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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, January 13th, 2025
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Amanda Head
This is an iHeart podcast, Guaranteed Human.
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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 as always from the nation's capital here in Washington, D.C. i want to begin tonight with a little more on that Somali fraud scandal rocking the state of Minnesota. Now everybody keeps asking, will there ever be anyone put in handcuffs? Will anyone get arrested? Will anyone pay a price for what's happened to the American taxpayer and the American citizen? Well, today I interviewed Minnesota Congressman and majority WIC Tom Emmer, and he broke some pretty important news. There's, there's some new evidence that he says could put Governor Tim Waltz in handcuffs. Listen to this.
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Dr. Greg Cinnamon
Now there are, there are whistleblowers out there. Expect one or more of them to start going under oath or offering affidavits that are signed affidavits under oath that they not only told Tim Walz about the fraud while it was happening, but that Tim Walls ignored them and in many cases retaliated against them.
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Coach Bruce Pearl
And.
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John Solomon
Pretty, pretty strong stuff. And later on he says, I think this is the material that could lead to the indictment of Governor Waltz. We'll have all of that over at the John Solomon Reports podcast. Go check it out. Now let's turn to Bill and Hillary Clinton. There may be facing some prosecution soon as well. They refuse to testify before the House Oversight Committee in that investigation into the latest sex offender of Jeffrey Epstein. And the committee's chairman, James Comer said he he's going to pursue contempt charges just like what Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro faced. Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a letter posted on Exit they do not plan to appear for their scheduled depositions this week. They wrote every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country, its principles and its people, no matter the consequences or no matter the fact that they're going to deny some truth anyways. That was in the Clinton's eight page letter. A lot of people talking about that's been trending all day on social media. Tonight we're going to have some more new details about that Somali fraud and specifically the movement around money around the country. We told you last week $700 million departed the Minneapolis airport in suitcases. I'm not making this up. It's logged in the Transportation Security Administration's own records. Well, we now know that some of that money started in another Somali community in Columbus, Ohio, about 130 million of it moves from Columbus to Minnesota, Minnesota, overseas, like we told you, to Dubai. A lot of people concerned about that foreign trail and what may be going on. Senator Rand Paul talking about it earlier today. Now, we've got amazing guests for you all. So long. Before we get to them, I want to turn to my amazing ghost, Amanda Head. Amanda, a lot of other things going on, including at the Supreme Court today.
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Amanda Head
I just got to say an eight page letter. If you're explaining, you're losing.
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John Solomon
Yeah, that's right.
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Amanda Head
If you need eight pages to explain why you're not going to show up.
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Coach Bruce Pearl
Yeah.
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Amanda Head
All right. So before I get through the rest of my stories, I wanted to mention the Supreme Court. They heard arguments today, of course, in cases involving protecting women's sports. Now, we have a very special guest that we're going to be getting to in just a minute to talk about that. So stay tuned. But first, are we at the beginning of an economic boom in America, while President Trump stated exactly that earlier today in Detroit. Take a listen.
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Steve Yates
But we're already growing double, triple and.
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Coach Bruce Pearl
Even quadruple the speed of almost every other major economy on earth with the number one economy on Earth too.
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Steve Yates
And the results are in.
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Coach Bruce Pearl
And the Trump economic boom has officially begun. In four years of Biden, they secured less than $1 trillion of new investment in the United States. So four years, less than 1 trillion. In less than one year, I have secured commitments for over $18 trillion from all over the world, the most ever for any country.
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Amanda Head
And the president's right. A lot of experts agree that a big part of the economic upturn has come because he has been able to secure trillions of dollars of international investments in just one year. Now, those remarks come in the wake of favorable economic data showing the December inflation rate was sitting just at 2.7%. And before we get to our first guest, I just need to get to this. People magazine is taking heat for their obituary on Dilbert creator Scott Adams, who passed away from cancer earlier today. So here is the People headline for the late Scott Adams. It reads, scott Adams, disgraced Dilbert creator dies at 68. Now, of course, Adams is famous for recently, recently for taking the side of President Trump in the 2016 election and explaining why he was likely to win the election when practically everyone else was saying that Hillary Clinton was going to come out victorious. And he created a big following of like minded conservatives and independent thinkers alike on his Daily show in the years since since then. So it's no wonder media outlets like People would take one last shot at him while announcing his death. John, can you imagine if a conservative publication put out a headline like that about someone who was perceived to be.
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John Solomon
On the other side, like Jimmy Carter, like, would have been killed. Yeah, that's right. The rules don't apply to that.
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Amanda Head
I don't think taste runs through the news bureau at People magazine.
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John Solomon
Crazy. Really remarkable.
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Amanda Head
Unbelievable.
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John Solomon
Well, one of the things that I'm super excited about talking about, we saw today this historic argument to protect women's sports. This is ruling. When it comes down in June, the Supreme Court will decide the fate of women's sports all across this country. Can states keep men out of that court, out of that field? We believe so. And some of the justice today, Amanda, sounded like they were thinking that way. But here to give us an update on what he thinks. He's one of the greatest basketball coaches ever to grace the court. He led Auburn. Yes. Amanda's school's basketball team for many years and one of the most successful. I know he's also one of the most courageous voices in sports today. Joining us right now, coach Bruce Pearl. Coach, great to have you here.
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Coach Bruce Pearl
Great to be with you, John and.
