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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, October 17th, 2025
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Hello America. Happy Friday. Yes, we made it through a crazy week that started with a historic peace deal, ended with the possibility of peace between Russia and Ukraine with a big meeting today and a whole lot in between, including three major indictments. Yeah. I'm your host, John Solomon. As you know, this is the Justin News no Noise television show. But I'm not in Washington, D.C. like I normally am. I'm in Orlando at the Moms for Liberty conference here. An amazing day I spent here meeting, meeting some of the new young voices of the conservative movement. I even met a woman who is a liberal, who came here because her own views are changing, she said. And she's been canceled for questioning. Liberal heterodoxy. It's been an amazing day. I'm going to get you caught up real quickly on the headlines and then we're going to turn you out to Amanda Head who's in California at an amazing backdrop at Camp Pendleton. We're going to bring her in a second. But first the news. Yep. Today President Trump met with President Voldemort Zelensky, the Ukrainian president. They had a working lunch trying to get towards that elusive peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. President Trump made one thing clear today. He's not ready to give long range high powered Tomahawk missiles to the Ukrainians. Said it's just not the time. Now he hopes he can get the peace before that. Now, before this happened, President Trump had a very productive meeting with President Putin in Russia. I had a chance to talk to the president for a little bit this morning. He was very confident that Putin's in a little bit different state of mind and maybe in a way that could potentially lead to a real deal, not just a promise of a deal that was really important. We'll get you to one of those indictments also because today the former national security advisor John Bolton appeared in court charged with 18 federal felonies. Most of Them violations of the Espionage act for mishandling classified information. He pleaded not guilty. This is going to be a difficult and long case for him and his family because his family's involved. The allegations are he moved classified information and other sensitive information to family members via email. Some of that information eventually got intercepted by our enemies in Iran. So a very big case. So we're keeping a close eye on that. For all the headlines go to justinews.com we got you covered. Now I want to bring in my amazing co host Amanda Head. She is at Camp Pendleton. Tomorrow is the 250th birthday of the US Marines. I am so proud to know many great Marines that I live across the street from them. I go to the barbershop with them. I love them. And we honor you on your two on your 50th birthday. Amanda, I wish I was there with you. I'm a little jealous of that backdrop.
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Yeah, the backdrop is spectacular. The weather is made to order for such a wonderful weekend. Tomorrow is going to be incredible, John. We've got all sorts of military equipment that's going to be here, C130s FA18s, F35Cs. There's going to be flight flyovers. There are going to be amphibious demonstrations at high Mars. It is going to be incredible. An incredible show of strength and might and unity by the way, between the United States Marine Corps and the Navy. A lot of people know of their very close coordination in a number of wars. Vietnam, World War II, of course, our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. So they were setting up today, John, and we were there on site doing our, our media and equipment set up or my guys were, I wasn't, I wasn't really helping all that much. It was, it was amazing to see the production. You know, I think it is definitely on par with the Navy's 250th, the army as well. In Washington D.C. there are going to be a lot of folks here, Obviously Vice President J.D. vance, the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth and a lot of other dignitaries who are going to be here speaking. So it's going to be pretty much an all day affair going up until about 4pm and we're going to have live coverage of that right here on Real America's Voice. And I like I said, I can't wait to be here. Southern California weather this time of year is just amazing. It's warm, it's breezy and we are right here on the coast at Camp Pendleton. It is quite picturesque.
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Well, we got both coast covered two Amazing locations, by the way. Tomorrow, all day live coverage, folks, here on Real America's Voice. Moms for liberty in the morning, not to Camp Pendleton with Amanda in the afternoon. And for that spectacular celebration, to anyone who wore the uniform in the service of this country, and particularly to all those who are proud Marines, we honor you today and we thank you for your service. All right, we've got a great show for you today. We had that incredible interview with FBI Director Cash Patel a couple days ago. People still talking about that. Today we got one of the greatest voices I know when it comes to helping us understand what's going on in the FBI and law enforcement. He's the retired FBI Executive assistant director and he's the author of one of my favorite books, wanted the FBI I Want to do. So Many Agents. I know I've read that book and they agree with it. He's our good friend Chris Piotta. Chris, good to have you on.
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Sir John, pleasure to be with you this evening.
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Yeah, we love having you on. All right. We had a lot of nuggets in our interview with Cash Patel. I thought one that was most telling and has gotten a lot of buzz today is him saying that they found more examples of criminal behavior, weapon design, weaponized criminal behavior by law enforcement and intelligence personnel in the United States government. He expects more indictments in the next few months. He said by the year's end there'll be quite a few. The idea that we're getting to the bottom of it, punishing the things that deserve to be punished, getting rid of the things that don't deserve to be punished and not deal with them anymore, kind of a big moment of accountability, isn't it?
