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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, January 30th, 2026
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Congressman Tim Burchett
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Amanda Head
Welcome back everybody. Happy Friday and welcome to this latest edition of Just the News. No Noise. I'm your host Amanda Head and my co host and Just the News editor in Chief John Solomon is out on assignment tonight and as you might have read today, Don Lemon was arrested for his participation in a protest that interrupted a church service in Minnesota. Now, Lemon was there documenting the protests and interviewing those in the church, and he made comments after the protest, seemingly agreeing with the outcome that these kinds of protests are supposed to make people feel uncomfortable. But of course, in America you also can't obstruct someone's right to free expression of their religion. So now here we are, and it seems that many critics from the left are stepping forward to condemn the Trump administration for standing up for the Constitution and religious liberty. Here's lawyer and activist George Conway describing the administration as what do you think? Authoritarian.
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George Conway
The arrest of Don Lemon is just another example of how the Trump administration is trying to turn the United States of America into a police state. It is the hallmark of authoritarianism for the government to try to suppress reporting about its corruption, reporting about its illegalities. Don Lemon's First Amendment Rights the press's First Amendment rights are your rights. They are our rights to be informed, and they stand and fall with our rights to speak out, to criticize the government and change the Government, please stand up for Don Lemon and please speak out as vigorously as you can to your neighbors, to your friends on social media. Stand up for your First Amendment rights and stand up for democracy. Thank you.
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Amanda Head
It's so predictable. If you can expect the left to do anything, it is to make sure that they twist the situation to fit their agenda. I thought no one was above the law. And now cnn, who demoted Don Lemon multiple times before firing him, complained about press freedom and the First Amendment on a social media post dealing with this, defending Lemon and his First Amendment rights. And here's friend of the show, Mike Davis's comment directed towards cnn. Take a listen.
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Mike Davis
So, cnn, let me be clear.
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Mike Davis
You do not have a First Amendment right to storm a church and scare the hell out of the parishioners and do it on TV and show zero remorse. Right? That is a federal crime. It's. It's several federal crimes. It's the Face act, and it's the Klan Act. And you as a journalist, you don't have license to commit crimes. You don't have license to ignore the law.
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Amanda Head
So cnn, again, you for clarification, I think he said, fudge you. Now, I certainly understand Mike's position here. As Mike mentioned in the video, the protesters who stormed the church and interrupted service do have First Amendment rights, but their rights don't supersede the rights of the churchgoers looking to practice their religion freely. However, despite some on the left's hyperbolic mischaracterization of what happened, there is something to be said for journalists, which can really be anyone these days with the rise of social media being able to document what is happening without fear of reprisal. So could the left use this as pretext to go after more mainstream conservative news figures? It's not like past Democrat administrations haven't already done that. So it's an interesting question, and we're going to have to wait and see how all of this develops. But with that, let's go. Welcome our very first guest of the evening. He is the great Tennessee Congressman, Timbercheck. Congressman, thanks so much for being here.
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Congressman Tim Burchett
Thank you so much for having me on. I was told that a group of those protesters came to East Tennessee in one of our charismatic churches, and they were asked to leave because they weren't loud enough. So, you know, I guess you just keep it all in perspective. Of course. Lemon, he knew what he was doing. He was disturbing those people. He was intimidating them in their religious beliefs. Again, Christians are always taking it on the chin, but you put it in Anybody else's congregation and the world would have come unglued. The left would have been all over that. But of course, it's a bunch of Christians and they're just going to expect them to take it on the chin that their constitutional rights aren't valid. So in Conway, that poor guy, he's just trying to. Trying to be. To be valid once again. And he's not.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, well, and his. His ex wife figured that out real fast. Oops. Yeah, and you bring up a good point, because if this had happened in a mosque, I mean, this would not have stood for. You would have had Mamdani and every Democrat in New York and across this country defending it. But I want to ask you about this because nowadays, you know, there is the. I suppose there is a leg to stand on when the argument is that you're a journalist just covering it. But anybody these days with a cell phone can claim to be a journalist. So. So how do you defend that.