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John Solomon
Amanda, this is a pretty big day. The Supreme Court is deciding whether a man can run around and call himself a woman and get in women's sports. The justices seem pretty dubious, at least the conservatives did, of the. And the liberal lawyer sort of arguments. But I'd like to get your take. It's really changed the arc of women's sports. There are women that are really crushed by what's happened, right?
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Coach Bruce Pearl
Yeah, there are, John. And I'm old enough to be around before Title nine. I'm old enough to remember when we weren't having women in sports and girls weren't given the same opportunities. When that changed this country, changed. Women's athletics obviously changed our campuses changed, brought more women to the college campuses because now they had another reason to go, which then brought more men. Would make sense, right? I've been on the court, I've been in the weight room, I've been in the training room with women that work so hard, just as hard, don't have as many people watching our games, don't have quite the same athletic scholarships, even though there's Title ix. They're entitled to be able to compete on an equal and fair playing field. And the fact that we're even having this discussion in this country is crazy. That we're thinking that somehow it's okay for boys to play in girls sports. John, our job is to protect our women, protect our girls. I Want to protect my grandchildren. And so hopefully the Supreme Court has enough sense to rule this out. I'm hoping for seven and two. Yeah.
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John Solomon
Wouldn't that be.
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Coach Bruce Pearl
Should be.
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John Solomon
Yeah.
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Amanda Head
When you look at the crowd who was gathered outside the Supreme Court today, I kind of get the sense that even though this case is just now hitting the Supreme Court, sentiment has already moved. Because you look at the crowd of people who are fighting to have men in women's sports, it's a smaller crowd, it's a more radical crowd. And then you look at the other side and it's just kind of everyday people who are fighting for, like John said, common sense.
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Coach Bruce Pearl
Yeah. You know, Amanda, being there and seeing many of the female athletes and recognizing some of them, knowing that they've had their medals taken from them, maybe scholarships taken from them, opportunity taken away from them because a boy decides I can't compete with the boys. So I'm going to identify as a woman and now I'm going to go ahead and compete with the girls where I got a chance to win. That's just obviously fundamentally wrong. But, you know, you go to a lot of these protests and, you know, you know, my advocacy for Israel, I'm a loudmouth Jewish basketball coach. We get that. But when I go to these rallies and I go to rallies, you know, for Hamas and for Palestine, I'm looking for people that look like Palestinians. I don't see them. I mean, they're all like paid activists who are chanting from the river to sea without sure what river and what sea and so forth. You know, you sort of felt the same way today. Like, I didn't see. Not that I would necessarily recognize somebody that was being transsexual, but looked like a bunch of protesters or a lot of left leaning Democrats that were cheering for something because we were cheering for common sense. They were protesting obviously for something else.
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John Solomon
There are some real protesters on the street of Iran. It's extraordinary what's happening now. A fight for freedom that we haven't seen at least since 2009 when the Green revolution occurred and President Obama didn't have the courage to leave and President Trump has. What do you think happens? What's your hope for that region?
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Coach Bruce Pearl
It kind of breaks my heart that there aren't thousands of students on Columbia's campus right now supporting these courageous Iranians who are really, truly oppressed for such a time as this. We've got a president right now that's not afraid to lead. I'm an America first, not an America only. But when America first requires leadership around the world. We are safer and we are better off when we're willing to take a position. We were void of that for four years. And look at what President Trump inherited. Look, Iran's got to figure it out themselves. But hearing President Trump's voice and warnings to the leadership to not harm those citizens from peaceful protests and if they step out of line, something is going to happen. It's clear. It's not just don't. Okay? It's more than just that. And he's demonstrated that, that he's willing to obviously take some action and it's not dragged us into wars. I just want to be on the side of truth. I want to be on the side of what's right. I want to be courageous, and I want the good people of Iran to be able to have some of the same freedoms. I want women. You talk about, we talk about women's rights and sports, we're talking about women's rights just to, you know, to not have to wear a hijab or to be able to speak or be able to marry who they want. These are things that we should be standing up and protesting. And so I'm glad our president is.
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John Solomon
Is leading Europe a little courage, too, because the German chancellor came out saying was pretty strong for the first time. And I think he's creating a wave of courage in a place where they're often isn't, and that's in Europe.
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Amanda Head
So I want to ask you, what happens if the Ayatollah, if the regime falls? Iran has proxies all over that region. What message does it send if the regime falls? And does it snuff out those proxies?
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Coach Bruce Pearl
It might snuff out those proxies, but thanks to the United States and the state of Israel, those proxies ain't what they used to be. Okay, Hezbollah was a real, real threat in Lebanon. They're not anymore. Hamas has been virtually defeated, which, by the way, we need to continue to finish phase one and disarm Hamas, then we can move forward with the peace. Syria has changed. And so right now the proxies aren't quite that Yemen isn't as strong as what they were. And you know what happens is like in the Iraq war, when scuds. When we're at war with Iraq, right? Who is getting bombed and missiled? Not New York City, not L. A, but Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. And what the prime minister of Israel has said, he's supporting President Trump, saying, do what you got to do. We're there with you. We'll take the brunt of it if necessary because the people of Iran deserve that freedom. I'm not worried about the proxies anymore.
