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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, October 14th, 2025
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Good evening, America. Welcome to the Tuesday edition of Just the News. No noise. I'm your host, John Solomon reporting to you as always from the nation's capital, where just a short while ago we saw President Trump bestow the highest award a civilian in America can get, the Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk. Yes, it was posthumously, but it was still poignant. An incredible ceremony and an amazing day today. Meanwhile, a lot going on in the aftermath of President Trump's historic trip to the Middle East. Of course, all of that made possible with the deal he struck between Israel and Hamas. And the President isn't done playing the role of peacemaker just yet. We're going to get to that in a moment. But as I mentioned at the top of the show, Charlie Kirk's ceremony today was just so poignant. So many incredible people there remembering all the things he stood for. All the things. And I can't think of a better honor for Charlie Kirk than to have a medal involving freedom bestowed him, because that's what he stood for is a little bit of what happened. Take a look.
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Charlie Kirk was a martyr for truth and for freedom.
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And from Socrates to think and to.
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St. Peter, from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King, those who change history the most, and he really did have always risked their lives for causes they were put on earth to defend. He was put on earth to do exactly what he was doing.
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Wow.
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What an amazing statement. What amazing company Charlie Kirk was memorialized in today. Just a remembrance of how he changed the world in such a short period of time on this planet. We're going to have more on this later in the show with one of Charlie's good friends, the one and only Benny Johnson will join. Join us. He was at the event earlier and of course knew Charlie so very well. Now we're also learning more about the deal President Trump struck between Hamas and Israel, which saw the release of the remaining 20 Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity. Yesterday, reports saying that the Gaza peace deal ended up being reached after Jared Kushner, the President's son in law, and US Special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Woodkoff, met face to face with Hamas leaders. That was something we didn't know until today. And speaking of Hamas, the President had a message for them. Here was what he was speaking about and talking about their agreement to disarm. Listen, they're going to disarm. And because they said they were going to disarm, and if they don't disarm.
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We will disarm them.
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How will you do That I don't.
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Have to explain that to you.
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But if they don't disarm, we will disarm them.
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They know I'm not playing games. Pretty clear I'll disarm them and I don't have to explain it, but we will disarm them. Pretty clear message to Hamas. And behind the scenes, we know that Qatar is playing a big role in trying to make that happen. Right now there's one more conflict President Trump is looking to address and he'll be focusing on that more this week as he'll be meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr zelensky here in D.C. on Friday. This will be the fifth meeting between the two. And they'll discuss additional air defense systems as well as long range missile capabilities that Russia has been escalating as Russia has been escalating leading their attacks against Ukraine. All right, let's turn to my amazing co host Amanda. She just got back from that Medal of Freedom ceremony a few moments ago. Amanda. Quite a poignant day, huh?
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It was. And what struck me was the amount of media representatives who wanted to be there for it. We know that the media has broken down. There are folks who are not necessarily fans of Charlie Kirk, but everyone was there because they knew how important this day was and what Charlie Kirk meant to the movement. So it was, it was, it was really nice to see. And President Trump did a wonderful job of honoring him, as did his wife and some other speakers.
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It was just very touching. There was a lot of humor, too. A lot of laughs.
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Indeed, Indeed.
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President Trump was on his humorous side today. It was great.
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He has an uncanny way of injecting humor into moments like this where most people can't without it looking disrespectful. So it was really, really wonderful. All right, everybody. So we have been talking a lot about President Trump as peacemaker. But there's one group in the world right now that he isn't looking to make peace with, and that would be the drug cartels who every day are trying to get deadly fentanyl, shove it into our country and are also guilty of horrific acts of human smuggling, smuggling to boot. And President Trump announced today that the United States destroyed another Venezuelan drug boat, saying in a post on True Social that the strike was conducted in international waters and six male narco terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No US Forces were harmed. Now, this is the fifth strike against Venezuelan drug vessels since this policy started. Now, President Trump is also not done meeting with world leaders, in addition to meeting with the President of Argentina today, Javier Milei. He's also meeting, as John referenced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier. Excuse me, on Friday. And he's going to be meeting with China, Chinese leader Xi Jinping for trade talks, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant. So they are expected to meet at the APEC summit in South Korea at the end of this month. So, John, lots of peace talks taking place. President Trump, he doesn't hardly finish one task before he's moved on to the other.
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Yeah, sometimes he's multitasking even within one. I mean, yesterday you could really see him leaning into peace on other fronts, trying to use the moment of all those world leaders together to say, hey, we got other places to go. Iran, Russia. It was really fascinating. And of course, setting up Zelensky for a meeting on Friday is no subtle message to Russia. Yeah. So. Well, another subtle message that the Democrats keep sending the American people. Their political interests are more important. That is the Democratic Party's political interests are more important than the American people. Chuck Schumer said the unspoken out loud in the last few days. And now Republicans are capitalizing, creating momentum to get this government back opened up. Joining us now, Iowa Congresswoman Marionette Miller Meek. She's on the front lines of this very important debate in Washington. Congresswoman, great to have you on the show.
