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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, February 27th, 2026
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John Solomon
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John Solomon
Visit myfico.com free or download the MyFico app and take the mystery out of your FICO score. Good evening, America. Happy Friday 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, where today something we rarely see in American history occurred inside the United States Capitol. A former president compelled by subpoena to testify about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. That man, Bill Clinton, he held the line saying he had no idea that the man he would frequently visit with on his island and other places was involved in criminal activity. Now, obviously, there was a good body of evidence to the contrary. They went back and forth for a long period of time. And for the first time now, we'll get a better sense of what the Clinton said, what they knew, whether they created any new liabilities for themselves by giving answers that conflict with evidence. I want to remind everybody, I've said this for a few days now. The committee got evidence from the Epstein estate that isn't public yet. So we don't know exactly what things they could have confronted Bill Clinton with. I think we're going to learn a lot more. There's a rush to get those transcripts out. As soon as they become public, we're going to be right on top of that. That is just a few of the things that we're tracking here today. Another really important one, big tech. They are diving in on President Trump's pledge to have them build their own electric grids separate of the old antiquated grids that got even more unstable when solar and wind was fed into them during the Biden years and the Obama years. What President Trump put on the table, giving full license to those AI companies, those data center companies, build your own power sources, build your own grid will allow you to connect to the grid. That is a big win for the industry. It's a big win for ratepayers because it means that those of us who are on the traditional grid won't have to pay all the cost to expand it in order for those AI companies. That's just one of the many, many, many saving or money generating ideas that President Trump put on the table at his speech on Tuesday. And speaking of that speech, President Trump got some unusual praise in the past few days mission. Governor Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said nice things about him, saying he's doing a good job sending new business to Michigan. How about that? A man, no one ever thought that was going to happen. That wasn't on my punch card.
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Amanda Head
Cold day in hell. I think a lot of people would say that that was the likelihood of that happening. Going back to Bill Clinton's testimony and Hillary Clinton's yesterday as well. You know, there has been so much speculation about the nature of Jeffrey Epstein's business, whether it was a pedophile ring, which is, you know, the worst of the accusations, down to just a high profile elite escort type service. I feel sure that once the rest of these documents are released and what, when the American people learn what the FBI knows now, that will obviously be clarified much more. But that to me is the crux of the issue. It's the nature of the business. Because Bill Clinton, if he was there having consensual relations with someone, then that's not, that's not the crime. The crime is if it was someone who was underage. And you know, he, and, and his, his wife, the first former first lady, both have held the line saying, we didn't know, we haven't done anything. So.
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John Solomon
Yeah, yeah, you're exactly right. It's really exciting. Well, we got a great show today. In the second block of the show, we got one of the great prosecutors in American history, Joe diGenova, former U.S. attorney, the man who took down Marion Barry as a mayor on a cocaine charge many years ago. He's going to break all that down, Bill Cutting. But we're going to kick things off today with a little politics in one of the most important states in the country. Wisconsin Congressman Tom Tiffany, who's now running for governor, is a leading Republican. He joined us earlier this week. Have a listen to what we talked about. All right, folks, we're lucky to kick off tonight's show with a congressman who was down at the border many times before. It was the big story. He, he let us know what the Democrats are up to today. He's the leading candidate for Republican governor of the great state of Wisconsin. He is Congressman Tom Tiffany. Congressman, great to have you back on the show.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Good to join you, John and Amanda,
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John Solomon
I love the work you've done because I think as we learn more about these horrific cartels in Mexico that were attacked recently by the Mexican government, as we learn more about the Democrats and strategy in encouraging illegal aliens, we're starting to realize there was a comprehensive strategy, that the cartels were basically co conspirators with the Democrats who wanted to bring these illegal aliens into the country, traffic them here, then make them part of a system that would make it hard to extract them. I think your own departing governor in Wisconsin may have admitted as much. Tell us what struck you about Governor Ever's recent comments.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Yeah, so our governor in Wisconsin is saying that they're irreplaceable, that Wisconsin would basically shut down if we did not have illegal aliens in Wisconsin. And that's just really a slap in the face to all the hard working Wisconsinites that are out there to say that it's illegal labor that is keeping Wisconsin working.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, yeah. It's unbelievable to see. And I want to ask you about something else with respect to illegal immigration. Obviously you've got really, really high incentives for illegal immigrants to go home. A free flight home. I think that the stipend went up to $3,000 around Christmas. Now it's still at 2,600. That's a lot of incentive for people to go home. But Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant just gave them another reason and that is if you were here illegally, major, major taxes and possibly an inability to send money back home. And for some of these illegal immigrants, it's between 35 and 45% of their income that they are sending back to home countries. Is that kind of a workaround way of getting more illegals to sel?
