It’s Time to Shut Down the Fascists in Our Universities

Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's common sense conservative commentary from Todd Star. That's right. I love this American. Can I always say I think just to protect us all and so Fox doesn't get sued and we all don't get sued and everything else, but I think With a high degree of certainty, we have him. We're in custody.

Okay. In custody, everyone did a great job. We worked with the local police, the governor, everybody did a great job. You know, getting somebody that you start off with absolutely nothing. And we started off with a clip that made him look like an ant.

That was almost useless. We just saw there was somebody up there. And so much work has been done over the last two and a half days. You know, it's amazing, actually, when you start off with that, and then all of a sudden. You uh You get lucky or talent or whatever it is, but And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.

President Trump announcing to the nation earlier today that a suspect had indeed been taken into custody, arrested, and we now know that individual's name, Tyler Robinson. is his name. And according to the press conference that the FBI had, and by the way, welcome to the Tom Stearns Radio Show. Great to have you with us on this breaking news Friday. The governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, who I think has been doing a pretty darn good job, In these press briefings.

He's been doing most of the talking and not law enforcement, but he's been conveying a lot of important information. He says that. A family member of the suspect, believed to be Tyler's father, contacted a family friend after the shooting, and that friend then contacted the sheriff's office and told them that Robinson had either confessed or suggested that he had committed the killing. It turns out those Converse tennis shoes, and late last night, they had that weird press conference where Cash Battelle just simply did not speak. He stood there and said absolutely nothing.

The governor did most of the talking, and it turns out it was the shoes. They released a photograph of those Converse shoes, and that apparently played into some of this. He's 22 years old. I keep wanting to call him a kid. He's a monster.

But let me say something here, and there is still a lot more happening. And he may be the only person who pulled that trigger. But somebody put the bullets in the gun. And by that I mean somebody filled this kid's mind with all sorts of radical fascist propaganda. And when you look at this guy's backstory, when you look at the family, the mom kind of looks like a nut job, but the father, a patriot, we understand in law enforcement.

And it looks as though This kid was radicalized. On the university campus. That is a frightening concept, ladies and gentlemen. Again, going back to the survey we told you about, one in three college students now believe that it's okay to use violence against people you disagree with. A majority of American college students now believe they have a right to shut down any speech they find offensive.

And there was a disturbing report coming out of Rutgers University about the rise of the assassination culture.

So it used to be just the cancel culture, but now we're dealing with something called the assassination culture, where you have these very young liberal kids. And this is a trend from within the liberal community here, the leftist community, where they believe that it's okay to take out people that you consider to be. Um subhuman. And when you look at all of the rhetoric spewing from the left, you look at all of the hate coming out of the left. You now understand where all of this is leading to.

We It seems to me that what we ought to be doing here is going after, we need to find out where this kid went to school, who his professors were, what organizations, campus organizations he was a part of, because. It looks to me, and I may be off base here, but at least with all of the initial information that's coming out about this Tyler Robinson kid, it looks to me that he grew up in a pretty A pretty stable, pretty solid family home and family environment. And then suddenly goes off to college and becomes radicalized. And moms and dads of America hear me on this. You ought to be very, very concerned.

Very concerned. About sending your child off to a taxpayer-funded university right now. And I say that because your child, your sweet, precious little child. Could end up being radicalized, and you may not even know it until they come home and they're ready to start shooting people. That's how That's how dangerous this is.

And if he didn't go to college. And again, we were just getting a lot of information about this kid. But if he didn't go to college, we need to find out what groups he was associating with. What was going on in that guy's mind, and who radicalized that kid? We need to start targeting all of these folks.

That's what we need to start doing. And by the way. God bless a lot of the universities that are stepping up and taking action right now. I can tell you here in the southern states, East Tennessee State University, they had a staff member going off celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk. That person, now unemployed.

Two of them, by the way, two faculty members over there, now unemployed. The University of Mississippi, Ole Miss, they fired a staffer who was not only celebrating, but accusing Charlie of being a member of the KKK. and a white supremacist gone. There was another, where was MTSU, where you had a college student there, a student who threatened to assassinate Marsha Blackburn. That student's arrested by the FBI.

And now you can see that. You've got a situation where a staff member at MTSU was caught celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Now, that person is unemployed. And there is, God bless lives of TikTok because they're exposing as many of these professors as they can. Here's the deal. You got a private business and you want to be a fascist, that's your business. But not at a taxpayer funded institution.

I don't care what it is. You don't get a job if you're a fascist. Not on the taxpayer dime. I'm sick and tired of this nonsense. I'm sick of it.

But we need to know who radicalized this guy. Who did that? And I have a sneaking suspicion That The next voice you're about to hear may have had something to do with that. Cut 15. Let me ask you tonight.

Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist? Yes, I do. Yes, I do. Kamala Harris, ladies and gentlemen. Kamala Harris.

Just one of many Democrats who have been out there calling us Irredeemable. calling us deplorable. Calling us the dregs of society, calling us an existential threat to democracy. The list goes on and on and on and on. I want to go to our Patriot mobile newsmaker line right away, our good friend National correspondent Robin Popman joining us.

Robin, there are a lot of people, myself included, that thought last night's press conference was sort of weird. But now, today, we have an arrest, so all is forgiven from yesterday. But what is it that we know and don't know about the suspect?

Well, I'll tell you, it was weird. I felt that they were ho you know, they all knew a lot more. And that sometimes happens where you have the top brass of an administration. Obviously, the FBI director Cash Patel was just like standing there dear in the headlights. It looked weird.

I think that he knew what was about to go down. with Trump announcing on Fox and Friends this morning about this twenty-two-year-old suspect. His father and a minister apparently turned him in. He's 22 years old, a local from Utah. Apparently there was this dinner.

where he came home and he was, you know, spewing hate. about Charlie Kirk. I mean, how about get a job? And um Stop spewing hate. I'm reminded this morning, and I was thinking about this last night, Todd, since being on your show yesterday.

That you know, we didn't make, maybe we did make this point yesterday, but words matter.

So Hillary Clinton calling half this country or more than half this country a basket of deplorables, which is the one thing that comes to my mind. I know there's been many, many other statements. But To put people who don't agree with you and your politics down like that, think of that, basket of deplorables. That that comment was made back in 2015 before the 2016 election one of the reasons that she lost insulting people that way. And now the insults, the words that matter, are ingrained in the minds of these empty vessels like this twenty two year old and the butler shooter and this lunatic uh who's on trial in Flor in Florida for trying to assassinate Trump.

These words resonate in their mind. And that's where we're at. where we're at today. Robin, Sebastian Gorka, are good friends and colleague working at the White House, shared this series of tweets last night. And these are all coming from Joe Biden.

All right. Joe Biden. President of the United States. Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of the country. Donald Trump is the greatest threat to our democracy.

Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He's a threat to our freedom. He's a threat to our democracy. He's literally a threat to everything America stands for. Trump poses many threats.

The greatest threat he poses is to our democracy. I mean, this is just a sampling. of the hate as you referenced, and I think you're right, words do matter here. And all of that rhetoric combines with the AOCs of the world. That nutjob congresswoman in Texas, Maxine Waters.

Go and attack Republicans at dinner where they went after Huckabee's daughter. She was eating there with her family in Washington, D.C. Go and disrupt Ted Cruz at his dinner in Washington, DC, the Supreme Court justice who was almost killed outside of his home. I mean, we could be on the airpod for for the next 90 days and not go through every single incident. But these people who are empty vessels, they're uneducated, And they are ginned up by these nasty, nasty words.

and it's ingrained in their mind, the hate grows it's like the Hitler thing. Donald Trump, what does he have to do with Hitler and exterminating six million Jews and a million Christians in Nazi Germany? The answer would be nothing. But these people have no sense of time and history. Um I was at I'm in Las Vegas at the moment on a matter.

And I'm out here and I'm reminded of a couple of things. We had we're a day out from nine eleven, right, september twelfth. think of nine twelve, twenty four years ago, how we came together as a country. We weren't black, we weren't white, we weren't old, we weren't young, we weren't fat, we weren't thin, we were just Americans. And I think that nine twelve of twenty twenty five.

This needs to be A day of reckoning. Will we tone down this language? And I don't mean tone down just, you know. turn the dial. I mean, we've got a clear house.

This is Like having roaches in your kitchen. You see one roach, there's 20 behind the wall. We need to Clean out this. Level of speech and shut it down on social media, whatever it takes. It's gotta go.

Well, I appreciate, Robin. What I appreciate is President Trump, Trump, and I don't know who on the curvy couch asked this idiotic question, but and you know how it goes in the national media. They're saying, well, But what do you say? Because there are extremists on both the left and the right.

Well, that's simply not true. And as Trump pointed out, though, and I loved how he framed this, he says the radicals on the right are radical because they don't want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem. And they're vicious, they're horrible, and they're political savvy. And I think what we just saw here, Robin, and I'll give you the last word here.

I think what we saw happen with Charlie is that Charlie Kirk was literally. Fighting for the soul of the country with words, and the left they use bullets and violence. It's true. True. And that's a stupid question written by a stupid woke behind the scenes reporter at Fox, no doubt about it.

People need to understand that a lot of those questions are prepared in advance, and you have a lot of woke idiots that work there. But that said, I like how the President phrased it. I've heard Stephen Miller Phrase it that way. And yes, we that's just a bump that's a hope and change bumper sticker about, oh, there's radicals on both sides. That's complete nonsense.

I agree with you. It's a bumper sticker, and we've got to change it. We need real hope. We need real change. This basket of deplorables, putting people down because they don't agree with who you voted for, has got to come to an end.