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Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it.
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We love having you on. We always get a good, healthy dose of straight talk. Tell us where we are. I want to get to all the other history that happened today. But before we do, in the standoff with Democrats, are they beginning to buckle? Are they beginning to feel the weight of Americans furor? Or are they holding true because they got to keep their liberal base happy?
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Well, first, let me remind the American people that it takes 60 votes in the Senate to pass something. So the Democrats filibustered. You need 60 votes to break that filibuster and vote to fund the government. Vote to open the government. The Democrats voted not to fund the government, both in the House and in the Senate. And as you said, this is very much a political effort. I have voted in the past, despite criticism, to fund the government, to vote for continuing resolutions. I am withholding my pay and solidarity with my fellow veterans and military. And as you know, John, my father was career Air Force. We got one paycheck a month. He was enlisted. My mom worked. There were eight kids. I can tell you what it's like to miss a paycheck. I would watch him at the kitchen table Try to figure out if he was writing this check, would it make it in the mail in time and to wherever the bill was owed? Would they cash the check before his military check came in? And so for our military, our air traffic control, customs and border protection, correctional officers in prisons, federal prisons, who do dangerous jobs, who put themselves at risk, all of these individuals are stressful jobs. They are working now without pay. So I would ask is Chuck Schumer, because this is Schumer's showdown, this is his shutdown. Is Chuck Schumer and is Hakeem Jeffries and all the Democrats who voted not to fund the government, not to fund our military, are they withholding their pay? Are they going without pay?
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Absolutely.
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Great question.
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Congresswoman, you are in a unique position to, to talk to us about this because you served for over 20 years as a nurse and a physician in the Army. So you know what it's like if you are on a base, if you're at a facility to have finite resources when it is a zero sum game and you only have X amount of bandages, of medication. Whatever the case may be, Democrats seem to think that there is an unlimited supply of all of these resources and therefore we can give them to illegal immigrants. How do you break that mentality to when you know, we've got money overflowing outside of Washington and they've never been a position like yours where you know that you have to keep inventory because there's just exactly the right amount.
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It's exactly what you need in order to take care of people, to treat people, to put food on the table. You know, the housing is substandard, which we passed increased funding for housing in our reconciliation bill. I would just say what they are doing is unconscionable. They are holding the American people hostage and illegal immigration, immigrants and noncitizens do get Medicaid. They do get, you know, benefits. The way the Biden administration oriented things, they're, you know, stretching the Constitution and the law. And sometimes I think what they were doing was unconstitutional. But you know, that's an administration that led millions and millions, over 10 million people coming in that we know about more that we don't know about. And the known got aways. And what they were doing is that their saying to American citizens, you pay taxes, but we're going to give that money to other individuals. And that's what they're doing. And they absolutely, in their own continuing resolution, strike down the portion of the reconciliation bill, the working families tax cut, which says no Medicaid, no benefits for people. Health care benefits for people that are here or legally are noncitizens. It's very explicit. And their cross does away with that language. So you can't tell me that that's not part of their plan. What they're trying to do is to, you know, revert democracy. They couldn't win the election in 2024 because of all their bad policies that were against the American people. So now they're trying to do it by holding the American people hostage, by not funding the government and not funding our military. Not funding. And thank goodness President Trump is coming up with a way to move funds around to fund our military. But there are still these other groups and other individuals, as I mentioned, and they've also, through usda, moved money for WIC so that mothers and children will be able to have food as they run out as this shutdown continues. But make no mistake about it, the Democrats voted politics. We Republicans voted people.
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Yeah. Such an important message, and I think it's getting through. It seems as though the polling shows that Americans understand who's to blame. There's another element to this, which is because they don't want to talk about the fact that they're depriving troops of their pay or the ICE agents from their pay. They want to have a debate about health care. But it seems like you and Speaker Johnson aren't afraid to have that debate either, because the Affordable Care act, as they like to call Obamacare, has become, well, quite the unaffordable Care Act. Talk about how Republicans are taking the lead. They're not afraid to debate on health care anymore because the data is on your side.
