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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, January 21st, 2026
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Good evening, America. Happy Wednesday 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 the news occurred close to home here and far from here. Let's bring you in on some of the big stories of the day. Just a little bit ago, the House Oversight Committee voted to find President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in contempt of Congress. Nine Democrats crossed over in the finding against President Clinton. So it was a bipartisan vote. It moves to the floor, which means as early as Friday, there could be a referral to the United States Justice Department for the first time, asking a former president to be prosecuted for refusing to testify to Congress. We know a lot more and we'll have a lot more of that all throughout the show. Meanwhile, President Trump secured the framework of a deal with to put Greenland in some form of U.S. control. We don't know the exact details. He announced it as he was leaving the Davos summit after a meeting with Naito leader Mark Rudy. We're going to be keeping a close eye on that. All the details over just the news that come. Everybody, including the president, was talking about this one. The president's reaction was, wow, actually, it's actually what he wrote on social media. A story we broke here this morning on just the news. The Biden era FBI, the one that Chris Wray oversaw, made more than $150,000 in payments to informants who were members of an anonymous group of tech sleuths known as the Sedition Hunters to gather and analyze video evidence of the January 6th Capitol riot and then that controversial Arctic Frost probe. Now, they made these payments and they treated members of this group as confidential human sources, despite the fact that the group was extraordinarily anti Trump, had a strong anti Trump fervor, anti Republican fervor, and that it had known ties to foreigners. This is all according to FBI memos That Justin News obtained and reviewed. Government officials said the group members were first engaged as early as a few days after the Capitol riot as informants and that the relationship continued over three years. It involved about $150,000 of payments. One of those payments was approved by Jack Smith, the former special prosecutor who pursued it, pursued Donald Trump. And tomorrow we'll be testifying on Capitol Hill. I bet some lawmakers are going to have some questions. Now, what is most concerning about this is that Chris Wray promised he was going to reform the FBI and its informant program after Christopher Steele, a British anti Trump spy, was brought in as an informant and helped trigger a big part of the now debunked Crossfire Hurricane Russia collusion probe. Chris Wray said, all right, we're going to make sure we don't have biased informants. We're going to make sure foreigners can't get involved and we're also going to make sure that informants don't tell people in public that they're working for the FBI when they're supposed to keep that confidential. That's what Chris Wray did. Well, the sedition hunters had a clear anti Trump bias. They were hired as informants. They had a foreign influence. In fact, the emails show that some of the work they were doing on their computers was being done in Great Britain, not in America, just like Christopher Steele was from Great Britain. And third, the sedition hunters bragged openly that they were working with the FBI, which would violate the terms of the contract for being a confidential human source for the FBI. We're going to have a lot more on this. And ask our first guest about this, Congressman Marquez. He'll be voting tomorrow on that contempt proceeding. He'll be questioning Jack Smith. We'll have a lot to ask him in just a few minutes. But first, let me get to my amazing co host, Amanda Head. Amanda, I think a lot of people thought today was going to be a day of drama in Europe. It turns out to be a day of progress with President Trump.
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Indeed.
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Yes. The first half of the day, obviously the news dominated with Davos. And President Trump gave his much anticipated address earlier today at that World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. And the world, particularly the European Union, was waiting on what he would say about his administration's pursuit of Greenland. And it didn't take long for them to get the message. Take a look.
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So we want a piece of ice for world protection and they won't give it. We've never asked for anything else and we could have kept that piece of land and we didn't. So they have a choice. You can say yes and we will be very appreciative, or you can say no and we will remember.
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All right. Now, as the administration has mentioned many times before, securing the Western Hemisphere is of the utmost importance for keeping the United States safe from our adversaries. And it seems that message resonated because not long after that speech, President Trump announced a framework for a deal concerning Greenland that had been reached. And I wonder how some European leaders will react after that announcement and even some North American leaders, too. For example, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. President Trump had a few words for Prime Minister Carney earlier today as well. Now, remember, Carney, at the same conference in Davos maligned the foreign policy steps of the United States and the steps they've been taking. And the president had a very clear response.
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Going to be defending Canada. Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way. They should be grateful also, but they're not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn't so grateful, but they should be grateful to us. Canada. Canada lives because of states. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.
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Well, John, what do you think about that? Canada lives because of the United States. In some ways that's true. Canadians don't want to minute.
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Yeah. Listen, their economy is nothing without us. Right. They do a lot of exporting to us. And of course, our security perimeter is so much more important than any security Canada does. And so, yeah, Mark Carney seems to like to consort with the Chinese and not the Americans right now. But we'll see where that leads. All right. We've got the perfect first guest for today. He's going to be questioning Jack Smith tomorrow at the hearing. He's also going to be voting on that contempt resolution as it gets to the House floor on tomorrow afternoon. He's from the great state of North Carolina, one of our favorite guests, Congressman Mark Harris. Sir, good to have you on the show.