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John Sommer
Yeah.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
The remittances issue, which has kind of been festering, it's been in the background for a long time, Amanda. And now that Secretary Besant has raised that issue, that really gets at the heart of it because there is so much money that has been sent back to other countries. I mean, I don't remember what the numbers were, but for Mexico, it's an enormous amount of their GDP is remittances that flow from the United States. So that would really hit at the heart of the illegal immigrants being here in America. For many of them, they would probably self deport at that point.
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John Solomon
Yeah, I think the figure that we had from a recent lawsuit I think was a Missouri's lawsuit is it's 52 billion or $52 billion a year that's getting sent back just to Mexico and like a quarter billion trillion dollars going out of the country to all foreign countries through remittances. It's just a stunning figure. There are two legs to the journey that get illegal aliens into the country. The first is getting them from their home countries to the border. And then the nonprofits take them from the border into the Sanctuary cities. You spent a lot of time back in 2022 interviewing illegal aliens from Colombia. How did they get there? What did they tell you about who was their journeymen bringing them to the United States?
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Yeah. So while they make the journey to the southern border. And of course, it was all unleashed on Joe Biden's first day in office in 2021, when he said, we are going to have open borders. So then you had, you know, tens of thousands, if not millions of people over four years that just began the proverbial gold rush to America. And there were a whole bunch of organizations that were facilitating this. I saw it in Panama at the Darien Gap with the United nations, but also at the border. The cartels controlled anyone that would come in and they were paying. People were paying usually 3 to $5,000. And we heard it directly from them. They had to pay that amount of money to be able to come in. Now, there were other more high valued people, like from China and places like that, that would pay significantly more, sometimes as much as 20 and 30 thousand dollars a year. That was all controlled by the cartels. And the cartels made a huge amount of money off from human trafficking.
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Amanda Head
Unbelievable.
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John Solomon
Amazing.
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Amanda Head
Congressman, President Trump has a really uncanny way of getting Democrats to fight some very, very strange positions. And I think that that is personified especially within the Maha movement, the Make America Healthy Again movement. And I know you spoke about this regarding Democrats claiming that putting whole milk, whole white milk into schools is white supremacy. How does that even make sense? Whole milk is so good for kids. It doesn't matter what your skin color is.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
It is amazing. So he signed this bill that whole milk could be served at schools once again. If you remember, it was over a decade ago, Michelle Obama was going to make all school lunches healthy once again. And if you talk to school lunch personnel, they would tell you, this is not good. It is not working. We're throwing away so much food, the kids won't eat the food. And they said, you cannot have whole milk. You can't even have 2% milk. So we had a bill that said, hey, you can serve whole milk in schools if you choose to. You can serve chocolate milk if you want to. And now there's a representative from the state of Oregon, I'm assuming from the Portland area, that is saying that whole milk is racist. White whole milk is racist. It is the craziest stuff you get from these people. And like you said, for some reason, when President Trump is involved, they just go full crazy.
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John Solomon
Yes, no doubt about it. So I want to talk a little bit about the second leg of the journey, because once illegal aliens get to the Texas or Arizona, California borders, their journey inward to the country was often facilitated by taxpayer dollars sent to nonprofit organizations who basically did the trafficking to the sanctuary Cities. We're about 13 months into the Trump administration. It seems to me that Congress, the Justice Department has an opportunity to either punish or stop those nonprofits from being able to do that in the future. It's basically trafficking illegals from one location all the way to the interior of the country, making it harder for them to be extracted. Kind of something that Governor Iwas was suggesting was a good thing. Is there a moment ahead of us where those nonprofits can get punished or that they're ability to attract future grants from the government to do that sort of work could be hindered?
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Well, I think we should. I mean, anyone that's going to engage in illegal behavior, they should be discouraged from doing that. And you know,
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John Solomon
they were.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
The Biden administration was even taking money from veterans programs and using that money to be able to facilitate people to be able to be transferred here in the United States to various parts of our country. Every state was a border state. And but yeah, you have these NGOs, including, and we called them out by name like Catholic Charities and others, that they were facilitating people coming into our country illegally. And while they were saying they were doing it for humanitarian purposes, I mean, that's not an excuse for facilitating something that is illegal going on in our country. And there should be accountability on that front. And I sure hope that we will take action and make sure that they're not eligible for funding from the federal government for, you know, undertaking actions like that.
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Amanda Head
Congressman, one of your colleagues from Wisconsin, I was with Chairman Brian Stile earlier this week talking about his new MEGA act that would basically supplement the Save America Act. But you guys had a pretty strong referendum in Wisconsin on a special election vote when it came to voters actually supporting voter ID and election integrity measures. Do you anticipate that that is the same level of support across the country? How do we get this across the finish line so that it could get enacted as soon as possible to secure elections?
