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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, February 12th, 2026
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Good evening, America. Welcome to the Thursday edition of JUST THE news. No noise. I'm your host John Solomon reporting to you as always from the nation's capital. Quick programming note this week and next week, my co host Amanda Head's going to be out of town. I'll be flying solo here. But we're going to try to do you right with all of the good news we have today. We've got an incredible lineup for you today. President Trump's counterterrorism director, Seb Gorka is going to join us at the top of the show. You're going to get new numbers on how many Islamist terrorists have been killed by President Trump. By the way, north of 600, you're going to get new numbers and how many hostages are rescued. And you're going to learn about something you probably haven't thought about that once you thought about, you get scared. What is the government doing to protect us from drones in the hands of terrorists? We saw them used by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Seb Gork has got some comforting news on that front. In the second block of the show, we've got the chairman of the House Administration Committee, the quarterback who helped the House yesterday pass that election integrity bill, the Save America Act, Brian style. We're going to talk about him on talk with him with some really important election integrity issues as it gets through the Senate. What did you think about the raid by the FBI in Georgia and what's going to happen in Arizona? You want to stay tuned for that in a second. And then a great show all the way through. Sam Stern, a couple quick headlines I just want to quickly turn to before we get to our first guest, Seb Gorka. Today, Tom Homan, President Trump's border czar in the White House, announced that they'll be drawing down the surge, the ICE army that was sent to Minnesota to round up the dangerous criminals that were roaming those streets for the last couple of years under Joe Biden. That is a welcome message to the people of Minnesota, welcome message to the Democrats who've obstructed all the way along. And it's also a sign. It's not a sign of retreat. What it means is that since Tom Homan got up there, they've been able to get the people they want arrested so they can get out and move on to another city or go nationwide. So some in the media are calling it a retreat. That's the wrong way to look at it. They stayed there long enough to get the people they wanted off the street. And by the way, they also created some unexpected cooperation with jails that previously weren't turning over illegal aliens who were in criminal custody. That was a big win for the Trump administration. So that's the big headline to watch. Now, I've been telling you all week, keep an eye on Arizona. Keep an eye on Arizona. I think there's a Georgia like event in Arizona, like what happened in Fulton County. I think tomorrow is a likely day. So I just want to put that on your calendar. Keep an eye tomorrow. I see Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem going down there. Now, why is that important? The Homeland Security Department oversees the election machines of election counting capabilities. CISA and the Homeland Security Department deal that the FBI, Justice Department deal with criminal violations. So she's down there for a reason. And I think my reporting suggests that there'll be some sort of important election integrity event tomorrow, Maricopa county in Arizona. That'll be the second state after Georgia to have that sort of treatment. So put it on your calendar, get it ready, and we'll have you covered here at Real America's voice and justinews.com. all right, a little while ago, he ducked out of the White House on a very busy day. But the president's chief of counterterrorism inside the national security guy Councilman said the white ass gorker talked to us. Have a watch and what we talk about. All right, folks, joining us now, the man behind all of that incredible success in the counterterrorism world today, the hundred plus hostages that have been recovered in the first year of President Trump's second presidency, the more than three to 400 jihadists who've been killed and so many other very important moves that are making America safer and our enemies more nervous. He's the deputy assistant to President Trump and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council. He's a good friend of the show, Dr. Sebastian Gorka. Seb, great to have you back on the show.
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Did you just commit fake news live on just the news? We don't make our enemies nervous. We make them dead. John Solomon.
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But seriously, you're exactly right.
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It's not me. It's, it's because of President Trump's leadership. It's the incredible team that I have here at the National Security Council. It's my media boss, the national security advisor, Secretary Rubio, and just, just our war fighters, the intelligence community. Just as I said in that twee earlier in the week, 628 jihadis neutralized for good. And as you mentioned, 101Americans hostages brought home with not one red cent of any kind of ransom paid to anyone who takes Americans hostage. So, you know, add to that the incredible work of Stephen Miller, Governor Noem, Stephen Homan, Pete Hegseth with the drug boat strikes, the arrests of all the vicious, vicious cartel members who are now FTO designated terrorists on US soil, and it's. We are, we are back in. The bumper sticker is, John, we are back in the business of counterterrorism in the Trump administration.
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Yeah, the successes are extraordinary. I mean they'd be, they would be extraordinary numbers in a four year presidency, but we're really just 13 months in. I want to dive a little bit into some of the successes because we don't talk about them enough. But there have been efforts to neutralize some of the people who carried out the horrific October 7th massacres in Israel. There have been Al Qaeda elements in Syria and all across the globe. Basically, anyone who's on our terror radar, when we get a good confirmation, we take them out. Right.
