaction by transaction. But stablecoin, a digital native dollar living on digital networks where every moment is recorded and governed by code. That's how privacy can no longer be something that Americans will have. And because of the genius act, ties stable coins to real world assets like US Treasuries influence the broader monetary system, increasing demand for treasuries. But through stablecoin, which put, you know, downward pressure on interest rates. Right. And this just, it feeds right into the narrative lower borrowing costs. That's affecting a form of impact with our money. It creates a debasement of our dollar over time. So programmable digital dollar could in theory let authority see every transaction in real time, impose conditions on how money is used. Just like China automatically collect taxes or fines from digital wallets or even sunset balances of program that, you know, most people don't even know what's going on before it's too late. So that's much greater degree of control than traditional money. And for retirees who save an Iraq 401ks or cash accounts, it's a very different landscape than what they've lived with for years.
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B
Oh yeah, you had that dollar, whether it was in your mattress or safe or your bank account. You knew you can spend it when you wanted to spend it on what you wanted to. And now the digital dollar starts to change that. You've got people who don't want people to buy guns or do other things down the road. This could be an enforcement mechanism. You talked about the use it or lose it phenomenon. That's another thing. I think it's China that has some requirement that the currency be, be spent or you lose. It's kind of like a gift card with a one year expiration date on it. That's a reality in the marketplace already, Correct?
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E
That's happening already. Yep. China, Nicaragua, it does have an express expression date, validating date that expires, an expiring date. So yeah, that, that's the thing. They can do whatever they want. But really it comes down to, you know, we don't have that. We don't have the ability to continue to print more and more money without debasing it completely and making it worthless. So at some point something has to give. That's why the Genius act was written into law last July on the 18th. And you know, that's why Trump's plugging his guys in, because he knows he's got to do something about the $39 trillion. And so if you're holding dollars, it's time to change some of those in for some real money. Gold and silver, whether the markets are up and down, it always holds its value.
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B
John yeah, that's the big question for those of us who are getting closer to retirement than beginning our careers in work. What's our best path to getting up to speed on the digital currency? Potential threats to us and to prepare for. What are some of the strategies you have for us?
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E
Yeah, well, you know, we talk about it a lot. First, education, you know, you know, know that these changes are happening and understand how digital money differs from bank deposits you control. Second, diversification still matters, especially outside the digital payment rails. Physical assets like gold and silver can't be hacked, programmed or frozen remotely. They've preserved wealth through centuries of political and monetary upheaval. So finally, be aware of placing all your savings into dollar peg digital assets or purely electronic money systems without understanding the, the policy forces behind them. A digital dollar framework might offer convenience today, but it also shifts control in ways most saving plans never accounted for. So get the free guide that you're offering, go to your site. It's one of my favorites, just like yours. You know, if you want a deeper, a deeper dive into it, that's where you want to go. John.
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B
Yeah. John Lightsgold. I love that website. Johnlightsgold.com you go check it out. Shannon what I really love is you provide Americans some great education assets. These documents and guides that you put, they're interesting reads, they're factually based. I learned a lot and I think I know a lot about the economy. They're amazing. And I can't thank you for the partnership making those available to our audience because they are truly a treasure.
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E
Yeah, they truly are. And it's our only to do that for your listeners. John and again, it really just unpacks. It explains the rollout of digital currency, stablecoin regulations like the Genius act and you know, step by step you can take now to protect your retirement. And the information's in there. And give us a call. Right? You'll give us a call at 855-gold-340 and talk with one of our senior brokers here and get educated. We're here to help.
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B
That's what you guys do so well. I'm so grateful for the partnership we have. Shannon Davis, thanks for spending some time with us and to our viewers, you want to dig deeper into this issue we just talked about and you should. It's really fascinating what I learned reading these guides and what it may mean for your retirement. That's important. Shannon has put together a free guide called the Digital Dollar Trap. It explains the rollout of digital currency, stablecoin regulations like the Genius act and steps you can take now to protect your seat. Go check it out today. Go johnlikesgold.com or call 855-GOLD-34855-GOLD-340 or johnlicegold.com go check them out. All right. Back in a second. To wrap things up, we're going to finish up with a discussion of former head of the White House Correspondence association who's got some real concerns about the way the media is covering ICE right now. We'll have that next right after these messages. Welcome back, America. My good friend Sean Hindy often says journalism's dead. And I often dicker with him. I think, well, not yet it's on life support. But there are some really great examples of what journalism used to be and what it could be again. My next guest comes from an era when I really appreciated being a journalist. She was the president of the White House Correspondents association when I was starting my career. She's got some very powerful statements about what we're seeing today, today in the business. Johanna Newman joins us now. Johanna, great to have you on the show.
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D
Thank you, John. Thank you for having me.
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B
All right. I love this article. It caught my attention. I've shared it with everybody in my family and all my friends. If leftists can't cancel 1776, they'll cancel the founders one framer at a time. I love this article. There is an extraordinary anti American effort even in journalism these days.
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D
There's no question sometimes the media and the blue states have some sort of partnership in pitching the narratives. But I, I was struck by a legislator in Nebraska which, after all, is, is not a blue state. And she took it upon herself to take down the exhibit that had been put up up on the walls of the Capitol in Lincoln, which featured an ode to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. And I just thought, you know, this is Part of a wider story and a longer history of left wing radicals trashing America. In fact, Bad Bunny arguably was erasing America. He had this. I didn't watch Halftime, but I saw highlights later. He had behind him the flags of all the countries in the Americas. And so I thought that was part of this trend of, of dissing our history. It started a long time ago in the 1920s. You know, John, I. I was a journalist for a long time. And after I left journalism, I became. I went back to school and took a PhD in history. And I was shocked to find historians pitching this narrative that our revolution had not been really revolutionary because it wasn't really about lofty ideals of democracy and freedom, liberty, consent of the governed. It was about economics. They just did it so they can make money. And I was offended then and I'm offended now. And I think the only antidote is for those of us who care about this country and care about the founding to get our American flags ready and celebrate the Fourth of July, because this is.
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B
Amen.
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D
A great achievement. We are the longest living. It is, you know, the longest living constitutional republic in history.
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B
Yeah, it is something, and we should be proud of it. And we got to stop those who just want to demean what we've achieved. We've got about 45 seconds left. I want to ask about one very important thing. It seems like the education system set, like that lawmaker in Nebraska. They set a motif where students were absorbing this anti Americanism, and then they just brought it into the workplace, into the political sphere. How much is our education system at the root of this? We have about 40 seconds left.
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Oh, I think quite a bit. Quite a bit. And if you look at the history, you know, in the 1970s, the second wave feminists come in and they say the founders are misogynists. And then, of course, now it's all about race, people like Bernie Sanders. So I think the country will survive if those of us with passion for the country speak up. And I think, I think what happened the other night with Turning Point usa, that incredible audience they got for an Oscar.
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B
Johanna, we're going to lose you just because we got to hit the hard brake. It is such an honor to have you on this show. I always revered your reporting. God bless you, everyone. Have a great night. Back tomorrow with more.
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