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The data is absolutely on our side. I'm old enough to remember what President Obama said and what the Washington Post gave him. Four Pinocchios for the great lies. He said Obamacare or the Affordable Care act would bend down the cost curve, that if you liked your doctor, you could keep your doctor. If you liked your health plan, your health insurance, you could keep your health insurance. Millions of people lost their doctors. I was one who lost patients. Millions of people lost their health insurance. And the big, the biggest lie of all was that premiums would go down 2500 a year. Premiums have never gone down. The cost curve was not bent downward. They knew it. They knew it was a lie when they said it. And premiums have continued to skyrocket. In order to hide the premiums, they put in premium tax credits. Now, the premium tax credits aren't going away. They know that those remain. And that went up to 400% of the federal poverty level for a family. What they did in 2021 through the COVID money was to enhanced premium tax credits because they wanted to hide the fact that premiums were going up and they didn't want it to affect the 22 elections. Premiums were going to continue to go up, so they wanted to hide it even more. So they put it in the IRA in 2022 so it wouldn't affect the election in 2024. So there were and there was no income limits on the enhanced premium tax credits. Those are the ones that are expiring at the end of this year, the enhanced premium tax credits. So I would say they're trying to hide behind this because they're afraid of their. They're afraid to go against them. They want to keep the government shut until this large rally in Washington, D.C. so that they can, you know, energize their base. But they are wrong. They are doing this for political reasons and political reasons only. And the Unaffordable Care act and premiums are going up because of the Democrats creating a health care crisis.
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Congresswoman, if there is a fix for Obamacare, I don't know if it means chipping away at this boondoggle with things like getting rid of pharmacy benef managers. What are some of those things you can do to make the Unaffordable Care act sort of affordable?
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Well, some of the things are things that we actually did in the working families tax cuts. So that is health Savings Account allowing people to tailor policies, association plans, so groups or small groups of individuals. There are changes that you can make in Obamacare in the Unaffordable Care act that would allow small businesses to once again participate in health insurance for for their employees. So there are absolutely fixes. One that you mentioned is pharmacy benefit managers and the amount of money that is going out the door into Neverland and into the pockets of insurance companies. Which brings up another thing where, where do the tax credits go that they're talking about? The premium tax credits. They don't go to the person, they go directly to the insurance company. So the Democrats want to bail out and send more money directly to the insurance companies. And if the insurance companies are getting money so individuals don't see what their premiums would be, there's no incentive for the insurance companies to lower premiums. So changing that strategy would be another thing that would help to lower premiums and get us back on the right track of affordable health care. I'm willing to take on that fight, but that is not a fight you have when you shut down the government. This is a conversation and negotiations that need to take place in the regular order in the regular process through the Appropriations Committee. But everybody heard Senator Schumer say, the longer this goes on, the better it is for us. The better it is for us, the Democrats, not the better it is for the American people. And then one of the Democrats said, we'll keep it going until planes fall out of the sky. What does that tell you? It tells the American people that they are not for them. They are for politics over people. And the Republicans are going to hold steadfast so we can make sure that we do what we were elected to do in 2024.
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Yeah.
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So important the explanation you gave, by the way, I've checked all these facts. You are 100% right on what happened with Obamacare. Thank you. It is a ruse. It's such a ruse. And you are great to help educate our audience tonight. Congresswoman, such a great honor to have you on your show. Thank you for all your service and thanks for joining us tonight.
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Thank you very much, John. I appreciate it. And thank you, Amanda, for having me on.
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Yeah, we love having you on. All right, folks, we're gonna take a quick commercial break. When we come back, the FBA quietly approved a controversial and reportedly dangerous abortion jug just before the government shut down. And Republican senators are looking to do something about that. We got one of them on the show with us, Senator Lindsey Graham next right after this, along with Susan B. Anthony, Pro Life America presidents president as well. Right after this. Hey, America. The FBI has been warning about a type of real estate fraud on the rise called home title theft. And your equity is the target. Here's how it works. Criminals forge your signature on a single document, use a fake notary stamp and file it with the county. And just like that, boom. They're on record as owning your home, using your ownership. They then take out loans against your equity or even sell your property. And you're not going to know about it until you get a foreclosure or collection notice in the mail. And that's not going to be a good moment. That's why I partnered with Home Title Lock, so you can protect your equity. And find out today if you're already a victim, use my promo code, jtn@hometitlelock.com you'll get a free title history report and a free child. Their million dollar triple lock protection. That's a great deal. A million bucks to protect your home. That's 247 monitoring of your title records, urgent alerts to any changes and if fraud occurs, their US based restoration team will spend up to a million bucks to fix it. Find out why I trust home title lock. Protect yourself like I did. Don't be a victim. Protect your equity today. Go to homethetleock.com and use that promo code jtn. That's homethetalock.com promo code jtn.
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Welcome back, everybody. There has been so much news in the last two weeks. You might have missed this very important story. Just before the government shutdown, the FDA just quietly slid in an approval for the abortion drug mifepristone, which has been tied to some very serious safety concerns, not only for its obvious use of killing unborn babies, but in some cases it can hurt the mothers too. And Republicans in the Senate are looking to do something about it. A letter from 51 senators led by Senator Lindsey Graham are calling on the HHS and FDA to rethink their decision. And joining us now to to discuss why is South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham as well as the president of Susan B. Anthony, Pro Life America, Marjorie Dannenfelser, Senator Graham and Marjorie, thanks so much for being with us tonight.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Senator, I'll start with you on the legislative side of things because I think a lot of people have this assumption that when a new president comes to town, he appoints new people at agencies like the FDA and hhs. They think that everything's just going to run like clockwork. They're going to follow a President Trump's pro life agenda. That obviously did not happen. How do you fix it?