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Absolutely. And I think Director Patel and the people of the FBI are committed to, to setting things straight, putting the FBI back on the right track with the American people and reestablishing that trust and confidence that people used to have in the FBI. It's going to take them a little bit of time, though, John, because, you know, they have to go through a lot of documentation. They have to look at the circumstances that existed and they have to look at what the outcomes of certain, I guess you can say, referrals and prosecutions could be. So they're on the right track and I'm glad to see that they're bringing some accountability.
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Yeah. That's amazing, Chris.
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How, how do folks who are supportive of this administration, this FBI administration, how do they dispel what we are?
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I cannot hear, Amanda, John Bolton, that.
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This is a witch hunt. Weaponization how do we dispel that?
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All right, so I'll try to get that to you, Chris. It sounds like we couldn't write the audio right, but Amanda asked, how do we begin to dispel that distrust in the American public with the FBI and also to reinstall trust in the agents on the front lines that they're going to do the job the way the book says it should be done?
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Well, first of all, it's going to be done through action and deed. What you're going to see is the FBI operating in a manner that is honest and objective and apolitical and professional. That's what it's going to take, and it's going to have to be all the time, every time. And the culture of the FBI is being shifted right now by the director and the senior leadership of the organization. They have to be uncompromising in their standards and expectations for FBI agents to conduct their business on behalf of the American people, in line with the Constitution and in the service of the laws of our country. So it's going to take some time, but I think if they keep hitting the marks and they keep pushing hard, they're going to be able to reinstill that confidence and look for that respect that the organization once had, that previous leadership squandered.
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So important. I think we got Amanda back. Amanda, you want to see if we can chime in here?
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Yeah. I would love to ask you about Antifa, because one of the things that we spoke to Director Patel a few nights ago about was, you know, obviously finding the money trail and practically any criminal organization or something that you saw suspect to be a criminal organization, you got to follow the money. And he indicated to us that he was getting closer and closer to reaching that source if he does get there. And it seems that there is some type of mechanism, some type of. Of infrastructure to these protests to the people who are funding them. Does that open up RICO charges?
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It could. It depends on how they want to try and take the organization on. What you're looking at is the investigative effort is going to identify logistical, funding and facilitation networks. That's what they're looking for. They're looking for people who make these groups operate. And then they have to decide whether they're going to go for some shorter term tactical interruptions or interdictions, or are they looking for an entire enterprise takedown, which will take them a little bit more time, but it could destroy the organization from the inside, taking away their resources, taking away their training and their facilitation And I'm sure there's going to be a balance of that, and I'm sure that the investigative strategy and then the intent of what they're going to do to prosecute is being worked out now between the FBI and Department of Justice.
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Yeah, it's an amazing thing. And for a while, people are saying, oh, Antifa is not an organization. Well, I got news for folks like last night, the Justice Department charged a cell of Antifa with clear crimes of terrorism. They have the names, they have the command structure, they have the acts that occurred in that terror attack. It's time for people to stop lying about Antifa. It's amazing. Chris, I want to turn to something that Cash said in the interview. He said that the key to what he wanted to achieve with the FBI was something very simple. Let good cops be cops, get out of the way, get the politics and let them solve crimes. He said that's how we caught Charlie Kirk's assassin in just 33 hours. It's how we took 19,000 people off the streets who were violent felons during this important summer operation. What is your sense of the men and women of the FBI right now? Are they feeling like they're able to do their job without worry about the politics anymore?
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I think the new leadership has moved them away from some of that political, I would say, distraction that they had over the past few years in the peripheral matters of DEI and other things. And I think what you see is the effectiveness of the FBI when they're allowed to be the FBI, and whether or not Director Patel is prioritizing or putting his boot in some tail ends. The FBI is effective when it's allowed to be effective. And the FBI is the home to some of our best manhunters in the world. So you're seeing the FBI right now take direct action against crime in our communities. And you saw over the course of the summer, the Director Patel gave a rundown of the statistical accomplishments. Remarkable work by the men and women of the FBI as well as their law enforcement partners. So letting the FBI be the FBI brings great results.
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Yeah, Chris, you spent so many years at the agency, and I'm. I'm really, really disheartened and concerned to see what we saw, apparently out of Chicago, where you had city leadership who was pressing down on local law enforcement to not coordinate with federal law enforcement, in this case, ICE in most of the situations when you look at that relationship, because Director Patel indicated to us that when they speak to rank and file officers in those cities like Chicago, PDF that the rank and file, they, they do want to coordinate with federal law enforcement. It's basically the bureaucrats, it's the suits at City hall that are pushing against this. Are you concerned that that type of mentality in City hall is going to propagate to other cities and therefore obstruct federal law enforcement?
