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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, October 20th, 2025
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Dr. Simone Gold
This is an iHeart podcast.
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John Solomon
Good evening, America, and welcome to the Monday edition of JUST THE News. No noise. I'm your host John Solomon reporting to you back in the nation's capital, yet back from the Moms for Liberty conference in Orlando, Florida. Had a great time there. Got back to Washington, Another very busy day with President Trump. The president met with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese earlier today. And what happened during that meeting was a big response to the Chinese Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping. The president and the prime minister signed an agreement on rare earth minerals, which China is increasingly trying to control the world economy. This is a national security issue. President Trump got a big deal today. The president said he's been working on the deal for about four to five months. And Australian Prime Minister Albanese confirmed that Australia has an $8.5 billion pipeline of those minerals ready to go for the deal. Australia is a big part of Washington's China containment strategy in the Indo Pacific. And the two leaders also reportedly discussed more ways to increase defense cooperation in the region. A little bit ago, some breaking news. A near shooting was averted at Atlanta's major airport. By the way, that's the busiest airport in the nation. A man with a gun was stopped before he could begin shooting when his family tipped off police. Police have charged him with making terroristic threats and many other crimes. He also is a convicted felon. So they're taking a look at how did he get that gun. We'll get you up to speed on that over@justthenews.com be sure to check it out. All right, Moving on now to some more good news for the Trump administration. It came from the courts today. In fact, the ninth Circuit federal court's appeals court, which is one of the most liberal. It gave the president the green light to send the National Guard into Portland, Oregon, by lifting a previous court order that blocked him from doing so. The administration had actually been blocked twice from deploying the guard to Portland. And the president is looking now to send in those guardsmen and guardswomen amid heavy protests to protect an ICE facility where protesters have already been clashing with federal agents. And as some elections around the country begin to tighten, especially in New Jersey and Virginia, a new poll out by Rasmussen shows that the favorability for the Democratic Party has now fallen below the Republicans. That's not a good sign. How many Democrats being the minority party, would be rising in a midterm election? That's not the case right now. The poll found that 48% of likely U.S. voters view Republicans favorably while 45% view Democrats favorably. And what's even more impressive if you're a Republican and perhaps depressing if you're a Democrat, these numbers were recorded in the middle the government shutdown. So it seems voters aren't blaming Republicans for it. All right, let me turn to my amazing co host Amanda Head. She's still out in California where she was covering the incredible Marine 250th birthday this week. And Amanda, you've been watching a lot of news too. What's on your radar?
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Amanda Head
Well, and John, just to add a little flavor to what you were saying, if money talks, and we all know it does, Republicans had record breaking hauls coming in for their congressional money pots. We shall say so. I think it was in the tens of, of millions, 20 something million. So it's looking pretty good for Republicans at least as of right now. But today, a lot of humor in the Cabinet room today as President Trump met with that Australian delegation. He was asked by a reporter about an Australian ambassador, Kevin Rudd, his criticism, previous criticism of President Trump. That ambassador was actually in the room sitting at the table and this happened.
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Jesse Garcia
Even the things the ambassador said about you in the past, he's trying to investment.
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Donald Trump
I don't know anything about him. I mean if you said bad then maybe he'll like to apologize. I really don't know. Did an ambassador say something bad about it? Don't tell me.
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John Solomon
I don't.
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Donald Trump
Where is he? Is he still working for you?
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Bo Davidson
Yeah, yeah.
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Steve Yates
You said bad before I took this position.
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Donald Trump
Mr. President, I don't like you either. I don't and I probably never will. Go ahead.
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Amanda Head
A very, very light hearted moment. And I hardly believe, you know, having been around the president and hearing comments like this, I hardly believe that President Trump means what he says when he says I'll never like you. He seems to warm up a room anytime, even if it's the opposition. And also moving on to something that we're going to be discussing with our very first guests of the night. Trump has warned Hamas again saying that we will eradicate them if we have to.
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Donald Trump
We made a deal with Hamas that it know they're going to be very good, they're going to behave, they're going to be nice and if they're not, we're going to go and we're going to eradicate them if we have to. They'll be eradicated and they know that.
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Amanda Head
And there were many, many Americans who voted for President Trump because of his success during his first term of not only Having no new wars but bringing troops home. For a lot of folks when they hear that, they think, oh no, that means more treasure, American troops on the ground. And President Trump explained what he meant by that. And it's not what you might think.
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Dr. Simone Gold
That include American boots on the ground.
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Donald Trump
No, it won't be on the ground at all. We don't need to because we have many countries as you know, signed onto this deal. The way I view it, 59 countries and unanimous. We've had countries calling me when they saw the some of the killing with Hamas, saying we'd love to go in and take care of the situation ourselves. In addition, you have Israel would go in in two minutes. If I asked him to go in, I could tell him go in and take care of it. But right now we haven't said that.
