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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, September 4th, 2025
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Good evening, America. Happy Thursday. Welcome to the latest edition of JUST THE news. No noise. I'm your host John Solomon reporting to you as always, Washington, D.C. where we're tracking some breaking news and we're going to break some news. Let me get you some breaking news. Up to speed right now. A federal appeals court has stopped the shutdown and the blocking. A federal judge's blocking of Alligator Alcatraz, the ICE detention center down in Florida. This is a major victory for the state of Florida. Its attorney general and governor secured that ruling just about an hour ago. We have all of the details over@justthenews.com and when you wake up in the morning, you're going to have a lot more details this time about what really went on with the auto pen and Joe Biden. For the first time, we're seeing documents produced from the National Archives that show that the Biden White House lawyers believe that Joe Biden had an obligation to personally sign pardons, that he may have designated decisions for signatures on things like legislation and pardons to other people didn't even show up in the room. No record of him being in the room when certain things were signed. This is explosive new documents. It's the first time anyone's going to make them public. We'll have them on the site when you wake up tomorrow morning. But we're going to keep you up to speed. Keep a close eye on that. These are bombshell documents. Even surprise me about what was really being discussed behind the scenes at the Biden White House. All of this dug out of the National Archives. And also good work by the White House counsel's office for President Trump, who has its own review of this ongoing and found some of these documents. Man, we're going to have all that tomorrow. Big deal. We've got a great show today. And then tomorrow's show, we're going to be talking more about that very important issue of solving America's pharmaceutical processing crisis. Every day we're getting solutions in place since we raised the question, I'm really proud of that.
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Yeah. And I love all the solutions. I say three pronged, but I think at this point we're at a five pronged approach as far as solving that crisis. Because, John, you know, when it comes to these strategic ingredients for the sapir, the fact that Joe Biden let that place sit empty for his entire term.
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Store room was empty.
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It makes you wonder what he knew. Maybe he knew there wasn't going to be a pandemic during his term. Maybe. Or maybe he was just betting really, really hard on that and hoping that it wouldn't happen. But with respect to your story and your tease, I mean, this is something that so many of us have prognosticated about that for most of his term, if not all of it, the people closest to Joe Biden knew that he was not necessarily capable cognitively of knowing what was actually happening. And to have his former press secretary, Jen Psaki out there criticizing folks in this administration because President Trump is not in the for 16 hours, oh, my goodness, it's pretty rich.
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He's either too lazy, too inept or too unaware of what the Constitution and the law required. But it clearly concerned his staff in ways we don't know. These are debates that were going on we couldn't see. Now you're going to get to see him in the morning. All right, we're going to kick today's show off with an incredible discussion with someone who's been fighting the weaponization of government, which, by the way, expanded quite a bit under Joe Biden. Joining us now, our good friend Andy Biggs. All right, joining us now, one of our great friends at this show. He represents the state of Arizona and is leading candidate for governor there. To Congressman Andy Biggs. Congressman, good to have you back on the show.
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Thank you.
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Good to be with you.
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Hey, Amanda. John.
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Yeah. Good to have you on. I love what's going on right now. I think Americans are beginning to absorb just how much was in the first big beautiful bill. That changes things at the kitchen table. I'd like to get your sense. You're out in the campaign trail working the circuit every day. You also have a good sense of what's going on in Congress. How are Americans starting to digest what they got in the America first agenda in the big beautiful bill?
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Well, they're feeling that the economy is getting a little bit better. And that's that really is the driving issue, that that is always on the top of people's minds is, is that. And then they're looking around and they're saying, well, what else is happening? Well, the border's secure. There are cities that were insecure, like D.C. that seemed to be getting more secure. I've actually heard people say this, that on the other side of the aisle saying he is at least keeping his promises. He promised he would do this, and that's what he's doing. And they associate virtually every action the president's taking, outside of some foreign affairs stuff, with the big beautiful bill. Even if it's not related to the big beautiful bill, everything is related to it in the minds of the public.
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Sarah, I want to ask you about law and Order because you are obviously in great support of these D.C. reform bills. You introduced those. And when it comes to extending the National Guard being here and eliminating cash bail, the cash bail thing, I have spoken to a lot of city leaders, blue city leaders across this country, who support ending things like that because they say that that is one of the foundations of the, of the reasons for the crime in the city. Talk to us about it.
