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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, February 17th, 2026
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John Solomon
Good evening America. Happy Tuesday and welcome to the latest edition of Just the News. No Noise. I'm your host John Solomon reporting to you as always from the nation's capital. A quick programming note, as I've been mentioning, my amazing go is Amanda Head. She's going to be out until next week. She'll be back on the desk next week, so we're looking forward to her return. Meanwhile, I want to talk a little bit about how Make America Great Again has become a major improvement in making America Safe again. Today, the State Department and Homeland Security department and the FBI working together announced that more than 100,000 foreigners who are on US soil with visas. In other words, the State Department waved them in even though they had criminal records, they had those visas pulled. These are people that had convictions for sexually assaulting women. I think one of the people had three convictions for sexual assault, the women still allowed in our country. Others for armed robbery and for endangering child safety, all sorts of heinous crimes. And guess what? They were in the country because of the way that Biden and the Biden era handled visas. There's a much tighter ship being run today. But revoking those visas was a big step today in making America safer. That is the first of two very big stories that we have for you. The second involves what went on yesterday, President's Day, a federal holiday. Many of us were out celebrating on the holiday. Most federal workers were off. The Homeland Security Department shuddered because the Democrats in Congress did not want to give it funding. They declined to fund it. But the men and women of the Homeland Security Department, the men and women of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ice, were working on a holiday during a shutdown because they had some bad guys to go get. And over the last several hours, we have confirmed that people who were convicted of sexual assault, child endangerment, other major figures were arrested by ICE yesterday. I think we've got some arrays here. We're showing you on screen. Look in their eyes, guys. Those are the bad guys. They were criminal illegal aliens. Not only did they commit the crime of crossing the border illegally, they committed other heinous acts. And on President's Day, when the federal government is shutting down, when the Homeland Security Department and its ICE components were defunded by Democrats, the men and women of ICE still did their jobs. And they got these guys off the street, just like the people who lost their visas were taken off the street. Really, really important for all of us to understand. One last note before we get to our first guest. And we got a great first guest. He's a law and order man, a congressman from the great state of Colorado, Gabe Evans, who was a cop for a long time. In fact, he ran the riot squad for major police department in Colorado. We're going to get to him in a second. But this morning people continue to ask me, it was on RAV this morning in the great morning show. I love my good friends here. They asked me, will any consequence come of all the people who partook in the Jeffrey Epstein elitist circles who may have been involved in sex trafficking or sexual engagement with minors. I clearly see a lot of evidence that now, given what the Justice Department did, the answer is not a whole lot from federal prosecutors. The chance to do that was back in 2007 when the Bush Justice Department, George W. Bush Justice Department, had the entire network in its sights. It had Jeffrey Epstein in a way, it could have prosecuted him. But instead of taking the courageous step, instead of taking on the elites and the liberals and the rich and the wealthy and the famous who were frequenting the premises of Jeffrey Epstein, they took a pass. They gave him a non prosecution agreement. All right. Now, most of the statute of limitations have expired for many of those crimes, at least at the federal level. But one thing that hasn't expired, the ability of the power of shame to end people's careers. And this Morning over at justinews.com, we published a list of all the people who have lost their positions of power, lost their jobs, lost their livelihood, lost their income as a result of being in the Epstein documents and having to admit that they associated with this man who so many people considered to be a danger to society, a danger to young women. Certainly check out that list. It's really important. It lets you know how many people were hanging around with Jeffrey Epstein in the Powers of Circle. It also gives some small solace to the victims and to all of us who want accountability that there is some penalty now, however belated, two decades later. But I want to remind everybody where this tragedy went off the rails, where the opportunity of the United States government to take this monster and his machinery off the streets, where it happened 2007, 2008, 2006, when the Bush Justice Department had all of the assets available to prosecute the man and instead they handed him a non prosecution agreement. My thought for the day. All right, as I promised you a little earlier this afternoon, I was able to talk to Congressman Gabe Evans, a former cop. He is one of the most common sense members of Congress right now. He's working on lots of things to make America safer, to get communities to cooperate with ice, not resist them. Also maybe begin to prosecute and take on all the nonprofit groups that are fomenting violence, anarchy in America and getting a tax exemption, doing it. Have a watch to what Congressman Evans and I talked about. It's a pretty interesting conversation. All right, folks, earlier this week you probably saw this story on justthenews.com, colorado, one of the worst states when it comes to human trafficking and sex trafficking. Our next guest is a former Law enforcement officer. In fact, he oversaw the Colorado Police Department's riot squads. Today. He is a member of Congress and he is determined to root out this scourge in Colorado. Joining us right now, Congressman Gabe Evans.
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Gabe Evans
Always good to be on with you.
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John Solomon
This is a tough subject, but sometimes getting it front and center, people, is the way you fix it. The human trafficking levels in Colorado, off the chart, all time highs. What's driving such a surge in this state?
