The Charlie James Show Podcast

And welcome back to the program. Let's go to the WORD Talk Line. We talked to John in Malden. John, hope you're doing well this afternoon, my friend. Well, good afternoon, Charlie James.

It's great to talk to you. I hope you're doing well. Yes, sir. What's up? I just wanted to bring up, you know, it's it's no surprise.

You know, I've I've called into Lindsey Graham's office for ten, fifteen years now, and you never talk to any live person. It's always a recording. Leave a recording. Leave a voice message. Whatever.

Yeah. But I did remind him that 60% of South Carolinians, according to a new poll, want him replaced. But for the first time ever, calling into senator Scott's office, I got to talk to a voice message. Uh-huh. It has always been a staffer until today, and he has a, just a just a voice thing that you leave a message.

It is pathetic that in a, quote, unquote, conservative state, our two conservative senators, quote, unquote, are, I should say air quotes, but, are missing in action. Yeah. They talk that they support president Trump, but they're yellow. They don't support him. They don't care about the average taxpayer like us.

They don't care that our bills are gonna go up drastically. They just don't. Yeah. You're right about that. They they really don't.

If they did, they would be doing something about it. I appreciate it, John. Thank you. And doing something about it means being more vocal. I the the senate is not for the weak.

You might be able to get away with it in the house. I mean, there, you're pretty anonymous. There's a oh, I I think there's a 80 or is she 88? I think there's an 88 year old woman in the congress that nobody's ever heard of that wants to run for reelection again, but her staff is like, yeah. You might die.

Yeah. No. No. No. No.

You've got you've got a lot of knitting to catch up on. You don't need to be doing that. But but, again, you can get you can be relatively anonymous in the house. It takes work to be anonymous in the senate. I mean, that takes real work.

Now Padilla was pretty good at being anonymous. Tim Scott's pretty good at being anonymous. He'll crawl out when, you know, the time is right, but there you go. Well, New York City. How are you guys feeling about this thing?

How are you guys feeling about Zoran Mamdani, the radical socialist Muslim who is running to be the mayor of New York. He won the primary in New York City against Andrew Cuomo and several others. They had this, they had that rank choice voting thing, in the primary there, and, and he won. He won that election. And he's a guy that wants to do 200,000 low income units in New York.

He wants to make the grocery stores city owned. He wants to no cash bail. He wants to, in effect, legalize prostitution, legalize drug use, have open safe injection sites. Again, did I mention no cash bail? No cash bail.

He wants to, just his policies are a mess, and they would hurt the city of New York drastically. And they've already done that. He's already starting to hurt New York. In fact, there are some luxury real estate brokers, and these folks are saying and that is a good key. That is a real good benchmark to look at how well some place is doing.

Where are your luxury real estate deals? Well, now wealthy New Yorkers are looking to leave New York after Zoran Mondami's primary win. New York City, as we know it, is never gonna be the same if this man is elected mayor. It's gonna go just like New York, Detroit did after the nineteen sixty seven riots, hanging by a thread. Ma'am Domi would drive the wealthy out.

He would drive out the financial sector, drive out the real estate sector. He would drive the cops out. He would drive the Jews out. He would destroy small business in New York, and they would have deserved it. New Yorkers would have deserved it for allowing this man to be mayor.

President Trump said it's finally happened. The Democrats have crossed the line. Zoran Mamdami, a 100% communist lunatic, has won ...

I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of rain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruit America is back. Yes, sir. And we've got some great news from the Supreme Court this morning. The Supreme Court has ruled in the case of, Medina versus Planned Parenthood South Carolina, and it says states do not have to use taxpayer dollars to fund organizations like Planned Parenthood.

Joining us right now is state representative Sarita Edgerton. Sarita, this is a big win for South Carolina, isn't it? Oh my goodness. It is. Every time we take a little bit back from the enemy that he's stolen from us or we've seeded ground and we take it back, I consider it a victory today, so I praised God today and prayed and thanked him for this win.

