Is White House About to go Soft on the Illegals?

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Well, it's an interesting 24 hours here in America, and in the news. Cycle, um so So look, you folks are. I don't, I know what you're going to do. And I don't want you to do that. I know that many of you are going to be heading for the exit ramp.

don't do that just yet. We've got to talk about this insane change in policy that's coming from the administration, and we're going to have to help the President Maneuver through all of this because right now the president of these great United States is getting some pretty bad advice. And when you look at what's happening around the nation right now, you understand why the president is saying what he's saying.

Okay. But there is a new survey that's out. And this news survey explains the NBC News interview yesterday, last night, when President Trump admitted that he was the guy responsible for evacuating the 700 federal agents from Minneapolis. And look, make no mistake about it, it was a retreat. A retreat.

And we all said at the time that this would be interpreted in a very bad way. And and it is. The President also last night saying that he is He's wanting to find a kinder, gentler immigration policy.

something that's a bit softer. And the President said moving forward, they're not going to go storming into the sanctuary cities, but instead they're only going to go where they're invited. And they so they have to be asked to come in and and lend a helping hand. The president also said last night that he He really plans to focus on the the really, really bad illegals and not the illegals themselves.

So if you're an illegal who murdered somebody, then yeah, you're going to get deported. But if you're an illegal who's here. and you're illegal, well, you're you're not going to be going anywhere. It is a kinder, gentler approach towards immigration that the president is working on. And we're going to play all this audio in just a few moments.

I bring your attention to some brand new polling data, and this is why. Trump is doing what he's doing. This is from NPR. National Public Welfare Radio. Two-thirds of Americans say ICE has gone too far in immigration enforcement.

According to their survey. This is an NPR PBS News Marist poll. 65% of Americans said immigration and customs enforcement has gone too far. The President also facing the highest intensity of disapproval since just after the J6 event at the U.S. Capitol.

Now the percentage of those saying ICE had gone too far in enforcing immigration is an 11 point increase since last summer. It's driven by Independents and Democrats. Both groups went up by double digits. Trump's overall approval rating remains at 39%, with 56% disproving, 51% strongly disapproving. That's the highest Marist has seen in its polling since it started asking that question back in 2017.

The thing is the thing in the numbers that we've experienced, this is coming from the director of the Mayor's poll, the thing that we've been experiencing is the shift among some of the folks who voted for him, his voting coalition. Not necessarily the governing support he has, but the voting coalition. What is that coalition? It's the young people, it's the Latinos, it's the Independents. And every single one of those demographics Trump is struggling with in the survey.

According to Marist, right now, those groups they're the ones who are deserting Trump. The President's base, on the other hand, sticking with him on a range of policies that are otherwise unpopular, from ISIS conduct. to the to the job Trump is doing to tariffs And so on and so forth.

So anyway, I want to focus, though, here on the immigration issue. As soon as Old Geezalo. As soon as the first person got right over, the G O G In the SUV, who tried to make the federal agent a hood ornament. Renee Goode is her name. Thank you.

Renee Goode. And I said at the time, the very just moments after all this happened, that the administration needed to get a handle on the messaging here. Otherwise, it was going to go south and it was going to go south very quickly.

So not only did no one heed that advice, but things went south. And then we had the second shooting of the male nurse who attacked officers. And then things have spiraled out of control. And now you have young people by the, again, those are the young people they're talking about. The young people have been weaponized by their public schools and now they're taking to the streets.

And they're protesting and it's causing all sorts of mayhem. And the kids that are protesting have no idea why they're out there. I mean, you've even got in Harlem and a few other places, you've got kindergarten students that are marching picket lines right now. Not very long because I have to take naps and potty breaks. But again, so do the elderly people.

So They've all got something in common. But all of this, I mean, is it possible it could have been prevented? Absolutely. And one of the challenges was that Tom Home and the Borders Art got sidelined early on in the process. He got sideways with Christine Ohm and her friend Corey Lewandowski, and he got pushed to the side.

Well, now Holman is back in charge, but it's really too little, too late.

So here's my question for you, ladies and gentlemen, because Decisions are actually being made. At this moment, and there are two big ones. That we're going to talk about today. This is one of them. And the other is whether or not the filibuster is going to get nuked.

And I have some intel on that. That will um oh geez hello you know Here's the deal: just go and get some alka seltzer. Get a big old bottle of just like Tums and start popping them because you're going to get indigestion. Because right now The administration, they're reading all of this polling data. And they can sense it.

And I suspect you can sense it too because I've been sensing it ever since the guy nearly became a hood ornament. The reality here is. That the administration is in trouble because they've lost the narrative. And so now Trump is trying to fix this. And the way he's going to fix it Is going to lead to what I believe will ultimately become amnesty for the illegals.

I don't believe we are going to see millions and millions of illegals. being put out of this country. My question for you is this, what do you want the President to do? Do you want the president to double down? Do you want the because when you look at all of the the polling here, now separate polls and again, this question was not asked in the NPR PBS mayor's poll, but there is separate polling data out there that says an overwhelming number of Americans want all of the illegals deported, all of them.

That's Not going to happen. And right now. It is not going to happen. And the president said as much in this NBC News. Interview with Tom LAMMIS Last night.

All right, we're going to play through some audio here from the interview. It's almost an hour long. And um Trump seemed to be in good moods about it. Here's the one soundbite I want us to focus on. Cut 16, please.

I have a question about immigration still looking forward now. Your goal during the election was to deport everyone who came here illegally under President Biden. Is your mission now to deport everyone who came in illegally or just people who have come in illegally who have also committed additional crimes? We are totally focused on criminals, really bad criminals.

Now, you could say people that came in illegally are criminals, but I'm talking about. murderers from different countries. We have 11,888 murderers that Biden and his group let into our country. We've captured a lot of them. We've brought some of them back.

A lot of them we don't want to Bring back because we don't trust the country that they're not sent back again. Despite how strong the borders are, they'll figure a way to try and get in, and we don't want to, and we'll incarcerate them. Eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty eight murderers dealt. We are after those people. We're after the drug dealers.

We're after the, we are after, by the way, a big problem, they allowed to come into our country people from their mental institutions, people from insane asylums that are mentally ill and very dangerous. We're getting them out. All right, so there you heard it from the president. And it certainly sounds as though this President is now making a slight change in his thinking. And this president is wanting to focus only on the bad of the bad.

So, if you're out there, and let's say you're an illegal and you've been in the country 20 or 30 years. Then you're probably going to be able to stay. You're probably going to be able to get.

Some sort of a work permit, there's going to be something done to make you stay, and it will be amnesty. They're going to call it whatever they're going to call it. They'll come up with a creative name. You know, they're smart folks in the marketing department at the White House, and so they'll come up with a clever name. But it's still going to be amnesty.

So the question is very simple, ladies and gentlemen. Do you want the worst of the worst deported? Do you want the folks that have been here and will say working working at the gas station or working at a hotel, do those people should those people be allowed to stay? Or does everybody need to go?

Now, the polling data up until now has said everybody's got to go. And my question would be, and we're going to talk to Mike Lawler on the Newsmac show tonight. My question to Mike Lawler, who wants to introduce he's a liberal on this issue, by the way. And Lawler has introduced something called the Dignity Act. My question is, what about the dignity for all the people waiting in line for years to come here the legal way?

And they have done everything by the book. What about those people? Are their immigration statuses going to be expedited? Or are they just screwed? Do we just say, you know what?

No, no, no. You should have come across the border illegally.

Now, according to Lawler, this dignity act here. Would prevent illegals, would prevents illegal hiring and protects American jobs, but it grants legal status and a path to permanent residency for the so-called dreamers. A seven-year legal status program allowing undocumented immigrants to live and work. In the United States, legally. And it would update visa categories to align with 21st century economic needs.

Well, the problem with the visas, the H-1Bs are being abused. beyond human understanding right now. And the Indians are coming in, and they're taking full advantage of that, and they're just taking jobs away from law-abiding American citizens. That's what's going on here. Seems to me we ought to be punishing the companies that are hiring all of these folks.

So, anyway, we're going to take a break here, but I'm curious to hear from you on this because. There will be some changes coming in the policy. I have no doubt about that.

So the question is, does everybody need to go? Or do we keep the ones that aren't murdering and raping people? 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. Let me repeat that number: 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show.

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It is the Todd Starnes Radio Show. And yeah, look, I mean, we're. No, it's not the end of the world at all. And I don't want you to think it is. But with you know, this president is a very transactional man.

And if he's taking a look at all of the data he's being presented, and they're telling him, Mr. President, You know, the American people are going the other direction on this issue. He's going to go in that direction too. He's not going to be left out there all alone.

So, the president needs to hear from you. And where do you stand on this issue? All right, let's go to the phone lines: 901-260-5926. Let's start our day in beautiful Dahlonega, Georgia. Anna is on the line.

Hi, Anna. What's on your mind today?

Okay. Yes, Todd, he's going to have to rethink that strategy because that is not what I'm just speaking from my point of view. That's not what I voted for and I mean and I know that he has good intention, but hell is caved with good intention. And I'm telling you that that's not going to work. First of all, it motors the mortar too much, and you're going to have people whining and complaining about other things.

