Biden Refers to Maryland’s Black Mayor as “Boy”

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So we've been scrolling through reading this partial grand jury report that just came out from Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. And long story short here, it doesn't look like Trump is in any trouble at all. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Program. Very happy for you to join us today.

And again, the breaking news, and this is a weird story, but the grand jury report, which is supposed to be made public, was only partially made public. And we don't have much intel right now, but I will share what we've got and I'll explain why I don't think this is a major issue for President Trump.

So the whole point of this special grand jury, they were investigating whether Trump and his team interfered in the presidential election in Georgia, which they did not. This was all alleged to be an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential results.

So the judge only released six pages of the grand jury's reports and did not dive into the grand jury's conclusions or say whether they recommended indictments related to election interference.

Now, here's the interesting part of all of this. The jurors, this is a reading from the New York Times, the jurors said they believed at least one unnamed witness who testified in the inquiry may have committed perjury and should face indictment. They also found no widespread fraud took place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election that could result in the overturning of the election. They rejected arguments made by President Trump and his supporters.

So the question is, why was the full report not released? And I suspect it's because when the full report is released, it's not going to have anything, there's not going to be anything there, no smoking gun when it comes to President Trump.

So we will see how all of this plays out. You folks in Georgia and across America were expecting all of this today, but you're expecting for the full report to come out.

Some, like the Georgia investigation, concern attempts, by the way, talking about the investigations, concern attempts by Mr. Trump to hold on to the presidency after losing the 2020 election. Others concern his conduct before and after his time in the White House. But the reality is he has been investigated from day one, and they've never been able to find anything. There is no there there there, so to speak.

And I don't think there's anything there in Georgia except some very angry establishment Republicans. And they want to destroy Donald Trump. That's all.

So the question again, why only a portion of this report was released? State law requires the release of the report, but the judge, that would be Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, he decided that releasing the full document now, including the roster of who should or should not be indicted, would be, quote, fundamentally unfair to the people whose names are on the list.

Well, why? Go ahead and release all the information. What are they waiting on? That's what the law says, right? The law says you got to release it.

Go ahead and release it. What's so difficult about that?

So there you go. Again, another attempt for the left and the Republicans in name only to take out President Trump. And it doesn't look like that is going well. I'm just saying it doesn't look like it's going good. But we'll see because, again, we don't know because they did not release the full grand jury report.

But when you look at the interactions President Trump had with the Georgia governor and the Georgia Secretary of State at the time, there was no attempt for the President of the United States was not calling these guys and saying, oh, you've got to throw out these votes. You've got to give me the win. If the President had done that, he would have already been indicted. But I'm just telling you, I'm just telling you, this is how it would have gone down. But I believe you had leaders in Georgia within the Republican Party that saw this as an opportunity to take out Donald Trump.

And there are a lot of establishment Republicans that have been wanting to do that. Look, we've got a great show for you today. And if you hear like rumbles in the background, we're getting these huge, severe thunderstorms here. and you can actually hear them in our beautiful soundproof bunker.

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All right, 844-747-8868. Are you concerned? Really, is there anybody out there who's really concerned that Trump is going to be indicted? I just, again, everything I've read, everything I've seen, I've spent a lot of time with the president. He's not the kind of a guy who's a crook.

He's not a criminal. Again, I will be shocked if this happens. But you have to, at the end of the day, you can bloviate on the cable news channels. You can say whatever you want to say. But when you have to go into the courthouse and you have to put your hand on the Holy Bible and promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, that's what it all comes down to.

I'm just saying. All right.

We're going to talk about it. Those of you that follow us and watch us on our Facebook live stream, you know what we're going to be talking about here.

So Joe Biden, the president of these great United States. Joe Biden, I believe, deep down in his heart, is a racist. No, I do not. Look, that brings me no pleasure to say that the president of these great United States is a racist. But this guy doesn't like black people.

And we have seen this play out time and time again over the years. Just go all the way back to when Joe Biden first showed up in the Senate. And he brags about this all the time, talking about how he used to go out and have lunch, have drinks with the segregationists.

Now, these are very bad people. These segregationists literally wanted to deny blacks their rights under the United States Constitution. I know about you, but I'm not sure I'd be going out and sharing a Big Mac or a Filet-O-Fish with some of these segregationists. But Joe Biden, he had no problem. He said that's what he loves to do.

He likes to go out there and he likes to hang out with the segregationists, including the grand dragon himself, former West Virginia Senator KKK Robert Byrd. The guy was in leadership in the Klan. You can Google it.

So anyway, this has been an ongoing issue for Biden. Yesterday, he's – this is terrible. This is absolute. Look, it pains me to call the person. No, I know he's a racist, but no, it doesn't pay me to call him senile because he is.

But this pains me because you don't want to think that somebody could hate another person or look down on another person because of the color of their skin. Especially here we are in the 21st century. But that's what, this is awful.

So Maryland has their first black governor, Wes Moore. And yesterday, President Biden was talking about the governor in Maryland. And here's how Biden referred to the first black governor of Maryland, cut number 15. And you got a hell of a new governor in Wes Moore, I tell you. he's the real deal and the boy looked like he's still play he got some guns on him boy boy call him a boy now you might think well that was just a slip of the tongue no no no no no uh this is not just a slip of the tongue for Joe Biden.

He just he uses this term nonchalantly. It is it's very, very odd. And I want to I want to play. We're going to go back into the Todd Stearns radio show time machine.

So this was President Biden. Let's play cut number 17. Good afternoon, everybody. We're waiting for a few more people to get on, but we're going to get started, if that's okay with you all. And thanks for joining me.

I'm here. The FEMA director is on. FEMA director, Chris Wells, she's on. And I'm here with my senior advisor and boy who knows Louisiana very, very well, man, and New Orleans. And Senator Critchman.

And Cedric, the boy, would be African-American. It got so bad on the campaign trail. And this, again, this is not something that is just a slip of the tongue. This is something that Biden does all the time. I mean all the time.

As a matter of fact, back in 2007, you might remember this. Then-Senator Biden was launching a bid for the White House, and he made a comment that he had to apologize for. I'm going to read to you what Biden said about Barack Hussein Obama. You ready for this one, folks? This is Joe Biden.

I mean, you've got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man. The only thing the only thing Biden did not do was call Barack Obama a boy, but he called him articulate and bright and clean.

so then cory booker's jumping into all this the senator from new jersey senator booker this was back on the campaign trail during the run for the white house and he was weighing in on this troubling use of the word boy uh from from joe biden cut 16 as a black man in america i know the deeply harmful and hurtful usage of the word boy and how it was used to dehumanize and degrade. I know that segregationists, like the two people here are talking about, through their laws and their language, deeply wounded this nation and the present day manifestations of their work can still be seen in black and brown communities like the one I go home to. I know that somebody running for president of the United States, somebody running to be the leader of our party should know that using the word boy in the way he did can cause hurt and pain. And we need a presidential nominee and the leader of our party to be sensitive to that. And the last thing I know is, I know that I was raised to speak truth to power and that I will never apologize for doing that.

and Vice President Biden shouldn't need this lesson. Oh my. Dare I say, oh boy. I probably shouldn't have said that. My apologies.

I mean, seriously here, folks.

So I'm just curious because it sounds to me, I mean, the guy's got, what, 50 years, 60 years of using this kind of language, going back to when he was the white lifeguard in the black pool, hanging out with Corn Pop and letting the black children caress his hairy legs poolside. You can Google that, too. It's the lunch hour. I don't want to go into great detail. But I'm just wondering, do you think Biden has a race problem here?

I mean, this is insane. 844-747-8868. Toll-free telephone number. That's 844-747-8868. This is the Todd Starnes Show.

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What do you think about Biden? Do you think he's a racist, Scott? No, I don't really think he's a racist. I think he's just a complete idiot. He hates everybody.

If you're not one of his elitist scumbag groups of thieves, he doesn't like you. He hates everybody. And more than likely, he probably is a racist, but he's an idiot.

Well, no doubt he's an idiot. I would throw a moron up there, too. The front porch light's on, but nobody's home. Scott, you know, the issue for me is the history. going all the way back to where he boasted about going out to the dinners with the segregationist and hanging out with him and palling around.

There's something about all that that just rubs me the wrong way. And then when he would describe people like Obama in such really bigoted language, it's just, I don't know.

So, you know, people think Delaware, but there could be some racist people in Delaware. Yeah, but the odds are pretty good that Obama was a racist.

Well, yes. Look at the feet of this country. Fair enough. That's a great point. All right, Scott, appreciate the call.

Real quick, let's go to North Carolina. Matt on the line. Matt, what's going on? Hello, Todd. How are you doing?

Matt, get to it. We've got about 30 seconds.

Okay, quick. That was a great call with Scott. But Biden is no doubt a racist and a plagiarist, and now he's guilty of treason.

