No tariff talk for the next 25 minutes on today's issue
>> Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: No tariff talk.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Hang in there. Don't go anywhere.
>> Tim Wildmon: No tariff talk for the next 25 minutes, 24 and a half minutes.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I think it's because we did such a good job in the last segment that we noticed we've exhausted. We did everything, we emptied ourselves.
>> Tim Wildmon: There's nothing else to be said.
>> Tim Wildmon: We explained it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Sort of.
>> Tim Wildmon: all right, so, joining us in studio is Steve Paisley. Jordo.
>> Steve Jordahl: Morning, everybody.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wesley's with me, raised in Kansas City. We're in Tupelo. I'm Tim. And, yes, you're gonna say I'm present.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I mean, I'm in the now when.
>> Tim Wildmon: We had 25 minutes of tariff talk right there, people that you missed from 10:30 to 11. And you need to go back and listen to it if you want to educate yourself. But I'm in the studio here with Wesley. Ray and Wesley's body language began to change throughout the half hour that we were talking about tariffs. At first he was cleaning up and engaged.
>> Tim Wildmon: Notice that seemed to be drifting.
>> Tim Wildmon: But then by about 50, after 15 minutes of Neil talking there, Wesley slumped down.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I had one question he answered in the first five minutes and then I was out.
>> Tim Wildmon: you lost interest. You started slumping in your chair. I was going to tell you you're going to hurt your back doing that. But, anyway, so there you go. Sometimes some, it's just like college, right? You go to, you have to take some classes you have no interest in, in order to graduate. So sometimes we need to learn things. and in all seriousness, I know we're joking about this, so this is a big deal, right? And, and it's going to intensify. In other words, there's going to be some people getting upset and angry in the next few weeks or months that are being directly impacted by this.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So therefore, it's important that we get all the facts. Even if we don't agree, we need to make sure that we understand the loan.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. and I wanted people to understand what the motivation was, a long term motivation for President Trump. Because my guess is I know if I survey people who voted for President Trump, tariffs worldwide tariffs wasn't the top five issue for them, you know what I'm saying?
>> Tim Wildmon: Probably not in the top 20 issues.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know, but for President Trump, it's been a bur in his saddle for a long time. And so he's, he's trying to rectify the trading imbalance. If that's what you want to call it?
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
During the break, Tim, I was actually, I was thinking about this. okay, Steve, this is, this is my summary of the last segment.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, I'm listening.
>> Tim Wildmon: In one sentence. Tariffs are like castor oil for the economy. Okay. Hm.
>> Steve Jordahl: They taste terrible going down, but they're.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right. But they did. They do some good eventually, right?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, that's kind of what he was saying. You know, short term it's tough, but in the long term, it'll do you some good.
>> Steve Jordahl: I hope it didn't do Canada any good.
Raymond: Donald Trump's tirade may have contributed to Canadian election outcome
I want to tie a bow on the Canada. I know you guys talked about it plenty, but I do want to tie a little bit of a bow because I've got something that is making me a little upset just a little bit. First of all, though, I do want to play. You mentioned tariffs, Dr. Charles McVeady, who's, Canadian pro family, expert. We, we talked to him about Canadian stuff, and I talked to him earlier this morning and got his, his thoughts about the election. And this is what he had to say. Cut 12.
>> Speaker E: It's a complete disaster. It's, more disastrous than a straight Liberal victory because they have a minority government, but the ndp, the Socialists, the Communists, will be the balance of power with just a handful of seats. So the outcome could not have been worse. Last night, Donald Trump, with, extreme tariffs, has threatened Canada's way of life. And if all the tariffs get put in place, we could see unemployment at 20 or 30%. We could see our economy crash to levels that we've never seen. And people were afraid of that. And so they voted for the person who they felt would deal with Donald Trump the best.