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Congressman Tim Burchett
Journalism school? Don Lemon went to get his $5 back. I guess it was a mail order. You know, what has happened, I'm afraid, with the media, and I've seen this change from. From when I was a young man to now is the media has become some sort of. They think they're Internet sensations and they became. They think they are the story and they don't do research like you do research. You rarely ever see a major media news person out on assignment because they're not out on assignment. All they do is create the news and they just regurgitate what comes on the screen. And for. There's no preparation, there's no research, and the journalists have just become stars, if you will. I can remember at the Republican convention in Houston back in the 90s, and I met Frank says no from, from CNN. And I was talking to him and he told me it's just. It's kind of changed. He said, you know, it used to be. I mean, people were wanting to get pick. You know, now this new thing of getting pictures with people, you know, I mean, they didn't. We didn't have cell phones or selfies. And Al Gore hadn't invented the Internet yet, really. But the truth is, is that the media thinks that there's some sort of stars now and they. And they're snobs is all they are. And Don Lemon is a caricature of that. He is a. He is a clown, and he has become that. And, you know, and again, what I hate is even saying his name. I hate that he's in the middle of this because now he's got his little moment of fame once again. And it won't, it'll be short lived. He'll be back doing a podcast with tens of 12 people will watch it.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, I guess that's what happens when you have a strip mall J school degree. And you know, I work for a person, John Solomon, who always says you want to report on the news, you never want to be the news. But I guess Don didn't get that memo at his, at his institution. I want to ask you about a shutdown that could be looming. Republicans in the House. You guys pretty much did your job. I thought this was buttoned up. I think a lot of you guys a week or two ago would have said, yeah, this is a sure thing, bang up, we're going to do this on time, it's going to be done. But it seems like over on the Senate side of things, there are some kinks.
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Congressman Tim Burchett
Yeah, it would have been a sure thing if the Democrats would have kept their word. Schumer said if you, you know, he said we just want to pass a clean bill and they tried to add all that junk in on it. He didn't keep his word and he's allowed to do it because of the lame stream. Media just backs that up. At some point we're going to have to stand up to him with the SAVE act and all this other stuff and we're going to have to start acting like we're in the majority. We have to take that, that three person majority out for a walk and see how it works. Because we're not, we're not doing what needs to be done right now. And if we don't, I don't think the voters will reward us in the midterms. I think, you know, we do a poor job of messaging. We were talking today about how this, this bills that we're passing now is less than the last last year and less than the year before that. But you're not hearing that in the media. And, and I think we need to do a better job of that.
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Amanda Head
Congressman, let me ask you this from a negotiating standpoint, Chuck Schumer and Democrats want money taken away from ice. Republicans want the SAVE Act. There are a number of items on the Republican agenda that you guys have done a great job with in the House that I think absolutely need to be in this and get it out of the Senate. If there is a negotiation to be had where we say, all right, Democrats, you want a little less money for ice, okay, we'll take out 10 million. Doesn't really matter. But it's a moral win for Democrats. If you guys make sure save is in there. Is that a deal that they would go for?
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Congressman Tim Burchett
No, because we don't have the guts to do any deals, I don't think. I think our messaging. The best friend the Democrats have right now is our messaging lack thereof. You know, I've talked to. I'm blue in the face to our conference about our messaging. I message all the time. I'm on Twitter, I'm on all these other things, these avenues. And I talked to them about the. The, you know, what America's talking about. And they just don't get it. They're too wrapped up in the minutiae of Washington, D.C. and unfortunately, the SAVE act is one of those things that could literally save this country. It will literally save this country. And we are. You're seeing Republicans just kind of back off because they don't really care for the fight and they're not there for the fight. And I'm afraid that you'll not see that unless some others get. Few of us get our way with the leadership. But it's very difficult. There's about 20 or 30 that everybody talks about it at home. Oh, this is horrible. And then they come up in D.C. and then they just fall like a cheap tent.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. And I want to get to that in a moment, but I want to focus on something that's actually good, that is doing well on its move along to becoming law of the land. Your bill. No tax dollars for terrorist act. I know that when we had our discussion with you about this, when you first brought it forward, we were all thinking, okay, why is this. Why does this even have to be said? But give us an update on that.
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Congressman Tim Burchett
Yes, ma'. Am. And thank you so much. Y' all been with me for over a year. I've been working on this thing, I guess two years. Yeah, it's Sean Ryan out of Nashville, former Navy seal, CIA operator, a great man, caught on to do some very awful things. Uncovered it. We're sending $40 million a week to the Taliban fellow named Legend, who's an Afghan who fought for us and has a hit out on his head. It Uncovered it, basically, and it's $40 million. And we think some of the money is probably flowing back to this country in the form of dark campaigns and possibly in the hands of some politicians. And they need to be in handcuffs and thrown in the federal penitentiary. But until we get to that point, we need to shut the spigot off. Right now, we're sending them 40 million a week. They take a cutoff of every dollar that goes in and out of that country. In Afghanistan, there's over 1,000 NGOs that operate from this country, not including the United Nations. So this bill has passed the House twice. Now. It's in the Senate. They took it up this week. It passed the committee with some amendments that I think probably make it a better bill. And now we're going to see if it has to come back to the House to be voted on again, or if I can make the agreement and get it to the president and get it signed into law. $40 million. That's what they're getting. And I want to thank you all so much. You've been with me from day one on this bill.