Well, yes, by letting that balloon fly over America and photograph all of our military installations. I just want to know from Kevin McCarthy, and Matt, thanks for the call. I just want to know from Kevin McCarthy, when are we going to impeach this guy? You're telling me that allowing the Chinese to fly a balloon over America, that's not worthy of impeachment? I don't know about that.

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We don't know what kind of materials, but the aerial footage I'm looking at shows just about every car is off the tracks. There's nothing on fire right now, no explosions, so that's good news. This happened in Van Buren Township, Michigan. Folks, may I just – does it feel like we're just in some sort of a weird dystopian movie right now where something is going on and we're not. I'm wondering if people are not putting these puzzle pieces together.

How many train derailments have we had? Was it five now, six? All were hauling hazardous chemicals. We're watching these manufacturing plants go up in smoke early this morning. There was one that went up in smoke, caught fire, burned to the ground in Florida.

and now this? Do you think this is all just coincidental, or do you think there could be something more to this? Because it certainly has the feel of America being under attack. And I'm not saying it's China or Russia. This, to me, feels like these radical environmental groups, these extremists that are going out there and trying to shut down America, shut down the power grid.

Keep in mind, in 2022, over 100 attacks on the power grid. And it does make you wonder what the heck is going on here.

So, again, this breaking news happening just outside of Michigan, where a massive train hauling hazardous materials has derailed. And where's Pete Buttigieg? Where is Secretary Pete? 844-747-8868 toll-free telephone number that's 844-747-8868 by the way that meeting last night in East Palestine, Ohio those folks you gotta feel for them you really do you had the train company Norfolk Southern came in and said you know what we really feel bad about all of this we really do We know your chickens are dying and Little Fluffy is dead in the backyard and you got headaches and you're developing skin rashes. Here's what we're going to do for you good people in East Palestine.

We're going to give you $25,000.

Now, at first glance, you might say, oh, well, that's nice. Maybe that'll help, you know, go out and get a new pet or something. But no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's $25,000 for everybody.

So you're getting one, basically everybody's getting a dollar from Norfolk Southern. And they're going around. These people are sleazy.

So they're going around and they're asking, the railroad people, they're going around, and the environmental people are going around asking folks to sign documents stating that they're not going to sue and they're happy with the dollar they're going to be getting from Norfolk Southern. I'm telling you, there were hundreds of people that came out to this You know who wasn't there last night? Norfolk Southern wasn't there And neither was the Transportation Secretary Now, I will say this And I want to be very clear And just, we have a lot of people A lot of these leftist organizations And they hire these kids that sit in their basements Eating their Funyuns They have bad skin And they're listening to our program That's all they do That's how they make their money. And they're waiting for me just to mess up or have a foible on the air. We don't do foibles here.

So I want to be very clear for Media Matters and Salon.com and HuffPost. I want you people to hear me. I think the reason why the Biden administration has not been proactive in dealing with this environmental crisis is because they don't care. And why don't they care? Let's just get real.

Over 90 percent of that county, Columbiana County, Ohio, is lily white. That's not a demographic the Democrat Party cares about. But let's let's probably deal with the larger issue. Over 70 percent of the voters in Columbiana County voted for Donald John Trump back in 2020. 2020.

So when the White House looks at what's happening, they're seeing, oh, you mean a bunch of America first MAGA people are getting sick and keeling over?

Okay, no problem. Less votes on Election Day. That's what they're thinking. And that's why the Biden administration has not taken this seriously. It's also why the mainstream media is not broadcasting from East Palestine, Ohio.

It's why there's no wall-to-wall coverage of what's going on there. Because it doesn't help the Democrats. Let's go to Bill, Memphis, Tennessee, listening to us on our flagship station, KWAM. Bill, what's on your mind? you are 157 percent correct in your analysis of that because you're right i looked on all the channels to try to find that meeting last night i couldn't find it anywhere and um you know just like they did here in the state of tennessee you know all students are supposed to get free lunch because they don't want anybody to not eat but they biden took it away because we wouldn't allow boys to be girls and girls to be boys in the bathroom so he said well then screw y'all we're not giving the kids free lunch punish the kids for for lunch because of that that's completely political you're right this is completely political and at that meeting last night you know the much valuehood meeting nobody showed up important you know it was local officials there was no congressional people there buddhich wasn't there even people from the railroad said they were scared to show up.

It's like, how is this acceptable? I mean, if Trump was president and this happened, he would have been crazy on the railroad. He says, you need to have somebody there. They need to have checkbooks in their hand. They need to help these people find places to go far away from this.

It's absolutely ridiculous that they only went like, I think, a mile outside. The radius There's no telling what the radius is. And they tested the water too quickly. It takes time for it to seep down into the water table. I mean, it's unbelievable that this is going on in, what, 21st century?

This is like something back in the 70s that we heard about. Bill, and they're already testing the water in places like Louisville, Kentucky.

So this is a significant issue, and it is an environmental disaster akin to the BP oil spill. But it's probably going to be worse because we're not – well, here's the thing, though. In the minds of the radical left, they think the BP oil spill was worse because it killed a fish. This is probably going to end up killing humans, but that doesn't matter. It killed fish.

Lots of fish. Have you heard about that? There's people that live by this creek. All the fish are dead. It's true.

It's true. And birds. There's a guy talking about birds. He has a bunch of bird feeders. He hasn't seen a sparrow since this happened.

He puts food out every day and it's never touched. There's no birds anywhere. I mean this is like three mile out almost except we know what going on I mean it ridiculous It unacceptable more unacceptable behavior by this administration I can't believe we're accepting this. Bill, I'm with you on that. And if I were Trump, I would be holding a campaign rally in East Palestine, Ohio.

Exactly. That's what I'd be doing. You know, contact him. You should contact him. I'm going to send him a note, Bill.

All right.

And I will credit you. Bill from Memphis, Mr. President, says you need to get your butt to East Palestine. Respectfully, sir. Exactly.

There you go. J.D. Vance. J.D. Vance is supposed to be there tonight.

There you go. He's supposed to be there with J.D. Vance. All right.

Exactly. Bill, appreciate the call. Thank you for listening to KWAM. We really appreciate that. 844-747-8868.

What do you think about that? Having Trump hold a rally in East Palestine. Because I'm telling you, folks, this is all politics. They don't care about these people. They don't.

You know who else doesn't care? Establishment Republicans. They don't care about these people. They'll be siding with the railroad. But I'm telling you, we've got an infrastructure problem in this country, and what are we doing?

We're spending billions, billions of our tax dollars, and where are those monies going? They're going to Ukraine. That's where it's all going. All right, 844-747-8868 is our toll-free telephone number. That's 844-747-8868.

Now, I've got to play some audio from Don Lemon.

So Nikki Haley threw her name in the hat yesterday. She's running for the White House. She's a good conservative, good Republican. I know a lot of people on the MAGA world, they're calling her a rhino, but not everybody can be Donald Trump.

So Haley does not have a chance. I don't know why she's doing this other than to maybe be in the running for vice president. She's polling at 4% right now, which is three points below Mike Pence, who really doesn't have a shot.

So anyway, they're talking about all of this on CNN this morning. And that morning show is god-awful. It's like watching a hangover in real time, only to realize you're the one with the hangover. I didn't have anything to drink last night. It's really rough.

And one of the reasons why is that the women on that, the women on the morning show are more manly than the man on the morning show is. A guy by the name of Little Donnie Lemon.

So Don Lemon wanted to weigh in on Nikki Haley. And Nikki Haley is 51 years old. And she's out there. One of her big campaign slogans is, we've got to start testing the mental capacity of all the old guys.

So clearly she was going after Trump and Biden, but mostly Trump. Here's how Don Lemon reacted to that. Cut nine. This whole talk about age makes me uncomfortable. I think it's the wrong road to go down.

She says people, you know, politicians or something are not in their prime. Nikki Haley isn't in her prime.

Sorry. when a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s. What do you talk? Wait. That's not according to me.

Prime for what? It depends. It's just like prime. If you look it up, if you Google when is a woman in her prime, it'll say 20s, 30s, and 40s. I don't necessarily agree with that.

So I think she has to be careful about saying that politicians aren't in their prime. I think they need to qualify. Are you talking about prime for like child-bearing? Or are you talking about prime for being president? But the facts are Google it.

Everybody at home, when is a woman in her prime? It says 20s, 30s, and 40s. And I'm just saying Nikki Haley should be careful about saying that politicians are not in their prime and they need to be in their prime when they serve because she wouldn't be in her prime according to Google or whatever it is. You wonder if Don Lemon peed himself just a little bit. Did he realize what he stepped into on that morning show?

So what does he recommend we do? She's 51 years old. Are we going to take her out to the farm and put her out to pasture? Is that what he's recommending here?

Now, Dylan, you're dating, and you date a lovely young lady who is a nurse in Birmingham, Alabama. That's right. But she's a Memphis girl.

Now, how long have you guys been dating? We're coming up on three years. Wow, three years. All right.