>> Steve Jordahl: So, we have, often talked about Donald Trump and his, tweets and all the stuff he does that kind of bug us. The, the personal insults that he seems, to think are thrown at him and he throws back. Right. We talked a lot about that. Well, it's never really come to much. It's just him talking and it maybe diminishes his popularity. But I have a feeling what you're going to hear next, it might. His little fit might have been the reason for this election. Cut 13.
>> Tim Wildmon: That can make them more hostile to us.
>> Steve Jordahl: And possibly I'd rather deal with a.
>> Tim Wildmon: Liberal than a China closer to Canada, and that would really put us in a bind.
>> Steve Jordahl: That Conservative that's running is stupidly no friend of mine, I don't know, but he said negative things. So when he says negative things. I couldn't care less. I think it's easier to deal, actually, with a liberal.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, he talk about Canada.
>> Steve Jordahl: He's talking about Canada. He's talking about, actually endorsing Carney. He would rather run against Carney. But he said that Pierre Poliev stupidly doesn't like him for some reason is what his words.
>> Wesley Wildmon: We talked about that in the show prep meeting this morning, but I didn't. But I don't remember. I don't recall what he said that made Trump so upset.
>> Tim Wildmon: well, I think all of Canada's ticked off at President Trump right now, Ray. Don't you get that stance? I think pretty much.
>> Tim Wildmon: Or no, Trump didn't help him. Didn't help out the situation by repeating this 51st state thing.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: As you said, Tim, it sounded like a joke, a throwaway lie. Yeah, but if you repeat something two or three dozen times, people start thinking maybe he means it.
>> Steve Jordahl: McPhee said it didn't have anything to do with 51st State. That Canadians joke all the time about being, well, US's 51st state. It was the tariffs. Yeah, it's according to McPheety.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Now, what about the. We said. We said we weren't going to do this. Here we go.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, here.
>> Tim Wildmon: Here we go.
>> Tim Wildmon: We just can't get enough tariffs. It's like a.
>> Wesley Wildmon: It's like y'all wakes me up.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's like sugar.
>> Steve Jordahl: I move on if you want.
>> Tim Wildmon: You get addicted to it.
One in 10 women who take abortion pill will have adverse effects, study finds
Next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, we have been told, by the abortion industry that, the, the drugs that they give women to do chemical abortions are safe, just as safe as aspirin. They say, there's a 1 in 200 chance of an adverse effect. They say, so go ahead and kill your baby with an electron, a, pill instead of coming in for a surgery. Well, the Ethics and Public Policy center has released a report that found it's not 1 in 200, it's 1 in 10 women who have a serious, adverse complication of event, after taking mifepristone, sepsis, infections, needing a transfusion, hemorrhaging, hospitalization, er, ectopic pregnancy. All of those things are adverse events because of this pill.
>> Tim Wildmon: M. Do you get that pill just at the drugstore? Is it. Is it. Do you have to have a doctor's prescription for that or.
>> Steve Jordahl: It is. They're fighting to make it ot over the counter right now. There are plenty of doctors. You can do a tele visit with. And get it.
>> Tim Wildmon: So basically prescription, but it's easy to get.
>> Steve Jordahl: It's. Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And it's actually two different medications combined. And it does change, but it does vary from state to state.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, I'm without. What. This is, hard to talk about, but I got to ask this question anyway. I want to tell folks it's not appropriate for children to listen to what I'm about to ask you. So I'm giving you a warning here, and maybe you don't know the answer. This, Steve, this. So you take a woman finds out she's pregnant.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: And you can take a pill that, aborts the bait, causes the baby to. What happens then?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, like, like, Wesley said, it's a cocktail is two pills. Mifepristone and Mifera X. I don't know if I'm.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm not pronouncing this, but what happens to the baby?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, baby dies.
>> Tim Wildmon: I know. What is it? How does it.
>> Steve Jordahl: The first.
>> Tim Wildmon: This is the gross part to talk about, but what is it?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, the first pill, basically, starves the baby. It kills the baby in the placenta in the womb by poison.