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I think what you're seeing is a breakdown in the law enforcement enterprise due to ideological beliefs in politics. And those two factors, ideological beliefs and politics have no place in the law enforcement enterprise. When law enforcement is enforcing the, the laws of our nation and they need help from each other. That has always been an unspoken rule that was sacrosanct that whenever another law enforcement officer was in trouble, you went to help. And the fact that the, I guess it was the chief of patrol stood people down while ICE was being attacked was disgusting and it was so disappointing to see. It shows how our law enforcement community has been infiltrated by what I would consider to be low quality leaders or non leaders. And we have to get rid of those folks. And I hope that swift action is taken so that type of behavior doesn't show up in other cities.
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Yeah.
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So important to eradicate it. There's no doubt. I want to ask you a little bit about the news of the last 24 hours. The third major accountability indictment in the last month. James Comey for lying, Letitia James for alleged bank fraud. Today John Bolton stood in a Courtroom charged with 18 felonies saying he mishandled the most important secrets that he was entrusted as a national security adviser. I think you've had a chance to look at this indictment. It's pretty serious allegations and pretty extensive behavior. Could you handicap it a little bit for us, Chris?
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Well, what you're looking at is a senior level official who on his own volition and knowingly transmitted classified information across non secure systems. And then he maintained information of a classified nature at his residence. Not authorized to have that information. And he violated the Espionage Act. It's, it's pretty straightforward. Now I will tell you that he, as a former National Security advisor as well as he was the Ambassador to the UN So he had received numerous counterintelligence defensive briefings and security briefings and he still decided to do this, which to me abuses the trust of the American people and it shows poor judgment. And as this court case moves forward, I think as you said earlier, it'll be a long, it'll be a long courtroom experience for him and his family members. And I'm just sorry to see that our senior Officials, sometimes they don't set the example for the rest of the government folks. And, you know, he's going to have to be, I guess you can say, I hate to say punished, but he's going to have to suffer some consequences for those actions.
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Yeah, yeah. Some of that information allegedly got to our enemies in Iran.
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Yeah. Chris, before we let you go, I wanted to ask you. When President Trump came into office and FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino came in, one of the ideas that I think would be very, very successful in restoring trust to the FBI and bringing it back to its roots of just good cop work that was taking people out of Washington and moving them out into the communities. Have you seen that happening to the degree that you would like to see it? Is it successful? Is it bearing fruit?
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I think what you're seeing is, is under the direction of Director Patel, you're seeing much more community level engagement and operations by the FBI, especially during this past summer initiative. So you're seeing him move resources to the issues and the problems and the crime elements that are affecting people's day to day lives. And he has to balance that with the larger strategic issues such as the national security mission. You're looking at the counterterrorism, counterintelligence issues. And he's, he's got a, he's got a difficult job to balance those two competing programs, crime versus national security. But I do see that he is moving those resources into the community. I just think I knew from the beginning when he was talking about it that it would take him some time to move those resources, to integrate them into operations and to start augmenting effectively the work of the field offices. So they're moving in that direction. It's just going to take him more time than I think people understand from a logistical perspective to make that happen completely.
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Chris, I have a funny feeling there'll be a sequel to your book called Got It. The FBI once knew we may got it back. I hope we get it there. It's always a great honor to have you on and thank you for writing that book. I can't tell you the number of agents that come up to me and say how much they love what you said, the courage you showed writing that book. Great to have you on the show, my friend. All right, folks, we're going to take a quick commercial break. When we come back, one of the super moms here, she's been the one of the driving forces behind Moms for America. She's also doing incredible work at the America First Policy Institute. Our good friend Erica Donald's next right after these messages. Hey folks, if you snore and your partner hasn't moved to another room you yet, Congratulations. You've either found true love or your partner has no other place to go. Let's talk about what your partner really wants in bed. Silence. Stop keeping them awake from your snoring and giving them eight hours of uninterrupted sleep. XIPA is the only FDA approved and patented anti snoring solution invented by a leading sleep doctor that stops snoring at the source. Zpa has a 91% success rate backed by a 91 night sleep guarantee that's pretty great for a limited time. Go to zpa.com and use the code jtn or text jtn to 511-511 and get the absolute best solution guaranteed to stop your snoring with a happy Z pack and save over 24% off. Plus zipa will donate $10 to breast cancer research. Visit zipa z y-p p a h.com use the code jtn or text jtn to 511511 and save over 24% off with a happy Z pack and start improving your sleep health today. That's a good thing. Remember, ZPA is Happy Z spelled backwards. Text fees may apply.
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Welcome back America. We're live here in Orlando, Florida with the Moms for Liberty event here. An amazing day. I was so energized meeting so many young people here. It wouldn't be possible what has happened the last four years in the Parents Right movement without our next guest. She is one of the founding forces Here at Moms for Liberty, she is one of the chairwomen at the America First Policy Institute, which gave us that great Trump agenda. And soon, I have a funny feeling we're going to be adding a new title to her incredible resume, first lady of Florida. Joining me right now, Erica Donalds. Erica, good to have you here.