Getting ready to put the ring on the... Hey. Yeah. You never know. Yep.

All right.

Good, good. Can't give away too much, Todd. I know. I know. We're family, so we can't really give away that much.

So I'm just curious. In your three-year relationship, have you figured out that there are just some things you should not say to a woman? Oh, yes. Absolutely. Do you have like a running list or is it just you catalog it in your brain?

It's just an instinct thing. You know, it's right time, right place. You know, if you're there, you know you're not supposed to say that. Such as? um your prime you're not in your prime anymore you know that would be topping the list how old are you you never ask that not not even to your own girlfriend even if you know even if you know you don't ask and what about um oh it's uh when she asks you a question it's like does this dress make me look fat yep nope you always you know you give the correct answer which is you look beautiful in anything that you wear it doesn't matter if you look like a chinese balloon yeah because you know you don't want to get caught in a trap first of all but you know you also want to be sincere and if you feel that way then you you should say it you should say you look beautiful part of me feels bad for don lemon because he he doesn't like the ladies you know he bats for the other team so he may not know any of this yeah he may not know that there are just some things you don't need to be talking about especially on national television well you know he does have a mother so he could you know take from that a little bit well that's well you know that's a fair point yeah like um is that what you're gonna wear tonight you never want to are you pregnant that's not crazy that's not a good or uh this isn't one of your lady days is it that's a good one you never want to you never want to say that all right ladies thank you dylan uh ladies we're gonna open this up to you to you Your response to Don Lemon, he says if you're outside of your 20s and 30s and you're past your prime, and guys, are there other things you probably should not say or ask your female date, lover, wife, girlfriend?

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To learn more, go to sleepnumber.com. We've got some great guests coming up. Liz Harrington, President Trump's spokesperson, is going to be here. We're going to ask Liz if she's passed her prime.

So, Dylan, just alert her to that.

So, ahead of time. Congressman Van Drew from New Jersey. That's Harry Hurley country. We're going to be talking to Congressman Van Drew. He's on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

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So they carry all of my books at Novel Memphis. And this book was really the first in a series of books documenting the collapse of our society. And I wrote in this book, I predicted that the progressive left, their ultimate goal was to eradicate sex and gender. And why were they going to do that? Because they had to do that to destroy the American family.

And everybody thought I was off my rocker. But years later, it turns out I was right on the money.

So there's a new group of American and Canadian scientists, and they are officially recommending that scientists phase out terms like male and female from scientific language. Instead of calling you a man or a woman, they want to call you a sperm producer or a egg producer.

Now, can you imagine you're at the bar at Applebee's trying to meet that sweet young lady at the end of the bar, and you walk over there with your Baptist martini in hand, and you say, Hey, baby, are you a sperm producer or an egg producer? You know what's going to happen. You may as well ask the woman if she was having a ladies' day, because she's going to go, you know what, on your Baptist martini. Anyway, we've got more to say about this, but I tried to tell folks, it's coming, it's happening. We'll be right back.

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Hello, everybody. Great to have you with us today. Todd Starnes here. We're waiting for a big EPA hearing to find out the latest from East Palestine.

Meanwhile, a lot of people there in that town are asking where Pete Buttigieg is. Why hasn't he been there, boots on the ground? And it's a great question. As a matter of fact, the mayor of that community said he had not even heard from the White House until yesterday. What was taking them so long?

Well, as I laid out for you yesterday, and I'll repeat it just briefly, the reason why is that the people in Columbia, Anna County, Ohio, do not matter to Joe Biden or the Democrats. They voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. It is also an overwhelmingly white community, and therefore, that is not politically advantageous for the Democrats.

So they're giving it a pass, no matter how awful it is.

Well, look, we're going to talk more about this a little bit later. I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Good friend of this program. She is the spokesperson for President Trump, Liz Harrington. Liz, hope you're doing good.

Hey, Todd. I'm well. How are you? I'm doing well, and I have to say you are still in your prime, Liz Harrington, no matter what Don Lemon says. Thank you so much.

Unbelievable. You know, I was watching that. It was like, I hate to pardon the pun, but it was like watching a train wreck on CNN when Lemon just would not stop, that guy. It's absolutely ridiculous. You know, you were just talking about that East Palestine disaster, and, you know, it struck me yesterday thinking about this.

You know, they like to talk about environmental racism.

Well, what do they call this? I mean, clearly these leaders couldn't care less because it's a bunch of Trump supporters in a town, a small town, hardworking, manufacturing farmers that all voted for Trump and they don't care. It's absolutely sickening. It doesn't matter where this would have occurred. Can you imagine?

It would never occurred because we wouldn't have the absolute like third world status we are now. It wouldn't have happened if President Trump was in there. But can you imagine if this did happen? We would be all over the place on the ground helping these people, and there's nobody there. It is such a disgrace.

Well, and to add to the disgrace, you have Secretary Pete out there blaming President Trump for what happened. It's sick. It is absolutely sick. It's disgusting lies. I mean, how can they?

They have no shame. They have no shame. And he has presided over the absolute destruction of pretty much every major transportation sector. We've seen all airlines grounded under his watch. We've seen the supply chain completely ground to a halt.

Now we're seeing these train derailments with these controlled chemical burns. I mean, this is so out of control. He has no accountability. He took, you know, six months off for paternity leave. This guy is a joke.

He is unqualified. He doesn't know what he's doing. And he's a racist because all he does is spend his time complaining about white people. I mean, it's unbelievable. This guy has got to go.

And if they had any shame, they would have resigned yesterday. Yeah, they've got no shame, this crowd, Liz. And it's heartbreaking to watch all the people coming out, hundreds and hundreds of them. and they're sharing their stories. They're being told, oh, everything's okay.

Go ahead and drink the water.

Meanwhile, people are complaining of all these medical issues now, the livestock dropping dead. And then just a little while ago, we got word of another massive train derailment involving, again, hazardous chemicals right outside of Detroit. And you'll wonder, when is the Biden administration going to wake up? Exactly. You know, it's just like the Chinese spy balloon, right?

They've opened up our border. They've opened up our airspace to enemies. And now I don't know what's going on with these train derailments, but it's completely out of control. And nobody knows what's going on. And people are going to get hurt.

I mean, the fact that you have all these animals dropping dead, and this is clearly, it was not safe to go back into this area after two days. I mean, the government officials at the state level, but more importantly, the federal level, because they have the resources. They pass, with Mitch McConnell's help, by the way, these rhinos in the Senate, they pass a, what, $1.7 trillion so-called infrastructure bill, which was nothing of the kind. The federal government has the resources. What are they doing?

They're doing nothing. and I mean this this has to stop our country we're not going to make it to 2024 unless we get a hold of our country I mean this is so out of control uh crumbling before our eyes I mean we are just praying for the people all throughout that region in the area in Ohio and Pennsylvania and now you have reports of it's all going down in the river uh to West Virginia as well I mean this is such an environmental catastrophe. And where are the people, where are the Green New Deal zealots? They are silent because they do not actually care about our environment. Yes.

And if you're looking for more proof, further proof, look down on the Atlantic Ocean seabed where there is what's left of the Nord Stream pipeline, which was blown up and we're being led to believe under orders of Joe Biden. You know, and they haven't said a word about it, about which is, I believe, the biggest release of pollutants in history for that type of gas. I mean, it's unbelievable. It's unfathomable. And you've heard nothing about it.

Not to mention the fact that the escalation with this war in Ukraine that, again, is so needless would never be happening if President Trump was in the White House as commander in chief, where Russia actually respected us. They didn't invade any of their neighbors. President Trump is the only person, the only president in modern history of the past four presidents who can say that because he was strong and he led America with strength. And our enemies, our adversaries, our allies all knew they had to respect the United States of America again. That's all gone.

And we've seen the consequences. And all these consequences are playing out before our eyes on issue after issue after issue. We're a more dangerous world. We're a less prosperous world. And we have to turn it around with President Trump.

And that's why he's running again. Liz, I want to shift gears and talk about the campaign. Of course, Nikki Haley throwing her hat into the ring. She made a couple of hits. I think she somehow insinuates that President Trump needs a mental exam.

She didn't say that by name, but or, you know, to test his cognitive skills. What's the president's reaction to her entering the race?

Well, you said it on True Social yesterday. You know, she's pulling about 1%. That's off to a good start. I don't think he's bothered much by, you know, her entering the race. You know, she called him and he said, look, you know, you said you'd never run against me.

I could never run against our president. But here she is. You know, you said you got to follow your heart. You know, I think it's very kind of interesting that she's talking about a new generation when she has been in politics way longer than President Trump has. She's been around since, I think, 2009 when she was first elected, maybe even before that, actually, when you're talking about the state level.

I mean, this is someone who's been around much longer.

So it's not exactly a new generation. And really, it's not new ideas. These are the same type of ideas. I mean, talking about Ukraine, she wants to escalate there. She wants to send more planes, more tanks.

