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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, October 30th, 2025
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John Solomon
Good evening, America. Yes, you are watching Halloween at the Trump White House. How about that? Welcome to the Thursday edition of Justin News. No noise. No. Halloween's tomorrow night, but they're celebrating a little early at the White House. President Trump and first lady Melania Trump are handing out candy to young children at the White House. Great backdrop. We're going to keep that on all throughout the show, even as we get to some amazing guests out there. We got a lot of conversations. China, Arctic Frost, the end of the Asia trip. We're going to get to all of that. But first, my co host Amanda Head is over at the White House covering President Trump's Halloween. She's going to be there throughout tonight, so I'll carry you solo. You'll be able to watch everything that she's seeing live in a box on the screen. But I also want to bring in one of our amazing correspondents from rav. She is out there covering. She just joined us recently. We're very excited to have her for the first time on this show. Benny. Harmony. Benny, good to have you.
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Benny Harmony
John, thank you for having me. It's great to finally connect, even if we're a little far apart.
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John Summers
How about that?
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John Solomon
It only took us a Halloween party to get connected. I'm excited. Great optics, right? Great optics. I love this. The President just came all the way back from Asia. He's had like a crazy 10 day run. He comes back and the first thing he does is hand out candies and connect with real Americans. Tell us what's been going on there.
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Benny Harmony
Yeah, no, it is a beautiful night out here and we have all different departments from the Department of Agriculture to the United States Post office are all set up in tents and they are handing out candy as well. And you see Donald Trump behind us and Melania. And my first question to buy it to Lance over here was did he even sleep? Did he even have enough time to rest before celebrating Halloween? He walked out to Thriller. Honestly, it couldn't be better. John.
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John Solomon
Yeah, I can answer the question. I don't think he ever sleeps. I'm a guy who's got a call from him late at night. He always is working. He's, he's got an engine unlike anyone I've ever seen in American politics. And so my guess is he didn't sleep and he probably won't sleep even after this. But we'll see. There's a lot of optimism in the White House. It's been a good week. All the things that were rolled up on this trip, rare earth deals, deals with China, meeting the new conservative Prime Minister in Japan, tens of billions of dollars of new investment announced in America. What's the mood inside the White House? What's the messaging you're hearing as you're hanging out there?
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Benny Harmony
Honestly, John, everything feels great. Everyone is smiling and it just feels like great energy. And I think even, you know, one of the things about Halloween is it, it gets very spooky. But what people don't understand is that it is a Holy Holloway holiday in a way, with All Hallows Eve. And so it just, it just feels like overwhelming Christianity and faith here. And it's just, it's incredible seeing all the staff members and Secret Service family members here trick or treating with their kids as well as they're even having some foster kids here and kids that can be adopted. So it's really incredible. And I think the first lady is doing a great job putting some initiatives into place for these families. But I say, John, I just really, I don't think we're going to see any biting of children tonight like we did in the Biden administration.
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John Solomon
Thank goodness for that. I can't get that image out of my head. You're right. Well, it's an amazing time and the optics are amazing. You can see the decorating is amazing. That's all things that the first lady has always put her touch on. Benny, it's awesome to have you here at rav. Awesome to have you at the White House. We'll try to come back to you as the event comes on. And we're going to get through a little news headlines and then come back to you.
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Benny Harmony
Okay, John, thank you so much. Talk to you soon.
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John Solomon
All right. Fantastic. Yet another great reporter joining us here at Real America's Voice. How cool is that? I want to get to our first guest in just a second. Before I do, I want to give you a little heads up. Tomorrow morning when you go to just the news.com you're going to see some new documents that we have obtained from the FBI. They are going to show you a new October surprise. No, not the one in October 2016 where they tried to spring out the Russian collusion story in Operation Crossfire Hurricane, October 2020. Four years later, the same FBI under new leadership, Chris Wray, actually had an investigation suddenly opened on Donald Trump. And I'm not making this up. The investigation was about whether somebody who worked for the Trump campaign got their paycheck from the campaign and then went gambling. Now, I can't tell what the crime is. It's hard to tell from the memo what the crime is. But they were trying to open up an investigation on the Trump campaign in the final two weeks of the 2020 election. And they admitted that their evidence had, quote, unquote, low confidence. They still were trying to open up on it. If this pattern doesn't get tired for you, I don't know what does. But the fact of the matter is we have to expose it every time. You're going to see these documents. You're going to see some commentary tomorrow from some FBI experts. But an important story. We'll break that in the morning, so be sure to check it out. Now let's turn to our first guest. He's a good one. He's a retired U.S. marine Corps lieutenant general. He's a congressman for the great state of Michigan now, Jack Bergman. Congressman, good to have you on the show, sir.
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Congressman Jack Bergman
Hey, John, great to be with you as always.
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John Solomon
Happy Halloween. A little early, I guess we get to celebrate it early because the White House does. I want to turn to something that I think is a little spooky and that is for Democrats. They're starting to feel the wrath of the American people. This is one of the first times in the 35 years I've been here that a shutdown has boomeranged on Democrats. Tell us how you see it. How is it playing out with your constituents in the state of Michigan?