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Gabe Evans
Yeah, I mean, you know my background. I was a police officer for over 10 years in the Denver metro area in Colorado before I got involved in politics. And that's what drove me to politics, was watching public safety, watching the number of victims in Colorado increase because of the public safety collapse. When I started my law enforcement career, Colorado was better than the national average for our crime rate. We're now the second most dangerous state in the country. Fentanyl overdose death rates are going up in Denver, Colorado in 2025. And I think that's directly connected to the human trafficking that you mentioned. Because it turns out if a criminal organization, a cartel, a drug dealing ring, has the logistics and the infrastructure and the connections to be able to traffic drugs, you know what else they can traffic? Unfortunately, they can traffic human beings as well. We know this is a part of the business model. And so when you have soft on crime policies around drugs, you also by proxy are very vulnerable to human trafficking. And I think that's part of the reason why we're seeing the human trafficking rates skyrocket in Colorado.
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John Solomon
Yeah, that's really, really disturbing. The regulatory, I guess maybe the legal posture of the state seems to be a big contributor. It's sort of become a keep police hands off of everything, let the bad guys back on the street. It seems to recycle crime. Is there any sense among the electorate that maybe they've tired of the polis era of Colorado?
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Gabe Evans
I think so. We just had a tragic case a couple of weeks ago that came to a conclusion where a lady driving recklessly ended up hitting and killing a police officer, got probation for killing a cop. Literally got probation. There was another case that made the news in Colorado, actually in my district, where somebody who attempted to kidnap and sexually assault a Minor girl got 90 days in jail for that crime and then some probation after that. And so this soft on crime policy is clearly not working. These sanctuary policies of Colorado that handcuff law enforcement that prohibit them from being able to share information with the feds is making Colorado a safe haven for organized crime, for cartels, for drug dealers. And again, if you can deal drugs, if you can traffic that in the communities, you can also traffic human beings. And so to reverse this, we need to get back to actually holding bad guys accountable. We need to take the handcuffs off of cops in the state of Colorado and we need to allow them to work with federal law enforcement as well, because federal law enforcement is going to have a lot more resources in cases involving transnational or international drug dealing. Cartels, gang bangers, organized criminals, and again, those are a significant entity in driving crime to include human trafficking in Colorado. But when our state and local law enforcement is handcuffed as a result of Democrat policies that don't allow state and local cops to go after the bad guys and don't allow them to work with the federal government to get those full time professional traffickers, this is the result. Overdose death rates are still going up in Colorado from fentanyl and human trafficking is going up right alongside with it.
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John Solomon
Yeah, the numbers are already at historic highs and it tends to lag a little bit. It may be six months before we know the true numbers from 2020, and they really look horrifically bad. There are been some innovations at the federal level. I know right now state and local, many state and local communities in Colorado not taking advantage of, but the FBI created these new task force with hsi, the Homeland Security Investigations Unit. There's a really unique approach occurring at the federal data level that if locals had taken advantage of, they'd probably be cleaning this up a lot quicker. How do you prompt that? How do you push a state and a local government to take advantage of things that are there to make the safety better in a city?
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Gabe Evans
Yeah, again, the first is making sure the resources available under the previous administration at the federal level under Joe Biden, oftentimes those resources simply weren't available because that wasn't the focus of the Biden administration. Under this current administration, public safety is a top focus. We're making the resources available. There's billions of dollars of grant money, there's multiple different programs from multiple different federal agencies that are to assist state and local law enforcement in being able to solve some of these crimes that again, often span across countries and continents and that are clearly beyond the scope of even a big police department to be able to solve. So we have to have that partnership. We have to have the resources as step one. That's something that Republicans are delivering right now and have delivered. But step two is the states have to take advantage of that. And unfortunately, what we're seeing in blue states around the country is they are absolutely refusing to work with the federal government to keep keep their communities safe. We're seeing this right now at the federal level with federal Democrats shutting down the Department of Homeland Security. They say they're doing it to rein in ice. But remember, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was funded last year under the big beautiful bill. ICE is still going to have their funding. What's actually getting shut down is the Federal Law Enforcement Training center. That's Federal Police Academy, the Coast Guard, that interdicts drugs and all of this trafficking that happens on our maritime borders, tsa, that protects our international borders at international airports because an international airport is an international border. TSA is going without funds, fema, cisa, that protects our cyber infrastructure and partners with major infrastructure like the power grid to keep our infrastructure safe. These are all the things that are being defunded right now by Democrats because they don't want to work collaboratively with the federal government to keep communities safe.
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John Solomon
Is remarkable. And you're right, this shutdown is very specific to security over the Homeland Security Department being the object of it. I want to turn a little bit to the organized anarchy that we see. We saw it in Minnesota, but we've seen it in many places. It's clear now that there are these nonprofits that get a tax exemption from the IRS that are on the promise that they're going to do good in America, do good things like nonprofits should. But right now, they're blocking ice. They're interfering and obstructing with justice. Is Congress in the mood to potentially pull some of those tax exemptions from groups when they're actually endangering public safety, not helping the public good?
