Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, March 24th, 2026

Summary

Just the News, No Noise – March 24, 2026

Podcast: Real America’s Voice, iHeartPodcasts
Hosts: John Solomon, Amanda Head
Notable Guests: Congressman Tom Tiffany (WI), Chairman Jason Smith (MO), Emma Waters (Heritage Foundation), Shannon Davis (American Alternative Assets)

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Episode Overview

This episode unpacks major political scandals, new Congressional actions, economic policies, and cultural debates impacting American society—delivered through the lens of “real news, honest views.” The show navigates Watergate-level accusations against the Biden-era FBI, developments in national security and immigration, U.S.-Iran diplomatic overtures, the success of Trump-era tax reforms, and the cultural “war on mothers.” The tone, as always, combines investigative rigor with pointed, conservative commentary.

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Key Segments & Insights

1. Watergate Redux? FBI Surveillance Scandal

[03:35 – 07:46]

• John Solomon sets the scene: New evidence reveals the FBI, under Biden, spied on pro-Trump lawmakers and associates—including improper wiretapping and collection of personal records without proof of a crime.
• Key moment: Lawmakers grill senior FBI officials over wiretaps on attorney-client conversations involving Susie Wiles (Trump campaign) and her lawyer, drawing parallels to Watergate.
  • Quote:
    • Congressman Tom Tiffany [06:02]:
      “Listening to a private conversation between a presidential campaign manager and her lawyer... is much more serious as an abuse of government power than an attempted wiretap of the DNC headquarters in Watergate.”
    • John Solomon [06:17]:
      “It’s doubly invasive because it’s supposed to be a privileged conversation.”
• Senator Grassley challenges Special Counsel Jack Smith: New emails show Smith’s office relied heavily on the Jan. 6th committee’s findings despite claiming the opposite to Congress, raising the specter of possible false testimony.

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2. National Security: DHS Confirmation & Iran

[07:46 – 10:15]

• Senate confirms Mark Wayne Mullen as Secretary of Homeland Security.
• **U.S. receives “a very significant prize” from Iran in diplomatic talks (oil and gas-related), according to the President, hinting at progress toward peace negotiations.
  • Quote:
    • President (as paraphrased by Solomon) [08:08]:
      “They gave us a present... worth a tremendous amount of money... it was oil and gas related... we’re dealing with the right people.”

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3. Immigration Loopholes & Chinese "Birth Tourism"

[10:43 – 13:46]

• Rep. Tom Tiffany spotlights a major loophole: Visa-free access enables Chinese citizens (and others) to give birth on U.S. territories, conferring citizenship to children and causing “far more Chinese women coming in giving birth than American women.”
  • Quote:
    • Rep. Tom Tiffany [11:12]:
      “Communist China... allowed to come into the Mariana Islands visa free… a huge loophole… citizenship for their children.”
• Democrats accused of enabling illegal immigration:
  • Quote:
    • Rep. Tiffany [12:23]:
      “It’s the holy grail of the Democrat Party to bring people into this country illegally. I don’t get it.”

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4. China’s Farmland Purchases Blocked—Or Not

[12:42 – 14:10]

• Rep. Tiffany criticizes Wisconsin’s governor Tony Evers for vetoing a bipartisan bill to block Chinese (and other adversary) purchases of Wisconsin farmland, a move widely opposed by constituents.

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5. Political Espionage & Fixing the System

[14:27 – 16:00]

• Solomon and Tiffany reflect on abuses by the Biden DOJ and the FBI, likening it to historical political surveillance. Tiffany laments the ongoing “weaponization” of government institutions, particularly referencing the Jan. 6th committee.

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6. Domestic Industry: Timber Mills & Environmental Policy

[16:02 – 17:47]

• Tiffany blames closure of sawmills on radical environmental policies, welcomes government investment to restore the industry, and calls for a balance between environmental management and economic need.

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7. Immigration Policy & Sanctuary Cities

[17:47 – 19:03]

• The tragic consequences of sanctuary policies: Tiffany highlights a fatal accident involving undocumented immigrants, underscoring the broader societal impact of open border policies.

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8. Economic Policy: The Save America Act & Tax Refunds

[25:23 – 31:35]

Record Tax Refunds

• Huge tax refund season:
  • $400 billion in refunds credited to Trump-era tax reforms (“one big beautiful bill”).
  • Quote:
    • Chairman Jason Smith [26:25]:
      “We delivered on the President’s promises of no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security... largest tax refund season in history.”

Economic Growth

• Chairman Smith asserts U.S. on strong footing:
  • 4.4% GDP growth after the “big beautiful bill.”
  • Wealth from tax cuts expected to stimulate further revenue and prosperity.

Upcoming Legislation

• Focus on advancing the Save America Act through reconciliation, ensuring Republican priorities remain central in future policy packages.

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9. Foster Youth & Bipartisan Social Policy

[31:36 – 33:12]

• House Ways and Means prioritizes the Chafee Program for foster youth aging out of care.
  • Quote:
    • Chairman Smith [32:08]:
      “The First Lady, Melania Trump, has made it her cause… You’re going to see that work come alive.”

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10. The “War” on Motherhood

[36:36 – 43:17]

• Emma Waters on CIA suspicions of motherhood:
  • Claims that “pro-mother” stances have been pathologized by intelligence and culture, tracing the origins to ‘girl boss feminism’ and post-2021 shifts.
    • Quote:
      • Emma Waters [36:55]:
        “Anyone who says that women's most important responsibility could be the home and her family is somehow deeply suspect... if the CIA recognizes it’s a threat to their illegitimate project, how much more should we view it as strength?”
• Biblical and cultural role models:
  • Jael from the Book of Judges as an exemplar for modern women in faith and family.
  • Importance of mentorship between generations to reverse declining birth and marriage rates.