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Congressman Jack Bergman
Well, when you think about the unnecessary nature of this shutdown, but it was self imposed by the Democrats, especially the Senate Democrats. And they're not, I've heard people say, well, they're holding the government hostage. Actually, no, the Democrats with this shutdown are holding the American people hostage. And they're in trying to do what they have done historically, which is tell you one thing and do something else with more government spending. In this case, $1.5 trillion in new spending, unnecessary spending, unwarranted spending, whatever you want to call it. The math doesn't work. And in the House a month ago, we passed a clean cr, clean, no bad things attached to it, no poison pills. That was going to give us two months, 60 days to negotiate for what we would do in the longer term, funding of the government to talk about getting health care subsidies to people who need them, not people who got them in the Biden era. Subsidies that if you're making $400,000 a year, you're getting a subsidy for health insurance. Those subsidies were meant for the people who need them. But this is the Democrats, unfortunately, it's their only political maneuver. And I think they're playing chess in such a way that it really looks like checkers and they've got themselves boxed into a corner. But the good news is they, they, if they decide, can vote, open the government up again and we'll come back to work. And that's what we need to be doing. But they're basically the American people are seeing through the Democrats. We see through it in D.C. every day because we live there, we work there. But the American people are seeing now that the Democrats are just using them as pawns in this game.
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John Solomon
Yeah, it's shameful. And I think the American people are starting to wake up and get a little bit angrier about it. You can start to see the polling numbers shift and you can see the agenda among Democrats, which makes me think that maybe they fold sometime soon. Now I want to turn to an important issue, because you obviously served our country for a long time. You rose to the rank of a general. You're now serving again in Congress. All the men and women who fight for us and for that freedom, they're here to protect us from foreign threats to that freedom. But we're seeing more examples of internal threats to freedom, the sort of things that were going on inside the FBI, where 400 Republicans are basically sprayed into an investigation to find anything they can. This Arctic frost investigation, which got into the phone records of U.S. senators and House members, hundreds of Republicans, scores of Republican groups. It looks like a fishing expedition. And the sort of intrusion our founding fathers were trying to prevent happening when they created the Constitution.
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Congressman Jack Bergman
You know, while it's been obvious to all of us, the Senate Judiciary Committee finally, finally turned over the stone that showed just how politicized President Biden and his DOJ had become. This was a witch hunt, and the DOJ was targeting Biden's political enemies. The American people are truly, rapidly, and deservedly so, losing trust in our government. And this is just one more instance of the government being used for evil by those in power at the time. I'm going to let the committees of jurisdiction, you know, keep doing their work, but I got confidence that they're going to do the right thing and continue to uncover what's been hidden for the American people. President Trump was right when he said, they aren't after me, they're after you. I'm just in their way. Justice must be served so that the trust, as in God we trust. And wouldn't it be nice if we could say we trust the government going forward? But it takes honorable, faithful people of integrity to do that, and we haven't had that in the DOJ for a while or some of the other agencies that we're still uncovering a lot of things, living, creeping beneath the stones. And it's probably pretty appropriate on Halloween to talk about creepy, crawly things. It just happens to be coming out of the channels now because we're pushing them.
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John Solomon
Yeah. And the victims here aren't goblins and ghosts. It's the American people and their civil liberties. It's just such a remarkable thing to watch. I never imagined and I'd ever be writing stories like I'm writing today about what the FBI and the Justice Department did. It's stunning. I want to turn to the business that I know Congress is turning to. Once we get the government open, first thing, we got to get it open, get people their checks back. After that, it seems like a great opportunity Because Americans have been without their government for four weeks and I don't think a lot of them have missed a lot of. Seems like there's an open door for Republicans to run the table and start to shrink government and also to fix an Obamacare program that's become, as you said, a $400 billion atrocity. Taxpayers sending money to insurance companies to artificially try to keep down premiums. Do you think the Congress is ready for that large a scale of work?
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Congressman Jack Bergman
Well, whether we're ready or not, I believe we have to be. It's just like a country who that defends itself is you're never 100% ready, but you have to be mostly ready and rise to the occasion. And now it's rising to the occasion for us in Congress. But you know, just a few fact. 2010, the Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare. 2014 ACA premium tax credits became available meant to help families earning 100 to 140% of the federal poverty level. That was designed to help those folks. 2021 through the ARPA, Democrats temporarily extended and expanded those subsidies to everyone regardless of income for one year. 2022, the IRA, they extended the expansion again, but only through January 1st of 2026. So this termination, if you will expiration is the Democrats doing. But these expansions weren't meant to be permanent. If the Democrats truly had meant them to last, they could have made them permanent on the front end. Now they're blaming us, the Republicans for letting their own temporary extensions expire. But you know the important point here is ACA subsidies don't go directly to patients, they go to insurance companies. I think insurance companies profits right now are up something like 240 +%. There's something morally wrong that not only just shamefully wrong, but morally wrong. And millions of these so called ghost enrollees, people who are technically eligible but unaware of it, never use the subsidies. Meaning that the insurers pocket the difference. Money's there, not used. Insurance companies get it. The claim that millions will lose coverage is false. The ACA itself remains law. What's expiring are the COVID era subsidies. Higher income Americans who don't need the taxpayer help to pay for their insurance. They were not meant for those folks and it's time to make those disappear.
