Pam Bondi Turns Epstein Case into Clown Show

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901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. And we're going to be getting to your calls momentarily. I want to circle back to something that happened yesterday. First of all, Pam Bondi, this Epstein Files debacle, it's a clown show, ladies and gentlemen.

And you heard yours truly. I was the first. I was the first. And sometimes it's good to be first, and sometimes it's not. But on this radio program, and I think this is important that you hear this from me, there will be days that you will agree with everything that I say.

There will be days that you completely disagree with everything, and that's okay. I respect that. But at least you know where I'm coming from. And there are a lot of folk in this business that are afraid to be critical of anything coming out of the Republican world. Speaker Mike Johnson's office, and even President Trump and the White House.

And I understand. I understand the hesitation. I understand the fear. In many instances, I was talking to somebody last night. Don, aren't you concerned that you might not get calls returned anymore?

I mean, you're attacking Pam Ponte on the air. Are you nuts? What's wrong with you?

Some of you will say, I knew it. I knew it. I know he loves fried chicken and biscuits and sweet tea, but I smell a liberal. I knew he was a lefty, that Todd Starnes. No, I'm not.

I'm gun-toting, Bible-clinging son of a Baptist. And I do take my tea sweet, and I love fried chicken and biscuits, and I love my president. But let me tell you something. I'm not a yes man. And President Trump doesn't like yes people.

He wants people that's going to give it to him straight. and unfortunately, during the first four years in office, there were a lot of people in Washington, D.C. that got hired in this administration, and these people were the, oh, you just look beautiful today, Mr. President. You can do no wrong.

Let us bow down and worship you. Trump doesn't want that. That's not good for the country. You need to be able to step back and say, you know what, maybe this is not a good idea. Maybe we should have done this differently.

so so yesterday when all of this was happening in real time in my brain as i was chatting with you ladies and gentlemen in my brain i was wondering okay do i just jump out here and share what's on my mind and i and if i didn't i would be dishonest with you but i was pretty upset about what happened yesterday and my anger and frustration poured out over onto Newsmax. It was pretty hot yesterday. And the live chats on Newsmax, people are like, wow, I can't believe that Stern is saying this because we agree. And when you step back and realize what happened, I think a lot of people yesterday were finally saying, you know what? Yeah, this is not right.

This thing has been botched.

So anyway, I had to, a lot of times these conservative talk show hosts, And again, I get it. I respect. I don't judge them. I'm really not. But they're like, should I dabble my big toe in and see if I got a big toe back?

You know, because they're afraid if you jump into that swamp, you may not come back out. And some people are afraid of losing access. And I'm not one of those people.

Now, I've been in this business a very long time, ladies and gentlemen, a long time. and I can tell you that the reality of it is that a lot of these lawmakers, a lot of these politicians, oh, yeah, they use you. They will certainly use you. And when it's over, when they have decided that they don't need you anymore, they don't return the calls, they don't return the emails. And I get that.

But you know what? We don't live and die by the guest we have. We don't live and die by whether or not I get access to Speaker Mike Johnson. That's not how we operate on this program. The most important thing to me is the conversation that you and I have every day.

I mean, I love it when, and I would be honored to have Mike Johnson back on this program. I don't think he's going to, but I think it's important for you to hear from those folk and for me to ask the tough questions. what was it we had oh you're gonna love this i i know i am not going to tell you who it is because again i just you know it just happened on the fly but somebody somebody wanted to be on the show and i said well i'm going to ask you about pam bondy no well i can't do that i can't do that i might get in trouble what so you know what they didn't come on the show i'm like okay yeah we're good we're good thanks anyway so anyway let me tell you about pam bondy so yesterday it was a complete debacle it turns out the stuff in the folders they it was all it was all theater just theater ladies and gentlemen there's nothing in those folders nothing at all you had all these social media influencers out there and i don't begrudge them at all i mean they got invited to the white house good for you proud of you proud for you but they were being used as pawns whoever was responsible for that debacle in the white house should have been fired right on the spot you're out of here you know why because they embarrassed the president of the united states they turned what was a serious and somber thing the epstein files this is not some goody goody goody oh boy we got a scoop in your face cbs news We're talking about over 250 girls that were raped, that were trafficked to very wealthy people, very powerful people in D.C. and Hollywood and everywhere in between. This is not a time to enhance your TikTok platform.

This is a time for gravitas. And we missed the moment yesterday. The administration missed the moment. And then you got Pam Bondi, and I don't know what the heck is going on with her. She's completely unraveling.

So she's now saying, well, you know, it turns out that we don't have all the files.

Well, Pam, you said you had all the files, and the files were sitting on your desk. You said that over and over and over again.

Well, we didn't have all the files.

Well, really, Pam, you had 200 pages. You didn't realize that wasn't all the files? Pam, come on.

So now she's saying that the FBI field office in New York City, they're actually sitting on a treasure trove of Epstein information. I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say all of that has already been destroyed. I don't think we're going to ever get to the bottom of any of this. I really don't. And that's unfortunate.

But what did she do? She put out another statement.

Well, we didn't realize how deep the deep state was. You know what? I don't buy that garbage. I'm sorry, that is not even a good excuse. Do your job that you are hired to do.

Stop playing around. Stop going on Fox News, the official whatever that is. I don't know what that relationship is, but that is a toxic relationship. The administration needs to be going on other platforms besides Fox News.

So now she, yesterday she put out this letter. Everybody shared the letter telling Cash Bedell, you better have all those. I want those FBI documents, all those files on my desk by 8 a.m. Friday.

Okay, well, 8 a.m. Eastern has come and gone. And there's nothing. Nary a peep from Pam Bondi or the Justice Department. Nothing.

So, again, I mean, you'll want to give her the benefit of the doubt. And we've done that two or three times just in the past couple of days. And now here we are. We're well past the deadline, four hours past the deadline, no information at all. Where are the files?

So I want to offer a solution here. Here's what should have happened. President Trump should have called over to Kash Patel at the FBI. Pam Bondi at the Justice Department said, meet me at Joint Base Andrews. We're flying Air Force One.

We're getting it gassed up. We're going to fly in, and we're going to go, and we're going to march into the FBI headquarters. You know what? We're going to get an army of Secret Service agents. We're going to surround the building.

We're not going to let anybody in or out, and we're going to go get those files. Better yet, get all of the FBI field agents. Put them all in isolation, every single one of them. If it's hundreds, fine, hundreds. Put them all in isolation, and here's the deal.

You walk in and you say very simply, all right, Agent Jones, we'll say this, Agent Dillon, Agent Dillon, you've got 30 seconds to turn over the files. 30 seconds. You've got 30 seconds to spill the beans. And if you don't spill the beans, you know what? Fine, you're going to jail.

And you do that for every single one of them. Don't give it, but, but, no buts, no buts. You've got 30 seconds now. It's down to 20. You better make a decision fast.

All right, you got 10 seconds. Don't drop the soap.

Sooner or later, somebody's going to talk. And it's very simple. You just offer a very simple deal. The first person who gives us access to the files, you get a get out of jail card. Everybody else, you're going to prison for a very long time.

I mean, it really is that simple. That's how you get those files. But by this time, I think we're going to be shocked if they're actually still in existence. And you know why they're hemming and hawing, ladies and gentlemen? Because there are Republican names in those files.

I suspect very powerful and very prominent Republicans, but even beyond the Republicans, I guarantee you that there are some very powerful GOP donors whose names are in those files too. And we know that money talks in Washington, D.C. We sure do.

So my question is very simple. Does it really matter? Are you willing to give Pam Bondi a pass on all of this? Or do you think that she needs to go? because if she's screwing something like this up, and by the way, this was easy, right?

This was softball. I'm not sure she's up for the job, ladies and gentlemen. All right, 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Let's go to the phones here.

uh let's go right to winston-salem north carolina and we have a rule here on the program if you disagree with me you go right to the top of the lineup sam and winston-salem saying i understand you're a little upset with me i think that you need to pick a side i think you're one minute you're you're all pissed off at the democrat and now you're all mad at pam bondy give her a chance to do her job they'll get it done sam do you well are you picking a side i'll pick a side i picked the side of the victims of the sex traffickers what side do you want excuse me yeah what side are you on pick a side because sam i'm on the i'm on the side of the victims what about you sam i totally am too but let her do her job so when is she going to do her job she said she had those no sam she said she had the files on her desk they just said that they needed more more information You want to do like the Democrats and send out half-assed information? Sam, she said that she had the information, all the files. People have seen them.

Now it turns out nobody saw them, so those people were lying. Pam Bondi was lying because she said she had all the information on her desk. And then, Sam, she turns around and she says, 8 o'clock this morning, I want all those files. Everybody's a liar to you, Todd. Where are the files, Sam?

She said 8 o'clock. I know you have to have a radio show, but you know what? Pick a different topic. Oh, Sam, you want to be my boss, Sam? You want to tell me what I can talk about on my own radio program?

Is that what you want to do, Sam? You don't have to take my call either. Sam, pick a side. You know what, Sam? I'm going to pick a side.

My side is on the victims of the child sex traffickers. What side are you on, Sam? I'm on their side, too. Really? Then you and I are on.