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Amanda Head
And John, I think what a lot of folks would argue about this president, whether you agree or disagree with him on domestic or foreign policy issues, President Trump has been very successful in building that ally infrastructure there in the Middle east such that we can have our allies there taking care of these issues without us having to step in and commit hundreds or even thousands of troops.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Coalition of the willing. And also a president who really means what he says and says what he means. I know an Iranian general and some Iranian scientists that posthumously could affirm that. I mean, the president, when he said he means it, he delivers on it. And there's no doubt about it. All right, joining us now, a great national security expert. So much to talk about, Senior research fellow at the Heritage foundation and former White House deputy National security advisor to the Vice President Steve Yates. Steve, great to have you on the show.
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Steve Yates
Thank you so much. It's wonderful to join you.
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John Solomon
Yeah, it's great to have you on. All right, so this weekend, a little bit of a test of the cease fire, though it seems like it has relaxed a little bit today. But some Israel strikes after there was some Hamas violence in the area. I know this is going to be inch by inch, moment by moment to keep this peace deal going. Tell us what you see and what happened this weekend and where things are today.
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Steve Yates
Well, when the world was celebrating, I strongly supported the celebration. A tremendous amount of work went into getting us to the point of having a deal to work on and to begin implementation. But as we were celebrating that, I tried to caution a lot of friends that after all, Hamas is a terrorist organization and every step along this 20 point plan is probably going to be contested and challenged. It's just how they operate. And frankly, it's how a lot of bad guys operate. The president alluded to it in his remarks. Insurance against it going astray is the coalition that he's built up. And the beauty of it is manyfold. But it's obvious that President Trump and his leadership in the United States is not isolationist. It's also obvious it's not unilateralist. It's actually good for allies and building these coalitions of allies to tend to these gardens in their own region. And I refer to them as gardens on purpose because they require constant gardening and that's what is going to be required in this. And so I think he's right to turn to the Abraham Accords countries and hopefully those accords will expand. But that's what it's going to take to try to keep Hamas in a box. But if they stray, he's the most transparent and clear president there's ever been. They should have no ambiguity about what will happen.
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Amanda Head
Well, and I love, I love your cautious optimism when it comes to the approach of this deal and, and its success because we've all recognized the fragility of it. But this deal has gotten further than any other when it comes to the signs that will augur success at the end of the day, step by step, at the end of all of these 20 steps or so, what is the sign that you're seeing right now that even though it's being tested, it still will stand the test of time?
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Steve Yates
I think once we see a coalition partner actually on the ground enforcing security guarantees, that will be a really, really positive indicator that the philosophy that people really have lost perspective of how wildly different President Trump's approach, not because his approach is wild, but because of how far astray we had gone in recent years with just unilateral invasion and occupation on one hand or just feckless diplomacy on the other. He's proving that there's a wide middle ground about how to use power that we have and leverage relationships we have to bring about alternatives to peace and prosperity. So it's the involvement on the ground by those coalitions that to me will prove this is not just Israel. This is not just the US And Israel. And it is something that there's real buy in by the so called international community.
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John Solomon
So remarkable buy in also from Australia and some of our other allies in the Indo Pacific to building that coalition more strongly against China, particularly when it comes to the stranglehold on rare earth minerals which are so important to the AI revolution ahead of us. How big a deal was today's deal. And also how important is it for the United States to begin its own mining, too, so that we can back up whatever Australia, Canada is going to give us and make sure we have our own supply one day?
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Steve Yates
I think today's news is very, very important and very, very significant. It's a frustrating topic to me because in 2010, China threatened to do something similar along these lines to Japan. And Japan began a process of adjusting. But for whatever reason, our tech leaders in the private sector decided it better to sleepwalk for 15 years, for the most part, until we started to see that China is serious about using this leverage. Now, I happen to believe that China might have learned that they've overplayed their hand. They probably can't play this again because I think they've reached a point where the United States, even at a cost, is absolutely determined to develop our own capabilities. But the dirty little secret is that the climate change theology that we've been following is part of the problem. Processing of these materials is almost 80 to 90% controlled in China because it's dirty to process. And so people export their dirty carbon to China as the world's leading polluter in order to pretend that they've gone green, and it creates this vulnerability there. So this is a step in getting access to the materials. We still have to wildly accelerate on the processing, but that's where the permitting reform is. And speeding up these pipelines from mining to delivering to our own industry is vitally important. I know the administration is committed to it, but this is really a race we've got to hit into overdrive now.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. Well, sir, there's also a defense aspect of this agreement. Australia committing to purchase over $1 billion of unmanned underwater vehicles. So you have that aspect of this agreement that further fortifies them as a defense partner. But does that also serve to bolster the mineral aspect of this deal as well?
