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It is the Todd Starring Show. Jeff Kat, so happy to be sitting in for my dear friend Todd from the Liberty University Studios.

Now, We have so much that we're going to deal with as we head through the next couple of moments. I don't even have. I don't even have the uh Wherewithal to describe all of the amazing people dropping by. They include Gretor Van Soestren, Liz Peake, a number of members of Congress, the smartest lawyer on God's green earth. But we have to start with the man himself, and he is.

Well, like most of us, concerned gravely about what happened to Congressman Lee Zeldin up in New York, and that is Todd Starnes. Todd, thank you for being here. Jeff, good morning from the West Coast. Here in Salem, Oregon, getting ready for our big event later today with our great affiliate here, KYKN. And appreciate you letting me drop in on the show today.

Well, it is called the Todd Starnes Show. It's very difficult to keep Todd Starnes away from that. You sound great even though you are in Oregon and I was following your adventures, man. It looked like you could have walked there faster, huh? Yeah, it took 22 hours to get here, but finally arrived about 1.30, 2 o'clock in the morning.

And got a good night's rest. The folks at KYKN are just the consummate. Hospitality gurus put me up in a beautiful hotel. Went on a little walking tour of downtown Salem this morning, and I was in search of a good biscuit. Um yeah.

And so far I'm no Antifa sightings. All right, now I know we have to talk about Lee Zeldin, but do you mind if I take ten seconds here and say, as a Southern gentleman by choice, not by birth, as fortunate as you were, but I got here as quickly as I could. I'm looking at the tea and the biscuit and psh. I don't know. What were your thoughts?

Oh. The IT was wonderful.

Okay. All right, let's leave it at that. Yeah. Great food, but they they're really big on German German sausage here, and uh it was pretty incredible to have some of that for breakfast.

So, having a great time here. And I will say this: they've already told me, and by the way, folks. Tickets are available for the big Podstars barbecue tonight, but they're going to be serving up something called Santa Monica style trip. Try zip. And Ugh.

Todd, that is such a unique form of barbecue. Oh my gosh. Look, I was envious before, but man. I would tell you to get on hop on a plane and come out here, but it'll be next week before you get here. No, I'm just going to look forward to hearing your description and your reviews.

Post a couple of photos on Facebook and get her, and my gosh, it'll be great. All right. You know, you and I, I think, are both concerned with the rise of the violent leftists. The leftists now just have decided the laws don't apply to them. And we just saw Congressman Lee Zeldin up in New York running for governor.

The crazed leftists tried to murder him. Yes, and he was let out of jail without any bond having to be posted at all. And that's because of New York State's laws regarding that. There you have a man who tried to Assassinate. a sitting United States Congressman running for governor And he was literally let out of jail on a felony charge.

I mean, it's not like he wasn't charged, he was charged with a felony. But under New York's laws, Governing bonds, he was let go. They had to let him go. And Jeff, I don't know if you've seen the video. We have it up on our website.

It was very clear to me that he was going for the carotid artery. I mean, you can see the arm, you can see the hand and where it was going. Um and now we understand that uh It was some sort of um What uh some sort of a device that he had on his hands that had uh sharp edges to it.

So he was basically going to try to slice the guy's neck open. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Now, thankfully, Lee Zeldin, you know, he's a veteran. He's a tough guy.

He was actually able to fend off the attacker. But, Todd, you think about this, and again, folks have to go to ToddStarnes.com, take a look at the video. This depraved, disgusting person is back out on the streets. God only knows what he's planning for today. And that's a great point.

And this has been the argument from so many people in New York City where you can literally go and crack. crack somebody over the head with a baseball bat and you will not sit in jail. You will be given a summons to show up, and that's because of these leftist laws that have been placed on the books. And the reason for these laws, again, the argument was, well, a lot of the criminals don't have a lot of money, so they can't post bail, so you have to be fair to the criminals. And that's why they're letting them out.

But again, what gets me are the number of people in the media and the Democrat Party who seem to think it's perfectly okay to go out there and try to assault conservative lawmakers or Supreme Court justices. That's what concerns me here. It it's a grave concern time. There's absolutely no respect for law on the part of the leftist. And some of them are living in an imaginary world anyway.

AOC with the mock handcuffs the other day. I mean, it's just insanity.

Well, it is insanity, Jeff Katz. But again, thank goodness that Congressman Zeldom was able to fend off the attacker. You had a couple of military veterans who jumped into the fray, and his running mate. She is a retired New York City police officer, and she jumped in, and she was able to help stave off this attacker as well. I mean, this could have been a very, very bad situation.

My recommendation is that any Republican running for anything should have some sort of security around them. in the event, God forbid, something like this happens again. That's so true. You see so many of the elected officials who want to be close to the people. They want to help out their constituents.

But my gosh, in this day and age, you've got to be on guard for these crazed, depraved individuals. And again, in New York, Todd, they just they get off. I mean, they let go. It's crazy. And Jeff, and that's the word, that's the phrase we need to pay attention to, crazed.

They're saying this guy was some sort of a lunatic.

Okay, well, why was he let out on the streets? I mean, if he is in fact a lunatic or a crazy person, Why is he in a hospital, incarcerated? uh to protect the public at large and quite frankly to protect mister Zeldin. I do think that the federal, the Justice Department needs to step in here. This was an attack.

on a duly elected member of Congress, and that just cannot stand. Absolutely. Absolutely. There ought to be a federal investigation, federal involvement. What do you think Kathy Hochl's responsibility is for this, Todd?

Well, she's the governor of the state, and so what she needs to do is step in. and do something about these laws. We've got to get these laws off the books. Which again is why Lee Zeldon is running for governor because she's not going to do that. The Democrats are on the side of the criminal.

In America. And that's why Lee Zeldon is running. He's leaving his safe seat in Congress. to run for governor of the state of of New York. Yeah.

Well, listen, I wish him well. I wish you well as well, Todd. You want to give everybody the details? Because you said there's still tickets available for the Todd Starnes barbecue. Yes, but we're going to have a couple of hundred folks out there tonight.

Adams Ribs Smokehouse is the is going to be preparing the and it's my understanding, it's the best barbecue joint in the entire state of Oregon. And they're going to be there. The beloved Cheesecake group is going to be here. It's going to be a lot of fun, a lot of great food, a lot of great laughter. And we want folks to come out and say hello and drop by, kykn.com.

That's our local affiliate in Salem. And they have all the details there. And it's a family friendly event.

So bring the wife, the kids, the whole crew. I love it, Todd. Have great fun out there. I'm looking forward to hearing all about it, seeing the photos. And as always, keep doing what you're doing.

You're fighting for the right causes, my friend. Have fun today, Jeff. Thank you, sir. That is Todd Starnes, and he's right here on his own program, Todd Starnes. Yes, by the way, if you haven't gone to ToddStarnes.com yet, please do that.

Because one of the things I want us to address, as I am fortunate enough to be sitting in for Todd today, is this brutal attack on New York Congressman Lee Zeldon. This is insanity.

Well, you know, I say insanity, and I think, no, wait a minute, that's a legal term. That means somebody doesn't know right from wrong. This guy, in my opinion, I'm not using any names. I'm not going to, no, I'm not going to give him any degree of celebrity. But this.

Person who attacked Lee Zeldon. And it was clear. Again, go to ToddStarns.com, look at the video. This guy, I believe, was trying to slice Congressman Zeldon's head off. I really do.

That's what this attack was. And how can you look at this? How brutal this is, how disgusting this is, how vile this is, and you arrest him. You charge him with a felony and then? You turn around and say, okay.

Hey! Grab yourself some lunch here. Take this note that says you'll be back, okay? Right? No, we know.

Of course, we trust you. How can we not? You're such an impeccable paragon of virtue and responsibility. Never mind trying to murder a sitting congressman, trying to assassinate somebody who is in Congress today and running to be governor of the state of New York.

Well, what can I tell you?

Now, a couple of things I have to tell you. I've mentioned ToddStarnes.com. Again, I urge you to head on over to ToddStarnes.com. This is one of the issues we'll chat about with Joe Moreno in about 20 minutes or so. Joe Moreno, in my opinion, the smartest lawyer on God's Green Earth, former U.S.

Attorney, counsel to the FBI, admitted to practice law here in the United States and in England and Wales, and a heroic veteran of the United States Army, still serving as a reserve officer, the JAG, the Judge Advocate General Court. He's just brilliant. And I want to chat with him. And he is a native New Yorker.

Now, I don't hold that against him because he, like me, got south of the Mason-Dixon line as quickly as he could.