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Great to be with you, John. And Amanda, thank you for having me tonight.
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It's an honor always to have you on the show. We always learn a lot when you come on. I want to start with the I don't think a lot of people were prepared, although James Comer predicted on the show this would happen, that Democrats would cross over and find the Clintons in contempt, at least on the committee vote. Your thoughts on what message that committee sent to the American public and to the Clintons tonight.
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Well, I think it was a great thing and certainly it's refreshing, quite frankly, to see something here in Washington that is holding some folks accountable. And it was done in a bipartisan way to have, as you've reported, nine Democrats cross over and join with the other Republicans on the Oversight Committee to just simply tell the Clintons that they're not above the law and they need to come in. I mean, we've seen people that thumb their nose at Congress. And the Democrats, when the shoe was on the other foot, didn't mind going after Steve Bannon. They didn't mind going after Peter Navarro and them actually going to jail. So I think that this is very important that the landscape has been laid to say to the Clintons, no one is above the law and you need to come in, you need to testify, no questions asked.
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Do you think that that was the motive of these nine Democrats, that no one is, no one is above the law, or do you think that there was something else?
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Well, I don't really know. I mean, listen, I've, I'm a freshman congressman, but I've already. It's fine. I find it hard to get inside the head of some of the folks on the other side of the aisle many times. So I really can't predict what they really trying to do here. But again, I think it's important the Clintons have information. The fact that we want to get answers to the questions that are involved here I think are important. And so I think it's, again, a great step and a message to the American people that Congress is not going to let this drop. We're going to get some answers.
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Yeah. Tomorrow is a big day in Congress for another reason beyond the contempt vote, you in the Judiciary Committee will be quizzing Jack Smith. He's been the face of what a lot of people see as a weaponized government. Back in 2014, he was working with the IRS to come up with ways they could go after conservative nonprofits. A decade later, he's prosecuting President Trump. What questions do you hope Mr. Smith will answer tomorrow and what concerns do you have about his conduct as a prosecutor?
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Well, I certainly have mainly my problems with him as a prosecutor is the fact that prosecutors should be somebody that seeks to enforce the law. He doesn't seek to enforce the law. He has demonstrated by his actions that he's all about really just using the law as a weapon. And weaponizing the law is never the answer in this country. And so I'm certainly concerned about him as a prosecutor. I think there's a myriad of questions that he's going to need to answer the very fact that we have things going on with judges that have. Were kept in the dark, even about subpoenas of phone records of members of Congress. I think there's just a lot of things that are out there that he could be asked about. I think the bottom line is it was just clear that instead of a prosecutor looking at evidence and then bringing charges to really someone that committed a crime, this was a situation where he simply has Trump derangement syndrome, was determined to try to take President Trump down, determined to try to somehow hurt his opportunity to become president for a second term. And he was determined to do anything to try to stop him. And that's dangerous, extremely dangerous. And I think he's going to have to answer some questions about all of that tomorrow.
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What.
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What do you expect his level of transparency is going to be? Because I think for so many Americans, even folks on the left, they look at this case against President Trump, and they look at similar cases against former President Joe Biden or even former Vice President Mike Pence, and they say, all right, this actually does look a little lopsided. So even though at face value, I think it's plain as day that there was politicization and political weaponization. But do you anticipate that he's going to cop up to any of that, even to a mild degree?
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You know, I really don't know. I would probably say my gut tells me he won't own up to any of that, but I do think that it's going to be presented to him, and I think he's going to have to give some real honest explanations. Again, I do think the American people are not blind, and they have seen these facts that are laid out. And that's my hope tomorrow, is that there'll be more and more facts that are going to be presented, and he's going to have to give an answer for him, whatever his answer is going to be. And so I think that's the important thing for the American people. And I hope folks will pay attention and just listen, because I think it's going to be clear that this man was just seeking to take down Donald J. Trump, period. And thank God he was not successful at being able to do it.
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Sir. The Russia collusion case gave us the first real sign that the FBI had become politically weaponized. Chris Wray came in, and on his watch, there were targeting of Catholics who were conservative. There were FBI agents whose security clearances were uphold just because they said they supported President Trump or the Second Amendment. And this morning, we learned that anti Trump, an anti Trump group called the Sedition Hunters was paid as confidential informants. Even though they were clearly anti Trump, they had some foreign components to their group, and they were bragging, in violation of confidential human services rules, that they were working with the FBI. A lot of times we focus a lot on James Comey. Is Chris Wray's era of the FBI troubling to you?
