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Twenty-five years ago this morning, 2,977 people went to work or got on a plane or answered a call and did not come home. Here is how today is being marked. At Ground Zero the ceremony starts at 8:30 Eastern, with the first moment of silence at 8:46, the minute the first plane hit the North Tower, and silences through the morning for the second tower, the Pentagon, Flight 93, and this year, for the people who have died since of what they breathed on the pile. At the Pentagon at 9:00 they read the 184 names of those killed there and on American Airlines Flight 77, and the president speaks. The vice president is at Ground Zero, and so are Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. In Shanksville they read the forty names, ring the Bells of Remembrance and lay a wreath at the Wall of Names. Tonight the Tribute in Light, 88 xenon bulbs at 7,000 watts each, throws two beams up from where the towers stood, visible from sixty miles. Then the number: reporting this week puts those who have died since of illnesses tied to that day at more than 9,000, three times the original toll and still rising. The World Trade Center Health Program had 144,000 people enrolled at the end of June, 56,000 of them responders, and its cancer cases have gone from about 3,200 in 2015 to nearly 53,000. Never forget was not a slogan. It was an instruction. Chuck reads the day as it is being marked, as reported by ABC News, NBC News and the ceremony schedules.

Also in today's episode: the Postal Service's own Inspector General audited how primary ballots were handled at nine plants and 73 delivery units in eight states, found 99 percent delivered on time, and then found wrong dates on the hand-canceling devices at five of nine plants, at least 56 ballots wrongly postmarked and not delivered in time to count, and one machine in Cincinnati set to April 43rd, 2013, a date that does not exist; the same week, the First Circuit refused to let the new mail-ballot rules take effect before November and the Solicitor General went to the Supreme Court; the Supreme Court ended the Missouri map fight with an unsigned order, and Missouri votes on the 2022 map, a loss Chuck names as one; the president warns Iran over Pickaxe Mountain while AAA has regular at $4.28 and diesel at $5.98, up $2.27 in a year; the president pledges a $5,000 "Trump dividend" to every adult citizen if Republicans hold both chambers, and $500 Obamacare rebate checks to nearly a million people, with the honest caveat that nobody has said whether either needs Congress; the Army's $3-a-shot laser has cut cartel drone traffic over the Rio Grande Valley by about 75 percent, per CBP sources to The Hill; the president signs the law putting the Medal of Honor Monument on the National Mall; Netflix's UK account posts a "neck injury" joke on the anniversary of Charlie Kirk's death, and Chuck reads the company's denial in full; and a Detroit pastor gets two and a half minutes at a political convention and uses them to preach the name of Jesus.

00:00 Welcome and Headlines

01:42 Border Laser Defense

03:04 Convention Gaffe and Honor

05:19 Remembering September 11

09:06 Mail Ballot Audit

13:03 Missouri Map Ruling

15:38 Iran Tensions and Fuel

18:17 Trump Dividend Proposal

21:39 Netflix Neck Joke

23:55 Pastor Moment and Wrap

26:36 Prayer and Farewell

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On Wednesday the White House Government Transparency Task Force declassified and released the handwritten notes two FBI agents, Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka, took while interviewing General Michael Flynn on January 24, 2017. The typed official summary of that interview, the form the FBI calls a 302, did not go into the bureau's system until more than 20 days later. Flynn was charged with lying in that interview, pleaded guilty, later moved to withdraw the plea, and was pardoned in 2020. Here is what the handwriting says next to what the typed report says. On what Flynn told the Russian ambassador, Pientka's notes have Flynn saying "Hey, don't do anything." The 302 has him saying "Not really. I don't remember. It wasn't, 'don't do anything.'" On how many calls he made that day, the 302 says Flynn remembered making four to five; one agent's notes say "I do not remember making 4-5 calls," and the other has "If so, don't remember." Text messages between Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page show them discussing edits to that same 302, with Strzok "trying not to completely re-write" it. John Solomon, who co-wrote the Just the News story and chairs the task force that released the documents, says the notes were never turned over before Flynn pleaded guilty. A pardon is not a court finding, and no court has ruled on these notes. Chuck reads the handwriting and the typed report side by side, as reported by Just the News and the Washington Examiner.