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11. Gold, Retirement, & Economic Warnings

[44:04 – 51:07]

• Federal Reserve’s high rates “squeezing retirees.”
  • Shannon Davis encourages gold/silver ownership as safeguard—argues price drops are temporary and buying opportunities as debt and inflation erode value of fiat money.
  • Quote:
    • Shannon Davis [47:07]:
      “Did our $38 trillion debt disappear? Did the oil shock go away? ...We’re sitting on a geopolitical powder keg… The window’s closing on a great entry price for gold and silver.”

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12. Vaccine Safety, COVID, and “Suppressed” Cancer Treatments

[52:25 – 56:58]

• Anecdotes of possible vaccine side effects: Amanda shares a personal story blaming cancer diagnoses on COVID vaccines and discusses resistance to linking them.
• Expert commentary: Solomon cites emerging studies finding a possible connection between spike protein exposure (via COVID or vaccine) and cancer risk, but emphasizes it’s not yet conclusive.
  • Quote:
    • John Solomon [53:28]:
      “There seems to be an elevated signal for cancer risk. That doesn’t mean it’s proven yet…there is a series of studies going on now…”
• Barriers to new treatments: Resistance against studying off-patent drugs like ivermectin and fenbendazole due to political bias and profit motives in “Big Pharma.”

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13. College Sports Reform

[56:58 – 57:35]

• Senator Tuberville’s “Student Athlete Act” aims to limit chaos from the NCAA transfer portal, setting “five years to play five seasons” and penalizing multiple transfers.
  • Brief commentary: “It doesn’t work for team cohesion.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “[This] is much more serious as an abuse of government power than an attempted wiretap of the DNC headquarters in Watergate.”
  — Congressman Tom Tiffany [06:02]

• “Anyone who says that women's most important responsibility could be the home and her family is somehow deeply suspect.”
  — Emma Waters [36:55]

• “$400 billion in tax refunds…That will pay her rent for the entire year and also help pay for her groceries. That makes a huge difference.”
  — Chairman Jason Smith [26:25]

• “Those two forces together, I think, made a cloudy path to studying all this. It seems like it’s clearing up now with new mindsets at the NIH.”
  — John Solomon [55:21]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• FBI Surveillance & Watergate Analogy: 03:35–07:46
• Iran Talks & DHS Confirmation: 07:46–10:15
• Chinese Birth Tourism & Immigration Loopholes: 10:43–13:46
• China and Farmland Purchases: 12:42–14:10
• Political Espionage & Accountability: 14:27–16:00
• Timber/Environmental Policy: 16:02–17:47
• Immigration & Sanctuary City Tragedy: 17:47–19:03
• Tax Refunds & Economy (Jason Smith): 25:23–31:35
• Foster Care/Chafee Program: 31:36–33:12
• Motherhood, Feminism, CIA (Emma Waters): 36:36–43:17
• Gold & Retirement (Shannon Davis): 44:04–51:07
• COVID Vaccines & Cancer Debate: 52:25–56:58
• NCAA Transfer Portal Reform: 56:58–57:35

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Conclusion

This episode blended hard news, Congressional oversight, economic analysis, and cultural critique, with pointed questioning of government overreach and a recurring theme of American resilience. Memorable moments included a fierce debate over FBI surveillance, the real-world impact of tax reform, the spiritual legacy of mothers, and warnings for economic preparedness. Listeners seeking unfiltered analysis of current events—grounded in conservative American values—received a dense, high-energy update on the issues shaping the 2026 political and cultural climate.

Transcript

[Amanda Head]

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[John Solomon]

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[John Solomon]

Good evening, America and Happy Tuesday. Welcome to the latest edition of Just the News. No Noise. In fact, tonight might be called the Watergate edition of Just the News. No Noise. I'll explain that in a second. I'm your host John Solomon reporting you as always from the nation's capital. You've heard that phrase bigger than Watergate many times before. It's been used for so many different scandals over the years, whether it was regarding President Trump and the myriad of scandals that he was had cooked up against him by the media and the intelligence community and the Democrats in Congress. Remember Russia, collusion, Ukraine, you know them all very well. But today, the Watergate card got flipped on those who were the pursuers. New information was divulged on Capitol Hill that could actually fit the description of bigger than Watergate. It has to do with former President Biden's FBI. During today's hearing, a new evidence was produced showing that three years of cash Patel's records were taken before his FBI director by the old FBI, even though they could not find a single crime against him. That's why he was confirmed as FBI director, why he never was prosecuted in court. Fourteen lawmakers who were aligned with President Trump, their phone records were spied on. And then after Senator Ted Cruz revealed or confirmed our reporting from a few weeks ago that the FBI may have listened into a phone conversation with Susie Wiles with her Private Attorney, Article 3 Project Senior Counsel Will Chamberlain was questioned by Senator Mike Lee and he asked him some very important questions. We want you to listen to what the answers are. They make it all very understandable.

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

Now, according to the FBI, the lawyer was aware of the recording. But isn't it true that the lawyer denied that he had ever consented to that arrangement?

[John Solomon]

That's true. That was widely reported.

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

And if in fact, the Lawyer did not consent. Your testimony today is that this, this would have been and was an illegal wiretap by the FBI in the absence of her. Of her lawyer's consent with the FBI.

[John Solomon]

That's correct.

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

And the FBI designated this as a prohibited file to prevent anyone from finding out about it?

[John Solomon]

That seems to be correct, yes. Spying on your enemy. That's what the Watergate break in was about in 1972. Hiding it. That's what the COVID up was that led to President Richard Dixon's downfall. All of the elements. Now you're starting to see why. Now, later on, Senator Lee continued, have a listen to where this conversation ended up.