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Yeah. So people don't realize that what these Soros, DAs, and other blue cities were doing is they were actually releasing people who've been charged with a violent crime or had a violent criminal history that were charged for something else. And they were just releasing them what we call or do they on our own recognizance or with very little bail at all, but mostly cashless. And so they would send them out there and allow them to get back out there, and they would do what they do is commit more crimes. And so when leaders, even in blue cities like you say, Amanda, say, well, you know, our problem was the cashless bail. It was the cashless bail because normally bail is to keep people who are a threat of flight or a threat to the community. You keep them locked away and you accelerate the trial date in order to, to so you don't keep them in too long because that would be a violation of their constitutional rights. But they were letting these people out on the street and, and they were returning to crimes and creating more victims. And so that's why I've got a bill to eliminate cashless bail in D.C. and I'm hoping that my, our leadership gets that moving so we can get it out there and get it in place sooner rather than later.
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Important stuff. And it's common sense stuff. The president's emergency authority will technically end at the end of the first 30 days for taking over the police department. I know you want to extend that as well. What are the sentiments inside of Congress. Can the Congress come behind the president, back him up and give him some longevity so he can get the job of cleaning the D.C. capitol up completely done?
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I wish I could say it was unanimous. I don't know if it's unanimous because there's always a few people. I'm never quite sure how they're going to vote, but by and large. So I've got a bill that does that. I know leadership is going to try to approach maybe a different way. But the bottom line is the vast majority of Republicans in the House want to see this continued. And by the way, I wouldn't be surprised if you got some Democrats that have to vote for it, too. And why is that? Because Muriel Bowser, the mayor of D.C. has said she supports, supports what Trump's doing and would favor an extension. In the meantime, the police union favors an extension. So this is one thing where I would guess you could get bipartisan support where at least a few Democrats will come in. So if we lose a few Republicans, which I hope we don't lose any, but if we were to lose some, I think the Democrats might actually help us get over the hump on that.
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Speaking of Democrats, a big hearing today up on Capitol Hill that I would love to get your take on. Secretary Kennedy up there speaking about chronic disease, autism, a whole flurry of issues. And I noticed that the most irate members of Congress who, who were practically screaming at him. I went over to OpenSecrets.org and I noticed that the ones who were the loudest are a lot of the ones who are getting the most money from big Pharma. It's a little on the nose, isn't.
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Really was.
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I'm glad you did that research, Amanda, because I had it on between meetings and was watching bits and pieces of it and I was astounded at how awful they were and nasty and wrong and misinformed, or if they weren't misinformed, they were basically doing it on purpose. But I thought Secretary Kennedy, I thought he was fighting, fighting a good fight and holding his own. But he wants to hold PhRMA accountable, which is not unreasonable. But these, these, these people that were attacking him mostly from the left, were just unreasonable and irrational, in my opinion.
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Yeah, it was a spectacle. There was another set of tense exchanges yesterday. I think you were at this hearing with Nigel Farage, good friend of mine. The state of free speech in the United Kingdom is such a warning sign to all of us in America. America, what were your big takeaways from yesterday's Hearing.
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Well, the first big takeaway, just on a personal note, is that nobody's better than Nigel Farage at putting people like Jamie Raskin and Hank Johnson in their place and doing it with dignity and class and humor. He was fantastic. But I mean the takeaway here is we are, we're down that road a bit ourselves.
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Right.
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And the UK is really far down that road. We need the UK to come back to the values of the liberal west. And when I say liberal, I'm not talking about the left wing crazies we have today, but I'm talking about classical liberal west which recognized the human rights of every individual. We're in danger of losing that. And I took away yesterday that more than ever we have to do Pfizer reform. More than ever we have to find out how government was weaponized to, to censor during the last couple of election cycles where the government was weaponized to go after, threaten Internet companies and, and telling you got to take stuff down or go back and take a good look at Covid and see what was happening there because that's the, that was the root of authoritarianism. And thank goodness Donald Trump was elected in 2024, otherwise he'd be further down and we'd be staring into the abyss of, of loss of civil rights like the UK is.
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Yeah, I mean further down is exactly where they are. Do you think that there, there's recourse because we are starting to see some protests with people, you know, finally flying the, the flag of England and the Union Jack which has been villainized by their own government for the last few years. They're finally get out, getting out and doing something. Is it reversible?
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I hope it is. I mean Nigel seems to think it is. But, but don't, don't forget how far down they are. They're so far down that they're arresting people for thoughts. Thoughts in their head that they don't even iterate that they'd be standing there. They might be, they might be moving their lips like they're saying a prayer or something. They can be arrested for that. For mercy sakes. This is, this is the dangerous situation that they have. And I and I introduced yesterday probably, oh, a good 20 articles or more of what's going on in Europe or excuse me, in the UK with specific cases that are going on. And then the, the gentleman from Scotland, no, excuse me, he was from Ireland. Gentleman from Ireland. He had documented 84 cases where people, for as simple as I indicate just by thoughts that they were being arrested and, and we could go on and on about where police personnel have said, we're going to come after you. I mean, and you had the, the comedian who was in Arizona when he, when he put out a couple of very, very lightweight, in my opinion, trans jokes. He gets arrested by five armed police officers in the uk and as Nigel said, if you know anything about the uk, they don't carry weapons unless they think somebody's a real danger, then they have to go sign them out for police. And they had this going on. That's how far down they are. So is it reversible? Yes. But it's going to take the people of the UK to rise up and recognize their heritage and their rights and where they come from. They come from God, not from the country, not from the government. And if they do, then there's some chance to save it.
