And now, this is the moment you've all been waking for. It's time for the strength of breakfast for now. It's Tuesday, September 24th, 2024, and this is the Snake for Breakfast podcast, Episode 460 and 461. Make sure you subscribe to the show. It's available across every downloadable podcast and platform. Find us on Apple. Spotify, iHeart, Samsung, or Amazon podcast. Check out the Snake for Breakfast link for you to take your show's Instagram, or leave a sub-stack and verify that it counts on X, Ghetto, and True Social. What's up, everybody? Welcome to the first of two big Tuesday editions of the show today. I'm Ron. I've got Noah here with me. For the second edition of the podcast, and as always, we've got lots of breaking news. Donald Trump held a rally over the weekend in Battleground, North Carolina. We've got all the highlights and post-event analysis. We've got the best from a Sunday morning new circuit. As both sides of the aisle are vying for their candidates in the presidential race and the latest developments on the two Trump assassination attempts, Donald Trump had a rally last night in Battleground, Pennsylvania. We'll bring you the latest from the key stone state and all of the post-event analysis, and we'll bring you the latest from the Beltway, the campaign trail, and beyond. We've got a great set of guests coming in here today as well. Former presidential candidate, former director of housing and urban development, Dr. Ben Carson will be here. We'll also be joined by South Carolina Congresswoman, Nancy Mason. We won't be asking for any selfies. We'll catch up with Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs. Also, Janiah Thomas from the Trump campaign will be here, and we'll round out our lineup with Texas Congressman Pat Fallon. But before we jump into any of our interviews, let's dive right into these headlines and change the way you consume your news. Okay. This is not nom. This is bowling. There are rules. Hey, hey, hey, junior! America! It's like... FOUR BATHIST! So stand by! All right, everybody. Welcome to the state for breakfast podcast. I'm Ron. I'm going to have Noah here with me for the second show today. If you're a first-time listener, welcome to the show. If you're a long-time listener, welcome back to America's Fastest Growing, and quickly becoming favorite political podcast. Gaining things kicked off on the first of two big Tuesday editions of the show today. I'm a little under the weather. Excuse the voice. Picked up a little bit of the cold and flu over the weekend. Seems like any and over-the-counter meds aren't really doing anything for me either, but the new cycle is a churning, so we are going to be here to deliver it to you today. And we're looking at two different Trump rallies, one that happened in Battleground, North Carolina over the weekend, and then another in Battlegrounds, Pennsylvania last night. In addition, we'll bring you the best from the Sunday morning news circuit and some new developments in the second assassination of plot on President Trump's life. We'll also jump into some of the biggest headlines in the Beltway from the campaign trail and beyond on our two Tuesday editions of the show today. So sit back and buckle up because even as we were speaking, and you're listening to this podcast on Tuesday afternoon, Donald Trump is down in Atlanta, Georgia delivering remarks on the economy. There's news breaking that Kamala Harris is even thinking about heading out to the U.S. southern border. And with now just 43 days before we head to the ballot box on election day November 5th, there isn't a headline that can get dropped that will probably shock me. So coming out of the back end of a busy weekend, especially for the presidential candidates and their teams, we have an absolutely great slate of guests coming in here today as well. We'll have a trio of America First Congress people, Representative Andy Biggs, Pat Fallon, and Nancy Mace will be here. We'll catch up with Jeniah Thomas for the first time, who's one of the top surrogates on the Trump campaign, give you a little bit of inside perspective from the campaign trail, and we'll be catching up with one of our favorite guests, Dr. Ben Carson. We'll be joining us again. So, busy news weekend on the start of a busy news week, and we've got you covered heading down to North Carolina, where President Trump was speaking over the weekend, and delivering remarks massively attended outdoor rally, still not used to the ballistic shields that are set up around him while he's speaking. But listen, when you look at the events over the last couple months, how they've unfolded, and the little to no interest, it seems like in the federal government to improve the security situation on the former president and Republican nominee now. You just have to take into consideration the times have changed, so it was the ways we protect our presidents like President Trump. This was a great rally outside, massively packed, hitting on all the talking points, bringing up some of the additional items that you've heard, and you'll hear a great comparison today. I mean, the North Carolina rally, which happened over the weekend, was almost different in its totality outside of the main campaign talking points than the one that happened up in Pennsylvania last night. So, I think that's really good to take into consideration seeing President Trump, depending on the state, or the venue, or the topic, be able to show such a diverse and robust agenda that he's looking to bring to the American people. Lots of family in attendance, obviously, he traveled with Laura and Eric Trump, brought the grandkids along. They came up and made an appearance on stages over here a little bit later. But as we're getting ready to dive into what seems like, it's going to be a non-stop whirlwind of headlines between now and November 5th. Let's take it down to North Carolina, and President Trump hitting Kamala Harris on how bad her policies have directly affected Americans across the country over the course over the last four years. Let's check it out. Everyone knows that Kamala Harris cannot explain how she would make your life better, because it's really her policies that have destroyed this country in the last three years. She was the border czar. Now she says she wasn't the border czar, it doesn't matter. She was in charge of the border, put there by Sleepy Joe Biden. He wanted to go to the beach. She said, "I don't have time. I got to go to the beach and sleep." Who the hell sleeps on camera? You have cameras watching. I don't want to ever fall asleep on live television. Kamala Harris cost your family $28,000 in higher prices. Last month alone, she lost. Think of this. Last month they lost, in this country, 438,000 full-time job. That's a government number, including 24,000 manufacturing jobs. That's last month. And the interest rates are lowered for political reasons, but they're also lowered because the country's not doing well. We would rather have you as president, think of this. If you would rather have me as president or, okay, let's do this. Let's do a poll. You ready? Who wants Trump as president? I'm shocked. Breaking news. Is there anyone brave enough to raise your hand? Who wants Kamala as president? I'm looking for one break, so that would be very brave. Who would you rather have as your president? Is it radical liberal Kamala Harris who created the worst economy in your life? It's the worst economy that we've ever had under them, or the businessman who created the greatest economy in the history of our country and in the history of the world. Yeah, it's pretty clear-cut when it comes to the decision you have to make, especially on the economy. I think the economy, border, and geopolitics is three things, where Kamala Harris is never going to be able to catch Donald Trump in favorability or who the American public would prefer as their leader in those situations. You know, in addition, when he was doing that poll, a very scientific poll, mind you, I asked if there was one brave soul. I did see on the news outlet, maybe in the last ten days, I can't remember which outlet it was, but they were interviewing two older ladies, and they actually said they were Kamala Harris voters who were invited to the Trump rallies. So at points during the rally, other people who were in the audience can film them getting up and leaving to show in fake news style that people are uninterested in Donald Trump's rallies and that they're leaving, and again, this is coming from the Harris campaign, early and in droves. So when you see those groups of people, and it looks like they may be some blue-haired meanies in disguises, well, apparently they are, because the Harris campaign is inviting their supporters to go to Trump rallies so they can leave early and make it look like there's less of an interest level than what Donald Trump has to say. Obviously everybody here in America first knows that that's 100% not true, but I just thought it was interesting to see that we finally got some receipts on that stuff. You know, one of the biggest things that Donald Trump is, I don't want to say making up ground in, but maybe extending his electorate is with women, whether it be suburban moms, singing women across the country, different age demographics, et cetera. You know, there's one thing you can't deny that under Kamala Harris, and regardless of whether or not you're a Republican and independent or Democrat, you have less money than you did four years ago when Donald Trump was in office. This has been a campaign talking point, he's been hitting hard, and mentioning and remeshing in interviews, as he's looking to remind everyone, he's not just running to be the Republican president, he's running to be the president of everyone in the United States, let's check it out. Let's talk about our great women, all right? We do love our women here in America first. They've gone through a lot. Women are poorer than they were four years ago, are less healthy than they were four years ago, are less safe on the streets than they were four years ago, are paying much higher prices for groceries and everything else than they were four years