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Oh, that. That whole era is troubling. I mean, when we see the weaponization, I just think that, look, there has got to be more investigation. There have got to be more whistleblowers that are willing to step up. There's got to be some action that is taken. If there's anything that I hear in my district, what I hear more and more than anything is, when is somebody going to be held accountable? When is somebody going to go to jail? Just to put it bluntly and put it straight. So I do think that we've got to continue to investigate. I believe that this is a new day with the Justice Department. I believe that they certainly are protecting religious freedom now instead of going after those who practice their faith. And so my hope is that we're going to see more investigation of just what was taking place in that era of the FBI.
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Sir, before we let you go, House Republicans have done their job when it comes to the SAVE act, which is absolutely crucial to the future of our elections. What is stalling Senate Republicans, and how do you, how do you light a fire under their fannies?
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Well, you know, I did a speech the other night. I did a special order, and in that speech, I talked about the SAVE act and along with several other items that are just sitting over there in the Senate gathering dust. So I think we've got to continue to apply the pressure. Anybody that's listening to this needs to call their senators, hold them accountable. I think that from our end of it, we may simply reintroduce the SAVE act again and add some things to it and really make sure that America doesn't lose the focus here. Because President Trump ran on so many things that are crucial. He's been delivering one promise after another. And one of the things that he was clear on the campaign trail is that he wanted to make sure we had secure elections. Well, this 2026 election is going to be crucial. I can't think of a more important time for our Congress to step up, do our jobs, get the SAVE act to the president's desk and let him sign it. So we'll make sure that we're going to have only American citizens voting in the 2026 election.
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That's an 80% popular issue to the American people. Are with the Republicans on this. Before we let you go real quickly, Mike Johnson, the speaker dropped a bombshell today saying that he supports allowing an impeachment vote, an impeachment inquiry against two federal judges. One of them, I believe, is Judge Boasberg. Is there a will in the Republican caucus of the House to get these judges impeached? Do you think it could actually happen?
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Well, I would love to see it happen. You know, look, we, we had a vote the other night that was an amendment, actually, that I was disappointed that we didn't see more support among Republicans that would have defunded these judges for the actions that they had taken. So I'm certainly encouraged to hear the speaker dropping this bombshell, as you say, and hopefully Republicans can unite. Listen, when we stand united, there's nothing we can't get accomplished here. No matter how narrow our margins have been, we are still the majority. And if we can just hold everybody together, keep everybody healthy and keep everybody present, we can do business here. So this is going to be an important time and, and I think an important statement. It's once again just Republicans delivering, and that's what's going to be important in this midterm. John, I think the Republicans have got to continue to again, paint with those bold colors, not pastels. We said what we were going to do. We've got to do it. And I think this is an important time to motivate our base to turn out in 2026 as well.
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Yeah. So important. Big, bold in action that words, that's what Americans are demanding. Congressman, it's always a great honor to have you on this show. We always love talking to you. Thanks for joining us tonight.
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Thank you all for having me. Have a great evening.
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Yeah, you as well, sir. Thank you so much. All right, folks, we're going to take.
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A quick commercial break.
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When we come back, Amanda got the chance to sit down with one of my favorite guests, a former US Ambassador to Denmark, Carlos Sanchez. Brilliant. I missed it because I was in the middle of something, but she talked about the president's speech, the World Economic Forum, his new Greenland deal framework. We're going to get to all of that right after these messages. Hey, folks, let's be honest. Our body lets us know, right? We're not getting any younger. And if you want to look and feel your best, you need to check out our good friends at Pure Health research. They have 45 premium health supplements designed to help with every health goal. Whether it's boosting your energy, trimming belly fat, supporting healthy blood sugar, pumping your testosterone up, or even reducing swelling in your legs. Pure Health Research Supplement Store has you covered. Each formula is crafted with natural non GMO ingredients backed by clinical research and manufactured right here in the good old usa. And here's the best part. Pure Health Research is offering you an exclusive 35% discount. You heard me right, 35% off. Just go to PureHealthResearch.com and use the coupon code JUSTNEWS at checkout. With their 365 day money back guarantee, there's zero risk in trying something new. So why wait? Head over to to PureHealthResearch.com right now, explore their 45amazing supplements and save 35% before this deal ends with the coupon code. Just news. Don't miss this chance to feel your best. If you're the purchasing manager at a manufacturing plant, you know having a trusted.
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I have tremendous respect for both the people of Greenland and the people of Denmark. Tremendous respect. But every NATO ally has an obligation to be able to defend their own territory. And the fact is, no nation or group of nations is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the United States. It is therefore a core national security interest of the United States of America. And in fact, it's been our policy for hundreds of years to prevent outside threats from entering our hemisphere.
