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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, November 25th, 2025
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Good evening America and Happy Tuesday. Welcome to the latest edition of Just the News. No noise. I'm your host John Solomon, reporting to you as always from the nation's capital. We hope you're getting ready, getting closer to that Thanksgiving dinner with family and friends. But before we get into all that, a little programming that we're awaiting President Trump's departure from the White House from Mar a Lago to his home in Palm Beach, Florida. When that happens, we'll get you out live to that, but we'll keep a close eye and you may see it pop up in the bottom right hand screen from time to time. So keep an eye on that. All right. We start tonight with some hopeful news as we approach Thanksgiving. That that's also the deadline that President Trump has set to get a deal worked out between Ukraine and Russia to end the war in Eastern Europe. It's been going on now for, believe it or not, 11 years. Isn't that amazing? It's being reported that Ukraine has agreed to core terms of the US Peace proposal. Justin News has confirmed that this is major movement as previously Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been resistant to any peace proposal that involves ceding land to Russia. Now, there's still a lot of items that need to be worked out, but what for the first time we have today is a very clear set of what the Ukrainians are willing to agree to and what the Russians are willing to agree to. They worked that out earlier this week. The two sides had never laid that out before in this 11 year conflict. Now that every side, each side knows what the other needs, that opens the real negotiations to the next major potential set of negotiations. Now, President Trump announced a sending special envoy Steve Witkoff to Russia to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to fine tune the deal points. He's also sending Army Secretary Dan Driscoll back to the Ukrainian side where he made some progress earlier this week. President Trump also said earlier today that there are only a few remaining points of disagreement. That is a hopeful sign. Now turning back here to Washington, Internal Justice Department emails released today by Senate Republicans show that Special Counsel Jack Smith's team was told by the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section that if it subpoenaed the phone records of senators, that there were constitutional equities, congressional equities, meaning that there needed to be a litigation process and that the senators had to be notified. But guess what? That's not what Jack Smith did. Instead, he went to Judge Boasberg, now kind of infamous here in Washington, and got an order that said he did not have to tell Congress, alert them or take any concern about the constitutional debate and speech clause that protects members of Congress from executive branch things. Now, there's some other interesting things in these emails. You can check the whole story out in justinews.com one of them is that Jack Smith actually made a bunch of errors in this, including having the wrong Senator, he was supposed to be subpoenaing Rick Scott, but instead he focused on Senator Tim Scott for a period of time because he didn't have his eyes and teas crossed or even his Scots figured out. All right, with that, I want to turn to some other headlines from our my amazing colleague, Amanda Head. Amanda, what are you watching today?
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Amanda Head
Yeah, John, I know that we've been talking about this throughout the week, but I want to stay on that topic of Senator Mark Kelly and those other Democrats who put out the video warning members of the military not to comply with nebulous illegal orders. We now know the DOJ and the FBI will be in interviewing those Democrats for an investigation that they have opened. And we've been seeing a lot of reaction in the past few days from both politicians and the media. For example, here is how CNN and David Frum framed what an illegal order could be.
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John Solomon
Secretary Hegseth has issued these tweets in which he said the Department of War is going to prosecute Senator Kelly. And then you had a clip at the top of your show from the White House press Secretary Carolyn Levitt saying the Secretary of War, the Department of War would never issue any legal order. Well, calling it the Department of War is an illegal order. Every time that in violation of act of Congress, the secretary makes up these titles for himself, Secretary of partying, Secretary of War, whatever he calls himself, he. Those are illegal orders, too.
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Amanda Head
How's that for trying to minimize the issue? And just to take it up a notch, Senator Reuben Gallego from Arizona, the same state that Senator Mark Kelly represents, has issued a warning to any member of the military that deals with Senator Kelly's case.
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John Solomon
Watch.
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Victoria Coates
What is your level of Trust in the U.S. military justice system if it were to get that far to handle this?
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John Solomon
I trust, I trust them actually a lot, and for a couple of reasons. Number one, these are professionals. They are also swearing to the Constitution of the United States. They know that there will be fallout and consequences if they are used in a, in a, you know, a hard, you know, way to, to basically railroad someone like Senator Kelly because Donald Trump's going to be gone a couple of years. And if you're part of the military that is going after sitting senators, sitting members of Congress and part of, you know, the weaponization of government, there will be consequences.
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Amanda Head
John, I know that this is anecdotal, but it also goes down to the policy level. Anytime you see President Trump or someone from this administration appearing before troops, they absolutely love them. They appreciate their loyalty to them. They appreciate the prioritization of the safety of America's troops and just putting America first. So it's unfortunate to see this happening, but I'm pretty sure I know where most of the military squares up on this side.