You get the wrong person. He's really not A criminal. He well, everybody that came through that, and I might add, That Biden is the reason why this is happening. Biden is the reason why this is happening. That is what our President always reminds us, and he needs to remember that.

because this is not a good plan. I'm not I'm not an advisor to the President, but I am a voter. And I can tell you that personally, I do think this is not. You above it. Just give the people and you don't have to be ugly about it.

You know, we're paying for them to go back home. Go on back home and come back the right way, the legal way, like all these other port saps are doing right now. They're listening to this. And they're just scratching their heads. What are we doing?

You know. I'm not happy. I'm not happy, Anthony. Anna, I will disagree with you on one thing if that's what you and I have we've never disagreed over the years, but I've got to disagree with you on one thing, Anna.

Okay. You say that you're you're not an advisor, you're a voter. I would contend that you are. You are an advisor, and your vote your vote is just as important as that is. And so I think you do have the I mean, look.

Your opinion is no more or no less than anyone else's, including the consultants that are being paid to give the president this advice.

So I think, you know, again, that the White House needs to start listening to folks like you, Anna, and not these high-falutin, well-paid lobbyists and advisors inside the beltway. Anna, God bless you, and thank you for listening. All right, here's what we're going to do because I do want to hear from all of you, and we've got a few lines open. We're going to go right to your calls here coming up. 901-260-5926.

Again, 901-260-5926. But let me just say this. Uh the president The president right now is in a bubble. He's not out there hearing from all of you. He's inside that White House.

And the people inside, they're the ones that are reading the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal editorial board. They're listening to, and I know they shouldn't be doing it, but they are. They're listening to NPR and they're watching PBS and CNN and PMS Now. and the squawking magpies. With testosterone on the Vue.

They're watching all of that, and it influences the advice they're giving to President Trump. And it should not be that way, but that is the reality of it.

So Ladies and gentlemen, is this what you voted for? Do you want the president to back off or does everybody need to go? And come back the legal way. 901-260-5926, our number. That's 901-260-5926.

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Let's go to Virginia, and we have Jason with us, who is listening to us on our brand new affiliate, WTON. And Jason, you are the very first caller from WTON. Congratulations. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to follow the conference video.

Well, Jason, before I forget, don't hang up at the end of the conversation. I want to send you a copy of my book, Culture Jihad: How to Stop the Left from Killing America.

So we just want to say welcome to the show. Thank you very much. All right. Well, so what's going on here? I know President Trump's getting a little wobbly.

What advice do you have for the President? He needs to stay firm. There's 78 million of us that want them all gone. We we don't want to capitulate to the To the radicals, no matter what he does, they're going to scream and pitch a fit and claim their hair is on fire. He needs to just bite his lower lip and tough it out and let's get it done.

I mean, when you look at the polling data, I mean, it's pretty clear to me that the American people want all of the illegals, all of them, to go back to where they came from. It's an eighty-twenty issue as far as I know. No, that's about right. And of course, in Virginia, you guys have your own set of problems with this radical takeover of the Democrats. And I think that should serve as an example to the rest of the nation.

You know, if we do not get control of the voting, and that's another big issue we're about to talk about, but if we don't get control of this and stop these illegals from voting in our elections, we're going to lose the Republic. I one hundred percent concur with you. It's out of hand. I've worked in construction most of my adult life, and I've seen them take jobs, drive down wages. They suck up benefits.

You can't get to the emergency room. They need to go.

Well said. All right, Jason, thank you for calling in, sir. And hang tight. Don't go anywhere. We're going to send you a copy of my book.

And welcome to the show. Want to welcome all of our WTON listeners. And when you call in this week, as a way of saying welcome to the show, we're going to hook you up with a little Todd Stern Show prize package. All right, let's go to Rodney in Texas, listening to us on Patriot Talk 920. Hey, Rodney, what's going on?

Hello, Todd. I listen every day. It's the first time I've ever called in, but I I know that the president himself listens to the Ty Starring Show, and you said earlier that.

Well, he he wasn't going to necessarily come and send his agents unless he was invited And mister President, if you're listening, Please come to Harris County, Texas. We are being overrun by crime and illegal aliens here. We need your help.

So I'm asking you, mister President, would you please come to Harris County, Texas? Rodney, this is a very smart thing you just did because the president did say if I'm invited and Rod Dylan, it sounds like Rodney said, Mr. President, you are invited. And he said, please. And you said, please, too, Ryan.

Because he's from the South, Southwest.

So you're going to be polite. His mama taught him manners. Rodney, I love this. You know, again, I think the American people are watching what's going on in Washington right now, and it concerns me because. We could see the base of our party demoralized.

If we're not careful, we could see the party demoralized. Absolutely. Absolutely. All right, Rodney, thank you. Yeah, go ahead.

Yep. Thank you very much, Rodney, for calling in. Appreciate that. And we love all of our listeners in Harris County. Let's go to Daniel in Atlanta.

Hi Daniel, what's on your mind today?

Okay, I think it's the same thing, immigration. Like I think I've called you before. I've been here for thirty years. I'm a single issue voter at this time, and I've voted for Trump all the times he's run. And I'm telling you, Todd.

If he starts doing this crop, I'm not going to vote in the Republican election anytime soon. I'm going to get the same show of that. I'm not even going to miss around. Daniel, this is the hill to die on for you. Yes, believe me.

Because you know why Doug? I'm an immigrant too. And this last set of immigrants that came into this country through Biden, they have no love, they have no concern, they have nothing for this country. They're just coming to loot and take whatever they can get.

So, can you imagine him going soft and all this? You know what's going to happen, Todd. If they ever win the election the next time around, they're going to legalize everyone in this country.

So, what's the purpose? JD Vance should forget his job. Republicans should forget, and these guys are just here to lose this country. You know, why would you come into a country? The first thing you're looking for is a handout.

I came here about thirty years ago. I was so happy to come into this country and I've done my best part. I've have a business. I've started all kinds of things. For these guys, they show up, the first thing they're looking for is handouts.

So I don't get it.

Some better rethink this real fast because I'm going to start from these midterms and I'm not going to vote. Daniel, I want to ask you a couple of questions.

So, you've been here, how long you said 30 years? Yes, thirty years. Thirty years. Where did you migrate from? Where did you come from?

from Nigeria and West Africa. All right. So you come to this country and you're a legal citizen. You're a businessman now. And I'm curious, in your circle of friends there in the Atlanta area, are there other people that came to this country?

Are there other immigrants? What do they say? When you guys are together, what do they say about all of the illegals that have invaded our country and breached our borders? And that is the the sad part because I stuck my neck out myself and my wife. We've stuck our next nine our next hour for this President.

Of course, they all think the country is a big joke. They think. anybody should be able to come in here. Trump is the worst since uh Satan, you also Nazi, whatever, but they they all think everybody should have an opportunity to come in here. you know, and I keep telling them, believe me, The more they come in, the country is going to turn to from wherever they came from.

And that's what you're saying in Minnesota. If Somalians are Very corrupt people. which I am sure New York Times said, oh, that's the only thing they know is corruption. Of course, that's all you will do. And America hardly even with Trump, Trump is just giving America maybe four, five, six years I'm telling you, Todd, this country is going to end up being like wherever all of us came from.

Wherever we're running away from, I guarantee you, in another 25, 30 years, America will be like where we all ran away from. Unless something is done. Daniel, I'm afraid you're right about that. I sure am.

Well, God bless you, sir, and God bless your family. And we're so proud that you chose our country to come and live and create a business. And Daniel, you keep listening and you give us a holler back one of these days. I like Daniel. And he's the kind of immigrant, you know, just like my great-grandparents came to this country.

They emigrated to this country. And they've learned the language. They went to work. My grandfather joined the military. They wanted to be, they assimilated.

And we're just not seeing that happen. But here's the other part of it that concerns me: is that the left, they see this and they know how to push this president's buttons now. They know that if they get out there and they write, you know, the president talks a softer touch. What does that mean? Are we just going to stand there and let them beat the hell out of our ICE agents?

No, of course not. The ICE agents haven't done anything wrong. The federal agents haven't done a thing wrong. They're being spit on, they're being beaten. They're being terrorized.

Their families are being doxxed, and we're going to go soft? No, not at all. That is the wrong message to send.

So we've got to be careful, or we're going to lose the entire narrative here. And this idea that we're just going to, the president, by the way, the president, day one, he was going to start defunding. and go to war with the sanctuary cities. And now we're going to ask their permission to come in. No, that's not what we voted for, Mr.

President. And the President needs to know that we've got his back. All these other folks, they're backstabbers. That's what they're doing. They're stabbing the president in the back.

All right, let's go to Bruce in Beaufort, Georgia. Bruce, I understand you have a suggestion for the illegals. Yes, but you took a lot of what I was going to say out in your just your last comment. That They have come here. They are illegals.

I don't care. Bad crimes, how many years they've been here, here's my solution. You've been here twenty years, fifteen years. You were a dreamer. You came over.

You were a young kid, and now you're a teenager in your early twenties. My first question is. And all that time What have you done to make yourself legal? That's the first thing. And second thing, even if they haven't committed a crime, If they go up to go home And they're here illegally if they cannot speak English.

