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That's right, I love this American. It is the Todd Starring Show, Jeff Katz.

So happy to be sitting in for my dear friend Todd on a lovely Friday afternoon. And do we have A huge amount of work to do. I know, I'm not talking about the show itself. Look, there are plenty of fine people that are going to be here to help us out, examine exactly what's going on. Congressman Jody Hines, Congressman Ralph Norman, a dear friend of mine, Joe Moreno, a former federal prosecutor.

Another, another great friend of mine, John McGuire, who is a state delegate here in my beloved Commonwealth of Virginia. And amongst the issues we have to discuss with each and every one of them is what you and I are dealing with right now. What the heck is going on?

Now I sit here and I am gazing out the official weather window here in my office. And I'm thinking to myself, what is going on? Did you ever think that you would live in a time like this? Every single day, Todd Starnes takes to the these airwaves, right? Live from the Liberty University studios.

And says, let's get down to it, let's expose what's going on. Every single day you are tuned in. And you are listening to those of us on some occasions who are fortunate enough. to be sitting in Ferton at the Liberty University studios across America. And you think there's hope?

I think there's hope. I know there's hope. In fact, I know there's hope because I happen to be a person of faith. But I am looking at these series of incessant attacks on former President Donald Trump, and I am absolutely nauseated. You don't have to be a fan of Donald Trump.

You don't have to be someone who voted for him. Heck, you could get up in the morning and go, you know what? I hate Trump. He could be your worst imaginary enemy, and you still have an obligation as an American. to stand up and say no.

This is not what we do in the United States of America. This is not how we treat anyone. let alone the former President of the United States. I'm an ex-comp. Right, I spent a couple of years on the job, a thousand years ago in a galaxy far, far away.

And I was I was a police officer, I was a patrolman. I never became a detective, never rose in rank, did that for a couple of years and said, you know. I'm getting into a radio. Brilliant move that was, right? But that's what I did.

But I'm going to tell you something. Even though I have been in this bizarre, goofy broadcasting world for. Probably twenty five, thirty years at this point's a long time now that I think about it. I still bleed blue. I still slow down when I'm passing a police officer who has somebody pulled over on the side of the road.

I still slow down automatically. Have no I I just I don't even think about it. I go into restaurants. I never sit with my back to the door. I always want to know where the entrance is, where the exit is.

And I won't sit with my back to the door. Crazy? Maybe, but it's just how I'm wired now.

So When I talk about law enforcement, let me tell you something. I come from a place of nothing but support and love and admiration. For the heroes who go out every single day and do the job. And so, when I look at what happened to President Trump. I'm not looking at the agents who were told they had to go do this.

I'm looking at higher up. When Merrick Garland, the Attorney General of the United States, weighs in and says, Oh, yeah. I personally approve this search warrant. You know what that means to me? It means that it went so far up the chain of command.

That it became, in my opinion, Nothing but political. Christopher Ray, the director of the FBI, make no mistake about it, he had to know. That this was going to occur. I see a lot of anger directed towards the twelve thousand brick agents, the men and women who are actually FBI special agents out there every single day doing the job. And I'm just here to tell you, don't take your anger out on them.

Don't look towards them and go, Oh, these are awful people. You want to see what's going on. Let's not take the bottom-up approach to this. Let's take the top-to-bottom approach. Let's remember that Merrick Garland stood in front of all of us and said, Oh, I absolutely positively.

Approved the search warrant.

Now, he doesn't actually approve it. He approves a request. As Todd has pointed out, it went over to a magistrate judge down in South Florida who, frankly, his most famous claim to fame was representing Jeffrey Epstein at some point.

So I don't know that I put that at the top of my resume, but you know, what do I know? I'm just a talk show host. I'm not a federal magistrate judge.

So what were we looking for, my friends? What were we looking for? If the reports are true. Ten to fifteen boxes were removed.

Okay. What's in them?

Well, there's some cocktail napkins. Really? Highly classified cocktail napkins.

Okay, I'll put that down here. Uh golf balls? Really? You know, I'm not a golfer, so I I don't really honestly know what could have been uh part of the golf balls? But The reality is, if you you're asking me, I'm thinking, um Top secret golf balls?

Were these the golf balls that Jerry Lewis was working on a couple of decades ago, making flubber? Is that what they are? Like you could hit them with a putter, and they would go 400 yards.

Okay, so we've got top-secret golf balls, classified cocktail napkins. I believe there was a dinner menu as well in there. Oh, and as of today, the latest scuttlebutt is: oh, nuclear weapons. Really? I'm going to have to straighten a few misconceptions out.

I'm going to do it in a couple of moments. I promise you, right now. Couple of moments. Number one, What is the President allowed to have? What can uh be declared declassified?

I'll give you a little hint. Anything the President says is declassified is declassified. Highest office in the land, correct? President Trump, we're told, said there's a lot of stuff here that the American people need to know about. And so I, like you, am looking at this thinking, you know, this is not directed at President Trump.

This is directed at the American people. And Donald Trump made clear from the beginning, right? Hey, they're not coming after me. They're coming after you. I just happen to be standing in between.

You want another little secret? I wasn't a Trump supporter at the beginning. Not even close. Oh my gosh. I was one of those guys.

When Donald Trump came down the escalator, Right? Not President Trump, but Donald Trump. Came down the escalator, I thought, well I've read his books and I like him and I think he's a smart guy and I've watched The Apprentice and all this stuff. And I thought he's very entertaining and he's very smart, a lot smarter than people ever gave him credit for. But I thought to myself, he's not really going to run for president.

What a pain in the rear end that's going to be. Who would want that job? And so I started thinking to myself, well. He's probably got a new season of The Apprentice he's working on. Maybe there's a new book coming out.

Maybe there's something to increase the brand.

So there's going to be publicity. That's what I thought. And there were plenty of people who said, no, no, Jeff, he's running for president. I said, nah, not a chance. Not a j who would take that sort of a pay cut.

Who who would take on all this responsibility? I mean, a lot of us, uh, frankly, look for jobs where there's not a lot of heavy lifting, right? Mostly indoors, Jeff.

Well, you could be a police officer where people are every single day trying to kill you, or you can be a talk show host sitting in a very comfortable chair in a climate controlled setting, and the worst that's going to happen to you is that you might have to walk down the hall to get yourself a cup of coffee. Hm, yeah, tough choice, right?

So I didn't believe it. I just didn't believe it at first. Then there's some debates and I'm thinking, nah, he's not really running for this. Then there's some primaries. And I still, I still said, no, no, no, not a chance.

And then it became clear oh, my God, he is serious Now I got to really pay attention. Not that I wasn't paying attention before, but now I gotta be laser beam focussed. And what became clear Not just for me, but for Couple of hundred million Americans was. He was totally serious. And the whole reason that he could run was that.

He did have a lot of money. He didn't need the job. Everything that I said was true. It was a pay cut, it was more responsibility, it was a pain in the rear end, and yet he said, Oh no, I gotta do this, I'm gonna do this 'cause it has to be done and somebody honorable has to do it.

Well, he's not Honorable Jeff. He's a New York businessman.

Well He is a New York business man. I don't think that makes him dishonourable. I was thrilled. When I saw him stand up and say. You know what?

He is the real deal. He is the real deal. And so this is where we are right now. I think personally that some of what you are seeing. Is an effort to make sure that the American people do not see.

things. That President Trump declassified a whole bunch of stuff that he wanted us to see? And now they're those in DC at the highest levels, Merritt Garland. Joe Biden's staff. I don't know that anybody told Joe Biden about this.

I mean, look, I got to be honest on this one, right? I don't know that anybody notified Joe Biden, and quite frankly, even if they did, he wouldn't remember 90 seconds later, so it probably doesn't make any difference. But you mean to tell me that the former president of the United States is going to have his house raided? And the chief of staff to the current president, Ron Klain, doesn't know? I don't buy that for a second.

So we've got all of this that we've got to unpack, we've got to discuss, and we will, of course. Engage in a little conversation. I want to remind you: you can always jump in: 844-747-8868. 844-747-8868. Make sure that you are going to ToddStarnes.com, please.

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It's the Todd Starring Show, Jeff Katz. Happy to be sitting here for my friend Todd. A lovely Friday afternoon. Does anybody know how you would actually launch nukes from Mar-a-Lago? I just don't honestly know.

Uh we are live from the Liberty University studios, and in a couple of moments on the uh Patriot Mobile Newsmaker Line, state delegate uh John McGuire out of uh my personal beloved Commonwealth of Virginia is going to join us. Uh we've got to talk about a lot of things, including folks who are pretending to be Conservatives, people pretending to be Republicans. And let's not get those two things confused. I know Todd does a great job of uh having that differentiation. But you and I need to be aware of it.