She wants to escalate everything. She doesn't want to do what President Trump wants to do, which is get a peace deal and stop this needless war. Get America strong again.

So all these issues, you know, we put out a brief on it yesterday, just kind of laying out some of the history, the actual record of Nikki Haley. And it would not lead to a new generation. It would not lead to the real results the American people are desperate for, which they got under President Trump's first term and certainly won under a second. Fair enough. Liz Harrington on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.

I want to play some audio from Sarah Palin weighing in on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Cut number 10, please. You know, for him, it's going to be the more the merrier. Does he think DeSantis jumps in? DeSantis doesn't need to.

I envision him as our president someday, but not right now. Everybody I speak with in Florida, I think I love him. And he does set the tone for, I'd say, every other governor in the nation. I think he's our best governor, and he should stay governor for a bit longer. He's young.

You know, he has decades ahead of him where he can be our president. You see, I'm with Palin. I think he ought to set this one out. He's going to have his turn. But I'm curious, are you guys preparing for DeSantis to enter the race?

Well, I think, you know, the writing's kind of on the wall at this point. If he was, you know, committed to Florida and staying there as governor, he would say so. But he's not willing to say that. Obviously, he's got these big globalist donors coming in, announcing that they're going to support, want him to run. He hasn't, you know, denounced that or any of that talk.

And so I think it's pretty obvious until he says otherwise. I think it's a fair assumption that he's running, which, you know, is not a very MAGA thing to do, because the most MAGA candidate in this race is clearly the leader of the MAGA movement. And it's President Donald J. Trump, who not only had a historic first term, but was robbed of his second term. And Ron DeSantis has said nothing about that either.

I mean, this is a guy who, without President Trump's endorsement, would not have won the primary to become the nominee for governor of Georgia in 2018. And then in 2018 when they were up to their shenanigans in Broward County, when they kept finding ballots, they were trying to get it away from Rick Scott, the senator. They were trying to take away votes from Ron DeSantis running for governor. You know, who stepped in? President Donald J.

Trump and said, stop the nonsense. Stop the cheating. We have to clean up our elections and really save that race for him.

So look, President Trump's been very clear his thoughts on this. He's an open book. He thinks it's not, you know, a very loyal thing to do. But, you know, he's open to whoever gets in the race. We're not worried about anything.

You know, we're worried about the American people in the state of the country. And that's why we're committed to winning and making sure we fix our great country. We had a caller, Bill, from Memphis, Tennessee, and he had an idea. I kind of like this idea. Biden won't go to East Palestine.

Pete Buttigieg won't go. Wouldn't it be great if President Trump was able to kind of work his way up there and maybe do a rally? You know, the people, it would be amazing for the people. And we'll have to talk about it. I'll have to talk about it with him.

But, you know, he has a heart for the American people. He really does. And I know his heart is pouring out. I mean, you can't watch these interviews and not feel that. I mean, can you imagine if this happened to your town and you'd be stuck and not able to even get out?

I mean, these people, a lot of them do not have the means. And even if they did, they can't sell their home now. Who's going to buy their home? It is just beyond a disgrace what the failure of the government response. I think it is a great idea, but we'll have to talk about it and see what the possibilities are.

Liz, we're going to leave it there. Always great having you on the program. And tell the president we said hello. Oh, I will. Thanks so much, Todd.

Always good to be with you. All right.

There you have it, folks. Liz Harrington, a spokesperson for President Trump. And doesn't look like they're very concerned, doesn't look like they're terribly worried about Nikki Haley. And again, her polling is just minuscule. And even Ron DeSantis, all combined, Trump beats all candidates, all Republicans running.

And if you go down the list, look at Pompeo, Pence, DeSantis, Tim Scott, who's actually considering a run for the White House as well. All right, folks, so who do you like here? I mean, Trump is going to be the nominee. Who do you think the VP ought to be? 844-747-8868, toll-free telephone number.

That's 844-747-8868 This is the Todd Stern Show All right, welcome back, everybody. Good to have you with us today. Let's go to North Carolina Charles on the line. WSIC is our great radio station there. Hi, Charles.

So who do you think Trump ought to pick?

Well, Todd, I hope you're doing well today. Todd, I'll tell you what I would like to see him pick. I want to see him pick Ron DeSantis. I've seen our country and our party go down this road before in 1980, and I don't want to see what happened now happen, what happened then happen now. That's when Ronald Reagan, as you know, Todd, brought in George H.W.

Bush to be the vice president. who was also his chief political rival during the campaign. And it supposedly unified the party. Unfortunately, after Reagan left office, that establishment wing came right back in and pretty much started to undo everything Ronald Reagan did.

So I think Trump needs to pick somebody that's going to implement and is on board with a MAGA agenda where if something happens to Trump, the agenda will continue to be implemented. and not undone. And the only person, Todd, that I'm comfortable, that I feel comfortable of doing that is Ron DeSantis. It also guarantees you the state of Florida. DeSantis has a broad appeal in the Hispanic community, so that's going to help you in states like Arizona.

And, you know, if not DeSantis, Todd, somebody from one of these battleground states like Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, but definitely it's got to be somebody that's on board with Trump and not a Nikki Haley type or a Mike Pompeo or somebody like that. You know, it's interesting, Charles, going back to 1980, that was not a, believe it or not, that was not meant to be a unity ticket. It was this really George H.W. Bush was the accidental vice president, and it was going to be a Reagan-Ford ticket. That was the plan.

Then Gerald Ford goes out there and does an interview, and he talked about how this was actually going to be a co-presidency. And when Reagan got wind of that interview, he went ballistic, and that's how George H.W. Bush ended up getting the job, even though they did not like each other, and Reagan especially did not like George H.W. Bush. correct correct but yeah i just think the santa that now trump may have to move or declare residence in another state i think there's something uh in constitutionally that will prevent them both being from the same state but i just think that those two would be the dream team but todd one thing i want to see donald trump do or should i say not do he does not need to criticize DeSantis, Nikki Haley, any Republican opponent.

He just needs to move past all that, focus on Joe Biden, focus on the MAGA agenda, and not do anything to divide the party whatsoever. And he'll win. Let them be the ones that call names, that point fingers, and do this and do that. But just be above all that, and be presidential, and go out there, and just act like you're president because in my opinion he is he was robbed of he was robbed of a second term go out there uh act like the president and uh and get it and get your agenda implemented all right charles we're gonna leave it there appreciate the call um folks what say you charles says trump desantis it makes sense it would be a dream team and it would also set DeSantis up for running in 2028 as president Look, I like it, I do, and it makes sense to me. I'm not sure if those two giant egos are going to be willing to do it.

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Watching Fox News right now. They're all over this Memphis, Tennessee police scandal. The beating of Tyree Nichols. Horrible situation. And we haven't heard from the police chief in forever.

I think she's gone into hiding. People are literally walking around town with the milk cartons and her face is on the cup. Has anybody seen her? Missing. The mayor refuses to do any interviews with anyone other than these leftist news organizations, so the mayor doesn't want to answer any questions.

The police chief doesn't want to answer any questions. And you've got the mainstream media, and they're just – it's a mess. And they're missing the story, including, you know, I hate to say this, but including Fox News. I don't think people truly understand what happened in Memphis. By the way, and I'm going to explain this because this will impact you in your city, in your community.

Just yesterday, our George Soros district attorney, a guy by the name of Steve Mulroy, he was a law professor. He is a far leftist, and he campaigned on bail reform. That's what Steve Mulroy did. And he won. He beat the only Republican holding an office in Memphis, Tennessee.

And this guy vowed to basically rebuild the justice system here in Memphis. And the reality is we are a majority minority city. An overwhelming majority of the crime is committed by minorities. That's just a reality. Even the police chief, who is a black female.

And by the way, she was only hired because the mayor wanted to make another diversity hire. Got to have a black female police chief. And that's what they got.

So yesterday, we have a brand new cashless bail system. And the district attorney says the whole point of this is to have fewer people in jail. And I would suggest looking at how that's working out for people in New York City, where folks are afraid to even step foot on the subway now. And it looks as though we're going to have all of these thugs back out on the streets. Oh, by the way, somebody said I was a racist because they said thug is the new N-word.

Is that true? Where can I go to get – because I want to stay on top of all the latest machinations when it comes to the language. But is there one person that decides that this word is now considered to be racist? I'm very curious about that. And I'll get – there's a reason I'm asking.

moment.

So anyway, to give you an example, a few days ago, there were these teenage boys, and they tried to carjack somebody in a very nice part of town, and they opened fire on the motorist. Thankfully, the motorist escaped injury, but they were trying to shoot and kill this guy. One of the kids who was arrested, 16 years old, you know what they did? They let him right back out on the streets again. Gave him a monitor.

He's got to put that on his leg, a leg monitor, one of those ankle things. And the only reason we know this is there was yet another criminal act day before yesterday, and this kid got arrested, and he already had his ankle monitor. What are they going to do, put the ankle monitor on the other one now? We're going to have two? There was a 10-year-old boy in Memphis, had a gun, went over to a woman in her car.