They have done nothing to learn the language. or to assimilate They were out of here. Period. No exceptions. That's the test.

They interview these people. A senator's in her room, a lady owns three Mexican restaurants, been here twenty years, and she can't communicate in English. Not acceptable. Period. If you can't speak the language and you've done nothing to assimilate, even if you haven't done a crime, The left.

come back in. You want to be a part of this country. I think that's a great idea, Bruce. You know, here's what gets me, and Bruce, thank you for that call. Here's what gets me is that you've got the Democrats, and they're helping Capitol Hill talking about what a horrible, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic.

Country, we are. We got racists running around, black people, Jasmine Crockett, black people getting lynched every day in the deep south. It's like we're back. Everybody's a Nazi. All the white people are Nazis.

You know, at some point, should we just not tell the illegals, hey, you may not want to come here? I mean Who who wants to live next door to a Nazi? Right. Unbelievable. All right, we got to take a break.

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Best in show. Let's go to the phone lines and say hello to Charles in Statesville, North Carolina. Charles, what do you make of the President's interview last night? Uh I to be honest with you, I'm furious. I I don't agree with what what what President Trump said.

And I don't know who he's listening to or who's advising him. But they're giving him horrible advice because this is my take. If he doesn't follow through on the deportation of all these illegals like he promised in twenty twenty four, If he caves in on backing ice, And uh and all that. To me, that is the equivalent of George Washington and the Revolutionary War Signing a peace agreement with the British without gaining independence to the United States. If he does that, I think he's going to lose the midterms.

I think you're going to see several members of his cabinet resign. And if he loses the midterms and is later impeached, whether it's in two or how many years. I think he's going to go back to prison and he'll be signing his own death warrant.

So I don't think God saved him from assassination a year and a half ago. for him to cave in on something like this. The reason I voted for Donald Trump, one of the main reasons, is because of his stance on illegal immigration. And if he renegs on that, I will look at that as a sign of total betrayal. It's harsh.

Your assessment is harsh, but I can't find anything. I disagree with that. And again, I think the president's getting bad advice from whoever his inner circle is. And he's getting really bad advice from Republican leadership on Capitol Hill. And I know a lot of it is coming from there because you've got these Rhino Republicans, and they are determined to protect the so-called dreamers, Charles.

Yeah, but I think when you look at these poll numbers, I think, and you can read a lot into these polls, but I think I think a lot of that l support that he's losing is among his own base because he's not following through. Ardena. if people if Republicans like myself just sense that or see that you know, hey, It was just all a bunch of hot air and when the going gets tough, And you know, it and the optics of it, you know, aren't aren't pretty that you're going to cave in. Uh they're just going to stay home and not vote in 2026. Or, you know, I mean, I don't think they're going to vote for the Democrat, but I'll give you one other example.

Let me give you one other example real quick, Charles. The reality is, our nation's education system, you are now watching it being weaponized. I mean, that's, I mean, in real time, we're watching our education system be weaponized with little kindergartners marching picket lines. Donald Trump promised to defund and dismantle the Department of Education. They never followed through.

You've got schools that are openly defying the executive orders on transgenderism, and they know they're able to do this because there will never be a consequence. Nobody's lost their federal funding. Yeah, that's right. What happened to that, Todd? I mean, that was like a no-brainer.

Remember, he was up there signing an executive order and Catherine McMahon, Secretary McMahon, was going to oversee the dismantling of that agency. None of that has happened. And the Republican members of Congress. Are still voting and just voted for money to fund the Department of Education and all these sanctuaries. That's it.

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Todd start. All right, yeah, well, hello, everybody. Welcome to the Time Stars Radio Show, hour two of the big show. Good to have you with us today. Wow, we've got a lot going on.

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So it starts. There's no way you misunderstood what what Trump was saying. to NBC News. Or if you're If you're on Howard Stern Show, WNBC. But no, I am not confused.

I want to play another sound clip from. The interview last night. President Trump on NBC. And he was talking about Going into the sanctuary cities. Cut number five.

So I want to be clear, because it sounds like there is a shift in immigration enforcement here, that there's going to be a shift after Minneapolis. What should Americans expect going forward?

Well, one thing I say to my people, you know, we do a good job, we don't get credit for it. I say, they have to ask and they have to say, please. When a city is going to be a very good question. I don't want to go and force ourselves into a city, even if their numbers are terrible. Like, for instance, I got a call from Jeff Landry, governor of Louisiana.

He said, We have a big problem. Could you go in and help us with, well, let's see, certain sections. I mean, to be honest with you, certain sections of the state, beyond their famous, beautiful city, certain sections of the state. We have done not only in New Orleans, we've done a really great job in Louisiana, but I was called. I want to be called.

Chicago, we could solve the Chicago crime.

Well, on that question, which cities are you headed to next? We have five cities that we're looking at very strongly, but we want to be invited. We will sometimes call the governors. Are they cities like Chicago, Philadelphia? Are these the cities?

We could straighten out the crime in Chicago. We've already brought it down 25% just by being there. We could have Chicago be a safe city, just like D.C. is a safe city, just like all of these places that we've gone to. And I look forward, you know, I didn't campaign in that.

I campaigned on law and order, but I didn't think I'd be going into individual cities and making them safe. Anything else you can tell us about the five cities? The five cities? Anything else?

So Americans are ready? We'll be announcing them very quickly, but we could do something. As an example, I was called by people. San Francisco said, please, we have a Democrat mayor. He's trying very hard.

Would you, friends of mine that live there, it's got crime problems, would you let him? do the job and not come in. Let's see how it works. I said, look, I can do it much quicker, much faster. Don't forget, we remove criminals.

We took over 2,000 hardcore criminals out of Washington, D.C. If we didn't do that, 2% of the people. Create 90% of the crime. Think of that. 2%.

So you have a criminal because it's over and over again. Two percent. Create 90% of the crime. We took out 2,000 people, more than 2,000 people, out of Washington, D.C., and we now have a safe city. All right.

That was the president last night on NBC News. And that is, it's really a political earthquake, I think, for the America First Movement because clearly the president is having second thoughts about his hardline immigration policies. And so we're going to be checking your calls a little bit later on. Hang tight. We're going to get to your calls 901-260-5926.

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Well, I want to go to our Patriot mobile newsmaker line and say hello to Tim Phillips, Director of Global Affairs at Nest Point. Tim, hope you're doing well today. Hi, Todd. It's been a great morning at the National Prayer Breakfast. where President Trump gave just an amazing Speech this morning, Todd.

So inspiring, so funny. It was a vintage Trump performance this morning here.

Well, he certainly seems to be in good spirits. After the NBC News interview, what was the mood there in the room? Those prayer breakfasts are always popular with the President. They were.

Well, over probably 1,500 people. It was a packed house in the main ballroom of the Hiltons. And he was. Todd, he was in a great mood. You could see it.

He was. jovial. He was talking about how it's a new day in the United States. And he focused on the economy, which he needs to be doing, I think. And he ta he talked but he also talked about how combating persecution of Christians that's going on around the world.

I know you've covered it before, Todd, but especially in Nigeria, parts of Africa and the Middle East, he highlighted a lot of the administration's efforts to combat it and uh It was obviously well received by the faith-based folks that were there, of which you and I are both a part of. You know, I thought it was interesting. I know Michael W. Smith was there. He's been very popular among Republican presidents going back to George H.W.

Bush. But also, and I thought this was interesting, Jelly Roll was there. And I don't know if you caught any of his remarks at the Grammy Awards, but man, he preached a sermon during his acceptance speech. Jellyroll has clearly had a conversion to Jesus, no doubt about that. It's beautiful.

He ended up having to cancel here. You're exactly right. He was scheduled to be the keynote. And so Governor Bill Lee, the Tennessee governor, came and spoke on his behalf. But I didn't know this, Todd, but Governor Lee.

met and pardoned Jellyroll. He met him when he was in prison. When Jellyroll was in prison, back in the 2000, early 2000s, Governor Lee was doing he wasn't a politician, he was doing prison ministry. Going into the prisons and sharing the gospel and helping men get ready for their life after prison. He met Jellyroll then, Todd.

And so he told the story of Jellyroll, his conversion to Christ. And it really was a beautiful conclusion to the prayer breakfast today was Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee. telling Uh Part of Jellyroll's story of coming to belief in Jesus from prison. You know, Tim, and by the way, folks, we're talking to Tim Phillips from Nest Point. This prayer breakfast was actually started by President Eisenhower back in 1953.

And he Eisenhower, and people don't realize this, but Eisenhower was the president who really set the stage for talking about and making it okay to talk about faith. In the public marketplace, Eisenhower knew that Christianity was going to be key to fighting the communist and the battle of the communist. And during his two terms in office, church attendance in America actually went up by 20%. And I see similarities with what's happening right now with President Trump. Cool.

I do see that. You know, he is not a conventional believer, but I do believe he's a follower, a Christian. I do. He's different. It's not a conventional walk and way.

But I'll tell you a story this morning. I was talking to an ambassador. I don't think she'll mind me telling, but she's from Uganda. And she's the ambassador from Uganda, Lake Victoria, obviously, that is a famous place there. And they're a Christian, very strong evangelical Christian country.