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Steve Yates
I think it makes an alliance more of an alliance. I mean, the Australians, like a lot of powers, have had a foot in both shores. They have sought a close economic relationship with China, where they actually have a surplus in several areas. And they want to have the benefit of American security. That's an imbalance that got painful in Europe and. And President Trump spoke loudly about it, and he wants our allies to be all in with the American ecosystem, economic security and national security. And so this investment that will come to the US Supply chain is vital in making a down payment on that commitment. And I think that it's actually quite good for Australia itself. I mean, their politics have been influenced by malign influences of the ccp. They've struggled in recent years about getting their bearings. And then the final point on this, the Australians were very sensitive about the tariffs that were imposed upon them. The President was explicit in his meeting that moving in these defense areas that matter, investment in the United States, that matters, that will definitely be taken into account as they look at the tariffs. And he tried to emphasize that Australia faces lower tariffs than others.
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John Solomon
Yeah. So remarkable to see how quickly tariffs have become such an important tool in the foreign policy and diplomacy realm. It really is something that to see. Steve, I want to turn to something else. I spent some time over the weekend with some counterterrorism officials at the White House. Some jaw dropping numbers are going to be able to put out there in a couple of days. And the total number of jihadis and others who've been killed since President Trump reclaimed the White House. Big win on Islamist terrorists, but also big win against narco terrorists. Your thoughts about the reinvigorated counterterrorism operations of the United States?
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Steve Yates
Well, to me, this is fundamentally saving the Republicans, saving our families and our communities. I mean, it really began with being serious about securing our border, but then it really is comprehensively across the homeland security spectrum securing our communities. But then when it gets beyond our shores, the President and his national security team have been deadly serious about pushing back a lot of these threats. Now, when it comes to the narco terrorists, number one, he began by identifying the cartels as terrorist organizations. It escapes my mind why that hadn't happened already. Because if there's been a weapon of mass destruction detonated inside America, it's in my mind been chemical weapons on the American public by way of drugs. And so I applaud the administration for doing these things. And basically blowing these ships out of the water is one of the ways of doing it while avoiding civilian casualties. If we were to take military action inside of Mexico and other countries, we would face a Gaza like situation where they would use human shields and it would get into political warfare. This is a down payment on seriousness that I think hopefully helps. And definitely as a family that has suffered a loss of a family member to fentanyl, I am deeply grateful for this administration being serious about pushing back against this scourge.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, Steve, I know you lost your, your beautiful daughter, Christina. Democrats are really, really trying to exploit this issue of blowing up these cartel boats. They're trying to distort the optics of it. But there are far too many Americans in this country like you who have lost family members to it. Do you anticipate that that message is selling with their Democrat voters, or do you think that those folks also see, you know, the Steve Yates of the world who, who have lost family members and they sympathize with what the Trump administration is doing to protect Americans?
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Steve Yates
Well, I speak about it because I am blessed to have friends like you that will allow me to speak from time to time. And it's an uncomfortable conversation for people to listen to, but I want people to feel uncomfortable about this. We should feel deeply uncomfortable about a half a million American young lives being stolen from us. And whether it comes from China, the cartels, or anywhere, we should be deeply, deeply uncomfortable about this and motivated to. To help our government in any way, shape or form to push back. I think that the Democrats are really at sea, literally and figuratively, when it comes to this issue, because I think to ordinary households, it's just common sense. We shouldn't have illegal floods come into our country and overwhelm our communities and our welfare system. And we shouldn't have illegal narcotics coming in and killing huge numbers of our young people. And if our government can take care of it beyond our shores, and it's better to fight the battle there than to have to do it in our own streets. So, I mean, I may be the wrong person to ask because it's what I want to believe also, but I happen to believe it's true.
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John Solomon
Yeah, it has been chemical warfare on the United States, and you have been so bold in speaking out. I know it's personal, but it's also good strategy and good policy to have brought this on. Steve Yates, senior research fellow of the Heritage foundation, great to have you on the show today. Thanks for joining us there.
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Steve Yates
My pleasure. Thank you both.
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Jesse Garcia
Yeah.
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John Solomon
What a great conversation. All right, folks, coming up next, more updates on getting accountability for those who weaponize the justice system, as well as an update on a deadly raid involving the atf. We're gonna tackle both of that with my good friend Bud Cummings right after these messages. Hey, folks, as an investigative journalist, I've spent my career digging into the facts, cutting through noise, asking hard questions in getting to the truth. And when it comes to who I recommend to my audience, I hold everyone to the same standard. That's why I want to tell you I've done the homework. And amac, the association of Mature American Citizens, is the real deal. AMAC is a conservative alternative to aarp. They're focused on faith, family, and freedom. And they offer real benefits to their members, myself included, including discounts on travel insurance in prescriptions. So much more exclusive resources and their excellent AMAC magazine. And right now, when you sign up for a five year membership, you'll save up to 33%. That's just over a dollar a month. A smart investment. To stay informed, get real value and support a cause that matters, visit AMAC US justnews Today I've done the vetting. Now you can take the next step.
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Bud Cummins
Great to see you.
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Amanda Head
You know, but anytime I have a conversation with you, you consistently remind me that truth is the engine of our judicial system. And it bears out across this entire conversation that we're having with you. But when it comes to James, we want to see truth at the center of those cases. Is it?
