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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, November 5th, 2025
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Curtis Haupt
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John Solomon
Good evening, America. Happy Wednesday. Welcome to the Day after the election edition of Just the News. No noise. Yeah. Republicans woke up with a big headache today. I'm your host John Solomon reporting to you as always from the nation's capital. We're going to have a lot to talk about that election fallout. My co host Amanda Head will have some more of the headlines for that. But before we get to her, I want to highlight the way President Trump reacted to the elections last night. And he did it during a breakfast at the White House with all Republican senators in attendance. It was this morning and much of the talk focused on the shutdown and ending the filibuster to finally get the government reopened for the American people. Take a watch. The biggest thing is the filibuster. We have to get the country going. We will pass legislation at levels you've never seen before and it'll be impossible to beat us. By the way, if they do, they're going to do it anyway. And they are going to immediately do the filibuster. And when they do the filibuster, they're going to pack the court. They want five, at least five. Just now they. I hear it's up to five. I actually heard up to seven and up to nine. How about that? The Democrats are going to do it anyway, so do it first. Republicans. That was a powerful argument for the president. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, though, wasn't that enthused. He actually said that ending the filibuster is just something that won't happen. He said the Republicans just don't have the votes to do it. House Speaker Mike Johnson also weighed in if even though the House doesn't have a say. And he also opposes blowing up the filibuster as well, saying that it's an important safeguard against Democrats future wishes. We'll see how that plays out. All right, we got a lot more on the election. I want to turn to something we're going to break right here, right now. I just got this before I came on air. The team will put it on air right now. Remember Tina Peters? She was the election clerk in Colorado that was sent to prison and convicted for her efforts to raise questions about election issues during the 2020 election in that state. Well, today Justin News obtained this letter showing that the deputy attorney general in the federal government is working. Todd Blanche has asked the Bureau of Prisons to find any way they can legally to move Tina Peters out of Colorado State prison and into federal prison. Now, that could signal several things One, they're worried about her safety. Two, that she might become a witness in some future federal investigation. Therefore, having her in federal custody would be a part. We don't know the reason for this request, but we have confirmed that this request has occurred. Breaking news STORY is going to be up on just the news.com you got it first because you watch us here at Real America's Voice. And with that, I'm going to turn to my amazing co host Amanda Head, who's been tracking a whole lot of other news. Amanda.
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Amanda Head
Yes, indeed. What a day. And like you said, a headache for Republicans this morning. We have a lot of those reactions to get to from the elections last night. We heard, of course, from President Trump earlier today as you brought up. But we also got a message from Vice President J.D. vance. He posted on X downplaying the losses a little bit. He wrote that it was idiotic to overreact to elections in blue states that Democrats won. But he also pointed out three things that can help Republicans in the future. One was focusing on registering voters, pointing out that Republicans have made some pretty great strides in doing this so far and that this current Republican coalition is a naturally lower propensity group, meaning that the GOP will still need to do a lot better at turning out voters. And he also said that while President Trump has done some great things abroad, voters care more about what is happening here at home. And boy, do I hear that over and over and over again. And his third point that was addressing Republican infighting, noting it is time to what? Well, stop the infighting. And Speaker Mike Johnson also brushed off the election results, saying earlier today that everyone saw what was coming and that no one should read too much into last night's outcomes. But is that true? We're going to be attempting to answer that question a little bit more tonight, John. It was a bloodbath. I believe that was the word used in one of our headlines over at Just the News this morning. Pretty accurate.
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John Solomon
Yeah, listen, they just underperform whether you lose a race or not. We Republicans weren't in the game on get out the vote. They were way behind. And get out the vote, they were way out enthusiasm, they were way out way over the way under on candidate quality. And they forgot the lessons of 2024. Donald Trump ran one of the greatest get out the vote operations in American history. We had Lee Zeldin come and chronicle for it. 3.4 million people who never voted got turned out by that early voting operation. They didn't do it. And then President Trump on the last election by telling people, I feel your pain. I know we gotta make the economy better for you. Those candidates who ran last night didn't run on that. And by the way, Donald Trump gave him some great talking points. Eggs down, gas down, prescription drugs are going to be down because of the new deals. The world's going to be safer. We can spend less money because we won't have to defend against some wars because we've ended them. And making peace, none of the candidates leaned into the Trump agenda. When you run away from your president instead of his successes, you end up with a bloodbath you got last night. I think it's just that simple.
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Amanda Head
I think that's absolutely right. And I know that our first guest is going to have something to say about this as well. He's in the thick of it.
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John Solomon
Joining us right now from the great state of Wisconsin, where I spent a lot of my life, great congressman and good friend, Congressman Tom Tiffany. Sir, good to have you on the show.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Amanda. And John, it is always good to be back.
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John Solomon
All right. I'd love to get your analysis. You call balls and strikes really well. And Republicans underperformed expectations. And just the general, listen, there were blue states, I get that, but the whooping was pretty bad. What's the lesson that those who are going to run in 2026 need to learn from this?
