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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, November 11th, 2025
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Darren Selnick
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Amanda Head
Welcome everybody and happy Veterans Day to all of you. This, of course, is the Veterans Day edition of Just the News. No noise. I'm your host, Amanda Head here in the Nation's capital, Washington, D.C. my co host John Solomon is out on assignment tonight, but he's going to rejoin me later in the week here in studio. All right, a quick programming note before we get started tonight. We may be able to take you inside of Mar a Lago where there is an event called the Big Blue Bash that's taking place there. And it is honoring America's veterans and first responders. So make sure you stay tuned for that. But speaking of honoring America's veterans, that is how President Trump started his morning today speaking at Arlington National Cemetery for Veterans Day. And he summed up what America's military means to our great nation. Take a listen.
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Donald Trump
Every captain of industry, every pioneer of science, and every star whose brilliance has lit up the lights of Broadway all share one thing. They only had the chance to soar because the veterans had the courage to serve. They took care of those people. They took care of all the stars. The stars that you read about wouldn't be here without our veterans. Everything we have, everything our country has achieved has been purchased by the muscle, spine and steel of the United States military.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, truer words have never been spoken. But we, we'll have more on Veterans Day and America's military in just a second with our very first guest of the night. But before we get to him, let's get to some words that probably aren't true. And of course, it deals with the government shutdown still ongoing, but excuse me, hopefully coming to an end very soon with the Senate voting to advance the CR to open up the government. Now it goes to the House for a vote. And wouldn't you know it, a lot of Democrats are not happy with the Democrat senators who crossed the aisle and voted to reopen the government, which would pay more. All those furloughed workers that they claim to care about and fully fund things like snap. So here is Democrat Congressman Richie Torres on it. What do you do, those of you who feel the way you do, which is very unhappy with the way the vote went in the Senate? What do you do to try to turn this around?
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Doug Truax
Look, we have no choice but to keep fighting. But the fact that a few Democratic defectors would surrender to Donald Trump after.
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Kenny Webster
The resounding rejection of Donald Trump in.
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Doug Truax
The 2025 election is utterly baffling.
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Kenny Webster
Like that is not a show of strength.
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Doug Truax
It's a show of weakness.
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Amanda Head
And let me tell you, he was not even close to being the only one who apparently feels this way. Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that under no circumstances will House Democrats support the criminal.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Our expectation that the House will vote at some point tomorrow and House Democrats will strongly oppose any legislation that does not decisively address the Republican health care crisis. We want to reopen the government. We'll continue to stand by our hardworking federal employees and civil servants. But we have a responsibility to make sure that we extend the Affordable Care act tax credits so that tens of millions of Americans don't experience dramatically increased health care costs. That's going to prevent them from being able to see a doctor when they need one.
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Amanda Head
So we're going to have to wait and see what happens when that vote hopefully comes up tomorrow. And finally, John came out with a huge story earlier today, of course, over@justinews.com all about the Clinton corruption files. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel have now shown Congress documents about former President Bill and former first Lady Hillary Clinton's foundation and evidence that they collected donations from foreign and domestic interest seeking influence. And the fact that AG Bondi and Director Patel just found this new cache of documents is raising concerns that this evidence was kept from previous prosecutors investigation investigating the Clinton foundation and the pay to play allegations and against the Clinton family, gosh, a decade ago. So officials familiar with the matter have said that the documents will make clear that there was some kind of effort to obstruct legitimate inquiries into the foundation by blocking real investigation by line level FBI agents and DOJ field prosecutors and keeping them from following the money. So you can read more about this bombshell story over@justthenews.com all right, everybody, we have a very special first guest for you on this Veterans Day show. He is a veteran himself, a former West Point graduate and Army Ranger. He is also a veterans advocate who now leads RESTORE the Military, Doug Truax. Doug, thanks so much for being here.
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Doug Truax
Hey, Amanda, thanks for having me on.
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Amanda Head
I'm delighted to have you here and on a perfect day. I know that you. You wrote this article especially for Veterans Day, but honoring the sacrifice by restoring the military's warrior ethos. That warrior ethos took what I think a lot of people thought might have been fatal blows under the Biden administration. But boy, oh, boy, Secretary Hegseth. And of course, with President Trump at the helm, it seems like it has returned with vengeance.
