Chicago's Morning Answer with Dan Proft

0:00 - Federal employee buyout

10:50 - BLM Brandon regurgitates "welcoming city" rap in wake of ICE operations

26:47 - Trump at Congressional Institute: get repeat violent offenders out of America, pay foreign country to imprison them

42:41 - "Rapper" Dank Demoss' suit against Lyft

01:00:22 - Thomas Weitzel, retired Chief of Police of Riverside: Those who advocate for non-cooperation with ICE are engaging in fear-mongering. Follow Tom on X @ChiefWeitzel

01:16:02 - Noted economist Stephen Moore looks at the possibility of no federal income tax. Check out Steve’s newest book  The Trump Economic Miracle: And the Plan to Unleash Prosperity Again

01:29:14 - James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Law & Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago, Richard A Epstein:  The Case Against Birthright Citizenship

01:45:45 - LGBTQIA2S++++...Updating case of VT border patrol officer who was murdered

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Vance with "We have so much to get to" Brennan: on Tulsi Gabbard

12:10- Former Army Corps of Engineers employee does not feel sorry for federal workers having to go back into the office

30:35- Tom Homan's post-mortem from the weekend

49:14- Former U.S. Border Patrol Chief, Deputy Commissioner and Director of ICE, Ron Vitiello: The Trump effect is in full scale activity across the country

For more on Ron’s work at the border ronvitiello.com

1:02:36- In-depth History with Frank from Arlington Heights

1:05:50- Christopher Whalen, investment banker and chairman of Whalen Global Advisors LLC, with expert insights into AI, inflation, and Nasdaq

Chris is also editor for The Institutional Risk Analyst theinstitutionalriskanalyst.com

1:22:47- Executive Editor of Wirepoints Mark Glennon: The regular press isn't reporting on the types of people ICE is arresting

Get Mark’s latest at wirepoints.org

1:38:18- Legal vs Illegal immigration debate

1:58:02- White House unveils new portrait of First Lady Trump

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0:00 - Trump in CA

11:34 - Vance w/ Brennan on FEMA reform...states vs. fed

29:43 - Dr. Phil embedded with Tom Homan in Chicago

48:06 - Chair of the Center for Election Integrity at the America First Policy Institute and former mayor of Cincinnati, Ken Blackwell: Deportations Will Increase American Confidence in Elections. For more on the Center for Election Integrity visit americafirstpolicy.com

59:50 - Steven Bucci, visiting fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, on Iran, Gaza and Trump's plans for Greenland

01:20:41 - Environmental justice/DEI hustler laments end of her federal contracts

01:37:31 - Jonah Goldberg, co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Dispatch: the left no longer has a language to frame political reality. Jonah is a great follow on X @JonahDispatch

01:54:21 - Zaid Jilani, journalist and communications consultant based in Atlanta:  Democrats Should Work With Trump. Follow Zaid on X @ZaidJilani

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0:00 - Obama break-up rumors

12:10 - Trump addresses WEF

26:53 - Homan responds to "I'm not going back to Haiti" guy

48:59 - Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment and chairman of the Internet Freedom Coalition, proposes an end to "lame duck" pardons. Phil is a must follow on X @kerpen

58:34 - President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and foreign affairs columnist for The Washington Times, Clifford May, on a potential deal between Russia & Ukraine “you can be hopeful but I wouldn’t be optimistic” Keep updated with Cliff on X @CliffordDMay

01:14:28 - Oregon state bias reporting system

01:27:25 - Triumph the Insult Comedy Dog with Trump protestors at The People's March 

01:30:11 - Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago & founder and CEO of Project H.O.O.D, Corey Brooks: America Works. DEI Doesn’t. For more on Project H.O.O.D projecthood.org

01:43:26 - OPEN MIC FRIDAY!

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0:00 - DEI

11:46 - Tom Homan on  ICE ops: 308 at the time of the interview

27:18 - Larry Fink in Davos

48:36 - AOC rails against Laken Riley Act: private prison camps coming to your town

01:00:00 - Poor costume choice for Aussie cruise staff

01:01:32 - Pod Save America eunuchs on Morning Joe with Mika...Trump outproducing the Left; volume business

01:24:11 -  Mike Davis,  founder & president of the Article III Project, on bank records showing foreign money going to Biden & family bank accounts "what were these corrupt, foreign, oligarchs buying from Biden?" For more on the Article III Project article3project.org

01:41:10 - Retired Pastor at St. Simon of Cyrene Catholic Parish, Larry Dowling, discusses Chicago churches support for immigrant community amid fears of mass deportations

01:59:39 - Phil Ambrose, founder of HazSim, a training device for first responders, and current Battalion Chief in southern California, offers his perspective of the CA wildfires and the response. For more on HazSim hazsim.com

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0:00 - Homan with dim bulb Dana Bash: ICE ops underway

12:21 - Episcopalian Voodoo Priestess Mariann Budd makes an identitarian appeal to Trump at Inaugural Prayer Service

29:33 - AOC meltdown over Musk

46:01 - SNL send-up of MSNBC: Maddow is Hayes, Hayes is Maddow

55:43 - Trump heading to CA & NC

01:02:17 - Former Chief Asst. U.S. Attorney & Contributing Editor at National Review, Andrew McCarthy, reviews Trump's J6 pardons. Follow Andy on X @AndrewCMcCarthy

01:22:32 - Noted economist Stephen Moore: "politicians and government bureaucrats have no idea how to invest money" Check out Steves newest book The Trump Economic Miracle: And the Plan to Unleash Prosperity Again

01:40:42 - Kevin Lyons, who was sentenced to 51 months in prison for “invading” the office of then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office on January 6, shares his story from DC, to federal prison, to being pardoned. 