They have one of the highest percentages. of their citizens, around 85% are Christians. And She said during the Biden administration, because they would not acknowledge and recognize gay marriage and other transgender stuff, they were utterly persona non-grata.

So as a country, we did not reach out to places like Uganda. Which have critical and rare earth minerals, which are important for defense alliances. Oh, also, by the way, for protecting Christians elsewhere in Africa where there are Muslim countries that do persecute Christians. They didn't have any connection with the United States because They're Christians and Todd they wouldn't acknowledge or accept officially gay marriage and some of the other transgender stuff. How crazy is that to set policy based on such things?

as a leftist view. It's an amazing thing we're watching, and a lot of it doesn't make sense in Washington, D.C. these days. But but I can tell you that When it comes to people of faith under attack, this President does have a passion for helping those kinds of folks. And I think watching what's happening in places like Iran, where you've got people that are literally putting their lives on the line and, in many cases, losing their lives to be free, that is stirring something in the President's heart.

It is. There's no question about that. Secretary Pete Hagsteth was also there here. He read a passage of scripture and then spoke briefly about that. And he did a great job.

And those were the two administration leaders who spoke: the president himself and then. Secretary Hank said, and obviously he's a devout evangelical Christian. He and his wife Jenny as well.

So it was an uplifting morning, Todd. You would have loved being there. I know you've been to him in the past, but it was a three-hour extravaganza. The congressman who was wrapping it up said, This has almost become a luncheon, even though we started at 7:30, but it was. It was a beautiful morning.

The president's remarks were. Excellent. Hilarious, by the way.

So many Funny uh he told the story of General raising Cain. how how he first met him during the first term. He was in Iraq to find out why the war against ISIS wasn't going faster, you know, why we weren't eliminating them faster. and why the his he called them his T V generals, Millie and at least they were T V generals. While they were saying we just couldn't get it done.

And that's where he told the story of meeting General Raising Kane, as he's called, who is. I guess Joint Chiefs of Staff under the President Hegset.

So It was a a vintage performance, a very uplifting Morning and uh It was good to see so many members of Congress, a lot of Republican House and Senate. Folks were there. They had the Congressional Choir. There is one, Todd, which I did not know. They have a, yes, they had the Congressional Choir.

Uh, and they did I Saw the Light by Hank Williams Sr., which is uh, my dad and mom would have been very happy and proud about that. But they, uh, that was the music, uh, along with Michael W. Smith. Uh, he did two of his big hits, but they then did I Saw the Light, the congressional choir.

So, what a great morning! Wow, that's what an encouraging thing.

Well, Tim, we do appreciate you dropping by and giving us a blow-by-blow of the prayer breakfast. Wish we could be there. I've been in that room many, many times, and it is a special thing to see. I didn't realize we had a choir. Do we know who was in the choir?

Like Jasmine Crockett or Maxine Waters? No.

Something tells me, Todd, they were not singing all five verses of I Saw the Light by Heart. I doubt it.

Okay, we'll leave this. I doubt it.

We'll leave it there. All right. Tim, always good talking to you, my friend. You've got it. Bye.

All right. Tim Phillips, Director of Global Affairs at Nest Point at the National Prayer Breakfast. I guess we should have named him our correspondent to the National Prayer Breakfast. And we'll try to find some of that audio from the Congressional Choir. Who would have thought?

I wonder who was in it. We got to figure out who. Was Ben Dieter there? We should. Dylan, you know, Dieter has a very nice singing voice.

He does, and he never told us all this time that. All the time that he worked here, he never told us. We had to look it up ourselves. Maybe he was the soloist. All right, we're going to find out.

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I saw the light, I saw the light. No more than darkness, no more than night.

Now I'm so happy to follow this eye. What is next? Oh, wait a second. This is the Congressional Choir. In life of one man, nothing that is signed.

Praise the Lord. I saw the light. I saw the light. Alright, okay, we're good. We're good.

Thank you. Here's. You sure you don't want to hear all of it? I'm pretty good there. Thank you.

So it was just the guitar strumming along. By the way, this was, that was not even, you know, here in Memphis, we're blessed with great guitar players, and there's no strumming in Memphis. You're picking that guitar, right? This is true. Yeah.

And I sent you another rendition of I Saw the Light. We may have to play that. But here's what got me done. Only one person was clamping, right? Did you hear that?

Maybe it's not a group of rhythm here. I saw the line. I saw the line. At least it was in time. That's all you can really say.

I think Tim Phillips may have oversold the performance. I was thinking some angelic choir. Yeah. I didn't realize it was the Mayberry Church Choir, which there's nothing wrong with that. It's just, you know, I was.

I don't know. I was just expecting something. It was, yeah, Maxine was not in that crowd. I'm just kidding. Jasmine definitely wasn't.

Yeah. Oh boy.

Okay, so there you have it. Was it the Congressional the Congressional Prayer Breakfast Choir? Ben Dieter was not in the he was not there. By the way, Dylan, I uh texted Dieter. Yeah, we probably would have heard him, actually.

He's very, he can project his voice. Yeah. He'd said something very unchurch-like in his response.

So. I just say it. He's a musically gifted guy. He knows when it's not as up to par as it could be. This is true.

Do we have the here's what I thought we were going to hear. Come on now. Oh glory. Hallelujah! Aimless.

See it? I want Lift my dear Saviour in. Singer Padea Back to spray. Ranger in the light. Wait.

I saw the light. I saw the For the lights. No more enough. No more. In that now I'm so happy.

No sorrow. It's fine. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. All right, that's That's kind of what I was thinking it was gonna be.

Wow. And instead, we got. Can we hear it one more time? Hold on, hold on. I almost deleted it because for any reason.

No, it's not bad. It's just. Just missing a little bit of flavor. I don't know. Maybe some drums.

Yeah, maybe. A bass. A piano. New singers.

Okay, thank you. I'm going to hell now because of that. Many more prayers. I know. I've just got put on prayer lists again.

Absolutely. It's like three shows in a row. I'm a really bad guy today. Geez Aloo. All right.

When we come back, hang tight. We're going to get to your phone calls. A lot of folks wanting to weigh in on President Trump and the. I'm sorry, Dylan. And the and his immigration policies.

If you want to weigh in on the chr choir, too, they were just a little pitchy. I mean, if you're doing American Idol, you know, that's you know what they ought to do? They should make an appearance on America's Got Talent. Is that the one with Simon Cowell? Yeah.

Okay. And the others. I haven't watched that in ages. They might get the red buzzer, I don't know. It does not go well.

No, they don't red buzz Jesus. That's true. They do not do that. Yeah, they are very nice in that way. Yeah, yeah.

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All right, we've been monitoring this. Press briefing out of Tucson, Arizona. The FBI now involved President Trump. Going full bore into the investigation. The FBI just announcing a $50,000 reward for information leading to Nancy.

Guthrie, and they are also investigating a full digital footprint, but there are no. There's no suspect. and there's uh no person of of interest. Of course, all three of the major networks are broadcasting the press conference right now. She's been missing for at least six days.

They cannot recover video from the camera. Apparently, there was a video camera there. And uh we understand cash patel. Uh is boots on the ground. The latest information at 2 twelve AM software detected a person on camera at Nancy Guthrie's home, but unfortunately no access to video because there was no subscription.

Jeez a lou. What a mess that is. Let's bring in to the conversation our good friend Luke Symbol, a Republican strategist. Luke, good to have you with us. Thank you, Todd.

Thank you for having me. You know, it's interesting. President Trump. The President Trump yesterday announced that he was calling on the entire force of the federal government as far as law enforcement to get to Tucson to try to help find Savannah Guthrie's mom. You know, this goes to Trump's heart.

He has a tough exterior, and he is. He's a tough guy. He moves things along. He has high expectations. He doesn't sleep.

But He has a soft spot on his heart for things like this. And to have, you know, Savannah Guthrie, I don't watch the show, but she's well known by many, many, many Americans. It's a nightmare scenario, literally, worst nightmare for so many people to have your elderly parent apparently abducted, missing. For the full weight of the federal government to be sent to. Find Savannah Guthrie's mom, I think, just shows how much he cares.

And I think it's good. And this was a high-profile case. And what it will do is it'll show off the FBI's ability to find this person. And I hope that it is done very quickly and that the FBI shines here and that the entire world can know you don't mess around with Americans.

So, yeah, I hope they got Cash Matella an FBI jacket in his size so they don't have to pull one off a female agent. With the emblem. With the emblem. Got to have the emblems.

Well, he can do a podcast with his girlfriend in Nashville and maybe we can learn more about his jacket and the unbelievable. If I were them, I'm like, you know, we're good. We're good. Yeah, just let him stay in D.C. NBC News.

I just want you guys to understand this. We're going to go back to 20, what was it? Gosh, just a couple of years ago. This was Savannah Guthrie. And Donald Trump.

Take a listen to Cut 16. While we're denouncing, let me ask you about QAnon. It is this theory that Democrats are a satanic pedophile ring and that you are the savior of that.

Now, can you just once and for all state that that is completely not true? Can you disavow QAnon in its entirety? I know nothing about QAnon. I just told you. I know very little.

You told me, but what you tell me doesn't necessarily make it fact. I hate to say that. I know nothing about it. I do know they are very much against pedophilia. They fight it very hard.

