The Jennifer Bukowsky Show

Whether it’s the citrus fruit or the boss-man, “Don” has been everywhere this week. We’ll break down Secretary of State Marco Rubio explaining Donroe doctrine & the world (and why it matters), the latest on Don Lemon and the Minnesota church protest case, and why robots might end up as the “solution” to collapsing birth rates. Plus—HBO is about to drop a star-studded, sex-centered limited series set in St. Louis, Missouri.

Yesterday, another man harassing ICE in Minnesota was fatally shot. Don Lemon dodged formal criminal charges for his church stunt in St. Paul last week- for now.

The backstory on Venezuela and the its amazing opposition leader- Nobel-peace prize winner Maria Corina Machado. Why isn’t Trump backing her?

A brief history of & update on Iran.

Greenland- Trump demonstrated the Art of the Deal in Davos.

This week we have huge criminal docket (including four local teens arrested for felony murder after an alleged robbery via a Facebook marketplace resulted in a Veteran’s death).

Plus former US Senator Kirsten Sinema’s interesting legal situation, and more. Buckle up!

Monkeys on the loose in St. Louis… and that’s not even the wildest headline. We dig into a jaw-dropping fraud story tied to Medicaid/social-services billing, the political fallout around ICE enforcement, and what happens when small-town America gets remade overnight.

Plus: Trump vs. Josh Hawley after a Senate move to limit war powers on Venezuela, the moral blind spot of the American left on Iran’s women, a big criminal-docket update, and why Congress may need to get serious about **judicial impeachment**.

Plus, New Years’ Resolutions and what’s in store for 2026

Today: the rise of parents publicly calling out adult kids who cut them off—and what it says about family, culture, and responsibility. Bondi beach massacre illustrates the true meaning of ‘globalize the intifada.’ Plus, civil rights attorney Bevis Schock joins to talk panhandling bans on medians and his lawsuit challenging Missouri’s stadium subsidy law. We also hit the latest on Judge Boasberg’s contempt fight, a wild Michigan coaching scandal, and a lightning round of national stories.

Five years after the mysterious pipe bombs outside the RNC and DNC, the FBI finally arrests a suspect in Washington, D.C. What changed, what took so long, and what questions are *still* unanswered? We’ll dig into it.

Then I’m joined by political litigator **Jesse Vazquez** to break down the Supreme Court’s 6–3 order letting Texas use its new GOP-friendly congressional map for 2026 — despite a lower court’s finding of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. What does this mean for control of the House and for other states like California, North Carolina, and Missouri?

In Missouri, lawmakers are moving to make it **illegal for AI to marry, own property, or hold human legal rights**. We’ll talk about the new “AI non-personhood” bill, how other states like Idaho, Utah, North Dakota and Ohio are drawing lines around AI, and why some people are already forming emotional — and even romantic — attachments to chatbots.

Plus:

• Making air travel great again – are we officially a nation of airport pajama people?

• Criminal docket updates: what’s happening with Letitia James, James Comey, and other big cases.

• A pastor goes public with late-night “faith” phone calls from Barron Trump – is that crossing a line? [AP News+1](https://apnews.com/article/bd37e5a284664b52ef69985659c6e2ed?utm_source=chatgpt.com)

• A curvy Missouri news anchor goes viral on TikTok reading nasty comments about herself *in her news anchor voice*.

• Lightning round: Chiefs, Mizzou bowl projections, Missouri State’s first bowl, court dates, and local events.

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What does Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s abrupt resignation on Friday say about the future of MAGA and the state of politics writ large? Is Sen Ted Cruz positioning himself for a break from or a takeover of the MAGA movement?

Plus Citizen Alliance CEO Cliff Maloney, door-knocking get-out-the-vote guru, gives us his take on Republicans’ challenges into the midterms.

Plus America is currently being colonized by Muslims; the release of the Epstein files so far seems to be blowing up in the Democrats’ faces, a new report on the dangers of transing the kids, a packed criminal docket including a crazy killing on a cruise and a GOP Jussie Smollett.

Finally, we have much for which to be thankful.

A major new lawsuit filed by the DOJ against California and its governor, Gavin Newsom, will determine the fate of the midterms. The lead attorney on this lawsuit is Missouri's own Jesus Osete.

ACLJ’s Kelsey McGee tells me about her latest case in defense of religious liberty filed right here in MO as well as her recent win on behalf of a student who wanted to form a ‘Jesus Club.’

And two Democratic Socialist mayors of major American cities- what does that mean for the midterms.

Plus the Swamp is coming to Comey’s defense by going after the law license of Trumps appointee

And plenty to discuss on the criminal docket!

#135 East Coast adventure - This week, Jennifer was in the attorney war room on election day in New Jersey, then in DC at the White House and the Capitol during the shutdown, then went to see Megyn Kelly live. She shares many clips and takeaways from the trip. And Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks said in a new interview that she became pregnant by Don Henley but got an abortion. Would’ve named her ‘Sara,’ like the song. And Nancy Pelosi, the criminal docket, and more.

The audacity of Arctic Frost is mind-blowing and way bigger than Watergate. Plus, my guest Karen Sweigert talks about the new lawsuit she filed in Missouri on behalf of female athletes including an Olympian against the United States Fencing Association for allowing trans athletes into female events in Kansas City . Will we have flying cars in a few months? Elon Musk just hinted in new interview that his next product demo will be huge. We’ll check in on cases on our criminal docket. My political pro and my friend Greg Keller, a political pro, joins us to talk all things elections, shutdowns, and the Missouri map. Plus, it appears we have a Somali problem in America.