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And of course, that was President Trump at Davos speaking about the strategic importance of Greenland earlier today at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting. And the President didn't just address why, in his view, it's important for the United States to hold Greenland. He also discussed Europe and particular particularly Denmark's reluctance to give the United States control of the territory. And he said he would not invade Greenland, but that the country would remember if Denmark didn't come around to ceding more control. So joining us to discuss that and the fact that President Trump just a little while ago said that a deal has been reached is the former ambassador to Denmark during President Trump's first term, as well as Chair of the Foreign Policy Initiative and distinguished Senior Fellow for Energy Policy at America First Policy Institute, Ambassador Carla Sands. Ambassador, thank you so much for being here. Great to see you.
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Amanda, it's so great to be with you. Thanks for having me on a really big day for America.
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Absolutely.
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And well.
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And I have a feeling you are very well read in on what this deal is going to look like. President Trump didn't give too many details in his true social post, but in the best of all worlds. What does this deal look like to you?
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Well, securing Greenland, however he has accomplished it, I'm thrilled it's going to mean more security for all Americans, all of North America, and then also our NATO allies. Because if Greenland fell into adversarial hands, we would be cut off from trade and from military aid to our allies if there was a conflict.
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Does it surprise you that this came so quickly? I mean, President Trump yesterday at the White House seemed to allude to the fact that this would be coming, but he had a lot of doubters.
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Yes, it really is amazing. We are, I guess, living in Trump time world. I, I'm really looking forward to reading about the deal and I can't imagine he's not really excited about it. So at some point we'll probably hear it from his lips.
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Absolutely. Ambassador, I want to ask you about what this looks like for the people of Greenland. They obviously have had this, this other force in control of them to some degree, at least Denmark. And if the United States, if this deal goes forward and let's say for the next five years or so, they are enjoying what comes along with a deal with the United States, the security that comes along with that, the, I would presume, prosperity that comes along with that five years down the road. Do you anticipate that the people of Greenland, rather than protesting like they did the last week or so, they are going to be enjoying their, their newfound relationship with the United States?
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I certainly hope so. I, I think this, I mean, God willing, this is a win win for everybody, for our shared prosperity and security. It's really exciting to see a president that leads from in front and it makes me think back to my youth during the time of President Ronald Reagan and all of the wins, but this is actually even better. And so I'm, I'm really excited and like I said, I can't wait to read of the deal as much as will be disclosed to the public because, I mean, we know it'll be a good deal. That's what president does, is he, he cuts President Trump Cuts good deals.
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He talks about your time with Ronald Reagan in office. And I would agree this looks very, very similar to that posture of peace through strength. But you said it's even better than it was then. What makes this administration and what President Trump is doing across the the globe even better?
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I think for me, the fact that President Trump has all the business experience that he has these decades of experience, you know, doing tough deals and also being in the hospitality business, it means everyone is his friend. He wants to make everyone happy and comfortable. But he's also a very hard nosed businessman and he works on behalf of every American. Every American. And so if you think about the deal he got with the one big beautiful bill, with every American going to have more money in their pocket this year than they did the year before, the salaries are going up. I think it's more than $10,000 a year will be the increase in salaries for the average American working person because of President Trump's work fighting to get better tax policy. The biggest tax reduction in the history of our country and so many other benefits to small business leaders. The fact that there's $1,000 in an account waiting for every new baby born during presidency because he fought for that. And the parents can add money, the grandparents can add money, and that's not going to be taxed. And that child, when they turn 18, can have a nest egg that they can invest or use for college or used to start a business. It's just, it's really, there's something for everybody in this administration because he really cares about people, he loves life. And that's why he's the peace president too. He wants to see the end of killing, for instance, in the Ukraine, Russian war.
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Yeah, it reminds me of, and this is probably aging me a little, but I still have some government bonds from when I was born that were gifted to me by my grandparents. So I think that the Trump baby accounts are a really, really wonderful initiative for this president. I want to stay on Greenland because this is a nation. I mean, it's the largest island in the world, I believe. Why is it so strategic for us? I understand that if the United States doesn't have control of it, then more mill forces could move in like Russia or China. But why is it so important for us?
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Greenland is the world's largest island and it's just off our northeast coast. And if it fell into enemy hands, they would be able to use it. Like they're using those tiny islands in the South China Sea as a launching pad to project power they could project power right in, in our Western hemisphere, in North America, because it's part of North America. And so you can see how President Trump is looking at our Western hemisphere getting Venezuela in a better place, ending the leadership of Maduro and the influence of Iran, Russia, China in Venezuela, ending the shipping of 65 to 80% of that Venezuelan oil that was going to China, Iran getting Iran. It's going to be in a better place during President Trump's presidency. And I suspect that that oil will probably not continue to flow to China because it will help us in our negotiations with China. That's a tough country and tough leaders to negot. And so he's, he's really reordering the world to be, have more order. Yeah.