It's a big win. It is a big win. In fact, the, the Freedom Caucus, has issued a statement. I just wanna read some of it here. We celebrate the US Supreme Court's decision to confirm that South Carolina has the right to withhold taxpayer funds from abortion mills.

Organizations like planned parenthood not only kills infants in the womb, but have become the most prolific dispenser of chemical castration and sterilization chemicals of children. They don't deserve a tie a dime of taxpayer money. But the question is, Sarita, what is the state legislature gonna do about it? Well, I do have to say, representative Stephen Long put this trigger in, with his position on ways and means, and this is what caused this, case to be, taken up and and the state sued, that it was in our Medicaid. And so while we can take it out of our Medicaid, and I'm I'm sure we will, we've got some people who are gonna who's gonna fight for that.

And we would also have to address that it's also in our public employees benefits accounts Right. That you can get abortions in certain instances using your state insurance. So if you're a legislator, a state police officer, any state employee who has PEBA, their and taxpayer money is going to, fund abortions and Planned Parenthood possibly in this state. So that was that like a gotta get both of those. Yeah.

Was that a was that a carve out? I'm not entirely sure on that one, Charlie, but I'm gonna do everything I can, when we get back in session in January. See, if we have passed the personhood, Sani Da Right. Resolution Yeah. Government master could call us back.

We could be working on this and have it ready to go, or we maybe could possibly be called back into session and and continue while the iron, you know, you know, to fire while the iron's hot. But, I do have to say, we voted on a bunch of stuff, when the majority of the people of my own party down there did not want to have any appetite for life. They were worn out from the six week heartbeat fetal fetal heartbeat bill Yeah. And they didn't wanna continue to push for any pro we have pro life legislation to protect pregnancy centers. We have pro life legislation to get the abortion pill, to not be able to be ordered from out of state and brought into the state.

We're still killing thousands of babies that way. We still have legalized abortion. There's many, many things that we could have done. So while I am celebrating today, that just makes my resolve even stronger to get into January 14 or thirteenth this next time. I think it's thirteenth this next time and hit the ground running with some legislation.

We need to get this through committee. We don't need casino bills. Right. We don't need expanding alcohol sales and maternity leave for birthing people. This is the stuff we we tackle this year.

We need to be protecting those who cannot protect themselves. Is I mean, it and I know it frustrates you because it frustrates me that here we are in supposedly ruby red South Carolina, and our state legislature acts like a bunch of Democrats. We ...

I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruit America is back. Yes, sir. And we've got some great news from the Supreme Court this morning. The Supreme Court has ruled in the case of, Medina versus Planned Parenthood South Carolina, and it says states do not have to use taxpayer dollars to fund organizations like Planned Parenthood.

Joining us right now is state representative Sarita Edgerton. Sarita, this is a big win for South Carolina, isn't it? Oh my goodness. It is. Every time we take a little bit back from the enemy that he's stolen from us or we've ceded ground and we take it back, I consider it a victory today, so I praised God today and prayed and thanked him for this win.

It's a big win. It is a big win. In fact, the, the Freedom Caucus, has issued a statement. I just wanna read some of the of it here. We celebrate the US Supreme Court's decision to confirm that South Carolina has the right to withhold taxpayer funds from abortion mills.

Organizations like Planned Parenthood not only kills infants in the womb, but have become the most prolific dispenser of chemical castration and sterilization chemicals of children. They don't deserve a tie a dime of taxpayer money. But the question is, Sarita, what is the state legislature gonna do about it? Well, I do have to say representative Steven Long put this trigger in, with his position on ways and means, and this is what caused this, case to be, taken up and and the state sued, that it was in our Medicaid. And so while we can take it out of our Medicaid, and I'm I'm sure we will, we've got some people who are gonna who's gonna fight for that.

And we we've also have to address that it's also in our public employees benefits accounts. Right. That you can get abortions in certain instances using your state insurance. So if you're a legislator, a state police officer, any state employee who has PEBA, their entire money is going to, fund abortions and Planned Parenthood possibly in this state. So that was that like a gotta get both of those.