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Doug Truax
Yeah, it's been a breath of fresh air, and it goes back a long, long way. I graduated from West Point in 92, so all the way back to Clinton, Obama, and then, you know, Trump in the first term, he was under fire a lot, so he didn't have a lot of opportunity to make changes. But then Biden was just really over the top with this. It's just a constant stead slide within the military. You saw this in recruiting numbers and just morale in general. You know, why would you want to join a military? It's more concerned about talking about transgender and DEI than it was about lethality. It makes you nervous, you know, especially if you're a parent, your kids talking about enlisting, you're thinking to yourself, I don't know if these guys have their act together. And so, you know, that's a very, you know, on the ground way to look at it. But then the larger problem is, of course, the military gets weaker and weaker, and the bottom line is, and, you know, it's a. It's a fallen world there, and every nation has to fend for themselves on some level. And if you don't have a military, you're going to lose your country eventually. And so this is huge implications going into the future. So the place we're at today, you know, versus where we were even a year ago, you know, it's just. It's just, like I said, it's a breath of fresh air. It's definitely a great directional change. There's a lot of work still to be done as part of the work we're doing to restore the military to make sure we're getting back on track, but we're definitely going the right direction thanks to President Trump and War Secretary Hexseth. So grateful to see that on this, this Veterans Day, but still a lot of work to be done.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, and you mentioned kind of these mixed messages and the weakening of that ethos under Joe Biden. And the sad reality is that because of Joe Biden's stance on foreign policy, which was weakness through. Through confusion, I Suppose because now we have peace through strength, but weakness through confusion, that that made our military in even more. In more peril when military readiness was not at the top of its game.
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Doug Truax
Yeah, that's right. And when you don't have the general class in particular, like you look at Milley and even Lloyd Austin when he was Secretary of Defense back then, just so focused on, you know, white rage and all these different things, when at the same time the world is getting more and more dangerous. I remember watching the whole thing happen and like, this is going no place good quickly. And you think about even now with the Chinese, they're trying to undermine us every day, all day, and if we act like everything, everything's fine and, you know, we don't need a strong military as much as we used to, that's playing right into their hands. And we have got to make sure as a country that we are doing everything we can to make sure that if we do have to go to war, we win. It's not even close. And I think that's the best service that we can provide as patriots in this country to our veterans and obviously to our active duty is to arm them and equip them with every possible thing. You know, we went to a trillion dollar budget for the War Department, and that's a huge number. But I can tell you too, there's a lot of fraud, waste and abuse in there. If we continue to get that out and work on it and then reallocate that money to producing the right weapons and training and everything else, we'll be back in the place we want to be. And I would encourage everybody that's just in favor of our country to be okay with saying, hey, I don't think this is a good idea that we do this with the military. I think in our country, out of respect, a lot of people, if they didn't serve, they don't want to say anything that might be taken as untoward towards the military. But I think we got to get over that as a country and just say, look, this is important to all of us. I support the military and especially the veterans that have served. And now they're out. You don't want them looking back at the military saying, what the heck is going on? What happened here? You want to make sure that it's as strong as it can be for those folks that served and did their time, and then obviously for the people that are now that they might have to go downrange. And we want to make sure they're as equipped as they possibly can be as trained as they possibly can be and acting international interest. And that's what we want in a military and for our country going forward in general.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, absolutely. When President Trump announced that he was nominating Pete Hegseth to be the Defense secretary, War Secretary, I remember seeing the leftist, the left side of the aisle, their reaction to it. And of course, the first title that they mentioned, the first credit they mentioned of his was that he was a Fox News Weekend co host. And then they listed his military credentials at the end, which I thought was pathetically insulting and deceptive. But what does it mean to the military, to the men and women who are on the ground, whether it's at a base here on us on. On. On US Soil or elsewhere? What does it mean to them to have someone who is overseeing them, who actually has seen combat? A combat veteran?
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Doug Truax
That's right. Yeah, it's huge. Because you want to make sure that the person that's, you know, leading you up at the top understands what you would have to go through. And we will be willing to do it themselves. I mean, the. The leaders are always the ones that set the example themselves by willing to do what they're asking their subordinates to do. So, having been in combat, Secretary Hegseth can quickly say, hey, guys, you know, I know nobody wants to do this, but we're gonna have to go do it because it's in the nation's interest, and this is what you signed up for. And I'd say in particular, too, when he got all the generals together, I know it wasn't like, you know, standard practice, but I can tell you this. Anybody that's been in the military, especially being in the army, whatever level you are, you're at platoon, company, battalion, brigade, division, it's quite all right to get all your senior leaders together and just say, hey, everybody, this is where I'm at with things. This is the direction we're going. Because once they hear it from you and they all hear it together, they can go out there and say, look, this is the new direction we're going in. The culture has changed. Yeah, we were doing that before. We're not doing that anymore. This is the path we're on now. And I think that that's helpful for all those leaders to have heard that all in one place. And then they go forward and they talk to their division commanders and brigade commanders, and down it goes, and they kind of share that back to them. So I think that that's super important that he did that. I know People like you say in the press, like, oh, why would he take all these people? They're so important. Yeah, they're important, but they're still in the military, and they still got to follow orders, and I don't care who you are, you know, and so. And even above that, you know, the commander in chief, per the Constitution, is the president, who tells Hexeth what to do, too. So there's, you know, there's a distinct chain of command here. We gotta follow it. I think back when Milley was talking to the Chinese and all that, you know, we just got way sideways with some of these generals thinking, I'm just going to do what I got to do because I want to go get on the board at Raytheon or General Dynamics or whatever else, you know, enough of that. Do your job. Get ready. Get your soldiers and your troops ready to go downrange if they have to, because then to the point that Secretary Hexseth was making, if we're prepared for war, chances are we'll not have to fight it. If we're not prepared to the point you were making a minute ago, the world was going crazy, the higher the probability is we're gonna have to go fight one. So it's just. It's a smart thing to do to get everybody on the same page and get. Get straight, and, you know, it makes our country stronger, makes the military stronger. That's what we all want.