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It is quite incredible to see. Before I let you go, I want to ask you, because President Trump, I mean, one of the arguments he made to those very important people in that room, people, I say very important, meaning that President Trump needs to win them over. But one of the things that President Trump kept stressing is that the United States acquisition of Greenland is, is in fact, not a threat to NATO security at all. It fortifies it. Do you think that's true? And how, how is that?
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Yes, it makes perfect sense. Our NATO allies, even all of them together, do not have the resources to protect and defend Greenland or to develop it. It's only two countries that can do that, and that's China and the US and we're not even going to say China because it has to be the US we cannot allow China to control an important place and part of the golden dome that President Trump is building. We have to have Greenland and Alaska to build that golden dome to protect the homeland that President Trump is working to, to make us, to build, to make us safer.
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Very smart. Former ambassador to Denmark during President Trump's first term, as well as chair of the Foreign Policy Initiative and Distinguished Senior Fellow for Energy Policy at the America First Policy Institute, Carla Sands. Madam Ambassador, thanks so much for being here. Is that right, everybody? Coming up next, debunking the narrative surrounding data centers and their impact on the US Economy. More on that next.
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Welcome back, everybody. We talk often on the show about the rising impact of artificial intelligence, the data centers, all the things that go. We talk about it from what we need from the energy, what we need from the government. But at the end of the day, is going to be one of the most impactful moments in humanity. It's going to change people's jobs and careers and economics in ways that we've yet not even fully imagined. Someone who testified today before the Congress at the House Small Business Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy and Supply Chains gave a pretty darn good overview. He's joining us right now is the CEO of Overwatch, mission critical, Kirk of Kirk, good to have you here.
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It's an honor to be here. Great to meet you both.
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I've watched your work, you've done some great op EDS on Fox News. I love the perspective you take on this because a lot of the debates have been about the perfunctory. But you have a way of getting us up at 30,000ft and looking at this for what it's going to do. This is going to be a career changer, an economic changer, a humanity changer. You deliver that message today.
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I tried to my best. So look, I tried to explain to people, I think that there's a lot of people that have been fed a pretty negative or steady diet of bad information or misinformation on what the data center industry really offers and what AI really means to them. And I think if I didn't understand that stuff, I'd be scared too. Well, right off the bat, people are worried about energy, they're worried about water, they're worried about environmental impact and they're worried about job creations. But the pattern has been that was the same fears and concerns we had when we launched the the US railway system, which was the first transformational infrastructure program our country has ever seen. We did it again when we electrified the US grid. Same problems, same challenges we faced today, we faced then. We saw it when we started creating the interstate highway program because we had an automobile revolution that had a demand of energy that grew by 50 fold. So all the same concerns we had, I mean, people fail to remember that the very first cars we built were massively inefficient. They were noisy, they polluted, and they were unsafe. I mean, it took decades until we even adopted seat belts and it took many years longer until they became mandatory. So we're in the early stages. We're about where the Automobile industry was 100 years ago and that's where we're at today. And we don't want people back then wishing that we didn't have interstate highways or cars and we didn't want to not have electricity. And we have to battle the same misconceptions with AI. So I think what we've done as an industry is we've done a really poor job of explaining to people what these AI data centers are and what it means to them. Because right now people just think they're going to steal all of our utilities. And the answer is in the future these AI factories are going to become AI partners to the grid. They'll be utilities themselves. Not only do we design today at zero water because for the same reason why you can't put water in your radiator, it will boil too fast. It doesn't. It can't absorb and reject heat fast enough. We use a different fluid in our car now. We build data centers that run so hot we have to use a different type of fluid. So we design to zero water needs. And the energy will be something that we build behind the meter as our own utility, not only to support us, but to tie back into the grid to make the grid more sustainable and more safer in the long term. So it'll be US companies that are building it. But what I want people to do was today when we were talking, I was trying to get them to reshape the way that they viewed this entire industry. And not to see it as a box, but to see it as a career field that many people could come into that don't have to go to college, but they could get a really meaningful job that builds back the middle class right here in the United States. Because for every AI factory that we build, we have to build eight adjacent factories to it, just to build the components and the materials that go into that AI factory. These AI factories, these are five to seven year long construction projects that employ five to 5,000 people or more. We'll leave 2,000 people back to operate it. And for every person we leave back, it creates six new jobs in that local community. So we are job creators. And these are the people that are scared of data centers right now. They need to see it not as a thing that's to be scared about, but an opportunity that they can get involved with. This is the blue sky opportunity of AI. Can you imagine going back 100 years ago and being the blue sky opportunity of the automobile industry? Knowing what you know now? And today we work amongst a Henry Ford's of our space. And I got to testify with one today. His name's Chris Crosby. He's one of the biggest legends and pioneers within this industry. And I get to work alongside those people. And I started from nothing really on the bottom plate as a technician and just worked my way up. So I'm living proof that this industry has the ability to grow you from zero to nothing. You just have to work hard.