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So this is a really important part of the story, John, and thanks for focusing on it for a moment. We have a very simple metric that comes directly from the President. Doesn't matter what the group is or what they call themselves. For us, it is exops external operations. Whether you're Al Qaeda, whether you're isis, whether you're another threat group, if you have the capability and the intent to execute external operations on US soil, to kill Americans here or to kill Americans who may be serving on a military base in the Middle east or elsewhere. That is our metric. If you're an exops capable threat group, we will come for you. We will find, fix and finish. Or as the President tweeted out in that video, one of my team members declassified after our first isis strike, just 11 days into the administration, which actually became, you know, the motto for our whole team here. We, we decided that the President made it so, so famous. We put it on our lanyards here for our IDs. This is the bottom of his tweet back in January, February of last year. We will find you and we will kill you. That is the counterterrorism motto and we mean it. This is exactly what peace through strength means. Whether it's securing the border, whether it' and deporting the cartel members, or whether it's bringing permanent justice to ISIS leaders, AQ operatives who have American blood on their hands. We will not be stopped because of the Commander in chief's. Intent. John.
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Yeah, there's a great story. Last week, FBI Director Cash Patel went out to the airstrip to go greet this horrible terrorist when he came to justice. But one of the masterminds of the Benghazi terrorist attack. Hard to believe now, almost 14 years ago, we don't stop. We get these guys. When we can prosecute him, we prosecute them. That one was a really great example because we just went in and plucked this guy and got him here, and now he's going to face indictment.
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Yeah. And this is not just one story. I mean, this is the biggest problem in the Trump administration. So much winning. We don't even have the requisite amount of time to celebrate and tell the world because the president's moving too fast. Let's go back one year to the joint session of Congress the President addressed at the beginning of the administration. Whilst he was making that address, we were preparing on that very, very cold, cold winter's night at Dulles Airport with Cash, with Pam Bondi, with DCI Radcliffe, with Dni Tulsi Gabbard. For what? The arrival of Jafar, the man behind the Abbey Gate, murder of our 13 war fighters in Kabul. That was at the top of my list in my whiteboard, in my skiff, in my office here in the White House. That was number one, getting Jafar at the beginning of the administration. John, I'll be honest, I thought that would take us a year, max. Six months. 43 days later, I'm on the tarmac at Dulles and that DOJ jet arrives. As President Trump has just given his speech in Congress. I was shocked at the alacrity, the speed with which the President is able to bring justice to evildoers.
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Yeah. Such amazing stories, and they're occurring every day. But the framework is the same. We're going to make America safe and we're going to bring people to justice or we're going to keep. Keep them from being able to inflict any harm. That consistency is now understood worldwide, to every corner. I want to talk a little bit about. You had a wonderful tweet earlier this week on talking about you don't get to live in our neighborhoods and poison our folks. And obviously some of that is the fentanyl and the China cartel operations. But there were some scary discoveries that have been made in the last couple of years. One in California, one in Nevada, where bioweapons labs or biolabs, it could be include weaponized pathogens have been discovered. I know you keep a close eye on those sort of threats as well. It isn't just the rockets and the bombs and those sort of things. What are some of the growing concerns about bioterrorism among our enemies?
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Well, look, you have to understand that nuclear weapons are the most frightening option for our enemies. President Trump has been very clear about that. Anyone out there, it's unclassified, can read the National Security Strategy where he talks about the threat very bluntly. But basically, you need the budget, you need the capabilities of a nation state to build a nuclear weapon. Far cheaper and far easier are biological weapons and at the bottom are chemical weapons. So as a result, we have a full court press, whether it's the NSC Counterterrorism Directorate, whether it's our colleagues at Homeland Security in the intelligence community to make sure that non state actors cannot acquire these weapons or that nation state actors do not provide them to such groups. Or one of the ones that is often forgotten is whether those nuclear states or states who dally in these types of weapons, if they don't have them well enough secured that they could be acquired by terrorist actors or others. So, yes, every single day we are following this threat and we will not permit the most frightening weapons in the world to be acquired in, used against American citizens. That's part of, you know, the Monroe Doctrine, what has been called the Trump Corollary or the Dunro Doctrine. What happens in our hemisphere, what happens in the homeland is the top priority. John.
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Yeah. So important that Monroe Doctrine also is beginning to make sure that the people who gave comfort to terrorists and to spies and to drug cartels and others no longer are in power. We've removed Maduro so he could face a justice in Venezuela. Venezuela has pulled away from Cuba. Others are pulling away from Iran. The proxies and the funders who provide the evidence are the capabilities for terrorist proxies. They're also feeling an enormous pain. How much progress are we making against the Cubas and the Iranians right now and potentially creating regime change or certainly their inability to attack America any longer?