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Well, you bring attention to the problem. So what are we talking about here? There are different ways to get an abortion. One is a pill, a chemical abortion that can be administered in pill form. So the Trump administration approved a generic version of an abortion drug. And we're all surprised by that. You know, we're supposed to be the pro life people, right? And President Trump's been very helpful to the pro life cause, been very friendly. So we were all surprised that FDA would approve that pill in a generic version. So what we're trying to do is have the FDA look at the science around the dangers of taking this pill presents to women. We think that has been not adequately looked at. Then we want to go back to the 2017 Trump policies regarding the administrator administering an abortion pill under 2017 protocols by President Trump his first term. You had to go to a doctor before you could get the drug prescribed for an abortion. Biden did away with that requirement and we're expecting hopefully soon, Trump to reintroduce the requirement. You can't get it through the mail. You have to go to a doctor and have an in person visit with a doctor, understand the dangers of this drug. So that's what we're doing. And finally, Marjorie's been great. The abortion pill is effective up to about 12 weeks. If you can get the abortion drug through the mail without seeing a doctor and if the abortion drug can be delivered to a state that has pro life protections. In my state, there's no abortions allowed after six weeks. Well, if you can get the pill through the mail, then you've wiped out the entire pro life infrastructure in South Carolina and every other state. So if you think abortion should be a state issue regulated by the states, you can't allow the federal government to send it through the mail because that undercuts and destroys every state law in the books protecting the unborn. So this is a big deal, a big issue, and we're going to fight to have sanity rule here.
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Yeah. So very important, RG the center mentioned something important. There are some real concerns about the health effects of this pill and also not having women in touch with a doctor while they're going through a chemical abortion. Tell us some of the things that the public may not know about the dangers.
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It is true that this taking it away from the doctor patient relationship and allowing it through the mail has been a disaster for women. It's clearly a disaster for unborn children. 63% of babies are aborted through the chemical abortion that the pill is. And it's a disaster for states rights, but that for women in particular, which we ought to have a complete alliance with Planned Parenthood and every abortion activist that the woman at least should be, should be protected. And what we know is that 11% of women experience adverse effects, serious adverse effects from taking this pill that the other side compares to Tylenol, which is absolutely wrong. So I think you asked a question that is really important. Why is this happening under HHS Secretary Kennedy and the fda Commissioner, I think that the first administration, this Trump administration, got it right the first time. Take those rules, put them back around the drug, get them out of the mail, restore the doctor patient relationship and save a lot of lives and a lot of misery and save a lot of children's lives as well.
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Marjorie, I want to ask you about the messaging from Democrats because they will say that this is about access. But we know that when a woman doesn't have to go to a doctor's appointment, there is a gravity of that situation that's taken away. We also know that when there is a six week ultrasound and they can hear the heartbeat, that that oftentimes compels a mother to keep that baby. So has it ever been about access or is it really just about messaging and making abortion so easy? And I mean, almost, almost thoughtless.
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What a difference just a handful of years makes. It used to be safe, legal and rare. No concern about safe. Absolutely undermining the rights of states have their own laws and rare is certainly not true because the abortion rate is way up since Dobbs. If you take the doctor out of this relationship, out of the loop at all with a woman, you don't know if she has an ectopic pregnancy, you don't know anything about her history, you don't know what the gestational age of the child is and the gestational age of the child, if you only care about one of the people in this calculation, really has an enormous impact on the life and health of a woman. So again, I say join with us Planned Parenthood and reestablish common sense woman centered rules. Also respect some state sovereignty and stop acting lawless in the movement of these pills across state lines into pro life states.
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So important. Senator, I want to turn to another topic that you have led on. Without you, we would not know half or more of the weaponization that went on in our government under the Obama Biden years. But now you yourself find yourself a victim. You're one of those senators whose phone records were rifled through by the FBI. What do you know? What do you expect to need to know to make a good judgment about who should be punished?
