Is the U.S. Military Ready to Fight World War Pelosi?

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So any minute now, we could be at World War Pelosi.

So we're going to get a move on here. Hello, everybody. Todd Starnes with you.

So great to have you with us on what is a very busy news day. primaries happening all over the Fruited Plain, and we're going to check in on those big stories as well. But before we get to Pelosi and whether or not she's going to be launching us into World War III with China, I want to visit what's happening in Ukraine. And there is a very interesting story in today's New York Times. Thomas Friedman is the author of this opinion piece.

And the New York Times very upset that Pelosi is going to Taiwan. I think just about everybody is because no one quite understands why Pelosi is going to Taiwan. It marks the first time that a high-level government leader from this country has gone to Taiwan since, I believe, Newt Gingrich back during the Clinton administration.

So a long time ago, somewhat unprecedented. China threatening to blow Pelosi out of the sky. I don't think that's going to happen, but there's a lot of concern that this could spark some sort of an incident.

So you've got that going on. You've got the Biden administration not very happy that Pelosi is going there. As a matter of fact, the White House yesterday during this program actually said that the United States has absolutely zero interest in Taiwan, declaring its independence from China.

So at that point, if I was in charge of Taiwan, I would have just told Pelosi to do a UE and head back home. You're not welcome here. But it just seems to me that the Biden administration is hell-bent, and maybe this is just me, but it seems to me they are hell-bent on getting us involved in some sort of a shooting war with either Russia or China or Iran. And they're trying super hard in Ukraine to get us into a shooting war with the Russians. But it could very well be something as simple as Nancy Pelosi stepping foot on Taiwanese soil to launch us into World War Pelosi.

Now, I want to get into this Thomas Friedman piece because there's something very fascinating buried deep within the story. And again, this is what you need to know about the New York Times. They always miss the news nugget.

So you've got to read, and usually the true news nugget is buried somewhere deep within the story. To give you a great example of this, years ago during the Obama administration, It was, there was a great story that was buried in the society pages of the New York Times.

Now, one of the things that I enjoy doing on Sundays, I do read through the New York Times and don't agree with most of the stuff, but sometimes there's a pretty good feature story in there. And I, at the time I was searching for, this was before Zillow.

So I was searching for an apartment and you would get the Times on Sunday that had a big real estate section. And so anyway, I'm reading the paper, and there was a feature story about the social secretaries in the White House. And I thought, well, this is interesting. I'm a big White House history buff. I'm really intrigued by all of that.

And so I was reading this story, and it was a massive piece. It was like a 3,000 or 4,000-word piece. Buried at the very end was the actual news nugget of that story. It turns out that the Obamas, according to the social secretaries, that the Obamas, their first Christmas in the White House, they actually wanted to remove the nativity scene. They wanted to kick the baby Jesus out of the White House.

And, of course, you know that story now because I broke that story at Fox News and wrote about it in one of my early books. But the great irony here is that the New York Times missed the story that the Obamas' first Christmas in the White House wanted to throw the baby Jesus out the front door.

So all that to say, you've got to read these stories to get the nugget. And sure enough, the same thing happened here. The whole point of the opinion piece, why Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, is utterly reckless. And yeah, it is reckless, but that's not the real story here. The real story is what's happening in Ukraine.

I'm going to read this from Thomas Friedman's piece of the New York Times, talking about the timing of this visit to Taiwan. The timing could not be worse. Dear reader, the Ukraine war is not over. And privately, U.S. officials are a lot more concerned about Ukraine's leadership than they're letting on.

Really? Really? Are we surprised by this? we've been concerned from day one. There is deep mistrust between the White House and President Zelensky of Ukraine, considerably more than has been reported.

And there is funny business going on Kiev. No, are you kidding me? Really? Funny business in Kiev? On July 17th, Zelensky fired his country's prosecutor general and the leader of its domestic intelligence agency, the most significant shakeup in his government since the Russian invasion in February.

It would be the equivalent of Biden firing Merrick Garland and Bill Burns on the same day. But I still have not seen any reporting that convincingly explains what that was all about. It is as if we don't want to look too closely under the hood in Kiev for fear of what corruption or antics we might see when we have been invested so much there. More on the dangers of that another day.

So let me stop here, and there's more to this, and there's a little disturbing more to it, and I'll get to that in a second. But from day one, ladies and gentlemen, I've told you, and I have just been as honest as I can possibly be with you, that something does not smell right about Ukraine. Not quite sure why we need to be there. Aside from the fact that early on, early on, we were told that there were these laboratories that everybody was very concerned about. And there's been a lot of speculation about those laboratories, what they were doing, and why the United States needed to go into Ukraine to secure those laboratories.

Some people are saying it had to do with the China virus, and it very well may be. I do not know. But we do know this, that the United States is willing to risk American lives and treasure to protect those labs.

So something important was happening inside those laboratories. The other part of it, it predates even the Trump administration, where you have Joe Biden and his son doing all sorts of very nefarious business transactions with the Ukrainians. We've known for well over a decade that there has been great corruption within the Ukrainian government, but they've all decided to take a blind eye at that because there's something else going on here.

Now, do we care about Ukraine? I don't think we do. I think Biden wants us involved in a shooting war with the Russians, and the question is why. And it's really not Biden. It's whoever's pulling the strings, which would be Susan Rice and Barack Hussein Obama.

But I want to go on to the next line here of this very disturbing story out of the New York Times.

Meanwhile, senior U.S. officials still believe that Putin is quite prepared to consider using a small nuclear weapon against Ukraine if he sees his army facing certain defeat. In short, this Ukraine war is so not over, so not stable, so not without dangerous surprises that can pop out on any given day. Yet in the middle of all of this, we are going to risk a conflict with China over Taiwan, provoked by an arbitrary and frivolous visit by the Speaker of the House.

Now, this is not Fox News Channel writing. This is not Newsmax. This is not the Heritage Foundation. This is the New York Times. I'm telling you, the administration and you talk about a dangerous political situation in Ukraine with Russia.

We need to be talking about the dangerous political situation right here in the United States. We have an administration that is in great turmoil and unrest. We have a failed administration. And that's what the New York Times is admitting here. It's been a failure.

And you've got a president now that is completely unhinged, a vice president who's a loon, and you've got a White House that is being controlled with puppet strings by people like Susan Rice and B.H. Obama. that's a very dangerous place for this administration to be because they do know that in the event of war and let's just we'll put this out there god forbid the chinese actually go and shoot down nancy pelosi guess what nancy pelosi may be a raging leftist lunatic but she's still an american citizen she's a government leader and we're not going to tolerate anybody shooting down our people. I don't care who they are. And the Biden administration knows this, and they know that if there is in fact a war, what's going to happen?

You're going to see the people rally around the White House. You're going to see the economy return with a boom, because that always happens during a wartime event. And you will see national unity that could give the Democrats an edge moving into the midterm elections. Folks, this is not without precedent.

So we've got a lot of moving parts here and a lot of reasons to be very, very concerned. I believe Putin would use a nuclear weapon, and I believe the Chinese would too. And the question is, what city gets sacrificed on the west coast of the United States to appease the Biden administration? Is it Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego? That's where all of this is heading unless somebody slams on the brakes and they do it very quickly.

And for the New York Times to come out and to write about this and to actually admit this, because they do have the sources within this administration, they do know what's going on inside the walls of the White House, and that is very concerning. and then yesterday in spite of knowing all of this stuff about Zelensky we're going to give him another 550 million dollars of our tax money more than eight billion dollars now you think about this while all this is going on you've got Joe Biden and the Democrats they are literally arming every Ukrainian citizen every Ukrainian citizen is being given a firearm to protect themselves the ukrainians are using our tax money to secure their border meanwhile back here our border has been breached and overrun and the democrats are trying to take away our guns 844-747-8868 what do you think's going on ladies and gentlemen 844-747-8868 that's our toll-free telephone number by the way our website and we have some incredible stories up on the website today you Got to check that out over at ToddStearns.com. We'll be right back, America.

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Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Todd Starnes Radio Show.

So happy that you've made the choice to spend noon to the Eastern with your friends here on this program and great conservatives all over America.

So our good friend Liz Peek has a piece up, and this is a fascinating report. Liz Peek is sounding the alarm about the midterm elections.

Now, this is fascinating. And I want to get your take on this. And there is a local angle on this for our Memphis listeners on KWAM, where we base our radio program from. Liz Peake says that President Trump needs to immediately announce that he's running for president in 2024. And she says he needs to do that because of the fecklessness of the Republican Party.

She says, only President Trump's vision can lead us to a 70-seat red wave.

Now, this is something, this is pretty remarkable because Liz Peake is, she's not one who is prone to hyperbole.