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John Solomon
That's amazing, amazing thing to say because four years ago they were so strong and causing so much havoc around the world. Shipping lines, everything. I want to turn to the state of college campuses. You were on one for a very long time. We saw this progression from a DEI Marxist philosophy to anti Semitism to anti Americanism. One or two generations have come out their program that way. Even on the right, you have people that are freedom loving and yet they still have these weird sentiments that seem to have embedded in them in the university timeframe. How are we doing in rooting that out of the academic system, getting back to teaching the basics and not indoctrinating?
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Coach Bruce Pearl
I think President Trump is calling it out. He's withholding funds from universities that aren't protecting their Jewish students. They're recognizing, you know, why are some of these countries investing all this money on college campuses? What's their motivation? And so I think it was obviously a real concern. But I think that again, under President Trump's leadership, there is less of it. We got to have all students be able to be on campus and be able to be safe. Look, anti Semitism is not going anywhere. When I talk about it's never going to be gone. We just have to recognize it, obviously combat it. And it's interesting for me when I hear Prime Minister Netanyahu talking about really lowering the amount of aid that the United States needs to give Israel. Israel needed that aid to survive. They're doing better now. And I think Prime Minister Netanyahu is recognizing that the American dream's not as available to young Americans. And they're beginning to look at, well, why are we spending all this money.
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Tim Stewart
All over the world?
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Coach Bruce Pearl
I think he's sending the Americans a message, you know what? Okay, we're getting there. We're going to be okay. You know what? We're not going to. We don't need the 3.8 billion anymore. We're going to wean ourselves from it. Because you're right, the average age of a home buyer should not be 40. It should be back to in the upper 20s. I think it's an interesting. I hope these things get taught on a college campus so that, that people will realize, look, Israel is a great ally, maybe our, our best ally, there's no doubt.
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Amanda Head
Before we let you go, obviously Auburn is my utmost concern when it comes to collegiate atmospheres. But I look at the cool at the schools across the SEC and the atmosphere that's there compared to a lot of the Ivy Leagues that we've talked about, Columbia, Harvard, where anti Semitism is allowed to fester. It's amazing to me that the sec, you don't see that. It's almost like these other conferences are becoming the new Ivy leagues as the Ivy League is faltering.
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Coach Bruce Pearl
Amanda, I think it has a great to do with our evangelical Christian friends. I think there are more people in the south that go to church. And when you go to church, you learn about Jesus and you learn that he was Jewish his whole life and you learned that 12 Jewish men died horrific deaths bringing the greatest religion in the world. I'm not saying need to say thank you. I'm just saying recognize that that connects us. And I think in the South, I think that's taught. And so as a result, I feel far less anti Semitism in the south than I did when I grew up in Boston. It's completely different. So I just always want to have an opportunity to shout out to my Christian friends, thank you for standing with Israel. If you think for one Second back in 1948, Israel loses the war, Jews lose who takes over. There's no more going to the Garden of Gethsemane to visit. There's no more going to the Western Wall. If East Jerusalem was the capital of some Palestinian state, how many Jews or Christians would be able to go there, live or visit? And the answer is none. This is not, this is a no brainer. But unfortunately, because of social media and lots of other things that are out there, our students aren't hearing the truth.
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John Solomon
Coach, I'm just going to say as I was talking to someone the other day, he's in a profession that he's very successful at, but he's afraid to speak his mind. He says, when I, if I, if I weren't in this profession, I won't identify the profession and put my success that I would really speak on because I feel this way. And I said, you know, I know this coach. He was one of the most successful coaches that ever graced it. And he was never afraid to go and put his values up front and no one ever really punished him. He got it done. You encourage so many people. For all those silent people, silence is complicity. Now, you have never done that. And I just want to congratulate you. You are really a remarkable, remarkable man.
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Coach Bruce Pearl
Well, John, Amanda, thank you. I do think it was how I was raised. I think it sort of is a responsibility and I do encourage young people. Look, you got to take care of your family, families first and foremost. But when you work for somebody or with somebody, they need to know who you are. They need to know what you represent. And if that's not something they're comfortable with, then that's not somebody you probably want to work with.
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John Solomon
And for amen to that. I agree.
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Amanda Head
Not in my foxhole.
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John Solomon
That's exactly right. Well, I'm lucky to be surrounded by two Auburn extraordinary.
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Amanda Head
We are foxhole buddies for sure.
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John Solomon
I'm or eagle. I'm a little bit. I need a little help. You guys are awesome. Coach, thank you. Thank you for what you do and thank you for that great, powerful voice. All right, folks, we're taking a quick commercial break. When we come back, a whole lot more news to get to, including breaking stuff occurring just in the last few minutes. We'll get to that after these messages.
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Amanda Head
Welcome back everybody, to Just the News. No noise. President Trump has solved a lot of the problems around the world so far. And to start 2026, he has adopted a little bit more of a muscular foreign policy approach. He's not getting us into any new wars, for one, but he is advocating for American interests. Imagine that. His Venezuela operation to capture Maduro, of course, was one of the most recent ones. Now we also have the questions of Greenland and Iran to sort out. So what are the potential outcomes? There we speak. Spoke to senior research fellow at the Heritage foundation and former White House deputy National Security adviser to the Vice President Steve Yates just before the show tonight to answer these questions. Take a look. I actually want to pick your brain on China for just a moment. We actually had some polling that we covered over here at Just the News the end of last year that talked about public support for some of these programs like SpaceX. They are cheaper, they are more reliable, they're reusable. So we covered this polling that showed that public support is right there with that. At the same time, we're almost in a second space race with China because we, we have got to get there. We've got to establish our stakes on the lunar surface. Is this something that you think Congress needs to reconsider? Do they need to legislate away from the NASA money and move more towards these programs like SpaceX, but because they seem more reliable, frankly, and they could be cheaper for the American people.