We've got to be aware of it. In addition to that, my friend John McGuire is going to be having tomorrow afternoon, Saturday afternoon, a giant support President Trump rally. You know what? People who hate Donald Trump ought to go to this rally as well. No, not to be hecklers, not to be jerks, but because you either believe in our Constitution or you don't.

You either believe in the rule of law or you don't.

Now there are people in America, thank God, who really do believe the right thing. You know that. I mean, you hear about them on an almost daily basis, correct? You hear about people who, well, legitimately care, who legitimately stand with us. My friend Mike Lindell is one of those folks.

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And part of the reason we buy from Mike Lindell is that he's a proud American. He's an unapologetic man of faith, and he's being punished for that. Right? To lose retail space? This is a guy that employs thousands of Americans.

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Now, you know what's weird? I don't even want you to apologize for hating America, see, 'cause I will disagree with you, and I will disagree with you passionately and vociferously. But I will defend your right to speak freely, because I actually do believe in the Constitution, and I do believe in these God given rights that you and I have, which are simply enumerated in the Constitution.

Now you tell me why Donald Trump isn't entitled to the same sort of respect. As you know, because you've heard the story. Back in June, that's not that long ago, sixty days ago. The federal government was saying, hey, listen. It would appear as if there might be some classified material that made its way to Mar-a-Lago.

And the implication was that Donald Trump filled up the moving boxes himself and carried them down to the basement of Mar-a-Lago. I mean, it's ridiculous.

So, what happens?

So, they reach out. Yeah. Folks, Trump folks say, hey, come on over. We'll give you all that you're supposed to have. No worries at all.

President Trump apparently even poked his head in to say hello.

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It's the Todd Starr Joe Love. From the Liberty University studios, Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting here for my friend Tom. How can a former President of the United States be treated in the way that Donald Trump is being treated? Right? That's the question I think we all have to ask.

In fact, Has there ever been a President treated in this way? I I look at The documents, right? That's what we're being told now. Hey, hey, hey, it's all documents.

Okay. 30,000 plus emails acid-washed because they all related to wedding plans and yoga. Oh yeah, that's fine. No worries. Don't uh it's okay.

She wasn't even the president, right?

Well, don't worry about it. Barack Obama leaves with millions of pages, we're told. Of documentation. No worries. And in fact, do you remember what we were told at the time when it all started coming about?

Everybody was telling us, well, you know, the president is the one who declassifies material.

Now, what's really odd about this, I didn't know that. I'd like to think I'm fairly well informed, but I didn't know that. And I can remember as it was being reported, sort of, kind of, and I am making those annoying air quotes when I say report, because believe me, it wasn't covered extensively. But there were some minor reports. Oh, yeah, well, you know, it's actually the president.

The president can look at a piece of paper and go, it's now declassified because I said so.

Okay. So it's what? It's a dinner menu, it's cocktail napkins, it's golf balls, oh, and nuclear weaponry information. Seems like an odd thing to put together, but all right. I'll I'll How do you launch nuclear weapons from Mar-a-Lago?

Would be one of my questions, and I'm very serious about that. What does this have to do with anything?

Well Here's what it has to do with. It has to do with what President Trump said a long time ago. made very clear, hey. They're not after me. They're after you.

I just happen to be standing in the way. I believe that. I believe that completely. And I look at those who claim to be Republicans as an example. But in fact are just doing whatever helps them to go along.

People are talking about Liz Cheney, right? She's part of the uh the cast on this January 6th miniseries. And she's about to lose her Republican primary in Wyoming. The latest poll I saw had uh this uh Ms. Hagerman up by fifty-six points.

You think Liz Cheney cares? I don't think she does. Because her personal wealth has increased 600%. I guarantee as soon as she loses, she winds up on CNN. But there are a lot of people, I think, hiding in the Republican Party.

Pretending to be something else. And I'm seeing that across the country. I'm also seeing people who need to stand up and say, I support former President Trump, even if I didn't vote for him, even if I don't like him. Either you believe in the rule of law or you don't. John McGuire is a member of our Virginia House of Delegates.

Great, great guy, Navy SEAL. Local business guy, and I wanted to bring him on for a couple of reasons, quite frankly. Number one is a big support President Trump event that John is organizing. And I just wanted him to share some details, and I'm happy to say that he's joining us. John, thanks for being here.

Hey, thanks for having me on the show. I really appreciate it. You know, I think go ahead. No, I was going to say, the pleasure is mine. Let's talk about your support for former President Trump and this event that you are throwing, and you're inviting everybody to come to it.

Yes. If you're sick and tired of government overreach, I hope you'll come out tomorrow. you know, he's going to go down in history as having done more in four years for the American people than any President ever did in eight years. And it's kind of funny but true. But in the Virginia House of Delegates in 2019, I had a Republican tell me.

I better not put a Trump flag on my truck or I'll lose because he was afraid.

So I put two trunk flags on my truck and I drove around for six months and I had the second biggest win in Virginia.

So I'm a big Trump supporter, and they treated him worse than any president ever. And you mentioned earlier the double standard. There's two systems There's the Democrat law and the Republican law. You talk about the uh the thirty-three thousand emails, you talk about the uh but the uh laptop and everything else that they're just covering up, and then they're going to go down there and raise his Yes, exactly what it is. It's a raid.

So we're going to protest that. We're going to support Trump, and it'll be tomorrow, Saturday, thirteenth, August, one to three p.m. It'll be at the food line in Mannekin Sabbott, which is Goochland County, Virginia. We live right down the road. But it'll be thirty Broad Street Road, and we're telling people to wear your Trump gear, bring your Trump flags, bring your American flags.

We'll have some special guest speakers there and everybody else. You know, John, I'm looking at it. Of course, for me, it is quite literally down the road. But of course, here on the Todd Starring show, we have listeners all over America, coast to coast, border to border.

So there are folks listening in Washington state, California, and down in Florida and everywhere in between.

So they may not be able to make it to our neck of the woods, but they can do this locally, right? If you can set it up here in Virginia, I've got to think there are people like you, state representatives, local officials, just concerned Americans who can stand up across America and say, yeah, we're not going to put up with this. We have to tell them no. We have to push back. And I think Thomas Jefferson said, when the people fear the government, there's tyranny.

And when the government fears the people, there's liberty. It's our constitutional right. We need to stand up. I'm asking everyone to put their Trump signs, their Trump flags back within a yard and let them know that we're not backing down. You know, I think that's a great idea, John.

Now think about that. People had Trump campaign signs from the last presidential election. You're right. They ought to put him back in the yard and let people know we're standing with him. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Yeah. And I like what you said earlier, that quote he had, he said, in reality, they're not after me, they're after you, I'm just in the way. And uh He's you know, he's sacrificed, he's continued to fight. And I guess I mean, the Republicans, we have a We have a reputation of fighting like teddy bears, and the Democrats have a reputation of fighting like grizzly bears.

And my nickname, the General Assembly, is Pitbull. You know, I'm not afraid. And on the other side of fear is freedom. And so I would ask the American people is don't let them silence you, don't let them cancel you, get your flags up there and have your voice heard. You know, John, I want to remind everybody: you serve this nation as a Navy SEAL.

You're a favorite. Fantastic local businessman. You are. You're just a great guy. You're a great American.

Just honestly, if anybody in Washington, D.C. thought that somebody possessed classified information on nuclear weapons, would you wait 18 months to go and get them? Right. And why would they do it about ninety, ninety two days before the midterms? This is a Hail Mary attempt.

It's a political they've weaponized the government. It's a political attack to because they know he's going to be the front runner for president and they want to impact the midterms. And so they really have weaponized our country, our government. I mean, why do you think they want eighty seven thousand IRS agents And then they have this comment. What was the comment that you need to be willing and able to use lethal force, something like that?

It said you have to carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force if necessary.

So let me get this straight. They want to defund our police, have open borders, fentanyl coming across our border in unbelievable amounts. The number one cause of death for Americans aged eighteen to forty five right now is fentanyl. All these things they're doing, and they want to focus on coming after the average American with 87,000 IRS agents. Yeah.

Like I said, um when the people fear the government, we have tyranny. And I'm asking everybody. we can make a statement. Our response should be at the ballot box.

So I would say every day at the gas station, everywhere else, make sure you, your family members, friends vote. Did you and since we have election season now, instead of election day, we've got forty five days to make sure our people vote and our voices are heard. Hey, John, I want to ask you to talk about something, and I don't want to get too inside baseball. And again, you know, we're here. We're very, very blessed today to be on this national stage.