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
So, yeah, we did underperform. No doubt about it. I have to say there is one very disappointing race that's more disappointing than any other, and that was the attorney General's race in Virginia. When you have a candidate that calls for the death of a colleague and their family members, their young children, that is just beyond the pale. And so it's really disappointing that Virginians would see fit to send somebody like that to office. Now, having said that, we underperform, there's no doubt about it. And we're going to have to do better here if we're going to win in 2026.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. Well, and sir, as John and I were talking about, a lot of these Republicans in these races, they didn't embrace President Trump's economic successes, successes from the one big beautiful bill that you of course, worked on. I mean, these were big, big wins. And yet they didn't embrace them. A lot of them, like Winsome Sears, she stuck on the platform of four years ago with Glenn Youngkin, which was parental rights, which of course is important. But as John said, the Virginians, I think that they think that that is fixed. So why didn't they embrace these economic wins?
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Yeah, you can't talk about yesterday's issues, even if they're really important. I mean, the electorate decides. And right now, I mean the buzzword is affordability. And it is, it's the high cost of living. And I mean, what I start out by saying is that this came about because of the previous four years of the Biden administration when they spent us into oblivion where a dollar five years ago is now worth. But then you have to go on and tie together that bringing down that cost of living is so important. And to a certain extent, these races are tough because we just passed the President's agenda over the last few months. It hasn't had time to kick in because I can tell you one of the bets that I'm making running for governor in Wisconsin is that 10 months from now we're going to see no taxes on tips, no taxes on Social Security and overtime. We're going to see that make an impact. We're going to see like for the first time in a while, a couple weeks ago, we saw gasoline down to 250 a gallon here in Wisconsin. And if we can get that back down to 250 or less, that's more money in people's pockets. So I'm very hopeful over the next 10 months that we're going to see some of these reforms kick in and we're going to be able to message the success for America as a result of this agenda.
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John Solomon
Yeah, that's a really great point. People are going to feel that economic boom. It's going to catch them right as the 26th election is here. As you look out, sir, about the agenda that you are going to pursue as a governor of Wisconsin, what are the things that in a state like Wisconsin, a battleground where people are just coming out of the Biden economy doldrums, what are the sort of things that most resonate and that you'll make sure you resonate with when you run for, as you're running for governor.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
So let's talk about affordability. We used to be the second lowest cost for energy in the Midwest and we're now the second highest. And it's because of this conversion to wind and solar, high cost wind and solar electricity that is destroying some of the most beautiful farmland that you'll find in America right here in Wisconsin. So that's one. And there's other stuff that is going on also that we can reduce the cost. Property taxes. We had a governor that put in place a veto that increases property tax for 400 years. We need to end that, we need to have a property tax freeze, make home home ownership affordable. Those are things that I will be pursuing.
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Amanda Head
Sarah, I want to ask you about the shutdown because that's going to probably play a role in some talking points on your campaign for governor there in Wisconsin. We had hypothesized that last night was kind of the maybe, could be the turning point, I suppose, for Democrats that they wanted to wait till the election was done. They could use it for leverage then and now. Maybe they'll be thinking about reopening the government because they're holding the people of Wisconsin and the rest of the countrymen has hostage.
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Sam Rajowski
Yeah.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
I mean, what they're. I mean, clearly Democrats were not looking out for the American people. Right. This is always a political calculus whenever they do this. I think part of it is that Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, they don't want to be the first Democrat ever to lose a shutdown. And I think that's part of what is motivating them. But regardless, this needs to be resolved. We have people that are not getting paid that do very important jobs, like air traffic controllers. Get it resolved. And the president was right this morning when he said that, hey, let's just pass the continuing resolution and we'll deal with those issues that you think are important because they're important to us also.
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John Solomon
Yeah, we'll see. Do you have any sense that Democrats are willing to engage now, or are they still holding the line pretty stubbornly?
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
I could see them being very stubborn at this point where they will overplay their hand as a result of this. The progressive left is, I mean, they are determined to run this country. The Bernie Sanders cabal, I mean, they are determined. So I think they're going to be really tough to negotiate with here going forward because they think they got a mandate last night.
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John Solomon
Yeah.
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Amanda Head
Sir, I want to touch on some immigration issues because the H1B visa issue seems to be one of these things that Republicans are a little bit divided on. But it is a program that has been abused over and over and over again, especially, especially by our universities. You've got some legislation aimed straight at it.
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Kent Strang
Yeah.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
So first of all, I mean, we are so generous as a country. We let nearly a million people in legally every single year. So there's no country more generous than America. But you have. We're just saying you should not exceed the cap of 65,000 H1B visas. Universities around the country, including right here in Wisconsin, are allowed to do that. And they've hired about 500 of those people here in Wisconsin in the University of Wisconsin system. So why are we not hiring Americans for that? And what I've heard from the UW system and some of their attorneys, they're like, well, we're having a hard time finding qualified people. Isn't that an indictment of the university system that they can't educate Wisconsin kids to be able to do those jobs? I think that there should be limits to how many people we let in. We're generous, we should continue to be. But that generosity cannot be unlimited at the expense of the American people.