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It'll be interesting to see if the State Department human rights report starts to treat the United Kingdom a little bit differently based on what we've seen. I want to turn real quickly to our own things that we've learned because of the great work you did for so many years. We now know that innocent people were pursued relentlessly by the government here and that in some cases, those who did the pursuit knew that the process itself was designed to be the punishment to just bankrupt someone or to ruin their reputation so they couldn't come back and be a meaningful voice in Washington. Is it time for Congress or the President or someone to think about a fund that reimburses people who incurred enormous legal expenses or other expenses for what ultimately were false. False, not only false allegations, but false investigations.
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Yeah, I mean, we might, we really might need to look at that. And I, I know we're talking everybody from J6ers to face actors, some and, and Russian hoax people caught up in the Russian hoax investigations. When you start looking at what was happening, the weaponization, restitution may be in order, but it isn't just restitution anymore. I mean, like, if you look at the Epstein victims, right? I, I didn't hear any one of them ask for restitution. What they want is transparency, clarity. And they want, they don't want innocent people to be in trouble. They don't want the victims to be excoriated and revealed unless they want to be out there and transparent on that. But if you committed a crime and they're going to put this list together, then you need to, you need to be held accountable. So I'm not sure restitution is the way necessarily, but I am pretty certain that you have to hold people accountable in some of these situations. You've had people that were actually given promotions, they've given bonuses or whatever when they behaved, you know, grossly inappropriately and violated the law. And was there suppression in some of these cases? I believe there probably was. And you got to get to the bottom of that. That's what I think most victims want to they want clarity, understanding. They want transparency and they want someone to be held accountable.
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Yeah. Get their good name and reputation back. And that's something that I think beginning to happen with all of the great disclosures we're getting from Pam Bondi and Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard. Of course, we got a lot of them in a much difficult, more difficult era to get them from you, sir, you played such an important role in unraveling a lot of those abuses in government. Great to have you on the show today, sir. Thanks for joining us.
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Thank you. And never, don't be afraid to take a tip of the hat yourself because you, John and Amanda, you guys did great work in this and you continue.
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To do great work.
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And I'm grateful for that.
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I'm very honored by those words. Thank you, sir. We'll be catching up with you on the campaign trail soon. Thanks for joining us today. All right, folks, we're going to take a quick commercial break. When we come back, we'll have Alabama's top law enforcement official, attorney general and U.S. senate candidate now Steve Marshall, to talk about his fight to protect parents rights. We'll have that next right after these messages.
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Welcome back, everybody, to just the news. No noise. Alabama's attorney General Steve Marshall is stepping up again to defend parents across that state. He joined a 22 state coalition urging the United States to Supreme Court to strike down a Massachusetts school district policy that allows children to socially transition their gender without notifying their parents, without their parents ever being told. So joining us now to talk about that and much more is Alabama's attorney general. And now he is running for Senate in the state. Thank you so much. Senate Marsh, Steve Marshall, thank you so much, sir, for being here.
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Great to be with you. Thank you.
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All right, sir, I want to talk about this parental rights issue because anytime we, we talk about a court case like this on our show, I always think to my, myself, my gosh, what is the argument on the other side? Who in their right mind think that, thinks that it's a great idea to transition their children without telling their parents?
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Yeah. And a school system that believes fully that parents shouldn't have an understanding of their kids dealing with significant issues. One thing that really proud of what Alabama's been able to do in this area was around gender affirming care to expose what I think was one of the biggest medical, legal and ethical frauds in medicine that we've ever seen. Those who want to put testosterone shots in the legs of little girls, girls, puberty blockers in boys, or God forbid, scalpels on the bodies of children to deal with gender dysphoria. And here we have a school system in Massachusetts that doesn't want to disclose that children are struggling with the question around gender using their own techniques and beliefs that aren't necessarily consistent with what parents want to be able to cause kids to even have more problems.
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Yeah. Such a remarkable moment. And you have been fighting this for quite some time and continue to win. I want to talk about another victory that you delivered today that coming out of federal court today with the alligator Alcatraz being blocked from being shut down. You led the attorney generals who joined Florida in that fight. Pretty important moment for law and order. It seems.