Then why are we arguing here? The whole point of this. You're not letting them do their job. she'll get it done you think she will you think she's going to get it done all right where's your evidence of that where's your evidence of that you gotta give them time give them time okay then what was that all about yesterday when they wheeled out all the social media influencers with the big huge binders that said secret epstein files what was that all about give them time i mean what is that that's not even an answer you're just going to keep spewing give them time give them time what's what was that all about did they not say that they needed more time to figure out well how deep this thing is nobody knows how deep it is no they do they've been investigating all right how many years do they have to investigate they've been investigating this for what at least 10 years now how many more years 20 30 40 50 years who's been investigating it well so far two administrations that's the tail two administrations they've been doing it or has been democrats investigating it so there you go there's your difference right there they had they said they had the files and they don't have the files i want somebody to be honest with us oh my gosh man oh you don't want you don't want them to be honest no no you know what your problem here is sam you're one of these guys if you don't so if the democrats were doing this you would be outraged you would be outraged what if the democrats were doing what the republic are doing right now you would be outraged no i'm i'm letting them i want them to i want them to thoroughly go through everything and if they they misspoke okay big deal let them let them have a chance to dive deep into this thing look at the doge doge is finding stuff left and right give them a chance man they're not going to be they're not going to be democrats so when president Trump said we're going to release the Epstein files on day one. What do you think he meant by that?

Oh, Lord. No, serious. I'm just asking a question. President Trump said day one. I guess he's a liar, too.

I'm just asking. He can't do it all in one frigging day, man. He didn't even have, he wasn't even in office for the whole frigging day. Trump said day one. He didn't say, okay, and it's, by the way, Trump gave orders for Pam Bondi, and cash patel to get this done day one they're doing it okay all right it's not day one it's out in day one all right start investigating sam you know what and i'll i'll finish this on the other side of the break here sam because we've got to run here but i and i do appreciate your passion but let me say this we've been down this road so many times um how many investigations have we done into Joe Biden.

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you know todd when these politicians take up these positions like pam bondy they should just go into this saying you know we're going to try to get this done we're going to try to get that done there's no guarantee you know those epstein files have a lot of high officials in them and you know there's people in hollywood and you know they've probably been destroyed. But people know who those people are. People have an idea who it is. But that's why these politicians get in there and how they get in there. They go on, hey, we'll get to the bottom of it.

No, you won't. You only have so much power. And then that's it. All right. That was Mark from Florida, the villages, America's friendliest hometown, leaving us a shout out.

And you can actually do that right now by downloading the Todd Stern Show app. You can leave us a voice message just like Mark did, and we play those over the air. You can get that at toddstearns.com. Just click on the app tab at the top of the page. Welcome back, everybody.

And just a reminder, you've got to go all the way back. Go back to 2019. Remember ABC News when anchor Amy Robach was actually caught on a hot bike confessing that she had the Epstein story three years earlier, but ABC News refused to go forward with the story. They spiked it. They didn't want that information getting out.

I'm telling you, there are some very, very powerful people, very powerful, that do not want that information to come out. And just a reminder that we were one of the early shows that cast a lot of doubt on what happened to Jeffrey Epstein in that holding cell where he was surrounded. There was no reason why he should have been killed. part of me suicided but that's exactly what happened to the guy they killed him so very very powerful people all right let's uh go to the phone lines here 901-260-5926 uh let's say hello to richard in ocala florida w oca is our terrific affiliate down there hi richard what's going on uh bet you todd i agree with you a hundred percent uh sam had passion but sam was wrong um those files need released and they should have been released on the first day it's only way to clean this mess up is to expose it they hate the light they just like turning over a board and the bugs hid for the dark um the only way to clean it up is to expose no matter who it was i don't care if it was a president uh pastor president i don't care who what congressman i don't care what movie star what king it don't matter they need exposed and um i agree with you uh the president hit the buck stops at his desk he needs to if pam bondy ain't got nerve to do it or testicle fortitude or backbone to do it then he needs to fire her replace her with somebody else but that needs opened up to the American public and let the American public see who's been ruling over them and what they've been doing and that's my opinion on it. Richard you know and I know a lot of people say well you know what this is not a big deal I think it's a big deal to those little girls whose lives have been changed forever I think it's a big deal to them and I think it's a big deal to the American people they deserve to know who these predators are out there we deserve to know if our government killed john f kennedy we deserve to know that and my concern is that if in fact that happened then who's to say they didn't try other assassination attempts we we still don't have any information at least publicly on who tried to kill donald trump two times mr todd i appreciate your honesty i'm not trying to blow smoke at you i want you to know i do it goes a lot deeper than that you're right epstein didn't commit suicide they murdered that man and they know exactly who tried to murder trump and look about all the murders that was connected to the clinton um trump needs to do if he's got to bring in the military if he's got to declare martial law whatever he's got to do he needs to expose it to the american people and let the american people decide what needs done this mess needs to be cleaned up once and for all there's or there's no hope to get it fixed, you know, to get it taken care of and get it made right.

Yeah, Richard, yeah, I hear you on that, and I appreciate you calling it. I don't think you're blowing smoke. I am correct, Richard. I'm right. I'm just kidding.

Richard, God bless you, and thank you for listening. Look, go back to Epstein for just a moment. This guy was in a heavily fortified area of the jail, heavily fortified. There were cameras all over the place. And as we now know, at least two of those cameras, all of a sudden, they suddenly malfunctioned.

And by the way, now one of the surveillance pieces of video is just gone. Nobody knows what happened to it. And what did U.S. prosecutors say at the time? Going back to the BBC coverage, they said U.S.

prosecutors say the jail mistakenly saved footage from the wrong cell. Come on. They're not even trying. They're not even trying. i'm telling you folks very dangerous high profile people are on those lists all right uh let's go to jerry from salem oregon kykn hi jerry what's going on yeah todd is gary actually gary or jerry it's gary gary my apologies gary small slip up my friend small one that's not a not a big deal hey uh so very very very seldom do i have an inkling of a different point of view we're lined up pretty pretty strong here uh but i have to i have to give cash to tell more than a week to round up and not figure out but get the right people in place because he's only had a week to get the right people in place to get the information uh there is no way they can filter out all the what you would call deep state agents right people that are not wanting to conform with President Trump out within a week's time.

Now, I realize that President Trump, and I have to lay this one on his feet, the fact that it's going to be day one. The day one narrative, that's a Trumpism, and we all know what a Trumpism is. It's what he wants to do. It's what he would like to do. but the government in the deep state are a lot deeper like you're saying there are important people in the on these files i do believe that they will come out and if they don't it will be and trump knows this as well this is why i know that it's going to happen uh it will be a huge backlash because all his support uh pretty much starts with the fact that transparency of the things that he said because at this up to this point promises made promises kept and and gary let me let me go through some of this i i don't think it's cash patel's fault i mean you know again this was pam bondy coming out and she told sean i sorry she told Jesse Waters on was it Wednesday during Jesse Waters prime time and she said that she had seen the files and it pretty sick So she said, what you're going to see hopefully tomorrow, and remember, if you remember, I broke all this down the following day and said, hey, look, you've got it.

She's parsing words here she's using words like some hopefully um but we never got any of that she said it's pretty sick what that man did so we were i mean she she said they were planning to release some of the documents but they really didn't i mean they were just phone logs my my issue is is this um somebody at the white house and hear me on this somebody at the white house is enraged over this and they told pam bondy you got to fix this she puts out the letter making cash patel sort of look like the bad guy here even though he's not you know saying you have until 8 a.m well that deadline's coming gone and you're right i mean if if they needed more time they should have gotten all of this worked out in advance but you know now now they've got another mess to clean up no and i agree with you i bet i will say this we need and this is kind The caller that called in about 15 minutes ago, I'm kind of on his wavelength here. I realize, and this is where Trumpism kind of can have a semi-bite, and I understand it's a good narrative for us to, hey, how come we didn't get it day one?

Well, let's look at Trump's first term, okay? I'm sure he wanted to do some things differently than what had happened that transpired. But he does not have, as president, he does not have that kind of way and control to just root all that stuff out by the bare roots here. I mean, this is deep. I do believe this is stuff that's going to be hard to root out.

and Pam Bondi has only been in her position for, what, two weeks, three weeks? It's going to take a little while.

Now, it is her fault that she said, hey, well, we're going to release it.

Well, maybe it's her intent to release it once again. The only person that can get away with the Trumpism is Trump. That's it. And I agree with that. That's pretty much where I think it stopped.

And, Gary, somebody in the White House was trying to be little Trump Jr. with that whole thing with the social media influencers, and it just backfired. And now you've got a lot of people in Congress that are pretty hot under the collar about this, including Representative Paulina Luna from Florida. And she's had it.

So we'll see how all this plays out. I will just say this, Gary, and I appreciate your call. I will say this, folks, that we are still waiting. for justice on the Hunter Biden laptop from the congressional. Again, these are the Republican hearings.

For two years under Republican leadership, how many hearings have we had and nothing has ever resulted? No one's ever been held accountable. And that is a lot of money being wasted.