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John Solomon
Well, I know where Pete Hegset squares up because just a few minutes ago he released an update. He has asked the Navy secretary to get back to him by December 10th on whether or not Senator Kelly, a former Navy captain, former astronaut, whether he should face a court martial, be brought back to active duty and face court martial and take some disciplinary action for his role on that. As you know, once in the military, always in the military, you can always be summoned back. But Pete Heck says setting a deadline and identifying the Navy secretary as the man who will oversee that investigation, that's a pretty big deal. A big deal. We'll keep a close eye on that. That just moved over @just the news.com. all right. Earlier today, Amanda, while you're out reporting, I had a chance to hang out with Andy Biggs for a little bit. He missed you a lot. But we had a great conversation about Jack Smith, about WEAP organization, about all the things that are on the front burner of news on this holiday week, including the Ukraine, Russia peace talk movement. Have a look, everybody. It was pretty newsy interview. All right, folks, joining us now to break down all of today's amazing news. It feels it's a holiday week, but it doesn't feel like a holiday week. Lots of big news breaking up. He's a member of Congress from the great state of Arizona. He's also the leading candidate, Republican candidate for governor of that great state. He's our longtime friend, Congressman Andy Biggs. Congressman, great to have you on the show, sir.
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Congressman Andy Biggs
Thanks, John. It's great to be with you. And before I forget, Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family and loved ones and your crew and Amanda and her crew.
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John Solomon
Well, thank you. And back at you, sir. Thank you for all you do for your country. I know you've worked hard to make a better America for the next generation, and we're grateful for that on this Thanksgiving. So thank you. All right. I want to jump in on some of the big news. I think a lot of people said, okay, I don't understand this cat and mouse game. Ukraine has one peace plan it's agreed to. Russia has one peace plan that it's agreed to. And how's that progress? But this is actually a strategy because neither side would talk to each other and say what they want. Donald Trump finally got it on paper how big A moment is this, and how does it set the next wave of peace negotiations in motion?
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Congressman Andy Biggs
Well, if you've ever negotiated anything and virtually everybody has, if you don't understand what you want and what the other side wants, you can never get to yes. It's always going to be a no. And so to see that now both sides have defined their interests and their goals allows President Trump actually to come in and set additional parameters time wise and to push it. And I think it always is going to come back down to territory, and that's going to be the issue. But in the meantime, there's a whole host of other issues that both sides are trying to get to. I think it's a defining moment and actually ratchets up the heat on both sides now to come to the table. Now that they've basically the cards are on the table.
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John Solomon
Yeah. And all the US Officials, by the way, this is the art of the deal in action. President Trump knew that the reason there wasn't peace for 11 years, an ongoing war, was that neither side really knew what the other side wanted out of a solution. Now it's in clarity, and that really does allow for an exchange of ideas. You mentioned territory. The other big one seems to be NATO's membership for Ukraine. Ukraine seems to want to keep that on the table. Russia wants to take it off, but then have the United States guarantee Ukraine's security going forward. How do you think that issue gets worked out?
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Congressman Andy Biggs
I think that one is one where you're going to see some give. Unfortunately, I don't, I, I don't want the US to be the guarantors. If you want the truth, NATO and the European allies, they should be the guarantors. And if they are, then I think that, that Ukraine can live with that. And Ukraine's gonna. But, but Russia is also wanting them to, to lose some armaments and, and size of their military. I think Ukraine's going to say, look, if you're going to make, make it so we have to defend ourselves, then we have to have what we need to defend ourselves. And I think in the end, Russia probably gives on that because that's not the big deal. The big deal for them is NATO membership.
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John Solomon
Yeah, that's right. Yeah. I think that's, that's where that give seems to be. It'll be interesting to see. I want to turn to something else that you have been so instrumental in. You were one of the first members of Congress that I saw out there every day trying to dig into Russia collusion and weaponization. The Weaponization of the courts, the weaponization of congressional committees, the weaponization of the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA. We now have some new evidence about Jack Smith in Arctic Frost. Probably the most troubling of all the investigations. We now know from records that Senator Johnson and Grassi released today that Jack Smith was told, hey, if you go with the subpoena, Congress has certain equities like the bait and speech protection clauses of the Constitution. They're going to have to litigate this. And instead Jack Smith took that, went to Judge Boasberg and said, I just want to get a protective order and avoid the whole fight with Congress, not have to tell them I'm taking their phone records, not have to comply with the laws on the book. The fact that he was told what he should do and then he did something different, what does it say about Jack Smith and maybe his co conspirator, Judge Boasberg?
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Congressman Andy Biggs
Well, with Jack Smith, this is just only one of a myriad and host of problems of his investigation. He was on a, on a witch hunt. That's what he was doing. There was, if it wasn't overt, it certainly was a nudge, nudge, wink, wink, kind of thing. He knew what he was called in to do and that was to attack Donald Trump and Donald Trump's supporters. And he did so. The fact that he was told that he had to probably go get some litigate the equities and protect the rights of, of the senators and members of Congress who are protected under the Constitution, and he failed to do so is just one more black mark against Jack Smith. But here's the thing that really has been grinding me for some time, and that is Judge Boasberg. As you know, I issued, I introduced legislation more than a year ago now. I think it is to, to actually remove Judge Boasberg from the bench. I don't think that he is serving under good behavior. I think he's exhibited horrible behavior. I think he has an inherent bias. And I know everybody says, well, judges have biases, but in this particular case, his family has a bias, he has a bias. And he was actually issuing orders where he should have known that there was a constitutional protection that was in place and he was deliberately going around it. So those are the types of things that lead us to Judge Boasberg. There's impeachment resolutions against him, there's an Article 3, Section 1 removal, and that's mine against him. And I think we look at and say Judge Boasberg was a catalyst to the weaponization of certainly the Arctic Frost investigation by Jack Smith. But also anytime anybody else was coming up, Judge Boasberg was right there attacking this administration or President Trump when he was out of office.