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Yeah, I do think that support is really across the country. I mean, we see it's bipartisan. Republicans and Democrats agree we should have election integrity. It should be easy to vote, hard to cheat. And people agree with that. And we've seen it with our referendums in Wisconsin where illegal aliens should not be able to be eligible to register to vote. And you should have photo ID in order to be able to vote. And so if they're, if they're agreeing with that to the tune of 70 to 75% of the people in Wisconsin, you know, across the country, people are thinking the same way.
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John Solomon
Yeah. There's no doubt. Before we let you go, you've been traveling the state. You're the leading Republican candidate now. No other competition in the field. You're ready to go. What are the voters of Wisconsin telling you? What do they want to see from Washington? What do they want to see for their state as a new direction after years of Democrat rule?
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Yeah, I mean, they see that. Wisconsin, great state, wonderful people. But they know that there's so much potential there. And we're going to. Our message is that we're going to unlock that potential. When you look at our school system, 7 and 10 4th graders cannot read at grade level. We're in the bottom 10 states to start a new business. Our energy costs are now the second highest in the Midwest, used to be the second lowest. We've got all these things where Wisconsin is failing. We know we can do better and people across Wisconsin know we can do better. We need new leadership to make that happen. And that's what we're going to provide, is the leadership that's going to make Wisconsin one of the great states in America once again. Unlock that potential, make us one of the leaders.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Very important. It's going to be a watershed election, I suspect in November. Sir, always great to have you on the show. We always enjoy your insight. Thanks so much for joining us.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Great to join you. Amanda and John.
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John Solomon
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Amanda Head
Welcome back, everybody. After Hillary Clinton's deposition yesterday, she stated that she wants the truth to come out while accusing the House Oversight Committee engaging in partisan political theater. This, of course, raises an important question about transparency. Will individuals like Hillary and Bill Clinton be held accountable if there was wrongdoing? Joining us now to discuss this is former U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. and friend of the show, Joe diGenova. Joe, great to see you.
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Joe diGenova
Good morning.
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Amanda Head
I want to ask you about any instances in that interview that seemed concerning for Hillary Clinton. I expected her to inject a little bit more opportunity for, I guess, plausible deniability. But there were numerous instances where she answered the questions unequivocally. She said she had no knowledge of any of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. She had never met him. She really didn't leave any wiggle room for herself. What problems did you see for her testimony?
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Joe diGenova
Well, I think there are very, very few problems for Hillary. First of all, when you were as arrogant as Hillary Clinton is, you're arrogant for a reason. It's because you're a smart ass and you think you're smarter than everybody else. Who knows whether or not she stepped in it. I've always felt that the Epstein thing was a big waste of time. Nothing that's occurred over the past few weeks, including all the big stuff in England, has convinced me otherwise. All the criticism of the Justice Department about not prosecuting anybody, unfortunately for them, you need evidence to prosecute people. Some of this is unseemly. It's ugly. You wonder why people would have ever gotten close to this thug, this ugly, oleaginous creep. But the bottom line is this. I don't Expect much from Hillary. And she, she fulfilled my promises. And Bill Clinton. The only thing you need to know about Bill is his famous statement, it all depends upon what the meaning of is is. So questioning him, I'm sure will be troublesome for the committee members who are pretty lousy question askers.
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John Solomon
Yeah, that's always been a trick with Congress. They don't know how to interrogate like a great prosecutor like you do. Let me ask you about what I think the Epstein scandal was designed to distract from, which is these almost daily bombshells that are now coming out of the FBI and Justice Department files. We haven't gotten any accountability, but we have a level of visibility now to abuses that even I couldn't have imagined a few years ago. The President's chief of staff and FBI director being monitored by the FBI. Their phone records are taken. Allegedly. One consensual thing you've got now, the proof that we got out of Fani Willis, that she was coordinating directly with the Biden DOJ, Biden White House and J6 Democrats to create a double deputy, double drain, double resource drain on Trump by creating a state case that mirrored Jack Smith. And then you go to Arctic Frost, you go back to Crossfire Hurricane. How bad? I mean, you were inside these agencies in a different era where the rule of law still reigned. How bad are these violations? And do we have a prosecutable set of cases against those who ran the FBI and the intelligence community?