So Liz Peake is looking at all of the data coming in. She's saying that the Republicans on Capitol Hill should be ashamed because they were snookered into supporting this $280 billion bill. a bill that's basically a handout. They got blindsided by Build Back Better. And she says that polling data and fundraising data is showing some very disturbing numbers.

She says Republicans are losing steam in the fundraising and in the polls. And she says that the GOP is hovering on the brink.

Now, here is some of the data that she's been able to gather. She says that a Suffolk University poll shows voters preferring Democrats over Republicans by more than four points She says the polling data gathered by 538 shows the GOP lead on a generic congressional ballot has all but disappeared And today Republicans are nearly tied with Democrats As recently as mid-June, the GOP had a 2.6-point advantage. Also worrisome, and I'm reading from Liz's column here, Democrats are out-raising Republicans in online campaign donations.

Now, this is interesting, and I want to stop here for just a moment. We got the early voting numbers in for Memphis. We've got a massive election coming up on Thursday. It's kind of weird, but they're doing an election on Thursday. Lots of important races, including a George Soros candidate who's running for district attorney.

Major, major races on the ballots locally in Memphis. And what's stunning, and Grace Baker, you can verify this, what's stunning is that 20,000 more Democrats went to the polls to cast early ballots than Republicans did. Oh, yeah. And to be honest, I'm not shocked. I feel like Republicans here are very, what's the word, just not active at all.

Yeah, I wasn't going to say that. No, completely. I'm reading this, and I'm thinking that's exactly. Liz is describing what just happened in Memphis, Tennessee. Yep, and nothing's going to change.

So, I mean, hopefully we're putting the fear of God in Republican voters to get out and vote on Election Day Thursday. I hope so. But it's going to be an uphill climb. What have we been telling people? Campaign like you're how many points behind?

Oh, like you're 20 points behind. 20 points behind. And look at what happened. 20,000 more voters came out on the Democrat side than the Republican side. That's just pitiful.

So let me get some more of this data out for you, because this is a big deal.

Now, you say, well, Todd, nobody believes the polls.

Okay, well, let's take a look at the fundraising data then. Talk about Raphael Warnock, $12.3 million that he hauled in. Unbelievable. That is more than the combined quarterly hauls of Republican Senate nominees in a number of other states. There are also concerns that Dr.

Oz and J.D. Vance have fallen way behind. Dr. Oz raised $3.8 million, his Democrat opponent $10 million. dollars.

J.D. Vance running neck and neck with Democrat Tim Ryan. He raised a million dollars compared to Tim Ryan's nine million dollars. These are some warning signs that you need to pay very close attention to. 844-747-8868.

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All right, folks, welcome back to the Todd Starnes Radio Show. Let's get right to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Great to have with us our good friend Jeffrey Lord. Jeffrey, hope you're doing good today. I'm doing great, Todd, and I'm looking forward to CPAC, where perhaps I might see you.

You know, this is going to be a lot of fun. And, Jeffrey, normally I just give a brief speech, but they've asked me to host this hour-long cavalcade of stars up on the main stage.

So looking forward to that. I'm looking forward to seeing you. And I know that's the last time we actually got together. That's right. This time around, they have asked me to moderate a panel with Congressman Andy Biggs from Arizona, Cash Patel, who was chief of staff to the Trump Secretary of Defense.

and Brandon Strucka, who led the walk-away movement from the Democratic Party. And we're going to be talking about American Gulag, all these prosecutions of conservatives and, you know, keeping them from speaking on campuses and on and on and on goes the list, which I'm sure you're more than familiar with. I love it. You know, Jeffrey, I have to tell you, I used to listen to you all the time on Hannity's show, radio show, back when I was living in New York City and working at Fox News. And I thought to myself, you know, one of these days, I know I'll be able to hit the big leagues when I can get Jeffrey Lord to come on my program.

Oh, man, and now you've got to be so disappointed. No, no, no, no.

Well, it's going to be great. And, folks, still tickets available. You better go ahead and sign up now because there really is an A-list of conservatives. Jeffrey Lord will be there. I believe President Trump is going to be speaking.

Just Sarah Palin. The list goes on and on and on. John Hannity, you know, on goes the list.

So Glenn Beck, yeah, it's pretty amazing. That's it. Look, it is a big primary day, Jeffrey Lord, and we're paying very close attention to a A couple of races, in particular Arizona, but I want to start with Missouri. Was that not the greatest political troll of all times that Trump did? I burst out laughing when I saw that.

I thought, just for your audience's sake, there are two candidates there for the Senate, Eric Greitens and Eric Schmidt. And so the question was, who would Trump endorse? And he puts out the word, I'm for Eric. I love it. And there are actually three Erics that are running.

The lesser known, no one knows who that guy is, but he's taking full credit as well. Man, you can't make this stuff up. I mean, Donald Trump is, I mean, people like him, don't like him. I love him. I know him.

I think the world of him. But he is such a smart guy when it comes to things like this. I mean, clever. Who would have thought of this, right? You know, Jeffrey, I was reading a piece last night, and there has been a lot of controversy in that Senate race.

Eric Greitens, of course, the former governor, ousted out of, you know, there was a big scandal, and there was a lot of concern among Republicans in the party that if he is, in fact, the nominee, that they could lose that Senate seat, which I find hard to believe because Missouri's a pretty red state. But there are reports, I believe Politico reporting, that Ronald McDaniel actually begged President Trump not to make an endorsement in that race. Ah, well, then that would, in other words, there was a method behind his madness here in putting it the way he put it. And that's very interesting. I did not know that.

But, you know, you get into these situations. We've just come through a situation in Pennsylvania where we had heated primaries for both the Senate seat and the governorship. And interestingly to me, President Trump came in here. He endorsed a candidate for a governor named State Senator Doug Mastriano. And he endorsed, of course, Dr.

Oz for the Senate seat. Both of them won. and I think there was a particular surprise with Pennsylvania political observers about the Mastriano win because he is very much in the mode of Donald Trump as I suspect there are other candidates around the country who are the same and he didn't just win he clobbered the field and you know you can just you know how it is Todd we just sense the grass roots sort of movement building and building, and I think it's building here in Pennsylvania. We'll see this fall, but you've had some establishment Republicans say they're not going to vote for him and all this. His opposition is the Attorney General of Pennsylvania, a Democrat named Josh Shapiro, who is, I mean, he may be a nice enough guy, but he is just your typical standard cardboard cookie cutter career politician.

The story is he wants to be president, and wants to get elected, and then if anything happens with Joe Biden, he can get to be vice president to Kamala Harris. You know, Lord only knows. But it's just a career thing with him, whereas Mastriano was truly, you know, the cause, the cause, the cause, and that's a different ballgame. Jeffrey Lord on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker Line, and we have links to all of his pages and platforms over on our live show blog. Jeffrey, I was reading, my good friend Liz Peake, she's a regular on the show, has a column out.

She says Trump needs to declare right now to mobilize all the Republicans, get everybody on message. She is concerned about polling data, but also fundraising data coming in, showing a lot of these Republicans in these battleground states are not doing well on the fundraising side. What say you?

Well, that's interesting. I mean, I have been leaning to waiting until after the election. You see, me too. Me too. Just because I believe in all of these races, the stars are the candidates.

And they've got to have as much support as possible. And I think he's been on the right track so far going into these states, having rallies, standing next to the candidate, and then letting the candidate get the spotlight. And you know me, Todd, and history and geeky stuff and all that kind of thing. For people who weren't around, and I was a teenager following all this stuff in 1966, Richard Nixon was rumored to be a leading candidate for president in 1968. Of course, he'd run in 1960 and lost in a close race to JFK.

Then Barry Goldwater gets Trump.

Well, so Nixon makes it his business to run around America in 1966, campaigning and raising funds for all these Republican candidates. seats they went 47 house seats we didn't win back the house but you know that was a huge win and i think it was three senate seats nixon got all this credit for it and once it was over then he announced for president and of course proceeded to mow down the gop opposition which basically amounted to nelson rockefeller and uh governor rockefeller from new york and governor romney from Michigan, Mitt's father, and Nixon just plowed him under. But I think a large part of it was because he went around getting all these IOUs from all of these candidates who then won and were able to be there to help him win when he ran in 1968.

So I kind of see that as a good role model for Trump. You know, one of the challenges that I've had during, really, the past couple of election cycles, you've got these folks who have jumped on the Trump bandwagon, but they were previously hard leftist. They were in with Barack Obama and now they want people to believe they repented they had the conversion experience and they America First candidates And I think one of those races that really personifies that is happening in Arizona right now where you have Karen Robeson, who was the, you know, they're calling her an establishment liberal, but she actually was a fundraiser for Donald Trump, very close to the Trump family, going up against Carrie Lake, the ex-TV reporter, who is a new convert. How do you think that race is going to go?

Well, just from my readings of it, it sounds to me like Carrie Lake is winning. You know, she's got the one thing that in our day and age can help you a lot. She was a television anchor, so everybody knows who she is. And, you know, it's like Dr. Oz.