But I know nothing about the population. They believe it is a satanic call run by the deep states. I'll tell you what I do know about. I know about Antifa, and I know about the radical left, and I know how violent they are, and how vicious they are, and I know how they're burning down cities run by Democrats, not run by Democrats. Republican Senator Ben Sasse said, quote, QAnon is nuts, and real leaders call conspiracy.

Theories, conspiracy theories. Why not just say it's crazy and not true? He may be right. I just don't know about QAnon. You do know.

I don't know. No, I don't know. I don't know. Let me ask you another thing. Let's waste a whole show.

You start off with white supremacy. I denounce it. You start off with something else. Let's go. Keep asking me these questions.

I do have one more. Let me just tell you, what I do hear about it is they are very strongly against pedophilia. And I agree with that. I mean, I do agree with that. And I agree with that.

But there's not a satanic pedophile at all. No idea. I don't know. You don't know that?

Okay. No, I don't know that. You just meet. Do you know that? All right.

So that's, look, again, she did not like Donald Trump at all. And so that's, and it's just bad blood. And yet, President Trump, you know, when there's something on the line, the president pushes all of that aside and says, you know what, we got to do the right thing here, which is to go find Mrs. Guthrie. I agree.

It. Credit to Donald Trump for doing this. I hope that I'm sure she is very appreciative. And honestly, that interview, I forgot that she had done that interview. She is not known.

I don't want to speak ill of somebody who's going through a terrible time. I will just very briefly say she's not known for being super nice on set. I know. And that's fine. And I get that.

And a lot of people are now saying, and this is fair, and I. Look, I've already made fun of the Congressional Prayer Breakfast Choir sounding like Mayberry, so I'm already going to you nowhere in a handbasket. Um but People are wondering Why this particular case? Are only the rich and famous, are they the only ones that are eligible for the full force of the federal government to come down and find your missing loved one? Because there, you know, honestly, are a lot of missing loved ones out there.

And I don't want to dwell on this too much, but I think it's a fair question. There was a, you know, in the journalism business, we call it gallows humor. You know, the situation, when you're covering death and crime and evil, you just have to tell some pretty awful jokes to get through it. But one of them is if you ever get kidnapped, you want to be a hot blonde because otherwise nobody's going to come looking for you. And it's true on cable TV, you know, unless you're very famous or you're a fashion model.

They're not going to give you the time of day. Look, it's a fair point. If I put my spin doctor hat on, if I am Caroline Levitt and I am standing at the press podium, what I would say is this is a very high-profile case that has made national news and captured the country's attention. And because of that, we are going to show off what the FBI can do, and they are going to bring whoever did this to justice. And we're going to find her.

That's what I would say. And the spin doctor. Whoever it is, they need to get whatever's coming at them, you know, the full force of the law. But. This is Tucson, Arizona.

This is just a stone's throw from you nowhere. And Luke, God for, I mean, we don't know. We have no idea. But if it was, in fact, any legal or, you know, these cartels coming across the border that did this. The question is: How's the media going to cover that?

Tucson has had a major problem with crime because of the illegal immigrant crisis and the cartels. And that, Todd, that was exactly where my first thought went to. This is what Tucson is kind of known for. And I don't know if she was targeted because of who her daughter is or was it random? We have no idea, but they have a major problem there.

And regardless of who it is, the full weight of the federal government prosecutions need to happen, and she needs to be found. And I'm praying that they find her quickly. And again, I would love for this to be a huge victory nationwide for what the FBI can do. And the sooner they can catch whoever did this, the better. And I know the president's not looking for anything here.

He's doing the right thing. He's being a decent human being in his statement and the orders he gave law enforcement. I'm fairly disappointed that the rest of the media world is not covering that part of the story. Of course. But it's not unexpected.

It's par for the course. It's so frustrating. Luckily, I think more and more people are seeing through it, but it's disingenuous and it's just disgusting that they cannot, their Trump derangement syndrome is so strong that they just cannot bring themselves to post something nice. They'll post all day. If they don't like what Donald Trump has to say, they'll post it all day, every day.

But if it's nice, nope. I want to play some audio from a Mississippi senator. One of the things that really surprised me moving back here to the Mid-South is that the senators in Mississippi and Arkansas. Are rhinos. Yeah.

I mean, they are like. They're just this side. of being a Democrat. Yep. And Cindy Hyde Smith Mishyphenated last name there.

Uh, had this to say about. I want you to listen to cut number three, please. Hello. I have received many questions about why I did not vote for the Rand Paul Amendment to eliminate funding for the Health and Human Services Office of Refugee and Resettlement. The answer is easy, the answer is clear.

I oppose the amendment because President Trump made it clear to me that this funding is necessary to care for the thousands of unaccompanied alien children who are already in federal custody, some as young as three years old. Under current law, the administration remains responsible for these children. Eliminating the office tasked with their care without any alternative in place would have been totally inhumane. These are children. I am going to take care of children who have been abandoned until they are properly placed, and I don't care what country they come from.

That's exactly what Health and Human Services is tasked to do. Appropriating the funds requested by President Trump was a responsible thing to do. It ensured continuity of care, upheld our legal obligations and supported the Trump administration's efforts to address and clean up the consequences of Biden's administration's border and immigration failures. A vote for the Rand Paul Amendment was a vote against President Trump's ability to fix this mess. This vote also highlights a broader problem in Washington.

Some of my colleagues knew the amendments would fail. but supported it anyway to avoid criticism or uncomfortable questions. That is preferring political cover over governing. I'm not afraid of difficult votes when they are necessary to keep the government functioning as it should. I've always been totally transparent and upfront with you, my constituents.

There are also those who prefer showmanship over solutions. who offer controversial proposals for attention rather than results. That may generate headlines, but it does not solve problems.

Okay. Um I don't care what country they come from. That's the soundboard. That's the nugget. Yep.

That's the nugget. And You know, if you're explaining, you're losing. That's a time-old, that's a proven adage. And, uh, If you're explaining, you're losing. Here's the thing about this.

I find her explanation somewhat dubious because I would have been shouting that, you know, if it's all about the kids, I would have been shouting that from day one. Exactly. This is after the fact, not before the fact. And she could have been saying this for days for a long time. And you pointing out the timeline here is very important.

What gets me about this? And I shared this story several years back. When I was working at Fox, they sent me down to cover the borders. There was a border surge when Obama was president, and they were just dumping kids, just kids across the border.

So they had to create, they took over a military base near San Antonio, and they turned it into basically this school for children. And they had three hot meals a day, new clothes, new shoes, medical care, whatever they needed. Immediately outside of this facility was a rundown trailer park where you had American boys and girls playing in the dirt, no shoes on, no food. nothing. And that's what bothers me because Cindy Hyde Smith is saying the children of the illegals, they deserve everything.

American children deserve nothing. You are exactly right. What I would do when a child is dumped at the border, and this is hard for Americans to comprehend because we are a moral country. We cannot imagine parents or family members abandoning children. But unfortunately, in other cultures, it's common.

In other cultures, children are literally sold into slavery. It's disgusting. And what I would do when they are dumped at the border, figure out where they're from and take them back to that country and say, this is your responsibility. Your citizens did this, and our money is allocated towards America's poor. We need to take care of our own first, and they are not being taken care of.

We take care of our own first. I just want to know what's going on in Mississippi. Are the people, are the Republicans there that liberal? I mean, how do you, because both of their senators are like that. Yeah, both of their senators.

I don't know if they're holdovers from the old days when the Democrats were in charge. And then they saw the writing on the wall and became Republicans. I'm not sure, but both of them are, and it's a shame, and it's time to start primary. And you know what? Pick a last name, please.

You don't need a hyphen. Come on. That tells us all we need to know. Is it Hyde or Smith?

Well, exactly. Let's go to the phones here. Mike in Memphis, Tennessee, listening to us on KWAM. Mike, what's on your mind? Hey, greetings.

I just wanted to reference I mean, if you just do a Google search on the United States DOJ not prosecuting the Sinaloa cartel, they've got an agreement with this specific cartel. And if the lady was kidnapped by those members, They're not going after him. You don't think so? I mean, the president, I mean, he's sending in, just, I mean, we're just short of sending in the U.S. military.

If they don't have her by now, these things don't. Turn out good sadly. And I prayed for this lady because I hope that she's found because she obviously has medical issues and she doesn't need to be put through those rigors. But When you talk about these cartels, Unfortunately, I mean Look at the movie made in America where you had, I mean, Arkansas, where the CIA was funneling drugs into this country. For years, and nothing was done about it.

And the issue over in West Memphis, where the officers were killed by cartel members, and they framed a man and his son and called them sovereign citizens. This whole thing stinks to high heaven. It's just like the pedophile ring, they're not going after the real criminals, they're covering for them. And I'm not saying it's the president. I think that there are people beyond him that are in control, unfortunately.

And just like our Our favorite rhino Republican congressman. I mean, he used to be a straight shooter, but now he is controlled. All right, well, let's stay focused here. You wanted to talk about Savannah Guthrie's mother. No need to bring the congressman from West Tennessee.

I don't know what that has to do with anything. But all right, Mike, got a run. But again, I'm going to give you the final. It's been one of those days. It's honestly, it is one of those days.