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It was. And for the 11th Circuit to put a stay on a rogue judge's order. You know, interestingly, we have facilities in Alabama in which we house illegals that are otherwise in the immigration system. The fact that Florida built this facility for the federal government to use, and a district judge in Florida was going to say you didn't follow one provision that applies to a federal contractor these facilities to not only shut down the ability to house these folks that are here unlawfully, but to cause its destruction was completely wrong. Please. The 11th Circuit was able to weigh in to allow Florida to continue to do the work they're doing. And look, this be able sets the stage for other states to be able to assist the Trump administration and Secretary Noem in dealing with what the Joe Biden administration caused. That's the influx of illegals that now the Trump administration is going to deal with effectively.
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Sir, I know with you at the helm of law and order Alabama is absolutely a law and order state. So we've got Alligator Alcatraz, we've got Cornhusker, Clinker. We've got a lot of states across the country that are utilizing the alliteration to have their own Alligator Alcatraz. Is that something that Alabama is looking at doing as well?
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Yeah, I think so. I think we're going to call it Yellowhammer something. Amanda, you can appreciate that, knowing the history of our state.
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Indeed.
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Look, we have supported for years the work around the immigration issue. We've had strong advocates, both serving us in the Senate and in our congressional delegation, but also in law enforcement, being able to say we can identify the issues that we're seeing locally. Look, as a local prosecutor, I saw a majority of my drug trafficking cases were those that were here unlawfully. We want to be able to support the efforts of ice, and we'll continue to do that during the time that President Trump's in office.
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I have to cut in because I have to nominate a name. Can we name it the Alabama Slammer?
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There we go. There we go. I will pass that on to the appropriate.
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Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir.
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I can't believe that just happened. That was pretty good. Mr. Attorney General, a big win this week when President Trump announced that the Space Command will move back to Alabama, where it was rightfully placed in the beginning. Colorado wants to go to court. I think you're probably up for the challenge of meeting in there. Maybe get some attorney's fees when you're done.
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Exactly. Look, Gavin Newsom can cry me a river, Right? I saw his tweet where he was lamenting the fact that California didn't get it. Look, this was objective criteria that were used for multiple cities to be able to request the opportunity to house Space Command. Huntsville has a remarkable history in the rocket program, significant resources that are there with both engineers and a community that supports it. We're so excited that President Trump did what he did in 2021 to be able to announce the placement of Space Command there. And we're really proud to be able to welcome those individuals that will lead that command right here in Alabama and Redstone Arsenal.
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Sir, when Joe Biden made the decision to leave it permanently in Colorado Springs, was that political because it was a blue state?
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Absolutely political. Look, he was trying to punish a ruby red state like Alabama. It's one of the largest supporters of President Trump and his agenda. There was no criteria. Look, as prosecutors, we had this phrase that facts are stubborn things. There were no facts that they could demonstrate as to why Colorado Springs would then receive Space Command as opposed to Huntsville, Alabama. President Trump, on the other hand, sees it the right way and was very excited about that announcement yesterday.
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Yes. Rocket City. How do you argue with that?
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Yeah, exactly. There you go, sir. You've thrown your hat in the ring for U.S. senate. That's an exciting development. Tell us what is on the mind of Alabama voters as they head into the 2026 election.
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Hey, look, they expect me to go to Washington and allow for the final two years, the Trump administration, to be in full force, just like it's been during the first eight months. And look, we also need to create that legacy of the American first agenda. Right. It's not going to just end when President Trump completes his, but the principles and the policies right now that have been so effective in helping the folks in Alabama and across this country. We need to be able to enhance and enlarge those moving forward. I look forward to being a senator to do that.
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And this is outgoing Senator Coach Tuberville's seat. He has been stalwart on a number of issues in the Senate. If you get there, what are some of the main things that you want to focus on there?
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Look, the ag community in our state is critically important and had the opportunity over the last several weeks to be able to meet directly with Alabama farmers to hear how Joe Biden and almost inherently destroyed the local family farms that have not only driven our economy in our state, but also are part of our culture. Want to make sure that we're the strong advocates for our agriculture community. And look, we support our military deeply here in Alabama. Want to make sure that we're standing with armed services to make sure that we're supporting our war fighters and to make sure that we give them the best opportunity to be successful and to protecting our country from harm.
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Very important, sir. I know our audience is going to want to know where they can find you online. Tell everybody where they can do that.
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Yeah. Steve Marshall for Senate.com we're also out there on social media. Look forward to being able to see not only people of our state being able to serve and develop conservative principles that we can bring to Washington that will serve our nation as a whole.
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Idea.
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Well, sir, in the interest of Alabama kinship and also me being a journalist and I can't be partisan, let's say Roll Tide and War Eagle. I'll say both of them to you, sir.
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Fair enough. Thank you.
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Thank you so much, sir. Alabama, it's Attorney General Steve Marshall. It's been a pleasure. Thank You. All right, everybody. Next we have another state attorney general on, Allen Wilson of South Carolina. He's going to talk about his fight against judicial oversight. Overreach.