>> Tim Wildmon: So this is under six weeks or under.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, it's supposed to be under six weeks, but Planned Parenthood, they don't really care about that. But the second pill then, is what. Expel what causes the contractions and has the mom deliver the dead baby.
>> Tim Wildmon: But this is. This isn't so much Planned Parenthood is. It is. It's the individual woman taking the pill. Woman has to put the pill down her throat whether. Wherever she gets it. And that aborts the baby in a. In a way that's hard to even talk about.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. Now, there are, Pro life centers have a medication that can reverse the first pill. If you get it soon enough, it'll. It'll keep the baby from dying.
>> Tim Wildmon: But six weeks. if it's six weeks, that's when the heartbeat starts.
>> Steve Jordahl: That is when the heartbeat starts.
>> Tim Wildmon: So anyway. So anyway, what was the point of the story in the beginning with. I'm sorry to get in.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's okay. the complication rate, the adverse events rate from the first pill is 22 times higher than they were previously reported.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's the point of the story.
>> Steve Jordahl: It's almost 11% of women who take that first pill will have adverse.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's dangerous.
>> Steve Jordahl: It's very dangerous drug.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, you're doing something unnatural. It goes against, the laws God has created. And, you don't. You. If you take the Life of a growing baby. And it's, it's gonna. The sin is going to catch up with you.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: One, way or another. Mentally, physically, emotionally, and certainly spiritually. And how many testimonies, Ray, have we heard over the decades? And many, many women listening to us right now, maybe who had an abortion back in the 70s or 80s, and they, you know, ever have a life, lifelong regret, you know, I mean, this, it's not just. This action doesn't happen in a, in a vacuum. Go ahead.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's going to touch the heart, the soul, the mind, the. The body. Because we're not. We're all one thing. It's not as if the body is one part, the mind is another. We are whole human beings. And so when you do something as antithetical to human nature as to kill the unborn baby growing in your body, you cannot do that without suffering enormous pain, regret, guilt.
Not every woman experiences abortion the same way, Tim says
And it's going to show up. You know, Tim doesn't show up the same way with every woman. Not every woman experiences it the same way. But it is not possible to kill your own unborn child and not feel, and not feel. And not face some consequences in your own heart and soul, if nothing more than simply the hardening of your heart against the Lord.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, that's what you see when you see these women that brag about having their abortion. Their conscience has been seared and hardened against God.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right.
Department of Education rules University of Pennsylvania violated Title IX on swimming
Next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: Want some good news?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right. The Department of Education, its Office for Civil Rights. Now we have a new sheriff in town. So all of the federal agencies now are run by Donald Trump and his administration, and they're all changing priorities. Well, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, which had been trying its hardest to make sure that men or boys could compete in girls sports, now has ruled that the University of Pennsylvania violated Title 9 by allowing William Thomas, who swam as Leah, to compete in the women's swimming on the women's swimming team in 2022. This is what the department is demanding from the Penn issue a statement to the university community stating that the university will comply with Title IX in all of its athletic programs. This is key. Restore to all female athletes all individual athletic records, titles, honors, awards or similar recognition for Division 1 swimming competitions misappropriated by male athletes competing in female categories. And then third, send a letter to each of those female athletes whose individual recognition is restored and apologize to them.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So that's what's being considered or will happen.
>> Steve Jordahl: That is, the Department of Education has ruled this is what they are. Have said it's a ruling by their civil rights division.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, well, this is in line with President Trump's, executive order early on in his administration that says the federal government will only recognize two genders.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And while this didn't happen under his watch, I'm, grateful that his administration and his team is doing something about this. And not just, not just making rules in place, but they're also going back and trying to fix what. Even though they, they weren't responsible for it, they're going back and trying to make things right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yep. You know, that's how, that's how Wriley Gaines got her start. you remember, you mean her.