So if we're going to hold these hearings, and they're great hearings, shocking information. But when are we going to start holding these people accountable? It's two years and counting here. Merrick Garland, James Comey, you've got Hunter Biden, the Biden family crime syndicate, the list goes on and on and on. We've got to start holding, I mean, yes, we do a great job of huffing and puffing and complaining, but we got to start doing.

And when these people are finally held accountable, where they're doing 25 to life at Fort Leavenworth, yeah, then people are going to step back and really think long and hard before they try to screw over conservatives again. All right, real quick, let's go to Joe in Ella J. Georgia. Joe, what's going on? Great, Joe, as always.

I just want to say that I think any elected official, local, state, or federal that does not support Donald Trump and Elon Musk for cutting waste and fraud, they ought to be asked to resign immediately because how could you imagine any elected leader in america who wouldn't support their uh their their plans to cut waste and fraud so i think any elected leader in jordan in america that's not supporting trump and must plans to cut waste and fraud need to be asked to resign immediately oh yeah completely joe everybody's got to be on board everybody and and if they don't well you know what yeah i'm sure we'll find somebody who can do that don you got a great show keep up the great work all right joe good hearing from you all right folks open line friday 901-260-5926 our telephone number that's 901-260-5926 coming up we've got some audio from the trump zelinski meeting and i just can i just say something about Zelensky real quick here. What's up with this guy? He takes billions of our dollars. Can we not buy him a suit? Can somebody, could somebody just, before going to the White House today, could somebody have driven by Brooks Brothers, got him a little coat and tie, a little blue blazer?

Why does this guy look like a slob? What's up with that?

So Trump, trump throws he threw shade at zelinski as he's showing up at the by the way he's trump goes outside to welcome the guy to the white house shake his hand i mean that's a pretty big deal trump didn't even do that for the british prime minister the other day but he goes out there and here comes this slob pouring out of the limo take a listen he's all dressed up today he's all dressed up today all right gotta take a break here folks 901-260-5926 this is the todd stardom show president trump is moving at lightning speed and after that all hell is gonna break out executive orders new policies promises kept It's hard to keep up until now. Subscribe to The Trump Report. This email brings you daily highlights from the Oval Office right to your inbox five days a week. I will put America first. It'll help you follow President Trump at the speed of Trump.

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Take advantage of this opportunity and call now. 800-702-5400. Advertisement sponsored by Legal Help Center may not be available in all states. all right i want to get to this audio that's happening in the oval office president trump meeting ukraine's slob of a president um zelinski and zelinski gets gets huffy with donald trump president trump and jd vance tore this guy a new one in front of the entire press corps take a listen i'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country yes but if you are not strong president with respect i think it's disrespectful for you to come into the oval office to try to litigate this in front of the american media right now you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems you should be thanking the president for trying to bring it into this have you ever been to ukraine that you say what problems we have i have been to come once i have I've actually watched and seen the stories, and I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr. President.

Do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people into your military? We have problems. And do you think that it's respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country? A lot of questions. Let's start from the beginning.

Sure. First of all, during the war, everybody has problems. Even you. But you have nice ocean and don't feel now. But you will feel it in the future.

God bless. You don't know that. God bless. God bless. You will not have a war.

Don't tell us what we're going to feel. We're trying to solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're going to feel. I'm not telling you. Because you're in no position to dictate that.

Remember this. You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel. We're going to feel very good. You will feel influence. We're going to feel very good and very strong.

You will feel influence. You're right now not in a very good position. You've allowed yourself to be in a very bad position, and he happens to be right about it. From the very beginning of the war, Mr. President, I was...

You don't have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards. I'm not playing cards. Right now, you're playing cards. You're playing cards.

You're gambling with the lives of millions of people. You're gambling with World War III. You're gambling with World War III. and what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country. It's back to you.

Far more than a lot of people said they should have. Have you said thank you once? A lot of times. No, in this entire meeting you said thank you. Even today.

You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October. Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who's trying to save your country. Wow.

Now, you know what I love our president? This is the Donald J. Trump, ladies and gentlemen, that's not going to take anything from anybody. And who does this little piece of garbage thug think he is coming into our Oval Office? You know what, sir?

Take a shower. Take a bath. Why don't you shave? Go down to Walmart. If you can't afford to go to Brooks Brothers, and by the way, you can afford it because we've been sending you hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars.

But go on down to Walmart. Get yourself a nice pair of pants, some slacks, and a dress shirt, for God's sakes. What's wrong with you?

Show a little bit of respect. And God love J.D. Vance. Not even so much as a thank you to the American people. Instead, this guy wants to come into our White House, our Oval Office, and try to lecture our president?

Forget that.

Somebody needs to kick that guy's butt right out of the Oval Office and right out of the White House. I love this. Good for you, Donald Trump. folks i'm telling you it is a new day in america and this is why everybody in trump's orbit needs to stay focused on one thing not embarrassing donald j trump we got a lot of work to do and like donald trump said this idiot this idiot nearly brought us into world war three unbelievable and so ungrateful get out of here moron we'll be right back america Live from the Liberty University studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's common sense conservative commentary from Todd Starr. That's us, that's right.

I love this American ride. Ladies and gentlemen, we are watching extraordinary events unfold at this very moment inside the Oval Office of the White House. Welcome to the Todd Stearns radio program. President Trump hosting that Ukrainian slob, Zelensky, and President Trump just told Zelensky to shut his mouth. I want you to listen to this.

Unbelievable. Your country is in big trouble. Can I ask? No, no. You've done a lot of talking.

Your country is in big trouble. I know. You're not winning. I know. You're not winning this.

You have a damn good chance of coming out okay because of us. Mr. President, we are staying in our country, staying strong from the very beginning of the war. We've been alone. And we are thankful.

I said thanks in this cabinet. You haven't been alone. We gave you through this stupid president $350 billion. You voted for your president. We gave you military equipment.

and you men are brave but they had to use our military if you didn't have our military equipment you invited me if you didn't have our military equipment this war would have been over in two weeks wow uh that's just a portion of it we'll play more of that in just a moment i want to bring in my my good friend our national correspondent robin poffman and robin i know that you love Donald Trump. This is, I don't know if we've ever seen an American president in public doing this to another world leader, and it's brilliant. Can I just tell you that this is what goes on most likely in his conversations back in the day when one of his sons was drinking, right, and he had a school him, don't end up like my brother who's dead. Donald Trump has a brother, Fred, who was deep into the bottle, and he got wind that his son, Don Jr., was drinking and had a scold him back in the day in college. This is the man.

You're seeing him exposed. This is how he negotiates the deal, is it not? It's really beautiful, and it started literally at the front door of the White House, Robin, when this guy, this slob, shows up. He didn't have the decency to wear a coat and tie. And Trump, hold on, I want you to hear this.

Dylan, can you play that audio of Trump when Zelensky showed up outside the White House? He's all dressed up today. He's all dressed up today. You can't make this up. Listen, you and I used to travel back in the day when we worked at Fox Radio.

and you know there's a time and a place for the jeans and the sweats and the sneakers and then there's another time and a place for the suit and the tie and the heels and the skirt is there not and i think the days of the uh flip-flop obama at the white house those days are over and people need to start showing respect and um the body language for for folks who are listening to you, Todd, on the radio. When they get home, I don't mean to laugh, but when you get home and you watch or you look on your phone and see the body language of Trump schooling Zelensky, fingers raised in the air, I mean, do we understand that billions of dollars from Biden-Harris were sent to Ukraine willy-nilly because Biden had all these shady ties with the Ukrainian government i mean this is all laid out in miranda divine book laptop from hell and you know people are not naive to this and this guy's getting a schooling because some of the money is missing a lot of the money is missing robin i want to try to set this up they're in the oval office they're they're seated in front of the fireplace and then jd vance is off to the side there and this little guy president trump is an alpha male man position uh legs spread and he's leaning forward and this little guy zelinski it looks like he's teeny tiny like he's like a little i don't know like he's a fake man i mean it's like a fake human and his feet barely touch the ground it's i mean it's really remarkable to see and i'm just waiting for president trump to turn to turn over to jd and say you know what jd throw this bum out of here well i think that um it's a saturday night live skit for sure waiting to happen and i what strikes me about jd vance and this whole thing is you know how there's always you know your parents good cop bad cop when you were a kid and so jd vance is just sitting there very calm and trump was very calm at the beginning well just letting him have it so so robin unbelievable robin i want to jump in here because i want to play so jd actually jumps in and this was all on playback uh dylan let's go back and and listen to the long-form cut and robin you've got to hear this and i want to get your reaction to jd vance all right i'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country yes but if you understand with respect i think it's disrespectful for you to come into the oval office to try to litigate this in front of the american media right now you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems. You should be thanking the president for trying to bring an end to this conflict. Have you ever been to Ukraine that you say what problems we have? I have been to...

Come once. I've actually watched and seen the stories, and I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr. President. Do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people into your military? And do you think that it's respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country.

A lot of questions. Let's start from the beginning. First of all, during the war, everybody has problems. Even you, but you have nice ocean and don't feel now, but you will feel it in the future. God bless.

You don't know that. God bless. God bless. You will not have a war. Don't tell us what we're going to feel.

