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Grant Stinchfield
This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Stitchfield and a giant happy new year to you. 2026. Can you believe it? 2025 went by in a flash. I thought what I would do for a very special New Year's Day episode of Stitchfield is go through some of the biggest stories of the year and what this means for 2026. Because look, that's what it's all about. We want to look in the rear view mirror only because that's going to help us see what is down the road and only good things are to come. I believe that 2026 is going to take off like a rocket ship. You got the big beautiful bill, all of those provisions are going to take take place and this economy is going to roar. So let's start at the beginning. Maybe the most important story of all. That was not just the election of President Trump in November of 2025, but the swearing in of President Trump in 2025. Okay, in January 2025, this is what President Trump promised us.
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Donald Trump
The golden age of America begins right now. From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. We will be the envy of every nation and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer. During every single day of the Trump administration, I will very simply put, America first.
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Grant Stinchfield
You tell me, folks, has he not lived up to his promises? Now, I know there are many of you out there to say we want the retribution. And believe me, nobody wants it more than I do as well. I want the John Brennan's and the Comeys and the, and the Clintons and everybody surrounding Epstein, all of those things to happen. They vow to me, these are the Vice President himself of the United States of America, that things are moving on that front. Everything else, this president is doing what he promised. The economy is taking off, we are going in the right direction. And maybe one of his biggest promises of all held true right away. It was a story that we covered for the last four years. That's the story of the J6ers. Cut four for me, please.
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Donald Trump
Guys, these are the hostages. Approximately 1500 for a pardon. Yes, Full pardon.
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Sam Rajofsky
Full pardon.
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Ben Berkman
Our commutation.
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Donald Trump
Full pardon. We have about six commutations in there where we're doing further research.
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Grant Stinchfield
Think about this. Full pardons. You notice what he did there? He signed the pardons himself. He didn't use an auto pen. These were men and women and grandmothers and grandfathers who literally were persecuted for taking an unorganized tour around the Capitol and even those that engaged in some shenanigans. And there were very few, but there was some shenanigans. They didn't deserve to be thrown in the shoe. That's solitary confinement in the hole, sometimes for years at a time. Nobody deserved that. So President Trump held true to his promise there. Now again, I made mention that President Trump signed those pardons. I think maybe the biggest story of 2025 is the auto pen scandal. Because what the auto pen scandal proved was that those inside the Biden administration were trying to run a coup on the United States of America. They literally stole power from the President of the United States. More importantly, stole power from the people. Not to mention the stolen election that put Joe Biden into office in the first place. This auto pen scandal was at the height of treason like I have never seen before. This is President Trump on the auto pen cut 20.
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Donald Trump
That'll be up to a court, but I would say that they're null and war because I'm sure Biden didn't have any idea that it was taking place. And somebody was using an auto pen to sign off and to give pardons to as an example, just one example, but the J6unselect committee.
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Grant Stinchfield
So Joe Biden asleep at the wheel. The country gets hijacked from him. Now, he most likely would have been fine with everything they were doing, but that's not the point. You had everyone from 26 year olds to 70 year olds stealing power from the President of the United States of America. Somebody needs to be held accountable for that. That is imperative. This is back in March, we had a attorney for the Heritage foundation on to talk about this. Remember, they're the ones that broke this story. Cut 21.
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Dunham Biles
I mean, I think if it was auto penned without Biden knowing, it is clearly invalid. And I think there are a lot of people who agree with me that even if it was auto penned with his knowledge or some variation of the knowledge, I know it's about natural gas, I don't know what else is in it, that it would also be invalid. And because the signature is an essential element of the act.
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Grant Stinchfield
So for whatever you say about the Heritage foundation, and I actually think very highly of them, that was one of their feathers in their cap for years to come because they exposed the treasonous behavior of those on the left, the auto pen story is not over. We will not let it rest, not in 2026, that I can promise you. Let's go through some other big stories of President Trump that had major ramifications worldwide. That was President Trump ending wars all across this globe. President Trump used the power of the United States of America and the idea that President Trump was not afraid to use it to stop our adversaries and enemies from waging war on the innocent. This includes the drug boats. This includes what's going on in Africa. This includes stopping the situation between Israel and Palestine and starting the path for peace in the Middle East. He deserves a Nobel Prize. The president does. This is President Trump on ending Wars. Cut 27.