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John Solomon
Even 35 years ago, as a very young reporter, I wrote a story that a federal judge had been ruling in cases where he owned stock. He hadn't disclose this financial conflict of interest. The Chief justice at the time, William Rehnquist, within days intervened and severely punished that judge for not complying with the law. John Roberts, the current Chief justice, has been rather silent, even as there are growing signs that there is dysfunction in the courts. Is this his moment to maybe stand up and mete out some discipline? He doesn't have to wait for Congress or impeachment. He can impose his own discipline. As the chief disciplinarian. What do you think of John Roberts weighing in?
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Congressman Andy Biggs
Well, I'm thinking he's not going to weigh in. I mean, he should have weighed in, in my opinion, long ago, and he has chosen not to. And he's, and I think he's, in his mind, perhaps he's saying, well, that's, that's a political question. We're going to stay out of politics. But this isn't just a political question. And this is why he should weigh in. He needs to weigh in to protect the integrity of the courts. And the integrity of the courts is going to, to hell in the handbasket, John, because nobody in America really trusts the courts anymore. I don't care whether you're right or left. You're not trusting the courts. The left doesn't trust them. That's why they go there when they're in power to try to get the leftist judges to whack the conservatives. The conservatives go there hoping that, that conservative justices will actually protect them from the assault from the left. Neither side thinks that these guys are, these men and women of the court are honest, fair, equitable brokers. Each side believes that there is a bias there that each one's going to exploit. And so Judge Roberts, by sitting on his hands, is fostering greater insecurity and disruption in American society because the courts are absolutely no longer trusted as fair and honest brokers.
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John Solomon
Judge Boseberg specifically said, you don't have to tell Congress, even though there was a law in the books, that any phone records taking of Congress would have to be certified to at least the Senate sergeant in arms giving that instruction. Does the judge have the right to abrogate enforcement of a law?
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Congressman Andy Biggs
No, a judge does not. In fact, what the courts are supposed to do, according to the Founders, they were supposed to be the weakest branch. They're supposed to not interpret the law. They're not supposed to legislate from the bench. They're supposed to do what they're supposed to enforce the law and apply, apply the law. That's what they're supposed to do. Apply the law to the facts and case before them. To do otherwise is to go outside their bounds and scope of authority. And that's Congress and the executive branch have both failed to bring judges to bear on that. And that's one of the reasons I, I've started the Article 3 Section 1 project that I've done with that bill. And, and the bottom line is as long as the judiciary is with impunity acting outside its scope, they become the most powerful branch of government when the founders intended them to be the weakest branch of government.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Pretty remarkable. It really is. Congressman, we're so grateful for the clarity of your voice. Also, all the work you've done to help us understand where our government has gone. We're very lucky to have you on the front lines of this important time in history. Thanks for joining us today. Great to have you on the show.
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Congressman Andy Biggs
Thank you, John. Always great to be with you. Tell Amanda I missed her.
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John Solomon
I will. She probably, she misses you as well. Happy Thanksgiving, my friend. All right, folks, we're gonna take a closer look at the possible peace deal between Ukraine and Russia. Dig into that a little bit more with President Trump's former deputy national security advisor. We'll have that next. If there's be war ended by Thanksgiving. Well, answer that question next after these messages.
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John Solomon
Foreign.
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Amanda Head
Welcome back, everybody. If you see that little window at the bottom, that is President Trump getting ready to depart. He, he. It's a turkey day, too. I know he's working hard, but of course he is gonna, he's gonna take a little time with family. All right, everybody. So as John was talking about, is the war in Ukraine close to coming to an end? Lordy, don't we all hope. We know that Ukraine has agreed to most of the points that President Trump laid out in his peace plan. So will Russia agree as well? Joining us now to discuss all of that is former Deputy National Security President Trump. She's also the vice president of National Security and Foreign policy at the Heritage Foundation, Victoria Coates. Victoria, thanks so much for joining us tonight.
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Victoria Coates
Well, happy early Thanksgiving, guys. Good to be with you.
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Amanda Head
Happy early Thanksgiving to you. And, you know, I look at the, the grand picture here over, over 10 years of ambiguity between Russia and Ukraine and, you know, very little clarity as far as what agreeable terms would look like. And in about 10 months under President Trump, we finally have that clarity. Where do we go from here?