Yeah. Was that a was that a carve out? I'm not entirely sure on that one, Charlie, but I'm gonna do everything I can, when we get back in session in January. See, if we had passed the personhood, SaniDa Right. Resolution Yeah.

Governor McMaster could call us back. We could be working on this and have it ready to go, or we maybe could possibly be called back into session and and continue while the iron you know, you know, to fire while the iron's hot. But, I do have to say, we voted on a bunch of stuff, when the majority of the people of my own party down there did not want to have any appetite for life. They were worn out from the six week heartbeat fetal fetal heartbeat bill Yeah. And they didn't wanna continue to push for any pro we have pro life legislation to protect pregnancy centers.

We have pro life legislation to get the abortion pill, to not be able to be ordered from out of state and brought into the state. We're still killing thousands of babies that way. We still have legalized abortion. There's many, many things that we could have done. So while I am celebrating today, that just makes my resolve even stronger to get into January 14 or thirteenth this next time.

I think it's thirteenth this next time and hit the ground running with some legislation. We need to get this through committee. We don't need casino bills. Right. We don't need expanding alcohol sales and maternity leave for birthing people.

This is the stuff we we tackle this year. We need to be protecting those who cannot protect themselves. Is I mean, it and I know it frustrates you because it frustrates me that here we are in supposedly ruby red South Carolina, and our state legislature acts like a bunch of Democrats. Well, ...

And welcome to the program on your Thursday. Thursday. Thursday afternoon. And the reason I say it like this because I am still finding it hard to believe that it is only a Thursday. This has been the longest week.

Holy mackerel. This week has I mean, it feels like it's been a month this week. I don't know if it was the heat. I'm pretty sure that had a heck of a lot to do. It feels a little bit better out there today, but, I mean, it's just it's just one of those weeks where you go, holy cow.

We had to found out we had to have some tree work done at the house. That's gonna cost a boatload of money. Then I had a cracked oil pan in my car. And I also found out something about cracked oil pans. It doesn't matter how big the crack is.

I mean, this isn't a Hunter Biden deal where you get, you know, if you get a big crack as it's this much money, if you get a little bit of crack, is that much money. It's not one of those deals with Hunter Biden. This, it doesn't matter what size crack you got. It doesn't matter what size crack you got in your oil pan. It's the same price.

You thing could've just cracked in half, and it would've been the same price. Right? Right? Just boom. Gun.

Done. Done. So it could be eight inches or eight millimeters, still gonna be the same price. So, anyway, that's been a lot of fun. Anyway and then we had, of course, the, the the bombing of of Iran, and yet all of these people in the over in the mainstream media, and they were like, well, first of all, they were saying, well, you know, Charlie, there's no proof for there's no proof that Iran has the nuclear weapons over there.

So then Trump goes in, and he bombs all these nuclear weapon sites. And now they're like, I don't even think that did any good. I don't even think that stopped that nuclear weapons programmer. Oh, really? I thought you said there wasn't one.

And there are still people out there that are saying ridiculous stuff like that. So today, Pete Hegseth I mean, the the Pete Hegseth, president Trump, they'd had it. They'd had it with all of this BS. And Pete Heggs at today was a I hey. You know what?

He it was he really let Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin had it, and rightfully so. Let's take a listen to this. Highly enriched uranium. Do you have certainty that all the highly enriched uranium was inside the Forteaux Mountain or some of it because there were satellite photos that showed more than a dozen trucks there two days in advance? Are you certain none of that highly enriched uranium was moved?

Of course, we're watching every single aspect. But, Jennifer, you've been about the worst. The the the one who misrepresents the most intentionally. I I don't what what the president says I was I was I'm I'm familiar. Report about the ventilation shafts on Saturday night.

And in fact, I was the first to describe the b two bombers, the refueling, the entire mission with great accuracy. So I I take issue with that. I appreciate you acknowledging this is the first operate the most successful mission based on operational security that this department has done since you've been here, and I appreciate that. So Absolutely. We're looking at all aspects of intelligence and making sure we have a sense of what was where.