And I know we were supposed to talk about crime today. I'm very excited that President Trump, when you suggested to him on your program, to clear out all the no law and no order. Suggery in Memphis. I'm glad it's going to get done. Every city in America, we need to clear out all these criminals and lock them up, period.

Enough. All right, Robin, we've got to leave it there. We are up against a hard break. Appreciate your great analysis here, but you're right. Enough is enough.

Robin Pothman, everybody, on our Patriot mobile newsmaker Line. Today is also Open Line Friday, and we're going to be taking your calls 901-260-5926. They got this guy. Um Death penalty? Yeah, I th and I think it ought to be a public execution.

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There were no cars set on fire. There's no violence. There were There were vigils. And prayers. and people coming together.

to share the humanity. And and that Ladies and gentlemen, I believe is the answer to this. We can return violence with violence. We can return hate with hate. And that's the problem with political violence, is it metastasizes.

Because we can always point the finger at the other side. And At some point, we have to find an off-ramp. or it's going to get much, much worse. Yeah, that's uh the governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, uh, just a little while ago. And you know what's interesting, the only thing burning in America In the aftermath of Charlie's assassination, are candles.

That's it. There have been no riots. There's No pillaging, no plundering, no looting, because that's not what conservatives do. That's not who we are. We are Christian people.

And when you look at the left and look at George Floyd and the the guy was hopped up on fentanyl and all sorts of stuff, I mean cities burned, businesses were looted, pillaged and plundered. People lost their lives? It was awful. But that's how the left does things. That's how they handle things.

You know, last night I was honored to be a part of a vigil for Charlie Kirk, and the young Republicans of Memphis put this thing together. They had over 600 people turn out for this candlelight vigil last night. And it was really a beautiful moving thing. The local Turning Point USA chapter from the University of Memphis was there. And to look out over the crowd, and they asked me to say a few words, and I was honored to oblige.

Just to see the numbers of young people. that were there. And some of them had literally rushed off of the job so that they could be there and be a part of that moment. And I remember standing out there and telling the crowd, What I saw were hundreds and hundreds of Charlie Kirks. Men and women, old, young and old, who can make a difference.

Who can turn the the direction of this country. and it's going to require a lot of work and a lot of effort. Because of the radicalization that's been happening on these university campuses. All right, we've got to take a quick break here, folks. 901-260-5926.

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Happy to have you with us today.

So, we had President Trump on the show a couple of weeks ago, and then a few days after that, was invited to the White House to visit and fellowship with the President. During the interview, The uh the president um Well, I talked to him about Memphis, my hometown, And I figured, you know, I took a liberty and I said, mister President, what about Memphis? We're the most violent city in America. We're the deadliest city in America. And I mean, I appreciate Washington, D.

C. and Chicago and LA. But what about What about our town? And here's how that conversation went, cut number 11. Mr.

President, you mentioned crime, and your FBI director, Cash Patel, did an interview with Fox, and he said that my hometown, Memphis, Tennessee, is the homicide capital of America. And the people here are just oppressed. You know, it's a blue city. We've got Republicans in leadership in Nashville. And a lot of folks are saying, is there anything President Trump can do to help out the good people of Memphis?

You know, Elon's building the big, huge super AI supercomputer here. Is there anything that you can do to help cities like Memphis? I will be. We're doing a sort of a test right now in DC. It's working unbelievably much faster than we thought.

We've arrested hundreds of criminals, hardline criminals, people that will never be any good. I don't care what they say. You know, they say, Oh, rehab, they're not going to rehab these people. These are hardline. They're born criminals.

They were born to be criminals. That's all they are. And we got them out of the system. Unfortunately, we have a lot of cities like that, but I love Tennessee. I won Tennessee by many, many, many points.

So it was a landslide. Far greater than even the Republican Republicans do good in Tennessee, but I mean, my number was like thirty five points. And uh I'm glad you're telling me that. I can put that early on the list, and I'm sure that people would love it. And then at the end of the interview, the president brought it up again.

Just on, he was not asked about it, but he brought it up again. Take a listen, he got 12.

Well, it's an honor, and you've been with me from the beginning. Thank you, Todd. I'll see you soon. All right. Thanks, Mr.

President. And I'm going to think about Memphis, too.

Okay? All right. Thank you, sir.

Okay. Thank you very much. All right. And then this morning. On Fox and Friends, my understanding is the president may have jumped the gun because he was going to make this announcement on the Todd Starden show.

But he was on Fox and Friends on the curvy couch, and here's what he announced. Cut eight. I think maybe I'll be the first to say it right now again. We're going to Memphis. Memphis is deeply troubled.

And the mayor is happy, he's a Democrat mayor, the mayor is happy. and the governor, Tennessee. The governor's happy, deeply troubled. We're going to fix that just like we did Washington. I would have preferred going to Chicago.

I had a man in a big, the head of a big, big railroad. They're doing a merger and he wanted to come see me and all that stuff. And I asked him, because, you know, it's it's a one of the largest train companies, maybe the largest, so you can figure out who it is.

Okay, Union Pacific. And he was in my office, and he started off 45 years ago with the railroad. Such a great story. Sir, I'm a railroader. That's the kind of guy that should ride it, you know, as opposed to a Wall Street guy that destroys the railroad, but he's good financially, right?

And he was a very impressive guy. And I said, so what do you think? Where should we go next as a city? Because we're going to go one, two, three, and then we'll do a few at a time. But we're going to straighten out the crime in these cities.

He said, sir, Memphis would be good because He's on the board of FedEx. He said, when I walk one block to my hotel, they won't allow me to do it. They put me in an armored vehicle. with bulletproof glass, to take me one block He said it's so terrible. I said, let me ask you a question.

So we're going to Memphis. I'm just announcing that now, and we'll straighten that out. National Guard and anybody else we need. And by the way, we'll bring in the military too if we need it. There you have it.

Liberation Day is coming. You're welcome, Memphis. And we are excited to go to our Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. Welcome into the conversation, Congressman John Rose, who is also running to be the next governor of Tennessee. Welcome to you, Congressman.

Well, Todd, welcome. to you and thanks for having me on the Todd Starn show today.

So, your reaction to the news coming out today, President Trump sending in the National Guard not to Chicago, but to Memphis, Tennessee.

Well, I think this is just another crystal clear example of leadership from President Trump. He knows because of you, Todd, and obviously others, but Thanks to you for really calling his attention to this, that Memphis Has the highest one of the highest rates of crime, the highest rate of crime in twenty twenty four of any city in the country. Shelby County has so much to offer our state and nation, and so I'm hopeful that these. resources from the National Guard. And confident that they'll do the same thing they've done in Memphis of making the Bluff City a great place to work.

And raise the family once again. And as the President pointed out, and we have shared this, you know, Memphis is a very critical place for the entire nation because we are a transportation hub, whether it be on boats, on ships, on the rails, with the trains, and also, of course, with FedEx being headquartered right here. Absolutely. Yeah. importance to the country, I think it would be hard to overstate, particularly as you've already pointed out with respect to logistics and transportation.

not just FedEx, but certainly FedEx and the you know, the the transportation hub and the the uh cargo and and uh important Information and materials that keep this country running that passes through Memphis, Tennessee. And obviously, the investment of Elon Musk and the XAI, et cetera, I think underscores Memphis's importance. But we all know. And I've gotten the chance to be in Shelby County a lot here in recent weeks. We all know what a crown jewel Memphis is to Tennessee and to the Mid South.

And we simply have to take drastic action to make sure that Nythians are safe. I know that our local leaders are enraged. The county mayor calling it un-American, which is a little ironic because this was the guy that literally shut down every restaurant, bar, small business in the county during the China virus. And he also threatened to fine people who did not wear what we call the face diapers. Those would be the masks, Congressman.

So I think it's a bit rich for him to be talking about bringing in the National Guard as being un-American. You know what I find un-American, Congressman? The fact that you can't let your kids play out on the front yard because of the drive-bys.

Well, that's true. And I've talked to families there in Memphis that are concerned that they can't let their children go out and play in the yard. Do what kids ought to get to do in Memphis because of the shootings in the background. Again, I think it calls for drastic intervention. The National Guard, I think we see what it's already done in Washington and having been there the past two weeks, Seeing firsthand The sense of safety and security that you now feel in Washington.

You get off the subway, and I ride the subway to work every day. And there are some of America's finest Patriots in National Guard uniforms. standing on the platform, and it just gives you that added sense of security. And of course, we've seen the impact on the reduction in crime in Washington DC. And of course, Washington's number 10, Memphis is number one.

And so I think it's time. And I appreciate the President stepping up to the plate. And I'm happy to see the governor and the mayor supposedly supporting this. And I've and I'm you know I feel a strong sense of hope for Memphians to feel safe once again in their city. And perhaps this gives the Memphis Police Department the breather it needs to.

start filling the ranks of the officers there and Diverting their time to go after the criminals that are on the streets. But of course, we've got bigger problems there because we've got to have. A district attorney who's willing to take on crime, who's willing to prosecute the bad guys. get those serial offenders off the street. Send a strong message to anyone else who would be you know, considering committing a crime in Shelby County and Memphis.

Congressman, I want to ask you about the news coming out of Utah earlier this morning. We understand a suspect has been taken into custody and is facing charges. My concern is: how did this kid get radicalized? Because it looks like, right now, it looks like he came out of a pretty normal family environment. And I'm looking at the university campus now.

Was the kid, you know, if he was in school, was he radicalized there?