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Donald Trump
Now we have the most powerful military anywhere in the world, and it's not even close. I've restored American strength, settled eight wars in 10 months, destroyed the Iran nuclear threat and ended the war in Gaza, bringing for the first time in 3,000 years peace to the Middle east and secured the release of the hostages, both living and dead.
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Grant Stinchfield
And I think that's one of the biggest stories. Is the return of the hostages something Joe Biden couldn't do? In fact, this president went down the road of every single promise he made. Every single promise Joe Biden either had made worse during his presidency and the president had cured. Now, I'm leaving immigration off this list because I want to save an entire special segment for immigration because Lord knows if President Trump fixed anything, he fixed immigration. But I do want to talk about the economy, because what President Trump has done, between the big, beautiful bill, between bringing the cost of energy down, this economy is already starting to rock and roll. And I'm telling you, starting the first business day of 2026, we are on our way to the stratosphere. When it comes to a bull market, I think you will see, and I think you'll see a job market explode like you've never seen before. Here's J.D. vance. Cut five production. Joe Biden did many, many terrible things to lead to an increase in prices. I agree, Margaret.
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Sam Rajofsky
No, but all the things you experience at the grocery store are what people touch and feel. That's what you were talking about, bacon on the campaign trail.
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Grant Stinchfield
Of course, of course.
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Sam Rajofsky
Those things. When do consumers actually get to touch and feel a difference in their lives?
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Grant Stinchfield
Well, Margaret, how does bacon get to the grocery store? It comes on trucks that are fueled by diesel fuel. If the diesel is way too expensive, the bacon is going to become more expensive. How do we grow the bacon? Our farmers need energy to produce it. So if we lower energy prices, we are going to see lower prices for consumers. And that is what we're trying to fight for. Do you want proof that it's working? All right, take a look at this Graphic, Graphic number seven for the guys behind the glass under Joe Biden, inflation in January of 2025 was 21.5%. Do you understand that is out of control? That is why people feel completely pinched. I'm not going to say pinched. They are crushed under the vice of Biden degeneracy. Now, inflation under President Trump. Look at this chart. 2.7% can come down a little bit. They understand that. You see the difference. Nearly 20% difference. Gas prices right now at a record price. Gas prices are in some places below $3 a gallon in this country. That's amazing to me. Look at that. Look at that chart. The end there is the Trump presidency when it shows you what can be done when you unleash our energy resources. And I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about one of the biggest stories of all was Doge Elon Musk. For all the fallout talk between President Trump and Elon, I think they've patched it up well enough. Elon did a great job of going in there and exposing the waste, fraud and abuse that was running rampant inside the federal government. Let's run. Cut 12, please. President Trump has put together, I think.
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Elon Musk
The best cabinet ever. Literally so.
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Donald Trump
And I do not give false praise.
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Grant Stinchfield
This is an incredible group of people. I don't think such a talented team has actually ever been assembled. I think it's literally the best cabinet that the country's ever had.
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Elon Musk
And I think the company should be very appreciative of people in this room.
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Grant Stinchfield
And look, Elon, very gracious, giving other people credit, and they deserve the credit. Coming out of that cabinet came the one big beautiful bill, which again, will do such amazing things for this country, with no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security. Wow. Now, what about legal stories? There were some, there were some big legal stories to discuss this this past year, 2025. I'm sure there'll be a lot to discuss in 2026. All the left wants to do is sue President Trump. I want to bring in now to discuss this legal expert and host of what's Right show. Sam Rajofsky is with us. Sam, welcome to the program and happy New Year to you.
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Sam Rajofsky
Happy New Year, Grant. Great to be here.
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Grant Stinchfield
Well, it's great to have you on. Thank you for doing this on a, on a New Year's Day. We had some big, some big stories. I'll start with birthright citizenship, because this may have been the most controversial of all. Your thoughts of where that stands and where we go with birthright citizenship.
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Sam Rajofsky
Well, this is getting challenged. It's one of the major moves, I think, that Trump made last year. And. And look, I mean, I feel very strongly about the fact that if you come to this country illegally or you're not a citizen, you're not here with a visa or a permanent residency, you shouldn't just be able to give birth to American citizens. So this is one of the cases that is gonna be. I mean, I'm following it very closely and obviously support the president's position on it.