But you are, if I am looking at my tea leaves right, and I know where I stand, I'd love for you to be my state senator. I just think the world of you. You are going to be in a primary, but I mentioned Liz Cheney. I mentioned Adam Kinziger.

Some of these other folks up in D.C. who say, oh, we're really good Republicans, but man, they're doing all the bidding of the Democrats.

Now, you've got sort of a similar situation on a local basis, right? Oh yeah. I think about the term wolves in sheep's clothing. And you've heard of rhinos? There's a guy that I'm running against.

He's a supervisor in Louisa County, and there's a letter floating out there from a highly decorated Vietnam veteran who. Also served in this Senator Dick Black, and he's done some research and some other people have done some research. And they found out that my opponent was ran for Republican In the West Virginia House of Delegates. in nineteen eighty two And then he betrayed the Republican Party At a time when the Democrats were pushing the socialist pro abortion agenda He left the Republican Party and joined that group. And he ran as a Democrat in 1982 with Walter Mondale and that crowd.

And then he ran as a Democrat in 1984. And then he moved to Virginia into this district where I'm running to be the state senate. And ran against one of the most conservative members of the House delegates, Frank Hargrove, in Hanover County, who's a very beloved. Member of the House of Delegates and against Governor Allen who was on the ballot, and he basically was on the ballot with Clinton.

So he supported the Clinton. And you know, never seeing the guy mention the word Trump, support Trump, anything else. Yeah. He's supposed to be me, but I'll tell you what, he's getting money. And so we've got to figure that out because people don't know that there are people that voted for him.

As a member of the supervisors, And they're like they had no idea he ever voted Democrat. They definitely had no idea that he ever ran as a Democrat, but the way this came out. If somebody at a tea party last week said, Hey, have you always Voted a Republican, and he looked shaken up and got angry. And he said, Well, obviously, you know the answer. or you wouldn't be asking the question.

And so he said he voted Democrat. But the word is not out, except maybe right now, that he actually ran four times for the House of Delegates. First as a Republican, three times as a Democrat. And now he wants to take out a Navy SEAL with one of the highest conservative records in the state of Virginia every year. It's crazy.

Hopefully the audience will consider supporting the Frogman. Yeah, right.

Well, you know what we want to do? We want to un California, Virginia, stop the wokeness, and it starts with election integrity. It sure does. Hey, John, I'm just about out of time, but a couple of things real fast here for folks who are in the Mid-Atlantic, right? We've got people who are listening right now in North Carolina, in Georgia.

They could make a day trip, come to Central Virginia for the support Trump effort. And if they just want to learn more about you, read more about you, and maybe stand up and say, yeah, I'm with the Frogman, I'm with the Navy SEAL. What's the best way for them to do that?

So the best thing is my website, it's Maguire4Virgania.com. That's M C G U I R E F O R. And then Virginia spelled out.com, Maguire for Virginia.com. I love it, John. Thank you for being here, my friend.

Have a blessed weekend. That is my friend John McGuire. He is a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and he's got two big things that I think resonate with all of us. Number one, He is standing up and defending President Trump. Saturday, the 13th of August, in Central Virginia, he's organizing a very large support President Trump rally.

And I'll tell you what, I'm going to send a note to Todd just to remind him. On Monday, I'll be happy to give him an update how that went. Number two, he's running against somebody locally. And it is hyper-local, I know, but he's running against somebody who claims to be a Republican but spent years and years as a Democrat. This is no different than the Liz Cheneys, the Adam Kinzigers.

Those people are not Republicans. You wouldn't talk about rhinos. My gosh. They could walk to a zoo somewhere and somebody might say, I'm sorry, somehow you got out of the cage. The rhinos are all over there.

Make sure you're reading ToddStarnes.com every single solitary day. ToddStarnes.com. Jeff Katz, so happy to be sitting in for my friend Todd today. It is the Todd Starnes Show. It's the Todd Starring Show.

Jeff Cass happy to be sitting in for my friend Todd. A lovely Friday afternoon. Joining you from Central Virginia, my beloved Commonwealth of Virginia, News Radio WRVA, and I'll remind you, home to Todd Starnes. We're so happy to have Todd as part of our lineup. He's just for my money, for my money, one of the best out there, whether it's broadcasting or writing or just this insightful observation.

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Really is. I am so happy that I'm watching it and so miserable that it's coming to an end. I'd love to spend a couple of hours just sort of shooting the breeze on that. But I can't do that. I'd love to tell you that the weather here in Virginia is beautiful today, and it is.

Right? It's like 80 degrees, not even 80 degrees.

Now, some places going 80 degrees, that's hot. Not here, it's not. 'Cause we've been up a hundred degree mark the last couple of days, humidity like, I don't know, 8,000%. I mean, people literally just turning into buckets of water when they step outside.

So I'm having a great day. But I can't really spend a lot of time about this. 'Cause I'm thinking I love my country. I really do. I love this country.

I'm sitting and I'm surrounded by American flags, some of them slightly more meaningful than others. I have one displayed on the wall.

Alright, it's an American flag. He flew over the United States Capitol. In honor of me, right? And, you know, talk about standards, but thank God it was a member of Congress, Rob Whitman, who did that for me. I'll be eternally grateful.

I'm looking at another American flag folded in a triangle. That one's a little more meaningful. It's the flag that covered my dad's casket. My dad gave everything. In an effort to give me And my kids and your kids a better country.

sacrificed. We're gonna talk about sacrifice. My dad considered himself lucky when he uh He left his service as a military policeman. And he left that service blind in one eye. and with not a tooth in his hand, And I can remember as a little kid he was honored at uh the Chapel of the Four Chaplains in Philadelphia.

And I remember hearing these stories about him. I had never heard them before. Nobody had told these stories, least of all him. I remembered saying to him, How come you never told me any of these things? I said, well, because they're just some things you do.

They're things you do because they're the right things to do. You're not doing them for trophies. You're not doing them for certificates. You're not doing them for anybody to pat you in the back or give you a round of applause. You're doing them because they're the right things to do, Jeff.

Remember that. That's the last time he and I ever spoke about any of these things that he did.

Now I have displayed in my office all sorts of memorabilia related to his life. Related to his sacrifice. I have a um Certificate of Commendation From the President of the United States. and I'm not going to go into details a long time ago that it was issued. and it was issued to my father.

You know my father never displayed it. Never once. I've got it up on my wall though, I'll tell you that. We've got a country to save, my friends. We're seeing some terrible, terrible action right about now, and you and I are being called upon.

Make sure you're checking out ToddStarns.com if you don't mind. ThejeffCatShow.com as well. Jeff Cat's in for my dear friend Todd. You are listening to the Todd Starns Show. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite cunt totent Bible-clinging deplorable American.

Todd Starnes Live from the Liberty University studio, it is the Todd Starnes show. Jeff Cat, so happy to be sitting in for my friend Todd. You and I are looking at I would dare say unprecedented. Events unfolding in front of our very eyes. You've spent a couple of moments.

With me, I bleed blue, and I tell you that right up front. I'm an ex-cop, and I always find myself saying, okay. Everybody's going to beat up on law enforcement. I know it's just part of the job. I want to be there, I want to stand up, I want to defend the heroes who go out every single day and do the job.

The FBI, despite what you may think, has 12,000 Actual Agents.

Now, the 36,000 people who work for the Bureau overall, those support support personnel, intelligence analysts, administrative people. But the twelve thousand brick agents who go out every single solitary day and do an amazing job.

So I don't want to see or hear or experience those men and women being attacked. I look at what happened at Mar-a-Lago the other night, though, and I am troubled. There's no other way to say it. I'm troubled. To have the Attorney General of the United States stand up finally a couple of days after this happens and says, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, I I was all in on this.

I'm the one who said we should go and get a search warrant. And President Trump had stuff we needed, right? I mean, that's the implication.

Okay, well, what was it? How could there be an interaction between the federal government and the Trump legal team sixty days ago? Back in June. Where there were federal folks came to Mar-a Lago. and said, we're looking for blah blah blah blah blah.

Oh, okay. They left at that time, I believe, with ten boxes or fifteen boxes of information, papers, materials. The report was that President Trump actually was at Mar-a-Lago at that point and came by the meeting to say hello and shake hands and all the rest of that stuff. How could it change so quickly? to this very, very adversarial Situation.

And by the way, the latest information we're getting all related to nuclear weapons. That's what we're hearing today. How do you launch nuclear weapons from Mar-a-Lago? And unless I've misunderstood this, and it's quite possible I have, but I don't think so. It is the President of the United States who ultimately has the power to declare what is classified and what has been declassified.