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It's so good to be here. And you're right, the energy here is absolutely amazing.
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It's amazing. And the age difference. I've been, I think I've been to every one of the four Moms for Living national events and Philadelphia. I Remember backstage at D.C. with President Trump. So many young moms here today and intersecting with grandmas and moms older than them, there's something special going on here.
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Well, the America first movement is multi generational and growing. I just kicked off a college tour at Florida International University and hitting a bunch of colleges around the country. And just like turning point chapters, new women, conservative women's chapters have exploded. When conservatives come on campus, they are eager to hear what we have to say. They have great questions, they're curious. And hey, they want us to start putting America first because that means we're putting them first in their generation.
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What a difference from just a couple years ago.
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Amen.
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It's really amazing.
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Thank God for President Trump.
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Without a doubt. Without a doubt.
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Absolutely.
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Amanda, where are you? We got you out there, right?
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You really coordinated on, on this policy, on, on what the Trump administration is doing with the Department of Education. Do you see it going in a good direction? Do you want to see it go even harder?
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Absolutely. It is going in the right direction. As you know, earlier this year they were able to reduce force by over half. Now that the shutdown has happened, there's no budget for a lot of these positions that we already knew were wasteful. And the department within the shutdown has also rift another almost 500 positions. So we're getting closer and closer to the promise that President Trump made to the American people to shut down the Department of Education. But guess what? Classrooms have had no effect. They're still getting all the funding that they need to meet the needs of students. Teachers are still in classrooms doing everything they can to make sure these students succeed. And it's just another reason that we say we don't need the federal Department of Education any longer. We should get rid of it.
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I bet you scores go up when we do get rid of it. I bet you that's what's going to happen. Erica, one of the forces that I talked to so many People about today that they're still worried about are the teachers unions. They are the driving force of radicalization in a lot of these school districts. And there are many great teachers who have to suffer inside those unions. Are we getting to a point where there could be an alternate union system?
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Well, we don't want an alternate.
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That's right.
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Right. We want to get rid of it completely. We want the free market to reign in our education system.
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We.
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We want teachers to have more choice, not just parents, because school choice and education freedom also means freedom for teachers to be able to teach in ways that they have not been allowed to. They've been hamstrung by the bureaucracy that tells them what to teach, how to teach, what to say, and scripts, everything that they do every day. We don't want that for teachers anymore. We want them to be able to teach classically online, using AI, not using technology, however they see fit, so that we have the maximum number of options for families. I'm a proponent of getting rid of teachers unions and teacher certification, but break down those barriers and let teachers teach.
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Liberation Day for educators. That would be a very. That's what we need.
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We'll celebrate it together.
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Absolutely.
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As we see the school choice movement exploding, you know, a lot of folks are looking at homeschooling or homeschooling co ops, charter schools, religious schools, things like that. What are. What are you finding is surging the most, I suppose.
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Well, homeschool is the fastest growing way of schooling in our country by far. It's not even close. We've doubled the number of homeschoolers in the country since COVID Not only that, though, polls show that we have about 7% of our families homeschooling right now. That number would be 14%. It would be double if money were no object. Parents are saying that if they could, they would also homeschool. That's why we're such a proponent of education scholarship accounts, it would be 14%, and that's across the board. It's independents, it's Democrats, it's Republicans, it's. It doesn't matter. Your political ideology. You want what's best for your children, and parents know what's best. Education scholarship accounts are expanding across the country. Universal choices in 17 states now that allows families the resources that they need to buy curriculum, to buy online courses, and to really customize their children's education. So we need a lot more of it.
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What a great idea. Amazing. I was here today with a young man, his dad, and he's growing as an influencer. And he said to me, I said, how do we fix the education system? And he said, I got a simple prescription. Make Florida America. This is the laboratory of free education. And I think the next generation of education ideas. What do you think's the next big idea to come out of Florida?
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Well, I believe that every education dollar needs to be parent directed. That completely changes the culture in education. Right. For so long we've been telling parents, leave it to the experts, we don't need your help. Here's where you're going to go to school, here's what you're going to learn. But even if they were to choose their neighborhood school, putting parents in the driver's seat saying this is how much money is going to be spent on your child this year? Where do you want that money to go? And giving parents that power of a consumer, they're going to be more confident to hold those schools accountable for their results, for the safety in their schools and all of these things. So I think that's the big thing next is not just having school choice available, but making choice the default, not zoned neighborhood schools.
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You think there's initiatives in the legislature with Governor DeSantis to move that along?
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Not quite yet. We've come a long way. There's some things I think that we're going to do that are really good this year. But I think maybe after that, maybe Governor Donalds.