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Amanda Head
Doug, I saw a heartbreaking video of a 100-year-old World War II veteran from the UK and he. He was practically in tears in this video, and he said, you know, why. Why did my friends die at Normandy? Why did my friends die fighting in the Pacific theater? And it was heartbreaking because you look at what's happening in the UK as far as freedom of speech and the influx of immigrants into their country, and it is practically unrecognizable from what it was even. Even 10 years ago. Do you share those concerns? I mean, I know we obviously here in the United States, thank goodness we still. We still care about our. And value and protect our First Amendment, but things could go sideways with just one administration.
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Doug Truax
That's right. That's right. Every day I wake up and I thank God I'm in this country, and I feel bad for him. You know, it's terrible what's happened in the U.K. you know, I don't want to be a downer here on Veterans Day, but there is one thing that we need to have a reckoning for, and that's Afghanistan. You know, we had decades and decades of people just pouring money, people losing their lives and their limbs. We had a lot of generals and a lot of politicians telling us, oh, you know, it's going to just, everything's going to be fine. We got to hang in there. The Afghans are going to take over. It's going to be great. You know, it all ended in a weekend. And, you know, I'm 55, and that was like the lowest point of my life from just being, you know, what has happened to our country here. And there needs to be a serious reckoning about that whole experience that led up to that weekend where it all went south. And those guys have got to answer questions, and we still haven't done that. I hope that we certainly will, but that that act alone will make sure that going forward, we get much more precise about. This is our national interest. This is why we need to go to combat about it. And people will know that if in their military or even politicians, that if they're making stuff up, if they're fudging numbers to make it look better than it is, and people are losing their lives and they're doing terrible things because they're out in the middle of nowhere with no mission, there will come a day of reckoning, and we still have to have that for Afghanistan. But outside of that, you know, we're doing all the right things we can from the military right now, and Lord willing, it'll keep getting stronger, the country will stay on track, and we won't end up like England. It's a. It's a terrible thing to watch. You know, we got to stay on the right path here.
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Amanda Head
Doug, I don't want to cut you off, but I want to ask you about this, because I know your organization, Restore the Military, has identified about 110 employees at the Department of War who have contributed to this degradation of the military. And you guys want to see some accountability. Who would you get that accountability from? What do you want to see happen?
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Doug Truax
Well, what's already happened? So we've had them up there for a little bit. We have the posted date on there, so it's 110, maybe more now, mostly generals and admirals. And these are people that have that embrace the DEI concept, because when you're in the military, if you get a memorandum and say you're a lieutenant colonel, battalion commander, you get a memorandum and you have to follow the law and do the thing and do the class, and you don't, you know. You know, it's stupid, right? But you're going to do it and move on. That happens. But these are all people that embrace the concept, which then they are demonstrating terrible judgment because when you embrace that concept, you're embracing lack of unity, which is the one thing you need if you're going to go to war amongst the troops. And so what we've done on our website, restorethemilitary.com, as you can see on there, we've taken their own words, their own videos, whatever they've said, their own speeches, and we put it right up there and we demonstrate that they were the embracers of the concept. And so far, about a third of them have already been fired, forced out, whatever, you know, out you go, doesn't matter. We have to set an example here. And thankfully Secretary Hegseth and those guys, I think they're looking and paying attention and we're letting the entire military know that we're watching. And that's an important piece too.
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Amanda Head
Excellent. I absolutely love that immediate accountability. Doug Truax, thank you so much. You said it's restorethemilitary.com that's right. Perfect. Everybody go there, support them. Doug, it's a pleasure to have you here tonight and happy Veterans Day to you. All right, everybody. Coming up, John is going to be back for another interview with a veteran that we taped a little before the show this evening about the Veterans Bill of Rights.
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John Solomon
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Darren Selnick
Well, thank you. As a veteran myself, I appreciate this day, especially the free meals. But, but thanks for getting some important stuff to talk about. And Veterans Day is much more than just free meals. As we all know, it's the once a year honoring the service of all the men and women who fight for this country and die for this country every year. So thanks for having me on to talk about this important subject.
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John Solomon
It's an honor to have you on. We honor your service. You've got a big idea. A veteran Bill of Rights. It's kind of hard to imagine that it hasn't been done before, but it codifying what our veterans are entitled to have for their great service to our country. Tell us a little bit about it and where it's going.
