Are There More Islamic Radicals on American Soil?

Live from the Liberty University studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American. That's us, that's right, I love this American ride. Todd Starks. Oh yeah. And happy new year to you, America.

Welcome to the show. Great to have you with us. This is your place for truth and hope. And folks, we've got a lot of ground to cover today, kicking off the new year with a lot of breaking news. And just moments ago, the FBI holding a press conference about the Islamic jihadist who waged jihad in New Orleans last night.

and we're going to get to some of those comments in just a moment. For me, though, the broader story here, and there's a lot to unravel, but for a good two or three years now, we have had many lawmakers coming out of this program, and they've been telling us it's not a matter of if but when the terrorist wage jihad.

Now, yesterday, and I think this is probably the most important question that was asked in all of these interviews yesterday. And Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana was asked a very direct question. And I was really fascinated and somewhat staggered by his response because he's not the only one who was asked this question yesterday. And there were three lawmakers, and all three of them basically gave the same response. Let's listen to cut number 12, please.

Just a final question here for not just people in Louisiana that are watching, but people coast to coast that are watching tonight. Are you getting the sense that there's any threat of any other potential attacks tonight on any other major cities? I can't answer that. I can, but I won't. Is New Orleans safe tonight?

yes um but we're still in the process of tightening up security we're still in the process stop stop all right we're good that's really the nugget there is he does know he knows he just can't tell us and this is the question we need to be asking why why isn't he telling us and what is it that the government is not telling us and i suspect that whatever it is is so terrible that just like the drone situation over New Jersey, that the answer would strike fear and terror into the hearts of the American people. That's what I think is going on here. I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Normally we do not have guests this early in the program, but I wanted to talk to our good friend Robin Pothman. She was there on 9-11 in New York City.

if you have seen any of the documentaries surrounding that day you have heard her voice as she announced to the nation what was happening in lower Manhattan. Robin and I worked together for a number of years at Fox News Channel and then she went on to live and work in New Orleans for many years. Robin good to have you with us today. Thanks Todd. Happy New Year to you.

Robin I'm concerned about what senator kennedy said because i suspect there's a giant bullseye on the entire nation right now i think so i think that he knows about terrorists potential terrorist chatter i think he knows who the associates of this radical islamic terrorist i think that there are connections. I don't care what the FBI is saying. I believe that there are connections here, that there are no coincidences in life, that the person who blew themselves up in that Elon Musk vehicle in front of Trump Tower in Las Vegas, there's potential that these two knew each other. I'm very suspicious of all of it you cannot trust the FBI the foot soldiers the FBI agents on the ground work very very hard but we all know how corrupt Comey was we know how corrupt Christopher Wray is it's just an agency not to be trusted under the Biden administration and my fear when I was watching Kennedy I was struck by the same nugget you were that he clearly knows what's going on. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall with his conversation with Alejandro Mayorkas, the Homeland Security Director, and I use air quotes here for the radio, because he's not interested in protecting the homeland, and he's certainly not interested in your security.

And so I hate using that title with his name in the same sentence. We have no accounting, Todd, of who is here the last four years. We don't know the organization. We have to think back to 9-11 almost 24 years ago, 23 and a half years ago. The preparation that bin Laden did from a cave in Pakistan and other places.

The 19 hijackers, there were more. Let's not forget, Todd, I was reminded this morning, the 19 hijackers, where were some of them hanging out prior to 9-11? New Orleans and Las Vegas.

So I'm not convinced that there are no connections. We also had some of the hijackers at Rutgers University in New Jersey. We had, of course, the ones going to flight schools in Florida. But we also had some of those 19 hijackers lingering and loitering in Las Vegas and New Orleans. I'm extremely suspicious.

I would love to have heard that conversation with Kennedy and Mayorkas. Robin, I'm curious about New Orleans. You spent a lot of years there. How are people doing in the city, and what are you hearing about the aftermath of all of this?

Well, I've heard from a ton of my friends that are still there, you know, marking themselves safe on Facebook, and that's a good thing because, you know, you can't be calling hundreds of people, right?

So I think that that's a good way of people letting them, you know, their loved ones and friends know that they're safe. But it's a city full of excuses, Todd. And I lived there for many years under the Reagan, Ray Nagin administration. Of course, he went to prison for corruption. This business about the barricades, they've known about it for 10 years, but they haven't worked on Bourbon Street.

They've just been lucky, and they ran out of luck. And everything, it's a city of excuses. It's a city run by liberals, and they don't believe really in your security. Everything is, you know, a wing and a prayer. And the police superintendent there is extremely weak.

I think that they've opened the door to lawsuits. I don't think that having one police car and a Ford Explorer sitting at the corner of Canal and Bourbon was clearly sufficient. They should have had garbage trucks out there. And, you know, and I've said this on a few other radio shows today, that if you don't know how to make a recipe, like to bake a cake, so you ask someone who knows how to bake that cake, right, Todd? And so in this case, they should have been deferring to their law enforcement partners and friends in New York City who know how to block off a 10 by 10 block radius around Times Square with north of a million people.

We are talking about an area for folks who have not been there. It is so tight and so small. Very narrow. It's like it's like your pinky, right? You can't block off Bourbon Street, 10 short little blocks that you and I together.

We could walk the entire length of Bourbon Street in under 30 minutes. That's how small and tight and cramped that area is. One garbage truck would have done the trick and a couple of metal barricades. It is a joke. There was no security, and those people were sitting ducks.

And again, the rank-and-file officers, there was video, and you may have seen this, where I guess maybe there were maybe 10 officers standing around one of the corners in the quarter, and all of a sudden they either heard the impact or the screams or both, and everybody just took off running directly to the disasters area at full speed. Those are some great men and women, and those are great officers. I was just, to be honest with you, I knew nothing about the New Orleans Police Department. I had no idea they had a grandma that was running the show down there. Yeah, she's horrendous.

She is only interested in DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and running all sorts of conferences about DEI hires. She is not focused on terrorism and homeland security. She used to work in Oakland, California, a city that has been completely ruined and run over by criminals and thugs. and you have somebody down there that is not large and in charge and a mayor who's also involved in all sorts of shenanigans. It is not a safe place.

It hasn't been for many, many years. And they really need somebody who's large and in charge down there because I'll tell you, if you go down there and something happens, you are on your own. It has been this way for years. They've skated, but their time ran out. And I would be very interested to know who this terrorist, this radical Islamic terrorist, who would he be in touch with?

And they clearly know. The other thing that is very disturbing to me, Todd, is that those IEDs, those bombs, those explosives, somebody taught him how to make them. He did not learn that in the U.S. military. This guy was like into computers.

I read his whole resume. He didn't learn how to make bombs there. He was inspired by one of those Al-Qaeda or ISIS magazines.

Somebody taught him how to make those explosives, and I would like to know who. I would also tell you that there is a thing in the Muslim world with some of these radicals called taqiyya, where they fake it, where they cut the beard, they look like a regular U.S. citizen. You know, they keep talking about how this guy was in the U.S. military, and oh, what a shock it is.

But for folks like myself that know about radical Islam and terrorism and 9-11 and the 93 radical bombing back in the day, 1993 World Trade Center, when they tried to topple the towers the first time, this same crew of people, I would tell you that they shake it and they shave the beard and they mold into society and they have a regular job. But when they go home or they're at a mosque or they're at a private meeting at somebody's home, they have a very different ideology. And we have been fighting this for decades. And I would lastly end on we need to protect the airports in this country. The Israelis have been warning us for decades.

We treat our airports like you're going to the mall. And it's not a mall. We have the TSA, thousands standing around. We have agents that don't even know the purpose of why they're there. They are not armed.

And security needs to be moved to the curb. Yeah, I'm with you. And the fact that, and this is what I just, I'm a little aggravated as well with the governor. I get it. He's new to the job.

But it seemed to me he was more concerned about the sugar bowl than he was, you know, the incident at hand. And then last night, having the photo taken out with the thumbs up, smiling ear to ear, outside the steak joint, the prime rib joint. And then he said something about, well, we're going to beef up security. Why was security not beefed up? You've got the Sugar Bowl.

You've got thousands, tens of thousands of football fans. You've got all the revelers for New Year's Eve. Why did they already have a security plan in place? And to your point, I get it, it's New Orleans, but there should have been some sort of connection with the state at that point where you're going to have that many people in one place. And let me add to that that starting January 6th begins the Mardi Gras parade ahead of Fat Tuesday this year falls out in the first Tuesday in March.