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Well, number one, the request about my phone records, who I was calling, the duration of the phone call and the location of the phone call. That request was made by two FBI agents apparently working for Jack Smith in 2023. And the phone calls were in January 4th through the 6th in 2021. So why 30 months later, I believe this within three days of Trump announcing he's going to run for president on November 15, 2022, that he's going to run again for 2024. Within three days, Jack Smith was appointed special counsel. And within about eight months, there were 91 indictments against Donald J. Trump in New York by fan Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Fannie Willis and Jack Smith, 91 charges. I believe none of that would happen if Trump had decided not to run. I believe it was an effort in 2022 to destroy his campaign and that I got caught up in this with eight other senators. I actually voted to certify the election. But whether you like me or not, this should bother the heck out of you. That the sitting chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which I was in January 4th through the 6th, 2021, would have their phone records surveilled by the executive branch. We have constitutional separations of powers. We in Congress certified the election. As the chairman of the committee, I determined whether or not we should investigate alleged wrongdoing. I was doing my job. And the fact that they would look at who I'm calling and the length of the phone call and where it took place is beyond chilling. What was the predicate for this? What vehicle did they use? We're going to get to the bottom of it and the people who did this, I think, need to be fired. And we need to make sure the government pays in a way to deter it in the future. This is something new that we didn't know about, John, when we started this journey together. This has taken an ominous turn.
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Yeah, that it has.
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Senator, before we let you go, there has been this, this Stalin like mentality when it comes to the Biden administration and going after their enemies. And as you alluded, there were numerous Democrats who made flippant remarks on TV about officials. If President Trump wasn't running again, they wouldn't be going after him. With that as the basis of this question, are you worried that of what they would have done with this data? I mean, would they have found the man and then found a crime to pin it on you? I know it was just geolocation, but they could have done a lot with that.
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Look, I mean there was exculpatory information in 2016 at the Steele dossier was a made up event by the political opponent, Donald Trump. There was intel to that fact and it was all ignored. The sub source who provided the information to Steele, the Russian guy in February 2017 said it's all bar talk. It's seriously, it's not reliable. And they kept using the warrant anyway because they hated Trump. So much. Yeah. It bothers me that they would look at me and my colleagues in the United States Senate in this fashion. It should bother everybody. You don't want this to happen in the future. Just think, I was the chairman of the committee charged with having to certify the election and find out what happened. And in the course of doing my duty, 30 months later, they go to the phone company to get my records. Now that is not acceptable. Yeah. If Trump hadn't won, I'm sure he would probably be in jail somewhere now based on a bunch of BS. In 2016, they started his storyline. He was a Russian agent. In 2022, they charged him with crimes of mishandling classified information. Hillary Clinton took a hammer her people did to the hard drive and bleach bit information that apparently didn't make the cut. And Jack Smith released information about his brief accusing Trump of mishandling classified information and being involved in the 20 January 6 activity two weeks before the election, which you're not supposed to do. So in 2022, they tried to make his activity about January 6 a crime. They tried to charge him with mishandling classified information, things that they never even began to charge a Democrat with. So it's a selective double standard, selective enforcement of the law. And they drudge up January 6th in 2022, 2023 to beat him in 2024. And they got me and seven other senators involved. And they're going to pay a price. I'm not going to let this go.
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Yeah, I'm certain you won't.
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It has been unbelievable to see and we are so appreciative of folks like you who are working to get that. That person. Absolutely. Susan B. Anthony, Pro Life America President Marjorie Danfelder, thanks so much. In South Carolina, Senator Lynn Z. Graham, both of you, thank you for being here.
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What a great honor.
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All right, everybody, after the break, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Merl will be here with us to discuss her latest case in front of the Supreme Court that could have huge implications for redistricting efforts. That's next.
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Welcome back, America. If you've been listening and reading a lot of just the news lately, you're going to notice Louisiana is in the news all the time nationally. Not only is it at the center of the great energy revolution going on in America, also the largest LNG export effort ever in American history, it's also at the heart of reshaping our legal issues in America, whether it's parents rights or redistricting. Joining us right now, a woman who's on the Forefront of that incredible legal battle, the Attorney General of Louisiana, Liz More general, good to have you here.
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It's great to be with you in the studio.
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It is great to have you. Big things ahead. Redistricting is on the forefront of Louisiana's mind. Tell us what's going on there right now.
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Yeah. Well, tomorrow morning we'll be in the United States Supreme Court talking about whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights act is constitutional or whether it violates the equal protection clause. This has been a long time coming for us. You know, we've been in redistricting battles for a very long time. And, you know, most recently we drew a map that the courts basically directed us to draw reluctantly. We had been saying we didn't think we could do this in a constitutional way, and they said do it anyway. So here we are back at the court.
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Amazing.
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You know, and redistricting has been such a hot topic because of Texas, because of California. Your case is, is kind of laying the groundwork though, for these other states. Won't it affect those?
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Well, these cases are all hugely consequential. And you know, we've been complaining for some time now that the court's jurisprudence really has just been impossible to apply, that it is kind of extraordinary in the context of other Supreme Court cases that have come out that deal with race based actions and that we really don't think that we should be required, required by the courts or by the Congress to sort our voters by race.