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Darren Selnick
Right. So one of the reasons we created the veterans Bill Rights was because during the Biden administration, we just saw veterans rights being taken away from them. I mean, for example, gun rights taken away from veterans who need help managing their benefits, red flagging veterans, restricting their care based on what they considered an inappropriate comment through a disruptive behavior committee. So taking away their right to health care, taking away their guns. And we've seen story after story of where veterans are not able to appeal, not able to get service in a time and really not following a couple key tenants from veterans that you may have heard of. Teddy Roosevelt and Omar Bradley, a man who's good enough from Teddy Roosevelt to shed his blood for his country is good enough to give in a square deal afterwards. And from General Omar Bradley, we are dealing with veterans, not procedures with their problems on. So veterans have been struggling and not getting their benefits or not getting them timely. And VA is supposed to be for veterans and that's supposed to be your only job. And so we needed something to codify, to really spell out how you're going to treat the veteran well, how the veterans are going to be able to get what they want without a hassle and get that benefit they so deserved. And so we also wanted to know, and you know, the Trump administration is fixing the excesses and the problems at the Biden, but we wanted to make sure post Trump that we always had, no matter who was power, the ability of veterans to get their care, to get their service, to get their benefits and be treated with respect and have their rights upheld and not be treated as second citizens in an organization that's supposed to be meant for them.
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John Solomon
Yeah, it shouldn't have to be codified. It should be natural to all of us. But the Biden year shows it does need to be codified. So tell us a little bit about where this Bill of Rights ultimately could be codified. I suppose Congress could take care of it. The Executive order of a president could take care of it. The VA could implement it within their own. How far do you want to see this Bill of Rights go?
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Darren Selnick
I love to see all three. To tell you the truth, there's nothing better than Congress codifying it. I mean, even the IRS has a Bill of Rights right for taxpayers. But ultimately doing a resolution codifying these Bill of Rights makes them absolute permanent. In the meantime, going from bottom on up, Secretary Collins could go ahead and do a Secretary of directive. We'd love to see that, to go ahead and start putting this into policy and start changing policies and bad procedures. We love President Trump, once he's familiar and hears about this, to do an executive order. And we have sent this over to the White House. Certainly an executive order would send the message immediately and help passage of the codification. But we believe in all three to send the message and to get things rolling. But ultimately, codification with Congress would be the ultimate step to make sure that veterans knew that not only did the President and the Secretary have their back, but the entire Congress had their back and is needed as needed. And in Veterans Day. That's why we're launching on Veterans Day. This has to happen.
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John Solomon
Yeah. It's such a great idea and long overdue, quite frankly. So there's a lot of things in here that are pretty obvious. Freedom of choice, respect and dignity. Dignity, awareness of benefits. One that's important to me because of my own personal reporting. Informed consent. We have obviously the most famous or infamous example of the Tuskegee experiment. But more recently, even just about a decade ago, I did some reporting on a project that gave veterans an anti smoking cessation product that had side effects that they didn't tell them about. Informed consent is a really important part of this and there's been a history of it not always being perfect at the. The va, Right.
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Darren Selnick
Yeah, that's right. Until they discover what they're not. Yeah. They do a lot of things that are not been informed consent until they get discovered. Releasing of privacy information, telling you that you have to opt out. Otherwise they consider it informed consent with your things, with your health care, you know, driving, driving on your benefits. So there's There's a lot of shenanigans that, that go on. And we want to make sure that before veterans, whether it's having choice for community care, which the Veterans Access act will take care of, whether it's participating in research, whether it's getting medications, whether it's your claims or other benefits. On the benefit side, we want to make sure the veterans have informed consent that they know what they're signing away or they know what they're participating in and that they have to opt in rather than opt out. So informed consent is very important, American principal and a principle for veterans who.
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John Solomon
Access the va. All very common sense, really important stuff. All right, I want to turn to some of the America first policies that Doug Collins and President Trump have implemented. The VA still has a long way to go. Everyone will agree that. But there's been some good progress made in the first eight, nine months of this administration. Tell us about it.
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Darren Selnick
Well, I mean, one of the key things was implementation of the dole out and that was best medical interest. So you had a veteran and a doctor saying for the best medical interest, need to use community care. And some chief of staff, some secret administrative panel was overriding that. And so now it really is in your best medical interest. You can actually get the care in the community and you can't have some bureaucrat overriding it. Secretary Collins has also made it very clear, policy wise and to all the staff that you're going to treat veterans well, you're going to uphold the Mission act, you're going to approve the communicator. Now he's, he's got a big job because there's not any political pointings right now. John Barnum nominee hopefully will be confirmed next month, but he's in the process of getting a bunch of political points over there to make sure that 400,000 careers actually follow the Mission act and actually follow to do it. So that's a big step. Another big important thing was rather than va, you know, just giving you a few community care appointments and taking you back, he said no, we're going to make sure, like everyone else in industry and across the country, your point are good for a year. So that was important, that continuity of care, ability to get community care, ability to not be forced back into the system. These are just two improvements that he's doing. I know he's got a lot of other improvements in the works. And of course he is a big champion of the Veterans Access act, which will give him additional power and authority permanently to go ahead and make these changes. Codification of the access standards, making sure the careers actually tell veterans that they're eligible for community care, doing the appeals. So we see the first big operational of our veterans Bill rights is the Veterans Access act, which takes care of a lot of the principles that are in our Bill of Rights.