But again, I mean, he has a Mike had a good point here. And if it is, in fact, the cartels, and I saw that movie, Made in America, that's what Tom Cruise. That was insane. And it was all true. Let me tell you, I'd much rather see our military go after these cartels that are actually killing Americans than go over into the Middle East, Iran, and all those places.

I would much rather see them fight the cartels. I think we do a lot of very bad stuff with good intentions, and then it gets out of control. And, you know, we're screwed. Yeah. That's what I think is going on.

I think you're right. Anyway, let's, yeah, but we do need to hope and pray that they find Mrs. Guthrie. What a terrible, terrible story. And again, we'll keep you updated on the very latest $50,000 reward.

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All right, welcome back. Let's get to the phones. I think we can get a call in. Wanda has been holding on for a while in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Hi, Wanda, what's on your mind today?

LIB immigration. Yeah, so what do you think President Trump ought to do here, Wanda? Get rid of all of them, all of them, if they've been here 30 minutes, 30 days, or 30 years. And they've not asked for their censorship and they don't speak English, they need to go. I don't care where they're at.

I think it's the And the same car is all the whole them kids. I'm not sure if I can do it. Take the kid with you. Yes, it's very simple, right, Wanda? Right.

Common sense. Common sense, I've had enough of this poor little orphan. That's good look at Yeah. I make you in Hendersonville, there's 25,000 of them. I picked up a kid at school a few weeks ago, a couple of months ago now.

And they were outside playing.

Well, then they had to go in, of course, because it was time for us for us to pick them up. I'm setting the alarm. I counted one group of kids that went to one teacher. Twenty. Right.

Here. We're Mexican. Wow. In Hendersonville, North Carolina. Wow.

All right. Wanda, that music means I've got to scoot out of here. That is shocking. And of all places, Hendersonville. All right.

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So uh there was a wild I mean a wild Meeting in the up on Capitol Hill, a hearing. And Scott Besant was just, man, they were just brutalizing the guy. Up on uh up on Capitol Hill. And Besson is just great. He.

He gives as good as he gets. And it's insane. Maxine Waters going after the guy. It's um, it was ugly stuff. And they were all telling telling the white guy to shut up.

And it it was really shocking to see some of the testimony. And we're going to play some of that audio. Dylan, if you don't mind, send me an updated cut list, and we'll get to that video in just a little while. But anyway, President Trump, I want to go back to something that happened last night. President Trump doing a sit-down interview.

With NBC News, and they covered a lot of topics, including, believe it or not. Bill Clinton. And the president is really upset. That Republicans want Bill Clinton and Hillary to testify on Capitol Hill, cut number eight. It bothers me that Somebody's going after Bill Clinton.

See, I like Bill Clinton. I still like Bill Clinton. What do you like about him? Uh I liked well, I liked his behavior toward me. I thought he got me, he understood me.

So, anyway, people are getting a little freaked out here, but keep in mind, I think Bill and Hillary actually came to one of Trump's weddings back in the day.

So, they have had a friendship. And as Trump used to say, the Democrats used to love him until he ran for office, and then they turned and they turned tail and ran, is what they did.

So anyway, Trump weighing in on that yesterday, the President also announcing that he is going after the he's going after the Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Fry, cut eleven.

Well, governor. And this horrible fake mare Fry You know. This is the Constitution of the United States. People don't want to be mugged. They don't want to have a murderer.

living next door that was You know, killed three people in a certain country and is now living beautifully here. Because, generally speaking, if they've killed in another country, they're not going to be. the best of citizens. And they're rough people. Remember in the campaign I used to say that their criminals make our criminals look like babies.

Oh, that's true. No no doubt about that. And then you've got this congressman. Uh Gregory Meeks. And this guy is a piece of work.

He is a congressman from. New York's fifth congressional district. And Mr. Meeks Is Just an ugly, ugly man. Just his entire demeanor.

And he's He's also black, and this is important for what you're about to hear. Because I'm just going to say that if a white congressman had treated a black man, a black Cabinet Secretary, like Meeks did to Scott Besant, Then we would all be talking about this would be the major national news story. people would be crying racism out the wazoo. That's exactly, exactly what would have happened. Take a listen to Cut 17.

I'm not going to ask much of you, Mr. Secretary. I just want to know whether you will commit today. To pause. And hi tip.

It's the scrutiny. of any bank charter. or licensing application at the OCC connected to the World Liberty Financial. until all of these conflicts of interest and foreign influence reviews are completed and shared with the United States Congress. All I need to know is will you halt it?

And do a complete Investigation and scrutiny of this licensing application. Uh All you have to ask is yes or no. No, Congressman, the SEC is an independent entity, and I would know, Congressman, you traveled to Venezuela. I take that as a no. I take that as a no.

You do not want to answer that question. I take that as a no. For a $7 billion time. I'm asking you to do your responsibility as Secretary of the Treasury. You do not have time.

You cannot erase it. He's the one that went past your time, Mr. Chairman. He did not answer my question. And he wouldn't concentrate.

He had six seconds left to try to answer your question. It was a yes or no. It was a yes or no answer. I asked him, Willie, and all was yes or no. At Reg OCC, stop covering for the president.

Stop being his flunky. Gentlemen, gentlemen, she's talking to me. I'm responding to you in the 2006 trip to Venezuela. Stop covering for the president. Don't be a funky.

Work for the American people. Mr. Mayor. Stop trip to Venezuela. Work for the American people.

Don't be a cover-up for a mob. Ah, he said flunky, by the way. Flunky. We had to double check.

So, look, a couple of things. And again, if a white congressman had acted and behaved that way towards a A black member of a cabinet, all you know what would be breaking loose. But I do have one thing to say to. Congressman Meeks, who I'm certain must be a well educated man. The correct pronunciation of the word is secretary, secretary, not secretary.

No, there is not secretary, it's secretary. There's an R. Yeah, R, Congressman, Secretary. See, it's very simple. Not secretary.

Yeah, that's Succotash Secretary. Wow. We just try to be helpful. That's all. We're just trying to be helpful.

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Super Bowl Sunday, Dylan, and it's going to be a. A lot of fun. I mean, they're going to say it's going to be a good game, right? You got the Seahawks and the Patriots. And I was just wondering, you know, I thought, well, you know, I.

Don't have much to do this weekend. Right after I wrap up the Young Americas Foundation speech in Nashville, maybe I could catch a direct flight to Los Angeles and catch the big game. It is in LA, right? Levi Stadium? Yes, yes.

Or is that in San Francisco? I can't ever remember. It's in California. Yeah. So anyway, I thought, you know what, I'll check and see what tickets are.

Just hop, just pop into the Super Bowl. You ready for this? Yes. The average The average Super Bowl ticket. $5,000.

Oh, yeah. Single ticket. Yes. And apparently they're having a hard time selling tickets because the prices are going down. According to Ticketmaster, the average annual Super Bowl ticket resale price ranges from $4,000 to $6,000 before fees.

However, as of February the 4th, that was yesterday, the cheapest get-in price for a single ticket has fallen well below $5,000. You see, we were talking about this yesterday. For some reason, there doesn't seem like there's as much buzz about this year's Super Bowl. I wonder why that is. Yeah, I think, and I've heard some talk about it, there's not really a standout player that people are really rooting for if you look at both quarterbacks.

The Patriots have Drake May, who's like, he's cool to watch, but he's not like anything special right now. He could be in the future. And then Seahawks, I think, have Sam Darnold, who, yeah, it it's fine, but There's yeah, I've heard there's not a lot of hype that's going into it. I'll watch it, but I'm not like dying to see it really.

So they went and USA Today, they were able to run these numbers: the most expensive ticket prices in the history of the Super Bowl. And I'm kind of surprised you're not higher, but here goes. Super Bowl 58. $12,128 per ticket. That was the 49ers versus the Kansas City Chiefs.

Okay. Next. Super Bowl 55, $11,000, $840. $11,840. That was Tampa Bay versus the Kansas City Chiefs.

And then Super Bowl 56 the following year, $10,322. And that was the LA Rams versus Cincinnati Bengals. Yeah. Those are more exciting games, I would argue. Then this one.

But um Yeah, I mean, those tickets are always going to be super expensive, and the average person, if you're not a die-hard fan. Uh probably not going to buy one. Yeah, it's in the Bay Area. Why did I think LA? It's Levi Stadium.

That's in San Francisco. I had to look it up. I seriously didn't even know what stadium that was. Yeah, again, it's just been, and it's kind of like the Winter Olympics. You know, there used to be like this big, like, Big push, big media blitz, marketing blitz.

I, you know, I had no idea. No, I haven't heard. I haven't heard anything. It's almost like, oh, wow, okay. I think they're preparing for a dud, honestly, because this is most people, even like the halftime shows kind of just ruining it for people.

So they may not even watch the game because of just the halftime show. I think what really shocked me is this is number 60.

So you would think they would really do it up, you know, in a very nice way. Seriously, yeah. But it's like the opposite right now. Would you pay, ladies and gentlemen? Would you pay that ticket price?

I mean, for you, what is the like. What is top dollar for you? I would say nothing more than five hundred bucks. Yeah. For me it's probably like two hundred.