A grandmother put that gun right between her eyeballs and said, give me the car, I'm going to blow your head off. It was a 10-year-old. A 10-year-old.

So the woman does as she's instructed to do, and the kid crashes the car, and they arrest this kid. The kid did not even step foot in jail. The kid was immediately released. This is all part of the district attorney's plan to empty the jails.

Now, I'm curious. All you people listening to us in Memphis, Tennessee, this is an opportunity for the rest of the nation to understand the ramifications of all of this, the ramifications of electing soft on-crime lawmakers. And I'm curious, do you actually feel safe in this city? 844-747-8868 is our toll-free telephone number.

That's 844-747-8868. By the way, this Tyree Nichols thing, this whole thing is weird, and it is going to take a very interesting turn that will end up being a lifetime TV movie. But I'm telling you right now, folks, the mainstream media will not cover what this is really all about because they want this to be about police reform. It has nothing to do with that. It's looking more and more like this is or this was some sort of a lover's triangle gone bad.

And poor Mr. Nichols got killed. And if that's the case, that has nothing to do with police reform.

Now, again, they haven't come out officially and said we still don't have all the video and we don't have a lot of the evidence. But a lot of people around town are saying there's a whole heck of a lot more to this story. Anyway, it's all over the national news. All right.

I want to get back to the racist language. And by the way, our number 844-747-8868. That's 844-747-8868. 68. Joyless Reed over at MSDNC very upset with Ron DeSantis says he's using racist language cut number 12.

It's hard to get away from the fact that when he says woke they mean when they say woke they mean black. Absolutely. Black folk invented the term woke. And they have twisted it. And the things that they object to.

The black national anthem. The fact that white people were marching for Black Lives Matter. That's what they're afraid of. It is the connection of even white folks to empathy for black folks it's really hard to avoid you know mr gillum said he may not be racist but the race but the race is my think he's racist 100 and i think that reverend sharpton you know we ran out touched on that you know it's scary when you see these young white kids marching these young white kids who are quote unquote woke because you know that is who they're trying to protect because be very clear when he's talking about parental rights and when he's talking about protecting children he's not talking about black or brown children that's correct he's talking about white children that's right so whenever you hear the word woke i see black people that that's what joyless reed over at msdnc says she's not the only one soul daddy o'brien oh i'm sorry soul of dad soul daddy o'brien i did it again soul a dad o'brien there we go a former cnn news gal and she got whacked, but she's on the Twitterverse now, and she's all out there. She's throwing these Twitter bombs left and right.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, of course, weighed in on the Super Bowl and the National Anthem and talked about how we could go without all that wokeness, talking about the Black National Anthem. And Soul Daddy says, for many people, woke means black people, or more likely, a racist slur.

So maybe do a better job in interviews when people talk about wokeness.

Okay. Oh, yes. Soul Daddy is one of those. She uses the okay, okay, okay.

So I just want to clear this up. And, again, I don't know if there's a national clearinghouse and people sit around and they're just coming up with, okay, you know what? This word is racist now. That word is racist. Duke's Mayonnaise, racist.

Chick-fil-A, racist. Cracker Barrel.

Well, Cracker Barrel can't be racist because cracker is, well, you know, that's a slur for honkies. White people. People of the Caucasian Persuasion.

So I'm just curious who runs this clearinghouse. They determine what words are racist and what words are not. That's all I'm asking here. But anyway, I want to address Soul Dandy and Joyless for just a moment because I'm pretty sure that woke does not mean what you think it means, girls. I suspect that these girls just need an education.

So, joyless, soul daddy, listen up here. Yes, many people use the word woke, but it does not mean what you think it means because I'm pretty sure woke means self-righteous, perpetually offended, Jackasses.

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Do you have a penis? that's horrible that escalated quickly uh wow so that was a a hearing in arkansas the there's been a big debate over these transgender surgeries you know the um these radical sex and gender revolutionaries perverts and they want to mutilate these kids It's just unbelievable.

So anyway, there was a hearing yesterday, and one of the lawmakers, who you just heard, was asking a question. This was Senator McKee, Matt McKee. And he was interviewing Gwendolyn Herzig, who is actually a hemzig. Mr. Hemzig is a pharmacist who is a man, born a man, now identifies as a gal, and he was testifying in support of allowing minors to whack off their private parts.

This was all happening in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. And, of course, you heard the audience, how dare you? Who do you think you are asking this man if he has an appendage? Who do you think you are?

Well, it's a valid point because this guy is identifying himself. And I want you to think about this for a moment. This guy is testifying that children, who don't know any better, children should be allowed to have surgery to cut off their private parts.

Meanwhile, this is a grown man. And he didn't get rid of his parts. According to NBC News, covering the story, the hearing, this is terrible, Mr. Herzig said, that's horrible. I don't know what my rights are, but that question was horribly inappropriate.

Hey, pal, listen up. We have something called the Constitution. You have a right to ask whatever kinds of questions you want to ask. Mr. Hemzig, pardon me, Herzig, said, I'm a health care professional, a doctor.

Please treat me as such.

Next question, please.

Well, I would have just asked the question again. It seems to me it's a legitimate question. I mean, if you're going to force these children to go through these horrible mutilation surgeries, why didn't you go through that? Hmm? Anyway, people are very upset.

I thought the senator asked a very straightforward question. Oh, Sam Smith is back in the news. Is this the singer guy who is? All right.

I just don't get this fella.

So now he's weighing in. Just play the audio. Goodness gracious. Yes, I do. Yeah, yeah.

I'd love to be a fisherman. What, like a fly fisherman? I'd be any type of fisherman. them i think i would like to one day i just like to end my days fishing like we can do that i do it on the sea and i do it in the lakes i've never done it alone someone's always taught me fantastic yeah wait did he say what i i thought he said he can we play that again it's not he didn't say he wanted to be a fisherman right he he said something else let's go back and listen very closely. Yes, I do.

Yeah, yeah, I'd love to be a fisher of them. What, like a fly fisherman? I'd be any type of fisher of them. I think I would like to, one day I'd just like to end my days fishing. We can solve that.

Do you fly fishing? I do it on the sea and I do it in the lakes. I've never done it alone.

So cool.

Someone's always taught me. Fantastic. Yeah. I bet he's done it alone.

So Sam Smith is a man.

So he was born a man. He now identifies as something called non-binary. And there was a time in America, there was a time in the world where if you behave like this, you were sent to a hospital or a clinic so they could help you get better. They would not put you on national television.

So Sam Smith, the singer, says that he would like to be a fisher them. Not a fisher man, but a fisher them. Unbelievable. Now, he's catching a lot of blowback. By the way, Smith uses the pronouns they and them.

Again, he's a man, sir. A man. People are weighing in. What fresh linguistic hell is this? Good question.

Sam Smith needs to shut up, says Piers Morgan. The saddest thing about this is the fact nobody pulled Sam Smith up on Fisher them, even though he was smiling wryly. Nobody picked up on it. That was the interesting bit. Fear of offense.

This is, again, Bev Turner, a British television presenter. Fear of offense has stifled curiosity and caused mass conversational constipation. Oh, I like Bev. You go, girl. I wonder what kind of fish.

I mean, if Sam Smith was out there, fish, what kind of a, no, it's not a crappie guy. No, probably not trout. I'm thinking blowfish. Be a monkfish. You ever seen one of those?

Monkfish are very ugly. Yeah, they are ugly. But I'm thinking blowfish. Let's go to the phones. Billy in North Carolina, what's on your mind?

Yeah, I was just listening to your conversation about the pharmacist, I believe, and the question he was asked and how he thought it was so terrible. You know, it's just like most of your liberal Democrats. They want everybody else to do what they say, but they don't want to do it themselves. They want to spend everybody else's money as long as it's not their own. And they don't, they will cut everybody else's, you know, wad off, but they want to keep theirs, you know.

So they want you to do as they say and not as they do. That's it, Billy. You're absolutely right. And I'm glad this state lawmaker had the courage to call this guy out because that's exactly. Who do you think you are asking me if I have a mail appendage?

Should have demanded an answer. Yes. And we have just taken his word for it. We don't need to have show and tell there at the state capitol. Yeah, well, I didn't want to see it.

I just wanted him to answer. I understand. But, you know, I don't think the liberals know what the truth is. It's just they tell the truth when it's okay, and they tell a lie when it's okay. That's it.

They don't get caught. Billy, you're absolutely right. Appreciate that call, sir. And he is right, folks. When push comes to shove, the Democrats are always out there saying, you do this, and then they turn around and do the exact opposite.

So good for you, Mr. McKee, for calling out this radical transgender activist. And again, there's no such thing as transgenderism. God made male and female, ladies and gentlemen, male and female. All right, we've got to take a break.