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Yeah, so let's use the phrase because we're not neoconservatives. We don't invade other countries and stay there for 20 years on failed missions like the Bush administration. What we're interested in is either regime collapse because the peoples of those countries liberate themselves, or we have behavioral compliance. And that's what we did with that incredible, just stunning operation by the FBI and the Department of War to extract that drug lord dictator Maduro from Venezuela. So to your broader point, we will not permit enemy nations to exploit the territory of countries in our backyard. Those nations are feeling the squeeze right now. They're in a pincer movement, whether it's Iran, whether it's Cuba or others. Why? Because of the incredible, incredible maximum pressure campaign the President launched at the beginning of the administration. That's why it's amazing to have people like Scott Besant at Treasury. Why? Cause it's not just about going in and arresting a bad guy or droning a drug boat from the skies. It's also about using the monumental financial and sanction tools of the greatest economy in the world to just make it impossible for them to fund their own regimes or to fund their proxies. People forget the President's letter to the bloodthirsty Ayatollah of Iran at the beginning of the administration. We can now talk about it openly. Had three topics in it. Number one was nukes. We will not permit you to acquire nuclear weapons. Number two, we will not permit you to continue your ballistic missile program that threatens the whole region, including our friends and allies. And thirdly, what you mentioned, the proxies. We will not permit you to fund terrorists across the globe that threaten Americans or our friends.
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Very clear agenda, very clear parameters. Everybody has a sense of clarity. And foreign policy always works best when there's great clarity. One last question for you. You said because we're moving into an era, we've seen what drones are capable of doing in the warfare between Ukraine and Russia. We have amazing drones ourselves that do that. Great work you've been talking about. But I know you keep an eye on the emerging capabilities of terrorists and bad actors. We seem to be bulking up our capabilities to watch for sneak drone attacks or other capabilities like that. Just talk a little bit about the changing nature and. And how you're keeping an eye on the whole football field. Wow.
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A little bit of inside baseball. Thank you for that. Great question. So it's no accident the very first meeting of the National Security Council after the inauguration of the President for the second time was on the issue of drones. After that fiasco in Bedminster where we had drones flying around under the Biden administration and nobody knew what they were. As a result of that meeting and the President's direction and my team, a member of my CT Directorate team, drafted the executive order the President signed earlier last year. To do what? Create a presidential task force to restore air sovereignty in American skies. Marco Rubio was the designated chairman. He appointed me to be the chair in his stead. Every month, we are bringing together all of the government to make sure that we own the skies. The phrase I use is that idiots and evildoers will not be allowed to fly drones in US Airspace, threatening Americans. And then the same day, drafted by other colleagues in the White House, we had the EO on drone production. We're not gonna buy Chinese drones anymore. We're going to make them here. Like Pete Hexseth is saying every single day on the road, just as we did During World War II, we will have an arsenal of democracy. And American companies will be building the flying machines, the counter drone equipment here in America to protect the American skies in the year of what, America, 250, the great celebrations and FIFA. So we are taking this threat very, very seriously. And America will own the skies over American territory.
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And with two world leaders in the last month, and both of them, Seb credited the US Leadership on this. They are watching what we're doing and in some cases, tapping in and cooperating. But all other countries are watching this initiative and saying that's what we need to do. You're setting a standard for the world. It really struck me when I had those conversations, always a great honor to have you on. Every time you come on that number of jihadis you've been wiped off to the face of the earth keeps going up. It's an amazing thing. But great to have you on the show.
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God bless. Thank you, John. Say hi to Rwanda. Thank you.
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Yeah, I will. Thank you so much, sir. What a great, great honor to have you here. All right, folks, quick commercial break. When we come back. Yesterday, the House passed the Save America act, perhaps the most significant piece of election integrity legislation passed in a very long time. We're going to look out for what that means. Can we get it through the Senate and what's been going on in Fulton county, maybe tomorrow in Arizona? We're going to be watching these things. Why are we tightening up the procedures? There's a good reason. Our next guest is going to tell us why. He's the chairman of the House Administration Committee, Brian Stile. He's the chief election integrity chairman in Congress. So join us next after these messages. Welcome back, America. As we chronicled yesterday on the show in real time, because it was happening as our show was on air, the Save America act passed the United States House of Representatives. It is perhaps the most important piece of election integrity legislation to make it through the US House of Representatives in maybe a half century. The man who helped quarterback that through there, the man who oversees election integrity through his committee, the House Administration Committee in Congress is here to talk all about East Congressman Brian Stile from the great state of Wisconsin. Right. Once spent a lot of time. Congressman, great to have you on the show.
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Hey, thanks for having me on an exciting week moving through this really important election integrity legislation.
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Yeah, well, you've been right there for the last three, four years, you've been the quarterback helping Congress understand the issues, the challenges, debugging the stuff that isn't true and getting to the things that are true. You have two pieces of two primary components here. Citizenship, check on registration, voter ID upon voting that are 80, 85% popular. How do you get that through the stranglehold of the Senate?