Everybody knew who Dr. Oz was. He needed no introduction. And that is half the battle when you run for a statewide office in Arizona or anywhere else. People need to know who you are.

She's got that advantage going for her, plus the Trump endorsement.

So I suspect, based on what I'm reading, that she's going to win this thing. All right, Jeffrey, we're going to leave it there. I hope you're doing it. It's been way too long, so we're going to have to get you back on soon. All right.

Here's the season, Todd. It is indeed. Let's up for this month and then buckle in. There it is. There it is.

All right, Jeffrey, we will see you in Dallas in just a couple of days. Jeffrey Lord, everybody, great conservative commentator and pundit. And we've got links to his pages over at ToddStarns.com. Oh, I've got to tell you about some great back-to-school specials that our good friend Mike Lindell is offering exclusively to our listeners. MyPillow.com slash Starns.

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All right, folks, welcome back to the program.

So, so, Jeffrey Lord says, you know what? Trump needs to wait. Liz Peake says Trump needs to go ahead and throw his name in the hat right now to mobilize all the Republicans and to unify the Republicans around a central message. And what is it they've been talking about for the past couple of weeks? They've been talking about this contract with America that Newt Gingrich signed back in the 1990s during the Clinton administration.

So you've got to divide here between people saying he should wait or he should announce now. What say you, ladies and gentlemen, 844-747-8868? That's our toll-free telephone number. That's 844-747-8868.

Now, I want to end this hour on a positive note. There is a story up on ToddStarnes.com from Norco, California. This is your feel-good story of the day.

So a bad guy armed with an AR-15 tried to rob an 80-year-old man in the store that he owned, the Norco Market. What the bad guy didn't realize at the time is that the owner was watching a security cam video, and he saw the car pull up. There were four people in this car, and he saw one of the bad guys getting out and putting on a ski mask. and the owner of the store knew what was about to happen.

So when the bad guy came in and said, put your hands in the air, the owner of the store took out his shotgun and literally blew the bad guy's arm off. And the whole thing was captured on surveillance video. You've got to listen to this. i want to hear it again i love that now now let me so so by the way the riverside county uh sheriff's department they say that the clerk did or the owner of the store did the right thing. He was illegally.

He was a legal gun owner. He was allowed by law to own that gun and he defended himself. He did nothing wrong. I will say this, that the owner suffered a heart attack after all of this, but he's okay. He's going to make a full recovery.

The bad guys in critical condition at the local hospital and they've arrested others. What I think is funny about the video, and we've got the video on our website, it looked like his pals were going to drive off and leave him there with his arm.

Now, I'm not sure how this is all going to play out. Hopefully, this guy is going to be on the straight and narrow after he gets out of jail. I do know this, Grace Baker, this guy certainly will not be doing any more armed robberies. You got that right. No armed robberies.

No, ha, ha, ha. I see what you did there. But the Second Amendment, ladies and gentlemen, it allows you, it affords you as an American citizen the right to bear arms and the right to blow off the arms of the bad guys. Can I hear it again? I want to hear this again, Grace Baker.

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

Oh! Now, Grace, a couple of observations here, because I'm a firm believer. I mean, we live in Mogadishu. I mean, the progressives in Memphis have turned our city into a literal war zone, a third world country. I mean, it's bad.

But my contention is this. When the good guys start shooting these bad guys, sooner or later, word is going to spread, hey, don't hit that store because they'll blow an appendage off. Yep. That'll send a clear message.

so my and my thing is in this case he shot the arm and it was only one shot the guy was a good shot for an 80 year old that's impressive but you either do it in the kneecap you know where they can't run and like try to carjack people in the future do it in the foot or the private part so they don't propagate oh you don't want you don't want those folks going forth and multiplying yeah please no no i'm just you know and you hate to think like that but when you live in a place where crime is so off the charts terrible, you have to think like that. Yeah, you do. Your mind goes to a totally different place. I mean, you pull up at a traffic, seriously, and you can affirm this, Grace Baker.

So you pull up to a traffic light. You're not bumper to bumper. You've got to have enough space in between that other car.

So in case somebody opens, you know, somebody has a gun, you can escape. That's true. Also, sometimes I look to my right or my left, like, if somebody's pulled up beside me. I don't know. You just get, like, is that person looking at me?

I'm just going to look away. Or if they're flashing a gun at you, and that's happened to me before. I mean, I was here just a couple of weeks, and somebody flashed a gun at me. Welcome home. And you immediately, I mean, you've seen the, you know, where you want to hit the lever on your seat, and it just drops you to the back so you don't get shot.

The problem with the Cadillac, it's all electronic, so it's not like, yeah. Instead of, I'm like, oh boy, that's not going to end well. That's a slow maneuver. All that to say, God bless this man, and we hope for a speedy recovery for the owner of the shop. And again, when you do shoot somebody, it's not like, all right, I shot somebody.

I mean, it's a horrible thing, and nobody wants to be in that place. You don't want to have to use your gun. but thank the good lord that this store owner had the wherewithal to go out there get his gun learn how to use it and he had the wherewithal in the moment and this is the thing you've got to be on guard all the time that's what our good buddy jonathan gilliam tells us he wrote the this great book sheep no more whenever you walk outside of your home you've got to know that there could be somebody out there wanting to wanting to harm you or your family and that's just the the reality of where we are in america right now all right folks got to take a break for the news 844-747-8868 is our toll-free telephone number you gotta head over to the website and watch this video it's unbelievable you will get a smile on your face uh seeing this good guy with a gun shooting the arm off a bad guy with a gun all right uh toddstarns.com also while you were there you may as well just go ahead and sign up for the newsletter and the podcast what about a million people a month listen to that podcast it's a doozy all right folks hour two coming up this is the todd stern's radio show ever since i got the new galaxy z flip 4 i've been learning all these new tricks with my dog Finn. Like how to take the best selfies at the park. I just set my phone down, put it in flex mode, and capture hands-free pics from multiple angles.

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All right, hello, everybody. Happy primary day to many of you across the country. Of course, paying very close attention to what's happening in Missouri and also Arizona. You be sure to listen to your local radio station later this evening for election returns. And, of course, we'll be doing full-blown analysis tomorrow.

This is an exciting week. A lot of conservatives heading to Dallas, Texas for CPAC. I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, our good friend and the man who created it all. Our good buddy Matt Schlapp is joining us today. Matt, what an exciting time we're going to have later this week.

Yeah, I consider it the beginning of the big red wave. We're going to have a huge turnout in Dallas. We're going to have media from around the world there. And we're going to meet all these candidates. And I agree with you.

Today's a big day. In my home state of Kansas, they have a really important pro-life amendment on the ballot. The value in both amendments.

So if you're in Kansas, you can hear us talking right now. Make sure you get out there and vote for it. It restores all the regulations to prevent late-term abortions and taxpayer-funded abortions, parental consent, all those things that were on the books before. Our Supreme Court in Kansas did what our Supreme Court did in America, which is they found the word abortion where it doesn't exist in our Constitution. And, Matt, we do have a lot of listeners all over the great state of Kansas, including our big affiliate in Wichita, KQAM, the big talker.

And this is a first in the nation vote on abortion. That's right. So this is why it's so vitally important. And you know, it's interesting, Matt, when you think about the pro-life movement, you think about maybe the southern states, but really it was Kansas that led the nation from day one in protecting the lives of the unborn.

So what a great day it is for Kansans as they go to the polls. You know, and the thing is that we face in all these important questions about upholding American traditions is, you know, in Kansas, they have a flood of outside money trying to tell Kansans what to do. And I think everyone ought to start looking at that. Where's the money coming from in all these political races and all these key Senate races? You're going to find that the socialist candidate has much more money than the Republican candidate.

And eventually we all have to ask ourselves, why are they getting all this money? And where is it all coming from? And I think we all know where it's coming from. It's coming from this elite group of oligarchs and billionaires who don't believe in restoring the values of America. As a matter of fact, they want to have a coup and get rid of all of our founding traditions.

Well, no doubt about that, Matt. And it's, I mean, again, when you look at the amount of money coming in, even to places like Memphis, Tennessee, We have a big election on Thursday where the district attorney's race is huge. You've got George Soros money pouring into a place like Memphis. You have to imagine, you can only imagine what kind of money they're putting into places like San Francisco, New York, Chicago. Yeah, and I think the thing that's crazy, when I got involved in politics as a young man, I was on, like, for instance, the 2000 presidential campaign, George W.

Bush in Austin, Texas. You know, we used to outspend them. Our side had the money, and they had all the activists. And what's happened over time is they have all the money, and we have all the activists. As a matter of fact, their activists are mostly paid activists.