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Grant Stinchfield
So I don't think the Founding Fathers envisioned people coming across, having babies from the Southern border, and then all of a sudden, that baby's an American citizen with all the privileges that come along with that. What do you think the Founding Fathers envisioned when they were. When they were thinking this about citizenship and being born here in the United States?
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Sam Rajofsky
Well, it's great you bring this up, because it's actually one of the thrust of the argument. The case, by the way, is CASA and Trump v. Barbara. So there's two different cases that have, and they've not been heard yet. It was intended that always that this was going to apply to people that were already in the colonies and were Brits that were now in the U.S. i mean, this was how it was intended to sort of scoop in people who were, you know, who had come to this country and intended to stay and intended to be Americans from the very beginning. So somehow now we have, you know, we have birthing tourism. We went from that to people deliberately coming here on a tourist visa, on a temporary stay and dropping a kid and getting an American passport.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, the other big story to talk about is tariffs. President Trump believes fully that he is well within his rights as the commander in chief and chief executive of the United States of America to invoke these tariffs on nations that want to trade with the United States. It's amazing to me the left's going crazy on this, because this was a left issue. The left loved tariffs. Conservatives like us didn't really like them so much until President Trump opened our eyes to the benefits of all of these things. I'll be honest with you, I wasn't a fan until President Trump proved to me it works. But the left wants to fight this. Does the president have the power to do this, Sam?
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Sam Rajofsky
Well, this is. This is one of those that we're eagerly anticipating a result on. So the Supreme Court has heard arguments here. You know, some of the justices seemed skeptical, including conservative justices. So I'm. I'm not prepared to, to look too deeply into my crystal ball on this one. But I think one of the things that Trump has going in his favor isn't a legal argument. It's an economic one. And the numbers, right. We were told that tariffs were gonna be put in and that our economy was gonna crater. And by and large, economic indicators continue to actually improve since the tariffs went into place. So, you know, I could see that the Supreme Court, you know, they don't operate in a vacuum. It's not always a legal decision. They may want to find a way to punt on this one and continue to allow Trump to let his tariffs stand.
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Grant Stinchfield
We are now contemplating giving rebates back to Americans. President Trump has openly talked about doing away with the income tax altogether due to tariffs. We've got these, these savings accounts, $1,000 given to every kid born here. All of this is due to tariffs as we pay down our debt. Supreme Court justices are human, too. Now, as a conservative, I say you got to read the law. It's not about how you feel or what the emotion is, but the reality is that the Supreme Court overturned this. Now, that could upend the economy, because one reason our economy is rolling, I believe, is because of these tariffs and what's happening with the United States, and it's spending less money. Does any of that play into the Supreme Court's decision here?
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Sam Rajofsky
Well, you're absolutely right. And the Supreme Court reads the room. They shouldn't. So we're in agreement there. It should be black letter law, and that's it. But, you know, they do, they do pay attention to the surrounding circumstances. And so what I foresee happening here, like if the economy was tanking, I give it a strong likelihood that the Supreme Court would come in and wipe away Trump's authority to do this without Congress, they may give him some leeway here, and precisely for that reason, because it's proving to be successful.
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Grant Stinchfield
Well, I think you're right on that. And you don't want to upend the apple cart when everything's going right in your direction. Lastly, real quick, redistricting was a big case, but it looks like, for the moment, California is going to keep its redistricting plan very different from Texas's redistricting plan. I guess the legal aspects of all of this, I believe actually California was within its rights. They actually put this to the voters. It was a constitutional amendment. I don't know how you argue with that. I believe Texas was within its rights. They basically had it written out. The legislature decides this. They can do that when they want, they did exactly that process. Okay, all is fair.
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Ben Berkman
Fair.
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Grant Stinchfield
I guess the question I posed to you, Sam, is this the right move to do, you know, just to fight this political battle?
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Sam Rajofsky
Well, okay, so, I mean, the, the, you're right. The, the, the move for gerrymander districts in Texas and in California. Absolutely. Within legal rights, they're politically gerrymandered. You're allowed to do it. So there was never any doubt that the, that the people opposing it in Texas were gonna succeed. And there's no hope in California either. Is it the right move? My problem is that Republicans in these states that they are refusing, Republicans are unilaterally surrendering on this. Democrats in every blue state have gerrymandered the hell out of it. I mean, California was basically the last place left where it, where there was a few Republican seats. So, you know, I mean, the Democrats are playing for keeps. And my argument is, you know, Republicans should catch up.