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Gabe Evans
Yeah, I think there's a couple of ways that we could go about this. You mentioned one of them, which is the tax exempt status for a lot of these different nonprofits that engage very, very closely in political sphere. But another thing that I think, and that's been discussed amongst members of Congress and something that I saw personally as a police officer, we know that there are organized groups often that have paid personnel that are working to be able to obstruct or interfere with law enforcement. Again, I ran the riot squad for my agency when I was a police officer back during 2020 and all of the riots that happened that year. And so we had criminal intelligence that showed that these were organized protests, often funded and paid for by big dollars, oftentimes, as you said, tied to nonprofits. And so I think we need to explore not only the tax status of some of these nonprofits But I think if money is exchanging hands, you also have potentially a lot of workplace or OSHA violations here. If somebody is being paid to go harass law enforcement, there is a very, very clear nexus there to workplace safety. If somebody is going to go fight with the police officers and they're being paid to do that, I think there's a lot of different regulatory avenues that we can explore to be able to make sure that of course we want nonprofits to be able to go do good work. But when they're clearly designed and organized to obstruct law enforcement and to obstruct public safety, we need to take a long, hard look at that. And I think those conversations are happening from multiple different perspectives in Congress right now.
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David Zier
Wow.
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John Solomon
That's a big deal. You wouldn't think of osha, but that's actually a brilliant way to actually apply the law is they are actually putting their workers or paid workers at jeopardy in those circumstances. As always, Congressman, you always have innovative ideas that law enforcement background a huge benefit to all of your colleagues in the great Congress. Good to have beyond he thanks for joining us.
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Gabe Evans
Always good to be on with you. Thanks so much.
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John Solomon
Wow. So much to take in there. We got a lot more ahead of us, including more discussion why Democrats are trying to keep the Homeland Security Department closed. Congressman from the great state of North Carolina, Mark Harris, up next right after these messages. Hey folks, let's be honest. Our body lets us know, right? We're not getting any younger. And if you want to look and feel your best, you need to check out our good friends at Pure Health research. They have 45 premium health supplements designed to help with every health goal, whether it's boosting your energy, trimming belly fat, supporting healthy blood sugar, pumping your testosterone up, or even reducing swelling in your legs. Pure Health Research Supplement Store has you covered. Each formula is crafted with natural non GMO ingredients backed by clinical research and manufactured right here in the good old usa. And here's the best part. Pure Health Research is offering you an exclusive 35% discount. You heard me right, 35% off. Just go to PureHealthResearch.com and use the coupon code Just news at checkout. With their 365 day money back guarantee, there is a zero risk in trying something new. So why wait? Head over to PureHealthResearch.com right now, explore their 45amazing supplements and save 35% before this deal ends with the coupon code. Just News. Don't miss this chance to feel your best.
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John Solomon
Welcome back America. After 9 11, we vowed that we would never forget those who perished on that extraordinarily dark day in American history. The same must be said of all those who have died in the hands of illegal aliens brought into this country by President Joe Biden, his administration, and the sanctuary cities and sanctuary states. My next guest has lived true to that promise. He has never forgotten the young woman who was stabbed to death on a train in North Carolina. He says her name often, Irena. And he is insistent that we get not only justice, but a repaired system so that Future women don't face their tragedy. Joining me right now from the great state of North Carolina, Congressman Mark Harris. Sir, great to have you on the show.
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Mark Harris
Hey, John, great to be with you tonight. Thank you for having me.
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John Solomon
Your commitment to not only seeking justice, but to seeking accountability in that tragic train stabbing that occurred now a little over a year ago. There's a big Senate race. Obviously, Roy Cooper portrays himself as a moderate Democrat, but it looks like his administration played a role in putting that killer back on the street before the tragic episode. Tell us what we know and how it's beginning to play among North Carolina voters, John.
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Mark Harris
That's an issue that I think is definitely continuing to come to the surface. I think the more deep dives that are done into Roy Cooper and what he has done or did while he was governor, and particularly during that Covid era that we went through, really is going to come back to bite him. I certainly hope it is. In this particular case that you're referencing, it was obviously a deal that he struck with the naacp, somewhat of a settlement, in order to release a number of prisoners, 3,500 prisoners that were serving in the North Carolina penal system. And in releasing that 3500, he released. He released 51 murderers, rapists, all kinds of criminals back out onto the streets as part of that settlement deal. And even just this morning, I saw that list of folks that had been released that fell in that number. And of course, one of those names that showed up was the name of Decarlos Brown. He was the individual that had been arrested 14 times prior to getting on that train. And when Irina Zarutska, the young Ukrainian, Ukrainian woman, got on the train that evening after finishing a work shift at the pizza restaurant where she was working, and she sat down, she went to her phone, she was looking at messages, and he just simply rises. As the video has shown over and over again behind her. She never saw it coming. She never knew what hit her. And he just thrust that knife right into her throat. And what a tragedy. And we will not forget. And when the information began to surface that DeCarlos Brown's name was actually on a list that was associated with that settlement, it has created a lot of people to start digging, and a lot of. A lot more information is going to continue to come out, I believe.