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That's what I'm wondering. Yeah.
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First Lady Erica, I want to ask you what's happening right now in this country. This is the 250th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps that we are celebrating today. Tomorrow next year is America's 250. And I know that AFPI has a civics initiative to I guess reinvigorate the youth, love for America and patriotism right now. Tell us about it.
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Well, I have been asked and I'm honored to co chair the America 250 Civics Education Coalition, partnering with the Department of Education and of course, our beloved Linda McMahon, Secretary McMahon and 40 other national organizations, including Turning Point, Hillsdale College, Heritage, so many great organizations that are going to help us promote civic literacy in this country. Unfortunately, our adults are not proud to be Americans anymore because they don't know America. You need to know America. When you do, you will love America. You will understand why. This is the greatest country that man has ever known. So we are going to be promoting that in all 50 states. Also encouraging states to pass policies that promote civic education. Up with reading and math and making sure. That our students are not just able to read and do math on grade level, but they know how to defend this great republic.
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I was thinking as I was flying here and I saw some of the antifa guys starting to set up their silliness for tomorrow. The no kings in D.C. what an incredible contrast. In D.C. there'll be people doing silly, mean things, and here there's a generation of parents securing their future for their children and saying, it's possible that we can get this done. It feels like Moms for Liberty has been around for 25 years. It's only been four years, right?
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That's right. Actually, the founders, Tina and Tiffany and I, were all on school boards together here in Florida, and we saw under the curtain before COVID happened and parents got to see what was really going on in schools. The three of us saw it, and we recognize that we need parents to step up and take that mantle, understanding that they are the ones who should be making decisions about their children's health, welfare, and education. They've done an incredible job building this organization, which has really moved mountains in the education arena and continues to do so. I'm so proud of them. I'm so proud of all of the moms here that are really taking up the torch to ensure that our children are protected and that they have the maximum capability to achieve the American dream.
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Somewhere tonight there's a child doing homework or tomorrow over the weekend, and they're able to learn the way they are, and their parents are in control of that situation because of the work that you and Tina and Tiffany did. This is a groundbreaking organization. I've covered a lot of things in my life as a reporter. Nothing changed history more than this group in the last few years. It's an amazing thing.
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It's a great time to be alive. We're seeing so many wonderful things happen in this country. So proud to be an American, proud to be a Floridian, and very proud of Moms for Liberty and to be able to serve alongside them.
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Welcome back, America. I'm not the only one coming to Florida today. If you look in the bottom of your screen there, you see President Trump's plane arriving in West Palm Beach. He's going to spend the weekend at his Mar a Lago home. We'll keep you up to date if he makes any comments there. We'll break away in a second, but we've got a great guest right now. Joining us, the Senior Director of Government affairs for Defending Education, the former chief of the U.S. office of Citizenship, Alfonso Aglog. Alfonso, great to have you on the show, John.
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Always happy to be with you.
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C
We love Everything you're doing. And when I think of you and I think of the passion that you have for our citizenry, for the culture, for the education. We have a very civics, illiterate population right now. How'd that happen?
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G
Well, you know, conservatives were not paying attention, sadly, and the left occupied the space. And sadly, the left has co opted our schools. Teachers have become activists. That's what they learn in schools of education, in colleges. Obviously, they have the support of the teacher unions that want to promote a leftist agenda. So when they go to public schools, this is what they want to teach. A culturally Marxist vision of America. Tell kids that our country's bad, it's evil, is systemically racist, that the institutions of Western civilization are evil. They follow this oppressed versus oppressor narrative rights that our institutions marginalize and oppress every single minority group. And this is what our kids are being taught. They co opted our schools. And they're not only teaching this to kids, they're indoctrinating them, but they're also teaching them to be activists. That's why we see so many kids, so many gen seers going out there and embracing socialism.
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C
I don't know.
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G
I don't know if you saw that recent. I think it's a Gallup poll from a few months ago. Less than 41% of gen seers are very or extremely proud of being American.
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C
Isn't that crazy?
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G
That's a problem. So the left knows that they can expedite cultural change by capturing, by engaging our youth. And that's exactly what we're doing. So we have to move quickly. So it's great that President Trump is talking about this is right. Signed several executive orders to stop the teaching of DEI and other racial identity narratives in schools. But at the end, in terms of curriculum, the leadership has to come at the state level because states are responsible for education. They have to set the curriculum and they have to do a better job of ensuring that we go back to teaching civics, that we go back to teaching Western civilization and teaching it accurately.
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C
That's the other problem. It gets hijacked so often. Got Amanda Head in California. She's at the Marine base. She's going to weigh in with some questions. Amanda?