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

Listening to a private conversation between a presidential campaign manager and her lawyer. In many ways much more serious as an abuse of government power than an attempted wiretap of the DNC headquarters in Watergate.

[John Solomon]

Correct. Because there's, there's two, you know, interests being invaded. First is just the wiretap generally, but then it's doubly invasive because it's supposed to be a privileged conversation.

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

And that takes on additional flavor, additional degrees of seriousness when that person happens to be a client represented by a lawyer who happens to be managing the presidential campaign of the then incumbent President's lead and exclusive challenger. Effectively.

[John Solomon]

There you go. That's how we got to Watergate. Flipped on the Democrats, the Biden and White House and of course, Jack Smith. Now one note on Jack Smith before I turn to my amazing co host Amanda Head. Today, Senator Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee put out emails showing that Jack Smith staff was widely using the Democrat Jan. 6 committee's findings as a basis for its investigation called Arctic Frost. Now, if that seems odd to you, or maybe it doesn't seem odd to you, it could be a problem for Jack Smith. Why? Because just a few short weeks ago, Jack Smith told Congress he relied very minimally on the January 6th committee. Those emails conflict with that, something Senator Grassy pointed out. I'd be keeping a close eye on the possibility that the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee refers Jack Smith, the former prosecutor, to his former employee of the Justice Department for possible false testimony investigation. With that, I'm going to turn to my amazing co host, Amanda. What else is on the radar? Also, I think you had some of your own feelings about why not. It was, it was quite stark. A hearing.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

Absolutely. Well, and the Senate was very busy with that. The Senate is also getting some other things done. It's not dhs, but, but they did confirm Mark Wayne Mullen as DHS secretary. So after the swearing in of the new Homeland Secretary, the President addressed the media and provided updates on the success of Operation Epic Fury. So listen to what the President had to say when asked about peace talks with Iran.

[John Solomon]

They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually. They gave us a present. And the president arrived today and was a very big president, worth a tremendous amount of money. And I'm not going to tell you what that president is, but it was a very significant prize, and they gave it to us and they said they were going to give it. So that meant one thing to me. We're dealing with the right people. No, it wasn't nuclear related. It was oil and gas related. And it was a very nice thing they did. But what it showed me is that we're dealing with the right people.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

All right, so it appears that peace negotiations between the U.S. israel and Iran could be happening soon. And once the President is prepared to unveil what Iran's present was, it could represent a significant achievement for the American people. Now, speaking on the Iran war, Democrats and the liberal media continue to undermine the President's war efforts. Attorney and former National Security adviser of the United States under President Biden, Jake Sullivan mocked the Trump administration for bombing Iran. He said that Tehran offered a peace proposal in Geneva, but US Negotiators were too dumb to understand. Take a listen.

[John Solomon]

And when Trump comes back, there is actually an opportunity to do a deal

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

because he's the guy who pulled out.

[John Solomon]

And just a few days before we

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

started bombing Iran, the Iranians put a

[John Solomon]

proposal on the table in Geneva that went a long way towards resolving the nuclear issue.

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

And my understanding is that our side,

[John Solomon]

our negotiators, simply didn't understand what they

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

were being offered, and they ignored it and decided to go ahead and strike.

[John Solomon]

Our guys didn't understand. Was it in Farsi?

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

What?

[John Solomon]

I don't.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

So as a former US national security adviser and a leader of several Democratic policies that contributed to our current situation, he chooses to mock the the Trump administration for its efforts to dismantle the Iranian regime. Something that has been an oppressor on the people of Iran for 47 years. But, yeah, John, bad idea by the Trump administration.

[John Solomon]

Just a few minutes ago, President Trump just said this. The Iran has agreed to give up its nuclear weapons and not to pursue nuclear weapons ever again. Now, that's not the special prize they gave on the Hormuz, Strait of Hormuz. But that just came out of the President just a few minutes ago. We have it over atjust the news.com. all right, we've got the perfect guest to kick us off tonight. He's a congressman from the great state of Wisconsin and now the leading Republican gubernatorial candidate in that great state where I spent many years. Congressman Tom Tiffany. Sir, good to have you on the show.

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

Good evening. Good to join you, sir.

[John Solomon]

I want to talk about something that you and Congressman Chip Roy have been working on, because I think we got a new Homeland Security secretary. We're learning about all the different ways that our immigration system has been. One of those is a loophole that Chinese mothers have taken advantage of for years to give birth on US Soil. Something that our good friend Peter Schweitzer just wrote about in his new book. You are concerned this Undermines national Security. Tell us how you plan to fix it.

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

Yeah, we've been talking about this since I've been in Congress going on six years now, John and Amanda, and as you characterize there, John, there are so many ways in which people have come into our country and abused our immigration system. This is one of them. And we're going to fix it with the one nation, one visa policy. What happened is Communist China and a few other of our adversaries were allowed to come into the Mariana Islands visa free. And what happened? It became a huge loophole where Chinese women came in and gave birth here and in effect had citizenship for their children. It was so bad a number of years ago that there were far more Chinese women coming in giving birth than American women.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

Unbelievable.

[Shannon Davis]

Wow.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

So for Democrats, what's their stance on this? Because, you know, we obviously see what Democrats are fighting for when it comes to fighting against, I suppose, the Save America Act. What's their stance on it?

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

I mean, as far as bringing people in the country, I mean, look at the shutdown in regards to Homeland Security that's going on. Look at the shutdown back in October.

[John Solomon]

It was.

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

It's all about allowing people to be able to come into this country illegally. It is the holy grail of the Democrat Party at this point is to bring people into this country illegally. I don't get it. But all we can do is fight back every single day to try to stop it.