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John Solomon
Yeah, I think you're right. I know Roy Cooper's trying to distance himself from it, but it happened on his watch. And the buck usually stops at the top, at least in American's book. We'll see how it plays out in Roy Cooper.
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Mark Harris
Well, particularly, yeah, particularly when you look at the fact that whether DeCarlos Brown's name should have or should not have been on that list. 51. Let me say that again. 51 murders, rapists that were serving life sentences were actually released from prison in that settlement. And I can only imagine what those individuals went on to do.
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John Solomon
Yeah, yeah. No, it's. There is the beginning of a very important story for the voters of North Carolina to dig into and make a good decision in this next election. Earlier today, the Make America Great Again movement made another stride forward. Make America Safe Again. President Trump, Marco Rubio, his partners in the FBI and the Homeland Security Department revoking the visas of more than 100,000 immigrants on permission to come into the United States despite the fact that they had criminal convictions, criminal arrests in the past, things like raping women and sexually assaulting women. It's hard to believe that that many got waved into the country without their backgrounds being a hindrance. But seems like we're righting that wrong right now.
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Mark Harris
We are righting that wrong. And I, all of America, should be grateful to President Trump and his leadership working alongside with these folks, as you mentioned, with Secretary Rubio and revoking these visas. The situation has gotten out of control. And we all knew that sealing the southern border was the first step. And President Trump so took that bull by the horns. And there, within just about seven weeks, I've heard Tom Holman say we saw those numbers drop so dramatically, almost down to nothing, and have continued at that rate in such a great way. The next step was to make sure that we caught up with these criminal illegal aliens, hunted them down and deported them. So I think that this step that they've taken today, again, is another piece of good news that Americans can rest a little easier tonight knowing that these individuals are going to be stopped. And this is going to be an issue that we're going to be able to feel much better about as we continue to go forward. And there's so much more left to do.
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John Solomon
Yeah, no, there is, but it's getting done quicker and faster and smarter every day. And I think that's something the American people are going to be incredibly grateful for as they see it play out. We had a tragedy in Rhode Island. It sounds so familiar because we had a tragedy in Canada last week just like it. Then we had one in Nashville. We had one in Minnesota. But men identifying as women are undergoing some sort of transgender treatment or women trying to become men, carrying out mass shootings, mass murders. Yesterday A father mowing down his own family after beginning the process of becoming or identifying as a transgender. Your thoughts on whether we have a burgeoning security threat and whether the FBI should be looking at the transgender movement as a potential pathway to these mass shootings?
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Mark Harris
Well, I think that it really isn't rocket science, John, to connect the dots that we're seeing. As you just listed off the number of cities that we have seen these things happen. From what happened in Rhode island last night and what had happened in Canada, what happened in Nashville that left the whole nation in shock and mourning, these are definitely trends that we are seeing happen over and over again. And I think that, again, it's not too hard to connect these dots. Whenever you go through these kind of hormone treatments, these kind of treatments that are supposed to somehow bring about this radical change, to see that they have this effect and create that kind of instability and that kind of mental illness, it is just one problem on top of another. And the real tragedy, whether the FBI continues and they should connect these dots, I think all of America needs to stop and take a look at this issue, because it is a serious, serious issue that really, to me, it's the only mental health issue that somehow we are ignoring the problem, saying it shouldn't be treated, but rather it should be affirmed. And that leads to more and more tragedy. And so we've got to begin to take a step back. Everybody get a clear mind and a clear heart on this issue. From my perspective, this is obviously a spiritual issue that, again, is tied into the mental health aspect. And we've got to begin to treat that, not just try to gloss over it and somehow affirm it. That's not the answer that we're looking for.
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John Solomon
You have, among many very important things since you've been in Congress, sir, particularly remembering the victims of illegal alien crimes. You've also been a cogent voice for trying to get America's elections more secure, more safe. It's easier to vote, harder to cheat. You and Senator Mike Lee working hard to make sure that we stop counting ballot ballots days after Election Day is over. Our Constitution calls for an election day, not an election trimester, not an election month. You're on the side of this and filing something with the Supreme Court. Tell us a little bit about that and how important it is for election integrity.