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John Solomon
Yeah. So very important. It's funny a lot of times, you know, another thing veterans tell me the last few months, they're just proud to see America standing strong. They know how much they gave of their own effort to make a strong America. I think they appreciate the fact that the president is standing strong on the world stage. Something that didn't happen the last four years. Darren, sound like you've always been standing strong. You're always working hard for the veterans. Great to have you on the show today. For people who are listening, what's the best way to stay in touch with your group and the great work it's doing?
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Darren Selnick
Go to our website, veterinaction.org and there you can put your own name down as a supporter of the Veterans Bill of Rights. You can be part of the grassroots team and you can and you can spread the word. So we need, need the grassroots. We need the average person who watch your show to support it. You don't have to be a veteran to support this. So go to veterinaction.org sign up, be part of the solution.
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John Solomon
Yeah. What a great idea. Darren, thank you so much. And happy Veterans Day. Thanks for joining us, my friend.
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Darren Selnick
Thank you so much for having me. Appreciate it.
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John Solomon
Yeah, what a great idea, folks. Go check it out. Veteransaction.org the Veterans Bill of Rights. What a great idea on this veterans thing. All right, quick commercial break. More with Amanda when we come back. Hey, America. The FBI has been warning about a type of real estate fraud on the rise called home title theft. And your equity is the target. Here's how it works. Criminals. For your signature on a single document, use a fake notary stamp and file it with the county. And just like that, boom, they're on record as owning your home, using your ownership. They then take out loans against your equity or even sell your property. And you're not going to know about it until you get a foreclosure or collection notice in the mail. And that's not going to be a good moment. That's why I partnered with Home Title Lock, so you can protect your equity. And find out today, if you're already a victim, use my promo code, jtn@hometitlelock.com you'll get a free Title history report and a free trial. Their million dollar triple lock protection, that's a great deal. A million bucks to protect your home. That's 24,7 monitoring of your title records, urgent alerts to any changes. And if fraud occurs, their US based restoration team will spend up to a million bucks to fix it. Find out why I trust home Teddleock. Protect yourself like I did. Don't be a victim. Protect your equity today. Go to hometitlelock.com and use that promo code jtn. That's hometitlelock.com promo code jtn.
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Amanda Head
Welcome back, everybody. The elections last Tuesday were, well, not great for Republicans and actually quite bad news for New York, where an open socialist, Zohran Mandani, has now become mayor elect of that city. So should Republicans consider last week a wake up call for the midterm midterms. Joining us now to discuss that and more like his own congressional midterm race. He's the former governor of Maine who is now running for Congress in that state. Paul LePage, sir, thank you so much for being here.
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Paul LePage
Pleasure to be here.
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Amanda Head
Okay, let's start with New York. Let's start with the bad news and then move towards the good news. The good news being you running for Maine too. Does this seem like a flash in the pan? I mean, you look at the demographics of folks who voted for Zo Ron Momdani, and it's pretty clear that you got a lot of young New Yorkers and also non native New Yorkers who voted for him. Is this, is this maybe flirting with the devil for one mayoral term and then New York will wake up and go back to the way things should be?
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Paul LePage
Well, I hope so, but I, I'm not sure that's going to be the case because in Maine, we have a Mondani candidate for the U.S. senate who's going to primary. He's going to be involved in a primary against the current governor. He's leading in the polls right now. So I'm a little bit worried about what's happened to the youth of our nation.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, I think that's exactly right. And if, if that spreads across the country and we have more of these candidates emerging because, Paul, what's, what's most concerning to me, I don't think the worst case scenario is that Zo run Momdani is able to do what he said he wants to do in New York. To me, the worst case scenario is that he's not able to or that it's a slow burn and then all of the people who supported him for mayor, for, for, for a seat that let, let's face it, the mayor of a city doesn't have autonomous control of that city. They got to play nice with the governor of that state as well. So my biggest fear is that he won't be able to do all of the things he wanted to do. And then you've got all of his little supporters out there who will say see you said things would get terrible and they didn't. And people won't attribute what could happen down the road that he set in motion. They won't attribute it to him. And then we'll get people like Zo run Mamdani running for positions across this country like governor that do have a ton of power over an entire state.
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Paul LePage
Well, that's true. And I will tell you this. I have been to Russia on a couple of occasions and it was back when it was real, real bad. And then when it got a little bit better, I was in Russia when it was under communist control. It was horrible. And then I went to Russia later on in the mid 2008 I believe and communism had been broken and destroyed and the country was on the move. Unfortunately, we don't learn from history and we should. Schools don't often teach history the way it was intended and we pay the price. I'm running for Congress because I see the future of our country in terrible and terrible straight. I think the elections of the gang like the AOCs are really changing the dynamics of where we're heading as a nation. I think the election of the last 2c while it wasn't good for Republicans and I never expected it to be good for Republicans. You're talking about New York City, you're talking about New Jersey, you're talking about Virginia. Virginia, a purple state. I had some hopes that maybe the strength of Youngkin might help the candidate running for governor but it didn't. But it was.
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Darren Selnick
They're really.