And so you've got what is that six to eight weeks of Mardi Gras parades with people coming in, little kids, ladders, in addition to these sporting events and the Super Bowl and the Sugar Bowl and New Year's Eve. I mean, when you think about New Year's Eve in our country, there's only a handful of places that people really think about going. New York City, Las Vegas, New Orleans, maybe there's a handful of other places that drop something, drop a pot of gumbo or a Florida Lee or a ball or whatever's going on. But you talk about a high-profile target that was completely unprotected. To your point about those police officers, police officers who were seen on that street camera video, and there's about 10 to 12 of them, and they dart in the direction of where the impact was.

We are not blaming the rank-and-file policemen and women who are out there. There were almost 400 cops patrolling the French Quarter, but it was in the 8th District, which that is. and it is incumbent upon the commander of the 8th district. Had I been at that news conference, I would have looked at him and said, sir, did you ever think to put up some metal barricades and a garbage truck that's not in use? It is outrageous to me that someone, a commander, a lieutenant, someone wearing a white shirt that has brass on their hat and on their shirt would not think of that, let alone the police chief.

Aren't there meetings ahead of this? It's outrageous to me. Absolutely outrageous. Robin, we've got to leave it there. We are super late for a break, but I appreciate all the great analysis here.

And, again, it looks as though this could have all been prevented. And, clearly, they did not do their job. And this is yet another example of what happens when you have diversity hires in place instead of people who are absolutely capable and able to do the job. No question about it, but I am not optimistic about that city until they get rid of that mayor and that police superintendent. And that FBI.

And the FBI chick. Yeah. Oh, it's terrorism. It's not terrorism. Oh, it is terrorism.

No, come on, people. A trifecta of incompetence. Yeah. The unholy trinity there. Robin Poffman, ladies and gentlemen.

Robin, great work. We'll be checking back with you very soon. Thanks so much. All right, folks.

So we're going to open up the phone lines as well. Do you believe that there are more Islamic radicals waiting to wage jihad on American soil? And when we come back, we're also going to dip into the latest press conference from the FBI. That just ramped up. And we'll provide some nuggets of information from there.

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So anyway, there you go. This is a very unqualified person.

Now, just a few moments ago, the FBI came out and said that there is no connection between what happened in Las Vegas and what happened in New Orleans, and that the guy in New Orleans acted on his own.

So the FBI is now telling us that this was a lone wolf, that he had absolutely no help at all. We're going to play through a couple of these sound bites here. This is the FBI Deputy Assistant Director. Cut number three, please. First and foremost, let me be very clear about this point.

This was an act of terrorism. It was premeditated and an evil act. This was obviously a critical incident, and with that lots of information and tips come pouring in from law enforcement, first responders, and the public. We have been aggressively running down these tips and information. As you all know, that takes time, and we will continue to do so until every lead has been followed through on.

This investigation is only a little more than 24 hours old, so I ask you to keep in mind that as I go through some of the specifics later. But at this point, currently, and this is another position, another fact I want to be clear on. We do not assess at this point that anyone else involved in this attack is involved in this attack, except for Shamsa Din Jabbar, the subject you've already been briefed on. All right. Do you believe that, folks?

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All right, so the FBI just conducted a call with House and Senate Homeland Security Committees, and these are the three big takeaways. First of all, they're saying that the terrorist, Shamshad Din-Jabbar, was inspired by ISIS but not directed by them. There was zero intel on Jabbar before the attack, and they now believe he acted alone. Are you buying any of this? I mean, here's what got me.

Yesterday, during the initial press conference, you had the mayor of New Orleans coming out and saying this was a terrorist attack. You've got a pickup truck. You've got an ISIS flag flying from the back of the pickup truck. You've got an Islamic radical that shot dead on the ground. And then the FBI agent there, who had the little nose ring, the DEI hire, comes out and says there was no terrorism here.

and apparently they're wanting us to believe now that the las vegas terrorist attack was just a coincidence that's what they're that's what they're all wanting us to believe right now but i folks i i don't know about you but i i think we we are at a point in in this country where we need everybody to be very blunt be very direct and be very honest with us and if senator kennedy and all the other republicans i believe congressman cory mills was another one yesterday. If they've got information, that information needs to be shared with the American public. And I think most of us are grown up enough that we are going to know what to do with it. But the reality here is that you have had an administration, and this is just a continuation, this is the third term of Barack Hussein Obama, and you've got an administration out there, and they are in bed with the Islamic radicals. I mean, this is all part of the effort to fundamentally transform America.

Now, there's another component of this. I'm going to be talking a little bit more in depth with our good friend David Giamona, our military expert, a little bit later. But there is a nexus here, all right? And it's a disturbing one because it turns out that the guy responsible for Vegas, the guy responsible for New Orleans and the guy responsible for the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. This is the one in Palm Beach, Florida at the golf course.

Ryan Ralph. All of them spent considerable time at Fort Bragg. And I'm beginning to wonder what exactly has been going on at Fort Bragg. And we're going to get into that more with Mr. Giamona, retired colonel, a little bit later on in the program.

More from the press conference. You've got the – this is the governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, who is a Republican. And here's what he had to say about the ongoing investigation. Cut five.

Well, good morning. I first want to start off by reminding the citizens of Louisiana that as you travel around the state, you will see the flags of all state buildings that have mass in honor of those lives that were lost in this horrific act of violence. I also think that it's important to remember that what happened yesterday was akin to those who are old enough to remember jigsaw puzzles. And that you would take a thousand piece jigsaw puzzle and you empty the box and you've got to start sifting through those pieces. And you want to start, if you're real good, you start at the corners.

Right. Try to put your corners together. And from yesterday to today, over a thousand law enforcement agents and officers, men and women, have been pouring over countless amounts of data, of videos, of surveillances, interviews, tracking down every possible lead that came to us, whether it was the New Orleans Police Department, the Louisiana State Police, the FBI, or other federal agencies. Also yesterday, we declared, I issued an emergency declaration. That declaration was meant to streamline resources and communications between state, local, and federal partners.

And we're seeing the results of it. I also would like to remind everyone that what's going on in this city and this state is twofold. We've got an active criminal investigation going on. while we're also continuing to secure the city in preparation for 3 o'clock kickoff time. And stop right there.

So why are they just now getting around to preparing to protect the city? They've known the Sugar Bowl was going to be coming for a very long time. They've known that Mardi Gras is coming up for a very long time. By the way, they also know that the Super Bowl was coming up for a very long time.

So why was the city not protected? And I'll tell you why. Because New Orleans is under the rule of the Democrats. New Orleans has been under the rule and the control of the Democrats for generations. It's the same thing we're seeing in Memphis.

And I'm not terribly surprised when you look at this police chief's record where she was fired out of Oakland, California. She caused, I mean, if she was consulting with what's happening here in Memphis, Tennessee, and our police, no wonder we're screwed up. and now in new orleans by the way she apparently ran over a couple of people did you this is a real winner they've got down there remember uh what was it ray nagin he used to call new orleans the chocolate city he said new orleans will always be a chocolate city if you think race is a big issue in memphis in new orleans i'm just telling you it's a great city though it really is all right 901-260-5926 or telephone number that's 901-260-5926 so later today this news just coming out president biden is going to be awarding a presidential citizens medal to liz cheney the daughter of dick this is no i know i know i don't know what she's done. She didn't stop the terrorists. No, that was the New Orleans police officers.

They're the ones who brought. No, she hasn't. No, she hasn't cured cancer. That to my knowledge, Liz Cheney is getting this medal. And the only reason why is that she declared war on Donald Trump.

That's why they're literally handing her an award because of her hatred of Donald Trump.

Now, this woman and her family, you want to talk about terrorists.

Well, let's talk about the Cheney family for a minute. This is the family that's gotten us involved, that got us involved in the Iraq war, a war that we had no business fighting. Thousands of American men and women lost their lives or were injured and suffered catastrophic injuries because of their thirst and their lust for war. and you ask yourself, well, why would they do that? Why would Liz Cheney, the daughter of Dick, why would the Cheney family do something like that?

Well, the answer is very simple, because it makes them wealthier. Every time the U is involved in some sort of an armed conflict the Cheneys get wealthier Former President Dwight D Eisenhower you might remember used a phrase the military complex. And towards the later years of his life, and really, it actually started during his presidency, Eisenhower, who was one of our greatest generals, he got to see that up close and personal, and he knew right away that something was not quite right. But there is a large section of the private sector that needs us to be involved in wars so they can profit off of the slaughter of Americans. I mean, it's a horrible thing to say, but that's true.

And Liz Cheney, the daughter of Dick, is right in the thick of it. And ultimately, if you were to ask me, why is it that the Cheneys hate Donald Trump so much? I'm going to tell you why. It's a very simple reason, actually. Because Donald Trump is the only president in modern political history who did not get us involved in an armed conflict.

So what happened?

Well, the Cheneys started losing money. That's why they hate Donald Trump. That's the only reason they hate Donald Trump. And Liz Cheney ought to be, and hear me on this, and I'm not even sure that Congress is going to have the fortitude to do what needs to be done here. But Liz Cheney needs to be investigated for her behavior on this sham J6 committee.