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Mark Harris
Well, again, we want to make sure that Election Day ends on Election Day. Americans deserve to begin to get the answers and hear the answers of who won the election after they've gone to vote. In many cases, we've got states that are having elections weeks leading up to Election Day with all of the early voting. In my own North Carolina, we have roughly two and a half weeks of early voting and that's one of the shorter amounts compared to some other states. And then this whole idea that somehow we're going to extend the election to allow more and more ballots to come in after Election Day and that somehow they're to count, that is asking for nothing but trouble. And so I do think that there's going to be there continues to be a turn in America and back to common sense issues. And of course the Save America act is the most common sense issue that I can think of. And the step that we took last week in the U.S. house, we're sending it over to the Senate. I've made a plea again and again to our senators, take up this bill. And I pray that they will see the the very important reason that they need to go back and have the talking filibuster and that way have an opportunity for everybody to be able to speak, everybody to be able to vote and not just shut this thing down. It's critical to the American people and I'm urging everybod everybody to call their US Senators and make sure this gets across the finish line.
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John Solomon
I have a funny feeling the phones are going to be very busy in the Senate come later this month. Senator John Thune just a little bit ago, the majority leader saying that they will be brought to a vote. Now that'll be just a test vote to see if they can get over the filibuster. But it will identify the holdouts and that will allow the process of the American people to start pushing their senators to do the right thing. It's going to be interesting. You have some confidence that we might get a real vote on this legislation to Senate before the 2026 election?
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Mark Harris
Well, I, I do. I, I feel like that there are senators that really want this to happen. And as I mentioned again, the rules are in place. They can do this. If they will just force the talking filibuster and allow the Democrats to do what they do, each one of them would be able to give up to two speeches on the floor, but they have to keep going. And if we can just go back to the way the rules were before they came up with these new fangled filibuster that requires 60 votes, this would be an opportunity for the talking filibuster for all sides to be heard and then ultimately for the decision to be made by the United States Senate. They know the Democrats know that 95% of Republicans are in favor of this, 71% of Democrats are in favor of this. It's common sense legislation that say only American citizens will vote in American elections. And you've got that voter ID that you'll be able to show that give that kind of security and that kind of encouragement to the hearts of all Americans that again, we're doing it right.
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John Solomon
Our founding fathers, our great orators in the history of the Capitol stood on their feet and debated. They didn't take a lazy filibuster way out. It's time to get back to that. I know you're going to be putting a lot of pressure on your colleagues in the Senate to get us here. Congressman, always a great honor to have your show. We always learn so much when you're here. Thanks for joining us, John.
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Mark Harris
Thank you for having me. God bless you.
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John Solomon
Yeah, you as well, sir. Thank you so much for your time. All right, folks, quick commercial break. When we come back, I want to get you up to speed on the Guthrie case. There's some developments there. I'm going to stay on that subject of whether the FBI is now in the process of identifying transgender treatments as a potential contributor to these mass shootings that we've seen. We're going to tackle both of those. As one of the most successful federal prosecutors I know, former U.S. attorney Bud Cummings, right after this. But first, quick message from our appetizers.
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John Solomon
Welcome back, America. The mass media attention on the Nancy Guthrie case, her disappearance, and the effort to find her, hopefully safely has also enlightened a lot of Americans on all the new capabilities that our law enforcement has to solve crimes, protect people. Those are being put to use in so many different ways, whether it's stopping terrorists with drones or finding a missing person like Nancy Guthrie. Joining us now to bring us up to speed on that and a whole lot more, one of the most successful federal prosecutors I've gotten to meet in my career, former U.S. attorney Little Rock, a man who plays by the rules and has done so much to call out weaponization, our good friend Bud Cummins. Bud, good to have you back on the show.
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Bud Cummins
Hey, John.
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John Solomon
All right. So I think we learn every day the dogged effort of law enforcement to solve a case like Nancy Guthrie. Yep. Gets a little bit more attention than maybe some of the other cases. But at the same time, we're learning. The thing we learned today from the FBI and others is even though the DNA they found in some of the evidence isn't in the law enforcement databases, as someone previously arrested encountered in law enforcement, they could do genealogy matching and take that DNA and eventually find a lineage and maybe a suspect.
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Bud Cummins
That's right.
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John Solomon
I think a lot of Americans realize how far maybe having technologies.
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Bud Cummins
It looks like my screen just froze. Are you there?
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John Solomon
Yeah. We can still see you and hear you, though. You're good. So tell us a little bit about how technology has changed.
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Bud Cummins
Yeah. Well, you know, in the old days, we had we might get a blood sample and we could rule people out, but we couldn't necessarily rule them in. We had fingerprints and we had eyewitnesses. Now we have videos, we have DNA testing, we have traffic cameras and AI methods and, you know, fast technology to search voluminous records. So there's a lot of, there's a lot of tools now available to investigators that weren't investigating or weren't available, you know, during our lifetime, not that long ago. And I'm sure they're using every single one of those.