Well, certainly. we see and we've seen here in Tennessee, and I guess it's again encouraging that We've seen some educators taken out of their roles of being guiders and mentors to our kids. We know that the College and university settings have become a real hotbed for this kind of woke radical thinking. with liberal ideologues, uh you know trying to influence our kids. And I think we're seeing that now spill over and too early to know exactly what the circumstances here are, but You know, we just can't not have.

the mentors for our kids, the professions for our kids. allowed to foment hate And encourage violence because they have a different ideological view than someone else. Really disturbing. This is what was such a great thing about Charlie Kirk, is that he was a boss. for open and vigorous dialogue and debate.

He was willing to take on all comers and engage in that debate and encourage it to happen. And I think as the result was a great Mentor and guide to our young people in this day. And they, of course, walk to him. because they wanted to hear that encouraging message. And so We'll have to wait to see what the exact details here are, but what a tragedy for our country to lose.

He's such a bright young man. who was having such a tremendous impact on On encouraging young Americans to exercise their freedoms. to become informed And take on a debate in a public square in the way that he encouraged them to do so. All right. Congressman, we're going to have to leave it there.

Always appreciate your wise words, and of course, running to be the next governor of the great state of Tennessee as well. Thank you, Congressman. Thanks for having me. It's a great honor and privilege to serve the people of Tennessee. All right, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.

Wow.

So this is exciting for us. And I'm just, I'm honored. That President Trump would hear the concerns, and the reason why I asked the President. is because nobody else would. You know, if the mayor of Memphis had done his job, If the county mayor had done his job, if the Republican governor of Tennessee had done his job.

then Trump would not have to send in the National Guard. but the reality is they all took a pass. The mayor of Memphis literally invited I I am not making this up he invited gang members to City Hall for milk and cookies. to have a confab.

Well, I got to tell you, when President Trump shows up, He's not going to have milk and cookies. He's going to have the National Guard. And they're going to be armed to the teeth. With troops galore, It is going to be Liberation Day. In the Bluff City.

And I can't wait for that to happen. I want to play some audio before we go to break here. This is from a listener from KWAM. She lives in Cordova, Tennessee. And again, Memphis is the largest majority black city in America.

So you need to understand what President Trump is doing, he's doing also for the black community here. Cut number 13, Latina. What say you? I just want to say I'm so excited and grateful. That the troops are coming to Memphis.

They are very much needed. I mean, it had gotten to the point where you're afraid to drive in the daytime. I mean, you see robberies, you see rigorous driving, and we really need them here to control the crime and to make the citizens safe again because I don't feel safe in the city. city at all even during the day Do you know what? Ready?

Car jacket. Shielding. Robin Armatron. all that is going on throughout the city.

So I am so excited and so grateful. That he had chosen to go. Come to Memphis. You know, it really does my heart good. You know, we asked the president and he said, you know what, we're going to take a look at Memphis.

And after we did that long interview, the president actually circled back and he says, We're going to look at Memphis. We're going to take a long, hard look at what's going on there. And Latina, I just so appreciate that because are you a long-term? Are you an old-timer? Have you been around Memphis for a while?

Yes, I've been around Memphis all my life. This is the worst that I Ever seeing it. Right, exactly.

So, same here. And the young people don't know this, but Memphis did not used to be like this. No. When my family visits here from Washington DC, we cannot go out to Elvis. We cannot visit Graceland.

We cannot visit Bill Street because we're afraid that we're going to get killed.

So We really need the help and the assistance. And it should have been done years ago.

Someone should have come in and looked at the problem years ago. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what President Trump is about to do. All right, we've got to take a break here. It's open line Friday. We're going right to your phone calls, 901 260 5926.

This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, as promised, let's go to the phone lines: 901-260-5926, Memphis, Tennessee. Lee listening to us on KWAM today. Hi, Lee. What's on your mind?

And we are I agree with most of everything you said about Memphis. I hope they come here, and I hope the National Guard, whoever they brain scream niggas for Fort Camero, whoever military police. I hope they have a Yeah. Machine gun on A D. And I hope they'll be playing some music called Warriors.

Come out and play now. I just love that movie. Because this stuff needs to stop, man. It really do, Tom. They need to stop.

You know what I want to see, Lee? I want to see paratroopers over North Memphis. I wanna see the I wanna see the planes overhead. It needs some. Yeah, it really does.

Now, I'm a black person, and I'm in the hood, and I'm over here in orange now. I know what's going on. This stuff just needs to stop. Begin to be Toubay, We need them real badly, isn't it? I mean, you can't come out the store with someone looking at you, eyeballing you, when you're trying to count your money.

When you go to your car, they come over there bagging you. Come on now, this stuff really gets stopped, man. I just hope they come to Messis. And I hope this stuff is slow down or stop. They need to go out to these criminal elements out here making all this money.

Lee, I have no doubt that the National Guard is going to be able to do that. And if nothing else, it's going to free up the local police, which is what they did in Washington to start really targeting some of these hotbeds of crime. And Lee, I'm telling you, we've heard from so many black Menfians who are so thankful that President Trump is coming to the rescue. But Kyle. You got to understand the situation with money.

These publications, these People that's running things. They are the cause of all this problem, man. They're making money. They just turn their head. I mean just a blind eye to all this corruption man.

Just think about all these things that are going on in this city. These cases are not being solved. Look what happened to the police department. They got a new trial and all this kind of mess. It's ridiculous.

I will, yeah, Lee, let me jump in here because the computer is going to cut us off. But again, it's exciting to see. That the White House is truly concerned about we the people. And when you look for so many years, we've had people in office that really don't care what goes on in places like Detroit or Houston or Memphis or even our nation's capital. They just turn a blind eye to it.

Well, those days are over, and President Trump is playing hardball. And I know there are people out there saying, well, you know, the president needs to be conciliatory. You know, we've got to tone down. No, no, we don't have to tone down anything. The problem is that the left, The left is out there making the threats.

The left is out there causing the violence. This is not the time to back down, ladies and gentlemen. This is the time for conservatives to stand up. All right, we've got to take a quick break. It is open line Friday.

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Good to have you with us, ladies and gentlemen, and we got him. We we got the guy. He is a 22-year-old, went to school for one semester. And this guy actually wrote on one of the bullets: hey, fascist, catch.

So that tells you all you need to know about this guy, full of hate. full of hate. And now We need to talk about. Where all of that hate and all of that rage came from. And I would recommend looking first and foremost at the university.

At the university system in this country. It is Open Line Friday. We've got a lot going on today. Real quick, though, I want to go to the phones and right out of the gate. And let's talk to Kent, who is listening to us in Southwest Kansas on AM1210KGYN, our great affiliate out in those parts.

Kent, what is on your mind today? Call time. How much time do we have? A lot of time or not too much.

Well, we don't have a lot, but let's get to it. Your reaction to Charlie. Yeah, go ahead. Oh bye. it breaks my heart.

I you know, you feel like you lost a family member uh Todd, I just pray for his family and his friends. just we don't you know, it's hard to it's hard to comprehend why this stuff happened. You know, I guess I want to share with your listeners that you are a man of your word. I got my book Monday. You sent me the book like you said you would.

I got it Monday.

Well, Ken, I'm so glad to hear that. Thank you for letting me know. We've got a great team here, and they keep me honest, and so I'm glad I'm glad the mail worked.

So Todd, the day of the The day they killed Charlie that night I was I was looking Please. the star-spangled blessings, the lesson. Was Matthew 544. Love our enemy. And I thought, wow, I needed to hear that that day because I didn't like our enemy very good that day, Todd.

Ken, I'm not sure I'm at that point yet. You're a better man than I am.

Well, I'm not saying I'm being obedient. I'm just saying that's what God's word told me that night. I agree. I've said. Yes.

So, I just wanted you to know, and your listeners, to know, that you did what you said. You sent me the autographed copy. Yeah, the book. Todd, on a lighter note, a while back you talked about the word cracker and the cracker barrel deal. Yes.

So. I read a book a while back about the cow business in Florida. And The guys used bull whips to Chase cattle and herd cattle because they couldn't use ropes in the swamp, in the Everglades.

So they got to calling them crackers 'cause that's what they used was a bull whip. Oh, in the 1800s.

So I wanted you to know that's some of the derivative of cracker and it had nothing to do with race.

Well, that's good to know. And I think in this particular Well, Ken, I'm glad you did, and thank you for calling in. And I think at the if I if I'm understanding my country history, and by country, I mean the the the country. They use those barrels to put the crackers in, and hence the term cracker barrel. Want to go to the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line real quick and say hello to a good friend.

He is Tennessee State Senator Brent Taylor, and he is my state senator. He's also sort of like the Tennessee version of Louisiana Senator John Kennedy, quite the word Smith. Senator, good to have you with us today.

Well, thank you, Todd. I appreciate that. And I am I'm glad to be with you, and I appreciate your kind words. You know, Senator, I um I want us to first of all talk about Charlie Kirk. And last night in Germantown, Tennessee, over 600 people turned out.

for a a vigil, and it was really moving, but I I'm sensing that something is going on in the country and that the young people of America are waking up and they're realizing that we cannot go down this path of fascism. I totally agree. And I think Tog, we're a really At a, I think a uh A tipping point. or a turning point to use um Charlie Kirk's organization's name. I think we're at a turning point And you saw it with the Ukrainian young lady that was killed in Charlotte, and then that was followed a few days later with the Fascination of Charlie Kirk.

And I think People normal law-abiding citizens have finally reached their breaking point. I think This is a turning point where people are saying enough is enough We're not taking this anymore. And they're gonna start uh demanding accountability from their elected officials. Instead of coddling criminals, to holding criminals accountable. and what we see in many cities, including mine in your city.

that criminals are given freedom and victims are given funerals. And that's got to stop. And I think we've reached that point where we're people are tired of it. And I think we're going to see a different type of election in the next few cycles than what we've seen in the past. I do too.