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Paul LePage
Blue leaning or purple states. So I, I really wasn't that concerned. What concerns me is the midterms and usually the incumbent president or the party in power get hit pretty hard during the, the midterms and so I'm running for Congress because CD2 in Maine is a plus Republican seat being held by a Democrat and he's a flip flopper and so I decided I'd run against him. Unfortunately, he's now decided he's not going to run for reelection. So I don't know who the candidate's going to be at this point.
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Amanda Head
Well, whoever it is does it help Republicans across the board but you to, to make Zoran Mamdani the Post poster boy for the Democrat Party?
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Paul LePage
Well, yes, I, I think so. President Trump won CD2 three times. I ran in CD2 three times and I've won it three times. I beat the incumbent governor when I ran against her in 22. I won CD2 but lost in CD1. I believe it's a very strong, in fact, it's probably the strongest MAGA district, eastern Mississippi. And so I believe we're going to do very well. The polls have me way up. We're doing very, very well. I believe that we're going to take this and we're going to help the slim majority get a little bit bigger.
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Amanda Head
I think that's great. So when it comes to CD2 in Maine, you are obviously beloved as a former governor of that state. But what are the issues that you are hearing about the most? Which by the way, I'm pretty sure is going to be the case with Republicans across the country, whatever those issues.
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Paul LePage
Are, kitchen table issues, the economics, jobs, housing. In Maine we have the cost of living, food, the cost of food, energy and housing. It's, it's what's happening around the nation as a result of having Biden in the White House for four years.
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Amanda Head
How did Mainers react to the government shutdown? I mean, we hope that it's going to end with, with this next vote, but did you find that along party lines that's how people felt about it, that if they were, if they were typically a Republican in Maine that they supported Republicans throughout this. And same thing for the Democrats.
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Paul LePage
Right. I believe the liberal Democrats, the progressives favor the shutdown and would like to see it continue to shut down, stay shut down. There's a few I would call blue dog Democrats still left in CD2 and they are death against the, the shutdown. The shutdown is really hurting the state of Maine in particular. CD2 is a very poor rural district and it's hurting everybody. It's hurting our schools, it's hurting our grocery stores. It's hurting the shutdown being so rural transportation is a big issue and were having problems getting the necessary goods and services to the second district.
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Amanda Head
Well, Paul, you are a familiar face in that state, a familiar name in that state and we wish you all the luck in running for congressional district. To tell everybody where they can find more about your campaign and donate, you.
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Paul LePage
Go to the page4congress.com it's we have a very strong Facebook, Facebook presence. You can sign up, be a Volunteer, you can sign up and just supporting. We're trying to build the database so that people can talk about our campaign. We are a grassroots campaign and that's how I campaign. I'm a retail campaigner and I would welcome people from around the country to join and see what we do every day. We update our Facebook. Today we did some Veterans Day appearances and they're on the Facebook right now and we'd love to see people join.
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Amanda Head
All right, everybody head there and leage for Congress. Paul, kudos to you for getting in the fight. It is definitely going to be that up until next November. All right, everybody. Coming up, we have our weekly Just the News Health update. So we'll see you on the other side. Welcome back to our Just the News Health Update brought to you by Native Path. And in this culture of making America healthy again, we love having these conversations. And joining us now, the co founder and chief culture officer at Native Path, Dr. Chad Walding. Dr. Walding, thanks so much for being here.
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John Solomon
Hello.
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Dr. Chad Walding
Hi, Amanda. Hi, John. Thank you so much for having me.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, we love having you. And you know, when you think about what's happening politically, culturally in our country, there are a lot of crises boiling up to the surface. And I don't want to make light of mental health and putting a band aid on it with sleep, but sleep is so foundational to so much of our health, but particularly mental, isn't it?
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Dr. Chad Walding
Extremely. And it's one of the least talked about things going on right now when someone has depression or they're dealing with anything, you know, when they go to the doctor, doctor and said, can you help me? I feel like as, as medical professionals, as the medical industry, I feel like we've done a poor job in encouraging and really educating on people on sleep and understanding really what they can do to in order to feel better.
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Paul LePage
Right.