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John Solomon
I want to stay in the education system. When I was a very young reporter, a very long time ago, I broke a story about all these schoolteachers who had committed sexual offenses and there was no tracking system. So they would show up in a new school district in Wisconsin and get another job. And in some cases two or three times they would commit offenses. Tommy Thompson signed a law, changed that system. But you have some brand new, troubling things. We had this story on our site the other day, it's so amazing, about 200 misconduct and grooming cases that the Wisconsin Department of Public Construction was trying to hide from the Wisconsin public. Tell us about that.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
Yeah. So a media publication here in Wisconsin revealed that there are 200 sexual misconduct cases that have been swept under the rug. And they go all the way back to when our current Governor Evers was the head of the Department of Public Instruction. So this has been going on a long time. We need to have accountability in regards to this. There needs to be transparency. And we're going to. I believe we should set up a dashboard that shows how many cases there are. Are they being resolved and getting that transparency for the American people. Because, I mean, besides getting a good education, shouldn't every parent expect their kid to be safe in school?
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Amanda Head
Absolutely.
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John Solomon
Yeah, absolutely.
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Amanda Head
Well, sir, and I imagine the education conversation is also going to be a part of your gubernatorial campaign. Because as we see this, this trend of education freedom blowing across this country, whether it's homeschooling, whether it's co op, whether it's taking your credits, where you want to put your children. And Secretary McMahon is doing a lot to do what she can at the federal level. Talk to us about that aspect of your campaign as you're talking to folks in Wisconsin.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
I mean, Democrats are standing in the schoolhouse door. We passed that seventeen hundred dollar tax credit that every governor can opt into. Well, guess what? Our governor, who is product of the teachers union, he turned it down. He said no, we're not going to take that $1,700 even though it will benefit public schools also. So we have fallen behind Mississippi in terms of educational attainment here in Wisconsin. One in three fourth graders can read at grade level. Our system has collapsed here in Wisconsin and it's got to be fixed. This is going to be front and center here in Wisconsin. And all those people that talk about those suburban moms, well, many of them have children. And when they see, when it becomes very apparent to them how far our educational system has fallen in Wisconsin, they're going to want reform. We're going to deliver it. We're going to as a parent, all you want. Your kid is educated, not indoctrinated. Stop the social engineering. Let's educate kids. Get back to basics.
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John Solomon
Once again, what a great idea. Isn't that amazing? Here's a tax credit that could help families and the government officials who were elected to help the people. People prevent them from using it. It's just remarkable. Congressman, it's always a great honor. We're watching closely your race. I think it's going to want to be one of the biggest races of 2026. A great honor to have you on the show. Thanks for joining us.
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Sam Rajowski
Yeah.
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Congressman Tom Tiffany
This is going to be one of the big ones in 2026. We're looking forward to it. Thank you.
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John Solomon
Yeah. What a debate it's going to be. It's going to be a lot of fun. All right, folks, we're going to take a quick commercial break. When we come back, we'll discuss how the media played into the election results last night. Oh, I bet you have a lot of thoughts on that. We do, too. We'll cover that next right after these messages. Hey, America. As an investigative journalist, I built my career on facts and I always do my homework before recommending anything my audience. That's why I can confidently say amac, the association of Mature American Citizens, is the real deal. AMAC is a conservative alternative to aarp. They're fighting for faith, family and freedom in bringing their members real value. Discounts on travel, insurance and retail. Helpful resources that help you thrive in the excellent AMAC magazine, packed with information that actually matters to patriots like you and me. Now, right now, when you choose a five year membership, you'll save up to 33%. That's just a buck 20amonth to join a movement working to hold Washington accountable and preserve the values that we all care about. I vetted them. I trust them. You should, too. Visit AMAC US JustNews and become a member today, just like me. That's AMAC, AMC US Just News. AMAC, Protecting America's Future. One member at a time.
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Curtis Haupt
But I think he missed an opportunity. I think the Mamdani that we saw in the campaign trail, who was a lot more calm, who was a lot warmer, who was a lot more embracing, was not present in that speech. And I think that Mamdani is the one you need to hear from tonight. There are a lot of people trying to figure out, can I get on this train with him or not? Is he going to include me? Is he going to be more of a class warrior, even in office?
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Amanda Head
Oh, boy. Last night's election results weren't particularly surprising. But some of the reaction was. For example, what you just saw was Van Jones last night after Zoran Mamdani's victory. Even he wasn't buying what Zoran Mamdani was selling. When someone as far left as Van Jones thinks that you have gone too far. Oh, boy. And that reaction was surprising because a new Newsbuster study out shows 95% of jokes in the media about New York City's mayoral race were aimed at Zohran Mamdani's rivals, giving the far left socialist candidate pretty free pass. And when it comes to real scandal, like Democrat J. Jones, disturbing text messages. NBC gave it just 63 seconds while ABC, CBS and PBS didn't mention it at all. So joining us now to break down some of this is the managing editor for News Busters over at Media Research Center, Curtis Haupt. Curtis, thanks so much for being with us tonight.