02:00:34 - Daniel Henninger, deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, offers lessons the right can learn from the mistakes of the left. Check out Dan’s latest at wsj.com/opinion

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0:00 - The Golden Age of America begins right now

10:07 - Biden pardons

27:50 - J6 pardons

44:28 - Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law School, William Jacobson: DEI in the federal government is dead. Or so we think. Professor Jacobson is also founder of LegalInsurrection.com and president of the Legal Insurrection Foundation

59:53 - In-depth History with Frank from Arlington Heights 

01:02:21 - Bob Woodson, founder and president of the Woodson Center, is a strong supporter of DOGE and points out "the rules the need to change" Check out Mr. Woodson’s most recent book A Pathway to American Renewal: Red, White, and Black Volume II 

01:19:18 - President at Wirepoints, Ted Dabrowski, points out there's a whole bunch of problems in Illinois that have nothing to do with Trump "either we fix our state or we don't" Get Ted’s latest at wirepoints.org

01:33:17 - Former Chicago Police Lieutenant in the 16th District, John Garrido, says sanctuary state leaders won’t cooperate with ICE because they are the ones who want the chaos. John is also  President of the Garrido Stray Rescue Foundation – garridostrayrescue.org

01:49:21 - WHY DP IS SINGLE

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0:00 - Biden departure...I'm not going anywhere

15:18 - Inauguration

32:56 - Homan is comin'

52:19 - Biden's last minute pardons 

01:06:47 - Steven Bucci, visiting fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, points out that TikTok is the "most over-the-top, egregious, intel operation that any of us have ever seen"

01:23:09 - John Tamny, editor of RealClearMarkets & Director of the Center for Economic Freedom at FreedomWorks: Our National Security Calls for Trump to Impede the TikTok Ban. John is also the author of  The Money Confusion: How Illiteracy about Currencies and Inflation Sets the Stage for the Crypto Revolution

01:37:57 - Heather MacDonald, Thomas W. Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute: Can Trump Make America Safe Again? Heather is also author of  When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives

01:50:00 - RealClearPolitics’ national political correspondent, Susan Crabtree, investigates the  Decision to Cancel Outdoor Inauguration Events. Check out Susan’s new book  Fool’s Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All

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0:00 - CNBC’s Joe Kiernan pushes on Paul Ryan over his call for unity, well wishes for Trump to succeed

14:46 - Worcester, MA, pronoungate, Trans Councilor Thu Nguyen

30:43 - Chicagoland govt schools and immigration enforcement

52:16 - Lorenzo Sewell is the Senior Pastor at 180 Church in Detroit. He joined Dan and Amy to talk about what it has been like to be selected by President-Elect Trump to give the prayer at the inauguration

01:03:29 - President Trump’s Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent destroying the Democrats’ war against fossil fuels

01:17:17 - Ja’Mal Green is a real estate broker, philanthropist, and former candidate for mayor GenerationalGreen.com. He joined Dan and Amy to talk about his change of heart on President Trump

01:33:28 - John Eastman is a Former Constitutional Law Professor and Dean, Chapman University Fowler School of Law and Founding Director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. He joined Dan and Amy to talk about Schumer’s plan to try to take down Trump’s cabinet nominees & the new documentary ‘The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare or Justice’

01:47:12 - OPEN MIC FRIDAY

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0:00 - Pam Bondi confirmation hearing: Schiff on Liz Cheney

11:58 - Chris Wright confirmation hearing

29:00 - Proposed law would let Chicagoans recall Mayor Johnson in special election

50:00 - Chicago residents accuse Walgreens of targeting black areas after closures of MULTIPLE stores plagued by crime

01:06:57 - Liel Leibovitz is editor at large for Tablet and host of the “Rootless” podcast. He joined Dan and Amy with reaction to the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. Read Liel’s recent column: Praise that Israeli hostages are coming home, but a deal that keeps Hamas in power is a bad one

01:22:06 - Matt Wolfson is an investigative journalist, writes at oppo-research.com. He joined Dan and Amy with reaction to the confirmation hearing of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense. Matt has written extensively on Hegseth’s nomination

01:38:05 - Richard A. Epstein is James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Law, Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago. He joined Dan and Amy with reaction to Pam Bondi’s confirmation hearing, and the possibility of blanket pardons for January 6th rioters. Read Richard’s recent column: Fake Convictions and Fake Pardons.

01:57:18 - Newsom signs EO making it a prosecutable crime to make unsolicited bids under market value for property

02:08:33 - Northwestern University to offer course on ‘Unsettling Whiteness’

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