So we've got the numbers. We've got the majority. We've just got to turn out. And I think that's why the CPAC event is so important starting Thursday. By the way, people can go to conservative.org.

Tickets are still available. By the way, you mentioned Wichita, Kansas. My mom and my sister are starting their drive from Wichita. It's only five-plus hours.

So if you want to get a ticket, you can even get a daily ticket. Just go to our website, join my mother, join all of these thousands of actors. Send the message that we're going to take back this country. You know, the best part of the drive from Memphis to Dallas, that 75-mile-an-hour speed limit in Arkansas. You got to love it.

And you can probably stop off and get some chili cheese fries on the way. That's why I love America. Stop off at the Buc-ee's. You got to do it. Mad slap on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.

Let's talk about CPAC, and I'm excited to be a part of the festivities. We just had Jeffrey Lord on, and Jeffrey, that was the first thing he said, we've got to talk about CPAC. This is going to be a huge event because of what's about to happen in November. Yeah, that's right. One of the things that we're very proud of is activists can really make the difference in the country.

I'd rather take the activists over the money. And we're going to meet all these candidates. You have these great Hispanic women candidates in the southern part of Texas who are going to be there. You have some of these great candidates in Virginia and other states. I mean, I think what we're seeing is the Democratic coalition is busting up before our eyes as they embrace woke, as they hate cops, as they have a war on gender and a war on religion.

And a lot of even Democrats were saying, wait a minute, I didn't sign up for this stuff. Maybe I believe in a little more government spending, but I didn't know it meant like destroying all these brave people and these important institutions.

So I think this election is going to be even more consequential than 2016 in some ways. I think it's bust up their coalition. And if we play it right, and by that, I mean, if we fight for the values we care about, I think the Republican Party, animated by the conservative movement as the main part of it, could govern for a generation. I'm with you, Matt. I think this could be historic on so many different levels, and of course setting the stage for what could be an even more historic election in 2024.

24. Yeah, no, it's all up to us. And the reason why they called us domestic terrorists and insurrectionists, they called us bigots and haters, you know, all the terms they throw at Utah. The reason they do that is they want us to feel small. They want us to feel fringe.

They want us to feel like we're a tiny minority. When the fact is we're the majority, I think we'll stand up and start acting like that majority. It doesn't mean that we want to dominate them, be rude to them, but it means that we're not going to let them destroy the country. And if we'll just do that, and if we'll do that consistently for the next couple of cycles, we're going to save this country. I love it.

Matt, looking forward to seeing you and Mercedes and your mom down there in Dallas. It's going to be a great couple of days.

Well, thanks for joining us, Todd, and I'll see you in like a matter of hours. I love it. All right, Matt Schlapp, everybody, from American Conservative of Union, CPAC this weekend. Conservative.org is the website. That's conservative.org.

You'll be able to register, sign up for tickets. It is a who's who. And I know that I'll be leading an hour-long series of panels, starting off with the governor of Oklahoma, the reddest of all states in the nation. It's going to be a great conversation as we hang out together. And I've already heard, Grace Baker, from so many of our listeners who are going to be there that want to say hello and folks even here in the Memphis area driving down.

Well, it's not too, too bad of a drive. No, it's not, but I'm flying. I'm going to take a risk. I'm going to fly because I have to be back here. You know, we're right smack in the middle of the election cycle.

So I'm literally flying down Friday morning, doing the speech and the panel stuff, and then flying back that night. That's a quick trip. It's a very quick trip. Got to get a good meal wire down there, though. It's Texas.

Yeah, it is. But you know what? I'm good. If not, we have a great Texas brisket joint right here in Memphis. There's really no need.

We're going to be getting calls from Texas people. I am going to miss going to the... Have you been to the Buc-ee's? Have you heard of these? I've heard of them.

I have not been to Texas at all, so... I'm trying to...

Well, they're not just in Texas anymore. They're, like, popping up all over the place. I think I've been to one in Alabama, I think. Right outside of Birmingham. Yeah, that's the one I've been to.

I know. Basically a Walmart with 700 gas tanks. Everyone's like, whenever I try, they're like, we have to stop here. I'm like, what's the big deal? And I was like, oh, okay, it's pretty nice.

By the way, yesterday, you know, I live in the condo, and we can't say where. No. But there is a hotel.

So it's kind of one of these, like, live, work, you know, stay, whatever. It's very nice. I don't want to say it's bougie, as the young people say these days. I don't know. It's pretty nice.

Okay, it is pretty British. It's very nice. So anyway, I have a running complaint on Sunday nights because they put out the sweeper in the parking lot. And it's just as loud as all gets. And they start at like 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock at night.

Why would you do that? Is it as loud as like a lawnmower? It's louder. Oh, okay. And so anyway, last night I hear this.

It sounded like there was like some sort of like a shooting or something. I don't know what it was. But there were people screaming and carrying on. And I look outside, and there are like 30 or 40 high school kids wandering around like some sort of a big gang. And so I look, and I guess they're staying at the hotel.

It's some sort of a sports team from one of those highbrow schools. You know what I'm talking about? The high-dollar private schools? The private schools.

So I call downstairs, and I'm like, really? I said, it's bad enough you can't sleep on Sundays. But really now Mondays, I was like the get off my lawn guy. Oh. But it was midnight.

And so I'm talking, so I'm like complaining. I'm like, can you please go out there and tell them to stop or to do something? And so the hotel clerk says, well, he says, we actually told him it was okay for them to stay out until 1 o'clock in the morning. Oh, wow. I'm like, 1 o'clock in the morning?

On a Monday. On a Monday. It's a work night. You sound really old right now. I do.

I really do. No, but I would. And so they said, well, we can corral him in. Yeah. I said, why don't you think about doing that?

Probably like herding cats. And then I like suffer and suck attached. I was mumbling. And then I thought, oh, my gosh, I've become the cut off the lawn guy. You're that guy.

When did that happen? Oh, well. Oh, got to take a break here, folks. 844-747-8868. Going to the phones here.

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well grace now i feel bad maybe i should just stay in dallas for a day or two and take in the sites you know you need a vacation dot yes well it's not going to be in dallas that would not be the vacation so maybe save it maybe the redneck riviera i was looking at orange beach or oh yes very nice um maybe just maybe new orleans i love new orleans it was a good time i went down there last year have we got an update from miss janice yes her her husband's still recovering okay he's doing okay but i heard from her yesterday well good uh miss janice by the way for our new listers one of our regulars and she is the queen of new orleans and her husband not doing very well going through a going through a health struggle so keep him in your prayers and also you know I mentioned my uncle Jerry a lot and I write about uncle Jerry he's going through a couple of health hiccups too so put him on the prayer list as well if you don't mind let's go to the phones here 844-747-8868 our good buddy Gene the Trump super fan and I understand you're in Oklahoma Holman now, Gene, is that right? Yes, Todd, how are you, sir? Gene, I'm doing well. Excellent. Yes, Todd, you know, I've been pretty much part of the campus team over the last year.

I've been in Dallas, I've been in St. Louis, Illinois, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and yes, we are now in Oklahoma, and what it is, it's a runoff between two Republicans, Josh Breachman and Alex Rick, who's with the situation, is here. But I also heard you all talking. You're going to be in Oklahoma? Is that correct?

Dallas. Oh, okay. You're going to be in Dallas. Didn't you say you're going to be talking to the governor of Oklahoma? In Dallas, yeah.

CPAC. Oh, awesome. Listen, maybe you can get super fan in part of that. That would be wonderful. But, yeah, Todd, that's what I'm doing.

I'm just trying to do whatever I can do here, you know, as you know, what's going on in this crazy country. but if I also want to say something about a wonderful great President Trump who we love and we love you sir more than you can imagine I think he should say that he's going to be running and I think it should be soon Todd and I believe it'll be at a rally well yeah oh I'll I have no doubt it would be at a rally um and and I'm beginning to look I can see it both ways now I was firmly in the Trump needs to wait this you know don't make the midterms about him But I don't believe that it would be now. I think if the Republicans do rally around a contract with America and say, you know what, these are the principles we're going to be running on. We're going to secure the border. We're going to do something about the economy.

We're going to push back against the mandates. I think if you go down the list and you bring that to the American people, it becomes about the contract and not necessarily Donald Trump at this point.

So I can see the benefit to doing that now. Absolutely, Todd. And I agree with you. You hit it on the head, man, because that's what this folks have to have to have America first gender. That's number one, because that works around where the people become first as well.

That's how President Trump operates. You know, so I agree with you there, sir. All right, Gene, you be good. Safe travels out there, my friend. Same to you.

All right, Gene, the super fan. Thanks for Freddie and everything. God bless you. All right.

Thanks, Gene. Take care now. You know, it's interesting. Gene, early on, one of the early Trump rallies, Gene was one of these guys that President Trump called up onto the stage, and they embraced each other.