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And that's really it. The law is actually rooted in Martin Luther King's dream that we'd have a colorblind society. But this all actually has injected race into every part of elections. Right.
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It has. It actually requires us to go. And if you, you know, read the court opinions that put us here, the courts, and ostensibly because Congress said so, are requiring us to go and sort our voters by race. And in this case, you know, the only way you can draw a performing majority minority map is by slicing off our black voters from a number of large population centers from the top to the bottom of our state. And we originally said we can't do it. We think it would violate the equal protection clause. And the court said, go, do it anyway. And so we reluctantly did so. And now we've said if we couldn't do that and it wasn't proper to do that, then you're the problem, not us.
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Right, exactly. And we see this happening.
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You might get some nodding heads tomorrow.
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Absolutely.
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Absolutely. You're the common denominator here. I want to ask you you know, during the Biden administration, Americans, many Americans watched with horror as abortion became a mail to your home type procedure. There were a lot of folks in this country who said, this cannot stand what you're doing. Something about it. Tell us about it.
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Well, you know, we had, we had already taken steps after the Dobbs opinion came out to establish Louisiana's position as defending life. We have a very, we have, our legislature in a, in an extraordinarily bipartisan manner is very pro life. And so they've passed laws to protect women and babies. And, and some of those laws include prohibiting the use of this, of mifeprestone and misoprostol to induce an abortion. And what we have now is open season on women and, and their babies because these pills are being sent into our state to anybody who will ask for them. And so we have sued the FDA to pull back some Biden administration rules that are allowing this to happen. And hopefully the Trump administration administration is going to take some action and pull those rules back.
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B
Yeah, big moment. Watching that closely. Some developments even in the last week on that that we're watching closely. You'll be back at the Supreme Court early next year with the Ten Commandments case, which I think a lot of parents all across this country are watching closely. Tell us where that stands right now, what the likely arguments are going to be.
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H
Well, thank you. Just last week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided to take that case en banc, which means we'll be in front of all 17 of the judges that are active on the Fifth Circuit, and they'll reevaluate a decision of a panel, they'll go back and reevaluate the district court decision below, which enjoined the operation of our law. You know, we have said all along that we think this law is constitutional. We created posters to illustrate how it can be applied constitutionally. And quite frankly, that should have been the end of it, but it wasn't. And so we, we may find ourselves back at the United States Supreme Court in the spring or potentially in the fall defending that law and, and our ability to kind of get some moral instruction back into our, into our schools.
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A
I think that's really wonderful. And attacking that, that situation from all angles. Another angle you're attacking it from, as far as morality is by suing Roblox. And a lot of people are thinking, why on earth. Well, it turns out that it's kind of a haven for, for sex predators.
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H
Yeah, it's a super highway for sex predators to have access to our Children. You know, it's. It's extraordinary, the reaction that I got when I filed that lawsuit. I think I had the strongest reaction that I've seen for anything that I've done. And a lot of parents, I think, were very shocked to see how easy that app does permit access to their children, that any adult could essentially communicate with any child, that these experiences that were being created were just, you know, really, really offensive in some cases. But in other cases, it was like creating a park, inviting all the sex predators to the park, and then opening the doors to your children, or the other way around, you know, opening the doors to children and then inviting all the sex predators in.
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B
When you first looked at this, you didn't get a straight answer, did you, about what was really going on in the app, was it?
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H
Absolutely not. You know, they have promoted the app. They went public with these claims that it was safe for children, and they sold that to parents as well. You know, that was one of the strongest reactions that I got was from parents saying, I had no idea that, that this was so dangerous for my child. And it's not just true. I mean, it is very true of roadblocks. We have seen it through all of the investigations that we conduct on a routine basis through our ICAC units, our Internet Crimes Against Children unit, that this is one of the worst offenders. There are others. And, you know, quite frankly, it's. It is something that we will continue to fight to protect, protect our kids.
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B
So very important. So much history happening. I just asked one as quickly. There's been this explosion in energy development. Louisiana always been at the forefront of that. How different is it now that you get the Trump administration in there and some of those green new energy rules are gone?
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H
Oh, night and day. I mean, just extraordinary. You know, I think I was probably the. The. I probably filed more lawsuits against the Biden administration than any other attorney general in the country, challenging Biden, Biden ERA rules and, and the assault on the oil and gas industry. We fought fights that oil and gas was scared to fight for themselves, and it was, you know, this has just been a very, very extraordinarily beneficial change on policy by the Trump administration, and it's making a huge difference.
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B
Yeah, we're going to power the world.
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H
Yes.
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B
The world's going to be relying on Louisiana lng an amazing thing.
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H
Yeah, it's great.
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B
Attorney General, what a great honor to have you on the show to be watching. All these cases will be covered tomorrow with the arguments. Thanks for being with us.
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D
Thanks. Anytime.