So we'll chat with him. And I want to remind everybody: we've got some brand new listeners, Cool 1540, WYCL out in Youngstown, Ohio. Oh my gosh, welcome aboard.

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I want to know what's going on with this January 6th miniseries. This thing is out of control. And every time it seems like they have a special guest star, I'm still waiting for Jesse Smollett to make an appearance because I don't think there's any credibility in any of the folks they've called. And I look at the people who are on that committee, and you know what the real agenda is, right? The real agenda, and I think Liz Cheney, soon-to-be former congresswoman from Wyoming, I think she actually let it slip that the real.

The purpose of this whole kangaroo court is to keep former President Trump from running again. And you can see how the Democrats are maneuvering right now. Make no mistake. The Slowbo Joe, Joe Biden, and the COVID situation. It's going to give some Democrats a real easy out, isn't it?

It's going to allow them to say, oh, you know what? We're kind of done. We're going to move on. We're going to do this. And all the bad things that happened, all the suffering that's been inflicted on the American people, they're going to be able to say, oh, no, no, no, no, you know, that was all Biden.

That's not us. Oh, we've got this whole block. Oh, God, these people just make me sick. They really do, but. We are going to be chatting about that in just a couple of moments.

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Now, The Supreme Court has, well, they've been very active. We've seen some really, really important decisions come down. A decision, if I understand it correctly, just coming down recently, last. Few hours. Supreme Court Justices Katanji Brown Jackson, the newest member of the court, voting on this.

And I just wanted to get some insight in that. And also, if there are any legal standards at all for these January 6th hearings, well, if I'm looking for legal insight, I know exactly who to go to. He is, as I describe him, the smartest lawyer on God's green earth. I could run down his resume, a former U.S. attorney, counsel to the FBI.

Practice that goes back for decades, distinguished service in the United States Army, admitted to practice law. If I recall, England and Wales. I don't know why Scotland's not letting him do it, but Joe Moreno is his name. And I'm thrilled to say that Joe is joining us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line on the Todd Starnes program. Joe, thanks for being here.

Jeff, my friend, always a pleasure to be on with you. Oh, my gosh, it's wonderful to hear your voice.

Now, before we dive into all this important stuff, England and Wales said, yeah, Moreno can come here, put on the wig, put on the robe and practice.

So what's the deal with Scotland? How come they're not letting you do it? Yeah, no love from the Scots, right? I mean, I don't know what's going on over there. I obviously should spend some more time in the UK and make myself known.

Yeah, that's what you're going to have to do. Yeah. Yeah. All right, now I got a lot of legal stuff that I want you to analyze. And uh this is a bit of a curveball, but you're a native New Yorker.

Uh Army vet. Lee Zeldon is an Army vet. Congressman Lee Zeldon running so hard for uh for governor of New York and yesterday uh attacked I I mean I I would dare say An attempted assassination. The guy's charged with a felony and then. released immediately.

What kind of laws do they have up in New York these days? Yeah, Jeff, it's amazing, right? I mean, Lise Eldon happens to be a close personal friend of mine. We served together in the Army. I've known him for about 10 years.

He's got a beautiful wife, two beautiful daughters, lives out in Long Island in the New York's first district where I grew up, coincidentally. And he's a great American. And it's unbelievable that people look around and say, why are we having problems with crime in our inner cities in places like New York City?

Well, guess what? When you do things like get rid of cash bail, and you basically have it as a default, Anyone more or less anyone who commits a crime, even violent crimes, be let out I mean, what do you think's going to happen, right?

So sure enough, you have a person who assaulted with a knife, my friend Lee Zeldon. He got wrestled to the ground. There's no question about what happened. It's caught on videotape in front of a crowd of people at a campaign event, and a few hours later, he's let out. Ugh, is there Is there any chance that the laws are amended?

I mean, I assume that's part of the reason that Congressman Zeldon said: man, I got to get into this to protect people. He's actually yes, he's been a champion of revisiting these laws for about two years now since New York unwisely put them into effect. And Lee has said time and again, if he is elected governor, that'll be one of his top priorities. And my guess is now it's even that much more personal to him. It's just unbelievable.

I mean, to make these kinds of decisions and then sit back and scratch your head as to why you see an erosion of quality of life in places like New York City. I mean, Hard to believe, right? It it it it is. I just well, anyway, let me uh l let's move on to a few other things. Uh the Supreme Court, I listen, my perspective, I'm not asking you offer your perspective, but I I thought there were some really, really uh fascinating decisions that came down, not just Dobbs, which undid uh the Roe v.

Wade practice, but but the Bruin case also from New York. And now uh the first case that the newest justice, Katanji Brown Jackson, could vote on. This involves immigration and the border. What what what exactly does it uh touch on?

Well, I mean, Jeff, just been big pictures just first in terms of all of these cases. And I'm happy to give you my opinion on what's happening here because it's an exciting time. This is the first time in probably any of our lifetime. probably since the 1940s. that you have a court, a consistent conservative majority on the Supreme Court that has committed to reading the law and reading the Constitution as it's written.

I mean, Unbelievable, right? Like, who would have thought that was a good way to go? That's right. And to think that some of the loudest voices complaining about these decisions are coming. coming out of Congress.

And at the state level, when the court is consistently saying, We at the judiciary should not be making law and the executive branch. In the administrative state, should not be making law. Guess who makes the law? Congress. And state legislatures, the people's representatives.

And so that's this consistent theme you're seeing over and over again: the court is saying. between the judiciary, judges making laws, and the administrative state. where you have agencies like the EPA and the Department of Education just going wild, taking congressional statutes and Stretching them in a way that Congress clearly didn't intend, the court is saying, no, let's restore power to exactly where it belongs. And that's the branch of government. which people elect to pass laws.

It's hysterical on one hand. I remind everybody: Joe Moreto is joining me. Joe is, and he won't say it, so I will just, a truly brilliant man, an incredibly talented attorney, a lifetime of service. Joe, the very people, as you point out, who are elected to make the laws are like throwing up their hands, going, Oh my gosh, I don't want to do my job. No, no, you handle it, you handle it.

And you're right. That's been the consistent theme from the court. Hey, we have a role, the executive has a role, but Ladies and gentlemen, this is your role. Yeah. I mean, and to say, I mean, and some of the hyperbole, I mean, calling the court fascist and calling it judicial activism.

the raw exercise of judicial authority. Guess what? Roe v. Wade was a raw exercise of judicial authority. You had five judges in robes effectively making a decision that for 50 years took.

Took an issue that's very, very important to millions of Americans out of the hands of the legislatures at every level. And said, basically, you can't touch this. because we say it's in the Constitution.

Well, guess what? 50 years later, Finally, you have a majority saying, you know what? It's not in the Constitution, no matter how hard you want it to be. There are ways to put that sort of thing in the Constitution. It's called an amendment, right?

But that's not the case here.

So regardless of your personal views on abortion and Dobbs and Roe, I mean, what this is is a consistent ideology to say again, we're looking at the law and the Constitution as it was written. And if you want to change it, you can't just invent stuff. You can't just read things out of it. You have to do the hard work. Pass a law at the state level.

Pass a law at the federal level. pass a constitutional amendment. Those are all things that happen all the time. That's how you have to do these things. You can't expect a court to do it for you.

You know, Joe, one of the other things that was interesting to me about Roe throughout the years. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We knew her opinion on abortion, and she was very, very, very consistent on that and very open.

Now, I disagreed with her completely, but that was fine. But she talked about Roe, and she said, My God, this is just a, I'm going to paraphrase here, but a colossal screw-up. This is not well written. It's not well, it's just insanity. And so to me, it's just fascinating to watch the fallout.

I'm also watching, I'm probably the only one, I think I'm watching it so other people don't have to watch it, the January 6th miniseries. And it's been cast sort of like it's a trial. Are there any actual legal rules or ethical standards that are in place for this committee hearing?

Well, legal rules are ethical standards, I tell you, Jeff. I mean I said that with a straight face. Don't you laugh at me. We would wish there would be, right? No, it's whatever Congress says it is.

You know, I mean, look, I I I have watched these hearings, every single one of them, including the ACE one that went for three hours last night. There were some that elicited some good testimony. I mean, I gotta say that. The committee did bring to light information. that Welcome.

We got to get it somehow. But that being said, anybody who watches it with an honest, objective look have to come away saying, look, this is really one sided. I mean, it's like sitting through a trial where you only hear from the prosecutor, and there's no defense counsel, and there's no cross examination of witnesses, and there's no challenging the government's theory.