Something's always been off about that committee.

Now we know, of course, that most of the charges, actually all of the charges against President Trump were made up or trumped up. that a lot of the testimony turned out to be lies, that Liz Cheney actually worked with a witness, and this could be construed as witness tampering, and yet Liz Cheney, instead of going to prison for what she has done here, is going to be given a medal by the President of the United States. President Biden, quote, believes that Americans are bonded by their common decency and commitment to serving others. This is all a joke. He says the country is better off because of Liz Cheney's dedication and sacrifice.

There you have it. By the way, also worked on that committee with Benny Thompson. He's that far leftist out of Mississippi who wanted to remove the Secret Service protections from Donald Trump. And I'd like to know exactly why Mr. Thompson wanted to do that.

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What you saw last night. Yeah, we were coming through the intersection and it, I mean, it all just happened so quickly. But the guy in the pickup truck just punched the gas and mowed over the barricade and hit a pedicab passengers. And there were just bodies and the screams. I mean, you can't think about, you know, unhear that.

It was chaos and very, very scary. You know, what was even worse, we're starting to learn the identities of a lot of the people who died, and many of them are teenagers, late teens, early 20s, kids just out having a good time. And I know Ben Dieter asked, why were so many people out on Bourbon Street at 3 o'clock in the morning? I'm like, well, it's packed on Bourbon Street up until probably 6 o'clock in the morning with all of the bars open. But, again, kids just going out, having a good time, and they end up getting killed by an Islamic radical.

Again, blown over by and shot by somebody in the name of the religion of peace. Let's go to Mike in Memphis, Tennessee, listening to us on KWAM, our flagship station. Hi, Mike.

So what do you make of all of this? Greetings and Happy New Year.

Okay, let's connect a few dots. You know that the CIA was responsible for Operation Northwoods back in 62, where they were going to down an American airliner and blame it on Cuba to create a pretense. This is called a false flag. Look at this guy's makeup. Look at the military connections.

It's got the smell. And you're talking about Dick Cheney, of course. He was the guy in charge of Halliburton who got the no-big contract to rebuild Iraq. And, of course, he was over NORAD. They were running a drill, if you believe that, during 9-11 to stand down the F-16.

So just start connecting the dots that go back to the CIA. This smells of a false flag, and I'm betting you they're going to point the finger at Iran and try to gin up hatreds for a country that basically couldn't find a way to America if they had to.

So, again, taking the false flag narrative, and this goes all the way. And by the way, a lot of people throw out the term false flag. It's actually a real thing. I mean, this goes all the way back to Johnny Depp and Pirates of the Caribbean days, 16th century, when the pirates, let's say that they were targeting a British ship. What they would do is they would fly British flags to get closer to that ship without drawing attention, and then they would attack.

And that's how the phrase false flag actually came about.

So you're telling me here, Mike, that it could be that this guy had absolutely no connections at all to ISIS, and this is all just being made to look like something so that we would, I guess, what, hit the Islamic radicals as payback? ISIS is a creation of the CIA. These are all sock puppet front groups. But you don't just walk into Syria unless you pay off the generals.

okay i i'm i'm working on some information i'll share with you later but this is an operation i i can't prove it to you at the moment but soon all right well mike uh we will you have just posited your theory with the country and i suspect there are others out there that that you know believe that this the same idea the same notion that uh we are not being told everything that there's more to this. Mike, got to run. Appreciate the call. Let's go to, it's the day of Mike's. Let's go to Mike in Portland, Maine, WLOB, our great affiliate.

Hey, Mike, what's going on?

Well, Todd, I just wanted to bring this up, and I hope this catches the attention of the House of Representatives. In 2016, Representative Paul Gozar of Arizona introduced a bill for the presidential power to be able to revoke the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

So I think the guys down there in the House need to look up this whole bill that ghosts are put in and get it ran through right after Trump's in. There's no reason why Liz Cheney deserves to have a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Now, let me tell you why they put it in for the revocation to start with. Bill Cosby. Bill Cosby. Bill Cosby. That's right.

That's it. Exactly. Yeah, I'm with you. Yeah. Somebody needs to alert the Speaker of the House about this former legislation so we can dig it up and let's go get these guys.

Let's quit screwing around with these guys. How stupid do they think we are that they could give her the Presidential Medal of Freedom? My God. It's a fair point. And Mike, I got to tell you, we're going to miss being on WLOB.

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Uh-oh.

Well, I wish I could say I was surprised by all of this. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Tom Stearns Radio Program. Ben Dieter, get ready. We're probably going to be getting calls from the media.

What did you do? I'm not surprised this happened. Look, we had Michael Savage on the show, the Newsmax show, Dr. Michael Savage. and you know he's been pretty outspoken about all of this for really decades now and warning people about these uh these islamo-fascist is what they are and uh anyway savage was on the show last night and media matters and talk about a hate group these people are detestable i mean and they're also very powerful they were responsible by the for, and they'll never admit this at Fox, but their war on Glenn Beck is what shut down Glenn's show.

And also, to a large extent, what happened with Tucker Carlson. And so Media Matters, they love targeting advertisers, and they're very effective at what they do. Anyway, here's what Michael Savage said. This is the headline. Newsmax guest calls on Trump to deport imams and shut down mosques.

Michael Savage said Trump needs to not only reinstate the travel ban from Muslim-dominated countries, but he must deport all radical imams in this nation before it's too late, and he must close all radical mosques in the nation. Where's the controversy in that? Todd, they're going to write a follow-up piece if you're not careful. Do you want to retract? We're getting messages from Mediate as we speak.

Does Todd Sarnes want to issue a comment, an apology, a retraction? Here's your moment. Yeah. Okay.

So they actually want a comment from me over what Michael Savage said. Yes. They're waiting. They're listening. Can you provide a comment to Mediate?

Well, I'm happy to do that, but I actually replied to Michael Savage in my comments, which they posted. They actually quoted me accurately. I said, you've been catching hell for this, Michael Savage. You've been speaking the truth here. They're trying to kill the Jews.

They're trying to kill the Christians. They want to throw the LGBT community off the rooftops. These are very bad people we're talking about. And you're standing by the comment. Oh, not only am I standing by the comment, I'm endorsing what Michael Savage said.

And yes, look, here's the problem, Dieter. if you watch the media and I've been going back and watching I'm getting a little personal here Law and Order, I was a big fan of Law and Order back in the day and so I got like all the seasons it's like 20 something years worth of Law and Orders and I noticed a trajectory in that program as it became more and more woke and if you watch shows like Law and Order or the FBI shows that are on now Ben, you would believe that the true threat to America is the white Christian man, when in fact, it's these radical Muslims. It's a great point. It's a great point. And I think something you said stuck with me from the first hour.

You know, why weren't they able to get one lead on this person? This person wasn't just some random kid that lived in his mom's basement that had never, you know, done a background check. This was someone who served the country. And the FBI comes out earlier today in that press conference and said they had zero leads, all the intelligence in this country, the State Department, nothing on this human being. And I'm going to tell you why.

Because they've been too busy focusing on the pro-life Americans, people that are protesting outside the abortion mills. They've been busy, literally, they've had dozens of FBI agents targeting Catholic churches, literally trying to convince all of these, gosh, my brain just stopped working for a moment, but they're trying to convert all of these priests into spies. Yeah. Right?

So they wanted the priest to literally spy on their community, and they issued a warning telling people within the spy agencies, the three-letter agencies, that anybody who went to a Latin mass or anybody who is a devout evangelical Christian, those are the people you need to be looking out for.

So what's happened is these people aren't stupid. They all want to keep their jobs.

So the FBI agents, the rank and file, guess what they're doing? Instead of being parked outside the local mosque, they're parked outside the local First Baptist Church. That's what's been going on here. And by the way, that is what is putting this nation at risk. You know, when Joe Biden comes out and says, well, the greatest threat to America is...

Come on, Joe. The greatest threat to America is the white man and Christianity. That's what they're saying.

So am I surprised that they're missing the actual threat to this country? No, not at all. Because apparently they're all watching television and Hollywood right now. And again, I've just been watching a lot of TV lately and trying to catch up. But Hollywood, a lot of these shows, an overwhelming number of the cop dramas and the action-adventure dramas, the bad guy is always a white person and it's always a Christian person.

That's what they want you to believe.