We have got a great next hour coming up. We're going to be talking with Congressman Jeff Van Drew out of New Jersey. We're going to ask him about all these train derailments, crazy stuff going on out there. Also, he's co-sponsoring a Build the Wall Now Act. And then a little bit later on, Mark Graney, the author of the Gray Man series, had a great show on Netflix, brand new novel coming out, New York Times bestseller.

He's going to be here in studio. Got to take a break here, folks. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Live from the Liberty University studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's common sense conservative commentary from Todd Starnes. That's us, that's right.

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Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to our three of the big show. Good to have you with us today. border to border, coast to coast, across the Fruited Plain.

Well, we've got a lot going on this hour of the show. I want to go right to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Great to have with us from the 2nd Congressional District in New Jersey, our friend Congressman Jeff Van Drew. Congressman, I hope you're doing good today. I'm doing good, Todd, and it's good to be on with you, and thank you for the work that you do in bringing the truth to the people.

You know, Congressman, you and I have a mutual friend, of course, the great Harry Hurley, who is the unofficial mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey. Absolutely. Harry keeps his finger on the pulse. I'm telling you, everything that's going on, not only in Atlantic City, but in South Jersey, New Jersey and the country. He's a good man and he is a really focused person.

The interesting thing about Harry is, and we're friends, but we started just about the same time. I was like the mayor of Dennis Township, a relatively small rural community of about 7,000 people. And he started his radio show, and we've known each other ever since.

Well, he's a great guy, and Harry fills in on a regular basis on my show. And we just appreciate his great work. You know, Congressman, we've been following the developments in East Palestine, Ohio. You are a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. word just coming out a little while ago of another train derailment in Detroit.

Congressman, are these all just coincidences? What's going on here? I have to tell you, Todd, first of all, and I think you know me a little bit, I am not a conspiracy guy that sees something happening behind every door. I don't believe in weird theories and all, but I have never seen a time. I was just talking to my staff about it.

I've been around a few years, And since being a little boy to adulthood in my life now, I have never seen a time in history such as this where you have a president who doesn't reassure us, who doesn't come out and exude strength. I mean, we've had some bad presidents, but this is by far the worst. And I'm going to say it. I'm going to say the terrible E-word. He really should be impeached.

And it's not because he's a Democrat and I'm a Republican. It's because it's everything he's done. It's because what he's done to the military, what he has done to our police, by the way he's behaved, what he's done to our borders, what he's done as far as these balloons and objects and things. I guess we'll hear now what they're going to supposedly tell us what they are. Don't think that the congressmen, even the ones that are on Armed Services Committee, know more because they don't.

Because I'm not sure that he knows. We're weak. We're weak with China. We're weak with Russia. We're spending money like there's no tomorrow.

We have all kinds of issues and problems. And I'm very, very concerned. And I feel so badly for the people in Palestine, in Palestine, because they literally are not in many cases getting the truth. They are so worried because they don't have an administration that they can be confident in. They are so worried that they're being told lies.

I would worry, too. I'll tell them right off the bat. I'd be very careful before I'd go back. I'd have it checked out independently. And, of course, we're going to have hearings on this in the Transportation Infrastructure Committee.

We're also going to have, you know, information coming to us, hopefully on a regular basis. But it hasn't been much. And it's so typical of this administration. And, Congressman, I mean, talk about the Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg. Where is this guy?

People were asking at that big town hall meeting last night, where is Pete Buttigieg? And I'm afraid, Congressman, when you look at the demographics here, 96% white community, over 70% of those people voted for Donald Trump. It's the area of the country. Barack Obama said they're bitter clingers, cling to the guns, cling to the religion. And I wonder if the White House just really doesn't care because they're not worth anything politically to these folks.

uh god knows because see the the new democratic party is a party of elitism it's a party of we're smarter than you we know better than you we have to rule and guide you it is not the part you know used to be years ago okay this is the party of the working person the working person now uh most of them are republicans regular folks and when i say working person uh you know i'm talking about people, anything from painters to carpenters to electricians to plumbers to doctors and dentists, people who just work for a living for real. And they don't respect people like that. They don't, I'm a dentist. They don't like dentists either. It's not even a matter only, people think it's just a matter of education.

It's not. And unfortunately, they demean those people and diminish them and don't respect them.

So it does make you wonder a lot. And you know, Secretary Buttigieg, seriously, again, not to be mean, I don't like to be, but I got to tell the truth. It's what I do. This guy is behaving like a prepubescent child. I mean, he's laughing at jokes about balloons.

This is serious stuff. He's laughing, almost laughing about what's going on in Ohio and doesn't care. He should have been there. He should have been there with his team. For God's sake, if the president could have been there, and he could have been because the president's basically doing nothing, he should have been there to reassure people that we're strong, that we can deal with this, that we're going to turn over every stone and look under every rock to find anything that could be wrong or would go wrong.

And why are so many trains derailing? Why are there objects in the air? Why are we allowing people to just flow illegally into our country? Why are our drug numbers going up? Why is our military allowing things like Afghanistan to happen?

Why is it all happening? I mean, there's something very, very wrong, and we have to fight hard to change it and straighten it out. And Congressman, I don't mean to wrap this up, but we do have the president speaking right now, so we appreciate you taking time to be with us today and appreciate your insight. Let's all pray that he really says something. Absolutely.

I appreciate being on and I look forward to talking to you in the future. All right, Congressman Jeff Van Drew, ladies and gentlemen, the Republican from New Jersey. Let's listen in to President Biden. According to me daily and will continue the urgent efforts to do so and I will communicate that to the Congress. We don't yet know exactly what these three objects were, but nothing right now suggests they were related to China's spy balloon program or that they were surveillance vehicles from any other country.

The intelligence community's current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research. When I came into office, I instructed our intelligence community to take a broad look at the phenomenon of unidentified aerial objects. We know that a range of entities, including countries, companies and research organizations, operate objects at altitudes for purposes that are not nefarious, including legitimate scientific research. I want to be clear. We don't have any evidence that there has been a sudden increase in the number of objects in the sky.

We're now just seeing more of them partially because the steps we've taken to increase our radars, to narrow our radars. And we have to keep adapting our approach to delaying to dealing with these challenges. That's why I've directed my team to come back to me with sharper rules for how we will deal with these unidentified objects moving forward. Distinguishing distinguishing between those that are likely to pose safety and security risk that necessitate action and those that do not But make no mistake If any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the American people I will take it down I'll be sharing with Congress these classified policy parameters when they are completed, and they'll remain classified so we don't give our roadmap to our enemies to try to evade our defenses. Going forward, these parameters will guide what actions we'll take while responding to unmanned and unidentified aerial objects.

We're going to keep adapting them as the challenges evolve, if it evolves. In addition, we've directed my national security advisor to lead a government-wide effort to make sure we are positioned to deal safely and effectively with the objects in our airspace. First, we will establish a better inventory of unmanned airborne objects in space above the United States airspace and make sure that inventory is accessible and up to date. Second, we'll implement further measures to improve our capacity to detect unmanned objects in our airspace. Third, we'll update the rules and regulations for launching and maintaining unmanned objects in the skies above the United States of America.

And fourth, my secretary of state will lead an effort to help establish a global global common global norms in this largely unregulated space. These steps will lead to safer and more secure skies for our air travelers, our military, our scientists and for people on the ground as well. That's my job as your President, Commander-in-Chief. As the events of the previous days have shown, we'll always act to protect the interest of the American people and the security of the American people. Since I came to office, we've developed the ability to identify, track, and study high-altitude surveillance balloons connected with the Chinese military.

When one of these high-altitude surveillance balloons entered our airspace over the continental United States earlier in the month, I gave the order to shoot it down as soon as it would be safe to do so. The military advised against shooting it down over land because of the sheer size of it. It was the size of multiple school buses and opposed the risk to people on the ground if it was shot down where people lived. Instead, we tracked it closely. We analyzed its capabilities and we learned more about how it operates.

And because we knew its path, we were able to protect sensitive sites against collection. We waited until it was safely over water, which would not only protect civilians, but also enable us to recover substantial components for further analysts for further analytics. And then we shot it down, sending a clear message, clear message. The violation of our sovereignty is unacceptable. We'll act to protect our country.

And we did.

Now, this past Friday, we put restrictions on six firms that directly support the People's Republic Liberation Army. People's Liberation Army Aerospace Program that includes airships and balloons denying them access to U.S. technology. We briefed our diplomatic partners and our allies around the world. All right, let me jump in here.

All right, thank you. Enough of you, Mr. President.

So he's basically feeding us a line here, and I'm curious to know if you guys are buying what the president is selling.

So Biden finally breaking his silence. He says that the three objects over the weekend that were shot down were not related to China. They have no idea what they are. They said they may belong to private businesses or they may be balloons. They just don't know.

Well, we know they're not balloons because of the pilots who said they weren't balloons. But my greater concern here is they didn't know what they were shooting down. But I think they did. Are you buying any of this, ladies and gentlemen? 844-747-8868.