President Trump has said he declassified all this stuff because he wanted the American people to experience what was in there.

Well, I want to get into some of the legalities of this. The smartest lawyer on God's Green Earth is how I always describe Joe Moreno. He is a brilliant, brilliant practitioner of the dark arts. You know, law. He is somebody who has served this nation in the United States Army.

He has served as counsel to the FBI. He was a federal prosecutor and just a brilliant and devoted family man as well. And I'm always happy when he can make a few moments for us. Counselor, thank you so much for being here. I'm tips.

Such a pleasure to join you.

So, Joel, let's let me start with the biggest of all questions. You are a proud, passionate American. We know that. I hope I've established that. You are a brilliant attorney.

And you're a student of history. Have you ever seen something like what we just saw unfold at Mar-a-Lago? Briefly speaking, no, Jeff. This is uncharted. This is unprecedented.

And honestly, the more time that goes by, It seems like it's kind of a mess. I mean, that press conference by the Attorney General yesterday, you can see that was hastily pulled together. He was late. It was quick. He wouldn't take questions.

He didn't want to be there. This is kind of not going in the direction the department had wanted, I feel like. And now it's sort of Clean up time. And I don't know the whole thing seems like really poorly thought out and executed? Like what do they think was going to happen?

Do they really think they could do something like this? And people are not going to stand up and say, wait a minute, we want more transparency than that. Like this is kind of absurd. We know is a long history of people not being harassed For things like having classified documents, particularly ex-presidents. And yet now you choose to come down on former President Trump like this in a spectacular.

Yeah. So people are right to be splashing their heads saying, you know, this isn't sitting right.

So, do you mind taking us through the process? You were a federal prosecutor, assistant U.S. attorney, if I remember correctly.

So, you can't just wake up in the morning and go, hey, we're just going to kick that door in or we're going to knock on that door. We're going in and we're snatching a bunch of stuff. What would the actual process be to secure a search warrant? What would prompt a magistrate judge to say, yeah, yeah, that looks good to me. Go after it, guys?

Well, so Jeff, it all comes down to the affidavit process that an FBI agent has to sit down and draft an affidavit, and these can be twenty, fifty, one hundred pages, and it's part of the warrant application. And you have to say, that this probable cause to show that it's evidence of criminal wrongdoing that, that evidence is located in a particular place and that the warrant is needed because there's some exigent circumstance, right, because either the evidence would be destroyed or moved and you couldn't get it any other way. And so you draft this affidavit, you have all kinds of information in there about How you know this, and what you expect to find, and what your legal theory is. And then you present that to a magistrate, and you ask that person to bless it. standing there's probable cause to move forward.

And so That's basically what happens. Apparently.

Okay. Okay. Um All right.

So the the assistant U. S. Attorney and the FBI agents together go before the magistrate judge? Correct. The FBI agent is the sort of fact witness behind the affidavit, but they're certainly assisted by lawyers or the Justice Department.

So they'll pretty it up, they'll make sure that it meets Certain criteria. It'll go up to certain levels, particularly in a case so charged like this. This went all the way up, right, to the Attorney General level for blessing. And so the process was followed. I have no doubt.

I mean, I I'm not one to think that anyone would be stupid enough to present a completely invalid case. I don't think it happens like that. I do think, though, that people are rightly distrustful when the application of that justice seems unfair.

So I think people with a straight face can say, look, we got this evidence, we went to a judge, we showed probable cause. We executed the search all with a straight face. They can say. We did everything right. And the White House can say, We didn't know anything about this.

This was all the Justice Department, right? Whether that's true or not. That's not the problem, though. The problem is when you have years of the Justice Department seemingly used one way against certain people and not against other people, that is what I think is bothering so many folks right now. It's like, look, if this was uniformly applied, it's fine.

But it also it it just seems more and more like it's not.

So, all right, back to the process. Joe Moreno joining us, an absolutely brilliant attorney, somebody who knows the law inside and out, served as a federal prosecutor. You know the system far better than the vast majority of us, Joe. When the Attorney General, and I agree with you, that press conference, man, there was not enough pancake makeup in D.C. to take away the fact that Merrick Garland just looked pretty doggone pale and he really didn't want to be there.

I mean, that was my takeaway. With the volume off, that's what my takeaway would have been as well. He just did not look happy to be there. He says, okay, well, we want the warrant and the property receipt to be unsealed. President Trump has said the same thing.

So now what happens?

Well, I mean, President Trump could always always release it himself. Or Uh the the court could do it. provided that President Trump does not object.

So we could see it from one way or the other, right? The problem is though, remember, it's not going to have that affidavit.

So people might be a little disappointed in what they get. I know this is a big sort of a news story right now, but like it's going to be a warrant with a couple of attachments, It will describe what the FBI was looking for, so it'll probably say something like documents with certain kinds of classification markings. And they're located in this room off the main building or in a safe or something like that. And then there'll be an inventory, a return, listing what the FBI actually took. But again, it's going to say probably.

boxes of documents.

So it might be a bit of a let down in terms of like how How transparent this really is, because it's not going to give us The goods. It's not going to give us. what the government's legal theory is. how they s they got to think these documents were in Where they were, right? What's the is there a source?

Is there some info you know, some way they're getting this information? We're not going to know any of that. Wow.

Okay, so it's it's like the punch card you get when you're moving. 16 boxes contains household goods. Hopefully, we didn't break any of them. Right. I mean, that's, yeah.

Wow.

Okay. It just, it is so disturbing, Joe. And I gotta tell you, man, I I didn't start as a supporter of Donald Trump. I've told everybody that. I was really late to the game.

But I would think that. Every one of us who's a proud American should stand up and be really disturbed by this. You don't have to be a Trump supporter. I think the most vociferous Trump detractors, if they had any degree of consistency, would stand up and say, Yeah, this is just not what we do.

Well, when you when you veer into Concerns about an overly powerful, even abusive government. And yes, everyone should be concerned about that. It shouldn't matter if you're liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat. That should worry us, right? Because that's not the kind of country you want to live in.

That's right. That's right. All right.

Well, Joe, listen, number one, I appreciate you making some time for us. I always love picking your brain a little bit, getting the insight. I mean it sincerely when I tell you I'm grateful for that. I value your analysis of this. And it may take a while, but please, hugs and kisses for that entire beautiful family of yours, all right?

Jeff, brother, always happy to do it and grateful to be on. Thank you, sir. That is Joe Moreno. Joe is truly one of the smartest attorneys I know. I'm going to go one further.

He is the smartest attorney I know. I know a lot of attorneys, too. He's a brilliant guy.

So there you have it.

So, even if all of this is released, it's essentially going to be like you get when you move: 16 boxes or 10 boxes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, papers and assorted items, and there's not going to be the actual affidavit.

So that is thoroughly disappointing, is it not? I just think the whole thing smells, I really do. I think it stinks to high heaven. And I cannot. believe for a second.

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It is the Todd Starr and Show live from the Liberty University Studios. Quick thank you once again to my friend Joe Moreno, who's joining us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Brilliant insight, Ryan, legally speaking. He's a good guy as well, but the legal acumen that he brings to the discussion is incredible. And you and I as Americans, we had better be concerned.

If there are folks who feel comfortable conducting themselves in this way towards the former President of the United States, then make no mistake, there's not a single solitary one of us who's safe. The Inflation Reduction Act. God, that sounds good, doesn't it? We're going to bring down inflation. You know the best way to bring down inflation?

is to vote out every one of the pinheads who helped Slow-Mo Joe impose inflation, create inflation. This is Bidenflation. Don't make any mistakes about that. That's what it is.

Well, you know, Jeff, uh, inflation is down. Uh, it's it's down to uh eight point five percent. Oh, fantastic. 'Cause the month before it was nine what point one percent. Oh, it's it's just great Four in ten Americans, forty percent of us.

40% of us are now saying, you know. I um I just can't shop the same way. They're cutting back on groceries. Let that sink in for a second. I'm not talking about people saying, oh, I have canceled my trip to the south of France.

Oh, that's on you. 'Cause you were going to the south of France. That's mistake number one. You know, Jeff, I'm not going to be able to get the new Bentley. Oh, I'm sorry, Senator Kerry.

Uh let me uh let me find a uh a tissue here so I might wheep for you.

Now these are people like us. You know how this is playing out? Moms and Dads. who are getting ready to send kids back to school. Most of us will see that right around Labor Day.

Some places I know have already started, but here's how this is playing out. You're making lunch for your son. your daughter.

Now I happen to love that. That is truly, it is truly one of the highlights of being a Dad. And and frankly, having the uh Bizarre job that I do, that I have been able throughout the years. to be there in the morning. and make lunches for my kids as they go to school.