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Welcome back, America. We've said many times on this show the greatest history going on in this country has been in the courts and often driven by states and their attorneys general, joined by one of those who blazed the path of history over the last several years. He's the South Carolina attorney general and good friend of the show and now the leading candidate for governor in that state. Attorney General Alan Wilson. Sir, good to have you back on the show.
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It's great to be back with you. Thank you for having me.
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We are excited to have you. And it looks like you're back on a course to the Supreme Court one more time. This involving the Berkeley county school system. Tell us a little bit more about where we are in this very important transgender law case that I think is going to make history.
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Absolutely. Again, this is falling on the heels of the Scarmetti case, where the Supreme Court said states have the right and the plenary authority to prohibit people from transgendering children under the age of 18. And so that that was something the Supreme Court upheld. We're now going back to the Supreme Court to protect the rights of states to be able to prohibit boys from going into girls spaces and girls from going into boys spaces in public places, like in schools. South Carolina passed a law last year that basically put strings on the money that local schools were being given and said that if you allow boys to go into private spaces and girls to go into boys spaces, we could take that money from you. There was a family with a transgender child who sued on that, and we went to the fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is a relatively liberal court, and they basically paused South Carolina's law. They enjoined it. While we are arguing the merits, I'm going to the Supreme Court, along with the state Superintendent of education, Ellen Weaver, to ask the Supreme Court to allow this law to remain in effect while we argue the merits of this case. Regardless of what the Supreme Court does, we believe that this will ultimately end up there next year on the merits, and this is too important a case. There are varied court and district court decisions and circuit court decisions all over the country that actually disagree with the 4th Circuit. And we need final resolution by the Supreme Court soon.
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Yeah, yeah. Important, sir. When you think about the woke universe, this issue of trans is pretty much at the top when it comes to the things that they hold sacred. So this case could end up being Supremely consequential to taking out that universe, couldn't it?
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Absolutely. Of course, right now, in the 4th Circuit, there's a case called Grimm, the Grimm case. And basically it's where the court said that, you know, a child identifying as a boy or identifying as a girl could go to the bathroom that they want to go to. Again, that rejects and basically ignores the privacy rights of all the other children and also compromises the safety of children in those private spaces. And again, at the end of the day, I believe that children who identify as transgender can be accommodated at a local level by local schools who can give them another restroom or a teacher restroom or a family or gender neutral restroom without compromising the safety, security, and privacy of the other 99.9% of the students in the school. Judges in Richmond, Virginia, or Washington, D.C. should not be dictating what states are allowed to do when it comes to protecting the privacy and safety of our children. And that's what I intend to defend all the way to the Supreme Court.
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Yeah, and that's one of the things, and you've been so good at describing this. There are such common sense solutions here that the left doesn't even consider, like, hey, let's make the teacher's bathroom or private bathroom available in this circumstance. They simply just double down on something that we know has resulted in assaults and other issues in school districts. It's not a hypothetical risk. It's actually happened in school districts, sometimes covered up, as it was in Virginia. Why do you think the left doesn't want to embrace a more middle ground to accommodate without having to infringe on the privacy rights of so many people?
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Well, I mean, you've seen a lot in the last six months since President Trump took office again, where they have really doubled down on 90, 10 issues on the 10% side. I mean, I remember watching the President give a State of the Union address, and they refused to stand up and applaud the president recognizing a little boy fighting brain cancer and making him an honorary member of the Secret Service. They couldn't even applaud that. You know, these are people who are totally supportive of transing children. These are people who are totally supportive of allowing men into women's private spaces and doing all kinds of radical issues. They've been hijacked by the far extreme left, and they're losing political ground, but they're also going to be losing legal ground. I truly believe that this case that we have here in South Carolina, along with the Scrametti decision that came down this Past summer could be a death nail to the radical left agenda when it comes to transgender issues. And again, this isn't about disrespecting transgender people. This is about accommodating children with that issue while protecting the privacy and the safety of all the other children that we entrust to schools.
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So important.
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Well, and furthermore, you had a middle school in California, in Temecula, California, this past week. You have middle schoolers who were protesting a school board decision to allow boys in girls bathrooms. And it was. It was boys and girls who were out there protesting, trying to keep that from happening. When it comes to the repercussions of this, is that going to affect all 50 states?
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Well, look, honestly, if it goes up to the US Supreme Court, it could. Right now, it's just within the 4th, 4th Circuit here in our region of the country, and it could be bad. It's bad case law here for us right now. I intend to rectify that, along with the Superintendent of Education, Ellen Weaver, who's also in this lawsuit with me, and I'll give her a lot of credit, but we intend to take this to the Supreme Court so that we can get this issue resolved once and for all.