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Amanda Head
$40 million a week. I can think of 40 million things that that would be better suited to when it comes to spending. Before I let you go, I want to ask you, you know, you talked a moment ago about these Republicans who come up with to Capitol Hill, and instead of a swamp, it turns into a hot tub and they basically lose their spine. I have seen a lot of Republican talk lately from former Speaker Newt Gingrich, but also Congressman Mike Lawlor talking about granting amnesty in some form or another to illegal aliens that are in this country. I talk to President Trump's constituents all the time all across this country. I hear it from viewers of this show, from readers of Just the news. People did not vote for Donald Trump to just deport some people. I can't imagine that amnesty is something that resonates with your constituents either. But how many Republicans are. Maybe there are more of them on Capitol Hill than I realize. But have they lost the fight for this issue, too?
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Congressman Tim Burchett
Well, yes, and what we've got to do is address it. We need to look back at how the, how we got here. Ronald Reagan had a pretty good plan. People come up here and work, make some money, go home and, and help, help this country and help their families. And it created a very good, a very good stream of folks, working folks, back and forth. A good collaboration, if you will. And so, yeah, I mean, Newt Gingrich has probably got another book out or something going on it, or so I don't know. And all these other people are chomping at the bit. It is a boat that is sinking, ma'. Am. It is sinking. And you got liberals that just want to let it sink. Then you got a few moderate Republicans that want to bail. I want to plug the hole and Then start bailing. Plug the hole. Stop them from coming in, get them all out and start over, just like these NGOs. It's got to happen. That's the only way it's going to happen. Or we will never get the criminal element out, we will never get the corruption out. And we will. And then, you know, eventually, the Democrats want them for the votes. Republicans want them for the free labor. The American public's tired of getting the wood put to them. I was the mayor of Knox county, third largest county in the state of Tennessee. We had a school with less than 300 children in it. It had, I think it was over 20 languages at one time that were spoken there. That is a cost that you and I pick up. When they go, they say we're not giving them health care. Well, dad gammit. When they go to the hospital, by law, they get taken care of. And guess what? You got to have a translator in there. Look what's happened in Minnesota. The leering centers, the centers that are supposed to be for kids with autism. One of my best little buddies has autism. Doesn't take a dime. Takes care of his nana. Good little Christian boy. And, you know, and these people are just stealing from them, and we're allowing it, and they're not even here legally. We got to shut it down, and we got to go after it. And there's. There's. I think there's an avenue there at some point, but right now is not the time, and we need to figure that out, and we need to get some guts. But I don't know that we got it.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. If I remember correctly, I think you told me once upon a time that your dad was dean of students at ut. I would imagine that he would not be too thrilled to see what's happening in education today with this influx of illegals in this country. But, Congressman, we always appreciate your. Your perspective on this show. Thank you so much.
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Congressman Tim Burchett
Thank you, ma'. Am. It's always a pleasure being on with you. Thank you. And I'm sorry I'm wearing something from the Senator Fetterman collection tonight, but I was. My wife and I are both getting. My wife and I are both getting over the flu, and we've been working in the barn a little bit, so it's been a. She's tough. You women are tougher than us guys. I think it has to do with childbirth. I'm not really sure.
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Amanda Head
I think it does, too. I think you're exactly right. Well, stay warm and get better, and we will see you soon. Thank you.
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Congressman Tim Burchett
Thank you, ma'. Am. Bye Bye. Bye.
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Amanda Head
Bye. All right, everybody. Well, the midterms are coming up and the GOP needs some help in the Senate. So we're going to get to one of those Republican candidates next.
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Amanda Head
Welcome back, everybody. Boy, oh boy, it is upon us already. It almost feels like midterms are coming up and the political landscape is very rapidly changing, especially as the media and the left try to exploit what's going on in Minneapolis between ICE agents and anti ICE protesters or insurrectionists who seem more and more organized by the day. And the Trump administration is trying to continue enforcing the law, but also trying to turn down the temperature just a little bit. But it doesn't really seem like the Democrats are going to come to the table when it comes to that. For example, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threatened to shut the government down again or ice, something it looks like the president may have been able to avoid, at least for now. So joining us now to talk about all of that and perhaps a little foreign policy, too, is a former U.S. navy SEAL and a candidate for the U.S. senate seat from Alabama, Jared Hudson. Jared, thanks so much for being here.
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Jared Hudson
Thank you so much for having me.
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Amanda Head
All right, let's start in Minneapolis. Actually, let's start with a broader issue of illegal immigration. I just had Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett on here, and I have a connection to you both because I was born in Tennessee, but I grew up in Alabama, where you're from. And as I talk to people from those two states, yes, we're Eagle Indy. As I talk to people from those two states, I don't talk to many people who voted for Trump to keep some people here. They voted for President Trump because they wanted deportations of illegal aliens. What are you finding from your potential constituents in Alabama?