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Bud Cummins
Well, you know, it's funny you guys, I've been invited to join an amicus brief that's some 30 pages long that I will not sign. Former Department of Justice officials who are are quoting those exact things. Truth is the engine of our government and, and all, all the virtue signaling principles that we as prosecutors were supposed to follow. And I agree with all of them. But they're totally silent on the dramatic violations of all those principles that occurred over 10 or plus years leading up to the prosecution of Jim Comey. They're focusing on Jim Comey and saying his prosecution is vindictive, but they, they don't condemn his, his conduct or the conduct of, of so many others over the last years. And I, I simply won't sign on to something like that. If we're going to condemn an abuse of authority, we need to condemn, condemn it across the board.
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John Solomon
Yeah, that's so important. But over the last year particularly, we've gotten more and more insight into who the Biden administration, who the Obama Biden Justice Department viewed as enemies, gun owners, Second Amendment advocates, people who were Catholics and believed in the Latin mass or practiced a lot, parents who would dare challenge the school board about their child's education. It's a growing body of people. It looks as though there was almost an enemy's profile and then there was action that flowed from it. Give us the latest on the Brian Malinowski case. He seems to fit one of those profiles of a Second Amendment advocate. Tell us what we should know.
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Bud Cummins
Well, and not a very vocal one. Brian Malinowski was a professional. He was a well respected director of the Little Rock Airport, which is unfortunately called the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, but it's, I call it the Little Rock Airport. He was very successful there. And he was a hobbyist. He collected coins, he collected firearms. And he went out occasionally on a Saturday and rented a table at local gun shows and bought and sold and traded coins and guns and other artifacts like a lot of people do at gun shows. He was laying in bed with his wife an hour before sunup on March 19, 2023and they heard their front doors crash in. And he, he had no reason to know he was under investigation, no reason to know that anybody thought he had done anything wrong. And he got out of bed and grabbed a pistol to defend his wife, took a shot at the intruders and they blew his brains out. They were the atf. They'd come with an entire SWAT team to raid his home and search and execute a search warrant as if he was some kind of a cartel kingpin. And yes, that would never happen in any Republican administration during my lifetime because they were trying to basically attack with something they didn't like politically. The fact that some people, hobbyists are allowed to go to gun shows and buy and sell guns without doing a bunch of paperwork, that's what Brian was.
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John Solomon
Doing in front of God and everybody. Malinowski had been asked to surrender. Would he have surrendered peacefully instead of having to raid his home?
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Bud Cummins
Of course. Everybody that knew Brian Malinowski knew that he loved his career as an airport director. It's highly regulated FAA regulations left and right. If anybody had suggested to him that anything he was doing in his spare time on a Saturday afternoon was going to jeopardize his career, he would have backed off. And in fact, the ATF and in other situations where they're concerned about somebody's hobbyist activity at a gun show has sent cease and desist letters and that would have been the appropriate thing in his case.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, yeah. But ideally, at the, at any organization, you want folks to be equal parts patriot and equal parts leader. When the ATF came forward after this and you had conversations with them, did they express any, any leadership when it came to finding the truth about it? Any remorse as far as what had taken place? Anything at all?
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Bud Cummins
The only statements we've ever heard, basically, and what the ATF is trying to sell is two things. One is they're trying to suggest that Brian Malinowski was what they call a significant drug gun trafficker. Significant gun trafficker. The second thing they're trying to suggest is that he somehow knew when he got out of bed that there were law enforcement coming in his front door that had just broken down his front door and that he intentionally decided to shoot it out with law enforcement. Both of those are easily disproved by the facts in the Arkansas State Police investigation and then ATF's own affidavit in their search warrant. But that's. So far that's all they, they've maintained is that they had no choice. It was self defense on their part. And they just can't explain why this professional citizen who was doing what he was doing in front of God and everybody at gun shows decided to shoot it out with police and I guess commit suicide. It's pretty offensive, really. It's pretty offensive that they, that they would suggest that. And, and I think it's. It's been over a year and a half and I think it's time for the leadership at DOJ to independently look at this and not allow ATF to try to sell that story for another day.
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John Solomon
Yeah, I understand the frustration that must be with that family. Let me turn to the narrative of Jim Comey. There's a lot of people today that suggest he's a victim. But the truth of the matter is there's pretty strong evidence that he had a hard time telling the American people the truth of what was really going on in his shop. They didn't get it right with the fisa. He signed bad FISA warrants He leaked classified information in a memo as soon as he was fired by President Trump. Is there more that the American people need to know about James Comey and should the Justice Department give it to us?