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Curtis Haupt
Good to be with you guys.
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Amanda Head
All right, so Van Jones, if Zoran Mandani seems to not be authentic to Van Jones, is anything about Zoran Mamdani authentic?
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Sam Rajowski
Yeah.
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Curtis Haupt
Well, first of all, I just have to say this is Van Jones trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube, so to speak. Oh, now he's trying to say that maybe this guy is kind of divisive and he's not smiley and folksy like the liberal media try to claim. I mean, I do have to give Van Jones credit. He's the one communist who doesn't want to kill us right now, so. And he actually believes that conservatives have inherent dignity and value. So we'll give him a few points there. But the point is the mask was off now that Zoram and Donnie has rolled to victory. It was an angry, Fidel Castro like speech last night. It was so reminiscent of Bane's class warfare from the Dark Knight Rises. You could have taken parts of his speech and transposed it into Tom Hardy's bane voice, talking about the elites and how people are screwing you, you know, instead of trying to provide evidence to that or talk about speak to people's struggles and pains as President Trump has. It's all pure anger and resentment where wealth is almost illegal in New York City. And that's really where we're headed. And not surprisingly, the rest of the liberal media have gone right along with this. ABC yesterday said he was snowballing towards history and that he had a common touch. Well, I don't know what New Yorkers are going to think when social workers show up after you get stabbed.
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John Solomon
I'd prefer a cop in an ambulance, actually. But we'll see what happens there. I mean, it is kind of remarkable. Curtis, I want to talk a little bit about CBS because I read in that study you had that CBS never reported on the J. Jones stuff on their newscast. We're supposed to have a new sheriff in town, Barry Wise. Now, she's only been there a few weeks, so I get that. But I think there's this expectation that Barry Wise is some conservative or something. But she was on the liberal opinion pages of the New York Times. What is your expectation of the sort of lurch or lack of lurch that CBS will make?
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Curtis Haupt
Yeah, I should say, yeah. Since that study came out, we did get a single story on cbs, but it was balanced by the Young Republican group text. So it was kind of an even ended sort of thing. But the main issue that we've seen in the liberal media coverage, which is not that surprising, is when you do talk about Jay Jones a few times it got mentioned on cable and elsewhere last night, including, you know, CBS News streaming. It was about text messages. He sent text messages that people were upset with. It's kind of a little vague and esoteric there. It's not really explaining the why people were upset about murder, political violence. But with cbs, I think it remains to be seen. I do think in the layoffs that were made, a lot of the changes were correct. Relieving Deborah Patta, who was very pro Gaza from the ranks was a great move. We're going to see what happens and who she picks for the CBS Evening News will tell us a lot. Puck was reporting last week that Anderson Cooper was someone she was interested in. That would be not great. That would not be great. Tony de Coppol in house. Definitely a step up. Refer to him in house as Tony de Red Pill. After the Race and Culture Unit, which was laid off, he was nearly run out of town for merely asking Ta Nehisi Coates that you seem to have a problem with shoes. And a lot of people inside the building were upset with him for that. But I think that big move will tell us a lot about where Barry Weiss wants to go. I will say in some of the election coverage, they're not as giddy, as excited as some of the other ones are. And I think they're trying to pull back and on purpose, but just kind of like with Van Jones putting the toothpaste back in the tube, people like Norah o', Donnell, Margaret Brennan suddenly going moderate and going limp is not something we should genuinely believe is a change. It's to save their butts.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. Curtis, there seemed to be quite a bit of pearl clutching on the right this morning as we all woke up to see the lot of backpatting on the left congratulating themselves. I feel like, though, Vice President J.D. vance's take on it was pretty sage because he said, look, these were, you know, a lot of these elections, of course we had our eyes on them like in New Jersey, but these were Democrats who won in blue states. When you look at an aggregate of all of the mainstream left leaning or left running media, do they seem to think that this was an all out victory or are they taking it with a grain of salt as well?
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Curtis Haupt
Well, they're definitely pointing out, Amanda, they're acting like this is a harbinger for 2026, that we might as well just pack it up anyway. I mean, the liberal media are saying President Trump's going to cancel the election anyway. So I don't know what they're complaining about, but I will say that, you know, let's think about this. President Trump is a generational talent. That is why Virginia and New Jersey were so close. Governor Youngkin was such a unicorn, generational candidate in Virginia. So that's why he was able to pull out in 2021. I think people have to temper their expectations about New Jersey, Virginia, that these are blue states, all of they have Democrat senators, heavily Democrat congressional delegations. New Virginia is going to gerrymander pretty quickly as well. Candidate quality matters. President Trump, as you guys talked about in the first block last year and thus far as presidency is very clear about the issues, you know, talking about inflation and talking about gas prices and talking about the border, I just didn't get the sense in the case of winsome Sears, yes, you guys were talking about the support of the president, but I think at a most basic level, to attract low propensity voters, voters that aren't as in tune with the political process. You have to say what you're for. Governor Youngkin was very clear about what he was for when you would watch his ads. Winsome Sears, she was too often playing defense against the faux moderate nature of Abigail Spanberger. And you talked about the get out the boat effort and energy as well. We saw this with Kamala Harris last year with the Democratic side. If you can't say why you're running for president or why you're running for office, you're going to have problems. And there's nothing partisan media can do to help or further hurt you if you're not able to make your own case yourself.