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Jared Hudson
Yeah, so it'd be the same thing. And since you're talking specifically about what we see going on in Minnesota right now, the problem that exists is, is it's not us being like mean to to immigrants. We're going up there, the federal government is going up and they're protecting the constitutional rights of the citizens of the state of Minnesota because the immigrants that they're going up and snatching and arresting and deporting are ones who have committed a crime outside of already being an illegal immigrant. Otherwise they wouldn't even know they're there. They're a sanctuary state. These folks commit a crime of rape, robbery, assault, whatever it is, and they're getting hooked up and they're getting taken back and sent overseas to where they, you know, wherever they came from. And that is what people elected President Trump for. That is what people elect representatives for. And the congressman said this. He said, we need to have people up there with backbones. It's time that we, as the American people, for me, run as a senator from the state of Alabama. We need to elect people with a backbone, and they have the same stones to go up and make sure they stand on behalf of the people they're elected to represent and not on behalf of the criminals. And right now, we're looking at the government. Government being shut down because Schumer and the Democrats want to protect criminals that are raining on our constitutional rights.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, it's. It's frankly pathetic to see because time and time again, as you were alluding to, you can't put illegals before American citizens. And it's not that you hate the illegals. It's that you love your family, you love your country, and you want to put the people of Alabama first. I want to ask you about. Well, if you import the Third world.
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Jared Hudson
You become the Third World. And that's an important thing for us to understand. We lose our sovereignty as a nation when we import Third World countries, and they don't assimilate to who we are. And we're not protecting our families when we do that. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cut you off, ma'.
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Xi Van Fleet
Am.
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Amanda Head
No, you're fine. You're fine. And, look, when I was growing up, I feel like every. Every good kid out there was told by their parents that you are who you associate with. And when we bring those people from those Third world countries, and we can. We can only expect. Expect for there to be some type of adoption of those types of cultures. I want to ask you, though, about the specific issue of Don Lemon being arrested. I work in the journalist space, so I am obviously sensitive to his plight. However, anyone can be a journalist these days. So you insert yourself in some type of insurrection or disruption like he did, and then just claim that you're a journalist, and that's your legal defense?
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Jared Hudson
Yeah, well, I mean, we're also talking about Don Lamond. Right? Sweet baby. Don got hooked up because he decided to go into a church and act like a journalist. With that being said, I think he probably got his journalism education from some of the learning centers in Minnesota. I don't know. But with that being said, the first part of the First Amendment protects the religious rights of individuals. Right. So that would be something that I would lean on. If you want to go after the First Amendment rights of a. If you say that, hey, his First Amendment rights were not protected because he's a journalist. Well, what about the First Amendment rights of the parishioners of that church who are literally just doing what they do every Sunday and they were worshiping God? One of the things that I've said is, hey, come to Alabama and do that, brother. I'm your huckleberry. We'll be right here waiting on you and say when. Because the fact of the matter is, you come to Alabama and do that, you're going to get the right hand of fellowship. And I encourage Christians to make sure they don't let their Christianity become a vice. And they get those people out from in front of their kids, their wives, their families, because we are called to protect our families and our communities first. And that's not journalism. That's not anything but criminal activity. And so good. I'm glad he got hooked.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. Well, and something that Congressman Burchette said that I'd love to get your take on, I mean, he emphasized the point that if this had happened at a black church in Chicago or at a mosque, I mean, we would never hear the end of this. And I guarantee you, Don Lamond would not be in there stoking, stoking these types of activities.
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Jared Hudson
Oh, no, you're exactly right. You put the shoe on the other foot, especially a mosque. Right. You put the shoe on the other foot, and what happens, everybody wants to pitch a fit. And that's the problem that we see going on right now is the left, the Democrats, they want to abide by one set of rules, but then they want us, who are Christian conservatives, to abide by another set of rules, and I'm sorry, that's not the way it works. And they want to pretend that the Constitution outlines their rights, but it doesn't outline. Outline the rights of us who are. Who are conservatives. So I'm glad he got hooked. I'm glad that justice is being served, and hopefully it teaches some of these clowns a lesson. Hey, you can't do this. And I'm very excited that the Trump administration, the executive branch, is actually doing something about it.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, me, too. Jared, I want to draw on your Navy SEAL background, because President Trump came in, especially with this second term and with Secretary Pete Hegseth, just absolutely revitalizing, bringing back to life that warrior spirit in our nation's military. When you look at your time in service, you know, possibly under other presidents compared to now, and you See this recruiting spike, Young men and women who are just desperate to fight for this country under this commander in chief. I know that that's gotta warm your heart.