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John Solomon
Right.
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Steve Yates
There's a lot in it that is really, really good for America and we need to lean in to step on the shoulders of our private sector. For me, I do think we are in a Space Race 2.0. It's essential that we win, because if we don't, the rules of the road and also access to critical things will be dominated, likely by the People's Republic of China if we don't get our act together. In some ways, been investing a lot to mimic what SpaceX has been doing, and at the core of that is reusability of some of these launch vehicles. But really, the Chinese can't beat us to the moon. We've been there. But what we need to beat them to is to reliably, sustainably use that platform to do more beyond the moon. And I think this is just echoes of the Ronald Reagan era, where we had the Strategic Defense Initiative and people thought things weren't possible that turned out to be possible. Our adversaries believed we would get there. Ronald Reagan believed we would get there. And Reagan was right, and we need to do the same now. President Trump, I think, has reset so many other things, but this winning a space race 2.0 is super important. Leaning on SpaceX and that private sector is critical.
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John Solomon
And at the core of that, yeah, amazing times. Innovation and transformation, disruptive transformation. I got to tell you, when I was thinking about the 2024 election a couple of years ago, I wasn't thinking Greenland might be the 51st state. But yesterday we had a member of Congress who introduced that legislation. The talks are on. How do you think Greenland plays out? Do we invade it? Do we buy it? What happens?
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Steve Yates
Well, if it's an invasion, it would be the shortest, fastest invasion in the history of mankind, I would think. I don't think that's where President's priority is. He definitely puts all options on the table. He's a master of shaping an information environment and is sort of setting the stage around all that's happening. I think that with the exercise of power in Iran and in Venezuela, people are thinking differently. I think some of our European friends are sort of losing their minds again for a moment. But really, I think he's made very, very clear that Europe has failed to invest in and protect this very strategic place. One way or another, America is going to make sure it doesn't go to our adversaries. I think that falls right dead center in The Monroe Doctrine 2.0. That is sometimes called the Don Row Doctrine. But it's really making sure that Russia and China are not going to disrupt our hemisphere to our disadvantage. And I think probably the president put options out there that are so strong and shocking that when we settle on the landing point it would have been unacceptable at this outset but surprisingly will everyone will find it wonderful and peaceful and prosperous.
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John Solomon
That is the Trump negotiating strategy. No doubt about it.
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Amanda Head
Steve, John knows my in laws are Canadian and I told him over Christmas, I said look, you snooze, you lose. Canada. Now you got to be number 52 because Greenland's going to beat you to to the punch for 51. I want to ask you about the stance of the people of Greenland because it's my sense that they do not have warm fuzzy feelings for Denmark. But Greenland's Prime Minister is saying, well actually we choose Denmark over the US Why would that be and is it true?
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Steve Yates
Oh, I think there's divisions in the rather humble population on Greenland. But I also think that there's been a little bit of distortion in the information space between some of the further reaching proposals that have come from our leadership to push the dialogue forward. But also I think the spastastic response by some of the European leaders suggesting like France is going to marshal what's left of their military to fight America or kick us out of NATO. Without us, there is no NATO. So I don't, you know, there's sort of some fantastical things going on. You can't blame the Greenlanders for being confused. But ultimately a lot of people in Greenland have been pushing for self determination to make it real and then they can make their own strategic choice. And Denmark I don't think has invested enough in itself, much less in its ability to protect Greenland as well. And so really the question is, do Greenlanders want with their self determination a broader, improved, deeper strategic relationship with the United States and be a part of the North American shelf, or do they want to be an adjunct to Europe and that experiment? And I think if we put that to a vote, Greenlander's probably like America a bit more than what's been on offer from Denmark and the EU.
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John Solomon
For a country with just about 50 or 60,000 people, it sure gets an awful lot of visits by Chinese and Russian ships. Tell us a little bit about what our enemies and adversaries have been doing with Greenland the last couple of decades?
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Steve Yates
Well, what they haven't been doing is making Greenlanders very wealthy, healthy and with retirement packages and all of that to make sure that they've got an enduring happy civilization.
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Coach Bruce Pearl
So.
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Steve Yates
So it's definitely not been investing in the people. There are rare earths and other critical minerals and materials that are in the continental shelf there. And that's very, very valuable scientifically, but also for industry. But really because of the very high position it is in the Arctic, it's vital to space and watching where missiles might come and go from the other side of the planet. And there are a couple of countries that are nuclear armed over there that we want to keep a climate close eye on. So there's a lot of strategic defense and strategic economic value in Greenland. That's ultimately why the President really first and foremost is looking at our economy and our national security and saying that's why this is vital. It isn't because he's looking to pick a fight necessarily with Europe. There's plenty of other things to fight over if we wanted to do that. And he's not looking to invade and hurt anyone in Greenland. It's just if we're not there as the President suggests, the Russians and the Chinese will be and that won't be a good deal for them or for us.
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John Solomon
Great point, Steve.
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Amanda Head
Before we let you go, I want to bring Venezuela into the conversation within the context of the China conversation. Because there are a lot of folks who say that us going into Venezuela, snatching up Maduro, that that is apples to apples with China going into Taiwan. Do you see it that way?