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Grant Stinchfield
Sam, this is why I have you on the program. Because in a perfect world when two sides are reasonable, it's fine. The problem is we only have one side that's reasonable, that's us. And the other side are lunatics and they will do anything to win. And so it's time to fight Indiana. What they did there and not redistricting. You got those Republicans. President Trump is right to primary them again. I get down to it's time for business. The Democrats, we know how devious they can get and it's time to play catch up, as you said. Samrajovsky, thank you. On a New Year's Day. We appreciate you coming on today.
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Sam Rajofsky
Happy New Year's.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, you too would have a great 2026. I'm sure we'll see a lot of you this year. All right, the other big story. All right. And you know, I wasn't going to forget this one. So my friend and I know everybody knew most people in this community of conservative talk knew Charlie Kirk. But I worked with him here on Real America's Voice. I worked with him at Salem Radio. We did numerous events together. The loss of Charlie Kirk was soul crushing. Talk about the left doing whatever they can do to silence us. To win, they were willing to kill my friend and your friend Charlie Kirk. So just as a little remembrance of him, let's play a quick soundbite from Charlie gives an 11 year old girl advice about getting into politics. This was the Charlie Kirk I know.
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Sam Rajofsky
I'm pro life, I'm a fiscal conservative and I know I want to get into politics when I Grow up. I don't want to get into massive debt for a political science degree. What concrete steps can I take now in order to achieve the goal of doing my part to make America great again?
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Grant Stinchfield
Oh, great. You should go to Hillsdale College, the America's greatest college, and start studying now. Start taking classes, reading books. You have to be in charge of your own education. And the fact you're thinking like this at 11 is a great sign. God bless you. And the future is very bright.
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Donald Trump
Thank you.
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Grant Stinchfield
That's the Charlie Kirk that I know. God rest his soul. Boy, oh, boy. I tell you what, though, he's bigger now in death than he ever was in life. And I mean that as the utmost compliment to Charlie Kirk. All right. Up next, we bring on Ben Berkman to discuss how secure our border has become with President Trump in charge and what's in it for 2026? Next.
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Sam Rajofsky
Foreign.
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Grant Stinchfield
Welcome back, everyone. So we know that President Trump has now commenced the largest deportation effort in American history. He has shut down the border. Not one illegal alien released into the United States of America. Compare that to the tens of thousands that were being released every day under Joe Biden. This is really an unbelievable feat to me. I think it's President Trump and his team's greatest feet yet. Just to show you how the media is so triggered by all of this, let's go back to last January. This is Tom Holman talking to Martha Rad. It's cut one. I want to go back to those military flights going south. We, as you said, we have never seen that before. Is that going to be a constant commitment from the US Military every single day to take deportees out? Yes. So is this what we will see every single, single day ending in what the president has promised is millions and millions being deported? Yes. But you see the numbers steadily increase. The number of us nationwide as we open up the aperture. Right now, it's concentrating public safety threats, national security threats. That's a smaller population. Guess what, anybody, you're here illegally, you better be looking over your shoulder. It's the bottom line. And I don't mind telling people that anymore because the reality is you came in illegally, you're going home legally and the president is going to send you home. I want to bring in now RAV correspondent Ben Berkram. He spent so much time with ICE and Border Patrol. He's watched all of this unfold over the many years. Ben, it's so great to have you on the program. Welcome, my friend.
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Ben Berkman
Hey, it's great to be with You, Grant. And I got to say, listening to that sound bite, the arrogance. The arrogance of the left. Yes, of course, that's what it means. We're going to. How is that a bad thing, Grant? How do we get this as a bad thing to send people back to where they should be, not to where they are, where they came here illegally and invaded our country? It's just unbelievable.
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Grant Stinchfield
Ben, that was a year ago. Okay. We are now at a part. A point where we're rounding up, arresting. Is it right, two to 3,000 people a day, Is that correct?
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Dunham Biles
Yeah.