One year ago today Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, at 31, under a tent taking questions from students. The university has cancelled classes today. Tonight at 6:30 Turning Point USA holds a memorial, Freedom Built to Last, in the UCCU Center on that campus, with Glenn Beck and Frank Turek speaking. Also in today's episode: an armed man charges at Amy Acton, the Democrats' nominee for governor of Ohio, at the Canfield Fair, and the Republican governor and the Republican candidate's campaign condemn it in plain words; American forces destroy five Iranian tankers named by Central Command, Iran fires 20 missiles at a base in Jordan and Jordan says it stopped 18, Brent crude goes over $100 and AAA has diesel at $5.94, a record again; Missouri's congressional map flips overnight when a federal judge orders the opposite of what Justice Kavanaugh's denial left in place, and two courts now say two maps with ballots mailing in nine days; Hunter Biden launches a meme coin named $LAPTOP that falls about 98 percent inside an hour; and a Toledo jury convicts a former lawyer of attempted murder after he pulled the trigger on his ex-wife in a crowded restaurant, the safety held, and a waiter tackled him.

00:00 Welcome to 647

00:29 Charlie Kirk Anniversary

02:59 Take 1 Memorial Narrative

05:38 Take 2 Ohio Fair Arrest

09:10 Take 3 Iran Tankers Oil

12:51 Take 4 Missouri Map Fight

16:13 Take 5 Flynn Notes Bombshell

19:29 Take 6 Hunter Crypto Crash

22:12 Good News Hero Waiter

24:30 Wrap Up and Prayer

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On Tuesday U.S. Central Command hit Iranian oil tankers near Kharg Island and near Jask, disabling the ships that carry Iranian crude, a day after Iran fired at least one ballistic missile at a U.S. Navy warship and missed. The man who runs Central Command, Admiral Brad Cooper, had already said what the answer would be: "If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost, taking out three of yours." On Saturday American forces disabled three more tankers, the Downy, the Stark 1 and the Kylo, one of them destroyed, per CENTCOM. The same Tuesday, Yemen's Houthis hit Saudi Arabia: Abha International Airport, King Khalid Air Base and Aramco facilities at Abha and Jizan, with 73 wounded by the Saudi-led coalition's count, and Saudi strikes back the same day. Here is the part that reaches your driveway. Brent crude traded around $97 a barrel Tuesday, a seven-week high. AAA has regular gasoline at $4.15 and diesel at $5.90, which is not a seasonal record; it is the highest price diesel has ever been in this country. Diesel is what moves the food. Chuck reads the strikes, the admiral's words and the pump numbers, as reported by The Gateway Pundit, CBS News, Fox News and AAA.

Also in today's episode: Justice Brett Kavanaugh denies Missouri's emergency application without comment, and hours later a federal judge orders the state to use the new map anyway, so which map Missouri votes on in November is now before two courts; Nike comes off the S&P 100 on September 21 after almost 18 years, replaced by four technology companies, with the stock down about 78 percent from its 2021 peak; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells a Breitbart News event that "the Iranian snake, the leadership, they don't know they're dead yet, but they are," and names the banks his department has shut; Jaguar Land Rover cuts about 4,000 jobs over two years, roughly one in ten worldwide; a student senate at Whitman College voted 25 to 0 against recognizing the campus Republican club, a record FIRE made public this week; a co-host of The View asks when to start "in earnest" on the 25th Amendment and is shut down on her own couch; the Financial Times reports Sweden's shootings are down 80 percent since 2022, five days before the country votes; and a 28-year-old EMT carries whole blood a mile and a half and a thousand feet up Linville Gorge in 31 minutes to a fallen climber.

00:00 Welcome and Headlines

01:51 Campus GOP Club Denied

03:42 The View Talks 25th

04:54 US Hits Iran Tankers

07:26 Missouri Map Fight

08:42 Nike Dropped S&P 100

11:16 Bessent on Sanctions

14:56 Jaguar Cuts Jobs

19:31 Sweden Crime Crackdown

23:16 Rescue Good News

25:19 Sign Off and Prayer

There is a famine of truth in our land. Nine stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.

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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has formally asked Attorney General Todd Blanche to investigate ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center, the multi-state group that many states hand their voter rolls to for cleanup, along with a nonprofit called the Center for Election Innovation and Research. The letter went to the Justice Department on September 2. As The Federalist lays it out, ERIC's own model contract requires member states to send in motor vehicle records at least every 60 days, records that can include Social Security and driver's license numbers, and Mullin's letter says that data has been reaching private organizations and "exposes millions of citizens' sensitive private data." He points to the Driver's Privacy Protection Act. An administration official told The Federalist at least nine states were in the arrangement, covering more than 48 million registered voters. Then the line Chuck reads twice, from the contract itself: "under no circumstances shall the Member transmit an individual's record where the record contains documentation or other information indicating that the individual is a non-citizen." The other side gets its say: David Becker of the Center for Election Innovation and Research "firmly rejects any suggestion that it receives motor vehicle or voter data on an ongoing basis." Nobody has been charged with anything. It is a request for an investigation, and the Justice Department has not said what it will do with it. Chuck reads the letter, the contract and the denial, as reported by The Gateway Pundit, The Federalist and NOTUS.