[John Solomon]

Congressman, we hear a lot of times that China as a threat is a bipartisan issue. But then we watch how Democrats actually act. You're running for governor of Wisconsin. The current Democrat incumbent, Tony Evers, just vetoed a bill to stop China from buying Wisconsin's farmland. I'm scratching my head on this one. How'd that happen?

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

Yeah, that one. That one is a head scratcher. There's no doubt about it. The governor gets a bill on his desk saying that the Chinese shall not buy farmland in the state of Wisconsin, as well as a few of our other adversaries, and he vetoes that. I don't get it because it is clear. I mean, when I talk to audiences and I say that we should not allow China to buy one acre of farmland in Wisconsin, it gets one of the biggest rounds of applause of anything that I say. People, and this is really bipartisan, as you mentioned earlier. People do not want this going on in our country and certainly not in the great state of Wisconsin.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

Sir. I saw just a few minutes ago that Delta Airlines, because they call it reduced resources, I have to wonder if they're trying to put pressure on Congress, too. But they said they are not in a position to provide those escorts to members of Congress that they would typically get. So if Delta does it, maybe you got air, you got American and United and Southwest and others to follow. Does that put the squeeze on Democrats in the Senate?

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

Well, we'll see. I know many of them take advantage of that. For me, I just go through the regular lines. Everyone else does. And I don't see any problem with what Delta is doing.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

That doesn't surprise me one bit that you go through the regular line.

[John Solomon]

Yeah. That's why so many folks in Wisconsin love them. Sir, I want to talk a little bit about what we talked at the top of the show. We get more and more visibility into what the Biden Justice Department, what Jack Smith, what the Chris Wray FBI was doing targeting hundreds of people. If you need three years of future FBI director's phone records, it seems to me you're fishing. How do we fix these sort of espionage, political espionage capers that we now have in front of us, and how do we create penalties so that they don't happen again?

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

So for people of a certain age, they'll recognize this. But the only person's name I didn't hear in the analogies with Watergate was Rosemary Woods. But it is really a sad day and it's great what the Senate was doing there, including Senator Lee's questioning, to expose once again how far the Democrats went to surveil the people of the United States to go after their adversaries. And it is a sad day in America that this continues to be revealed. And by the way, the onion keeps getting peeled back in regards to the January 6th committee, which was supposed to be this, this committee that's going to find out and get to the bottom of January 6th. It was just another weaponization of the government against Democrats opponents.

[John Solomon]

It's really clear, sir.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

Timber is one of the most fundamental materials in this country. And under Joe Biden, not only did you have the issue of Biden inflation, but you also had timber mills across the country that were closing. We even felt it in Los Angeles because the Hollywood industry was going broke trying to build sets. So it was happening all over this country. But I know you are praising the US you for dumping over $100 million investment into sawmills and timber mills to reinvigorate production across the country. Tell us about it.

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

Yeah. So you look at the last three or four decades as radical environmentalists shut down logging, especially in the western states. You go to the Sierras, in California, there is like 200 mills that closed over the last three decades. We no longer have the capacity to process wood, to turn it into two by fours and all the other good stuff that you build homes and businesses out of. And so now what do we have to do? We have to jumpstart this industry so that we can make forest products, that we can make wood products right here in America. This would never have had to happen if the radical environmentalists did not shut down logging in our country. And it's a sad state that now we have to come back and incentivize it. But that is exactly what has to happen. And that's what this is referencing. Amanda, what you're talking about is we need to build the mill infrastructure if we're going to be able to manage our forest once again. We're seeing it in Wisconsin also with the closure of mills. It is time. We have to rebuild that forest products infrastructure. And if we're going to be able to manage our force in an environmentally sound manner.

[John Solomon]

Sir, before we let you go, I spent a long time in Wisconsin. Madison's always been a liberal capital, but in recent years, Dane county, the surrounding county, became a sanctuary city. You have this horrific accident that takes the life of an innocent teenager, two teenagers, actually. Tell us a little bit about what we learned and how the sanctuary policies contributed to this tragedy.

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

Yeah, it's terribly unfortunate that you see the sanctuary policy that protects criminals, because that's what's happening, John, is that criminals aren't stupid. They know where they can go to be protected. And unfortunately, Madison and Dane county have set themselves up as sanctuaries. So people are going to stay there. And as a result, you see these crimes that are committed. You know, we saw the one down in Chicago that is getting national press here this week. With a young woman that was gunned down. I mean, it is happening. It continues to happen around the country as a result of this open borders policy. You know, the holy grail for Democrats and liberals at this point. Let's have open borders. It has real consequences.

[John Solomon]

Yeah, that it does. There's no doubt about it. Congressman, the election in Wisconsin this November is going to have some real consequences. A potential big change in leadership there. I know you're leading in the Republican polls. People are very excited. Great to have you on the show. Thanks for joining us.

[Congressman Tom Tiffany]

Thanks, Amanda and John, always good to join you.

[John Solomon]

Yeah, we enjoy having you on. All right, folks, a little breaking news while we're in that great conversation. A jury in New Mexico has ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to pay $375 million for jeopardizing the safety of children. Go check that out@just the news.com. all right, after the break, we got a great discussion on the partial government shutdown and some record high tax refunds due to the big beautiful bill. The chairman of the tax writing Ways and Means Committee, Congressman Jason Smith. Up next after these messages. Foreign. Hey, America, everybody's talking about weight loss injections because the results are so dramatic. They work by lowering blood sugar and reducing appetite. So what if you're looking to lose weight but not interested in painful weekly injections, especially when you hear about some of those intense side effects. That's why doctors created a weight loss supplement called Lean. And the results are remarkable. The studied ingredients in Lean have been shown to lower your blood sugar, burn fat by converting it into energy and curb your appetite and cravings so you're not as hungry. Those are the keys. But listen, lean is not for the casual dieter with only a few pounds to lose. The doctors at Brickhouse Nutrition created Lean for frustrated diet dieters with 10 or more pounds to lose. Let's get you started with 20% off and free Rush shipping so you can add Lean to your healthy diet and exercise plan. Visit take lean.com and enter just news for your promo code to get a discount. That's promo code just [e-mail]. Right. Thank you. It.