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Joe diGenova
Absolutely, there are prosecutable cases. That's the first thing. I wrote a memo for the administration early on, which I sent to the White House and to the Justice Department, which I never got a response from them about, which bothered me immensely because it showed the lack of seriousness and organization. It is very clear that President Trump and private citizen Trump was the victim of a, of a brazen plot conspiracy to deny him his civil rights, both as a candidate in 2016, as a private citizen thereafter, and as a candidate in 2020. The most shocking thing to me, that there has been no discussion whatsoever of the famous Susan rice memo on January 20, 2017, which she sent to herself establishing that on January 5, President Obama, Vice President Biden, John Brennan Clapper, the director of the FBI, the DOJ Attorney General, met in the Oval Office and discussed an investigation into the incoming President of the United States States. And the only thing Barack Obama could say was, do it by the book. This to me goes into a criminal conspiracy against Donald Trump. You may not be able to indict Obama, but he should be named as an unindicted co conspirator along with Susan Rice. This is a huge matter. It's been totally ignored. And I hope that the prosecutor down in Florida, Jason Redding Quinones, understands this. I don't know if he does. He's a very bright fellow. I don't know if he has the guts to do what has to be done in this. You cannot worry about the political fallout from this. You must do what is right. And doing what is right is indicting a group of CIA, FBI national security people for crimes against Donald Trump. People don't like Donald Trump. That's too bad. You don't have the right to frame him for crimes he didn't commit.
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Amanda Head
I think in the dictionary next to CYA there will be a PDF image of that Susan Rice memo. Joe, I want to ask you about the other side of lawfare. I am not convinced that all of the cases against President Trump that led into the 2024 election are done away with. And I also am not disillusioned into thinking that they won't continue to go after him after his presidency. Is there a high level of concern for you or do you think that now, especially now, he's has executive privilege that has been reaffirmed, that that is not necessarily great concern?
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Joe diGenova
Well, unfortunately, the presidential immunity may not help him in the cases in the state courts. And we now have seen a series of attorneys general and local prosecutors like Larry Krasner in Philadelphia make statements that they're going to, quote, get the president after he leaves office. You've heard people like Hakeem Jeffries, others make statements like that. This is very disturbing. It's unsettling in a democracy. But here's what the Democrats are doing. They're doubling down on dirty. They started the lawfare against Donald Trump in 2016. They have continued it to this day. He has not weaponized the Justice Department against them. He's investigating the crimes that they committed against him and others. And what the Democrats are going to do, or they say they're going to do, do, obviously if they take the House, they're going to impeach the president. They're going to try to, at least anyway. I don't think they'll ever be able to convict him in the Senate. But the bottom line is this. When I saw the other day that Cash Patel and Susan Wiles had had their phone records and other things seized by the FBI, and the thing that gave it away that it was dirty was when they said that Susan Wiles lawyer consented to the Monitoring of the call. I knew that was a lie. No lawyer had to be would ever consent to a conversation with his client being monitored by the FBI. And now we know that he has categorically denied that that occurred. That was a federal crime. That was the FBI illegally monitoring a private citizen. This is just the beginning of it. The grand juries for this need to be endless and they need to start tomorrow.
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John Solomon
Yeah. And there is pretty strong signs of a lot of activity in Fort Pierce right now. A lot of it seems, seems to be centered around John Brennan, who might be just an early figure in this. But there does seem to be some really substantial activity. I know a lot of people who've had the record subpoenaed. It does seem to be cranking up. I want to go down to what you were talking about with the Larry Krasners, because the reason they feel so emboldened to do it in the future is that it happened in the past with Alvin Bragg, with Fani Willis, with the Arizona Attorney General, with the Wisconsin Attorney general. And there's been no consequence. What we now see in these documents that Fani Will has tried to keep from just the news for three years. We win the lawsuit. And now you see she's coordinating every bit of this. The Biden White House says waive executive privilege for a state case. That's very rare. She gets that. We want your federal workers to testify here. They get their waivers. They, they. The January Six committee is not even done with its work. It's sending its material down to the state. And Jack Smith's going to indict President Trump for the same crimes, and then she's going to do something similar. It seems like this was a double drain, double jeopardy strategy where the feds and the states are all working together.
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Joe diGenova
There is no doubt about it. John, you've hit the nail on the head describing the facts and the circumstances. This was a conspiracy, in my view. This isn't. This isn't a complicated case. This is first year prosecution instruction. There was a conspiracy against Donald Trump. There have been several of them, several plots to harm him. And there is no doubt that that coordination between state and federal people under these circumstances, there's nothing wrong necessarily with state and federal coordinating to solve crimes. But when you're doing it to deny someone their civil rights, that's an entirely different thing. It'll be a great defense for them to present that they were only trying to protect the republic from Donald Trump. But, you know, it'll have to be a defense. It's not going to be something that's going to prevent an indictment. I believe that Fanny Willis and Jackson Smith should be indicted. I believe that the time for that is long overdue and I hope that Fort Pierce and Miami are considering it.
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Amanda Head
If she is indicted, Fani Willis, and if she skates through the system and she ends up relatively unscathed on the other side, what. What is there as a deterrent to people in the law community? Is it professional shaming? Is it firing from their law firms? What is it that can disrupt people in the law community from doing this again?