So here's how this plays out. Dad's like me, mom's like you are going to be standing there in the morning. I'm saying I gotta make uh little Johnny a sandwich.

Well, it's normally three pieces of lunch meat and one slice of cheese. We gotta cut back. It's going to be one Piece of lunch meat and one slice of cheese. Oh, Johnny won't notice.

Well, Perhaps he won't. And perhaps he will. Maybe he just doesn't have the energy necessary for the second part of the day after lunch after that sandwich. Dads like me and moms like you standing up. Standing at the kitchen counter, got two slices of bread, we got a jar of peanut butter, jar of jelly.

Well, ordinarily, be four schmears of peanut butter and one of. The jelly. Depending on who I was making it for, sometimes there was an extra screw of jelly. But now there's not going to be any extra scoop. There's not going to be four spreads of peanut butter.

There's going to be two. And it may not seem like the biggest thing in the world, but this is impacting every single one of us. Go into the grocery store. Looking at the prices again, not on filet mignon, not on uh uh caviar. We're looking at ground beef and chicken for goodness' sakes, right?

What we who are the real people eat? And you're going, we just can't afford it. Did you ever think you'd live in a time when anybody anywhere in America would say, I don't think we can afford ground beef this week? That's what's happening. And that is Joe Biden.

And that's every one of these loony leftists in the House and the Senate. You gotta vote them all out. We'll talk about standing up for the president and standing up for our country. Please check out ToddStarnes.com, ToddStarnes.com, and I, as always, thank you for joining me, Jeff Katz.

So thrilled to be sitting in for my buddy Todd. It is the Todd Starred Show. It's the Todd Start Show, Jeff Katz. Happy to be sitting in for my friend Todd as we broadcast from the Liberty University. University.

Studios, will there be rallies across America?

Well, We're going to talk about that in a couple of moments. We do have to discuss that. Are people going to stand up and say we're just not happy? With the way former President Trump is being treated, because if former President Trump can be treated this way, then make no mistake. Any of us any of us could be subject to uh some of this overreach, if we want to say it politely.

How many of us going to the grocery store? You're walking into uh Your local food liner, Kroger or Harris Teeter. You go, oh my gosh, I can't afford that. I can't afford that. Four in ten Americans now say they have to cut back on the grocery shopping.

And it's going to get worse with the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. Yes, it is crazy. You're absolutely right. It is insane. There are some people who are standing up and fighting back.

And I'm so happy that there's a very, very familiar name to me. For many years, many years ago, I was actually at WBT in Charlotte, North Carolina, and I got news for you. Even though uh My family and I eventually settled in South Charlotte. We kept looking over the state line. We did.

We kept looking at York County, going, you know, hmm, yeah, maybe. And somebody who is a proud American who is now serving and has been serving as a congressman from that area, the 5th District of South Carolina, is Ralph Norman. And I'm so happy he's joining us. Congressman, welcome.

Well, so happy to be with you, Jeff. Thank you so much. Let's dive into the cost of living, my friend. You you got friends and neighbors, I'm sure, in Rock Hill and Fort Mill who are going into the local grocery store going, Yeah, we can't afford that anymore. This is going to get worse, isn't it?

Oh, yes, this is just the tip of the iceberg. I mean, I wish I could say it where it's not so, but it is. I mean, this administration is Is intent on destroying this country. There's a hatred for America. That's all you can say.

You don't make this many mistakes. with inflation, the border crisis, the Yeah, the crisis in our cities. You know, the inflation at a 40-year high. You just don't make those kind of mistakes, it's intentional. And yeah, the worst is yet to come.

Um We will it's going to be hard walking this back, unfortunately. Wow.

Joining us on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line, Congressman Ralph Norman from South Carolina.

So we talk about intentional. Let's try and figure out why. Because I sit here, Congress, and I'm thinking, well, that doesn't make any sense. Come on. I mean, why would anybody want to tank the economy?

But they are doing it.

So what is the motivation on their part? Two things. One, Most of them and again, everybody asked me, why can't you cross the line? Why can't it be like the Tip O'Neill days or On Oregon days? It's just changed.

And it's changed because people have put their candidates up to do their bidding for your tax dollars and my tax dollars.

So they're pretty well. locked in to doing whatever they're told to do. Secondly, there is a resentment against anybody that has, I guess, Made money. There's a resentment against America because. they buy into the philosophy taught by CRT and all the socialist doctrines that America was was built on the backs of the working man.

And it's the businesses, the private entities that hardworking Americans that made this country what it is, free enterprise, capitalism. That's right. And they just resent it because it's never been in the private sector. When I first got to Congress, and when Nick Mulvaney took the OMB job in 1917, I looked around. after the first couple of votes, I said, you know, how many of these people would I hire to work with me in my construction firm.

And maybe, maybe, and and and get this to do anything. Uh a tenth of one percent. You got 435 members, 535 with the Senate. And They, you know, you just couldn't, they've never had to work. They've never known what it's like not to have a paycheck.

They've always gotten a gov check from the government. And I guess the third Uh stew with this. Third leg of the stew would be they enjoy the power. Mm. That is a fundamental difference, isn't it, Ralph?

That they not only enjoy the power, I mean, they love the fact they can wield the power. And somebody like you says, Listen, I've got a business, I'm taking care of my family, I'm trying to provide jobs, I'm going to be a citizen legislator, I'll take some time out of my day to help out the community, but everybody else has to step up. You, quite frankly, and I don't know that you want to share it, but I'll say it. You know, a guy like you realistically takes a pay cut when he goes to Congress, and some of these other folks get a massive pay increase. That's the difference.

I mean, yes, I did very well. I took a tremendous cut, not to mention the time. But you know, the the good news is you know, there are a lot of us who love our country. We want people to be able our young people to be able to exercise their God given talent and do what they were born to do. Mm-hmm.

This group, this cabal in there now. They just don't believe that. They want to tell you what to do. They literally think government can do it better. And they've never known anything else.

But it ought to be some kind of requirement that you have to serve in the in the In the private sector and made money and lost money. And you know, over in Israel, which we went. You know, after high school, it was a requirement that you go into the military. That's a good thing, but it ought to be a requirement in DC. or any elected official.

You go out there and see how you do in the real world and see how that works out. Yeah. Well, you know, I often refer to it as the dreaded private sector because for many of these folks it seems to be, you know, that that's that's the last resort once they've run out of government posts. Congressman Ralph Norman joining us on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line.

So this so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which unless I'm reading it wrong, is simply a slightly scaled-down version of that build-back better nonsense, passes the Senate. And now is it in your hands in the House? It's in the House. We vote on it at a little after two. Yeah, and it's and I will give a compliment to the Democrats.

They name bills that appeal on the surface to any American. But if this is an Inflation Reduction Act, then Then you can make the statement, we don't believe in gravity. Try jumping off a building and see how that works out. But no, this is a spendthrift bill that is rating. My best description.

And I told her. newscast earlier. This is rating. The currency of America and is taking every dollar that we don't have. and putting it on the backs for our children to pay off if And it's a total atrocity.

And They're you know, t t I mean, take any part of it, take the eighty five thousand RSH's. The Clemson Football Stadium holds eighty three thousand as a comparison. It's not big enough to hold all the agents, IRS agents. They're going to force. Americans to basically power lawyers grovel at their feet and uh and and pay up.

Now whether it's legitimate or not, they're gonna make you do that. But it's it's So many other things that are unbelievable. Yeah. And this, I mean, I hate to say it. You say you're going to be voting in a few moments.

It it'll pass, right? The Democrats are all in lockstep on this one. You know, yes. One thing Pelosi does, she knows how to crack knees. She knows how to get the votes.

She wouldn't be bringing it to the floor if it didn't have the two hundred eighteen votes. But yeah, she's got the votes and um You know, that's the way she rolls. Yeah. It can't um keeping the power. And she the bad well, the good news for us is you combine what they're doing with this bill.

with what they did to Donald Trump. And it's a Christ a Christmas present for some American people who are tired of it.

Well, let's talk about that for a second because I'd like to think that it is. I'd like to think that Americans who have been just trying to live our lives, right? We're coming out of this COVID nonsense, and people lost businesses, and people are trying to make up for this and just really get back to living their lives are now looking at this. After maybe taking a slight break from following politics as closely as some people do, and are looking at this, you're hopeful then that Americans are looking at this and saying, Yeah, we got to kick these folks out of office. Yeah, and all the polls show that.

Look at who's winning races, it's the Trump-backed people. Lucky bliss. Cheney's going to get beat. Jamie Hilara Butler got beat. You're going to have people who have not.