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D
Yeah, Alfonso, thank you so much for being here. I want to draw on your experience with the citizenship office because, you know, not teaching citizenship and civics in schools is obviously an issue. But for people who come here, this is something that President Trump has talked about with respect to the citizenship tests and making it harder so that People have to look, learn more. And it's not just, you know, memorizing it and then spitting it out, regurgitating it on a test. But there is going to be a bureaucratic blob in his way as he is trying to increase the difficulty of that test. Do you see that being successful? And is that another avenue for increasing civics literacy in this country?
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G
Well, the citizenship test that he's talking about is for prospective citizens. Right. And as chief of citizenship, I actually developed the naturalization exam, the citizenship exam that prospective citizens have been taking until now. It's not a question of making it harder, but better. Ensuring that by studying for the test and taking the test, they develop an attachment to America that they understand the foundational principles of our country. I think the naturalization process actually works in America. And what the administration is doing is actually improving it, making even it. Making it more substantive. They're actually keeping 75% of the questions that we were asking. They're just. I don't think they're making it harder. I just think. I just think they're making it better. We want to ensure that people. It can be an SAT for citizenship.
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C
That's right.
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G
You know, we're receiving immigrants from, you know, different countries with different educational backgrounds as long as they study, and they should be able to pass it. But the important thing is to use the task to encourage assimilation and love of country. But that's, you know, that's what we're doing for prospective citizens for immigrants. We should at least be doing that for our own citizens. However. And, you know, schools are now teaching ethnic studies. And we just came out, our organization, Defending Education, with a report about ethnic studies. And they're using this program to promote this oppressor, oppressed narrative, crt. And another name, crt, blm. Creating curriculum, school lessons to say that our country's racist. Develop resources to, to teach or for, for teachers so they can teach about queer studies. Implement, uh, queer, uh, pedagogy, uh, equitable grading, things like that that are really strange. But this is exactly what they're doing. And yeah, and they're spending a lot of money. In our report on ethnic studies, we reviewed 55 school district.
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C
Wow.
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G
And in those 55 school districts, they spent over $17 million on ethnic studies. That again, teach you how to hate America because they say that American is inherently racist. Out of that 17 million, 10 million came from federal funding. Wow. So, so that's. And that's only 55 school districts.
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C
That's amazing. If you're a Parent listening or your parent walking around here. Should you be asking about the ethnic studies program in your school district right now?
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G
Oh, absolutely. So I would encourage you to go to our website, defendinged.org so they can see this report. We also have an indoctrination tracker. They can find out through that tracker in each in their district what their policies are on di, on ethnic studies, on a number of things.
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C
Wow, that's an amazing thing. What an amazing resource that you've created. It's really remarkable.
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G
Well, I think parents need to be involved and learn what's going on. We need to strengthen parental rights. And this is something that the Trump administration is doing an amazing job in terms of restoring an understanding of what, what, what the term sex means for in terms of title nine. It's, it's by biological sex, men and women. And the Department of Education is actually taking action to investigate school districts and schools that are allowing men to into girl spaces and girl sports. And they're investigating them and actually starting to cut funding to those schools. So the administration is doing a great.
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C
Job to ensure that there's consequences for not following the law finally.
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G
Absolutely. And they're doing something to protect their girls.
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C
Yeah. That's so important. Well, you do so much to serve your country and now with the group you're doing, just give everybody one more time the URL because you got a lot of great resources there.
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G
Yeah. Is defendinged.org and I think they're going to find a lot of resources that can be very helpful.
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C
I can't wait. Everyone should go there. Alfonso, great honor to have you on the show. To my friend, thanks for joining us here so much. Such a great venue too. All right, folks, you saw President Trump has landed at Mar a Lago. Be heading over to his home. We're going to take a quick commercial break. When we come back, time for our weekly Justin News health update. We'll have that in just a few minutes. Hey folks, did you know that by the time the average person hits 60 years old, they've lost and regained several hundred pounds? Doctors call it weight cycling and half of Americans do it. If you do it enough, you are at risk of diabetes, liver damage, heart attack, even a stroke. Bottom line, most people need help to stop weight cycling and I have a great way for you to do it. Non prescription Lean was created by doctors. Lean is an oral supplement and the science is impressive. Its studied ingredients also target weight loss in three powerful ways. Lean helps maintain healthy blood sugar. It helps control appetite and cravings. And it helps Burn fat by converting it to energy. And burning fat helps keep the weight off. If you want to lose meaningful weight at a healthy pace and keep it off, add lean to your diet and exercise lifestyle. Get 20% off when you enter the code just news@takelean.com that's code justnewsakelean.com.
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C
Welcome back, America, to one of my favorite segments, the Justin News. Healthy. We're all making America healthy again. It's time to make ourselves healthy again. Where this segment is brought to you by our good friends at natopath. Joining us now, the co founder and chief culture officer at Natopath, Dr. Chad Walding. Doctor, good to have you back on.