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Victoria Coates
We really do. And if we think back to that 10, 12 years ago when Barack Obama was president and Vladimir Putin just seized the entire Crimean peninsula in the dead of night, essentially, and the president of the United States said nothing, did nothing, there were some minor sanctions slapped on Russia, but essentially Ukraine was forced to simply accept this annexation of their sovereign territory. And this was not done in any sort of orderly way. I understand the views of many of my Russian friends on the way Crimea was dispensed after World War II. I mean, there is a historical argument there, but this isn't how you just seize territory and just simply do it with impunity. Because when that happens, we then have the invasion of Ukraine proper under Joe Biden in 2022. And we've been in this grinding stalemate for under four for almost four years. Donald Trump is the only person who's put a plan on the table that seems to have any kind of prospects for succeeding. And I think everybody should be a little bit more enthusiastic about this and a little bit more supportive. There are way too many Democrats and some of our weak kneed European friends who are just assuming this is a disaster. It is literally the only pathway to get out of this horrible war.
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John Solomon
Yeah. So important there is a major hint in this that Ukraine has given some ground that it is going to give up some of its land, something that was always going to happen because it's lost some of its land in war. Tell us about some of the sticking points. It seems like NATO membership. No membership is one what land specifically maybe change hands. Where do you think the hardest work ahead for Steve Witkoff and the President and Marco Rubio are?
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Victoria Coates
I think it is probably that border. So this is the Dontask region in the east of Ukraine. It's the industrial heartland of Ukraine. There are assets there that I don't think Ukraine is going to be at all eager to give up, especially because Russia doesn't control them right now. I think you'll see Ukraine saying that we can freeze the lines where we are, the battlefield reality right now. But we're not simply handing over territory that you don't control. You don't get like a gift bag at the conclusion of this invasion. You can maybe keep what you've taken for now. So that's one thing I also am very unsure about. This limit of 600,000 members of the Ukrainian military. How do you even count those guys? Are they combat soldiers? Are they firemen? Are they Coast Guard personnel? So there are all sorts of different ways that could become a very nebulous sort of situation. And then finally, as you mentioned, this kind of prohibition on NATO membership. Well, the only way you can prohibit a country from becoming a member of NATO is to pass it through the NATO Council, where I believe it has to have unanimous consent. And guess what? This isn't going to get in the NATO council unanimous consent. So that's sort of a non starter to begin with. I think you can have Ukraine pledge that it will not join NATO for 20 years, which is quite frankly how long it would take them to get in anyway. But this idea that you're somehow going to prohibit it, I don't think that's possible.
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Amanda Head
So, Victoria, we went from a 28 point plan to a 19 point plan. Is there anything significant or I suppose even surprising that got axed to you?
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Victoria Coates
Not, not really, Amanda. I mean, this was always going to be pared down into what, what Ukraine could accept. And I think we've also had some consultation with our European allies. I'm just back from Europe over the weekend. Got an earful from a number of folks who are, were deeply concerned this was going to be the surrender of Ukraine in a matter of days. Well, clearly that hasn't happened. And the engagement with, with Secretary Rubio and his team, with a very senior Ukrainian delegation in Geneva apparently was fruitful. And now we have Steve Witkoff off to engage in some pre Turkey diplomacy with Russian counterparts and we'll see what they say. So as I said, the 28 point plan was always probably overly ambitious, but it was a maximalist starting position. Now we're getting down to what's actually possible and it seems much more realistic to me.
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John Solomon
Yeah, it does. All right. So in the backdrop of this, President Trump and President Xi have a conversation and they're lining up for President Trump to go visit Beijing early next year. I was taught a long time ago in Washington if something looks like a coincidence, it probably is. Is there some tie between these two events?
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Victoria Coates
There has to be. And this was an unusual phone call, John, in that Xi apparently initiated it. Usually the Chinese premier is called by the American president. The Americans initiate the phone call. In this case, Xi reached out. So that means he had something he particularly wanted to talk about. I think there is a lot of concern in China about their economic prospects on the potential limiting of the very highly sophisticated semiconductor chips. That is a big hot topic of conversation in Washington literally this week. Are we going to put export controls on those things? And we do have this period of a year now when China has said they're not going to limit the export of the rare earth minerals that we so desperately need for our high tech manufacturing. There'll be a lot of posturing that goes on there. There's the President's proposed visit in April. Xi said he's coming to the United States in the fall. So maybe there can be a Better step forward for the U. S. China relationship, which would then put a lot of pressure on Vladimir Putin. So I think you're absolutely correct. There is a connection here, folks.
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John Solomon
Just as we're sitting here, the president's ascending the stairs on the Air Force One, headed out to Mar a Lago. Did not make any comments, but I can see that in your box here. Amanda, sorry to step on. I just want to make sure people.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, no problem.
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Amanda Head
Thank you, John, for letting everybody know. Victoria, with respect to President Trump's likely upcoming conversation in person with President Xi, what does the timeline say about President Trump's leverage in that conversation if this happens first? Is that something. Is that probably a large piece of leverage that President Trump has to make Xi come to the table and maybe to his knees on a lot of these economic issues?
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Victoria Coates
In terms of the conversation, the proposed conversation in April, Amanda.
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Amanda Head
Right, yes.
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John Solomon
Yeah.