And I think it's going to be important for us to get that messaging out there. Here is the reaction from, and by the way, Democrats they control everything in Memphis, and here is the county mayor. And he's talking about how we don't need the National Guard and says it's un-American for President Trump to send the National Guard. Listen to Cut Five, please. I would encourage him to not call the National Guard here.

I think that that is really anti-American, anti-democratic. There's probably some options like having the National Guard without the uniforms, without the military fatigues. Maybe there's some other uniform. Maybe instead of the semi-automatic rifles, maybe they have sidearms. I was really encouraged to see the governor sending Tennessee Howie Patrol to town.

I think that's the kind of thinking we need, and that's the kind of partnership we need. Yeah, maybe we should just give them lollipops, Senator. I agree, and I've watched part of that interview, and I finally turned it off because it was just. But Nonsense. And, you know, if he's concerned about what type of footprint our presidents, the National Guard, has.

He would do better. to articulate that to the governor and to the president rather than standing on the sidelines bitching about it It.

So I would encourage them to stop that. But let me just say one other thing about that. He says that it's unAmerican to send the National Guardian. I might remind him as an African American. That it was President Eisenhower has sent the National Guard to Little Rock to desegregate The high school in Little Rock.

It was President Kennedy who sent Federal troops to Birmingham and to Oxford to desegregate the schools. They did that because the civil rights of African Americans were being violated. and it was incumbent upon the federal government using The National Guard to protect the It was a just cause then. And The civil rights of Minthians right now. specific to mentors.

are being violated because they don't have the right to leave their home and to go to the store, go to church. Go visit friends across town. Go downtown to to eat in our restaurant. They're being denied the right to do that. And the cause today is justice Just It's just as as um is important And just as it was for the presidents back then during the civil rights era, to send the national guardian to protect uh Africa.

American civil rights. It's unfortunate the mayor Uh has a short memory. I think this is a brilliant way to frame this conversation because you're right. I mean, when you look at who are the people being most impacted by crime in the Memphis area, it is the black community. And to a person They've been calling into our national radio show, our local radio station, and saying, we need help, we need relief.

And we cannot continue to live like this. And I'm wondering, and you heard if you go back and listen to President Trump, and I'm not going to play the clip again, but the President talking about how some FedEx personnel had to be carted around in an armored vehicle because it was so dangerous. Senator, for me, as a Memphian, as a Tennessean, I find that to be embarrassing. I agree. And if you listen to what Mayor Harris says and the other Democrats, they're given the same lines that Orville Fulbus Ross Barnett.

And George Wallace gave in the 1960s about why they didn't want the National Guard in those states during the Civil Rights Era. They're making the same argument today. And it's unfortunate that they weren't better students. History than that. It's a fair point.

And I know that's a shocking statement. And you probably just made the headlines and heads explode in the newsrooms across the nation, Senator. But I think that's a fair way to look at it. And nothing else, I really see the National Guard coming. I think they're going to be welcomed.

As liberators, because we are a city that is oppressed right now. We are, and I think most Memphians are going to be like me, they're going to be as happy. as a fat man at a Golden Corral but To see the National Guard in Memphis protecting their rights and protecting them from crime. criminals. That's a lot of happiness right there, Senator.

All right, Senator Brent Taylor calling us from New Orleans on vacation. Senator, hope you're having a good time in the Big Easy. Thank you. Much, Todd. I appreciate you.

All right. State Senator Brent Taylor from the great state of Tennessee. This guy, if we had more Republicans like him on the state level across the nation, this country would be put in the right direction. Look at a splint. What'd he say?

Happier than a fat man at a Uh Golden Corral Buffet. That's a good line. All right. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to go to the phone lines.

We have a lot of folks waiting to talk. But Carlotta in Rhode Island, it's been a long time, Miss Carlotta. What's on your mind? Oh, so many things. Just cut me off when I've spoken too much.

But an hour and a half before President Trump announced on the Kirby couch. That big uh the killer was in captivity. Fid Rosenberg. announced there on his show. And do you remember during Biden's first State of the Union speech what Sid Rosenberg did What's that?

He yelled out, Biden quoted some facts that weren't true, and Sid Gozberg yelled out, says who? And they escorted him out.

So you you own Your own station, Todd. And I know you sit in for Greg Kelly, so you must know him. You you really ought to have more to do with that station because It's your type of thing. I mean, they were an hour. and a half before the President, and nobody's giving him credit for that.

So um I would just love to see you have a More to do with WABC. That's number one. Number two. Has anyone noticed the difference between the way Ray handled Butler and Patel handled this? Um It's a good question, Carlotta.

I'm just going to be. Blunt with you as I can be. I am not terribly impressed with how the FBI is being run.

Well I am I'm sorry to hear that because I think I think that they're redoing the whole thing. I think that they're really rebuilding the whole agency. They're understaffed. They're Tearing it apart, babe. They're starting from scratch.

They have a lot of People in there who are not working with them.

So they're moles, they're working against them.

So maybe they're just starting slow?

Well, that could be. I'm not sure about that, but I just have not been impressed with the whole handling of the Epstein files, a lot of the other information the FBI says that said from day one they were going to be releasing the investigations and the FBI director's bizarre behavior last night where he said absolutely nothing at his own press briefing. It's just a little odd. And maybe that's it. They're still a little nervous getting their feet under them, but they've got to quicken the pace, I would say.

Okay. And also they may be transparent to a fault.

Well, maybe. Maybe. Carlotta, it is good hearing your voice, and we appreciate you calling in, and thanks for listening. I want to go back to that Philadelphia speech that Carlotta mentioned. And this is the quote from President.

President Joe Biden, remember the Philadelphia speech? Where it was the dark it was the Dark Biden speech. We called him Darth Biden, where they had the blood red lighting behind him. And he said, quote, Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. That's the kind of evil we're dealing with in this country.

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Let's go to Clear Lake City, Texas. Mike listening to us on Patriot Talk 920. Hey, Mike, what's going on? Hello, hello. Say I just had a comment really.

Um That shooter had to be on the right roof in the right place at the right time. to get that shot. I cannot believe He went from ground. Level to that position. Without encountering A locked door.

So, in my mind, He did not act alone. He was to me, he was recruited the same way Thomas Crooks was recruited from the social media page because if there's no way that he could have pulled that off all by himself. That's just my opinion. I had heard a report that access, roof access, is pretty easy there at the university, and students normally don't have any trouble getting up there on the rooftops. But there could be other people that are involved.

Right now, we're not hearing that. But it's you know, it's something they have to look at, Mike, and we've got to get to the bottom of all of this.

Well as a universe. Why would you want students to have access To rooftop buildings? Isn't that a liability for the university?

Well, it's a fair question. I mean, that's a fair point you bring up. No, that's just that's just my thought.

So, Mike, you think there may be a conspiracy here?

Well, I wouldn't that wouldn't go so far as well.

Well, you use a con you know, there are well conspiracy meaning there are conspirators. There were more, there was more than one person involved.

Well, I think so. I mean, like Thomas Crooks, he was also in the BlackRock video. That's not coincidence. I don't see how this guy could pull this off all by himself. How many how many There would have to be, he didn't just wake up a Wednesday morning and say, I think I'm going to go shoot Charlie Kirk today.

There hadn't been planning. You know Knowing where to be, when to be, how to get there. All of that. I I just don't see how he could have access to all that information and so forth. Was you s was you a a student of the university?

He was not a student at that university. He had attended one semester at Utah State University, but he was not. He was not a student there at the school.

So There clearly, there was a lot of planning involved here, and we're going to get to the bottom of it, Mike. I can promise you that. Thank you for the call.

Some new information. This is from the reporting of CBS News, and I want to pass this along to you. According to CBS News, Tyler's father saw the photo that was released last night by authorities. He confronted his son about the photos, and that's when his son admitted that he was the person in the photograph. Tyler's father then told him that he should turn himself in.

Tyler said he would rather commit suicide, so the father called a youth pastor. And who knows the family and is close to the family, and the pastor and Tyler's father tried to call him. calm him down. The pastor also serves as a court security officer and the pastor called U. S.

Marshals. and the Marshals detained Tyler and kept him secure. They then called the FBI and took him into custody.

So that's the latest information there. By the way, Tyler did receive an academic scholarship, a presidential scholarship. to attend Utah State. That is their largest academic scholarship, and he intended for one semester. One semester.

All right, hang tight. We've got to take a break going right back to the phone lines: 901-2-60-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show Open Line Friday. All right, welcome back, everybody. Good to have you with us.

And I just have to say, I think the Democrat Party is done. They're over. There's nothing left to salvage. It's just mor it's rot, just moral rot within the Democrat Party. And we are going to be dealing.

With the re The results of the Radicalization of our schools. For years to come. Because there is some very dangerous 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 year olds. that were radicalized in those campuses, in those classrooms, that are walking around right now. Predators.

So let's go to the phones. We've got a lot of folks wanting to weigh in today on a lot of issues. It's Open Line Friday, by the way, 901-260-5926. Let's go to Memphis, Tennessee, Drew, listening to us on KWAM. Hi, Drew.

What's on your mind? Yeah, hey. Yeah, Todd. Yeah, no, you mentioned something earlier. Um about in terms of Memphis and and specific Mayor Young.

Um I went back and looked this up and showed it Sure enough, there it was. You know, last year, I think it was February, is what the article said. February 24th or something like that of last year. here. Yeah, he did indeed.