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John Solomon
So I want to ask about the promise because it's pretty clear now that the things that Barack Obama sold to the American people to get Obamacare, the American the law passed were not true. He said, keep your doctor. A lot of people lost their doctors premiums are going to go down. They went up. It won't cost taxpayers any money. We're shoving out hundreds of billions of dollars to save, subsidize it. Is this the debate that we're going to have with the American people, that education point that what Barack Obama said and sounded great didn't turn out to be reality?
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Congressman Jack Bergman
Well, there's going to be a reframed debate using specific examples. For example, rural health care. When we did the Working Families Tax Cuts act here a few months ago, there was billions of dollars in it for rural and remote healthcare, especially those small hospitals. They are suffering the most now and would continue to suffer even worse if the Democrats get their way. And how this is working because they were going to take it out of the bill. That will frame the debate, I believe, for that working American family around the country who deserves health care, needs the availability, needs the quality of it and needs the accessibility of it. And without, you know, without saying that they need the affordability of it, too. But the Democrats again have been playing a shell game with what they really mean by saying people are going to lose their health care, people are going to lose this, people are going to lose that. But what they don't say, and I know I'm repeating myself now, is by all this because the Democrats have set it up this way, the insurance companies make big profits.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly it. This has been a subsidy for the insurance companies, not the American taxpayers or the American patient. It's really remarkable. Congressman Jack Bergman, it's a great honor to have you on the show. We thank you for your service to your country and your service in Congress. Good to have you on today.
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Congressman Jack Bergman
Happy Halloween.
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John Solomon
Happy Halloween, sir. Thank you so much, folks. You're watching the Halloween celebration at the White House. We're going to take a quick commercial break. When we come back, we're going to go to the Big Data Poll. Guess what? There is real elections next week, some exciting ones. Rich Barris from Big Data Poll will be with us next. Hey, America, let me bring you up to speed on a quiet but urgent issue. CBDC is these are central bank digital currencies are being developed by 134 countries. These digital dollars will give governments the ability to track every transaction and limit how you use your own money. This includes setting expiration dates on your savings or locking your account without notice. American Alternative Assets is warning Americans now before it's too late. They published a free digital guide called the Digital Dollar Trap. It outlines the risks and shows how to Use physical gold to protect your retirement savings. If you're concerned about privacy and control of your finances, this guide is for you. Here's how you get it. Call 1-855-465-3340 or visit johnlikesgold.com to get your free copy. That's 1-855-465-3300 or go to johnlikesgold.com get the facts secure your future.
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John Solomon
Welcome back America. If this looks a little different, it is. We're actually showing you live footage of President Trump handing out candy with First Lady Melania Trump to young children, foster children. He just got back from this cruel week long Asia trip and here he is right back on the job in America. This time getting connected with everyday Real Americans at the annual Halloween party at the White House. We'll keep that on screen the whole time. But we got some serious business to deal with. We got some big off year elections coming up. New Jersey governor, Virginia governor, Virginia attorney general. And of course, will a socialist win the big apples mayorship? We're going to ask all those questions to one of the most trusted people in politics. He's the director of the big Data Poll. He's a great friend. He's also a great political expert, our good friend Rich Barris. Rich, good to have you back on the show.
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Rich Barris
And it's great to be here, John. Thanks for having me. It's always great.
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John Solomon
All right. I want to step back for just a second and just before we get to the election, horse race stuff, Democrats shut down this government, it's going to be 30 or 35 or 40 days before it's over. It feels like they're waiting until after election day to do something. What are the Democrats probably seeing in their polling numbers and are they getting a little bit of adjudant?
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Rich Barris
Yeah, I think that's, I think you're exactly right. I don't think we're going to get a deal until the elections are over. I think that's, you know, the nature of Democrats and how they play ball, play hardball. But I do think we are starting to see cnn, you know, where their guests coming on CNN from the House and Senate and they're berating them at msnbc. I've seen as well this week. And that is because the polling is getting worse for them on this. In truth, the polling was never as good for them as we typically see it during these shutdowns where Americans overwhelmingly blame Republicans. And that's it. That was not the case. Despite what we saw from some media polls. We always found it much closer. And Americans a good a sizable amount really did get, I don't want to say roped in, but they bought the message from the White House that this is really about us putting our foot down with things like ending funding for health care for illegal immigrants and stuff like that. So we caught that immediately. And now the polling is just getting tighter, so they're starting to get a little bit more nervous.
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John Solomon
Yeah, it's pretty interesting. And this is the first time I've been in Washington in 35 years where the Republicans had the better messaging platform. It seems like they learned their lessons and they also used it as an education moment. They're training Americans to understand, you know, all those health care subsidies the Democrats want to Give, they're not going to you. They're going to fat cat rich insurance companies that are making a bundle of money already. How did that messaging change the equation here?