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Yeah, that's important. And it'll solve it for the whole country. That'll be the great benefit. Sir, you deal with so many things every day that come before the Attorney General. But this one caught my attention because I think it is compassion, but also common sense. A declaration in the last 24 hours from you that parents are entitled to parental leave if they go through the tragedy of a stillbirth. Tell us a little bit how this came about and how you came to.
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That decision, that there were children in certain school districts in the upstate of South Carolina, not children, but families rather, who are being denied parental leave. We had a House member, Representative Neil Collins, sent us a legal opinion asking if under the Parental Leave act, if parents were entitled to parental leave if they delivered a stillborn child as opposed to a child who was born alive. While the law is somewhat needs some clarification, we determined that based on South Carolina's other laws, our heartbeat bill, as well as other laws that the General assembly has put into into effect, we believe that the family of a stillborn child is entitled to the same protections and the same rights as if that child had been born alive. It's traumatizing enough to lose a child in that particular situation, but to deny them the basic rights that a family would receive had that child survived is just really adding insult to injury. So we gave a legal opinion that says that the children of stillborn children are entitled to the same leave protections as the parents of children who are born alive. Obviously, we think the General assembly should provide some additional clarification to just kind of seal this issue, but that's the direction we're going.
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Very smart.
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Just seems like a no brainer if you have one ounce of compassion in your body. Sir, before. Yes, sir. Before we let you go, I want to ask you about the appeals court blocking President Trump from deporting Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act. Tell us about it. Because this is another one of those issues that seems, seems to be, you know, a no brainer, but going to the Supreme Court.
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Well, our robed war fighters up on the Judiciary in the 5th Circuit have determined that they're going to go ahead and start making definitions of what predatory incursion and invasion mean. Again. They should not be in the war council with the president, who is the commander in chief and the generals. They should have no more right to determine what missiles are going to what targets. And they should defining what a predatory incursion is. Obviously Trend Aragua is one of those gray zone war tactics that Venezuela is using that falls short of open conflict but is still designed to destabilize the U.S. very few people put on a uniform and go out on open battlefield anymore. A lot of these destabilizing tactics are done using violent gangs like Trende Aragua who are coming here and they're murdering coeds running on college campuses. They're taking over, you know, apartment complexes and they're trafficking in drugs and creating all kinds of havoc. The president was right to do this. I hope the administration appeals this to the Supreme Court. We intend to support the administration as it tries to defend our borders and defend our citizens.
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Yeah, we should expect a friend of the court brief from you. I would suspect you will. I knew it. Attorney General Alan Wilson on the front line of some of the most important issues in America today, such as a great honor to have you on today. Thanks for joining us.
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Great to be with you. Thank you.
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Yeah, what a great thing. But that still bursting. A lot of people were talking about that to me this morning. What a great act of compassion. All right, folks, after the break, we'll highlight a major problem facing America today. Most of our critical pharmaceuticals are made outside the US We've been talking about this. We did a whole special about it on tomorrow's show. We can't wait to tell you some of the developments since the last time we talked about it before. You're going to get a fun preview from a congressman and a doctor and a Marine. One of our favorites, Congressman Rich McCormick from Georgia, next, right after these messages.
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Welcome back to JUST THE news. No noise. We've been highlighting a very big problem for our country over over the last few weeks on this show and not many people have been talking about it. It deals with America's pharmaceutical industry because a shocking percentage of our critical medicines are not made here in the United States. So we spoke to doctor, Marine Corps veteran and congressman from Georgia, Rich McCormick, about it just before the show tonight. Take a look. Joining us now, a physician, Marine Corps veteran and congressman from Georgia, Rich McCormick. Congressman, thank you so much for being here.
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Thanks. Good to be with you guys. Appreciate it, sir.
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I know that as a veteran, you obviously recognize what not having the proper pharmaceuticals for our service members is going to do. We had retired Army Colonel Vic Suarez on our show a few times and he equates medicine to ammo. Is it really that strategically important?
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It can be. It's funny, we just had a doctor's caucus meeting this morning talking about a bunch of things we have wrong with health care, how we prioritize to solve some of our strategic issues, obviously the cost of health care, but also the you're talking about an access point. Right now China basically controls the great majority of basic elements that need to go into medicines. They also have corner of the market on most of production of chief and effective medications. That's not good for us strategically. If something happens with our relationship with China, then we're basically cut off some from something that basically saves lives. We saw this when we had a problem with Puerto Rico making lactate ringers and saline. It really put us back on that. And when they had the storms there, if you have just one source and you're not able to ramp it up, it can really put you in the grinder when things hit the fan.