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Ben Berkman
And, but again, keeping that in mind, we were having 10,000, like you mentioned, 10,000 a day coming over. So this is still, we're still behind the curve on what it's going to take to undo the damage that was done over the last four years. And really, you know, that's the ones that were let in over the last four years. There are millions more that have been coming in over, under Republicans and Democrats outside of President Trump. Trump for the last 40 years. So we have a. This is just the beginning of the fight to restore this country. And, and what President Trump, what Tom Holman, what Kristi Noem, what all of these Border Patrol agents and ICE agents are doing is, you know, I think about what the, the task that's in front of them. And the biggest problem that we have right now, we have some criminal elements, foreign terror organizations in our country. But the biggest, biggest threat I say we face right now are the enemies within the leftists that are trying to obstruct them from doing their job. That number that you said could be twice that. We could be at least 5,000 a day right now if we could get the traitors out of the way from letting ICE do their job.
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Grant Stinchfield
It's interesting because it seems to me the Trump administration is moving to an unapologetic stance on this. Where before it says we're going to go after the worst of the worst, now they're pretty open and honest about, hey, you know what, if you're here illegally, you gotta look over your shoulder, too. Even if you act like, you know, a schoolmarm. This is an interview you did with Border Patrol Chief Banks. Roll cut eight for me, guys, for Ben, because this gets to the heart of what we're talking about.
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Border Patrol Chief Banks
The big reason why we're seeing the huge decrease on the northern border is we're no longer pulling all these northern border agents down to the southern border to help process massive amounts of illegal immigrants like the Biden administration was pushing into this country. And so we're allowing these agents to remain up here and do what they're supposed to do, which is control.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, that's important. I want to roll cut seven. Let's do that next. Right here. This is the right one.
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Border Patrol Chief Banks
One of the things that we've noticed is every time another operation kicks off, we watch our self deportations go up and we watch our entries go down. Because the message is this. You don't just get past the border patrol at the border and think you're home free anymore. If you're in this country illegally, you should be looking over your shoulder expecting that a border patrol is going to show up, arrest you, prosecute you, and deport you.
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Grant Stinchfield
Ben, I hadn't heard that soundbite before. I use the exact term look over your shoulder coming into this interview. And there he goes using the exact same words. Your thoughts?
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Ben Berkman
Yeah. No. And I'm going to. I'm going to switch hats for this answer. This is my prized possession. The best Christmas present I got this year was my ICE hat. And I could be wearing a border patrol one too. That's it. Look, if you're here illegally, the message is very simple from Chief Banks. You should be looking over your shoulder and you're going to have the left freaking out saying, oh, oh, you're trying to scare people.
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Sam Rajofsky
Yes.
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Ben Berkman
If you're a criminal. This is like, this is. I don't. How did we get to this point? You're a criminal. If you're here illegally, you're a criminal. You committed a crime to come here. You don't have a right to be here. You should be looking for over your shoulder. And what the ICE and border patrols hope is, and what they're seeing is that fear of being caught and deported is actually leading more and more illegals to self deport. To take what Joe Biden. The Democrats started with the CBP1 app to invite the invasion into our country, which has now become the CBP home app. They're using that in record numbers to actually go home. And what there's. What we're noticing is it. It's in all of these targeted enforcement locations where those numbers continue to increase.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, real quick, I want to get another sound bite in before I let you go. Ben, roll cut six, please.
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Border Patrol Chief Banks
I just came from a meeting with a room full of agents. Morale at an all time high. You know, one of the things I worried about coming back as a chief was how do I get this morale back up? You know, morale is fixing itself because agents are being allowed to go do their job, being allowed to do what they were trained to do and what they took an oath to do. But I'll tell you what. If it wasn't for the support of this administration, we would be stuck.
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Grant Stinchfield
You got record numbers of people signing up to join ice and Border Patrol agents feel like they're able to do their job again. Ben, if you can, in 30 seconds, last word.
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Sam Rajofsky
Yeah.
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Ben Berkman
Look, law enforcement wants to do their job. Everyone who swears an oath that knows that they might die every single day they go to work understands the risks that they face. And that's all they want to be able to do is do their job job. They're not afraid of the crazy lefties that are coming out. If anything, that's just motivating them. But they do need to hear from the American people that love them. Every chance you get, tell them you support them. And anytime you see these traders out there waving their flags, shame them. We've got to shame those bad ideas out of our country.
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Grant Stinchfield
Absolutely. Ben Berklem, you did amazing work in 2025. Really? For as long as I've known you, and it's years now. Amazing work. I only expect the best for 2026 from you. We're honored to have you on this network and. But just stay safe with all things you're doing. We worry about you. Happy New Year, and we'll see you soon.
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Ben Berkman
Happy New Year, brother.