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Welcome back, everybody. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer rejects President Trump's ultimatum on the Save America Act. He states he cares about his his own election and he thinks the SAVE act, which isn't going to pass, will change how the election comes out. Meanwhile, due to the one big beautiful bill, IRS reports indicate that Americans are receiving the largest refunds in recent records. So as TSA agents continue to work without pay and Americans feel the effects of President Trump's policies, what is next for the administration, especially on the tax front? Joining us now to discuss this and more, the chairman of the committee that handles that, the House Ways and Means Committee and congressman from the great state of Missouri, Chairman Jason Smith. Thank you so much for being with us, sir.

[Chairman Jason Smith]

It's great to be with you all.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

I heard so many naysayers when the one big beautiful bill was signed, that the, the tax cuts from 2017. But also what was also in the oh, one big beautiful bill, OB3 was not going to really do much. And yet you're getting this data the largest tax refund season in history. Tell us about it.

[Chairman Jason Smith]

You know, the best thing I should say is the facts hurt with Democrats. We said all along this was the largest tax cut in U.S. history. We delivered on the president's promises of no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, created the Trump investment accounts, increased the child tax credit, increased the standard deduction. A lot of big wins for the American people that has led to the largest tax refund season in the history of America that we're experiencing right now. Nearly $400 billion in tax refunds are going to individuals. I'll tell you, I was just back home in the district and I, I spoke to a young lady who is a waitress, has several Kids works overtime and she filed her taxes and guess what? She, she had a refund of over $10,000 and $10,000 in southeast Missouri that will pay her rent for the entire year and also help pay for her groceries. That makes a huge difference in the lives of everyday hard working families.

[John Solomon]

It's an amazing thing. And I think the feeling of the economy catching up to the kitchen table is starting to occur. People seeing more in their paycheck, they're seeing more in the opportunity. There's a little interruption with oil and gas prices that will go away when Iran settles down. As we head into the fall, what's your look at the economy? Do you feel it's on a very solid basis right now?

[Chairman Jason Smith]

Absolutely. I think you'll look the gdp, the growth rate for the United States will only continue to increase. These congressional bureaucrats projected that GDP growth would be 1.8%. And I said when they made those projections that they were completely inaccurate. If you look at the 50 year historic level is roughly 2.7, 2.8%. I expect us to have record GDP growth. We should have had over a 5% GDP, GDP growth according to the Atlanta Fed in the fourth quarter. But unfortunately the Democrats did a 43 day government shutdown that drastically impacted our GDP. However, the first quarter after passage of the big beautiful bill, our GDP was 4.4%. You're going to see great improvements this year. You're going to see bigger paychecks for Americans and these large refunds and you're going to see the growth that's coming in trillions of dollars of investment coming in from outside of America that will only help grow our economy.

[John Solomon]

Yeah, it's huge.

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Mr. Chairman, I want to ask you about another benefit of this. I remember in 2017 with the tax cuts and Jobs Act, Americans were obviously paying less in taxes and yet because jobs were increasing, the federal government actually took in more revenue. I don't know if that has had time to kick in with yet with the one big beautiful build. But do you anticipate the same type of reverberation?

[Chairman Jason Smith]

Absolutely. When you look at the 2017 successful Trump tax cuts, we brought in more than $1.5 trillion of of revenues above what was ever projected. You're going to see the revenues continue to increase because the more money that people get to keep in the pockets and decide on how to spend their own dollars instead of the government, that automatically helps incentivize the growth which then creates higher revenues. So every GDP of revenue growth that you see, every 1% of revenue growth. You see, it adds about $300 billion a year in revenues.

[John Solomon]

Gracious, boy, that's a big number. Big number. All right. I know you're not resting on your laurels. You already got plans for other big stuff to go to get this economy roaring even more and the American people more settled in a new path. A reconciliation bill is being discussed behind the scenes. Tell us a little bit about what the possibilities are there. Does the SAVE act get slipped in? What are some of the possibilities for another omnibus bill?

[Chairman Jason Smith]

You know, John, for an upcoming reconciliation package, it has to be those items that unify Republicans. And the item that's out there that unifies Republicans without a doubt is a Save America Act. And that is, in fact, what I believe has to be in any reconciliation bill. First and foremost, it is a huge priority of President Trump. The House, the House has passed it multiple times and unfortunately, we've not been able to get it across the line. And all that reconciliation does allows a vote of legislation with a simple majority over the United States Senate. So whatever's in this reconciliation package, the Save America act has to be the first and foremost item.

[John Solomon]

Yeah, that's important.

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Mr. Chairman, I want to discuss a heartstring issue with you. You know, the Democrat line of messaging about Republicans is they only care to protect organizations, you know, large corporations. They are for the rich white man, and they care only about those types of things. However, you are doing something on the House Ways and Means Committee that is so important, especially to the youth of the this country, with the Chaffey Program, a program that provides unbelievable resources to those transitioning out of foster care. Talk to us about what you're doing.

[Chairman Jason Smith]

Thank you for asking about that. That's something that a lot of folks don't, don't, don't really bring bring attention to. But this is something that our members have been working in a bipartisan approach to address the issues with foster, foster children, especially foster children that are leaving the program and so that they can be productive, effective citizens. This is something that the second that the first lady, Melania Trump, has been engaging in, has been making it her cause. And you're going to see that work come to alive. We have a lot of legislation that hopefully will be moving through in a bipartisan fashion to become law. We had the largest reauthorization of child welfare just, just in the last Congress within the Ways and Means Committee that was signed into law. We need to do that with the Chafee program as well. And we will, and we'll do that. Under the guidance of our First Lady.