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Yeah, sir, we, we knew coming out of COVID that this was a weakness. We saw it in real time during the pandemic. And then Joe Biden's team did nothing. Now President Trump's gotten in, he's got an executive order, they're ramping up, they're refilling the supply chain. It seems like the next big opportunity is figuring out how to ramp up manufacturing in phases. It takes a while to build a big factory, but there are these micro factories in technology now that can make some drugs quicker and faster. Tell us what Congress is doing to try to push that along.
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Well, first of all, the kind of maiden in America initiatives that President Trump has been pushing to guide to get production here in the United States so it can't be cut off. So that we are in control of our own destiny is really important. Doesn't mean we only supply here, but that we have the ability to ramp up very quickly. I know US Antibiotics is, for example, a company that produces amoxicillin, Augmentin. There's not too many companies that do that. And it's a basic drug, not a huge profit margin. What happens is China supplements their industry with government supplementation so they can undersell the rest of the market and put everybody else out of business.
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Business.
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Then they control the market. They also control the basic elements for these drugs, and that causes a problem, too. So basically, we need to make sure that we are prepared so that when the day comes first of all, that we're able to transition to a hardier production scale. But also we have the basic elements to produce the medications to begin with.
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That Strategic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Reserve, or SAP here, I guess as everybody calls it, that was created under President Trump. But as John cited, the Biden administration didn't do anything about it. Did they just have a blind spot when it came to putting America first? I mean, that would have been really dangerous if there had been another pandemic, because then they would have had egg on their face. Why didn't they?
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You know the good question, why? They did a lot of things, especially when it came to health care. These guys didn't prep for anything. They didn't do anything to save any money. Viserys was probably the worst Health and Human Services secretary of all time. He lost for. He was a lawyer. First of all, a Lawyer in charge of health care who lost four Supreme Court issues to Texas when they sued him over and over again because he was representing basically big insurance instead of health care. This guy was totally sold out to special interests like a lot of the Biden administration. They didn't care about controlling costs. They're totally bought into the Affordable Care Act AKA the Obamacare, which has not been anything to, to recognize to affordable. Matter of fact, we had an increase of our premiums about 30% since that time with the reduction of reimbursements to physicians by about the same when adjust for income for inflation which has forced us into a hospital system that's way more expensive for everybody is the single big biggest cost to Americans. Out of your pocketbook, out of your taxes. That's about a five trillion dollar industry here in America. Over five trillion. Now think about that. That would be the size of the third largest GDP in the world. Just what we spent on health care per year. He didn't do anything to address that. Absolutely a blind spot in their administration. Just like so many things else. They were not prepared. They didn't do anything to, to make us independently strategically secure.
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Yeah.
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And by the way, don't forget the oil reserves. We don't have our own reserves yet. Thinking we go to war right now, we are not ready. And that's all on Biden's head. Trying to buy votes by warping the market.
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Yeah. Sir, another issue that is parallel to this. We not only have trouble getting medicines to our men and women on the front lines because of the dependency on China, but our system for developing our weapons and our supplies for our troops is so antiquated and creaky, it's broken. You've been taking an extraordinary lead on this. Everyone I talk to is praising the work you're doing. Tell us us where that process stands and what sort of procurement system we might be able to look forward to in the next few years.
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You know, I just met with the Secretary of the Air Force today. It was a bipartisan meeting, just talking about procurement. Talk about which programs are doing well, which ones are not. When you talk about procurement, it always, if it starts well, it ends well. And it starts badly. Ends badly. We are done with the broken process where we're, we're 50%, 100%, 150% over budget, six months, a year, a year and a half behind on timeliness. We have really been doing a poor job on this and the time for those kind of wasteful days is way over. Luckily we've got Our arms around this. Chairman Rogers has been super aggressive in this regard, and I think it's just time to do things right. We got to compete with China on the maximum macroeconomics level of the world right now. And I think we just have to be very careful how we proceed.
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Sir, before we let you go, I spoke to Secretary Doug Collins a few weeks ago, and what he has been able to accomplish with the backlog of veterans who need care is nothing short of miraculous. As you talk to other veterans, what do you feel like their sentiment is towards this administration? Because there was a lot of fear that was sown with the American people, particularly our veterans, about what this administration was going to do at the VA before they came in.
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Yeah, I think the nice thing is you have somebody at the helm who actually understands what's at stake, who has seen firsthand how Atlanta has fallen short. We just replaced our director there. I was just talking to the new director. Super good guy. I was kind of worried because didn't seem like he had the right experience, but put that to bed really quickly. Putting the right people in the right place, you'll see that some VAs are thriving, others are failing. That's all based on local leadership. They're semi autonomous. So that's why leadership matters, both at the top level and intermediate levels. Putting the right people in place and making sure that they're not set there like other bureaucracies where you can't fire anybody. We fix that in the va, and that's actually making us much more responsive, much more nimble, and a better service for our veterans. And I think that's something we need to do throughout the government, is make sure that contracting is not so that they can just stay there forever, no matter what they do. That's the wrong answer to anything in government or the civilian enterprise.