So and and and and another reporter got upset because he said those the, the the the pilots, those boys did a great job. Those boys did a great job, and they were like, hold on. Wait a minute. Hold on. Those weren't just boys.

There were there was a girl there too. You gotta be you gotta have give equal time to the ladies up there. And this is the most ridiculous BS. And all of this comes from a, CNN's Natasha Bertrand. Well, Caroline Levitt had a little bit to say about her.

'24. Bertrand pushed the suckers and losers hoax. She also pushed the fine people hoax, which was taking the president's words purposely out of context. And then last October, and I believe this is notable, Natasha Bertrand published an article in Politi ...

And welcome to the program on your Thursday. Thursday. Thursday afternoon. And the reason I say it like this because I am still finding it hard to believe that it is only a Thursday. This has been the longest week.

Holy mackerel. This week has I mean, it feels like it's been a month this week. I don't know if it was the heat. I'm pretty sure that had a heck of a lot to do. It feels a little bit better out there today, but, I mean, it's just it's just one of those weeks where you go, holy cow.

We had to found out we had to have some tree work done at the house. That's gonna cost a boatload of money. Then I had a cracked oil pan in my car. And I also found out something about cracked oil pans. It doesn't matter how big the crack is.

I mean, this isn't a Hunter Biden deal where you get, you know, if you get a big crack as it's this much money. If you get a little bit of crack, is it that much money? It's not one of those deals with Hunter Biden. This, it doesn't matter what size crack you got. It doesn't matter what size crack you got in your oil pan.

It's the same price. You thing could've just cracked in half, and it would've been the same price. Right? Right? It just boom.

Gun. Done. Done. So it could be eight inches or eight millimeters. Still gonna be the same price.

So, anyway, that's been a lot of fun. Anyway and then we had, of course, the, the the bombing of of Iran, and you had all of these people in the over in the mainstream media, and they were like, well, first of all, they were saying, well, you know, Charlie, there's no proof for there's no proof that Iran has the nuclear weapons over there. So then Trump goes in and he bombs all these nuclear weapon sites, and now they're like, I don't even think that did any good. I don't even think that stopped their nuclear weapons program, Murry. Oh, really?

I thought you said there wasn't one. And there are still people out there that are saying ridiculous stuff like that. So today, Pete Hegseth I mean, the the Pete Hegseth, president Trump, they'd had it. They'd had it with all of this BS. And Pete Heggs had today was a I hey.

You know what? He it was he really let Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin had it, and rightfully so. Let's take a listen to this. Pylaine uranium. Do you have certainty that all the highly enriched uranium was inside the Forteaux Mountain or some of it?

Because there were satellite photos that showed more than a dozen trucks there two days in advance. Are you certain none of that highly enriched uranium was moved? Of course, we're watching every single aspect. But, Jennifer, you've been about the worst. The more the the one who misrepresents the most intentionally.

I I don't what what the president says. I I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I was I So I I take issue with that. I appreciate you acknowledging this is the first operate the most successful mission based on operational security that this department has done since you've been here, and I appreciate that. So Absolutely. We're looking at all aspects of intelligence and making sure we have a sense of what was where.

So and and and and another reporter got upset because he said those the the the the pilots, those boys did a great job. Those boys did a great job, and they were like, hold on. Wait a minute. Hold on. Those weren't just boys.

There were there was a girl there too. You gotta be you gotta have give equal time to the ladies up there. And this is the most ridiculous BS. And all of this comes from a, CNN's Natasha Bertrand. Well, Caroline Levitt had a little bit to say about her.

'24. Bertrand pushed the suckers and losers hoax. She also pushed the fine people hoax, which was taking the president's words purp ...

Let's go to the WORD Talk Line. We'll talk to Roger and Gaffney. Roger, how are you doing, bud? Hey, Charlie. How are you doing, man?