[John Solomon]

Sarah, I know you knew Mark Wayne Mullen as a fellow member of the House before he went to the Senate. He now has that giant bureaucracy under him, the Homeland Security Department. Straight talker, doesn't get stuff done, doesn't care about a lot of bling. He wants to get things done. How important is he at this moment in history at the Homeland Security Department?

[Chairman Jason Smith]

John? He's the right person at the right time. I have known Secretary Mullen before I was ever in Congress and before he was ever in Congress. And when you know someone before you ever, ever come to Washington, D.C. you know what type of person they are. He is a devoted husband, father, successful businessman who loves this country. We're both from the Ozarks, and in the Ozarks, the people that, that we live with are straight shooters. And that's exactly what Mark Wayne Mullen is. He is a straight shooter. He's shooter. He's going to tell you like it is. And he's going to be a very successful Secretary of Homeland. I'm, I'm thrilled that he is leading this, this, these departments, these 22 different agencies. He'll do a superb job.

[John Solomon]

Yeah, no doubt.

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Speaking of straight shooting, from the show me State of Missouri, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Jason Smith. Sir, thank you so much for being with us.

[Chairman Jason Smith]

Thank you. It's always great.

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Likewise. All right, everybody. Coming up next, we're going to discuss the media's war on women and some biblical wisdom for today's women of faith. That and more.

[John Solomon]

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[Amanda Head]

Hi. It's so good to be with you.

[John Solomon]

All right, I want to get into this narrative. It seeped into the intelligence community. It seeps into social media. It seeps into cultural programming. Somehow a woman who wants to have children either should have regret or should be considered a threat. When did that begin?

[Amanda Head]

So it seems that it began in 2021, and in reality, for many, many years, under the mantra of girl boss feminism, which said that your career is the most important thing about you before your family, your faith, or even the good of your community. So we shouldn't be surprised that we see the CIA talk targeting women and mothers, women who, as radicalization suspects. Anyone who says that women's most important responsibility could be the home and her family is somehow deeply suspect. Which makes sense if you take into account, if your goal is to destabilize and control the population, especially during. During a time of national upheaval like we saw during COVID the most effective way to do it is to attack the family. But what really strikes me today, especially with lead like JL just coming out, that we are underestimating the power of a faithful wife and mother working in the home with her children. If the CIA recognizes it, that it's a threat to their very illegitimate project to take over America, then how much more should we as wives and mothers and Christians in the United States, view it as one of our greatest strengths and assets?

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Yeah. Talk to our audience about Jael. I love her story from the Book of Judges. She ends up being this absolute heroine against the Canaanite king Jabin. She's the wife of Heber, and she is such a complex woman. And she turns this motherhood and this domesticity into something that really, I mean, like I said, it contributes to the Israelites overtaking the Canaanite king So Jael's

[Amanda Head]

story is found in Judges, chapter four and five in the Old Testament. And it's a very unconventional depiction of what being a biblical woman is. Just like you were saying, Jael. We meet Jael in the middle of Judges, right, when the general of Israel's enemy comes stumbling to her tent. So first and foremost, she recognizes him from afar. So she's politically engaged in what's happening around her. She has foresight, invites him in while he asks for water. She gives her milk. He goes to fall asleep, and then she takes a tent peg and a mallet and drives it through his head, thus soundly defeating Israel's enemy. Now, the takeaway is not that we want to promote physical violence today, but there's some really fascinating lessons for women spiritually that I wanted to highlight even by putting her on the COVID And the primary one is that setting up and taking down tents was a feminine, domestic duty. The only way that Jael had the physical strength to take a wooden tent peg and drive it through a man's skull is because she had completed that task hundreds, if not thousands of times to secure her home, her tent before. And because she had been faithful to those ordinary daily responsibilities and was present in her home, God equipped her for this extraordinary act of faithfulness in defeating Israel's enemy. She's politically engaged. She didn't think the culture war was for someone else to deal with out there. Nor did she pick up a sword and run into battle like the men, but in a distinctly feminine way, defined, defended her home from sin and evil when the fight came to her.

[John Solomon]

An amazing biblical story. Politics lives downstream from culture, and it seems like the war on motherhood or childbearing women began in the cultural space long before it reached the political space. What are some of the solutions to this very troubling trend? If we keep on this trend, we're going to have fewer, fewer humans. What are some of the things that you see as constructive, either in process or should be in process, to combat some of this negativity?

[Amanda Head]

Though many people may be wondering, why is a policy analyst writing a biblical theology for women about how you think about marriage, motherhood, and work? And it comes down to that very question, because ultimately, we can debate declining birth rates, declining marriage rates, and policies to encourage them. But that's not the heart of the issue. If happy and hopeful people tend to have children, then the bigger question is, what is going on with the spiritual and emotional state of women in the United States that they're no longer interested in or excited about having children. And this is something that's far more than just an economic or cultural issue. It's a heart issue. And so one of the things that I really emphasize in lead like jail, is the important importance of older, wiser women really mentoring and stepping in to lead women along the way. You have a revival among young men in the United States returning to faith and family. And yet young women have fallen far behind. And multiple studies in, in light of this have actually found that part of the missing factor is that there aren't these wise matriarchs, these examples of faithful women, to show them the way. And so while I am many years away from being that faithful matriarch myself, the hope of the book is to really point people towards women in the Bible and towards women in our culture today who have faithfully embodied the seasonal approach to life, putting first things first, that we can mirror our own lives after as well.