We're trying to solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're going to feel. I'm not telling you. Because you're in no position to dictate that. Remember this.

You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel. We're going to feel very good. You will feel influenced. We're going to feel very good and very strong. You will feel influenced.

You're right now not in a very good position. You've allowed yourself to be in a very bad position, and he happens to be right about it. From the very beginning of the war, Mr. President, I was listening. You don't have the cards right now.

With us, you start having cards. I'm not playing cards. Right now, you're playing cards. I'm very serious, Mr. President.

I'm very serious. You're gambling with the lives of millions of people. You're gambling with World War III. You're gambling with World War III. And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country.

It's back to you. Far more than a lot of people said they should have. Robin, this is remarkable. Remarkable. It is.

It is remarkable. But again, you know, I want to go back to my point that J.D. Vance is almost like that Henry Kissinger, very calm, very direct, mediating this thing. What bothers me about it is that I have friends that are Ukrainian and their heritage was destroyed there, right?

So do I feel bad about what has happened in the country, Russia's invasion? Absolutely. What bothers me is that we're in the era of Doge and cracking down and following the money trail and that we gave all this money with no ties, with no strings attached. And Trump is trying to get it back in the minerals deal. And this guy is mouthing off and he has no right to be mouthing off because he has no accounting of the money.

And so our new president, you know, Trump 2.0, is saying, okay, we gave you billions of dollars. Where's the money? And he can't answer the question. And that's what has sparked this, in my opinion. You know, Robin, it's, again, just a reminder of why Donald Trump is so effective on the world stage and why other world leaders respect this man, because he doesn't back down and he goes face to face.

And as you said, these are the kinds of conversations that usually take place in private.

So I suspect that Zelensky is really, really questioning some of his life choices today after that meeting at the Oval Office. By the way, you would think with all that money that he would have bought a suit and showed some respect. He's kind of wearing like a black top and black pants. I'm not really sure about the outfit. but it doesn't show respect in my book.

I'm old school here. And by the way, six blocks away from the White House is a Brooks Brothers, and I'm sure they could have fitted him with one of their blue blazers. I'm a traditionalist, and I'm just, Robin, I'm pissing off so many conservatives today with some of my comments.

So I'm just going to go. We'll go the full Monty here. It even bothered me when Elon Musk showed up at the cabinet meeting in his typical jeans and t-shirt. It's disrespectful to the office, and I think in a way it's disrespectful to the office of the presidency. I'm old school.

I think when you're invited to the White House, you wear your Sunday best. Yeah, on the Musk thing, though, I can take a pass because he's not a world leader, and he's a quirky guy who's doing all this work for free, and he's not on the take of billions of dollars from the U.S. government, so I kind of give them a pass. Did you want my take on Epstein before the heartbreak? Oh, yeah.

I'm just batting 1,000 here today. That was originally why you're... Yeah, exactly. But, you know, breaking news trumps everything, literally. I would say this about the Epstein files.

So far, it's been a nothing burger, which intrigues me even more because what's redacted in those files and whose name is really on the list. I think that they're going to have to dig a little deeper at the FBI and at the DOJ to see who's really on those logs. Clearly some very important people, Todd. And it's been hidden in the deep. The deep state is deep.

The swamp is deep. and there's clearly some very important names on there which is why we haven't heard yet what what do you what's your take on the whole you know this um the fact that the sdny the southern district of new york the fbi field office they're in new york city they're apparently this is the problem so why not just go surround the building lock it all down throw all the field agents into uh holding cells and say okay the first guy that talks gets the deal yeah they need to do a mar-a-lago race yeah in the southern district of new york i love that literally raid the place call san n tip them off and have the san n cameras down there and then just you know go through the underwear draw and the silverware draw and see whatever you can find do a really deep dive into that office because trust me the records are there somewhere uh locked up very shady very disturbing um you can't make this stuff up god i'll tell you but every day i will say this every day since january 20th has been merry christmas to the united states of america with donald trump back in office boy it sure has hasn't it and and i gotta tell you i i felt like saint patrick's day came early with what we just heard there from the oval office so we're celebrating all the holidays guess what i'm going to text you a picture i just did my toes in green i had my mani petty in honor of saint patrick's day so you're right on the money little tmi there poppin a little tmi but send over the photo well all right robin poppin uh ladies and gentlemen our great our great national correspondent and Well, that's why she was in a good mood. She got the Manny and the Petty.

So there you go. All right, here's what we're going to do. We've got to take a break. When we come back, we've got John in North Carolina, Samantha in Memphis, Norma in Jackson, Tennessee. We have lines open.

This is Open Line Friday. That means you can talk about whatever you want to talk about. 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. We now take you behind the scenes at the Clinton Compound in Chappaqua, New York.

Let's listen in as Bill seeks advice. Carville here. James, I need some advice. I may have a problem. A problem?

Or are we talking about the problem? The E problem?

Well, you know, I don't have any self-control, and Epstein Island was just so, you know. Bill, there's only one way to fix this. Hillary always said she'd do it personally But won't it change my voice? No, I wasn't suggesting we'd neuter you You gotta call the Pope What? And make me a priest?

I'm under enough suspicion already And I don't think a vow of celibacy is my thing No, call Francis and get him to say whatever you did was okay Under his new, uh, newfangled rules of behavior You really think he would change the rules for that? He done everything else. It's your best shot.

Okay, let me conference him in. We can move forward. You reached the voice mail phone of Pope Francis. Oh, just what I thought. You're going to have to wait in line.

Cross your fingers and keep calling. Join us the next time our hidden microphones take you behind the scenes. All right, folks. I just posted the entire five clip on my Facebook page as well as my Instagram Go follow me on Todd Starnes FNC on Instagram You'll see me. I'm one of the blue checkmark people.

You got to watch all five minutes. I got to tell you, they showed a screenshot of the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States on the front row. She looked like she was going to weep. She was like, oh my, I don't know what you, how do you say, oh my sweet Lord. And I don't know how you can say that in Ukrainian, but that's what she was saying.

A few other things, too. I think I could lip read those. Let's go to the phone lines. Let's say hello to Samantha in Memphis, Tennessee, listening to us on KWAM. Hi, Samantha.

What did you think about that back and forth? Hi, Todd. I loved it. And let me just say, how good does it feel not to have just one but two masculine alpha males running our country? I mean, it really makes you feel safer.

That's what we need. We can't have weak people. Everybody around Biden was weak, and everyone took advantage of that. We can't have weakness anymore. Samantha, I would be willing to say you have to go all the way back to Obama and his two terms in office.

I mean, that man was just as weak as Joe Biden was. I mean, they were not alpha males, and that hurt us on the international stage. Correct. Correct. It does go back that far.

And you can't have that when you're running the country. And I absolutely love J.D. Vance. And I'm just going to keep my comment short by saying one more thing. I have had so many women and men, really, through my Facebook feed saying, you know, whenever Trump says, oh, darling or beautiful or, you know, this person looks beautiful today.

Oh, I probably should say that. I'll get in trouble. These feminists have ruined it for the women who do want to be called darling and beautiful. Quit ruining it for me because I want to hear it. Samantha.

That's all I have to say. Samantha you you are beautiful and your voice is amazing it's incredible darling it's thank you see that's what women love to hear that's it and I'm just telling you right now Samantha we have the hottest women listening to the Todd Stearns radio program border to I mean the most beautiful attractive women in America and it's because I think conservative women are more attractive and but that is my son and that's not my opinion it's science it's in the bible too i agree thank you so much all right samantha have a great weekend uh 901-260-5926 our telephone number that's 901-260-5926 this is the ton story show i'm in trouble again all right coming up tonight five o'clock eastern on newsmax the todd stern show we're the number one show on newsmax too can you believe it uh it's funny when they when they asked me if i wanted to a national show i'm like yeah i don't have to shave my legs do i you know how it is everybody looks like they stepped out of the fashion pages and then i come along and um yeah maybe i could be on the cover of i don't know barbecue monthly but they don't have too many folks look like me on national television anyway all that is a thank you we have a lot of fun and of course newsmax is just running and gunning tens of millions of americans are tuning into newsmax they've had it with Fox and CNN, and they love Newsmax, now one of the top news brands in America. That's according to Reuters. You're going to be able to find us on all major cable systems, smartphone store, download the Newsmax app, free of charge. I mean, it's a pretty good deal, folks.

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Man, you know, Congressman, I'm doing good. Actually, I'm doing great. I just saw the best beatdown of my life in the Oval Office and President Trump tearing Zelensky a new one. I'm ready for the weekend.

Well, you know, it's so true But it almost reminded me of when I was You know, I'm a product of the late 80s and 90s It almost reminded me of a wrestling match With the tag team going on You know, with like some super fly schnooker Mixing it in with Rodney, Rodney Piper I mean, like, it seemed like JD You know, and that's an Ohio Buckeye boy They're just tag teaming and taking them out I'm sure Jim Jordan was loving it I mean, it was just electric And then the best part is He goes, he kicks him out of the White House. You're out of here. Then they cancel the press conference. I mean, this new Trump is so emboldened and so electric, and he has a swagger that I've never seen before. I mean, it's just a thing of beauty.