Well, he embraced Gene the super fan, and, well, the rest is Trump folklore. And Gene's been a regular caller. He lives in Florida, but he's out there doing some campaign events. All right, 844-747-8868. That's our toll-free telephone number.

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I want to play some audio.

So the New York Times is reporting that there is trouble at Fox News. And we covered this some yesterday. But now they have some new intel on Tucker Carlson. And the New York Times is saying that Tucker Carlson, in private, is not a Trump fan. And they've got the goods on Tucker Carlson, cut number seven.

So let me throw this to you. You know, the piece came out on Saturday that I saw. And then on Sunday, yesterday, I saw a lot of pictures floating around the Internet of Trump and Tucker Carlson and kind of yucking it up a little bit in the Trump box. I'm trying to square the circle here. Where is it?

Is it that Tucker... Let me ask you this. I'll be straight. Is this the first step of the Tucker for president move, and Tucker stabbing the Trump MAGA voters and Trump himself in the back?

So, Eric, I think you know as well as I do that Tucker, in private, what he says about Trump is very different. than what he says about Trump in public. And it benefits him to be seen having photos taken with Trump at the golf course and everything. I think I would not be surprised at all to see. Tucker, I quoted him in my book.

He said, I am voting for Kanye West. This is in 2020.

So he didn't vote for Trump as far as we know. I mean, I don't know. I wasn't there with him in the ballot box. But we know that Tucker Carlson is one of these people who benefits from having the Trump audience on his side but thinks very little of the people who make up that audience And that ladies and gentlemen is not at all surprising to me And I can say that based on my 15 years at Fox News channel I can say that because the entire channel right now, they look down on all of you folks. And especially if you are Trump supporters, they're very condescending towards you folks.

And it's really unfortunate. And you can see it there are good people like shannon bream sean hannity laura ingram judge janine and and then there are those who um well you know gotta take a break we'll be right back america we all know someone who's all work and no chill trust me that used to be me but then i found galaxy Z Fold 4, which allows me to do more things at once. Ah, much better.

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Welcome back, everybody. Go vote today if you are in a state that's got a primary. And be sure to listen to your local radio station tonight for coverage of the returns. You know, earlier we were literally reading verbatim Liz Peake's column, and I thought, well, Grace, why don't we just get Liz Peake on and save us some time on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line is our favorite columnist, Liz Peek. Hey, Liz.

Hi. Glad to join you. Thank you for that. No, poor Liz. You were probably at beachside somewhere with a nice little drink, you know, with the umbrella, and she was like, great, Stearns needs me.

No, no. Au contraire, I'm in New York City, and I'm delighted to join you. But I'm about to go on vacation, so there you go. Liz, we've got to talk about this column that you wrote. But this is, again, this is a warning for Republicans.

Don't take anything for granted. And you've got to get your act together. Yeah, I mean, you know, I think we've all been so very optimistic about what would take place in November that people have sort of taken their eye off the ball, not given as much money to candidates as maybe they would have had they not been so confident, Todd. I think that's really part of the problem. And I do think you have this schism in the party between people who are very dedicated to Donald Trump, want to relitigate the 2020 election, and they need him to prompt them to let go of that and move forward.

And by the way, he, I think, is now ready to move forward. And I am incredibly happy about that. The speech he gave down at the American policy get together just recently in Washington was very forward looking, very powerful. He needs to do that, tell people. I mean, literally, as I read the speech, which I just did a few days ago, I could feel the power and the momentum, the mojo of Donald Trump coming through this instead of the grievances and the questions about 2020.

And boy, we need him out there. We need him out there now. No, we do. And one of the big challenges for this election cycle has been the endorsements, where you actually are – it's really not the establishment against Donald Trump. In many cases, it's the establishment versus Donald Trump versus MAGA people.

And a great example is what's happening right now in Missouri with that Senate race. Exactly, exactly. And so let's look at the ones we know the outcome of. For example, in Pennsylvania, Trump backed Mehmet Oz. I've met Oz.

I think he's an incredibly good candidate. But unfortunately, he is trailing now. And, you know, the point of my column was that Trump has $121 million that he has raised that apparently cannot be used for a presidential run should he choose to run in 2024, which it looks like he's going to do.

So that money really could come in handy right now. and very importantly, there's a limit to what you can donate, obviously, to a campaign. But in parallel to a campaign, you can run TV ads, you can do all kinds of things. That's what this money should be heading towards now, because it's not going to look good for Trump. I mean, if he's interested in his own position in the party, if he kind of gets these guys out there, J.D.

Vance in Ohio, Herschel Walker in Georgia, and possibly his candidate in Missouri, and elsewhere, and then he kind of cuts off their lifeblood, doesn't help them, that's not going to look very good. No, and here in the Memphis area where we broadcast, Liz, we have an odd election, and it is a major election coming up Thursday. On the ballot, the district attorney's race, which has garnered national detention, the musician John Legend, the George Floyd family in town and early voting wrapped up. They just announced the numbers earlier today and Democrats outpace Republicans by 20,000 votes here in this city. It is again a reminder we cannot take anything for granted.

Got to get out and vote. You really do. I do think usually the mail-in vote is heavily Democrat, but nonetheless that is concerning. And so what is your thinking about how that will turn out.

Well, there was just a lot of concern about the Republicans trying to find a message. You had the top of the candidate, the top of the ticket. They were very concerned about being identified or associated with President Trump. And then you've got down-ballot people who are embracing President Trump.

So a lot of mixed messaging. And I think that's why I like this idea of Trump getting out there, unifying the party behind a central message, kind of like that, you know, the Newt Gingrich contract with America. I think that's a winning formula. Yeah, I totally agree. There are two things.

One is candidates should look to Glenn Youngkin, who did very well in terms of bringing in the Trump voters and the non-Trump voters by talking policy, policies that really mattered to people. In that case, it was largely about the schools, but it was other issues as well. And secondly, you know, again, Trump in D.C. recently talked policy. And what was his number one theme?

It was crime. And I think he's totally right. I think that's where the country is. I think if candidates go out and talk about public safety, the fact that these Democrat-run cities and towns have basically abandoned their concern for the average citizen, that is a powerful and unifying message. Who doesn't want their streets to be safe and their kids to be safe on their way to school?

That's what these people should be talking about. Not Donald Trump, not the 2020 election. Let's talk policy that people actually care about, inflation and crime. And Liz, one of the things I love and what you did in your column, and I get blowback all the time whenever I mention polling data, but when you pointed out the fundraising data, that speaks volumes here, and the reality is Republicans are trailing significantly behind the Democrats on this. Yeah, this is really not good, and I understand why people are very skeptical of the polls ever since 2016.

They sort of take those with a grain of salt. And I get that, you know, when every poll showed Hillary Clinton walking away with a win. But fundraising is a different matter. That's voting with your feet and your heart and your purse. You know, Republicans in the second quarter saw their online donations go down 12%.

Boy, is that not the norm as you're heading towards an election. And by the way, Democrats saw their fundraising go up 21%. How can that possibly be when the Democrat party looks to be in total disarray? Their figurehead, Joe Biden, has the worst approval ratings of any American in history. I mean, it's pretty hard to figure where that's coming from.

But here's one answer. And this probably doesn't really speak to the online campaign donations, because that mostly is medium income people, it's not high enders, but it's the high enders that are really backing Democrats. I mean, there has been a fundamental shift in who backs Democrats these days. And Republicans are making headway in all the counties and districts where average homeowners are in the average sort of belt in terms of income, that there's been a real shift. And Donald Trump did that.

So in terms of total money, it may well be that Democrats end up ahead, but the online thing is worrisome because that's kind of like real people. Liz, we're going to leave it there, folks. We've got a link to her column over on our website. Appreciate the intel and have a great vacation. Yeah, thank you so much.

And thanks for having me on. Glad to do it. All right, Liz, speak, everybody. All right, got to take a break here. 844-747-8868, toll-free telephone number 844-747-8868.

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So the Freedom From Religion Foundation, they're back at it again. That's the gang of atheists and agnostics out of Wisconsin. Just a nasty, nasty bunch of people. Godless heathens. Yeah, I know that's an oxymoron.

Anyway, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, they say they got a complaint from a grade school in Lawrence County, Alabama, Moulton Elementary School. They say that a first-grade teacher gave children a religious-themed coloring book that depicted Jesus along with a Bible verse telling children that Jesus is alive.

Now, let me explain some context here. The coloring books were given to children around Easter time. According to Alabama state law, teachers are allowed to instruct children on religious holidays and other holidays from Cinco de Mayo to Kwanzaa to Christmas to Easter.