Concert tickets are crazy nowadays, too. That's a whole different conversation, but For a football game that's like three hours long Yeah, 200 to 500. But hold on. It's uh you're paying that much money for a ticket. You're not getting anything free, right?

'Cause you still gotta buy your hot dogs and your, you know, your soft drinks or your beverages or whatever. And I'm telling you, that hot dog's probably gonna be twenty bucks. Yeah, exactly. Super Bowl, I think they do it a little bit better with the food, but um, yeah. No.

You're spending a lot it's like going to the movies and buying popcorn. You're spending a hundred dollars. I'm looking it up right now. We're going to find out. Oh, thirty dollars for a half a dozen oysters.

Oh, my gosh. Guess how much beer is? Oh, $8? $21. Over $21.

For a single beer. For a single beer. Wow. That's insane. That's almost more than the meal you just got.

Unbelievable. So, yeah, they're looking at beers are priced around $21. They've got specialty items like hanger steak with fries. No, if you're at the Super Bowl, you're going to eat either like a burger or a hot dog or, you know. I don't know.

Maybe you are going to eat a steak. Yeah, I was going to say, if you're at the Super Bowl and you already spent that much money, why not? Eat the steak. I don't know. Ladies and gentlemen, what would you I would much rather at that point stay home.

Are you already this is insane? The average fan would spend over a hundred and forty dollars just on food. Yeah. That's insane. Mm.

These people got money to spend. I don't know. I don't know where this money comes from. These people, I mean, if I'm a die-hard NFL fan and my team's going to the Super Bowl. I'm still not going.

I don't even care if it's next door to me. That's too much money.

So here are they've just released the menu for like the um for the the the concession stands. Uh Gilroy garlic steak steak farites. with fried garlic A dungeonous crab? What's a patacho? I have no earthly idea.

This is all weird. A Super Shucker Hog Island oyster sampler. Chinatown Dog We're assuming that's actually not a dog.

Okay. They really they really got close on that one. Right. I'm just okay, it is made with pork.

Okay, we're good. Uh with sriracha. Oh, it actually looks pretty tasty now that I know it's not fluffy. Um impossible rooftop cheese steak. I'm going to be in so much trouble.

You don't even get hot dogs from China. I don't understand this. I know the owners of. The Royal Panda. I hope they're not listening.

I may have just lost my special seat. Probably. Rooftop. Vegan cheesesteak. Oh, that's disgusting.

Glazed plant-based meat, caramelized onions, kale. Vegan, something another, uh, and um Aolate.

Sounds like the vegan stuff is at the bottom of the menu. Yeah. Oh, here we go: an LX burger, colossal braised bone and beef shank. on a bun. Ooh, that sounds delicious, actually.

So anyway, but you're going to spend probably about $150 just on food. Yeah. I'd rather stay home and watch it on the ginormous screen. Me too. All right, 901-260-5926, ladies and gentlemen.

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All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. Interesting story out of Out of Korea. Where they are now offering students AI-powered glasses that offer real-time subtitles of Korean lectures. I am fascinated by this story.

So, I guess as the person is speaking, if you don't understand the language, it'll pop up in your glasses, sort of like I don't know, a teleprompter or something. As Dylan, the lovely Helen said, we may need these AI glasses for the Super Bowl halftime show. Yeah, instead of buying a ticket to the game, you could just buy the glasses. Probably be better off.

Well, you may not want to know what the guy is actually saying. We're talking about bad bunny. Bad bunny. Who's going to be singing the halftime show in a foreign language? And in a dress.

It's a double negative. And he's not shaving his legs, from what we understand. That's not going to look good. Hopefully, they'll black out the shades. Maybe you could just see the subtitles on your screen and then just close your eyes.

Could be. Could be. We have some breaking news out of Virginia, ladies and gentlemen. Breaking news now on the Todd Starn Show.

So, Virginia Democrats have now announced they are going to move. To reconfigure their congressional map. And when it's all said and done, Democrats will have 10 congressional seats in Virginia. and the Republicans will only have one. Currently, Virginia has six Democrat seats and five Republicans, but the Democrats who now control everything, much like in the United States where the Republicans control everything, in Virginia, the Democrats control everything, The Senate, the House of Delegates, and the Governor's Mansion, and they are going to move through with a congressional map that will completely destroy the Republican Party.

Now, I just want to say something about this because yesterday I had Senator Mike Rounds on my Newsmax show from South Dakota. He said, quote, We will not nuke the filibuster.

So here's the deal. When Republicans are in charge, we compromise because we want to get along. We don't want to hurt the feelings of the other side. But when the Democrats are in charge, They will go through and ram their agenda down the throats of every American citizen, and they don't care who they offend.

So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, the breaking news. And if this stands, you know what's going to happen? Because the Supreme Court yesterday ruled that California can basically eliminate most of their Republican seats in Congress. We are going to lose. the House of Representatives.

That's what's about to happen here.

So ladies and gentlemen, what do you want the Senate to do? Do you want him to nuke the filibuster?

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Yeah. Um All right, welcome back, everybody. And again, just to reiterate that breaking news from. The Commonwealth of Virginia, where the House Speaker Don Scott, a Democrat, and Senator Louise Lucas, a Democrat. Announced they will release the brand new congressional map by the end of the day or early tomorrow.

And that map will take Will take away most of the Republican districts. The new map will give Democrats 10 seats in Congress and one Republican seat in Congress.

So they're eliminating right now it's it's five. The Republicans have five seats. They'll only have one.

Now here's the problem: Indiana. Rock solid red state. The Republicans here refuse to redistrict. They refuse. It's just not the right thing to do.

Same thing in Tennessee, where we've got one Democrat seat. Why, it's just that's not the way that we play politics here, Todd. That's just wrong. The Democrats deserve at least one seat? Right.

W W Giant D Jesus would throw Steve Cohen. out of Memphis. That's what he would do. Oh, I really don't know, but I would like to think he would. None of us knows, none of us speak for our Lord.

So anyway, uh they're not gonna do it. They're not going to do it. And I'm telling you that we are setting the stage, even if it was already going to be a tough slog. to maintain control. By the way, Congressman Barry Lautermilk out of Georgia became the 29th Republican to announce he's not going to run for Congress.

Come on, folks.

So anyway, you folks in Virginia, I feel for you because the Democrats, they're playing hardball. And I really wish the Republicans would do that. I wish the Trump administration would start living up to some of these promises they're making. Why haven't we dismantled the Department of Education? Today, you've got even more schools where the kids are running out.

They're launching these protests. The teachers are encouraging all of this nonsense. It's all going to come back and bite us in the behind. I've got this great new book coming out later this year. You're going to love it.

And it's such an encouraging thing, talking about all the great successes of the Trump administration. But at the very end of the book, there is a chapter, a prologue, warning people. That we could lose all of this if we do not follow through. And the linchpin in all of this is our nation's education system. That's ultimately what's going to lead to our demise.

to the fall of this great nation. And we can't let that happen. We just cannot. Let that happen. And then this whole situation with the And it's really an unforced error with the immigration and the backtracking on the immigration issue.

I mean, my word It's just insane. Just insane. 901-260-5926. So now you've got Megan Kelly. She's sitting down with J.D.

Vance, the vice president. And here's what they had to say about The illegal immigration issue, cut 18. The right, I think, wants all illegals going. And actually, stop for a moment. Stop, stop, stop.

What did she mean by that? What is she and by the way, Megan Kelly is no conservative. All right, I just want you to hear me on that. But what does she mean by the right? As if that's some sort of an extremist position.

I mean, based on all the polling data out there, that is the mainstream position here. We all want the illegals to protect. All right, go continue. The right, I think, wants all illegals gone. And actually, the poll showed that the majority of the American people still want that.

They want all of the illegals gone, not just the ones who committed additional crimes upon getting here. And I think a lot of us are wondering what is the plan for getting them? Because it seems that the left. Has effectively exercised its veto by its terrible behavior in Minneapolis. Such to, you know, Homan is very focused on getting the illegals out.

All of the reforms he's announcing are with respect to getting the illegals who have committed additional crimes and notification of them before they leave the local jails, which would be great. That would be a compromise of Sanctuary City policy there. We don't yet have an agreement on that in Minneapolis, which is the biggest area. Maybe we'll get it. But the point is simply What about all the others?

Yeah, yeah. So, I actually kind of like that our side is so insistent on this issue. I like the pressure. I like people saying we recognize you've done a lot, now do more. I think that's kind of how this should work: that fundamentally, you know, the president and I and the entire administration work for the American people.

And so, I hear these complaints, I hear these criticisms. I guess I'd say a couple things.

So, first of all, again, you have an entire legal landscape, but also a deportation enforcement mechanism. All of these additional ICE officers that we brought in as part of the one big beautiful bill. That's getting online now.

So they're not going to Minneapolis.

Well, some of them will.

Some of them. And Homan just announced a drawdown of 700 people.

So Homan announced a partial drawdown, but because the local authorities are cooperating with him. And this is why it's important to segregate, what are we talking about, immigration enforcement or everything else? We're not drawing down immigration enforcement. We're drawing down some of the federal officers that were helping the guys doing immigration enforcement. And this is what I think, frankly, the far left and also some of our guys on the right didn't fully appreciate.