Well, Yeah, you can get away with that at a congressional hearing because Congress can kind of make its own rules. But anybody who pays attention to the legal system, who's looking at this through a legal lens, You gotta be like this. This is not the way the system works. It's not American. I mean, we don't do this sort of thing.

And um So I think that there was a big misstep in the way the committee was formed. I mean, the speaker's decision to not put any Republicans except for two very ha anti-Trump handpicked Republicans effectively makes it They all agree with each other. There's no dissenting voices. And so, and even the way they present evidence, I mean, it's. Even the powerful evidence It's very one-sided.

There's no dissenting views. There's no other perspective And so therefore. No matter how good a job they do, A lot of people in this country are going to kind of say, that sounds like propaganda to me.

So what do you think happens at the end? Because I think they're wrapping it up, although I did see a note that they they may bring it back in September, which, geez, would be very clear very near rather to the midterm elections. But does anything come of it?

Something tells me that these representatives would be better off in their home districts running for reelection in September than sitting in Washington rehashing the committee's findings.

So color me skeptical. Look, I think it goes nowhere. I think it peaked about a month ago with Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony. It was powerful. I said it myself when I saw it.

but I think by last night, it was sputtering. It was cruising on fumes, and it was apparent to me that they were just kind of rehatching the same thing over and over again. I think we'll see a report. I think they will time it as close to the midterms as possible for maximum political. impact.

And I in my humble view, I don't think it will have much impact. Fair enough. Joe, number one, I value your opinion, and I really am always so grateful and appreciative for you making some time for us. Besides your professional life, you've got a beautiful family that you're taking care of, and I know you're doing some double duty at the moment.

So I thank you for being here. Have a wonderful weekend, friend. Jeff, my man, it's always an honor. Have a great one. Thank you, Sarah.

That is Joe Moreno. And Joe, he's a wonderful guy. He's a brilliant, brilliant legal mind. I hope I never need him. I mean really I I I'm very happy not dealing with legal issues, but man, if I were to deal with a legal issue, I'll tell you right now, I would reach out to Joe.

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Jeff Pats, happy to be sitting in for my friend Todd. I'm excited because this evening, I'm going to let you know a little secret. I'm headed to a concert, and it is featuring one of my favorite artists, Aaron Lewis.

Now, I was a fan of Aaron Lewis back in the stained days. And I mean, they're still out there. He's still doing that, but he's doing so much. As an individual and with the state liners now, and you remember his song, right? I mean, this is a couple of months ago.

And did it not speak to each of us? Am I the only one? You know the one I'm talking about.

So I've got the opportunity. I'm going to see Aaron Lewis tonight. I'm so excited. And just between us. I'm actually going to get the chance to meet Aaron Lois.

There are not that many. conservatives that come out of Massachusetts. And the two of us will uh will be just Pretty close to about 80% when we meet tonight, but I'm looking forward to that. My bride is heading in the opposite direction, which is bizarre. She's going to see Hansen.

Do you remember Hansen? Mm-hmm.

Now at this point, I do believe that the youngest Hansen is actually, I think he's eligible for Social Security. But anyway, so she's going to see Hansen, and good for her. She'll have fun. I'm sure. That's great.

Okay. You and I have got some serious business to address. There's no question about it. Let me very quickly here, we've got just enough time. Can we get cut number four, please, President Biden?

You're okay. You're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations. Wrong! Because Joe Biden now has COVID, as we know.

Now, the question really does become. What's the real maneuvering here? Look, I don't want anybody to be sick. I really don't. I don't care whether I agree with you politically or not.

I don't wish illness on anybody. And I am that guy, quite frankly. I've always had two containers of pure rail on my desk. I don't like I'm not a germaphobe, but I don't like them.

So I do everything I can not to get sick. But if you're Joe Biden, no, not even Joe Biden, if you're the President of the United States. And every single solitary part of your life is carefully planned. Who you're gonna meet with, when you're gonna meet with them, how you're gonna meet with them. When you're going to get lunch, when nap time is, are you getting extra tapioca?

The whole thing is planned out and scripted.

So my question becomes. If he can get it, Are we now done with all of the COVID hysteria? Is that it? Are we done? Can we now all say, well, looks like anybody can get it.

In fact, looks like maybe everybody is going to get it? And if that's the case, do we need updates? Do we need updates on so-and-so got a cold, so-and-so got this? I don't know. But I really am beginning to wonder, and we'll explore this more as we head through the next couple of moments.

Are the leftists now positioning themselves? To jettison. Joe Biden. Is this it? Because I think that they're looking at him.

the way they always have. As a very useful idiot. The only one who didn't realize he was a useful idiot. Was him. because he's a useful Idiots.

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I sit here and I'm going to sound like one of those fans, but I am a fan of Greta Van Susteren. I've watched her throughout the years. I'm always amazed and impressed with her brilliance and her acumen. And I'm just humbled that I get the chance to chat with her today. Greta, thank you for being here.

You know, it's so funny. It's like, if you talk to my brother and sister, they'd say, She is such a dope. If I ever ran for president, if I ever ran for president and say, oh my god, she couldn't tie her shoe to the fourth grade. Are you kidding me?

So it's all you know, it's all perspective. The more you know me, the less you'll be impressed.

Well, I doubt that. And I'm pretty sure you got the whole shoe thing covered by this point, right? I got it. I got it. Well, I'm into loafers now, so I'm kind of face.

Yeah. All right, you maybe gaze down at my shoes, which involve four Velcro straps.

So maybe we're. That would have been good for me. I I used to wear snow curl when I was a kid. Oh my gosh. Well, listen, first of all, it is really wonderful to chat with you, and it's wonderful to see you on Newsmax with the record.

Again, you just are blowing it right out of the water. You know, it's really fun for me because, look, I loved being at CNN and Fox. MSNBC was a bad experience for me, but whatever. They thought I was a bad experience for them, too. But then I went off and did a weekly political syndicate show.

It was really fun with great media. And I did a documentary for Voice America, and we got a bunch of awards on it for the Rohingya in Bangladesh. It was really fun. But I missed the daily live show of cable. It's really gritty.

You know, it's not. It's like would you rather be in the House or the Senate? I'd rather be in the House. It's grittier. The Senate is m maybe it may be a little bit saner in some ways, but I'd rather be in cable than on broadcast.

Um Well it fits my personality better.

Well, I'll tell you what. We well, you got a lot of fans. I am one of them. I I want to uh ask you to talk a little bit about what happened in New York. And if memory serves, uh you are a practitioner of the dark arts, right?

You're you're you're licensed and barred and all that good stuff. You're an attorney. Washing DC. Oh, yeah, no, no. Yeah, I I practiced law and and taught at Georgetown Law School for, you know, twenty years.

Wow.

So take a look at Lee Zeldon. This guy comes at him.

Now, it's pretty clear to me: this guy basically wants to slice Lee Zeldon's head off. They arrest him, charge him with a felony, and then give him directions to the nearest McDonald's. Thanks. See you later. Oh no, it's you know, I I tell you it's Look, I was a criminal defense lawyer.

And times have changed. My clients wouldn't get uh wouldn't get a low bond for something like that. They'd get a bond that they couldn't reach, so they'd be stuck in jail to protect the community and everything. But look, it's just terrible. But um I don't you know, it depends on two things.

One is the well, a number of things. One is the bail laws, they have been relaxed. Two is the DAs who are making the decisions. Three is whether the facility is overcrowded or not, whether they have the capacity to add more people.

So there are a lot of factors. When you attack someone who a high profile person, You know, you're asking for trouble if you don't figure out a way how to detain them when it's a violent crime, and this is a violent crime.

So, given that Lee Zeldin is a sitting member of Congress, is there a role for the Department of Justice or the U.S. Attorney up there?

Well, there's always a role for you. You just find a federal crime, or you can find a hate crime if the person said something anti-Semitic or something. But, you know, it's. I suppose you could then impose some sort of federal bonds and do it that way, try to detain them. But oftentimes when people always say, well, let's charge them with a hate crime.

Someone who murders someone because the person is black or a certain religion, everyone always calls for it to be a hate crime. And I've never quite understood as a defense lawyer, because if my client kills somebody, there's likely if you're in a death penalty state, you're going to get a death penalty. Adding a hate crime on it by the Fed isn't really going to do much except now you're taking up all the resources of the federal government to prosecute for the hate crime when my client's going to get death from the state for the murder, for the underlying murder.

So in some ways, oft oftentimes these extra charges are Or It's almost like window dressing. Interesting. Interesting. And think about it. If you go to court, think about it.