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You know, we came to a time in our History last century, as the interstate system, which I think was Eisenhower an hour, Eisenhower interstate system was proliferating across the country, that we had to as a society, but also had to conduct risk analysis to determine, you know, 70 miles per hour on the freeway. And we had to weigh that risk, the death of people at that speed with how much productivity could happen. Are we going to be in that space soon with this? Maybe we already are. Where you have to weigh the risk versus the productivity or are we moving to a place where the risk is negligible?
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No, no. Very, very good question and very valid concern. We have, we have started off in our infancy where you crawl, you walk and you run. Today we've gotten to the point where we've optimized these data centers to where the most sophisticated buildings on this planet today are considered data centers. And we've gotten to the part where we could remove as much of the risk and the dangers as we can outside of human nature and human circumstances. And we need to start looking at these things where we're like, is the juice worth the squeeze? Is kind of what you were just asking. And the reality is what Henry Ford created wasn't just an automobile. He created an entire ecosystem that consisted of a million different small businesses. And in the first 29 years that he did that, he created 3.7 million new jobs. 80% of those jobs were small business. So it was a juice worth the squeeze. We didn't just build a new vertical of industry in this nation, we built an entire American workforce because of that. So I would argue like, we're going to have challenges along the way and we. The soup is not done cooking. We haven't figured out how to code lock these things to make sure that they're as safe and sustainable as humanly possible. But without getting the rest of the world to stop hating the data center industry and start bringing their talent and their passion into it, we're not going to solve these problems and the demand for talent in this industry. We're short a half a million people right now, so. And that that number is growing every month because we're on track to triple as an industry in the next five years. We're staring down the barrel right now, $5 trillion of construction. And to put some numbers behind that, for every $100 billion we do in data centers, we create. For every $100 billion that we spend on data centers, we create $800 million worth of taxes revenue to that market, 500,000 new jobs. That's $40 billion to the U.S. labor side and that gives you $140 billion bump to the U.S. gDP. We have. We have to stay ahead of other nations that don't share our values that may want to take the most advanced weapon machine technology and use it against us. So we have no choice. Just like we had no choice of the railways, we had no choice with electrification and the US grid. If we don't solve for this with small businesses and labor from the United States, then not only will those jobs go overseas, but all that technology will as well. And that now doesn't make this a technology problem. That makes this a national security issue.
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It's a security issue without a doubt. When the Internet era was popping up here in the 90s and people were upset that the Dulles Greenway were being turned into these other things, I interviewed a historian. He said the history of America on all, all of the industrial revolution to the computer revolution was a NIMBY gives way to and I'm going to forget the term. He had Yakim yes. At my dinner table and that once people realize that they didn't want it my backup. But they realized hey, there's a personal benefit to me. There's buy in and things happen. You were telling us something during the commercial bank I find fascinating. There is a new era of tradesmen is going to get paid really well. Tradeswoman tradesmen and they're going to have new skill sets, they're going to have long time employment. Talk about what that new tradesman is going to do look like, get paid and how they're getting trained right now. Because you've started the process.
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That's a great question. I appreciate you giving me the chance to reframe that. So if you think about it from an industry craftsman type tradesman platform, the very first utility we had in a home was plumbing. So we created plumbers. The second utility we had was electricity and we created electricians. Took 27 years before 1 in 4America and adopted that in their home. But that's what the adoption rate is for technology. It's not instantaneous. The third was connectivity when we put copper wires at home and the fourth was gas. If you add those four together from an industrial basis, you have a data center which we consider the fifth utility. The fifth utility is cloud. We're using it right now. People use it every day to buy things to shop. So because we have a professional craft or a trade for every one of those other tradesmen, we need to adopt one for data centers. So we're here in Congress trying to Talk to Congress and convincing our local representatives that it's time for us to start a brand new trade system with apprentices called data center apprentices. Those data center apprentices will get in delivery of the product, the technical repair of the product or the operations of the product. But they all start with an apprenticeship program, just like the electricians. You could be in that program for four to five years before you become a journeyman. It gives us time to put together the initial curriculum required to become a data center apprentice. And then with the industry and the help of policymakers, we'll be able to shape this into a brand new workforce. And the fastest path to becoming a millionaire today is through the trades. And we're offering a brand new one. And that trade won't be a specialist in just a plumbing or won't be a specialist only in electricity. They're going to have a hybrid background on all of those things, including construction. We'll marry the entire apprentice around one shield of security and safety, safety where they understand that every job site they walk into the number one KPI is always safety. So we're going to rebuild and retrain. And right now we're trying to repurpose as many as we can coming directly.