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Steve Yates
Absolutely not. I find that extremely mind breaking and frustrating to hear these kinds of analogies. Last I checked, the Democratic elected leader of Taiwan is not running a cartel that is poisoning the large populations on the Asian continent or any other continent. And the other point is that what was China, Russia, Iran and others doing with Venezuela anyway? Were they enriching the Venezuelan people? They were using it as a platform to engage in malign activity. But also for China, they know that the Straits of Malacca is a choke point for them when it comes to energy. In a time of crisis, they're dependent on oil imports. They are an exp. Export dependent economy. And in a time of crisis they need alternative supply. They saw Venezuela important enough as an alternative to the Straits of Malacca that they thought about digging a second canal across the Central American isthmus. I think that's probably not in the cards now, but they valued that oil. So President Trump has made it so that Venezuela as a territory and those resources are not going to go to Russia, China and Iran first to help them avoid sanctions and run their war machines. But they're also going to have those resources reinvigorate the United States economy in this hemisphere. That gives us such better options, really should make China have to think twice about what it's going to do with this near abroad with the United States and its allies in a different footing.
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John Solomon
We've got about a minute left. I just want to ask quickly about Iran. What are the best options for the president? This is a moment that we don't want to let pass like Obama did in 2009. But there's also doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in the American public for a prolonged military action. What do you think happens in the next few weeks?
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Steve Yates
Well, I think President Trump has made very, very clear he's not going to repeat the ghosts of Iraq and Afghanistan. I put that as sort of invade, occupy, nation build. But there are definite options that we have with the technology of 2026 that didn't exist before. And so whether it's having Elon Musk move communication equipment in under the green revolution, President Obama didn't do anything extraordinary to keep Twitter working to allow the opposition to communicate and organize. So that kind of help is more feasible. Economics, the president's put 25% tariffs on those doing business with Iran that can go up and ratchet that pressure. That really hits a couple of other nodes where Venezuela hit Russia, China and others on energy. This also will have that effect. China is a big purchaser of Iran energy and other goods. So I think increasing that pressure, I think puts us in a better position ultimately. I just hope, you know, everyone that lived through that 444 days of hostages, we hope there aren't new hostages. We don't want to go through that. But this regime has lived too long. And I hope for the sake of the Iranian people that we really are on the precipice of a new history.
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Amanda Head
Definitely could be. Senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Steve Yates, always a pleasure to have you here with us. Thank you, sir.
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Steve Yates
Thank you both.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. All right, everybody, we've got much more coming up for you on the other side of this break.
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John Solomon
Welcome back, everybody. One of the big potential winners of what happened in Venezuela the last couple of weeks are wildcatters in America. They're going to have a new potential for jobs in Venezuela as America tries to get that energy, that country's energy infrastructure going again after it was broken by socialist regime of Maduro. A lot of people wondering what does it mean for America, what does it mean for energy? What it means, what does it mean for geopolitics when America has so much control of the energy industry in our hemisphere now joining us now to make sense sense of it all. He's a good friend of the show and he's the president, the Soil and Gas Association. He is none other than Tim Stewart. Tim, welcome back to show. Happy New Year, my friend.
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Tim Stewart
Happy New Year, John. Thanks for having me.
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John Solomon
It is great to have you. I've been thinking about you all week since that Friday sort of extraordinary event at the White House. We got Marco Ruby, President Trump meeting with the oil majors and you just get a sense that the world just took a major turn in our direction, in America's direction. What is next? What is the Venezuela, US Relationship in particular the oil relationship look like going forward?
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Tim Stewart
Yeah, it's been really interesting, you know, watching the lanyard class in Washington, D.C. be so wrong about things for the last 10 days on Venezuela has been really interesting to watch, John. I have to first remind everybody, look, it was the U.S. oil and gas industry that built the Venezuelan oil industry itself. We went in there in 1929. We were operating there through 19, 1976, when they nationalized up until 2007 when they kicked all the US operators out and stole billions of dollars from us. What President Trump has done with his action 10 days ago has really sort of reordered the global order of crude and petroleum policy right now under the US security umbrella in the Western Hemisphere, we now control 40% of all of the production every day. And what that means is the it gives incredible flexibility for Secretary Rubio and the secretary of defense to take action and not move the crude markets markets like they would they had to worry about 20 years ago. It really is a reordering of the way things operate from now on. It's going to be fascinating to watch how this plays out.
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John Solomon
Yeah, it is.
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Amanda Head
Tim, you and I have had a lot of, well, the three of us had a lot of conversations about America's oil businesses and we've talked about how, you know, you've got the, the Exxons and the Citgos and all these big companies, but there are also thousands of small businesses that are in this industry as well. Do they stand to do well through this process also?