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Bud Cummins
Well, I don't know that there's anything else that's actionable in the form of a prosecution, but I don't think there's no doubt that Jim Comey abused his authority. There's no doubt that he, he cherry picked which cases he wanted to invest, investigate over the top, which not coincidentally always involved Donald Trump as a target and which ones he wanted to shut down or ignore, which not coincidentally involved Hillary Clinton or email or destruction of evidence and the Clinton Foundation. So we can go all along the way and you see these arrogant decisions made by Jim Comey that he didn't think he would ever be held accountable for. And what he's charged with now, it doesn't matter if the prosecutor hates his guts. It's not vindictive prosecution if they have a provable case. And from what, where I stand, it looks like it's very clear that he lied to Congress and that he obstructed justice. So like so many people he has made throughout his career, he's now going to be made to defend himself, spend the time, money and, and see what he can do to defend himself. But there's, there's nothing unjust about that. No, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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Amanda Head
Indeed, Indeed. Bud, before we let you go, I want to get your take on also the John Bolton same type scenario where the left is trying to say you're going after, you're weaponizing these 18 charges, though these were secured in an area of Virginia, that people might not, might not think that they would levy charges against someone like this or approve those charges, at any rate. So do you anticipate that that is a sign of the, of the success of these charges against him? What do you anticipate is going to happen?
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Bud Cummins
Well, you know, as a prosecutor, you're supposed to, you're supposed to take into account what's the likelihood of proving the case in front of a, of a jury of 12 people. And it only takes one of those people to vote against conviction to hang the jury. And so in jurisdictions like the Eastern District of Virginia or certainly in Washington, D.C. the likelihood of convicting somebody in a politically charged case like this that's on the left or a Democrat or in John Bolton's case, is opposed to Donald Trump. Pretty. Pretty. It'll be a pretty hard task to convict him or Comey, but it's certainly just to have them stand in open court. An answer for their conduct and, and the arrogance that they exercise in blatantly violating laws. Just I guess that they didn't think appeal applied to them.
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Amanda Head
Is it enough? But as my dad would say, is it enough to scare him?
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Jesse Garcia
Good.
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Bud Cummins
I think it's plenty to scare them. Good. And because exactly in specifically in Comey's case, they're simple charges and they're fairly, it's fairly apparent what happened. So it'll have to be the jury that lets him go, in my opinion.
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Amanda Head
Yeah, well, we will see. Hopefully it sends a message that you can't, you can't manipulate the law and you can't break the law without repercussions. Always great to have you here. Bud Cummins, former U.S. attorney. Thanks so much.
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Bud Cummins
Thank you all for having me.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. Great to see you, Bud. All right, everybody, we've got to take a very quick commercial break, but we'll be right back in just a few minutes.
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Amanda Head
Welcome back, everybody. So many of those narratives around the COVID 19 pandemic have completely fallen apart. And all of that stuff telling us that the vaccine would stop the spread, that the masks work? Well, it didn't turn out to be true. And what about our kids? They were forced to learn remotely, stunting their education and their emotional growth. That's a huge reason why we cannot let the lessons from that pandemic be forgotten. So for here with us to discuss this is the author of the new book the Plot Against Kids, which helps our children understand. Understand what happened during the pandemic. She also is a board certified emergency physician, CEO of Gold Care, and founder and president of America's frontline doctors, Dr. Simone Gold. Dr. Gold, thanks so much for being with us.
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Dr. Simone Gold
Great to be here. Amanda.
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Amanda Head
You know, we all heard your name during the COVID pandemic. You were one of the few medical professionals out there who were actually just asking questions about science, making sure that we were all getting the best information. But I don't think I knew until we just talked to you during the break a few moments ago that you, I think from what you said, it sounds like Covid almost brought you to this place. That is, I don't want to say radicalized, but you're in a very different place than you were before, for sure.
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Dr. Simone Gold
I was, you know, practicing emergency medicine for more than 20 years. Very mainstream, very. I would have described myself as very moderate. Never really had any conflicts with anybody. And what happened in 2020 was in addition to the media and the government lying, public health officials lying, the doctors all of a sudden started drinking the Kool Aid, and it was really just unacceptable. So I just organized a lot of doctors and said, we have to start speaking truth to the American people. So I guess that calls me a radical.
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John Solomon
Amazing. Who would ever thought that speaking truth would be a danger in America? But it was for a period of time. We were censored. We were deplatformed. Doctor, I want to ask a little bit because all of that censorship came with a consequence. It wasn't just bad decisions or bad political manipulation. A generation of children were really significantly impacted by bad policy. I know that's a big part of your book, but tell us a little bit about what we now know about the consequences to that generation of children.
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Dr. Simone Gold
Right. I mean, the effects on the children were terrible and the effects on the family, which is why I wrote this book. In the macro level, I do think it was an attempt to destabilize the American family unit, which, as you know, is really the strongest bulwark against government tyranny. So if they could kind of divide and conquer within the family, that would advance some political agenda. But for the individual children and the individual families involved, it was really crushing. I mean, children were told to be scared, they were told to live in fear, they were told to cover their faces. Children with any kind of learning deviation, deficiency at all were specially harmed.
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Jesse Garcia
Right.