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Rich Barris
I think the Trump White House is the answer to that. I think that the X factor here, the different variable is a more experienced Trump White House.
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Patrick Hedger
Right.
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Rich Barris
When it comes to dealing with Washington now, the sausage is made and getting, getting that message and conveying it to the American public, I think they just did a much better job. And I do think that Americans this time around, and we spoke about this during election time back in 24, this time around, Americans have thicker skin. They understand better what they're up against and what it is that the country needs to do this. It's a little bit of pain, but what the country needs to endure in order to really fix these problems. Years ago, that was not the case. They would always, of course, tell the pollster, yes, sure, this is what I want. But the minute the boat started rocking, John, they got seasick and they wanted somebody to pull back in the dock, like immediately. And now the American voter is just a little, they're a little tougher, they have a little, they're having a little bit more resilience, which is why, you know, I've been trying to say now is the time. If you're going to make these changes, now is the time to do it.
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John Solomon
Yeah, not gonna take it anymore. That's the song that comes to mind. And I think this may be that moment. All right, got some crazy elections. If you told me that a socialist would be in the capitalist capital of the world possibly on November 5th, I'd say, nah, that's a funny, great movie line. Or an attorney general who actually wished death upon one of his opponents and their children. Mandani Jay Jones. These are the new and sort of extremist faces of the Democratic Party. What do you see playing out next Tuesday in the Virginia Attorney general and New York City mayor's race?
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Rich Barris
Well, first in New York City, and I'm from New York City originally. I hate to say this, it gives me great pain to say this, but the Big Apple is finished. I mean, that, that's. That he's going to win. And the reason I, I do think he is because I'm listening to the same thing that Mamdani is listening to from the voters every day. You know, we're going to get left wing populism in this country or we're going to get right wing populism. Republicans better understand that now because one ends with national resurgence and more prosperity and, you know, peace at home and the other ends, very ugly. And unfortunately, I think this has been brewing for a long time, John. I do, you know, you know, a lot of us buried our heads in the sand and didn' see this coming over the horizon or at least didn't take it seriously enough. And now here we are. And I think it's unfortunate for New York, but it is what it is. Now, Jay Jones, I think it's interesting, Roanoke, they released a poll today which did us a favor because. Yep. We just did a study on political violence. We're going to release it soon. I can't wait to pass this off to you. That we have a real problem in this country, especially on the left, and particularly on the left, tolerance for violence is, is just at alarming levels. In that Roanoke poll, it absolutely confirmed what we saw, which is that even Jay Jones's voters were told about these messages. The vast majority, almost nine in 10 say they will still or, or would have still. If they cast their vote already and just learned they still would support Jay Jones. Only 1% said they would switch to mayor's guys, you know, when someone's telling you what they are, you know, listen to them. I don't know. I don't know what else to say. This is, I don't know what the answer is, but this is something we're going to have to start talking about more and confronting, especially in the wake of Charlie's assassination. This just cannot be ignored anymore. Some people equate language, political language, which they don't like and they've been told is a danger to them.
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Patrick Hedger
Right.
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Rich Barris
The right is filled with Nazis and fascists. They equate that rhetoric from the right with actual acts of violence. And so when actual acts of violence are advocated or actually carried out against people on the right, they're perfectly okay with it. And people have to be unafraid to state that out loud now because we're out of time to confront this. We have to confront it. But I do think Jones is going to lose. I do think he will. I just think it's going to be much closer than some people think. And that says a lot about where we are.
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John Solomon
It does. All right, how about the two governors races? Virginia Governor Spamberger, probably in a squeaker.
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Rich Barris
I do think Spamberger is a great candidate, even though she, in many ways she's not to the left. She's not enough of what the left wants. But in a Southern state that has certainly turned bluish right over the years. She's pretty much exactly what you have to run as a Democrat in order to make sure you're going to get elected statewide. And I think comparative. I'm being completely frank. I think the gubernatorial candidate on the Republican side is unimpressive. I just do. And you know, I mean some of us do this for a living. Some people connect and others don't. And I do think the winsome Sears campaign spent too much time talking about issues that very clearly were not at the forefront of voters minds. So you know, the early voting says it all. The enthusiasm for, for the top of the ticket over there on the Republican side just isn't what it needs to be. It isn't what it was when Youngkin ran, that's for sure. But again, let me just say this real quick and squeak this in Virginia has a history of this. They have a tradition of this of voting for the opposite party in the White House. And by the way, New Jersey is in a similar situation, only it's the opposite. They have it. They have a history of not voting for the same party three times. So you know, I think we need to put this in its proper context.
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John Solomon
You think Citrelli can pull it out?