That's our toll-free telephone number. Again, the president coming out and saying that the three objects were not related to China, but they don't know what they are. 844-747-8868. We'll be right back with your calls. All right, welcome back to the Todd Stearns Radio Program.

Let's go to the phones. 844-747-8868. Patty in North Carolina. Patty, you heard the president. What's your take?

He's a liar. Why do you say that, Patty? He don't even know what he's talking about. Oh, my God, this guy. You know what?

If people really can, I can't even, I had to turn it off, Todd. I couldn't even watch him, okay? And it took him all this time. They had to come up with something. He had to show his face.

It took him all this time to say, we don't know what those things were. And what's even worse, imagine this. You own a hot air balloon company. You think anybody's going to be hopping in that basket knowing they can get blown to smithereens? It's funny that you said that because we have a lot of hot air balloons in North Carolina here.

and I'm thinking, hell no, I'm not getting in one of them. He'll shoot my rear end down in two seconds. I mean, no way. But, you know, I want to tell you something, Todd. You know what?

They talk to you like we're like five years old. Yeah, I'm not buying what he's selling. I'm just, I'm not doing it, Patty. I'm not buying what he's selling. Listen, I'm 63, and I'm going to tell you something.

Don Lemon, yes, I'm in my prime, okay? and uh i'm gonna tell you something uh i've known and watched this guy for over 50 years now from the senate and all the way up the guy has been nothing but a liar and a plagiarist and he's nothing but and i don't know how people voted for him but you know they want normal back they had normal they had donald trump donald trump this country was doing we weren't doing i'm not saying great. We were doing okay, Todd. Patty, we're going to leave it there, but good call, and I agree with you. You are in your prime, my dear.

Let's go to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Herbert on the line. Herbert, what did you think about what the president said?

Well, I'm not 63. I'm more like 77, but did Biden say PLO? PLO. Wrong country. Wrong enemies yeah i'm so a plo when it is it's a plo boy that balloon went from east to west and i don't i'm i'm kind of confused you know i'm uh so that's all i gotta say of course i know he's a liar so you know tammy's already hit that nail on the head so i won't bother to hit that nail on the head but plo i'm thinking uh well you know i think it was ccp right ccp that is correct uh Herbert, and it's terrible.

It's terrible. Yeah, really, I know. All right, that's all I had to say. Herbert, great call. All right, give us a holler back, and we love all of our friends out in Chattanooga.

Let's go to Bill. Bill, what's on your mind? Hey, Todd, I was just listening. Oh, and thanks for having me on, by the way. I was just listening to Mr.

Biden speak. I don't like to call him president because it just doesn't sound right but but i was just listening him speak about that this balloon thing and he was saying well we don't know what they are but they could be research balloons from university they could be a weather balloon they could be somebody's personal whatever he said do you think for a second todd that if we shot down a weather balloon that the weather service wouldn't have called and said hey you know you guys just shot down my balloon or a research balloon or something like that that somebody wouldn't have said something they know Todd where those balloons came from of course they do of course they do Bill and for the president to come out and try to feed us a line of hooey and it wasn't even grade a hooey that's what that's what gets me no they they think we're stupid Todd they this administration thinks the American people are dumber than a box of rocks and I got news for them we're not yeah we see through this crap most of us do Bill appreciate that call thanks for listening to KOM Bill from Memphis, Tennessee. By the way, folks, big news from Newsmax. We've been following the story for weeks now. AT&T's DirecTV censoring Newsmax, removing them from their platform.

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Coming up tomorrow on the show, Laura Trump is going to drop by, and so we're looking forward to that conversation. But I have been waiting for weeks now for our next guest to join us in studio, and he is an incredible author, New York Times bestseller, He is a very famous person here in the Memphis area. And if you watch Netflix, you've seen the movie as well. Mark Graney joins us. Mark, good to see you.

Good to see you, Todd. Thanks for having me. Absolutely. I mean, you could run for mayor of Memphis, Tennessee and win in a landslide. Who would want that job?

Nobody would want that, Mark. But you're getting ready to release and launch the new novel. And, folks, we've got two copies we're going to be giving away during the interview today. Again, this is part of the Gray Man series. It's called Burner, and we're going to talk about the book in just a moment.

But I'm just curious how you're doing with all the celebrity, because, I mean, it's a lot of writers are kind of more introverted types. And you're out there, and everybody wants to shake your hand. Yeah, people don't understand. And it's like 0.5 of 1% of the time you're actually in public. And 99.9% of the time you're sitting alone with a cup of coffee and a laptop open.

And so it's very different. When you go out and do a tour, I had two books come out last year and a film come out. This year I just have one book.

So this is my time out in the spotlight. And I'll be back in the dark within a couple of weeks and writing for next year. You born and raised here in the Memphis area. That's right. Yeah, yeah.

There's something about the South and writers. I can't figure out what it is. Have you figured out what it is? No, I don't know what it is. And, you know, I don't have Southern themes, and people always sort of expect that I do because I'm from Memphis.

But, I mean, I have lots of friends who are authors down in Memphis, but also further abroad, Ace Atkins and people like that. And I love being part of that community. Going down, one of my favorite things, we did a book signing at Square Books years ago down in Oxford, one of my favorite bookstores. And of course, here in Memphis, we're blessed with several really nice independent bookstores. Novel Memphis is normally where I go.

That's kind of in the neighborhood. Right. Yeah, same here. Let's talk about your early career, because it wasn't like you just graduated. You went to university.

I understand what political science and international relations? Yeah, yeah. I got a double major and did nothing with it for 20 years or so. I love it. No, because we're the same age.

and you spent a lot of time working a bar and doing the waiting. You were a server at restaurants. Yeah, yeah. Did you ever imagine all of this? I imagined none of this.

I guess I just had no ambition. I really like to write, and I love to read political thrillers and spy novels and whatnot. And I wanted to write a book and get it published. That was my goal in life. And it wasn't even a series.

When they asked me if I wanted to do more, and then they did the film rights, And then I started working with Tom Clancy. And then all these things happen. And every single thing that's happened in my career, I'm like, I was just trying to get a little paperback with my name on it. And let's talk about Tom Clancy because that was – and I was reading interviews you've done. And that was really the moment.

But it was pretty terrifying, I have to imagine, to write that sample chapter or whatever and turn that – what was that experience?

Well, the most terrifying point was when they first asked me if I'd be interested in working with Tom Clancy. And I'd only put out two little paperback novels, and I just did not think I was ready. But I also didn't think it was an opportunity I could say no to. But I was a huge Clancy fan.

So like you said, I wrote I think 50 pages to show that I knew who all the characters in the Clancy novels were and how they talked to each other and everything. And I turned that in, and then they had me go up to Baltimore, and that was to meet Tom. And that was another terrifying experience. What was he like? He was – everybody had warned me that he was going to be gruff.

And I'd had like eight people from his team or from my editor say it's going to be 45 minutes. It's going to be a little awkward. He can be a little gruff. I was in his house for five hours. We had lunch together.

We had a great time. And just sitting there in Tom Clancy's office talking about the engines China is using in their fifth generation fighters and things like that. It was not lost on me at all. It's like this is the coolest thing that I've ever done. When you were writing, was there a lot of research you had to do?

I mean, was there a lot of education in that process of brushing? I mean, again, political science, international relations. But did you have to do a deep dive into that world? Absolutely. And I still do for my books.

But when I wrote with Clancy, I spent time in Beijing and in Moscow and St. Petersburg and Estonia and Algeria. And for my Gray Man novels, I've gone to, I think, 38 countries. I saw a picture of you at a train station in some European country. What does that do for you as a writer when you're there, like in the train station in Italy or wherever you were?

Yeah, that was in Milan. I had written this 80-page scene, which is in Burner, this book. It's about 15% of the novel, which is this crazy action scene that takes place on a train from Milan to Geneva. And I'd written the whole scene and then realized, okay, I need to go over there because the scene just – it doesn't feel good enough.

So I went over there and got on the exact same train, took pictures, looked at the angles, and then went back and rewrote the scene. And I'm glad I did. We're going to go ahead and give out a copy of this. And, folks, you know how this works. We do trivia here.

And, Mark, our trivia is very easy because we always want to give away stuff. We want people to win. But here's the question. If you'd like to win a copy of Mark's newest book, it'll be out, what, next week? Is that right?

Tuesday the 21st. It's called Burner. But here's the question. The Gray Man, which you have seen, I think, just about all the country has seen on Netflix. We need to know the name of the star of that movie.

Who was the star of The Gray Man, which came out last year? If you know the answer to that, give us a call at 844-747-8868. Again, that's a toll-free telephone number, 844-747-8868. Who starred in the movie The Gray Man? Mark, you see what's happening nationwide, and it's just – I mean it's almost as if every day we're looking at some sort of a political thriller in the news with the Chinese balloons.