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John Solomon
Yeah, it's really remarkable. And of course, with all of that advancement is also the concerns that you so eloquently raise every time we talk about weaponization, that they not be abused for politics and not run over the Fourth Amendment. There's some interesting developments today. The FISA court finally naming an advocate to protect those whose names are in livelihoods and privacy is affected by FISA court decisions. That's a big win. There's new rules being put into the FBI by Cash Patel. Talk a little bit about the Fourth Amendment and the Trump administration's effort to recalibrate to make sure that our privacy isn't invaded unnecessarily.
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Bud Cummins
Well, you know, I've said this to you before, John, and I say at every opportunity I get, when I was a 42 year old U.S. attorney, I wanted to the FBI to love me and the ATF to love me. And I wanted to be a crime fighter and help them in any way I can and, and have them talk about me as a legendary crime fighter. But we give these people these awesome tools to literally ruin lives, to invade people's homes, to gather up all their private information. And I came to realize during the time I was U.S. attorney and certainly since then, my job was to protect everybody else from those guys and to make sure that there was a grown up in the room every time a decision was made about how to use those intrusive tools. And I think the government always has to be mindful of that more now than ever, because we've seen the abuses during the last 15 years.
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John Solomon
Yeah, I know how seriously you took your job. There are men and women I still talk to that came through the FBI in Little Rock or came through the U.S. attorney's office here that speak fondly of your commitment to getting the bad guys, but doing it the fair and right and just way. And I think that we need more examples like that in government. I think it's going on now. There seems to be a recalibration. I want to turn to the extraordinary tragedy we saw yesterday. A man trying to become a woman and going under transgender treatment, mowing down his entire family with a gun at an ice rink follows a similar episode in Canada a week ago. One in Nashville about a year, year and a half ago, One more recently in other states. Disproportionate number of people undergoing these very intense hormone treatments, potentially acting out in violent ways behind the scenes. The FBI Behavioral Science Unit. I assume people like that are looking at this for warning signs and guidance to give law enforcement, schools, counselors. I assume that that would be an important contribution to this debate.
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Bud Cummins
It is, and I'm not a psychiatrist, but certainly that you'd have to be concerned at this pattern that we're seeing. Mental illness generally seems to be on the rise. It seems to be more apparent in our society. And this person obviously had mental health problems. That's not my words. His own daughter has already said he had mental health issues. So we really need to pay attention to those issues.
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John Solomon
Yeah. In your capacity as a private lawyer, you've been representing a family whose patriarch had his life taken away by the ATF during an execution of a search warrant. He was the top executive at the Little Rock airport, an upstanding member of the community. A terrible tragedy. And it seems as though that client's only sin was he liked to collect guns and sell them, which usually is considered lawful. Has there been any developments, any clarity from the government about what happened, what went wrong there, or whether any justice will be given to the family?
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Bud Cummins
No, as far as I know, there's been no internal investigation. And I continue to call on the attorney general. She's very busy. There's a lot going on. But it's so important that they investigate this internally and find out what happened, because it was just simply wrong, what happened to Brian Malinowski.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Yeah. There's no doubt about it, and there's a lot of unanswered questions that should be answered. Congress and the Attorney general have that opportunity to do so. But as always, it's such a great honor to have you on. I always enjoy when you come on. I'm reminded of the way law enforcement used to run things, and I think we're headed back to that era, thanks to your good, cogent voice. Great to have you on today. Thank you, John. Yeah. Great interview, as always. Thanks so much, sir. All right, quick commercial break. When we come back, we're going to take a look at how universities across the country secretly continue to push DEI initiatives. Yep. It's a game of whack. A mole. They call it something else, but it's the same divisive ideology being injected into our young people. We're going to tackle that next right after the commercial break.
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Bud Cummins
Most of our faculty are pretty progressive.
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John Solomon
We can't actually use those words because you know people are dumb.
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Adam Gillette
And you went on to explain that you were still continuing to do the DEI work. What people are dumb?
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John Solomon
Well, what you just saw there was a video by our good friends at Accuracy in Media. Universities across the country continue to push DEI diversity equity inclusion initiatives despite the fact that that they're outlawed by President Trump's executive orders and by many state laws. It's just a rebranding exercise and a game of Whack a mole. Joining us to discuss how he keeps exposing this and helping us make sure that we get this divisive ideology out of our school system is the president of Accuracy Media. He is Adam Gillette. Adam, great to have you back on the show.
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Adam Gillette
Thank you for having me.
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John Solomon
All right. That little snippet showed us a University of Kentucky advisor clearly caught on tape undermining the state law, the president's executive order and being totally committed, I think that was their word, totally committed to dei. Pretty important thing. Video. Tell us a little bit about it.