It was kind of like as if Trump and Vance were the rock and roll express. And, of course, I'm from Memphis, Tennessee, Congressman, so we're Jerry the King Lawler country here.

so I appreciate the professional wrestling references on this program yeah you know I mean did we all forget when he went to Pennsylvania you had Shapiro and Biden and they're signing bombs so they're literally celebrating death you know people mistake our party we're the party of love we're the party of first amendment we want you to say whatever you want even if we don't agree with it with the crowd or say prove me wrong we are we are the We're the new bohemian. You know, we are the party of everything. The biggest ten around. And they're the party of violence. They're the party celebrating death.

They're the party of anti-God. I mean, the crystal clear lines are in the Western civilization, who is on the path of righteousness. And lucky for us, it's the grand old party. I'm watching people respond to this in real time on social media, Congressman. And some people are saying, you know what?

Trump and Vance make me proud to be an American. And that's what I saw strength. I saw men who were willing to stand up and say, you're not going to tell us what to do. You're not going to tell us how to think. And you're not getting any more of our money.

You're going to do things our way or good luck to you. And wear a damn suit.

Sorry, my apologies. The best part is when he walked in, he goes, so you're dressed up for me, huh? That's brutal. Brutal. But if you really listen, though, and I'm going to tip my hat to J.D.

Vance right here. JD Vance kept saying, he said it two or three times. He says, you're killing your people. Yes. You know, quick story for you.

I'm at the convention in Milwaukee. And the guy I'm with, this beautiful girl comes up. And I've never seen her before. And she's talking to my friend. And I hear the accent.

And I said, where are you from? And she says, I'm from Ukraine. And I said, oh, oh, okay. And then my friend says, well, how's your family? She says, well, I don't know.

we're a little worried about my dad. And I said, well, why are you worried about my dad? And he says, well, the Ukrainian army just drafted him. And I said, and I listen to this. I said, well, how old is your dad?

59. What?

So you've already killed, you've already killed all your 20 year olds. You've already killed all your 30 year olds. I mean, you know, even Ulysses says grant finished it in three or four years if you can't just turn your civilization into a meat grinder and then think you know you know you think you're going to win i mean trump even said it you wouldn't even be in a battle if we didn't give you everything and when you you step back and again a lot of most of this has to do with russia not wanting nato at its back door at its border and And that's what would have happened. And that would have happened had Kamala Harris won. They would have brought Ukraine right into NATO.

And that would have led to some sort of hostilities. And that's what Trump is trying to avoid here.

Well, and listen, for the people out there, listen, no one's in love with Putin. You know, I mean, I'm sure the Russian people are amazing. I mean, Putin is a dictator, and we're not in love with the guy. You know, so let's get that out of the way. But if that was the, you know, President Trump You think President Trump's going to let China come and take over Canada Or put something in Mexico?

Even the Democratic president, JFK stopped him Or tried to stop him in Cuba And that's what was so magical about the Panama Canal Because, you know, we sacrificed 5,000 people We built the whole thing And President Carter, God rest his soul, blundered And they gave it away for a dollar And then you have Chinese companies trying to go east side of the canal And build a bridge across it Trump's like, screw you. That ain't ever going to happen. This is over right now. And it was. And it was over.

So then you have these people that think the great military-industrial complex that's pushing Zelensky, go for a full war, start bombing Moscow.

Well, wait a minute, folks. The Russians have more nips than us.

So is this stupid, foolish conflict? Is this worth the end of the world, like President Trump said today, World War III? I mean, the life over as we know it? I mean, these are serious things, my friend. congressman mike rooley on our patriot mobile newsmaker line from ohio and congressman to that point there's there's a song and i it it was very popular back i think around vietnam uh clean uh credence clearwater revival you might remember the fortunate son and everybody you know they love that song but they're really not and i love it when i conservative oh man we love that song you gotta listen to those lyrics because there's a lot of truth in those lyrics they're not sending they're not sending uh nancy pelosi's son off to fight a war or they're not sending a bush family member off they're sending the sons and daughters of working class families off to fight these wars and the american people are tired of it we don't understand why we're having to go out there and fight these wars that's so true and and then also if you look i mean from the understanding is that zelinski and and the ukrainian government allow these rogue divisions of army platoons to go and slaughter Russia-speaking people that were living in Ukraine.

So, like, you know, and people have to realize the Soviet Union had Ukraine for, what, 70 years?

So a lot of the people that were Russian were living there.

So Zelensky's going to allow for a cleansing? I mean, that shouldn't be happening in this world. Yeah, you know, you're right. Real quick, some exciting news there in the Buckeye State. You got Vivek Ramaswamy running for governor, President Trump and Elon both endorsing Ramaswamy.

How do you think his chances are? His chances are very good. He's a friend of mine. I love the guy. I think he is probably, I mean, 9 to 1 going to be our governor.

And here's the best part. You probably don't know this. I spent six years in the Ohio Senate.

So we got a Speaker of the House, Matt Hoffman, and we got a President of the Senate, Rob McCauley. These guys are as conservative as conservative can be, and they're going to get a governor that's just as conservative.

So, Ohio, you mark my words on this broadcast today. We've got Florida, Texas, always fighting back and forth. Who's the number one conservative state?

Well, guess what, my friends? Ohio is going to be number one as soon as the vet gets in there because we are going to take care of business. We're doing school vouchers. We're kicking the dudes out of women's restrooms. We're even getting rid of ballot box, ballot harvesting.

Goodbye. Kick that Zuckerberg. Goodbye. guy we're getting back to normal we're not going to allow you to come at us on a first amendment if you be free be as free as you want to do and the beautiful buckeye state and the vet drama swami we couldn't ask for a better guy running for that position love it love it congressman we gotta leave it there you gotta come on down to memphis one of these days we're gonna take you down to beale street get you some barbecue introduce you to jerry lawler and we we've got i love that we've got to go to graceland i'm a huge fan of the king oh look i will give you a personal tour uh they're huge fans of ours over there and what they have done with graceland and the the entire development it's sort of like universal studios elvis you'd love it thank you my friend you were the best congressman mike rulli everybody great american patriot over in ohio the sixth congressional district all right 901-260-5926 is our telephone number That's 901-260-5926. We're going to take a quick break.

When we come back, we're going right to our phone lines. By the way, I've got to give a quick shout-out to a good friend of mine. Her name is Melanie Mosley, and she started the Whitehaven Republican Club.

Now, Whitehaven is a suburb of Memphis, and it is probably one of the largest middle-class black communities, I would say, in the country. And just an incredible vibe, a lot of small business owners, mom-and-pop business owners, and, of course, being a small business owner myself, I love that. And Melanie started the Republican Club there a little over a year, year and a half ago, and had a huge turnout, literally standing room only, for Judge Joe Brown. Judge Joe Brown, a good friend of the program, came down and spoke and just really just brought a terrific message. and he pointed out that places like memphis tennessee it's not over for us i mean we're on the ropes to use the wrestling metaphor no doubt about it um but we can come back and he explained how and he pointed out that memphis is the transportation hub of america we've got everything here from the river to fedex to the rail the all the rail lines they they meet here and there is there is a wealth of opportunity in the STEM industry.

Elon building a huge AI computer here in Memphis, right alongside the Mississippi River there. He brought a great positive message, and it's exciting to see so many black citizens of Memphis standing up and saying, you know what? Democrat Party's not doing anything for me. Let's see what the Republican Party's all about. And this is why I'm so hard on the Republican Party, my party.

I'm a registered Republican. I want my party to do better because we've got a lot more to fight for in this country, and we need all hands on deck. All right, hang tight. Got to take a break. We'll be right back.

We have breaking news. Ladies and gentlemen, breaking news, I say. Do we have a breaking news alert banner? Breaking news now on the Todd Starnes Show. I mean, I paid a lot of money for that.

Tell them we may as well get our money's worth, you know. All right, here we go. Breaking news. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration cutting jobs, hundreds, hundreds of jobs. There's a chance local weather guesters across the country getting the boot today.

Doge says it's part of their effort to slash the federal workforce. Nearly 400 let go. These are the people in charge of day-to-day forecasting, posting the severe weather warnings. It turns out, though, NOAA has about 12,000 staffers around the world, and Democrats already putting out the propaganda. Trump's going to kill people!

How will we know when a tornado is coming?

Well, don't panic. Don't panic, little liberal. If the wind is blowing really hard, and you hear something that sounds like a freight train, and maybe you see a cow blowing by your window, you'd better jump into a bathtub. what about my seven-day forecast i won't know what to wear to work all right no worries just walk out onto your front porch and if it's raining grab an umbrella and if it's cold grab a jacket pretty simple all right let's go to the phone lines a shelby in memphis tennessee listening to us on kwam hi shelby what's on your mind good afternoon mr starne good afternoon miss shelby And so I am the independent voter and the independent critical thinker.