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Dr. Chad Walding
So in Native Path, we are always focusing on the foundations. We're all about wax on, wax off, take care of the foundational things. Because if you don't take care of them, there's. You can supplement all you want, you can take all the medications you want, but nothing will really change. Right? So, so when it comes to sleep, just like when it comes to nutrition, it's important for us to realize these changes that have been happening slowly over time, especially during the past hundred years, right. So for 100 years ago, 200 years ago, thousand years ago, humans on average were sleeping eight to ten hours a night. And they were sleeping throughout the night. They were getting really good restful sleep. Something changed about 100 years ago, a little over 100 years ago, was a man named Thomas Edison. He invented this thing called the light bulb, right? And all of a sudden, the day turned into night because we stay inside and the night turned into day. We stay inside, we turn on these bright screens, we have these bright lights that keep us up in our eyes and our skin get really confused and it throws off our natural circadian rhythm, right? So the impact of that is we get less sleep. You know, the average person now is getting less than six hours a night. And the sleep they do get is not even good restorative sleep. They're not hitting that deep. You know, phase three sleep, where things are repaired and an REM happens. It's a very superficial sleep. So because we're tired the next day, we end up taking energy drinks and sugar in order to give us energy. And it's this ongoing cycle that after a while has downstream effects. It has downstream effects to our mental health, our mood. You know, you mentioned things like depression, but even our cardiovascular system, our risk for cancer, cancer, obesity. There's a huge link between how well we sleep and the way our metabolism is working and even things like Alzheimer's, dementia. Studies are now showing there's an incredible correlation between the quality of our sleep and those long term mental disorders, Right? So it is the foundation. And in terms of recognizing this as an issue and then correcting it is one of the best things we can do, right? So I'm always big on the principles of good sleep, you know. So what are the principles of good sleep? Some easy things you can do. First thing is when you wake up in the morning, as quickly as you can go outside or at least look out the window and get natural sun exposure to your eyes, to your skin. And what that does, it sends a signal to your body, the sun is up, it starts producing cortisol, your daytime hormones, right? It regulates things and it allows you to have good energy throughout the day in order to handle stress and do all the things you want to do. And as night comes in, you go outside again as the sun goes down, you know, and be careful about the light inside your house, right? Not too much light, not too much of a. Too big of a bright screen. Wear some glasses if you have to, to block out the blue light. But making sure your relationship with light is, is the way it should be, right? Our ancestors were spending most of their time outside during the day and in the morning. Modern world, we're spending about 10% of our time as opposed to what Our ancestors are doing with 90%. So our relationship with the light, our relationship with sleep is absolutely foundational to our health.
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John Solomon
Amazing. Over time you're in this cycle, your brain begins to deplete of things. It starts to be maladjusted because of the cycle of abuse we're putting it through. Talk us a little bit. I mean, people take melatonin and now to sleep and other things, but what are some options, dietary and otherwise, that we can do to kind of get that not only restorative sleep, but also the restoration of our brain to normal function?
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Dr. Chad Walding
Yeah, you mentioned the melatonin thing. Melatonin, we have to be really careful about the dose. You know, too much of it can really throw off or throw off our natural rhythm. For a lot of people, we want to produce melatonin as naturally as we can.
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John Solomon
Right.
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Dr. Chad Walding
And that comes with our relationship with light. You know, outside of that, the good practices of black, blacking out your room. You know, even if you have an alarm clock, put a, put a piece of tape on there or cover up your fire alarm system, you know, block out the windows. Giving yourself about three hours of eating before you, before you go to bed. Three hours before you go to bed, eat, then wait three hours. That helps you. Your body doesn't like to be hot when it goes to bed. And when it comes to supplements, that's another area where we've really missed the mark. These over the counter counter sleep aids that so many people are taking, they don't give you good restorative sleep. Drinking alcohol doesn't give you good restorative sleep. You might fall asleep quick, but you're again, you're not getting that deep level sleep. So something I recommend for this is collagen. Collagen is something I talk a lot about, about what it can do for the structure of your body, your skin, your hair, your nails. But it also has an amino acid in it called glycine, and that's a unique amino acid that is really, really helpful to getting your body to relax as much as you possibly can. So you're calm, your body wants to be in a nice, calm, relaxed state. And the glycine and collagen is incredibly helpful for that. And an easy thing to do is about an hour before you go to bed, have a non caffeinated drink, like a tea, a little warm tea, sip on it, and then just start blacking out the lights. Read a book as opposed to watching tv. You know, I mentioned watch the sun first thing in the morning. These basic practices help you Regulate your system in order to feel better. They've done incredible studies where they've taken people who are sleep deprived and can't sleep at all and just had them go camping and just wake up and fall asleep according to the sun. And within two to three days their sleep issues are fixed. Right. And they feel better. That has a profound impact on the rest of your health. So having these basic sleep practices, having good supplements to support you like collagen and an easy routine can be game changing for our health.
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John Solomon
Yeah, amazing.
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Amanda Head
One of my favorite morning rituals and I'll just give this advice to everybody within 30 minutes of waking up. When I'm starting to have my coffee, I let natural sunlight come into my eyeballs. Even if it's cloudy outside, just that natural light, that vitamin D coming in works wonders to get your day started. Dr. Chad Walden, Co founder and chief culture officer at Native Path, thank you always for being here with us. We love having your wisdom here. And remember to our audience, get a special bundle deal at a fraction of the retail price plus free shipping available@getnativepath.com just news. With over 4 million jars sold, I'm a portion of those for sure. Thousands of five star reviews. I'm a portion of those as well. And 365 day money back guarantee. This is your moment to take control of aging before symptoms get worse. So go to getnativepath.com justnews now. All right, everybody, we've got more for you coming up after this break. Welcome back everybody to our final segment of the night. Communists love to spread their propaganda to everyone within earshot. But when they are actually confronted and asked about the reality of Marxism to detail what it means, what it looks like, they completely shut down and they start throwing a tantrum in the form of insults usually. So we have another example of this to show you. Take a look.
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Kenny Webster
The Bolshevik Revolution. So thousands of people killed, right? Millions, really.
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Doug Truax
Right.