Been true conservatives. And, you know, what greater time? We can't have Belt Coast politicians. That's right. We've got to have people who will put the American people first, and we've got to have people who will.

will take the consequences regardless of what the votes are. Yeah. Regardless of how the groups that come to you and say you've got to do this for this or reason or that reason. which is crowny capitalism, which We've got to put get you know, we've got to get this country back on track. We've got to get our military back on.

a solid footing with priorities and so many things. And this administration just isn't going to do that. No doubt about it.

Well, listen, I appreciate you being here, sir. It's good to hear your voice. I know you'll be a solid no vote on this. Sadly, it's it's not necessarily going to make a difference, but hopefully helps to wake up all sorts of Americans for the midterm elections.

Well, appreciate it. And you're always welcome to York County. I know I am. I love Fort Mill, one of my favorite places. That is Ralph Norman.

He is congressman from the 5th district of South Carolina, Fort Mill, Rock Hill, Tiga K. I mean, just some really great, great, great places.

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It's not just the taxes, the fact that you're losing buying power. That's the problem. Uh Patty is checking in. She's uh listening on WSIC and as a confirmed radio nerd and as a uh former resident of Charlotte, North Carolina. I actually know that SIC stands for Statesville, Iredell County, just north of uh Charlotte.

Patty, welcome to the Todd Starn Show. Hey, Jeff, how are you? I'm fine, ma'am. Oh, listen, um, I never talked to you. I talk to Todd all the time and I love Grace.

And um let me tell you something. I know why Merritt Garland is doing this. Merrick Garland has a gripe. 'Cause he didn't get picked for the Supreme Court. Right.

Yeah, heck yeah. He's got a bone to pick. He hates Trump. And. He hates conservatives.

He hates conservatives. Yes, they didn't could you imagine That idiot on the Supreme Court. I don't even want to envision that. I'll tell you, though, I really don't. I mean, because here I am, I'm off to a good weekend.

I got a few more minutes filling in for Todd, and then I'm planning to make homemade ice cream. We're having people come over, and now you go.

Well, no, wait a minute, Patty.

Now you go and spoil it with a picture of Merritt Garland in the long black dress. No, I'm not happy about that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And I think that he, you know, he still has that, you know, he's got that thing on his back where he's like, you know, I hate. He hates every conservative And the administration that's in there right now is the.

I mean, I'm 62 years old, Jeff. I've been voting, my first vote was for Reagan.

Okay. I voted for the first bush, I voted for the second bush, and I regret All that. I regret it. Because they're rhinos. Dick Cheney next stupid.

Elmer Fuddle. Commercial? About his daughter? He looks like Elma. Would you go?

Come on, would you go hi? There's not enough. Patty, I'm going to tell you something. There's not enough Blaze Orange in the world that I would go hunting with Dick Cheney. Not a I know.

I mean, you know, and he's like, you know, you know, vote for my daughter. I wouldn't vote for her. I wouldn't. I mean, I don't even like Kim the warmonger he is, but you know what? With that commercial, I see him with the cowboy hat, and I'm thinking, all I can think about is when he shot that guy, okay?

I hear you. Patty, I appreciate the call. Listen, have a wonderful, wonderful weekend. That's Patty checking in from Iredale County. It's a beautiful place, by the way.

Just north of Charlotte, WSIC. And that really does stand for Statesville, Iredell County.

Now, somebody checking in here, Mitchell, who is from Memphis, listening on the Mighty 990 KWAM, said he didn't really want to go on the air, but he's concerned. He's concerned. He heard me talking with a friend of mine, Virginia State Delegate John McGuire, who's holding a very, very sizable event on Saturday. It's going to be Stand with Trump. Stand up against this.

And Mitchell from Memphis says he's concerned that a rally like that could be infiltrated by the Antifa types. I wish I could say he's wrong. I wish I could say that I don't share that concern. Of course, I share that concern, but. I think we're at a point in this nation.

Were you and I? As proud Americans, as responsible people of faith, as mothers and fathers, we've got to stand up. We can't keep talking ourselves out of taking a stand. You've got to find that courage. You've got to find that.

That internal integrity. Heck, you remember Vince McMahon? Vince McMahon used to refer to it as testicular fortitude. Maybe not go that far, but you know what I'm saying? You've got to stand up.

If, in fact, you can have a Merrick Garland who is looking more and more like Richard Nixon's John Mitchell every day. Attacking the former president of the United States. I don't think any of us are safe if that's the way this is going to work. That's dangerous, my friends. Jeff Kat, so happy to be sitting in for Todd.

You are listening to the Todd Starring Show. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's conservative blowtorch. That's it! That's right. I love this American rap stars.

IS live from the Liberty University studio. It is the Todd Starring Show. Jeff Katz, always happy to be asked to sit in for my friend Todd. Are you gonna stand with Former President Trump. This has really been the theme for the last couple of days for many of us, has it not?

And I've said this from the very beginning. Those who are not supporters of President Trump. should also be outraged by the manner in which this man is treated. It is absolutely, positively absurd. To have watched that press conference by Merrick Garland.

And come away with any degree of confidence whatsoever. He was pale. He was rushed because he wanted to be rushed 'cause he sure as heck did want to be up there. He was late? he took no questions.

We chatted a little bit earlier with truly one of the smartest lawyers of. God's Green Earth. My friend Joe Moreno is a former federal prosecutor. He still serves with the United States Army. Judge Advocate General Corps.

And he said, listen. Even if everything is unsealed, The search warrants, etc., all you're going to see. is a description of Papers and boxes, but there's not going to be the original affidavit that says, Here's why we need these things, here's why we want these things, here's all the real details.

So it's kind of going to be like a um Like one of those they call 'em bingo cards when you move. 'Cause you check everything, you punch it. On each end. Six boxes of dishes. Boom There they are.

So, do you stand with former President Trump? I say yes. Congressman Jody Heiss is truly one of the good guys inside our House of Representatives. I think fighting the good fight on a daily basis, one of the things that he and his fellow members of the House are going to have to deal with is this goofy Misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, right? Craziness.

Congressman Heist joining us. Congressman, thanks for being here, joining us on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. Great to be with you, Jeff. Thanks for having me. The pleasure is mine, make no mistake about it.

I think the last time that we chatted, I did ask how somebody who is such a committed man of faith stands there in the house and looks around and still feels confident. Because you got to look at some of these people and go, Man, I got to talk to you. Yeah. Oh yeah. Uh we have those uh Those thoughts on a regular basis.

There's no no question about that.

So what is happening with what they're now calling the Inflation Reduction Act, which I believe is just Build Back Better with a new and improved name, right? Yes. And who in their right mind is not in favor of reducing inflation? I mean, the Democrats are masterful at giving these glorious names that do nothing of what the name implies, but instead all it does is push forward their radical left wing destructive agenda. And this is yet another case of just that.

This is not going to do anything. To impact or reduce inflation. In fact, just the opposite. It's going to raise taxes on individuals and businesses. This is going to have just the opposite effect in every way.

It pushes Green New Deal stuff. The likes of which we've never seen before, as we all are hearing, the 87,000, just 87,000. New IRS agents. whose purpose is not to fill the backlog, of a year and a half worth of Tax returns, but instead Their job is going to be to audit Americans, and the Democrats are saying they're not they won't be auditing middle class Americans, but that simply is not the case. Even the CBO has come out.

Talking about how these 87,000 New IRS agents are going to be auditing middle, lower class American citizens. It's just absolutely a horrendous piece of legislation, and the Democrats are going to try to push it through this afternoon. When you talk about middle-class people, that's me, Congressman. Suburban, married dad, three kids, you know, love God, love my country, and all those terrible things that I'm not supposed to talk about. But I'll tell you what, I go to the grocery store, I see my friends, my neighbors there, and everybody is thinking the same thing.

Man, I don't know if we can afford such and such. I think we got to cut back on lunch meats when we're making sandwiches for the kids to take to school. This is a terrible time in America. Who thinks raising taxes is a good plan?

Well, that's an excellent point. When you have inflation like we have right now, the issues that need to be addressed are stop spending, cut regulation so that businesses can thrive and go forward, cut back on the size of government and liberate the free enterprise system to do its job That it is the best in the world, the greatest economic engine in the history of the world. You've got to release it to do so, and part of that is lowering people's taxes. This, behold, does just the opposite. on all those counts, more regulations, bigger government and higher taxes.