ago, are more stressed and depressed and unhappy than they were four years ago, and are less optimistic and confident in the future than they were just four years ago. I will fix all of that women, I will fix all of that, and I will fix it there. And at long last, this national nightmare that we're going through will be over. Women will be happy, healthy, confident, and free. You will no longer be thinking about abortion because it is now where it always had to be with the states and with the vote of the people. The people are now voting, and many of those votes are far more liberal than we thought, but every legal scholar, every Republican and Democrat for years didn't want it in federal, they wanted it in the states, and a vote of the people, and that's what's happening right now. And with the powerful exceptions, like those that Ronald Reagan insisted on, Ronald Reagan insisted on the exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother, but not allowing for Democrat demanded late-term abortion in the seventh, eighth, and ninth month, or even execution of a baby after birth, which is what they want. I asked her about it during the debate, and she didn't want to answer it. I said, "Are you willing to have an abortion on a woman in the ninth month?" And she didn't want to answer. The answer is yes. And think of it even, even after birth. It's called execution. I will protect women at a level never seen before. They will finally be healthy, hopeful, safe, and secure. Their lives will be happy, beautiful, and their lives will be great again. So women, we love you. We're going to take care of it. We're going to take care of our women, absolutely. Listen, for as much as the Harris campaign wants to make this about what they call reproductive freedom, this election is never going to be about that. Prices are going to continue to rise. You're going to be able to put food on the table, pay for things not on time in a more frequent manner than you did over the course of the last four years. You're seeing gas prices rising again, energy prices through the roof, prices of homeownership, unattainable, and all things in between. Then you want to talk about the crime that has infected all of our communities, whether it be from radical progressive Soros back DAs or the amounts of illegals being dumped in the communities, you take your pick. And then when you turn on your TV and you watch things like the war in Israel against Hezbollah in a second front, continue to be a fan in regards to the flames there or the fact that Vladimir Zelensky was out in Pennsylvania with Governor Josh Shapiro yesterday, signing munitions and pandering for support as there seems no end in sight to the conflict in Ukraine. I'm telling you what, after the Dobbs decision was overturned and Roe v. Wade was sent back to the States. When you just write it up on paper, Donald Trump has given women more accessibility depending on where they live, to have the most control over there, again, reproductive freedom. And that's just the facts. If you don't like how it's being voted on, where you live and you have the opportunity to move into a place where it's more accessible or less. And if this is going to be a top talking point for Kamala Harris, it's not going to do her any justice because Donald Trump is looking to do one thing and one thing only coming November 5th. I think we all know what it is, but we're going to hear it anyways. Let's check it out. And didn't Oprah ask her about her time at McDonald's? And she just sort of didn't want to answer that one. Let me not talk about that. Oprah said you work at McDonald's. That's great. You know, Oprah didn't hear the end result. She never worked there. So Kamala just sort of hid under the desk, along with every other answer she gave. That's why less than too much from now, we're going to tell her that we've had enough Kamala. We can't take it anymore. Kamala, you're the worst vice president in history. Kamala, you're fired. Get out of here. Get the hell out of here. You're fired. Get out of here. Definitely looking forward to that. And for as much as you could make comments like that in light and make jokes about them, whether it's why Oprah didn't ask her if she worked at McDonald's or not, because we all know by now that she didn't. Or you hear that iconic line that Donald Trump plans to, along with America tell Kamala Harris, she's fired come November 5th. There's one question that keeps coming up, and I think it's a really important one, and that is who is running the country. I think when you look at the way he's behaved since he's been removed as the Democrat nominee before the convention, Joe Biden's been absolutely absent from the job that he's supposed to be doing. And it poses so many red flags onto what we are looking at in regards to our safety and security. Again, things heating up in Israel, no end in sight to the Ukraine war. And where is Joe Biden? He's turning over cabinet level meetings to his wife, and forgetting which world leaders are joining him for a roundtable discussion when they're standing right next to him. And I think when you talk about the importance of American leadership and the absence of it in the last couple years, it has to be really alarming. Donald Trump actually asked that specific question, let's hear it. I don't know. Is he still the president? I'm trying to figure it out. You know, I hate to waste the time by saying, and him, because I don't think, I don't know. You see the president? Because yesterday, his wife took over the cabinet meeting, right? Said I'm going to ask my wife to take it. He hasn't had a cabinet meeting like in two years. And yesterday, they finally had it. And he said, I'm going to let Jill handle it. And we all know what it looks like when that happens. It looks like we don't have anyone at the command of the ship that is our country. And optically for Joe Biden, it's just absolutely damning. I mean, it looks like they just got a placeholder there in between now and January of next year. Guys, wherever you listen to the show today, welcome to the first of two big Tuesday editions of the stake breakfast podcast. Listen, do us a favor. Recently, Apple did an update to their terms of service for cell phones, laptops, and tablets to where if you are not selected in your settings, as a user who accepts explicit content you were forced unfollowed on Apple podcast from stake for breakfast. So what we need you to do is open up that platform and make sure you hit the plus follow button and that our show is downloading to your electronic device. In addition, you can find us on every other podcasting platform. We're on Spotify, iHeart Samsung, or wherever you listen to your shows. Also check us out on social media, Twitter, get our true social and Instagram is where you'll find us. Find the accounts, follow them, hit the notification bell. You'll never miss out on all the great stuff we've got going on down here at the show. You know, one of the big agenda items that Donald Trump hit during this rally was his new policy point to where he is looking to end sanctuary cities. This comes in addition to wanting to seal the border, deport tens of millions of illegals who have been brought in here under Joe Biden and Kamal Harris and bring safety and security back to the streets of the cities in America and not just down on the southern border itself. I thought it was amazing how this policy now continues to evolve in real time and as we head towards the November elections, federally cutting off a lot of these blue cities and blue states with radical DAs who pick up these people on heinous charges sometimes and don't collaborate with federal agencies who want to remove them from the United States is something that has plagued the America First immigration agenda for nearly a decade now. And let's hear Donald Trump unveil his plan to take this policy into the future. Today I'm announcing a new plan to end all sanctuary cities in North Carolina and all across our country. No more sanctuary cities. Uncle Sam, do you agree? Uncle Sam agrees. I had a feeling you would, right? You agree? Joe's. As soon as I take office, we will immediately surge federal law enforcement to every city that is failing, which is a lot of them, to turn over criminal aliens and we will hunt down, capture every single gang member, drug dealer, rapist, murderer and migrant criminal that is being illegally harbored. Every one of the top 25 worst cities are Democrat run cities. And it looks like Donald Trump is working towards a solution to not only reverse that statistic, but to make our city streets and communities safe again in a second Trump administration. You know, he did touch on a couple of things outside of the normal America First agenda. And I think one of the ones that I thought was huge was his continuation of talking about the development of space force, his collaboration with Elon Musk is something that's also changing and evolving by the day in real time. I saw yesterday, Javier Malay was up in the United States. He rang the bell up on Wall Street and met with Elon Musk during the day. Elon Musk donned the black make America great again cap to which Javier Malay absolutely seemed delighted before they did some dinner honoring like, I don't know, the best people on the planet. And Georgia Maloney, the PM of Italy received the award and it seems like she's got a little bit of a love fest. Something's going on. Mamma Mia between her and Elon Musk moving forward is going to see where those relationships continue to blossom, I guess in some instances as well. But when Donald Trump talks about space force with something he's extremely proud of and over seven decades, it's the first time we've added a federal branch of our military has really done too much except, you know, hire and promote furries and weirdos throughout the course of the Biden Harris administration. However, moving forward, Donald Trump is looking to move outside of, I guess, Earth's atmosphere and take us to the stars. Let's hear it. Eat the world in space. Remember I did space force. I did that. I rebuilt the military. I did a lot. But we have space force first