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Joe diGenova
Well, I'm not sure she's going to skate. First of all, these cases are not going to be brought on her home territory. They're going to be brought in Florida. They're not going to be brought in Washington D.C. where you have biased juries and regrettably, may I say, biased federal judges. I have never seen a more disgraceful group of federal judges than the one in my old courthouse in Washington DC. It's simply awful. By the way, bar associations are not going to disbar any of these people unless they're committed a crime. All bar associations in this country are left wing hangouts. They're disgraceful. Look what they did to Rudy Giuliani. Absolutely outrageous. In New York and D.C. totally unnecessary. Being disbarred for making arguments in court that the other side doesn't like and they just happen to control the penalty system. System. Ridiculous. But Fanny Willis needs to be indicted and so does Jack Smith. And even if they're acquitted, that's a signal. You want to do this kind of stuff. You want to corrupt the federal law enforcement process, you want to corrupt the state law enforcement process, you're going to pay a price. In that sense, I believe in what the Democrats say. The punishment is the process.
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John Solomon
Before we let you go, when you look at a conspiracy like this, is the deprivation of civil liberties the primary concern, conspiratorial crime that you see?
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Joe diGenova
Oh, absolutely. They denied him the right to be a candidate, the right to vote, the right to free speech. Remember he had gag orders imposed on him while he was a candidate for president. That was all a direct result of this conspiracy.
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Amanda Head
Joe, we always love having your insight on all of these things. Wonderful. Wonderful to have you. Former U.S. attorney for Washington D.C. joe DeGeneres. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. You, sir.
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Joe diGenova
Thank you, guys.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. All right, everybody. Coming up next, we're going to take a look at what can be done to ensure America wins the AI race against China and other nations.
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Visit myfico.com free or download the MyFico app and take the mystery out of your FICO score. Welcome back America. My amazing colleague Amanda Head wrote a really great story about the big ideas that President Trump laid out in his State of the Union address earlier this week. One of those ideas was to create an AI autonomy for our electric grid. We're building these data centers at big speed. For decades, America was not on the ball when it came to upgrading its grid. So the President and came up with an idea. Let the AI industry, the big tech industry, make its own grid, take the pressure off of ratepayers and off their off public works projects which tend to be slow and over budget, and let the lean mean fighting machines of the industry carry that on. So one of the many big issues policymakers are grappling with right now as they lean into the future of an AI dominated economy. Joining us right now at expert in all things AI as well as content matter, moderation, free speech and antitrust policy. He's the director of policy at Net Choice, a good friend of the show, Patrick Hedger. Patrick, welcome back.
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Patrick Hedger
Hey, thank you for having me.
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John Solomon
I've looked at some early polling and a lot of the ideas that President Trump put on the table seem to be very popular, whether for 1k subsidies or this idea that you can save ratepayers some pain and some public policy holders some shame if you let the grid get updated by big tech, which knows how to do it quicker, smarter and faster rather than the old way, which of course left America a little antiquated on its grid. What do you know about that idea and do you think it's a game changer for AI in America?
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Joe diGenova
Yeah.
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Patrick Hedger
What's really exciting about this is it shows that the government is getting behind what the industry is practically been begging to do. Really, the thing that has stopped the upgrades to the grid has been regulatory delays. So it's great to see that the federal government, led by the president is saying we're going to let upgrades to the grid happen. We're going to look at innovative solutions to get more power onto the grid and forget AI for a second. As important as that is, if we're talking about building new housing, new manufacturing in this country, these are upgrades that should have been made to the grid decades ago. So what's exciting about AI is it's, it's companies with deep pockets that have the ability to actually see a lot of these solutions through and are addressing problems that we really should have addressed decades ago.
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John Solomon
Yeah, great point.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, it's incredible to see. I want to ask you, as John alluded to at the top though, when it comes to regulation, you know, the federal government, President Trump, his, his wife, the first lady of the United States are obviously very big proponents of AI and they understand the value of it. But there are going to be states out there who are really trying to, to regulate that. They're not all going to regulate on the same level. When this is that this is something that is so Interconnected. How, how do you do that without it turning into a tangle, a tangled nightmare?
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Patrick Hedger
Yeah, that's a really good question. And it's also concerning because AI is really the future of all software. Something that AI czar David Sachs at the White House has said is, is that all software will be AI someday. And so if you create regulatory structures that allow political actors to put their thumbs on the scale in terms of the type of outputs that are being prod these AI systems, you're really granting a lot of power to government. And that's not something that we want to see, particularly among partisan political actors at the state level who could be putting in place different types of values through policy on AI systems from state to state. That's just not going to work. We want AI based in truth. And that's why it's ultimately best to let the market compete to offer the customer the best AI and most accurate AI solutions system.