I'm great. What's going on? Question. Well, I got Roger, you're gonna have to call back because we had a bad connection there. Would love to hear what, have your question there.

Well, president Trump has announced over on Truth Social not long ago. He says secretary of defense Pete Hegseth, together with military representatives, will be holding a major news conference tomorrow morning at 8AM eastern time at the Pentagon in order to fight for the dignity of our American pilots. These patriots were very upset. After thirty six hours of dangerously flying through enemy territory, they landed. They knew their success was legendary.

And then two days later, they started reading fake news by CNN and the failing New York Times. They felt terribly. Fortunately for them and, as usual, solely for the purpose of demeaning the president of The United States, The fake news, Times, and CNN lied and totally misrepresented the facts, none of which they had because it was too soon. There were no facts out there yet. The news conference will prove both interesting and irrefutable.

Enjoy. That was from the president of The United States, and that, hopefully, that'll put and, again, remember this so called leaked report was with low confidence. Now what the mainstream media is trying to tell you is that there's low confidence in the mission. Nope. Not what that means.

That means they shouldn't even issue reports with low confidence. That means they had no intel, and they did not have accurate information. And not to mention the fact that that was supposed to be classified. So now let's go back to Roger and Gaffney. Roger, hopefully, we got a better, connection there.

What's up, man? Charlie, thank you for taking my call. First time caller. I have you hit the bell. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much. What's going on? So I was wondering about these idiots that have arrested, and I don't remember if they're young teens, young adults, for destroying the pride flags. Yeah. If if they're gonna be charged for hate crimes, what about these idiots that are burning the American flag?

Shouldn't those people be charged with hate crime as well? No. Roger, that's freedom of speech. That is yeah. That's totally covered by the first amendment, and you can do that, but you can't burn a pride flag.

Now I do agree that you shouldn't go on somebody else's property and steal their property. I don't care what it says or what it does. But the fact that they're gonna get they're gonna get hate crimes simply because it was a pride flag? No. That Right.

Hate hate crimes laws are ridiculous. Right? Right. So I appreciate it, Roger. But but here's the thing, man.

If you get extra time for a hate crime, shouldn't you get less time for a love crime? Shouldn't there be things called love crimes out there? Somebody said something bad about my wife, so I love her. And because of my love for her, I go and I take a baseball bat and I pop somebody upside the head with it. So, I mean, shouldn't there be love crimes out there?

I think they should be. Is it me? No. Anyway anyway, hate crimes are absolutely ridiculous. Eight hundred nine zero five o ninety eight nine.

That's common sense return retirement planning text line. The guy had that New York mayoral primary yesterday. Zoran Mandame won for the Democrats, and this guy you know, and I've I've said this before doing the show, but I'm I'm kinda just a little little bitty bit of me hopes he wins. Just I just a little bit hopes that this guy wins the mayor's, election in New York, New York City, just to prove to the Democrats what these ridiculous policies do. Now this guy is a so called Democrat socialist.

He had a he had a full backing of Bernie Sanders, full backing of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, full backing. And all these so called dim just get rid of the word democratic a ...

Let's go to the WORD Talk Line. We'll talk to Roger and Gaffney. Roger, how are you doing, bud? Hey, Charlie. How are you doing, man?

I'm great. What's going on? Well, I got for you. Roger, you're gonna have to call back because we had a bad connection there. Would love to hear what have your question there.

Well, president Trump has announced over on Truth Social not long ago. He says secretary of defense Pete Hegseth, together with mill military representatives, will be holding a major news conference tomorrow morning at 8AM eastern time at the Pentagon in order to fight for the dignity of our American pilots. These patriots were very upset. After thirty six hours of dangerously flying through enemy territory, they landed. They knew their success was legendary.

And then two days later, they started reading fake news by CNN and the failing New York Times. They felt terribly. Fortunately for them and, as usual, solely for the purpose of demeaning the president of The United States, The fake news, Times, and CNN lied and totally misrepresented the facts, none of which they had because it was too soon. There were no facts out there yet. The news conference will prove both interesting and irrefutable.