So, Mr. Stern, Thursday was my most favorite radio station, radio day. But now, with your open line Friday, I'm making Friday my most favorite radio day. Oh, I'm glad to hear that.

so i have called i have closed over to friday and mr thank you i appreciate so much that little situation that you played with uh president trump and third zelinski because that was the best reprimand and schooling ever you see uh i remember when joe biden was really uh taken advantage of by zelinski so i am really proud of the vice president president vance and president trump for taking zelinski to school miss shelby i'm with you and i think about all those hundreds of billions of dollars we sent to ukraine and i thought about that as i was driving into our palatial talk radio bunker today from from memphis and east memphis and i was having to maneuver through three foot deep potholes on this i'd rather that money be used right here in america to fix my potholes and especially in memphis you're so correct and so uh i'm gonna cut my conversation short but i look forward to officer williams coming back to your am 990 well thank you very much we love him and he is He's a lot of fun, and he's a great American patriot. And, Shelby, we love you, too.

So thank you so much. We love independent voices. We love Democrats, Republicans. We just love everybody having a good time on the radio. Ms.

Shelby, God bless you. Have a great weekend. Let's go to Jackson, Tennessee, home of Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Norma listening to us on WTJS. Hi, Norma.

What's going on? Hey, Todd. You are the American Blowthorpe.

Well, thank you for that. Oh, I am so glad I'm still alive to watch this. I mean, just to be a witness to it is a blessing. After praying for four years that it could get better. Do you remember when Belinsky came?

I'm sure you do. He came over here in his G.I. Joe outfit into Congress and Pelosi and Schumer and all of them. He wanted more money. I think it was around Christmas time one year.

That's right. I do remember. out i'm sorry go ahead no go i remember that yes yeah well i think it's a little different now than all this meeting mouthing around with all of the past administration i think he's come up on something he does not know how to handle or he can't handle and it's back into a corner it's just you know you have any theories on what's going to happen well i i trump's going to end the war i i have no doubt about that and i suspect the way it's it's going to happen and and there may be some republicans that don't agree with this but i think russia is going to keep the territory that that territory they say is theirs and ukraine is just going to have to suck it up i think ultimately that's at the end of the day that's what's going to happen because they're not getting another penny from us i mean that was the message that came out of that meeting today i know i'll tell you what i prayed for 40 years we could get back up on going down you know gradually them beating us down but as long as trump is up there and keeps flushing the commode i am happy well he's dumb he's double flushing norma he's double flushing i was sick and tired of floating around in his ears but it was a great day have a great weekend Hey, you too, Norma. Thank you so much. Our friend Norma up Interstate 40 from Memphis, Jackson, Tennessee.

Great town, by the way. Beautiful downtown area. And also home of Union University. Beautiful school. All right, we've got to take a quick break.

It is Open Line Friday. We're going to the phones.

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That's us, that's right. I love this American ride. Todd Starnes. All right, I want to give you an update on some of the rapidly developing issues coming out of the White House after this Zelensky meeting in the Oval Office. Hello, everybody.

Welcome to Hour 3 of the Todd Starnes Radio Show.

So, Zelensky shows up, not in a coat and tie, completely disrespects President Trump, sits down and tries to get into it with Trump, and Trump wasn't having any of it. Trump and J.D. Vance, the vice president. What is the clinical term? Tore Zelensky a new one.

It was pretty epic.

So now we understand that the press conference that was scheduled has now been canceled. Any sort of a peace deal has come to a screeching halt. And the mineral deal that we were trying to work out some sort of a deal to harvest or reclaim Ukrainian minerals, that is now off the table president trump posted this statement on true social and i want to read this to you i have determined that president zelinski is not ready for peace if america is involved because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations i don't want advantage i want peace he disrespected the united states of america and its cherished oval office he can come back when he is ready for peace so basically he just kicked zelinski's butt out of the oval office and the white house good for you president trump i don't know about you folks but i am proud of my president today and i am incredibly proud of my vice president they stood up for america and i can promise you this if that had been joe biden or kamala harris they would have been falling all over themselves apologizing to zelinski they would have been kissing his butt. That's what they would have done. But not our president, not our vice president.

I just love this. I love it. Wow.

So look, this is Open Line Friday, and this is an opportunity for you to call in. You can agree. You can disagree. You can ask me a question. You can talk about whatever you want to talk about.

Write down our telephone number, 901-260-5926. that's 901-260-5926 let's go to randy in hellen georgia one of the most beautiful towns in the north georgia mountains randy listening to us on wdun hi randy what's going on how you doing sir and i'm gonna pull over real quick because i'm driving don't want to disturb the police department on that one um real quick i'm an air force fed i was stationed in germany from 1980 to 83 and I can tell you this, I'm so glad that this happened, number one.

Okay, well, I think what's going to happen now? Is Europe going to step up to the plate and fund Zelensky? Because I believe that's all Zelensky wants. He wants to have war. He wants to have his cake and eat too.

He wants us to fund him. And just to keep funding him like Biden was doing and we're supposed to keep our mouths shut.

Well, now that Trump and Vance have said, okay, that's not what you want to do. Is Europe going to step up to the plate? I doubt it, because us being NATO partners with Europe, if they fund him and Putin wants to go after Europe, then we're NATO partners, and then we've got to get back in it. Then it's a World War III. I think that's what Trump was referring to.

second little quick scenario every time i've gone back to see my old friends over in germany and uh i was stationed on a german base not an american base so i had to learn the language and everything when we go back they all want to talk politics they want to hear something that's not on the radio because they don't have the equivalent of a fox news like we have and uh most of them are conservative they're afraid to say so but that's my point there but i'm glad what happened today happened you know it's it's fascinating randy when you you look at what zelinski's been doing i mean shutting down the churches um and he got widespread there was widespread criticism when he shut down all the orthodox uh christian churches and by the way ukraine has not had elections since the war began which is why uh trump and others have been calling this guy a dictator so So there's some really, and by the way, it's a corrupt country. It's always been corrupt.

So we know now that most of that money was not going to help the troops. That money was going to line people's pockets. Isn't it nice to have a competent admin in right now? Wow.

Boy, you're not kidding. And one that's not afraid to tell it like it is. It's just pretty remarkable. Thanks, sir. All right, Randy, thank you for listening.

and be safe out there in Helen, Georgia. Got this postcard in the mail. Those of you watching us on Facebook and our Rumble streams, YouTube, it's got these little cats and they're cooking in the kitchen. This is from Donna Edmond from Salem, Oregon. Donna, thank you for this.

She says, Mr. Starnes, Mr. Dieter, FYI, Arby's has good fast food versus McDonald's. I think we had a conversation about this. she said um todd couldn't todd i couldn't find the fish ben said it might have been smelt i had to pull over laughing so much she says trivia we called our species of smelt in our town in alaska hooligan fun listening to y'all donna and donna by the way thank you for spelling y'all correctly well done you oh by the way speaking of that trump also apparently signing an executive order today declaring English as the official language of America.

I love that.

Now, the problem is what version of English? Because there are some places in the South, even I don't understand what they're saying. Let's go to Patty in Statesville, North Carolina. All right, Patty, what say you? Here we go.

it was like the father in the room with the child in the room it was embarrassing i was ready for zalinski to start stomping his feet patty it was he was like trump was i mean he looked like um you know those memes where they they do those weird things with the bodies to make a grown person look like a tiny person That's what that, it looks like he shrank. And then there was like huge Donald Trump. And then there was like a little tiny Volodymyr. Let me tell you something. Not only, let me hear it.

Oh, my God. I was laughing so hard because you knew right away. As soon as Donald Trump started talking, you could see the face, his expressions on his face, Todd. He wasn't, he didn't want to hear that. He wanted that check.

Didn't he want the check, Todd? He wasn't getting the check. He wasn getting the check No he wasn getting the check because the cadaver in charge is gone Cadaver in charge And you want to know something You're right. If it was Joe and Joe and we're salad, they'd be kissing his rear end. You're right.

They'd be like, bend over. We'll kiss you. We'll write that big million-dollar check, a billion-dollar check. I'm not kidding. It's so embarrassing.

do you know 500,000 men did 500,000 men from the age of 17 to 25 Todd an entire generation of ukrainians wiped wiped off the face of the earth and and for what and and for what and and that's that's but he disrespected him he'd come in there even vance got involved vance is like vans got involved and you know what you don't come here he's trying to make peace my god in heaven he don't want to have it well if you don't want you didn't get your check well guess what you can go to hollywood joe joe's got a gig out there right maybe joe and the rest of the hollywood weirdos can write him out a check well there you go that and that may that may have to happen but here's the problem patty all of the aid it's it's gone we're not giving them a single penny all that USAID, it's all gone. We're not giving them any more money. It's all dried up. Patty, I got to run. Thank you for that call.

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Let's go to Kathy in Salem, Oregon. K-Y-K-N. Hi, Kathy. How are you today? I'm good.

Okay. If the next time you hear Zalinski talk, close your eyes. He sounds just like Popeye. Anyway, I was wondering what Zalinski was saying. Stop, Kathy.