Meet up. literally meet up in person With a handful of Local game. leaders to discuss. Possible ceasefires. And what what what can we do, guys?

What are we going to do here to stop this violence? And they apparently, yes, I think this was New Channel 5, the article that published or whatever, but. The main thing apparently that they talked about was we need jobs. We need jobs. Our guys need jobs, you know, so they don't have to resort to this.

And then that was it. And they went on about their merry way. Understand so gang leaders are responsible for what? Deadly violence. carjackings, robberies.

drive-by shootings etc. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

So instead of, you know, doing like a sting style. operation and snap. them up and trying to get information. On all the other gang members and getting rid of all them, locking them all up. No, okay, let's just have this discussion.

Oh, you want jobs?

Okay, we'll try our best to get jobs.

Okay, have a nice day.

Okay, here's some cookies. I don't I mean, that's ins that's insane. You can't tell me that Mayor Young and all of the leaders in the city. Obviously they have Information on these people's whereabouts. They know they're, I'm sure.

They know their full legal names. I'm sure they know their. All their aliases. I'm sure they know they're. uh places of res residences, I'm sure they have all their information.

Instead of going after them and physically locking them up for good and all of their cronies under them. They're just, no, no, it's fine. We just need to try to find ways to you know, get what they want. They want jobs. apparently.

Oh, okay.

Well, it turns out they didn't want Josh.

So here we are, the National Guard. Here we are. You know what I mean?

So. Yeah, Mayor Young can't do it. Obviously, the mayors before him can't do it either.

So, yeah, now we're left with this.

So I don't blame. Blame at all what's going on with bringing the guard in. I mean, what are we left with? It's This point. It's a great question.

It's a great question. Drew, we've got to leave it there, but thank you for calling in. Thank you for listening to the show. Let's go to our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Our good friend Nationally Syndicated Radio host, Joe Messina, joins us.

And Joe, we've been following all sorts of breaking news stories today. And of course, going back to the The arrest of this 22-year-old. Who looks like he grew up in a pretty stable household, and now we need to figure out how this guy was radicalized? You know, it's interesting. I looked at the pictures, but can we give kudos to the dad?

For doing his dadly, dad fatherly responsibility and getting that young man not only to fess up. But to the authorities. Yeah. I mean, how many parents would actually do that today?

So You know, again, well, let me tell you how it happens, Todd. As you know, I'm a member of a school board here in Southern California, one of the largest districts in the state. Go figure. We are not a totally conservative community. And the other night, We had a proposal on the table or a policy on the table to remove.

Any flags that weren't anything but the American and the state flag. And what ended up happening is the room was packed with teachers and young kids. that were yelling at us, yelling at me in particular, saying that all we were trying to do was hurt the LGBTQ community by removing their flags, that it would be hurtful and detrimental. And we had teachers there supporting them. And I gotta tell you, Todd, we had maybe five or six conservative parents, no conservative kids.

And so you can see what they're being fed at these schools six to eight hours a day. That's how it's being done. That's what concerns me. And by the way, I'm still trying to figure out how they elected you. Because it's I mean, you're a conservative, my friends.

Yeah. You would the libs in town are still trying to figure out how that's going to be. Yeah, I well, I'm glad you're there. But but again, you so you you really have a front row seat to to all of this, so I'm not I'm not off my rocker when I say there is radicalization going on in these classrooms. Oh, big time when we did a town hall meeting on parental rights, on putting, actually putting parental notification when a child was going to transition or do something to their bodies.

We had a three-hour meeting, and 165 out of 180 speakers were left-wing radicals, were teachers, were students who decided that I was Satan's second cousin, even though they don't believe in God, and that what we were doing was bad, and they demonized the parents. while being applauded by the teachers for three hours, Todd. Our people need to get involved. They need to step up. God bless Charlie Kirk because he hit that.

That young group to be able to say, look, you have rights, you have a voice, you have a mouth. Don't be violent, but be vocal. Mm-hmm. We don't have that in the education system. No, no, we don't.

And we've got to do something about that. And this is going to it's going to take some time. But the problem I have is we've got a lot of kids that have already been radicalized. They've graduated. They're out in the public now.

And you wonder how many other potential assassins are there wandering around? Oh, I agree with you because you can see the rage. You know, I walk school campuses and you can see the rage and the hate in their eyes because they know me and who I stand for. Look, I'm no Charlie Kirk, but I don't shy away from God. I don't shy away from Jesus.

I don't shy away from prayer at all, and they know it.

So when you're walking those campuses, these kids are lost. There's no. Brightness behind their eyes. They really are in a bad and dark place. And they get momentary relief with those smartphones that they have and social media.

But what are they being fed 24-7? What are they reading? They don't want to be ostracized, so they jump on those groups, you know, hate Charlie Kirk, hate Republicans, hate Donald Trump. And this is what they're being bombarded with 24-7. Todd, Parents have to step up and do their job, they have to stop being their friends, they have to watch what they're looking at on the phone, and if you have to.

God bless America, pull them out of the schools. I mean. I speak at churches and I say that, and they've got the left has got clips of me they put up and I say, Look, money hurts these schools. If they're not teaching your kids properly, pull them out, get together, do some home schooling. But You can't just keep letting things go as they go and think they're going to change.

By the way, Joe, I want to get your take on something we're dealing with here in Memphis. Of course, I asked President Trump a few weeks ago to send to the National Guard. He said, why? And I said, because we're the most dangerous city in America. And he said that nobody had asked him.

Nobody had talked to him about this.

So I said, Well, Mr. President, we need your help.

So, on behalf of my hometown, can you help us out? And he said he would. And then this morning, he delivers on that promise. You got to love all the elected leaders here on the Republican side because they're all taking credit for it. Those people didn't do jack squat.

You know, that just irritates me. But anyway, the Democrats who control Memphis are raging right now. And the mayor, a guy by the name of Lee Harris, literally said at a press conference just moments ago that President Trump personally murdered 11 innocent Venezuelans. Those were freaking drug dealers.

Well, isn't it funny? They're more concerned about making sure drug dealers are safe coming to this country than they are about Americans in this country. And, Todd, I'm totally surprised that you about your comment about the Republicans. They don't, they are nowhere to be found. I'm like, where the hell are these guys?

Yeah. Ha ha ha. It's just it's just I don't expect anything from anymore. I know it's a bad way to be, but I don't expect anything from our Republicans. Very few of them, but most of them, they need to take lessons from Charlie Kirk.

They need to be bold when they're in Congress. Look at what happened overseas, was that one of the legislative bodies there wanted to take a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk? And the president of their legislative body said no, but they got up and did it anyway. What do ours do? They hear no's and they acquiesce.

I would have just got up there, stood up, and shut up until they got the hint. But we don't have anybody like that. I'm sorry, we got people getting shot dead in the streets, people getting carjacked all, and you've got a lot of these Republicans out there, and they're holding these little cocktail parties, and they're giving each other these awards: you know, most improved swing, best apple teeny recipe. And you're like, the rest of us are like fighting for our lives. Yeah.

Yeah, you're exactly right. We have the you know, you know, you have it here in LA. Uh you're seeing it all the time. Even though they say it's it's quieter, it's not. We have people that won't even go into LA, only Zoom.

That's it, because they're afraid of what might happen to them in the city. Look. Y y your uh earlier Person that you had on who talked about how the National Guard was sent in to desegregate schools. My God. And we can't send them in to keep people from being stabbed on trains so that my wife could go down to downtown LA into an area where you can make some great deals on product, but she can't go down there anymore because of what might happen to her, the car, the kids.

No, this is not America. Not even close. We had our good buddy, Senator Brent Taylor, on in the show, and he's going to be making headlines after what he said because he did make the comparison that these Democrat leaders. Are basically modern-day versions of Bull Connor and George Wallace. Right.

And the civil rights of black citizens in Memphis are being violated. The great irony here is that in the 21st century America, Bull Connor and George Wallace are black dudes. You know I love this because you think the Democrats think they're the savior of the black community. And if you think of everything they've done to the black community, and you know, I know he's dead and and we're not supposed to do this kind of thing, but Jimmy Carter Who wouldn't build a black school or a school that would house black kids on the same side of the street as a high school that had white kids because they might bump into each other. They might have to share the sidewalk.

That was in Sumter County. And and and they're the savior of the black community? Uh really? I don't know how they got people to buy into this. All I know is that I hate to say this, but we put too much.

Give too much credit to sometimes to the American voter, considering they voted Obama in twice. And the fact is that they might end up with this Mandami in New York City. And you're right, it's all about education. Till we take the education system back. This is what you know, you said.

You're looking into the future and look at what we're raising. We haven't stopped doing it yet. Nope, sure haven't we? Sure haven't. All right.

We got to leave it there, Joe Messina. It got my blood pressure up, Todd. Let me tell you. We're creating care packages. We're in the early stages of all this, but when the National Guard comes to town, we're going to be armed with, I don't know, racks of ribs, pulled pork.

Gibson's doughnuts, they're going to be treated like the Americans coming into Paris after they were liberated. That's what's going to happen. All right. God bless Todd. Thanks, Joe.

All right, Joe Messina. You know, when I was talking to the white, they called me last week and they're like, this is all off the record. You cannot talk about it. And I'm like, all right, no problem.

So they told me that what was going to happen, and they're still working through all the particulars. But I can't believe Dylan, I can't believe I actually said what I said. I'm talking to him and I said, look, here's the deal. I just have One request. I said, if the president actually comes to Memphis, I want to ride shotgun in the Jeep.

And I said, I'm just kidding. And then I said, no, I'm really not. I want to ride shotgun. That's a, yeah, you may not get that request granted.