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Dr. Simone Gold
They couldn't read faces, they couldn't see the social cues, and they were taught to be very afraid. The six foot social distancing we always knew from the beginning was completely fabricated. You know, Fauci testified to this in January 24th under oath that, you know, really didn't come from anywhere. We knew that. But what does it mean if we start telling our children things that are completely fabricated, false, made up, interferes with their life, and then we just kind of go on as though nothing happened? I mean, the children remember, they remember what this was like, and they saw the adults around them really telling them things that were not true and that were harmful to children. So I put this together in kind of a very easy to understand, charming, kind of accessible way to explain what was six foot social distancing? What were these masks like? What was that? Yeah, in a way that's not scary, and in a way that validates the parents, that validates the family, and that children really should look to their parents and the family unit for guidance, not the government.
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Amanda Head
Yeah. Do you think, as I was referencing at the top of the segment, do you think we've learned lessons from COVID or if a pandemic came along, do you think we would do the same thing all over again?
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Dr. Simone Gold
I get asked that question a lot. I think we revealed ourselves to have a very weak constitution, no play on the words, but we revealed ourselves to really collapse very, very easily. You know, in the scheme of viruses, SARS 2 was no biggie. This was no Ebola. This was a very mild sort of thing in the scheme of viruses. And we just kind of willy nilly gave up our constitutional freedoms. So I think that Americans right now, I don't think you can pull the same hoax on them, but in several years, I'm afraid that we could because people didn't protest strongly enough and loudly enough. On the other hand, maybe God graced us, that we had a wake up period, that this was kind of a dress rehearsal. And now we've kind of woken up and hopefully there's enough of us now that are awake to that will not tolerate this encroachment on our liberties.
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John Solomon
One of the great casualties of COVID 19 and quite frankly, the period living up was the doctor patient relationship. Doctors ended up being given cookie cutter. Do not stray from these rules. And medical boards became weaponized to make sure they didn't stray away. Have we fixed the issue of medical boards and their weaponization and their interference and doctor patient relations?
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Owen
Right.
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Dr. Simone Gold
I actually directly really appreciate that question because I personally tackled the California Medical board. You may not know that I fought them for three years, and I won. And I did it even though I live in Florida, because we needed that precedent. California is a huge state, and if they could silence me for free speech, will be able to silence other doctors after me. And not just doctors. It's anybody with a license. Right. What did they do? They tried to crush my livelihood by saying, you can't speak about hydroxy or vaccines or ivermectin, and they tried to yank my license. So there is now precedent In California Gold vs. Medical Board of California that spanked the California Medical board for doing that. So I think the answer to your question is there are individual cases that have come up. Pierre Corey has one now, potentially going to the Supreme Court on these issues of free speech for doctors. So we're holding the line, I would say. And it's with strong, righteous, principled doctors that we're holding the line.
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John Solomon
Yeah.
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Amanda Head
Dr. Gold, I have a lot of friends who just had babies, and they're like, we don't know where to find great pediatricians that aren't pushing us to, you know, shove our kids with vaccines. And I sent. I said, you need to look up Gold Care because you guys provide such a wealth of resources. Tell everybody about it, what it is.
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Dr. Simone Gold
I can't keep the passion out of my voice on this. So this is my passion project. This is the way forward. If you want to have ethical doctors that are on your. That are there for you, that value the doctor patient relationship, it's at Gold Care. I collected all the doctors that have met over the last five years. Most of them work at Gold Care now. So if you want those answers. And by the way, pediatricians is the most woke of all the physician specialties. It's extremely difficult to find a pediatrician who's not woke, and that's because their entire livelihood depends upon complying with government mandates. So it just is a complicated reason behind it. But if you need a pediatrician, a family practitioner, you need any kind of primary. What about if you want to get, you know, be prepared for, you know, a potential Covid or some other issue, you want hydroxychloroquine or you want ivermectin, or you just want information that you know is accurate and unbiased. It's all@goldcare.com this is the way forward to provide accurate, unbiased information and to prioritize the doctor patient relationship. Gold Care, that's the way to do it. That's how you Maha, sometimes we say gold Care.
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Amanda Head
So, so valuable.
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Jesse Garcia
You go care.
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Amanda Head
Yes, absolutely. Board certified emergency physician and CEO of Gold Care. Also the founder and president of America's frontline doctors, Dr. Simone Gold. Thank you so much for being with us tonight.
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John Solomon
Good to have you.
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Dr. Simone Gold
Thank you both.
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Amanda Head
Absolutely. All right, everybody, we've got to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
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John Solomon
Welcome back, America. As we mentioned on the show Friday night, President Trump shocked a lot of people when he decided to commute the sentence of a Republican lawmaker who was serving time in prison. Scratch your head on that one. Right. Joining us now, the chairman of Suffolk County Republican Party, Jesse Garcia, I think has a few thoughts on that. Sir, good to have you on.
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Jesse Garcia
It's good to be on. Thank you so much.
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John Solomon
All right. A lot of people say Jorge Santos, of all the people, why George Santos, give us your take on. What do you think the president did?