If you go to court, I've gone to a million trials. Let's say that. My clients got um Uh Five armed robberies, since in one indictment, five different people held up, is that each one carries life.

Well, if you charge four of them, that's one less that you have to prove, and that's one less area where you're likely to make a mistake that gives someone an appealable issue on appeal that might vacate all the other offenses. What do you want to achieve? You want to lock the person up for good? Then select those crimes that will lock them up for good and add a couple just in case you're prompted. But don't overcharge.

Overcharging is a horrible mistake by prosecutors. That's interesting. Greta Van Sestren joining us, host of The Record on Newsmax. You know, Greta, a thousand years ago in a galaxy far, far away, I was a police officer. And we were always instructed initially when we made the arrest: okay, if you can think of what they did, then you charge them with it.

But then it went to, in our case, the district attorney, who would look at it and go, yeah, you know what? Spitting on the sidewalk, we're good. You know, take that one off, and we're going to focus on these two felonies and this one high-level misdemeanor, much like you're saying. Where were where were you caught? Philadelphia.

All right. Well, that's a interesting busy District. It's a good place to be from, yes. That's how I always describe it. But you're right about the overcharging.

Let me ask you, and I don't know if this is appropriate or not, but what the heck, I'm going to ask it anyway. You look at these DAs, like the Alvin Braggs in Manhattan, the guy that they just kicked out Jezebel Bowden in San Francisco. Chessa Boudin. Chessa Boudin. Is he with the other mind?

Yeah. I mean, you know, it's crazy that all of a sudden now they're going to say, okay, you're a prosecutor. Maybe you should charge with the crime. What about L.A. with Cascone?

Well, Chester Boudin was a public defender before he was a prosecutor. He should have stayed as a public defender. He was an aggressive person who fought for people's rights. And that's where you belong. But when you become the prosecutor, your job is to enforce the law, not to dis not to like and and use good judgment.

You you're not you're not arrested you're not h you're not hired by the community to do what he was doing. That's right. That's right. Do you think that Gascon in LA is going to face the same thing? Is he going to be recalled?

Well, when it gets bad enough and the people finally have had enough, look, you know, in in Cal I have friends in San Francisco who are very far left and they can't they couldn't uh they'd call the police when their cars are broken and the police wouldn't show up. Then they then the police the police the police would say you shouldn't lock your car so that it isn't broken and there isn't glass all over.

Okay, so if you don't lock your car, you know what happens? People defecate in your car or sleep in your car. And these guys used to be um used to be the the person I'm talking about actually worked at the White House for eight years under Obama and she's at Wits End. You know, they exist. No one should have to live like that who's working hard and you know, it's like y you know, it's just terrible.

It is. It's outrageous. And I guess we're going to just have to wait and see how this plays out, and we'll see what happens up in New York.

Now, remind everybody, we're talking about the record, your program on Newsmax. Give everybody the details. When should we be watching it? Can we re-watch it? Is it on demand?

Always.

Okay, you can watch it on your television 6 p.m. Eastern on your cable system, Direc TV. You can do it. The other way to do it is, if you don't feel like paying for cable, is you get the free download, which is Newsmax TV app that you get from the app store, obviously, and you can watch it there. And there's also all these things are on demand in the sense that you can go to the Newsmax website and find last night's show, which incidentally, we had the former Attorney General Bill Barr, who is quite interesting, he called Merrick Garland political for not making arrests outside Justice Kavanaugh's home.

in violation of a particular statute of 1507, which says It is unlawful to protest to intentionally try to change a justice decision. And I'm a big fan of the First Amendment, but at some point when there's a statute, And they're trying to do that and they're causing problems, then you know, statute should be enforced, and the jury should be, you know, let the jury decide whether it's a violation. You know, Bill Barr, I think, is a brilliant guy. I think he got beaten up initially, came out of really like a cushy retirement, right? He was doing boards of directors and playing his bagpipes and making a lot of money, came back to serve the country, and then gets beaten up on the other end of this.

But I think he's an honorable guy. Oh, he's an honorable guy, and the thing is, it's always different on the inside than on the outside. Like, even look, we in the media, we're on the outside, so almost some people think taking pot shots as people, but actually holding down the job, whether it's attorney general or president or senator or whatever, it's a lot different when you're in the arena. And lots of times, in particular with like an attorney general, is a lot of the things that he does is bound by like grand jury secrecy. He can't even defend himself saying, Well, you know, we are doing this investigation.

You know, when I say, Why don't you investigate X? He can't even say, Well, actually, we are. You know, you have to sort of suck it up, you know, and and have the and have half the country, you know, uh, insult you. Yeah, it is a rough thing. Greta, I thank you so much for making time for us.

I look forward this evening to watching you on Newsmax as I do on a regular basis. Absolutely. And I'm going to get out a pair of lace-up shoes just to remind myself. It's 6 p.m. Eastern on Newsmax.

I probably shouldn't have said that. I probably shouldn't have said that. Anyway, all right. Thank you for inviting me on your show. Thank you so much.

That is Greta Van Sustrin from Newsmax. She does host the record. It is 6 p.m. Eastern, but she said the Newsmax TV app, great way to avail yourself of that. And I, again, want to pay tribute to our friends over at Patriot Mobile because every single wonderful person we chat with, including Greta Van Sustrin, is appearing on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line.

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I don't care whether you like him or you dislike him, he is a force. I personally will be very happy to support him if he chooses to run for re-election. If he chooses not to, okay, well, then it's everybody into the pool, right? I think the early money is certainly on Ron DeSantis, the governor out of Florida. Josh Hawley is another guy.

Christy Noam is somebody else, I think, who is without question on the shortlist.

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Fair enough, that's a mistake. I meant to order sweet tea and I ordered unsweet tea. No, that mistake you can't make, but you can make mistakes. How do you make a mistake by telling somebody, oh, yeah, I have cancer? That same little speech he gave, by the way, Somebody wrote to me, a couple of folks actually said, you know, he's given exactly the same speech, the same throwaway lines as well.

where he said he has asthma.

Now it's confirmed he has COVID, but did you notice? How oh so quickly The White House says, oh, we don't need to know where he got it. We don't need to know when he got it or how he got it or who he got it from. Really? I don't know.

I thought you wanted to know all that. I thought that's why the rest of us had to hide under our beds for two years.

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So much that you and I are dealing with, right? Terrible attack on Congressman Lee Zeldin. My gosh, I just, honest to goodness, I. I'm kinda finding it tough just to get past that. If you've not seen that video, and it is absolutely horrific video, but I think you have to see it.

Go to ToddSterns.com. You can see it there. You can see what this. this crazed leftist wanted to do to Congressman Zeldon. And it's just adding insult to injury to think that this guy got arrested.

was charged, actually charged with a felony. and and then was released. No no no bond, no bail. Just nuts. Just nuts.

And then you add in the fact that Joe Biden now. Further along in what seems to be his cognitive decline, Now he's got COVID. I'm just wondering if the Democrats are trying to figure out a way to say, Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're just done with him. We're moving on to something else. I don't know.

Congressman Andy Harris is joining us. I would dare say the Congressman has got more than a few thoughts on each of those things. Congressman Harris joining us in the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. Congressman, good afternoon. Good afternoon.

It's good to have you here. Can I start by uh Just asking you to address what happened to one of your colleagues, Lee Zeldon, up in New York? Yes, look, look, fortunately, Lee was okay and wasn't injured. But the fact of the matter is, is that again, the Democrats are out of control. The leftists think that there's nothing wrong with committing violence.

Whether it's Antifa in the summer riots a couple of years ago, whether it's unlawfully protesting outside of Supreme Court justices' houses. And the liberal justice system lets them get away with it. This case is particularly egregious. There was an attempt. This is an attempted assassination.

If somebody lunges at your throat with a knife, look, I'm a doctor. There are a lot of things if you cut in Mr. Zeldon's neck, he will die. And to release the person hours later. On their own recognizance is just unbelievable to me, but this is where the left wing justice system is headed.

And it's dangerous. I mean, you're talking about being a doctor, as you say, just just the actual health issue related there, and then it is compounded with the legal sense of this.

So is there a role, do you think, for the Capitol Police? Is the DOJ going to get involved in charging this guy?

Well, look, I would hope so. I would hope that they will rethink about whether or not this person ought to spend a little time in prison before they go to trial and then how much time they should spend in trial, you know, attempting to kill a potential a politician. The bottom line is, you know, and I know as politicians, look, I had a severe death threat against me last year, a felony death threat, and the person went to jail. For it appropriately, but this goes far beyond that. This was a physical assault.