Also in today's episode: the challengers to the president's mail-ballot rule had until 10 AM Eastern this morning to answer at the Supreme Court, the third trip up in a week after Judge Indira Talwani blocked key pieces of the rule again on Friday, per SCOTUSblog and NBC News; North Carolina Governor Josh Stein orders the state's flags to half-staff through September 10 for Gloria Steinem, who died last week at 92, a date The Western Journal notes is one year since Charlie Kirk was killed; Labor Day gasoline hit $4.15 a gallon, a record for the holiday, and diesel hit $5.90, a record outright, per AAA, while Iran says it will declare a restricted zone in the Persian Gulf; a piece of the Kennedy Center's grand foyer ceiling comes down during a rainstorm and nobody is hurt; George Clooney names the three Democrats he would back in 2028; a Georgia candidate puts AirTags in his campaign signs and finds out where they went; the president posts a map with New Mexico renamed; three climbers are rescued off Mount Shasta after an AI planned their trip; and a 22-year-old in Kaysville, Utah becomes the first UpBeat Barre instructor with Down syndrome and teaches her first class to more than 60 people.

00:00 Welcome to 647

00:55 Today in History

02:29 Headlines Preview

03:01 Poo Poo Platter 1

04:05 Poo Poo Platter 2

05:24 Poo Poo Platter 3

07:09 Mail Ballot Deadline

10:21 Flags for Steinem

15:16 ERIC Voter Data

19:59 Gas Prices and Iran

24:35 Kennedy Center Collapse

27:27 ARMS Clooney Picks

31:16 Good News Spotlight

33:30 Wrap Up and Prayer

There is a famine of truth in our land. Ten stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.

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Seventeen of Maryland's 24 sheriffs are suing their own state in federal court over the Community Trust Act, the law that bars local police and county jails from questioning immigration status, holding anyone to check citizenship, or telling federal immigration authorities about people in their custody without a court order. An ICE detainer is not enough. The suit was filed in May in Greenbelt with the Federation for American Immigration Reform as counsel. This week the sheriff leading it, Jeffrey Gahler of Harford County, took it to Capitol Hill one week before the 25th anniversary of 9/11: "When you pass legislation in a world post-9/11, in 9/11 we learned that we need to communicate with all federal partners." His verdict on the law: "stupidity at its best." Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins told DC News Now the law "has handcuffed me totally." The bill's author, State Senator Clarence Lam, told FOX 5 the sheriffs are "trying to demonstrate fealty to Donald Trump and ICE." One state south, a federal judge has already frozen Virginia's version of the same law. Chuck reads the suit, the testimony, the law's own text and the other side, as reported by Fox News, The Washington Times, FOX 5 and DC News Now.

Also in today's episode: the Trump administration goes to the Supreme Court with an emergency application to lift Judge Indira Talwani's order blocking the new Postal Service mail-ballot rules, on the day North Carolina starts mailing ballots, per SCOTUSblog and The Washington Post; Iran says it fired missiles and drones at Ahmed al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait and Al Minhad Air Base in the Emirates, Kuwait says it intercepted them, the Emirates calls the Al Minhad claim false, and no American casualties have been reported; the president writes on Truth Social that American ammunition is "virtually unlimited" and that Europe will be asked to pay for what went to Ukraine; a Los Angeles podcaster is indicted on three federal counts for threats against the president and cyberstalking the president's former lawyer, and pleads not guilty; Maine's highest court rules against a mother fighting to take her daughter to church, and Liberty Counsel says it will petition the U.S. Supreme Court; Fox News parts ways with Maria Bartiromo after twelve and a half years in a one-sentence statement; the vice president's mother answers the Michigan Senate candidate who called her grandchildren "brown kids"; George Clooney tells the Venice Film Festival that "the people with the most money are telling us to fear one another"; and a man digging a terrace in his garden in Denmark hits the largest Viking silver hoard in the country's history.

00:00 Welcome and Headlines

03:30 Poo Poo Platter 1

05:09 Poo Poo Platter 2

07:10 Poo Poo Platter 3

09:13 Iran Strikes and Ammo Claims

15:16 Supreme Court Mail Ballots

20:04 Maryland Sheriffs vs Sanctuary Law

25:47 Threats Case in Los Angeles

28:23 Maine Church Custody Ruling

32:11 Clooney Speech and Culture Rant

40:00 Viking Silver Hoard Discovery

42:39 Sign Off and Prayer

There is a famine of truth in our land. Ten stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.