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Jared Hudson
Oh, no, it absolutely does. Because when I went overseas and went to combat, I didn't kill people for some political cause. I killed other people because I'm an American. I'm an American patriot, and I'm doing it to defend my country, defend my values, and defend my buddies that are there with me. My buddies that gave their lives overseas, they did the same thing. They didn't give their lives for political cause. They gave their lives because they believe in the United States of America. And one of the greatest things that I've seen within this administration, the second Trump administration, is the fact that he has reset the Department of Defense to the Department of War. Pete Hegseth is pushing forward an unbelievable standard where we're going, stop doing this DEI trash that has negatively impacted the warfighter. And we're starting to bring forward. We are the greatest nation on the face of the planet because we have the greatest war fighters on the face of the planet. And the American people need to remember we sleep in peace at night because they're individuals who go and do violence on our behalf. And President Trump, Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War, they are showing that we're the country that can do violence on behalf of our citizens. Don't mess with us, or you're going to pay the man.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. Jared, before I let you go, I want to ask you, I know you've had thoughts on my previous guest Congressman Tim Burchett's bill regarding tax dollars for terrorists. Again, it's like, why do we even have to say this? And I know you made mention of, I believe it was I65. I would profit the notion that that direct shot from Birmingham to Atlanta, I20, could use $40 million at least to fix it up as well. But when you get up to Capitol Hill, that's something that's got to change in the culture. This money that's being flung to the far corners of the earth, we have no accountability over it. And who knows, like the congressman said, maybe it's being flung back to dark corners of the Democrat Party here.
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Jared Hudson
No, I mean. I mean, he hit the nail on the head. I mean, you had legend and jazz up there working. There was another buddy of mine, Ben, who was working with them up there while they're going through that. Everybody remembers the Sean Ryan podcast from, you know, maybe a year or two ago, when he was talking about the amount of money that was left to the Taliban, being a part of some rescue operations for Christians in Afghanistan and then also working with military buddies before the pullout happened. That was one of the things that we saw. I still have videos of it where literally you had millions upon millions of dollars of cash, billions of dollars in equipment being left behind. And then our legislature wants to vote to leave $40 million to the Taliban that we've been fighting for 20 years. I mean, for me, it's like I was going over and killing these people and they killed my buddies. And we're going to give them taxpayer dollars. We 100% could use that in Alabama to widen i65, fix the i10 belt down in south Alabama and a million other things for that matter. Heck, funding a new VA hospital in our state to take care of the veterans that serve this great nation, there's a lot of other things that that $40 million could go to, that $40 million a month could go to. And I'm glad that they're getting to the bottom of it and end in it.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, I love those ideas. And I have a feeling that with folks like you on Capitol Hill, the stewardship of those types of funds will definitely improve. And of course, with Congressman Tim Burchett up there, too, you guys would make a great pair on legislation. I'll just say that.
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Jared Hudson
Look forward to working with him. And y' all can check us out@hudsonforalabama.com and like share. Follow all the social medias.
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Amanda Head
Beautiful. Hudsonforalabama.com, former US Navy Seal and candidate for US to Senate from Alabama, Jared Hudson. Jared, thanks so much for being with us tonight.
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Jared Hudson
Thank you so much, ma'.
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Mike Davis
Am.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. All right, coming up next, is left wing violence in our country connected to the Chinese Communist Party? More on that after this break.
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Jared Hudson
We have to be a force multiplier on this.
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Congressman Tim Burchett
We have to stick the landing in the White House, in the Oval Office. You're crushing it, my friend.
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Amanda Head
Welcome back everybody to just the news. We continue our discussion on ICE in Minnesota. But here's a question for you. Is the left wing violence in our country connected to the Chinese Communist Party Party? As our next guest suggests, ICE protests are in fact influenced by Chinese connected Democrats. But who are these Democrats and how close are these ties? Joining us to discuss this is anti communist activist and author of the new book Made in America, Xi Van Fleet Xi, thanks so much for being with us.
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Xi Van Fleet
Thank you so much for having me.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. You know I love when things are made in America, but not when it's communism. Please talk to us about the title of your book and what it means.
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Xi Van Fleet
Absolutely. What it means is that you think that CCP just rose from nowhere and then took over China and eventually took over the world and positioned itself to challenge the supremacy of United States. No, no. It's not that they are really that strong. It's all because of us. And it's because the mistake we made and the mistake that we continue to make. And that's why I named this book Made in America it's all here. The problems are here. When we think about ccp, we have to think about here everything's going on and we feel like how could we let CCP buy our land and take over our institutions like with Confucian institutes and all sorts of things. Why we let them influence every aspect of our society? It's because it's allowed. Allowed. Not only that, I think that they have a great ally here. They found themselves a great ally and that ally is their ideological friend, which is today's Communist Democratic Party.