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Tim Stewart
You know, that's a really good point. And at first blush, you know, a lot of the independents are pretty concerned about what the impact is going to be on prices because they're price sensitive. They don't control the markets, they're like farmers. They don't control the price of the product. But what the administration did was really interesting. He didn't just bring in sort of the usual suspects in this meeting last Friday. He brought in a couple wildcatters, some investors, oil field services companies. And some of the people that he brought in that aren't part of the usual cast of characters are companies that are very, very good at going into legacy fields that are almost exhausted and essentially recharging them and getting more product out of the ground, which is what you need in Venezuela, essentially. They haven't had any new technology place there since the early 2000s when Chevron and Conoco got kicked out. I've talked to some folks who are in the meeting and it's the readout is very different. It's we've got 20 years of technology that we can get on the ground there in relatively short order. So again, the chattering class who says, oh, it's too hard or it's going to take too long, odds are they're going to be pretty wrong about how quickly production can come online. Now the independents and the smaller guys, again, like I said, they're going to be watching that carefully. But don't bet against this industry. We're really good at what we do. And so yes, there's good concern, but I also think there's opportunity they're going to take a look at.
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John Solomon
Yeah, it seems like an extraordinary moment. Say the President gave that economic speech in Detroit. I believe it was really upbeat, positive, backed by real numbers and facts that you can see. The economic data is beginning to change before our eyes. But all of it starts with the energy renaissance. Without the energy renaissance, none of the other factors of this economic revival are there. Tell us what it means in the next year as our energy production continues to grow, as we export more to other countries. What could it mean for the US Economy?
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Tim Stewart
Well, again, the economy runs on affordable energy and that's what makes us all first world countries. The primary factor is the price of their energy versus a third world country. And I think what that does is it gives us greater flexibility across the oil sector. It gives particularly in the refining sector where that's where the impacts are really felt. In the 21 and 22 run up on inflation, the pressure that was put on the refiners was really difficult because they couldn't get the product. The Venezuelan crude can come in and be Refined and that'll be good for the consumers because it'll keep prices low. But the saying is the remedy for low prices is low prices and the remedy for high prices is high prices. Again, the industry is very good at being, at being incredibly flexible and malleable when it comes to doing what needs to be done. I think we're going to open up some more export markets. The interesting thing is it now places severe pressure on China. While they weren't getting a lot of their oil from Venezuela, it was almost all of Venezuela's oil is going to China. What happens in Iran is going to be interesting to see what happens. But the US Is now much essentially US is a. As big as OPEC is right now. And that's a, that's a huge, that's a huge play for us.
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John Solomon
Amazing.
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Amanda Head
Tim, for the people of Venezuela who have suffered so much already, there obviously is a concern that they are treated well, that they have a great stake in this agreement, whatever that infrastructure looks like. What is the best case scenario for Venezuela and those people now that the United States has, has the stake in oil there?
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Tim Stewart
Well, you know, essentially there's a reason why truck drivers make $150,000 in the middle of dusty Texas outside of Midland, because the industry pays really well. They're going to do the exact same thing for the Venezuelan people. We're going to pay our workers skilled or unskilled, we're going to pay them well because the last thing we want is unreliable workforce. And that's an interesting security issue. You know, the one thing that we need the security out of the White House is we got to make sure our crews aren't going to be kidnapped. But having the White House impetus on this is going to be interesting because it'll give the cartel second thought as to how they treat the oil companies and their workers and their workers families when they're down there.
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John Solomon
That's a really great point and something that probably hasn't been brought into the equation. That's why we always bring you on. You always get us on the horizon of where things go next before we let you go, should the regime in Iran fall, which seems like more of a possibility, at least the German leader Merz said so today. What do you think that does to the global oil market and maybe to the axiom you all train this audience on, which is energy security is national security?
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Tim Stewart
Yeah, that's, that's one of the biggest unknowns. You know, Iran sales their, their oil to China as well. Again, China is going to be the get the biggest impact. Reduction in production coming out of Iran. Even the short term is going to have some impact. But the interesting thing is the US Being such a swing producer, we can help absorb that. I don't think from the US Consumer side, we're going to see much impact. The Europeans and particularly the Chinese are going to fill out far more than the US Will.
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John Solomon
Yeah, that's probably good for the America first agenda. Tim Stewart, as always, you bring us up to speed and all the things that matter and you make us a lot wiser. We're so grateful to have you on the show. Thanks for joining us.
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Tim Stewart
Great being with you. Happy New Year.
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Coach Bruce Pearl
Year.
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John Solomon
Happy New Year, my friend. What a great, what a great expert to be able to bring on the show all the time. We're so lucky. All right, folks, coming up next, we keep hearing about ways to lose weight and the big trend now is taking pills to do it. But what if I told you there was a better, more healthy way to do it? We'll get to that next right after these messages. Hey, folks, you might be wondering when's the right time to start adding collagen to my diet. How about today? Collagen production starts to dwindle in your 20s and by the time you hit your 50s, like me, it's decreased and it contributes to wrinkles, sagging skin and joint discomfort. Now Native Path collagen can help. It's packed with only type 1 and 3 collagen fibers, the ones your body needs most for healthy joints, for healthy skin, bones, hair, nails, and also, believe it or not, your gut. Plus, it's third party tested for purity and with no fillers, no additives and no artificial junk, that's important to me. Two scoops a day of native path delivers 18 grams of protein. Mix it into your coffee, your tea, your soup or any drink. It's completely flavorless and easy to use. Right now, you can get a special bundle deal at the fraction of the retail price. Plus you're going to get free shipping available@getnativepath.com JustNews that's getnativepath.com JustNews with over 4 million jars sold, thousands of 5 star reviews and a third 3 and 365 day money back guarantee. This is your moment to take control of aging before symptoms get worse. So go to getnativepath.com justnews right now, supplies are limited and demand is surging. That's getnatapath.com justnews.