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Got to read the report there on ToddStearns.com. This item from the Daily Wire, an airline passenger has been fined big money after he was caught trying to smuggle McDonald's food in the airport. grace baker this is fascinating um it happened in australia at darwin airport not sure i want to go to that airport no definitely not a dog in australia's darwin airport responded to a passenger's backpack i'm sure he smelled that a mile away the per well you can kind of smell that you know it's like the big mac it has an odor it has an odor about it. For better or for worse. The person had traveled to Australia from Indonesia with what appeared to be McDonald's pancakes, two egg and beef sausage McMuffins, and a ham croissant.

Gotta have snacks for the road.

Okay, why don't you write it? These writers, I don't get it. It's called a sausage McMuffin. It's not an egg and beef sausage McMuffin. It's a sausage McMuffin.

Come on, get with the lingo. And a ham croissant. Do they still do that? I haven't. This isn't on show yet.

Okay, they do things weird.

So it might have some different menu items.

So anyway, the guy was charged with undeclared meat. That's what he was charged with.

Well, I do have questions about, you know, if it's actually meat or not. You see, that's where I would raise the objection.

Well, who's to say it's actually meat? We don't know. We've never, we do not know. There's been a lot of investigations into it. The mystery meet.

The unidentified man was hit with a staggering $2,664 fine. That's about $1,845 in U.S. dollars, in U.S. currency. Nice.

He failed to declare what was potentially a biosecurity risk. How is that a security risk? I guess if it goes off in the, like the smell, I don't know. Or if it's after the fact. After consumption, maybe then you have the biosecurity risk.

That's a good point.

Well, the dog sniffed that one out. You know, for you people in the Atlanta area, you will know this. If you've been to the Atlanta airport, there's a varsity hot dog joint in the airport. There are two of them, actually. Wow.

And I'm fairly certain you don't want to get on board a long-haul flight after eating a chili slaw dog from the varsity. No, that's probably not a good idea. Just pointing that out. Murray Watt, Australia's Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry, cheered the bust, said he had no sympathy for the man who was fined.

So why? It's just a hamburger or a hot dog or whatever it was. Yep, from McDonald's. I mean, again, if you're going to smuggle some food, at least do Chick-fil-A or something. Quote, biosecurity is no joke.

I think Australia's a joke. I think so, and I think they've got apparently nothing better to do. No one has guns anymore, right? That's what it is. Right.

So now they're going after Egg McMuffins. Yeah, they got to go after something. You know, I always get stopped.

Well, not anymore.

So now that I moved back home, back when I was in New York City, I would get stopped every second. And I have a level of security at the airport. It's called Clear, where they scan your eyes, and that's it. And you're good to go. Is it your eyes or your thumb?

I can't remember which one. But anyway, they scan you and you walk through. That's it. Boom, you're gone. You're done.

And so anyway, but I would still get pulled over even when I did that.

Well, then what's the point of having it? Exactly.

So anyway, now that I move back home, I go up to the desk and I travel enough to where the ticket agents know me by name and the TSA agents do as well. But they still, you know, you still have to show your ID and everything. And they still search you, the TSA. No, but they don't do the special pat-down. Oh, good.

I mean, in New York City, it was just like you wanted to call, you know, law and order CSI. I mean, you felt like you were the victim of a crime. I mean, they were touching some inappropriate areas. Had to put the fear of God in you before you even got on the plane.

Well, a couple of times I was singing the high notes on Amazing Grace. I mean, that's, it's difficult. But, yeah, you know, but again, you know, it's hard. I mean, if you're a TSA agent, people just don't like you.

So I guess I have to imagine it would be hard to get dates.

So the only action they're getting is at the airport. Oh, gosh, Todd. You had to take it there. I'm just saying. I mean, maybe that explains it.

I don't know. But in all honesty, the least you could do is make sure your hands are warm. Seriously, if you're going to do that, you may as well at least make sure your hands are warm. That's all I'm saying. As they're patting you down, hey, honey, can I get your number?

They don't even ask for the number. You don't get flowers. You don't even get a cigarette. Please take me out to dinner first. I don't smoke.

You got nothing. Not even an Egg McMuffin. Man. Not even an Egg McMuffin, Grace. All right, folks.

Coming up a little bit later, our good buddy Guy Reschenthaler. He's the congressman from Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, very concerned about what's going on with Hunter Biden and Nancy Pelosi. We're going to get into that in the next hour of the program as well. Wow.

You know what? I'm nervous because I got to go through the TSA checkpoint Friday. I should have thought about that. All right.

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Noon to 3 Eastern, ladies and gentlemen. A great, great hour coming your way. Things are not looking good right now over in China. The headline from FoxNews.com, Red Fury, China enraged after Pelosi lands in Taiwan promises all necessary measures to defend itself. We understand now four U.S.

warships are positioned east of Taiwan during Pelosi's visit. The White House seems to be very upset about all of this. And a lot of people are pretty nervous about what's about to happen next. I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Honored to have with us our good friend, Congressman Guy Rushenthaler.

Congressman, welcome back to the program. Todd, thanks for having me on. I always enjoy it. All right, Congressman, let's get to this. What's your take on, first of all, Pelosi going to visit Taiwan and the reaction from China?

Well, I think that the speaker should be commended for not backing down in the face of Chinese threats and Chinese aggression. Remember, if she were to have not gone like the White House wanted and like the Pentagon wanted, we would have looked very weak as a nation. And no foreign country should dictate to members of Congress, especially the Speaker of the House, which countries they can and cannot visit.

So I think she should be commended for going and not backing down. I think that Joe Biden, his administration, the Pentagon, top military brass, should be viewed with some skepticism that they were trying to undermine a member of Congress who was going to Taiwan. Also, the statements from Kirby, you know, I think Kirby is like our version of Baghdad Bob, the Pentagon spokesperson. When Kirby is sitting there saying that we recognize Communist China, not the Taiwanese government, that's a problem. We need to end the ambiguity.

We need to end this one China policy and start viewing Taiwan correctly as a free and independent nation. I'm with you on that. And that bothered me to hear Kirby yesterday from the White House platform say that we have no interest. We're not interested in an independent Taiwan. I think that especially sends a terrible message when you're sending Nancy Pelosi is heading over there.

Well, especially that it's spoken from an admiral. I know he's in the press corps, but he was a former admiral nonetheless. Taiwan, think of it from a military point of view, a Navy point of view, as an unsinkable aircraft carrier. It's incredibly important in what we call the first island chain. And that's why Taiwan has gone back and forth numerous times between powers.

China's claim over it is very weak. Just the fact that Chiang Kai-shek's army retreated to Taiwan does not give Communist China the right to claim Taiwan before that as a Japanese colony. I believe the Dutch had it as a colony before that. And the original inhabitants of Taiwan were actually much more similar to the Polynesians that are out in the South Pacific and Hawaii, etc., than they are with mainland China. It's an interesting history.

I know because I was there in 2019. I went on a visit myself. Congressman, why are the Chinese so enraged that Pelosi is making a visit? But it's the first time, I think, since Newt Gingrich back in the 1990s, a high-level American official has gone there. But why the outrage?

Well, the outrage, first off, they are emboldened to be outraged because Biden is so weak. They view Biden in the United States now as a paper tiger, largely because our failure in Afghanistan, our failure to get the Ukraine war under control, and the chaos we have at home, particularly on the southern border.

So the weakness that you see from Biden and Democrats really invites the aggression from China. That's number one. Number two, I truly believe that communist China is getting ready to invade Taiwan in the midterm. in the fact that they have Nancy Pelosi going over, the Speaker of the House, gives Taiwan a lot of diplomatic credit in the free world.

So, of course, they're going to be outraged. But we should not back down in the face of that aggression. It was the right thing for the Speaker to continue on our trip. And Joe Biden, Kirby, the Pentagon, they are the ones that are at fault for mishandling this. Congressman Guy Rushenthaler on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker Line.

Congressman, I was reading a piece by Thomas Friedman over at the New York Times, and he's very concerned about what's happening with China and Taiwan. Buried in that story, though, was probably a much larger story in that the Biden administration has apparently grave concerns working with Zelensky over in Ukraine, now acknowledging all the concerns we've had from day one about the corruption and how the money is being used over there. Right.

As far as Thomas Friedman goes, you know, it's rich coming from this so-called foreign policy expert. Thomas Friedman, much like Biden, has been wrong on all foreign policy issues for the last 20 years. Remember, if you go back and read the Lexus and the olive tree and all the projections he made, they were all none of them came true. In fact, quite the opposite happened. He was also incredibly wrong with Trump's position vis-a-vis the Israelis and the Arabs.

We actually got the Abraham Accords done under President Trump, despite what Friedman was saying. There's a list of examples.

So I don't really take Friedman that seriously. The mainstream media and liberals can, but anybody that studies foreign policy knows his record is absolute garbage. As far as Ukraine, the issue with Ukraine is not what we're doing now. The issue is really what we didn't do in the buildup to Russian aggression. Had we been very clear, we may have been able to stop the Russians from going in.