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Kenny Webster
Got more than the Nazis killed, right? A great accomplishment for Marxists. That's great that they did. And then what happened next?
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John Solomon
And then what happened?
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Kenny Webster
And then they killed more people than the Nazis did.
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Paul LePage
Nazis killing Nazis, right?
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Kenny Webster
No. And then they killed their own people. Mao, Stalin, Lenin. These are not good guys. These are bad people.
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Doug Truax
Guys.
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John Solomon
Guys.
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Kenny Webster
This is what everyone says. They say, we're going to build the utopia. It's going to be different this time. What they're saying is this is. No, no, you cannot put your finger in my hand.
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Doug Truax
I.
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Kenny Webster
This is the benevolent dictator. Look at my finger in your face.
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Amanda Head
Oh boy. Oh Boy, these people are anti America, plain and simple. They don't know history, and they ramble on with the same old communist talking points. Building a utopia, rainbows and butterflies, all that nonsense. Kind of like what Zo run Momdani's whole campaign was built on. And New Yorker spell for it, unfortunately. Joining us now to talk about all of that and more, the host of the Pursuit of Happiness radio show and the man you just saw in that video, Kenny Webster. Kenny, thanks so much for being here.
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Kenny Webster
Hey, thanks for having me on, Amanda. Great to be with you.
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Amanda Head
You know, you weren't even really asking hard questions.
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John Solomon
It.
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Amanda Head
But they still didn't have answers. This is how surface level. You know, we talk in the media industry, you know, about interviews, and they say, you know, top line questions only. These are top line questions.
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Darren Selnick
Yeah.
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Kenny Webster
This was a weird experience for me. I jog in this park all the time in Houston almost every day, and I never seen these people out there before. It was right after mom Donnie got.
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Doug Truax
Elected the other day.
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Kenny Webster
There are people handing out communist newspapers and they're heckling people. Nobody wanted to talk to them. I'm a morning radio show host. I'm on a bunch of rock and roll radio stations around the South. My listeners are mostly men. Not surprisingly, they lean to the right. And so when they stopped me, I thought, okay, let's see how much they know. And guess what, Amanda? They did not know very much about the ideology they were advocating for.
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Amanda Head
Of course not. Of course not. Are you concerned that this ideology is taking over the youngest generation?
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Kenny Webster
You know what's interesting about that? For as long as we've been recording this data to figure out how conservative or liberal this young generation is right now, these people coming of age are more conservative than ever, not surprisingly, thanks to people like Charlie Kirk. Back in the 60s and the 70s, our government sent young people overseas to fight in the Vietnam War. And weirdly, that seemed to push them far to the left. And now there's this opposite thing taking place where young men and even women are graduating from high school or college, and they're being told, you're the problem. You're toxic, you've poisoned the earth. And this is very confusing to young people who just came of age, you know, five minutes ago. So weirdly, this has pushed them farther to the right. They love God. They love patriotism. I don't buy this narrative that this new generation is more woke or liberal or communist. Maybe in little enclaves like New York City, but not in most of the country.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. All right, so Gavin Newsom, the eternal leg crosser. That guy crosses his legs like a woman. I don't know what that means. As far as the room for things that supposedly make him a male. Quite interesting to me, and it defies logic. But he claims that he is looking to recruit more men to the Democrat Party. Look, I lived in California for a long time. I just don't see Gavin Newsom having that alpha male, bringing men to the party type mentality. He's straight up beta.
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Kenny Webster
Yeah, I don't buy it either. He was here in Houston last weekend, and Gavin has been tasked with going out and trying to bring men back to the Democrat Party. Let's be real for a minute. Have you ever seen the movie American Psycho? That's Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom has weird serial killer energy. He's Patrick Bateman. He's a narcissist. I don't believe that Gavin Newsom cares about recruiting young men. He's thirsty for power, and like you said, he's part of a political movement that tells men exercising is toxic. You're eating too much meat. Liberals want to go out and recruit young men to their fold. They want to bring them over. So they've decided to do things like, you know, go out and chop wood, for example. I think they ended up calling it sustainable forestry. And then afterwards, they apologize to the tree.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, well, as we talked about on this show yesterday, there was a climate summit and they actually had to chop down trees in the Amazon to clear roadway for these climate activists to actually get to it. It never, you know, it never surprises me the links that these will go to to say rules for thee and not for me. Kenny Webster, host of the Pursuit of Happiness radio show. Tell everybody where they can find it.
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Kenny Webster
Hey, just follow me on X. We have a podcast. Hundreds of thousands of people download it every day. It's a funny political show. A lot of young men listen to it, but it's really for everyone that loves America and God.
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Amanda Head
I love it. I love it. Well, that applies to everybody here, and I'm pretty sure it applies to people who tune into the show. Kenny Webster, thanks so much for being here tonight.
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Kenny Webster
Thanks for having me, Amanda. God bless America.
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John Solomon
Happy veterans.
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Amanda Head
Same to you. Happy Veterans Day to all of you. Have a great night.
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Darren Selnick
This is an iHeart podcast.