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Rich Barris
I do. I think he absolutely can pull it out. Let's not forget there's only a few pollsters back in 21 that pulled that race and knew it was close. It ended up actually being closer than both of those pollsters even thought. So I mean if the, if the, the error rate is even close to the same just for them, forget about the other mainstream polls, so called mainstream pollsters. If that are a rate is the same, then Citarelli will pull it out. The bottom line is Republicans have the votes. You know, they have the votes to do it. They have to motivate it. At this point, yeah, at this point it really is just flip a coin because nobody can tell you for certain who will come out to vote or you know, if enough Republicans will come out to vote. They did better in early voting. They didn't do as good as of course they would have wanted to. But they still have the votes out there to do this.
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John Solomon
Yeah, there's no doubt about it. All right, I want you to put on the crystal ball that you are so good at. Your polls are so accurate. Now you, I think you have a zeitgeist for kind of figuring where this country's going. If we start 2026 with a socialist mayor and there's also other mayors are going to be doing things like taxing Unused apartment buildings. If you don't rent them quick enough, they're going to tax you in Seattle for that. It's crazy stuff. If that's the face of the party. If the continued Democrats who get all the airtime are people who are spewing hatred and other things, and the Democratic Party is on the same agenda that it lost in 2024, can Republicans defy the normal midterm curse?
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Rich Barris
Can they? Look, Democrats did in 22, and they did by understanding the moment they were in. And they took advantage of redistricting and the realignment. There is no reason that Republicans cannot do that as well. And, I mean, there is something to be said for what you just brought up. There's something to be read to really jump on here, which is that if you're Donald Trump and you're congressional Republicans or, you know, you run in a senatorial race, you love the idea of Mandani winning. I mean, just politically speaking, because smarter Democrats out there, and there was a huge study, Democrats just poured over it, made it circulated all over Capitol Hill. Their brand is hurting very badly. And a lot of them out there are concerned about Mandani and other candidates like him getting a bigger, you know, a bigger podium, a bigger mouthpiece, you know, and being the face of the party because they know that their party brand has taken a hit. And let's not forget, it wasn't that long ago when Republicans were running against a New York City mayor. Bill de Blasio and Nancy Pelosi were congressional Republicans, top opponents. They ignored their actual opponents all across the country from district to district, and ran against those two as an idea and were enormously successful, John. So this absolutely can happen. Honestly, there's no reason why it shouldn't happen again. You know, I would. I would. I would really stress the Republicans that you have the numbers now. You just got to do what it takes to get them out.
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John Solomon
That's right. You just got to get out that vote early in day a vote, and it's a different ballgame. Rich Barris, as always, buddy, you make it so clear for us. It's so awesome. Thank you for all the great work you do at Big Data Poll. We'll get you on again real soon. Thanks for joining us.
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Rich Barris
Happy Halloween, John. All the best.
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John Solomon
Happy Halloween, my friend. You, too. Great, great conversation as always. All right, folks, we've been told that AI is going to have a profoundly negative effect on the American workforce. But is that actually true? We'll talk to one man who says AI will be good for the country, especially if the United States wins the AI race against China. That's next, right after these messages.
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John Solomon
Welcome back America. Yep, you're watching Justin News. And no, you didn't get your calendar wrong. Halloween's really still tomorrow. You still have time to go get the candy put in the bowl for the neighborhood kids. What's going on tonight? A live party at the White House. Early Halloween party. President Trump comes right back from a long, grueling Asia trip and he's handing out candy with the first lady, the young children's foster children, children looking for adoption. An amazing night there. We had some live coverage. We're going to keep it on screen all night, but we're going to get you some Vegetables alongside of that candy, some new vegetables that is. And one of those is with AI. Artificial intelligence is the dominant race for economic supremacy in America and in the world right now. And we're going to bring in a real expert to give us a handicap. How much did the last week's trip affect that battle between China and America? Joining us now, the director of policy for NetChoice, Patrick Hedger. Patrick, great to have you back on the show.
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Patrick Hedger
Hey, thank you for having me.
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John Solomon
All right, so I think people are beginning to realize, just like the Internet was the big battle of the 90s and manufacturing was the big battle of the turn of the century into the 60s and 70s, AI is the next economic frontier. And it's China v. America to get to supremacy. How much did President Trump's trip this past week where he gets rare earth deals, he gets investments in America. Did we get a little bit of a leg up on China finally?
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Patrick Hedger
Yeah. It really complements nicely the overall Trump administration approach, which very much so recognizes that, look, AI is not just software. It's a lot of hardware, too. You need those rare earths. You need the electricity and the power plants that generate that electricity to actually be able to build and power the data centers that fuel AI. And these are also really important developments for the rest of the economy as well. Look, rare earths are important in manufacturing as well. Electricity is important for manufacturing. It's important for if you want to build new housing for new workers so that people have an affordable place to live. So AI is really driving an important conversation in the American economy that we probably should have been having several years ago, several decades ago even, is if we are building enough of the infrastructure necessary to have a modern 21st century economy. So the Trump administration seems to really recognize that they do.