And again, we know these and I don't know what the prosecutor was thinking in that county in New York. But to release a person who attempted to kill the gubernatorial candidate. is just beyond the pale. But look, I'm from Maryland. This kind of again, the liberal ideas of justice is why we have we're on track to set a record murder rate again in Baltimore.

because we have a George Soros elected prosecutor who just doesn't believe in prosecuting criminals. It's insane. Andy Harris joining us, a member of Congress, and as he pointed out, a doctor. Let me ask you to put on your white coat for a couple of moments, Congressman, and let's talk about the latest health issues for Joe Biden. A couple of days ago, he tells us he has cancer, then immediately the West goes, oh, that's not really what he meant to say.

He's told that same story almost word for word, punchline for punchline, about asthma in the past. I just don't know what to believe, except that now he has COVID. But the White House says, Yeah, we don't know where he got it or when he got it or how he got it, and we don't care.

So, what gives?

Well, look, I guess fist bumping in the Middle East wasn't adequate protection for the President. I thought it looked ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, look, COVID is here to stay. The coronavirus is going to continue to mutate. This Omicron variant, I wouldn't be surprised if three quarters of Americans got it eventually.

It's highly transmissible, obviously evades vaccine. The President is double boosted I'm sure most of the people he comes in contact with are double boosted. The fact of the matter is. Regardless of how many vaccines you get, you can get the disease and you can transmit the disease. Thank goodness that the current variants are less Lethal, less hurt, you know, cause less problems than the original.

coronavirus COVID vacc uh COVID virus. But it's still dangerous, especially someone at Joe Biden's age. And But again, look, we have to just live with it. This is going to be like the flu. It's going to come back every year.

It's going to be a different strain every year, and we just have to live with it.

So you look at this, and as you're saying, we're going to live with it, and every year we'll hear about it. Does that mean that every year people will be expected to get booster shots like we get flu shots?

Well, I think it's pretty clear that the government has given up on forcing people to get take vaccinations. There will likely be a booster shot available every year. Again, just like With the flu shots, it's going to be modeled after what they think is going to be the current variant that will circulate in the population. But I think we're done with the government forcing vaccinations. That didn't work.

It obviously didn't work. As people reminded you, exactly one year ago, the President said that if you get the vaccine, you're not going to get coronavirus and you're not going to spread it. The fact of the matter is, that wasn't true. The science is very clear now. The science behind any mask except a KN95 or an N95 mask is very clear, and yet you still see.

Mask mandate. that don't require the level of masks that would be required in order to provide any level of protection at all. And for most people, it just doesn't make any sense even to wear those masks because just like the President, you can get it anyway. Is President Joe Biden, medically speaking, in the world of his personal health, what you know from afar, is this man up to the job of being president? No, I don't think so.

And that's why I wrote the letter along with doctor Ronnie Jackson, the member of Congress who was a former White House physician. That's why we and we just sent a third letter to the White House requesting that the President agree to Mental acuity testing. It was very interesting. You know, when Donald Trump was president, I clearly remember. How the Twenty Fifth Amendment was invoked, it was attempted to be invoked by Speaker Pelosi.

When it's clear that Donald Trump, there is nothing wrong with Donald Trump's mental status, yet now we have a president who I think the average American looks at. and just says this man is not mentally up to the job. And yet the White House refuses to have the President look, I think every American should insist that this President take a mental acuity test. This is a dangerous world. The decisions this President makes.

And is already made, have cost our economy tremendous things. You know, gas over $4 a gallon, inflation over 9%. Crime going way out of control. All these things are because of what this President has done in a short year and a half.

So you're in Maryland. You just had the primary election there for governor. Governor Hogan picked somebody. Former President Trump picked somebody. You want to let all of us know exactly how that worked out and how that might look in November?

Well, look, Donald Trump's choice, Dan Cox, won and won pretty handily. Governor Hogan had a handpicked successor. She didn't win. He was upset at that. Look, the fact of the matter is, look, this is the way the system works.

The Republicans pick their voters. Uh I'm sorry, the Republican voters picked their candidate and they pick the Donald Trump ch choice in this race. And that's the way the system works.

So now the question is: will the Hogan Republicans get behind the Republican candidate? Because I guarantee you, The worst thing that can happen is that the ultra-liberal Democrat who's ahead in the polls Oprah Winfrey's choice for Maryland Governor is going to be much, much worse than Dan Cox would be. Wow.

It's just a fascinating situation. You and Maryland have got so many different things going on here. You are a pretty conservative member of Congress representing a portion of Maryland. But then I look in the city of Baltimore and I see your state's attorney, the mayor, which one is facing federal charges? I forget.

Well, the state's attorney, Marilyn Mosby, who again is the Soros Soros helped elect her. She's the one who decided not to prosecute low-level crime, and now our murder rate is through the roof. She actually lost her primary last week. She is not going to be the nominee. Thank goodness.

I think citizens of Baltimore City are safer now with Marilyn Mosby going to be retired, but she's facing felony charges for lying. about an application for a loan during COVID where she claimed, and get a load of this, this is with a salary over three hundred thousand dollars, she claimed financial hardship due to COVID. In order to get a lower loan rate and to have an advantage on a loan. This is mind boggling. Look, this is the disconnect the Democrats have.

Again, somewhat she and her between she and her husband, they earned well over four hundred thousand dollars a year. And to them, both of them, by the way, on public payroll.

So they didn't miss a paycheck during COVID. how someone like that has the nerve to claim financial hardship when we had people really having financial hardship due to government shutdowns, some of the shutdowns caused by the caused by the same Democrats that Merrill and Mosby works for. Is why didn't state's att former state's attorney or soon to be former state's attorney Mosby look at what Baltimore Mayor Pugh did and just come out with a kids' book and take care of all the expenses? Yeah, but but but I guess she went to jail for that too. Oh, there's a downside.

Yeah, they look, the fact of the matter is, like many large cities that have been controlled by Democrats for years, the Democrats think they can get away with anything. And they usually do, but occasionally they don't. And Catherine Pugen gets away with it. Marilyn Mosby is not going to get away with it. But again, the voters had their say last week.

They are scared. Carjacking's way up. Murder's way up in Baltimore. Nobody from surrounding communities wants to go there anymore for fear of the violent crime. They have to they have to turn around.

They sure do. They sure do. Congressman, I appreciate you being here. Have a wonderful, wonderful weekend. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

That is Congressman Andy Harris, Dr. Andy Harris. I should have asked him which one he preferred because you always keep your highest title. But he represents a portion of Maryland and with some great insight there. I think this election in Maryland is going to be interesting now that Dan Cox, who was endorsed by former President Trump, is the Republican nominee for governor.

Are these other Republicans in Maryland going to get their stuff together, if you will, and say, okay. We're Republicans, we're conservatives, at least in theory, and we'll do what we need to do. You don't always win. Did we not learn this? Or maybe this is part of the problem of eliminating the whole idea of competition in the lives of children?

I am of an age. God, I hate that phrase, but my doctor seems to use it all the time.

Now, well, you know, Jeff, you're of an age.

Okay, stop, stop, stop. But I'm of an age. I remember. when we played sports and we did keep score and somebody won and somebody lost. And here's what happened when you won.

You said, Hey, I won, isn't that great? And here's what happened when you lost. You said, man, can't believe I lost. That stinks.

Now you gotta practice more. You learn to accept the defeat and move forward.

Well, we don't have that anymore.

Well, we're going to play sports, but we're not going to keep score. We're going to let everybody get a trophy. I'm sorry, that's wrong. It's just wrong. And this is what happens.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

Now, if you're on the same team, and in theory, Republicans are on the same team. Then you need to stand up. Acknowledge that your particular candidate lost. And again, with the program. Simple as that.

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Is is him Pending. I know it's not the right word, but that's kind of how I feel. You know, like impending. You think of something that's im it's impending, it's a terrible thing that's going to happen. This an impending crisis, an impending disaster.

That's just kind of how I feel. About the January 6th mini-series, because that's what it is. It's just a tele terrible, terrible television show. And it's it's created as a television show. And you really do have to ask yourself, what the heck is going on with this?

You look at these so called witnesses, and they're using legal terms, but as we've heard, there's not really any standard or ethics that are employed, and there's no defense. Right? The guy who was on trial, and make no mistake, he is on trial. is former President Donald Trump. And yet There's nobody there.