Enjoy. That was from the president of The United States, and that, hopefully, that'll put and, again, remember this so called leaked report was with low confidence. Now what the mainstream media is trying to tell you is that there's low confidence in the mission. Nope. Not what that means.

That means they shouldn't even issue reports with low confidence. That means they had no intel, and they did not have accurate information. And not to mention the fact that that was supposed to be classified. So now let's go back to Roger and Gaffney. Roger, hopefully, we got a better, connection there.

What's up, man? Charlie, thank you for taking my call. First time caller. I you hit the bell. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much. What's going on? So I was wondering about these idiots that have arrested, and I don't remember if they're young teens, young adults, for destroying the pride flags. Yeah. If if they're gonna be charged for hate crimes, what about these idiots that are burning the American flag?

Shouldn't those people be charged with hate crime as well? No. Roger, that's freedom of speech. That is yeah. That's totally covered by the first amendment, and you can do that, but you can't burn a pride flag.

Now I do agree that you shouldn't go on somebody else's property and steal their property. I don't care what it says or what it does. But the fact that they're gonna get they're gonna get hate crimes simply because it was a pride flag? No. That Right.

Hate hate crimes laws are ridiculous. Right? Right. So I appreciate it, Roger. Right.

But here's the thing, man. If you get extra time for a hate crime, shouldn't you get less time for a love crime? Shouldn't there be things called love crimes out there? Somebody said something bad about my wife, so I love her. And because of my love for her, I go and I take a baseball bat and I pop somebody upside the head with it.

So, I mean, shouldn't there be love crimes out there? I think they should be. Is it me? No. Anyway anyway, hate crimes are absolutely ridiculous.

Eight hundred nine zero five zero ninety eight nine. That's common sense return retirement planning text line. The guy had that New York mayoral primary yesterday. Zoran Mandame won for the Democrats, and this guy you know, and I've I've said this before during the show, but I'm I'm kinda just a little little bitty bit of me hopes he wins. Just I just a little bit hopes that this guy wins the mayor's, election in New York, New York City, just to prove to the Democrats what these ridiculous policies do.

Now this guy is a so called Democrat socialist. He had a he had a full backing of Bernie Sanders, full backing of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, full backing. And all these so called dim just get rid of the word democra ...

So no more Krispy Kreme in McDonald's? Oh, I I didn't I'll be honest with you. I didn't even know they had them. I didn't I didn't even know. I didn't even here's what I think.

Now I I see like, I'll go to the store and I'll see, like, a little Krispy Kreme stand there. But I believe there's only one place to get a Krispy Kreme doughnut. That's at Krispy Kreme. With the red hot doughnuts now flashing, that's when that's when you're you pull across eight lanes of traffic, dash in there, and you grab those donuts. In fact, there was a, there's a, a Krispy Kreme in Columbia.

Really it's right there at, University of South Carolina. And and I found out about this. There was, sometimes when they would, like, squish the you know, they squirt out the doughnut dough, take it down on a conveyor belt. It'll drop down into the oil where it will cook for a certain amount of time, and then they'll flip them and they'll finish cooking, and then they'll put the icing on them, right, for the, for the iced original donut. Sometimes, the donut doesn't flip.

So what you have is you've got a doughnut that is double cooked on the bottom, hardly cooked at all on the top, but still glazed. Well, apparently, some of these young, sorority women at the University of South Carolina found out about this. And they started, going down there and ordering them, and they would give them to them, like, at a a ridiculously low price, but they loved them. They absolutely loved them. And, and I don't they might have even given them away.

But I remember I was asking a guy one time. I said, why don't y'all do I said, you've got so many people screaming for that. Why don't you do it? They said, they won't let us. They won't let us sell them like that.

You know, regulations, they gotta be cooked on both sides and all of that stuff. So anyway but anyway, only place to get a Krispy Kreme is a Krispy Kreme. That's it. And, yes, they are the best doughnut. Hot, hot, hot, hot out there right now.