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Emma, does it make an impact that, I mean, even in this administration, of all the women in President Trump's cabinet, even as President Trump refers to her, the most powerful woman in the world, his chief of staff, Sue Susie Wiles. They are all mothers and some of them even grandmothers. So when you have women like that in a position of power, does that matter towards the argument of having kids and getting married and starting those things earlier?

[Amanda Head]

This is one of the best pro family policies of the Trump administration, and it's not something that will ever appear in an executive order. I think it's so important, as you're pointing out, that we see this not only taught, but embodied a show, not tell vision of pro family policy to show women that you can truly pursue the gifts and passions the Lord has given you. And you don't have to do that at the expense of getting married and having kids even at a very young age, like Caroline Levitt. I think that's probably one of the most powerful examples that we're seeing in our culture today that even in the midst of chaos and working some of the most intense jobs in the United States, they're still making time for marriage and for children. And they're doing so in a way that just, I think, is so refreshing and encouraging to the American spirit and such a strong contrast to years of the Biden administration when so few women were married and so few women were having children.

[John Solomon]

Nothing like a powerful and strong role model. Just like jail. Emma, really great to have you on the show today. Congratulations on the book, Folk. Go check this out. It's a great book. We'll Be sure to get you on real soon. Thanks for joining us, Emma. All right, folks, coming up next, the Federal Reserve seems convinced that they need to keep rates high, but that created, that's creating a dangerous squeeze on American retirees. We're going to dive in that next with our great partner Shannon Davis at American Alternative Assets right after these messages.

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Welcome back, everybody, to just the news. No noise. The Federal Reserve's commitment to keeping interest rates higher for longer is creating a dangerous squeeze on American retirees. Financial experts say that this prolonged high rate environment is crushing bond portfolios that many retirees depend on for some type of steady income. So what's particularly troubling is how this monetary experiment leaves retirement savers vulnerable to both inflation and market volatility with really no clear exit strategy from the Fed. And here with us today to talk about why this couldn't be a better time to own gold and silver is CEO Shannon Davis of American Alternative Assets. Shannon, welcome back.

[Shannon Davis]

Thank you for having me again, guys. Look forward to being with you.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

Absolutely. And we always have this conversation with you about gold and silver because they are so, so reliable. But even with the mention of troops in Iran, it took a bit of a dip. So talk to us about that.

[Shannon Davis]

Yeah, definitely. We've, we've seen a pullback, I think in every market. You know, it exhales and inhales and that's exactly why we tell people don't be reactive, be proactive. This temporary price D, it's an absolute gift for people who understand what's coming while everyone else is panicking about the day to day. That's not what gold and silver are built on. You know, price movement, you know, smart money is grabbing up physical, precious metals because when the crisis, next crisis hits it, it will hit. Gold and silver won't just recover, they'll explode. So the people who wait and they'll be paying premiums to protect what they could have gotten today at a discount. So you know, the Fed, you know, the Fed's painted themselves into a corner. They can't cut rates aggressively because inflation is still running much higher than they want. But you know that, that can keep rates higher for longer without crushing the economy. It's just there's no way that they can sustain that. So right now Americans are getting squeezed from both sides like you mentioned. And savings accounts, what are they paying? 1 to 4%, 5% if you've got a high yielding CD, inflation's eating 3, 3 and a half percent of that up. So that's eating your purchasing power. Up. And that's why gold will always be something that will help families preserve their wealth. Amanda

[John Solomon]

Shannon, I love something that I learned from reading all of your great guides and that is that we live in a reactive society where social media is attention span is often what drives decision makings. But you always talk about the underlying fundamentals that that's what you focus on when you're making a strategy for your retirement or for your investments. 39 trillion headed to 41 trillion in the next year. Our national debt, the underlying fundamentals of what makes our economy make everyone nervous are still exactly where they were a few weeks ago, right?

[Shannon Davis]

Yeah, exactly. And that, John, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Being reactive versus proactive. Y. Yeah, like we said, gold dropped drops on that type of news. But you know, ask yourself, you just mentioned it. Did our $38 trillion of debt, national debt disappear? Did the the global tension in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and and Asia suddenly vanish? Did our banking system magically become more stable? You know, the oil shock is why things are dropping right now. Asian nations are facing huge financial pressures as soaring oil prices force massive asset liquidation. So countries depend heavily, as we know, on oil imports and they're being forced to dump government bonds, copper, aluminum. I think at the highest liquidation since 2018, it's been on a really good run. Gold and silver are in that basket and it's critical that they were able to liquidate that to meet their energy supply. So they were lucky to have gold. That's why I think our clients are lucky to have it. It's extremely stable. We're sitting on a geopolitical powder keg right now, and that's explosive. And China is still threatening Taiwan. Russia's still at war. Iran's proxy forces are still active. And here at home, our debt has grown by more than one trillion every hundred days. So the windows closing on a great entry price on gold and silver. John and Amanda and people should act now.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

Shannon I was talking to a family member who used the example of a 1.8% dip in gold as a result of the arrival on Reddick rhetoric as evidence that gold is not a steadily increasing asset, which as I told them, I said there might be a lot of these, but it's always in one direction. It's always in an upward trajectory. For people out there who do feel like they are in a position to buy. Do you recommend having the physical gold in a safe at home, or is it better to have it in the form of IRAs? What do you Recommend?