time in 79 years since Air Force first time think of its space force and now we're leading in space over Russia and China. They were killing us when I took over now we're leading but military we're going to reach and it's my plan. I'll talk to Elon, Elon, get those rocket ships going because we want to reach Mars before the end of my term. We want to do it. And we want to have also great military protection in space because that's where it's going to be at. You know, he talks about putting the Iron Dome or something similar up around the United States, almost in a Tony Stark, esque move, pseudo armor around the planet. You remember from the Avengers movies that never happened. In addition, you know, we plan on going back to the moon with astronauts at some point in the very near future. But now Donald Trump wants to in almost a warp speed like fashion, speed up the space race and have the United States going to Mars in some context and on a more consistent basis before his term ends in office in 2028. So interesting to see that's a policy point he's talking about, but when you look at all the things he's already added to the America First Agenda for the American people, I think it's huge. He also talked about some of the Native American aspect there, namely North Carolina's loombree tribe, one that Donald Trump wants to gain federal recognition during his second term in office. Let's check it out. Biden and Obama promised remedy that they want a remedy to the injustice, but they never did it. They broke their promise. And today I'm officially announcing that if I am elected in November, I will sign legislation granting the great lumber tribe, the federal recognition that it deserves. Okay? You'll be all set. Say hello to you. And I got to know them. They're great. But unfortunately, we weren't in office when that happened, but they treated them very badly. Thank you very much, John. I think it's a great addition to some voter groups in North Carolina that are looking to get that federal recognition and obviously all the benefits that come with that. When you see the reinvigoration of wanting to recognize a lot of the Native American components here, I know there's a huge group backing for the Washington Redskins. I mean, what do they call down the Washington commanders to change their logo and likeness back to the tribe that they bore on their helmets for so many decades. In addition, you have places where it's welcomed and celebrated like down in Tallahassee, Florida, where the Florida State Seminoles have a, you know, representation of their mascot of Chief Osceola on the Seminole tribe down there. I'll never call the Cleveland Indians the Cleveland Guardians because they'll always be the Cleveland Indians to me. It was funny. My son, who's not even 11 years old yet, we watched Major League not too long ago for the first time. And while we're watching the movie, he just couldn't believe all of the likenesses and logos that we just don't see anymore, and he thinks it's so much better than the crap they have now. They have like a G with wings on it, like what the hell is that even supposed to mean? It's just an absolute embarrassment the way the whole culture has absolutely destroyed this country. And you know, one of the biggest things, and I think when you talk about all of Donald Trump's policies, the economy, education, healthcare, the border, safety in the streets, ending the drug epidemic in this country, reducing crime, our geopolitical footing, and re-standing in the world, it all centers back around the family. Donald Trump's policies don't make him richer. They don't make the corporate elitists a billionaire class richer. They make the American family the nuclear, middle-class, hard-working, blue collar family prosper under his policies. And that all centers back around the family, something Donald Trump holds very near and dear to him. He keeps closely guarded to the chest. I mean, his adult kids and family members, they're all very public figures. But when you talk about really getting an inside perspective of what it's like in the Trump home, those touching and tender moments, I don't think sometimes we even get enough of them. Because when we do, they're so unstaged and genuine, and I'll tell you why, because Donald Trump is a very loving person with a huge heart, and that love is something that is, I think, infectious to the rest of his family, and how his kids are raising their children, and him being present in their lives as a grandpa as the centerpiece of that, exists that you're able to see sometimes these tender moments we don't typically get from a politician or a billionaire businessman, entrepreneur, former Hollywood star, et cetera, like Donald Trump, that you got down in North Carolina this weekend when, while traveling with Eric and Laura and their grandkids, I was able to bring them up on stage and share some moments with them. I pulled the clip, let's check it out. You know that, can I ask Carolina to come up? Is that possible? Carolina. Carolina, this is the, she sat on my lap during the Republican Convention. Oh my God, you're so cute. Great again. Go ahead. You shot him. Make up there. I can't grade again. Wow. That was great, honey. Wow. Yeah. That was great. Wow. Yeah. That was great. Wow. Yeah. That was great. Wow. Yeah. That was great. Wow. Yeah. That was great. Wow. Yeah. That was great, honey. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. That was great, honey. Wow. Yeah. That was great. Wow. USA. USA. USA. USA. I can see the new senator went dead someday. He's going to say, sir, I've had it. I can't do it any longer. He's going to resign or leave and we're going to have Carolina get in there and run. Anyway, would anybody like to meet Luke, her brother? Luke, come on up. Go for grandpa. Oh. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Great job. So cute. Oh, he doesn't want to get off the stage. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Great job. So cute. Oh, he doesn't want to get off the stage. Oh, wow. Look at that. He's got the gene. Thank you. Thank you, Luke. You know, I said, say MAGA. I whispered into his ear, so cute. I said, say MAGA. He said, vote for grandpa. He didn't care what I said. And that was actually much better, right? Man. You know, it's those moments that you just can't stage. You just can't reciprocate. And I don't think a lot of people appreciate enough that Donald Trump sometimes provides to his supporters that a lot of his policies, albeit some are financially backed, some are based off of safety and security, all kind of cycle back to the American family, starting with his and then obviously out to his constituents. Last clip I've got before the closeout as we're getting ready to jump in with former Republican presidential candidate, the former head director as well, Ben Carson, is Donald Trump's message to Kamala Harris that, listen, after turning down Fox News and not wanting to do a debate there, her kind of getting CNN to offer another one to Donald Trump and well after all of the early voting has started, especially in a lot of the battleground states, is not something that he sees as a placeholder on the menu. And he actually thinks they're the ones desperate for it. Let's check it out. Kamala and her group have seen what's happening to their campaign and it's not going well for them and they would like, just announced a little while ago, so it was coming off the plane, they would like to do another debate, although good entertainment value. A lot of people say, "Oh dude, it's great entertainment." I've already done two, one with Crooked Joe Biden at CNN and the other one with Kamala on ABC. CNN was very fair, I thought. Joe was driven out of the race. He was a coup, by the way, but he was driven out of the race. And they've been widely criticized by the radical left lunatics for all of the fairness. They were very fair. In other words, they won't be fair again because they took a lot of abuse from the radical left. ABC was three on one, but I was given credit for having done a very, very good job. I appreciate that. We did a great job, it was three on one. The problem with another debate is that it's just too late. Voting has already started. She's had her chance to do it with Fox. You know, Fox invited us on and I waited and waited and they turned it down, they turned it down, but now she wants to do a debate right before the election with CNN because she's losing badly. You know, it's like a fighter. He sees the pulse. He sees what's happening. She's losing badly, but it's like a fighter who goes into the ring and gets knocked out. The first thing he says is, I want to rematch. I want to rematch. And it's the truth. You know, there was no real significant bump and if there was anything that made any means for Kamala Harris, it's been erased over the course of the past few weeks and a lot of the national polling, which we'll get to in our second edition of the podcast today, shows Donald Trump and Kamala Harris statistically tied everywhere. And it's just not worth it for him, especially after all of the mail-in ballots have gone out, absentee voting is occurring and, you know, election season is starting in a lot of these states. What I've got is obviously part of the close out of Donald Trump's rally down in North Carolina. Let's check it out. We will put America first and we will take back our country and our country will become bigger, better, stronger than ever because together we will make America powerful again. Make America wealthy again. Make America healthy again. Make America strong again. We will make America proud again. Make America safe again. We will make America free again. And we will make America great again. Thank you very much. Thank you, North Carolina. Go out and vote. God bless you. God bless you. Thank you very much. On point, on message, and America first. I don't even have to hypothesize, I want Noah would have given it because he's scoring all rallies moving forward and up through Election Day as 10 out of 10s. I'll rate this one at a 9.75. He was absolutely fantastic. The president was energetic, gauging with the crowd, family component, put it over the top for me. We are nearing witnessing final form Trump and edge closer to that every day. We'll leave it at that as we're getting ready to jump in with the former secretary of HUD, Dr. Ben Carson. But before we do, check in with one of our partners. I think it's time we had a conversation about a good night's sleep. Pillo King of Minnesota, Mike Lindell, and the apparatus known as the MyPillow family has been cranking out savings down at MyPillow for over 20 years. For the first time in 20 years, they've changed the long-standing MyPillow and now have the MyPillow version 2.0. You get a promo code to take a check out. You're going to get buy one, get one free. 