Let me just double check the phone, see what the, feels like temperature is. It feels like is this accurate? Let me just double check. Let me refresh this. Right now, it feels like 103 degrees outside.

My neighbor did something today. I guess he did it today. I just saw it today. Genius. Absolute genius.

You know how you got your robot vacuums? We've got two of them at the house. We got a Roomba, and we got a Shark, because we have Scotch Collies, and we have to have those. So he's got a lawnmower, a robot lawnmower. And this thing goes out, and he's got the zones mapped in his yard, and he's out there.

And I'm watching this thing go, and I say, the man. On a day like this when, what, just a few hours ago, the heat index was about a 106? He's got the lawnmower the robot lawnmower out there cutting the grass. I thought that was so cool. And then then I went in and I said I said, honey, we're getting a a robot lawnmower.

She says, I've already got one, and it's you. And I said, yeah. You're right. Okay. Anyway, I we've been hearing about that leaked report.

It's a low confidence report. That's what everybody is leaving out in the story. Low confidence means they don't have all of the information to actually make I don't even know why you would release a a no confidence report. Well, first of all, it shouldn't have been released, and second of all, it shouldn't have been leaked. That's the big thing.

And Pete Hegseth is thinking is saying that he's gonna find out the people that that leaked it, and they are gonna be charged because now the FBI is involved. At least we hope they are. But all these people in the media at The Hague today were just talking about this. Low confidence report because they just wanna make Trump look bad. Well, Pete Hegseth was having none of that today.

Criteria. Yeah. There's a reason the president, calls out fake news for what it is. These pilots, these refuelers, these fighters, these air defenders, the skill and the courage it took to ...

So no more Krispy Kreme in McDonald's? Oh, I I didn't I'll be honest with you. I didn't even know they had them. I didn't I didn't even know. I didn't even here's what I think.

Now I I see like, I'll go to the store and I'll see, like, a little Krispy Kreme stand there. But I believe there's only one place to get a Krispy Kreme doughnut. That's at Krispy Kreme. With the red hot doughnuts now flashing, that's when that's when you're you pull across eight lanes of traffic, dash in there, and you grab those donuts. In fact, there was a, there's a, a Krispy Kreme in Columbia.

Really it's right there at, University of South Carolina. And and I found out about this. There was, sometimes when they would, like, squish the you know, they squirt out the doughnut dough, take it down on a conveyor belt. It'll drop down into the oil where it will cook for a certain amount of time, and then they'll flip them and they'll finish cooking, and then they'll put the icing on them, right, for the, for the iced original donut. Sometimes, the donut doesn't flip.

So what you have is you've got a doughnut that is double cooked on the bottom, hardly cooked at all on the top, but still glazed. Well, apparently, some of these young, sorority women at the University of South Carolina found out about this. And they started, going down there and ordering them, and they would give them to them, like, at a a ridiculously low price, but they loved them. They absolutely loved them. And, and I don't they might have even given them away.

But I remember I was asking a guy one time, I said, why don't y'all do I said, you've got so many people screaming for that. Why don't you do it? They said, they won't let us. They won't let us sell them like that. You know, regulations, they gotta be cooked on both sides and all of that stuff.

So anyway but anyway, only place to get a Krispy Kreme is a Krispy Kreme. That's it. And, yes, they are the best doughnut. Hot, hot, hot, hot out there right now. Let me just double check the phone, see what the, feels like temperature is.

It feels like is this accurate? Let me just double check. Let me refresh this. Right now, it feels like 103 degrees outside. My neighbor did something today.

I guess he did it today. I just saw it today. Genius. Absolute genius. You know how you got your robot vacuums?

We've got two of them at the house. We got a Roomba, and we got a Shark, because we have Scotch Collies, and we have to have those. So he's got a lawnmower, a robot lawnmower. And this thing goes out, and he's got the zones mapped in his yard, and he's out there. And I'm watching this thing go, and I say, the man.