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Out of the military, a high paid super tradesman. It's a pretty exciting moment ahead of us. It's going to be fascinating to watch it be. Great. Kurt, thanks for spending some time. We're going to get you back on the show because this is something we want to chronicle in real time. We're going to educate the public more, but great to have Beyonce. Great job.
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Thank you so much.
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I appreciate it. Great to have fun. All right, folks, quick commercial break. When we come back, we'll get to Dr. Peter McKella to discuss how the Maha movement has been shaping up now that we're in 2026. It's a year old already. We're going to get to that in just a second. But first, a couple commercial messages.
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Welcome back, everybody. The president is very obviously serious about the Make America Healthy Again movement. And we've seen it all throughout President Trump's second term so far. So what is next? Joining us now is world renowned doctor and chief scientific officer at The Wellness Company, Dr. Peter McCullough. Dr. McCullough, thanks for coming back. Good to see you.
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Thank you.
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Okay, so it's 2026. The MAHA movement has had a full year to percolate under President Trump. What are some of the biggest advances? I know we were just talking about, you know, with respect to Getting rid of toxins and food dyes and overhauling the vaccine schedule and the food pyramid. There has been so much. What do you find to be the most impactful and what do you want to see next?
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Boy, this administration has been busy, there's no doubt about it. So the childhood vaccine schedule trimmed from 17 diseases down to 11, trimmed by 55 doses. COVID 19 vaccines off the childhood schedule altogether. And I think appropriately, very few people are taking Covid boosters and I think they should probably move to get them off the market. So there's an eye towards trying to reduce the overall burden of vaccines on children, hopefully improve the safety profile. We've seen the CDC change its stance on combination vaccines and the possibility that it could trigger autism in susceptible children. That's the whole reason why the vaccine schedule was trimmed. I think all of that is progress, but they didn't stop there. Robert F. Kennedy and his team has made strides on removing fluoride from the water supply, food dyes from processed foods, and then of course, turn the entire food pyramid upside down.
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Yeah, it has been a transformative year. One of the things that still when I look at as a reporter that seems stubborn is a lot of the changes that RFK and the President have done, they've had to do around the bureaucracy. They go around and just say we're doing this. How do we change the culture so that the people in the bureaucracy of the public health are more innovative, more open to science and data rather than politics? Because that has been the stick in the mud for some of the progress that wasn't made until this past year.
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There's no substitute for the face to face meeting. We have 65 schools of public health, over 300 medical schools. They all are connected to the federal government through NIH and CMS funding. I think Robert F. Kennedy, his team should be holding meetings in Bethesda, Maryland or Washington, D.C. bring in the leaders of these health systems, going over these issues and policy proposals, getting people's opinions, identifying the stakeholders and driving consensus. That's the type of leadership we need to see now in the next several years of this administration.
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Absolutely. Dr. McCall, I want to ask you about something that I think is integral to just getting America healthy again. And it doesn't have to do with drugs and, or anything. But the SNAP program not allowing people to fill their grocery carts with processed food to the ceiling of the supermarket, that I think has, has made a huge impact as well. Do you want to see more on that front?
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There's definitely progress made. Brooke Rollins And Robert F. Kennedy get credit for this one. Just like you can't buy alcohol or tobacco with SNAP funding or what you used to call it food stamps. Now you can't buy junk food, processed food. So, you know, high quality sources of protein, fresh fruits and vegetables. People are gonna sense be guided into doing this. Now SNAP doesn't cover the entire grocery bill, but it's gonna at least make that portion a far better choice. And, and again, I think, you know, education in this area, there should be audits of what people are now using SNAP funds for. That's going to be very helpful.
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When I think of the Wellness Company, our great partnership that we have, I think of innovation, which oftentimes didn't come from the government, it came from the private sector. And you've done that with so many things. You've got a new product that a lot of people are buzzing about. And anyone who's worked out too hard probably will want to hear about this. Tell us a little bit about regenerate.
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Regenerate is going to help people restore after workouts, after, you know, all kinds of strains on the body. And it's relying on a peptide. So you're going to hear more and more about peptide therapy, particularly topical peptides, peptides administered through drops or sprays. But they do more than just relieve pain, fundamentally promote tissue growth and repair. It's a brand new area of medicine, you know, and this is an area that is being widely embraced by the medical orthodoxy. Wellness Company is in the lead.
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Yeah, you are.