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In the midst of a busy election cycle, Dr. Carson, we've been talking about it for well over a year with you every time you've been able to graciously bless us and come on the show. Listen, recently you've been appointed to the national faith chairman director for the Trump campaign. We want to talk to our listenership about the evangelical component of this upcoming election and your critical role in that. Can you explain to our listenership exactly some of the work you're doing right now and how important is it with such a finite amount of time left before we head to the ballot box and an election day on November 5th to get everyone out to vote? That includes a lot of the evangelicals who, even Donald Trump has said, might have sat out the last election cycle. A very large number, probably greater than 50% of the evangelical Christians somehow feel that their vote isn't necessary, or sometimes they say, "I don't want to be involved with it because it's all so rotten. It's all so evil." And I don't want to be in a position of having to choose between the lesser of two evils. I don't want to choose any evil. Well, what they have to recognize is that unless Jesus Christ is a candidate, you're always going to be selecting between the lesser of two evils. Great point. And we just have to recognize that there are enough Christian evangelicals in this country to actually guide and determine the course of the country. And they really need to wake up and recognize that we have responsibility for our children, our grandchildren, all those who are coming after us. If we don't act now, we may be restricted from acting later. You know, Dr. Carson, you make such a great point. I want to stick in this thread now that you've kind of opened up the door on it. The evangelicals are such a critical component to the possible electorate. Donald Trump was a promises-made, promises-kept. He can't run on a strictly pro-life platform, but he has been, well, heads and shoulders above a lot of the other former Republican candidates or anybody who's been up in Washington and talking about getting the agenda met for the pro-life community. You know, when you talk about the amount of people who sat out in the last election and to realize that their participation means getting Donald Trump over the finish line, therefore having a larger seat or better placement at the table with agenda items moving forward, as, you know, we've kind of explained to our listenership throughout the course of this election cycle. Donald Trump's policies are America first, but when you look at the heart and soul of Donald Trump's policies, whether it's the economy, whether it's the border, reforming schools, safety in the streets, geopolitical aspects, et cetera, and all kind of centers back to the family, we saw a little glimpse of that down in North Carolina at the rally over the weekend, where you see not just candidate Trump, former President Trump, Republican nominee Trump, but grandpa Trump, and when he lets people in that door that he cracks open to show what it's like in his family, he understands that he's just not running to be the president of the United States, he's running to be the husband of Melania, the father to all of his adult children, the grandparents to their children as well, and he wants that, you know, beneficial and prosperous life for all Americans out there. Right, and representing American values, what are the founding principles of our country, our faith, liberty, community, and life, respect for life? And you know, by adhering to those things, we went from nowhere obscurity to the pinnacle of the world on record time, that was not a coincidence, and we need people to recognize that, and you know, it was Alexis de Tocqueville who said America is great because America is good, America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great, and it is our responsibility, evangelical Christians, to make sure that America is good, to adhere to some of those values and principles that were so important to us, and to recognize that as we throw away our faith component, as we throw away all of those principles that guided the way that we respect and treat our fellow man, what's happening to us as a society, it's not good. You don't have to be very observant to notice that. No, and when you see some of the things that Donald Trump has ran on, Dr. Carson, you know, you talked about it and the extent last time you were on the show, you said America will in some way, shape, or form have to pay the consequences for the open border policies of a long time before Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, but especially after the last four years of this administration, you know, Donald Trump has, you know, seen sanctuary cities, entire communities get erased across this country, they're being taken over by people who are gobbling up American jobs, they're clogging up American classrooms and education system that's already broken here in this country, you know, it just seems that the American dream is something that still should be attainable for everybody, but people need to do it the right way. When you talk about the policies that Donald Trump's bringing to the table, everything from ending sanctuary cities to sealing the US Southern border again and making it safe and then working on all the things here in the country to root out all the people who have come in here and have just caused chaos over the last four years, if not longer for decades, how do you think that that's resonating with the American people? Because outside of the economy, I think the border security and everything that kind of stems to it. Donald Trump has tied a lot of stuff on the campaign trail. All this policies outside of geopolitical are based on what's going on down on the US Southern border. He touched on it in the debate with Kamala Harris, but how do you think the American public is kind of, you know, processing that as it seems like Donald Trump is looking stronger and stronger in the polls, especially in the battleground states. And I think it has a lot to do with that policy. Yeah. He's gradually picking up steam here because people want to hear from the opponent and the opponent is not being very vocal, obviously, because she doesn't have much to say. And I think people are picking up on that and recognizing that we need a leader who leads, not one who hides, not one who looks for everybody else to define what their policies are. And, you know, a good leader encourages people, removes the fear from people, and makes people optimistic about their future. And we certainly had not seen that for the last few years, and I think people recognize that they had that before, and they can have it again. So, you know, I don't necessarily tell people how they should vote, but I do tell people that they should think, they should use their brain, they should make comparisons. They have the ability to say, what was my income, and what were my prospects, and what was my future three or four years ago, and what is it now? And is it just a pure coincidence that it's worse now than it was before, or has it something to do with the policies? And people need to recognize that when you're voting, particularly for a leader of a nation, it's not about personality. It's just, you're not voting for the Boy Scout in chief. You're voting for somebody who can lead the nation in an effective way. And when you look at all the problems that are going on around the world, many of those things would not be going on if we had strong leadership. Peace is derived through strength, and when you have no leadership in America, you get what we have right now. Yeah, that's an excellent point you make, and it's something else that I want to touch on leadership. Obviously, breeds more leadership as setting an example of something in Donald Trump, but obviously do as president of the United States, and what he has the chance to grow and cultivate over the course of four years, and then give back to the country in the form of people that are serving underneath and alongside of him, much like yourself, moving forward would be exactly what this country needs to start getting it back on the right track. Dr. Carson, I want to touch on some of them briefly. Donald Trump has done a lot of extensive interviews. He's kind of given his points and views on what it was like going through the two assassination attempt on his life. You know, as someone who's a very close friend of Donald Trump, I don't think that you're someone who just works alongside him in politics. Obviously, you know, you guys have a very strong relationship, a deep friendship there. You care a lot about him and his family, I'm sure after seeing Donald Trump talk about you so positively for so many years, he feels the same about yours. Watching someone that you know and that you've come to love, you know, you share with over the course of the years and have served alongside with, to see him having to go with this nasty and negative rhetoric, calling him a threat to democracy, comparing him to people like Adolf Hitler and things of that nature, and how it's activated people who are very sick in some context to go out and try to assassinate him. It's had to be very difficult to watch, but to see the way President Trump, and I think only a way he could bounce back, I saw him do an interview this weekend where she asked him like, "Has it changed anything about you? Is there