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But you make the American people understand not only how common sense this legislation is, which is why it's popular, but also that we're working on this issue and have them reaching out to their United States senator so that they pick up this legislation and actually bring it to a vote. It's so essential that as conservatives, as Republicans, as Trump supporters, that we have all three pieces of the puzzle which we have right now. We control the House, we control the Senate, we have the White House. This is our opportunity to reinstate the integrity of our elections. Passing the Save America act has those two provisions that you just referenced. One, making sure that only U.S. citizens are voting in U.S. elections and making sure that we document that at the time of registration. And two, that people are using photo identification when they show up to the polls. That people are who they say they are. Absolutely essential election integrity provisions. We passed that in the House is now in the hands of the Senate. These are common sense provisions that are wildly popular with the American people. And it's essential that the Senate brings this up for a vote and we get this signed into law by President Trump.
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Such an extraordinary moment. There's another provision here. It doesn't get as much attention, but I know it's as important. And when we have Harmeet Dhillon on, we know what she's been trying to do. But. But states are going to have an additional legal requirement to keep those voter rolls clean so that the people who are voting are properly on the rolls, the ones who shouldn't be voting on there. That's another mechanism here that just gives confidence to the system.
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This is why comprehensive election integrity reform is so absolutely essential, that we're actually cleaning up the voter rolls. The people who are on the voter rolls are legal, eligible voters. And so what we have seen over the years is states do a very poor job of cleaning up the vote, removing people that have passed away or have moved out of state and absolutely removing people on the rolls who are not United States citizens. It's why verifying these voter rolls through the federal government's SAVE database, that's the database that can remove non citizens, is so absolutely essential. It's not only important that we have the integrity at the time people are voting, but that we know our voter rolls are clean and the only individuals that are eligible on the voter rolls are United States citizens who are eligible to vote.
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You've put this together and it makes a lot of sense. I think the common, everyday common sense Americans that this makes sense. Of course we should be doing it. I can't believe we are doing it. You got it all in one package, which is an amazing accomplishment. I want to turn to one other issue related to this. So the Democrats have their hypno out of victimization and one of the things they're already concerned about is how hard it will be for someone to come up with an ID or to get their citizenship to register, even though they show it when you go to the liquor store to get a six pack or when you pick your will call tickets up at a baseball game or when you go on an airplane. But one idea that some people have been advocating is taking these new driver's license IDs which already have the foolproof seal on them in the last couple of years, and being able to establish with the help of the government on that license that you're a citizen. So when you bring your license for registration, you're identified as a citizen. When you bring it back to vote, you got it all set. Is that something that Congress could maybe. Is that a good idea? First off, do you think is this something that Congress could prod along to help some of these states do it quicker, faster and smarter?
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The America act sets us up to do exactly that. We have a couple of states that have done the hard work already. The state of North Dakota, for example, when you go get a driver's license, right there on your state id, it says citizen. If you have gone through the process and you're a US Citizen, then you can use your photo ID to go vote. It proves the citizenship and it is an essential and important piece of the puzzle to make sure that non citizens are not voting in our elections. Of course we're going to hear the Democrats demagogue and fear monger about the challenges that individuals would face if we require photo identification. But we know that that's simply false. I'm often reminded and speak about a time where I had this exact debate in the House of Representatives. I flew home to my home state of Wisconsin, went in to grab a six pack of beer. The clerk recognized me, said, hey, Brian, but can I see your ID before you buy the beer? I said, sure. I handed her my id. She looked at my confirmed my age, allowed me to buy the beer. I think it's absolutely nuts that we protect our beer more than our ballots in jurisdictions across the country. It's time that we put in place these common sense election integrity reforms. The American people know we need it. It's common sense, it's easy to do, and it really builds on the election integrity that's needed in this country.
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So important, so very, very important. I want to turn a little bit to the affidavit that the FBI made unsealed this week for justifying its raid on the Fulton county election warehouse where the 2020 ballots were seized. It had a very important word in it, substantiated that the FBI had substantiated that certain legally required procedures in Fulton county weren't followed and that some really sloppy things happened. If Fulton county admitted to the FBI they double counted ballots, Fulton county admitted they lost some ballots, Fulton county admitted that they didn't follow with some of the state laws. And as a result, there are federal laws that can punish people who don't follow the state laws for administration of elections. It's not the equivalent of having a fake voter or having an illegal vote in election, but having deterrence so that people follow the way we're supposed to count votes. How important is that to you?