So if the president comes to town, and we will, you know. We'll share more when we can, but if it comes to town. Dill, I'm trying to figure out where do I take the guy for supper? Right. We got to put him up at the Peabody.

You know, that's a great got the ducks. Maybe he could be the honorary duck master. You walk the ducks? Folks Folly? Folks Volley's good, but I'm thinking Central Barbecue I'm thinking the president, we got to get the president a rack of ribs.

It can't be too fans. I mean, maybe McDonald's, you know, one of our better McDonald's here. A McGrib sandwich from the market. No, I'm not serving him a McGrib sandwich. He's coming to Memphis for crying out loud.

He loves McDonald's. I know, but he at McDonald's in Washington. That's true. I mean, he get he gets a fancy steak.

So we're going to have to figure this out because, you know, if the president does come to town, I I can you imagine? Maybe he could parachute in.

Okay. I can try to imagine that. This is going to be a lot of fun. You know what we could do? We could put him up at Graceland.

Right? We know the people there. And they've got a nice, you know, they got the, I mean, all the furniture is still there. They got good air conditioning. That might be a possibility.

All right, we got to take a break. 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Starring Show.

Well, I just got a text message.

Someone said: Does the president like banana pudding? And it. It's a fair question.

Next time we talk to the president, we'll inquire. But someone said the commons, the commissary in Germantown, they got great banana pudding. We're going to have to show the president a good time. That's all there is to it when he comes to Memphis. Let's go to the phone lines here.

Lancaster, California. Jarrett is on the line. Hi, Jarrett. What's going on? How are you doing, Mr.

Starnes?

Well, it has been a long time, my friend. Good to what are you doing? I understand you got yourself married and the whole nine yards. I did. I did.

Yes, sir. It's been a great year and a half now, married.

Well, I am happy to hear that. And of course, you have been so active in conservative politics and even started a conservative cl club on your campus back in the day. Yes, sir, I did. the privilege through my ministry at Lancaster. Baptist Church to lead about seven years.

public school Bible clubs. Um weekly or every other week. Wait, wait, wait. Let me get this straight. You're leading Bible clubs.

In California. Yes, sir, that's right. Here in Los Angeles County, too, we have several public school Bible clubs we go into weekly as a youth ministry. And we just speak and preach in front of kids who are looking for something different than what's being. shove down their throat in the classrooms every day.

What's been the reception? to the clubs.

Well, surprisingly, it's it's taken very well. One on Wednesday I went to here at public school. We had about 60 kids come and as I was walking the door I got the news about Charlie Kirk. And I just spoke to these teens about How the world is persecuting Christianity, and how Charlie Kirk stood up for what was right and had courage with his Christian faith. And out of those sixty teens, about twelve to fifteen of them raised their hand and accepted Christ into their heart, Todd.

Is that right? Jared, that is amazing. That's what's going to change. I was listening to the last person on your show talk about public schools. And this is what's going to change our country.

Is what exactly what Charlie Kirk was doing is just sharing the gospel on campuses because. They're looking for something different. They're being shoved down their throat with this ideology and they don't like it. And I'm seeing this more and more. We have clubs with 50, 60, 70 kids.

They just want to hear something that's actually hope to them, not just this ideology that they're. They're not right in their bodies, and they need some kind of medicine for their hormones. They're not looking for that anymore. Jared That music means we have to scoot out of here, but you have just blessed our hearts, and I know people are shouting and celebrating over this. great news about young people getting saved and the great ministry that you're doing.

They're in Los Angeles County. Jerry, good to hear from you, my friend. And I'll see you in a couple of weeks at the Big Spiritual Leadership Conference coming up. All right, hang tight, everybody. We'll be right back.

Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-totin, Bible-clanging, deplorable American. That's right. I love this American. Me and Roger Todd start. Hey, welcome, everybody.

Good to have you with us. This is the Todd Starn Show, our three Open Line Friday. This is a chance for you to call in. Full lines right now, so you're going to get a busy signal. But hang tight, we're going to be getting to your calls in just a matter of moments.

Uh this from Monroe Falls, Ohio. The Vice President of the Council there in Monroe Falls, Ohio, Says, so to all of you right-wingers out there, I have two things to say to you: Second Amendment. And thoughts and prayers. The world is a better place.

Now that he's gone, Believe it or not, that's one of the tamer. moments of celebration on social media platforms Over the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and it is ugly. And you know, I was really torn, and I actually talked to the staff about this earlier. And Dylan, you were talking, we were talking of the break. I know that your sister was at the vigil last night.

Lot of young people, a lot of young people impacted by this, and you said you were even having trouble sleeping. Yeah, the past two nights been pretty rough. I mean especially since you know I don't think we're ever supposed to see something like that. A lot of people saw it, you know, on on the internet. Uh so it just kinda lives in your head.

And a lot of people are affected. Obviously You know, Charlie Kirk affected a lot of young people, my sister included. You know, she texted me and she was really worried. in the moment. I was just trying to keep her updated, just comforting her, but Yeah, it's it's a it's a tough time right now.

I I think it is. And a lot of especially for a lot of younger kids who are We're just distraught and still are, and just trying to come to terms with. I mean, Charlie impacted millions and millions of young people. Uh no doubt about it. Stephen Keene of making some heinous Heinous charges.

on social media, which he has he has now backtracked, Stephen King the writer. And I suggested to him that it's just, you know, it's not good enough. I'm done with these people. You know what, these are very bad people. We are dealing with evil, and this man needs to go to church and needs to find the Lord.

One of the people calling Stephen King out is on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line right now. He is Travis Johnson, the pastor of Pathway Church. And Pastor, I know you're a church with multi-campuses, but you're based what in we call it LA, Lower Alabama? Todd, we are in LA. I want people to get to heaven.

But you know, if they can't get to heaven, at least get to Mobile, Alabama. Pretty much. Close enough. All right. Well, we have a lot of listeners down there in that part of the country.

So we love we love LA. And of course, a lot of us vacation on the Redneck Riviera.

So. That's right. We you know, we have a campus right there on Orange Beach Express and Bring it Yeah.

So you got Gulf Shores and and Orange Beach, beautiful place, truly. And of course also in the Memphis suburbs of South Haven, Mississippi. That's right. You know, that's in your neck of the woods there. It is.

Yeah, we're right. It's it's a beautiful place. Our campus is there. It's just a About two years old, and we were Yeah. A couple Wednesday nights ago for Night of worship.

It's an amazing place. God's really doing something special there. Master, what compelled you to speak out? yesterday on social media.

Well, you know. Yeah. problems is You know. What Charlie Kirk has been doing is No different than what good pastors have been doing in pulpit. They're preaching the truth.

You know, he's talking about freedom and Talking about marriage between one man and a woman, and two genders, and sanctity of life. Life is is created in the image of God. for doing that. Charlie Kirk got shot yesterday. And so I'm appreciative.

I love Charlie Kirk. And I can't. Can't be quiet. We can't be quiet. In fact, I would say.

One of the reasons that we need to be very careful about not speaking up Is or our failure to speak up is because it makes Charlie look like he's out of order or he's He's the banana that's out of the peel and that's the one that uh the bunch and that's the one that's going to get peeled. But every single pastor every single Christian, when they stand before their family or their church, They ought to declare the truth. Of Jesus Christ. In his word unapologetically, no qualifiers. Just say it.

I think, Pastor, as I've sort of been thinking through all of this and going back, and I'm not a revisionist with history. Charlie was not a flamethrower. He was not like an Alex Jones or a Steve Bannon. He was. And if you remember early on, there was even a lot of controversy because Charlie wanted to have open conversations about issues like abortion, and that was a big issue several years back.

And I think that's what's really shocking to a lot of young people is they're saying, well, wait a second, I believe the same thing Charlie believes here, and you're saying I'm a radical extremist?

Well, you know, Charlie, I just had Ryan Helfenbein on our podcast. I have that every Tuesday and Thursday. Um and um Three Central. And Ryan Helfenbein basically followed Charlie there at Liberty University. in the standing for freedom center.

So after Charlie, you know, head off and they just blew up turning point which Charlie is an anomaly. It's amazing what he has been able to do. But we were talking about the development of the man and The ministry and the The strategist work that Charlie Kirk did, it was development. You know, I think that's sometimes we look at ourselves and we think we're stereotyping. Other people are stereotyped, but Yeah.

Todd, you and me and Charlie. as far as that goes. You know, we're not a picture. We're more of a movie, we're not a page, we're more of a book, and it's a story that unfolds. And what What Charlie did was pretty amazing but it shouldn't have gotten them shot.

And it's the level of discourse, the amount of hate The money that's behind that, and I think that's what I was calling out yesterday. I mean, it was late last night. I dropped the post. I just looked at it.

Now it's about one point four million views. And it's because Um We live in a free Society and We ought to be able to speak. being run off of campus and have our presidents shot at and our ministers having extra security and our guides and our voices. under duress all the time. This is crazy.

There's real money back behind this. and our campuses are being radicalized. And Charlie Clark. Kirk went into the middle of that and for deal. that he was shot.

And I think that we have a responsibility. To stand up and speak out. What was it? Bonoffer said, silence in the face of evil is evil itself. And, you know, I, for example, today, one of the national publications called me, you know, a far-right conservative.

And I called him out on it. And I literally sent an email and I said, I need you to explain to me what do you mean by this? What do you mean by far-right? You know, why the slur? Why not call me a the owner of a news radio station or a nationally single-headed talk radio host or a Newsmax TV host?

Why are you calling me a far-right-wing extremist? What's going on with that? 100%. You know, I just recently had. you know, one of these the the the bomb thrower, you know, left extremist groups.