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Homeland Security Investigations, the arm of ICE that normally works drug smuggling, human trafficking and child exploitation, has launched what its own internal guidance calls a "coordinated criminal voter fraud surge initiative" in nine states, running through the middle of October. CNN found the memo. Not Breitbart, not this show. California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin. A DHS spokesman told The Federalist the agency is "ensuring that American citizens and only American citizens are electing American leaders." The department's own count, as reported by The Federalist: more than 24,000 cases of potential non-citizens on voter rolls flagged through the federal SAVE system since April 2025 and referred for investigation. CNN also notes, fairly, that the Justice Department has traditionally not run loud investigations close to an election. Homeland Security is not the Justice Department. Whether that is a problem or the whole point depends on where you have been standing for six years.

Also in today's episode: the United States and Iran trade the widest wave of strikes since the pause, with Jordan reporting 10 of 13 missiles intercepted and no confirmed American casualties; a Utah judge rules that the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk will stand trial for aggravated murder with the death penalty available, per NPR; the Dutch central bank quietly moves 86 metric tons of gold out of New York and Ottawa and puts it in London, and explains why in its own words; a federal judge dismisses the Justice Department's Title IX suit over California girls' sports on notice grounds, not on the merits; Minnesota's attorney general returns donations tied to the Feeding Our Future fraud after a recording surfaces; an Oklahoma city manager is arrested on 11 felony counts of false affidavit in voter registration; a Staten Island congressional staffer is struck by lightning fifteen feet from his car and walks to a neighbour's door for help; James Carville tells the Democratic Socialists to stop borrowing the word Democrat; and a boy who lost his most prized Pokémon card at a San Francisco event finds out what the internet does when it decides you matter.

00:00 Welcome and Setup

01:10 History of the Day

02:33 Poo Poo 1 Voter Fraud Arrest

04:36 Poo Poo 2 Lightning Strike Survivor

05:59 Poo Poo 3 Carville vs Socialists

07:33 Take 1 US Iran Strike Exchange

11:59 Take 2 ICE Voter Fraud Surge

15:05 Take 3 Charlie Kirk Trial Update

19:18 Take 4 Title IX Girls Sports Ruling

22:57 Take 5 Dutch Gold Moved to London

25:41 Take 6 Ellison Donation Fallout

28:47 Good News Pokemon Card Returned

30:55 Wrap Up and Prayer

There is a famine of truth in our land. Ten stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.

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She admitted it on camera. Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, of Marina del Rey, pleaded guilty in June to a federal felony count of paying another person to register to vote, after James O'Keefe's undercover team filmed her on Skid Row saying "Because you haven't registered, I need to register you so I can get paid, too." Prosecutors say she paid people between $2 and $3 a signature and registered them herself when they were not on the rolls, sometimes using her own former address. The count carries up to five years. United States District Judge Mark Scarsi sentenced her to 18 months of probation and 120 hours of community service. No prison. First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli called it admitted voter fraud.

Also in today's episode: American forces begin striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets inside Iran at noon Eastern, in Central Command's own words, and Brent crude climbs above $90; Senator Ron Johnson calls for a COVID reckoning and says out loud what he wants done about Anthony Fauci, one day after this show read Fauci's own instruction to delete an email; nine more drug companies agree to charge Americans their lowest price, and four of them start donating raw ingredients to a federal medicine reserve; Iran's president goes looking for a friend at the Shanghai summit and gets several minutes and no mention in Chinese state media; Apple folds and Lake Ontario becomes Lake America on iPhone; and two teenagers in Florida have put 25,000 slices of pizza in front of families who needed a meal.

00:00 Welcome and Setup

02:32 Three Poo Poos

03:32 Poo Poo 2

04:40 Poo Poo 3

05:52 US Strikes Iran

10:47 Skid Row Vote Buying

13:34 Fauci Reckoning Call

15:47 Drug Price Deals

18:21 Iran Snubbed by China

20:35 Rosie O'Donnell Rant

22:18 Florida Pizza App

23:45 Wrap Up and Prayer

There is a famine of truth in our land. Ten stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.

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Nine years before COVID, Anthony Fauci told a colleague at his own institute to destroy an email about gain-of-function research: "Please delete this e-mail and then delete from the deleted file." That is not a paraphrase. It is a verbatim record, released by Senator Rand Paul and first reported by Emily Kopp at the Daily Caller News Foundation, written the morning after Fauci complained to NIH director Francis Collins about a New York Times writer who had warned the research could produce an "engineered doomsday." The Daily Signal notes that destroying federal records is a violation of federal law. Fauci testified under oath to Congress in 2024 that he never destroyed official records. Both of those things cannot be true.