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Well, we need to have one set of rules, and then everyone needs to follow the rules. It's why legislation in this space is so important. Then you need to make sure that you're enforcing the law. So it's not only what's the rules on the books, we also need to enforce it. And so I think it's positive when federal government agencies or state agencies are examining exactly what's taking place. It's one of the reasons why making sure that individuals are out there, volunteers often, but also professional election observers are on locations across the country. And as chairman in the administration committee, we run an incredibly robust election observer program. We deploy official resources to key locations across the country, from Maricopa county to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and areas in between, so that there are eyes on the ground properly documenting exactly what is taking place. So if an investigation comes forward, they can rely on that information. In of course, the underlying goal being if people are watching, people are gonna act ethically and behave correctly. But if, goodness gracious, that's not the case, let's make sure we document it so that we can enforce the law.
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So important. I don't think a lot of people in America know this, but the House Administration Committee sends its own observers out to places all over the country. You've organized, I think one of the most robust programs since Congress has been doing this. Was there anything or any reports? We have reports tomorrow the Homeland Security secretary is gonna be in Maricop, some election related law enforcement activity. Is there anything in the work that your committee did last, any observations that you think deserve further review from federal law enforcement?
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Well, we're digging back through those reports that were submitted by our election observers that were deployed across the country. And this is where working hand in glove with other federal government agencies is so important. We had observers, for example, on the ground in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when there was a hiccup in counting the Advent. And in real time, we were able to connect my friend, United States Senator Ron Johnson with that worker who was in Milwaukee. We have reports documenting incidences that occurred in Arizona and across the country and we are reviewing those in real time and working hand in glove with other federal partners to make sure that the law was followed in every jurisdiction across the country.
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Yeah, such important work. I don't think people realize how much the House Administration Committee does and has done in the last couple of years to get this issue to the forefront and to get this bill right at the one yard line for possible passage in the Senate. Mr. Chairman, great honor to have you on the show. A lot of big news ahead and a lot of big anticipation. But great to have this update today.
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Thanks for having me on.
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Yeah. Thank you, sir. Really appreciate it. All right, folks, we're going to take a quick commercial break. When we come back, a candidate and a former lawman now running for California governor going to take on Gavin News and Sheriff Chad Bianco up next right after these messages. Hey, folks, take a drive through any major city after sunset and you'll notice something strange. Dark windows, empty offices. Right now, one in five commercial buildings in America is sitting vacant. Even here in Washington, D.C. nearly $1 trillion in real estate loans are coming due this year. Year. If those buildings stay empty, the banks take a hit. And those are the same banks where your retirement savings likely sit. There's a new free report called the Ghost Tower Index that breaks it all down. It uncovers 7 early warning signs that showed up before every major crash since 1929. And all seven are active again right now. This won't make the evening news, but it could help Europe protect your savings from what's coming. Download it free at johnlikesgold.com or call 855-gold-340 to get your copy mailed to you. That's johnlikesgold.com or 855-gold-340. Welcome back, America. There's a big race for the governorship of California, maybe the first time in a long time that Republicans have a fighting chance to make inroads against the Democratic mach. There's questions of fraud. There's questions of Gavin Newsom's agenda, which clearly has backfired in California. There's questions why so many people are leaving California. And of course, now that we've seen the Minnesota fraud that we've documented here for two years at Just the News, the fraud fighters are gone to California. It looks even bigger, like it's on steroids. We're very lucky to be joined today by a lawman in that great state of California. He's now one of the leading candidates for governor of California, Sheriff of Riverside County, Chad Binko. Sheriff, great to have you on the show, sir.
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Thank you. I am very happy to be here.
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When I think of candidates and how they align with issues, I can't think of a better candidate. With your record of public safety, your emphasis on affordability, your commitment to immigration in a state that has turned a blind eye to it than you and it seemed like a good match at an extraordinary moment in California. How are voters receiving you and your message right now?
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Very well. We're extremely happy all across the state, every single demographic. When we go places and people hear the message, it's resonating well, social media is just completely blowing up. You're exactly right in how you were describing it. I think that the situation California finds itself in with unbelievable crime, just out of control lawmakers that love criminals and hate law abiding residents, we're now the fraud capital of the world. I think the corruption, the crime and everything else it a person me with a long history of ethics, morals, integrity, honesty, leadership. I think it's resonating well with people and the polls are showing it. We're very happy.
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People will say, well, it's California. There's no chance of Republicans going to win statewide office. It hasn't happened in two decades, blah, blah, blah, blah. You're up in the polls right now. You're in most of the polls, the number one candidate, even over the Democrats.
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Yeah, it's showing that things are changing. Things can change in California, even in California. And when you talk about all of the failures of California, it's not a secret that it has to be related to Democrats. They've been in complete control of the assembly, the Senate and the Governor for the last 14 years. So everything is really a progressive agenda failure. And I represent a 180 degree turn and real common sense to make sure that we, that we save our beautiful state. And I think that's really, that's, that's really the issue. And it's the first time that really anyone can remember that a Republican has led in a statewide poll. And it may even go all the way back to President Reagan when he was governor here in California.