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Amanda Head
So I've known about this for a long time because I've known about the notion of elite capture when it comes to these cushy relationships with CCP officials and Democrats. But is it pretty much party wide when it comes to Democrats or are there a token few who have really been the ones who have maintained these relationships?
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Xi Van Fleet
No, the main, of course the main ally, it's an ideological ally, that's the Democratic Party. But now the elite capture is everywhere. And in my book I mentioned quite a few well known Republicans, they consider themselves, or at least call themselves conservatives. No, it is. And really their target is everyone. So don't think this is a Democrat and Republican thing. CCP want to infiltrate and influence anyone they can and they have powerful tools and at this time mostly it is money and money and fame and all sorts of things that somehow make their offer irresistible to many, many Americans.
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Amanda Head
So what does the pipeline look like for power and influence from the CCP to politicians here in this country? They obviously can't cut them checks, but there are a lot of donation engines out there that mistakenly or otherwise allow for foreign donations. How does it work?
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Xi Van Fleet
Oh, they have many ways and one of the very common way is a business, an independent business. You know there is no such thing as independent business. Every business in China is owned by the ccp. You can be independent until you're not. And also, you know, this is a donor from Hong Kong, donor from Singapore, donor from whatever. And no, those are absolutely controlled by the ccp. But they don't have even go that far. They now have, I think this is getting out there now. China has its own sorrows and his name is Neville Roy Singhan and billionaire from China, from America, moved there. Now he's using his money, not all his money, a lot of money from the CCP funding all sorts of civil unrest. And his money can be traced nearly behind every protest and riots. And today it's basically insurrection.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, well you mentioned Neville Singhams, of course I'm going to Ask you about Minnesota, A lot of us see these types of protests and we know about the engines behind them as happened in 2020 with the George Floyd riots. But there is no chance that this came together so quickly and so well without the help. And sounds like there might be a little bit of CCP influence behind it.
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Xi Van Fleet
And of course it's the same playbook as well. And I think it is in a way a mistake to separate CCP from the communists here. And they work hand in hand and so sometimes they make it difficult to see who is really behind. But I would say CCP cannot do what it does without the absolute cooperation and support of the communists here. And the Communists of course can be in the Democratic Party, can be just left leaning organizations and some of them might be so called, so called conservatives.
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Amanda Head
Okay, so I want to ask you about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry, because both of them seem to have some pretty strong CCP ties and it seems like they are definitely not Minnesota first. So it kind of makes me wonder if they're China first, but what's your take on those relationships that they allegedly have? Are they, are they tight?
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Xi Van Fleet
Yeah, I'm not quite sure I know the connection of the mayor, but we all know the very, very clear connection of Tim was with the ccp. He loves ccp. He love it so much that he used the day of Tiananmen Square massacre, June 4 as his wedding day. And then he took his students to China many times as a student tour. And what he teach them that communism is good, socialism is good, he's absolutely a communist, no question about it. So they are ideologically allied with the ccp. So I don't think there's any difference. And they work so close together and I don't know who's influenced who. I think they're together, they have a shared enemy and that is the United States of America.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, you know, Xi, there used to be a stigma surrounding politicians who had relationships with foreign countries, foreign adversaries like China. That stigma no longer exists. So what's the way to fix this? I mean, how do we sever those relationships?
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Xi Van Fleet
Well, I think that is, I'm just so thankful that Donald Trump called it out. China is not our partner, not our competitor. China, Communist China is our enemy. And it's not what I say or what we say, they say it themselves. And from the since the inception of the Chinese Communist Party, they have three enemies. Betrayal, Christianity, capitalism and United States. Why United States? Because it's the embodiment of the Two. And so it's never changed. Never change. Sometimes they have to hide it when they want the help from the United States, but the goal remains the same. And that is the same goal with the radicals here. So yeah, they're together and we have to call that out. And how do we call that out and use the platform like yours, mine, you know, my voice, especially me, you know, I can tell from my own experience China is not ccp. And the CCP does not represent China. And then there's a lot of scholars nowadays and just think that China is CCP's. China is the China. It's not. And they always say that they have thousands of years civilization. No, CCP was born and its parents were a Soviet Union in 1921. So it has nothing to do with Chinese civilization. And it's all life span. It goal is to destroy Chinese civilization. Its goal is to replace it with Marxism, a foreign import into China.
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Amanda Head
I've visited China and the Chinese people are good and kind and hospitable. And I think for most Americans, we definitely recognize that the CCP is not the people of China. Same thing with Iran and other countries like that. It's very, very, very different when you, when you take, when you take the leaders away from it. Anti communist activist and author of the new book Made in America. Everybody go check it out. She vanished.