>> Steve Jordahl: Start in public policy. Yeah, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Because she was the, swimmer that this dude beat one of them. and Wriley Gaines was an all American swimmer at the University of Kentucky. she, lives in Nashville now. She's been on our program a couple times and she's on Fox News regularly. But she is, championing, you know, the keeping girls sports, for girls. For girls.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And so, that's how she got her start was against this guy at the University of Pennsylvania. And this, anyway. All right, that's good news.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. we talked with Paul Scanlon, who was William, his teammate at the Pennsylvania, and this, it was really bad. This is what he had to say. Cut. She had to say, Paula Scanlan, Cut. Eat.
University of Pennsylvania found to have violated Title 9 by Department of Education
>> Paula Scanlan: Let's talk really quickly about this headline from today. Casey missed the headline. The University of Pennsylvania was found to have violated Title 9 by the Department of Education. Feel uniquely qualified to talk about this because I was a member of the University of Pennsylvania women's swim team. And let me just say really quickly, I don't think the University of Pennsylvania is going to apologize to anyone. And I honestly don't think that they are sorry for what they did to us female athletes. I could go on for years about what they did to all of us female athletes competing in swimming that season. I'm just going to give you a few examples. First, the University of Pennsylvania nominated Leah Thomas for NCAA Woman of the Year. School gets only a few nominees and they chose Leah Thomas. They also told all of us female athletes that we needed to seek psychological services if we objected to him undressing in our locker room 18 times per week. They gave us the number for an on campus counselor. Last thing they did is they continued to highlight Thomas's achievements all over social media. And they also would sell out the stands of Our swim meets to media so that they could take pictures of us in our swimsuits. That is not a university simply following the NCAA rules. That is a university that stands by what they did, stands by thinking men belong on women's sports teams.
>> Tim Wildmon: As, talking about the University of Pennsylvania.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And there's at this. As of yesterday, there's no comment by Penn State. So.
>> Tim Wildmon: Not Penn State.
>> Wesley Wildmon: No.
>> Tim Wildmon: University of Pennsylvania.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Scanlan Swimsuit University of Pennsylvania.
>> Tim Wildmon: There's a lot kind of Penn State fans right now.
>> Tim Wildmon: We're not in this.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: so, anyway, that's good to hear from her. That, that young lady right there you just heard from, she was forced to, participate with him, share a locker room with it. Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: They got reading, more here on ESPN that says the Department of Department said that pen not right has 10 days to voluntarily resolve the violations or they will risk prosecution.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, well, good for the. Good for good for the Department of Education. And of course, that's President Trump's initiative right there. So.
More than 100 attorneys in the Justice Department's Civil Rights division will leave
Next story, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, it's kind of related. we talked about the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, but the Justice Department's Office for Civil Rights, which is kind of oversees all the civil rights, in America. This was the office that Biden and Obama just stuffed full of woke, angry lawyers who had nothing better to do than to crack down on police forces than to try to prosecute pro life people who would stand in, pray, or protest at clinics. Well, a new sheriff in town and we find out that more than 100 attorneys in that division have already said they will leave their jobs. This is according to Hamid Dhillon, Harmeet Dhillon, who is the civil rights director there. And she says, so the old bad people are leaving because they don't like the change. This is what they're going to focus on. They're going to focus on combating anti Semitism, anti Christian bias and the participation of transgender athletes in women's sports and what Trump allies have described as WOKE ideology. That's what our Civil Rights division is going to be doing.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So it sounds to me like they're going to help us get back to following the Constitution. Yeah, yeah, the First Amendment.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. I mean it's, it's, it's the definition of, I mean, no one was paying attention to, to Paula Scanlon or anybody's, civil rights when they were being beaten by this guy. They don't, you know, so.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Well, that's a good thing.
>> Steve Jordahl: It is a good thing.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So that's two good things in a matter of 60 seconds.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Good news, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes, that's me.