some kind of fear when you go out and do like retail politicking or to these events?" And he's like, "I don't have time to think about being scared." It just seems to be amazing to watch something that we haven't really seen before, maybe kind of Reagan-esque, but I think this is a little bit different based off the rhetoric that's fueled it. So just kind of want your opinion on how you've seen this whole situation develop. Well, the President Trump is very resilient, and he is not allowed this to make him collar in the corner at all, he's just as out there and aggressive as ever he has been, but the whole thing really bothers me tremendously, because I had a full secret service detail when I was running for President, and I know how thorough they can be. I mean, they would go to places where I was going, days ahead of time, scope everything out. There was just no way anything was going to happen. But if it's not a high priority, then you treat it differently. And I think that's where the problem come in, but the leadership of those organizations did not have the protection of Donald Trump as a high priority. And they obviously have elevated the priority now because of all the scrutiny. But this is what part of the whole deep state issue is all about, and they've done everything they possibly can to damage him and to keep him out of office. And I don't think we've seen the end of it yet. Sure. There's nothing that they won't do, because the deep state, the people who actually run things in this country are definitely afraid of being displaced. I don't think they have to worry about that with Camila Harris. And you know, she's a leftist, there's no question about it. And if she were not, if she really hadn't made a change and moved toward the Senate, the left side would be very angry, and they would be expressing that. But they're not angry at all, which means that they know she hasn't really changed. Yeah. They'll talk about in one side of their mouth how there's no room in politics for violence or political violence. And then literally the next sentence will be like, well, he's still a threat to democracy. They've kind of segued in the rhetoric by saying like, hey, listen, it's bad what's happened in the president Trump right now, but look what happened on January 6. We have to go back to that. And it's just like absolutely ridiculous that now two attempts that the public knows of on President Trump's life, the whistleblowers with members of Congress who have come on the show have said that there's many more interesting things that have happened, very negative things in the president over the course of the last since the time he's been out of office. But moving forward, we could just continue to, you know, keep president Trump in our prayers and moving forward. Hope that he continues to navigate this campaign trail and the way that he's done so. So far, Dr. Carson, last thing I want to touch with the honours, we're getting ready to wrap here. Again, we talked about it right before we jumped in today. Six weeks left, people are working harder than they've ever worked before. The tent is widening. Things like the labor union, the teamsters are not endorsing the Democrats, black voters, Hispanic voters, Asian voters are coming out in ways that we haven't seen in decades for a Republican candidate additions to the campaign, like RFK Jr., Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, obviously bringing you back in as well. Huge components that we might not have had fully to our advantage in, let's just say, 2020 that we have now in the last six weeks before the election. Tell our listenership in your opinion, what are some of the most important things we could do to make sure that we get Donald Trump over the finish line on November 5th. And then we could actually start in January to making America great again. But the key thing is to recognize that each person, no matter how small and insignificant you think you are, you're not small and insignificant. You have a sphere of influence and it's much bigger than you think it is. And it's important to get out there and talk about these issues. You know, you're told from the time you're a little child, two things you never talk about in public, politics and religion. Those are the exact things we need to be talking about because those are the areas that are under attack, our faith, our families, our political standing. And we need to influence the people in your family, in your neighborhood, in your community. And if we do that, we'll be just fine. I think most Americans have common sense and decency. And we don't have to capitulate to all of this very unusual stuff that's going on that makes people think that we've lost their minds. You know, every time a poll comes out over the weekend that shows Donald Trump nearing double-digit leads and all of the kitchen table items, the economy, the border geopolitics, and then they show essentially a dead heat in the national polling. I kind of laugh because when you say things like that, I think they should be reassuring to not only our listenership, but Americans across the country who know that if we do the job that we are tasked with for the next six weeks of the very least, we are going to get Donald Trump over the finish line, we'll retain House of Representatives, flip the Senate, and then get to work starting in January of next year. Dr. Carson has always such a pleasure to catch up with you and get to share with our listenership today. We've got a live link to the American Cornerstone Institute in our social media live link in the show description today. But if there's anywhere else, we could find you a work we check you out. All right. Thanks very much. Keep up the good work. This is the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Presidential candidate for Tired Neurosurgeon, author, and now working hard for the Trump campaign. Dr. Ben Carson, thanks for joining us today. Sir, have a great rest of your week. We know his position, he's the most well understood candidate, the most authentic, he says what he thinks and everybody understands it. She is the least known, least understood candidate ever running for history. What we need is for the press to actually, we don't need a debate. They don't have to wait for the next debate to ask her the questions about what would she do about all of these issues. But we just don't know. We can only assume it's going to carry on, which again, with President Trump, it was a piece abroad and prosperity at home, and under the Biden-Harris administration, it's been the opposite. Our economy's in the tank and the world is exploding. And the last thing I need to say is Iran is closer than ever to getting a nuclear weapon under the piece that we have. That should, every American should understand, every American that cares about democracy and cares about Israel should be saying we have to get President Trump, the leaders of the world need him back in, strength is what will help de-escalate these tensions in the world. All right, just back into the news portion of the show here. Back end of the first of two big Tuesday editions of the show, I'm Rowan Flying Solo for this episode. We'll have Noah with us on our second edition of the podcast today, and that was North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum on Fox News Sunday, talking about the American people know, they understand, they know what to expect from Donald Trump in regards to his agenda. And then on the other side, you have the puppet candidate, the empty suit, Kamala Harris and Tim Walts. He referred nothing in regards to what they're bringing to the table on November 5th for the American public, who it benefits, why it benefits them, and why we shouldn't think that we're going to be getting nothing short of four more years of the Biden Harris policies and the Kamala Harris administration, when we could turn this all around with President Trump starting in January of next year, we're going to be touching in on a little bit of the Sunday morning news circuit and then segue a little bit on some developments in the second Trump assassination attempt. So as you already heard, that was Doug Burgum, something for President Trump. He was a bright note, and there were some low ones. I don't want to talk about in the IQ sense, but I have to circle back to that. Sitting Democrat Senator John Fenneman, our Bigfoot, jumped on with Kristen Welker on NBC's Meet the Fake Press to talk about the election, to talk about Kamala Harris and her policies, to talk about things specifically like her stance on fracking in places like Pennsylvania, someplace like Donald Trump, stumped in hard last night. A little Trump rally there will have it as our first new segment of our second edition of the podcast today. Let's hear what the Pennsylvania Senator was bringing in regards to cats and dogs on NBC Meet the Fake Press this week. >> You've talked about this quite a bit. Vice President Harris, as you know, once supported a ban on fracking when she was running for president in 2020. She even sued the Obama administration to prevent fracking off California's coast. Now she says she will not ban the practice as president. Why should voters trust that that is really what the vice president believes? So strange why we just keep talking about fracking. Back in 2020, I said that that might be an issue, but it's not going to be a defining issue. And now in 2024, we're still trying to talk about fracking. And now the other side, we're talking about eating cats and geese and dogs and saying absurd things and talking about how if Trump doesn't win, he said that you have to blame the Jews on that and just absurd things. And having a serious policy conversation on the other side is just absolutely on fire. And here's where we are. But and here we are also that it's going to be very close in Pennsylvania, and it's not going to be defined by fracking. >> Well, and we are talking about it because of course it supported 120,000 jobs back in 2022. Let me read you some of what you have said about fracking. In 2016, you called it a stain on Pennsylvania in 2018, you said you don't support fracking at