To speak on behalf of former President Donald Trump. Doesn't that strike you as, at the very least, bizarre? Let me give you uh the latest Big event. They had a couple of outtakes from the speech that President Trump delivered on January the 7th. I think we've got just enough time here.

Cut number one. Addressing the heinous attack yesterday. And to those who broke the law, You will pay. You do not represent our movement. You do not represent our country.

And if you broke the law, I can't say that. I already said you will pay the demonstrators who infiltrated the capital. Have defied the seat of dust. It's defiled, right? See, I can't see it very well.

Okay, I'll do this. I'm going to do this. Let's go. But this election is now over. Congress has certified the results.

I don't want to say the election's over, I just want to say. Congress has certified the results without saying the election's over, okay? But in Congress is certain.

Now Congress. Yeah, like now Congress. I didn't say over, so let the mission. Don't go to the paragraph before.

Okay. I would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack yesterday. Yesterday is a hard word for me. Just take that? The answer is that it's attacked on our hands.

Ah, good. Take the word yesterday, because it doesn't work with. The Heinz attack. Own our country. Say own our country.

Want to say that? No. My only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote. My only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote. Okay.

Is that bad? I don't think so. It's Jeff Katz from the Liberty University Studios, in for my friend Todd Starnes. I watch these outtakes. And I kept thinking to myself, well, so So what?

That's been my takeaway from almost the entire kangaroo court they've established.

So what?

Well, it's making you know, you notice right there, Jeff, uh uh Trump uh did not want to say that the election was over. No, you're right. That's exactly what he said. And what exactly Does that mean to you? How are you going to twist that?

I thought that was a very honest thing that he said. He did not want to say the election was over. But he also was perfectly happy saying that Congress had certified the election. And he was also very clear in condemning those who committed acts of violence. I don't know.

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It is the Todd Starring Show live from the Liberty University studios. Jeff Katz, so happy to be sitting in for my friend Todd. We've got so very much that we are dealing with as we head through the next couple of moments. This brutal, brutal attack on New York Congressman Lee Zeldin. He is the Republican nominee for Congress in New York.

He was doing very well, by the way. attacked Clear to me that the attacker was trying to uh To kill him. I mean, what else could it be? Zeldon is an army vet. I mean, a good solid guy.

His running mate is a retired New York City police officer. Uh people on his staff, along with him, got this guy. He's arrested. He's charged with a felony. And then Well, prosecutors in New York say, well, what are we going to do?

Our laws say you can go. We will just take your word that you're coming back. I mean, it's insanity. Absolute insanity.

So, we'll talk a little bit more about that. If you have not seen the video of that attack, Let me point you towards ToddStarnes.com. Toddstarns.com. We've got another crisis.

Well, heck, we've got an administration that seems to lurch from one crisis to another, and they keep creating more crises as they go. But the border crisis, it is gigantic. It is just unbelievable to think about the illegal aliens entering the country as we speak. Congressman Pat Fallon from Texas is joining us on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. He and his fellow Texans deal with this every single day.

Congressman, thank you for being here. Chef, thanks for having me on and for a great American. Thank you, sir. I appreciate the kind words.

So can you give us just sort of a lay of the land, paint the picture? What the heck is going on on that southern border we have with Mexico?

Well, we you know, in Texas, we have a twelve hundred fifty four mile border. With Mexico. And it's not a crisis, it's a catastrophe.

So what we have is the kind of the tell the tape. is we've had three point one million illegal border costs Yeah, under Biden's law, 800,000 known gotaways. Which totals to 3.9 million people, which is more folks than live in 22 United States. The worst month we've ever had in border crossings was April with 234,000. It was 1,258% worse.

And the last time President Trump was in office in April. And then in May, it was was two hundred almost two hundred forty thousand. Which was 930% worse than the last time President Trump was in office.

So the border is wide open for us. And the drug cartels are making wild profits, and Americans are less safe because this administration has shown no willingness whatsoever to secure the border.

Now, Congressman, you know we always hear: well, these are just folks looking for a better life. They're trying to work hard and the rest of it. But as you just pointed out, The border, the northern Mexican border, is now completely, totally controlled by the drug cartels, correct? Yeah, I mean, and they're making a record promise. Your listeners need to understand because the big charm media doesn't want to share this.

is the drunk cartel's GDP is approximately thirty billion dollars a year. Which is the size of a GDP of a small nation state. But they're also making not just money with narcotic trafficking. But human smuggling. They're charging $3,000 to $4,000 per person to cross the border.

And if you don't have your bracelet, They could murder you, and they're going to also force you some people to be mules to hey, take this bag of fentanyl. Hey, take this bag of methamphetamine. If you get caught, you do the 15 years in prison.

So that's what's going on here. And in Mexico, they won't even allow journalists to report on drug cartel activities because they'll murder them and their families. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. So, so I I'm trying to figure out, and it's going to sound bizarre, Congressman, because you and I are sitting here and we're conservatives, we're Republicans, we love this country.

I'd like to think that the people on the other side just have a different view of the world. You know, that the Democrats just think, ah, this is a better way to do something. I just don't understand what is the motivation for them to allow this catastrophe to continue to occur. And you know what? That's a great question, Jeff, because An open and portis border is an immoral border for those that live north of it and south of it.

30% of the women that migrate from southern Mexico and Central America into our country illegally. Are raped or sexually assaulted along the journey. That's nearly one out of three. Where's the outcry there? How about the people, how about that 107,000 American deaths?

due to opioid overdoses, eighty thousand of which are due solely to fentanyl, which is manufactured a lot in a lot of it in China, a lot of it in Mexico, but almost all of it is explicitly smuggled through Mexico into our country. Hmm. You know, that's the question we're trying to have answered. I don't hear anything from the Biden administration that makes any sense. And even when Secretary Mayorkis was speaking to some of the folks with the Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection, those guys turned their backs and said: look, you're clueless or you're willingly being in danger.

We're not sure which, but you just don't get this. Yeah, well, they're not letting those find we have great customs and border patrol agents, and they're just not being allowed to do their job. I mean, Joe Biden has been in office for five hundred and forty eight days. and he has not visited the border once. And it's atrocious.

So there's a political consequence to be paid that I don't think he's realizing because in Texas, We saw Myra Flores get elected, right? I mean, I think Congressman District 34. And then we had Ryan Guillain, who was an eighteen-year state rep. He switched parties, and now he's the Republican nominee. And these are in districts that are 80% Hispanic and Republicans.

We already have Sony Gazala. Monica De Cruz is going to win in CD 15. We got Casey Garcia that's got a very good chance of winning, and I think it's Congressional District 28.

So these people, you know, you know why? Because somebody asked me this the other day. I think it was Fox. And I said, because they're sick of. Yeah.

Yeah. crime and the chaos. That's right. That's exactly right.

Now you've got a governor there in Greg Abbott who is relocating some of these folks. And now the mayor in DC and the mayor in New York, they're outraged that these busloads of folks are going to their cities. What what's the response from people in Texas when you hear this?

Well, they say, you know, it's classic liberalism, not in my backyard. I mean, Joe Biden has made every state a border state. And you can't the reason why, you know, down on the southern border, you can't have a town of, say, like 35,000 people. You can't put 15,000 people in that city in one day. There'll be no food left on the grocery shelves.

I mean, it wipes out it's like locusts. You know, it's it's bad for everyone.

So I think we should have express buttons. And they should go to Nancy Pelosi's neighborhood in San Francisco. They should go to Chuck Schumer's neighborhood up in New York. And they should go to Joe Biden's beach house in Delaware. And let them deal with this because we have an orderly way in which to immigrate to this country.

We're all descendants of immigrants, and we are a nation of immigrants, and we welcome folks. You just have to do it the right way. Absolutely. Congressman Pat Fallon joining us represents a beautiful slice of Texas in the House of Representatives. One of your colleagues, Lee Zeldon, running for governor of New York, brutally attacked.

Is it okay if I just ask you what your relationship with Lee Zeldon is and what you're thinking right about now? No, he's great. He's wonderful guy, great American. And I saw that, and it was atrocious. And we've been.

You know, conservatives are very consistent in so much as we always condemn all political violence. Right. Regardless. And Lee's attack was frightening, really, and chilling. Thankfully, he's fine.

He's a tough guy. He's a tough ombre. And like you said, he's great up there in New York, and he might just pull this one out. And as they say, shock the world. Shock the world.

It'll be really interesting to see that happen. And I have to think as we hear from more, believe it or not, liberals around America going, hey, we were all in with these George Shoro Street DAs, rather, until somebody stole our car, until somebody broke into our house, until somebody hurt one of our family members.