And President Biden just coming out a few minutes ago and says, you know, we still don't know what they are. Yeah. Well, I mean all I can say to that is why did you shoot it down? If you don't know what it is, why are you shooting it? It feels like we should – I mean if it was identified as a threat, yeah, sure.

But if it's identified as a threat, you can probably explain what it was. Maybe it's a toaster with a balloon on top. There's no need to fire a $300,000 missile.

Some of these stories, it's like they pulled them out of a spy novel. Yeah. I mean, life is like that. And Berner, there's a thing in there. There's a high-ranking U.S.

government official who's taking money from Russian foreign intelligence. He's in the CIA. But in real life, just a couple weeks ago, the head of counterintelligence in New York for the FBI was arrested for espionage. And I think – now correct me if I'm wrong, but I wasn't – there was one of your novels where you were – there was a conflict between Russia and Ukraine as well. And now here we are.

Yeah, the last book I did with Tom Clancy was called Command Authority. It involved Russia invading Ukraine, getting the Crimea, using like locals as support and sort of cover. And it came out in December of 2013 and then February of 2014, the war started. Do you have sources? Do people talk to you in government and the CIA and any of those folks?

Yes, definitely. But in that example, it wasn't people saying this is going to happen. It was more like we'd seen Russia do it in Georgia and in other places. And we thought there was a lot of heat between Russia and Ukraine. It's like if a war happened, this is sort of how it would happen.

And then it just turned out it did happen. I was watching a couple of days ago in Hollywood.

Someone was talking to Tom Cruise, and they were thanking him for saving Hollywood with the new Top Gun movie, the sequel. And I think the point was it's just a guy's – it's action, adventure, guys being guys, girls being girls. And this idea that it's okay to have a movie like that. And I'm wondering if that was part of the success that you saw with The Gray Man, now the fifth most popular movie on Netflix. Yeah, I think so.

I think it was just a big action adventure, and it's what people want to see. The novels are a lot grittier, a lot edgier. The violence is a little bit more real in the movie. It's sort of bigger, and it's more cinematic, but they're similar, slightly different plots, but similar. And I just think it's fun.

It's just fun escapism for people. Yeah, I mean, we need some escapism these days. Let's go to the phones. Mark, we've got Tom in Oregon listening to us on KYKN. Tom, how are you today?

Doing really good, Todd. Thank you for asking. And Tom, you're on the air with Mark Graney, and we're going to try to win you a copy of his new novel. Are you ready for the trivia question? I am.

All right.

We want to know who starred in that Gray Man movie on Netflix. Who was that? Ryan Gosling. Yeah, that's right. It was.

Ryan Gosling, congratulations. Yeah. We have music here. I enjoy that. You never know what's going to happen here.

By the way, Tom, have you seen the movie? I have. And what did you think of it? We've got Mark here. I liked it.

I thought the story was awesome. I'm 80 years old. I had a little bit of a trouble calling, but I thought it was a great movie.

Well done. a little bit dark, but it was good. Yeah, well, thank you. Hey, Tom, I want you to hang tight. Dylan's going to get your information, and we're going to send you a copy of Mark's book.

It's called Burner, and we're anxious to hear what you think about the book. I'll do that, and Todd, can I leave you with a Groucho quote? Yes, you may. I wouldn't want to be a member of any club that'd have me as a member.

Well said. Tom, we're going to put you on hold. Congratulations. Fun bunch out there in Salem, Oregon. Yeah, Salem.

Well, I was just out there a couple of months ago and just beautiful countryside out there. Yeah, it is really nice out there.

Okay, we've got to take a break. When we come back, I want to talk about the book. And here's what we're going to do, folks. We're going to make it super simple for book number two. If you are caller number three, caller number three, you're going to win a copy of Mark's brand new book called Burner.

Give us a call, 844-747-8868. Again, that is a toll-free telephone number, 844-747-8868. This is The Todd Stern Show. All right, folks, welcome back to the Todd Stern's radio program. Great to have you with us today.

Here in studio, we are honored. This is really a nice treat. Mark Graney, author of the Gray Man series, and has a brand new book coming out next week called Burner. But two of our listeners are getting some advanced copies. And let's go to the phones because we have Tina from the great state of Maine listening to us on WLOB.

Tina, how are you? I'm excellent. How about yourself? Tina, doing well. And by the way, Mark, WLOB, they call that radio station the Big Lobster.

Yeah, I like that. There you go. And Tina, you're on the air, so say hello to Mark.

Well, hello, Mark. How are you? I'm great, Tina. Thanks for calling in. Yes, Noah.

We're listening to you.

Well, Tina, we're going to hook you up with a copy of Mark's newest novel. It's called Burner, so congratulations. Yes, thank you very much. All right, we're going to put you on hold, Tina, and Dylan's going to get your information, and we'll get this in the mail to you. Awesome.

Thank you, Larry. All right, congratulations.

So I didn't realize that your dad was in the journalism business and worked local TV here in Memphis. Yeah, my dad was – he ran the news department at the NBC affiliate here in Memphis. I grew up around the news and stories and things like that. There was a great guy who did sports, Jack Eaton. I don't know if you remember.

Oh, my God, yeah. He's a friend of the family. Oh, my gosh. You know, growing up watching those kinds of – those folks. I remember the day the TV station, I don't know if you remember this, it caught fire.

Yeah, my dad was the manager then.

So he went down at 3 in the morning or 5 in the morning or whatever and worked for weeks. And they actually broadcast from outside. Outside. It's amazing. I hope we never have to do that here at KWAM, our flagship station.

But it was pretty fascinating. Do you find that a lot of the experiences you had growing up, do people that you meet, do they ever end up as characters in your books? Yeah, amalgamations of people I meet, our characters. When I wrote The Gray Man, it's about a former CIA paramilitary officer. I didn't know anybody that had ever done that or even been in the CIA when I first wrote it.

But now I've met people that have worked on the covert side at the agency. And I'm like, yeah, he's a little bit like this guy and a little bit like this guy and a little bit like this guy. How important is it for you to get that part of it right? I mean, do you get the calls from the CIA guys or the military folks saying, hey, you know, this is exactly how we would do something like that? I've heard both sides.

I've heard like you're like way off. And then I've heard like, wow, how did you get that? And at some point, especially this is my 23rd book being published, at some point it becomes less important to get every detail right so you can prove that you know what you're talking about and more important to capture the reader's emotions and all that.

So that's more what I'm focused on. They're very geopolitical, and there's a lot of actual fact in there. But it's more about bringing the reader along on this really wild ride. And tell us about the new novel, Burner. What's it about?

Yeah, so it's the 12th book in the series, but it's a standalone novel. You don't have to read the first 11 books at all. It's about this former CIA officer who's picked up by the CIA and asked to do a job. Russian foreign intelligence has been laundering money and bringing it into the U.S. to kind of influence world leaders in the West.

This involves the Ukraine war. And they were trying to get a peace treaty at the expense of Ukrainian lives and territory, a very kind of cynical peace treaty. And Kort and his team of people, you know, it's all action. There's action and tension on virtually every page of this book. But it's all about this kind of geopolitical race against time.

When you're writing your books and working on ideas, do you ever come across something in the news and maybe you just jot down and say, oh, that might be an interesting angle for a plot or something of that nature? Yeah, that's exactly how I do it. I mean, every one of my books has come from something where it's just, you know, like who knows, my book next year might involve balloons. That seems kind of like a lousy plot off the top of the head. It doesn't seem that exciting.

Well, it certainly captured the attention of the nation over the past couple of days.

So you never know. You never know. Well, Mark, congratulations. And we don't want you to be a stranger. You're in the neighborhood.

Yeah. So come on by. And if you ever want to talk geopolitics, you've got an open invitation. Fantastic. Thank you.

It's been fun. All right.

So where can people go if they want to get a copy of the book? You're going to be doing a big book tour. Yeah. Where are you guys going? Yeah.

So I go out on tour next week. And I'm in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Houston, and Tulsa, and St. Louis, and Atlanta, and Raleigh. And I'm doing an event here in Memphis as well. Fantastic.

And looking forward to that. And the last one, it was standing room only. Yeah, it was pretty crowded. And that's a lot of fun. Yeah, it was fun.

So I know this doesn't impact you at all, but some of those book signings, sometimes they can be lessons in humility for some authors.

So you never know. Oh, yeah, I've had those events, too, where I'm looking at three people and going, like, I flew here. Exactly. Well, Mark, congratulations again, folks. The book, Burner, you can get a copy at your local bookstore.

All right, folks, we've got to wrap it up. By the way, toddsterns.com, we have some great resources for you there. Also, the latest information on President Biden and his remarks a few minutes ago. And be sure to sign up for the newsletter and the podcast. Great opportunities.

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Now, tomorrow, Laura Trump is going to drop by. Also, we will be speaking to some folks up on Capitol Hill. Hearing's getting underway. Mark, we do a lot of politics on this program, so this is always a nice break when we don't talk politics. but tomorrow it's going to be a jam-packed day heading into the weekend.

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