This is going to have just the opposite effect. This is absolutely the worst timing ever to put forth this type of irresponsible legislation at a time when the American economy and American families are suffering to the extent that they currently are. You know, Congressman, one of the things that hits every one of us out here in the real world, the cost of gasoline has increased. Depending on where you are, it's $4, $5 per gallon. And the response from the Democrats was, oh, well, you should just go buy yourself a brand new electric vehicle.

And I thought, well, if I don't have the extra $50 a week to fill up the minivan, where do I get the extra $70,000 for one of your new nifty Teslas? It doesn't make any sense. Yes. And then you add to that the cost of electric vehicles, but now they're going to tax you more. They're going to tax businesses and the companies that you work for, which is only going to increase the cost of services and products across the country.

So it's going to have the opposite effect of lowering costs. It's going to increase costs all across the country in every sector, from food to basic services of utilities and heating and air and all that sort of stuff, everything is going to go up when people and businesses are taxed more. And so it's not a matter of just not having an extra fifty bucks a month. as difficult as that is, this is going to exacerbate the problem much, much more beyond that. Jody Heiss is joining us, and the list of distinctions is many.

I'm always concerned: am I referring to somebody the right way? What is the highest title as a congressman, as a doctor? I know talk show host does not make it to the top three, so I'm not even going to mention that one. But you are in the middle of all of this, and what I'm trying to figure out. Do we have a chance?

Are we going to just pump the brakes in November? Are people somehow going to be suckered yet again by the leftists?

Well listen, I am encouraged on a few fronts. I am seeing the Republican Conference Unify right now In ways that I haven't seen them do in a long, long time. And as it relates to this specific piece of horrendous legislation, Yes. I think we're going to see, be it day one after the November elections or shortly thereafter, there is going to be a move within the Republican Party to dismantle or totally repeal this type of legislation. This is going to be so destructive for the next six months, and the Republicans are dealing with it, I believe, at least in meetings and strategy planning.

I believe personally, That regarding the IRS issue, now is the perfect time to. resurrect and reintroduce the fare tax, which would totally, absolutely eliminate. The IRS and these additional 87,000 agents that are being tasked with auditing all of us as Americans. This is a good time to eliminate the IRS. Let's pass the fair tax and let's be through with this and bring back liberty and freedom as well as fair taxation to the American people.

So, a lot of different ideas are being thrown around right now, but yeah, I'm confident that there will be some significant action to. dismantle this thing as much as possible after November. Wow, I love to hear that. Listen, I know you've got to run. You've got to vote against this boondoggle.

I thank you for doing that, and I hope you have a blessed weekend. Likewise to you, Jeff, go get them, keep the torch ablaze. Thank you, sir. That is Jody Heiss, member of Congress from Georgia. Good guy, solid guy.

He's one of the non-attorneys, which is nice. You take a look at Congress, it seems like everybody's an attorney. Jody Heiss, I mentioned, right? Doctorate in ministry. That's pretty impressive.

Talk show host, all right, that's not bad, but you know, a minister, an actual person of faith, right there in the den of iniquity that is the house. That's something else. Hey, I thank Jody Heiss for joining us on the Patreon Mobile Newsmaker line. Let me get to you very quickly here, if that's okay. 844-747-8868.

844-747-8868. I know Jay has been holding very patiently from Georgia, listening to us on WDUN. Jay, thank you for being on the Todd Starn Show. Yes, sir. I enjoyed the show very much.

I enjoyed your last guest, too. I wanted to say that what you're talking about, people need to stand up right now is the time that People need to stand up. And I think one of the main things is they need to learn exactly how to stand up. And especially, you know, God's people, you know, the churches, if they would learn how to stand up and get out and make a difference. it would make a big difference in society.

But to stand up and go to the voting booth and all that, it's very important that everybody takes part. I agree with you. I could not agree with you more. Jay, I appreciate the call. Thank you for calling the Todd Starring Show.

Jay is right. We're going to talk more about this. You and I need to stand up. We need to be counted. The time to be afraid, I think, is done.

I just don't think we have that benefit anymore. There's a time, I suppose. Everything's going well. People are happy. Blah, blah, blah, blah.

You go, nah, I don't want to rock the boat. Oh, I'm too busy. I'm going to be sitting out in the sun for a couple of minutes. And I don't want to be bothered with that. Or I'm going to sit inside and watch TV.

I told you, best show in the history of television. Better call Saul. Far better than Breaking Bad ever was, by the way. Best show in the history of television. Absolutely love it.

Monday nights, it was appointment viewing, and it still remains appointment viewing for me. It's one of the few things I say, I got to be there in front of it live because I don't want to miss a second. The final episode in the entire series is coming up. I would love to do nothing but talk about that all day. I really would.

I can't. Why? Because you and I have got to stand up And be counted. That's what this is about. Gonna remind you: if you wanna shoot me an email, it's easy to do.

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Lovely note here. I just do want to share it with you. Uh James is listening. He said, Jeff, I'm listening to the Todd Starnes Show, listening on ToddStarns.com. It's breath of honesty.

I happen to live in Cannapolis, North Carolina. My question is: how do we get honest elections? I just don't trust the results. Trump is going through what I've lived through. Hospital systems are not much better than the DOJ.

Keep on. I am praying for honest elections.

Well, I am as well. I think most of us would like to see completely and totally unquestioned elections, right? Even when you lose. That's a thing you don't win every time. If you've been involved in any sort of politics for any period of time, then you know sometimes you lose.

It's the way it is. But you want to know you lost fairly. You want to know that you lost honestly. And then, just like losing in a sporting event of some sort. You you sort of dust yourself off.

And you get back in the game.

So, you're involved in politics, you're running because you think it's the right thing to do, you have these great ideas, you've got beliefs, and visions, and plans. And you don't win. Oh my gosh, what? What an awful situation. Yeah, of course you're upset.

You should be upset. Because you are convinced your ideas are the best.

Okay. And if you can look at it and say, wow. I can't believe that X number of people voted for the other person. You gotta go out and educate them. But if we are at a point in this country where we're looking at election results saying, well, I just don't believe any of the election results, that is a huge threat.

to this nation. Politics goes back and forth. Elections go this way, go that way. But up until recent history, Most of us have had, an understanding, a belief that, well, We didn't win, but The election wasn't stolen.

Now you've got millions of people believing that elections are being stolen.

So that does have to be remedied. It absolutely has to be addressed. I appreciate James weighing in. James said an email he went over to thejeffcatshow.com. I like the fact he's checking in from Kannapolis.

You know, that's Dale Earnhardt's hometown. They've got a big. big plaza now, Dale Earnhardt Plaza, which uh pays tribute to his life and all that he was able to accomplish. I think the baseball team at Canapol is actually called the Intimidators, if memory serves. I mentioned sitting out on the uh on the porch or the deck, right?

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There is so much that has happened that is wrong. And you and I Are going to have an opportunity to pump the brakes. I remind everybody: even if we do what we know we need to do, which is to vote anybody that has a D next to their name out of the House, out of the Senate. We're not stopping all of the insanity. mister Magoo remains the driver of the car.

and it's still heading for the cliff. By voting the right way in the midterms, we get to pump the brakes though. and maybe save the nation.

Sounds like a worthwhile effort, don't you think? Jeff Gatz in for Todd. It is the Todd Starring Show. It is the Todd Starr and Show Live. From the Liberty University studio, Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for my friend Todd.

Fantastic day, right? Everything is right with the world. Not quite, but you know, we're making progress.

Now, I had a couple of little snippets I just had to share with you.

Some of the stuff that. Hmm.

Okay. I watched, I listened to it, I thought, really? Like with a total straight face, the reporting by some of the members of the legacy news media is so far. Off the charts bad. That if in fact there was some sort of a rule, some sort of a law about journalistic malpractice, these would be the folks who would be charged at a felony level, I should point out, because it's just bat crap crazy.

Let me start with ABC. Remember them? Used to be a big-time news operation. Cut number one, please. To Afghanistan, and as we prepare to mark one year since that chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban now fully in control, and our Chief Foreign Correspondent Ian Panel tonight back on the ground there and reporting in today on what he has seen already.

David, on one level, the city looks similar to this time last year. But if you look again, today the troops driving around in those pickups, some of them carrying American-made weapons, are the Taliban. And it's clear that a little over a week since Al-Qaeda's leader was taken out here in the US drone strike, that the terrorists have a safe haven again, although the Taliban's insisting that Afghanistan won't be used to plot attacks on America. Afghanistan has become this country of broken promises and lost dreams. Girls unable to finish their high school education, women forced to live life behind a veil, and over 90% of the population lacking reliable access to food.

Some aid agencies are warning that the humanitarian crisis here could now kill far more Afghans than the past 20 years of war. David? Ian Pannell, who is now our chief foreign correspondent, leading our coverage there in Afghanistan one year later. Ian, thank you. Yeah, Ian, thank you for avoiding the big part of that.