Also in today's episode: Iran's Revolutionary Guard fires on American bases in Jordan and the president promises an answer, with crude climbing above $86 a barrel per Bloomberg; Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy shuts down 270 commercial truck driving schools and ties 239 deaths on American roads to drivers who could not read the signs; the Supreme Court lets the White House ballroom go up five to four, with the Chief Justice writing in dissent that it is "likely unlawful"; a federal grand jury subpoenas the law professor who carried James Comey's memos to the press; JD Vance answers a Michigan Senate candidate who brought his wife into it; the president telephones Apple about a lake; and an off-duty firefighter walking home from a run carries a neighbor out of a burning house and restarts his heart on the lawn.

00:00 Welcome to 647

02:11 Poo Poo One

03:31 Poo Poo Two

04:48 Iran Strikes Back

07:50 Fauci Email Deletion

11:11 Truck Schools Shutdown

14:00 Ballroom Supreme Court

18:04 Comey Memo Subpoena

20:27 Vance vs El Sayed

24:57 Firefighter Hero Story

26:09 Wrap Up and Prayer

There is a famine of truth in our land. Nine stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.

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A federal agency put a form of worship on a list of possible indicators of domestic extremism. The traditional Latin Mass. Opposition to abortion. Conservative family values. A "rejection of modernity." That is not a rumor and it is not a talking point. It is the FBI's own January 2023 Richmond memo, and the Justice Department's Weaponization Working Group has now put on the record what the Bureau did next: agents opened assessments on two Catholic priests, pulled their travel and their contacts, and closed both investigations having found no connection to criminal activity or violent extremism. Attorney General Todd Blanche: "This Department of Justice will not tolerate a weaponized bureaucracy that chills First Amendment activity." Ask yourself what list you are on.

Also in today's episode: the president announces majority control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil and calls it the biggest oil deal in world history, per CBS News; a Boston judge blocks the mail-voting order again with the first midterm ballots going out September 4, per Votebeat; American forces strike two Iranian rocket launchers at the Strait of Hormuz while AAA puts gas at $4.07; more than 20 people are unaccounted for at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and the Park Service is asking for help; a sitting congressman tells Meet the Press he regrets confirming Justice Clarence Thomas, who he says rebelled "against his own background and experiences"; Ontario answers "Lake America" with a two-story billboard; 40,000 pounds of Pabst vanish from a California lot; Hillary Clinton's office wants unpaid interns with "a high level of professionalism and discretion"; and a rescue dog in Colombia goes quiet during intercessory prayer.

00:00 Welcome and rundown

02:25 Poo Poo Platters

04:09 Hillary intern backlash

05:24 Canada billboard clapback

07:16 Venezuela oil mega deal

10:16 Mail ballot court fight

13:37 FBI targeting Catholics

17:46 Iran strikes and gas prices

21:29 Grand Canyon flash flood

24:22 ARMS Clyburn on Thomas

28:11 Church dog faith moment

31:05 Wrap up and thanks

32:21 Closing prayer and sendoff

There is a famine of truth in our land. Ten stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.

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Homeland Security put it in writing: the companies behind more than 80% of America's voting machines admit their systems contain Chinese-made parts — and states that want their full federal grant awards must now run random post-election hand counts of paper ballots. Chuck breaks down DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin's August 24 letter to the White House Transparency Task Force, reported by The Epoch Times and Just the News.

Also in today's episode: Pennsylvania's measles story starts unraveling when the Lancaster County coroner contradicts the governor on the record; President Trump signs the order making Lake Ontario "Lake America" and Prime Minister Carney fires back; Alberta's Danielle Smith breaks ranks as the trade war escalates; a national emergency to get foreign parts out of America's power grid; the CIA director's unannounced trip to Moscow; what really caused the Nepal floods; Jelly Roll tells his own fans to walk; and a Missouri official comes off Gannett Peak alive after six days on the mountain.

00:00 Welcome and Headlines

01:46 Grid Emergency Order

04:05 Classroom Gas Station

06:58 Paper Ballot Audits

10:42 Lake America Rename

14:29 Alberta Trade Showdown

17:28 Measles Deaths Dispute

22:39 CIA Chief in Moscow

24:33 Nepal Flood Cause

27:08 Jelly Roll Backlash

29:41 Rescued on Gannett Peak

31:32 Sign Off and Prayer

There is a famine of truth in our land. Six stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.

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