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B
Hey, John. Amanda, thank you for having me. It's so good to be here.
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C
Absolutely. And I want to get to a topic that I know is dear to my heart. I sit all week long in an office, long days under the lights and cameras. On the weekends, I get out to my cabin, I'm in the sunshine, and by Sunday night, I feel a ton better than I smell offend through Monday through Friday. That isn't an accident, is it?
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B
It's not an accident at all. I mean, it turns out the sun is really, really good for us. It's important to have a good relationship with the sun. And it's interesting, when I think about what we grew up being told about the sun is that we were told, stay out of the sun. You know, don't go outside. And, and whatever you do, if you do go get sun, like, make sure you put on a whole lot of sunscreen like that. The more spf, the better. Right? And it turns out that that can have a problem. You Know, turns out the sun is extremely important for our bones, our immune system, our mood, our ability to fight off disease, our metabolism. There's actually nothing in our body that doesn't improve when we absorb natural vitamin D from the sun. And I want to stress that, too. There's a. There's a distinction between supplementing with vitamin D and the bioavailability, availability, and the potency that you get from natural sunlight. So a native path. We always. We always look at this stuff like, what. What has changed in our environment over the past 100 years, right? And where do we go get off the path? Why. Why is our chronic disease rate so high? High, you know, and what do we need to do to get back on the path? And to me, the sun is one of the foundational principles of the path. These are. These are things that worked 100 years ago. They'll work a hundred years from now for humans because it's essential to human health. So it's really important that we understand, as you were saying, you know, most modern humans these days, they're. They're working in front of a laptop inside all during the day with artificial lights. And we go home, and then the sun goes down, and then we turn on these big bright screens and watch Netflix, and it just throws off our entire circadian rhythm. We're not absorbing vitamin D. And it sets us up for all kinds of issues like mental disorders, immune system disorders. So we really have to bring this back.
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C
Right?
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B
And I'm going to share a study with you that got my attention. Right? So this came out not too long ago. It turns out that people in the hospitals that are sleeping or staying with their hospital beds next to the window where natural sunlight is coming in, on average, they're getting discharged from the hospital much faster than people who are in rooms without natural sunlight and who are not exposed to it. Right? So it shows you right there, even people who are in rough states with their health, that the sun exposure, even if it's coming through the window, can do radical things for our healing, to overcome health challenges for our immune system. It is profound.
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A
Right?
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B
But I want to stress the relationship, right? We don't want to think, well, I'm going to go in the sun for three hours a day without sunblock, and that can be a problem, right? That can burn your skin, that can lead to issues. But it's also not good to never go outside and wear SPF 90 if you do, and avoid the natural sunlight. So I really want to encourage people to, as we like to say, get on the path with us, start incorporating a good relationship with the sun. And what I would encourage people to do is build up to 15 minutes a day, right? Especially before we head into the winter, because you're going to have less sun exposure as we head into the winter. But try to build up to 15 minutes of sun exposure a day. An easy thing to do, as we've talked about before, Amanda, is wake up and have good sun exposure in the morning. That regulates your circadian rhythm. You know, go outside during the day if you can, to have little frequent micro doses of sun exposure. You can, you know, ladies can wear a sports bra. Men, if you really want to go for it, take off your shirt. But that is a critical thing to your health that doesn't get talked about enough. Right. The idea is you do not want to get burned. And I also want to say that the darker your skin pigmentation is, the more natural sun exposure you will need. Your genes are expecting you to get more sun exposure. So we have a lot of people with dark skin pigmentation that are living in northern climates that are. Their health is really suffering because they're not getting enough sun exposure. Right. So we want to correct this, have a good relationship with the sun and get back on the path and then just think about all the things that can also help you with what the sun helps you with, right? What are we doing when we're getting good skin exposure, sun exposure? We're improving our bones, we're improving our immune system. Take care of all the practices around that as fast as foundational.
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D
Your health, gosh, as healthy as the sun is, it's almost like there was intelligent design to the universe.
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E
It's unbelievable, isn't it facing?
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B
Yeah, exactly.
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D
I want to ask you because last the beginning of last year, I cut out seed oils and I didn't have any sun. Pretty much everybody knows that LA summer really doesn't even hit until July or August because you have May gray and June gloom. So last July, 4th of July, I'm out there for a barbecue. I'm out there Starting at about 11am I gonna all the way through the day. I get home that night and I notice that I have no sunburn. I didn't wear any sunscreen or anything. The only thing that changed is that I cut out seed oils. And what I learned is that seed oils can inhibit your vitamin D receptors, which prevents the production of melatonin. So as far as I can tell, maybe that was a woo woo study, but it sounds like there is a direct connection between putting processed things like seed oil in our body and how our body is able to react and adapt to the sun.