Remember when Biden said he could tolerate a quote-unquote minor incursion? That just whetted Putin's appetite. And the fact that we didn't get the MiG-22s, they're still not there. The fact that we didn't get military arms sooner has led to this.

So I wish we would have been a lot more bold in the lead up to the war. We probably could have prevented this. But you know what? We're paying the price here at home, Todd, with the gas prices, which, yes, a lot of it is due to Ukraine. A lot of it is just bad energy policy.

but who really is going to pay the price are developing countries, especially Africa, when you have grain shortages because all the disruptions in Ukraine.

So again, the American left, because of their inadequacies and their mistakes, the people that pay the price are working class Americans and members of the developing world in places like Africa. You see, I think the average American, though, at this juncture, you know, they're watching Zelensky doing the photo shoots with Annie Leibovitz. they're watching the Cannes Film Festival appearances, they're seeing the music festivals coming out where people are just appearing to have a good time and going on with life as normal, and then we are being forced as taxpayers to foot more than $8 billion of the bill, and I don't see an end to this coming anytime soon. No, and that's why I remember early on, I was on your program talking about the need to have a no-fly zone, And a lot of people thought that that was a little bit too aggressive. But the no-fly zone would have brought an end to this war incredibly quickly, and it would have allowed the Ukrainians to expel the Russians.

But because we're always doing things too late and to a lesser extent that we need to, much like we did in Vietnam where McNamara was trying to ratchet up slowly, that's not the American way. The American way is for deterrence and for overwhelming force that you saw from Schwarzkopf in the first Gulf War and the policy that Colin Powell later adopted We have abandoned those principles and now we showing weakness and vacillation and incrementalism in war, and that's never, never good.

Now, as far as the cause celeb about Ukraine, I want to, I'm going to look back when communist China invades Taiwan and see if everybody is virtue signaling for Taiwan. I hope they are, but it seems quite amazing that the American left picks and chooses which democracies they want to support. Conservatives like myself have been incredibly consistent that we support free nations like Taiwan, Ukraine, etc. in the face of aggression. The Democrats pick and choose their outrage and who they want to support.

No, I hear you on that, Congressman. But again, I step back and I see the Biden administration, and they want to make sure every Ukrainian is armed and that their border is secure.

Meanwhile, back home, our border is open, and they're trying to take everybody's guns away. It's a lot of mixed messaging going on.

Well, let me rephrase. I don't want to have an open pocketbook, an open checkbook toward Ukraine. If we're going to get involved, we should get involved by ratcheting up a no-fly zone, by getting the MiGs, and actually giving the Ukrainians the ability to win this war. And if that means we institute a no-fly zone, then maybe we should. It should mean that we're jamming the Russian equipment.

But we have chosen a path that is the worst path. We had three options. One, do nothing, and the war would have been over quickly. to have the no-fly zone and increase military pressure, which would have brought an end to the war quickly, or three, which was the worst option, which is to kind of do everything halfway, which is what we're doing now, and that's leading to increased misery, both human suffering and economic pain throughout the world. But the fact that our southern border is in chaos, it's not an either-or choice.

We can provide more military assistance to Ukraine and defend the southern border. It's not an either or. We're the most powerful nation in the world. We should be defending and protecting our southern border. Yes, it's hypocritical that liberals are upset about the border in Ukraine, but they care nothing about the southern border.

It's hypocritical, but it's a false choice to say it's one or the other. All right, Congressman, we're going to leave it there. Good stuff, as always. Appreciate your time this afternoon. Thank you, Todd.

Take care. All right, Congressman Guy Reschenthaler from Pennsylvania. What say you, ladies and gentlemen, should we stay involved in Ukraine? Should we go ahead and implement the no-fly zone? By the way, if that happens, the Russians are pretty much going to fight back at that point.

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Welcome to Woke America, ladies and gentlemen. The young people, if they plan on, if they want to be on the high school volleyball team or the football team or the baseball team or the girls softball team, they're going to have to submit some sort of an affidavit, an official government document stating that Larry is Larry and Marge is Marge. No, this is where we are in America right now, people. The requirement comes after Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed the Save Women's Sports Act into law last March. Designate sports teams are based on, get this, and I know this is going to trigger some people, but your sports teams are actually based on the athlete's biological sex.

In other words, if you're going to be on the girls' team, there better be some girl parts somewhere on you, and vice versa. What I find interesting is the requirement applies from kindergarten through college.

Now, the reason that's interesting is that some of these teams, especially like if you're in grade school, the little girls will play on the baseball team or something like that. I don't have a problem with that. That's sort of normal. It was in the Bad News Bears. Remember that?

The what? The Bad News Bears. Grace, please. Bernstein Bears? No, the Bad News Bears.

And it's the original, which was a hilarious sports movie.

Okay. The remakes are just not good. Bad News Bears. Bad News Bears. I'm adding it to my list.

Ah, 1976. The year my parents were born. Is that right? Yes. Oh, wow.

That's back in the day. Back in the day. Geez, Lou. I just feel very old right now. I was just going to say that I play on a co-ed soccer team, girls and guys.

Did you? I do. Do you now? Yes, I do now.

Well, there's nothing. That's co-ed. Co-ed. It's not like you've got a... That's what I'm saying.

It's not like I'm on a men's team, like saying I'm a dude. I want to... You know what? I'm happy to have this debate when you've got girls that are showing up as linebackers for the football team. Yeah, no, sorry.

I don't want to mess up. Uh-uh. Not messing up my face. Or your nails. I was going to say that.

But, you know, I play basketball, and that's not an issue. That's what gets me.

Okay, girls, you want to be treated equally? Great. All right, there you go. Grab a spot on the line. No, thanks.

I don't want to get beat up. Oh, they won't do that.

Well, the men are stronger than me. That's the problem. Oh, don't tell the feminances that. I can trade twice as hard and long as a guy and still beat me up. When it comes to sports and athletics, girls should compete against girls.

Boys should compete against boys. What a novel idea. The governor said. And let's be very clear, that's all this bill says. Sad that you need a piece of legislation to codify common sense.

Yep. And you can't fix stupid or codify it. Erin Mattson, the executive director at the abortion and reproductive rights organization ReproAction. What the heck kind of a name is that? Very upset.

Do you understand what is happening? This has nothing to do with encouraging girls to be athletes. This is totalitarianism. It is the white nationalist agenda. Where did they get that from?

The anti-LGBTQ agenda. The anti-abortion agenda. It is all the same agenda. Ginger Knight, the superintendent at Woodall Public Schools, confirmed to NBC News that state law requires districts to have students complete the forum if they want to participate in sports.

Well, do you have a problem with that, ladies and gentlemen? Quite frankly, I think this solves a lot of issues. You've got to declare, you've got to swear, you have to affirm that you will be competing on a team with the plumbing that the good Lord gave you.

So I say good for you, Oklahoma. Again, it's unfortunate that we've got to deal with this, but this is the reality of where we are in America right now. From the Christian Post, the Southern Baptist Convention embroiled in turmoil.

Well, and the sun is hot. What else do you want me to say here? The Southern Baptist Convention now having to clarify the meaning of pastor, So apparently a bunch of these liberal woke churches like Saddleback Church, that's Rick Warren's church, they're now ordaining women preachers. And that's apparently a big no-no in the Southern Baptist Convention. And you've got all these, well, these are very familiar names in the religious liberty world, but they're signing on to a document stating that the pastor, that only men can be pastors.

Women cannot be pastors in Baptist churches. Again, I guess everything's up for what? There's no such thing as a set definition. Words change. That's what this is all about.

I feel bad for the Southern Baptist Convention. They've gone woke to the left, and it's an ugly thing that's happening right now. I told somebody the other day that I would rather be engaged in secular political politics. I think that's more godly than what's happening in the church politics. Jeez-a-loo.

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Chinese fighter jets have crossed the Taiwan Straits. Those are the latest headlines. Nobody's shooting at anybody just yet, but what a mess, ladies and gentlemen. What a mess over there. 844-747-8868.

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So I want to go back to this story about President Trump and Fox News Channel. And there's a lot of back and forth that's being played out now. Newsmax seems to have the inside scoop. And I do know for a fact they've got a number of former Fox News employees who now work for Newsmax. who are helping to spill the beans on what's going on over there.

Not everything is as it appears, and that's the concern, all right? Because a lot of times you would think that the most conservative people over there are in fact conservative, and it's not the case.

So there's a lot of angst right now among Fox News viewers who say, you know what, we're watching what's happening, and we just don't believe that Fox wants Donald Trump to run for office again in 2024. And I think they're absolutely correct. When you look at what's happening at Fox, the owners of Fox News, that would be Rupert Murdoch, his two boys, his children, and they're running the show. Clearly, they don't want Trump to run for office, and they're using their platforms. to make sure that doesn't happen.