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John Solomon
Yeah, that's a great point. It's so important. Chris, one more quick question for you. The economics of the news industry continue to raise really big concerns. You see George Soros people buying up radio stations, flipping them. The landscape has changed because the economics have changed. A lot of news organizations trying to go to the nonprofit model. We're not nonprofit here. We're about making money and doing journalism. But what is the landscape look like five years from now? When you look out, you have probably the best compass and radar of anyone. What's the industry going to look like? And what are the chances that this truth machine we built in new places can sustain itself?
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Curtis Haupt
Well, the good news is I'll start with that. Yes, these models definitely work. People are hungry for authenticity and real journalism that shows your work, the work that you guys do with just the news you explain to people in such vivid, long, lengthy detail in some cases why certain things are a really big deal. And I think people are hungry for the authenticity, are willing to support that. And I also think as a positive, the network comedy shows are going down the tube. We saw that with Colbert. Over $100 million being lost over a 200 person show. Those things are going to continue to go down the tubes. Mississippi. Now msnbc, that spinoff from Comcast, is going to spin away. Cnn, everyone else is really struggling as well. They'll still exist. I don't think these networks will just shut down outright, but I think it will be further stratified. But also at the same time you bring up Soros. The last point I'll make is, folks, it is incumbent upon you to do your homework about when you are looking at and consuming news, who is funding these groups? Where do they get their money? Because you know, unfortunately a lot of these Soros operations, they seem normal. They seem like they're professional outlets when they have a far left boogeyman pulling the strings.
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John Solomon
That's a great point.
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Amanda Head
Curtis, one quick question before we let you go. Because terrestrial radio has been under the conservatives wing for a long time. Do you anticipate that that will go away, that the podcasting will replace it, or do you think that conservatives will find a way to make it stay?
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Curtis Haupt
Well, I think we'll make it stay by using the hybrid of podcasts. But putting podcasts on traditional radio and the National Broadcasters association, not a conservative organization by any stretch, has been really. And people both sides of the aisle about keeping AM radio in cars. That is so important that Detroit cannot allow new cars to be made without AM radio because it's not only life saving, it's vital information. And again, this isn't like talking about the need for PBS and npr. You still have to sink or swim here. And I think I trust conservative talk radio to continue to flourish and provide people with what they need however they get it. It. Yeah.
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John Solomon
So important.
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Amanda Head
I think it's here to stay. Thank goodness. Curtis Hou, managing editor for News Busters over at Media Research Center. You. Yeah. You always do fantastic work. Thanks for being here.
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Curtis Haupt
Thanks, guys. Appreciate it.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. All right, everybody. Prop 50 pass in California. What does it mean for our national politics? Well, it could mean a lot considering five seats were at stake. Is it even legal? We're going to talk about that next.
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John Solomon
Welcome back. America. If the term you've been hearing a lot lately, reapportionate war, sounds like something bad from Star wars or some strange sci fi movie, it's not. It's the current big battle in the political world today. States trying to squeeze out more Republican or Democrat districts, depending on their leadership. Well, a big blow was struck last night when Gavin Newsom, the California governor, got down a referendum passed by the California people to basically squeeze out a whole bunch of Republican districts, make them extinct. Joining us now to explain that its legality and where it may go is legal expert and host of the what's Right show, our good friend Sam. My goodness, Mayor Jabowski, I said it. I messed it up. Sam, how are you, buddy?
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Sam Rajowski
Hey, I'm doing great, John. Great to see you guys.
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John Solomon
I'm sorry, I got a cold going on here. I apologize. All right, so Prop 50, Prop 50 passed. I wonder if the first strike against this isn't even a political strike, but the Justice Department, someone like Harmeet Dillon coming in and saying, wait a second, this doesn't actually serve the people of California.
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Sam Rajowski
Well, that's of course, one way they can do Go. And another, you know, lawsuit was filed today, you know, alleging that this is a violation of racial, you know, gerrymandering. Anyway, there are some legal challenges here. I think they are a little thin perhaps. I certainly think there's this thing also passed by a huge margin. So I thought if it was gonna be a tight race, maybe, you know, challenging some of these funny ballots and things that we have in California ought to have been a way to go. But I don't think it's all in the bag for Democrats like this is not a certainty to pick up a five extra seats. They still have to win in these districts. And I don't think that's a foregone conclusion.
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Amanda Head
That's a good point, Sam. I know that gerrymandering, slash redistricting, depending on who you're talking about and who's doing the talking. I know that this is a hot topic right now, but someone did a study where they determined that if every state maxes out their ability to gerrymander or redistrict, Republicans net 12 to 16 seats. So shouldn't Democrats tread lightly in all of these states where they're trying to do this?