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John Solomon
Yeah. The big policy challenge for our country in the next couple of years is do we create a federal overarching framework that states follow or do we let the states carve this up and New York regulates Runway, Texas regulates another way? And you have basically the climate change disaster that we had in the energy EPA space for two decades. Big reason that grid didn't get updated. Where do you think this is tilting? Do you think that there's enough consensus that a federal framework will become the norm? Or do you think the states want to carve it up yelling states rights?
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Patrick Hedger
You know, if you look at the previous information age, the dawn of the Internet, a federal framework is what allowed for America to produce the world leading technology companies that we have today that are poised to deliver American AI dominance around the globe in the future. But so we have to understand that a overarching federal framework for this technology is ideal. It's what is probably the best guarantee of continued American dominance in this important technology space. But there are certain things that states can do. I think we need to enhance this discussion a little bit by talking about the different types of regulations that are out there. There are regulations that insert bureaucrats into the innovation and design process, and then there are regulations that target specific misuses of technology. And we need to focus more on the latter there. And there's nothing wrong with states going after bad actors misusing technology, but there are big problems with inserting 50 different state bureaucracies into designing AI systems.
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John Solomon
Yeah, good point.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. I want to ask you about the competition that we have with other nations because there are a lot of folks out There who are concerned that artificial intelligence will atrophy human intelligence. I think that's a valid concern. However, it doesn't allow us to step out of this fight, especially when it comes to being up against nations like China, because somebody's going to win it. We need it to be us.
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John Solomon
Yeah.
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Patrick Hedger
And it really is a two horse race because of regulation. The Europeans regulated themselves out of having any sort of tech sector capable of producing the AI revolution that we're seeing here in the United States. Fortunately, China does have companies that are able to compete with American firms and produce models that are powerful enough and rival the capabilities of American firms. But we want to your point about how is AI going to serve us? We want AI systems that are built and developed by Americans and instilled with American values. And that I think is really important to have. We're not going to to get AI systems with Western values built by the Europeans simply because they are way too far behind in the technology space.
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John Solomon
Yeah, there's another element and it's been around as long as there's been development in the United States called nimby, not in my backyard. And we're seeing a little bit of that going on now as data centers get a bad rap in some communities. Now obviously taking pressure off the grid and utility prices will ease some of that. But I think another part of it is people not realizing what these data centers are going to bring to a community in terms of job tax revenue and tax base and other opportunities. What's being done to educate communities that are about to face a decision on a data center or some other component of the infrastructure to make sure they understand the full picture, not just the NIMBY dynamic that often crops up when these things happen in a community.
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Patrick Hedger
Yeah, there's an uphill battle right now about data centers because there's a lot of misinformation out there about what these things actually do and the impact that they have. And what we've been seeing in terms of electricity prices is that so far data centers are actually helping to suppress otherwise large cost increases to the grid because data centers are able to absorb a lot of fixed costs to the grid, but we do need more electricity capacity going forward. And that's what was so exciting about the President's announcement of the state of the opinion last night. But data centers do have really great economic knock on effects to the rest of the community. It attracts other employers because employers know that that community has an educated workforce. And then the data centers themselves are producing direct jobs that are often six figures and can go to people with nothing more than a high school degree as long as they get the proper training. So there are really big benefits here. And of course you have to understand that data centers aren't just about AI. It's about storing all of the important information in your day to day life that your hospital uses, that your employer uses, that your bank uses, doing it in a secure and efficient way. And I think those are, those are benefits that are often overlooked.
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John Solomon
Yeah, that's a really great point. You said something. I just want to close the loop on this. Really. What could be happening in the air revolution is the 30 year delayed opportunity to force our grid to update in ways that it just hasn't done. How will we know that's underway? When will we begin to see the real impact of mini grids connecting together and getting around the normal infrastructure, shovel ready job mentality that kind of slowed down prior infrastructure projects?
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Patrick Hedger
Well, the new demand is already showing up, up and it's in, it's creating new investments in opening up preexisting nuclear plants that have previously been mothballed, that are still useful, can still provide a tremendous amount of reliable, clean power to the grid. And then you're already seeing initiatives around actually trying to reduce regulatory time frames around getting new power sources connected to the grid as well. So again, there's a real demand, demand push here that didn't really exist to a sufficient scale beforehand to force some of these things that we really need to do if we want to onshore manufacturing jobs, we want to build more housing and if we want to win the air race.
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John Solomon
Yeah, so important. Patrick. We always get a great education. I always feel like I'm a little bit smarter. Not as smart as AI, but I feel a little smart every time I talk to you. Great to have you on the show, my friend. Thanks so much.
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Patrick Hedger
Thank you for having me.
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John Solomon
Yeah, great conversation. Great, great future ahead of us folks, but a lot of things to work through before we get there. All right, we've got a lot more after the break. Stay tuned. We'll be right back.