Now all of a sudden, they're discovering that, well, maybe the laws ought to be enforced. Yeah, you know, it's one of those things where I'm driving down the highway. When I see a police officer, I'm like, uh, you know, because maybe I'm going a little too fast. But when you need them, They're a sight for sore eyes, and they're the ones that we pay to go into harm's way to protect us. And uh and that's really what we're out uh we have to recognize is let's not make the bad guys good and the good guys bad.

I mean, the people that these predators that harm folks, Yeah.

Sometimes people gotta be, you know, those kind of folks gotta be put in cages, and it makes everybody safe. If you're constantly, and you look at these folks that are. Criminal like four or five and six-time convicted felon, these are folks that are, you know, have they're habitual. And who do they harm the most? Who they're harming the most?

People of people of color are the ones that get harmed the most by these kinds of folks. These I call them sharks because you just don't want to be w around when they're swimming by you. Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. Congressman Pat Fowland joins us. Congressman, I got to ask you something just on a personal basis.

Now, look, I'm doing research. I'm trying to get up to speed on some of your stuff, and I'm looking at the World Marathon Challenge. And I just have to tell you this: I live with a house full of runners, my wife, my sons. I I had a conversation with one of my sons years ago. And you may or may not appreciate it, but uh, hopefully, you give me a little insight.

He says to me, Dad, I'm going outside to run. I said, Okay, well, go ahead and do it. He says, You know, I just feel like I have to run. I said, Well, go and do it. He says, You know how that feels, right?

I said, No, son, never in my life have I felt like I just need to run. And he said, But, Dad, you were a police officer, you went through the police academy and you had to run. And I said, Well, yeah, but that's because there were guys in these big smoky bear hats driving jeeps, and they would have hit us if we stopped running. But you chose to run seven marathons on seven continents. Are you courageous or are you just a little bit nuts, Pat?

Come on, spill the beans. What motivated you to do that? And in seven days. When there's a little boy, there's a little boy. Named Johnny Wade, and he was struggling and fighting for his life with meloblastoma, which is a very rare form of cancer.

5% for survivability of one year. And he just inspired me so much. I wanted to give him a distraction and raise money for him. and uh PDF and cancer research. You're a great man.

You're a great man. I Pat, that's that's that my hat is off to you. Listen, I appreciate you making time for us, and I really appreciate what you've done to help people. I look forward to chatting with you again. Thanks, Jeff.

God bless you. Have a great weekend. You too have a blessed weekend. That is Congressman Pat Fallon out of Texas. Good guy, said Solid conservative.

And you heard what he had to say about the border. He corrected me. I said it was a crisis. He said, you know, it stopped being a crisis, it's a catastrophe. And what's the real motivation of the Biden administration, do you think?

And where are the Democrats at it? It looks to me. You know, I don't do predictions because had I done predictions, I would have won mega millions the other day, and probably you and I wouldn't be chatting. What's the long game for the Democrats? It looks like they are getting tired of Joe Biden, that they're using him as the useful idiot that many of us thought he was.

What he was, I mean, all forever. Joe Biden's been in Congress one way or another. Senate as long as I've been alive. That's a long time. You think they're done with them?

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It's the Todd Starring Show from the Liberty University Studios. Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for my friend Todd. We were just chatting with Congressman Pat Fallon from Texas. This border. Catastrophe.

He corrected me. I said it's a crisis. He said, oh, no, no, no, Jeff. It's a catastrophe. And I was just curious what your sense of it was.

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Thank you.

Yes, sir. experience. That's great.

Yeah. Long time ago. Yeah, this border deal, that's uh yeah, it's it's an I think it's war against the country. Uh you know, they let's be trying to pull off anybody that uses drugs and And I think he might be kind of buying for the head of the cartel because he's helped make them so much money. He's probably their number one money maker Out there in the field or in the White House, wherever he's at.

Yeah. You know, it's bizarre you say that, but I got to tell you something. You might not be too far off the mark. That thanks to Joe Biden, thanks to the Democrats, thanks to this ridiculous, I don't even call it a policy because it's a lack of a policy in the nicest terms. But yes, you're right.

They have made the Mexican drug cartels an awful lot of money, and they just don't seem to be concerned with the fentanyl that's coming across. They don't seem to be concerned with the women and girls who are raped and abused. They just, I don't know. I keep trying to figure out what the game is, but I just can't figure it out. Yeah, it's uh it's terrible and and And actually I also think that we should Try to inform the other Democrats that might be out there that basically the communists or socialists and/slash communists have.

taken leadership of their party and they Just want to drive our country into the ground, at least the common working man. Yeah. Yeah. That is a great point, Tom. I certainly appreciate you calling the Todd Starn show.

Tom raised a great point there. Do the Democrats themselves even realize who's in control of their party? I had a conversation just yesterday, believe it or not. I have a. A manager that I work for at News Radio WRVA.

That's where I'm based. Of course, we're very, very proud to carry the Todd Starn show. And he's a full-on Democrat, unapologetic Democrat, big New York liberal. And he says to me, Oh, come on, Jeff, you know You know AOC's not really the leader of the party. And I said to him, Yes, she is No, yeah.

This is the thing, is that Democrats themselves Like traditional Democrats. They don't fully understand. That the party that they once belonged to has disappeared. I grew up in Philadelphia. I was a Democrat.

Most of my. Life. I think I was honest to goodness eighteen years old before I met a Republican. And I was in my thirties before I thought, wait a minute, yeah, that's where I belong. Ronald Reagan, I'm looking at a picture, a frame picture I have of President Reagan way back when, when he was on the radio, for a young man in Iowa.

What did President Reagan say? He said, Hey, I didn't leave the Democrats. They left me. I think Tom's on to something there. The Democrats have left the very people they claim to advocate for.

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as we speak about, well, what's really going on with Joe Biden? I grew up in Philadelphia. Joe Biden has essentially been in the U.S. Senate my entire life. And because Delaware doesn't really have its own television station, there's a public television station there.

They don't really do very much.

So we in Philadelphia always had a quote Delaware Bureau, and there wasn't much happening there, but I've seen Joe Biden. My entire life, his entire life Making those annoying air quotes, career. He's a hack. He's always been a hack. He is a nasty, nasty, creepy dude.

and always has been. And now we're told, well, you know, we've got to feel sorry. He has COVID now. The other day he told us he had cancer. Before that, he told us he had asthma.

It doesn't seem like he knows what's going on, but. Here's the thing. It's his agenda. And the agenda items he's been pushing. Pushing.

That's the real issue, I think. And somebody who I think did a great job kind of tackling this, addressing some of this. Liz Peake, a wonderful, wonderful columnist, and thrilled that Liz is joining us this afternoon. Liz, welcome. Oh, thank you so much for having me.

Well, the pleasure is mine. Let's dive right into this. Is it Joe Biden's health? Or is it Joe Biden's playbook, which is the real problem?

Well, I think it's both. But I think what we've seen in the last two weeks is all the liberal media circling the wagons and agreeing that it is now okay to talk about Joe Biden's age. I mean, it's really quite remarkable, I think, when all the liberal newspapers, T V stations, et cetera, all of a sudden come upon a discovery. Joe Biden's seventy nine years old. Who knew?

This is great breaking news from the liberal media. And guess what? Most of us already understood that, but now it's okay to talk about it because obviously his presidency is failing, failing very badly. his approval ratings are historically, epically low, thirty one percent in a Clinopiak poll, which by the way tends to lean left in terms of its orientation, political orientation. Uh but so I think Democrats now, progressive Democrats, like the people that run the New York Times and MSNBC and the Washington Post.

Are horrified. That Joe Biden will go down as a failed president and his policies will go along with that. And I think what they are really desperately trying to do is separate those two things and say, well, it's Joe because he's old, but fighting climate change is still very, very important. And fighting racism is very, very important. And all these things.

that they have sort of Made sort of germane to Joe Biden's presidency. And meanwhile, Americans are looking at Joe Biden and saying, well, wait a minute. Climate change, according to MANMA's polling, is number twelve on our list of important issues. What's number one is the price of gasoline. We don't like what he's doing.

We don't like his policies, his anti-oil policies, his policy that wants to stem inflation by spending another three trillion dollars raising taxes on small businesses as we careen into the ditch of recession here. I mean, none of what he's trying to do makes sense or is popular. but they are are not budging an inch. And I think They've got a real problem, obviously.