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Yeah, it's a big deal. People are really buzzing about it and it makes sense. Your issues align with where Californians are. I'm always amused when we see a healthy dose of hypocrisy. So there are a lot of wealthy liberal Democrats in California that have been all for this agenda which has put more cost on the taxpayers of California, more burdens, more debt. And then all of a sudden the wealthy ones find out, hey, there's going to be a wealth tax from Gavin Newsom. Oh, we're out of here, we're gone. For the average middle class person in California, the wealth flight. Those wealthy Democrats who've decided we're not willing to pay more money out of ours for this craz, they're leaving, what message has that been setting in the political landscape right now?
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Yeah, the hypocrisy, you are right, is just so thick. They've not cared when we've struggled and when the taxes and the regulations have hurt small businesses or the working class. But now that it's going to be them, they're all leaving. And we're talking. I mean I don't know of the exact numbers, but I've heard well into the trillions of value from our economy has fled and now it's all because of regulation, it's all because of taxes, it's all because of mismanagement in government. And the sad thing here is the poor are getting poorer. The middle class more. The wealthy it doesn't ever affect because they're so wealthy. And now it does and boom, they're gone. And the problem for California is them leaving. That's what drives our economy here. The income tax that they are all generating because of their businesses and the things that they do that's going to hurt California even, even worse. It's more important for Us to get a different policy, a different agenda, a different direction in California because they're destroying themselves.
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Yeah, such a great point. All right. A long time ago, I think it was Alaska gave us a bridge to nowhere. It seems as though Gavin News has gave us is giving us a $135 billion train to nowhere. The high speed rail project which just keeps going up in price. Well, showing big government can't manage anything becoming a national symbol. Sean Duffy, the transportation Secretary, calling it out. How are Californians looking at this project?
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Californians look at it exact same way you are. It's laughable. It is absolutely embarrassing that we have to be paraded across this nation as a state that doesn't have the common sense, ability, reasoning or just brains to know that this is a silly project. No one wants it. There is no one in California other than Gavin Newsom and some legislators that obviously must have some type of benefit for it. The contractor, I'm sure he really wants it to continue, but nobody's going to ride the train. Nobody wants to pay for the train. And everyone in California knows that there is nothing to this train. It's a non existent entity. And as the governor here, me, the governor, the new governor elect, this entire boondoggle ends.
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Yeah, pretty remarkable. So I want to turn to one more thing. California has a governor, but he's headed to Munich, Germany. And people say, well, what does that have to do with him? Well, he's obviously got presidential ambitions. But the fact that he's in Germany at a moment now where California has so many crises, whether it's crime, immigration, a budget crisis, once again, how are people looking at that? Should Gavin be back in your state or is it okay for him to be in Germany?
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Well, we're actually looking at it like, well, he can stay in Germany for a while because he can't hurt us while he's gone. So it's good point. We're looking at it like it's a win win. He's not here, he can't hurt us. But then it's on the on the flip side, it's still an embarrassment to not only California. So the entire world knows he's our governor, but he's going to other countries and badmouthing the United States. No matter. We're still the greatest country in the history of the world. And he's as a leader, he's just showing that he's a failed leader and it's anti American. Everyone should be embarrassed. Everyone should be angry. And it's just on every single level. It's wrong.
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The world's gonna get a healthy dose of them. They'll be able to see what we've all gotten to see in America, which is his policies are misaligned with his people. Sheriff, real quick, for people who want to get involved in the campaign, how can they learn more about you?
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D
Absolutely. Biancoforgovernor.com and every social media platform. Sheriff Chad Bianco.
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A
That's pretty easy to remember, sir. Great to have you on the show. We'll be watching that race with great interest. Thanks for joining us.
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D
All right. Thank you. Pleasure to be here.