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Congressman Tim Burchett
Fleet.
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Amanda Head
She. Thanks so much for being with us tonight.
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Xi Van Fleet
Thank you.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. All right, everybody. Coming up next, more on the politics and the plans in Minneapolis and Minnesota. That's right after this quick break. Welcome back, everybody. It seems like all the major news this week has been coming out of Minneapolis, especially with the ICE protests and all of the fraud that we've uncovered so far coming out of Minnesota. And that's because it is a microcosm of everything the President ran on. Draining the swamp once and for all this time, ending corruption and wasteful spending and finally enforcing immigration law. That's why the president, why the president won a majority share of the votes this last election and is also is everything the left is against. So how important is it for the President to win this political battle in Minnesota ahead of the midterms? Joining us now to talk about all of that and more is Republican strategist, attorney and managing partner of Cornerstone Group, Chet Love. Chet, welcome back to the show. Great to see you.
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Congressman Tim Burchett
Thanks.
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Amanda Head
All right, so I know you think that invoking the Insurrection act would be a mistake. I know your reasoning behind it, and I think it's pretty spot on. But share that with our audience.
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Chet Love
Would you, at the end of the day, we know that President Trump is, is just trying to do the right thing. And the big issue that we see going on in Minnesota is that Democrats are standing against fairness. Ultimately in the day we've been talking about these immigrants, we call them illegal immigrants. Democrats want to call them undocumented. The real answer what they are immigration cheaters. And so what we don't want to do is to deflect the attention away from the fact that Democrats are out there protesting to keep cheaters in this country who cheated the immigration system and that there are millions of immigrants who legally immigrate into the United States every single year. And these cheaters are skipping the line and preventing from good people from coming into this country. And so the use of the, these acts and sending in the military I don't think is going to help issues. I think it's going to help Democrats to continue to be these unlawful agitators and they're going to continue to use these actions as fodder for the midterms to scare other Dems to get out to vote and say the Trump's acting as the Gestapo or things like that, when we know that's not true and we need to keep the focus on that. Democrats are supporting cheaters and that completely undermines the American value system.
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Amanda Head
Well, Chat, what scares me too is that it also kind of feels like a game of whack a mole. Okay, you got the Insurrection act in Minneapolis and these types of protests are just going to show up in other cities anyway.
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Chet Love
That's right. The reality is that this is a coordinated issue. And what we just heard from the last panelists and talking about where a lot of this dark money is coming from. Why are Democrats supporting cheaters? It is illogical. It is things that we have been taught all as children is that cheating is bad. But what we see is that Democrats, and we see representatives like Ilhan Omar and others, we see the governor of the state of Minnesota, we see the mayor of Minnesota all organizing to continue to support these efforts to resist against legal law enforcement activity. We just had Don Lemon going into churches with these protesters. Again, why are liberals doing this? Is it communism? Are they being influenced by communism?
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Jared Hudson
Maybe.
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Chet Love
I just think that as the American people, we need to realize that what Democrats are doing is incredibly dangerous and again, undermines the moral fabric of society.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. And you know, I see all these bleeding heart liberals out there who think that this is just about being kind to people. Well, first of all, anyone who is in this country illegally has already committed a crime. 100% of them have committed a crime coming in here. But also, Chet, I mean, I hate to bring it, break it down to dollars and cents, but the average illegal immigrant household costs the American people $24,000 a year and they only pay $10,000. So for every illegal immigrant household, it's $14,000 out of the pockets of the American citizens. We can't afford that.
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Chet Love
We can't. But also what people are again, not recognizing is that of the legal immigrants, 65%, according to the federal government, are reestablishing families. So there are people who are waiting in line legally to be re established with their family here in the United States.
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George Conway
States.
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Chet Love
And many of them are being deprived of that opportunity because of these cheaters who are here in this country. And so the more we're successful in getting these cheaters out of this country and allow the people who have waited in line legally and fairly to be able to come into the United States legally, that's going to be a better thing for America. But also it's the kind and right thing to do.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, it's just unbelievable. Where do you think, do you think that this is an issue that ranks at the top heading into the midterms? Do you think it's going to. I know you said that with respect to the Insurrection Act, Democrats will use it, but for Republican voters, is this still high on the list like it was when President Trump was reelected?
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Chet Love
Absolutely. I think for Republican voters, what you see across the board is that they're happy with what President Trump is doing because he is continuing to do the work that Americans put him in place to do. What you see on the Democratic side, which is very interesting, you saw Senator Klobuchar, who's now running for governor of Minnesota. She spent five minutes on this speech to talk to the Minnesotans. She did not have one policy issue that she's actually running on in Minnesota, but she spent a ton of time talking about ICE and talking about Donald Trump. And again, this is the issue. Democrats have not had an actual policy position in years. Their entire policy is attacking Donald Trump.