all. But then in 2022, you said you absolutely support fracking. Senator, what exactly do you like about fracking now? >> It's strange for some of weird gotcha kind of taking a quotes out of context. And here I am now on the United States Senator and I won by five points, a record margin back in 2022. And again, it might be an issue in fracking and I fully support fracking. So does the Vice President Harris, and now if you want to have a serious conversation about policy, then I would challenge Trump and Vance to have one other than talking about eating pets. >> And we'll have plenty of questions for Senator Lindsey Graham. There's no doubt about that, but to the point, what do you now like about fracking? You say you're not going to ban it. You support it now. >> Got them. >> They're eating dogs, they're eating cats, you know, again, so okay, yes, and any more on fracking? >> Well, I want to ask you about the Middle East actually, let's move on. >> What are you retarded? So he, I know you're not retarded, but what are you down, Senator? >> I mean, come on, Fetterman, listen, all you have to do when you go on these news and he doesn't have the capability to navigate around hostile questioning like Welker was dropping on him right there. This is what you do. Low IQ retard like John Fetterman, hey, listen, as a surrogate for the campaign, I was told by the campaign that this is a continually developing policy point. The Vice President has said her stance hasn't changed, and I'm not going to elaborate on that in any other context. Next question. Instead of just John Fetter-ing-ing like he always does, embarrassing, that's a sitting U.S. Senator, someone that beat a doctor in the last election in Pennsylvania, wouldn't get any better as the current governor of Michigan, Democrat Gretchen Whitmer, stretching, Gretchen herself sat down with crying Jake Tapper on CNN's State of the Fake Union. They were talking about the lack of endorsement or non-endorsement that was coming now from the Teamsters Union to Democrats, something that they had held on to for at least the last 40 years, and what it really means in this election cycle and moving forward, let's check it out. You're from Michigan, a big union state for the first time in almost three decades, the Teamsters Union has decided to not endorse a presidential candidate. They have traditionally endorsed the Democrat. This comes after Donald Trump won the poll of Teamsters Union members by 25 points. One pro-Harris Union official told Politico that that poll is a red flag reminiscent of the 2016 election when Hillary Clinton underperformed among union households and among white men, and ultimately did not win. Do you think this is all a red flag for Harris, especially in Michigan? I can just tell you this, this election is going to be close, we've always known that. That's what happens in these presidential elections and in a state like Michigan or Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, we know that this is going to be a close race. So a complete non-answer, and then let's go back to the fake news polls and lean on them for a little bit of assistance. You know, in some of the things people are not asking questions about, one that was absent from the debate, one that I haven't seen anybody in the mainstream press really want to take the task, one that one of our great friends, the Center for Renewing America's Jeff Clark as Rose, and something we really need to look into. In addition to, I grew up in a middle-class family as the number one go-to answer for Kamala Harris, anything that has to do with crime, the border, our geopolitical foes etc, she drops back on it, as you know, I began my career as a prosecutor. Now Jeff Clark asked in a post on X yesterday, this question, it's been several weeks and still no Democrat or member of the press has taken up my challenge, that's Jeff Clark's challenge, of posting a transcript of a case that Kamala Harris has prosecuted. I actually asked for the most complex prosecution she's ever done, but at this point I'll settle for the transcript of any case she's ever prosecuted, I'm starting to get doubtful that she Kamala Harris ever prosecuted a case through trial. In any event, calling her a prosecutor as opposed to a paper pusher is starting to look like more of a huge exaggeration, it makes a great point there, what are these pivotal cases, she said she's dealt with gangs and the transnational cartels and all of these baddies that she supposedly locked away. Not moms who had, because of health reasons, their kid truant too many times in the San Francisco area, or people who were picked up on simple possession of marijuana and put in jail for a decade, but no, she said she's put the baddest of the worst in prison forever. She's prosecuted these cases till the very bitter end, all wins for America in her courtroom. I don't buy it, and I don't think America does either. Guys, wherever you're listening to the show today, hope you're enjoying the first of two big Tuesday editions of State for Breakfast, we've already caught up with former HUD director Dr. Ben Carson will be jumping in with South Carolina Congressman Nancy Mason just a bit. 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That's State for Breakfast, Donald Trump sat down for an interview this weekend, I believe it was pre-taped, it wasn't live or anything like that, with full measure, and was talking about a couple different things outside of the norm, family, the assassination attempts, his relationship with RFK Jr, and making America healthy again, that's where we're going to start here, let's listen to the President give a clip on how not only staying healthy is important, but even sports like golf can become some of the most dangerous of them all, let's check it out. What are two things you do to stay healthy? Well, I used to play golf a little bit, that gave you so much help, it seems to be quite a dangerous sport in retrospect, I try and eat properly, I try and do the best, I do, but proper hamburgers, but I like perhaps all of the wrong food, but then I say, does anybody know what the right food is, people lecturing me for years, oh, don't eat this, don't eat that, they're gone, they passed away long ago and here I am, so I'm not sure I want to make too many changes. We do love our proper hamburgers here in America first, no, it's funny, you know, the way he's kind of framed the second assassination attempt on how golf is such a dangerous game, she tries to push back on him like, how do you plan on making America healthy again? Well, you know, I eat healthy, I try to eat healthy and she's like, yeah, you eat a lot of cheeseburgers, he's like, yeah, but they're the proper hamburgers. It's the answers like that where he can cut on a dime and be like, okay, I've seen the way this goes down, he has to expect the bullets figuratively now, we're coming for him in every single interview, whether it's in friendly territory or a hostile environment, like we've seen both places happen on the campaign trail, so I thought it was a phenomenal answer and, you know, segwaying towards hamburgers being proper and golf being dangerous, he talked a little bit and reflected on the second assassination attempt on his life and the fact that he knows that he's been placed here, probably with a power that's higher than that of man, let's check it out. Well, I think we just have to do what you have to do, you know, the only ones that really are trouble are consequential presidents, so in that way it's a very nice honor, but it's true. I mean, I was a very consequential president and would certainly be and maybe even more so this time because I understand the system, I understand countries, I understand who rips us and who doesn't and a lot of people don't, a lot of people don't have a clue, they don't even know what's happening and I think that I will feel safe, I think I'm going to feel safe. Are you ever scared? I can't be scared because if you're scared, you can't do your job, so I just can't be. Such an excellent point. I'm sure a lot of things go through his head, I'm the husband to my wife, I'm the father to my children, I'm the grandfather to their children, I have a job and a task that's been laid in front of me running to be the president of the United States, making America great again. But when you go out there and you're doing these rallies, you're doing retail, politicking, things like that, et cetera, are you scared, do you look over your shoulder, can't be? You can't be if you want to do the job correctly and I think that's the best answer that Donald Trump can give. It's a strong answer and one that probably a lot of people wouldn't be able to articulate in a way that he kind of frames it. As we segue through the week, we have had some updates into the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life, the one that happened in Palm Beach, Florida last weekend. It's been revealed that the shooter had a letter that was sent to someone he knew recently and that letter had been opened on Earth, if you will, provided to federal law enforcement and the Department of Justice who now has presented screenshots of the letter to the American public. Makes no sense to me. They say they're trying to establish motive, they could do that behind closed doors, they could do that without physically presenting and maybe just paraphrasing with the letter states. But I saw an update on the news yesterday, let's check it out. There's new information on the man accused of lying in wait for former President Donald Trump outside his West Palm Beach Florida Gulf Club. Ryan Routh was arrested a little over a week ago after Secret Service agents saw a gun barrel poking out of the bushes, they fired shots in that direction. Scott McFarland has been following this story, all the developments, and he's got more now on the investigation. Scott, good morning. As of this morning, Ryan Routh faces just two firearms charges in the federal court in West Palm Beach Florida, but in a new court filing, just submitted, the Department of Justice Arguise Routh was targeting former President Donald Trump and even left a hand-written note