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Jesse Garcia
I'm not sure what the president was, why he did this. But it's something that surely that I think universally was not supported here on Long island and the Republicans and Republicans anywhere or anywhere else and such. You know, George Santos stole millions of dollars, defrauded the public, defrauded for a vote and he raised his hand in the court of law and swore his guilt. Three to four months after committing all those crimes is not enough of a sentence that moves forward. I think this is something that's wrong. The Republican Party stands for justice. It stands for, does not stand for this type of criminal behavior. And it's a head scratcher. But we move, we move on. We move on because Republicans as one united voice, candidates, elected officials as a party both here on Long island and throughout the country, we said that he should be expelled and successfully expelled from the House of Representatives for lying to the American people and the people of Long Island. And that's what the House Republican majority does. And that's the difference between the hypocrisy of the Democrats, Republicans. When we see something wrong, we call it out and we take immediate action. Democrats, they continue their silence on Zohar Mandami calling for a global infantada has been not repudiated by the Democratic establishment. The fact that he still thinks that Hamas should be in control of Gaza has not been Repudiated by Democrats. And in Virginia, the Democratic candidate for Attorney General, the highest prosecutor in the state, has threatened in 2022 to kill the then House speaker of the Virginia House and contemplated the death of his children. Yet no Democrat will say anything. Republicans, we talk to talk. We walk the walk and we take action.
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Amanda Head
Jesse, when this sentencing came down, did you obviously before the commutation, the original punishment, was it on par with sentencing guidelines?
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Jesse Garcia
I believe that I trusted the judge in this matter. I trusted the jury, and I mean trusted the judges matter. I trusted the prosecutors in this matter. There was ample opportunity for Jorge Santos to make his case before the, before the judicial system. But he stood up and raised his hand and swore and pleaded guilty to this. You know, like I said, 3. 3 months is not enough time of a sentence for someone who defrauded millions of people, took credit cards, credited, created fake charities and such, and really defrauded the American public in this manner.
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John Solomon
I think I've zeroed in on something that a lot of people are just starting to come to understand. Mamdani's rise in New York is perhaps the signature achievement of the far left. You've got a guy that's hanging out with or praising an imam who was intimately involved in one of the worst terror attacks in American soil. Other than 9, 11, all the other things that you just mentioned. What happens if New York falls under Mandani's control? What happens to the Big Apple in your mind?
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Jesse Garcia
I believe you're going to see a mass exodus of common sense individuals. You're going to see a mass exodus of the financial community, businesses. Right now, New York City is difficult with crime, with cashless bail that Albany Democrats and Democrats from across the state have imposed upon us. They handcuff cops and prosecutors and judges, while at the same time they coddle criminals. Just think about that amplified on steroids under Mondami. He wants to defund the police and send to violent criminal sites, social workers. That's not going to work. No matter how he tries to apologize now or go back on his statements or try and correct a record, it's going to be unsafe. I think what you need to do is look at what Republicans are doing in communities like Nassau county under Bruce Blakeman, under Suffolk county, in County Executive Ed Romaine and our District Attorney, Ray Tierney. You know, what we're doing is we're taking. We're working around those laws. They're being professionals and working around those laws so that we keep these violent criminals at bay without bail. We keep them under bar so they're not outdoing revolving, revolving door type of criminality to our innocent people.
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Bud Cummins
Remarkable.
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Amanda Head
Jesse, if Mamdani is successful in winning the mayoral race, if he's successful in doing a lot of the things that he wants to do, is that enough, you think? Will there be enough pain and suffering for people to realize, okay, maybe these are bad ideas?
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Jesse Garcia
Well, we've seen this before. It was the rise that brought New York City a great mayor and Rudy Giuliani, and that type of situation took place. But I think what's going to happen, and quite frankly, I'm going to take a page out of Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine's playbook. He sees what's coming. He knows what's going to happen. So what he's doing is he's opening up the doors to the business community, the companies of New York City, telling them to come to a safer, more affordable community like Suffolk County. Take up stake here with your businesses, bring your employees out here, you know, fill out our, our downtown communities and our main streets, and we will make sure that you have an environment that's pro, pro, pro business and at the same time keeps our citizenry safe.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Jesse, real quickly, before I let you go, should Curtis Leva drop out or would you like him to say in?
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Jesse Garcia
I honestly, I'm not really sure about, about that at this moment. Quite frankly, anybody dropping out isn't going to make a difference in this race. It's two weeks from election tomorrow. If these things were going to happen, they should have happened back in the summer, back in before August, before the ballots were set. That's why, you know, Mayor Adams dropping out 30 days before the election. His name is going to remain on the ballot. I think that's still going to have an impact. I don't believe any impact of Curtis we walk dropping out or staying in a race is going to affect it right now, this late.
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John Solomon
Yeah, their early voting phenomenon really does have an impact. People forget that sometimes when we have these conversations. You clearly don't. Jesse Garcia, chairman of the Suffolk County Republican Party. Great to have you show today. Thanks for joining us.