Now, I am what I am. i buy by the sailor man yeah he sounds just like popeye when you close your eyes don't look at him oh geez lou anyway um i was wondering what zelinski might be thinking on his way home on that plane and he's probably thinking who could i sell these minerals to because he threatened us in my opinion he said you're if um we get into a hassle you're gonna feel it or something it was a threat you know can't be the the hubris of this guy he thought he could walk into the white house and pull the pull a faster on donald trump what is that guy smoking yeah really well anyway um and in that case if he's got these rare earth minerals wants to sell them to our enemies i think that we ought to start building those iron domes that president trump was talking about in the beginning um the other thing was pam bondy said yes or maybe a couple days ago that um there was filth absolute filth in those files she needed to redact it to protect the uh victims so now she's saying she doesn't have them is that what she said it's hard to understand it really is kathy i'm not sure we're getting the full story here and i don't know if she just misspoke and it's just a it's a cavalcade you know just a cascading effect um that i just don't know but she did screw up because the white house is trying to and there have been a lot there's been a lot of reporting on this since yesterday the white house is basically saying you gotta fix this mess ever since 2020 and the supreme court would not even look at anything any evidence of the cheating i felt like right then and there i said i thought somebody on that court is on that list or somebody has something on those people and And the person on the Supreme Court that rejected it didn't want Trump back. Kathy, and it could be something as simple as that, but I truly believe that, oh, by the way, Zelensky has officially left the White House, ladies and gentlemen.

So he was basically kicked out. but canthie um we're gonna find out i hope i really do hope and we need to we need to find out if we've got pedos and pervs in the highest places of power in this country canthie god bless you have a great weekend let's go to jerry in milwaukee jerry what'd you think about that great press conference oh god um okay i don't think that zelinski is perfect i mean he's an imperfect guy I don't agree with everything he's done. There's no leader who's perfect.

So I don't want to say I'm 100% supportive of him. But when it compared to Putin, who murders journalists, who murders political opponents, who has a dictatorship and has a dictatorship in Russia for 20 years, and Russia was involved in the invasion of Ukraine. That's the thing. Russia invaded Ukraine. It wasn't the other way around.

Russia's an aggressor.

So maybe Zelensky could be better on the edges or something. but we have to protect the person who is defending against aggression of his country. Wait, wait, wait. Look, Jerry, I don't disagree with a single thing you said until then. And my point is this.

Why is that our business? Why is that our fight? What was our business in World War II? Because we got attacked. They blew up Pearl Harbor.

No, I'm not talking about Pearl Harbor. Germany never directly attacked us originally.

So what was our business protecting Poland? What was the business of Great Britain to go to war on the side of Poland? They were killing Jews. We were saving Jews from extermination. Yeah, the Jews are being killed in Ukraine right now by the Russian military because all lots of people are being killed by the Russian military.

People are being murdered by this. Ukraine's not an ally.

So why are we sending, and again, we're sending billions and billions and billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars.

Now they want our men and women to go over there and fight. Why should we do that? I don't want our men and women to go in an active war against Russia. But I think we should support that because if Ukraine falls, then what's next? Poland?

Then what's next after that? But Poland is an ally. When he would draw a line. You know, I remember Ronald Reagan when I was a kid. He was the first president I really remembered.

He stood up to the Soviet Union. I didn't agree with everything he did, but he stood up to the aggression, you know, of the people who came before Gorbachev. And now what?

Now we're just okay with it? Jerry, I'm going to bring into the conversation Connor from Boston, who I suspect disagrees with you there. Connor, you heard what Jerry said. He says that we've got an obligation to step in. What say you?

Hello, Connor. All right, let's put Connor on hold here. I left him speechless.

Well, yes. I'm here. I'm here. All right, we got Connor back. All right, Connor, you're on with Jerry the Liberal from Milwaukee.

What's your take on Zelensky?

Well, I think Zelensky's a thug, personally. I think really that we have no business really helping them. And I think when it comes down to it, it's a regional competition. They need to duke it out. It's like we've sunk so much money into this country, and they're not even an ally.

You know, it's about high time American leadership is back, and we have it back with President Trump. And we're not a welcome mat anymore, unless we were under the Biden administration. Trump's not going to come in there and push us around. It's not happening anymore. We keep real American leadership back at its finest today.

Guys, can we all agree the dude should have worn a suit? That was disrespecting us. yeah so that's not a huge deal to me i mean i did that of all my priorities that's pretty low that's like thing obama wearing the tan suit i remember that i definitely had a problem with that yeah that was not a good look for him uh connor the final thought i give you 15 seconds yeah i would agree with you on that he should have worn a suit i mean basically what he wore today was like dr evil from austin power going a black piece instead of the gray one except he was It's mini me. That's it. I was trying to figure out who was he reminding me of.

It's not, it's mini me. That's who he reminds me of. Thank you, Connor. All right, Jerry, good hearing from you. Wow.

We got all sorts of opinions on this one, folks. All right, got to take a quick break here. 901-260-5926. Was that Austin Powers? That was Austin Powers.

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Well, I want to go right away to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker Line and say hello to our good friend, great Republican media strategist, Josh Jones. Josh, welcome to the show. Hey, Todd. How are you? Thanks for having me on.

Wow.

What a firestorm in Washington, D.C. I know you're all about messaging and getting that message out. What's your take on what went down in the Oval Office earlier today? I mean, what you saw in the Oval Office earlier today, regardless of where you stand on the issue, it's clear where the president is, and that's what matters here. I mean, if you go back to the last administration, there was questions of where the policy direction was coming from, but there's no question in this White House.

Both this president and this vice president are very clear where they are, And frankly, they're not afraid to invite the media in and invite the American public into the room where it's happening and see the real behind the scenes of what's happening. Yeah, and I was messaging Dalton Glasscock, who is very involved in Republican politics, and he said this is how it goes behind closed doors.

So this is not all that unusual. What is unusual in this case is the American people got to see it. exactly i mean this is one of the most uh the press secretary is very clear on this this is one of the most transparent uh transparent presidential administrations we've seen in recent history i mean definitely more so than the biden administration the past four years where the president uh biden took less than 200 questions in his first month uh and president trump took over a thousand so it's very clear that this president uh wants to be transparent with the american people and they're making a real effort to do that and like like you said i mean like we saw it real behind the scenes today that we saw nothing like that uh in the last administration you know josh you you work with a lot of republican candidates out there across the nation um what is it that you tell them as far as how they present themselves uh you know to the media and getting out there and engaging with people what's the what's the secret sauce i mean there's a lot of different things a A lot of different folks will tell you, but what it boils down to is just be yourself. The American people aren't fooled. They know when you're being real versus when you're not.

And President Trump is, the fact that he's been so transparent and interacting with the media, taking over a thousand questions, he's confident in himself, and he's telling you where he stands. You know, obviously some people like that, some people don't. But the reality is, the American people can tell when someone's being real versus being fake.

So what I tell all of our candidates that we work with are just public figures across the board. Just be yourself, be transparent, and don't try to mislead people. That's the way – I mean, honestly, it's a very simple message. And it's so funny how so many candidates just don't get that. And they try to be something they're not, and it never works out.

Because people – I think people can see it. You know, they're smart, and they know authenticity when they see it. That's right. I mean, you're 100% correct. And I think that's what you saw in this last presidential election, like President Trump going on these podcasts, setting down and talking of new types of media where these unedited interviews were hours on end.

And you saw what a real person looks like versus some candidates, Kamala Harris, for example, who would doctor everything they put out and was very selective of what they put out. And I think the American people noticed that and felt that in the election. And then you saw what happened from there. All right, I have to brief aside. I have a funny story to tell you.

Back in, what is it, 07? I think Mitt Romney was running, and this was the McCain, Huckabee, and Romney. And they were sort of like the last three standing. And Romney was down south trying to win over the southern voters from Mike Huckabee, which was a lost cause. Even McCain knew that.

So you can't compete with Mike Huckabee on his own territory. and i knew that romney had lost the south when he gave a press conference and he said he loved eating grits now josh i know you're from virginia you're a good old southern boy and i am too and grits is an acquired taste there's no way that man loved grits you're 100 correct i mean like you said i'm from virginia i'm from the south uh originally and uh i mean personally i'm not a grits person but hey i'm not gonna mislead you i'll tell you The other funny part of that is there was a moment when he tried to eat fried chicken, he took the skin off, and Mike Huckabee called a press conference to condemn him for desecrating the South's gospel bird. It was the most brilliant political moment I had seen of the campaign. That's great. That's the first time I've heard of that.

Josh Jones, one of the great GOP media strategists, and if you're running for office, this is the guy you need to be talking to. Josh, big event coming up next week, and President Trump has been formally invited to address Congress. This is going to be the big America First vision speech. What should we expect from this? I think you're going to see, it's going to be a wide-ranging speech in terms of topic and policy.

I think the main takeaway, and this is mainly for Congress and what actions they need to take, is President Trump and his administration have been absolutely zero to 60 right off the bat trying to get as much of their policy agenda implemented through executive orders. But the reality is, if any of this is going to be permanent or withstand the next administration, whatever president that may be, they need to go through Congress and get this enacted into law beyond executive orders. It's a great first step, but Congress needs to follow through. I love it. So this is going to be, I think, probably a hugely watched speech across all the networks.

When you look at what President Trump has done since he took office, what is it, 1,009 questions that he's taken in the first month? And that's, I mean, you compare that to Joe Biden. I mean, geez, Alou. Yeah, I mean, President Biden took less than 200 questions in his first month.