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I hear about peptides all the time. I've got a friend who does peptide injections to be tan. It's insane. We're gonna have to ask you about that one next time you're here. World renowned doctor and chief scientific officer over at the Wellness Company, one of our favorite folks to get our medical wisdom from, Dr. Peter McCullough. Great to see you, sir.
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Thank you.
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All right, everybody, and to our viewers, if you are ready to recover smarter with TWC's newest product, Regenerate, go to TWC Health JustNews and use code JUST NEWS to get 10% off plus free shipping. Yep, absolutely. All right, everybody. Coming up next, as tension continues to escalate between the United States and Iran. What is to come? We'll be right back. Welcome back, everybody. The tension between the United States and Iran continues to escalate as Iran blames President Trump for the death toll of protesters. Iran's Ayatollah states that President Trump directly intervened by making direct threats and statements that stirred up Seditious behavior. So what is next for the Iranian people and the Trump administration? Joining us to discuss this is human rights activist, writer and ex Iranian political prisoner, Sherene Naraman. Shirin, thanks so much for being with us tonight.
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Thank you for having me, Sherene.
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I want to get into the meat of what the United States can do to help this and to help the people of Iran. But tell everybody just briefly give your story to our audience.
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Well, I was a political prisoner at the age 17, not even 17 in 1981. And since then I had to grow up very quickly. So I was in prison and I had to see witness the people that are being called every afternoon and being executed right behind the walls. You know, every afternoon a list was calling and then they were taken out. And we knew that that was the last goodbye that they are saying to each other. And many promises were made. I promised many of my friends that I will continue if I stay alive, I will continue their path and I make sure that one day Iran is free. One of the things that we had to do every night was counting the coup de gras, which is the last shot in the head. And that way we knew how many people were executed every day. So unfortunately for me, when I see the footages that are coming from Iran for me is repeating the stories all the job. And I'm still dedicated to make sure that this misery will end and no one else should lose their loved ones, children, fathers, brothers, sisters. And Iran can be a free, democratic, secular, non nuclear Republic of Iran.
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Yeah, that is the hope for our country. All right, so there's two visions. When you talk to some of the opposition leaders who are trying to free Iran. The Shah's former son or the crown prince, he says military invention for the US the way to go. The MEK or the National Council for Resistance of Iran says we can do this on our own. We just need the moral support from America. You know it from the inside and the outside. What's, what's the best posture for the Americans to take to make sure the Iranian people succeed this time, unlike what happened in 2009?
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Well, I think someone who doesn't have base inside of Iran, it's asking foreign powers to do the job for him. Whereas the National Council of Resistance has strong roots inside of Iran. Thousands and thousands of resistance units inside of Iran. So I think there are things that can be done. You know, Americans have very bad experience with Afghanistan and Iraq, but so no boots on the ground. That will not be the answer. However, making very decisive Strong measurements, such as shutting down all the officers and interest officers and also a lot of religious that live in America right now. Shut down those offices and expel them. Expel the diplomats and all the attache, and also freeze all their assets. There are two lobby groups that are working very hard in Washington to restore their relationship with Iran. Why should they be able to work? They should be. Also their offices should be shut down. Or there are many of these authorities right now, like Zakani's daughter lives in America. They are enjoying the life here. Or, you know, there are so many of them that their children are living in America, have an easy life in freedom and in democracy, but in their parents are still in Iran, like Laurie Janney, and they are giving their death toll, death command for any protester, any young men and women that are coming out. So these are the things that doesn't cost a penny for the American people, but also it gives a very strong message. Also, America can ask our allies anywhere in the world to shut down the embassies, expel all the diplomats, tell the Iranian regime that we are done with this regime. The terrible fact is that thousands and thousands of people were killed. Every second I open my communications and I receive or I see that a beautiful face, men and women, children, young men, young women that are being killed and slaughtered. So the fact is that Iranian people have come out, they are fighting. And this regime, this is the end of this issue. So let's make the right decisions so the peace and prosperity comes back to the whole region. And there wouldn't be any more killing of innocent people. And these are the things that needs to be done. It has not been done, but it can be done. And this administration can make a big impact to what is happening in the ground with the people fighting back, and people are still fighting back every single day in every city. The little videos that are coming out when people that they leave Iran and they came out, they are giving us the news that people are still fighting. So it is very important to make a stronger action, a strong policy toward Iran and tell the regime that there is no more talk. That's the most important thing that needs to be done. No more talk with the regime.
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Absolutely. Shireen Neriman, thank you so much for joining us tonight. Thank you for your courage and for the courage of the Iranian people. All right, everybody, that's all the time we have for you tonight. But we're going to be back here tomorrow night at 6pm Eastern. Have a wonderful evening.
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