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Amanda Head
Oh, that's such a good point. Such a good point. Because I mean, I think about the Democrat Party platform. I mean, even, even six years ago, eight years ago, 10 years ago. And look, I've got a lot of bad things to say about Barack Obama, but at least he ran on Hope and Change. They're not running on Hope and Change. They're just running on I Hate Donald Trump Republican strategies Chat love. Yeah.
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Chet Love
Thank you.
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Amanda Head
Go ahead.
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Chet Love
No, the one last thing I was gonna say is that if you go back and you look at speeches from President Obama and Hillary Clinton, it's because they were supporting deporting people out of this country. That's why Democrats don't actually have policies anymore, is because the policies that they were actually pushing, Republicans are doing them now.
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Amanda Head
I know, and I always talk about it. I say Donald Trump took the best of the Democrat Party's policies and repackaged them, remarketed them and made them good for the American people and then took it on his platform. It was brilliant. Speaking of brilliance, Republican strategist Chetlo, thanks so much for being with us again tonight.
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Native Path Sponsor
Thanks.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. All right, everybody, some final thoughts coming up after these messages. Welcome back, everybody. As I was talking with my last guest, Chet Love, we were talking about President Trump invoking the Insurrection act and how that could create a whack a mole effect across the country when it comes to these protests just popping up every time President Trump tries to quash it. My dad texted me in the middle of the segment and said, do you remember that your daddy o is the world champion whack a mole player? Dad, I didn't know that, but that's good to hear. I wanted to. I've actually been wanting to bring this up on air for the last few nights because I saw some random person on Twitter or Instagram or one of those social media channels and they posted a video that was a skit of two people. Actually, it was the same person. But you know how they do. They'll change their hair and change their shirt or whatever. So it looks like it's two people kind of. So anyway, this skit was one person saying to the other person, hey, I bought you a case of water bottles and I put them all in your fridge. And the other person says, well, I didn't need any water. And also I didn't have room in my fridge. And the other person says, okay. Oh, and also one of the bottles has poison in it. And the other person says, so you put a bunch of water bottles in my fridge that I didn't have room for to begin with. And one of them has poison. I'm just going to. I'm just going to put them all out. I'm just going to, you know, take them all out of my fridge. That's illegal immigration. We don't know which ones have poison in them. And I'm not saying that the folks who came across the border illegally and that's the only crime that they committed. I'm not saying that they are poisoned, but we know whether you're an illegal immigrant or a regular immigrant, you're human. There are humans out there. Humans are fallible and humans are sinful by nature. There is poison among us. And we cannot afford in this country. We can't afford fiscally and we can't afford morally to allow these people in our country and for them to remain. So. I just thought that that was a poignant appointment skit that I saw. And I wish I could credit the person, but I don't remember who it was. But at any rate, let's continue on with some of the leftist reactions to the arrest of Don Lamond. Here's Jim Acosta lashing out at racist Trump for the arrest.
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Congressman Tim Burchett
And I'll say right now, I mean, Trump likes to with Don, because Don is black. And we just need to say that, too. Trump is racist and he's always attacked Don in racially loaded ways, calls him stupid and things like that. And it's disgraceful. It's disgusting.
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Amanda Head
I really thought that they were over the racist thing because it has never worked on Donald Trump. It just doesn't stick on Teflon Don. But at any rate, House minority leader Hakeem Jr. Jeffries has declared that Trump's DOJ, the whole thing apparently is illegitimate.
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Mike Davis
There should be an explicit prohibition on the detention and deportation of American citizens. Period, Full stop. And lawless agents who are brutalizing everyday Americans and law abiding immigrant families, targeting them violently in violation of the law, should be investigated and prosecuted independently of the Department of Justice. We cannot trust the Department of Justice. They're an illegitimate organization. Right now under the leadership of Pam Bondi and the direction of Donald Trump.
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Amanda Head
And here is a Minnesota state representative. I believe it's Aisha Gomez talking about their city being occupied. I'm not kidding.
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Xi Van Fleet
It's day 60 of our city being occupied and being invaded by masked troops of an authoritarian regime who are brutalizing our neighbors, who are kidnapping people, who are engaging in regular violations of the universal civil rights on which our country was founded. Yeah, it's also day 60 of us.
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Amanda Head
Standing up and saying, no, absolutely disgusting. And my heart goes out to every single person out there serving in a law enforcement capacity in these cities. All right, everybody, thanks so much for being with us tonight. We'll see you back on Monday.
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Congressman Tim Burchett
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Chet Love
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