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John Solomon
And when you study what China did the last decade or 15 years, getting all the resources lined up around the world, it looked like they were exercising, executing, executing an energy first, because with energy you can build, with energy you can compute. With energy you can travel. It looks like America has gotten onto an energy first approach. The Energy Dominance Council is probably one of the biggest innovations in policy in Washington in a long time. Are we moving to a national security strategy that realizes energy first is important?
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Patrick Hedger
Yeah, I certainly hope so. I mean, there's a great chart out there that shows correlates GDP of a country with energy consumption. And something you notice is that the bottom right of that chart shows that there are no rich countries that don't use a lot of energy. Right. There's so there's no energy, poor rich countries. So you're exactly right. Energy is the backbone of the economy. So we keep hearing the Trump administration also talking about the importance of nuclear power as well. And that's really, really encouraging. That's a technology that we should really should have never abandoned. And it's a cautionary tale for technology broadly. I mean, what we saw in the 1970s was let's take this heavy handed approach to nuclear energy. We have to make sure that the government's in charge, the government's at the helm of this technology. And what happened, we didn't utilize it. It was underutilized for decades. We don't want that to happen to AI.
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John Solomon
Yeah. So important. And I was thinking of you, Patrick, the other day because we had Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator on, and he was really talking about the successes they had in getting through regulation and shrinking it down. It's probably the greatest regulatory reduction in the history of America. You have long preached that that was going to be key not only to AI, but also to saving an economy that during the Biden years teetered with a heavy hand of government. Give us a handicap on how well the Trump administration has done in beginning to take the regulatory thumb off of progress.
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Patrick Hedger
Yeah. So the Trump administration, I'll give them an A plus in terms of vision. They've really laid out a great plan in terms of what is necessary to win America's AI race. Right. This is the new space race even. And I think it's even more important than that because the technological applications of AI are far, far greater than anything that we learned from developing rockets. So not that that wasn't important. So the A plus on vision. We just submitted some comments at NetChoice actually to the White House in response to, response to the White House asking what needs to be done to clear the way in terms of AI investment and innovation. And while we praise the Trump administration's vision, what they really need to do is pick up the pace in terms of getting a lot of these old Biden era rules that are technically still on the books, off the books. I don't know if it's the government shutdown that's slowing that down or something like that, but we've had a couple months now since the AI action plan came out in July. Lie. And look, the Trump administration, I give them all the credit in the world for talking the talk. I think they could, they could improve on walking the walk. It remained. And so I'm optimistic that they're going to head in the right direction. I would just encourage them to do.
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John Solomon
It a little bit faster, keep talking, to walk a little faster might be their mantra. I would love to see if they could pull that off. I want to get to one issue that comes up every time I talk about AI, and that is that people are fearful that it's going to lead to mass employment, that all the human jobs are going to go away and robots will run our lives. What does the data show us?
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Patrick Hedger
Yeah, so right now the data shows us that that's not happening. There was a long term study that traced back to the release of the first ChatGPT came out of the Yale University and they looked at is there really any sort of major AI disruption that's happening? And they haven't found any evidence of that yet. And I think that lends to what we have known about technology all throughout history is that it creates new types of jobs, it creates new demand. Right. There are lots of different jobs that you could have never imagined prior to the advent of the Internet or the advent of the automobile even. Right. Nobody, nobody would have been an oil change technician back in the 1800s. But that's a new type of job that's created by technology. And so we have to continue to understand that economics is really the study of how we allocate resources to meet unlimited human wants. Right. So there's infinite demand out there in the economy. Technology helps us supply that demand. And fundamentally, so long as there's infinite human demand, there's going to be demand for labor.
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John Solomon
Yeah. And another thing is it looks like AI already is beginning to show a projection of higher than expected economic growth, meaning it will add an accelerant to economic growth. Just real quickly give us what you think that looks like in 10 years.
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Patrick Hedger
Yeah, I think it could be transformational. I mean, there are some estimates that say that adding AI into the economy could be like adding four to five new germanies to the global economy every single year. I mean, we're talking trillions and trillions of dollars in new investment. And back to that jobs point, a lot of the leading AI investors in this country, the innovators, the big companies like Google that are building these systems, are also placing billions of dollars into worker training and educational programs. And because they understand they're going to need an AI prepped workforce going forward, not a workforce that's displaced by AI.
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John Solomon
That's a really great point to make, Patrick. You always make this issue a lot more easy to understand. It's always great to have you on the show. Patrick Hedger, Director of policy for NetChoice Voice go check his work out. He does fantastic work. All right, we're going to take a quick break. When we come back more after these messages.
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John Solomon
Welcome back America. The candy buckets are finally down. The Halloween party at the White House has just ended. President Trump gone inside to get caught up on everything that's been going on today and probably get a few eyes, few hours of shut eye because he's been traveling all the way across the world from Asia. Well, while that's been going on, we continue to try to help people understand the threat of a growing crime in America. House stealing, home title theft. It is a real crime. We've had FBI experts, we've had people who did it come on the show. I want to bring in a good friend. He's an Emmy and multi award winning news anchor and investigative reporter for a long time. He's been recently spending a lot of his time researching the growing crime that we've been talking about, home title theft. He's a good guy. John Summers. Great to have him on the show. John, welcome back.