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Sam Rajowski
Well, of course. Right. Because overall Democratic states, blue states are already gerrymandered. Extremely. Right. So the Democrats didn't have very many districts nationwide to squeeze for more votes. So I think that's a, that's a great point and one that is not appreciated. One thing about Prop 50, I think it was always designed to propel Gavin Newsom to the Democratic ticket in 2028. So this has been the launching point for his campaign. So there's an element of political theater to it. But also back to just the subject of these new districts. And there you have it on the screen. You can see how they've really stretched these districts to include, you know, just enough Democrats to make it a problem for Republicans. But I'm in, I'm in our Newport beach office today. And you know, this is a district that got split in two. Newport beach very conservative. Huntington very conservative. And so one thing they did was they, they, they basically took the, the existing district and attached it to Long beach, which is a bluer district. Certainly, Ray Garcia, there is a congressman and I, I, I do have some news today and that is that that very popular mayor here in Newport Beach, Noah Von Blom, is, is running, he's going to run as the Republican. He is very popular. He is a, a candidate that has, I think, cross party appeal. He's not your typical Republican candidate that they've run in California. He's young, he's energetic, and he's gonna run in, for, in the 42nd district. And if he does that, he's gonna give Ray Garcia a run for his money. So again, back to the, you know, to my original point here, I don't think any of this is in the bag for Democrats and, you know, some of it could end up, you know, backfiring and even not producing the result that they intended.
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John Solomon
Yeah, that's a good point, Sam. I want to ask real quickly a little bit about where else this movement goes next. California's done it, Maryland's done it, Virginia's doing it. Where can Republicans squeeze out some more Democrat seats, perhaps?
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Sam Rajowski
Well, there's been some talk in other states, in Ohio, in, in, there's been, there's, there's a, there's probably about three or four or four states where Republicans could get an extra seat or two. Utah just, just did it themselves. And they, they've got a, you know, a couple of two or three extra seats that they've, they claim they're going to be able to get there, you know. But, but again, I mean, in terms of, on the other side, it's, there's not that many places where Democrats can get more votes. Some of these states, you know, you look at Connecticut, you look at, at, you look at real blue states, virtually any blue state, you know, fully 100% blue districts, Democrat districts in states where there are 30%, you know, 25%, 30% Republicans. So I think this will be interesting. And plus, there's the case before the Supreme Court on racial gerrymandering on the Voting Rights Act. That's the case to follow. If the Supreme Court, and it seemed from the questioning that they were not, well, they were, they were open to striking this down. If they do strike down the racial gerrymandering component of the Voting Rights act, all of a sudden there are districts in certainly one or two in the south that are going to go away and favor Republicans. So that's another thing to watch. And that would happen in advance of the midterms.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. I want to ask you about something that, while it wasn't specifically on the ballot, it certainly was a topic of conversation and something that Democrats used in last night's elections, and that is President Trump's tariffs and decisions out of the Supreme Court today. Tell us what you think.
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Sam Rajowski
Well, the justices seem to be grilling the Trump attorneys, the administration attorneys, pretty strongly about it. And I think conventional money. Now, based on how the, you know, how the questioning went was to the belief that it's going to be remanded down to the, to the lower courts and to give some kind of bright line rule on where the presidential authority on tariff lies and where, you know, where it ends. So I'm expecting based on what I saw today, that you know that Trump will not be handed a president will not be handed plenary authority to set tariffs. And of course, that's gonna have, you know, some impact on foreign policy. But it may quiet also some people on the other side who claim that the Supreme Court is just in Trump's back pocket. So we'll see how this shakes out.
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John Solomon
That's a great point. Sam Rajowski, it is a great honor. I love your show, the what's Right show, folks. If you haven't seen it, go watch it. You get lots of wisdom like you just got. Thanks for having having me on today, buddy. Was good to get you to. Coming up after the break, we'll tell you about the pattern behind every major financial collapse. Are there signs we could be headed for another one? That's after, after this quick break.
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Amanda Head
Welcome back, everybody. The good news is there is a pattern behind every major financial collapse. The bad news is when you start to see it coming. And there are seven warning signals that showed up before the Great depression, before the 1970s stagflation and before the 2008 financial crisis. And now for the first time since 2007, all seven are flashing red at the same time. Oh, boy. It's part of a new report called the Bellwether Signal and it is raising serious alarms across the financial world. Here to explain what it means, what it's all about is Shannon Davis, CEO of American Alternative Assets. Shannon, thanks for being here.
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Shannon Davis
Of course. Thanks for having me again.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. All right. What are these seven warning signs and are they dire?
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Shannon Davis
Yeah, if you're tracking them. I mean, these are time tested indicators. One of them, it tracks commercial construction activity in Las Vegas, sharp decline in Las Vegas. With tourism historically a predictor of recession. We haven't seen these levels since the early 2007. And we all know what happened after 2007. Another looks at packaging demand across shipping hubs. The signal just triggered for the first time since the mortgage crisis. So we're seeing a lot of trends that you're these aren't things that you're going to see or hear about on cnn, but these are the same signals that helped some investors protect their savings while others lost everything. We are aligned with all seven of them. We'll talk about more, for sure. But it's happening right now.