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Adam Gillette
Well, she is the second of, I think we've released four videos now from the University of Kentucky. And we don't investigate states where they merely are dealing with the executive order. It's kind of hung up in the court. Who knows what's going on. We go to states where there is a strict law prohibiting DEI or a board of Regents, board of trustees prohibition on DEI and we find the same thing in state after state. Like that woman, Ms. Nowitzki who told us they're just changing the job titles and continuing to do the same thing. And then she explained their their view of those who pay her salaries by saying, well, people are dumb.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Stunning. It's just stunning. You've done such great work and I think it's a game of whack a mole right now. You got plenty of regulatory and legal system in place to outlaw this division, this divisive ideology, but you've got teachers, unions, faculty that seem intent on continuing to push it, rebrand it, disguise it, but know they're doing exactly what they're not supposed to be doing under the law. What's the long term penalty? I guess we've had a couple states that do fire. That's good. A fire employee that violates the law. Any meaningful prosecutions? And where should we be looking next?
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Adam Gillette
Great question. The major problem is that nearly every state's DEI ban is not worth the paper it's printed on. Only Kansas passed a ban that has a reporting mechanism and consequences for breaking the law. Imagine that. Consequences for breaking the law. The other DEI bans are toothless. Some of them have clear carve outs for the curriculum. And what? That sounds good. They should be allowed to talk about bad ideas like communism or DEI or fascism in classes. But they use that as the COVID to claim that they're continuing to do dei. Well, it's part of the curriculum. They push it in every facet of every education class. It's not just certain kinds of classes, but that's their cover. Or they just change the job titles and then when we catch them again. Since the law is toothless, some get fired, but generally there's no real impact from it. Every state needs a Kansas style ban with actual legal consequences. And every red state governor needs to clean house with these university trustees and put into place trustees that are refocused on reforming their universities and getting rid of these activist administrators.
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John Solomon
Yeah, that's common sense approach. Needs to be done, Needs to be done today, needs to be done now to protect our next generation of children. Today's the day of a little bit of reflection. A protege of Martin Luther King Jr. Died today. Jesse Jackson, one of the first candidates I got to cover as a young reporter. First black presidential candidate to make a really significant inroad in voting. And he came out of an era of the civil rights movement that yearned for a day when race would no longer be a judgment at the back end of their lives. Their own liberal movement injected race and ethnicity back as a delimiter, as a, a test, a litmus test for a civil rights movement that fought so hard to get away from that litmus test. How demoralizing is it to be back in an era where people are now applying race again and saying it's predeterminative.
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Adam Gillette
It'S bizarro world for the left to turn their backs and sprint as fast as they can from the message of Martin Luther King, who wanted us to not focus on the color of our skin, but instead the content of the character. All these people focus on is skin. And what's incredibly amazing is that Rutgers University, no right wing university, had a study and it came out and showed that DEI increased divisiveness. It causes people to see racism where it doesn't even exist. These people love segregation. They love race based admissions, they love race based profiling, they love judging people based on the color of their skin. They would be more at home in Jim Crow Arkansas than they should be in polite modern society. These radicals, I'm sure they mean well, but they're doing terrible things to those who they pretend to want to help. Telling children that they're oppressed and the world's against them is no way to motivate them. Telling other children that they're evil oppressors can do horrible things to your psyche. These radicals have no business in Berkeley or Boulder and they certainly have no business in red state universities.
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John Solomon
Yeah, they are stealing that very dream that Martin Luther King was trying to instill in generations of Americans. It really is a travesty to watch unfold real quickly. Before we go, one of the places where race will next come up and it could have a predetermined effect on how elections are conducted in America. The Louisiana racial gerrymandering case before the Supreme Court is going to come out before the 2026 election. The justices have signaled, as they've already done in race based admission cases, that race has no business in determining things like districts. If that were to come down in this 2026 year, on the 250th anniversary of the founding of this great country, how significant will that be for the future of elections, fairness and race in America?
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Adam Gillette
You know, I think a lot of the things happening with all of the districts are going to go in unpredictable ways. I think with many of the Republican districts where they're trying to squeeze more out of a specific state. Well, in a wave election, I think you could end up seeing Republicans who would otherwise have been in safe seats get wiped out. So it's going to be really unpredictable, I think, how some of this plays out. Surely in some states, they're better at carving these than others. But I love the notion of a government that's prohibited from judging us based on race. The American principle is that we should be judged as individuals created in God's image, not created in the image of whatever predetermined thing a sociologist that says defines us as a human being. Telling me that I'm a certain way because of my skin color or gender is sickening.
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John Solomon
Yeah. So many Americans nodding their head listening to you say that. Adam, Adam, congratulations on all the great work that you do at accuracy and media. Such high impact work, such transparency, such important stuff. We're so grateful every time you come on the show. Thanks for joining us.
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Adam Gillette
Hey, thank you so much for having me.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Love the work. All right. Good stuff, folks. We got a commercial break. Still one more segment to go. We're going to talk to one of our good friends, David Zier, about President Trump's historic executive order focused on nuclear strategic energy dominance. He got to go on a plane with Pete Hegseth this weekend and see one of these new nuclear reactors deployed to one of our military bases here in America. It was a historic moment for energy, a historic moment for military. We're going to make it a historic moment here at Real America's Voice. But first, a quick commercial break.