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John Summers
Thank you so much, John. Great to be a good guy. And talking about trick or treats, we're talking about the tricks right now with house stealing.
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John Solomon
It's a real deal. And I was thinking as we were going through the AI segment with Patrick in the last block, artificial intelligence is only going to make the ability of the cyber criminals easier to steal your home in the future, right?
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John Summers
Absolutely, John. And you know, between the Internet and AI right now, your previous guest Patrick was talking about all the wonderful things about AI and they are. And we really look forward to the future that that brings. But in the meantime, it's also being used for bad as well as good. And in the case of a gentleman down in San Antonio who had his house stolen, this crime now, John, is so typical and, and just so virulent right now that anybody anywhere in the world can create a document through the Internet and through our artificial intelligence and transfer the deed or the title to their property. And every piece of property has a number to it. And then they can either sell the property, but more than likely, John, they'll take out a loan or multiple loans on the property and then they're gone before the homeowner ever knows it. Way too late.
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John Solomon
They got your cash, your equity and your home and they're in the wind by the time you even know. All right, so tell us. I always think that one of the great ways for people to understand the threat is to do it through the eyes of a victim. Tell us a little bit about Stephen Aderholt and what happened to him in Texas.
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John Summers
This is an elderly gentleman, John, in San Antonio, Texas. He got into financial problems and so he went to some people to get a loan in order to help him out. And one group loan group had him sign over some documents he thought he was signing signing over documents to get a loan. What he actually did, John, is he signed over the deed to his house and the house was stolen. And he didn't realize it until the bank came knocking and he got evicted. And his pet parent, it's not funny really. I mean, this kind of crime that happens to so many people and they're just vulnerable and they're taken advantage of and it's. It's just awful.
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John Solomon
Yeah. No, it is a scary thing and it is real. We just see more and more and we're seeing mass groups of victims. We saw a whole bunch in Texas. We saw, I think some in Michigan and other places. This is becoming a crime where maybe a scam comes in, it hits hundreds or scores of people quickly. That's only going to make this even more painful. One of the things a lot of people think is, well, maybe one time long ago, I bought title insurance. I'm protected, John. Don't worry about me. That title insurance you buy at mortgage doesn't protect you. Tell us how you do get protected.
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John Summers
Yeah. Title insurance basically just assures you that the any loans or whatever have been cured before you sell or buy a property, but it doesn't cover the house afterwards. What you need is a system to be able to monitor your title and then alert you when something looks fishy and then work with you to be able to restore your title and your good name. There's a company that I work with, they're the pioneers. It's called hometitlelock.com. go to the website, look them over. I wholly support them. And it's not expensive. It's peace of mind. But basically what, what it will do is look over your title. That you can't do. You can't go down to the county clerk's office and get a bed or a mattress there and lay there and monitor your title.
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John Solomon
We don't got time.
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John Summers
You can't do it.
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John Solomon
Yeah.
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John Summers
So home title lock is just a great company. I totally support them.
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John Solomon
We have a great partnership with them. We're going to get that in a second too, because I want people to understand it what people don't understand. And I think you've done some great research. You've actually brought to life the stories of, of people who've gone through this. Or you don't find out until weeks or months after the crime has hit and the bad guys are in the wind. But you then have months or years of work ahead of you to try to get your home back. Something that you worked all your life to have. This is a crime that has a long tail of victimization, right?
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John Summers
Exactly, John. And the problem is most law enforcement offices still treat this as a civil crime. It shouldn't be. It should be a criminal crime where people are actually arrested and prosecuted. And that was the case in this gentleman in San Antonio. He had to go through the. The courts and hire an attorney and so on. And that's just wrong because you think about it, John, most people's home or property and so on is the greater part of their estate. And if you lose that, you lose everything. And it's not like, you know, you get your jewelry stolen or a car stolen or something. This, this is the big deal. And so you have to protect yourself because local law enforcement departments, a lot of them are not doing it right now. And I think that ought to change.
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John Solomon
Yeah, no, it's a real problem. And that county clerk or the deed registrar, they don't have any power. If it comes in and looks like a legitimate document, they have to process it. They can't stop it and say, Let me call Mr. Solomon for a second, make sure he really meant to do this. That's another weakness in the system. Right?
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John Summers
You're exactly right, John. I mean, they're not allowed to ask just by law, you know, so if someone comes in there with the proper paperwork and so on with the notary stamp, which you can get online, they have to pass it. And by the way, it doesn't even have to happen with a local county clerk. People do this. The criminals do this online. Right now there are syndicates all over the world that do this and they can prey on anybody, anywhere, anytime. Doesn't have to be, you know, your house, it could be a piece of property or a cabin in the woods. Your grandma's house, condo, Airbnb, all of that stuff is up for grabs.