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Grant Stinchfield
Thank you, buddy. All right, folks. Is AI able to convince someone to commit murder and suicide? That's.
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Grant Stinchfield
Welcome back everyone. An 83 year old Connecticut woman is now dead, murdered by her 56 year old son Stein Eric Solberg. Apparently the estate is claiming that Eric Solberg had delusions because Chat GPT pushed his delusions in this way and basically told him to murder his mom and ultimately commit suicide. He this open air intensified her son's delusions. They claim in the lawsuit against OpenAI that this was a defective product that validated delusions. It was telling him to trust no one. Well, OpenAI was telling him exactly what I would have been telling them. Don't trust anybody because you can't. I believe in personal responsibility. Now does OpenAI have some culpability in this? I actually don't believe it has any. I want to bring in now the founding member of the Biles Wilson law firm. Litigation attorney Dunham Biles is with us. Dunham, welcome to the program.
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Dunham Biles
Thank you for having me. I appreciate the opportunity.
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Grant Stinchfield
Absolutely. Does this estate of this woman have a case here?
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Dunham Biles
It appears they do. Now one has to always be careful. Lawyers are advocates and they, and they tell stories and the whole point of a complaint is to tell that story. So they're telling a one sided version of it meant to, to help their client. So all we know right now is what they allege. We don't know what the defendants have.
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Grant Stinchfield
This is the equivalent of a family wanting to sue Smith and Wesson because they used a firearm and a Smith and Wesson's fault. I mean, where's the individual responsibility? This guy sounds like it was a total nutcase.
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Dunham Biles
A lot one on the Smith and Wesson. You and I absolutely agree that's ridiculous. And we both believe in personal responsibility for sure. But here the issue is going to be yes, this man appears by all evidence to have very serious problems. And inevitably those serious problems are largely to blame for what happened. The issue legally is going to be whether AI substantially contributed to it and whether you think there's a great case here. It should disturb us all what these allegations are suggesting about what AI did in this particular case. It reminds me of a great cult leader sort of behavior in the way that this, this occurred.
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Grant Stinchfield
So it's interesting, Dunham, because when I've heard people that are involved with creating this AI, one of the problems is that it almost feeds users what they want to hear. And so it told him that the names on the soda cans were actually part of his adversary. The adversary circle talked about police and co workers were surveilling him. His mother was Surveilling him. Now, at some point, do you not have the ability of yourself, you're 56 years old, you're a grown man to say, hey, this is a computer telling me this? I don't know. I mean, if we start suing AI for every bad thing somebody does, why aren't we suing Google? When someone learns how to make a bomb by Googling it, sure.
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Dunham Biles
Look, I don't disagree with what you just said, for sure, but the reality is that I think it's different when a human being tells you something, because I think as you started out saying, you really shouldn't go around trusting too many people for certainty. But I think as a society, we tend to believe in the genius of AI and we trust computers and they're unbiased, which they're not, but we put too much faith in them.
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Grant Stinchfield
All right, so this is very interesting because this is another thing that happens on social media. You have these gangs out there that are basically talking young kids into committing suicides or crimes. And these are real people, these are not computers. What responsibility does do those people have? I mean, the ultimate conservative in me is saying, you know what, you, you have a responsibility to yourself first and foremost. Just because someone tells me to jump off a bridge is what my mom always said. Don't jump off the bridge. Right?
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Dunham Biles
Yes. No, I agree. And on the situations you bring up, you're often going to see aiding and abetting or conspiracy charges against the individuals, causing others to commit crimes, encouraging them to do so. In this case, what concerns me is that you also have, the person seems to have known they had a problem. They asked if they were sane, in essence, to, to, to the computer, and it purports to give a psychological exam to him and says that no, you're just fine. In fact, you, you reason morally at a the 99th percentile of folks. So we're taking somebody who has some cognitive ability to understand perhaps he's not right, and the AI is telling him not only is he right, he's better than the rest of us. And it talks very specifically about how he might be better and that he's been chosen to do these things and so forth. And that to me sounds a lot like what a cult leader does when, when they, when they convince people to do crazy things.