California law incentivizes bad behavior by not having insurance, Tim says
All right. if you live in California, and have bad news insurance there, this might come as a little bit of. This is a guy that called his medical, his, insurance company and wanted to know why his bill was so expensive. And I'll just let him explain it. Cut 7.
>> Tim Wildmon: How can I help you?
>> Speaker G: so I think there's a mistake on the bill, but, maybe you.
>> Steve Jordahl: Could help me out.
>> Speaker G: we got a bill, and then we realized that you guys didn't have our insurance, so we sent you the insurance, and it looks like the bill went up. The first bill we got without the insurance was 600 bucks, and then the second one was, almost 1300 bucks.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Yeah. So that the first invoice you receive, that's a discount that you receive if you're uninsured. So you're not, eligible for the discount since you are insured.
>> Speaker G: Can I go back to the discount without the insurance?
>> Tim Wildmon: No. So you're insured, so you're not eligible for the discount.
>> Speaker G: If I go cancel my insurance, am I eligible for the discount?
>> Tim Wildmon: No, sir, because we checked eligibility, and you do have active coverage for date of service.
>> Speaker G: Oh, I needed to cancel it before I got the service to get the discount so I'll get cheaper health care if I'm uninsured.
>> Tim Wildmon: If you're uninsured, you're eligible for the discount? Correct.
>> Speaker G: I pay for insurance, and I end up paying more out of pocket because I pay for a premium. That's wild.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's California for you.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's not a skit. That's a real person in the real state of California.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, is. Any more to that story?
>> Steve Jordahl: No, that's just. It's. It's a real bill in California, and, it's one of the examples of the California under Governor Newsom, who, is pretending to be a more conservative. Or at least he's pretending to run to the center, hoping to, improve his stock with moderate Democrats and, that he can fool the country.
>> Tim Wildmon: There are moderate Democrats.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, there are a lot of Democrats that don't like, where their party's gone.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, all right. So, that was crazy. Listen to that. So the guy who was responding to the. To the fellow calling in, who was that? An insurance company?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: An insurance company representative they had missed. Or is that a hospital?
>> Steve Jordahl: Those insurance company Representative.
>> Wesley Wildmon: What? Just to recap, they had missed. Billed him, which happens.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You know.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And he said, he, he was calling in hopes that if he sent in his insurance that the, that his bill would go down. Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, but.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Right. He said his insurance in. And it doubled. They, they. That's, that's, yeah, that's our system in many cases, in many cases, messed up. In many cases. Our system in America incentivizes bad behavior. It incentivizes, to not have insurance.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, those of us who do have insurance have to pay for the people that don't, don't.
>> Wesley Wildmon: There's no consequences for not having it.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's what. And that was his point. Right. In fact, he said, I'm better off not having insurance.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I'll give you my quick story on the no insurance situation.
>> Tim Wildmon: This has seconds. Go.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Big car insurance. We got hit here in Tupelo. My wife didn't in her van and we got out and the guy that hit us, he looked like he was in bad shape, his car was in bad shape. I felt bad for him. So we wrote up a police report and he, and when he said, you know, I'll get back with you, blah, blah, blah. Come to find out, he drove off. Didn't have insurance, and my insurance had to cover his or cover mine, and he didn't care about it. But he had no insurance. There was no consequence.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, now you're supposed to.
>> Wesley Wildmon: The, police officer supposed to write him by.
>> Tim Wildmon: If he doesn't have insurance, that's a, that's a violation of state law. But.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And he did not.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, I don't know why that didn't happen. All right, thank you, Wesley. Thank you, Steve. Pleasure, Ray.
>> Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Tim.
Chris Woodward and Neil Mammon brought tariff talk today
>> Tim Wildmon: Want to thank Chris Woodward and Neil Mammon, who brought the tariff talk today, folks. You got it?
>> Wesley Wildmon: I brought it.
>> Tim Wildmon: Let's give it up for Neil, huh? Neil Mammon. That was wonderful. we'll see you back here tomorrow. Take care.