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Amanda Head
Welcome back everybody to just the news. No noise. One of the rising crimes across the country is home title theft. And it seems like every time we have our guest on the show, we have a new story. It is absolutely alarming how much this is growing and the fact that it's getting so brazen. Insiders in the industry who are committing this crime. So I am delighted to bring in our guest today, John Sommer. He is an Emmy and a multi Award winning journalist and he now is out getting the word out about this crime. John, great to see you.
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John Sommer
Great to see you Amanda. And John as well. And yeah, like the last time we talked, we're talking again about a trusted individual. And the last time we talked it was a trust quote unquote attorney in Manhattan who was stealing the titles of his clients homes and then leveraging it, selling it, taking out loans, whatever. In this case we have a real estate agent in what Johnny? Amanda, this is your old territory. Johnny Carson used to call it beautiful downtown Burbank. Well, it isn't so beautiful for this older fella who had his ID stolen by this real estate agent. And then they also created fake documents for another real individual who didn't know this was happening, sold the house from the guy that owned the house, $1.5 million to this other guy who didn't know he was buying the house. And then they pretended to be the guy that supposedly bought the house. I know, it gets confusing. And they went to a loan company and they took over out almost a million dollar loan on the old guy's house in Burbank and they just got caught. The feds had to get involved because in California, in some jurisdictions is not considered to be a criminal event. It's civil. In my case in San Luis Obispo County, I work with the DA here and it is a criminal crime. In fact, they set up a special cyber division just to deal with this kind of a crime. But John and Amanda, it is growing and there are so many different ways that people do this crime. And here's another one.
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John Solomon
It's stunning and, and it's heartbreaking. And it took the feds, like you said, this is a U.S. justice Department. Federal prosecution is a big deal. We haven't seen many of those in the past. On home title theft is a sign that the FBI and others are starting to really grow concerned about it. The big thing every time we hear one of these stories is the victim is completely unaware. They're just going about thinking life is just great. And all of a sudden something shows up in their mailbox saying you owe $2,000 a month on a loan or you don't own your house anymore. Why does that happen? For folks watching and maybe it's the first time they've heard of this crime. Why is it that the homeowner is the last person to find out that their house has been fake stolen from them?
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John Sommer
Because John, most people just don't monitor or even think about monitoring their title or deed to their home or property. I mean, it could be anything. It can be open land, it can be an airbnb, it, an apartment complex, grandma's house. It doesn't make any difference. Most people simply don't think about it as a kind of a crime that they can be a victim of until it's way too late. And then in most cases, you have to go through the civil system, hire an attorney, go through the courts. It takes years sometimes. Sometimes people get evicted. It's a horrible crime. And again, John and Amanda, in most cases, it's the bulk of people's estates, you know, and you lose that. You lose everything.
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Amanda Head
Terrifying.
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John Solomon
It really is a problem.
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Amanda Head
So you brought up something that in much of California, with the exception of San Luis Obispo and some other localities, this is a civil crime. It's not a criminal crime in a lot of places across this country. So if it happens, the reason that there is an organization like yours is because if you don't have it, you're kind of screwed.
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John Sommer
To be indelicate, yes.
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Amanda Head
To use a journalistic term,
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John Sommer
but yeah, exactly. I mean, and I think what you're referring to, Amanda, is that you do need a system to be able to monitor your title or your deed. I work with a company, Home Title Lock, and they do just that. In fact, they do three things. They monitor your title 24 7. You can't possibly do that. I always say you're not going to take a mattress down to the county clerk's office and check your title and every few minutes. Even so, it still can be taken from you. It's so fast. Then Home Title Lock will alert you if there's something fishy going on. And then they work with you, with their own team, up to a million dollars to be able to restore your title. Because as we said otherwise, in most cases, you have to go through the civil system. It's very expensive hiring an attorney, going through that whole morass. And this is just an inexpensive way of covering yourself and your properties and not having to really think about it unless and until something happens and they let you know.
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John Solomon
Back in November. I was thinking of you when I saw this story. I was up in New York. New York Times had a story about a gentleman from the Queens who was charged with dozens of crimes. He basically committed home title theft in dozens of jurisdictions all around the country. He used so many names, the prosecutors admitted they didn't know his real name. But the fraud was a mammoth. Like, we're talking a dozen or two dozen victims across half A dozen states. It seems as though more and more criminals are picking up on this vulnerability, that we aren't going to be checking our title. So I can victimize you and be gone, assume a new identity before I come back and get you, or before you can come and get me. The rate of growth of this crime, particularly in the cyber era, really seems to be picking up.