On a day like this when, what, just a few hours ago, the heat index was about a 106? He's got the lawnmower the robot lawnmower out there cutting the grass. I thought that was so cool. And then then I went in and I said I said, honey, we're getting a a robot lawnmower. She says, I've already got one, and it's you.

And I said, yeah. You're right. Okay. Anyway, I we've been hearing about that leaked report. It's a low confidence report.

That's what everybody is leaving out in the story. Low confidence means they don't have all of the information to actually make I don't even know why you would release a a no confidence report. Well, first of all, it shouldn't have been released, and second of all, it shouldn't have been leaked. That's the big thing. And Pete Hegseth is thinking is saying that he's gonna find out the people that that leaked it, and they are gonna be charged because now the FBI is involved.

At least we hope they are. But all these people in the media at The Hague today were just talking about this low confidence report because they just wanna make Trump look bad. Well, Pete Hegseth was having none of that today. Criteria. Yeah.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for ambu waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties, America is back. Yes, sir. And it was never more obvious than with what went on at The Hague. And I'll get to that coming up in just a second.

It was absolutely magnificent. But right now, let's go to Amy up in North Carolina. Amy, welcome to the program. Amy, are you there? Well, I'm Debbie.

I'm not Amy, so I don't know if you got the right one. Yep. That's you. Go right ahead. Okay.

I was listening, with getting back to the, autopend thing. I was listening about a day or two ago, and the ones that were done there at at the end, you know, 52 Right. That he had done with the, pardons and committing sentences and whatnot. 31 of them, you know, they thought they'd been signed with the autopan. And then the little woman just talked about a while ago that, you know, didn't know who had used them, but she is still kinda in charge and didn't know who had used them and and and who hadn't.

But, you know, she had done what she needed to do and put them before the committee, and and after that, she didn't know what went and what didn't. But if if, on that last day that all those were signed and and Biden had just said, you know, days before that he would not pardon Hunter, well, you know, that that can't be so if it took him several days to decide what to use the pen on and whatnot. Well, that was the thing. Hunter Biden's pardon was the only one that was an auto pen. Oh, okay.

Wow. His was the only one that was not the auto pen. I appreciate it, Amy. Thank you so much. So president Trump over at The Hague today.

And, boy, I'd tell you what, the, secretary, over there of of NATO, he was heaping praise on president Trump left and right. He was just, oh, you are you are the greatest thing since sliced bread. It was really amazing. Let's take a listen, to, some of this. Where is this?

Hold on. Let me let me see if I can find it here. I where'd he go? Here he is. Here he is.

This is the NATO secretary general praising Trump. Let me first be very thoughtful of spending. I just want to recognize your decisive action on Iran. Thank you. You are a man of strength, but you're also a man of peace.

And the fact that you are now also successful in getting this ceasefire done between Israel and Iran, I really want to commend you for that. Thank you, And I think this is important for the whole world. And he just he just laid praises on president Trump. And why? Because president Trump is now getting European countries to increase their spending to NATO.

The back and forth. Where do things stand right now? It has been a busy twenty four hours, Anna, starting with Iran's counterattack at US assets in The Middle East, which seems to have been mostly for show, at a Qatari, airbase. That kicked off discussions involving the president, the emir of Qatar, and the Iranians while the president was also working with Israelis to try to see if they could forge this truce. The vice president got involved.

And, ultimately, you had the announcement on Truth Social last night that there would be a ceasefire. There was some Okay. Hold on. Let's get to the other, part of this. Here we go.

Our ultimately colleague, prime minister Netanyahu, asked him Nope. That's not it that he does. Sorry. But president Trump has gotten the members of of Europe because it used to be 2% of your GDP. 2% of your your nation's gross GDP.

Now he's calling for 5%. And the the European countries have agreed to pay 5% of their GDP to fund NATO. Well, most of them have. Now let me ask you something. In the four years of Joe Biden, did Biden ever ask the NATO members to increase their spending?

No. He did not. Did Obama ever do that? No. He did not.

Did Bill Clinton ever do that? No. He did not. In fact, some of the ...