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B
That is so true. And I actually had the same exact experience. I grew up as a seed oil kid. I think we all did. And I used to get burned all the time. And I started to replace that with healthy, traditional on the path fats like whole real butter, coconut oil, avocado oil. This is so foundational to our health. And I get sun exposure every day, minimum of 15 minutes. I have never been burned in the past 20 years. And I grew up as a kid, as a, you know, pale blonde kid with blonde hair, always getting burned.
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D
Right.
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B
And what changed with that? I stopped putting on sunscreen, I changed my oils and I had a better relationship with the sun. And as you say, like these seed oils, they get trapped in our cells, right? And they react to heat. They oxidize. Right. That's one of the reasons why we don't encourage you to cook with industrial pseudoes because they oxidize easily under heat. They become inflammatory to our body when we consume them. The same thing is happening in our bodies. It goes to our cells. They get under heat.
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D
Right?
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B
It gets under heat with the sunlight and it creates all kinds of problems. So it's such an important thing you brought up right there. We want to have a good relationship with the sun while we're having a good relationship with our food, starting with our fats and what you're saying. I've had so many people say the same thing. I change my fats and I never get sunburned again. What's going on? And that's what's going on right there. So I love that you said that.
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C
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C
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C
Welcome back, America. I'm live here in Orlando at the Moms for Liberty conference. We're gonna have live coverage all morning tomorrow. Be sure to tune in. Then we're gonna kick you over to the amazing Amanda head and she's gonna take you through that 250th birthday of the Marines. And let's bring in Amanda. Amanda, we got a little bit of breaking news here on a Friday night. As President Trump was departing the plane, we got word that he commuted the prison sentence of former Congressman George Santos. I don't think a lot of people saw that one coming.
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D
Yeah, he, he put out a truth about it and he said George Santos was somewhat of a rogue. But there are many rogues throughout our country who aren't forced to serve seven years in prison. He started thinking about George with respect to Democrat Senator Dick Blumenthal and the issue of stolen valor. And he says, you know, what Dick Blumenthal did was much, much worse. So he commuted his sentence. He said, therefore I just signed a commutation related releasing George Santos from prison immediately. Good luck, George. Have a great life. And he credited George Santos courage for always voting Republican in Congress. So it's a great day for Jorge Santos for sure.
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C
How about that? Yeah. Surprise day, I think for a lot of people. A couple things that have happened today. Prince Andrew giving up his royal title. The Epstein allegations eventually falling felling him from the family. Two sets of documents released today, some by the US Government, some by the Russians. We don't know if the Russians are real, but it seems like we're getting even more visibility into Jeffrey Epstein these last few weeks.
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D
Yeah. And you know, this is what the American people are clamoring for, John, I know you see it on social media. Anytime there's a tweet about practically anything having nothing to do with Epstein, they will comment.
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A
Great.
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D
But where are the Epstein files? People are still very much interested in what these have to say. And for Prince Andrew, you know, at the chickens eventually come home to roost. And yeah, we're seeing it bear out here. John. I did. There was a news story that I wanted to pop into. Since I am here in California, it is fitting for me to talk about the city of Malibu. They are seeking the arrest of homeless people over the alleged fire risk that they pose. A lot of people know that they, they, you know, start these campfires to stay warm. You know, I've spent many years here in California and especially in the Hollywood Hills. As you are going from Hollywood on the 101 through the Kanga corridor. I can't tell you how many fires in my life I have passed. Just brush fires that can obviously easily spread. People think Malibu is liberal. Malibu is actually a little bit more conservative. You have farms in Malibu and I think that's why you are seeing something like this happen there.
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F
Yeah.
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C
All right, tomorrow's an amazing day. Heroic moms here in Orlando. Then we kick it over to you, to the heroic Marines. What do you expect us all to see at Camp Pendleton tomorrow?
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D
Absolutely. Well, it's going to close with remarks by the Vice President J.D. vance. But we've also got the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth here, along with Secretary of the Navy John Phelan. All sorts of military aircraft that are going to be streaking across the sky and swimming across the sea. This is a Camp Pendleton right here on the Pacific Ocean. It is an absolutely spectacular display. We got a taste of it today. It's a good thing that our coffee control room guys were keeping me off screen because every once in a while there were fighter jets and I was just jumping and screaming. It's so exciting. Tomorrow is going to be brilliant. So everybody tune in for that coverage.
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C
It is going to be brilliant. Everybody can watch it right here at Real America's Voice. I have it on good authority, to be sure. I think President Trump will make a cameo by video tomorrow here at Montreal. You have that on very good authority. All right, we're going to kick it off. I will be back tomorrow.
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Hello.
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Hi.
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C
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A
Business is booming.
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That's why I'm working on a Saturday.
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