When Homan says we're drawing 700 people down, those are the people who were protecting the ICE officers as they went out and did deportations and immigration enforcement. Most of the people that we have in Minneapolis, they're not doing immigration enforcement. That's true even after the 700 drawdown. Most of them are protecting the immigration officers from the mob that's forming around them.

So as we get more and more cooperation from Minneapolis and from the state of Minnesota, and we are starting to get real cooperation. From them in a way that we haven't. We don't want people there doing effectively police work so that they can protect our immigration officers. We want the immigration officers to go and do their work, and if they get into a problem, they can call local police. As that happens, I think you're gonna see some of that law enforcement shifting to the local police, which is exactly what we wanted.

All right, so there you go. It's almost word salad these days, folks. Look, here's President Trump. And this was from the NBC news piece. And it was an interesting question that the president had.

And this is really the shift. All right. So this is where when we look back on this administration, this is the moment. That things changed when it came to the illegal issue. Cut 16.

I have a question about immigration still looking forward now. Your goal during the election was to deport everyone who came here illegally under President Biden. Is your mission now to deport everyone who came in illegally or just people who have come in illegally who have also committed additional crimes? We are totally focused on criminals, really bad criminals.

Now, you could say people that came in illegally are criminals, but I'm talking about. murderers from different countries. We have 11,888 murderers that Biden and his group led into our country. We've captured a lot of them. We've brought some of them back.

A lot of them we don't want to Bring back because we don't trust the country that they're not sent back again. Despite how strong the borders are, they'll figure a way to try and get in, and we don't want to and we'll incarcerate them. Eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty eight murderers deal. We are after those people. We are after the drug dealers.

We are after, by the way, a big problem, they allowed to come into our country people from their mental institutions, people from insane asylums that are mentally ill and very dangerous. We're getting them out. So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. And I mean, you heard the President say that they're going to be going on after the really bad criminals.

Now I let me just say this, and if Tom Holman had not been shoved aside, I think this would be a different story now. Because originally that was the plan, to go after the really, really bad people and then everybody else. But that's not what happened. And it's become a huge mess and it's become a political at least the President thinks it's a political liability for him and for the Republicans. Yeah.

So, the question, ladies and gentlemen, we asked this the first hour of the program: is what do you want the president to do here? What do you want? Do you want all of the illegals gone, or are you okay with the illegals who've been here 20, 30 years sticking around? Our telephone number, by the way, is 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

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All right, listen up, all of you listeners in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, High Point, North Carolina. That's WSJS territory, by the way. Great people in that area of the country. You guys have a massive responsibility that has just landed at your local Chick-fil-A restaurant. You folks in all three of those cities and points around WSJS, you have been selected to test-market a brand new Chick-fil-A sandwich.

Yeah. Dylan, I hope they understand the great power and responsibility they have just been bestowed with. Yeah, seriously. I'm baffled right now. They are going to be sampling something that's going to be called a sweet chili lime crunch sandwich.

Hmm.

Now you have your traditional Breaded breast, tucked between hot buttered buns. Yummy. Anyways. Then the chicken is topped with ginger lime cool crunch.

Now you may say, What is g ginger lime cool crunch? Yeah, I'm wondering. You have to say that. What is ginger lime? Thank you.

Well, I was going to answer the question. It's made with cabbage. Kale. Ginger lime dressing. and drizzled with a sweet chili sauce.

For a sweet and spicy finish. All right, that can happen. Got a little throw-up in my throat there just reading that. They lost me at Kale. Yeah, you guys have a lot of fun trying that.

Uh-huh. Wow. The price $6.15 for original. $6.55 for spicy and $7 for grilled. Why is the grilled is more expensive?

Right, because that's just like the chicken. It's not like you got the breading and everything. It's less ingredients. And the oil. Yeah.

I'm just telling you. Valid question. I'm not too sure about that. But anyway, you folks. In North Carolina, you've got a responsibility now.

Do not let us down. Do not let us down. All right, let's go to the phones here: 901-260-5926. Say hello to Melissa in Texas. Hi, Melissa.

What's on your mind? Hi, Todd. Good afternoon. How are you? I'm doing well.

Thank you for asking, Melissa. You're welcome.

So the reason for my call is right before you went to break, You said, do we need all the illegals to go, even those that have been here forever and a day? are just the ones more recently. In my opinion, I feel like they all need to go. If you're illegal, you're illegal. My sister-in-law is from Mexico.

She did it the right way, got her papers. Took the test, did everything she was supposed to do to be here, and now she feels like it's unfair that there are those here illegally and not doing what she had to do to make it right.

So I think they all need to go if they're illegal. Melissa, we've had several calls from Texas today on the show, and I'm just wondering, I mean, you guys, at least from our vantage point, it looks like you guys have really been dealing with the struggles of having so many illegals in your city. Correct, because we've got literally the Gulf right here, practically on top of us, at least where we live here in Houston. And they're coming in from all points you can think of in every which way you can think that they're getting here.

So Yeah. When you look at what President Trump is doing now, and clearly, he's starting to go soft. As a matter of fact, there was another line, there was another quote. I don't have time to play it. But the President said that he was looking at going a little bit softer.

Is that the right thing to do? Yeah. Definitely not. All right, Melissa, thank you for that call. And I think a lot of folks feel like you do.

And I know the polling data backs all of this up, which is why it's even more mind-boggling. Let's go to Bob in Memphis, Tennessee, listening to us on KWAM. Hi, Bob. What say you? Hey, Tom.

Thank you for taking my call, Todd. I want to say that we should deport all illegals, especially those who came during Biden administration. And those Remaining? they they don't get any health care or any preeducation. And if you turn up the faucet, I think they'll sell self deport.

Yeah, and by the way, a lot of people have self-deported, and I know that we're spending a lot of tax money, you know, flying these people. I think we're giving them a check and all this kind of stuff. And, you know, look, I have problems with it, but okay, fine, as long as we're getting them out of the country so they don't cost us more money. But I don't think that's going to last much longer. And, Bob, my concern is we're going to have members of Congress on the Republican side of the aisle calling for full-blown amnesty.

Yep, that's the problem.

Okay, Bob, God bless you. Thank you for listening to K-Wham.

Now, Dylan, we went from Chick-fil-A to Chick-fil-A- to Florida, where apparently there's something called An iguana pizza.

Okay. You know, like the lizard creatures? Yes, the giant lizards.

So here's the problem.

So it is, it's cold in Florida, like really cold. And when it gets really cold, the iguanas, they like, I don't know, cinch up, right? They freeze. And they're like paralyzed. I thought it was never cold in Florida, but here's news to me, I guess.

Yeah, which yeah, it's a weird thing. And so anyway, the and so then the iguanas are so they're like paralyzed by the cold, so they fall out of the trees. Oh. and then like local hunters go, and they scoop up the frozen reptiles. And they're turning it into.

I'm not kidding you, this is CBS news reporting.

So they're turning it into pizza. A local tramper kept a few of the reptiles and turned them into what he calls the Florida Man Pizza. topped with freshly harvested iguana meats.

Okay, so the bodies of the iguanas are not the base of the pizza? No, what's inside the skin is.

Okay, okay, all right. They're killing the iguanas. Yeah. And the poor iguana doesn't even have a fighting chance. Yeah.

They're paralyzed. I mean, the hunters, they got to be so lazy. They're just, they're not even hunting them. Right, exactly. This is like the equivalent of going, I don't know, going deer hunting with the headlights on your pickup truck.

Exactly. Right? I'm not sure where's the sport in this. Yeah, that's cheating. I don't know, maybe I'll try.

Don't eat me. Would you eat an iguana on a pizza? Hell no.

Okay. Yeah, me either. Is it hitting me? Depends on how cooked it is. I wouldn't even eat grilled chicken on a pizza.

It doesn't belong there.

Well, that's a take. No, Jesus didn't want. Look, it's pepperoni. sausage and ground beef.

Okay, that's just like bread. That's cheesy bread. Yeah. Exactly. That's your opinion.

That's okay. Are you a chicken guy? I'm not opposed to a chicken. What about pineapple? Please tell me.

No, please. That should be illegal jail time for that. Yeah. That's an alphabet activist issue. Absolutely.

Those people were flip-flops. It tastes like a flip-flop.

So, anyway, there's a local pizza joint in North Palm Beach, Florida called Bucks Coal Fired. They said we were able to do good work and remove the iguanas and educate people, and it was just a great time. Oh, God, this is terrible. While the iguanas provided unexpected entertainment and even a meal, tourists escaped frigid northern temps and they're not getting the warm beach days they had hoped for. You know, that is bad.

You're from Detroit, you go down to Florida for some fun and sun, and the next thing you know, it's thirty degrees and iguanas are falling out of the trees. It's kinda like the apocalypse. One of the tourists said, You know, we had a pizza, but we first had to have a beverage or two. Probably should have made that three.

Okay. But they don't say what it tastes like. That's what bothers me about the reporters these days. Nobody's, I guarantee it tasted like chicken. Uh probably not, 'cause they're not they're not talking about it too highly right now.

Frozen acorns. Frozen iguanas. Just plopped right down on the pizza. All right. 5 o'clock, folks.

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