Meanwhile, President Trump, over 1,000.

So there's clear contrast in the accessibility of this president compared to President Biden. And even during President Trump's first term back in 2016 to 2020, I mean, he's even outperforming his own numbers and breaking his own records in terms of press engagements and taking questions.

So, again, it's one of the most transparent White Houses we've seen in a very long time. And, frankly, it's refreshing. Josh, can we all agree on this one thing? if you're going to go to the White House, wear a suit. That's all.

Absolutely. Wear a suit. Absolutely. They're pretty low bar. I mean, no matter if you're a foreign dignitary or you're just there on a tour, it is the people's house, and it should be respected as such.

And, yeah, bottom line, wear a suit. I love it. All right, Josh, have a great weekend. Great intel, great analysis. And we want to check in with you after a Trump speech and see how he did.

Sure, absolutely. Thanks for having me on, Todd. All right, Josh Jones, everybody, great GOP media strategist. And I know it's a bee in my bonnet. All right, come on, give me a – and it's not like, oh, you go to one of those churches where you wear a coat and tie on Sunday.

No, I don't. I mean, people do. But I'm just saying, you know, show a little respect. All right, let's go to the phones. And I'm very excited to chat with Peter calling in from St.

Charles, Missouri, listening to us on KRTK. And, Peter, I have some breaking news for you. You are the very first caller from the Real Talk Radio Network. Congratulations. Wow, that's awesome.

It's good to hear from you and good to have you back here in our parts of the Missouri state here. It's a well-welcome hearing your voice, brother.

Well, we are so excited. And, of course, the Real Talk Radio Network, they carry our show later in the evening. And so we're so glad you found us at Dayside. And, man, it's just so much fun to hear from all of our great friends back in Missouri. Oh, sure.

It's wonderful having you back here, too. And thank goodness for the wonderful owners here of Rick and Tracy Ellis. I mean, they're a godsend to just have created this station and then created the network they have to where we have free, independent talk, finally, for the first time. And I can think of forever in my lifetime almost, where you don't have to worry about someone trying to buy it out, take it over, and shut it down, or censorship and all that. It's just a welcome that this couple has just been above and beyond what they've done and the lineup they have now, too, that you're part of.

We're a powerhouse. It's running strong. You know, I was talking to Tracy when we were working out all the arrangements to carry the show. I knew within, like, 90 seconds, I love these people. They're just good salt-of-the-earth folks.

and they're true patriots and America First patriots. Oh, they are. They are. And especially all the sponsors, too, that they have here. It's just an awesome, awesome group of people that go about freedom.

And that's what we want, just freedom. And our constitutional republic, it chokes me up just even saying, whilst I was thinking about it, how we've got it. We just need to flourish it and spread it amongst the people and educate, educate and inform and enlighten. Hey, Peter, what did you think about the Oval Office visit a few moments ago? Yeah, that was something else.

I'll tell you, at this point of it, it was well needed. And I'm glad to see President Trump standing strong and telling him, look, I mean, and he did it politely at first by acknowledging his wear. I mean, come on, you've got to wear a suit and tie. It's a respect is what it is. It's just not a matter of trying to be, oh, whatever.

You show respect. That is our house, the people's White House, and anywhere, for that matter, in the Capitol, whatever. You show respect. And that just floored me when I thought, why is he coming dressed like that, Zelensky? And I thought, this is just, yeah.

So I'm glad he told him how it was and put it right to him and said, look, we never should have been. And now that President Trump is in charge, we're not going to be sending money because we never should have been doing that. The founders were explicit in that. Food and aid maybe will help with other countries, but that's it. We're not going to help with weaponry, money, all that.

No, that's not what the founders intended. And I'm glad to see President Trump. Just don't say stick it to him, but stick it to him. And tell him, look, you're a dictator, buddy. Come back when you're ready to act right.

And President Trump is a classy guy, but I wouldn't have minded seeing the president just jerk a knot in the back of that shirt and physically take him out of the building. I think that would have been quite enjoyable, to be honest with you. Exactly. Maybe with the final words, too. You're fired.

Well, you can't fire him. That would be cool. Peter, since you are our first new caller from KR2K, we want to send you a signed copy of my brand-new book. It's called Twilight's Last Gleaming, Can America Be Saved? and I'd like to send you a copy.

Is that okay? I'd appreciate that. I'd still appreciate being able to buy one later on on top of that just because as conservatives, we don't discount taking the blessings of offering when people give us something, but we don't take freebies either. We make our dues and we pay what we can. Peter, you hang tight.

And again, ladies and gentlemen in the Todd Stern Show audience, let's welcome Peter to the show here. And congratulations, Peter. wow that's exciting and again you know some stations carry us a little bit delayed and so it's always fun when they uh when they call in during the the real time hours then you can listen to yourself later on in the evening all right we got to take a quick break here folks again 901-260-5926 this is the todd stern show all right let's get right to the phone lines here let's go to dallas texas uh cardi dryan uh joins us welcome to the show hi mr song yes sir thank you sir my uh yes car didrian i apologize man car didrian my apologies What a great name, though. Oh, it's all good. Oh, thank you, sir.

Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. Yeah, I'm from Memphis, Tennessee, originally on the 901. I moved to Dallas a couple years ago. But, yes, sir, look, look, I just apologize.

You know, I wasn't going to talk about the Russia and Ukraine, you know. I was going to real quick just want to bring up this whole concept of what I hope is going to keep happening here in the Democrat Party. I'm black. I'm African-American. No, no, I'm black.

I ain't with that African-American stuff. I was born in America. I wasn't born in Africa. Yes, sir. I'm a black American.

Okay?

Now, here's the thing. The Democrat Party, look, it's enough. Enough's enough. This is the first time I voted Republican. I'm still a fairly young person, so I've got many years to go, I hope.

God only hope. But I'm tired of it. You know what I'm talking about? I'm so glad that we got the president. the American person and really he's trying to own all this race-baiting stuff the Democrat Party pushing mine I'm tired of and here's the thing Mr.

Starr I ain't the only one I swear on God I'm not the only one there's so many more of us I got friends, acquaintances, co-workers we getting on board Mr. Starr we done with this race-baiting stuff this divide and division you know all white people they're all racist We're still on the plantation. We oppress. No. You know who's oppressing us, Mr.

Saar? People like former President Barack Obama coming to black-owned neighborhoods, barbershops, and berating us, telling, what are you doing? What are you doing? You're supposed to be over us. No.

I can say for myself. I can read for myself. I'm done with it. I'm done with it, Mr. Stahn.

You know, I was in a room. You know, you're familiar with Whitehaven here in the Memphis area. Yeah, that's where Grace Lee and Whitehaven. Right. A lot of small business owners.

It's a strong black middle-class community. Just last time I was down there in a room full of black Republican voters, and many of those folks were not Republican voters four or five years ago.

So, no, I believe everything you're telling me, that there is something going on. And you know, if you're from Memphis, that the Republican Party here was actually started by wealthy black men to get blacks registered to vote.

So they don't teach the kids that history here, and that bothers me because it's a great history. I agree with you, sir. I know you know more than I do. No, I don't know about that. But I appreciate what you're saying.

And, yes, sir, hopefully, my last thing, I know you're about to get off at about 2 o'clock. You're about done here. I apologize. The last thing I'm going to say, because you run a real show on time here, I'm down in Texas, right? Yes, sir.

We got that woman. Did Crockett? Jasmine Crockett. Mm-hmm. uh i'm like look she said the other day on national tv on national internet internet and everything using an expletive language against uh mr musk i ain't crazy about mr musk myself but you know what i ain't gonna i wouldn't dare say something like that that is so unprofessional i can't believe we got us a united states representative in a big ass state like texas saying stuff like that well i'll tell you i'll take you a step further not only that you You know, she was educated.

She got a degree at Rhodes College here in Memphis. But here's a woman. She makes it sound like she grew up oppressed. She went to, I think, a $60,000 a year day school when she was for high school and junior high. And then she goes to Rhodes College, which is just as expensive.

So it's, you know, cry me a river. But I'm with you. I may not agree with everything that Elon Musk does. But you know what? It doesn't matter.

That's who Trump wants, and that's who Trump ought to get. If they try to blow the man's head off, Trump deserves everything he gets. He wants it. He should get it. That's cool.

Hey, I like that. I voted for him. I'm done with the Democrat Party, yes, sir.

So I hope America can be true, like I said, be great again. I hope we can. All right. I want you to promise to give me a holler back one of these days. We've got to do it before the end of the show, so we'll have more time to talk.

I will do. Yeah, I was trying to get off work. I was kind of rushing every time. All right. Thank you, Mr.

Charles. I appreciate you taking my call. Yes, sir. God bless. Wow, what a great day.

What a great week. Man, what a great show today. It's been a lot of fun. Welcome again to all of our great new listeners in St. Louis and the suburbs, St.

Charles. Man, we love you guys. Coming up, we're adding a couple of new stations next week. We'll tell you all about that. 5 o'clock Eastern Newsmax, folks.

So we got a lot more to talk about. Get out there. Have a great, great Friday. And whatever you do, folks, be sure to go to church this weekend. Transcription by CastingWords