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A
Yeah. What a great opportunity. Look at that. We're actually interviewing him in the sheriff's car. That's pretty cool, folks. All right, we're gonna take a quick commercial break. When we come back, time for a weekly health update. Food dyes are getting banned more and more because make America healthy again. The movement is having a big conversation and it's about those guys. We're gonna talk about that next. Those dyes are very important to health concerns. We'll do that right after the commercial break. Hey, folks, did you know that high blood pressure is the number one risk factor for mortality? Half of all adults have high blood pressure, myself included. And most people don't feel it until it becomes a real problem. February is American Heart Month. And if you've fallen off a few New Year's resolutions, that's okay. This is a simple, measurable way to get back on track and do something meaningful for your heart. 120 Life is a once a day functional drink made with ingredients that help support healthy blood pressure. It's not a pill, not a stimulant, not some trendy wellness gimmick. It's made from a blend of superfood juices. I take it every day. Refreshing, not chalky, not medicinal. Easy to make part of your daily routine, which matters because consistency is everything. Go to 120-life-120life.com and use my code jtn for 20% off. Try it risk free for two weeks. If your blood pressure doesn't come down, you'll get a full refund. That's 120-Life-LIFECOM120life.com use the promo code jtn for 20% off. Go check it out. Welcome back, America. Time for one of my favorite segments of the week, the Just the news health update brought by our great friends at NAT A path. Our next topic is a very important one about the growing movement to ban food dyes. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is the one who ushered this into the mainstream. But now it's becoming a big conversation all across the industry. One of the questions we have is why are food dyes potentially bad for your health? Joining me now to explain, the director of product development at our great friends at Natopath, Elijah McGrain. Elijah, great to have you back on.
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E
Oh, it's great to be here, thanks.
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A
This has been a pet project of RFK for a long time, but it has exploded on the scene. Everybody has reacted to the movement. In the last year, you spent 25 years in food science and nutrition, from culinary training to FDA regulated product developments. When you hear states are moving to ban these artificial food dyes, what's your first reaction after having working on this for a long time?
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E
So honestly, first reaction would probably be relief, right? I can still remember when RFK did that, released that video where he kind of, you know, he was in front of the camera and he had everything kind of laid out, out on a table and one of the first things that he talked about was food dyes and you know, kind of some of the high level harms for them. And the fact of the matter is these, these dyes were never intended for food, right? These are, these are remnants from the Industrial revolution and the textile industry. And we just had a surplus of them and said, hey, if we can dye garments with them, why not food? And so on surface level that type of thinking is, you know, doesn't make a lot of sense. And we now know that, that these synthetic food dyes offer no nutritive value whatsoever. And that there's a growing body of evidence that they worsen behavior, specifically in children and then just general inflammation especially. And they're found everywhere in ultra processed food and just in food in general, even food that you may not even think is ultra processed, so to speak.
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A
Some folks say, well listen, dyes are been approved through some processing. What does that approval look like and how real is that approval?
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E
So that's a great question and it's a complicated one because yes, in the United States we should say that we have something that's referred to as grasp, meaning generally regarded as safe. This is very different than most other countries, especially the EU and Canada. Whereas that if you have some sort of substance or compound that you want to put into the food supply, you have to have this body of evidence that shows that it's safe. And it's very, very comprehensive. In the US it's a little bit less. So you do need to. And it's really in the name, you just need to show that it's generally recognized as safe. And as we know in science, science evolves. Right. We don't think the same way about physics now than we did 200 years ago or 100 years ago or even 50 years ago.
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B
Right.
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E
Same thing with nutrition. When a lot of these studies came out, they were using either cell culture or rat models. And it kind of proved that, okay, it's generally safe. If it's safe for rats, it's probably safe for us. However, humans are very, very complex, and we're not rats. So now that we have 50 years or more of using these dyes, we start to see population effects, and the body of evidence is starting to change, and so we need to respond to that. We never want to just be status quo, especially when it comes to our health.
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A
Right. That's definitely true. I mean, look how quickly the food pyramid just changed in the last few months. I mean, that science changes, and we see that. All right, I want to boil down to one last question before we let you go. At natopath, you've got a really important protein product, collagen. How does the debate about dyes and unnecessary additives even shape a conversation around something like collagen?
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E
Well, it's actually very, very simple. So at Native Path, we have a blanketed rule within the company, obviously within product development, that we don't use any artificial dyes, flavors of any kind. And collagen is unique because at least our collagen is, that it's a straight fill, meaning that there's only one ingredient. It's collagen.
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A
Right.
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E
There's nothing. There's no other fillers. There's no other additives. It's neutral. You can put it in your coffee and it's near tasteless. And that, to us is very important because our main goal is to put back into the diet at what the modern diet has left.
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C
Right.
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E
Or has taken out. And we feel that collagen is the best example of that.
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A
Yeah, there's no doubt about it. As someone who's been put on the path by natopath and who uses is an amazing product, and it's so simple to take. Put it in your coffee, you don't even taste it. Takes a second to scoop it in, and you're onto a healthier lifestyle. I'm a big fan. Elijah McGrain, the director of product development at Native Pat Path, thanks for joining us today. Thanks for a great conversation.
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E
Thanks. Always a pleasure.