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John Solomon
Yeah. And then there's these other sort of pressures that are tugging at the economy that I don't think get measured. But, you know, there is an effort around the world to move to digital bank currency, central digital bank currency. I think that scares a lot of people. Then you've got the mortgage and interest rates don't stay with the prime rate. The prime rate may go down and mortgage companies don't bring it down as far because they're worried about the debt load in America. Do you see any sign that the people in Washington right next to us are going to address these really big systemic issues?
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Shannon Davis
Well, that's a great question, somewhat loaded, but I don't, I don't think they are. I don't think they can. You know, really what we're watching is unemployment rising, consumer debt exploding, a growth that is huge in those two areas. Yeah, there's some, some things that are going on in our, in, in our repo, our federal repo market where lending exploded on Halloween of all days, over 50 billion was lended. We're talking 16 billion in the subprime mortgage portion. So it fits right into what, what you're seeing. Our sulfur rate that we base everything on is raising while they're lowering rates. Our SOFA rate is what everything is indicated off of that rose by 22 basis points, which is really high. Sounds small, but it's really high in comparison to our Fed lowering the rates. In 2008, regular Americans lost 40 to 70% of their entire retirement. And these are the warning signals that most people don't see. So will they make a change? I don't know. You talk about central bank digital currency, stablecoin. They should be scared of it because there's so much control that you lose in that world and that could potentially help with what's going on with mortgage rates, because they can set rates, negative interest rates, they can do whatever they want with digital currency. So people should be scared, John.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, and I want to stay on that for a moment because a few weeks ago, Keir Starmer put out this tweet saying that, that digital IDs were going to be mandated. And a lot of people went crazy. They said, this is terrible for privacy, this is terrible for, for personal autonomy. But to me, CBDCs are even worse than that because your money is tied to it. But people don't seem to be as concerned about CBDCs.
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Shannon Davis
Yeah, I think, you know, really good question. They're not concerned about it because they're not really seeing it. And if you really understood and did your homework and due diligence, which is where we focus with our customers, is educating them. I mean, these are things that you can see on the imf, which is the International Monetary Fund, which is the central bank of the entire world, I mean, is the central bank of central banks. You can read about central banks. They're the ones that have created it, done cross border testing with different countries. They're just, they're not paying attention to it because it's not in their face. And at some point it will be and that's when it's too late. And so I agree with you. Not enough people are concerned about it. I think, you know, one of the things is they'll go to the bank and they'll ask the teller what's going on with CBDCs, like they have a clue. And so it's just about having the right resources. And if they had the right resources, they would be concerned about it.
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John Solomon
Now that's what you've made available with all the great guides that you've been producing the last couple of years. Before we get to how people get them, what is the path? All right, we've got the seven red blinking lights, you've got the CBDC movement, you get the high interest rate, the high debt load. What can people in an economy like this, you know, would have some signs of life, but lots of warning signs do to protect themselves.
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Shannon Davis
Yeah, it's a great question. You know, you know, for us obviously, and what we do, gold, silver, platinum, these are tools. This is insurance on your money. It can't be converted into a digital platform. It can't be manipulated or printed over and over again. It's a finite resource. And so gold and silver is definitely a way to protect a portion of your retirement. Historically, when you talk about gold, historically it's performed at 2,300% in 1970, we just talked about that year, 31% up in 2008. It's outpaced the stock market since 2008. So what they can do is learn what they really have in their retirement account. Call someone like us. We're not the only one, but they can call us, obviously, and we want them to. And get educated on what the seven signals are. They're very different than what people are paying attention to and just get educated and understand that you can put your money somewhere else rather than the banking system or the market, which is correcting right before our eyes.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. Shannon, I would ask you where people can find out more about this, but I'm going to tell people because I just like the name of the website. But Shannon Davis, thanks so much for being with us.
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Shannon Davis
Yep. Thank you for having me again. Have a wonderful day, guys.
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Curtis Haupt
Be safe.
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Amanda Head
You too, Shannon. All right, everybody. And to our audience, if you want to to learn more about protecting your retirement today and that report that Shannon was just talking about, very important. Call American Alternative Assets at 855GOLD340 or by visiting john likes gold.com Go there, check out all the resources that they have, all of the products they have. And we're going to be right back on the other side. The shutdown is now the longest in US History. So who's going to cave first? We're going to have that in our final segment of the show right after. Welcome back to the final segment of the night. This government shutdown is now officially the longest in history. Now Democrats such as Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries maintain their position on the Obamacare tax credits even with snap funds on hold. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has pleaded with Democrats to come to the table, a plea that seems to fall on deaf ears as the proposed continuing resolution has been voted against now 14 times. So joining us now to discuss the impact is the managing director at Americans for Prosperity, Kent Strang. Kent, thanks so much for being here.
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Kent Strang
Yeah, thank you so much for having me. It's great to be with you tonight.
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Amanda Head
Great to have you. And I know you are dialed in on the inner workings up on Capitol Hill. What conversations are you hearing about maybe this coming to an end?