Capture something that I said in the church service, and they pushed it out. I responded back to them, said, Thank you for helping me. Amplify the gospel. The only thing extreme about that is that. God would lower himself to humanity so that he could save us.

And I'm so thankful for him.

So thank you for another half million people. watching the gospel being presented. But yes. It's just very normal. You know, marriage, this.

has been accepted, you know, biology. A man and a woman for all of human history in the last five. Minute of history. Radicals showed up, funded oftentimes by They're really deep pockets and they're. That's what's extreme.

It's extreme that you have teachers indoctrinating our kids. in centers of indoctrination where they should be centers Of education. And so it's not. to be a mom or a dad and become about that or past. or be concerned about it.

You shouldn't have students. getting kicked out of the classroom at Texas A ⁇ M University. Actually it's not just uh public universities, you know, it's It's Christian universities. A lot of Christian universities have succumbed to wokeism. And those those universities are just stalwarts.

and holding up on. I mean, you see like 150,000 students. It's exciting to see. Travis Johnson is pastor at Pathaway Church. There was a guy by the name of Willie Rice, Dr.

Willie Rice. He's a pastor as well, and he wrote a. An essay that's gone viral to the young men. That's the name of the column, to the young men. And he said, now is not the time, you know, because you've got all these, a lot of pastors now are saying, well, you know, guys, we need to tone down, we need to step back.

And Dr. Rice is saying, no, we do not because we have to speak up here. He says, feminism is a lie. Abortion is built on lies. Transgenderism is a lie.

The whole sexual revolution is a lie. Pastor, what do you tell the? The young people, and especially the young men of your congregations. When they're asking about this, because I have to imagine they're pretty distraught right now.

Well, what I see among our young men is they want to get married I see among our young men they're carrying Bibles. Notebooks, highlighters are sitting on the front row. These are football players and baseball players. and soccer players. You got all kinds of young men.

In fact, At the beginning of this school year. had about 120 Young men and women march around their high school Seven days in a prayer walk praying for revival for their school.

So actually, I'm seeing the opposite. when the gospel is preached, then people actually get saved. And if you dump down the gospel, If you round off the corners, you don't preach things that are offensive, then people don't. Recognize their sin. And here's the thing: if you don't preach, The bad news then there is no good news.

And if we don't preach about fifty years, then why do we need a Savior?

So you have to preach then so that people can come. To know Jesus to recognize who they are. And so we're seeing the opposite. We're seeing an incredible revival among our young people And so I stand with people like Pastor Willie Wright. I think that's a good Baptist pastor, there, isn't he?

I'm pretty sure. He is, yes. And I am of the Baptist persuasion myself, so I'm pretty impressed. I was, look, I went to Wednesday night, I was just. I I don't know.

I think it's hit all of us in such a very odd way. And usually I go home, I'm just exhausted on Wednesdays. And I said, No, I got to go to church. I just need to be around people. And so we have a Wednesday night supper and we have a Bible study.

And it was fascinating to watch our pastor, who's probably in his late 40s, I think, and he got up and said, you know. Man, I watched Charlie's videos. And we talked for a little while about that, and I was just so impressed that our pastor was taking the initiative and the time to do that. Because so many times, pastors, there's almost a disconnect between the church and what's actually happening in the culture at the time. Right.

Well, let me ask you why is that? Because When I look in the book of Genesis, we're told to take dominion over the earth to rule and reign over it. and we're to be fruitful and multiply. That means every single arena.

So the gospel Is not only welcome in certain places. There's no place that Jesus doesn't own. And there's no place that any Christian should shrink back from sharing the good news of Jesus Christ.

So I commend your pastor. And I commend every person in the mould of You know, with Charlie Kirk, or really, these are just gospel preachers. You know, these are basic tenants. Uh Sure. And so, you know, I'm thankful for that.

See if all the listeners, if their pastor preaches the truth, then you've got an obligation to say amen. You let him know because there's a whole bunch of people that want him to stop preaching the truth. And so you keep them fueled up with, you know. Serve, give in the church. Give them a good amen.

Keep them encouraged. because we need more backbone. Like Pastor Willie Rice was saying, we need to have strong voices and God will do a really incredible work. I was just looking at the at Yeah. That I did in it, I was calling.

for the forces that are behind these calls for death against people like Charlie Kirk to be investigated and Yeah, I listed some Stuff out there. And then I noticed this morning. I said, I said, Set up. Actually, if Charlie Kirk was my son. And I I would encourage If Charlie Kirk was my son-in-law, I encourage my daughter.

to sue the people that had been pushing those narratives for uh wrongful wrongful death suit. And then I noticed that this morning, and of course, I also named George Soros. Uh that he should be investigated. And then I noticed this morning, President. on Fox and Friends.

shared that he is going to be looking into George Soros. And he mentioned that he would be looking at a RICO charge as a RICO investor. I thought it was pretty encouraging. And I say, go after every single one of them, every single one of them. Pastor, we've got to leave it there.

Where can people go if they want to get more information about your ministry? By company. check me out at pathwaychurch.us. You can find a campus or just search path. Church on socials.

And then for me, I'm at Pastor's Church. Travis Johnson on all social. except for one, and that's X. where I feel like it could be a little bit more. you know, unseat belted.

And so you can catch me there at base time. Right there, and that's where you'll find me interacting with you and a number of other people. All right, good stuff.

Well, Pastor, we will see you tonight. I believe you're going to be a guest on my News Max show, and we will continue the conversation then. Thank you very much. Thanks for all you do. Great talking.

All right. Speaking of Newsmax, by the way, Rob Fennerty, have you been watching Rob's show? Man, it is just, it's unbelievable. As a matter of fact, Rob is now Rob Finnerty, now the fastest-growing primetime news show in America. President Trump has been on this show.

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As promised, for the rest of the show, we're just going to the phones. This is Open Line Friday. Let's go to Walt in Statesville, North Carolina, WSIC, our terrific station there. Hi, Walt. What's going on?

Pipeline. But I just wanted to talk about Chuck Schumer, who I saw. earlier given his comments on the uh sad situation. And he goes for a big magnanimous Call for unity. But if you recall.

When he was having a problem with the um Supreme Court He would like Yelling at Gorsuch and Kananov, and he had a couple. Dog whistles. He says, you've released a whirlwind. You'll pay the price. Do you remember that?

He said he would unleash, you have unleashed the whirlwinds. Yes, sir. I remember that. Yeah, and he also said He said, you won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions. And Walt, you remember what happened after those comments?

Yeah, they People go to the Supreme Court justices' houses. They literally, yeah, that's right. Yeah. So Talk about, you know, dog whistles. I mean The left always talks about dog whistles.

and people getting in the media and giving out these secret orders My God, think about that. Walt, it's a terrible thing the Democrats have done, and their language and their rhetoric is literally putting lives on the line here. That literally. And I hope that we're going to be able to get. The scoop on how this guy got himself radicalized, and we'll see how the FBI investigation proceeds.

Walt, my friend, good to hear from you, and thank you for calling. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. We're going to take a quick break. When we come back, we have two lines now open. Again, 901-260-5926.

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As promised, we are going to the phones. Let's go to Memphis, Tennessee. Tong, listening to us on KWAM. Hi, Tong. What's on your mind today?

Hey. Todd, how are you doing? Morning, part. Thank you very much. What's going on, Tong?

Um I uh I I just uh just saw an article on action new file and they uh and clerk uh so you say I don't stand Troops and money. I wonder. Uh if a mayor need another uh another read. Three, two. For his job?

Well, Tong, you're talking about the news coming out earlier today that President Trump will be sending the National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee. This is the first American city where the President is going to send in the National Guard. Of course, the District of Columbia is different than a state like Tennessee. And a lot of people are very excited about this. Can't wait to hear from our other Memphis listeners, Tong, because I suspect many others are going to be very happy to see the President step in here.

And let me just say this, and Tong, thank you for the call. Thank you for the call.

Um Let me just say this. President Donald J. Trump. He truly believes that black lives matter. He does.

Unfortunately, the black Democrats who run Memphis, they don't believe Black Lives Matter. And they have allowed hundreds, if not thousands, of blacks to be victims of crime in Memphis, Tennessee. And that's why President Trump is sending in the National Guard. Let's go to Memphis and Black Conservative. I understand you're in Oxford, Mississippi, but Black Conservative, your reaction to the news that the National Guard is on the way.

I am the most important. And political philosopher. I'm just disappointed I didn't think of that idea. to send the National Guards to Memphis. Uh, you know, I'm I'm just disappointed.

Uh I think is great. Uh I was a little um uncertain about it at first because I didn't know exactly where They could be placed. you know, in the city, uh which means safe for them. Definitely don't want to put them in a Orange Mountain or South Mm-hmm. in in a crime zone I Uh just in nowhere.

There can be set up for mobile and call up. Uh I just didn't know. But uh I think is great. you know, that they're their present is going to be here. in in the in in the city.

But Um but I have a better Uh miss Ta, I have a better Uh I better uh idea on how to to deal with crime. and the city of Memphis. Especially in these Democrat run cities where crime is going rapid And this may upset some callers and listeners. It may even upset you. But here's what I suggest.

we do in the state of Tennessee. We need To read. and consider. reinstating, reinforcing Uh for those who commit uh crimes, criminal hardcore crimes. They need to be confined.

Yeah. to hard labor in prison. slave laborers involuntarily It it's called involuntary Servant two. That's what they need to reinstate. Uh and these hardcore criminals When they commit these, uh the crimes that they do.

against law-abiding citizens They need to be um confined to hard labor. Instead of being in their jail cell, or I playing basketball in jail, playing domino and And writing a book that nobody's gonna read. They need to be confined. to har labor. while they are serving their sentence.