So I believe, I mean, all these news reporters wanting a comment for me about the show last night on Newsmax, Yeah, I completely agree that we ought to be deporting every single radical imam and shutting down all these radical mosques. But what we also need to be doing is taking a long, hard look at what's happening in the military right now. Do you think it's a coincidence that one of the Trump-would-be assassins, the killer in Las Vegas and the killer in New Orleans? You think it's a coincidence that all three of them spent time at Fort Bragg?

something is not right here ladies and gentlemen so anyway media media matters there's my quote just make sure you spell my name right all right 901-260-5926 is our telephone number let's go to the phone lines murph in germantown tennessee listening to us on our flagship station kwam Murph, what's going on? Dr. Starnes, always a pleasure, but I need to correct your nomenclature. There is no such thing as a quote-unquote radical Muslim. Yours truly spent all of 23 reading Robert Spencer's The Critical Quran.

A true-believing Muslim is commanded in the Quran in just about every other page. to deny the non-believer life. Oh, Muslim, look, there's a non-believer behind a tree. Grab him by the throat. Make him your slave.

If he lies to you, cut off his left hand and his right foot. There's no such thing as a radical Muslim. If the call comes from Mecca for Islam to uprise, every true believing muslim will participate now what this does is affects the first amendment you and i and the rest of american citizens have the right to respect religion and how you view our creator now that's a good thing but the question is if your quote end quote religion advocates the destruction of people who do not believe the way you believe and says you should make them their slaves, then that loses the protection of the First Amendment in this humble opinion.

So that's food for thought. But this stuff that you hear on the radio and these commentaries about quote-unquote radical islam and islam is a thought of peace the philosophy of peace is totally wrong 100 the true believers will destroy the non-believer according to muhammad and if you don't if you leave islam your parents have permission to kill you Well, we have certainly seen this play out, Murph, and I hear your point. I think you're making a fair point. Not every Muslim in America is out there waging jihad, which is why I use the term radical to distinguish. But when you look at the religion itself, it is not a religion of peace.

I mean, every single one of these terrorist attacks has been committed in the name of the so-called religion of peace. Every single one of them, Murph. They are commanded by Muhammad, blessings and peace be upon his name. They're commanded to initiate jihad on every non-believer. It's on every other page of the Quran, I promise you.

and it makes you very nervous from a personal point of view having Muslims living in America. And I hate to say that, and the only thing right now, Dr. Storm, is protecting us is the Constitution of the United States.

Well, that's true, and if you want to look at where things could go really sideways here in America, look at what's happening across Europe right now, Murph. I mean, it's just unbelievable the radicalism. They're taking over. They're literally conquering the West in Europe. It's just remarkable.

And I don't know if there's anything they can really even do about it. I don't either. Dearborn, Michigan has calls for prayer. Can you believe that? And there's no telling what kind of prayer goes on.

But anyway, just food for thought, good buddy. Take care. Murph, thank you for that call. and, of course, Murph, a longtime history teacher, do you buy into what Murph is saying, that we should lose the radical part? He says that Islam is all about conquering.

And when you do look at, by the way, look at what happened last night. And this was not very well reported in the media, but last night you had a situation in New York City where you've got hundreds, if not thousands, of Muslims marching in the streets in solidarity with Hamas. They still haven't finished identifying the dead bodies of the people killed in the Muslim terrorist attack, and they got Muslims out there sticking it in our faces. Just wanted to point that out. Anyway, 901-260-5926 is our telephone number.

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Call 833-880-0600 for a free consultation. That's 833-880-0600 for a free consultation. Redballoon.org All right. Speaker Mike Johnson, I am just curious here, folks. Does the guy deserve another shot at the speakership?

You know, President Trump, everybody's throwing in now. And they're making, he doesn't have the votes. He can only lose two votes. That's it. And I don't think he's got the numbers.

So here's Congressman Chip Roy on Fox. Cut 16, please. Yeah, and I have to follow up at this point, Congressman. Does he have that support or not? Yeah, right now I don't believe that he has the votes on Friday, and I think we need to have the conference get together so that we can get united.

And people say, well, Chip, who would you choose otherwise? There are a lot of great members of Congress. Mike's a friend, and maybe he can answer the call, and he can deliver an agenda and a plan. Byron Donald is a good man and a good friend. I supported him.

I nominated him two years ago. Jim Jordan's a good man and a good friend. There are other members of leadership in the conference who could do the job. But what we need to do is unite around a plan to deliver for the president. Right now, I do not believe the conference has that.

The failure before Christmas, I cannot overstate, is a glimpse to come if we don't organize the conference to be able to deliver for the American people. We are not going to be able to bend on the things that matter. We must cut spending if you want inflation to go down and for people to afford to live in this country. We have to secure the border. We can't be going back and forth on that.

We have to give the tools, Tom Homan, the president, Stephen Miller, to secure the border. And we've got to have the plans in place by Friday. Yeah, look, I'm with Congressman Roy here on this. And again, when you look at Speaker Johnson, you know what he just did? He just funded a lot of very bad stuff with his continuing resolution.

But President Trump, and again, here's the point. President Trump says that he believes that Speaker Mike Johnson needs to be the guy, and Trump doesn't want the headache of a prolonged controversy here. I was talking to a lawmaker a couple of days ago, and he doesn't think that Johnson's going to get it on the first round of votes.

So my question to you would be, ladies and gentlemen, whether or not you believe that Speaker Mike Johnson is the guy. And if he's not the guy, who do you think it ought to be? there aren't a lot of good choices here unless there's somebody we could bring in from the outside i mean i wouldn't necessarily object to don trump jr wielding the gavel i mean that might be a possibility 901-260-5926 is the number that's 901-260-5926 the the problem here is that now you've got a lot of big issues. And I am very concerned that we are about to have a massive outbreak of terrorism on American soil. That's my concern here.

And we need very strong leadership. We don't need leadership with foggy glasses. We need leaders with clear vision who can do what needs to be done to keep the people safe. And I am not thoroughly convinced right now that we've got the resources necessary to protect the tens of thousands of people, maybe hundreds of thousands of people that are going to show up on Inauguration Day. You've got the funeral, the state funeral, the national funeral of Jimmy Carter coming up.

You've got a lot of events, a lot of big events happening that are just ripe for these terrorists. And I do believe them to be Islamic radicals Now FBI by the way also weighing in on what happening in Las Vegas So you have a guy renting a Tesla Cybertruck pulling in to the valet zone at Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas just right off the strip Beautiful hotel. The guy's vehicle is loaded with fireworks and gas canisters and other explosives, and he blows himself up. The guy is killed, seven people injured in a Tesla owned by Elon Musk, by the way, in front of Trump International Hotel. And we just had the FBI say they can't figure out a motive in that attack.

By the way, the suspect, anti-Trump, his wife, anti-Trump, they were posting a lot of anti-Trump messages on their social media platforms. And you're telling me the FBI can't figure out what the motive is in that attack? These people are morons. Kash Patel, and by the way, there's also a movement afoot, and they're saying that Kash Patel and Kristi Noem and others in the terrorist and intel community need to be put on staff immediately. The confirmations need to happen, and they've got to happen quickly because we've got to fix what's broken in our FBI right now.

This is just unacceptable.

So, look, we're going to get into more of that. Also, coming up next, we're going to be checking in with our good buddy Raymond Arroyo. We're being told, as a matter of fact, Dylan just got a note from a buddy of his who's outside the Superdome for the Sugar Bowl tonight. says they've got National Guard boots on the ground.

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That's 833-880-0600 for a free consultation. Redballoon.org. All right. I want to bring in a good friend of this program and a longtime resident of New Orleans. You see him all the time on Fox News Channel.

Raymond Arroyo, who is a Fox News contributor. By the way, you've got to check out his great website, RaymondArroyo.com. We've got that over in the live show blog. Raymond, good to have you with us today.

Well, Todd, always great to be with you.

Sorry it's under such bad surface. Happy New Year. It's just a terrible story. And I know this has to be especially troubling for folks who live in New Orleans. Yes, it's a big tourist destination, but there are a lot of hometown folks as well.

How are people doing?

Well, not well, I have to tell you. Everybody's a little rattled, as you can imagine. To visitors, the French Quarter is a place to come and have a good time and have a drink and listen to music. For those of us who are local, it's where we celebrate our kids' baptism. It's where we celebrate as families.

It's where we go to worship, where your churches are.

So it's a hometown destination.

Now, I'm not talking about Bourbon Street. I haven't been on Bourbon Street. Last time I went, I went to Galatois, which is a restaurant. Actually, right where that driver entered Bourbon Street to mow down all those poor people, it's right near that restaurant. And it's been there for 150 years.

So it's an old staple. But it has left a mark on the community for this reason, Todd. No one believes at this point that local law enforcement or local officials, more pointedly, have the ability to protect us right now when we go down to these places that mean so much to us. And if you heard the police chief and Kirkpatrick, you know, the other day saying we had a security plan in place, but the terrorists defeated it.

Well, no, duh. Yes. Yeah, he defeated it because your plan was terrible. And they had years ago, Todd, going back to 2016. You remember that Nice truck attack?