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Victoria Coates
No, I mean, I think we're going to have a lot of water under the bridge between now and then. I think we're going to hopefully see a resolution of the Ukraine war. And if China feels they can start to play a more constructive role in bringing Putin to the table and getting that situation resolved, I mean, I think then that there are a number of other topics that could be on the table. Look, nothing would make me happier than if China suddenly decided to become a responsible international player, that they played by the rules. They're the world's second largest economy, so they are important. We have to deal with them. But we need to manage this Ukraine situation in a way that is not going to embolden Xi to go into Taiwan, because that. That's, of course, the great concern. We're about to be in 2026, and 2027 is the year Xi has set out to potentially have the People's Liberation army be ready for a move on Taiwan. So that's why I think this whole year that we're going into, with both this and a second potential summit in the fall in the United States is really going to be fraught and charged. I just have to tell you, one of the things I'm most thankful for this Thanksgiving is that we have President Trump in charge of that year.
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John Solomon
Yeah. So important. Before we let you go, Victoria, real quickly, the Middle East, Hamas is kind of somewhat holding but uncertain what happened there. Meanwhile, Muslim Brotherhood got an important designation from President Trump. Wanted to just get your two thoughts on that.
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Victoria Coates
Yeah, I mean, we're watching Hamas try to reconstitute itself. Hopefully, that's not going to be permitted We've seen Israel take some additional actions against both Hamas and Hezbollah this week. So that, that remains a situation to be managed by Israel. But clearly now with US Support and the Muslim Brotherhood designation is really important. I've been working with my old employer, Senator Cruz on this for 10, 12 years. And so what the President has initiated here is kind of a bottom up approach to this. We're going to designate some of the little splinter groups that are very supportive of Hamas, of other terrorist groups, underneath the umbrella, if you will, of the Muslim Brotherhood, then you can start targeting the Brotherhood for providing materials to support to those groups. So this is going to take a lot of work. As I said, At 10, 12 years I've been working on it. I guess I failed. But with some, with some assistance from the administration, hopefully we can make progress on this thing and start to unravel just this labyrinth of organizations and funding that is the Muslim Brotherhood, the political arm of radical Islam that is working here in the United States against our own government, its ambition. It's going to be hard, but so important that we've gotten it started.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. And let me clarify, you absolutely have not failed. You have shed light on this. You accomplished a lot of work. Your work bore fruit during President Trump's first administration with a lot of these issues. So thank you so much for all of your work. Vice President of National Security and Foreign Policy at Heritage, Victoria Coates. Victoria, happy Thanksgiving to you.
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Victoria Coates
Have a great holiday. Take care.
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Amanda Head
Same to you. All right, everybody, we've got to take a very quick break, but we'll be back on the other side side.
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John Solomon
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John Solomon
Welcome back, America. Earlier this month, we announced that just the newspaper and company had acquired the Post Millennial. I was super excited about that acquisition for one reason. There is a fantastic reporter there. She's on the front lines of everything that goes on in Portland with Antifa and also the anti ICE riots. And she has put together an extraordinary exclusive video to show you from her the Postmillon. She's reporter Katie Davis Card. We're going to get through in a second, but first, watch what she went through when she went on an exclusive ride along with ICE in Portland. As soon as we encounter someone, the community comes out and starts filming our officers, our agents, and trying to dox them.
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Amanda Head
We have had several of our employees.
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John Solomon
Be followed home, their families targeted and harassed. It's something that we face every single day.
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Katie Davis Card
Every single day, every single day that.
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Victoria Coates
Our officers are out doing their job.
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John Solomon
Following the law, doing the law enforcement job. They're. They're being harassed.
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Amanda Head
All right, guys, so right now we.
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Katie Davis Card
Have an anti ICE activist trailing our vehicle blowing the whistle to alert the community about ice.
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Dr. Chad Walding
I'll stay back.
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John Solomon
You guys keep doing thing.
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Amanda Head
What is the actual want?
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Katie Davis Card
It is a protest against Trump.
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John Solomon
Is that what it is? I mean, we.
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Congressman Andy Biggs
Yesterday we arrested three sexual offenders.
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John Solomon
One had sodomy against a child. How about that? We have law enforcement officials doing their job and they're getting harassed by the public in at least members of the public in Portland. And joining us now, the great investigative reporter who put that document together. You can see the whole thing at the Post Money. Go check it out today, Katie Davis Card. Katie, great to have you on the show.
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Katie Davis Card
Yeah, you too, John. Thanks for having me.
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John Solomon
It's an honor to have you on. Congratulations on all the great reporting you've done, all the courage you show out in the field so that Americans can see what's really going on. You help us see something that I think most Americans don't get from their local and traditional news media, and that is there's a false narrative that, oh, ICE is out there rounding up innocent grandmas. They're going after bad, bad people, and they're trying to do it in the most dignified way, and they get what you show there. Tell us a little bit about what you experienced on your ride along.