[Shannon Davis]

Yeah, that's a great question, Amanda. You can't go wrong with either one. You know, it really just comes down to, you know, what you're looking to reposition out of dollar bills. Right? Our dollar bill is at a four year low. It's on pace to lose 18% this year. So it really depends on where do you want to move some of your dollars. And if you move them from a 401k or an IRA into precious metals, that's without any penalties, that's without any taxes. And you got to think about that is not the same dollar that you were putting in five years ago that you're taking out today. When you take a dividend driven investment like bonds, that dollar is not the same that you put in five years ago. Your purchasing power isn't the same. Your cost of living is much higher. And I think we'll see that go up once that residual effect with this oil spike really, really hits. And so, you know, three things will happen simultaneously when this all hits hard. Precious metals, the price will skyrocket. Availability will disappear. Premiums will go through the roof. So don't want your listeners to call us in six months saying, I wish I had acted when Amanda and John were talking about it on the show that day. The time to prepare is now. When you see the storm coming, you know it's time to prepare, buckle down, board up the windows like in Florida. And that's today. And so we're here to help Amanda and John. Anybody that wants it.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

Yeah, we love everything you guys do over at American Alternative Assets. CEO Shannon Davis, thanks for being with us tonight.

[Shannon Davis]

Thanks for having me, guys. Have a great day.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

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[John Solomon]

We totally had coffee.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

I did. I started off with a grande. I had coffee this morning with a friend of mine who we were actually girl Scouts together and had not seen her since high school. And she told me a heartbreaking story that her older sister, who's only a few years older than we are, got the COVID vaccine. A month later, they detected a brain tumor, and 15 months later, she died. This friend of mine, her husband was not going to get the COVID vaccine. He was pressured into getting it because of work, and he now has blood cancer. Now, she said, I hear a lot of people telling me that causation is not correlation and not to try to relate them to the vaccine. But she said, in my mind, I just can't let that go. And it broke my heart because I could see the pain in her eyes and the questions about, you know, all of the what ifs that so many people have. And she's a civilian. She doesn't work in politics. She doesn't, you know, do anything governmental. She's just a normal mom trying to raise kids in this country and be a wife and be a devoted sister. And yet she's left with this, all of this doubt about in a huge industry.

[John Solomon]

Well, as we know now from Dr. Peter McCullough and from Jay Bhattachar, the NIH director, one, there are some early signals in the data that suggests if you got the COVID virus, meaning you got the spoke protein because you were infected, or if you got the spike protein because you got the injection, there seems to be an elevated signal for cancer risk. That doesn't mean it's proven yet. What's the good news is there is a series of studies going on now to try to really narrow this down. And if that's the case, or if people are already concerned about the Spike protein being a potential impetus for cancer, there are all these ways now, therapeutics, that you can get the Spike protein out of it, whether you got it from a shot or from a new infection of COVID And I think that's going to be where the debate's going to go in the next few years. The sad part is we lost a lot of valuable time in studying this because for a while it was anathema to have these sort of conversations, conversations. We don't know scientifically if it's 100% proven. We do know there's enough signals now that science is studying it. That's a. That's a good thing, and it's a warning sign for future MRNA vaccines about relying on a spike protein or something that might have been the insertion point for the virus. Maybe that's not a good way to put it back in our body to fight it.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

Well, and speaking of anathema, there are a number of doctors across this country on the subject of cancer who have been trying, I think it was the number I heard was 17 times. Doctors have tried to get a peer review for the combination protocol of drugs like ivermectin and fenbendazole for its treatment for cancer. And it sounds like we are moving closer and closer to that peer reviewed study happening because as you know, John, from working in this business, that's one of like the major, major roadblocks when it comes to having it universally recognized as a treatment.

[John Solomon]

You know, there are two forces here. I just want to address this quickly. One is the political force that these were things that Donald Trump embraced and therefore we can't let it be real.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

Right, right.

[John Solomon]

The second is big pharma. Big pharma doesn't like to use, reuse cheap drugs that have been around a long time that they can't make money on. Those two forces together I think are when you hear Jay Bhattachara or Dr. Peter McCullough or others that we bring on here, those are the forces that I think cloudy made a cloudy path to studying all this. It seems like it's clearing up now with new mindsets at the nih.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

Yeah, well, and there is, there has been this congealed, almost concrete, like way of doing things here in Washington. And now you have RFK and Marty Makary and folks like that that are, that have now moved into these establishment roles. And RFK is a big proponent of peptides. And by the way, all of the weight loss drugs that people are taking, those are peptides. But you had Eli Lilly who came out a few years ago and said, you know, we've got to shut down the peptide community here in the United States because they're getting the APIs, the active pharmaceutical ingredients from China. Well, what did Eli Lilly turn around and do? They turned around and bought a peptide company out of China. So this happens all the time. It's not just with peptides. It is with pretty much anything that can be used as a preventative. Because if you're preventing things from happening, then the thing that happens doesn't drive

[John Solomon]

expensive cure doesn't exist. You take away the marketplace. It is something that we really have to get to the bottom of this idea of do no harm. We know doctors are out to it, but the pharmacy industry has to also be held to the same standard. And again, there's a lot of great ingenuity in the American big pharma community. We make great products, we do great things, but we can't let this mindset of profit over health be the predominant driving force.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

Before we go, just real quickly, Senator Coach Tommy Tuberville has introduced his Student athlete Act of 2026. This is aimed at curtailing the transfer portal chaos. But if you watch college sports, you know that it is just absolute madness from week to week. You don't even know who's going to be first string. So it gives athletes five years to play five seasons. It also penalizes a player one year if they transfer for a second time. So hopefully this will throttle.

[John Solomon]

Interesting.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

You can't win lottery and teammanship when you've got people coming in and going out and just a revolving door of players. It doesn't work for team cohesion.

[John Solomon]

Go UConn.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

Go Auburn.

[John Solomon]

UConn.

[Co-host (possibly another main host or commentator)]

All right, everybody, that's going to do it for us tonight. We appreciate you being here. We'll be back here tomorrow night at 6. 6pM Eastern Yukon.

[John Solomon]

Right now they're down. So that'll be Yukon. Both men and women's team are in.

[Amanda Head]

And this is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.