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Amanda Head
Welcome back, everybody. Every January, millions of people resolve to lose weight and many turn to weight loss injections or the new pill versions. And that's a great call for some. But for many, weight loss injections can cause some very serious side effects. So what measures can we take to ensure our health is maintained while also resolving to lose that pesky weight? So joining us now to discuss this is doctor of Clinical Psychology, Dr. Greg Cinnamon. Doctor, thanks so much for being with us tonight.
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Dr. Greg Cinnamon
Good to be with you. Thanks.
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Coach Bruce Pearl
Good to have you.
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Amanda Head
You know, the more I hear about these Medicaid or these weight loss injections, the GLP ones, it seems like we are really just now getting to the place where we're learning some of the devastating side effects. What are they?
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Dr. Greg Cinnamon
Yeah, you know, a lot is coming out and we all jumped into this really quickly and we saw so many patients jump into the, to the injection world. And it is a great solution for a number of people. It's a tough solution for many others. The side effects are significant. A lot of it has to do with your body's ability to metabolize the injection. A lot of side effects we don't want to talk about on TV that wouldn't be particularly enjoyable. But really one of the most difficult things about the weight loss injections is the people who end up going off of them. Yes, they're expensive, but also with the side effects, you know, a lot of people will stop and roughly 80% is the last number I saw. Put the weight on immediately, the hunger comes back roaring back and all of the benefits that you saw with the weight loss injections and the pills we're seeing tend to go away. And so, yeah, great short term solution, but people aren't thinking through is this something I'm going to be taking for the next 10 or 15 years of my life or am I willing to do this? But I'm going to put the weight right back on. Plus.
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John Solomon
Yeah, yeah, it's an expensive 10 year commitment, at least at current prices it's very expensive. So that rebound effect is very real. We're starting to see studies of people, you know, saying that they put all the weight back on the second the injection stop. Tell us about the work that you guys have done at Breakouts Nutrition to create a weight loss solution that has less side effects, less expense and a pretty good track record of success thus far.
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Coach Bruce Pearl
Yeah.
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Dr. Greg Cinnamon
So the science is what's really interesting about this. And if you look at what's effective about the GLP1 injections and the ingestibles is that they regulate your blood sugar so your glucose Levels start to stabilize. When that happens, the cravings start to go away, you're not as hungry, you don't have the spikes and the falls in your blood sugar glucose levels. So that's really healthy about them. Secondly, they really kind of knock your appetite down, and that's how it really functions. So what really was the missing piece of this is how do we mirror some of those effects with a supplement? Right? So if you don't want to take an injection, you don't want to get a prescription, you don't want to go through the cost of this. Is there a way of mimicking, if you will, some of the benefits that they have, but do it in a supplement, in a healthy supplement. And that's what the scientists here at Brick House did. One of the researchers out of a major university out here in the west coast was the one that kind of figured this out. Brilliant guy. So what Lean is, it's a daily supplement, really healthy to do, but it does that, that real similar thing. So. But it adds one really interesting factor. So not only does it kind of manage your ear, help your glucose levels and your blood sugar, so you're stable throughout the day, so you don't have the peaks in the valleys that cause you to eat all day. It helps suppress your appetite, so you're not hungry all day. Which is one of the biggest problems when people are trying to lose weight, is they're just hungry all the time, right? So blood sugar helps suppress your appetite. And then a really important third thing, and this is where a speed element comes in, people want to lose weight quickly, and one of the reasons they don't stay on diets is it doesn't happen fast enough. So what Lean does is it has a thermogenic effect, which helps you burn fat by converting it into usable calories. That's a really smart thing to do because not only are you now not eating as much, your blood sugar is stabilized, but even sitting here, as we do so often through the day, you are burning fat more regulatory way, so it's coming off in the thermogenic way. So you're losing weight faster than you normally would. But what we don't want people to do is if you think it's a magic bullet, right, that I'm just going to take this, I'm going to never do anything, I'm not going to work out, I'm not going to watch what I eat, I'm just going to take a pill. That's not what this is about. This is really for people who have more than 10 pounds to lose. You know, often a lot more than 10 pounds to lose. They've tried everything. They're frustrated. Nothing has worked for them. This is really a remarkable weight loss solution for those people because it does those three very interesting things that other products just don't do.
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John Solomon
Yeah.
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Amanda Head
Dr. Simon, if it's taking fat and turning that into usable energy, I would assume that accompanying lean with exercise is only going to increase those effects exponentially.
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Dr. Greg Cinnamon
Yeah, that's a really smart point you bring up is your metabolism is what suffers almost the most in. In this weight loss, weight gain. Call it yo yo dieting. You've heard that term where we lose a few pounds and we put on a couple pounds and probably we lose five, and we put on six over time, then we lose another five, we put on seven, and over a lifetime, what this does is it wrecks your metabolism, and that means that everything slows to a crawl. So even the exercise that you're doing has almost no effect on. On your ability to significantly lose weight because your metabolism is fighting you all the time. So by rebooting your metabolism with a product like Lean, what it does is it sort of resets, and now you're starting to burn calories and fat more efficiently. And the exercise, to your point, exactly. The exercise that you're doing is going to have a compounded effect and help you lose weight even faster.
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John Solomon
Real important. So you mentioned the science before we let you go. There is a lot of great research that Brickhouse Nutrition is doing. It's backing its scientists with scientific studies. So we know exactly what's going on. Tell us about some of that exciting research. Yeah.