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Katie Davis Card
Right, John. So, you know, this whole story has been a full circle moment for me in the journalism sphere. I've been covering the protests outside of the ICE facility since mid June. And now I gotta see firsthand how these agents are operating in the field. You know, despite the violence hurled their way at the facility, these ICE agents have been hitting the streets hard in this self designated city, sanctuary city of Portland, Oregon. And they are out there arresting the worst of the worst offenders who are residing in our community. But what is so disturbing is these illegal aliens who have committed heinous crimes against the American people who have come into our country after murdering people in their home countries, they're out there arresting the worst of the worst offenders who are actively being shielded by the city of Portland and the state of Oregon. And now they have agitators disrupting and impeding their operations at every single turn in the field, which is what people will see in this documentary that we produced. But I think what was so eye opening to me was how dedicated these ICE agents are, are in protecting the homeland from these foreign invaders.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, and Katie, something that's so concerning about the doxing is that, you know, like you said, they were arresting the worst of the worst. So the associates and family members of the worst of the worst, they're likely connected to these cartels as well. And we know what the cartels do for, for punishment.
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Katie Davis Card
Yeah, you're exactly right. That's why you'll see in the documentary they either are wearing gaiters to cover their faces or we had to blur their faces to ensure that these ICE agents are protected. And they have the protest outside of the ICE facility is a bunch of Antifa affiliated networks all joining together to protest ice. And so you really have domestic terrorists hunting down these ICE officers who are just trying to protect the American people.
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John Solomon
It's just insane. For a long time, antifa's existence was essentially denied by the former FBI director. It's not really an organized group, but we now have some pretty strong proof and a very different story now in Texas, I think nine members of an Antifa cell are charged with terrorism crimes. How big a moment is that for those who've been fighting against Antifa and those who've seen it terrorize Portland for a long time?
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Katie Davis Card
It's huge. You know, me and several of my colleagues have been reporting on Antifa here for years now. It's been almost a decade. And we, a lot of us were actually invited to the White House recently to brief the President on antifa terrorism. Not just in the nation, but there's really a huge, it's really ground zero for Antifa here in the Pacific Northwest who have just terrorized anyone who they believe to have a different view than them. And finally seeing the FBI do something about this terrorist group is. It's very appreciative, and I think it's going to make America a lot safer.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. Katie, before we let you go, there was a viral video to two ICE agents who had arrested a man, and they were putting him in the back of their ICE vehicle. And there was a white woman who was pitching a fit about it. And one of the ICE agents turned around and said, we work for the child predator unit. And she shut up immediately because she realized exactly what that meant. What that meant that this man did that they were arresting him. Who needs to do a better job of getting the messaging out there?
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Katie Davis Card
You know, these people are so brainwashed. They just hate Trump. It's who these. It's who the left is. They are active. The Democrat Party is actively trying to keep these illegal aliens who have committed heinous crimes against the American people in the community because they need them for votes. It's blatantly obvious. And they're being supported by the Democrats. So you have just normal Amer. It's really normal American citizens who are really have moved to the right side versus just the insane left.
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John Solomon
Katie, before we let you go, did you see on your ride along any ICE agents go in and break into a school and take any young kids out of the classroom or take any innocent grandmas off the street?
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Katie Davis Card
That is totally fake news. And it's funny you said that because several schools in the area shut down because ICE was there saying that they were going into the schools. I can firsthand say none of that happened. They are not targeting the schools. They are just targeting the worst of the worst. And you know anyone in the country that is here unlawfully?
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John Solomon
Yeah. Well, I'll tell you one thing that isn't fake news. The great reporting you and your colleagues do at the Post Millennial. We're so lucky to be partnered alongside of you now. Great work, folks. Go and see Katie's incredible work. The postmillennial.com amazing 10, 11 minute video footage. Go watch it. It gives you an entirely different perspective than some of the bogus news you get in your traditional media. All right, we're gonna take a quick commercial break. We'll be back in just a few seconds. Hey, folks, you might be wondering when's the right time to start adding collagen to my diet? How about today? Collagen production starts to dwindle in your 20s, and by the time you hit your 50s, like me, it's decreased and it contributes to wrinkles, sagging skin, and joint discomfort. Now, native path collagen can help. It's packed with only type 1 and 3 collagen fibers, the ones your body needs most for healthy joints, for healthy skin, bones, hair, nails and also, believe it or not, your gut. Plus it's third party tested for purity and with no fillers, no additives and no artificial junk that's important to me. Two scoops a day of native path delivers 18 grams of protein. Mix it into your coffee, your tea, your soup or any drink. It's completely flavorless and easy to use. Right now you can get a special bundle deal at the fraction of the retail price. Plus you're going to get free shipping. Available@getnativepath.com JustNews that's getnativepath.com JustNews with over 4 million jars sold, thousands of 5 star reviews and a 365 day money back guarantee, this is your moment to take control of aging before symptoms get worse. So go to getnativepath.com justnews right now, supplies are limited and demand is surging. That's getnatapath.com justnews.
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John Solomon
You. Welcome back, America. Time for one of my favorite segments of the week, the Justin News Health Update, brought to you by our great friends at Natopath. Joining us now, the co founder and chief culture officer at Natopath, our good friend, Dr. Chad Walding. Doctor, good to have you on.