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John Sommer
You nailed it, John. And that's exactly it. With the introduction of the Internet and now with AI, which is scary to me, you can be anybody, anywhere, anytime, and impersonate someone else and take the title or the deed and then leverage it however way you want to do it, and then you're gone. And in most cases, they can't catch you until it's way too late. In the case of the guy in Queens, they got. I know that story. They got him. In the case of Manhattan, they got that attorney there. And in New York, it is now considered to be a crime. But most states it's still civil. And then you have to go through that civil system and it's just a mess. So get a security system like Home Title Lock. They are the best. They're the pioneers in the business, John and Amanda. And we have a code that they can use to get a 30 day free trial. It's jtn, just the news. And you can try it out for 30 days, do your own due diligence. I'm sure that once you see how it works, they'll do a free scan on your house or property. And once people see it, it's not expensive. I think that they'll just, you know, work with Home Tidelock because it's peace of mind.
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Amanda Head
How hard is it to sign up? Like, what is the process to submit all the information to Home Title Lockdown?
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John Sommer
Just go on their website, hometitlelock.com they'll guide you through it. Very easy. And you know, all of that information, you know, your, your title has a, a number attached to it. So every single property you can, you can see online, just go online to the county clerk's office and you can see anybody's property. It's there for the taking unless you protect yourself.
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John Solomon
Yeah, I did it. It was, you know, maybe I had three properties I wanted to do because I wanted to protect some family properties. Took me about 20 minutes and it cost me less than maybe a half hour's consultation with a lawyer, which I would probably be paying tens of thousands of dollars to. God forbid something happened to the property. It is such an easy solution, folks. I don't know why you got to try it. It's definitely worth doing.
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John Sommer
They've got their own team of legal people, experts there too. So yeah, they'll guide you through it. It's not a big deal.
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John Solomon
It's not expensive, it's not really easy.
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Amanda Head
And considering the protection you get, it is absolutely priceless. Emmy and multi award winning news anchor and investigative reporter John Sommer. Always pleasure having you with us.
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John Sommer
Likewise. Thanks Amanda and John. You guys take care. Have a great weekend.
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Amanda Head
Same to you. Same to you. All right, everybody, and to our viewers, if you are looking to protect your home from the growing crime of home theft, visit hometitlelock.com to get a free title history report. Home title lock provides 24 hour monitoring, urgent alerts and if you are ever a victim of home title theft, their restoration team will spend up to $1 million to fix the fraud and restore your title. They call it the million dollar triple lock protection. And you can get a free trial of their million dollar triple lock protection by going to hometitlelock.com and use the promo code jtn. That's hometitle lock.com promo code jtn. All right everybody, stay tuned. We've got much more coming up on the other side. Welcome back everybody to our final segment of the show. John, my former governor, well, he's still governor. It's my former state of California. Gavin Newsom was talking about the Save America Act. And this is an issue as we've talked about extensively. It's 80, 20 at worst. In some says it's 8515. The American people by and large support voter ID and these security measures that are in the secure or the Save America Act. But Gavin Newsom has a new line that he is using to defend what Democrats want. Check it out.
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John Solomon
What is the one thing he connects all the dots to? The people he admires? They all have one thing in common. They're competitive. Authoritarians, I mean, or behind and Putin the rest. I think Putin got what, 87.3% of the last vote. They love elections. I said fair and free elections, the illusion of elections, the voting rolls. Pam Bondi tried to take them from California months and months ago. We're in litigation before she tried to do in exchange for troops moving out of Minnesota, wanting the election rolls. What is that about? Wake up folks. What's the Save act about? I was just down in the South. It's not just about IDs, it's about registration. Who can vote?
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Amanda Head
John, According to Gavin Newsom, the Save act is not about proving who you are to vote. It's about blocking people out. It's about making sure that the people you want to vote can vote and the people who can't can.
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John Solomon
There is empirical proof on this. It's the state of Georgia. They did. Voter ID and voter voter participation went substantially up. The Save America act is about making easier to vote and harder to cheat. And the opposition to it is really should be called the Save California act because Democrats would not be nearly as competitive as they are in California and other blue states without these sort of corruptions of the election system. What do I mean by corruptions? Sending everybody a ballot whether they ask for it or not. Keeping your voter rolls dirty. All these things get defeated. All these things get defeated by the Save Act. And that's why guys like Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer and we can go all around the country are panicked. And the Supreme Court has the other two parts of this Democrat system counting votes after election Day. That's the Mississippi case and then racial gerrymandering, which I think the Louisiana case will strike down. The Democrats are panicked because if these four things happen, Save act with voter ID and citizenship check, end of racial gerrymandering and no counting votes after Election Day. The strategy that Democrats have used for most of the last 20 years are gone. And when you look at the demographics of the map, it's becoming a redder country every day.
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Amanda Head
And this is the message from House Republicans to Senate Republicans, including Leader John Thune. You can either save America by passing the Save America act or you can save Democrats. Because in the absence of the Save America act, that's what it does. All right, everybody, we'll be back here tomorrow night at 6:00pm Eastern.
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John Solomon
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