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Shannon Davis
Sure.
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Kent Strang
Well, I would love this to come to an end. As you mentioned, this is the longest government shutdown in American history. And what we're seeing is Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats. Democrats hold the American people hostage over their $1.5 trillion spending spree. And so what I would like to see is I would like to see Chuck Schumer finally give in to his demands, pass a clean CR at Biden level funding and put this to rest and get folks back to work and get our military men and women and service members paid, our TSA agents, our air traffic controllers, our Coast Guard, our border patrol agents and get back to business as usual so we can actually advocate for the policies that will low costs for the American people.
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John Solomon
How do you think last night's election results? Democrats seemed a little giddy and full of step today. And I wonder if they were thinking of folding and then got, well, we won really big essay Maybe you don't have to fold. Is there a danger that Democrats hold out longer because of the way they performed last night in the election?
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Kent Strang
Well, I think that remains to be seen, but they certainly were seeing the far left progressive wing of the party control this and we saw some of that last night. I think one of the biggest cheerleaders for the government shutdown right now is Bernie Sanders. And we see that Schumer is certainly eyeing the further left part of his party to meet their demands. And hopefully there are a few moderates that come to the table and join with the Republicans to bring our government open. But I think what we can look at is a lot of those races last night were in purple or blue areas. And I don't know if we can glean too much from that as the government shutdown.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, there are a lot of folks on the SNAP program who desperately need this assistance. Now this contingency fund, as I understand, is supposed to be for war, it's supposed to be for catastrophe. But President Trump has been ordered to divvy it up among amongst all of these folks. I think 145 billion is what it goes out to per year. So 5 billion is a drop in the bucket. Is that going to help Democrats? Is that going to move them along? The fact that this SNAP situation keeps rolling and may our Democrats, Democrats seeing that they are to blame, Democrat voters rather.
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Kent Strang
Sure, there are certainly folks impacted by SNAP benefits and that's a difficult situation for folks. We don't want them to go hungry. But at the same time, there is a very easy solution to bring SNAP benefits back at its full funding. And that's for Chuck Schumer to come to the table, end this unproductive government shutdown. The government shutdowns typically lead to bad policy and he can end this. But if we want to get folks fed, we want to get our service members back to work, back to being paid, we should end this government shutdown immediately.
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John Solomon
I want to talk about the dirty secret of the shutdown because I think a lot of people don't understand this. I went through some of the big donors in the California Prop 50 race and a lot of them are health insurance companies, some at like a half million million dollar donations. Health insurers are the big winner in this shutdown because the Democrats are holding out so they can keep getting those subsidy checks. Not to us. We don't get them if we take Obamacare. They go to the insurance companies which keep them, whether the American people use that account or not. How do Americans get to get up to speed on the symbiosis that's now between health sharing carriers and these Obama subsidies.
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Kent Strang
Well, you're right. These subsidies go to big insurance and it props up a failed ACA government health care. And what we're seeing is, we're seeing that this is the spending spree that they want to be on. These were Covid era temporary subsidies that we no longer need. And so what we have found from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, that 60% of ACA enrollees have access to a plan that costs $50 or less. Now, that doesn't mean that some people won't see premiums increase. But. But a majority of folks who have ACA subsidized plans can get a plan for $50 or less per month.
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Curtis Haupt
Month.
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Kent Strang
Not exactly the cataclysm that the Democrats are telling us about.
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Amanda Head
No, not at all. I want to ask you before we let you go, because a lot of folks said that Trump is election poison, which is a pretty wild theory considering what happened last November. But you've got these four main Republican or three main Republican candidates that people have been talking about, and they didn't embrace Trump and they got crushed. So is that theory completely wrong?
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Shannon Davis
Sure.
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Kent Strang
I don't know if I buy into that theory, but I do buy into that. I think Republicans have to get back at what they're great at, and that is lowering costs for the American, American people. And we look at. Why were Democrats fired in the last election? Well, they were fired because they spent $5.5 trillion in new spending that led to 40 year high inflation. It led to massive increases in costs, higher energy prices. And Republicans came along and they put an end to that out of control government spending in the one big beautiful bill. They extended President Trump's tax cuts. They made it so the average American family would say $1,500 more. And they staved off the biggest tax hike in American history. They also cut a trillion dollars of spending, the one big beautiful bill. And now Chuck Schumer wants another $1.5 trillion in spending. And so I think what Republicans should really focus on is lowering inflation, cutting wasteful government spending and making sure that we can deliver on cost and passing policies like permitting reform that can get the government out of the way and the regulatory burdens out of the way so we can lower energy costs, cost for our home heating and for our cars and gasoline.
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John Solomon
Yeah.
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Amanda Head
Yep. Kent Strang, managing director of Americans for Prosperity, thanks so much for being here. We'll have you back on soon.
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Kent Strang
Thank you so much.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. All right, everybody, look at what we got.
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John Solomon
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Amanda Head
That's all we have for tonight, everybody. We'll be back here at 6pm Eastern tomorrow.
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