I love this idea.

So, you're talking about maybe bringing back the old chain tanks. And voluntary servant too is what it call. state of Tennessee, they banned it, but they need to to reinstate it. You see, uh folks, this really may uh throw throw you for a loop. I'm not opposed.

I'm not. uh opposed to every form of slavery. I'm not. Some forms of slavery need to be. reinstating one form need to be involuntarily serving two.

Well, black conservative, you and I are going to disagree on that, Jeez Alou. You're getting me in trouble here, sir. Ho, ho, ho, for a minute. Pump your brains. I have an erudite mind.

I'm a man of much book learning. No, I know you have an erudite mind, but Jesus. Listen, I didn't call into this show to be informed. I'm trying to inform your listeners. Listen.

This is going to throw you for a loop in the in the in the Bible, and I hear you quote scriptures all the time, it's great. You know, uh Moses had a question. Children of Israel had a little uh uh uh uh situation going on. there and they asked Moses It was it was it was it was about uh whether it was okay for them to to buy a slave from The uh the nations around them.

So God sent back his answer to that question. He said to the Hebrew children, you may purchase or buy a slave from the nations around you. You may purchase them. You may do that.

Okay. So let me, I hear, I hear what you're saying, but just I have to tell you, I, Todd Stearns, the host of this show, am opposed to slavery. And I do like the idea, though, of if you are arrested and you're incarcerated for a crime, you should be doing hard time and hard labor. To your point, no air conditioning, no fancy food. You are working your butt off, and the whole point is to make sure you don't.

It's so bad, you don't want to go back there. No. I want, let me soften your calling and listen. I'm not talking about chase down Kunta Kente and cut his foot off. I'm not talking about that kind of player.

I'm just saying that these criminals, when they get to jail, they shouldn't be able to pay checkers and dominoes. They need to be confined to the camera. Why don't you just put it like that? Yeah. I I mean, look, the part look It's not a sin to own or purchase a slave.

You know, they tore down all the statues because of slave owners. But I think that not inhumane, you know, stuff like that, slave stuff like that. I agree with that. All right, black conservative. If Al Sharpton shows up, I'm calling you, and you got to come down.

You got to come down here. And voluntary, they need to reinstate involuntary servitude in prisons for criminals who do crime, put them guys to hard labor. Black conservative, we're going to leave it there. You've made your point. It's.

Good hearing from you, my friend. I approve of this message. All right then, I bet you do. Black conservative. May I Oh, can I tell you what happened, Dylan?

This is terrible. We don't, I actually don't know who black conservative is. Turn on your microphone. I got to tell you what happened last night.

So I've never met Black. I've never met him in person. I don't know his real name. And so, anyway, I'm doing my remarks last night.

Some fellow comes up to me and he was like, Man, I listened to your show. And the voice sounded very familiar. He goes, Listen to your show, huge fan. And then I he introduced himself. And I leaned in and I said, Are you black conservative?

And he said.

Well, I'm a conservative. And I'm black, but I said, oh, wait a second, that came out wrong. I'm like, are you the black conservative? And that didn't make any sense. Oh, no.

It's like asking if it's Batman when you're like looking up Bruce Banner. And so I had to explain. There's a guy named the black. I said, I should have said. Do you have an erudite mind?

Yeah, he was. That's what I should have said. I can't just go around asking people, are you the black conservative? That's terrible. All right.

Let's go to Tom. And for the record, Tom, we do not support slavery on the Todd Stearns radio show.

Well, that's good news, Todd. Just wanted to clear that up. All right. Well, um uh and and what you just did was You know, all these organizations talk about this is not my point, but. You made me laugh.

Um Save. Family freedom. We got there's a fourth F. Fun. Because every morning when I wake up and I look in the mirror, I know my Father in heaven is a funny guy.

Anyway. It's true. I know. Anyway. But this is not a fun day, obviously.

to the shooter. And I'm not going to use the name because I don't want to give many. Uh you know. credit or whatever. I have this question.

In your mind. What? Who where did the authority come? For you to The jury and the executioner of someone you never met That's just like what Cain did to Abel. But Cain actually knew his brother, so there may be some relationship there.

But this is not a relationship. This is all stuff that he got worked and twisted in his mind to reach such a point that he saw he had The authority of God. He thinks he's a god. For God, so that he can actually go up there and pull that trigger and take this godly man out. I want to ask that question and I want an answer from this shooter.

It's a great question, Tom. These are all fair questions, and I hope. I hope that we're able to get the answers that we're all looking for. And we need to understand how this guy got radicalized. And I think that will eventually answer all of those questions.

My concern is where this is going to take us because when you see the level of celebration. On social media, the fact that t-shirt companies are now creating t-shirts that are mocking, they have images of Charlie's neck being blown off. Tom That's evil and that that also is representative of great mental illness in our country. Absolutely, Todd. And I would ask them the same question.

Where do you get the notion that this is okay? That you have. Such an astute ability to comprehend and make sense of all of these philosophical and argument of these esoteric um qu questions about life and death. that you think that's okay. Answer me the question.

It's a great question, Tom. A great question. Tom, thank you for calling in, and God bless you for listening to WTUN. All right, we do have some breaking news to share with you. Breaking news now on the Todd Starn Show.

And the White House just releasing this statement, President Trump announces bold action to crush violent crime in Memphis. The President said it's clear Memphis needs help. In 2024, Memphis had the highest violent crime rate, the highest property crime rate, and the third highest murder rate in the U.S. Violent crime increased in 2024. Bucking the national trend.

Memphis is: are you ready for this, folks? And this is why we talk about this. And in any other city that would be this high, we would be talking about it. Memphis's total crime rate. 344 percent higher than the national average.

In 2024, Memphis' murder rate was higher than notoriously high-crime cities like Chicago, Baltimore, and D.C. and four times higher than Mexico City, 27 times higher than Havana. You're safer in Mexico City than you are in Memphis, Tennessee. There have been 149 murders in Memphis so far in 2025. This is all coming out of the White House.

In twenty twenty two, Shelby County overhauled its bail system at the behest of its Soros funded district attorney, instituting secured cash bail only as a last result. Since then, an eighteen year old involved in a shooting that killed a Memphis police officer was released without bail just one month earlier after he was arrested for auto theft. A man charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder after he shot police in a 12-hour standoff was released without bail. Three men charged with attempted murder and other felonies in the shooting of their co workers were released without bail. And just last Sunday, ladies and gentlemen, four children In their home.

were shot gunned down in their home in Memphis. I'm telling you, only President Trump believes that black lives matter in Memphis, not the black leaders who control this city. And again, you heard it. It's the Soros-funded district attorneys. All right, we've got to take a break, going right back to the phones.

Open Line Friday, 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. Welcome back, and some new video is surfacing the gunman, the alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson. Speaking in Salt Lake City at an event for the Democratic Socialist of America.

So there you go, more radicalization. Let's go to the phone lines. nine oh one two six zero five nine two six. Again, Memphis, Tennessee. Melanie is on the line.

Melanie Moseley. Melanie, I know you head up the White Haven Republican Club. What's your reaction to the big news today? Off top, I was excited once I heard the news. I think it's a great thing, and I'm glad that.

We are on the President's radar and he is going to send us some help. Melanie, when you listen to the elected leaders, they say that Trump doesn't like black people. Trump doesn't really care about black folks. And yet, all of the calls we've been getting, and even the black citizens of Memphis that they're talking to on T V to the person they're saying, what are you waiting for, Mr. President?

Well, Todd, I'm not sure. I don't understand how the leadership goes here, this liberal leadership, because I am a Republican. But I do believe in the victim. I don't believe you don't want. you commit a crime then I don't hear any of those leaders coming out saying, hey, we need to stop this next.

The four children that you just mentioned that was shot. You have not heard nothing. Or they have not come out and said, We got to stop this violence, we got to stop the murders, we have to stop. They have never come out against that. But they come out against the President saying, Hey, we're going to send you some help so we can make Memphis safe.

and in the words of Senator Brent Taylor, make Memphis matter again. I I believe that. How do you think the President's going to be received by the citizens of Memphis? I think he's going to be worthy. I think he's going to be where.

I mean, he did a great job in DC. And it's like DC just, you know, they're a whole nother. You see it now. They feel More Comfortable. The seat is clean.

So I think he's going to be well received here in the city of Memphis, and people will be able to enjoy. going downtown, going to midtown. and not have to worry about looking over their shoulder so much because, hey, We're going to have a national guard here to help protect us because No one else. You know, and the police, we have a great police department, not saying that, but it was just too much for them.

Well, it is. And I think they're between, what, 500 and 700 officers below what they need to be at.

So I think that. I think it's really going to be well received when the National Guard shows up. Right, and so look at it like this. He's just sent some reinforcements.

Sold it. of concerned citizens can be safe You know, our children can be safe because the children are not safe here. Man, the poor shot.

Well the night And like I said, no black leader has came out and spoken against that. Not a one. Not a one. Melanie, we got to leave it there, but great to hear your voice and great to hear your thoughts on this. Folks, it's been a tough week.

It has, and I want to encourage you. Go to church this weekend. If you don't have a church, find a good Bible-believing church. If you're in Germantown, Tennessee, go visit Germantown Baptist Church. Good people over there.

Folks, continue to pray. Pray without ceasing. Be bold, be courageous. Whatever you do this weekend though, you be sure to go to church this weekend, America. This is the Todd Sergeant Show.