So let me ask, do you Do you think they are just completely and totally tone deaf? Do they think they can shift the American populace to forget that they just paid four and a half bucks a gallon for gas and go, oh, yes, yes, there's a, I don't know, a snail dart or somewhere. You're right. That's far more important than me taking my kids to soccer practice or school or church or synagogue. I mean, do they really believe they're changing how people think?

Yes, and I think there's a lot you can say about this. Number one, it's sort of a cliche now to say that that The Democratic Party has moved so far away from working class America. I mean, they just have. They are not. In touch with the guys who run who drive pickup trucks and who are really desperately in need of some relief at the pump because that is probably one of their top uh expenses in their lives.

The liberal elite of our country, who are now more and more aligned with the Democratic Party, They are focused on issues that really do not involve everyday Americans. Climate change. You know, I think most people think, yes, that the climate has gotten somewhat warmer. I was just sitting at my desk thinking, when was the last time someone asked one of these people who are pressing upon us the desperate need to shut down our oil and gas business the fact that China is accelerating its use of and construction of coal-fired power plants? Does anyone care that China's emissions are twice what those are what these are in the United States?

that they have given no indication that they are going to move the needle on what they are trying to do. By the way, India, the same. What we do is so microscopically unimportant compared to what's going on in China. We are not going to make much difference. But what we are going to do, and something that China is rejoicing over, we're going to hobble our economy.

If we consider this, In Germany right now, electricity prices are six times what they are in the United States. Why?

partly because of Russia, to be sure, but really it started even before Russia when they became dependent on renewable fuel. In the UK, when the wind stopped blowing last August, their electricity prices went up sixfold. Do you think you can run a healthy economy in the United States with electricity and power prices six times what they are now? No, you cannot. This is a huge, huge issue.

And these idiots who are making these decisions, and I really think they are. Blinded by their ideology and devotion to this climate thing to the point where they can't see that they're going to crush our country. That's a great point. Liz Peake is joining us on our Patreon mobile newsmaker line, Jeff Katz, in for Todd Starnes today, the Liberty University Studios, where we're coming from. I'm looking at this column that you have posted, Liz, and I'm also just poking around.

And like you, I'm trying to figure out what the real deal is. There's a story the other day. John F. Kerry, our, I don't know, minister of climate propaganda, whatever the official title is, flies around his family's private jet, 300 metric tons of carbon that were emitted during his efforts to save us from carbon emission. And I'm thinking, yeah, the only carbon footprint these people care about is one that's kind of shaped like a work boot or a cowboy boot.

Uh yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's hypocrisy, obviously. John Kerry's living his dream life of being an influencer. At a high level, you know, and not really taking any responsibility for his own. climate generation or emissions generation, these are not serious people.

When Pete Buttich talks about how high gasoline prices are just so great because they'll convince everybody to go and buy an electric vehicle. Have they really figured out what A transference to electric vehicles means in terms of electric grids. In terms of raw and I mean, rare materials that we don't have in this country.

Someone, I saw a post on Twitter, and I don't know if this is accurate or not, but it's someone. came in with an EV that's passed warranty. and it was diagnosed as needing new batteries, twenty three thousand dollars. Yep. care about that?

I mean, people care about What these vehicles are going to need in the way of maintenance, how we're going to dispose of the batteries. In other words, Fine, figure it out. But meanwhile, A lot of these climate people don't understand that electricity comes from huh. Coal, gas, oil, and other fossil fuels, in addition to at the margin, renewable energy. I literally saw.

Uh a film. It was meant to be sort of a celebration of a new charging station somewhere, like I think in Michigan. And the reporter offline was kind of saying, well, wait, okay, where's the power come from? And the person said, you know, here it's electric and they're plugging it in. And the guy, well, where's the electricity come from?

And unfortunately, there was a utility guy there that says 95% coal. I mean, you know, you can't make up a scene like that, right? And it wasn't like staged. That's literally where the power was coming from. And here they were celebrating.

Oh, heaven, you know, they're not using oil. They're going to use coal, basically, on this car. It's just incredible. Hey, Liz, for everybody who wants to take a look at not just this column, but all of your great reporting, your great insight, what's the best way for them to do that? Oh, well, thank you for asking.

I have a website, lizpeak.com. It's P E E K. I post everything on Twitter religiously. I'm very active on Twitter, and I follow people back, so I encourage that. But thank you.

I and basically everything shows up there. Wonderful LizPeak dot com. Liz, I appreciate you making time for us. Have a wonderful weekend. Hey, you too.

Thanks so much for having me on. Oh, my pleasure. That is Liz Peak. By all means, head on over to lizpeak.com, lizpeak.com, take a look at what she's covering. The climate stuff.

I'm going to use that phrase again. God, I'm getting scared. I'm of an age. Oh! I hate that.

But seriously, you hit decade five, and all of a sudden, every sentence seems to begin with: I'm of an age, or you're of an age. I do understand now, by the way, why people who are 75 and 85 begin every sentence with, you know, I'm 75 years old. I'll tell you why they do that. I figured it out when I turned fifty. Because you've seen this.

You've seen the show before. You've seen the movie. You've seen the play. You know how it goes. You know how it ends.

So I saw when we were heading into another ice age. Right, cover of, I don't know, Newsweek or Time or whatever one of those things was, right? Oh, we're entering the new ice age. And then that didn't happen.

Well, we're entering the hottest weather in history. And then that didn't happen.

Oh, by the way, the way to solve both the coming ice age and the coming season of Hellfire was the same: higher taxes. And then they said, Well, it's just global climate change. And I'm thinking, that's the weather. I am old enough to know, hmm, summertime? It's a little warm.

Winter time can be a little chilly.

Sometimes you see extremes. I get it. One day is just super hot. You don't know exactly why, and then you move on with your life.

So, Liz has got a lot of writing about that, and you really ought to take a look at that.

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Steve Bannon found guilty of contempt of Congress because he ignored that January 6th hearing subpoena.

Now, he faced two misdemeanor charges. They could each mean 30 days to a year in prison, and that's for each one.

So, in theory, he could be sentenced to 60 days up to a range of two years. But he has been found guilty. Of contempt of Congress. I am not an attorney. I don't pretend to be one.

I don't play one on the radio or the TV, but I've got to think there'll be an appeal. On all of this, and we'll see how that goes out. By the way, The district judge in this case, Carl Nichols, discharged the jury after hearing closing arguments from both the prosecution and the defense. It was the Department of Justice that charged Steve Bannon with two counts of contempt of Congress. Bannon had claimed executive programme.

privilege precluded him from appearing before the committee to talk about that. All right. Well, I don't know exactly how this goes. but I am sure that we have not heard the last of that. The January 6th Kangaroo Circus does continue, by the way.

I think we've got a new episode coming out tonight. I think it's coming out tonight. There's always seemingly a guest star of note. Most of them don't really seem to hit it out of the park, if you know what I mean. That Cassidy Hutchinson was the one that was just supposed to put this whole thing to risk.

My gosh, she was there and she said, listen, Donald Trump, he was choking a secret service agent and he was jumping into the front seat and trying to steer the vehicle and grabbing the steering wheel. And I can remember watching that and I thought, well. Wow.

I don't know what this has to do with anything, but it was interesting. But then as soon as she said this stuff You had the Secret Service folks going, if you don't mind, we'd love to chat. We would really be very, very happy to be placed under oath. We would testify because what she's saying just didn't happen. Then there was some dust up.

Remember, there was a note, and she claimed, and I think this is what she said, she claimed something like the White House counsel at Pat Chipollone and said, Oh my God, we've got to do this, or we're going to be charged with every crime in America. And then they called in Pat Chipollone and had him there for eight hours. And then one of the cast members on the January 6th miniseries said, Oh, yeah, we didn't ask him to corroborate anything. that uh the other witness said. In fact That member of the committee said, Oh.

We would never ask a witness to corroborate, What another witness said. And I thought That's Kind of the point of having witnesses? Is that you're always, if you really are looking for the truth, and of course they're not, but if you really were looking for the truth, Well, you'd be looking for the truth. You would be asking other people to confirm or deny. You would have a defence.

That's the thing you need to remember about this. This is completely and totally one-sided. And I don't care whether you like Donald Trump or you dislike Donald Trump. Did you vote for Donald Trump? Did you not vote for Donald Trump?

It doesn't matter. We are talking about Standards. We're talking about ethics. And if you're going to accuse anyone Whether it's the former president of the United States or your neighbor or your cousin.

Well, don't you have to be truthful and fair? Don't you have to offer them the opportunity To mount some sort of a defence? Look, this thing, in my opinion, is pure politics. It's not going to arise above that. And I guess that's kind of where we are.

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