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Yeah, it's the opposite of meritocracy. Meritocracy and the opposite of what is good for the American people. Dr. Marine Corps veteran and Congressman Rich McCormick. Sir, thank you so much for being with us tonight.
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Appreciate you guys. Semper Fly. Have a great day.
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Thank you, sir. All right, everybody, when we come back, we have a few more thoughts, but if you enjoyed this conversation and you want to hear more about it because. Because we've been talking about it for a while. We've been screaming it from the rooftops because it is so critical. We've got a whole show about it tomorrow night, so make sure you tune in for that. But in the meantime, we're going to take a break. And we'll be right back.
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Welcome back, everybody. John, I want to hit on Secretary Kennedy's appearance on Capitol Hill today a little bit more because I want to bring up one of the things that he talked about, some statistics that I knew that Things were bad. I didn't know they were this bad because he talked about how we are the sickest country in the world. And he addressed the issues that people are being fired at the cdc. And he said, look, it's their job to keep us healthy. And they weren't doing their job. He said this. This morning I got the latest numbers from the CDC that 76.4% of Americans now have a chronic disease. This is stunning. When my uncle was president, it was 11%. In 1950, it was 3%. Today, 76.48 out of 10 of our kids cannot qualify for military service. This is a national security issue. And John, as we talked about earlier in the show, Democrats were absolutely, they were foaming at the mouth with Secretary Kennedy. But then CNN did a segment a little bit later talking about the approval numbers President Trump secretaries. And between RFK Jr. Marco Rubio, JD Vance and Pete Hegseth, RFK actually has the highest rating. Now. He's still underwater by seven points, but he has the highest number among President Trump's cabinet. So people obviously see that he's doing something good.
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You have a guy that comes out and says, we know we have a crisis. We look at our children, we know they're overweight, they've got all these diseases that we didn't suffer from years ago. And whatever we did for the last 50 years didn't work. So I made some changes. When you come a football coach doesn't win, you fire the coach. Right?
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Right.
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But only in Washington do people use the politics of personal destruction to try to distract from something that's this important. We're talking about the health of our children, our grandchildren, the security of our country. And the only thing the Democrats could come to today was an insipid set of personal attacks. They're the do nothing Democrats right now. I think the danger of Democrats isn't even the radical agenda going into it. 26. It's the fact that they're doing nothing. They had no answer to crime. Donald Trump stepped in. They have no answer to the health crisis. Donald Trump stepped in. They had no answer to the border. Donald Trump stepped in. I think the 26 election is going to be about the do nothing Democrats.
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Yeah. Alrighty. So another thing happening, and this is over in California. So Fox's local affiliate there has learned that as many as 14 of LAPD's elite metro office officers are now being assigned to protective duty for former Vice President Kamala Harris. Now, President Trump pulled her protection. But as a lot of people know, the Vice President only is due six months worth of that protection Joe Biden apparently had extended. President Trump pulled it. But now Democrats are saying that this is revenge. Mayor Karen Bass said this is another act of revenge. This puts the former vice president in danger. And I look forward to working with the governors to make sure the Vice President Harris is safe in Los Angeles, first of all, Los Angeles. So all bets are off the table when it comes to safety. And it doesn't matter if you're Kamala Harris or Joe from the block. Doesn't really matter.
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Listen, we all want everyone to be safe. We don't want anything bad to happen. I wonder who's going to protect her.
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From her own words?
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Because I think her biggest liability is when she talks so many times. I mean, when you think about the last couple years, that was her greatest liability. When she opened her mouth. It should work itself out. I think all vice presidents only get six months. Right. So she's not treating any different. But you know, I'm interested tomorrow to see how people view what we learned about Kamala Harris and Joe Biden on the auto pen. You're going to see these documents tomorrow. You're going to be really shocked. I want to focus people on one document at the beginning of the Biden presidency. The White House counsel's office, his lawyers believe that Joe Biden had a legal obligation to sign all pardons himself personally. That document is a smoking gun. When you see that tomorrow and then when you see what Joe Biden wasn't present for, things that got signed in his name that he wasn't even there for, it's going to raise a question about not only do nothing Democrats, but an AWOL president.
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Absolutely unbelievable. You know, if they had to stipulate that he was personally signing these things, it makes you wonder what happened to all the things that they didn't personally stipulate.
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I'm telling you, there's so many more secrets to learn about Joe Biden.
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Oh, boy. And you're going to uncover them all. I have absolutely no doubt. Thank you all so much for being here with us tonight.
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Tune in tomorrow night for our very special Special Seymour.
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