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A
Yeah, I love having you on. All right, to our viewers, you can go right now to getnativepath.com justnews Get a special bundle deal at a fraction of the normal price plus free shipping. One more time. That's getnativepath.com just news. Go check it out today. Incredible product. All right. We got more for you around the corner right after these messages. Welcome back, America. Earlier this week, as we mentioned earlier in the week, there was a meeting with the Religious Liberties Commission and some of that focal point was on the rise of antisemitism. It's not just in college campuses. The narrative and the values are being embedded in children as young as K through 12. Joining us now, a member of the advisory board of that commission. He's also the executive vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values and one of the most important voices in faith today, Rabbi Yaakov Menken. Rabbi, great to have you back on the show.
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F
Thank you so much for having me.
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A
All right. I want to maybe keep the conversation going that I had with our mutual friend Father Frank Pavone earlier this week. There is a lot more realization among parents that their children are learning earlier and earlier that these narratives that that Jews are bad, Israel is an oppressor, there's apartheid in the Middle east and it's only in Israel that these are false narratives. But they're getting embedded in their children much, much earlier. How concerned should we be and what are some of the antidotes to that embedded hatred early in our children's lives?
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F
You know, it's hard to be more concerned when your kids are being taught things that are demonstrably false, being taught that boys are girls and girls are boys and Jews are bad. I mean, this is stuff that has been used throughout history to destroy civilizations. I mean, there's nothing better than anti Semitism for tearing a society down. You know, what happened to the Roman Empire, the Greek Empire, the Babylonian empire, the Persian Empire, the Egyptian empire, for that matter, what happened to the Nazis. The pinnacle of academia is regarded as second rate today. Why is that? Anti Semitism? You know, this is the idea that that's happening to the school system in America is interesting. Somebody pointed out that the introduction of computers into the schools has caused a dumbing down of kids cognitive abilities, their reasoning abilities. It used to be that in cognitive scores, kids were improving by the decade in schools across America. Ever since the introduction of computers into the classroom, that's been reversed because the kids aren't thinking anymore. They're getting the computer to do it for them. And whatever the teacher tells them, that's it that's what they have to believe. There's one narrative. There's no free conversation, there's no free discussion. And sadly, very often those teachers are left wing activists who just want you to hate American values and hate Jews. And that's what they're teaching your kids.
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A
Yeah. And their unions are enforcing those teachers to make sure that they pass that message along every day. The union to teacher route is such an important thing for all of us to understand and potentially break the bond so that we can get a more eclectic view of what's going into our school system. It's really remarkable. I want to turn to the commission itself. You're on the advisory board. It seems to be a moment of robust debate, if I could say that, in the commission and on this topic. Twenty years ago, I don't think a lot of us worried about the future of faith and freedom in America, but we do a lot now. How important is this commission and how important is the robust nature of it in the recent weeks?
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F
Well, you know, sadly, this commission only exists because it's really necessary. If you go back four years, Democrats in the House of Representatives succeeded in passing. It did not go anywhere in the Sen. Painfully, but they passed a law called the Equality act that would have said a traditional Jewish wedding is a bias crime with a religious carve out. You know, and how long will it be before the government takes that carve out away? I mean, that's the sort of demonization of religion, the effect. And by the way, I'm referring to the fact that in, in a traditional Jewish wedding, the men are on one side, the women are on the other side. And no, you don't get to decide which one you are when you come in. No, you got to take what God gave you and you go on that side of the divider. That's how it works. I mean, that's how we do a wedding and it's how we did it for thousands of years. No, it's not a biased crime. Everybody in our circles at least prefers it that way. And the whole point of that is to raise the holiness of the matrimony between the man and the woman. And everybody else is staring at each other. They're just circling among themselves, dancing together, having a great time. Time. That's what it's about. That's a bias crime according to what they were saying. And then you look at so many different areas of life. Doctors being driven out of medical practice if they weren't willing to prescribe harmful hormones to people of one gender who wished that they were the other things like this. And it's so sad watching that happen and watching people with, with 30, 40, 50 year careers being told, oh no, you can't do that anymore. That is why that Religious Liberty Commission exists to restore freedom of religious practice in America. It's very sad that this commission was.
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Needed perhaps restore a little science too, since science is pretty clear there's only a man and a woman. But anyways, we'll see where that goes. Real quickly, Rabbi, before we let you go. Got about 20 seconds, Mom. Donnie doesn't go to the Catholic installation, doesn't rescinds the anti Semitism protections his predecessor put in place. What's New York headed for?
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The number of anti Semitic nominees by Mamdani to important positions within New York City government. As somebody else pointed out, it's stopping to sound like inadvertent and errors and things where they didn't look carefully and starting to sound like a deliberate strategy. It's really that bad. The guy is really that bad. And it makes you wonder about the Jewish environment.
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Rabbi, we're gonna have to let you go just because we hit the back of the show. I'm so sorry about that, but we are all watching New York City and Mamdani. It's so important. Thank you for joining us, folks. Thanks for watching tonight. We're back tomorrow. I have a lot of news. Until then, God bless you. Have a great night.
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