That's Joe Biden! Biden's mess. How the heck do you report on that story? And not point out that Joe Biden, remember him playing the part of the president this year? The presidential meat puppet?

How do you report on what has happened to Afghanistan in the last year? Without also pointing out that it's Joe Biden who did that. Journalistic malpractice. Both of those guys should hang their heads in shame. They really should.

If there were anybody at that operation that was actually a journalist or a reporter. You'd call each of them in and say, hey, don't take this the wrong way, but what the hell were you guys doing? How could you do that? You know the only thing that amazed me? Is how they they actually did not blame Donald Trump.

Oh, I I know Donald Trump had nothing to do with it, but it doesn't make any difference. Normally they blame him for everything. Do you understand how Firmly protected Joe Biden is? And I don't I don't mean by the Secret Service What have you? I I mean by the media.

The legacy news media comprised of bottom-feeding bilge water drinking hacks. Complete and total slugs. the worst of the worst. There's no reporting being done by those folks. It's this regurgitation on demand.

Of DNC talking points. That's all they do. You just heard the latest example. But you avoid the biggest part of that story for some reason. You've thrown that entire nation.

into a downward spiral. You've allowed murderous thugs to take complete and total control. You left them eighty five billion dollars worth of American military equipment. God knows how many Americans we lost as a result of Joe Biden's folly. But all is okay.

All is okay. You know when uh girls were going to school? when Donald Trump was president. Because he kept The Taliban under control. It's just an outrage.

Well, let me phrase that. It ought to be an outrage. Sadly, it's probably not an outrage for most people. And most people go blissfully on their way.

Well, I'm not going to vacation in Afghanistan, Jeff.

Okay, well, I got that. Speaking of embarrassments, remember Anthony Fauci? You remember oh, everybody knew Anthony Fauci for a while, despicable little guy. He's the guy that initially said there's no reason at all to wear masks. Then he got his talking points from the leftists.

Then he decided, well, everybody ought to wear a mask. You know what? In fact, everybody ought to wear two masks. No, three mas no, four. Ten masks.

A minimum of ten masks every day Three pairs of underwear and put yourself inside of a Ziploc freezer bag. I don't know, whatever the latest one. Oh, and hide under your bed. Remember that? We all lost about two years' worth of life as a result of this guy.

Despicable, despicable. Guy.

Well, now Covid's a joke. See, Covid theater has apparently ended. The run of Covid theater is over. And we can all get back on with our lives. And isn't it convenient as well that CDC, the Centers for Disease Control, rolling everything back just about 90 days before the midterm elections?

The timing on all of this is just priceless. Uh anyway, so take a listen, cut number two, please. We're at the epicenter of the initial outbreak. WA One, Washington one, is considered the ancestral model string. This center?

I developed the answer. I created it. That's right. You let it loose. I was in my kitchen.

You let it loose that.

Okay. Gain of function. Here we come. You were here making aratcha, Italian meatballs, and that's a gain of function. Really?

Is it just me? And you got millions of people that died. You've told us it's the worst thing ever on the face of the planet. God, what a despicable display! Yeah, I whipped it up in my kitchen.

He really is a horrible person. I'm sorry. I wish I didn't say that. You know, I sit here and I think, man, come on, Jeff, you've got to be a better person than that. You shouldn't say that.

Well, I have to say that. What a terrible, terrible guy Right? Millions of people are dead and somehow you and I are responsible. Because we didn't die of COVID. That was the push for a while.

Remember all the guilt? Oh, you gotta keep everything closed. Oh, we'll have to destroy a few more businesses, but it's all worth it.

Well, now everything's just back to normal. We joke about it, everything's fine. Ah. And and and you and I, I guess? Or uh are we off the hook?

I don't know. We've talked a little bit, and I know Todd talks just about every single day about some of the phonies. And it's not just the leftist. I mean, you and I may think initially: no, the leftists are hypocrites, they are. But the worst of the hypocrites truly are those who continue to tell you that they're Republicans or they're conservatives and they're not anything even remotely.

resembling A Republican, let alone a conservative. I've got another little snippet here. Cut number three, please. If we put the right candidate forward that's got solutions, that's energetic, that's not 78 or 82 years old, they certainly have lost their best fastball.

So let's get somebody that's capable of leading this country in the right direction, helping our inflation issues, puts us back on the map with national security, understands immigration, the realities of immigration. We've got a chance to convince the middle and win for decades. But it's going to take time to get there, and the quality of a candidate still matters. If we win the House and we shove a bunch of Marjorie Taylor Greens in there, we're going to be embarrassed as Republicans for the next couple of years. Essie, is the time running out?

Is the clock running out? I mean, obviously, the primaries are coming up, the midterm elections, 2024. I mean, it's still two years away, but everyone's looking towards that to figure out what's going to happen next. Is the shot clock going to run out? I hate to mix analogies.

You used the baseball one, Lieutenant Governor, but I'm going to go to a different one. Is the shot clock running out here? Yeah. Listen, 2024 is around the corner, and Trump is really the only one who has expressed an interest in getting into the race. Everyone else seems a little cautious around him.

So, if he has no competition in a party that wants no competition of ideas anymore, then you know. then we know where this is going. Really? She she was telling everybody how the Republican Party is over. Look.

You guys don't like Where the Republican Party is headed, or the Democrat Party, or whatever party you're a member of, and you don't like where they're headed, then that's fantastic. You got to stand up. And you you participate, you fight back, you contest things. But when that contesting is over, and that's what it is, it is all a contest, when it's over, then you stand back and say, okay. I'm on the team or I'm on the team.

I'm off the team. Those are your two options. And if you choose to be off the team, I will shake your hand and wish you well. And I hope you have a long, happy, healthy life. But please, don't spend your time inside the party trashing the party.

That's not the way this works if you want to be successful. It just doesn't.

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Uh cut number four, please.

So, former president once claimed innocent people don't plead the fifth.

So, what does that say about him after he invoked the Fifth Amendment hundreds of times during his deposition with the state of New York yesterday? Yee, walls are closing in. Does he still think it's disgraceful? 400 times over disgraceful. Does he think it's something you only do if you're guilty?

400 times guilty. And does he still think it's something that the mob does? 400 times. Is he mobbed up? We'll get to that.

Is that what he's telling us? Is his confession?

Well, I do agree. The walls are closing in on him. I think the Georgia investigation is at least the one that is the most imminent. I don't know ultimately it will be the one that is the most significant or brings the most prison time, but I think that's the one that's moving the most quickly. How many times have we heard that phrase, the walls are closing in?

Of course, the first part of that little skit, it's almost like an SNL skit back when SNL was almost sort of kind of funny. That was Mr. and Mrs. Mika. And they're a team now, as you know.

They get together and they say stupid stuff, and then the other one goes, oh, yeah, I agree with that. The walls are closing in. You know where the walls are closing in? I think the walls are closing in on common sense at this point. If you're not concerned, With the continual attacks on the former president of the United States, I think you've got a problem.

If you are an honest person, If you are a fair person, if you are a person who believes. In our nation and our shared values, Then you need to stand up and defend people. including Donald Trump. If you are someone who voted against Donald Trump. If you were someone who stood up and said, I don't like him.

And there are plenty of people who said that. If you were to have a shred of integrity. you would stand up In defense of Donald Trump. Look, I was chatting with Alan Dershowitz the other day. Nobody's going to accuse Alan Dershowitz of being part of our vast right-wing conspiracy, right?

You know what Dershow had said about all this nonsense? Dershow had said That there should be no disqualification of Donald Trump. That he, Alan Dershowitz, as a proud liberal Democrat, as a happy liberal Democrat, even though he doesn't get invited to any of their parties anymore, he said he should have the right to vote against Donald Trump in an election. And you and I should have the ability to vote for or against him. This should not be played out with this January 6th miniseries nonsense.

It shouldn't be played out with the other things that are going on. You don't like him? Don't vote for him. You do like him? Vote for him.

I mean, it does come down to something that simple, that basic. That's what this nation is about. Or at least it used to be. If we want to make sure at some point it returns to that, Then you better make sure. That every single member of the House, every single member of the Senate that's got a D next to their name, I hate to say it, but every one of them's got to be shown the door.

They got to be kicked to the curb. And even that doesn't change everything 100%. All it does. As The presidential meat puppet continues in his post. Mr.

Magoo driving the car, all it does is gets us to tap those brakes so he cannot send us over the edge. Oh, we're still going to try. But this is the first step. You got to pump the brakes a little bit. And that's really the reality of this.

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