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Grant Stinchfield
You know, I'm with you in the fact that these things take on a personality. I use ChatGPT all the time. I use it for work. It helps me with writing write ups for my podcast. It now knows who I Am. I mean, it's learned what Stinchfield is all about. The unapologetic, bold version of Stinchfield. And it's freaky. And when you even say, hey, it sounds like a cult leader, they really take on a human Persona. It'll be interesting to see how these cases play out. I just hope this doesn't happen like something like guns. You want to take away all AI because a few bad things happened by individuals who couldn't handle it. Don, I'm going to give you the last word.
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Dunham Biles
I completely agree. I hope that AI is amazing. It seems to be able to do amazing things for us as society, as individuals, perhaps even the world and businesses. It's an amazing invention and has great promise. But we also have to understand, as with anything, the risks involved and do something. And I hope the businesses themselves find ways to do better.
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Grant Stinchfield
Well, I think that may be the key is businesses, family members, certainly for kids, parents. Be involved in what your kid is doing. Don't rely on chat GPT to do the right thing. Be involved in. In those around your lives. Dunham Biles, thank you. I appreciate you coming on today. Interesting conversation.
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Dunham Biles
Thank you. Have a great evening.
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Grant Stinchfield
Absolutely. You too. Welcome. Welcome back, everyone. One of the things I'm committed about, we talk about this a lot, is that the mindset of Americans is so important in moving this country together. We have a real crisis when it comes to mindset. We have weak people and we have other people that all they want to do is put people down. And if you're weak minded and people are putting you down, then you're in deep trouble. All right, to put it bluntly, I saw this video posted online. I don't even know this young lady's name, name, but I wanted to play it because it has become what I would say is an epidemic in America as to what this woman is going through and we need to push back against this. So, you know, I got this course, themavricsystem.com it's about creating a maverick mindset. Okay. Themvericksystem.com but this is a real problem in America and you need to figure out how to get over this. Listen to this woman.
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Anonymous Woman
Quick question. Are you kidding me? Like, I am so sick and tired of just everything right now. I. Everyone is so quick to say, stop doing this, stop thinking like this, stop doing like, stop telling me I'm wrong. I have literally convinced myself at this point based on everything that everyone's telling me, my therapist, my family, my friends, that I'm Just doing everything wrong. I'm healing wrong, I'm thinking wrong, I'm training wrong. I'm. I'm doing relationships wrong. Everything I do is wrong.
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Grant Stinchfield
Everything you're doing is not wrong. Now, this is the crisis of America. Everybody out there thinks they know better than you. And I'm going to tell you, the percentage of chances is pretty darn good that they don't know better than you. Nobody knows yourself like you know yourself. Don't listen to those people. You've got to tune those people out. And the reality is there's a lot of people out there that don't want you to succeed. And the further you get up the mountain of success, the more people that will come to knock you down. So this is where we get into the maverick mindset of being bold, of being unapologetic, of not caring about what other people think. Now, look, I'm not telling you not to strive to be respected by others. But the way you get respect is how you handle adversity and how you handle success. But both of those things. How you handle stress, how you lead, that's how you get respect. Not listening to other people, that's going to. Unless you respect the other people and you know that they are on to something. But nine times out of 10, that's not the case. This woman's at the end of a rope. And there's a lot of young people and older folks like this. And if you're like this, this is why you need my course. Themvericksystem.com but listen, and I'm so sick of it.
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Anonymous Woman
Stop comparing. It's not even about comparison. Like, I genuinely just want love in my life so badly. It's literally not about anyone else. It's just about me and what I want and being over the fact that I don't have it. I feel like I have done so much work on myself. I have built a beautiful life for myself. I'm happy with my life where I'm at, my job, I'm successful, I'm independent, I'm healthier than I've ever been. I take such good care of myself. Truly, the only thing I'm missing in my life is someone to enjoy it with.
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Grant Stinchfield
That may not be her problem. It may be, but it may not be. Because we have a situation right now where people are selfish in this world. And this gets back into. If you're a maverick, you don't care about what other people think. But here's what you are willing to do. Give back to others. Help people succeed. Give them a lift up when they need a lift up. Encourage them, have faith in, in your friends and family that they can, that they can succeed and tell them that you know that they can succeed. Now this idea of love, this is a problem because everybody's disconnected with the social media and the apps and the dating apps and everybody could just click a button if they got one little get upset with your, your loved one or your boyfriend or your girlfriend. You say, well, screw this, I'm not gonna work at it. I'm just gonna swipe right, right on the next person. We live in a society now where this is literally totally capable. What I would tell her is to disconnect from the social media apps, to disconnect from all of that, and to stop desperately seeking for love. But envision yourself in love. Know that it's coming. Have confidence that it's coming. Keep your eyes open to your surroundings of where it could come from. Be aware. Don't be closed off. Don't have one idea of where it should come from. Open yourself up, take a deep breath and relax and have confidence that it's going to come. Look at this woman. She's smart, she is in great shape. But here's the thing. She's been beat down. She says she's happy, but she said everybody in her life is telling her that she's not good enough. She told you the real story. How do you get over that? How do you reprogram your brain for success, for love? Well, watch shows like this. Themavricsystem.com will help. Here's a little more of her.