Remember the terrorist drove through Nice? I do remember that. Yeah. Killed all of those people.

Well, coming out of that in 2017, Mitchell Andrew, our then mayor, committed $40 million to securing the pedestrian walkways in the French Quarter because he feared a truck attack like Nice.

Okay.

Fast forward to now. These stanchions were in place. They had these mechanical security perimeters that would come up at the end of the blocks to keep any motorized traffic out of the French Quarter. For whatever reason, they have been malfunctioning in recent years. And our brilliant mayor, Latoya Cantrell, decided it would be a good time to install the new mechanized barriers for the Super Bowl, which is coming up in two months, now during the Sugar Bowl.

So they dismantled some of those stanchions and some of those security perimeters, just putting cop cars and a little sign that says road closed, and thought that would do the trick. That, by the way, was their security plan. This is a miserable failure. This is stunning to me. And look, I appreciate the governor, and I know he's pretty new to the job.

I get that. They were talking about how they're beefing up security. Why are they just now doing that, knowing that they've got the Sugar Bowl, they've got tens of thousands of football fans, it's New Year's Eve. It seems to me they should have already had whatever upgrade they were going to do in place. Yeah, it's kind of surprising, I have to tell you, because, Look, I ride Mardi Gras every year, and that too.

We've had problems with cars running on the neutral ground, running over people watching parades. That happened not too many years ago.

So it's not like this isn't on the radar. And look, you can't protect against every lunatic who's going to do something bad, Todd. You can't. But you can put security measures in place to mitigate the damage they can do and contain what they can do. And that's the problem here.

You've got a very constricted place. The French Quarter has tiny little tight streets, you know, and yet they've, look, I had to walk. I was not happy on New Year's Eve, I'll tell you, because we had dinner literally a block away from where this tragedy happened. You know, we went to a restaurant on Royal Street just a block away, and it was stunning to me that night that I couldn't even park at the parking garage. which we normally park the car in, because the streets were closed.

But they were not closed to terrorists, if you're willing to run over the cop car or run over pedestrians in the walkway, which is what this guy did.

So it's like a half security measure was in place, but not enough to really stop a truck being used as a weapon to kill our citizens. There's another component of this, Raymond, that just has me very troubled, and I haven't shared the information. Yes, we didn't share it yesterday. But the location of these IEDs, I believe NBC News last night reported that somebody was making these, and there were a lot of them, which is why they believe others were involved. Are you hearing reports that maybe the cathedral was one of the targets of the IEDs?

We don't know that yet, but we know there was one on Bourbon Street planted. There was one planted on Esplanade, which is on the far end of Bourbon Street, away from Canal, where the driver first turned in. There was some early reportage, and we don't know, Todd, because they haven't shared all this information yet, about how many of these IEDs, and they're still discovering associated people. The rental that this guy was in was torched in the early morning of New Year's Day, where they imagined that these IEDs were probably being hooked up there. And then he and his band of terrorists went up, fanned out, and there's security footage of two men and a woman planting some of these IEDs.

Some of them were planted very near the cathedral, not on the walls of the cathedral or in it, but very near.

So whether that was part of the intention or it was just widespread mayhem throughout the French Quarter, whether that was the target, we really don't know yet. But given the trajectory of these other ISIS-inspired and jihadi-inspired incidents around the globe, usually there is a religious dimension. And one that I brought out that I don't think anybody was really talking about, January 1st is the Feast of Mary, Mother of God for Catholics. It's a high holy day. It's a day of obligation where you have to go to Mass that day.

So it's not uncommon for churches to be filled like Christmas Eve or Christmas Day on New Year's Day.

So might that have been a target? Possibly. But it certainly wasn't lost. I always say, whether you believe or not, these people certainly believe enough to know when your holy days happen. And will target and strike on those days.

Yeah, I mean, that's a fair point.

Now, of course, again, later today, you're going to be heading off to, I understand, the Sugar Bowl. Yeah. Have they given any indication of the security measures that they're implementing? It's going to be a fortress around the Superdome, I have to tell you. Yeah, I imagine.

I mean, what I'm hearing is that the perimeter has been extended, which, again, it's such an inconvenience for the people who are actually, who are the locals, or the people, you know, the fans of tens of thousands of fans, 80,000 fans have come into these games from Georgia and from Notre Dame. The perimeter is going to be widened, meaning it's going to take longer for you to get in. Hopefully, that means security has been beefed up. Look, when an incident like this happens, you're probably in the safest place you could possibly be because you've got local, state, and federal law enforcement in place. And they finally then, outsiders are creating the security measures as opposed to the blundering New Orleans officials.

And I have to say, you know, our chief of police came in from Oakland, California. She was fired in that job, Todd. I think you wrote a piece about this the other day, or somebody did, about this is a woman who was training DEI. She was teaching DEI to the FBI. And in August of this past year, and I remember reading this in our local paper, she ran over two pedestrians.

I mean, this is not the person you want securing your city during major events, not only the Sugar Bowl or New Year's Eve, but the Super Bowl, which could be attended by dignitaries that haven't even been mentioned yet. I am very worried about the security going forward and the long-term security of this city, given the failings, the basic failings we saw in this incident. All right. Well, Raymond, we're going to leave it there. I know you've got to scoot out to get to the Superdome for the Sugar Bowl.

Well, pay for it.

Well, I will, and I will say this about Notre Dame, and I'm an SEC guy, so I'm rooting for the dogs here. But I will say this about Notre Dame. Hundreds of their fans yesterday held a prayer service for both teams, and I think they had 500-something people turn out at the hotel for that. Yeah, they were at the Hilton. Yeah, they were at the Hilton.

They had their masks, and it was beautiful. Look, I love that you're seeing these signs of faith. This is how you repel this stuff. This is how you really push it back, through signs of faith, through obedience to God and giving him glory in these moments. You can't go wrong, but there are, on the temporal side, substantial security measures that we can't look away from.

Yeah, we've got to get that taken care of. And these New Orleans officials, Todd, they owe us a lot of answers in the days ahead because the money was on the table and set aside the equipment as well as the security blockades in the streets of New Orleans. Those should have been used and implemented during this event and, frankly, throughout this whole period. And it was. Raymond Arroyo ladies and gentlemen go to his great website incredible author you've got to buy every single one of the books that this guy's written he's just a tremendous author raymondarroyo.com and a good man as well and he knows all the good restaurants in New Orleans Raymond thank you all right enjoy the game today all right all right uh let's get to the phone lines here.

I'm always fun to talk to Raymond. 901-260-5926. Let's go to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Cody is on the line. Cody, what's on your mind today?

Yeah, I can't believe this happened because Donald Trump told us that ISIS was defeated. Was he making crap up again? What are you talking about? Donald Trump is not the president of the United States. Joe Biden is the president of the United States.

Right. But Trump, while president, said he eliminated... All right. What does this have to do with anything, Cody? What are...

Cody, Joe Biden is president of the United States. And as far as we know, as far as we know, this guy has no connection to ISIS other than he was pledging allegiance to it. Cody, goodbye. You're gone. We'll be right back.

Anybody else notice that Elon Musk is, like, attached to President Trump's side? Has anybody else noticed this? It's getting a little weird, right? Has Elon overstayed his welcome down at Mar-a-Lago? You never even hear from J.D.

Vance anymore. You would think that Musk is the VP these days. Anybody notice that? You wonder, there's been some speculation in the conservative world, and including Trump world, that maybe it might be good to take a little break, a little vacay for Elon. Let's go to the phone lines here.

Gary in Daytona Beach, Florida wants to weigh in on the speaker vote. All right, Gary, how do you think the Republicans ought to go here? What's the play? It can only be Johnson for right now. They look like fools if they put this, that's what the Democrats are counting on, is a babble and have it be on the networks.

The Republicans have nothing together and they can't figure anything out, and it would do them. They would just love for that to happen. If they want to ditch Johnson or vote on something else, you've got to give Trump 120 days or you've got to give him something and look unified, and then you can pull whatever you want. but uh my other comment to you was with raymond at that press conference which has to be the all time worst press conference the first one they had um in louisiana the first one they had was horrible and they brought the assistant superintendent of police to explain to us that the mardi gras beads going down into the bollards and caused them to malfunction and we We should all know that, that the beads were what the name caused. And it's hilarious on that.

And Kirkpatrick has to go. She can't go. She doesn't show any superior command of her position.

So John Kennedy, bless his soul, he couldn't wait to get to the microphone. And the FBI lady's eyes are rolling when she goes. This is absolutely not terrorism. I'm at first conference. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, everybody knew it was terrorism, and it's just shocking that the FBI agent there, the one with the nose ring, the nose piercing, wasn't even able to recognize that. Gary, it's a good thought. Appreciate the call, and thank you for listening. Yeah, look, on Speaker Johnson, does Trump need the chaos? No, he doesn't.