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B
All right, folks, we're taking a quick commercial break. When we come back, more. We're going to have our weekly health update right after these messages.
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A
Welcome back to our Just the News health update brought to you by Native Path. And in this culture of making America healthy again, we love having these conversations. And joining us now, the co founder and chief culture officer at Native Path, Dr. Chad Walding. Dr. Walding, thanks so much for being here.
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D
Hello.
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F
Hi, Amanda. Hi, John. Thank you so much for having me.
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A
Yeah, we love having you. And, you know, when you think about what's happening politically, culturally in our country, there are a lot of crises boiling up to the surface. And I don't want to make light of mental health and putting a band aid on it with sleep, but sleep is so foundational to so much of our health, but particularly mental, isn't it?
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F
Extremely.
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D
It's.
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F
And it's one of the least talked about things going on right now when someone has depression or they're dealing with anything, you know, when they go to the doctor and said, can you help me? I feel like as medical professionals, as the medical industry, I feel like we've done a poor job in encouraging and really educating on people on sleep and understanding really what they can do to in order to feel better.
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C
Right.
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F
So a Native path, we are always focusing on the foundations. We're all about wax on, wax off, take care of the foundational things, because if you don't take care of them, there's you can supplement all you want, you can take all the medications you want, but nothing will really change, right? So when it comes to sleep, just like when it comes to nutrition, it's important for us to realize these, these changes that have been happening slowly over time, especially during the past hundred years, right? So for 100 years ago, 200 years ago, thousand years ago, humans on average were sleeping eight to ten hours a night. And they were sleeping throughout the night. They were getting really good restful sleep. Something changed about 100 years ago. And a little over 100 years ago was a man named Thomas Edison. He invented this thing called the light bulb, right? And all of a sudden, the day turned into night because we stay inside and the night turned into day. We stay inside, we turn on these bright screens, we have these bright lights that keep us up in our eyes, in our skin, get really confused and it throws off our natural circadian rhythm, right? So the impact of that is we get less sleep. You know, the average person now is getting less than six hours a night. And the sleep they do get is not Even good restorative sleep, they're not hitting that deep. You know, phase three sleep, where things are repaired and an REM happens, it's a very superficial sleep. So because we're tired the next day, we end up taking energy drinks and sugar in order to give us energy. And it's this ongoing cycle that after a while has downstream effects. It has downstream effects to our mental health, our mood. You know, you mentioned things like depression, but even our cardiovascular system, our risk for cancer, obesity. There's a huge link between how well we sleep and the way our metabolism is working and even things like Alzheimer's, dementia. Studies are now showing there's an incredible correlation between the quality of our sleep and, and those long term mental disorders. Right. So it is the foundation and in terms of recognizing this as an issue and then correcting it is one of the best things we can do.
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C
Right.
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F
So I'm always big on the principles of good sleep, you know. So what are the principles of good sleep? Some easy things you can do. First thing is when you wake up in the morning as quickly as you can go outside or at least look out the window and get natural sun exposure to your eyes, to your skin. And what that does, it sends a signal to your body, the sun is up, it starts producing cortisol, your daytime hormones. Right. It regulates things and it allows you to have good energy throughout the day in order to handle stress and do all the things you want to do. And as night comes in, you go outside again as the sun goes down, you know, and be careful about the light inside your house, right? Not too much light, not too much of a, too big of a bright screen. Wear some glasses if you have to touch, block out the blue light, but making sure your relationship with light is the way it should be. Right? Our ancestors were spending most of their time outside during the day. And in the modern world, we're spending about 10% of our time as opposed to what our ancestors are doing with 90%. So our relationship with the light, our relationship with sleep is absolutely foundational to our health.
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B
Amazing.
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A
One of my favorite morning rituals. And I'll just give this advice to everybody within 30 minutes of waking up. When I'm starting to have my coffee, I let natural sunlight come into my eyeballs. Even if it's cloudy outside, just that natural light, that vitamin D coming in, works wonders to get your day started. Dr. Chad Walden, Co founder and chief culture officer at Native Path, thank you always for being here with us. We love having your wisdom here. And remember to our AUDIENCE get a special bundle deal at a fraction of the retail price. Plus free shipping available@getnativepath.com just news with over 4 million jars sold. I'm a portion of those for sure. Thousands of five star reviews. I'm a portion of those as well. And 365 day money back guarantee. This is your moment to take control of aging before symptoms get worse. So go to getnativepath.com just news now. All right, everybody, we've got more for you coming up after this break. Welcome back, everybody, to our final segment of the night. Today, October 14th marks Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day after both chambers of Congress voted to honor his life and legacy, officially designating his birthday as a national day of remembrance. And in a very powerful tribute today, he was also posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom recognizing his unwavering commitment to to free speech, faith and the next generation of conservative leaders. Do we have our guest tonight, guys? Our very special guest? Not yet. Okay, we're going to wait. But John, I was there earlier today and the mood in there was just incredible. And it was really a who's who of freedom fighters. It was people from the media. It was people obviously from politics, people from the faith side of things, people.