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Dr. Greg Cinnamon
And this is what separates Brickhouse and really a lot of the products that you see out there. One of the questions consumers always have to ask is, where's the studies behind this? Brickhouse did an Auburn University study on some products, and this is remarkable because when Lean comes out of studies and lean comes out, it's not just anecdotal stuff. Right. Where you hear most commercials and somebody's pushing a weight loss product and you're going, it worked for me, and I lost 20 pounds. It worked for me and I lost 50 pounds. How do you know? Right. And so when you look at what's behind a company, you have to look at who's doing the research behind it, and is it independent? And so when a company like Brickhouse says, look, lean works. This is a great product for losing weight, it's because there are remarkably good studies behind it, and you can have that confidence that I'm buying something that actually is going to work and I'm not just taking somebody's third party anecdotal word for it.
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John Solomon
What a great idea.
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Amanda Head
Another Auburn mentioned tonight. I love it.
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John Solomon
Doctor, our Auburn alumnus right here, Dr. Greg Semant.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, absolutely. Always proud to mention that. Doctor of Clinical Psychology, thanks so much for joining us tonight.
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Dr. Greg Cinnamon
Could I mention quick where people can get it if they're interested in taking the product?
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Amanda Head
Oh yeah, sure. And we're gonna do a call to action action too.
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Dr. Greg Cinnamon
Okay, thank you. So takelean.com and they, they love you guys so much they offered a special discount to your to your viewers. So go to takelean.com yeah. And enter just News and you're going to get a special discount.
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Amanda Head
I love it. I love it. Dr. Greg Cin, thanks so much for being with us. And as he said, if you are looking to maintain your health while losing weight and you don't want to deal with the dangerous side effects of those weight loss injections, consider the new supplement Lean Not a Drug. It is a daily supplement that helps you control your appetite and cravings while converting stubborn fat into energy. It also helps you maintain a healthy blood sugar level. So visit as he said, takelean.com just news and use the promo code just news to get 20 off. Again, that's just news. Takelean.com just news and the promo code is just news for 20 off. Be right back. Welcome back everybody. So delighted that you stuck with us through it all. We've got a few topics to get through. One of them. District attorney. Now we've talked in the past about a number of these district attorneys across the country that are backed by Soros foundation type money. Larry Krasner is one of them in Philadelphia and he posted on X yesterday and it was a post besmirching the reputation of the good men and women of ice in his city. And he posted it with a black and white photo of himself. He's got on these like cool looking blacked out shades with the caption faifo. Everybody knows what that is by now. And it was just so unbelievably cringe because Larry Krasner, he's not the type of guy, I mean it even, it even worked a little better. I hate to admit this with Joe Biden with the whole like dark, what do they call it with Joe Biden, dark shades. No, they call it dark something with him, dark mode or something anyway. But with Larry Krasner it just does not work. So on top of his ridiculous criticism of ice. He's got this picture of himself and he's trying to look like a. But he's just not. I can't say that word on there.
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John Solomon
Yeah, stick in your lane and just be a liberal activist. That's what I say. Not even a prosecutor, really. Yeah. Tomorrow, January 6th, committee is going to have its first hearing. There's going to be some of our good friends there. Chris Piot Coyote is going to be one of the witnesses. But we got a bombshell. We're going to have it up in the morning. It's one of the things that will come out tomorrow. The Capitol Police were supposed to have people in the area where the bombs are planted, but for some reason, they were called off their security post that night. Just has people really perplexed and, you know, louder. But he doesn't know what to make of it yet. But I think that's pretty significant. The other thing that's interesting, he told us today in the podcast, Barry Loudermilk did, that the D.C. government, for some reason put an emergency order for lots of orders of blood that needed to be there by January 6th, and they were planning for bloodshed. No one else seems to have known that. So two things that are going to come out, the hearing tomorrow, everybody should be watching. We're going to live stream to adjust the news.
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Amanda Head
Dark Brandon. That's what it is.
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John Solomon
That's what they call it. Dark Brandon. Oh, my gosh.
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Amanda Head
I got it in before the end.
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Coach Bruce Pearl
By the way.
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John Solomon
Fafo, what is that?
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Amanda Head
Fluff around and find out. Oh, okay. One more story to squeeze in. Joy Reid on her show. So a lot of people have talked about how these protesters, they're practically all white people, mostly white women. And so the assumption, obviously, is that they are paid protesters. Even if you've got a lot of, like, you know, black influencers on social media who are saying, I live in Baltimore. The demographics of this city do not match what we are seeing out there as protesters. Joy Reid claims that it is because white women are taking it up for black women, because white women have privilege and they're the ones who are not going to get arrested. So they're doing this on behalf of colored people, people of color.
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John Solomon
I just don't know what to say about Joyce Reed other than say nothing at all, because I don't even like to give rocks. I just, you know, she's. She's a. She's a disinformation artist.
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Amanda Head
Like my mom said, growing up, if you don't have something nice to say don't say anything at all.
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John Solomon
That's right. No, I'm in that category.
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Amanda Head
You must have gotten that same upbringing. All right, everybody, thanks so much for being with us tonight. We'll be back here tomorrow night at 6pm Eastern. Until then, have a great night.
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Dr. Greg Cinnamon
This is an iHeart podcast.
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Tim Stewart
Guaranteed Human.