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Dr. Chad Walding
Hey, John. So good to be here. Thank you for having me.
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John Solomon
I love these discussions. I've heard from so many people. I was out at a speech a couple weeks ago. People come up. I love the health segments. We dive into really important stuff. And one of the topics that's been coming up a lot, maybe because of the Maha meat movement, is the connection between fake meat and chronic disease. Tell us a little bit about what we're learning between that connection and what it could mean long term.
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Dr. Chad Walding
Well, I think people are really waking up. You mentioned the Maha movement. I think that's critical. Created so much awareness in people that when they hear things like lab meat or something that's processed or ultra refined, they're starting to put their hands up. They're like, hold on. You know, we're starting to see different states banning lab meat and different companies funded by Bill Gates going bankrupt because people are refusing this stuff. And that, that to me shows the power of the movement, the Maha movement. It shows the power of the level of awareness, awareness that people are now connecting with their health and their food and the power of when people come together and make a decision and really Take action. That's one of the most important things to make a difference. We know now if you look at the past hundred years, there's a trend. The further away we get from real whole natural food, as close to nature as possible that's rich in nutrients and vitamins. The further away we get from that, the more chronic disease we, we experience, the further we go down. Metabolic disease, insulin resistance, cancers, diabetes, heart disease. That trend is there and it's been happening despite all our advances in science and in technology. So it might look from a technological standpoint, this is amazing. We have lab grown meat and we don't have to plant anything and animals will stay alive, but that comes at a radical cost. So to see people waking up, I think it presents a bright future, in my opinion. I'm very excited about that. I'm very optimistic about it.
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Amanda Head
Dr. Walden, when you look at real meat versus lab grown fake meat, I mean real meat has an abundance of protein, of iron, of antioxidants, so many nutrients that we need. Lab grown meat, as I understand it, is one of the most processed items out there. That seems extremely bad for your system and it doesn't really, does it provide any of those other benefits that real meat does not?
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Dr. Chad Walding
Not as much.
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John Solomon
Right.
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Dr. Chad Walding
It's less nutrient dense. Right. So real meat coming from healthy cows. Right. We want to think about the whole supply chain of food. We're not just what we eat, we're what we eat eats. Right. So you can take an animal that's out there eating grass, drinking sunshine, like what we're seeing here, they're actually churning the soil with their hooves. They have manure on the ground that fertilizes everything. What you're seeing is a natural, harmonious state of nature, that nature loves to be in harmony with itself. Right. When we take things and refine things and get synthetic, all the vitamins and other minerals get stripped away from that. But there's like you said, there's other toxins that get added in order to keep this stuff shelf stable, in order to disobey the laws of nature, so to speak. Right. So it has a downstream effect on our health where we're not getting the important amino acids that we need for our health. We're not, our metabolism isn't burning calories at the state it would with real whole protein, real, real strong protein. We actually burn calories when we eat it. When we eat a good quality steak, our body's like, wow, we're going to have to work really hard for this. We're going to have to burn some calories and we become healthier for it. Right. Protein is one of the most, it is the essential macronutrient. We can go without carbohydrates, we can go a pretty long time without fat.
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Victoria Coates
Fat.
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Dr. Chad Walding
We absolutely cannot go without good quality protein. Right. So going further down, this lab generated fake meat stuff. It's only going to lead to more diseases, it's going to get us more disconnected from nature and our true health. And it's going to, it's going to create problems. So again, to see us reversing course on that is exactly what we want to be doing.
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John Solomon
Talk a little bit about protein and then that transition to collagen. Collagen is the super protein that powers our body. When you get my age, I guess my collagen is being dialed down, isn't it?
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Dr. Chad Walding
That's right, that's right. I mean, again, protein is the most foundational thing. I always encourage people eat a whole real food diet, you know, seek out the best sources, but also recognize that collagen is the most abundant protein in the body. Right. So when we're looking at each other, we're looking at our skin, our hair, our nails, all of this is made up of collagen. Inside our bodies, we, we have arteries and veins, we have gut lining, we have a whole nervous system. Right. All of that is also made up of collagen. Right. One of the issues though is that we're super deficient in collagen in the modern world. Our ancestors got plenty of collagen because they would eat nose to tail. You know, they would, they take the bones of an animal, they would put it in soups, they would boil it down and they would consume that on a consistent basis. Because we're so deficient in, in collagen in our modern world and have been eating so many refined foods, many of us as individuals are also extremely deficient in collagen. We produce collagen on our own, but that production begins to decline around the age of 20. By the age we're 50, we're producing as half as much collagen internally as we did in our 20s. So the older we get, the more important it is to consume collagen on a consistent basis. That's why I'm such a big fan of it. Our company, Native Path, we value the highest quality, purest ingredients as possible. So we source the best possible collagen you can find from grass fed cows. It's type one and type three, which is what makes up 90% of your body. It's as pure, as close to nature as possible. And the best part is it's so easy to use as a part of your daily routine. It's an odorless, tasteless powder that you can put in your coffee, you can put it in your teas, you can sprinkle it over your food even. But being consistent with it, one day after the next, week after week, month after month, you want to make this a part of your diet, essentially. And over time, you start to see repair in where you've been deficient. You'll see repair in your nails. At one point I was going bald in the back of my head, so I upped my collagen dose. I'm like, there it goes, it's working. One last thing I want to mention is collagen is the not talked about thing when it comes to bones health. Collagen extremely important for bones. And as we grow older, as a physical therapist, I can tell you strong bones is incredibly important for our function and our longevity. So collagen extremely important for that. There's all kinds of studies and data that shows that consistent collagen supplementation can increase the density of your bones in a healthy way.