behind saying, quote, "This was an assassination attempt." Prosecutors say when they found Routh's gun, it had 11 bullets loaded, including one that was actually in the gun's chamber. They say an agent spotted Routh's face, then spotted the barrel of Routh's gun in the brothel of Trump's, they say when Routh actually moved his gun, the agent opened fire. They say Routh ran away from the area, then sped away from the area in his Nissan. Prosecutors say when police tracked him down, he had six cell phones in that car and had directions from Florida to Mexico. They also say an acquaintance of Routh's went to authorities days after the arrest and reported finding a hand-written note in a box Routh had left several months prior. The note allegedly acknowledged he was trying for an assassination attempt on Trump. Prosecutors say cell phone records show Routh was near Mar-a-Lago between August 18th and the day of the incident, September 15th. They are seeking pretrial detention, arguing he's a flight risk and a danger to the commuter. Hmm. I'm still trying to figure out where does a man with no job, an extensive criminal record, gave the money to own multiple homes. One here states, I believe in North Carolina, renting and paying for one in Hawaii, which the prices are through the roof. The man owned a horse. The man had all these guns and toys. The man had cars and vehicles in multiple states. Where's the money coming from? We found out last week and played a brief clip of it on the show, Matt Gates, who's been talking to some whistleblowers from the Department of Justice, the FBI, the Secret Service, etc. We've come to him. He talked about these five assassination teams, three from foreign entities operating freely and at the knowledge of the American federal government. Here in the United States, he gave a little update on that on the news yesterday. He'll be giving us an update on it this Friday on State for Breakfast, but as we're leading through this narrative, let's check it out. I don't want you to think there are only five. There are five teams that were known by our government to have been hunting Trump pre-Butler. That may be a very different number today. As a matter of fact, that number could have increased or shrunk. There could be more. For all we know by today, they've neutralized one of the teams or one of the individuals involved in these efforts, but to hear that one of them is Ukrainian and then you see this guy show up, who by the way, was on the radar of Homeland Security Investigations, because when he enters the country, the very smart and astute folks at Customs and Border Patrol, think about that, your Customs and Border Patrol, your agency has been totally overrun, you're exhausted, and yet they have the wherewithal to say this doesn't make sense. This guy's been all over the world, and now he's saying he's a freedom fighter, recruiting people, and when we ask him a reasonable question, who's funding your efforts to recruit people from Taiwan and Afghanistan to go fight in Ukraine? I ran. Who's funding that? And the answer is, "Oh, my wife's paying for it." That story didn't exactly check out. No, it sure doesn't. You and I both have very successful wives that we're very proud of, but I don't think they'd pay for a hobby quite like this. When that goes to HSI, no activity, no action, no review, and now it emerges that one of the teams we knew about, Hunting Trump, had a Ukraine connection. Very interesting development there. It's going to be interesting to see what Congressman Gates could bring us Friday, if there's any more of an update there, and you know, this comes on the heels of Vladimir Zelensky. He's in the United States this week, believe it or not. He is, well, was yesterday in Pennsylvania with the Democrat governor there, Josh Shapiro. They were building some factories which developed munitions, and in a photo op, they were signing them for whatever significance that might bring to the table. I know that he's most likely known as least favorite geopolitical frenemy, but I do know that this is known as by far favorite audio clip of him. Let's hear it. You can't give us some financial support, OK, OK, please give us a credit. I guess he was looking for the credit with Josh Shapiro yesterday in Pennsylvania. You know, he sat down for an interview with the New Yorker as most mainstream media outlets even don't even want to have to deal with this guy anymore. That's Zelensky, and I'm going to read you some excerpts here. He gave some commentary during the interview on Donald Trump at JD Vance. They were talking about, you know, ending the war or having a strategy for it. The question is, but isn't that more cause for alarm? Here's Zelensky's answer. My feeling is that Trump doesn't really know how to stop the war, even if he might think he knows how. With this war, sometimes the deeper you look at it, the less you understand. I've seen many leaders who were convinced they knew how to end it tomorrow and waited deeper into it, realizing that it's not that simple. To follow up question, apart from Trump's own reluctance to talk about Ukrainian victory, he has chosen JD Vance as his vice presidential candidate. Zelensky's answer, he is way too radical. Vance has come out with a more precise plan to Zelensky cuts him off to give up more territories. The reporter, your words, not mine, but yes, that's the gist of it, Zelensky's answer. He message seems to be that Ukraine must take a sacrifice. This brings the question of the cost and who shoulders it. The idea that the world should end this war at Ukraine's existence is unacceptable, but I do not consider this a concept of his plan in any formal sense. This would be an awful idea if a person were actually going to carry it out, make Ukraine's shoulder the cost of stopping the war by giving up its territories. There's certainly no way that this could happen, of scenarios that would have no basis in international norms, the UN statute in justice, and it wouldn't necessarily end the war. It's just sloganeering. How dare you? You know, in response to all the stuff that's going on, it's been announced that Donald Trump's going to be making his triumphant return to Butler, Pennsylvania on October 5th, one month before election day, as we kind of recap this news segment here, we're getting ready to jump in with South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mays, but before we do, another check-in with one of our partners. This episode of the podcast is brought to you by Battleborn Coffee Roasters. They're law enforcement family-owned, and they produce some of the best available specialty grade coffee. That means all those beans have gone through an extensive process to remove all defects. 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We'd like to get an update on things like the CR, your recent piece of legislation, the Violence Against Woman, Bilegals Act, in addition to a couple other things that you might be able to key our listenership in on as we're getting ready to pass a little bit of a budget that gets us almost through the Christmas holiday season. I just want to reassure you before we even get started. We won't be asking for any selfies or side-flirting during any portion of this interview as we know as an esteemed guest on this show, Congresswoman, we always love having you on. And we don't need to fake it here because we are going to bring the absolute heaters with you in this interview right now. Yeah, no need to slide into my DMs or to text me afterward like Michael Eric Dyson. There's no need for me to enter in any text in the congressional record from stake for breakfast because you guys are rock stars and awesome and honest, not racist people or misogynists like he is. So weird to see that kind of shake out. The receipts that you put out on your social media, absolutely epic. They even made probably Tim Burchin and Mike Collins who have pretty based Twitter accounts as well, blush this week, but Congresswoman, as we are heading into some votes this week, especially on the CR, listen, everyone that's an America First Republican up on Congress is kind of rolling their eyes and very frustrated at this whole band aid for spending. But if you want to tell us how this week is kind of shaking out for you and what it looks like for the rest of the 180 session of Congress, our listenership would love to know. Well, we're going to be voting on a continuing resolution to fund the government between now and the end of the year, roughly December 20th-ish at the end of the year, they'll do an omnibus or another CR. It's the same conversation we have every single year regardless of who's in charge, whether it's Republicans or Democrats because both sides are drunk with spending. It's completely out of control. I've never voted for a CR. I don't plan on starting tomorrow because I'm not, I didn't sign up for the kind of inflationary spending we have today. I didn't sign up for continuing the high cost of Democrat spending. Like I'm a fiscal conservative and I vote that way. So you'll see me be a big giant no on the board tomorrow when we have the CR vote. But again, this is just business as usual. There really is no difference between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to spending. They both are drunk with power. They both spend too much and neither are willing to take spending cuts seriously. You know, something that was a big no that probably raised the eyebrows of a lot of Americans on both sides of the aisle this week was the over 150 Democrat counterparts from up on Capitol Hill who voted against your most recent piece of, I think, phenomenal legislation, the Violence Against Women by Allegals Act. Can you tell our listenership a little bit about what went into this bill and then your shock probably when you saw how many Democrats voted against it? Well, the radical left mocking this bill online. In fact, I was at a forum on Sunday night and I brought up the bill and all the radical leftists that were sitting in the audience laughed at me about this. This was a bill HR 7909, the Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act and the left says, oh, this is