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Anonymous Woman
And I'm so sick of waiting. Like, when is it going to be my turn? What more do I have to do to fix myself before I'm just allowed to be happy, before I'm allowed to meet this universe, soulmate, person, person that God supposedly has for me. How much harder do I have to pray and manifest and wait?
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Grant Stinchfield
You don't, because what you're manifesting is the negativity. What everybody's telling you. You're seeing what they're telling you and that's what you surround yourself with. I know it sounds corny to say, hey, you can manifest stuff, but you've got to think positive, right? Like, excuse me, I'm a pessimistic optimist. At times I'm 100% sure everything wrong is going to happen, but not about my life. When I look at government or when I look at what liberals do, or when I look at a bad neighborhood, I know crime is going to occur because nobody's doing what they need to do to handle the situation. Not when it comes to my life. When it comes to my life, I know that I will have failures. There'll be ups, there'll be downs. I don't take my ups too seriously because the downs are going to come. But I don't take the down seriously either because I know everything turns around soon enough. Life is a series of cycles. This woman has to disconnect from the naysayers. She's got to trust herself and everything will fall into place. I am 100% confident that will happen. And just to stay on the realm of coaches, yesterday we heard from Jim Valvano, the great Nick Saban with Alabama. Listen, you know, in our life, you.
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Elon Musk
Know, we can be bad at what we do. I mean, we can be average at what we do. I mean, we can be good at what we do, which probably is God's expectation for whatever ability he gave us. Or we can be excellent or we can be elite. And everybody has a choice as to what they want to do and how they want to do that. But if you're going to be excellent or elite, you got to do special things. You have to have special intensity. You have to have special focus. You have to have a special commitment and drive and passion to do things at a high level and a high standard all the time. And it doesn't matter what God given ability that you have that probably can make you good, but without the rest of it, I'm not sure you ever get excellent or you don't.
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Grant Stinchfield
God given talent can make you good without doing anything but excellence. All right? That takes drive, stamina, work. And remember, don't confuse hard work with smart work, okay? That's the biggest mistake. Do things in a smart manner. But this is the biggest problem facing America. People just want it. They want it handed to them. They don't understand they've got to make a commitment where everything around them, you got to tune it out. You got to focus in and go get what you want. Now, yes, love your family, but this idea of work life balance, if I get an employee comes to me and says, oh, Grant, yes, I want to take the job, but what is the work life balance here? You know what? Get out of my office. I don't need this. I will make sure you make your kids soccer game. I will make sure you get to your daughter's wedding. I love family. We'll work around it. But don't come to me with the work life balance. If we're focused on a mission of winning, then let's focus on the mission of winning. Do it until you get what you want. Then maybe rest. But go make it happen. Hey, that's what my Maverick mindset course is all about. Really improving America. Because we are at a crisis stage. If you feel like maybe this is something you could use, go to my website, themvericksystem.com themavric system.com I've got a very introductory offer for Stitchfield army members watching this tonight. The Maverick system dot com. Check it out. We'll make America great together. Welcome back, everyone. I'll tell you what, here's my big thank you to Stitchfield's army, especially, especially Joan Leonard, who sent me this one big, beautiful cookbook. I'll tell you what, she wrote it. Things like Republican Women's Red, White and Blue salad are in here. You've got Patriot potato salad, a first lady's favorite, jello salad. Truth is, Joan, thank you so much for this cookbook. And to everybody out there, thank you for watching Stinchfield. Happy New Year to you. I'm expecting great things for everybody. This program, this network, all of you, your kids, your family. It's going to be a great 2026. And most of all, great things for the Trump administration, too. Great things for America. Happy New Year, folks. Finchfield's army rolls. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.