That's why you had the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post turn on Trump. But that's not going to make as much of an impact as Fox News turning on Trump, which has been happening for quite some time. They have been very intentional about changing the focus and the direction of what's happening at Fox. It has not happened overnight. It's very slow, very methodical.

If you're a longtime regular Fox News viewer, you caught on pretty quickly. But now the pot is boiling, and a lot of those Fox viewers who did not see this happening seem surprised. Don't be surprised, ladies and gentlemen. Do not be surprised. Let's go to the phones here.

844-747-8868. Teresa listening to us on KWAM, our flagship station. Hi, Teresa. What's on your mind today? Hey, Todd.

And I got on the horn and started calling a lot of my conservative friends when you were making statements about how the Democrats are showing up for early voting, but the Republicans are not. And the general consensus of the six people that I spoke with is a lot of people waiting to vote on the fourth. They've lost faith in the early voting process, and they want to make sure that their vote counts.

So I think we'll know on August 5th if that indeed occurred. No, we will one way or the other, Teresa. I will tell you this, that the Republican leadership, and I've spoken to a number of them, on both sides of the establishment Republicans and the conservatives that are running, and everybody is very concerned that the numbers were not as high as they were anticipating. I think the latest numbers I saw earlier today, Teresa, 20,000 more Democrats voted than Republicans.

Now, it's not a shock that more Democrats vote early than Republicans. That's normal. I think it was the size and the gap there that's got people nervous.

Well, I'm going to pray, and I think I know I'm showing up on the 4th, and we'll just see what happens. But that was the consensus. Teresa, do you think that is the motivating factor here as opposed to candidates? Everyone of all six that I spoke to all said they do not trust the early voting process. And so I can say yes 100% from those that I spoke with.

Interesting. I myself am in Fayette County, but I will be voting on the fourth. Good for you. Good for you. And I suspect a lot of people will.

I will say this. I was somewhat encouraged on Friday and Saturday for early voting where there were long lines reported. And we're getting reports out of Arizona that looks like there's going to be a big turnout today in the primary election there, which is, again, a good sign. But, Teresa, I think we just have to light a fire under Republicans and let everybody know that we've got too much at stake here to stay home. I agree.

I agree, Todd. Love your show. Thanks, Teresa. All right, that's Teresa in Collierville, Tennessee. If you haven't been to Collierville, you've got to go downtown.

It's a quintessential downtown, beautiful park, the big trees and the old stores and the shops and great restaurants. Grace, there's a hamburger place. It always goes back to food with us, doesn't it? This is true. There's a hamburger place down there called Dyer's Hamburgers.

Have you heard about Dyer's? I've heard about it, but I've actually never been in there. You were born and raised here. I know. I think every child after they're born and can actually start eating meat goes to Dyer's.

Wow, I guess I'm just behind. I was deprived. I was homeschooled. Did your parents love you? I was homeschooled.

Oh, well, all right. That explains it. I'm just kidding. Oh, wow. I'm going to get in trouble.

I'm going to get a call after the show.

So this is what is crazy about Dyer's. They have a restaurant on Beale Street in downtown, and then they have one in Collierville on the Square.

So here's what's amazing. They've been grilling burgers at Dyer's since 1912. That's impressive. No, no, no. You know what's really impressive?

What? They're using the same grease. Wait, what? Yeah. Is that sanitary?

Of course it is, and it's delicious.

So I don't know how they do it. But anyway, so the original owner, a guy named Doc Dyer, Elmer Dyer, he sold the business in the 1930s. And they continued to use the same cooking grease.

So, and they actually, when they have to transport the grease from one location to another, they do it with a police escort. That's serious business. It is big time, big time.

So anyway, it's just a fascinating story, but great burgers right there. And not very healthy, but very delicious. Oftentimes, great food's not the healthiest. No, exactly. Exactly.

So there you go. What are you going to do? All right.

So that's it. 1912, they've been grilling burgers. You never know. And then now you know. All right.

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Click the banner to get your Galaxy Z Flip 4. All right, so Dick Morris, who, by the way, is an advisor to President Trump, was on Newsmax last night. And Dick Morris says that Fox News is doing everything it can to create a GOP primary fight. They want somebody to run against Donald Trump. By the way, Morris has a new book out called The Return, Trump's Big 2024 Comeback.

He says that Fox News is moving from conservative leaning to liberal oriented. Quote, they've censored, they switched Fox News from Republican to Democrat, and now they're basically Newsmax is the only organ that's covering Trump. In the meantime, Fox is doing everything it can to promote DeSantis. He's on the air all the time. They say nice things about him.

Trump hasn't been on the air for three and a half months, and this is because the Democrats are scared to death of Trump, and they know they have to try and beat him in the primary. Dick Morris likened the circumstances to the 1980 Democratic Party primary when then-Senator Ted Kennedy challenged incumbent President Jimmy Carter. The bitter campaign resulted in a 51% to 41% victory for Ronald Reagan in the general election. It was, by the way, it was the most lopsided electoral college win in American history, 489-49. And that's what they want to do to Trump, Morris says.

As to why Fox News is playing ball with them, that's more complicated. Morris says that there is a vendetta going on. That Rupert Murdoch, his little boys, Jimmy and Lachlan, quote, I think it relates to a desire for social acceptance. I think they want to go to the cocktail parties. I think they're tired of being ostracized as the odd man out in the news industry.

And that's true. And this was the great thing about Roger Ailes. He didn't care. As a matter of fact, when I was at Fox News, we would never enter the competitions. We wouldn't do any of that stuff.

And why is that? Because Roger knew how those people thought and how those people behaved. dick morris goes on the ostracism is in the hamptons it's on nantucket and all of the places the rich and famous congregate and he murdoch is determined to overcome that he's determined to make fox news like cnn until that vacant space that cnn is more or less vacated by its low ratings by the way you've got the new head of cnn chris lick coming out and trying to make overtures to all of you conservatives out there saying, hey, look, we want to do whatever we can. We want to be better. We want to do a better job of covering conservatives at CNN.

Well, I don't believe that for one minute. And you shouldn't either, ladies and gentlemen.

So anyway, last night on Eric Bolling's show on Newsmax, they had the New York Times reporter who's got the inside scoop here. And it's sort of a, it's an open secret in Washington that Tucker loves to pal around with all these left-wing reporters. And look, I agree with what Tucker is saying on his show, but the question is whether or not Tucker actually believes what he's saying. And the New York Times is saying that's just not the case at all. Cut number six.

You know these people, you know what's going on behind the scenes. Tucker may want to run for president. And all this nonsense of Trump Tucker or Tucker Trump 24, neither one of those guys would stick around to be the vice president. Both would want to be the president. And right now, I can imagine Tucker doing it even though he's laughing hysterically next to Trump.

I wish we had that picture here. I thought we might, but laughing hysterically next to Trump. I'm trying to figure it out, Jeremy. Final thought. No, I think you're exactly right.

I mean, I think there are a lot of people, Eric, who snicker behind Trump's back, who say that they support him publicly and they like his ideas and they like him. But privately, it's a different story. And that, to me, it's the ultimate fallacy of the conservative media is there are an awful lot of these people who pretend like they are Trump. supporters for their audience yeah well don't do it jeremy my friend don't lump us all into the conservative media because i'm not saying you i'm not saying you but great you know what i mean you know these people i do know i do know and and what what what tucker does never never ceases to surprise me and eric's eric's telling the truth here folks this is eric bowling and jeremy peters by the way is the new york times reporter who wrote this piece and it is there the people are now starting to their eyes are starting to open and they're starting to see fox for what it really is and unfortunately they booted a lot of true conservatives and now they have a lot of make believe conservatives i'm not saying tucker carlson is a make-believe conservative i think tucker carlson is a libertarian and again nothing wrong with that but anyway um peters goes on to say in this conversation well cut number seven play that please so let me let me let me throw this to you you know the piece came out on saturday that i saw and then on sunday yesterday i saw a lot of pictures floating around the internet uh of trump and tucker carlson kind of yucking it up a little bit in the trump box i i'm trying to i'm trying to square the circle here where is it that tucker uh you know let me ask you this i'll be i'll be straight is this the first step of the Tucker for president move and Tucker stabbing the Trump MAGA voters and Trump himself in the back?

So, Eric, I think you know as well as I do that Tucker in private, what he says about Trump is very different than what he says about Trump in public. And it benefits him to be seen having photos taken with Trump at the golf course and everything, I think I would not be surprised at all to see Tucker. I quoted him in my book. He said, I am voting for Kanye West. This is in 2020.

So but he didn't vote for Trump as far as we know. I mean, I don't know. I wasn't there with him in the ballot box. But we know that Tucker Carlson is one of these people who benefits from having the Trump audience on his side, but thinks very little of the people who make up that audience. There's no way Tucker Carlson is running for president.

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