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John Solomon
Welcome back America. For our final segment tonight, we're going to turn to one of our favorites here at Real America's Voice. He's a correspondent. He's host of Breaking Point, a show you should definitely watch here on Real America's Voice. And over the last couple weeks he's traveled with Secretary Hegseth two weeks ago, this past weekend with Secretary Wright of the Energy Department, witnessing what an energy first dominant strategy looks like firsthand, including our Department of War. Good to have our good friend on David Zier. David, welcome back.
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David Zier
Hello John. It's great to be with you.
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John Solomon
All right. This was a pretty amazing set of trips you've been taking Department of War Undersecretary Michael Duffy. Energy Secretary Chris Wright delivering a new nuclear reactor in Utah. To our men and women of the fighting forces, tell us why this was a watershed moment in both energy and in military.
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David Zier
Yeah, it's a big deal, John. And I've been following the rapid capabilities under Trump, the defense acquisition executive order codified by the NDA. I've been with Space Command, with the Navy, with, with Hegseth and you know, building our submarines and at the Bath Ironworks in Maine where they make our guided missile destroyers. It's been an amazing run, but this is a game changer. And happy Chinese New Year today because they tested a new SMR or high temperature gas cooled reactor recently and they're pushing with the new Chinese industrial chain alliance in China with 60 organizations involved trying to get small scale nuclear reactors out at scale, but they can't do it like us. And this was the first trip I went out with the Secretary of Energy and the assistance under Secretary of War Mike Duffy out to March Air Force Base from Andrews Joint Base Andrews and then loaded up on a C17 with a nuclear reactor and bought a 5 megawatt device that was developed by Valor Technologies, incredibly young company in partnership with the US Government. It'll be tested with the Hill Air Force Base in Utah on its way to San Rafael, San Rafael testing facility in Utah. But this is a total game changer because the current landscape is, as Secretary Wright confirmed for me in a press gaggle and that we did a one on one interview with them as well, which will air on Breaking Point. But this Saturday morning, China and Russia have led the way on these small modular nuclear reactors and they, they're trying to proliferate them and Russia is selling them throughout Asia, but they can't do it like us and they can't deliver them at the speed and scale. Trump's executive order for nuclear executive orders. Along with Chris Wright, an MIT graduate who's been pushing for nuclear a nuclear renaissance in combination with all forms of energy, fossil fuels, speeding up permits on federal lands, fracking, natural gas and oil. This is a critical component if we want AI centered and if we want military installations independent of the grid and if we want manufacturing and we can't support the AI centers on the grid we currently have. So this is a total game changer. It's supposed to be tested by the 250 anniversary. This Ward 250 nuclear HTGR should be online for critical testing by the 250th anniversary and maybe in production within two years, which is just an extraordinary thing. And it's a great moment in US History. First time it's ever been transported on a plane.
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John Solomon
Yeah, this is a nuclear power plant that fits on a C130 airplane. I mean, it's just insane to think how much we've miniaturized nuclear power. It's safer, smarter, smaller footprint. This is a game changer. The President recently created an energy Dominance Council, putting it on par with the National Security Council and the Council of Economic Advisory. He has sent a message to the world, I guess, that energy dominance is national and economic security. Your thoughts on how much the President has moved this debate in America so quickly?
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David Zier
Well, if you, if you listen to the SMR small module reactor conversations from just two years ago when Biden was president, we were talking about not having these things online until 2030. 2030 to one in Abilene, one megawatt, one in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The that's 30 megawatts. This one was five megawatts. And it could be paired with four or five or six others. You could power Fort Bragg, the largest base in the country, with one of these things. You could open a base on another continent and not be dependent on their energy grid. You know, maybe for space exploration, too. You know, I interviewed the head of Space Command a few weeks ago. We're talking about maybe a moon base. And they're for real about this stuff. You know, if we can get to the moon before the Chinese do. The Chinese are a big threat. They're making a big play in space, launching 100,000 satellites. They want to have 100,000 orbits they secured. They can also maybe knock down our satellites in lower orbit with the direct energy laser. We really have to get on this and we have to start producing stuff. And the sea change is. The Trump administration is laser focused on this. Hegseth is laser focused in partnership with Department of Energy on getting private contractors to deliver this stuff fast. And they don't care if they, if they don't do it on time, they're going to fire these guys and move on. So it's a, it's a time in America.
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John Solomon
I was with someone today that knows the president pretty well, who said an impatient president makes for a productive administration. He wants things done now, and he gets it done. Amazing thing. David, real quick for people. How do they watch your Show?
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David Zier
Breaking Point, 8am on Real America's Voice. Download the app. We're already watching you. So it's great stuff. Thank you, John.
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John Solomon
Pretty awesome. I love it. Good to have you on this network. I'm very proud to be inside you. All right, folks, we're done for the night. We'll be back tomorrow, 6pm Eastern. Till then, God bless you.
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