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Jesse Garcia
Thanks for having me.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Great conversation. All right, folks, one more segment up right after the break. We'll be right back. Welcome back, America. As you know, Friday I spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Moms for Liberty conference down in Florida. I met so many amazing people. Most important thing I noticed, Amanda, the age change that was going on there a few years ago, it was moms with teenage children going through all those big issues with women in sports, transgenders in bathrooms. But this time, new moms, young people there in much larger numbers than I saw. And as I was leaving, I ran into these two remarkable young grammar school children. Amanda. They had just started a TPUSA chapter in their grammar school, and they had with them these incredible Charlie Bears. And, yep, it's exactly what you think it is. Charlie Kirk's voice in this teddy bear. Our colleague Bo Davidson had a chance to interview them. I want everybody to watch just a little bit of this. It's really kind of fun.
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Bo Davidson
We talked earlier about the generational component, the generational legacy of Moms for Liberty, and I'm joined now by Reagan and Owen. These are two junior patriots, and I just found out about this just minutes ago, but basically, they've started a pilot program for Turning Point USA for middle schoolers. So we're talking about even the generation even younger than what we see at typical Turning Point USA events, which is incredible. And they've got these Build A Bears, which we'll get to in a minute. But, Owen and. And Reagan, I want to talk to you guys first. So, Reagan, you're the president of this new chapter, and Owen, you're the vice president. Is that right?
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Amanda Head
Yes.
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Jesse Garcia
All right.
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Bo Davidson
So, Reagan, why did you start this?
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Owen
Well, so I went to SAS this summer, and I met Charlie, and I, like, not hung up, hung out with him, but, like, I talked with him for, like, four days, and then I. I didn't. I brought it up to him. Why don't we start a middle school chapter? And it was like, at first, and then it was like, okay, then we'll start the program, and we'll try it. And so if everything goes well, then it will be open to pretty much the whole world next year. If everything goes well this year.
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Bo Davidson
And it's going well so far.
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Owen
Yes, it is.
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Bo Davidson
And this is in Land o', Lakes, right? Land o' Lakes. Okay, Owen, tell me more about it and your role as vice president.
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Owen
Yes. So we started a meeting, a couple, like, last week ago. We were. And we were at the meet. We were doing, like, just grouping up, seeing all the people who joined. And. And then we celebrate Charlie Kirk's birthday after. And when we post it on our Facebook and social media, it went really viral.
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Bo Davidson
Wow, that's incredible. Reagan, tell me about. You got to meet Charlie. You got to hang out with him for a bit. I'm so glad you got the chance to meet him. What was that like? And, like, what did it mean to you now, since you've Been inspired to start this new chapter.
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Owen
It was very special for me. So a fun thing was.
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John Solomon
So we were.
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Owen
I was listening to him speak, and then he actually signed my 4H jacket on air because it was the first time that 4H was represented at a TP USA SAS event. And it was. It was just like my. Not mind blowing, but, like, more than that, it was, like, life changing for me.
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Bo Davidson
It's kind of funny that you had to convince Charlie to do it, because I would think he was see this. He'd be like, yes, yes, yes, we need to do it. But thankfully, you have started it. It is a pilot program, and I want to get to these bears. So, Owen, you go to build a bear, and everybody knows you can go build a bear. Any kind you want. But these are special. These are like, Charlie Kirk bears. Right? So explain that.
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Owen
So we went there and we got bears. We found, like, a suit where he wears, like, his old fans.
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Bo Davidson
Let's take a look at it. Go ahead.
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Owen
And then we have his shoes, the.
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Bo Davidson
Red tie, the microphone, the Starbucks. Can you see the Starbucks cup? That's awesome, too. Okay, so that's your design. All right. And then some of them actually play messages. So, Reagan, you have one. If I could see it, that when you press the button on his hand. And we're going to put this as close to the mic as I can. Here's what happens. Press it. Do it for me, Rich.
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Bud Cummins
It's time that we start talking to the next generation. Not talking down to the next generation.
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Bo Davidson
It's time to start talking to the next generation and not talking down to them. That's what's in there.
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John Solomon
All right, Amanda. I was blown away by these two young siblings mature beyond the earth. The youngest person I've ever had to call Madam President in my life.
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Amanda Head
It was absolutely precious. And, you know, you look at something like that, that age range and how precious and smart they are. And then this weekend, John, you know, I spent Saturday at the Marines 250th celebration. They had C130s FA18s, F35 CS53s, MV22s. Those are the spectacular ospreys. I'm telling you, you had pride down there in Florida, and I had pride down in Southern California at the Marine Celebration. It was amazing.
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John Solomon
Two amazing events that remind us just how great America is. And that's why we do what we do here at a real America's Voice. Celebrate the real America. All right. With that, we're going to leave you in good hands for the next hour. Grinstead Trail. We'll take you through with more headlines. We'll be back tomorrow. Until then, have a great night.
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Dr. Simone Gold
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