already, this is already illegal. We don't need this bill. Well, if it were, if it were already illegal and we were already following our laws, they wouldn't be in our country and yet they are. We have the legal who are here who are raping our women who are pedophiles and who are murdering our, murdering our women and girls. And they sit here. In some cases in my district, I have a sheriff that I'm taking to task today who lets these men back out on the street. And so we had a vote over this bill. It would deport all illegals who are rapists, pedophiles and murderers here in this country. They don't get to come in and when they are found here, they go home. And we had 158 Democrats who voted against the bill, many of them mocking it online. And you know, they're the party that says, believe all women. I guess believe all women, unless they are American women, is their motto and it's outrageous. It's disgusting. It's really sick. I mean, if you're on the far left like this, you definitely have a mental illness. And these people want to import these illegals into the country. They want to vote them in our elections and they're okay with then murdering and raping your women and girls. I'm not okay with that. And I'm a rape survivor. I'm very passionate about women's issues, as you all know, my record, the bill did get hotlined in the Senate, but we expect some Democrat Senator to take it down at some point this week. There's no way they'll let a vote on this in the Senate. It's too much common sense. No, and it makes sense to even say that, you know, we've had so many people on the show, you know, representatives who champion women's rights, protecting women, this, that and the other thing. No one's even in the category of view from top to bottom, whether it be with sports, rape victims or survivors, much like yourself as you outlined, not just now, but in previous interviews that we've done on the show, Congresswoman, it's just disgusting to see the way these people operate. And it's much of the same thing, you know, they'll say they're one thing publicly and then they'll do exactly the same thing when they get into power, which is where we're going to segue to now with the head to head match up between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the presidential race, top of the ticket, hopefully what's going to get, you know, you guys all over the finish line, you guys are all running phenomenal races in your districts across the country. We want to retain and extend that House majority flip to Senate in the Republican control and get Donald Trump back into the White House on November 5th. But when you look at the tale of two, I guess, races right now, I just watched Donald Trump for over 90 minutes, outlined his economic plan for America down in Savannah, Georgia. We're supposed to be getting something on the opportunistic economy, wherever they're calling it from Kamala Harris at some point this week. But what are your expectations levels? Is she just going to say whatever she's trying to say to get elected and then we get four more years of the Biden-Harris agenda? Or do you think that there's something here? It sounds like a lot more free giveaways than they're actually doing right now via Joe Biden's presidency that we're going to get, which is going to hurt the economy more in retrospect in what would be a Harris presidency. She's going to lie, cheat and steal her way to the White House, which is why it's so important for people to get out in November. Her economic policies are bonkers. She either steals from Donald Trump or plagiarizes from Joe Biden. She's not a serious person. She shouldn't be taken seriously, which is why I harp on Republicans who talk to independent people to say, "Hey, we're the party that's going to protect women. We're the party that's going to protect girls. We're the party that's going to protect your wallet and protect your communities with illegals and up there based on the policies of Kamala Harris. This is the woman who was the border czar and allowed over 11 million illegals into our country who taxpayers are paying to come here. And by the way, those NGOs that we fund are telling them out of vote once they arrive. So her policies are crap. They're going to continue to have economic devastation on middle-class families. We just can't have this, and she's going to lie. And so my big thing right now is just to tell the truth. She was complaining yesterday about if she's elected president by golly, people without four-year degrees are going to have jobs. When it was the left, when it was Democrats that voted down, two bills of mine, not once, but twice in the last year, bills that would have given people without four-year college degrees jobs. So hotline those in the Senate, vote them out of the Senate, get them the president's test of sign-ins law, and then come talk to me about how you care about the middle class who's not educated, who doesn't have a four-year degree. Other than that, it's just BS and lies. I'm going to continue to call out her lies every single day that she's in any sort of power. You know, how big of a joke is that there's been reports this week that they're actually weighing on whether or not she should physically go down to the US southern border between now and November 5th to kind of show that she understands what the problem is down there and might have found the root causes somewhere with the tens of millions of people that they've landed over the course of the last four years. I know it's crazy. It's all an act. It's just like Michael Eric Dyson. It's all performative. It's a performance. It's art. It's acting. The left should get an Oscar for how performative their political art is. I mean, it's insane to me that she can get away with it. She gets a free pass. She gets a hall pass from the mainstream media who continue her lies. The only person they back check is Donald Trump, and they can barely do it honestly at that. They refuse to call her out on her BS, but that's why I'm here so that if the mainstream media won't do it, we'll do it ourselves. And then when you see things geopolitically that have continued to spin out of control, I mean, I don't know why Vladimir Zelensky was in Pennsylvania yesterday signing munitions with Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro there. And now you see what's going on between Israel opening up a second front against Hezbollah. This country is essentially captainless at the wheel. I mean, Joe Biden might have been joking, but it's still really bad optics for how awful his presidency has been to forget the name of the Indian Prime Minister who was in town yesterday. He's at the United Nations today while, you know, the fighting in Israel is getting extremely kinetic saying there should be a diplomatic solution to not turn Lebanon into what Gaza is like now. It just seems like, man, they're trying to put a Band-Aid on between now and January to see what happens. But people are dying and it seems like American leadership is completely absent from the global stage. Yeah, Zelensky was just making a campaign stop in Pennsylvania, like give me an effing break, right? And I don't care. Like I hope that Israel wipes Hezbollah Hamas and the Houthis off the face of the planet. Like none of them should be alive. They shouldn't have, they shouldn't have the ability to ban, to burn Jewish babies alive. Like I'm over this. There should be not be a ceasefire until every hostage is let, let's let go is found alive and well. I'm sick and tired of this Israel comes before Ukraine and any other conflict that's out there right now. She's the tip of the sphere against jihadism. She's the tip of the sphere against jihad. She's the tip of the sphere against terrorism here and around the world. We've got to make sure she has everything that she needs to be successful. And then when you look at the next six weeks, very important critical time between now and election day, we need to retain the house. We need to flip the Senate. We need President Trump back in office. Congresswoman, is we're getting ready to wrap with you right now? Can you just give us some of the things that you're working on in your district? I work very, very hard for South Carolina today. In fact, I wrote a letter from my office digging for and demanding and requesting all communications between one of my sheriffs in my district in South Carolina and ICE because we recently found that that over 50 illegals have been let off on the street. Just recently, a man who's here illegally, who was trying to solicit a child like pay for and/or get sex from a minor, wouldn't allow ICE to detain this individual. He was let go and freeze, walking the streets of South Carolina right now. Every town has become a border town. Every state has become a border state. And I want to make sure that people know that I'm doing my job to keep them and their family safe. The issues at the forefront of this election, the top three issues, I think the economy, the border and the lack of footing, geopolitically, or what can drive Americans to the ballot box and the member, House Republicans, those in the Senate who are running for races and looking to retain their seats. And then Donald Trump are offering those solutions. Congresswoman, that's why we're graduating. We can catch up with you today. We didn't even need a selfie because we had a wonderful conversation. We've got your congressional website live linked in the show description. No, no kissy emojis, none of the hat. No kissy emojis whatsoever, but where can we find you on social media? So when you're ratioing these commentators like those on CNN, they could find the base tweets that you're putting out. At rape up, Rob Nancy Mase. Listen, she's working hard for a low country, but she's fighting for all of America first out there. This is the Congresswoman who's representing South Carolina, one representative Nancy Mase. Thanks for joining us today. Have a great rest of the week. All right. Thank you. Guys, we're coming back with another all new edition of the state for breakfast podcast. So sit back, relax, and let us change the way you consume your news. [ Silence ]