He's got to get in there, and Trump believes that he can work with Johnson. and if that's good enough for Trump, I reckon it's good enough for me, but Johnson is not an effective leader. The issue with Johnson is he can't get in Trump's way, and if that happens, if he gets in Trump's way, then it's over for Mike Johnson because Trump will drop him, and it will not be pretty. That's how it's going to go. By the way, folks, New Year, and I know many of you are making the resolutions.

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So, again, text the word GOLDEN to 24999. All right, coming up in the next hour, a pretty serious topic. We're going to talk to David Giamona. He is a retired Army colonel, and we're going to just jump into this question, and it's a frightening question when you think about it. Is the United States military radicalizing our soldiers?

Is that what's going on here? And I raise this as an issue because back in 2008 when Barack Obama got elected, something very disturbing happened. Obama promised to fundamentally transform America. That's what he promised to do. And he started in the Pentagon, and he fired a lot of patriotic Christian generals and replaced them with woke diversity hires.

And many of those people are still in place inside the Pentagon. That's just the cold, hard reality. There was an effort to turn Christians against, or rather to turn officers against Christians. There were training sessions where religious groups, conservatives were labeled as possible domestic threats. And I reported all of this during my years at Fox News.

So I'm wondering if Obama's agenda actually laid the foundation for these jihadists. and it should concern all of us that the men and women who wear the uniform of this country some of them may actually in fact be the enemy so we're going to get into that with david giamona and see how pete hagseth as defense secretary can fix that very big problem but i think the american people deserve to know if the obama biden government nexus has turned our military bases into terrorist training camps. All right, 901-260-5926. If you would like to join the show today, that's how you do it. Pick up the phone, give us a call.

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Todd Starks. All right, CNN just reported that they can't tell us if the guy who blew up the Tesla in front of Trump International Hotel was pro-Trump or anti-Trump. You can't make this stuff up, folks. You just can't do it. Hello, everybody.

Welcome to the program. By the way, the sheriff over in Las Vegas was very complimentary of Tesla. and it turns out that they were able to gather a lot of intel on what exactly happened. I mean, this thing was, I mean, if you've seen the video of the explosion, this was a massive explosion and it happened right there under the portico and the seven people injured, the driver, the terrorist was killed.

So what's interesting about this, the guy had the wrong truck. If he had been driving any other vehicle, there could have been a lot of damage done. But it turned out the Cybertruck actually contained the explosion and directed the blast up instead of out. And what's fascinating here is not even the glass doors of the hotel lobby were blown out because of how strong the Cybertruck is. That's pretty impressive.

Quite frankly, I think every person in Memphis, Tennessee needs to get one of those. Maybe we'll be safer on the highways. Elon Musk, writing this on X, says the evil knuckleheads picked the wrong vehicle for a terrorist attack. A Cybertruck actually contained the explosion, directed the blast upwards. It turns out that the Cybertruck limited the damage that occurred outside the hotel because it went through the truck and out.

Pretty brilliant. Following the explosion, Musk announced on X, reading from Breitbart here, Musk announced on X the entire Tesla senior team was investigating the matter. He later clarified that the explosion was caused by a very large firework or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented Cybertruck. By the way, and they're able to keep track of all the telemetry. I mean, there's a lot of tech, a lot of gizmos in the Cybertruck, and they were able to monitor all of that every second leading up to the blast.

So this is really spectacular. But again, had this been any other vehicle but a Cybertruck, then we would probably be talking about a very different situation in Las Vegas. But again, the FBI says there's no connection between the two. What happened in Vegas? What happened in New Orleans?

Let's go to the phone lines here. 901-260-5926 is our number. That's 901-260-5926. Mary is calling us from Georgia today and wants to weigh in on the speakership. Hi, Mary.

What's on your mind? Hey, Todd. I just wanted to say, no, Mike Johnson is not the ideal speaker for the House of Representatives. but I don't think that conservatives, true conservatives are still in the minority in the house anyway.

So I think he's going to be about the best we can get. Um, and we've kind of the essence. We don't have the time to waste in a, in a fight over who, who is going to be speaker, especially since Mike Johnson is about as conservative as anybody has a chance of getting that position.

So I think we ought to just go ahead, accept him, vote him in, and give Trump as much time as possible to get on with his agenda, because, I mean, we really need that to happen. Time is of the essence.

Well, it is. And every day spent battling over something like the speakership is going to take away from accomplishing Trump's agenda, which, while I am no fan of Mike Johnson. I am a fan of Donald Trump. And if that if Trump says he can work with Mike Johnson, that's good enough for me, Mary. I agree.

I'd really like to see Tim Cotton in that job, but not a chance. Oh, well, Tim Cotton's over in the Senate. I don't think he would. I mean, I guess you could make him Speaker of the House. I mean, there's no rule against it.

If you could make Elon Musk Speaker of the House, you could make Tim Cotton Speaker. but we know that's not going to happen.

So anyway, I just think Mike is about the best we're going to get under these circumstances. All right. Well, Mary, thank you for your call. Appreciate that. Thanks for listening.

901-260-5926. The incoming White House press secretary is really going to shake things up in that press briefing room, Caroline Levitt, and she's announcing that they're going to really strategize and think about who really needs to be in that room. And one of the ideas she has is that instead of just the New York Times and CNN and Washington Post, that they need to start inviting in some of the podcasters, some of the bloggers, maybe even some talk radio host and give those people media credentials inside the press briefing room i i sounds like a fine idea to me the new york post writing a pretty scathing op-ed on the legacy media here's the headline written by the entire post editorial board journos that's journalist. Journalists who joined gaslighting on Biden's decline should never live it down. And they're saying there should be some sort of a reckoning here for the drive-by media.

The Post writing this, President-elect Donald Trump forcing the Democratic politicians who spent years lying about President Biden's senility to take their better medicine. But we're more concerned about the toady media who played along. Trump on Monday posted a video showing clip after cringeworthy clip of Democrat lawmakers from Nancy Pelosi to Alejandro Mayorkas denying again and again that Biden was mentally and physically deteriorating, claiming he was sharp on his game, focused and that his age is an asset. Every last one of them deserves scorn, but so do the journalist who not only let this fantastical fib go unchallenged, but even parroted the lies. Biden was showing no signs of mental decline.

They insisted, and it was offensive, ignorant and borderline bigoted to even suggest otherwise. Oh, this is true. the entire idea that biden was anything but healthy was treated as a right tinfoil hat talking point agreed the public wasn buying it back in february February 86 of Americans thought Biden was too old to serve a second term because they had watched his decline happen in real time over the course of several years. Way back in 2022, some 75% of Democrat voters wanted someone other than Biden to run in 2024. But the Biden is fine.

He's just fine. Wandering around the White House, mumbling in his bathrobe, licking an ice cream cone. He's fine. Hunky-dory. But the charade continued even after special counsel Robert Herr said a jury would see Biden as an elderly man with a poor memory.

Keep in mind, that was the reason. That was the reason they never charged Biden, right? because he would be considered an old man with bad memory. And now the New York Post is saying somebody needs to be held responsible for all of this. I completely agree.

And I think that's actually happening in real time. The numbers of viewers on CNN, MSDNC are plummeting, plummeting. Not even the liberals are watching this garbage. And can I ask you a question about Anderson Cooper for just a moment? And, Ben, I'm curious to get your thoughts on this as well.

You're kind of like the media guy. You follow a lot of this stuff.

So on New Year's Eve, CNN always took great pride in getting their host drunk on air. Right?

You had Don Lemon, who was getting drunk down in New Orleans. You had the guy who was finagling with the drag queens down in Key West. and then you had Anderson Cooper and what's that guy's name? Andy Cohen. Andy Cohen.

And they would host, they would anchor all of this in New York City. And the whole, I guess the whole bit was they were getting drunk. They were literally drinking on air. Vodka shot after vodka shot. The problem is that Anderson Cooper can't hold his liquor.

And did they think this is funny or what were they trying to buy? I mean, these are guys that are my age and they're in their mid 50s. Are they did they think they were connecting with young kids? Do the young people of America are they? Do they find that attractive?

No, no. I don't know who they're appealing to. Maybe a lot of wine moms, because, I mean, they're two gay guys. And I think that's the parody of it all. Like there are 53 year old men with children at home.

And instead of being with their kids, their kids are with God knows who a nanny or a babysitter. And they're out getting plastered well into one o'clock in the morning. Who is that appealing to? Is that relatable? Not to most Americans, but to the execs at CNN.

It still must hit. I mean, I guess if if I were working at CNN, I would want to get drunk on the air, too. True.