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John Solomon
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Amanda Head
Welcome back, everybody. To finish up the evening, a few more stories. First of all, President Trump today pardoned two very lucky turkeys. Gobble and Waddle. And he had some very funny things to say. Check this out.
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John Solomon
The turkeys being pardoned today go by the names of Gobble and Waddle. When I first saw their pictures, I thought we should send them. Well, I was going to. I shouldn't say this. I was going to call them Chuck and Nancy. But then I realized I wouldn't be pardoning them. I would never pardon those two people. I wouldn't pardon them. I wouldn't care What Melania told me, darling, I think it would be a nice thing to do. I won't do it, darling.
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Amanda Head
John, he was on a roll today. He was talking about how these were the two first official maha turkeys because they were GR fed and grass fed and. But he commented on their weight because they were 50 pound turkeys and said they should have been drinking smoothies instead. He, he was a right. He was on a roll today. You can tell that he's ready to go.
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John Solomon
He cracked a joke about pardons. Right. He actually said that Joe Biden's turkey pardons were invalid because they were done by auto pen. Yeah. So pretty funny stuff. Yeah. He was in good form today. You could tell.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, absolutely. Okay, so I want to get into a story. Actually you were just mentioning that where you are going, the forecast for Thanksgiving is calling for 8 inc of rain. This is something that's going to be taking place actually in a large portion of that part of the country.
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John Solomon
You know, where I'm going, not rain. I'll take rain. Snow. It's snow.
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Amanda Head
I'm sure, I'm sure. But these are called lake effect storms and I had to look it up because, you know, being from the south and Southern California, I don't know what this is. So it's this highly localized storm that happens when you've got very cold arctic air blowing across large, relatively warm bodies of water like the Great Lakes. You guys are getting 8 inches and it looks like it's going to be happening all over the Great Lakes region.
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John Solomon
Yeah. I have a name. I have a great story. When I first spent time in Wisconsin, I never experienced lake effect. And it can sometimes be like seven, eight days in a row every day it snows, you know, in November, December, on Christmas. Oh, isn't that cute? We got some nice snow. It's white and fluffy. Great. By early January, you go shovel your driveway and the plowman comes by and immediately plows you back in and you're cursing lake effect snow. It is not a fun thing. And like in Buffalo, sometimes it goes to like 40, 50 inches of lake effect snow. So it is the bane of winter existence in some of these lakefront communities.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, I'm sure. And I mean, you know, I'm married to a Canadian and he comes from a very cold area of Canada where it goes down. My first Christmas there, it was -55. Being from Alabama, I don't even own enough clothing to pile on to prepare for that. That I, you know, it's got to be really hard to Live in areas like that.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Oh, it is. Yeah. You got to be tough, and then you got to be able to put up with a lot of snow. But, yeah, it's sort of funny. But I hope everyone gets a safe travel and that we get some great times with family. And it should be a big. It's going to be the largest travel Thanksgiving, second largest travel Thanksgiving in history. The largest in like, 15, 20 years, I'm told. And prices are down in a big way. So it's a cheaper and more traveled Thanksgiving. That's a sign that maybe the economy is starting to bump on up those two turkeys. Hey, we really did get.
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Amanda Head
We did a little road trip. And I loved seeing those gas prices. It was fantastic. John, I want to squeeze in one more thing before we go, because I get really irritated with messaging and people who walk around with the numbers. And Charlotte's mayor, Vi Vi ls, she has been touting the fact that crime is down in her city. And While it is down 8% overall, violent crime is up in that city. And when you have this competing messaging, it destroys police departments because they are trying to have, you know, they're trying to do their best in those communities, but people are lying about it. Mainstream media is lying about it, and they just want to make sure that they can bring crime down to keep people safe.
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John Solomon
Propaganda. That's what it is. If you don't tell them, you know, you can. Anyone can find a statistic. The question is, is it an accurate reflection of what's going on? And until just a few days ago, when the feds rolled in and cleaned up some things in Charlotte, violent crime was up. And that's just a fact. No media can make that fact go away, no matter how hard they try.
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Amanda Head
Yep. And I just saw videos of Long Beach, California, where the streets are empty. It makes you wonder if those estimates of illegal aliens in this country are awfully wrong. All right, everybody, thanks so much for being here. We'll be back tomorrow night at 6:00pm Eastern.
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