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B
We see on this network every day, which I'm really proud of.
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A
Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, Charlie's, I don't think that people realize just how vast his influence was, especially in the faith side.
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B
You know, I know the medal was award named long before Charlie was given it today, but if you were going to give a medal for anything, Charlie, Kate, it would be fighting for freedom. I mean, it's what he stood for, freedom of speech, freedom of faith. It is pretty powerful.
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A
Yeah, absolutely. And someone who spent a ton of time with Charlie as friends and colleagues, Benny Johnson. Benny, thanks so much for being here.
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E
It's my honor. I'm actually walking out of the White House at this very second.
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B
Yeah.
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E
And I have breaking news for your program because I know this is a breaking news show.
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A
Now let's do it.
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E
All right. So I, and I didn't have time to send you the video to your producer, but I just looked at the Charlie Kirk Presidential Medal of Freedom and I saw it with my own eyes. I looked there as Erica Kirk showed us, and something historic happened with this Presidential Medal of Freedom. For the first time in the history of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, there has been a Christian cross, a Christian crucifix emblazoned on the back of the medal with Charlie's name on it to honor his march for Christ and the kingdom of Christ and Christendom. This is a historic first. Erica Kirk was profoundly moved by this. I was able to see it myself. We'll post the video soon, but it's just beautiful.
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A
Well, I know Charlie had a very, very large influence on you in your own faith journey.
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E
Yes, absolutely. When I first met Charlie, I was a degenerate, loser alcoholic. That describes approximately 94% of Washington D.C. 's population. So I'm not special. However, through his excellent example, Charlie was able to help Christ center my life. And after working nearly 10 years with Charlie, I am now a proud sober father of four. Because it's no fun to have a hangover with little kids.
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D
Indeed.
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B
Isn't that the truth? What wisdom. Benny, that's such a great story. You've shared that and it does inspire people. And I think what's so remarkable about Charlie is that everybody came in contact, always had an impact from. He just had a way, even if it was two minutes, there's that moment of impact. What made him so magnetic? What made him so ability that in a short period of time he could actually change a conversation, change a life, change a position that you had.
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E
John. Yeah, thank you for that question because it is a profound question and it's a magnetism that I'm not sure that can truly be described. Anybody who worked closely with Charlie, and I know, John, that you were very close with him, saw it, but I'll give you a little anecdote. So when I was backstage with Charlie and the President of the United States and I was back there on many occasions, what you would find is that the President would arrive and Charlie and him would sit or stand together, they were always standing. And he would be legitimately advising the President of the United States. Now, this is a 29 year old, a 28 year old. And Trump would be going back and forth with him on various topics of great interest. And he would be, this is the most powerful man in the world. And Charlie would be giving him wise counsel. He was just wise beyond his years. And it is something that is was remarkable to see. And I'll close with this. I witnessed a miracle. The birth of my own children certainly is a miracle for me and my wife. But I was witness for the last decade to a miracle that we all were able to witness, which was Charlie Kirk's life and the profound effect that it's had on this country in such a moving ceremony today, the heavens opened. I know that you've both been to the White House many times. I've never seen a more beautiful day at the White House in my life. The heavens were truly open, and it was a majestic moment. In honor of Charlie.
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A
Absolutely. Ben, we've just got about 60 seconds left. The legacy that Charlie leaves behind at Turning Point. Do you feel that this organization is going to explode in his presence, in his absence?
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E
I'm so sorry, can you repeat the question one time? I'm walking on the street. My apologies.
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A
Sure. His legacy, Turning Point, do you anticipate that it is going to explode in the coming years?
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E
Oh, yes. Again, I'll give you an anecdote from right inside the White House at the reception, which is that the major problem for Turning Point right now is finding stadiums big enough to do events at.
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A
And what a problem to have.
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D
That is it? Yep.
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A
Absolutely. Benny Johnson, host of the Benny show and friend of Charlie Kirk. You are so special. You were special to Charlie. You were special to us. And thanks for coming on tonight. And thank you for that special anecdote about the cross.
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E
It's my great honor.
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A
Likewise.
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B
Pretty amazing. If you're going to change a medal of honor, that's. That's the sort of juice you're going to.
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G
My goodness.
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A
And how to put a cross on it. Yeah. You know, I know one nation under God for Erica having to spend this day mourning her husband. I know that that's got to be so hard, but spending it with Charlie's friends, people who admired him and loved him and respected him. Yeah. Like Benny. Absolutely. All right, everybody, that's all the time we have for this evening, but we will be back here tomorrow night at 6:00pm Eastern.
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D
This is an iHeart podcast.