So I can kind of sympathize. But like, hold your alcohol down. There was one shot of Anderson Cooper. He couldn't even take a shot. It was like, grow a backbone.

If you're going to drink on air, at least be able to drink it and take it like a man. He couldn't. I'll work on that. He's a woman. Yeah.

So hold on. I didn't realize he had kids.

So he bought kids. He has, I think, two of them. They both have a couple kids apiece. Jeez. Do they have a store now where you can go in?

Yeah, yeah. It's almost like Build-A-Bear, but it's called Build-A-Baby. You go in there, you build your baby.

So you're a gay card. Yeah. Pick out a pretty woman, the one that you want. You want brunette, blonde. Then she gets impregnated and pops out the gay babies.

The babies aren't gay. No, but. The dads are gay. All right. Baby daddy gay.

Yeah. So then the gay dads show up at the nursing unit of the hospital and swoop in and take the baby. Pete Booty Juice and his gal pal Chastity, they did that. Chastin Todd. Yeah, that's what I said.

Chastin. They did that. They actually were in the hospital. And, I mean, have you seen? They kicked the poor woman out who had just given the birth.

She just went through four hours of contractions, labor, all of the things. And they kick her out of the bed, and then Chastain gets in it and puts the baby on his chest. Like he had done the work of God, because that is truly a miracle. That poor baby. I mean, it was probably like, yeah, this is not going to work for me.

I got to have some Mountain Dew. Do I have a choice in the matter? Give me some Yoo-Hoo. Wow, I didn't realize that. Yeah, that's what happened.

Weird that Pete never got on the bed. Pete stayed off the bed. Chastity, now I'm saying Chastity. Chastity was the one that got in the bed. No, but they had the hospital, like they were actually admitted to the hospital as patients.

So one of them was popping out the baby, but it turned out to be some poor woman.

Somebody got impregnated. They literally stuffed her in the closet so fast, grabbed the kid. We don't know what happened to that woman. Wow. Probably working on kid number four.

Is that? Wow. I had no earth.

Now, have you seen the photos? Because, you know, with AI now, it's just hard to figure out what's real or not. But like Pea Booty Juice, when the babies were born, had on a fake boob bra and was like nursing a child with like, have you seen that? God, you're literally in media. You're the top story.

You're going to be their number two story. I don't know if that's possible. I'm asking if it's AI or if that was the real thing. A prosthetic breast. that that functions as a milk machine it's an udder a human udder yeah yeah i don't know if it's true or not i don't even want to think about it by the way before we so let me let me put a bow on this if we can um that was just weird tv but what i thought was hilarious is they brought in this female comedian chick and she was i mean she was sort of funny um it's just hard to be funny in that kind of a moment because you got two drunk gay guys and they're like you know all they were all over the place and she comes in there and she is cracking jokes at cnn's expense and then some black dude comes up there and they offer him a shot he said the last black guy that drank on air on cnn got fired wow but all that to say i'm not sure that actually helps grow their audience to be honest with you i i heard they were really trying to lean into hard news after they fired half of their opinion hosts and and that's what their hard news looks like well no no no their hard news looks like luther vandross because last night i when i finally got home from uh i had to anchor newsmax last night uh when i got home i thought okay i'm just going to channel surf um cnn was not covering the terrorist attack they were covering they were airing a documentary about luther vandross and of course everybody loves luther vandross but on their main channel this wasn't cnn plus no no this was cnn cable news network and they were airing a documentary and they're catching holy you know what for that and and rightfully so but you know what as soon as they figured out it wasn't a white guy who goes to a baptist church they started minimizing the story that's that's how it works with those folks yeah by the way msdnc same thing they were not covering the only people live last night were fox and um newsmax that was it so there you go all right well thanks for clearing that up i was just curious i um you know the rest of us were working schlubs on New Year's Eve.

We did not imbibe, but it's not a good look for CNN to have Anderson Cooper up there literally drunk. And by the way, this is the same network that gave Pete Hegseth holy you-know-what because he drank a Guinness on St. Patrick's Day on Fox News. Such a great point. Just want to point that out.

All right, we got to take a break here, folks. 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. What in the world is going on at Fort Bragg? This is the same military base that Ryan Routh visited over a hundred times before attempting to take Donald Trump's life.

He's the guy down at the golf course in Palm Beach, Florida. This is also the military base where the New Orleans terrorist and the Las Vegas terrorist both were stationed. Not at the same time, they're telling us, but they were both stationed at Fort Bragg. Is it some sort of a strange coincidence, or do you think there may be something going on at Fort Bragg?

Now, they just had a press conference over in Las Vegas, and I want to share this information with you.

So the Las Vegas Police Department is now telling us that the guy in the Tesla, he shot himself in the head before the explosion. Anybody find that odd?

So if he shot himself in the head, was he still alive and alert enough to set off whatever exploded in that vehicle? This is the direct quote from the sheriff of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Quote, the individual had sustained a gunshot wound to the head prior to the detonation of the vehicle. They also found an arsenal of firearms inside the vehicle.

So this could have been a whole heck of a lot worse, FBI ATF assisting in the Cybertruck blast. It seems to me that whatever happened in Las Vegas was a political statement that this guy was trying to send a message to Donald Trump and Elon Musk. This is not rocket science here. But the fact that you can literally drive up to the portico of a Trump International Hotel and blow up your vehicle, that's a little concerning, ladies and gentlemen. All right, we've got to take a quick break here.

901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926 This is the Todd Stern Show All right, welcome back to the Todd Sterns Radio Show Good to have you with us, ladies and gentlemen So the question at hand deals with the U.S. military and what exactly is going on at Fort Bragg. As we told you before the break, we now know that the guy who tried to kill President Trump had been visiting Fort Bragg as many as 100 times, according to some reports. Also, we understand that the attacker in Las Vegas and New Orleans also spent time.

They were stationed at Fort Bragg. I want to bring into the conversation a good friend of the program, U.S. Army Colonel David Giamona, retired now. But, Colonel, we appreciate your great analysis, and welcome to the show. Todd, it's always good to be with you.

Looking forward to it.

So, Colonel, right out of the gate here, any red flags that you see with their military service?

Well, you know, Special Forces is an elite group in the U.S. Army, and I've worked with them extensively over the years. I was never a Green Beret, but a lot of good friends. And so they operate independently. They operate.

They're taught how to operate and think independently of the rest of the Army for good reasons. If there is a link between these guys, that's a red flag. And also the fact that they got military training and then decided afterwards to pull this kind of, you know, terrible act against the United States. You know, I'm sure right now What we used to call for a brag Fort Liberty I still call it brag But here's the deal I'm sure they're going to do an intensive Investigation Into all the background The connectivity and everything else And I think when President Trump Gets in there We're going to see a lot of leadership changes And I think we're going to see a lot of our Military go back the way It used to be when I was in and get rid of this DEI stuff and all that other thing.

So there's a lot of things to discuss here, but the important factor is these guys had military training. They used it against the U.S. There needs to be a deep investigation of why and what the connectivity is, and there's not enough information to understand that connectivity right now, at least. I want to go back in time to when Barack Obama was elected, this promise he made to fundamentally transform America. And one of the first ways he did that was in the Pentagon.

And I believe you were still in the military at that point. Did you see that fundamental transformation taking place inside the Pentagon? And what did that look like military-wide? Yeah, I was actually in the Pentagon when that was happening. And I can see that through that series of events, Barack Obama knew exactly what he was doing.

He knew that the president had a lot of power over the military and can incorporate a lot of social change. And that's what he did. A lot of social change is going on. It wasn't necessarily good change. Look, the military, the president has to understand the military is a warfighting machine.

We don't use it for social experiences. And as we were taught in the Army War College, every first battle America has ever fought has lost because we were just not prepared. Right now, I just don't think we're prepared for a major conflict to go on right now in the world because of all the lack of training going on. I believe that's going to quickly change, though. I mean, again, it could be just an uncanny series of coincidences, but I find it weird that these guys were both at Fort Bragg.

They were both in Afghanistan. And to your point, they were both in the U.S. Army. Yeah, I don't think it's a coincidence. There's too many coincidences here.

They probably, my guess is they did know each other. But the bigger problem, I think, is this. Who are they listening to? And so worldwide, we have this call for Infantata. We have ISIS raising up.

Look, we made a huge mistake in Afghanistan. That's where a lot of this stuff is coming out of right now. We understand that sleeper cells are in the U.S. There's a lot of training going on in Afghanistan. We don't have coverage over it anymore.

Many factors in the world, including Iran, Syria, the rest of the Middle East, and it's all coming to roost right here in the United States of America. Here's where I'm concerned, Colonel. I think we've seen what's happened across Europe, France, Belgium, the U.K. right now. there are literally no-go zones for people who are non-Muslim in those countries.