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John Solomon
Yeah, it is scary stuff. Well, John, you for decades have done a great job telling us stories that are so impactful that educate us. You've done it again. And I want to, I want to mention that partnership that we all have because you and I both have a great relationship with home title lock. Folks, if you don't want to go through that horror that we just described. You want to make sure your home is protected, here's what you do. Use the promo code jtn. That stands for just the news. Jtnometitlek.com here's what's going to happen. You'll get a free title history report and a free trial of free trial of their million dollar triple lock protection. That's 247 monitoring of your title records, urgent alerts if anything changes and if fraud occurs, God forbid, the team's US based restoration team will spend up to a million dollars, a million bucks to try to fix it for you. So do this. We'll get some peace of mind tonight. Go to hometownlock.com and use that promo code jtn. That's hometownlock.com promo code jtn. All right folks, we'll be back in a second to wrap things up. I'm going to get a little bit further into that FBI story. But first a couple messages from our great advertisers and sponsors here at Real America's Voice Foreign.
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John Solomon
Welcome back America. It's hard to believe. You throw in a little candy and a great bunch of interviews and the hour goes by pretty fast. Here at Just the News, no noise. We just got a few minutes left. I want to tackle two things. Misinformation. I want to show you what propaganda really looks like. The Democrats are desperately trying to absolve themselves of the shutdown that they create. This is the Schumer shutdown. And soon as some lawmakers have said, it could be the Schumer starvation moment. But Chuck Schumer had this to say about President Trump. None of it's true, but I want you to see it, because this is what propaganda looks like in third world countries. Let's roll this, guys.
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Chuck Schumer (quoted)
On Saturday, for the first time in American history, a vicious, heartless president is cutting off food stamps to hungry children, elderly who can't afford enough food to feed themselves, veterans who are down on their luck, all because he wants to use them as hostages so that Democrats will stop fighting for people's health care. We can do both. Provide better health care and provide SNAP benefits to the tens of millions who need it. This president is a f liar. He says there's no money to provide food stamps because of the shutdown.
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John Solomon
Excuse me, but he's not. There is no money. By the way, when the money started, began running out, the president actually moved money around to get an extra several weeks of snap benefits out there. Now, I want to show you why this is propaganda. Chuck Schumer always argued when Democrats were controlled to get a clean CRM, he just voted against it 10, 12, 13 times now. 13 times. He knew that when he did that snap benefits would go away. And by the way, the administration has moved mountains to try to just keep our military paid and snap benefits coming. But this weekend, this coming weekend, not this weekend, but the following weekend will be the first time they will not be met as an obligation unless Democrats bend. And that's what Chuck Schumer is setting up there. He's going to pivot next week and say, oh, I don't want those people to go out the trucks. I'm going to be the good guy and get them their checks. That's just the game that he's setting up there. But that statement is classic propaganda that would have played well in Venezuela or Cuba or the old Soviet republics because it has no truth to it, but it has the ring of passion to it. That's why we have real America's voice, why we have Justin News. We're here to help you guys understand. The Republicans voted over and over again to get those snap benefits funded right away. The Democrats aren't. Why? Because they want to get those subsidies to the health insurance companies. They're big donors. Hundreds of millions, hundreds of billions of dollars. They got to get to the friends of the insurance companies. That's what this shutdown is about. All Right. I'm going to end with what I promised we would do tomorrow, but I'm going to give you a little taste of it tonight. Why not? We're going to put on screen the very document that I told you about at the top of the show. This is that intelligence bulletin. This is the FBI in Washington trying to concoct a way to look at Donald Trump's and his campaign and find some form of criminality before Donald Trump finished the 2020 election. This happens October 21, 2020, and they're trying to look at the fact that President Trump paid a whole bunch of money to a campaign vendor. Oh, by the way, that goes on in every campaign for every candidate. That campaign vendor pays some people, as they always do when you get your payments, like your salary, your paychecks and other things. And then some people associated with that went to a casino in Washington, D.C. and spent some money on gambling. I'm having a hard time seeing that, the criminality in this memo when I read it. But this is what the FBI, not under James Comey, because we got used to that with Russia collusion. This was Chris Wray's FBI and they are trying to, in the last minute, something they can throw on the scale to tip the election or to put Donald Trump under scrutiny, maybe leak it. Why are intelligence analysts spending their time going through Donald Trump's campaign finance reports to look for a gambling expense? That's a great question, right? Why are they recommending an investigation when their own memo said they had low confidence? If you look at that memo tomorrow, it says there's low confidence that a crime occurred. They still wanted to open up an investigation. That is the FBI that was born under James Comey and got invigorated even further under Chris Reid. We're going to have that story and a whole more like it. This isn't actually Arctic Frost, but it was a document accidentally stuck in the Arctic Frost production. We found it. You're going to get to read it for the first time tomorrow. That's our gift, our Halloween gift here. It's a little scary, but it's important that we keep calling out the bad conduct that we're finding in our FBI and our Justice Department and in our intelligence community. That's what we do here every day at Real America's voice and@justthenews.com. all right, with that, we're headed out for the night. Grant Stitchfeld will take you through the next hour. So you are in very good hands. We'll see you tomorrow night. Have a good night.
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