And we are watching the radicalization happen here in America. And I'm wondering how far away are we from having a situation where we're going to be completely overrun. You've got the mosque that this guy was a member of back in Houston. They're telling people, they put out a statement telling all of their people, do not talk to the FBI, don't talk to the media, You talk to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. That is a red flag for me.

Anybody who comes to the United States of America needs to understand they're American citizens first.

So these things are happening under our very noses, Detroit, other Muslim populate areas. For the most part, Todd, honestly, most of the Muslims I have talked to have been associated with, with, even in the Middle East, didn't want any of this stuff happening. They want to be left alone. They want to live peacefully. But you have the radicals in there that are stirring up the problems.

And those are the guys and gals that need to be eliminated, either put in jail, incarcerated, or sent back to their country so they can go fight for Islam in their world and not in ours. Colonel, when you look at the security measures that are in place, of course, so thousands of people heading over to the Super Bowl, or rather the Superdome for tonight's Sugar Bowl. Are you confident that we have the security in place to fight back in the event we have multiple terrorist attacks happening across the country simultaneously? Yeah, and that's the plan, isn't it? You know, I was listening to this morning intently to New York police, you know, as they gear up for all the activities that just happened in New York.

And I'm fairly certain that our police are going to ramp up hugely operations. I mean, the game today, Notre Dame and Georgia, they're putting more forces in to protect the people. I hope it's enough. But, you know, with these kinds of events, you really can't stop terrorists altogether. One hundred percent.

It's an impossibility. Too many factors, too many people, too big of events.

So things can happen. I'm hoping our police forces, though, will protect the majority of Americans. And, you know, they're asking them not to live in fear.

However, with the borders open, as they have been the last few years, the weakness of our military and the weakness of our police forces, everybody's trying the best that they can to do this. But I think it's a problem that Donald Trump, I think, is going to help solve as he takes the mantle of leadership one more time in the United States of America. Are you confident that Pete Hegseth is going to get in there and is going to be able to just do something about this wokeness and the DEI hires and appointments? Yeah, I think there's a lot of fight against Pete. I love the man.

I think he's a great American. I think he's going to do some really good stuff for the military. I'm confident that he's going to be able to do some really good, get back to war fighting skills, get back to the focus. What are we supposed to do in the military? protect the nation and its interests around the world and globally.

And so I think Pete is going to do an excellent job. And I think there's going to be factions and forces in the deep state that are going to try to prevent some of these things. But in the end, I think we've got some smart people that are going to do the right things. And we've got a lot of good officers in the military that are just waiting for some good leadership. Oh, sure.

Real quick, before we let you go, Colonel, I wanted to get your take on something. Senator John Kennedy said a reporter asked if he was concerned about attacks in other cities, and he declined to answer the question. He said, I can answer the question, but I'm not going to answer the question. What do you make of that answer? They've been warning for attacks in our cities for a long time now, for at least the last 12 months.

Our military intelligence, the FBI, all these other agencies, not that I trust a lot of them right now, but they have been saying, you know, there are sleeper cells in the U.S. There's no question about that. And they're waiting for the right time, right opportunity, a soft target. And they're not going to give their hand all at once. But I think, you know, our cities are vulnerable.

Our major cities are vulnerable to attack.

So we have to be looking to see what happens in the days and weeks to come. All right. Well, Colonel, we appreciate your time as always. Lieutenant Colonel David Giamona, thank you again. Thanks, Todd.

All right. And hang tight, folks. We've got to take a quick break going right to our phone lines, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. This is The Todd Stern Show.

All right, we've got some new intel here. And this situation out of Las Vegas is getting a little squirrely on us. And I want to share this intel coming out of the press conference I just had.

So they've identified the attacker, the guy inside the Cybertruck, as Matthew Livelsberger. And they said that the guy shot himself. I'm just curious if you're buying the story I'm about to share with you, because this is what they just announced at the presser, that they said the guy shot himself in the head before the bomb exploded. Before the bomb detonated, he shot himself in the head. My question would be, all right, so was the bomb on a timer?

How did the bomb go off? Was it detonated remotely? What's that all about? They also said that the guy's body was burned beyond recognition. but they were able to identify him based on his passport and military ID, which did not burn in the mass of fire.

So many of the guns were burned. The body was burned beyond recognition. You saw the mass of fire.

Somehow the paper passport and the guy's military ID were able to survive the inferno. You guys buying that? that's a little suspect if you ask me so we're gonna we're gonna jump into this five o'clock eastern on our newsmax show and we've got a reporter boots on the ground in las vegas and we'll try to bring you the very latest information there but this sounds very odd ladies and gentlemen 901-260-5926 is our number that's 901-260-5926 this is not adding up at all none of this is is adding up all right um wow i want to play some audio um this goes are we good with the audio all right good stuff so i want to go back to um some audio from what happened in new orleans i had a chance to talk to my good buddy tony perkins uh tony was on my newsmax show last night i was filling in in the seven o'clock hour and tony is actually from louisiana he was in law enforcement before he came on with our friends at Family Research Council. Cut 13, please.

Well, the facts that you've covered tonight is pretty much what is known. The investigation will be ongoing. I was a police officer in Baton Rouge, actually had some friends in the New Orleans Police Department many years ago and have been on patrol with them down in the Bourbon Street area. A lot of folks there, I can just imagine the carnage. You've seen the pictures of it, but obviously it's much different when you're there in person.

My communication with the speaker about this was this morning as we were discussing this is, you know, we obviously we first think about we've got to secure our border, but has been brought out. This was an American citizen. This was not someone who came across the border, someone who apparently has been radicalized by ISIS. This really goes to something that Ben Franklin said back at the Constitutional convention when he called for prayer when he said that you know unless the lord guards the city the watchmen watch in vain and and this is one of those situations todd where i think as americans we need god's hand of protection upon this nation and that is what i was communicating with the speaker earlier today which he recognizes and and and and acknowledged that our nation needs god's protection this also should lay bare the idea that gun control is going to make us safer you know We're using what are we going to do to start registering people for car or giving background checks for people to get cars? I mean, look, we live in a society where evil is present and we've got to come to grips with that.

And God, we need his hand of protection upon this nation.

Well said, Tony Perkins. Let's go to the phone lines. Baxter is listening to us in Georgia today. Hi, Baxter. What's on your mind?

God bless you, buddy. i love listening to you how you doing i'm well thank you for asking listen i got a scoop on the guy from las vegas the one that's in the tesla that blew up and oh man i gotta have me on the trucks because did you see the sides of the truck it didn't do anything to it the batteries didn't explode well what was all that stuff shooting out from the car oh fireworks i believe they had fireworks in the car did you see that video well yes um yeah they had fireworks and a lot they had a gas canister and there were some others there were some other incendiary devices uh the guy was trying to the guy built a bad bomb is is what happened and they announced that at the press conference as well not very sophisticated yeah well listen the information i have that His mama, every time he would go on youth camp and stuff like that, church outings and ministers and things like that, she would write his name on his underwear. And that's another way that they have totally, definitely identified the man.

Okay.

Well, possibly, I guess. I'm not quite sure. I mean, the guy was in his 30s. If his mother was still writing his name on his underpants, that would be problematic. Baxter, thank you for the call.

I just can't today, folks. It's too early in the new year. Too early in the new year. Oh, boy. Look, I want to play some audio here.

Sugar Bowl coming up, and good luck to the Georgia Bulldogs. I know you got a lot of Notre Dame fans out there, but go Dawgs.

So last night they had really an emotional mass, and after the mass you had all of these fans gathering together to sing the alma mater. This happening, and Raymond and I were talking about it earlier in the show. Let's take a listen to what that sounded like. Thank you, Mother, heaven is strong and true. I'll give the heavens things like gold and blue.

For each mantle close to me, golden is thy name. And our hearts forever Praise the Lord today And our hearts forever Well, there you go. It's just really a beautiful scene there at the hotel and folks holding hands and praying together. It'll be interesting to see how many people stuck around for the game. We're being told a lot of folks decided to pack it in and go back home.

But again, the Sugar Bowl is set to get underway here momentarily down in the Big Easy. It's just a terrible situation. Terrible. By the way, tonight, 5 o'clock Eastern on Newsmax, the Todd Stern Show. Be sure to watch.

We're going to have live reports from New Orleans. Also, a live report from Vegas where these bizarre developments are happening.

So it's just very weird. Also, we're going to get a report from Capitol Hill on the fight over the speakership.

So a lot happening. And, of course, tomorrow we will be voting on a brand new Speaker of the House, and we're going to keep you updated through that entire procedure. All right, folks, got to scoot out of here. Hey, don't forget, check out ToddStearns.com. Thank you guys for watching us on Rumble TV as well.

Get out there and you be good and safe, America.